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whether, if it should be a result of the conference that Eng-
land was about to undertake new engagements with refer-
ence to Denmark and the Duches, her Majesty's Ministers

would be prepared to submit those engagements to the con-
sideration of Parliament before they advised their ratifica-
tion by the Crown.
Lord PALMERSTON said that, in a mixed constitution
like that of this country, it was almost impossible to draw

a line in reference to important questions like the present.
(Hear, hear.) There was not the slightest wish on the

part of the Government to prevent Parliament from consi-
dering this question fully,

THE ARMY ESTIMATES.

The Marquis of HARTINGTON, in reply to a ques-

tion, said that if he were not able to get into a committee
of supply on the Army Estimates this evening, he would
bring them on to-morrow,

GOVERNMENT ANNUITIES BILL.
Mr, A 7 RTON, in resuming the adjourned debate on the

bill, '.deprecated Government interference with friendly

societies, urging that there should be a searching inquiry
into the real character of the bill. He supported the

time he spoke of rash and reckless speculations, and the
losses thereby inflicted, he did not intend to apply motives.
But what unfortunately happened was this, that persons of
great respectability involved themselves in undertakings of
this nature, which had the effect of deluding and robbing
others, withont any impurity of motives on their own part.
He hoped that nothing would be lost if the policy holders
kept their policies ; sad it was not his intention to attribute
impunity of motive to the directors of the Professional In-
surance Company.
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The motion for referring the bill to a select committee
was then agreed to.
The house then went into committee of suply on the
army estimates.
The house having gone into committee of supply on the
army estimates, the vote of £5,708.931 for general staff and
regimental pay, allowances and charges, elicited considerable
discussion of details, but ultimately the vote was agreed to
without a disvision; as were also the votes for commissariat
establishment, services, and movement of troops, clothing
establishments, services and supplies, barrack establteh-
ments, and Divine service. _

with the ground.

amendment of Sir M. Farquhar to refer the bill to a select

committtee.

Mr. HUBBARD observed that, although upon principle

was undesirable for the Government to undertake func-

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 12, 1864.

have nicknamed " le brave des braves," as no one in

,he army is so constantly and so unflinchingly in

,he fire, no one seems more determined to hold his

ground to the last. Twice in the last war was that
gallant mill shot down and burnt, twice did it rise
from its ashes. It is the palladium of Denmark and
its army, and the Prussians have rib great chance
against the 10 bastions so long as the skill of their

gunners is baffled by the doughty successor of those
hundred-handed giants whose punch in the head
was sufficient to level the Spanish knight errant

Well, we toiled our way into the town, we walked
past the mills and the barracks, and till we reached
our dear old dirty quarters at the Reymath Hotel
we saw that, though shells had lighted here and
there and everywhere, the mischief done was but
trifling. A hole in the roof or a shattered win-

dow Makes no great difference in the outward look

or in the internal economy of the town ; bat as we
neared the Stadt Hamburg our old Feld-post was a
heap of rubbish ; so was the Poem aux Chevaus,