The Sun.
London, England, 1854-03-07 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock.

DONCASTER RACES.

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
MUNICIPAL STAKES.

Penitent

Four ran.

LATEST BETTING.

DONCASTER HANDICAP.
4to 1 agst Lerrywheut (wanted).
sto 1 agst Hungerford.
7to 1 agst Alonso.
10 to 1 agst Pearl (taken).

CHESTER CUP.
50 to 1 agst Dr. O'Toole.
50 to 1 agst Canute.

DERBY.
6to 1 agst Autocrat (taken).
22 to 1 agst Acrobat (taken).
40 to 1 agst Bessus (taken).
50 to 1 agst Canute (taken).

ADDITIONAL ARRIVALS. - St. Mark, Shamrock,
Orange Blossom, Palmerston, sister to Aphrodite,
Game Tommy, Ratcliffe Hero, and King of Trumps.

AMERICA.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
ARRIVAL OF THE AFRICA.
LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY AFTERNOON.
The Royal mail steam-skip Africa, Captain Har-
rison, arrived in the Mersey about noon this day,
with the usual mails from the United States and
British North America.
The Africa, having been got off the bank where
she went on shore, has. arrived from New York
with 75 passengers and a small mail. The main
portion being sent by the America from Boston,
which sailed four hours before the Africa.
Business has much improved in New York since
the departure of the last steamer. Money very
easy. Stock buoyant and advancing.
The market for breadstuffs was dull and declin-
ing, anxiously waiting for further news from Eng-
land, and rather flat, caused by the rise in freight.
There was an average business in the cotton
market at former prices.
The provision market very dull and unsteady.
The shipowners were asking the following prices
for freight to Liverpool :—Grain, 18d. to 20d. per
bushel.
Exchange on London dull, losi to 1081 ; on
Paris, 5 15 to 5 17-4.
We have just heard that the America is off the
port.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS-(THIS EVENING.)

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at 5 o'clock.

The Earl of SHAFTESBURY presented several peti-
tions in favour of the establishment of reformatory insti-
tutions for juvenile offenders.

The Duke of ARGYLL presented petitions from
places in Scotland, praying for a national system of edu-
cation for that country.
Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from the
society for the protection of trade in Manchester, in
favour of the assimilation of the laws of England and
Scotland in respect to debtor and creditor; and stated
that, in the course of a few days, he intended to intro-
duce a bill on the subject.
Their lordships adjourned at 20 minutes after 5 o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(THIS EVENING.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.
SECOND READINGS.
The Newcastle-upon-Tyne Docks Bill was read a se-
cond time ; also the South Wales Railway Bill.
Lord LISBURN took the oaths and his seat for Cardi-
ganshire.
On the motion that the St. Mary's, Stoke Newington,
Church Bill be read a second time,
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE moved that the bill be read a
second time this day six months. The present church
was a building that, for its architectural beauty, at-
tracted the admiration of every passer by. If the church
was not sufficient for the present congregation, let them
build an addition to it. (Hear, hear.)
Lord J. MANNERS seconded the amendment.
Mr. F. FRENCH defended the bill.
Mr. HADFIELD maintained it was wrong to come
here to ask for an act of Parliament to bind the trustees.
He, therefore, supported the amendment.
Mr. HEATHQOTE said, though unacquainted with
the local views of the hon. gentleman who supported
the bill, he would ask the house to take care and see
what step they would take in respect of a matter of this
kind. • This was the first time that the common law
rights of a church were to be taken away by enactments
of the house, and the principle of the bill was one
which they ought not to pass.
Mr. BOUVERIE said the bill unfortunately was
likely to be shipwrecked between a High Church Scylla
and a Dissenting Charybdis. (Hear, hear.) They all
knew that in the parish churches of London rents
were levied for the pews ; and, considering the question
of principle, he should be inclined to vote for the second
reading of the bill.
Mr. FRESHFIELD said the effect of the bill was to
give the rector 120 seats, and the parishioner had no
control over them, and, in fact, the object of the bill was
to provide accommodation for parties living at a dis-
tance, instead of those living near the church.
After a few words from Mr. MIALL,
The amendment was negatived without a division.
Mr. LIDDELL presented a petition from Tynemouth
praying for an alteration in the present postal arrange-
ments with the North of England.
Col. BLAIR presented several petitions from places
in Scotland against the endowment of Roman Catholic
institutions, and also against the Oaths Bill.
GREEK INSURRECTION.
Mr. M. MILNES gave notice that on Friday next, on
the motion for the adjournment of the house, he would
call attention to the Greek insurrection in Turkey.
THE CONVICTS FROST, WILLIAMS, AND
JONES.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE rose to ask the Secretary of
State for the Home Department, whether it is the in-
tention of her Majesty's Government to advise the
Crown to grant the same amount of pardon to Frost,
Williams, and Jones, convicted of high treason in 1839,
that has been recently extended to Smith O'Brien, con-
victed of a similar offence in 1848.
Viscount PALMERSTON said her Majesty, who
was always glad when she could properly find an oppor-
tunity of tempering justice with mercy, had been gra-
ciously pleased to extend the clemency of the Crown to
Frost, Williams, and Jones, similar to that extended to
Smith O'Brien. (Hear, hear.) He would take this op-
portunity of stating that there had been two other per-
sons transported at the same time with Smith O'Brien—
Martin and O'Dogherty—for a slighter offence, and her
Majesty had been graciously pleased to extend her par-
don to them also. (Hear, hear.)
BUSINESS FOR FRIDAY.
In reply to Mr. WALPOLE,
Lord J. RUSSELL stated that the first business that
would be taken on Friday would be the Bill for Reform-
ing the University, and then the second reading of the
Bribery Bill.
Sir J. PAKINGTON should understand then, that
,the Poor-law Settlement would not be brought forward
'l4 Friday.
Lord J. RUSSELL replied in the negative.
SAVINGS' BANKS.
Mr. H. HERBERT wished to ask the Chancellor of
the Exchequer whether he intended to bring in any mea-
sure on the subject of Savings' Banks this session 2
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said at
the first favourable opportunity he should submit to the
house, in substance, the same bill that he introduced
last year ; but as the financial part of the subject was
mixed up with the management clauses, he. was afraid,
in the existing state of affairs, there was little prospect
of his being able to pass such a bill at present.
METROPOLITAN GRAVE YARDS.
Col. HARCOURT moved an address for a return of all
the notices for discontinuance of burials within the
metropolis, issued by the Secretary of State, in compli-
ance with. the provisions of the act 15 and 16 Vic. c. 85.
Lord PALMERSTON had no objection to the re-
turn, remarking that at present he did not think there
was any necessity for making a change in the law with
regard to the construction of new cemeteries. He had,
however, in preparation a bill for regulating what should
be done with graveyards, in accordance with the orders
in Council.
After a few words from Mr. WilaiNsoN,
Sir B. HALL said he was satisfied that when the re-
turns were forthcoming it would be found that the me-
tropolitan parishes had obeyed the orders of the Secre-
tary of State with the utmost alacrity.
Mr. A. PELLATT regretted that the return was not
to extend to a wider area than the metropolis.
After a few words the motion was agreed to.
POSTAL COMMUNICATION WITH SCOTLAND.
Mr. H. G. LIDDELL moved for a select committee
to inquire into the postal communication between Lon-
don and the cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, with a
view of ascertaining whether greater despatch and punc-
tuality can be attained in the transmission of letters, as
well between the termini as the intermediate places.
He suggested that the Northern Mails, instead of being
carried round by Derby and Rugby, should be taken by
the Great Northern Railway.
Mr. COWAN seconded the motion.
Mr. WILSON said there were difficulties at present
in the way of employing the Great Northern lino ; but

