The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-25 00:00:00

TEEEI SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY * CVEISTING, JUNE '25, 1861,

THIRD EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock.

DEATH OF LORD ABINGER.

The death of Lord Abinger, brother-in-law of
the late Lord Campbell, took place yesterday at
Abinger Hall, near Dorking, Surrey, in the 67th
year of his age. He is succeeded by his only son,
Lieut.-Colonel W. F. Scarlett, Ist Battalion Scots
Fusilier Guards.

IMPERIAL PA RLIA ME NT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—(THIS EVENING.)
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat• ma the woolsack
at 4 o'clock.

Lord REDESDALE, Deputy Speaker of the House of
Lords, took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The following bills were read a second time :—Earl of
Egremont's Estate, Manchester and Milford Railway
(Aberystwith Branch), Dublin Corporation Water, South
Wales Mineral Railway, Leven and East of Fife Rail-
way, Parsonstown and Portumna - bridge Railway,
Atkinson's Trust Estate ; Liverpool Cemetery ; Kingston
Water, Galashiels and Peebles Railway, Dublin and
Antrim Junction Railway. The following bills were read
a third time and passed :—Cheshire and Midland Railway;
London and North-Western Railway (Chester and
Holyhead) Railway, Thames Haven Dock (Abandonment),
Westminster Improvements, Marlborough Railway, Barns-
ley Coal Railway, London and North-Western, Lancashire
and Carlisle, and Caledonian Railways ; and Penrith Har-
bour, Dock, and Railway.

be continued, and the sum so raised be appropriated to the
embankment of the Thames. The bill declares that such
should be the case, and he hoped it would meet with the
approval of Parliament.

Lord J. MANNERS supported the bill.
Mr. WILLIAMS said without doubt the Thames ought
to be embanked, but then he did not think it ought to
be carried out by the very objectionable means of a tax
levied on coal. He hoped the great improvement would be
carried out, and that it would not be limited to one side
of the river—(hear, hear)—but it might be effected in some
other way than that proposed by the bill. Ihe corporation
lent, in years gone by, £700,000 to Charles IL, of which
he never repaid one farthing, but gave power to
the corporation to levy a fourpenny duty on coal.
The £700,000 had been repaid some 70 years ago, but the
tax had been continued up to the present day. He should
feel it his duty, when they came to that part of the bill
which gave the City the power to continue the tax, to move
an amendment to terminate such an arrangement.
Mr. LOCKE could not see why the City of London
should have such a sum as £11,500 presented to them as
an annual gift, and for that reason he should support the
proposition of his hon. friend the member for the Tower
Hamlets.

Mr- NORRIS could not agree with the hon. member
who had just sat down that the bill had any such object as
he attributed, lie should therefore vote for going into
committee.

Mr. Alderman SALOMONS said no one who for an in-
stant contemplated the objects of this bill could doubt
its necessity, for certainly unless sonic inventive
genius could devise some means of floatinc, vehicles in the
air the embankment of the Thames appeared the only (Ala
means of providing increased accommodation for the enor-
mous traffic. He supported the bill. The corporation of
London, whenever it became necessary, would be enabled
to rebuild Blackfriars-bridge without taking a single penny
of the coal tax for the purpose. The fund out of which it
would be effected would be the Bridge-house estate fund.
Lord FER NI.OY thought the coal dues could not be ap-
propriated to a better object than embanking the Thames.
Alderman COPELAND said he would only make a few
remarks on the subject before the house. The city had
always exercised the greatest care in expending the sums
committed to their charge. The corporation received a re-
venue of £5,000 from Old Fleet-market, and although the
constructing of Farringdon-market has proved a failure, no
blame was to be attached to the corporation for such an event.
The city had pledged its credit for the cost of constructing
the new cattle market and new Cannon-street, and in doing
so they had expended in the various improvements nearly
£340,000 more than their receipts. There would still exist,
supposing the new improvements were carried out, great
demands upon the city, for assuredly as soon as the Thames
embankment was constructed a new street from thence to
the Bank of England would have to be made.
The house divided, when there appeared—
For Mr. Ayrton's first proposal
Against it
Majority —155

