The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-07 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock.

TATTERSALL'S.—(This Evening.)

CITY AND SUBURBAN.
4to 1 aget Fisherman (taken)
9 to 2 agbt St. Hubert (taken)
Bto 1 agst Boer (taken)
10 to 1 agst Bubble (taken and offered)
12 to 1 agst Hospitality (taken)
16 to 1 agst Ellermire (taken)
TWO-YEAR-OLD STARES.
3 to 1 aget Apathy (taken)
METROPOLITAN.
2 to 1 aget Cannobie (taken and offered)
7to 1 agst Middleton ktaken freely)
10 to 1 aget Sa3ack (taken)
15 to 1 agst Buckingham (taken)
BURWELL STAKES.
8 to 1 agst Canobie (taken)

CHESTER CUP.
15 to 1 agst Imogene (taken)
25 to 1 agst Stork (taken)
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
2 to 1 agst Fly-by-Night (offered)
2to 1 agst Yellow Jack offered)
10 to 1 agst Bird in Hand (taken and offered)
DERBY.

7to 2 agst Wentworth (taken freely)
8 to 1 agst Fly-by-Night (offered)
Bto 1 agst Ellington (offered)
12 to 1 agst Yellow Jack (taken freely)
100 to 6 agst Rogerthorpe (offered)
33 to 1 agst Cannobie (taken)
50 to 1 agst Enchanter (taken)

BIRMINGHAM ANNUAL STEEPLE CHASE
Franc Picard
The Minor

Seven ran.

ARRIVALS AT CROXTON PARK.

Rodomel, Fact, Tug o' War, Twm Shon Catti, Shore-
ham, Saunterer, The Roman, The Spinner, Ceres,
Challow Boy, The Clown, Wactage, Dresser; Knight
Errant, Prince of Orange, Etfrida, and Colt by Touch.
atone out of Lady Godiva.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

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HOUSE OF LORDS—(This Evening.)
The LORD CHANCEILLOR tlcik his seat on the wool
sack at five o'clock.

, The Earl of MALMESBURY gave notice that on
Thursday be should ask a question of the Secretary of
Stag for War respecting the return of the cavalry and
,artillery horses from the Crimea to this country.
AUSTRALIAN POSTAGE.

The Earl of HARDWICKE rose to put a question
to the Postmaster-General with respect to Australian
postage. He said that he had on a former occasion
made au inquiry of the Government on this sub-
ject, and he was told that the regular departure of the
usual mails for Australia and this country bad been in-
terfered with in consequence of the war. In 1852 a
system of steam navigation for the purposes of postal
communication from Australia to this country was es-
tablished. Although that communication was net com-
pletely satisfactory to the colonists, it nevertheless
did answer the purposes ef arsgularsteam communication,
giVing in every alternate month a communieat;on by the
I-thwus of Suez to Australia on an average of only 64
days. That communication war, however, stopped in
1854, and from that year to the present time he might
say that no regular communication for postal purposes
existed. The conveyance of the mails was by merchant
vessels and other inferior ships. From letters he had
received from the other side of Suez, he was informed that
the steam postal communication had not been interfered
with in consequence of the war, for the vessels that bad
previously been engaged in the service were since em-
ployed in commercial pursuits elsewhere. The Austra
lien colonies had presented a-memorial upon the subject
to the Lords of the Treasury, and had shown
the strongest disposition to defray a large
proportion of the expenses of a regular steam
communication. The Government had advertised
for tenders, and many tenders had been received by
tbem for the conveyance of the Australian mails. The
colony of Victoria bad proposed to advance a sum of
60,000/., and New South Wales 20,000/ , towards the
expenses. The • Government, in their advertise
ments, omitted to specify the particular route,
but had left that important point in doubt
and oncertainty. He would sincerely impress on
the Government the importaece of this communication,
when it was considered that from Melbourne alone
'1,..00Q,Q00/. of gold bad been received within the year.
~lie vpehed to inquire what progress had been made by
the Government in this subject ; and concluded by ask
ing the noble duke to lay upon the table the memorial
of the General Mercantile Association of Australia to
the Lords of the Treasury with respect to this question.
The Duke of ARGYLL said he was fully impres-ed
with the great importance, he might indeed say the al)
eolu 'lmportance, of establishing a regu!ar postel com-
munication between Australia and this country. Tenders
had been sent in to-the Adnaira!ty for the conveyance of
the mails by steam cotnruunical inn. and these tenders
were at present under the consideration of the Govern-
meet. It was true that the Treasury minute
did not specify the particular route the mail,
were to • take because they thought it much better to
leave it-an open question for the present, in order that
they might be better able to test the respective advan-
tages of each. The Government w re not disposed to
put the motion off, but they thought it absolutely ne-
cessary to have the assent of the colonists themselves
beforehand, as it was expected that they would ds-
fray half the expenses. He had not the least
abjection to lay the memorial the noble earl opposite had
snored fur on the table of their lordships' house.
- • ' THE CURRENCY.
- The Earl of EGLINTON rose to call the attention of
her Majesty's Government to the expediency of issui, g
a Royal csnnission-to inquire into the operation of the
laws which regulate the currency of the United King-
dom.

[LEFT SPEAKING.]

HOUSE OF COMMONS—(This Evening.

The SPEAKER t'ok the chair at the usual hour.

Mr. COWAN presented a number of petitions from
Edinburgh, Galashiels, Paisley, Dalkeith, and other
places, avainet the present practice of billeting the mi-
litia.. -
ENCUMBERED ESTATES COURT (IRELAND).
me. BLAND moved for returns of the number of per.
titions"filed in the Encumbered Estates Court in Ireland
from the lst day of August-, 1853, to , the 30th day of
December, 1854, icclusive, in which sales have taken
place, and the number in which final schedules have
Nen- settled ; of the number of petitions filed 'in'
said court from the 30th day of December, 1854, to
the Ist day of February, 1856 ; of the number of such
last-Mentioned petitiOns Upon which absolute orders of
Sate have been made, 11,1, number io which sales have
taken' place, and the' niunber in which final schedules
have been settled ;'and, uf the number of petitions filed
in that' aiuit, from its. commencement to the Ist day of
February, 1856, in which no modes have taken place.
-aAgreed