The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-29 00:00:00

IMO Mittton.\

SUN OFFICE,ISeven o'Clock.

TATTERSALL'S.—THIS EVENING•
Six o'cLocic.

METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.
4 to 1 agst Stilton
10 to 1 agst Kate—taken
10 to 1 agst Mizs Ann
10 to 1 agst Backbiter—taken
10 to 1 agst Kick-up-the-Dust
15 to 1 agst Elthiron
25 to 1 apt Officious
Eenita is scratched.

CHESTEIt CUP.

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25 agst Merry Bird
30 to 1 egst Surprise—taken

TWO THOUSAND OU/NEAL
5 to 1 eget Home•brewed
6 to 1 eget Daniel O'Rourke

DEBBY.
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12 to 1 agst Augur
15 to 1 agst Alfred the Greet
17 to 1 agst Claverhouse—taken
SUBURBAN HANDICAP.
6 to 1 agst Greengage
6 to 1 agst Mary Ann—taken
to 1 agst Kiltneney—taken

FRANCE.
The Independance of Brussels copies from the
Bulletin de Paris a long letter addressed to it by the
Vis,--,ount de rEipine, recommending an appeal to the
electors of France for the proclamation of the ELu-
pire. The Independance publishes the letter, with ,a
grave introduction, which would lead the public to
believe that the communication of M. de rEspine was
a mere pilot baloon, to ascertain the direction to '
be given to the project which he supposes to exist.
There is nothing, however, in the character of
the lithographic sheet which] publishes the letter of
M. de l'Espine, or in the position of its author, to
give to them the importance attached by the Indepen-
dance. M. de l'Espine concludes his letter as follows
" The French nation can never comprehend the
nephew of the Emperor receiving the Senate and the
Legislative body at the Tuileries by the side of a vacant
throne. France knows what is suffered by short govern-
ments. Let the character of the votes of the 10th and
20th December be appreciated. Let France be again
consulted, and we shall see that what she wants is the
Empire."
The Brussels journals state that the verdict of ac-
quittal in the affair of the Bulletin Franvis was only
adoptEd by a majority of 7 to 5.

THE

under the ;reign of the Auckland-Baring Boards
of Admiralty, appropriated to themselves and
obtained for their connexious the beat berths in
the servico? If he is, and tolerates it, the country and
the navy will be very much deceived in the character of
the noble and distinguished head of the Admiralty. from
whose able and impartial administration of the affAirs of
the service they anticipate a total regeneration of prin-
ciple in the distribution of that patronage which falls to
his gift.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
(THIS EVEN IN G.)

HOUSE OF LORDS;
The LORD CHAlrczu.ott took his seat on the Woolsack
at Five o'clock.
Lord CAMPBELL presented a petition from the
Lord Provost, Town Council, and magistrates of Edin-
burgh, praying for the abolition of the tests imposed on
the professors of Scotch universities; also a petition
from Perth to the same effect; also a petition from
Brighton, praying for the enfranchisement of copyhold:;
and a petition trom Cork in favour of tenant!rigiat.
PRIVILEGE—EXCLUSION OF LADIES FROM

THE HOUSE DURING PRAYERS.
Lord CAMPBELL called the attention of the House
to a question of privilege. On the last occasion when
he was present in their Lordship' House, when
the Noble Earl now at the head of the Government had
been installed into office, there naturally had been a
great anxiety shown to be present, and the galleries
appropriated to Peeresses and their unmarried daughters
were accordingly filled. When prayers commenced
the ladies were ordered to withdraw, and obliged to
remain waiting in the cold corridor until prayers
were terminated. It appeared to him that this
was a very unnecessary and discourteous course, and he
hoped that their Lordships would take some steps to
remedy the grievance of which he complained.
The matter then dropped.
FOREIGN REFUGEES.
The Earl of MALMESBURY laid on the table of the
House further correspondence relating to foreign re-

fugees in England.
OPENING OF NUNNERIES.
The Earl of RODEN presented a petition, signed by
a large number of ladies of the county of Tyrone, pray-
ing for the opening of the nunneries to the visit of in-
spectors.
DEPOSITION OF THE AMEER ALI MOURAD.
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH rose to move for a
oopy of a proclamation issued on the 21st of January,
1.852, by Mr. Frere, the Commissioner in Sinde, by
order of the Governor-General of India, declaring the
forfeiture to the British Government .of all the territories
held by the Ameer Ali Menrad, excf)pt such as he re-
ceived from his father,on the ground o f his having wrong.
fully obtained possession of a portion of those territories
by means of a forged document styled the treaty of
Nownahur ; also, for an account of 'the estimated reve-
-1 nine of the territories so forfeited, distinguishing such as
ware obtained under the Treaty of Nownahar from such
as were held by the Ameer Ali Mourad at Rais, under
the Cession of the Turban, concluded at Dejee on or
about the 19th of December, 1842 ; and also, for an
ai :count of the estimated revenue ,of such of the terri-
tc.ries so forfeited as were heretofore in the possession
ol theNuwab of Bahawulpore, and. were intended to be
ceded to the said Nuwab by the several treaties signed
b:y the Ameers of Sciade on the 14th of February, 1843.
T ho Noble Earl said that the papers for which he moved
misted to the late deposition of Ali Mourad from the
territories lately occupied by bins in India, on the
ground that he had gained possession of them by means
of a forged treaty. The condition of Ali Mourad was that of
as. independent Prince, an ally of the .British Government
and the question between him and the British Govern-,
went was one of state against state, end we had no right
to proceed against him both as a prince and a subject.
He was no ordinary individual, for many years he had
be en a faithful ally of the British Oovernment, and had
it not been for his co-operation. in the year 1843,
when he joined with Sir C. :Napier with 5,000
men, it was very doubtful whether Sir C.
Napier could have brought the opelm-ions which he was
en gaged in to a successful issue; in the affair, too, of
Moults°, and in still later operations his assistance had
bean of great service. The charge b rought against him
wi s that he had gained possession of certain districts by
mi :ans of a forged treaty, and the result of a
sri al ordered by the British Government was
to confirm the accusation. He (Lord Ellenbo-
rough) complained of the manne r in which this
trial had been conducted, and the judges who
had presided. Gallant officers they were certainly,
as he freely allowed, by the qualities I of a bold sabreur
we re not those of the judge, and he certainly did not
:kink that two majors were the most fitting persons
to conduct an invegitation of this sort. The
vase of the property which Ali Mourad had
got possession of was but 4,01001. per annum,
while the fine was 100,000/, He there fore hoped that if
tho present Government did not altogether annul the
judgment which had been pronounced, they would at
lee .st revise it, and relieve the British c ame from the tar-
nh which the whole of this trausactot i had thrown upon
it :in the minds of the people of India..
'Lord BROUGTON rose, and was
(LxFT SPEAKING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair a few minutes before
Raw o'clock.

