The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-06 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock.

WESTERN RAILWAY OF FRANCE, I
The Shareholders are hereby Informed, that a SPECIAL
GENERAL MEETING will be held on the 6th May proximo, at
the Maine Station, Boulevard Mont Parnasse, Paris, at Three
o'clock P,x.
be present at this meeting, proprietors
In order to be entitled to
of twenty shares and upwards, and holders of proxies to a like
amount must, in accordance with the 40th Article of the Statutes, de-
posit their registered certificates on or before the 24th April instant,
at the offices of the Company, 44, Moorgate street, London 62,
Rue Caumartin, Paris, where they will receive tickets of admission,
and where forms of proxies will also be delivered on and after Mon-
day, 12th instant.

By order,
J. COtTIN, Secretary to the Board of DireCtol-3.
Paris, April 3, 1852.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS:
Lord REDESDALF. presided, in the absence of the Lord
Chancellor.
THE NI ANNOOTH GRANT.
The Bishop of LONDON presented three petitions
against the renewal of any grant to Maynooth.
ECCLESIAS rICAL TITLES ACT.
Lord MONTEA(ILE presented several petitions
against the EcclesiaQtical Tales Act.
The Marquis of BREAD ALBANE presented several
petitions from Scotland praying for the inspection of re-
Ilious houses; also for the repeal of the Maynoth Act.
LOSS OF THE BIRKENHEAD.
In answer to Lord MONTEAGLE,
The Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND said that the
Admiralty had had no official communication respecting
the loss of the Birker head.
On the motion of the Earl DESART, the Bishop of
Quebec Bill was read a second time.
On the motion of Lord COLCHESTER, the Patent
Law Amendment Bill was repurted.
On the motion of the Earl of DERBY the Mutiny
Bill and the Marine Mutiny Bill passed through Coca-

mittee.
On the motion of the LORD PRESIDENT the In-
demnity Bill was read a third time and passed.
ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE.
The Earl of DERBY moved that the House adjourn
until the 19th inst.
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH said that he
wished to make a remark which he had re•
frained from making last night. The Noble Earl
opposite (Derby) had stated that communications
had been addressed by the Governor-General of
India to the c )mminder of the Burmese expedition re-
lative to the conduct of the war. Those communica-
tions had been published in the Indian newspapers a
month ago, and at least a fortnight before military ope-
rations were commenced. The intentions of the Go-
vernor-General, his instructions to the General of the
army, the point against which the attack was to be
directed, and the determination to withdraw the troops
before the rainy season, would be known to the Bur-
mese Government. This constant and inevitable vice
in the administration of affairs in India must be abso-
lutely eradicated. It was essential to the credit of
the Government, the safety of the army, that
secresy should be preserved.—(Hear, hear.) He knew
the diffloulties which the Governor-General would have
to contend with in the preservation of that necessary
secresy, and Noble Lords would scarcely be able to form
an idea of the manner in which the secrets of the
Indian Government were betrayed. When he him-
self arrived at Madras on his way to Calcutta,
he read in a Bombay paper several paragraphs
relating to the war in China, which ho thought
he recognised as proceeding from his own pen.
Upon closer examination thy turned out to be
certain instructions which he himself had written while
at the Board of Control, and not only was their sub-
stance given, but even the words, and so evidently were
they copies that a literal error which had crept into the
written instructions had also crept into the newspaper.
The same had been the case with regard to a report
forwarded to the Indian Government by a dis-
tinguished officer in Scinde, arta: at the time
of the Affghaniatan war, when he (Lord Ellenborough)
was necessarily at a distance from the scene of opera-
tions, and not so well acquainted with the state of mili-
tary affairs in that country as he afterwards
become, ho had thought it expedient to give a
discretionary power to the general commanding
as to the occupation or abandoning of Jellalabad. Every
particular of that order was known in the camp before
the general could have the opportunity of acting upon
it. Upon that he had deiormined for the future
that no military movement should leave his own
breast ; and. accordingly, except his own pri-
vate secretary and his aides-de camp, no man
knew anything about them beforehand It was
by that secresy that the military operations
were afterwards conducted to a successful end without
loss of life. In his opinion secresy was more necessary
than any other point far the successful conduct of affairs
in India, and lafe hoped that some instructions would be
tent out to the Governor General, that any means which
he took to obtain this end would be sanctioned by the
Government at home.
The Earl of DERBY quite agreed that this subject
was one of deep impotta.i,ce, and he entirely concurred
with every word that had fallen from the Noble Earl
oppasit
Their Lordships then adjourned until the 19th instant.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The ErZAKER took the Chair at a low minutes to Four
o'clock.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The following Bills were read a third time and passed:
—Derby Gas—Laneasrer Wiverworks, Cemetery, and
Gas—Medina. River Navigation.
Tne Corris, Machynlietb, and River Dovey Railway,
wi h Branches Bill, and the Belfast Custom Housc,
Bill were read a second time.

The following Bills were considered and agreed to
Aberdeen Fire and Life Assurance Company.
Forth and Clyde Navigation.

Londonderry and Coleraine Railway.
Londonderry and Enniskillen Railway.
PETITIONS.
Sir J. Y. BULLER presented a petition from Ply-
mouth against the Maynooth grant.
Lord HOTHAM presented a petition from a vicar in
the East Riding of Yorkshire against the removal of the
Crystal Palace.
Sir R. H. INGLIS presented a petition from the
arehdeaconry of London against any further endowment
to the college of Maynooth.
Colonel TRfres
----,ePSON resented a petition from Hall
against of Foreign
inst the Extredit Seamen's B:11.
Mr. B. BERK-r;
presented LEY a petition from a
Young _an 's Society assn
ition from Bristol
the taxes o.
n knowledge;
also .a pet
tificate duty.' Bristol against the atorneys' net-
o
Lord ROIiERT GROSVS ENOR resented a petition
from the Metropolitan
for legielative melon', s toa-n' presen
Sanitary Association, praying
ADJORNMENTI"nre
Mr. F. MACKENZIE moved extramural_ interment.
"P TUE HOUSE.
rising, do adjourn until aoraed that the House, at Ls
Agreed to. 's', the 19th of April.—
Mr. G. BERKELEY sairlptahpeerCthane,2llor of the Ex-
cheques had 4notie,, on the
the adjourn-
°,
al:1:r% it was only
client of tLe }louse at tialf-past tour
whether
a Lew nainti;es after four, he wished to as
the HOll. Member was in ender ta move the adjournment.
The SPEAKER informed him that it w
for any Hon. Member 0) m iv- the adjournr7 comp et
,
ADMISSION OF STItA NGERS TO Infit ent
ROUSE
OF COMMONS.
Sir DE LACY EVANS asked the First
d
Commis-
sioner of Works whether the public would be e'
to view the House of Commons during the P"flute
- Easter ad_
journment?
Lord J. MANNERS said the obstacles which pre.
vented strangers visiting the House of Commons had now
been removed, and those who had tickets to see the
House of Lomb would be permitted to visit the House
of Commons. A Committee, however, had been ap.
pointed to it quire into the lighting and ventilation
of the House, who had come to a report, in which they
recommended considerable alteratik,ns, with a view to
ameliorate the sufferings of Members. Therefore it
would be impossible to give strangers access to the
House during the entire Easter recess, but their admis-
sion would only be sulecf, to the alterations going on.