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

THIRD EDITION

SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK.

SIR ROWLAND HILL AND THE LATE EARL
OF ELGIN.
The LORD CHANCELLOR, read arced 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 Majesty recommending their lorships to confer, with a
view of enabling her to grant to Mary Louisa, the Dowager
Countess of Elgin and Kincaidine, £l,OOO per annum for
her natural life.

Earl GRANVILLE moves 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 timo : 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 Alyth Railway Company
—Mytholm Royd Bridge and Blackstone Edge Raad—
Scottish North Eastern and Perth Almond Valley and
Methven Railways—Ribblesdale Railway, Abet ystwith
and Welsh Coast Railway—and Edinburgh and tilasgow
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, Haddesharn, 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 ba pre-
sented to her Majesty, for copies of any correspondence
which had taken place between her Majesty's Government
and the Cabindt of St. Petersburg, on the imprisonment, in
Grodno, of the Rev. Fortescue Anderson, a British subject,
during the autumn of 1863; anti also for copies of any cor-
respondence which had taken place between her Majesty's
Government and the Rev. Mr. Anderson on his imprison-
meat.

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 waa investigated, and as there was not sufficient
evidence the rev. gentleman was set at liberty, on condition
that he left Russia. Her Majesty'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 BITTING 1

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

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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. GROGAN 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 .................. 106
Against it .......................... 104
Majority .............
The motion was accot diny lost.
.. ..... 2
TAXES IN EUROPE.
On the motion of Mr J. WHITE, the following return
was ordered :—Re of the total amount of taxes
levied in each of the different States of Europe, EO
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 AYTOUN 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 CARD WEL L said that the subject would be shortly
brought under the consideration of the house.
Mr. LY ALL asked the Secretary of State for the Colo.,
nies 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 whither, in consequence of the great prosperity of the
island, there was an earl prospect of releasing this countr
altogether from that charge, and placing Ceylon in that re-
spect on the :.ame footing as India,
Mr CAItDWELL said that
made to reduce the expenditure alluded to in the colony of
'arrangements had been
Ceylon.

THE CONFERENCE ON GERMAN AFFAIRS.
Mr. OSBORNE asked the first .1.m.1 of the Treasury
whether the Conference had arrived at any decision respect-
ing the maintenance of the Treaty of London, and it the
noble lord was in a situation to communicate it to the
house ; and if the suspension of arms between Denmark and
the conflicting Powers had been prolonged'
Lord PALMERSTON said that he was unable to speak
positively in regard to this subject. No arrangement had
yet been come to respecting the suspension of hostilities
between Denmark and the German States, but he hoped
that eventually some sucthhaartrtanhegesmumenotfw:2uol,doboeoaschceodueldd to.ba
services he had
Lord PALMERSTON brought up the message from her
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rendered to the public in the postal department, and he said
that ho would move the adoption of that vets
on a future
day,

PENSION TO LADY ELGIN,
Lord PALMERSTON said that in conformity with a
message trom her Majesty, the test of which he placed on
the table of the house, he would name on a certain day

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF LORDS—This Evening.
The LORD CHANCELLOR to:I his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.
SHOT PRACTICE AT PLYMOUTH.
The Duke of MARLBOROUGH called the attention of
the noble earl to the dangerous practice of firing live shell
from Plymouth Citadel. It is now a practice fraught with
the utruot:t danger, and fatal Effects had already resulted
from the practice, as a poor man had been killed owing to his
boat having been struck by a shell fired from the Citadel dur-
ing artillery practice. No person could sail out of Plymouth
Sound without crossing the line of fire, and he himself had
experienced the danger of the practice. He wished to know
whether the Government intended to adopt steps to prevent
the recurrence of such lamentable accidents as the one he
had referred to, by providing new practicing grounds, which
he believed might easily be done.
Earl DE GREY and RIPON regretted the fatal occur-
rence as much as the noble duke, It was too true the poor
man had died from the effects of a wound inflicted on him
by one of the shells fired from Plymouth citadel. The shot
had deviated from the regular course, and thus the accident
had been occasioned. He felt it but right to the officer in com-
mand of the gun to say that he had waited for more than two
hours for the clearing of the line of fire. Immediately he
heard of the accident he issued orders, which indeed
were unnecessary, as the commanding officer had acted
on his own responsibility, and ordered a discontinuance of
the firing from Plymouth Citadel. It was not, however,
the fact to say that it was the practice to fire live shells
from the guns. The fact was that they were only charged
with sufficient materials to show the exact moment of strik-
ing the water. The matter was under the serious conside-
ration of the Government, but he would at once say that no
risk to human life would berun iu practising with artillery. It
was not quite so easy as the noble duke imagined to procure
fresh ranges, but no considerations of that sort would de-
lay the consideration of measures to prevent the recurrence
of so melancholy an accident.
The Earl of MALMESBURY expressed his satisfaction
at the answer of the noble lord.