The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-19 00:00:00

11.1.1.1tD EDI I' tof.ki

NOTICE.

The Third E lition of " The Sun" of last Evening WitB
published hi time for delivery in town at 7.15 p.m.

SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENI

HOUSE OF LORDS.—Tuts DAY.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.

THE ADDRESS.
Lord SYDNEY announced to their lordships that her
Majesty would receive the address of both houses at 12
o'clock on Monday next at Buckingham Palace.
PRIVATE BILLS.
Earl GRANVILLE having moved some alterations iu
the procedure of private bills, their lordships unanimously
agreed to the same.
Their lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THIS EVENING.
The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.
THE ADMIRALTY.
Sir J. ELPHINSTONE gave notice:that on the 25th he
should ask the First Lord of the Admiralty what had
taken place at the Admiralty, and the cost and other
matters connected with it.

SIR S. OW.
Sir T. CHAMBERS gave noWATE ti RceL that on an early day
he should move the appointment of a committee of seven
to consider whether, under the 22d of George 111., cap.
4t, Sir Sidney Waterlow was disqualified from becoming
a member of the house.

TII-E— LA OURTS.
Mr. GREGORY gave notice that on the sth of March
he should call the attention of the house to the site of the
new law courts, and move a resolution on the subject.
THE LICENSING SYSTEM.
An Mx. MEMBER gave notice that on Monday he should
move for leave to introduce a bill to amend the licensing
of beerhouses.

THE MILITIA.
Mr. C. FORTESOUE, inIRISH reply to Colonel French, said
it was not without full'eonsideration that the embodi-
ment of the Irish militia for training had been postponed
• for another year.
THE CASE OF MR. CAGNELLS.
Mr. WINTERBOTHASI asked the Under-Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs a question relative to the case of
Mr. James Caguells, a British subject, residing and carry-
ing on business at Oporto, sentenced in November last by
a Portuguese Court to banishment for six years, for the
crime of " wanting in respect to the Roman Catholic reli-
gion," such want of .respect consisting only in conducting
ordinary Protestant service in his own house.
Mr. OTWAY said it was quite true that the gentleman
named had been banished for a term of six years, but not
solely fur wanting in respect to Vie Roman Catholic reli-
g:ou. Mr Cagn:l.s was put upou his trial in Oporto before
a Portuguese jury, he hiving given up his right to be tried
by a mixed one; and the charges laid agsinst him was for
holding meetings in his house for objects opposed to the
religion of the country, for inducing persons to hold doc-
trines opposed to the religion of the State and for making
proselytes. The charges, to an extent, were proved, and
under the 130th section of the crimival sole he was sen-
tenced to six years' banishment from the country. An
sppeal had been lodged against the finding of Lie jury,
tied until that appeal was decided he did not think it judi-
cious to make any further observation. He might interns
the hon. member tit it Mr. Crawford, the Consul at Oporto,
bad been directed to watch the castS.
THE RATE-PATI.NO CLAUSES
Mr. C. FORSTER asked the First Lord of. the Trea-
sury whether it was the intention of the Government to
repeal Vie rate-paying clauses of the Reform Act, and to
restore the system of compound rating?
Mr. GLADSTONE said ho could not answer the ques-
tion of the hon. gentleman, without in some degree autici-
pang the statement to be made by the President of the
Poor Law Board. He might, however, say that the Go-
vernment did not propose to restore in let,or and in form
compound rating, but in the bill of his right hon. friend
there would be found a remedy for the grievance which
at present existed.

- THE CHARING CROSS VIADUCT.
Lord ELCHO called the atteutioa of the First Commis-
sioner of Works to the proposed viaduct from Charing-
cross to Welliugtou.street, Strand, which was proposed
to be made on the Thames Embankment by the Metropo-
litan Board of Works. The Board had given instructions
with respect to the conitnencement of the works, and
he therefore hid to ask the right honourable gentle-
man to exert his power to stay proceedings,
at all events for a titne, until it was seen that the thorough-
fare was actually required. The site of the Thames em-
bankment affords the finest site in the world for some pub-
lic building, and it was inconceivable that so eligible a
spot should be devoted to a long row of unsightly arches
upon which the proposed road was to be made. Lio
thought it was übsilutely necessary thlt s)ine greater
power than at present existed should be given to somebody
to prevent further monstrosities being made in London.
At present a set of people had only to get an Act of Parlia-
ment to ica'.:e a railway, for instinc.3, from north to south
of the metropolis, then they were quite at liberty to pull
down, an t block up, and erect any bridges they
might think necessary without th I slightest regard being
made to the damage that would be done to the property iu
the neighbourhood. Had there b-on any such control-
ling power he believed the great tubular monstrosity_
the Cannon-street station would never have been allowed
to thrust itself so hideously in front of the view of St.
Paul's from the river. He found he could not by the
forms of the house propose the resolution he had prepared,
which stated that it was not expedient to proceed with
the proposed road, but he hoped the right hoe. gentleman
would take up the matter and submit a resolution to the
house on Monday next.
Mr. C. BUXTON thought that as everybody disap-
proved of the proposed viaduct it would not be perse-
vered in.

lioni—BUßY said that it was most desirable that
any sort of controlling power would be better
than the anarchy that now existed. No sooner was the
work of Sir J. Thwaites finished, than a railway company
would begin to dig up and otherwise obstruct the footway,
.
so that fur about five years the would be kept out
of the full enjoyment of the splendid promenade.
Mr. LAYARD said unfortunately he had nothing to
do with the Thames Embankment; all he could do he
would do, and that would be to urge upon Sir
John Thwaites to do his utmost to prevent
a project which would entirely destroy the beauty of the
embankment which was now so great an ornament to the
metropolis. The most effectual way of stopping the pro-
ceedings would be for the house to express a strong
opinion as to the inadvisability of proceeding with the
proposed viaduct.
Mr. W. COWPER said if the Metropolitan Board of
Works were in earnest in objecting to the proposed viaduct
it was quite open to them to have introduced a bill for
repealing the previous act.
Mr. HOPE said how the bill passed that allowed such
an objectionable work was to him quite a mystery.
[LEFT SITTING

•
r THE '.SECRE rARY of STATE for WAR has approwd of a REVIEW of 'VOLUNTEERS taking
plaMco
ar cut DOVER, on EASTER MONDAY, the 29th
of h, 1869.
Applications from Corps desirous of attending this
Review must be made on the prescribed form (W. 0.
Form, N 0.1,629) through the Lords-Lie;.tenant of their
respective Counties, and delivered at the War-office on or
before Monday, the Bth of March, after which date no
further applications will be received.
It is, however, particularly requested that Command-
ing Officers will mak.) their applications as early as pos-
Fible before the above date, as their doing so will greatly
facilitate Railway and other arrangements.
JAS. LINDSAY, Major-General.
War-Oifwe, 19th February, 1869.