The Sun.
London, England, 1855-05-11 00:00:00

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SHREWSBURY RACES.

,THIS DAY.)

(BY RLECUIoTELEORAPH.)
ATTINGHAM STARES.

Cropper

13risatcraft

ACTON BURNEL STAKES.

Usurer...
Fearless .

HAWKSTONE CUP.

Vingt-nn .
Lurley ..

SHROPSHIRE STAKES.

Wlaitelock .
Hobby Horse

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eight ran.
CORPORATION HANDICAP.

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Singapore
Four ran.
£3O PLATE.

The Lune
Van Duack

Five ran.
FIFTY POUND PLATE.

Whalebone
Master Slender

9 ran:

BETTING ON THE COURSE.
SOMERSETSRIRE STAKES.
3 to-I agst Typee •wanted.

four* lattion

SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS:-(THIS ETENING.)
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.

THIRD READINGS.

The following bills were read a third time and passed :
—Torquay Market and Slaughter-houses ; and Great
North of Scotland Railway.
LEGAL MEAST:RES BEFORE PARLIAMENT.
Lord ST. LEONARDS rose to ask a question of her
Majesty's Government with respect to certain legal
measures now before Parliament. The question he
wished to put was, what course her Majesty's Govern-
ment intended to pursue with respect to the Testamen-
tary Jurisdiction Bill ? He wished also to know what
it was intended to do with respect to the Ecclesiastical
Courts, and the amount of compensation to be given to
the officers whose duties would be abolished by the
passing of the legal measures now before Parliament ?
He also wished to know • what course was to
be pursued with respect to the Tenants' Compensation
(Ireland) Bill ? He thought it was impossible for any
man who had the slightest regard for the rights of pro-
perty to approve of _the retrospective principles of that
bill. (Hear.) He was also desirous to know the inten-
tions of the Government with regard to the Court of
Chancery (Ireland) Bill. When he (Lord St. Leonards)
was in Ireland he 'found the judges fully ably to tran-
sact all the judicia! business br,"iught forward ; and he
did hope that it was not the intention of the Govern.
ment to encumber this bill with the appointment of
judges which were not required.
The LORD CHANCELLOR rose, and was
(LEFT SPEAKING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(THIS EVENING.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.
The Hartlepool Gas and Water Bill, and the Folke-
stone Improvement Bill were read a third time and
passed.
The following bills were considered, and ordered to be
read a third time :—Aberdare Valley Railway ; Dun-
dalk and Blackrock Railway ; Dundalk and Enniskillen
Railway; Glasgow and South-Western Railway; Lon-
don Necropolis and National Mausoleum.
The following bills were read a second time :—Hill's
Estate ; Downing-street Public Offices Extension ;
Woolmer Forest ; and National Loan Fund Life Assu-
rance Society (Stamp (Intl, on Memorials thereupon).
PETITIONS. -
Petitions were presented by Sir J. Walmsley, from a
congregation in Loughborough, praying for the abolition
of church rates ; by Sir S. Bignold, a petition very
numerously signed by the inhabitant.' of Norwich,
against the Sunday Beer Bill ; also petitions for the aboli-
tion of church rates ; by Mr. T. Egerton, front Runcorn,
against the grant to Maynooth ; by Nit-. E. Ball, several
petitions from Cambridgeshire against the Maynuoth
grant ; also, several petitions for the abolition of church
rates ; by Mr. Cobden, several petitions from Yorkshire
against church rates; by Mr. Lowe, two petitions from
New South Wales against the constitution sent !none
by the Legislative Council, and praying the house to
take the framing of a constitution into their own hands ;
also a petition from Kidderminster against church rates ;
by Sir W. Claya number of petitions from metropolitan
parishes against church rates.

THE VIENNA. NEGOTIATIONS.
Mr. M. GIBSON gave notice that he should move
on the earliest day available that a humble address be
presented to her Majesty to thank her fur the proto-
cols laid upon the table of the house, and to
represent to her Majesty that the assent of
France, England, Austria, Russia, and. Turkey, to the
principle of the four original articles, which formed the
bases of the negotiations, offered a reasonable expecta-
tion that the war might be terminated, and to inform
her Majesty that the house have hear,l with much
concern that a d►fference as to the precise mode of com-
plying with the third article caused the negotiations to
be broken off. (Hear.)

