The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 9 1855.

LINES LIK.A.SED AT FIXED RENTALS.

BRIGHTON RACES.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

(THIS DAY.)

The Marlborough, 131, screw, is using all despatch in
getting her machinery and boilers on board, and is ex-
pected to be ready for sea by the end of October.
The Great Britain screw steam transport, No. 137,
Captain Grey, arrived at Spithead yesterday from the
East. She left Malta July the 25th, and Gibraltar Au-
gust the Ist. On the 31st ult., in lat 36'8, long. 4.55.
signalled the steam transport Zebra ; on the 4th inst.,
in lat. 40'37, 10ng.10.16, signalled the steam-ship Rajah ;
on the sth, in lat. 43.1, long. 9.33, signalled the ship
Walter Scott. She has brought borne from Scutari,
Major Anderson, Royal Artillery, in military charge of
invalids ; Major Mills, of the 7th Regiment ; Major
Gordon, of the 93d ; Major Grimstone, of the Turkish
Contingent ; Lieutenant-Colonel Douglas, of the 79th ;
Captains Elliot and Burnand, of the sth Dragoon
Guards; Lieutenant Harman, of the 34th; Lieutenant
Spai,ght, of the 31st ; Captain Sullivan, of the Turkish
Contingent ; Messrs. Fosbery (Deputy-Assistant-Com-
missary General), Rust, Gardener, and Watts (hospital
dresser) ; Mrs. Booth, 9 seamen and firemen, 169 in-
valided soldiers, 8 women, and 6 children. The 'running
steam transport, Captain Franklin, steamed into Ports-
mouth harbour yesterday morning to land stores and
baggage from the East. The Blake and the Progress
transports went into Portsmouth harbour yesterday.
The Glatton floating battery, Captain Cumming, is to
have a new rudder. The Meteor, 16, steam battery, took
in coals yesterday at Spithead. The steam transport
Rajah, Captain Burn, arrived at Spithead yesterday af-
ternoon from the East. She left Balaklava on the 14th
of July, Constantinople the 19th, Malta the 25th,
and Gibraltar August 1. On the 6th she exchanged
colours with the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Na-
vigation Company's steam-ship Indus, in the Bay of
Biscay, in lat. 45'20 N., long. 7.50 W., bound for Alex-
andria. Captain Agar, Royal Artillery, is the only pas-
senger by the Rajah, No invalids. The barque Ocean
Gem brought up at Spithead yesterday afternoon, and
was afterwards towed into Portsmouth harbour for re-
pairs, having sustained serious damage from collision
with a large American ship off Portland yesterday
morning at 3 o'clock.
The screw steam-ship Simoom, 18, Captain Sullivan,
which arrived at Plymouth on Monday, is gone into the
steam yard at Keybans to discharge her old boilers and
machinery.
The steam-ship Transit, with artillerymen and horses,
which put into Plymouth Sound on Monday with ma-
chinery damaged, sailed therefrom-on Tuesday evening
for Balaklava.
A great many testimonials have been forwarded
referring to Mrs. Margaret Disney, late a nurse in
the Crimea, who arrived a few days ago at Portsmouth,
in the transport Saldanha, from Balaklava. These tes-
timonials are from officers, soldiers, medical men, and
the crew of the Saldanha, and they all speak in the
highest terms of the attention paid to the sick and
wounded by Mrs. Disney, on board the transport as
well as in the Crimea, where she had to suffer her full
share of privations and dangers. The public have ap-
preciated the valuable services rendered by the nurses
in the Crimea, and such testimonials as these prove how
consoling and important thesa services have been to
the sick and wounded.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship
Ripon, Captain Cooper, Transport No. 25, will embark
this day at Southampton troops for the Crimea. They
will consist of about 1,000 of the German Legion, who
will be conveyed as far as Malta, from which place the
Ripon will immediately return.
Intelligence has been forwarded to the officials at
Southampton to prepare the Royal mail steam-ship
Trent, Transport No. 94, for the reception of two
officers, 94 men, and 114 horses of the Royal Artillery,
on Monday and Tuesday next. Colonel Crofton, of the
Turkish Legion, also leaves by this departure. The
Trent took on board yesterday a large portion of the
corn and bay for the voyage.
At 6 a m. yesterday the first division of the 25th Re-
giment (King's Own Borderers) arrived at Chatham Bar-
racks from Gravesend, consisting of 7 officers, 15 ser-
geants, 6 drummers, and 206 rank and file, with 16
women, and 25 children, under command of Major S. B.
Hamilton, with the undernamed officers :—Capt George
Bent, Capt. Charles D. Pogson, Lieut. J. R. Harvey,
Lieut. G. S. Hallowes, Lieut. H. S. Brown, Ensign C.
G. Harrison, and Surgeon W. S. Whylock. The regi-
ment has been on foreign service about 15 years. It has
about 700 effective bayonets. The above division em-
barked at Cannanore on the 18th of April last on board
the ship Cheapside, Capt. Lidley, which after a passage
of 109 days dropped anchor opposite Gravesend about
9 p.m. on Tuesday. During the voyage the aivision only