NEW MEMBER.
Mr. SCULLY took the oaths and his seat for Cork.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Liverpool Corporation Waterworks Bill was read
a third time and passed.
The following Bills were °onside! ed and agreed to,
and ordered to be engrossed:
Accidental Death Insurance and Railway Assurance
Companies Amalgamation.
Belfast Gas.
Bradford Piece Halls.

Cheltenham Improvement and Health.:
Droitwich Junction Canal (Amendments to be pro-
posed).
Macclesfield Improvement (Amendments to be pro-
posed).
Yaaley Drainage.
The following Bills were read a, second time, and
ordered to be committed:—
Dumfries and Maxwelltown Waterworks.
Eastern Union Railway.
North and South-Western and Brighton and Dover
Junction Railway (Wandsworth to Croydon).
North Staffordshire Railway (Sandlmch to near War-

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rington, &o.)
Swansea Local Board of Health.

iramore Embankment.

Wycombe Railway.
EDINBURGH AND CANONGA.TE ANNUITY

TAX ABOLITION BILL.
Sir GIBSON CRAIG moved the second reading of
thss: Bill, which he said was approved of by the late
Government, but he understood that some part of it
would be resisted by her Majesty's present advisers.
He hoped, however, the Government would now state
what their views were with regard to this Bill, and not al-
low it to be read a second time for the purpose of being
hereafter opposed.—(Hear.)
Mr. F. MACKENZIE did not speak now as a
Member of the Government, but as an independent
Member who last year sat upon the Committee which
investigated this subject. He was not altogether opposed
to the object of the Bill, but nevertheless he thought it
defective both in principle and detail. It was said dis-
sent was on the increase in Edinburgh, and that was
ore of the reasons for reducing the number of minis-
ters of the Established Church, which the promoter of
the Bill urged in its favour. He, however, could not
recognise the force of that reason, nor could he say that
he had much confidence in the securities which were
proposed to be taken for the payment of these fifteen
m;.nisters, and unless the Bill came out of the, Com-
mittee very much altered he should feel bound to oppose
it on the third reading.
Mr. MONCRIEFF supported the Bill. He examined
its provisions while in office, and he highly approved of
it, and if the House could be made sensible of the heart-
burnings that it was calculated to put a stop to in Scot-
hied, it would do so also. The security, in his opinion,
was far from defective, and he hoped the House would
ultimately pass the BM.
Sir GEORGE CLERK supported the Bill, though
he was opposed to many cf its details, and he trusted,
when
the Bill came down from the Committee, the
defects would have been expunged. He should resist
~„enipt to reduce the nunaher of clergymen attached
tlstahlished Church, and he called upon her
'Y 6 Ministers to second his exertions in that
respect.
Mr. J. SMITH
a was also anxious to put an
yeneadrsthoadt/11)tvaitdtation which for the last twenty
upon this subject, and that was the
He Conwttly he was favourable to one part of
nded that the number of clergy ought
principal reason -
a great hardship upon the
theto b end reduced,iofF%dits bfuorrgitst was
people .
owu . that they should be compelled
to support their .
ergy, and that of a church which
they never attende
Sir B. COLE BRUUKE objected to the clause which
ofs of the Chapel
authorised the appropriation of the fend
he called upon
the clergy in
be withdrawn if
Edinburgh. This Bill was net a private but
a public
Royal in Scotland to the payment
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Mr. TUFNELL supported the Bill, and_ protested that I
it was high time the question was settled .—(Hear.)
Mr. COWAN would not enter into the de
Bill, but he knew it was approved of by
allta ilse
peartiof ses
Edinburgh, and he trusted it would be sanction the
n
d by the
House for the sake of restoring peace in Scotland..
Mr. HUME called upon the Government to take up
the Bill, and pass it into a 13w.—(hest, hear.)
Mr. WALPOLE said he was not prepared to tiO 80!
nor was he prepared to say that he approve!
of the measure; bat he was quite ready,. if
the House would only grant him tune
for the purpose, to take the question into
his consideration, with the view of arriving at a speedy
settlement. There were interests compromised by this
Bill which he could never consent to; and although it
might be read a eecond time, and referred to a Commit-
mittee, it would still be liable to be stopped by the
Crown.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. FOX MAULE treated this declaration as a direct
negative to the measure, and he therefore recommended
that it should be withdrawn. He advised the late
Government to accept it as a settlement of the
whole question, and he could not help feelirg
if any delay took place now it would be taroamouat to
a loss of another year. There was an opportunity now
of settling the question, gad he regretted that it should
be thrown away.