THE PATENT LAWS.
Mr. PELLATT asked the Attorney or Solicitor-Gs-
neral, when the annual report of the Commissioners of
Patents, required by the act 15 and 16 Vict., c. 83, s. 3,
to be presented annually to the house, with the ac-
counts up to December 31, 1854, would be laid upon the
table ?

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL replied that the report
was an annual one, and would be laid upon the table
about the same time as last year.
OFFICERS' STAMPED RECEIPTS.
Major FEILDEN asked the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, whether officers in the army and the militia
were bound to give a stamped receipt for their pay, to
the paymaster, every fortnight, or whenever they might
be paid an amount exceeding forty shillings?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER was in-
formed that no stamped receipts whatever were re-
quired for any description of military pay, either for
officers in the regular service or on half-pay. (Hear.)
PAYMENT OF COSTS.
Mr. WILKINSON asked the Attorney-General
when it was his intention to propose an alteration in the
state of the law with regard to the payment of costs by
the Crown, in cases where a verdict was given for the
defendant.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said considerable
alteration had been made in the law in this respect
lately, and he proposed to bring in a bill to extend the
principle of that mode of payment of costs still further.
RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.
Mr. SCOTT asked the Vice-President of the Board
of Trade whether her Majesty's. Government is about
shortly to introduce into Parliament the bill
which, on
the 15th day of March last, they announced it to be theirl
intention to bring in this session, for the prevention of
railway accidents.
Mr. BOUVERIE replied that his colleague in the
House of Lords intended shortly to bring in a bill to
that effect.
PRACTICAL JOKES IN THE ARMY.
Mr. STANLEY asked the Under Secretary for
War; if the Commander-in-Chief had ordered any court
of inquiry to examine into the late transactions at Can-
terbury amongst the officers of the Enniskillen Dra-
goons, and into the causes which led to a hostile meet-
ing, or, as is reported, mock duel, between Cornets
Baumgarten and Evans, in which Adjutant Webster
and Serjeant Brodie were concerned ; if Serjeant Brodie
had been again placed under arrest for any offence; and
if he bad been dismissed froth his duties as Serjeant-
saddler, and lost the custom of the officers.
Mr. PEEL said the cases of the officers concerned in
tithose ens were at this moment undergoing in
transati ves-
;Tr,n by orders of the Horse Guards, but the result
)3,041 t. Yet made public. With respect to Serjeant
t •
time, „d th ewas true he was placed under arrest a second
of the efil reason was that he had falsely accused one
money freak L• °f the regiment of having borrowed
there had beeln: but as there was reason to believe
them, Serjeant -13;071° Pecuniary transactions between
was not true that he i
Wao drected to be released. It
as sergeant-saddler. ad been deprived of his situation
FRENCH MILITA.Ry
itl.wramen
In reply to Mr. T. Duzie ADMINISTRATION.
Lord PALMERSTON sald •°"P-e
true that an appli-
oiscerc4h
from
to
cation had been made to the
allow a commission of military
tr.ePe ert upon
with ail
try to proceed to Paris to examine a this coun-
the condition of the adrninwisatrsatt
eivte.
That application
army. a with all
courtesy by the French Government, but
as those
ommunications were, he nri:;ht rny, of a
e,,tmi.
dentiale nature, and related solely to the internatiorat
relations of the French army, he did not feel inclined to
lay the report upon the table without a prehrtoud coin-
munioation with tare Fr nch Government. ( Tear.)
THE ENCAMPMENT ON THE CURRAGH OF
KILDARE.
Mr. E. BALL asked the Clerk of the Ordnance,
whether the Camp
plated and read foroccupation •
at the Curragh of Kildare is con,-
the the huts areif not,. how many of
more may he ooneld
actually erected and finished how many
and what quantit *rad as half flambe .
livered on the provided and de-
' d • whether an y
uy of materials are provi
the clans. in %mond for the remainder : and, what was
the time named
Penaltyecrtraot as to completion, both as to
Mr. MONSELL for nun-perform:slice.
not yet completed replied
, but 53
octet the encampment was
were completed ; 122 huts weand 25 officers' huts
re halfs
finished, 107 formed,