The Sun.
London, England, 1858-03-13 00:00:00

PUBLIC BUSINESS.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—I will
also take this opportunity, with the permission of the
house, to indicate the course which we propose to take
with respect to public business. Tbe requirements of the
public service are at this moment so urgent that we shall
have to appeal to the cordial assistance of the house to
enable ur tt, ork*rp avah th,lock tirton2nrt. n erb urn t.Egin-
lutily necessary for the service of the country. There
are at thin moment supplies to be granted for the service
of the present expiring financial year, and it will also be
necessary to go into committee of supply with reference
to what will be immediately necessary for the financial
year ensuing. The house will remember that at the close
of last session of Parliament, in the month of August
last, in consequence of the rebellion in India, a bill was
passed, permitting her Majesty to embody the militia
under circumstances different from these which were
contemplated by the then existing law. By the then ex-
isting law her Majesty could not embody the militia un-
less the country was iu fear of an invasion, or was actu-
ally at war. In August last we were no- at war, but the
house thought tha. under the circumstances of the case it
wag necessary to give her Majesty power to embody the
militia without reference to the conditions impo-ed by
law. Now, the state of affairs in In,tio are not such as
to render it prudent to withdraw that power from her
y, and we therefore propose to ask the house to
continue the act of last year. One consequence of the
passing of that act in August lasr, however, has been
that a considerable expenditure was incurred beyond that
contemplated in the estimates whoa they received the
approbation of the houee. A vote of 200,0001. was taken
for the militia ; but the expenditure which has been in-
curred in consequence of the act of August last I should
take to be about 700,000/. ; and it will, therefore, be ne-
cessary to pass a supplementary vote for the present
financial year, in order to meet the increased expenditure
on account of the militia. That vote has been presented
to you to-night, hut, of ceurse, we cannot pass it in a com-
mittee of supply till Monday. With regard to the supplies
to be granted to her Majesty
fer the coming financial year,
they must be voted before the Mutiny Bill oan be in-
troduced ; and what we propose, therefore, to do, is to
take the course which has been usual under extraordi-
nary circumstances like those of the present year—viz.,
to ask the house to let us take the votes on account for
the great services of the
Country. It would, however,
be extremely difficult to pass the votes of ways and
means that would be the result of agreeing to those votes
on account, and also to pass the Mutiny Bill before
Easter. I trust, therefore, that the house will on Tues•
day permit orders of the day to have precedence over
notices of motions. I hope also that hon. gentlemen
will on this occasion forbear from any discussion on the
estimates. Of course it is not, and never will be, our
taken, desire to curtail discussion on the estimates, and if the
house will take the course I have
ointed out, will per-
mit the votes on account to be my right hen,
friends will postpone their exposition of the state of
their respective departments until the estimates are regu-
larly brought before the house, and then hon. gentlemen
will have an opportunity of proposing those motions
which now appear upon the paper, and which, under
other circumstances, they might hare thought it their
duty at once to bring forward. I trust the house will
consent to this proposal, by which, according to my
calculation, the votes of ways and means might be in-
troduced on Wednesday next ; but with the utmost for-
bearance on the part of
ourselves of every opportunity of pressing it forward,
we should not be able to carry the Mutiny Bill till the
end of the month. I hope that the suggestions I have
made will be agreeable to the house—that they will
allow us to hon,
a members,
obtain
thi
sasnd up
pb
iyem availingonta ry
l voteof
or the g
militia,
into
s p ad
tou take
votes
on account for the
army and navy, and to permit orders of the day to have
precedence on Tuesday ; and then, I think, we shall be
able to accomplish before April the passing of those
measures which are absolutely necessary for the public
I now take the liberty
service
veofththate
tehofuenbtoryu.se(eHt eftasr.r)teing
do adjourn to Mon-
day

THE OATHS BILL.
Mr. NEWDEGArE gave notice that in consequence
of the elevation of Sir F. Thesiger i
\now Lord Chelms-
ford) to -the woolsack he should take upon himself the
line of opposition pursued by that noble and learned
lord to the Oaths Bid of the noble lord the member for
London.
THE POLICY OF THE GOVERNMENT.
seeingllai 8 Chett ]Majesty's
's
the hen. Governmentand
to 3'sitar.teßtlhCellpocliaclyiedon uwphoinchhetrhey intended to conduct
the peculiar circum-
stances government of the country,
learned gentlemen connected withotfhTehheeGr :iciTiaeuirnenstmrtyye,nBhtapdbraead.
made different statements to their constituents on mat-
ofto
stances under greatdsuere
w ah politicalisc tttehirenmempnotermtfarbooe(m:res.
sent Government obtained office. (Efear, hear.)
Mr. P. O'BRIEN also addressed the house, calling
on the Gov-roment to state their views on con-piracy,
rt
iegr mat-
ters t
education, reform, church-rates, and many (.ther ques-
tions of importance that were occupying public attention.

THE CAPTURE OF THE CAGLIARI.
Mr, KINGLAKE rose to call the attention of the
house and of her Majesty's Government to the facts
which have now tratopired respecting the capture of the
Cagliari on the high seas by Neapolitan cruisers, and to
the continued imprisonment of the English
engineers,
Park and Watt ; and to ask the Under Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs whether there were any further
papers on the subject which without detriment to the
public service could be laid on the table of the house.
He trusted that he should be saved from the difficulty of
being regarded as disrespectful to the King of Naples.
He thought it very unadvisable that uncourteous lan-
guage should be used in that house. At all events, he
would be no party to it. The right he was endeavouring
these
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in Euartu mightpe
that
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did not ask for any privilege for Englishmen more than
.He
be
others, but merely for that justice which was due to a