The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-05 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

ROUSE OF LORDS—This Evening,
The LORD ChANCELLOR took his seat upon the woolsack
at the usual hour,

Lord STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE said he would
postpone putting the question with reference to the corre-
spondence published in the Morning Post until next week.
THE ATROCITIES BY THE PRUSSIANS.
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY in pursuance of a notice
which he had given previously to the noble earl the Secre-
tary of Foreign Affairs, called attention to the following
telegram, viz :

" SONDERBURG, July I.—At the partial clearance of the
battle-field, yesterday, 400 Swedish volunteers were dis-
covered to whom no quarter was given."
Which in plain terms meant that 400 wounded men, left in
a helpless state on the field of battle, were butchered in cold
blood by the Prussian soldiery. He wished to know if her
tilajesty's Government had received any information which
would enable him to speak to the truth of the statement.
He believed it was true from what he had heard of other
acts of cruelty perpetrated by the Prussians.
Earl RUSSELL said he had no information respecting
the matter, but be would make inquiry into the circum-
stances and communicate with the noble earl.
BRIBERY AT ELECTIONS.
In reply to Lord URANWORTH,
Lord BROUGHAM said he did not intend proceeding
further with his bill en this subject this session.

THIRD READINGS.
The following bills were read a third time and passed :
Dundee Churches and Hospitals, Rammell's Patent, Wal-
ford and Edgware Junction Railway, Great Northern
Railway (Barnet Branch), London, Chatham. and Dover
Railway (No. 1), Llanelly Harbour Improvement, Clyde
Navigation, Caledonian Railway, Macclesfield, Bollington,
and Marple Railway, and Scottish Central Railway.
FACILITIES FOR DIVINE SERVICE IN COLLE-

GIATE SCHOOLS.
The house went into committee on this bill.
[LEFT SITTING.]

HOUSE OF COMMONS.--This Evening.
The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.;
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The London Docks, St. Katherine Dock, and Victoria
(London) Dock Amalgamation Bill was read a third time
and passed.

Tile following bills were considered and ordered for third
reading : —Ard rossan Harbour—Helston and Penryn Junc-
tion Railway—and Wandsworth Bridge.
PAYMENT OF RATES BY OFFICERS.
Colonel NORTH asked the Under Sect etary to the Trea-
sury if any arrangement had yet been arrived at between
the Treasury and the War Department relative to the pay-
went of rates by officers in the army for houses occupied by
them in the performance of their public duties ?
Mr PEEL said that the committee appointed on the
subject were still considering the question sub judiee.
THE REGIUM DONUM.
Sir H. BRUCE asked the Secretary to the Treasury
whether the Government would, in accordance with the re-
quest of a numerously signed memorial, increase the grant
commonly called " ltegium Donum" to the Presbyterian
Church in Ireland ?

Mr PEEL said it was not considered advisable to recom-
mend an increase of the grant.
POLICE-CONSTABLE 244 B.
Mr WHALLEY asked the Secretary of State for the
Home Department whether police-constable 244 B, as to
whom Mr Arnold, the magistrate at Westminster Police-
court, publicly stated on two several occasions in the month
of May last, that he could not believe him on his oath, or to
that effect, is sill continued in the force.
Sir G. GREY said that no representation on the subject
had been made by Mr Arnold to the Home Office.

GOVERNMENT ORDNANCE.
Sir J. HAY asked the Under Secretary of State for War
to lay upon the table of the house a return showing the
number of guns in store and in use of such a nature
as the late experiments show can be effectually used
against armour-clad ships of the Warrior class ; and
asked what steps Government were taking to provide a
sufficient supply of guns for the armament of our torts and
ileets, of such a nature as late experiments show can
be effectually used against armour-clad ships and forts,
specifying as follows :—the calibre of gun ; whether rifled
or smooth• bore ; the construction of gun ; cast-iron, coil,
steel, or wrought-iron ; the weight of gun ; the length of
bore; the weight of shot and shell; and, the service charge
of powder.

