The Sun.
London, England, 1858-02-09 00:00:00

QUEENS PLATE AT LINCOLN.

The Master of the forge has ,auctioned the alteration
of the weights or the Qu eti's Plate at Lincoln. The
conditions are now as utyler :—Three-year olds, Gst 9:b ;
four, 9st 21h ; five, 94 111`.) ; six and aged, lOst 2lb.
Two milee.

The Riga Railway Company have notified that their
c cession was formally completed by the signature of
the Emperor on the 4th inst.
The Netherlands Land Enclourse Company have
received information that the r, c storm on the coast
of Holland has occasioned great iijury to the Pold r
Bank of the company's second enclosure. The company's
engineers are no w engaged in devising the beet course
to be adopted.
THE CIVIL SZRVICE.—The R yal 11,,usehold—The
office of one of the gz,,,tletuen of the Chapel Royal has
become vacant by the death of Mr. William Salmor.
Customs—Mr. Walter Cotterell has been app ,inted
second clerk at Weymouth ; Mr. Thomas John M`Bean
has been appointed an extra weigher in London ; Mr.
John Sweeney has been appointed an extra weigher in
London ; Mr. Mark Ladbury has been appointed a
tidewaiter in London ; Mr. E. 0. A. Matthews has
been appointed a tidewaiter in London ; Mr. William
Parsons has been appointed a tidewaiter ; Me. Andrew
Burnett has been promoted from tideeurveyor at Water-
ford to tidesurveyor at Plymouth ; Mr. Win. Hoyle has
been promoted from assistant-tide,urveyor at Grira,hy
to tidesurveyor at Waterford ; Mr. George Fuller has
been promoted from first-cla,s tidewaiter a Cork to assist-
ant-tidesurveyor at Grimsby. Inland Revenue a part-
tuent—Exc'se Branch.—M,. W. R. Calvert, exaniiher,
has been appointed supervisor of Ballyciare district Bel-
fast collection ; Mr. John M'Donald, officer of Cold-
stream divisiop, Haddington collection, has been
appointed officer of Port Ellen first division, Argyle
collectioa, the Col istream division being discontinued.
Mr. Alfred Mitchell, officer of Fordingbridge second
division, Sarum collection, has, by board's order of the
nth ult., been appointed officer of Belfast fourth divi-
sion, Belfast collection. East Indies—Mr. C. B.
Saunders has been appointed Principal Assistant to the
Agent Lieutenant-Governor of the Nort h-WestProvinces,
and to have charge of the Delhi and Panniput district,
with the exception of the Kurnaul pergunnak ; Mr. W.
Clifford has been appointed a personal assistant to Mr.
Saunders. Sir T. J. Metcalfe, Bart., and Mr. C. J. H.
Ricbardes have been appointed assistants to the Agent
Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West Provinces.—
Olell Gazette.
Tile FRENCH DRAMA IN LONDON.—We find thee
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following in Gallynani :—We some time since men
d
the likelihood that during the time occupied
repairs of the Theatre raceaise in. the orsco of the
by mentioned
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summer, part of the company would givhe a
rteptrheeanrtrantniognes.
in London. It would now appear
ments are considerably advanced, and the plan, should
it, bide
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In the first place, Mr. Mitchell is to be the director—at
nothing
much arise
moret ce)xutneteesriaveet
once a guarantee for the complete and liberal style in
which it will be conducted ; and it is understood to
enjoy the patronage of the most exalted rank in the
country. 'rise idea, we understand, is to place before
the London publio a French play in all its ensemble and
completeness, as it is seen at the Comelie Franc iise. To
effect this, Mr. Mitchell proposes to take over the entire
personnel of the theatre, consisting of more than 90
persons. They will act, of course, those chef d'oeuvres
of ,rirnattchlei representations
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company French
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heed
equalled. Tragedy, Ala- 1 is now out of the question.
French tragedy, wanting the illustrious name so recently
lost, has become "A. desert all—a world without a sun,"
DEATH OP A CHILD TROM EItoSIJRII TO THE COLD.—
On Friday an inquest was held at the Grave Maurice
Inn, Whitechapel, on the body of the infant child of a
I poor match woman named Batchelor. The mother had
been out selling matches on Monday night with the
child, which was almost naked, in her arms. On
her going into a lodging-house to sit down, it was
found that the child was dead. She applied for
admission at the Whitechapel union, but was
refused. The porter now stated that when she ap•
plied he could not admit her, as his master had the key
of the gate. When he opened the gate five minutes
afterwards she had gone away. Verdict, " That the
deceased died from exposure to the weather on a bitterly
cold sight,",

Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition, but the
noble and learned lord was suffering from such extreme
hoarseness that not a word he uttered was audible in the;
gallery.
The Marquis of WESTMINSTER presented a
petition, praying for the extension of the right of
religious worship.
TRANSFER OF LAND.
The LORD CHA.NCELLOR, said it would be in the
recollection of their lordships that in bar Majesty's
Speech it was announced that certain measures for sic].
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the second reading that day fortnight.
THE ADDRESSES IN THE MONITEU.R.
Lord LYNDHURST ,aid he wished to ask the noble
ea'l the President of the Council whether any communica-
tion had taken place between her Majesty's Government
and that of France with respect to the offensive and insulting
paragraphs that have lately appeared in the Moniteur. He
thought that as the French Government had given its
msent to the in=ertion of these addresses they had ren-
dered themselves re:ponsible for such an insulting pro-
ceeding. Within the last day or two an ankle bad been
extracted from an English newspaper into the columns
of a French paper, but certain passages baa beet
omitted, and others so altered, that it was
made to appear as if the country acquiesced in the insult.
He begged to ask whether anycorrespondence had taken
place on the subject !
Earl GRA.NVILLE said he regretted that the noble
and learned lord had not given notice of his intention to
put this question, as he would then have been able to
give him a satisfactory ans ver. He cou:d inform him,
however, that within the last few days a communication
bad been received by the Secretary for Foreign
affairs from Count Walewski, in which the subject of
the address alluded to by the noble and learned lord was
fully explained, and in which the Emperor NapOleon ex- •
pressed his regret that those addresses should be con-
strued as offensive to this country.
Lord LYNDHURST inquired whether the communi-
cation would be laid on the table of the house.

Earl GRANVILLE said there would be no oljection
to its production.

THE CHURCH SERVICES.
Lord EBURY gave notice on a future daybe intended
to move a public address to her Majesty, praying that
she would be graciously pleased to appoint a commission
of discreet persons to consider the services of the Esta.
blished Church, in order to ascertain whether it might
not be possible to alter and improve them, so as to ren•
der them more efficient for the religious improvement of
the people.
EAST INDIA. COMPANY'S PETITION.
Earl GRA.NVILLE wished to ask the noble earl
(Grey) what course he intended to pursue with respect
to the petition he had given notice it was his intention
to present next Thursday. He should like to know
whether it was intended simply to present the petition
or to raise a discussion upon it. He thought that
as the subject was about to undergo a discussion
in the other house, the best course to pursue would be
to postpone all discussion on the subject in the house
until that in the other house had taken place.
Earl GREY said he thought it would be his duty,
in presenting the petition from the East India Com-
pany, to state the substance of the documents, and
also to state how far he agreed or dissented from the
petition. With regard to any discussion he did not
see that any inconvenience would arise from such a
circumstance.
HER MAJESTY'S REPLY TO THE ADDRESS.

The LORD CHANCELLOR read her Majesty's
answer to the address of congratulation on the occasion
of the marriage of the Princess Royal.
RELIGIOUS WORSIIIP AMENDMENT ACT.
Lord SHAFTESBURY said he should willingly allow
the motion of thanks to the army in India to take prece-
dence of his in, tion.
VOTE OF THANKS TO THE ARMY, NAVY,

