The Sun.
London, England, 1860-03-30 00:00:00

EASTERN RAILWAY.

Mr. BRISTOW asked the Secretary of State for the
Home Department if he could state why no inquest was
held upon the body of a coastguardsman, who was killed by
one of the trains of the South Eastern Railway Company,
on their Notth Kent line, at Melton, near Gravesend, on or
about the Ist of February last ?
Sir G. C. LEWIS said that the coroner for the district
where the accident occurred had .bean communicated with,
and he replied that he acted according to the instructions
received by the magistrates of the county to coroners, and
not on his own discretion. ..

TILE CARDINAL SECRETARY OF STATE AND
M. THOUVENEL.

Mr, BOWYER asked the Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs whether Lord Cowley had forwarded to her
Majesty's Government a copy of a note, dated the
29th February last, from his Eminence the Cardinal Secre-
tary of State to the Nuncio at .Paris, answering the arp-
ments of M. de Thouvenel ; and also, whether her Majes-
ty's Government will lay that State paper upon the table of
the house ? .

Lord J. RUSSELL said that there had been no copy of
the despatch in question received from Lord Cowley by her
Majesty's Government, and that Cardinal Antonelli had
stated at RoMe that the despatch was sent. When it was
published he would bring it before the house.
THE LUCKNOW PRIZE-MONEY.

Mr. VANCE asked.when the prize-money for Lucknow
would be distributed, and if simultaneously to, the officers
entitled to it who have remained in India, and to those who
have returned home with their regiments invalided ?
Sir C. WOOD said that the prize-money had been re-
ceived from India, but the division of it rested with the
Crown. He had been informed by the Lords of the Trea-
sury that her Majesty desired that the money should be
distributed, and they proposed to apportion it at the same
rate that was adopted in respect to the prize money arising
from the Russian war, by which the private soldiers were
to receive more in proportion than the officers of high rank.
THE RIFLEMEN ON WANDSWORTH COMMON.
Lord ASHLEY asked the Secretary of State for the
Herne Department whether his attention had been
directed to a letter, signed E. G., which appeared in the
7'om of Thursday last, complaining that on the 20th
of March four persons, dressed in the. uniform of a rifle
corps, while practising on Wandsworth Comnion, aimed
at and shot the favourite dog of the writer's sister,
immediately upon which fatal catastrophe they all ran
alNtay ; and whether it would not be advisable to authorise
thLpolice to put a stop to sharp-shooting upon public foot-
pa hs ?
it G. C. LEWIS said that he understood the North
Surrey Volunteers were drilled in the neighbourhood in
question on the day named, and that four men in the uni-
-11, fo of that corps were seen the same day on Wandsworth
Co mon, but the police could not discover who they were.
N sharp-shooting had taken place on the public footpaths.
(L ughter.)
4DUCATION IN IRELAND—IRISH REFORM.
Mr. MAGUIRE asked the Chiof Secretary for Ireland
whether he had received the rejoinder of the Catholic arch-
bishop& arid bishops of Ireland to his reply to their memo-
rial on the subject of education ; and whether, if he had
received such rejoinder, he was prepared to lay it upon
the,table at the earliest opportunity? He took this oppor-
tunity of asking the right hon. gentleman when he would
proceed With the further consideration of the Irish Reform
Bill.

Mr. CARDWELL had received the rejoinder alluded
to, nd would be happy to lay it on the table. He could
not proceed with thp Irish Reform before Easter, and such
be* the case, he proposed to postpone its further consi-
deration until the 20th April.
Sir W. MILES asked the Under Secretary of State for
the Home Department, if it was the intention of the Go-
verment to introduce any measure this session for the
improvement of butfalls, the deepening of existing public
of .low-lying
watercourses, and the drainage o ow-lying lands in dis-
trict's by means of general provisions; and, if net, whether
the IGovernnient would appoint a comnktssion to inquire
intotthe extent arid nature of existing evils, and the best
means of remedying them.
Sir G. C. LEWIS said the subject had been under the
consideration of Government, but in the state of public
bit.,iness he had no hope of passing a bill with reference to
it, aid therefore no such measure would be introduced this
session.