The Sun.
London, England, 1854-04-03 00:00:00

CROXTON RACES.

ARRIVALS.
Bourton, f. by Epirus out of Pelion's dam, Ethelwolf
litterstene, Captain Flash, Folly o' Day, h. by Dray
ton, Sine Qua Non, Lamartine, Sackbut, Determina
ion, Communist, Betsy. Janey expected.

CHELTENHAM' RACES.

Columbine and Trout arrived.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—(THIS EVENING.)
The house resumed at five o'clock.
_

REPLY OF HER, MAJESTY TO THE ADDRESS.
After the presentation of some petitions,
The LORD CHANCELLOR said--I have to ac-
lnaint your lordships that the house waited this day
upon her Majesty with the address, which was voted by
your lordships on Friday last, and that her Majesty was
pleased to return the following most gracious answer
I have to thank you for your loyal and dutiful ad-
dreg. It is highly gratifying to me to receive an
assurance of your co-operation in giving effect to the
measures which I consider necessary for the honour
of my Crown, and the welfare of my people."
ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE.
The Earl of ABERDEEN gave notice of his inten-
tion to move the adjournment of the house for the
Easter holidays, from Tuesday the 11th inst. until
Thursday the 27th.

CHURCH BUILDING ACTS AMENDMENT
BILL.
The Earl of HARROWBY moved the second reading
of this bill, the object of which is to enable churches in
parishes, h cities and market towns to be pulled down,
and to permit benefices to be united for religious pur-
poses.

(LEFT SPEAKING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(THIS EVENING.)
The house resumed at half-past 5 o'clock.

THE ADDRESS.
The SPEAKER acquainted the house that the house
had to-day been with her Majesty, and presented the
address in reply to her Majesty's message, to which she
hid been pleased to make the following most gracious
reply :

"I thank you for you loyal and dutiful address. The
declaration of your sentiments on this occasion affords me
great satisfaction. I rely with confidence on your co-ope-
ration in the measures which I may consider necessary
for the honour of my crown and the welfare of my people."

PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Lords amendments to the Leeds New Gas Bill
were considered and agreed to.
The following bills were read a third time and passed :
—Bacup Improvement, Brighton and Hove Gas, Clyde
Navigation (Amendments to be proposed), Doncaster
Cemetery, Glasgow New Street, Hereford Improvement,
Imperial Gas Company, Stockton, Middlesbrough, and
Yarm Water, North London Railway.
The following bills were considered, and ordered to
be read a third time :—Ambergate, Nottingham, and
Boston, and Eastern Junction ; Belfast Harbour ; Blyth
and Tyne Railway ; Bolton Gas, Cardiff Gas, Chesterfield
Market, Hamilton Waterworks, Harrow Waterworks,
Havering, Dagenham, &c., Sewers ; Kingswood Roads ;
Port Gordon Harbour ; Rido:hil2, Lanes, and Holehouse
Road ; Salford, Stockport, and Manchester Division ;
Tyne Keelmen ; Wellington (Salop) Improvement ;
Whitehaven, Cleator, and Ezrement Railway ; London,
Brighton, and South Coast Railway bills.
The Blackburn Improvement (No. 2) Bill was read a
second time, and ordered to be committed.

[LEFT SITTING,]

THE P_F.:ESTON STLLIKE.

