The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-03 00:00:00

RAILWAY COMPANIES.

Lord STANLEY moved that so much of the standing
order 142 as prohibited railway companies owning or using
steam vessels, harbours, and docks be repealed. Ho pro-
posed that these questions should be referred to a committee
upstairs, and he believed that the order as it now
stood would not be beneficial to the public interests. That
order was made under circumstances totally different to the
present, and he denied that the effect of the alteration which
he proposed would give, as was contended, a monopoly to
the railway companies. He could not see how it concerned
Parliament or the public whether vessels or dock should be
held by railway companies or any other bodies so long as
traffic was facilitated.

Mr. BARROW asked the house to pause before consent-
ing to this alteration. He was very anxious for this stand-
ing order being agreed to some years ago, in order to
prevent a monopoly on the part of railway companies,
which he thought was a subject in which the house should
justly interfere. He strongly objected also to railway
companies having such extensive powers as this order was
intended to limit, without any reference to Parliament.
Mr. CLAY objected to the motion of the noble lord, and
he denied that this order prohibited railway proprietors be-
coming shipowners, but merely imposed on them the onus
of showing the necessity of what they desired as a matter
of public convenience. He considered that the repeal
of this order would go further than it proposed, as it would
convey an intimation to railway companies that the powers
which they sought would be granted wherever they
were required, instead of throwing on them the
necessity of showing that such powers would
be exercised for the public interest. He defied any one who
had read the evidence before the committee to come logically
to the conclusion that by giving railway companies these
extensive powers the interests of the public would be pro-
moted.
Mr. HODSON said that if he thought the repeal of this
order would have the effect of injuring the shipping into •
rest, he would not advocate it, but he contended that
such would not bo the result. He considered, however,
that in regard to the purchase of shipping, or any other
property, the shareholders of railways ehonld have the
right of restricting their directors in making purchases of
such property. Under all the circumstances he felt bound
to support the motion of the noble lord.
Sir H. CAIRNS was opposed to the alteration proposed,
and cited the evidence adduced before the committee to show
daetu cont.era.
that the effect of the standing order being repealed would
be to drive steamship owners out of the field altogether, and,
therefore, virtually create a mononopoly which would not
conduce to the benefit of the public.
Mr. M. GIBSON said the case wass, afterimply that
plaints had been made to Parliament which h?cltO
the appointment of a committee, which
tion, recommended the adopttihoantthoefthe u
r
declaredpolicy
of now advocated. It
of the house was different to its practice. Since 1848 the
se
practice of Parliament had been to grant powers to public
MEMBER.—Sometimes to refuse them.
mpnr. a
GIBSON said sometimes to refuse them. (A-
comA
laugh.) Although that the same noble lord wanted we? that
when powers were required by a company on any particular
occasion. What the noble lord (Stanley) asked was merely,
to repeal an order that was calculated to mislead the coun-
try.
After some discussion, the motion was negatived without
a division.

ILLTREATMENT OF MISSIONARIES IN
Mr. H. SEYM ABYSSINIA.
OUR asked the Under Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs what information her Majesty's Getvern •
men t had received relating to the ill-treatment of missionaries
in Abyssinia. and the imprisonment of her Majesty's con-
sul there by King Theodorus ; and what steps her Majesty's
Government had taken in consequence.
Mr, LAYARD said, that efforts were being made to
effect the liberation of the Consul, and the other matter had
received the attention of the Government.
[LEFT SITTING

LONDON GAZETTE.—Thi, Evening.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, MAY 18.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Joseph
Hurue Burnley, Esq., now Secretary to her Majesty's Lega-
tion at Berne, to be Secretary to bar Majesty's Legation at
Copenhagen. I
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
Horace Rumbold, Esq., now Secretary to her Majesty's
Legation at Athens, to be Secretary to her Mjesty's Lega.;
tion at Berne.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
Edward R. Lytton. Esq., now Secretary to her Majestrd
Legation at Copenhagen, to be Secretary to her Majesty's
Legation at Athens.
WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, JUNE 3.
half-pay.
Moore
6th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Sergeant-
Major Wil-
liam Denis Lemmon to be Quaitermaster, Vice George
William Bewley, who retires, upon half_
6th Dragoons—Staff Assistant •Surgeon
u.,sasp.rpsolasteudrotoeolnBthhielinuryss
ars
MarchWebb,VLß,, from
Jessop to be Assistant-Surgeon, vie() v. M. M'Master,
13tIshi'llp
the ISth Hussars, to be Surgeo
who exchanges. 112 vice C. C. Rutherford,
Mkt Hussars—Surgeon Cornelius Clark Rutherford, from