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when these difficulties, vvhioh were of a soznewhas Gown.
plicated character, should be removed, there would be
no objection to carrying the mails over that rAilway.

[LEFT SPEAKING.]

THE LONDON GAZE
(THIS EVENING.)

'TE.

WHITEHALL,MancH 6.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to
be passed under the Great Seal, constituting and appoint-
ing the Right Honourable George, Earl of Aberdeen, K.T.;•
the Right Honourable William Ewart Gladstone ; Alfred
Hervey, Esq. (commonly called Lord Alfred Hervey) ;
Francis Wemyss Charteris, Esq. (commonly called Lord
Eleho) ; and Chichester Samuel Fortescue, Esq. ; to be
Commissioners for executing the offices of Treasurer of the
Exchequer of Great Britain and Lord High Treasurer of
Ireland.

DOWNING-STREET, MARCH 6.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Captain Henry
Ratcliffe Searle to be Assistant Police Magistrate for the
colony of Sierra Leone.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint John
Grant and James Sawkins, Esqrs., to be Colonial Surgeons
for the Forts and Settlements on the Gold Coast.

ller Majesty has further been pleased to appoint William
Henry Shew, Esq., to be a Member of the Council of the
Virgin Islands.

ST. JAMES'S PALACE, MARCH 6.

The Queen has been pleased, on the nomination of the
Right Honourable Lord Foley, to appoint Philip Salo-
mons, Esq., one of her Majesty's Honourable Corps of
Gentlemen-at-Arms, vice Kitson, retired.

Notice is hereby given, that in the Exchequer-bills
about to be issued on the 10th instant, an error, committed
by the engraver in the date of such bills, will be corrected
in red, by the substitution of 1854, for 1853.
arMch°,s
ITBS4EAG. LE, Comptroller-General.
Exchequer, 3d M
COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE QUEEN.
Royal Flintshire Militia—John Warren Glubb, Esq.,
late Captain 44th Regiment, to be Adjutant, vice ?Weston,
resigned.

COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS.
North Durham Regiment of Militia of the County of
Durham—John Nicholson, Gent. ; John George Lambtou
Green, Gent.—to be Lieutenants, March 2.
4th Regiment of West York Militia—Edward Waud,
Esq., to be Captain ; Lieutenant Richard Dyneley Cham-
berlain (from the Ist Regiment of West York Militia) to
be Captain ; Humphrey John Hare, Esq., to be Captain ;
Lieutenant Joseph Hartley (from the Ist Regiment of
West York Militia) to be Lieutenant ; Joshua Ingham
Min, Esq., to be Surgeon, March 1.
Forfar and Kincardineshire Militia—William Burnett
Ramsay, Esq., to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Sir Aler.;.
ander Ramsay, Bart., deceased, March 2.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed the following gentle-
men to be Commissibners for administering oaths in the
High Court of Chancery :
Robert Cole, Tokenhouse-yard, City.
William Thomas, Walsall, Staffordshire.
James Miller, Eastcheap, City.
James Vaizey, South-square, Gray's-inn.
Samuel Heath, jun., Church-court, Clement's-lane, City.
John Danby Christopher, Argyle-street, Regent-street.
Thomas Lacy, King's Arms-yard, City.
John Wyberg, jun., Liverpool.
Joseph James Ridley, Birkenhead.

BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED.
William Houldsworth, brewer, Egremont, Cheshire.
William Ness and Thomas Snowdon, tar and napt•ha
distillers, Leeds.