The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-24 00:00:00

THIRD READINGS.

Tho following hill;We; ;;;laiiitciti-ne and passed :
Vale of Clwyd Railway ; Burton-upon-Trent Railway;
Hereford Hay and Brecon Railway ; South-Eastern Rail.
way (Tunbridge and Dartford) • Lancashire and Yorkshire
Railway ; Oldham, Ashton, and Guide Bridge- Junction
Railway; Bridge of Weir Railway; Bala and Dolgelly
Railway; Corwen and Bala Railway; and Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway.
NEW ZEALAND BILL.
The Dgke of NEWCASTLE moved the second reading
of this bill, the object of which was to clear up all doubts
relating to the powers of the Now Zealand Legislature. He
had intimated to the colonial Government the desirability of
bringing the provincial councils more insubordination to the
Matra' Legislature, but this was a matter in which the
Imperial Legislature could not interfere, as it had handed
over the administration of its affairs to the colony.
Earl GREY said it was understood, when the constitu-
tion was granted to New Zealand, that it should provide
for the cost of its own Government. There was now in the
colony a military force of several thousand men at the ex-
pense of the mother country,who,if she was responsible; ought
for her own protection to have controj over
the affairs of the colony. He did not 'desire
the withdrawa' of the Imperial protection, but
ho did object to a vote of such a meagre description as the
present.
After a short discussion, in which the Earl of Desert,
Lord Taunton, and Lord Lyvedon took part,
The Duke of NEWCASTLE said he would give the
noble lord (Lyveden) -as many of the papers relative
to New Zealand as would, under the present circumstances,
be :safe for the public service, and with respect to the
observations of the noble earl (Grey), he begged
to remind them that the present measure was
one merely to remedy certain local defects, and not one for
an alteration of the constitution of New Zealand.
The bill was read a second time.
PUPLIC HOUSES (SCOTLAND) BILE,.
On the report of the amendments to the Public Houses
(Scotland) Act Amendment Bill Leing brought up,
The Earl of MI NTO moved that the bill bg. re-com-
mitigl to a committee of the whole house.
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HOUSE OF CO)IMONS.—Tius DiT.
The SPEAXER took the chair at 20 minutes past 12.
POLICE AND IMPRBILOVEMENT (SCOTLAND)
L.

The house went into committee on this bill.
Clausei to 14 were agreed to.

On clause 15,
Sir M. STE WART said he believed and hoped the bill
now before Parliament would never pass into law. He
would have opposed the bill going into committee, but he
thought he should have had no chance of success. Many of
the provisions of the bill were coonst rous and thoroughly non-
sensical. His objection to the bill was that it tied proprietors
of land and occupiers ill towns hand and foot, and placed
them at the mercy of a body of, commissioners and magi-.
strides. The only safeguard was that the commissioners
might have the good sense to throw away 200 or 300 of the
clauses, and to look for one here or there that might work.
He did not believe that Scotch members generally had read
the bill.
Tho LORD ADVOCATE said he could only account for
the strong language -used by the hon. baronet by the fact
that he himself had not read the bill. He believed the bill
was regarded in Scotland as one of the most important sani-
tary measures ever introduced. If there were nonsensical
clauses in the bill he wished the hon. baronet had pointed
them out to him. He thought the bill was exceedingly
well drawn up, and that it would work well. The difference
between it and Lord Rutherfurd's bill was that Lord
Rutherfurd's bill could only have been worked as a whole,
whereas this bill might be adopted in parts.
Clauses up to 83 were agreed to.

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On clause 84,
Mr. BLACK proposed to add "provided further, when
in any burgh, under the provisions of any Police Act, a
higher rateof assessment is now and has been in use to be
levied upon lands and tenements above a certain fixed rent
than upon lower rented lands and tenements, it shall be in
the power of the commissioners, in laying on the assess-
ment under this Act, to continue the same relative rates of
assessment, if they think proper.
The amendment was negatived end the clause was
agreed to.
On clause 88,
Mr. C. EWING proposed as an amendment after the
word "may,' to insert "if they think fir, exempt from the
police assessment under this net all promises which shall
be lot at a rent not exceeding £3, or such lower sum as they
may think fit for that purpose, and that in respoct to pre-
mises let at any higher rent, they nay also."
The committee divided—
For the amendment
Against it ..
Majority . ..... —4B
The amendment was lest end chase tho was agreed to.
Clauses to 177 were agreed to.
On tho motion of Sir M. STEUART, clause 178 was
struck out.
The remaining clauses of the bill, making 466 in all, were
then agreed to with some amendments.
Sir J. FERGUSON brought up a new clause giving the
Commissioners of Supply power to petition the sheriff for
extension of boundaries, so as to be co-extensive with the
burgh boundaries.
The LORD ADVOCATE opposed the clause.
The cerimittee divided—
For the clause
Against it
Majority
The clause was therefore lost.
The bill then passed through committee, and the sitting
was suspended at 10 minutes to 4.

At 6 o'clock the house resumed, aid was
[LEFT BITTING]

LONDON GAZETTE.—This Evening.

FOREIGN OFFICE, TINE '23.
The Queen has been pleased to al:grove of Mr. Alex. B
Manuel as Consul at Gibraltar for Majesty the King o
Greece.

