The Sun.
London, England, 1859-03-08 00:00:00

ANCHORS.

Mr. BENTINCK moved fora copy of the report of the
anchor committee, nominated by the Admiralty, 'to deter-
mine the relative merits of different descriptions of anchors,"
dated the Ist of February, 1853 ; of contracts for anchors
and chain cables, specifying whether the result of
public competition or otherwise ; of particulars of an-
chors broken, and otherwise disabled in use, on board
various of her Majesty's ships employed in the Baltic in
1854, 1855, and 1856 ; of Capt. Wm. Peel's application for
I.rrotman's anchor to be supplied to her Majesty's frigate
Diamond, when fitting out at Sheerness in 1853, and offi-
cial answer thereto ; of any correspondence between the
Admiralty and Mr. Trotman, commencing the 27th day of
January, 1859.—Agreed to.

STEAM VESSELS.
Mr. T. BARING moved for a return, in a tabular form,
with consecutive numbers, of the whole of the steam yes-
eels registered in the United Kingdom on or before the Ist
day of January, 1858, stating, in separate columns, the
Ibllowing particulars :—Official number of vessel ; vessel's
name, port of registry ; date of registry ; date of build ;
registered owners; dimensions' of vessels in length and
breadth, and depth of hold ; tonnage (exclusive of engine
room), an gross tonnage, distinguishing vessels built of
iron and vessels having screw propellers ; also distinguish-
ing vessels measured under the Merchant Shipping Act of
1854 from those measured under previous acts ; and esti-
mated horse power of their engines, and giving the aggre-
gate number of vessels and amount of tonnage, with an
index for easy reference attached to it, giving the names of
the vessels in alphabetical order, with numbers to each,
corresponding with the consecutive numbers in the return
(in continuation of Parliamentary paper, No. 488, of sea-
Lion. 1858).—Agreed to.
MILITARY FORCES IN INDIA.
On the motion of Sir DE LACY EVANS, copies of a cor-
respondence between the late Court of Directors, the Presi-
dent of the Board of Control, and the present Secretary of
State for India, respecting the artillery force employed in
India since the outbreak of the mutiny to the preserit time,
were ordered.
DIVINE SERVICE IN THE ARMY.
Mr. GREER Moved an address for return showing the
distribution of the sums voted in the army estimates for the
year 185 S, for allowances to officiating clergymen for per-
forming Divine service to the military at home and abroad
(in contination of parliamentary paper, No. 36, of the pre-
sent session), stating the names of the commissioned or
permanent chaplains and assistant chaplains to the forces,
with the amount of their respective salaries and allowances,
and the religious denominations to which they respectively
belong,
the said distinguishing those who were appointed during
year, and specifying the churches with which they
had been previously connected, and showing also the
names and cost of the religious books paid for out of the
sum so voted, and in what proportion they were distri-
buted among the soldiers of each religions denomination.
And similar return of the religious instruction provided for
her Majesty's forces in India, at the various military sta-
tions in that country, or in the field, during the past year,
specifying the name and religious denomination of each
chaplain or assistant chaplain appointed during the year,
and the amount of outfit, if any, allowed.—Agreed-
PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.

Mr. COX gave notice that, onthemotionf-or the second
reading of the Government Parliamentary Reform Bill, he
would move the insertion of a clause for the repeal of
Septennial Act, and the shortening©
of the duration of
the
Parliament.

CAPITATION GRANT.
Sir A. AGNEW asked the Vice-President of the Com-
mittee of Council whether it was his intention_ m
to propose
the extension of the Capitation
tionGrant Schools Scot-
land? said that the subject was under con-
)era ADDERLE
y
proposed to extend the grant in pies-
sidtion, and it was
ion to_Scotland. COMPANY.
ATLANTIC TELirbp'd
Mr. BERKELEY as--- certain conditions being
GitthAePCHhancellor of the Ex-
it was in-
chequer whether, in the event of
accepted by the Atlantic Telegraph ComPanh
a guarantee or
tended to confer upon them exclusively
notfirst be
sub-
vention, or whether the same p
extended to any other company
esfablish an efficient line of communication across the
Atlantic ? that-miegghet wouldbe t the e
said it
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
was not the intention of the Government to grant exclusive
privileges to any particular company.
AUSTRIAN MILITARY DESERTERS.
Mr. BOWYBR asked the Under Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, whether it was true that military deserters
and other subjects of the Emperor of Austria were being
or had been lately received and enrolled as soldiers by the
Sardinian Government; also whether her Majesty's Go-
vernment had received any information regarding the ob-
ject of that enrolment, and had offered any and what ad-
vice to the Sardinian Government on the subject with re-
ference to the preservation of the peace of Europe ?
Mr. SEYIVIO UR FITZGERALD said it was much to
be regretted that the Sardinian Government had adopted
the course alluded to, and her Majesty's Government had
given that Government advice not to have recourse to any
act that would lead to an interruption of the pacific
arrangements that were being made by the European
powers.
LANDED ESTATES COURT (IRELAND).
Mr. J. FITZGERALD asked the Chief Secretary for
Ireland whether it was the intention of Government to re-
commend the appointment of a third judge of the Landed
Estates Court (Ireland), in the room of Judge Martley,
lately deceased, having regard to the return contained in
Parliamentary paper, 83, of the present session.
Lord NAAS. said that no judge had been appointed,
but the matter was tinder consideration.