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH)
FOURTH BIENNIAL STAKES.

Aleppo..
Ariel ...

Six ran.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT,
HOUSE OF COMAIONS—(THIS DAY.)
The SPEAKER took the chair shortly after 12 o'clock
NEW WRITS.
On the motion of Mr. HA 1' TER a new writ was
ordered for Kidderminster, in the place of Mr.
Lowe, who has accepted the office of Vice-Presi-
dent of the Board of Trade ; also a new writ for
Kilmarnock, in the place of Mr. Bouverie, who
has accepted the office of President of the Poor Law
Board ; also a new writ for the borough of Hertford,
in the place of Mr. Cowper, who has accepted the office
of President of the Board of Health.
CHARITABLE TRUSTS BILL.
This bill was read a third time and passed.
UNION OF CONTIGUOUS BENEFICES BILL.
This bill was read a third time and passed.
CRIME AND OUTRAGE (IRELAND) CON-
TINUANCE BILL.
This bill was read a third time and passed.
SCHOOL GRANTS (SECURITY FOR APPLI-
CATION) BILL.
This bill was also read a third time and passed.
LEASES AND SALES OF SETTLED ESTATES
BILL.
The house then went into committee upon this bill.
On clause 20,
Mr. WHITESIDE! at some length contended that
this clause had been introduced virtually for the pur-
pose of preventing the act applying to the case of Sir
Thomas Wilson. It had been unjustly stated that that
gentleman had wished to enclose Hampstead Heath,
when, in fact, he had only sought to obtain leasing
powers ; in repeated attempts for which object be
hai been obstructed by the false reports set in cir-
culation against him. The hon. and learned gentleman
read a letter from Sir Thomas Wilson himself, written
to a friend, which he maintained clearly showed this to
have been the case, and concluded by pointing out the
manifest injustice of the clause.
Mr. FOSTER supported the clause.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said it was undoubt-
edly true that this clause had been introduced into the
bill, in consequence of its being stated to him that
unless the bill did contain some clause of an
explicit nature it would be quite impossible to carry its
second reading. At the same time he did not wish
the clause to be framed so as to give rise to the im-
pression that it was directed against any par-
ticular individual. Having, therefore, considered
how this difficulty could be best met, he had em-
bodied a principle in the first lines of the bill with
which the spirit of the clause perfectly accorded.
—(bear)---and he maintained that that principle was a
sound and correct one. With regard, however, to Sir
Thomas Wilson, let him renew his application to the
house, and he (the Solicitor-General) would undertake
to say that when that application was made the recol-
lection of this debate would induce it to give that gen-
tleman's claims the best and most liberal attention ; and
beyond question Parliament was the most fitting place
to adjudicate upon them. (Hear, bean)
,(LEFT SITTING.)

CRYSTAL PALACE COMPANY.

The third ordinary general meeting of this company
was held this morning at the Bridge• House Hotel, Lon-
don-bridge, for the reception of the report, &c., of the
directors, and also for the purpose of authorising the
conversion of the share capital into stock, and for rati-
fying an agreement with the West End and Crystal
Palace Railway Company. Mr. Laing, M.P., the
chairman of the company, presided.
There was a numerous attendance of proprietors.
The SECRETARY (Mr. G. Grove) having read the re-
port of the directors and the financial statement, which
have already been published in The Sun,