The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-05 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN WORKHOUSES.

Viscount RAYNHAM moved for a select committee to in.
quire into the condition and administration of the Metro.
politan Workhouses, and into the general arrangements made
and carried out by the parochial authorities of the metropolis
for giving relief to the poor.
Mr. S. ESTCOURT said if the committee moved for were
granted, it would rather retard than forward the object the
noble lord had in view. But he had been unable to gather
from what the noble lord had stated what were the grounds
for his motion. He could not expect the motion to be ac-
ceded to without giving instances to satisfy the house that
such a committee was rendered necessary by seine miscon-
duct in the condition and administration of the workhouses
in the metropolis. Every assistance would be afforded to
the noble lord by the Poor-law Board. He hoped the noble
lord would not press his motion, as he had not laid sufficient
grounds for his motion.
The motion was negatived without a division.
On the motion of Mr. WALPOLE, leave was given for the
Sworn Deputy Corn Meters, the Sworn Deputy Fruit Meters
and the Fellowship Porters of the City of London, to be
beard by counsel before the Select Committee on the London
Corporation Regulation Bill, with reference to the 66th
clause of the said bill. _ _

Mr. WALPOLE brought in a bill to ameld the act of the
fifth and sixth years of Queen Victoria, for enabling eccle-
siastical corporations, aggregate and solo, to grant leases for
long terms of years.
Sir W. lIEATHCOTE obtained leave to bring in a bill to
enlarge the powers of the Universities of Oxford and Cam-
bridge, and of the colleges thereof, for the sale, exchange,
and leasing of lauds.

PROPERTY QUALIFICATION BILL.
Mr. L. KING moved that it be read a second time.
Mr. MILES thought that at that late hour they should
postpone it, and ho would counsel the hon. gentleman to
postpone it.
It was accordingly postponed to Thursday.
The Galway Disfranchisement Bill was postponed.
The Exchequer Bonds, 2,000.0001., went into committee.
The other orders were then disposed of, and the house ad-
journed at a quarter past 12 o'clock.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

The East India Company's troop-ship Eastern
Monarch, 1,700 tons burden, Commander H. Mor-
ris, arrived at Gravesend on Monday afternoon
from Bombay, having on board nearly 200 sick and
wounded troops belonging to various regiments
serving in India. During the voyage 11 deaths
occurred on board. On the disembarkation of the
troops at Gravesend on Monday evening they were
conveyed to Fort Pitt, Chatham, where they were
medically inspected. The next vessel expected to
aizive at Gravesend with sick and wounded troops
from India is the large steamer Himalaya, having
several hundred invalids on board. _

Lord Lovaine, Fifth Lord of the Admiralty, yes-
terday went down to Woolwich and conferred with
Colonel Brown, commandant of the Royal Marines,
on the expe,liency of enlarging the school accom
modation of that establishment.

Admiral the Marquis de Lisboa and a number
of Brazilian officers in full naval uniform, belong-
ing to the fleet of small war steamers, in course of
construction at Me•zsrs. Green's, Blackwall, and
Messrs. Pitcher's, Northfleet, yesterday paid a visit
of ceremony to Commodore Shepherd, Superinten-
dent of Woolwich dockyard.
Duke of Wellington, 131, screw, Captain Harry
Eyers, C. 8., has pointed topgallautmasts, cross
topgallant and lower yards, and has shifted her
position to the outer corner of the steam basin at
Portsmouth dockyard, preparatory to going out
the next spring tides.
The Marlborough, 131, screw, Capt. Lord Fred.
Kerr (flag of Vice Admiral Arthur Fanshawe), has
nearly completed her outside painting, and looks
exceedingly handsome. She will go out of Ports-
mou h harbour the next spring tides, provided her
screw is ready, to enable her to test her speed at
the measured mile in Stokes Bay. She is yet 400
short of her complement, but if necessary can easily
be made up by drafts from the guard ships.
Ths Victory, 104, Capt. G. H. Seymour, C. 8.,
Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, has resumed her old
position off the Hard, Portsea, and yesterday re-
took the flag of Admiral Sir George Seymour,
K.C.8., the Commander-in-Chief. The noble cld
ship looks better now in every respect than she
ever did. She is most handsomely refitted.
The Arrogant, 47, Captain L. G. Heath, C. 8.,
weighed from Spithead yesterday afternoon, and
made a trial of her speed at the measured mile in
Stokes Bay, prior to leaving for Southampton
Water. She will moor off the great military hos-
pital at Netley.
The Ready, Thrush, and Flirt steam gunboats
were added to the colliers at th., Portsmouth depot
on Monday. They were towed thither by the
Gorgon and Adder steAmvessels, the former of
which, after casting them off, proceeded to Ply-
mouth to join the Agameninen, and the latter to
the eastward with supernumeraries.

Her Majesty's steam store transport 'nada-
nianthus, Master-Commander Sturdee, laden with
boilers and steam gear for the Lion and Orlando;
yesterday sailed from Woolwich for Portsmouth.

/TEw BooKs.—Amcmg the literary announcements for
the ensuing sea'on of Messrs. Hurst and Blackett, are
" Henry 111., King of France, his Court and Times,"
by Miss Freer ; " Memo rs of Mdlle. Rachel," "Novels
and Novelists, from Elizabeth to Victoria," by Mr.
Jeaffreson ; " The Oxonian in Thelemarken," by the
Rev. P. Metcalfe ; ‘• lleckington," a new novel by Mrs.
Gore ; " The Light of Other Days, by John Edmund
Read ; " Rumour," by the author of "Charles Auches-
ter," and new works of fiction by Mr. Thornbury, Miss
Jewsbuiy, and the author of "Margaret Maitland," &c.