TheMarquisof HARTINGIONsaid that such details as
were asked for by the hon. baronet could not advisably be
subwitted to public inspection. Efforts were being made
to give an adequate supply of rifled guns to the service.
THE RUMOURS IN REFERENCE TO ALSEN.
In reply to Lord R. MONTAGU,
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Mr I:A-YARD said that no official information on the
subject had been received by the Government on this
subject.
THE DANO-GERMAN QUESTION.
ADJOURNED DEBATE,

Mr COBDEN resumed the adjourned debate on this
most important question, in which, as our readers are aware,
Mr Disraeli, in a speech of great power, moved last
night a resolution to the effect that the foreign policy of
the Government was not entitled to confidence. Having
referred to the amendments proposed by Mr Newdegate
and Mr Kinglake, he said he must admit that the conduot
of the Foreign-office in reference to continental affairs
was not calculated to raise this country in the eyes of
Europe. He trusted that the result of the failures in re-
ference to foreign policy would lead to the question of
foreign policy being transferred from the Foreign-office to
the House of Commons. In reading the despatches in
regard to this subject, he could not avoid coming to the
conclusion that our Government had been deficient
in sagacity and a knowledge of the want and wishes
of the continental States. He deprecated in the
strongest terms our interference in foreign affairs,
and ridiculed the idea of tiny treaty except that
of Vienna, which bound this country to go to war, and that
treaty merely bound us to prevent any member of the
Bonaparte family s tting on the throne of France. (Laughter)
In dealing with this question of Denmark this country had
ignored altogether the interests of 1,000,000 persons
connected with the Duchies, which formed the
subject of dispute. He contended that as far as regarded
Denmark, it had violated its engagements in respect to
these duchies, and endeavoured to thrust on them a language
that was uncongenial, in the same way that Holland had
attempted to do in respect to Belgium when she sought to
force into adoption an uncouth and perishing tongue, He
believed this country was omnipotent for purposes of self- '
defence. The hon. member at some length advocated the
doctrines of peace and arbitration in that style of argument
for which he is remarkable, and concluded without stating
on which side he intended to vote.
Lord H. CECIL rose, and was
[LEFT SPEAKING.]

LONDON GAZETTE.—This Evening,

WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, JULY 5.
2d Life Guards—Lieut. Frederick Stephens to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Robert Thomas Lowndes Norton, who
retires—Cornet and Sub-Lieut. Frederick Young to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Stephens.
6th Dragoons—Lieut, George Luck to be Adjutant, vice
Lieut, T, J, Fitz Simon, who has exchanged to the 62d
Foot.
Bth Hussars—Captain John Worthy Chaplin, from 100th
Foot, to be Captain, vice J. M, Biddle, who exchanges.
14th Hussars—Captain Cecil Frederic Holder, from 3d
Foot, to be Captain, vico Breuet Lieut,-Col. Prettejohn,
promoted in 18th Hussars.
16th Lancers—Cornet Augustus Croft Dobree to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Hans Sloane-Stanley, who
retires—Barrie Archbold Reid, Gent., to be Cornet, by
purchase, vice Dobree.
18th Hussars—Captain and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel
Richard Buckley Prettejohn, from 14th Hussars, to be
Major, without purchase.
Royal Artillery—Second Captain Edward Tobias
tWil-
loughby to be Captain, vice Edward Jackson Bruce,re
moved to the Supernumerary List—Lieutenant Algernon
Augustus Stewart to be Sooond Captain, vice Pa II
Second Captain Alexander Grant Miller to be Adjutant,
vice Phelipa, who resigns the Adjutancy oniy..
Robert Home to be
Royal En„mineers—Captaiu Alexander Fraser
.. to be Lieute-
nant-Colonel, vice Impey,who retires on Plllpay Second '
Captain and Brevet-Major John James McLeod Janes to
James H___easketh to be Captain,
be Captain, vice Fraser—Lieutenant_
Second Captain, vice Brevet-Major Innes.
Bushman, who retires
Military Train—Lieutenant Jam
without purchase, vice Georel .!‘)
upon lialf-pay7LieutenantU ham Thompson to be
Adjutant, vice Lieutenant Milne, I:Tot:noted.
3cl Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant William Ker to be Cap-
Artlittr William Hill Gelston to
tain, without parchase, vice C. F. Holder, transferred to
purchase, vice Ker—Gentleman
bl4et
Cadet Frederick William Vans 'Leckie, from the Royal
Military College, to be
without purchase, vice
Lieutenant,nr without Ensign
vp.perton, transferred to the 91st Foot—Gentleman Cadet
Albert de Claney Rennick, from the Royal Military Col-
loge, to be Ensigul without purchase, vice Gelston, pro-
moted,
7th Foot—Ensign Arthur Henry Morgan, from 40th Foot,
to be Ensign, vice Smith, promoted.
10th Foot—Ciezulemtua Cadet James Wolcott Lang, from

