The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-26 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS-LAST EVENING.

The SPEAR.= took the chair at 4 o'clock, at which hour
li•are was a large attendance of members.
MESSAGE FflOM THE QUEEN.

Lord PROBY brought up the reply of the Queen to the
address of the house for a commission to inquire into the
supply of coal; her Majesty gave her assent to the ap-
pointment of a commission.
NEW WRIT.

A new writ was ordered to issue for Hertford for the
election of a member in the place of tho late Sir Minto
Farquhar.

LONDON WORKHOUSES.

Mr. RAWCETT gave notice of his intention to put a
question to the President of the Poor Law Board as to
what stops it was proposed to take with respect to the
sanitary condition of the London workhouses.
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THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS.
The CIIANCELL9R of the EXCHEQUER said his
noble friend at the head of the Government had ob-
tained her Majesty's permission to acquaint the house
that, in consequence of the vote on Monday last,
her Majesty's advisers had deemed it their duty
to tender to her Majesty their resignation, but
her rajesty was pleased to consider that it was not
advisable to accept their resignation without further consi-
deration—(slight cheering)—her Majesty feeling it neces-
sary to have personal communication with them ;
and, while he was speaking her Majesty was
on her road to Windsor. His noble friend at the
head of the Government and himself were to
meet her Majesty at one o'clock. Under those circum-
stances, ho should move that the house at its rising
adjourn until to-morrow at six o'clock. It was
not, therefore, proposed to proceed with any public
business likely to occasion debate, but there was
a motion which would be made by his hon. friend, and it
was a vote on account of the revenue and packet service,
which was to enable certain payments to be made at the
end of the month which it was desirable to provide for.
That would be the only Government business proceeded
with that night.
Mr. CHILDERS said he found he could not proceed
with his motion for the vote on account without notice,
and therefore he should postpone it for the present.
The orders of the day were then disposed of, and the
house adjourned until to-morrow at six o'clock.

The feeling in the house appeared to be perfectly unex-
citable. Not a cheer welcomed the appearance of the
Chancellor of the Exchequer when he entered the house,
and not the slightest manifestation took place when the
right hon. gentleman resumed his seat. The business of
the day was very speedily disposed of, after the
aunouncement of the almuleellor,of, the Exchequer, and the
members then rose from their seats and quitted the house.
Four members, however, sat in close conversation on the
front bench below the gangway for some time after all the
members of the Government and Opposition had left, and
those four were Mr. Lowe, Lord Elcho, Earl Grosvenor,
and Sir Charles Russell. The topic under discussion
seemed to be very interesting, as it was carried on by the
hon. members with the greatest animation.

There was great excitement outside the house, nearly
1,000 of the working classes having assembled to witness
the entrance of the members. On the entrance of Mr.
Doulton ho was received with loud groans and hisses.
Mr Lowe and Mr. Disraeli were received in a similar
manner. Sir Lytton Bulwer was received with the greatest
resptzt: most of the persons present lifting their hats,
which was. respectfully acknowledged by the right hon.
baronet. Mr. Bernal Osborne and Mr. Layard came in
use, but when Mr. Gladstone arrived
for a fair share of appi.7.
in his carriage, accompaulied by his son, the member for
Chester, the enthusiasm of ti," crowd knew no bounds.
Mr. Gladstone, as he quitted the posse,again received
another ovation by the crowd, and the cheering that
greeted him as he emerged from Westmiotcr Hall was
tremen4ous. Mr. Bright and Mr. Fawcett ales received
the most enthusiastic applause, but when Sir Robert
Peel, Mr. Lowe, and Lord Dunkellin made their
appearance the hissing and hooting was loud and general.
Sir Robert Pool seemed highly indignant at his reception,
but Mr. Lowe and his lordship made their way through
the crowd without taking tho slightest Aotico of the noisy
demonstration.

THE MARRIED SOLDIER.—" One who never will
rejoin" writes to the Army and Navy Gazette to give
his reasons for adopting that determination and that signa-
ture, and cogent reasons they are. He is a private soldier
who has served long and well in India and elsewhere, and
is just married. He has brought his young wife to Chatham,
where his regiment is, and is quartered in a room with
three other married couples. There is no partition between
their beds of any kind. His wife shrinks from dressing
and undressing in the presence of three strange men, and
they aro now living on dry broad in order to save money
enough to buy a screen by which some sort of privacy may
be obtained as the expense of ventilation. "One who never
will rejoin" says that he does not complain on his own ac-
count; ho complains on account of the women and children
of his regiment, who are treated by the military authorities
with loss consideration than a farmer would treat his swine.
It appears to be assumed by them that a ifoldier'S wife has
no morals, no feelings, no sense of decency, no respect for
herself or affection for her children: and then they appoint
Royal Commissions to inquirp why good men will not en-
list, and why all soldiers, good and bad, seek to leave the
service as soon as they can.: Her Majesty was much
shocked some time since at seeing the scanty accommoda-
tion provided for tho xnarriod soldiers of the Life Guards
and Blues at Windsor. What would her feelings be were
she to inspect the quarters "of one who will never servo
again" at Chatham.—Pall Mall Gazettc

SILKIVOR3IS.—The French Academy of Sciences
has received a communication from Dr. Dronke, on
the disease of the silkworm. From a series of analytical
investigations he has arrived at the following conclusions
—l. That the silk growers of Touraine (Indre, Barth°,
ko.), having observed that the leaves of the mulberry tree
which produces white fruit are better than those of the kind
producing red, this fact may be explained by therfircutr;
stance that the former contain much more lie" 'aplittle
latter. 2. That diseased silkworms contain veroyf
limo and phosphoric acid. 3. That
•ri arlin °sit grower
mul-
berry tree employed by a certain A.° the worms than
seems to be much more wholesome
loaf contains the requisite minerha
other species, and it must thereflosruebfbesotraandcmesittehad
the
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a given breed should
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portions;proportion, or, in other words,het
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lime, phosphoric acid,
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highly important
mineral substances a
as won as the cocoons of
manner in the butterflies .
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thvearsai various
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flies and cocoons proceeding m healthy worms
healthy or diseased silll-smssolso,da, thus the butter-
more lime and
containg more potash, 7
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element for the proper development of the worm ; and that
it is necessary to mix salts of lime with the manure
charged with potash, which is employed to correct the de-
ficiency of the latter substance in the soil in which mul-
berry trees grow; and that a given breed of silkwormi at-

tains its highest development by feeding on certain leaves
containing the various saline substances in well-deter-
mined proportions.

The quotation of gold at Paris is about at par, and
the short exchange on London is 25.15 per Z 1 sterling. On
comparing these rates with the English Mint price of Z 3
lis. 100. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is
about 1-10th per cent. dearer in Paris than in London,