The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-24 00:00:00

ORDER IN THE ROUSES OF PARLIAMENT.

Members of Parliament of both Ilouses have been
called to order. The Tlouse of Commons has been
warned not to howl down speakers with whom they
do not agree; the Peers have been requested not to
talk down members whom they do not care to hear.
Thus the two great public meetings of the country
have been told to behave themselves. Some
members of the House of Commons are
much grieved at being lectured in this way.
One of them writes to the Telegraph contending
that the order of the Lower House is admirable.
Still he admits that now and again unseemly cries
are raised, but these interruptions, he says, come
chiefly from the Conservative benches. Anyone,
however, who has spent a night in the House of
Commons will remember how continually the sharp,
quick cry of " Order, order," has had to come from
the Speaker, and how when a dull orator has been
giving his opinions to the House it has been difficult
to catch his words because of the loud talking
going on upon all sides. To keep the
behaviour within bounds the Speaker is given
authority over the Commoners; but the Peers
preserve their own order. There is no chairman
properly so called. The Lord Chancellor is so in a
sense. He presides, but each member is respon-
sible for the maintenance of judicial quiet. The
sense of responsibility does not, on great occasions,
keep the Lords more orderly than the Commons.
Another element of noise is added by the number of
non-members of the House. There are the peeresses
in the gallery, the sons of peers on the steps
of the Throne, and the strangers in the
uncomfortable gallery allotted to them. The
ladies, it is complained, were fidgety; and
a learned professor, a high ecclesiastic, who
has no connection with the House is said to have
acted as ftigleman during the late debates, leading
the cheers and the groans. No wonder their lord-
ships complained : but the steps to prevent a recur-
rence of the disorder may easily be taken. Let
officials be ordered to keep strangers quiet, let each
nobleman give his wife and drin;hters instructions
not to be restless when they come down to the House,
and let the peers restrain their impatience during a
poor speech or a d!sarfreeable arpment, and, if
need be, give 414,3 Lord Chancellor power to insist on
orti

THE AILZIV.II. OF THE V:CEPOY OF EGYPT.

The Viceroy of Egypt has arrived in th7s country,
and it is to be hoped frill be treated w:th the
hospi-
taiity which his reception of the. Prince 'pf
deserves. His re.l..eption at Charing-cross Alltion: is,
hardly promising. When our Prince v:site I him,
whole of the Khedive's household was
kept on the qui vice, so that the Prince might
be received itninedi.itely on his arrival. But on
Tuesday n'ght the Viceroy remained in his raiLvay
carriage_ for some time waiting for the Prince of
Wales to welcome him. The state carriages were
there, it is true,- some Fleets • Fusilier Guards
happily arrived in time to form a line before the
train glided in, and the band Was.ready to Strike up
the Egyptian Hymn ; but . the picket Which was to
have cleared the way, and the Life Guards, who were
to have formed the escort, did not come up to the
station till the Viceroy was nearly at Buckingham
Palace. A very unimposing procession of foar state
carriages, preceded by a single mounted police in-
spector, took the Viceroy to Puol,inghain Palace.

THE COTTON TRADE OF INDIA.
On Tuesday a deputation from Blackburn waited
upon the Secretary of State for India to urge upon
the Government the importance of developing the
cotton-producing resources of British IMILL. Tl.ey
also desired that the import duty might be repealed
to further the. interests of Jh:tish maaufactunrs.
The Mayors of Manchester and Bolton, and several of
the Lancishire members, were amon.; the deputa-
tion. The Duke of Argyll said, in re:dy to the
various statements that _were made, that t'!,e Goveru-
ment.had the rints'.ion beforz them, and they were
anxious. to promote the growth of cotton. With
regard to the tariff, the Government re4Wred the
revenue that was obtained from all sources, and he
could not give an opinion on so v :3t a .vab;cet,
taxation without carefully-looking into the matter.

THE DANDA AND- KINWEE - PRIZE SION

The litigation about the Indian prize rm-i,noy
threatens to be reneired. 'There are certain prott :s
sory notes, amounting to at least 5.:1-10,000,
were captured front the rebellious chiefs of Eirwce
during the Indian mutiny. The amount for which
these notes stand is claimed by Cieneral Sic george
Whitlock's_ force. The Government sty titat' they
are not prize money, they still belong to the ckiefs
from whom they were taken.
THE GOVEfINMENT TrE.I.EIIIIAPII4 BILL. •

We are able to announce that the Government
haS at last made up its mind to deal with the pur-
chase of the telegraphs. The money bill has been pre-
pared, and will shortly be introduced by the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer. It is understood that Mr.
Lowe-will claim for the Government a monopoly in
the transmission of news similar to that which the
Pcst Office now 1),-. 11‘13 for the conveyance of
eater s.