The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-09 00:00:00

THE SLAVE TRADE.

Mr. CONINGHAM gave notice that on Thursday he
should call attention to the slave trade in America.
THE POLICE IN TIPPERARY—THE LATE
AGRARIAN MURDER.

Mr. BAGWELL asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland
what steps the Government of Ireland meant to take in re-
gard to the extra police force at present quartered in the
townlands of Boytonrath and others in the county of Tippe-
rary ?
Sir R. PEEL replied that looking at the present condi-
tion of Tipperary, and the recent occurrence of another
murder, it was not deemed expedient to withdraw the police
referred to.
Mr. BAGWELL asked if the right hon. baronet had
received any later particulars with respect to the outrage
referred to ? -

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Sir R. PEEL intimated that the murder was clearly of
an agrarian character. The gentleman was not in his
garden immediately on leaving his residence. A telegram
just received informed him that three men were in custody
on suspicion.
Mr. SCULLY said that the murder was committed 30
miles distant from the police stations adverted to.
TELEGRAPHS (INDIA).

Mr. WHITE asked the Secretary of State for India, if
the reorganization of the Indian Telegraph Department,
mentioned by him on the 13th March, 1862, had been
carried out; and, if so, why Mr. Galbraith (formerly
the tutor of Sir William O'Shaughnessy'a sons)
had been promoted over the heads of officers of long
standing in that department : and, if he was aware
that the present system of telegraphic communication in
India was much complained of by the mercantile community
and others, and if it would not be desirable to decentralise
this department by placing the telegraph lines under the
control of the chief authorities of the respective Presiden-
cies, as had been locally recommended.

Mr. BARING explained that the Government were still
directing their attention to the matter. ➢lr. Galbraith had
not been improperly promoted.
THE DOVER AND CALAIS SERVICE.

Sir S. NORTHCOTE asked the Secretary to the Trea-
sury, when the packet estimate would be brought forward ;
whether any contracts had yet been made for the Dover and
Ostend and Dover and Calais services; or whether those
services were still open to tender; and, what arrangements
had been made for carrying on the services after the 20th
June.

Mr. F. PEEL replied that he should bring on these
estimates after those for the civil service. The tender of
the Belgian Government had been accepted up to 2d June.
A tender was offered by the South-Eastern and London,
Chatham, and Dover 4ailway, at the rate of £6,000 a year
after the 2d of June,
THE NAVY—EDUCATION OF BOYS.

Sir J. PAKINGTON asked the Secretary to the Ad •
miralty, whether the Chief Constructor of the Navy had
examined apprentices and factory boys in Wool-
wich Dockyard, with a view to the establishment
of a Government School of Naval Architecture was
correct; and, if so, whether the Admiralty contem-
plated the revival of a school of naval architecture for the
royal navy, in preference to the combined action of the
Admiralty and the private trade, which had been proposed ?
Lord C. PAGET replied that Mr. Reed, recently
appointed chief constructor of the Navy, had been sent to
the various dockyards to direct the construction of ships,
and not in connection with a new scheme for the education
of boys. That a project was then under the consideration
of the Admiralty for educating boys not only connected with
the Navy, but with private trade.
THE DISMISSAL OF VOLUNTEERS.

Sir It. CLIFTON asked the tinder Secretary of State for
War if commanding officers had power, after the dismissal
of volunteers by them, to advertise such dismissal in the
newspapers, and cause placards to be printed and circulated ;
and if tie was aware whether any such case of advertising
and placarding had taken place in the metropolis ?
The Marquis of HARTING TON replied that the usual
practice was to announce the nature of every sentence in
the regimental quarters, so that the members of the corps
might see it. Ile believed it was the practice of some corps
to advertise their orders by printed placard and in the
newspapers. He need not then descant upon the impro-
priety of such a proceeding, when it related to the censur-
ing or dismissal of an officer or private of these corps,