Martin has been permitted to retire from the Service_by
the sale of his Commission.
2d Regiment of Foot—Robert Carr Dunscombe, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Fosbroke, promoted.
Bth Foot—Gentleman Cadet Edward Stanley Creek, from
the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Emerson, promoted.
14th Foot—Bertram Walter Calisthenes Firman, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Lindsay, promoted.
17th Foot—The second Christian name of Ensign Awdry
is Stewart, and not Stuart, as stated in the "Gazette" of
24th May, 1861.
21st Foot—Lieutenant Richard William Charles Winsloe
to be Captain, by purchase, vice John Wynter James
Gifford, who retires ; Ensign John Popham Mainwaring
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Winsloe; Evans
Mynde Allen, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Mainwaring.
22d Foot—Captain Thomas Young to be Major, by pur-
chase, vice Sir George Abereombie Robinson' Bart., who
retires; Lieutenant Charles Watkins to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Young ; Ensign Jahn Godfrey Hughes to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Alexander Daniel Gil-
son, who retires ; Ensign John David Cove Thomas to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Watkins ; Edward
Straton, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Hughes ;
William Gower Brakspear, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Thomas.
25th Foot—Lieutenant James Henry Randell, from the
Cape Mounted Riflemen, to be Lieutenant, vice William
Buxton Robertson, who exchanges ; Charles Dewrock
S wete, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Watson,
promoted ; William Godfrey Thomas, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Dowling., promoted.
35th FOJt—Henry Kelley Beetson, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Broun, promoted.
45th Foot—George Grant Peterkin, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Hignett, promoted.
47th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Lewis De Tessier Prevost,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice George Strickland, who resigns.
50th Foot—Lieutenant Montague de S. M'Kenzie Gordon
Augustus Clarke to be Captain, without purchase, vice
Robert Richardson Ellis, deceased.
53d Foot—Lieutenant Joseph C. Smythe to be Captain, by
orchase, vice Robert Fannin Stoney, who retires ; En-
sign George Beresford Deare to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Smythe ; Thomas Blackborne Thoroton
Hildyard to be Ensign, by purchase, vice. Deere.
74th Foot—Gentleman adet Sir Archibald A. Campbell,
Bart., to be Ensign, by purchase, in succession to Lieu-
tenant Keane, deceased.
100th Foot—Major Alexander Roberts Dunn to be Lieu-
tenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Brevet-Colonel George
de Rottenburgh, C. 8., who retires • Captain Robert
Bethune Ingram to be Major, by purchase, vice Dunn ;
Lieutenant Fowell Buxton Johnston to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Ingram ; Ensign Arthur Taylor to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Johnston.
Ist West India Regiment—Lieut. Thomas George Mawe
to be Captain, by purchase, vice Brevet-Major Richard
D'Oyley Fletcher, who retires; Ensign Arthur Frede-
rick Piercy Cosens to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Mawe; Arthur James Fenn, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Cosens.
2d West India Regiment—Lieut. George Wm. Reade has
been permitted to retire from the service by the sale of
his Commission.
3d West India Regiment—Ensign Richard Wilson to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice George Lidwill Har-
nette, deceased ' • Lieutenant Thomas Davies Mahon has
been permitted to retire from the service, by the sale of
his Commission ; Ensign Alexander Stewart Hincks, to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Beet, who has retired;
Leonard William Peck, Gent., to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Wilson; Hamilton Low, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Hineks.
Cape Mounted Riflemen—Lieutenant William Buxton
Robertson, from the 25th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice
James Henry Randall, who exchanges.
Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment—Frederick Bazett Dove-
ton, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Thomas
Bradley Thornett, who retires.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.

The promotion of Staff-Assistant-Surgeon William Snell
to be Staff. Surgeon, which appeared in the Gazette of the
9th April, 1861, to be antedated to the 15th February, 1861,
but such antedate not to carry back pay.
The appointment of Assistant-Surgeon Herman Bick-
nell, from the 84th Foot, to the Staff (as stated in the
Gazette of the 24th May, 1861), vice William Henry Jones,
M.D., placed upon half-pay, has been cancelled.

The appointment of Assistant-Surgeon Robert Lindsay,
M. 8., from the 39th Foot, to be Staff Assistant-Surgeon,
vice Samuel Gamble White, M.D., placed upon half pay,
as stated in the Gazette of the 24th May, 1861, has been
cancelled.

The appointment of Assistant-Surgeon Robert Henry
Beale, from the 53d Foot, to be Staff Assistant-Surgeon,
vice George Farr White, placed upon half pay, as stated in
the Gazette of May 24, 1861, has been cancelled.
Assistant-Surgeon Wallace Lindsay, from 30th Foci, to
be Staff Assistant-Surgeon, vice S. G. White, M.D., placed
upon half-pay.
Assistant-Surgeon Richard Hungerford, from 53d Foot,
to be Staff Assistant-Surgeon, vice G. F. White, placed
upon half-pay.

VETERINARY DEPARTMENT.—First Class Veterinary
Surgeon B. Channing Rouse Gardiner, from the 3d Light
Dragoons, to be Staff Veterinary Surgeon, vice F. Delany,
whose transfer from the let Dragoon Guards to the Staff,
as stated in the Gazette of 10th July, 1860, has been can-
celled.