The Sun.
London, England, 1855-05-10 00:00:00

INCOME TAX BILL.

On the motion of Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY
this bill WAR read a third time and p ssed.
LAND IMPROVEMENT COMPANIES.I
The Earl of SALISBURY moved for a select com-
mittee to consider whether it wool 1 not be desirable that
the powers now vested in the companies for the im
provement of land should be made a subject of general
regulation.
Agreed to.
Leave saw; then given to the Earl of Aberdeen to
attend the Committee on the Army before Sebastopol.
Their lordships then adjourned.

ROUSE OF COMMONS.—(THIS EVENING.,
The SPEAKER took the cha'r at four o'clock.
The following bills were read a third time arid passed:
—Folkestone Improvement, Hyde Gas (No. 3). Liver-
pool Corporation Water ; Londonfl -rry Improvement,
Newcaste-under-Lyme Gas, and Paisky B ir-4h
The Limerick and Ca-tleconnell Rail way Bill was
considered, and ordered to be read a third time.

PETITIONS.
Petitions were presented by Sir J. Waulefarr, from
various places in Leicester lire, in favour of the Mar-
riages Bill, against the Maynooth grant, anal for the
abolition of church rates ; by Sir STAFFORD NORTHCOTE,
several petitions from Dudley against the Sunday Beer
Bill, and in favour of -thd abolition of church rates ; by
Mr. ROEBUCK, from Sheffield, in fai, our of Sir J. Pak-
ington's Education Bill ; by Mr. MIALL, a number of
petitions from various places, praying for the abolition
of church rates ; by Mr; ELLICE, from the Liverpool
Improvement Society, praying for the further extension
of education ; by Mr. BRIGHT, several petitions from
Rochdale and ether places in Yorkshire, in favour of
closing public-houses on Sundays, and for the abolition
of church rates ; by Mr. Piami, from Bath, in favour
of the Marriage Bill.

