The Sun.
London, England, 1855-05-18 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Cloe

TATTERSALL'S.

(THIS EVENING.)

DERBY.

sto 2 agst De Clare (backed heavily)
9to 2 agst Lord of the Tales (taken)
sto 1 aget Rifleman (taken, 11 to 2 also laid)
7to 1 aget Wild Dayrell (8 to 1 taken)
10 to 1 agst Kingstown (taken freely)
12 to 1 agst Flatterer (taken)
30 to 1 agst Ry'stone (taken)

OAKS.
6to 1 agst Nettle (offered)
10 to 1 agst Marchioness (taken)

HARPENDEN RACES.
(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
ROTICA.MPSTEAD STAKES.

LittleJem .................. . ............... . ......
Grey Chicken ................... . ..................
Nine ran.
_ _ TWO-YEAR-OLD STAKES.

Maid of Morn
Scot Free
Ten ran.
HARPENDEN HANDICAP.

Pantheon
Scipio
Nell Gwynn*

Sixteen ran.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—(THIS EVENING.)
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.
The Earl of EGLINTON presented a petition against
the grant to Maynooth.
The Earl of DERBY presented a petition against the
total abolition of church rates.
Lori SONDYS presented a petition from Great Yar-
mouth, praying for a comprehensive measure of adminis-
trative reform.
The Marquis of LA.NSDOWNE presented a petition
from dissenting bodies in favour of the abolition of
church rates.
THE VIENNA CONFERENCE.

Earl GREY gave notice that he intended to postpone
the motion for which he had given,notice for Monday
next antil the following Friday. He did this with great
regret, but it was to prevent the question being debated
in both houses the same evening that he had assented
to. the postponement of his motion.
THE CIVIL DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY.
. Lord PANMURE said he begged to call their lord-
ships' attention to a statement connected with the admi-
'nistration of the affairs of the army. He could not
do so without saying one word on the gratifying scene
they had witnessed that morning. That was the first
occasion on which a sovereign had condescended to dis-
tribute with her own liana honours not only to those
who were high in birth-but to the humblest soldier in
her Majesty's service, who had shed their blood in
the defence of the Crown and their country. (Hear.)
He trusted that that would not be the only time her
Majesty would perform that duty, and that it would
act as an incentive to young soldiers to imitate the
noble example set to them. The noble lord then referred
to the object of his motion, and stated the changes
which her Majesty's Government proposed to make in
the civil departments of the army. It was, in the
first place, the intention to abolish the office of
Master-General of the Ordnance and Board of Ordnance
altogether. These being removed, it would be necessary
to deal with the whole establishment of the Ordnance.
That establishment consisted of two departments, the one
principally relating to matters military, the other to mat-
ters purely civil. The first was the command of the Royal
Artillery and the Royal Engineers. This it was proposed
to vest in the office, of Commander-in-Chief of the army.
In speaking upon this subject, he must say it was the
concurrent opinion of every officer, as well as of every
member of her Majesty's Government who had anything
to do with Sir Hew Ross and Sir John Burgoyne, in
their military characters, that two more meritorious
officers, or men who had taken greater pains to bring to
perfection the military service, had never, held office in
any Government. As regarded the civil department, it
was proposed to place in the room of the Master-Gene-
ral of the Ordnance the Secretary of State for the War
Department, who shall be supreme,
,and be responsible
for the administration of the whole, and that he should
move all the estimates connected with the department. The
noble lord said that what was termed the civil department
would be confided to four officers, all responsible to the,
Secretary of State for War. These wouli be an Inspec-
tor of Ordnance, and he trusted that officer would have
the assistance of Sir J. Burgoyne. The next office would
be that of Director of the Ordnance, to which duty he
proposed to appoint Sir H. Ross.
[LEFT SPEAKING.]

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-(THIS EVENING.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.
NEW MEMBERS.
Sir M. S. STEWART took the oaths and his seat for
Renfrewshire, in place of Colonel Mare, resigned.
Sir J. FEREIISSON took the oaths and his seat for Ayr-
shire.