The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-25 00:00:00

NEED FOREIGN-OFFICE.

Mr. 13. COCHRANEasl;dwhat steps the Government
proposed to take with respect to the houses in the imme-
diate neighbourhood of the site of the new foreign-office,
as he understood the proprietors of these buildings were
making improvements in order to obtain higher prices tor
their premises, being under the impression that they must
ba purchased by Government.
Mr. COWPER st id that it was no doubt desirable that
certain premises in fling-street. and Parliament-street
should eventually be purchased, but the Government had
already purchased as much ground as they required.
PARTY DEMONSTRATIONS IN IRELAND.

Captain ARCHDALE drew attention to a statement
which had appeared in the newspapers, to the effect that
certain parties had been prosecuted in Antrim for carrying
orange flags, while other persons were allowed to carry
cockades with impunity.
Sir R. PEEL said that if notice of this question had
been given he would have been prepared to answer it; and
he could merely state that, as he understood, there had been
no infringement of the law in the way in which the hon.
member described.

UNION RELIEF AID BILL.
On the order of the day for the second reading of this
bill,
Mr. POTTER said he thought the Govornment should
carry out their intention of affording relief to the distressed
operatives in Lancashire other than the bill proposed, see-
ing that no less than 300,000 of the best artizans of the
country, whose conditions it was intended to ameliorate,
were suffering the greatcst.distress.
Col. W. PATTEN would not oppose the bill, but con-
sidered it was insufficient, and thought there should be a
loan granted to the millowners, to enable them to assist the
unfortunate operatives in Lancashire.
Mr. J. B. SMITH thought that the bill should be read
a second time in order that the different constituencies of
the kingdom might be prepared to consider its provisions
before it went into committee.
Lord STANLEY objected to the principle of the bill.
Alderman SIDNEY would not oppose the second read
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big of the bill, but considered it could be materially im- I
proved in committee.
l\ir. HENLEY was
of opinion that they ought not to de•
part from the act of Elizabeth, and alter the law merely to
meet what he hoped was a temporary emergency. Re
thought the subject of any alteration in the present state of
the Poor Law should be postponed until next session.
Mr. COBDEN said that the observations of the right
hon. gentleman who had Just addressed the house convinced
him that hon. members gt!,nerally did not understand the
subject of the distress in the cotton districts. The fallacy
was, that it was proposed by certain honourable members
to te• x this district to meet the local distress, but it was in
a state of collapse. Ther e must be production before there
could be taxation, anti. as to the district to which he
referred, unless manutiactures were carried on, they_ would
no more be able to
if ive the
struck with sterility pay taxes than Orordshire it
. Let Parliament, thereforelgfs'
cultic,
people a chance of tiding over the trernendocuil
or twelve
which were befert.; them during the
mouths, by erial• ling the boards
money on the .set_;uriiy of the rates,:
of a rate in. aid proposed by the
also suggested t hat the guardians
grant small loans to the wotkpeal
nit'Aration of relief more facile hit% might be empowe to
;o f addition u
to to
raiseplan
guardians
d a:. coredb
al e
unobjectionable
e taodmthie-

poor.
Mr. LYGON censured the Government for having de-
layed the iutroduction of the bill until so late a period of
the session. Be doubted if the distress was so severe as
and as it had arisen from excep-
had been represented,
tional cans es care sldabsolutely necessary. He trusted,
be taken that these causes did
not last longer than was
therefore, that as that was dependent upon the continuance
of the war in America, the Government would not abstain
from intorvention for a longer period than was required b 3
internatlo•nal law and international justice.
Mr. E. P. BOUVERIE deprecated an alarm that was
not just, field by the facts of the case, and argued that loans