the 131 h Hussars, to be Surgeon, vice Henry M. Webb,
N. 8., nho exchanges—Assist ant-Surgeon Valantine
Mumbee !'Master, from the Gth Dragoons, to be
Assistant-Surgeon.
19th Hussars—Staff Assistant-Surgeon David Woc ds to be
Assistant-Surgeon—Assistant-Surgeon Samuel Fuller,
from 17th Lancers, to be Assistant-Surgeon.
20th Hussars—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Nicholas Ffolliott,
to be Assistant-Surgeon—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Charles
Mackinnon to be Assistant-Surgeon.
21st Hussars—Staff Assistant. Surgeen Wallace Haward to
be Assistant-Surgeon—Assistant-Surgeon John Mun-
day, from 20th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon.
Royal Artillery—Gentleman Cadet Henry Torkington,
from the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, to be
Lieutenant, vice henry Featherstenhaugh, who resigns.
To be Assistant-Surgeons—Staff Assistant-Surgeons
William Menzies Calder, William Henry Yates, James
Jardine, M.D. William Cathcart Boyd. and Walter Bel 3.
nett Itarnsbotharn, M.D.—Assistant-Surgeons John Wild
Hulseber,,', Alexander Robert Kilroy, William Collis,
William O'Halloran, Frederick Ftolliott, Alexander
Stevenson Russell, 111. D., George Bouchier, William Slv,
Thomas Michael O'Brien, George Alexander Moorhead,
John Kinahan, M.D , Francis Edward McFarland, and
Arthur Charles Gaye. To be Veterinary Sure-eon—
Acting Veterinary Surgeon Francis Walker, vice' Wil-
liam Barry Lord, placed upon half-pay.
Grenadier Guards—Lieutenant and Captain Edward G. H.
Viscount Ilichingbrook to be Adjutant, vice Lieutenan
and Captain the Hon. F. A. Stanley, who resigns tha
appointment.
2d Regiment of Foot—The appointment of Lieutenant R.
Thoresby Gwyn as Adjutant has been antedated to 4th
May, 1861.
G ent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
6thFoot—Jamesvi
vice B r
10th Foot—Shift Assistant-Surgeon John Mackenzie, M.D.,
to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Baynes Reed, appointed to
a;l ey, Lewis,
promoted.
the 12th Foot.
111:11 Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Edmond Hoile, M.D.,
to be Assistant• Surgeon.
12th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Baynes Reed, from 10th
Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon.
15th Foot—Ensign Charles Alexander Moore to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Henry John Lancaster, who
rotit es—George Bolden, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Moore.
18th Foot—Lieutenant Thomas Change Wray to be Adju-
tant, vice Lieutenant Dawson, promoted.
21st Foot—Ensign Henry Harcourt Horn, from Sth Fcot,
to be Ensign, vice Francis Wollaston Hutton, deceased.
23d Foot—Ensign Alexander Spink Beaumont to be Lieu-
tenant., by purcase, vice Thomas Nepean Edward Kenny,
who retires—Alexander Cosby Jackson, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Beaumont.
331 Foot—Lieutenant George Malcolm Douglas to be In-
structor of Musketry, vice Lieutenant Marcus Lynch,
who resigned the appointment.
45th Foot—Captain and Brevet-Major henry Woodbine
Parish to be Major, without purchase, vice Brevet-Colonel
George Anthony Leaton Btenkinsopp, who retires upon
half-pay—Lieutenant Edward O'Neill to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Brevet-Major Parish—Ensign Edmund
Lombard, Hallam Kyle to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice O'Neill—Walter Bridge, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Kyle—Staff Assistant-Surgeen William
Thomas Martin, M.D., to be Assistant-Surgeon.
57th Foot—Moutray Vance Hornidge, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice R. Lawrence, transferred to 90th
Foot.
58th Foot—Lieutenant Henry Nizzoli Reeve Storks to be
Captain by purchase, vice Edward Daubeny, who retires
—Ensign Charles Bowling to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Storks—James Lewis Joseph Gordon, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by put chase vice Bowling—Staff Assistant-
Surgeon John Carlaw to Le Assistant-Surgeon.
72d Foot-Ensign Jones Foord Hilton to be Lieutenant,
by purchas(, vice Herm& s Edwin Brown, who retires—
Nathaniel James Spens, Gent , to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Hilton.
77th Foot—staff Assistant-Surgeon Henry Frank Hens-
man to be As-istant-Surgeon, vice F. E. M'Farland,
appointed to the Royal Artillery.
89th Foot—Ecsign Thomas Parnell Green to be Lieuten-
ant, by purchase, vice William Atthill, who retires—
my Caddell, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Green - Surgeon John Thomas Watson Bacot, having
completed 20 year.. full- pay service, to be Surgeon-Major,
under the Royal Warrant of let October, 1858.
90th Feot—Lieutensnt Colonel and Brevet Colonel Henry
Edward M'Gee, from half-psy late 3d W est India Regi-
ment, to be Lieutenant Colonel, vice Brevet John C.
Guise, who retires upon temporary half pay—Major Jas.
Clerk Rattray to be Lieutenant Colonel, by purchase,
vice Brevet Colonel Henry Edward M'Gee, who retires—
Captain Leonard H. Lloyd Irby, to be Major, by pur-
chase, vice Rattray—Lieutenant Edward Carter to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Irby—Ensign Despreaux J.
Boileau to he Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Carter —En-
sign Robert Lawrence, from 57th Foot, to be Ensign,
vice Boileau.

