The Sun.
London, England, 1858-04-26 00:00:00

C HIIAOH-RATES.

Mr. LYGON gave notice that he shoutd, to-mcrrow,
move for leave to introduce a bill for the abolition of
churoh-ratee.
RECEIPT AND DRAFT STAMPS.

Mr. COWAN moved f a return of the number of
penny receipt stamps sold or issued in England,
Scotland, and Ireland, respectively, for each quar•
ter since the 10;1 day of October, 1854. Like
return of one penny draft stamps ; and, return of
the total revenue for the above for each quarter (in con-
tinuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 297, of Ses-
sion 1855).—Agreed to.

ASSESSED TAXES.
Mr. J. B. SMITH moved for an account of the
amount of assessed taxes paid in the year 1856 for each
county in the United Kingdom, exclusive of, and dis-
tinguished from, that charged in the Parliamentary
cities or boroughs; and similar return for each Parlia-
mentary city or b3rough.—Agreed to.
NAVY.

Mr. CORRY moved for a copy of the Statistical Re
port of the Health of the Royal Navy for the year 1856
—Agreed to.

WORKHOUSES.

Mr. ALCOCK moved for a return of the cost of
building of workhouqes in England and `Vales erected
since 1840 ; stating the number of inmates intended for
originally, and average annual expense of food and
clothing, for the last five years, of the said workhouses.
—Agreed te.
EXPENSES OF THE VAR IN INDIA.

• Mr. MACARTNEY asked the Secretary of War
whether the entire charge for pay, allowances, subsist-
.ence, clothing, appointments, stores, and horses of the
increased force of British troops now a -ruing in India by
reason of the mutiny, will be defrayed and provided for
out of the Indian revenues alone, and if not, what pro-
portion will be charged on Imperial revenues ; also,
whether any portion of the cost of transport from Eng-
land and her colonies of troops sent to India since July,
1856, by reason of such mutiny, has been borne by the
Naval or War Department, and, if so, to what amount '?
General PEEL said that every farthing of the expen-
diture arising out of the service named in the question
would be paid by the East India Company. It would
be chargeable to their revenue, and not on the Imperial
revenue. The expense was in the first instance by the
Admiralty, and afterwards through the War Department.
PRINCE EDWARD'S ISLAND (LOAN).
Mr. C. FORTESCUE asked the Secretary for the
C Monies whether it was his intention to intro duce a bill
duriig the present session giving the Imperial guarantee
to a loan raised, or to be raised, by the Government of
Prince) Edward' Island.
Lord STANLEY said he intended shortly to submit
a bill on the subject to
INtheDIA. house. (Rear.)

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved
• that the orders of the day be postponed until after his
motion respecting the Government of Ind ia.—A greed to.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER. rose
to move that the house would, on Friday next, resolve
itself into a committee relative to the future government
of India, the resolution respecting which he bad laid on
the table of the house. The right hon. gentleman re-
viewed what had been done by the late Government with
a view to the tranefeience of the government of India
from the East India Company to the Queen, and 0)4
proposed by the present Government, observing that
there was at the same time some similarity, but still a
great difference between the two schemes, which he
enumerated, and which difference was the main issue
the house would have to decide on Friday
next. There were two schools, as he might call
tl.lem, for the government of India. One was that of
plicity, such as cur colonies were governed through
a Secretary of State; but on that he joined issue, and
deniedro_ thatlendiaehissue,
uld be so governed—(bear, hear)—
f,"!"rtaite that it would not work satisfactorily.
Tinlndia, Which school aleo urged that India should be governed
hear)—and
meant
thethat England should be ignored
—(bear, h
Governor-General of India be
plaosd in a position of place and power, such as the con-
stitution of the country never
o hitherto contemplated, °
and would produce effectsthe fortunes of that em-
pire, the magnitude of which it
diet. (Hear, hear.) The more he
impossible to re-
* proposition the more Was he considered such
trther plan
danger and impracticability.
school was
by ottliet foi.
(Rear, hear.) of its
brought forward by the other
ward in that house in the shape of a bill
lord (Palmerston), which bad been stigmatised tZsble
complicated affair, though he could not say that the
-noble lord's bill was deserving of that epithet any more
than the bill introduced by her Maje,ty's present ad.
visors. Many modern institutions have been established
en the eontinent on abstract truths and first principle-,
but what had been the result ? (Sear, bear.) Our own
Constitution was a complicated one, yet it worked
:totter than modern inventions, and be was not die. '
posed to give in his adhesion that simplicity should be