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the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without pure.
chase, vice John MacCarthy O'Leary, who has been
superseded for being absent without leave.
llth Foot—Ensign Henry Herbert Skill to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice James Leslie Day, whe retires—
Gentleman Cadet Sylvester Reid, from the Royal Mili-
tary College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice
Aitchison, transferred to 69.. h Foot—Charles Albert
Spaeth, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Skill.
16th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Walter Henry Christie, from
the Royal Military College, to he Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice B. O. Brownrigg, deceased—Gentleman Cadet
Augustus Williams Morris, from the Royal M ilitary
College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice J. R.
Akers, deceased.
18th Foot—Lieutenant James Francis Daubeny to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice Brevet Lieut,-Col. Sir H. M.
Havelock, Bert., promoted, by purchase. to an UnEt ttachsd
Majority—Ensign Francis Nathaniel Valentine Burton
to bo Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Daubeny—J ames
Mortimer Webster, Geut , to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Burton.
24th Foot--Gentlemen Cadet Herbert Michael Williams
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, with ett
purchase, vice RIB pater, promoted—Gentlemen Cede
Herbert Belay se Moffat, from the Royal Military College
to be Ensign, without purchase, vice R. G. Kenneciy
transferred to the 55th Foot.
25th Foot—Gentleman Cadet George Ormond Stoney, from
the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Darley, trrneterred to the 70th Foot.
vice A. Hall, who exchanges,
26th Foot—Quartermaster William Henry 'Popp, from 75th
Foot, to be Quartermaster,
27th Foot—Captain Edward Townsend Webb, from 1091 h
Foot, to be Captain, vice J. B. Campbell, who exchanges.
28th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Henry Wallick Macleer,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign without
purchase, vice Parker, transferred to the 60th Foot.
40th Foot— Gentleman Cadet Francis Arthur Dashwood,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Morgan, transferred to the 7th Foot—
Arthur Henry Morgan, Gent„ to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice W. H. Browne, transferred to the 58th Foot.
52d Foot—Captain Edward Cooper Wynne, from the 90th
Foot, to be Captain, vice J. T. French, who exchanges.
58th Foot—Ensign M. H. D. Thunder to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice J. B. Deacon, who retires—Ensign T.
H. Milles to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Wm. H.
Barneby, who retires—Ensign Wm. H. Browne, from
40th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Thunder—George Edward
Ryan, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Mulles--
Lieut. 0. W. Hill to be Adjutant, vice Lieut. Deacon,
59th Foot—Charles Dames Moore, Gent,, to be Ensign, by
Purchase, vice Benthall, promoted, by purchase, into the
3,;, West India Regiment.

70th I:',)ot—Ensign henry Calland Darien from the 25th
Foot, to be Ensign, vice Charles Townley Martin,
deceased.

75th Foot—Lieutenant John Watson Munro, from 107th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice W. G. Mansergh, who ex-
changes—Quartermaster Archibald Hall, from 26th
Foot, to be Quartermaster, vice W. H. Topp, who ex-
changes.
84th Foot—Ensign Ernest Edward Cator Nevile to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Arthur Henry Mes sitar,
who retires—Gentleman Cadet William Henry Godley,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Neville.
90th Foot—Captain John Thomas French, from 52d Foot,
to be Captain, vice E. C. Wynne, who exchanges.
97th Foot—James Miller Gordon, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Alexander Willoughby M. Moore, who
retires.
76th Foot—Lieutenant John M'Dermid Allardice to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Edward William Frederick
Acton, who retires--Ensign Francis Elliot Lloyd, to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Allardice—Arthur Archi-
bald Denne Weigall, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Lloyd.
80th Foot—Arthur Hippisley, Smith, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Turnbull, promoted, by purchase, into
the 3d West India Regiment.