The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-06 00:00:00

OF ELGIN.

The LORD CHANCELLOR read a read a message from
her Majesty recommending the House of Lords to confer
with a view of enabling her to grant, as a special mark of
her favour, the sum of £20,000 to Sir Rowland Hill.

Earl GRANVILLE moved that her Majesty's message
be taken into consideration on Friday next.
The LORD CHANCELLOR next read a message from
her Majssty recommending their lorships to confer, with a
view of enabling her to grant to Mary Louisa, the Dowager
Countess of Eigin and Kincardine, £l,OOO per annum for
her natural lite.

Earl GRANVILLE moveA that her Majesty's message
be also taken into consideration on Friday next.
The motions were agreed to.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The following bills were read a second time : New-
castle-upon .Tyne and North Shields Roads---Dublin,
Wicklow, and Wexford Railway—Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire Railway and Tendring Hundreds Rail-

way—Scottish North Eastern and Myth Railway Company
—Myth°lm Royd Bridge and Blackstone Edge Rlad—
Scottish North Eastern and Perth Almond Valley and
Methven Railways—Ribblesdale Railway, Aberystwith
and Welsh Coast Railway—and Edinburgh and Cilasgow
and Alva Railway.
The following bills were read a third time and passed :
Much Wenlock and Severn Junction and Wenlock Rail-
way Companies, Stirling Water, Wrexham Water, West
Riding and Grimsby Railway, London and South-Western
Railway (Chester Extension), Witney Railway, Salisbury
and Yeovil Railway, Ely, Haddesham, and Sutton Rail-
way, Watford and Edgware Junction Railway, Great
Northern Railway (No. 1) (Barnet Branch), West Norfolk
Junction, and South Staffordshire Water.
THE REV. F. ANDERSON.

Lord STRATHEDEN moved that an address be pre-
sented to her Majesty, for copies of any correspondence
which had taken place between ber Majesty's Government
and the Cabinet of St. Petersburg, on the imprisonment, in
Grodno, of the Rev. Fortescue Alderson, a British subject,
during the autumn of 1863; anu also for copies of any cor-
respondence which had taken place between her Majesty's
Government and the Rev. Mr. Anderson on his imprison •
ment.

Earl• RUSSELL said Mr. Andrew's case was very
simple. He had visited Poland when the people were in a
state of insurrection, and had been apprehended on sus-
picion of having supplied arms and amunition to the Poles.
The case was investigated, and as there was not sufficient
evidence the rev gentleman was set at liberty, on condition
that he left Russia, Her Maje,ty's Government did not
think it was a case in which the circumstances justified any
interference on their part with a view of procuring a
pecuniary compensation.
[LEFT SITTING

HOUSE OP COMMONS—This Evening.
The SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS. _ _

The following bills were read a third time and passed
Belfast and Northern Counties Railway—Bristol and
South Wales Union Railway—Exmouth and Budleigh
Salterton Water--London and North Western Railway
(Traffic Arrangements)-oswestry and Newtown Railway
and other Companies (Arrangements)—and Wokington
Harbour.

DUBLIN• IMPROVEMENT BILL.
On the motion for the consideration of this bill,

Sir E. GROGA.Nt moved an amendment to the effect
that the further consideration of the bill should be postponed
until Tuesday next, in order that some alterations might be
introduced.

After some discussion the house divided—
For the amendment
Against it
Majority
The motion was accot dingly lost.

TAXES IN EUROPE.
On the motion of Mr J. WRITE, the following return
was ordered :—Return of the total amount of taxes
levied in each of the different States of Europe, to
far as the same can be obtained, distinguishing
between direct and indirect taxation, and specifying
the several heads of each, and also distinguishing between
taxes for the service of the State and those for provincial
and local purposes; and exhibiting the results in the
monies and measures of the different countries, as well as
British monies and measures.
LOAN TO NEW ZEALAND.
Mr Arro UN asked the Secretary of State for the Colo-
nies whether it was the intention of her Majesty's Govern-
ment to ask Parliament for its sanction of a guarantee of
interest for a loan for New Zealand, and if so what was the
amount of the loan for which a guarantee was to be asked,
and whether the guarantee would be applied for during the
present session ; and, if so, at what period of the session ?
Mr CARDWELL said that the subject would be shortly
brought under the consideration of the house.
Mr. LYALL asked the Secretary of State for the Colo,
vies what arrangement had been made between the Ceylon
and the English Government for reducing the charge on the
Imperial Exchequer for military expenditure in that colony;
and wh, ther, in consequence of the great prosperity of the
island, there was an early prospect of releasing this co:miry
altogether from that charge, and placing Ceylon in that re-
spect on the tame footing as India.
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THE CONFERENCE ON GERMAN AFFAIRS.
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PENSION TO LADY ELGIN.
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her Majesty, the text of which he placed on
the table of the house,
he woUld name oa a certain day