The Sun.
London, England, 1855-07-03 00:00:00

RELIGIOUS WORSHIP BILL.

The Earl of SHAFTESBURY said, on the motion
for the third reading of this bill, which had been referred
to a select committee, he should move that the bill be
read a third time that day three months.
Lord PORTIVIAN present,pd a petition from the
tenant farmers of the county o. Dorset, complaining of
the large expenditure of county rates.

The Earl of HARDWICKE was understood to say
la the large expenditure was unavoidable.

THE LATE LORD RAGLAN.

The clerk at the table having read her Majesty's most
gracious message,
Lord PANMURE, in rising to meve that her
Majesty's most gracious message be now taken into
consideration, said he trusted the house would
bear with him while he discharged his most painful duty.
It was riot only the loss of those that had fallen in the
field, but also of those who had fallen victims to disease,
that the country had to lament. They were
now called upon to record the national feeling
of sorro w at learning that an illustrious individual had been
taken from them, in whom the army had the greatest
confidence. It had pleased God to remove by disease Lord
Raglan from the head of the army in the Crimea ; and it
was a singular fact that the same calamity should have
fallen upon both of those commanders who had been
placed at, the head of the French and English armies. France
had to lament St. Arnaud, and England to mourn for her
Raglan. It was scarcely neces:ary for him to remind
their lordships of the great se-rvices Lord Raglan had
rendered to his c uritry. At an early aze he embraced the
profession ofarms. Iu ISO 7 he was selected and associated
with the late Duke of Wellington, and was placed on the
staff of that great commander upon the occa,ion of the
expedition to Portugal. The Duke of Wellington
selected Lord Fitzroy Somerset to be attached to
his staff, and an intimacy continued from 1807 to
1852, to the termination of the Duke of Wellington's
life, during which the noble duke reposed the greatest
confidence in Lord R,aglar. There was not one great
engagement in which the Duke of Wellington had been
engaged, in which Lord Raglan had not to bear a con-
spicuous part. At Waterloo, Lord Raglan lost
his arm, and at the close of the war L-rd
Raglan, instead of retiring into private life, still
continued his services to his country. From the
close of the last war until the very moment of his la-
mented death his unceasing exertions were still given to
the cause of his country. If there was one point more
, conspicuous in the services of Lord Raglan than
another, it was that he had established the alliance
and the most friendly relations between the
armies of the two countries —an alliance
which it was hoped would never be shaken. Of his
'amiability he could himselfspeak, for it had been his hap-
piness to have been associated witlhim for six years.
The noble lord having observed that Lord Raglan bad
been called upon to take the command of that army at
a time when there was not a man that could do it better,
delivered into the hands of the Lord Chancellor the re-
ply to her Majesty's most gracious message.
The LORD CHANCELLOR then read the reply,
which was an echo of the royal message.
The Earl of DERBY rose to express his most sincere
and cordial concurrence in the grateful tribute proposed
by Lord Panmure to the memory of Lord Raglan. The
noble earl then proceeded to pass a brilliant panegyric
upon the merits of the late illustrious Commander-in-
Chief.