and public grants were not to be thought of, and that the
only course of proceeding was to legislate in the spirit of
Elizabethan statute.
After some observations from Mr. HUBERT :and the
Masquis of HAILTINGTON,
Mr. BOVILL point d out several defects in the details
1 of the bill ; and with regard to the principle of the rma,ure
itself stated that in its present shape it would throw the
charge, not upon the owners of property, but upon the
occupiers, who were least able to bear the burden.
Mr. C. VILLIERS was only anxious to make the bill as
1 effective as possible, and with that object in view he was
willing to adopt any practical suggestion for its improve-
ment. He was ready, therefore, to reconsider the sugges-
tion to provide, either as an alternative or substitute, that
parishes should be allowed to raise money by a mortgage of
the rates. Upon that subject, however, a great difference
of opinion prevailed even in. Lancashire itself. The case
was not an ordinary, but an extraordinary case of manufac-
turing distress ; and it would be ridiculous, when the house
was considering how best to alleviate the suffering, to be
too strict or rigid in one's views so long as the evil was not
aggravated. He nroposed to go into committee on the bill
on 'Monday next.
Sir H. WILLOUGHBY expressed himself favourable to
raising loans on the security of the rates. It would thus
become
the interest of the local authorities to practise eco-
nomy, at the same time that their own good feeling and
knowledge of the wants of the applicants would be a suffi-
cient guarantee that they would administer the fund in a
spirit of humanity.

The bill was then read a second time.
The Bankruptcy Act (1861) Amendment Bill was also
read a second time.

The Militia Pay Bill, the Corrupt Practices Prevention
Act Continuance Bill, an the Court of Common Pleas
(Officer for Acknowledgment of Deeds) Bill were passed
through committee.

The Gunpowder Act Amendment Bill and the Consoli-
dated Fund (Appropriati, n) Bill were read a second time.
The Poor Removal Bill, and the Mutual Surrender
of Criminals (Denmark) Bill were read a third time and
passed.

The Night Poaching Prevention Bill was again com-
mitted, and its cDnsideration resumed at the first clause,
the verbal amendments to which occupied several hours'
discussion. It was half-past one o'clock when, after nu-
merous divisions and the adoption of some material altera-
tions, the clause was ordered to stand part of the bill.
Clause 2 was struck out, and the remaining portion of the
bill having been agreed to, the house resumed. During
the last two hours that the bill was under discussion, not a
single member of the Cabinet was present, and the sole oc-
cr.pants of the Treasury bench were Mr. Brand and one or
two Ministerial subordinates.

Other bills were forwarded a stage, and the house ad-
journed.

VARIETIES.

Who was Scipio's wife ?-111issis-sippi-o of course.
GROUND RENTS.—The chasms left by an earthquake.
When is beef not beef?—When it is boiled to a rag.
Rulers weild the people, but schoolmasters weild rulers.
Why do women like stays ? Because they feel so-laced
by them.
An American editor, in speaking of a blind sawyer, says :
—" Although he can't see he can saw."
If a man bumped Ys head against the top of a room,
what article of stationery would he be supplied with ?
Ceiling whacks.
The lions of the forest are said to live a century. The
lions of fashionable society are generally lions of only a

season.
Please honour me, most charming of ladies, with the gift
of that pretty daisy."—" Oh, certainly, sir, for you are very
lack-a-daisy-cal."
A greengrocer having unexpectedly come into property,
sends for a tailor to come and measure him fora coat-of-
arms.

There will always be quarrelling in the world so long as
there are two persons to quarrel, and two straws to quarrel
about.

The Spanish proverb says that a melon and a wife are
hard to choose. Of coure the moral is, that "we cannot
judge by appearances only."
A tradesman, the other day, would not pay the carpen-
ter's bill for a new counter in his shop under the pretext
that he was nothing but a counterfitter.

"Pray don't attempt to darn your cobwebs," was Swift's
advice to a gentleman of strong imagination and weak
memory, who was laboriously explaining himself.
A lady who had a silk gown spoilt in being re-coloured
brought an action against the establishment, and summoned
several of the workmen to give their dyeing testimony.
A temperance editor, in drawing attention to an article
against ardent spirits in one of the inner pages of his paper,
says, "For the effects of intemperance see our inside !"

" Well, Sambo, V how do yon like your new place ?"
"0, berry well, Massa." " What did you have for break-
fast this morning ?" " Why, you see mise;s biled tree eggs
for self and gave me do broff."—Pottsville Journal.
EDITOR'S WIVES.—An editor says his attention was
first drawn to matrimony by the skilful manner in which a
pretty girl handled a broom. A brother editor says the
manner in which his wife handles a broom is not so very
pleasing.— American Paper.