99th Foot—Lieutenant Philip Homan ffolliott to be Adju-
tant, vice Lieutenant Day,yrornot4cl..

105tLt Foot—Gentleman Cadet Herbert Charles Symons,
from the Ro3al Military College, to be Ensign, vice B.
Freud, transferred to the 60% Foot.
2d West India Regiment—Ensign William Phelps to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice William Villett Rolleston,
who retires.

DEPOT BATTALIONS.—Major and Brevet Lieut.•-CoI.
Wm. Rickman to be Lieut.-Col., without purchase, vice
Brevet Colonel Henry Jervis, promoted to be Major-Gen.—
Capt. and Adjutant Francis Padfield to be Major, without
purchase, vice Brevet Lieut.-Col. Rickman.
MEDICAL DEPAIITNIENT.--Assistant- Surgeon Edward
Malcolm Sinclair, M.D., from the 97th Foot, to be Staff
Assistant-Surgeon, vice C. M. Jessop, appointed to the Gth
Dragoons—Assistant-surgeon John Stuart, from 13th Foot,
to be Staff Assistant-Surgeon, vice John Mackenzie, M.D„
appointed to the 10th Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon David
Shorter Skinner has been permitted to resign his commission.

linEvET

Quartermaster Gr.lorg. William Bewley, half. ply late
sth Dragoon Guards, to have the honorary rank of Captain.
The undermentioned promotions to take place conse-
quent on the decease of Major-General Sir Alex, Murray
Tulloch, on 16th May, 1864

Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel Henry Jervis,
from a Depot Battalion, to be Major-General.
Major John Dwyer, 14th Foot, to be Lieutenant- colonel.
Captain George Bagot, 69th Foot, to be Major.

BANKRUPTS.
The following are the only bankrupts of commercial im-
portance in the gazette:—
William Roberts, bricklayer, Bedford
Wm. Harris, butcher, Southampton
Joseph Nutt, painter, Cowley, Oxfordshire
Jabcz B. Jackson, druggist, Leicester
William Harris, jun., shoemaker, Bristol
Charles Davage, shoemaker, Sheffield
Henry W. Loot; photographer, Tonbridge-wells
Thomas Bourne, innkeeper, Holly Bush, Salop
John Griffiths, coal miner, Dudley
James Hill, grocer, Twickenham
Henry Richards, brewer, Birmingham
Wm. Thompson, watchmaker, Coventry
Marks Kalisher, clothier, City-road
George E. Warner, crinoline manufacturer, Holborn
John Harris, envelope maker, Cheapside
Thomas Proctor, currier, St. Helen's
Roger W. Jones, grocer, Lloc, near Holywell, Flintahire
David Shaw, gentleman, Oxton, Cheshire
Isaac Isaacs, licensed victualler, Bolt-court, Fleet-street
Samuel Mann, commission agent, Southwark
George R. Ellis, house decorator, Holborn
John Cross, butcher, Wymondham, Norfolk
Herbert Rushton, horse breaker, Uttoxeter
William Foulds, shoemaker, Leicester
William Stannard, baker, Mount-street, Ipswich
John Henry Wright, accountant registrar, Eastbourne-
terrace, Hyde-park
Frederick Munch, grocer, Kingston-upon-Thames
Wm. R. Jenkins, plumber, Hornsey
Nicholas Dillon, printer, Gerrard-street, Soho
Thomas S. Osborne, milliner, Linton-street,lslingthn
SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
John M`Nicol, spirit merchant, Glasgow
Robert M'Cracken, messenger-at-arms, Glasgow

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HOUSE OF LORDS.
(Baker° the Lord Chancellor, Lord Chelmsford, Lord
Wexeleydale, Lord Kingsdoxn, and Lord Brougham.)
TELVERTON V. LONGWOR.TH (OR VELvEnToN).
Mr Rolt, Q.C., late this afternoon,
on the part of Mejor
Yelverton, commenced his arguments in this case, the ob-
ject of which was to set aside the decision given in the mat-
ter by the Court of Session in Scotland in favour of the
lady. . .
The learned gentleman justcommenced his address, when
their lordships adjourned.
The arguments, it is expected, will last a considerable
time, there being no less than twenty counsel engaged in
the case.