The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-08 00:00:00

CITURCH RATES.

Lord It. CECIL asked the hoe. member for the Tower
Hamlets wheter it was his intention to accede to the
changes which the Government proposed to make in his
Church rates Bill

Sir W. CLAY said it was his intention to accede to
the amendments proposed by the Government.

BLEACH-WORKS' BILL.
Mr. M. GIBSON asked the hon, member for York
what course he intended to pursue with resp9ct t,) the
Bleach-works Bill ; and, also, if he intended to make
any changes in the bill, whether he would make those
amendments pnl4lio.

Mr. I. BU CT said the bill stood so far dow❑ on the
paper tomorrow that he did not tbkk he should be able
to bring it. forward on that day. He intended to make
certain altt.ratio►:s in the bill, and these alterations
would be made public as speedily am possible.
ABOLITION OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENTS.
Mr, W.. EWART gave notice that on the 13th he
should bring on a ►notion on the subject of the abolition
of the puniohn►ent of death.

THE BALLOT.
Mr. G. LANGTON, on behalf of Mr. H. Berkeley,
postponed the motion, standing in his name on the sub-
ject of the ballot, fro-n the 221 till the 24th inst.
THE CRIMEAN. MED A LS.
Major SIBUIORP asked the Under-Secretary for
War whether it was ever contemplated by the Govern-
inents of France or Turkey to give a medal to the
iiffieers and soldiers of the British army in the East ;
and, if so, whether such medal had been declii:ed
by the British Government ? Whether the new medal,
the order of merit, was likely to be issued, and who
are to he the recipients thereof, whether it was to be
given for future service only or to be accorded to
those officers and soldiers already mentioned in the
various despatches since the commencement of the late
war ? Whether a claim made for the effects and medal
due to private No. 2,544, John Martin, late of the 95th
R.gimetit, who was engaged at Alma, and, it is be-
lieved, also at inkermae, who died in camp
before Se-
bastopol on the 7th of November, 1854, had been refused
on the ground that the soldier was of illegitimate birth ;
and, whether the money and Crimean medal due to
private No. 3,310, James Blanchard, late of the let
battalion Rile Brigade, who landed with the British
army in the Crimea in September, 1854, and who was
killed in the trenches before Sebastopol on the 22d of
August 1855, had been refused on similar grounds.
Mr. F. PEEL sail the Government had great satis-
faction to hear that it was the intention of the Emperor
of the French to confer a war medal upon the British
troops engaged in the late war. These medals had been
received, and would shortly be distributed. The Sultan
also had declared his intention to bestow a similar
medal. With respect to the other questions put by the
hon and gallant member, he begged to say that acts of
gallantry, performed
since the commencement of
the war, would be considered a sufficient
claim for the decoration of the new order
of merit. He could not say when the decorations
would be distributed, but no time would be lost in pre-
paring for such distribution ; and the circumstance of
the withholding of the medal from the two privates was
owing to the causes mentioned by the hon; member in
his question.
WROUGHT IRON GUNS.

Clptain L. VERNON asked whether the trial at
Shoeburyness, between Mr. Hoiroyd's 12-pounder
wrought-iron gun of a part.oolor meta'. and a 12-pounder
bra's gun of the service, had shown results satisfactory
to the comparative enduraueo too..eity of the metal
composin: cue wrought-iron gun ?
Mr. MONSELL said the experiments at Shoebury.
ness had showed the remarkable tenacity of iron guns,
but the experiments were not yet completed.
NE WGATE MARKET.
Mr. BRADY asked the Secretary of State for the
Home Department if he had any intention of closing the
existing markets uf Newgate and Leadenhall, which are
a Imitted to he insufficient and incommodious, with the
view of establishing a great central market in the neigh-
bourhood of Smithfield.

Mr. MASSEY said an inquiry was at present going
on with respect to the transfer of Newgate market to
another locality, and also to consider the subject of the
appropriatiqn of the site of Smithfield., Those Inquiries
would soon terminate their labours, and their report
would be laid on the table of the house.
INCOME TAX.

Mr. MVNTZ having present4d a number of petitions
against the present mode of levying the Inc Mme tax,
and also having read a statement that hael been ad-
dressed to him from a person in Ireland, pro-
lpeded to bring forward the subject of which
,re bad given notice"; it was as follows :—" That, in the
.pinion of this house, an equitable adjustment of the
Income and Property Tax is essential to the interests of
the country, particularly as regards the rates of pay-