A German Prince, in a dream, seeing three rats—one
fat, the second lean, and the third blind—seat for a cele-
brated " wise man" and demanded an explanation. " The
fat rat," ,aid the sorcerer, "is your prime minister; the
lean rat your people ; and the blind rat yourself.''
One of the Federal soldiers who was in the Pittsburg
Landing battle happened to be inordinately find of cards.
During the fight he had three of his fingers shot off. Hold-
ing up his mangled hand, he gazed at it with a look of in-
effable sorrow, and exclaimed as a big tear stole into the
corner of his eye, "I shall never be able to hold a full hand
again."
An eccentric American pastor once addressed his congre-
gation as follows :—" Fellow-sinners, if you were told that
by going to the top of yonder stairs (pointing to an unused
ricketty pair at one end of the church), you might secure
your eternal salvation, I really believe hardly any of you
would try it. But let any man proclaim that there were 500
dollars up there for you, and I'll be bound there would be
such a getting up stairs as you never did see."

IRE NAVY.

The presentation of the Victoria Cross to William
Odgers, captain's coxswain of her Majesty's ship

Cambridge, for conspicuous and daring bravery at
the storming of a pah in New Zealand, on March
28, 1860, took place yesterday, in the Govzrnment
Parade-ground, Devonport. Odgers was specially
recommended for this honourable distinction by his
late commander, Capt. Cracroft, RN., who in a
letter, dated her Majesty' ship Niger, Taranaki,
March 31, 1860, appended to a despatch from Com,
mander Loring, thus alluded to his gallantconduet :
" As there was only half an hour's daylight left,
I determined to attack the pah at once. Accordingly
I planted the 24-pounder rocket tube about 700
yards from it, and after a few discharges the men
stormed the pah, under a heavy fire, in the most gal-
lant style, WTm. Odgers, leading seaman, doing duty
as my coxswain, being the first man in it." In a sub-
sequent despatch Capt. Cracroft specially alluded
to the " conspicuous gallantry" of Odgers ; and also
mentioned the names of Robert Glanville, William
Older, seamen, and W. Clarke, a marine, be-
longing to the Iris, as being worthy of the deco-
ration of the Victoria Cross for their bravery
on the occasion referred to, when the men men-
tioned eagerly contested with each other for

the possession of the enemy's flag. In accordance
with the recommendation of Capt. Cracroft, the
Victoria Cross, which also carries with it a pension
of £lO per annum, was conferred upon Odgers, as
being the first who entered the pah ; and as it was
desired that the presentation should L-ke place in
the most public manner, the authorities of the dis-
trict decided upon having a naval and military

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review. Accordingly the naval brigade, under
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command of Capt. Heath, consisting of between 400
and 500 men from her Majesty's gunnery ship
Cambriig, and a number of second-class boys from

her Majesty's ships Impregnable and Implacable,
were landed and marched to Mount Wise. Four

companies of the Royal Niarines—all that could be
spared from duty—were also present, and the fine
band of that corps; the command of the whole de-

volving upon Colonel-Commandant Holloway, Royal
Marines. Brigade-Major Kirk acted as field officer,
Lieut. F. Nicholson, her Mdjt.sty's ship Cambridge,
being in charge of the " blue jackets," who were
dressed in white frocks and duck trousers. The

gallant fellows presented a very fine appearance,
and their evolutions were warmly commended,
especially the celerity which they displayed in un-
limbering their 12-pounder field-pieces, and getting
them into position again—the latter process occupy-
ing only 50 seconds from the time the men rallied
from behind the infantry square where they had
obtained (so to say) refuge from the enemy's cavalry.
The presentation of the cross was made by Vice-
Admiral Sir Houston Stewart, K.C.B. Among the
officers present to witness the ceremony were Major-
General Hutchinson, in command of the western
district, and Staff, and Admiral Sir Thomas Sabine
Pasley. The review, which was preliminary to the
presentation, commenced about half-past 10. The
battalion was drawn up in line and received the gal-
lant Port-admiral and party with a general salute

in advancing. The men were then put through a
"r'Aes of evolutions which were all satisfactorily per-
.tormed, the skirmishing of the Cambridge men being
especially satisfactory. The artillery were under the
charge of Lieut. S. G. Price, of her Majesty's ship

