The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-22 00:00:00

THE FOREIGN ENLISTMENT BILL.

This anti-English and unoonstitutional measure, which
hourly increases iu unpopularity with all classes in the
country, passed through committee last night, and is ap-
pointed fur a third reading this evening. We know not
what the house may do with regard to the third reading ;
but this wo can with confidence say, that those represen-
tatives of popular constituencies who will have the teme-
rity to repeat this evening their vote of Tuesday will have
cause to regret the course they have taken. And here let
us warn thoso Liberal members, that if their conduct was
not to bo justified on Tuesday a repetition of it will be
more strikingly inexcusable now.
The additional knowledge wo have acquired in the in-
terim, respecting that measure, has only seemed to place
it in a still more odious light. The public will learn with
an astonishment and indignation which no language can
express, that instead of, as Parliament, the press, ad the
public, had all equally imagined, only authorising a levy
of 10,000 foreign mercenaries, the bill actually provides for
the raising of any number,—say 40,000 or 50 000 —tbe
10.000 being kept in England as a depot. This is 'a
startling
fact. It is one for which we venture to say not one indi-
vidual in the country was prepared. And, to make the
monstrosity of Itho measure complete, not only will this
country have to pay for the maintenance of the 40,000 or
50,000 foreign butchers of human beings which the bill
enables the Government to hire, but it will have to sub-
sidise the German States.
Are Englishmen prepared for this? Will the House of
Commons this night so far forget what it owes to the
country and-to itself as to sanction thei third reading of a
bill which contains such odious provisions? It will not
do for the Liberal members to vote to-night for the third
reading as they did on Tuesday for the second, on the
ground, as scores of them told Mr. Muntz, the member for
Birmingham, that they must vote for it, though utterly
disapproving of it. Why this " must ?" Whence comes
the compulsion? Are they apprehensive of a dissolution,
and afraid, in that case, of losing their seats? They may
rest assured that a repetition this evening of the vote of
Tuesday, in favour of this German Mercenaries Bill, will
be the most effectual means they could adopt to insure
their rejection whenever they have again to appeal to their
constituents.—(Morning Advertiser.)

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TA TTERSALL'S—TIURSDAY.
Scarcely a dozen members met, and only the following
bets were laid :

THE DERBY.

275 to 25 agst Mr. Howard's St. Hubert, 1,500 to
1,200 and 500 to 400 on Rifleman apt Oulston.
1,000 to 25 agst De Clare's winning the Derby and
Bonnie Morn the Two Thousand.

WALTHAM ABBEY STEEPLECHASES.
TmIIRWAY.
Handicap Hurdle Race of 5 sovs each, with 25 added.
Two wiles and a half, over 6 flights of hurdles.
Mr. B. Land's Odiham, 6 yrs, lOst 91b (Land, jun.) 1
Mr. Mayo's Banstead, 4 yrs, 1 Ist (H. Bell) 2
Mr. Evans's Alp, aged, 11st 41b (Green) 3
Mr. Wycherley's Warwick, aged, lOst 21b...(C Boyce) 4
Mr. Barling's Malmesbury, aged, lOst 71b(G. Eatwell) 5
Betting—Even on Odiham, 2 to 1 agst Malmesbury,
4 to 1 agst Warwick. Won by two lengths ; half a
length between the second and third ; Moderate fourth ;
Malmesbury beaten off.
Selling Plate Race of 3 sovs each ; for 3-yr-olds and
upwards. Optional selling weights. One mile.
Mr. Littler's Firebrand, 3 yrs (401.), Bst 21b (Stewart) 1
Mr. Green's Alma, 5 yrs (401.), Bst 81b (S. Poole) 2
Betting-3 to len Firebrand, who made nearly all
the running, and won by four lengths.
Free Handicap Selling Hurdle Race of 3 soya each,
with 20 added. Optional selling weights. About a
mile and a half, over five flights of hurdles.