Distressing cases of destituti PRESTON'
AP RIL 1.
on arising out of the im-
portation of strangers, are continually' bl!ognddisclosoende.
To-day, two female immigrants fr
having brought six children, and the otohmer five—appeared
before the bench of magistrates sitting at the Town-
hall, under the following painful g
circumstances. They
stated that they had been engages in London by a man
named Clegg, to work in the mill of Mr. Eccles, at
Bamberbridge, near this town. The terms proposed''
to them were, that such of their children as were
above 13 years of age should have from ss. to 7s.
per week ; those under that age were to be employed as
"short timers," half a day at work and half a day at
school. It was a fortnight to-day since they came to
Preston. "The boys don't like the work," added the
woman who was the chief speaker. " Mr. Eccles did
not give ns what we expected, and we can't do upon it.
We are in very distressed circumstances, and Mr. Eccles
says that if we don't go out of the house in which we,
are living, he'll put us in the street. We have bad no-
thing during the week but what the neighburs have given
us. We want to get assistance to enablo us to get back
to London." Bench—Has Mr. Eccles performed his
part of the contract I Applicant— Nut at all. The poor
women wept piteously, and were evidently in great
trouble. Oae (a respectable looking woman) stated that
she had broken up a respectable home for the purpose of
coming to Preston. The bench directed a policeman to
accompany the parties to the relieving officer. Appli-
cations of a similar character are of frequent occurrence.
The number of strangers brought in this week is a little
over 300. During the same period from 40 to 50 immigrants
have rerurned to Ireland, Manchester, and elsewhere,
dissatisfied or incapable of following their employment.
The Secretary to the Master's Association
,states that on
Saturday the 25th ult. there were not wanted, to fill the
mills, more than 11,000 to 12,000 persons. During that
week it appeared the numbers supported by the opera-
tives union, exceeded 14,000 ; it follows, therefore,
that if all the hands then required were to resume work',
there would be left a surplus of about 3,000 persons un-
employed. Every week which now passes will add con-
siderably to this surplus, in consequence of the continued
supply of new hands imported, besides a large number
which flock into the town from surrounding districts."
The total number of hands relieved this week was
13,974, at a cost of 3,232/. 14s. 6d. Thirty-one weeks
have now elapsed since the commencement of the strike.
Messrs. Cowell, Grimshaw, Waddington, and Lang
(four of the committed delegates) addressed a meeting
this afternoon, in a field at Fulwood, about a mile from
the town.

MISS MITFOED'S NEW WORIC.—We are requested to
state that Messrs. Hurst and Blackett, successors to
Mr. Colburn, 13, Great Marlborough-street, have this
day published "Atherton," by Miss Mitford, author of
" Our Village," 86c., embellished with a portrait of the
author, and other illustrations, which may now be had
at all the libraries. Also, 2. Mrs Gore's new novel
"Progress and Prejudice. 3. "Janet Mowbray," by
Caroline Gran toff. . Reginald Sule," by Miss
Pardoe. 5. " Florence the Beautiful," by A. Baillie
Cochrane, Esq. 6. " Family Romance," by Sir Ber-
bard Burke, Ulster King of Arms. 7. "The Daughter
of the South," by Mrs. Clara, Walbey.
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244, Strand, London.
LETTERS roR 'ARCTIC SHIPS.—
Letters for officers,
seamen, and marines, serving in the
undermentioned
ships, will be forwarded by her Majesty's ship phconix;
if sent to the Admiralty on or before the 12th of April :
—Her Majesty's ships Enterprise, Investigator, Ainist•
ince, Re4ohtte, Pioneer, Intrepid, and North Star.

PREPARATIONS FOR WAR.

It is stated in the Siede that the cavalry regiments
which we propose sending through France are to be
quartered, while in Paris, on the Quai d'Orsay and at
the Ecole Militaire, and that both officers and men will
be most hospitably entertained during their stay in the
French metropolis.
Lieutenant the Hon. L. Curzon, Rifle Brigade, is ap-
pointed extra aide-de-camp to Lord Raglan ; Captain A.
Walsh, let Life Guards, is to be aide-de-camp to Lord
de Roe ; and Lieutenant the Hon. H. Clifferd, Rifle
Brigade, is to be aide-de-camp to Brigadier-General
Buller.
Colonel Colt has received a Government order for
4,000 of his revolvers, which it is understood are to be
supplied to the fleet.
Thirty-two army assistant-surgeons belonging to de-
pots of regiments have been ordered to attend in London
to receive instructions previously to their immediate em-
barkation for the east.
All the shabraques of the cavalry ordered to the seat
of war will be discontinued, in order to lessen the weight
which the horses have to carry.
Lord Hardinge, the General Commanding in Chief,
has issued cards for a farewell banquet to the comman-
ders of the expeditionary force on Thursday next,
although it has been intimated that the staff must be
prepared to leave at a few hours' notice. Lieutenant-
General Brown, the only one of the staff as yet gone,
started after a notice of three hours. The Earl of Lucan
has not yet left for the East, indeed the precise day for
the departure of the staff has not yet transpired.
The Government purpose sending out all kinds of
clothing and food, which can in any way conduce to the
health of the troops. A large quantity of tea will be
shipped, as the use of water alone in
any way will be
prohibited, owing to its deleterious character, without
the operation of boiling. The French propose shipping
a large quantity of wines, and it is supposed that some
arrangement will be made by means of which our Go-
vernment will be able to follow the example.
Yesterday (Sunday) afternoon an order arrived at the
Woolwich division of Royal
Marines, for one sergeant,
one corporal, one drummer, and thirty private, to hold
themselves in readiness to proceed by railway this day
to Portsmouth, to embark for service on board the Pene-
lope paddle-wheel steam frigate, under orders to proceed
to join the Baltic fleet. The officers will be selected from
the Portsmouth division.
Those of the Greenwich pensioners who are fit for
service are now recalled to active duty. On Saturday,
in pursuance of orders, the Greenwich pensioners of
Liverpool, 42 in number, assembled at the naval ren-
dezvous, Red-cross street, for inspection by Commander
Bevis, R.N., who informed them that such of them as
were found fit for service should be drafted on board
ship. Upon inspection it was found that 22 were fit
for active service.