AND CIVIL SERVICE IN INDIA.
Lord PANMURE, having thanked his nob!e friend
for giving way, proceeded to say that the motion of which
he had given notice was one of those which properly
belonged to the station which he had the honour to fill,
and there was none which it gave him greater pleasure
to be called upon to discharge. The honour which was
conferred by a vete of thanks from that house was one
which every branch of her Majesty's service considered
to be the highest they could receive. They remembered
the aeecdote of Sir Jon Moore, who, when dying on
the battle-field, exclaimed, with almost his last breath,
" I hope they will do justice to us at home." Yes, jus.
tice at home. What would be thought at home, was the
feeling that pervaded the breast of every man who was
serving his country on hard-fought fields and distant
lands, and it was that which sustained them in their
struggles, which consoled them in their hardships, which
even comforted them in the last moments of their exist-
ence. It would now be his duty to call theft lordships'
att-ration to a train of circumstances which spread over
a considerable space of time, and the actor in which had
n'ut as yet received any notice from Parliament. There
were three classes of individuals to whom he should ask
their lordships to tender the expression of their thanks;
the first being those persons who stood highest in the
administration of India, and under whose direction in
their different offices all the operations for putting down
the mutiny had been carried on ; the second, those
'nave men who had conferred so much additional lustre
on their country's arms ; and the third—and this was a
resolution which he tendered in addition to the first two
which had been placed on Vie paper, consisting of persons
who, although belonging neither to the military nor
civil service, had nevertheless not hesitated to aid the
forces fighting throughout India, either in putting down
the mutiny in the field, or in bravely defending some
post at which they happened to be present at the mo-
ment of attack. (near, hear.) The first individual to
whom ho wished to refer was the noble lord who,
throughout the recent most trying circumstances,
bad aduenistered the government of India. To Lord
Canning, in his conviction, was the thanks not only of
that house but of the country justly due, for the calm,
courageous, and prudent manner in which he had eon-
ducted himself in the midst of the greatest difficulties.
'Tare was no one who could say that had even a Clive
or a Wellesley administered India during the same
period, they could have anticipated the wide-spread ruin
which this mutiny had caused, or have made better
preparations for meeting it than Lord Canning had
done. This mutiny had burst upon India like an ava-
lanche ur a torrent, and it found Lord Canning with
little more than the resources of the most ordinary times.
But all the details which had come to band only exhi-
bited in a stronger light the readiness with which Lord
Canning had applied all the resources within his reach,
and had sent to various places for troops to reinforce
those which were already in Bengal. In the first place
he applied to Lord Elgiu, to whom troops had been in-
trusted for another purpose. It was true that orders to
the same effect had been sent out by the home Govern-
mew., but they had not reached, arid yet instructions
a ere sent to Point de Galie for the troops which should
cad there to be sent on to Calcutta, and the same to
China, so that from both places troops were obtained for
the reinforcement of the army in India. Lord Canning
further sent to Sir H. Ward, in Ceylon, and to Sir G.
Grey at the Cape, and from both he received the same
support which he had already obtained from Lord
El4in, and in all cases was it tendered and given with
such promptitude and alacrity that Lord Elgin, Sir G.
Grey, and Sir H. Ward had already received the thanks
of her Msjesty's Government. Again, Lord Canning
had not only catled in all the help he could obtain front
without, and had applied all the troops at his disposal
in the best manner for the suppression of the mutiny,
but he also set himself to work to organise the means
for forwarding the troops as they should arrive from
Europe, and he (Lord Panmure) had it in his power
to say cn authority that could not be contradicted,
that in such endeavours Lord Canning had entirely
succeeded. Since the mutiny had first broken out,
although the ordinary channels of communication were
interrupted, and although difficulties every day occurred
far greater than nay that could have been expected,
means of carriage had been found sufficient to move
20,000 men from Calcutta to the Central Provinces,
most of these by land, as being the easiest conveyance,
and all being brought in a state of perfect efficiency to
the spot in which their services were required. (Hear.)
A system of bullock eerts was organised, that system
which Lord Canning had been censured for not esta-
blishing by force, that was, by seizing on all the convey-
ances in the country, and thus raising against us the
prejudices of all the rycts and small landed proprietors.
But by wise and temperate measures, by working on the
feelings of these individuals, by firmness and decision,
Lord Canning has not only avoided the necessity of for.
cible seizure, but had so effectually organised these very
rycts that by the last accounts se abundant were the
resources of transport, that no less than 500 carts in
excess were waiting on the railway train, and their
drivers went away complaining because their convey-
ances had not been employed. Therefore was he (Lord
Panmure) justified in saying that Lord Canning had
improved the incans at his disposal, and had done every-
thing that was possible for manto do in the extraordinary
emergency in which he was placed. But it was not for
that he chiefly admired Lord Canning, so much as for
the tranquil and equal bearing of that noble lord, at a
time when other men in Calcutta hardly knew what to
do. Lord Canning remained calm and collected in the
midst of all his difficulties, and he believed that no one
in his high station bad exhibited a greater degree of
high moral courage, more determination, more readiness
to meet all emergencies than the noble lord, to whom he
trusted that house was about to tender its thanks. (Par-
tial cheers.) Tho next iredividual, high in rank and
eminent for aLility, to whom he invited their lonfshiff
to tender thanks seas the Governor of the Presideen.ey. !!.
Medias. (liter, hear.) To Lord Harris they
during all that had occurred in Bengal, trawl -11.17tra;
maintained in the neighbouring presidoency. ,
ent to
presidency the soldiers remained faithful
dt
attigierhmomours,
and showed an txample of loyal? ly commended.
British rule which could not baeblteo
d by his excellent ars
(Hear.) Lord Barrie wasden•
tieen's troops As were
rangements not only to sen such Q
in his presidency to Bengnl, but be also sent the galls
Neill ; and for these services Le (Lord Panmure) trod 41
tbat Lord Harris would receive their lordships thanks.