311;Evans's Alp (201.), lOst (Green) 0 1
Mr.. B. Land's Massaroni (201.), 9st ...(Land, jun.) 0 2
Mr. Barling's Old Misery (201.), 9st 11b...(G. Eatwell) 3
Mr. Clark's Young Spider, 9st 41b ............ (Bailey) 0
Mr. Jackson's Mid of Kildare (601.), 9st 11b(D.Pdole) 0
Betting-6 to 4 agst Alp, 2to 1 each agst Massaroni
and Old Misery. A fine race in with Alp and Massa-
roni ended in a dead heat. Deciding heat-6 to 4on
Massaroni, who was defeated easily by three lengths.
The Open Steeplechase did not fill,

ROYAL MARINES.
The following pronoctins and appointments havetaken
place in the corps of ..7`oYal Marines :
Second Lieutenant C. F. Witham, to be First Li eut.,
vice Douglas, to half-pay. Dated the 16th inst.
First Lieutenant and Adjutant Thomas Valantine
Cooke, of the Portsmouth division, to be Captain, and
appointed to the Woolwich division, 'rice Heriot,
deceased.

Second Lieutenant Albert Highman, of the Plymouth
division, to be First Lieutenant, vice Cooke, promoted.
Dated December 19th inst. The division will be here•
after notified.

THE TRANSPORT SERVICE.
The Royal Victoria, steam transport, left Portsmouth
on Tuesday afternoon, with wooden huts, ac., for the
Crimea.

The Foyle, steam transport, arrived in Portsmouth
harbour on Wednesday evening to embark huts and
stores for the Crimea. _ _

Yesterday the Oscar transport hauled out into the
river from Woolwich Dockyard with 158 tons of
ordnance stores, and the Agnes Blakey, with 180 tons of
shot and 250 of coke, for the Crimea.
The steam transport Adelaide, taken up by the Ad-
miralty some time ago for the conveyance of troops to
the Crimea, has taken in her stores in the river, and is
now on her way to Portsmouth to receive detachments
of the 19th, 38th, and 86th Regiments, and 2d battalion
of the Rifle Brigadge. She also calls at Plymouth for
a detachment ofthe 34th Regiment,
The L'Emperatrice, chartered steamer, is expected at
Portsmouth, from Liverpool, to embark detachments of
the following :-
Ist Regiment lO6 men
4th Regiment 65 ...
7th Regiment 75 .c.
20th Regiment 3O ...
23d Regiment 100 ...
28th Regiment 65 ...
44th Regiment 5O
.
...
46th Regiment 25
77th Regiment 247 ...
88th Regiment 100
95th Regiment 39 .
Rifles 5O

In all • 952 privates.
4 captains.
7 lieutenants.
9 ensigns.
25 serjeants.
Total 997

MISCELLANEOUS.

Yesterday a merchant-ship which has been engaged
by the committee of the Crimean Fund left Irongate-
wharf kilt .he Crimea, heavily laden with provisions,
clothing, &c , for the troops in the Crimea. The cargo
consisted of several chests of tea, a large quantity of
boxes, containing cocoa, preserved vegetables, meat, and
milk, oolonred blankets, a supply of warm clothing,
&c. In a few days the yacht of the Earl of Ellesmere,
which is pla-..ed at the disposal of the committee by his
lordship, will start with a similar description of cargo.
The Wildfire, Capt. Downward, the first vessel to be
despatched by Messrs. Peto, Brassey, and Co., as a por-
tion of their railway expedition to the Crimea, is still de-
tained at Birkenhead by unfavourable weather. She has
on board 52 "navvies" and a cargo of railway plant.
Tyne owners, who sent coal out on speculation to Con-
stantinople, have been advised by their captains that the
whole of the cargoes have been taken up by the Govern-
ment, and that the vessels are now delivering at the
Crimea.

The Duchess of Cambridge has ordered that every
widow in the Cambridge Asylum shall be supplied with
a good dinner of roast beef, plum pudding, and ale on
Christmas-day, at her Royal Highness's expense.