PATENTS FOR INTENTIONS.
Sir J. SHELLEY moved for a return of 'the names
and addresses of all persons who had petiConed the
Lord Chancellor to extend the time limited for
ing with their patents by the rules and regulationsl of
the Commissioners of Patents for Inventions, stating (Continued from our first edition.)
whether no order, or any and what order was made in Admiral Dundas examined by Mr. Drummond.—
each case. , Mr. Drummond was about to put a question to the
The return was ordered. gallant admiral, whether he did not suggest to Lord
MAYOR'S COURT, BIRMINGHAM. Stratford, in order to obtain information respecting the
On the motion of Mr. CRAUFURD a return was state of Sebastopol, that as two Raglan ships were
ordered of the number of causes entered in the Mayor's being repaired in Portamo,ith harboue, and he had a ship
Court, Birmingham, and the total amount of money with a hole in her bottom, he had be.ter send her into
sued for, in each of the years 1852, 1853, and 1854 re- Sebastopol to be repaired, whet the room was cleared
spectively, distinguishing in each year the number of and the question ultimately withdrawn.
causes entered for sums above 201. The gallant admiral in the course of his exiiminatien.
. THE SHIP OSTGEE. . said he took every step possible to obtain correct infor-
Sir G. B. PECHELL asked the First Lord of the mation as to the forces in Sebastopol and the fleet, but
w
Admiralty if his attention had been called to the case of with little success, which he attributed to the vigilance
the ship Ostgee, seized by her Majesty's ship Alban, for of the Russians to prevent it. Before the declaration of
breach of blockade, and restored without costs by de- the war be was under the ambassador's orders, and atter
eves of the Admiralty Court, but on appeal, costs and that under instructions from the Admiralty. He never
r_Tages were awarded against the captain of the Alban ; heard/of Mr Yeames offering to procure a complete plan
of the fortifications of Sebastopol. With reference to the
2:tnq,uired if the officers of her Maksty's ships, under
embarkation of troops from Varna, he conveyed all he
oeill'elreTmstauces, were to be held responsible for such
could with the transports he had at command, and he
Sir c '
ram' e tc; IitOOD replied no application had yef. been was satisfied with the arrangements for {that purpose
had rather 121 the parties, and until that was done he made by Admiral Boxer. It was impossible for him to
not en...._
protect the Crimea by the prevention of troops entering
CHApLAr,„„ enter into the question. •
In reply to the i'ort THE it by way of Perekop in consequence of the shallowness
NAVAL BRIGADE.
Sir C. Wooijllar(leirs of B , of the water, and had there been water he would have
said h h LANDFORD
sion that an Aro e had stated on a: former occa- required troops to assist him. With reference to a state-
miral in the Blacker
co'nvpisa7lheradite
amt had been made
sh,,,utiodpi.-_ .3 a with the Ad- silent of the Duke of Newcastle, that he had not taken
naval brigade if bechaplaindenestrakbeftoi rwtihthe sufficient steps to be acquainted with the state of the
bad not heard whether any ste enemy's streinztli, he read a le3er he addressed to Lord
a le. He
that vjew. Riglan in May, 1854, wherein lie stated Sebastopol was
INDTIS-
THE UNITED STATES AND pAi,„ a second Gibraltar. Many new batteries he could see
TRIAL EXII-lIiIITIox '-'3 erectinv, and the Russians were strengthening o,e land
Mr. FfEADLANI asl,rd the Viee-'l"e tids—that he had been informed there were 120 000
Board of Trade; 'whether any coir..spo 1 w'ident cf the then in the Crin.ea ant front 14 to 10 sail of' the Inc, in
ist ence bad t• ' the harbour ith their sails bent, and that he expected
place copeerning the return duly free of articles e4"l when they attacked} Odessa the Rus,ians would have
the Exhibition in the Uoited StateA ; anti whether '4l ceme out
could state what arrangements had been made
with
tilt,: , The
gallant
draw them off from attacking the place.
between admiral wiled to r,,ad a private corre-
Frcnch Government concerning. the transtnission anti re- spondenc
tarn of artic;es sent. to the Exhibition at Paris"? ; ref eren e himself and Sir James Graham with
e,, to this point, -• • "
Luxe tl. member of the late Go-
Mr. BOUVERIE said, with reaped: to the New York yet-n-lent had aAserted he forwarded home wrong infor-
Viailibition the Government ea I never undertaken any ! ',‘",aastic,'et hut the (horn, •
in
objected. His examination
t"Ponsibility with regard to the transmission of articles, ; martiten eontirined
jai St. Arna ti the course of which he stated that ,
11" knew nothl o.of the °ode sent there With respect , u '
to the park
E. J„
hibiti , "cn the arrangemeet mane was this . did not think it take Sebastopol,and
—There wed they said no. He
Dented with i two classes of .
articles exhibited there con- : i„-
g the siege of take
"wibi
Siliatria e, from the time of the rais-
floe '
arts. The "nstry, and these associated with the for the Crimea, to h to thn embarking f
0 the troops •
that the exhitaltroang '
ekuent relative to the former was transports for
'the • al. Osocered
e service m a sufficient number of
in the city, and trill G' f hind V
outd deposit them at some %%Ilea. ,at Varna and be her any horses were lett be
-
in
them to the overnment then undertook to con- .1 because the transports wit 1,137.0 they were there now,s
Government had French
guaranteed
frontier ; whence the French not be unloaded for a fortnighte ammunition, &d., could
France. The arranranteed to convey them safely to Malta harbour). All the sere(until they got into Bala i
geroent for the return would, of '
near Bailillva and th
, , _ , _ e §fAudrou se -P
w ships were stationed- '
_ .._ _.. - - - • near ...,,upa,toris., it.

ARMY BEFORE SEBASTOPOL COM-
_ MITTEE.--(THIS DAY.)