The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-07 00:00:00

TUE ADDRESS.

Lord M. BILL brought up her Majesty's answer to
which was 34 follows :—" I have received
the Address,
with much satisfaction your loyal and dutiful address'
and you may rely on my earnest desire to co-operate
with you in any measures you may deem necessary to
promote the welfare and happiness of my people."
The answer was ordered to be entered on the journals
of the HOMO.

THE CENSUS.
Mr. DISRAELI gave notice of his intention next
week to move fora return of the population of each
county in England and Wales (riven in the same form as
the census of 1841.
WESTMINSTER BRIDGE.
Sir B. H. INGLIi wished to know whether there
would be any objection to lay before the }louse the re-
pert of the Commission appointed to select a bet-
ter site for Westminster bridge.—(Hear, bear.)
The recommendation of the G,mmission bad, he
undorstood, been confirmed by the reports of two
successive Committees of the Reuse that had sat upon
the subject, and be should, therefore,
he °
whether her it was intended to introduce ''lad to know
Bill to carry out
that recommendation?
Lord SHYMOUR said the report recommended that
a new bridge should be constructed, and he had, in ac-
cordance with that recorornandation, given the neeersn ry
notice fora Bill, which would be brought in if he found
ti„ House was in favour of it.—(Hear, hear.)
, Sir. B. H. INGLIS i,,,ked if it was intended to bring
in a Bill to transfer tiroßridge Estates from :he
missicaers who now held it to the Commissioners of
Wor.lds?—(Hear )
Loci sEy --,
MOUR did not think a separate Bill
would be 1, -
~, porated with twhea
ecesary ~)r that object, es it would be incor-
oth.er. Bill.—(Cheers.) .
The report
and breueilt en by t,hen ordered to be laid on the table,
Sir R. H. iNGLI-4:rd Seymour forthwith.
Noble Lord if he -v —egain wished to know from the
because if the bridge prepared to introduce a Bill at once,
portance that it should ought to be removed, it was of im-
possible.— (Hear, hear.) be done with as little delay as
no objection mil; was sure the Noble Lord
would find
to it in the House.
Lord SEYIVIOUR admiatteed that it was of importance
that no time should be loaf, and he wouldgive a decisive
answer on Monday. g
POLITICAL REFUGEES,
t up
Lord JOHN RUSSELL bro
which had taken place on thea correspondence
,abject of political refu-
tlich was ordered to be
refu-
gees residing in this Country, v„.
printed.

THE FLORENCE OUTRAGE.
Lord DUDLEY S rUART Wished to put a question
to the Noble Lord at the head of the Government
Irk committed some
ruPeoliog the outrage that

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time ago on an English gentleman at Flo-
rence by some Austrian officers. The Noble
Lord related the circumstances attending the
outrage, as they have already appeared in print,
and added that the British Minister at Florence had
made representations to the Austrian commander-in-
chief and the Tuscan Government, on the subject; but
he had failed to obtain any satisfactory explanation.
All the information he could get was, that
the officers would have been justified in patting Mr.
Mather to death upon the spot, and the question he
wished to ask the Noble Lord was whether it was his
intention to take steps to obtain some satisfactory re-
dress in this matter?—(Hear, hear.)
Lord JOHN RUSSELL said the accounts given
in '4 the newspapers of the tran,action were, he
believed, substantially correct, though there was some
difference between the English account and that given
by the Austrian authorities.—(Herr, hear.) It ap-
peared that Mr. Mather, the gentleman in question,
was walking behind the band of the regiment to which
the officer belonged, listening to the music, and there
being a slight crush in the street he was brought nearer
to the commanding officer than was allowed by the rule
of the service, and the commanding officer struck him
with the back of his sword. Mr. Mather turned round
and was about to explain how it was that he came to be
so near the officer when he was struck in the face by
another officer, when he put up his hand to cover his
head, and the officer who struck him first thereupon
drew his sword again and struck him d wn. He bled
very much, and was ultimately taken to the hospital,
where he obtained every assistants that he required.
—(Hear, hear,) Now, it was a usage in the
Austrian army not to allow an officer to be insulted
while on duty without steps being immediately taken
to correct the offender, and several officers had been dis-
missed from the army for neglecting to carry out that
rule. In this particular case, the officer, finding that
he meld not march at the head of his regiment owing to
a person welkin before him, who, he presumed from
the shape of his hat, was an Italian Liberal—(A laugh)
—used the flit of his sword to direct him out of the way.
The officer therefore touched him on the shoulder re-
quiring him to stand out of the way, which he not doing
at once, another officer struck him en the tale, and then,
as the Austrian account stated. Mr. Mather put himself
in a posture of aggression, when, according to the rules
of the Austrian service, the officer cut him down with his
sword. The result was that this gentleman, walking
quietly after the band, and intending no insult, was
seriously injured, and was obliged to remain some days
in the hospital under medical treatment. It appeared
that the Austrian officers now said that it was a mistake
on their part that any insult was intended by Mr.
Mather, and as he (the Noble Lord) would have thought,
when they became aware that there was no such
intention, they would have beee ready to come
forward and offer a reparation.—(Hear.) Mr. Mather
was told, however, that he niu4c say that he did not
intend any insult before any reparation would be
e‘ffered. This he very naturally refused to do, and.
asked far a judicial inquiry, which was now proceed-
ing. He should mendon that the Secretary for
Foreign Affairs, Lord Granville, as soon as he
heard f the occurrence, and before he got the report of
the affair from Florence, wrote to direct that the circum-
stances should be inquired into, and satisfaction required.
Mr. Scarlett had, however, before these orders reached
him, taken steps to comply with the requeet of Mr.
Marher, in order to obtain for him a judicial inquiry.
The result of this had not yet reached this country, but
he (Lord J. Ru.sell) certainly thought that Mr. Mather
was entitled to some reparation.—(Hear, hear.)
NATIONAL EDUCATION (SCOTLAND).
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In answer to a question from Lord MELGUND,
The LORD ADVOCATE said that he could not at
present say at what period it was the intention of
Government to introduce a Bill on the subject of Na-
tional Education in Scotland.
EAST INDIA COMPANY'S CHARTER.

Mr. ANSTEY rose to ask the First Lord of the
Treasury when the Committees on the East Indian
Charter were to be moved for.
Lord J. RUSSELL said he would state in the course
of next week.

TRANSPORTATION TO VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.
Mr. ANSTEY asked the Under-Secretary of State
for the Colonies whether any late dispatches from Sir
William Denison, on transportation, had been received,
and how soon they would be laid before the House?

Mr, F. PEEL said that dispatches had lately been re-
ceived from Sir William Denison, but he could not say
when he should be able to lay them on the table of the

House.