Cambridge. At the termination of the review the men
were drawn up in three sides of a square, the side
faces oblique. Admiral Sir Houston Stewart said
they had assembled by her Majesty's command,
which had been graciously announced to him,
to du honour to a gallant sailor, who, in the hour
of danger and of difficulty showed himself to be
made of true British stuff. (Cheers.) The Admiral
read the official notice in the Gazette confirming
the cross on W. Odgers, and proceeded to explain
the circumstances under which the order was in-
stituted by her Majesty at the close of the Russian
war. The substantial addition to this reward of

courage was this—that any warrant -officer, sea-
man, soldier, or marine was entitled for life there-
after to £lO sterling per annum ; and as two years
and a quarter had elapsed since Odgers was named
for this distinction, he would now receive an order

on the paymaster for 122 10s. The Admiral then
affixed the riband and cross to the breast of
Odgers, between two other medals for service.
Odgers desired the Admiral in an under tone to
convey to the Queen his deep sense of the honour
conferred upon him. He requested also that it
should be distinctly stated that " there were many
men as good as himself present at the storming of
the pah ; but that it happened to be his good
fortune to get in first." The Admiral in con-
clusion requested three cheers for the Queen, which
was loyally responded to. Three cheers were then
given for Odgers and the proceedings terminated.
The Warrior, iron frigate, Capt. Hon. A. A.
Cochrane, C. 8., took in yesterday at Spithead her
powder and shell in readiness for sea. The Royal
Alfred, converting at Portsmouth from a 91-gun
screw liner to a 51-gun screw iron-cued frigate, is
ordered to be prepared to receive an armament of
34 guns only, in lieu of the 51 as originally in-
tended to have been given to her. Her newly
organised armament now comprises—For the main
deck, twenty-tour 68 pounders of 95 cwt. each,
10ft. long, and eight 100-pounder Armstrongs of 82
cwt. each, 10ft. long; all on rear-chock carriages
with directing bars For the upper deck—two 110-
pounder Armstrongs of 82 cwt. each, 10ft. long, on
revolving carriages. Her field guns and guns for the
boom boats will be the same in number and de-
scription as those apportioned for the Achiiles
iron frigate building at Chatham.
Sir R. M. Bromley, K.C., Accountant-General of
the Navy, and Mr. W. H. W. N. Walker, Inspector
and Audi iOr of Yerd Accounts, from Somerset House,
are now on an official visit to Devonport.
The Columbine, 4, screw steamsloop, 669 tons,
which was recently launched at Deptford, and fitted
at Woolwich with direct action horizontal engines
of 150 nominal and 600 indicated horse power, by
the Greenock Foundry Company, previous to being
placed in the steam reserve at Sheerness, was taken
on trial at the measured mile at the Mapling Sands
yesterday. The results were most satisfactory. She
attained an average speed of 10 643 knots per hour
with full boiler power, and 8 knots per hour with
half-boiler power. She made 103 revolutions of
engines ; her pressure of steam was 201 b. ; vacuum,
25 ; her Griffith's serew has a pitch of 13ft., and a
diameter of 10ft. ; her draught of water aft was 12ft.
orifCthZ:tnwrZienr:lea,aZ
7in., and forward Oft.
s7oinn:
of Capt. T. P.
the engines were in charge of Mr,
Lament, who lre-
presented the contractors. r. S. Townsend, fore-
man of the engineering department of her Majesty's
Dockyard, and Mr. Ashworth attended on the part
of the Admiralty.
The hired transport St. Lawrence, Capt. Toynbee,l
belonging to Mr. T. W. Smith, of the Royal Be_
change-buildings, was four miles south of the Rams
Head, Plymouth, at 11 o'clock yesterday morning,
all well, under three topgallant sails and flying id),
with the wind from west-south-west, bound to the
Cape of Good Hope and Calcutta.
The military rifle-match at Cmsar's Camp, Alder-
shot, was brought to a successful termination yester-
day. The attendance was larger than on any of
the preceding days, and the weather was well
adapted for shooting. The regiments represented
at the butts comprised not only all those quartered
at Aldershot, but several from Portsmouth, Shorn-
cliffe, Chatham, London, and more remote stations.
The band of the 20th Regiment was in attendance
yesterday. The first prize shot for yesterday was
the Volley Stakes, £lO. Each regiment one sec-
tion of 10 files, in tunics, forage caps, accoutre-
ments, knapsacks, and greatcoats. 400 and 600
yards. Best section, £5; second best, £3; third
best £2. Fifteen regiments contributed competi-
tors for the prize. The following shows the average
number of marks obtained by each regiment :—The
76th Regiment, 18.75
; let battalion 2d Regiment,
18.45 ; 2d battalion Ist Regiment, 17'55; 61st Re-
giment, 1715 ; Ist battaliobattalionnßegiment,
Gn Grenadier
;G3udards,
16.70 ; Ist
bat-
talion Grenadier Guards, le
-- 60 ; Ist battalion Scots
Fusiliers, 16'50; 2d battalion Grenadier Guards,
18.45; 37th Regiment, 15'90; 26th Cameroniane,
15.00 ; Ist battalion Bth Regiment, 14.95: 2d bat
talion 20th Regiment, 14.45 ; Ist battalion sth Re
giment, 12.25; 64th Regiment. 10'20. A. protest