Notices were also sent round yesterday from the staff
office of pensioners to a number of the pensioners who
recently passed the examination held at Deptford as to
their fitness for service, that they will have to join the
coast guard service in the course of next week to assist
in performing the duties of that branch of her Majesty's
service.

Notice has been given that engineers at present work-
ing for private establishments, if they have had about
two years' experience in the mercantile steam-vesssels at
sea, may be entered as acting assistant engineers in the
Royal Navy.
In Adition to the Pyrenees, already despatched with
horses to the Royal Artillery for the Mediterranean,
Mr. Dunbar has five other transport ships now ready at
D'ptford, two, the Morayshire and another new ship
fitted for the conveyance of horses, and three, the Dun-
bar, the Bombay, and the Canterbury, fitted for the con-
veyance of infantry. It is supposed the sailing vessels
for infantry will be employed for conveying a portion of
the six regiments of the hue, which it is contemplated
to send wish a siege battery of artillery to the Baltic to
operate with the fleet under the command of Sir Charles
Napier.
Yesterday the prayer prescribed for time of war was
offered in the various churches of the metrololis ; and
in mo, t of the nonconformist places of worship supplica-
tions were made for the triumph of truth and justice, and
a speedy return of peace.

LAUNCHES OF SCREW MEN-OF-WAR.
Royal Albert, 131 guns, 500-horse power, will be
launched at Woolwich on the 28th inst.

-
Curacoa, 30 guns, 350-horse power, will be launched
at Pemi)roke on the 27th. _ _

Hornet, 16 guns, 100-horse power, will be launched
at Deptford this month.
Harrier, 16 guns, 100-horse power, will be launched
at Pembroke, May 13.
Swallow, 8 guns, 60-horse power, will be launched at
Pembroke about the middle of June.

PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 1.

The 23d Royal Welsh Fusiliers have received orders
to leave this garrison on Thursday next, and proceed to
Southampton to embark, in the West India Mail Com-
pany's steamer Trent, for the East. The 42d Royal
Highlanders have received orders to embark here on the
10th, and most likely will be conveyed to the East in the
steam-troop frigate. Megmra, which arrived from the
West Indies on Friday, and is now under process of re-
fit with all expedition.
A. company of Royal Artillery disembarked to-day at
the dockyard, from the Duke of Cornwall steamer ; they
came from Dublin.

Mr. Duncan, of the Ordnance Department (powder
depot), at Priddy's Hard, Gosport, has been appointed
Ordnance Storekeeper at Marchwood Powder Maga-
zines, near Southampton, which have been for some
years out of use for munitions of war. A small military-
post will be immediately established there. These ma-
gazines are constructed to hold about 24,000 barrels of
gunpowder, situate close to Southampton Water, into
which a small pier runs for kindling and shipping
powder.
The Desperate, 8, screw corvette, Captain D'Eyncourt,
left Spithead this evening with letters and papers for
the Baltic fleet.

The Rhadamanthus steam transport arrived to-day
from Woolwich with the engines and boilers for the new
80-gun ship Colossus, preparing for commission with all
despatch in this dockyard.
The Megmra, 16, iron troop frigate, Captain Johnson,
hauled into the steam factory basin this morning to refit,
with all despatch, for the conveyance of the 42d High-
landers to the East.