PREPAYMENT OF LETTERS.
rir. RICH moved that while this house wouldsur
ort
measures for the correction of any abuses' of the privilege
of transmitting letters through the post without previous
payment, and for the gradual restraint of the practice
itself, yet it considered that the order by the Postmaster-
General of the 27th day of January last, under the autho-
rity of a Treasury warrant of the 29th day of January Jest,

which absolutely deprives the public of this privilege, by
directing that all home letters posted after the 10th day
of February last, and not prepaid should be opened at
the Post-office and returned to the writers, would expose
individuals to serious inconvenience and injury : and
further, that the compulsory prepayment of foreign and
colonial letters, under like penalties, required revision.
The hon. gentleman, after a few observations, withdrew his
motion

JOINT STOCK COMPANIES.
Mr. COX moved for leave to bring in a bill to empower
Joint Stock Companies who were unable to register with
limited liability, under the provisions of the Act 19 and 20
Vic. c. 47, to do so on or before the 31st day of December,
1859.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said the hon. member
had fallen into an error with reference to this subject, be-
cause there was really no practical impediment to public
companies registering. A bill would come from the Upper
House with reference to the consolidation of the laws relat-
ing to the winding-up and registration of all public com-
panies ; and he trusted, • under the circumstances, the hon.
member would not press his motion..
Mr. COX said ;he would accede to the suggestion of the
right hon. member.
Themotion was then withdrawn.

THE CHARLES ET GEORGES.
Mr. KINGLAKE called the attention of the
house to the correspondence respecting the Charles
et Georges ; and moved for an address for further
papers relating thereto; viz.—Copies of despatches
and documents sent by or communicated to her
Majesty's Government respecting the deportation of
negroes from the Mozambique Coast, including the de-
spatches from the British Minister ?.t Lisbon to the Por-
tuguese Government, dated respec,tively the 22d day of
July and the 17th day of Nov. 18a7. Of all the corre-
spondence which has taken place up to the present time
respecting the Charles et Georges between her Majesty's
Government and Mr. M‘Leod, now or late ofher Majesty's
counsel at Mozambique : Of the message of the 16th day
of October, which is described in Mr. Howard's Despatch
of the 21st day of October, 1858, in the following words :-
-" A further message, of the 16th instant, from the Earl
of Malmesbury respecting his former advice to drop the
prosecution ;" of any instructions respecting the Charles et
Georges which may have been addressed by the Earl
of Malmesbury to Lord Cowley in the interval between
the 18th day of March, 1858, and the 3d day of October.
He considered that, notwithstanding anything that had
been said to the contrary, it was highly important that this
subject should be taken into consideration, and from such
.
consideration was not their duty to shrink at the present
time. In the reign of Queen Anne the port of Bombay
been ceded to this country, and in that session the Govern-
ment entered into a treaty by which they bound this coun-
try to defend the Portuguese against foreign hostilities.
That treaty was found to be too vague, and another of a
more definite character was entered into. Subsequently, in
1810 and 1815, when the country was flushed with its
success in arms to which the Portuguese soldiers had con-
tributed. An engagement was entered into, by which the
antecedent treaties were confirmed, and this country
bound itself to carry them out in their integrity.
Of ccurse it was understood that these treaties
were to be binding only when the Portuguese were threa-
tened with danger, or engaged in hostilities which had not
been provoked by any improper acts on their part. In 1810
the Portuguese prohibited the slave trade being carried on
north of the line, but in 1836 they deemed it expedient to ex-
tend that prohibition to their territories south of the line as far
as Mozambique. The hon. member here entered into a nar-
rative of the circumstances connected with the capture
of the Charles et Georges. Before that seizure
the proceedings adopted by the crew of the vessel in
approaching so near, or within the prohibited limits,
was denounced by the British consul, and at
his instigation a cruiser was sent out by the Portuguese Go-
vernment. The Charles et Georges was captured, and the
captain being convicted according to the laws of Portugal,
was sentenced to two years' imprisonment. On the 6th
of May, 1858, the Foreign Secretary was informed that
the claims of France, in reference to the matter against
Portugal, was assuming a very serious form ; and what
he complained of was, that notwithstanding that informa-
-1 tion, Lord Malmesbury took no notice of the matter until
October The hon. member then entered in detail into the
subsequent proceedings that had taken place in refer-
ence to the capture of the vessel, and repeated his
ocndemnation of the conduct pursued by the Government,
which he considered as most unjust towards Portugal,
considering the treaties that were existing with that coun-
try. The hon. member also read extracts from the diplo-
matic correspondence which took place on the subject.
[LEFT SPEAKING.]

LONDON GAZEW.E---( THIS EVENING)

WHITEHALL, MARCH 7.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be
passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland appointing the Right Hon. Chas.
Henry Gordon Lennox (commonly called Earl of March),
to be a Poor Law Commissioner for England.
ST. JAMES'S PALACE, MARCH 4.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint William White
Cooper, Esq., to be Surgeon Oculist in Ordinary to her
Majesty, in the room of Henry. Alexander, Esq., deceased.
The Queen has been pleased, on the nomination of the
Right Honourable the Earl of 'Shrewsbury and Talbot, to
appoint Sir Charles Henry John Rich, Bart., one of her
Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, vice
Edward Hayward, Esq., resigned.
MARCH 5.

The Queen has been pleased, on the nomination of the
Right Hon. the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot, to appoint
Captain Frederick Sykes Daubeney, late 44th Regiment,
one of her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-
Arms, vice Benjamin R. Williams, Esq„ resigned.
, CROWN-OFFICE, MARcit 8.

MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT PARMA.

MENT.

Borough of Bury St. Edmunds—The Hon. Alfred Her-
vey (commonly called Lord Alfred Hervey), in the room
of the Right Hon. Frederick William Hervey (commonly
called Earl Jermyn), now Marquis of Bristol, called to the
House of Peers.