WAR OFFICE, JUIE 24.
Royal Regiment of Horse Guards—Fiancis Sloane Stanley,
Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Burnaby, pro••

moted.
3d Dragoon Guards—Veterinary Surgeon Edwin Thomas
Cheesman, from the Royal Artillery, to be Veterinary
Surgeon, vice Hurford, appointed t the 7th Dragoon
Guards.
6th Dragoon Guards—Arthur Cecil Stuart Barkly, Gent.,
to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Dalin, promoted. Sur-
geon Richard Gilborne, from the Bfth Foot, to be Sur-
geon, vice Smith, appointed to the gaff.
7th Dragoon Guards—Richard D'Olier George, Gent., to
be Cornet, by purchase, vice Claude Edward Scott, who
retires; First Class Veterinary Surgeon Richard John
G. Hurford, from the 3d Dragoon awards, to be Vete-
rinary Surgeon, vice Varley, apponted to the 13th
Hussars.
3d Hussars—Henry Gordon Levett, Gent., to be Cornet,
by purchase, vice Strother, promoted.
' 7th Hussars—Lieut. John B. Phillipson to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Edward P. Baumgarten, who retires ;
Cornet Edmund Hegan Kennard to De Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Phillipson ; William F. krmstrong, Gent.,
to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Kennard.
Bth Hussars—Cornet 'I homes Coates to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice 3 amieson, whose promotion, by pur-
chase, which appeared in the Gazette of the 11th Feb-
ruary, 1362, has been cancelled.
9th Lancers—Lieutenant Samuel Ashton.Pretor to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice Roger Dawson Upton, who
retires; Cornet J. G. B. Hepburn to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Prefer; Gilbert Stirling. Chalmer, Gent.,
to be Cornet, by purchase. vice Hepburn.
13th. Hussars—Veterinary Surgeon William Varley, from
the 7th Dragoon Guards, to be Veterinary Surgeon, vice
Thomas John Towers, deceased.
17th Lancers—Cornet and Adjutant 'Jeorge Pumfrett to
have the rank of Lieutenant; Corret Henry Augustin
Robinson to be Lieutenant. by purchase, vice James
Harding, who retires ; Robert Blair; Gent., to be Cor-
net, by purchase, vice Blumberg, promoted; John
Charles Symonds, Vent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice
Robinson. ,
18th Hussars—Cornet Edmund Lart b be Lieutenant, by
purchase, -vice Edmund Bernhard Liebert, who retires;
Frederick Charles Hooper, Gent., to he Cornet, by pure
chese, vice Lart.
Royal Artillery.—Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel
Edward Walter Crofton, C. 8., to be Colonel, vice Noel
Thomas Lake, C. 8., retired upon full pay ; Captain and
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Triganee Franklin,
C. 8., on the supernumerary list, to be Lieut.-Colonel ;
Captain and Brevet-Major Henry Rogers tp be Lieut.-
Colonel, vice Brevet-Colonel Crofton, C.B ; Captain and
Brevet-Major Alexander Caesar Hawkins to be Lieut.-
Colonel, vice Brevet-Colonel Piclbaore Faddy, retired
upon half-pay ; Second Captain and Brevet-Major Regi-
nald Henry Champion to be Captain, vice Brevet-Major
Rogers; Second Captain Thomas Longworth Dames, on
the supernumerary list, to be Certain; Second Captain
Charles Carpenter to be Captain, vice Brevet-Major
Hawkins ; Lieutenant Walter Brook Rice to be
Second Captain, vice Brevet-Major Champion ;
Lieutenant George Uchter Knox to be 2d Captain, vice
Carpenter; Lieutenant William Norton Persse to be 2d
Captain, vice Thomas Wright Blakieton, resigned.
Grenadier Guards—Lieutenant and Captain William Salis-
bury Ewart to be Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel, by
purchase, vice John Francis Cust, vho retires ; Ensign
and Lieutenant the Hon. Frederick &rthur Stanley to be
Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice Ewart ; Hugh
de Grey Seymour, Gent., to be Ensign and Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice the Hon. Frederick Arthur Stanley.
2d Regiment of Foot—Captain John Armstrong, from
half-pay late 20th Foot, to be Captain, vice Joseph
Logan, who retires upon half-pay,
7th Foot—Ensign Edward Bridges to be Lieutenant with-
out purchase, vice Charles Bagnall, deceased ; Ensign
Henry Wadham Locke Paddon to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Bridges, whose promotion by purchase on
the llth, April, 1862, has been cancelled ; Serjeant-
Major John Potham to be Ensign, without purchase,
vice Paddon.
16th Foot—Lieutenant Robert William May Wetherell to
be Adjutant, vice Lieutenant Henry Kelsall, promoted;
Ensign Charles Platt to be Lieutenant, without purchase,
vice Kelsall, promoted; De La Pere Robinson, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Daly, promoted.
24th Foot—Captain Alexander William Cobham, from the
44th Foot, to be Captain, vice Franklin, who exclaangee•
36th Foot—Major Fitz-William Frederick Hunter, from
particular service, to be Major, vice Brevet-Camel W.