The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-24 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

NORTHAMPTON RACES.—Tnis DAY.
BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
TRIAL STAKES.

Asteroid
Le Marechal
Atheretone
Ten ran.
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE CUP SFAKES.
Millionaire
Aurelian
Revolver
Four ran.
WHITTLEBURY STAKES.

Fantastic
Cairncastle
Livingstone

Eleven ran.
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES.

Fairwater
Attaman
Gorse
-
Fifteen ran.
PYTCHLEY STAKES.

Henham Lass 1
Antidote
£5O HANDICAP PLATE.

Norman
STAND PLATE,

Sweet Willie
Douche
Bertha
..•• 3
Five ran.
NENE HANDICAP.

_
Fontenot'
Flirtation 2
Traant
Nine ran.
MATCH—A dead heat.

LATEST BETTING.
EARL SPENCER'S PLATE.
11 to 4 agst Flying' Fish
7to 1 agst Blondella

IMPERIA►.L P.

HOUSE OF LORDS--This Evening.

Lord REDESDALE, in the absence of the Lord Chancellor,
took his seat at the usual hour.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The isle of Wight (Extension) and Anglesey Central
Railway bills were read a third time and paaaed.

MUTINY BILL.
This bill was read a first time.
THE POLISH STUDENTS.

The Earl of SHAFTESBURY said, seeing his noble
friend the Secretary for Foreign Affairs in his place, begged
to draw his attention to the question he had put some days
ago relative to the arrest of Polish students, who, on
leaving Paris, were seized by the Prussian authorities,
and then handed over to the Russian Government. Since
that he had received information that the fact of the arrest
and surrender of the students was correct, and also Oat
they had been tried and shot by the Russian official. What
he wished to know was, whether the noble earl had received
any information on the subject.
Earl RUSSELL said he received information as to two
students only, and in a despatch he had received, dated the
7th of the present month, he found they had been claimed
by the French ambassador on the ground of French nationa-
lity.
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY asked whether he had
received any information as to the fact of other students
having been shot.
Earl RUSSELL had received no intelligence to that
effect.

BIRTHS AND DEATHS REGISTRATION
(IRELAND) BILL.

On the motion for going into -c3mmittee on this bill,
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE presented a petition
from the Fellows of the King and Queen's College of Phy-
sicians in Ireland against certain clauses in the bill. They
also complained of the power of appointing the Registrar-
General being left entirely in 6.4 hands of the Lord Lieu-
tenant, and also that the medical officers appointed under
the act should be subject to an examination by the Regis-
trar-General, who might not be either a professional or
scientific man.

Earl ST. GERMANS said he should best consult the
feelings of the house if he reserved any observations he
might have to make upon the petition presented by the noble
lord until the particular clauses to which it referred were
under the consideration of their lordships.
The Earl of BANDON thought if it was wished to make
the bill effectual its promoters must separate it from all con-
nection with the administration of the poor laws.
Lord CLEME NTS was of opinion that the bill would
prove altogether inopportune.
The house then went into commit' se on the bill.
Clauses up to 21 were agreed to.
(LEFT BITTING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS—This Evening.
The SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock.
THIRD READING.
The Midland Railway (Extension to London) Bill was
read a third time.

The following bills were considered and ordered to be
read a third time :—Aylesbury Market—Cleveland Rail-
way—Glasgow and South Western Railway (Capital)—
Hereford, Hay, and Brecon Railway—Landport and South-
sea Tramway—Norwich Poor—Rixton and Warburton
Bridge—Swansea Municipal Corporation.

PETITIONS.
By Mr. HORSFALL, from Liverpool, in favour of the
Partnership Bill, and praying that publichouses may be
closed on the Sabbath; Mr. HUBBARD, from the Royal
Institute of British Architects and Institute of Civil En.
gineers, praying for a more equitable arrangement of the
income tax; Mr. CRAUFURD, in favour of a modification of
the fire insurance duty ; Lord FERMOY, from Marylebone,
against the Prisons Ministers Bill; from the Roman Ca-
tholics of St. Mary's, Kentish-town, in favour of the bill.
WAR SHIPS FOR THE CONFEDERATES MANU-
FACTURED IN THIS COUNTRY.

