The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-21 00:00:00

[LEFT BITTING.]

HOUSE OF COMMONS—This Evening,
The SpzeitEß took the chair at four o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The following bills were read a third time and passed :
Central Railway—Chittenden's Disabilities Removal—
Ellames' Estate—Great Northern and Western (of Ire-
land) Railway (No. I)—Great Northern and Western (of
Ireland) Railway (No. 2) Bill—Hubborston Docks Bill—
Irish North Western Railway—Lord Harris' (Horsham,
All Souls College) Estate—and Millwall Canal, Wharfs,
and Graving eke.

INTERFERENCE IN COLONIAL AFFAIRS.
Mr A. MILLS gave notice that next session he would
move an address to the Crown that British forces should
not be allowed to interfere in colonial matters.
ROYAL NAVAL AFFAIRS.
Mr C. BERKELEY asked the Secretary to the Ad-
miralty, if ho considers that the officers of long
standing and high rank in the navy are satisfied with the
recent distribution of pay, as lately gazetted, by which it
appears that their juniors will receive more than themselves;
and if he considered that the fact of officers receiving more
on the retired lists than those who remain on the active
lists will act beneficially in inducing officers to seek ser-
vice ; and if, considering the anomalies which have arisen
in the various rates of pay, half-pay, retired pay, and re-
served pay, her Majesty's Government would cause any
inquiry to be made either by Royal Commission or other-
wise.

Lord C. PAGET said that he had heard no complaints
on this subject from the officers of the royal navy, and
there was no reluctance on the part of naval officers to
enter into active service.

Mr MILLS said he did not consider the explanation
satisfactory, and that he would again draw the attention of
the house to this subject.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN STATE PAPERS.
Mr H. SEYMOUR asked the Under Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs, whether a publication, called
"The British and Foreign State Papers," issued an-
nually, and edited by the Librarian of the Foreign Office,
is printed either wholly or in part at the public expense;
and, if so, whether such a selection might not be distributed
to members at the ordinary price of parliamentary papers
instead of being charged 30s a volume; and whether it
might not be brought up to the present time.
Mr LAYARD said that the State papers were printed
at the expense of the public. He said that the foreign
papers could be published fully if the house wished to
incur the expense, It would be impossible to produce
those foreign papers as rapidly as other State papers were
produced. The Secretary of the Foreign Library, who was a
gentleman of zeal and energy, published two volumes of
these foreign papers annually, and wished to publish three
annually.

'DISEASED MEAT.
Mr CRAWFORD asked the Secretary of State for the
Home Department, whether Alex. Stewart, who was con-
victed at the Central Criminal Court in December, 1863, of
the offence cf sending diseased meat from Scotland to Lon-
don for sale, and sentenced to pay a fine of £5O, and
imprisonment for the term of 12 calendar months, has been
liberated from gaol without payment of the fine ; and if so,
that he would state the grounds on which Stewart was so
liberated and the fine remitted ; and, whether applie itions
were not now before the Secretary of State for the remission
of punishments and penalties in other similar cases.—He
observed that during thn past year no less than 114,0001 b.
of diseased meat and 76,u001b. of putrid meat had been
seized in the City of London.
Sir G. GREY said that an application to the Home
Office for a remission of the sentence was refused, and he
was liberated only on the statement of the visiting justices
of Holloway Prison, that further imprisonment would
affect his health, that he was discharged.

WALES RESERVOIRS.

In reply to Mr FERRAND,
Sir G. GREY drew attention to the law on this subject,
which he said did not, he believed, entitle justices of the
peace to interfere in these matters. However, in certain
companies there were provisions that authorised justices of
peace to interfere to compel the repair of embankments.
REFUSAL OF A WINE LICENCE TO WES-