The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-16 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF LORDS-.LAST EVENING.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at
five o'clock.

THE MARCH TO HOUNSLOW.
I aTho Earl of LONGFORD said, in answer to a question
with regard to the supplying of rations and fodder
to the troops at Hounslow when on their march to the
Hyde-park Review, that it was customary for the troops to
draw rations a day before at Aldershott, and it was con-
cluded that they would be s.) supplied when they
reached Hounslow ; such, however, was not the case, and
it was from the misconstruction of an individual officer,
and that officer had been since removed from his office by
tho Secretary of State for War. There had been no clash
whatever between the Horse Guards and the War-office.
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The Duke of CAMBRIDGE said that with regard to
the arrangement for rations and fodder, the orders
had been so clear that it seemed impossible
that an officer in the position of a Deputy-
Commissary-General could make a mistake. If a com-
missary officer could not find proper rations and
forage for the troops at the proper hour when they
ought to arrive, ho was unfit for his office.
The invariable answer to all his inquiries was, that it
was a perfectly exceptional case, and that whether they
took their rations or not, they ought to be provided with
them when they arrived. He would assure their lordships
that the general commanding and the colonels of regi-
ments did all that they could to facilitate the carrying out
the orders issued from the Horse Guards, ,and he
would tell their lordships that the commissariat
officer ought not to be attached to the War Office
at all, but to the Horse Guards, as was the case at Ports-
mouth and elsewhere.

Lord REDESDALE said that the !opinion of a General
Officer (Lord Henry Percy) had been placed in his hands,
which stated that ho considered the capabilities of the
commissariat officer in question very excellent, as had been
proved in the Crimean war.

The subject then dropped.
THE SUPPLY OF WATER IN THE METROPOLIS.
Lozd DE MAULEY called the attention of their lord-
ships to tho expediency of the supplying of water to the
metropolis from the superfluous water from the upper part
of the Thames. He commented at some length upon the
advantage that would accrue to the metropolis from such
an utilisation, and went into statistical details to prove the
theory. He stated that there could not be any hesitation
in confirming the assertion that London, with its wealth,
ought to bo the best supplied with water.

The Duke of RICHMOND said that her Majesty's Go-
vernment had considered the question of such importance
as to, in the beginning of the y3ar, appoint the Royal
Commission. He hoped that in the autumn an unanimous
report would be come to.
Their lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—LAsT EVENING.
The SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock.
THE BALL AT THE INDIA OFFICE.

Mr. FAWCETT gave notice that to-morrow ho should
ask the Secretary of State for India whether it was true
that the ball about to be given to the Sultan was to be paid
for out of the revenues of India, and if so, to ask why the
only State festivity to be given to a foreign potentate on