Mr. BRIGHT said he had a petition to present of rather
an important character, and desired, therefore, to state fully
its exact nature. It was from an important association
which had been formed at Manchester, styled the " Union
Emancipation Society," at a meeting of 6,000 persons held
on the 31st of December last, and was signed by T. B.
Potter as the president, and complaining of the building
of ships in this country for the so-called Confede-
rates, for the purpose of preying upon tha unoffending
commercial ships of the United States. The petition fur-
ther sets forth that 40 ships were now building in
the United Kingdom, really for the Confederates,
but under the pretence that they were for the
Emperor of China and other unlikely potentates. A ship
built by an English firm, called the Alabama, had already
destroyed forty ships belonging to the United
States engaged in peaceful commerce. It had caused
great feeling in the United States, and would, if continued,
go far to destroy the good feeiing between the two nations.
Though the petitioners were not in a position to produce
evidence on oath to convict the parties of violating
the law, yet they submitted that a prima facie case
had been made out to enable the Government to put the
law in motion, no inseparable difficulty existed in vindicat-
ing the law and the honour of the nation. The petition, in
conclusion, prayed the house to make immediate inquiry
into the subject, and by prompt action to prevent the supply
of other vessels to the self-styled Confederate Goovernment•
WOODS AND FORESTS.

Mr. A. SMITH gave notice that after Easter he should
move for the reappointment of a Select Committee, and
especially with reference to the operation of the 14th and
15th Victoria.
NAVAL ARCHITECTURE.

Lord R. MONTAGU gave notice that on Tuesday,
April 14, he should submit a motion to the house to the
effect that, with a view to the economical construction of
ships, a school of cadets should be formed, somewhat in
the style of the military cadet establishment at Woolwich,
with the view of ultimately discharging the duties of Royal
naval architects.
BOARD OF ADMIRALTY.

DALGLISH gave notice that on this day month he
should call attention to the constitution of the Board of Ad-
miralty.
CHINA.

Mr. LIDDELL gave notice that this day month he
should call attention to our present relations with China.
BUILDING OF CONFEDERATE SHIPS OF WAR.
Mr. FORSTER gave notice that on Friday next he
should ask the noble viscount, the First Lord of the
Treasury,whether there was not great danger of our friendly
relations with the United States being disturbed by the
building of ships of war in this country for the Confederate
States, and asked if the Foreign Enlistment Act had not
been invaded.

WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
Mr. EWA.RT gave notice of his intention after Easter
to bring forward a motion on this subject.
THE TOBACCO DUTIES.
On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE-
QUER this bill was read a third time. The right hon.
gentleman intimated that he was very desirous that the
bill should go up to the House of Lords this evening, in
order that it might be passed into law before Easter. No
additional points remained to be discussed, and it was im-
portant to the trade that no delay should take place in pass-
ing the bill.
TURNPIKES.

etMr. WESTERN asked the Secretary for the Home
Department, whether it was his intention this session to
introduce any measurre for abolishing turnpikes ; and, if
not, whether he would be disposed to leave out of the Con-
tinuation Act those trusts which are free frcm debt?
Mr. BRUCE replied iu the negative. The trusts spa-.
clued would be generolly dealt with.

ALIENATING POSSESSIONS OF THE CROWN.
Mr. GRIFFITH asked Mr. Solicitor-General, whether
it was within the competence of the prerogative of the
Crown, upon the advice of the Minister of the day, to
alienate any uusioubtvd territorial possession of the Crown

or the country without the knowledge or consent of Parlia-
ment ; and, if so, whether such exercise of the prerogative
was not in fact equivalent to th,e possession by the Govern-
ment of an arbitrary power of such alienation of territory
The SOLICIT R-GENE RAL could only repeat what
was stated the other evening by the noble lord at the head
of the Government, namely, that there was nothing in the
common or constitutional law of the land to prevent the
session of territories placed under the protection of the
Crown. Whe, a territories were held by treaty the ques-
tion of cession would fairly come under legislative review.