The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-24 00:00:00

PREVENTION OF RECOIL OF GUNS.

Mr. CONINGHAM asked the Secretary to the Admi-
ralty, whether the Lords of the Admiralty had any inten-
tion of adopting a plan, as sent in by C. W. Forbes, Esq.,
for checking the recoil of the gun by spring buffers, and
which was about to be adopted by the French Government.
Lord C. PAGET said that there was no plan in regard
to this matter submitted to Government.

INCOME TAX.
In reply to Mr. WHALLEY,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that
in some cases the practice was to modify the Income-tax.
He supposed the question of the hon. member had reference
to a general measure on the subject of the incidence of the
inequality of the tax., and it was not proposed to introduce
any measure of that description.
THE POST-OFFICE.
Sir G. BOWYER asked whether it was the intention of
the Post-office authorities to farm out the paying and issu-
ing window of the chief money order office ; that is to say,
whether they intend to confide it to a private individual,
who for certain advantages weuld contract to supply the
labour, in order that the regular appointments may be
abolished ; and, if so, what was proposed to be done with
the officers who are to be thus superseded in their duties by
contract labour, the whole of those officers having been
more than five years on the establishment.
Mr. LAING said that with regard to the first part of the
question, no decision had been come to. The subject of
compensation for loss of office would be regulated by the
body to whom these matters had been referred.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said with
reference to a question put by the hon. baronet the member
for Dundalk (Sir G. Bowyer) en a previous occasion, he
wished to state that the report of the Commission relative
to the Post-office could not possibly be laid on the table this
session.

POOR RATES, &c.
On the motion of Mr. J. WHITE, the following return
was ordered :—That the Return IL of male occupiers in
Parliamentary cities and borough, 124, of the present ses-
sion of Parliament, be amended so as to include the cor-
rected numbers of male occupiers at £6 and under £lO, in
certain cities and boroughs, as laid before the select corn•
mittee of the House of Lords on the elective franchise on
the 6th day of June, 1860, by the Poor Law Board ; and
that the return, as amended, should contain information
arranged according to the annexed form.

GARIBALDI.
Mr. E. JAMES asked whether any official information
had been received of the landing of General Garibaldi in
Calabria, and the capture by his troops of the town of
Reggio.
Lord PALMERSTON replied in the negative.
THE AUSTRALIAN POSTAL SERVICE.
In reply to Mr. HENNESSY,
Mr. LAING said that the present Government thought
that the system of ocean postage had been pushed to an
extreme, and that it was not intended to carry out the views
of their predecessors in regard to this matter.
AUSTRIA AND NORTHERN ITALY.
Mr. BUTT referred to statements that have appeared in
the continental journals-Ist. That the Austrian Govern-
ment has intimated to that of Turin that they would treat
the landing of Garibaldi in the Neapolitan dominions as a
*aims belli between Austria and Northern Italy; 2. That
Austria had engaged or tendered support to the King of
Naples, by armed intervention, against any attempt at re-

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volntion. ;, To ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether
her Majesty's Government had received any information of
such a menace being addressed to the Court of Turin, or
such an engagement or offer having been made to that of
Naples !
Lord PALIIII',RSTON said that the Austrian Govern-
ment did not intend to interfere in the transactions going
on in It'ily, but were determined to defend their own fron-
tiers. There was no ground for supposing that any such
lommunication as that alluded to had taken place.