Arlin 2.

The James Watt, screw steam-ship, Captain Elliot,
sailed from Spithead this morning for the Baltic, The
wind was fair for her to. make sail, but she got away
under steam for the purpose of testing her machinery.
The Tyne, store-ship, Master-CommanderJ. B. Tucker,
arrived at this port yesterday from Ascension, with old
stores, naval invalids, and 15 marines. She left the
island on the 20th of February, at which time only the
Tortoise, 12, Captain Kitchen, was at the island. The
Athol, 4, store-ship, Master-Commander Pearse, sailed
thence on the 25th of February for the south coast and
England.
The Pigmy, steam-tug, returned into harbour last
evening from troop service. She is to be fitted with a
pivot gun, for service in the Baltic.

PLYMOUTH, APRIL 1.

The horse transport ship Alipore continues in the
Sound, and as the experience of her behaviour at sea
will give the public some idea of what may be ex-
pected from the numerous other ships hired for
the same important service, we have made a few
inquiries regarding her. She is a fine model, and
is full frigate rigged, registers 811 tons, and
burdens 1,116, with a general cargo. In the hold
she has 100 tons pig ballast, and 130 tons shingle. The
horses, 52, are berthed with their heads towards the
hatchways, in padded stalls, 7 feet long by 2 feet 2
inches wide in the clear ; they have loose slings cons-
stantly round them. The platforms on which they
stand are of plank, with battens. Forward, on the lar-
board bow, the platform for nine horses has given way,
the knees or joints having started, and the plank, only
an inch and-a-half thick, having broken. These defects
are thoroughly repaired by the artizans of the dockyard,
who laid down two and a-half inch planks where neces-
sary. The maindeck gives ample accommodation to 52
artillerymen. She sailed from Woolwich for Malta at 5
p.m. on Thursday, the 23d of March, and passed through
the Downs the next evening ; on Sunday night she was
off Beachy Head, and on Monday near the Owers light-
ship. She neared the Eddystone on Wednesday
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time. Owing to the horses, the Abpore cannot carry
sail enough to beat to windward, and she is said to have
gone 25 miles to leeward on one task, in the Channel.
She now draws 14ft. forward and 15ft. bin. aft.
Some 180 tons of Government stores, saddlery, &c.,
hastilywil will b alt is suggested that such vessels
put
at Woolwich, in the
below. tween decks,
ought to have more ballast in them when prepared for
sea, and that horses sent in sailing vessels, should be
embarked at a western port, near the Atlantic, so as to
bGiesneariadle.dSeireatapr,ry Smith, with the
avoid the difficulties of the Channel passage. Major-
brigade-major and
morning. inspected the .A.lipore on Saturday

APRIL 2*
The Alipore sailed for Malta about 10 o'clock. Wind
easterly, fresh.
The crew of her Majesty's screw steam-ship Nile) 91,
Commodore Martin, bent sails yesterday.
The screw steam-ship Algiers, 90, got up steam yes-
terday. She is now moored off Keyham, and will be
taken into that dock to-morrow, to have the valve of the
distillery apparatus fixed.
The Belleisle, originally a ship of 74 guns, but of late
used as a trooper, will be ready in about a fortnight to
proceed to the Baltic as a hospital ship. The orlop and
quarterdeck will be devoted to the requirements of the
fleet, and on the main deck thd ship's cleat:may will mess
and berth. She is only to carry six 32-pTyunder guns,
and not 24, as was at first stated. The Belleisle fidded
topmasts yesterday.

The steam-tender Prospero arrived yesterday, with
seamen from Queenstown for the screw steam-ship Nile ;
she coaled, and returned immediately to Cork.
The Impregnable, 120, Captain Lowe, got up lower
yards, topmasts, and topgallantmasts yesterday, for the
summer.

A company of artillerymen left Plymouth on Friday,
by the merchant steam-vessel Duke of Cornwall, for
Woolwich.

Captain Superintendant Sandom, of the Royal Wil-
liam Victualling-yard, has advertised for tenders on the
12th inst., to supply 2,000 quarters of wheat, weighing
601 b. per bushel.

SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 2.

Official information has been received to-day by the
4dmiralty packet authorities, that the 7th Puglien