in this match was entered by the section of the Ist
battalion Bth Regiment on the ground that when
kneeling only about 2 feet of the target +; as
A. meeting of the committee was held n reference
to the matter, when the decision was g,ven against
the Bth Regiment.

The non=commissioned officers' prize of £lO 10s.,
presefited by Mr. Truefitt for all non-commissioned
officers above the rank of corporal, 500 and 600
yards, was next competed lor. The first prize was
for five guineas, the second prize three guineas, third
prize two guineas; 146 entered. After firing off
the ties the winners were placed in the following
order;-Ist, Serg. Chamberlain, 2d battalion Ist
Royal, 16 points, 10 hits, 26 marks ; 2d, Serg.
Walsh, 37th Regiment, 17 points, 9 hits, 26 marks ;
3d, Serg, Thompson, 76th Regiment, 17 points, 10
hits, 26 marks. The last event of the day was the
Rifle Derby, open to all corners, which, contrary to
general expectation, was not so well patronised as
that of last year, when there were 17 entries at £1
each. The number then was less than had been
anticipated, and it was supposed that by reducing
the entrance fee to one-half the former amount the
number of competitors on the present oc-
casion would be considerably increased. Such,
however, was not the result, only eight
having entered at 10s. each. The distances were
500 and 600 yards. The use of any rifle not exceed-
ing 101 b. in weight was permitted in this match,
and the marksman was at liberty to choose his own
position. The following is a list of the competitors,
with their respective total of marks. At 500 yards:
—Capt. Bland, 76th Regiment, made 13 points, 5
hits, 18 marks ; Lieut. Chatfield, 2d battalion 20th
Regiment, 8 points, 5 hits, 13 marks ; Capt. White,
2d battalion Ist Regiment, 9 points, 5 hits, 14
marks ; Lieut. Lacy, 2d battalion, 12th Regiment,
10 points, 5 hits, 15 marks ; Ensign Stourton,
78th
Regiment, 9 points, 5 hits, 14 marks; Lieut. Wal-
linger, Royal Engineers, 7 points, 4 hits, 11 marks;
Capt. Fletcher, Military Train, 7 points, 5 hits, 12
marks; Lieut. Harris, 2d battalion, 20th Regiment,
7 points, 3 hits, 10 marks. At 600 yards :—Capt.
Bland made 9 points, 4 hits, 13 marks ; Lieut.
Chatfield, 11 points, 5 hits, 16 marks; Capt. White,
8 points, 5 hits, 13 marks ; Lieut. Lacy, 5 points, 4
hits, 9 marks ; Ensign Stourton, 6 points, 3 hits,
9 marks ; Lieutenant Wallinger, 6 points, 4 hits,
10 marks ; Capt. Fletcher, 4 points, 4 hits, 8 marks
and Lieut. Harris, 5 points, 4 hits, 9 marks,

--Capt. Bland thus obtained the first prize, having
scored 31 marks at the two ranges; Lieut Chatfield
obtained the second with 29, and Capt. White the
third, with 27 marks.

The sizes of the targets used were as follows :
First class, 6ft. by 12tt., bull's-eye 3ft., centre 6ft. ;
second class, 6ft. by Bft., bull's-eye 2ft., centre 4ft.;
third class, 6ft. by 4ft., bull's-eye Bin., centre, 2ft.