The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON; WEDWESDAT EVENING; APRIL lB, isss;

YORK RACES.
(THIS DAY.)
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FLYING DUTCHMAN'S HANDICAP.
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LATEST BETTING.

TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES.
7to 4 agst St. Hubert.
sto 2 agst Lord of the Isles (offered).
6to 1 agst Polydore.
20 to 1 agst Ktrgstown.
CHESTER CUP.
20 to 1 agst Joe Miller (taken).
100 to 1 agst Muscovite.
100 to 1 agst Kaffir.
100 to 1 agst Cock Pheasant.

DERBY.
7to 1 agst De Clare.
8 to 1 agst Rifleman.
9to 1 agst St. Hubert (offered).
10 to 1 agst Lord of the Isles.
10 to 1 agst Dirk Hatteraick.
25 to 1 agst GrEecuius Esuriens.
1000 even on Lord of the Isles agst De Clare.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

GOOSE OF COMMOZsai—(THIS DAY.)

The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock.
The Swansea Vale Railway Bill was considered and
ordered to be read a third tune.
Several petitions were presented from newspaper pro-
prietors, praying for a halfpenny stamp on newspapers.
A great number of petitions were also presented
praying for the repeal of the bill of last session relative
to the sale of beer.
Mr. M'MAHON presented several petitions from
places in Irela.id in favour of the Sea Coast Fisheries
and Inland Fisheries (Ireland) Biils.
Mr. SPOONER presented petitions from various
places against any grant to Maynooth.
Mr. NAPIER presented a petition from Limerick
against the Sea Coast Fisheries and Inland Fisheries
(Ireland) Bills.

Mr. FRENCH moved for copies of further cor•
respondence with tho Ft,:.rd of Admiralty, praying
that a portion of British spirits may be taken
for the supply of the royal navy, and answers
thereto (23d and 29th June, 1853), and of all
contracts entered into for the supply of the Royal Nary
with spirits from Ju1y,1853, to the latest period on which
such contracts have been entered into ; of all advertise-
ments from the Board of Admiralty for tenders of ruin
and of British ,pirits to the late,t period, Jan., 1855 ;
and of contracts entered into for the supply of the Royal
Navy with spirits, fr.)m the year 1841 to 1853 (in con-
tinuation of Parliamentary paper, No. 389, of session
1854).—Agreed to.
Mr. MACARTNEY asked the Secretary of the
Treasury whether a sum of 46.8961., advanced to the
Government of Monte Video in the year 1848 from the
Grant for Civil Contingencies, had been repaid ; and, if
so, at what period?
Mr. WILSON said a larger sum than had been stated
had been advanced, and 36.000/. had been repaid.
There, however, remained about 36,0001. still due,
which would be the subject of negotiations.
INTESTACY (SCOTLAND) BILL.

Mr. DUNLOP, in moving the second reading of this
bill, said it wa:• a bill to assimilate the law of Scotland,
as regarded intestacy, as tar as possible t., the law of
England. The hon, gentleman tien entered into great
length as to the provisions of the bill, and explained toe
different clauses which it contained, and concluded by
expressing a serious wish that as England and Scotland
were one kingdom, the best laws of each would be se-
lected and formed into one comprehensive whole.
The LORD ADVOCATE had no objection to the
second reading, but there were some alterations which
he should think worth making.

The bill was then aead a second time. •
SEA COAST FISHERIES AND IRELAND
FISHERIES (IRELAND) BILLS.

Mr. M`MAHON said, in moving the second reading
of both these bills, he trusted that whatever objections
there might be with respect to each of the bids, those
objections would be strictly confined to the bill to
which it related, and not mixed up with each other.
The object of these bills was to assimilate the laws of
Ireland to thase of Rigland. The laws that existed on
both sides of th4Channel, it would scarcely be believed,
were totally different, and to do away with this anomaly
was the aim of the present measure. In 1845 there
were 84,000 persons engaged in the fishing trade of Ire-
land. In 1848 the number was reduced to 70,000, and
15,000 boats. That diminution was to be attributed
mainly to the famine, but the great falling oft
had occurred since the new regulations. In

1852 the number of fishermen was reduced to
58,000, and in 1553 it was reduced to 38,000 fishermen
and 11,000 boats. Thee regulations were of the most
absurd itod oppressive character, and were altogether
unknown in my other part of the world. For instance
no ti awl nets were allowed to be used upon the Irish
coast without the express permission of the Commis-
sioners of Fisheries in England. In England there was no
such absurd. restriction. He represented Wexford.
The opposite county in England was Pembroke-hire,
and in Tenby bay trawl nets were used without reserve.
One kind of all the fish that was taken to Billingsgat,
was caught by trawl nets, and it .was a remarkable cir-
cumstance that by conventions French, Dutoh, Bel-
gians, and other foreigners might use trawl nets upon
the Irish coa t. In fact tra,wling be practised by
every person upon the Irish coast except byan Irishman
himself. The same thing existed with regard to
trammel nets, which were used unreservedly every-
where also, except on the Irish coast, and those nets
also were used by Frenchmen, Dutch, and Belgians,
within the three-mile limit upon the coast of Ireland.
He resumed his seat by moving the second reading of
the first of the two bills.
Mr. NAPIER moved that the bill he read a second
time that day six monthA, and said the object of tile bill was
cmoenrsetliytuetnots7
f open nhuphotnh. m e fisheries
fo
gentleman has for the last three session; intrndueed
measure with a similar intent, and the effect of this state
ie orf toe
Wexford, yey
the t o h tohne.
of things were that the people of Ireland were kept in a
continual state of mental anxiety. (Laughter.)
(LEFT SPEAKING.)

ARMY 8EF01414 SEBASTOPOL COM-
MITTEE.-(THIS DAY.)

The committee reasembled this morning at the usual
hour, but the proceedings did not commence for some
short time afterwards.
Sir Charles Trevelyan was recalled, and his examina-
tion was resumed by Lord Seymour.
The noble barouet's Nt4temen ts, which contained
some repetitions of yesterday, went to show that there
was no deficiency of transport animals up to the time
that the army left Varna ; but on the contrary he had
received a report from Commissary-General Filder
to the effect that 8,000 arabas might be obtained, if re-
quired, without difficulty. The arrangements for the
commissariat transport were the same that were adopted
in the Peninsula at the close of the war when the com-
missariat was at its highest state of efficiency. From a
report made by Mr. Filder, it appeared that the coin-
missariat department landed in the Crimea with 1,203
animals and 70 carts with mules, rea ly equipped. The
men carried with them sufficient rations fur one day.