The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-30 00:00:00

THE FALL OF MARS.

The Earl of MALMESBURY—In rising to move
that the summons to your lordships to attend on Friday
evening be discharged, I think it right to state that it is
my intention to withdraw the notice I have given of
the motion I had meant to submit on that evening with
respect to the surrender of Kars. It is with extreme re-
gret that I find myself coerced by circumstances to take
this course, for I can assure your lordships that I had
a very sincere and earnest intention to bring this inter-
esting subject under your consideration. For the delays
which unfortunately prevent me from doing so your
lordships will admit that I am in no degree responsible.
In the first place, the noble lord the Secretary for Fo-
reign Affairs remained absent three weeks longer, than
we expected ; in the next, the' importanc?, of my mo-
tion rendered it necessary tnat 'should gi've a full we sk's
notice of it, and as your lordships do not sit next Thurs.
day—that being Ascension-day--I could name no carder
day than next Friday for the debate. But no later than
yesterday the Foreign Secretary laid the Treaty of Par s
on the table, and as he has invited us to take it into
consideration on Monday evening, I cannot think that
it would meet the approval of your Lordships to forestall
the interest of that great occasion by remarks and animad-
versions on such subjects as the war in Asia Minor and
the surrender of Kars—topics which it would be impossi-
ble to discuss without reference to their consequences as
revealed by the treaty. Under these circumstances I have
thought that the better course is to withdraw the ination.
Had I not done so we should have had two debates on
the same subject, the one on Friday, the other on Mon-
day, and, as it is manifestly desirable that if we are to
spend two evenings in the disc scion of the same topic,
they should be consecutive evenings, I trust your lord-
ships will be of opinion that I am now acting in the
manner most conducive to your convenience. (Rear )
I would be understood, however, as reserving to myself
the right of bringing forward any motion [ may think fit
on Monday evening. I wish to ask my noble friend
whether he has any objection to lay on your lordships'
table, on Friday; tre terms of the address which Lord
Clarendon will move on Monday next ?
Earl GRANVILLE—It I rightly understand the
noble lord he altogether withdraws his notice of motion
with respect to KAre.
The Earl of MAL MESBURY—Yes.
Earl GRANVILLE—I am glad to hear it. (" Hear,
hear," and a laugh.)
The Earl of AIALIVIESBURY—The noble earl has
not replied to my question.
Earl GRANVILLE—The terms of the motion to be
made by my noble friend on Monday evening will be
laid on your lordships' table on Friday.
The Mercantile Law Amendment Bill and Mercantile
Law (Sc Aland) Bill passed through committee.
The Mercantile Law (Scotland) Amendment Bill was
next passed through committee.
Their lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-(YESTERDAY.)

The SPEAKER took the chair at the usual hour.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The B tth Gas, the Boston Gas, and the Canada
Company bills were severally read a third time and
passed.
The Aberdeen and Scottish Midland Junction Rail-
way Companies Amalgamation, the Leeds Improvement
Act Amendments, and the Sleaford and Tattershall
Turnpike Trusts Bills were considered, and ordered to
be read a third time.

WI LLS AND AD MINIS ORATION.
Mr. PALE; moved for a rettra of the number of
wills proved and administrations granted, in each year
during the last five ye trs by the Episcopal, Archde%nry,
and Peculiar Courts proposed to be abolished by the
Wills and Administrations Bill, showing the number of
probates and administrations, in each year, under each
progressive rate of stamp duty.—Agreed to.
SPIRITS (IRELAND.)
Mr. GROGAN moved for a return of the number of
proof gallons of British spirits on which duty was paid
in Ireland in the year ending the 31st of December,
1855, the amount of duty received on same, the deficiency
in quantity and in strength on such gallons, and the
allowance made by the Inland Revenue for such defi-
ciency in proof gallons and money.—Agreed to.
PENSIONS.
Mr. W. WILLIAMS moved for a copy of the Trea-
sury minute which authorises the purchase of pensions
charged on revenue departments. A.greed to.
GEO LOGICAL S URVEY.
Sir D. NORREYS moved for a continuation of the
Return, No. 278, of Session 1855, relative to the Geo-
logical Survey, together with skeleton maps correspond-
ing in scale and the colours used with the maps of 1855,
to show the progress of oho survey to the end of April,
LEAVING SHOPS.
Mr. BRADY asked if the Government intended giv•
log instructions for the prosecution of the man Perkins
—Agreed to.
laBnsd6Others owners of " Leaving shops " who appeared
before Sir Robert Carden at Guildhall a few days ago
for receiving goods and lending.money thereon without
pawnbroker's licence? and also it (in the event
being found imperfect, so as not to reach such
hocafasvtehisneg a
alwsaalluded to in his former question) the
intendedGovern-
introducing any measure this session
Govern-
went
having for its object the suppression of places SO incen-
tive to crime ?
Mr. WILSON said the solicitor to the Inland Re-
venue bad received no information on the subject al-
luded to. But with respect to the second question he
begged say the law was in a very unsatisfactory
t
he intended to bring in a bill on the subject.
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and to

THE BAND IN KENSINGTON GARDEN'S.
The Alarquia of BLANDFORD asked the Chief Com-
missioner of Works if he would state what arrangemenbad been made, or were contemplated with reference to
the perfarmance of the military bands in the public parks
on Sundays; that is tosay, in which of the public park-4
it was proposed that the military bands should in future
perform ; and whether there was any truth in the state-
ments that had appeared, that preparations were con-
templated in such places for the accommodation of the
performers and the public by the erection of an orchestra
and a place for the sale of refreshments ?
Colonel NORTH—He wished the hon. baronet would
inform the house whether the permission of the colonels
of the regiments who usually paid the expenses of the
regimental bands had been obtained.
Sir B. HALL said he had made a communication to
the Horse Guards that the bands should play at stated
hours in Kensington-gardens, which request had been
complied with. He had also been in communication with
the officers of the 2d Life Guards, and a satisfactory ar-
rangement had been come to with respect to payment of the
soldiers. The noble marquis's question or questions were
four in number. With respect to the first ho begged to
say that last autumn he gave directions that the band
should play on Sunday in Kensington-gardens for the
recreation, he might say the innocent recreation—(hear,
hear)—of the inhabitants of the metropolis, and in order
that there might be no exaggeration of the number o
persons attending those performances he had given orders
that the number might be ascertained as nearly as pos-
sible, and it was found that they amounted, on various
occasions, from 35,000 to 75,000 persons. The arrange.
ments of last year would therefore be continued this.
With respect to the second part of the question, he had
observed that last year the number of persons attending
Kensington Gardens amounted to 75,000 ; lent the
number attending there last Sunday week amounted tn