The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-14 00:00:00

I 111) EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Seven. o' Clock.

NIPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS—(THis EVENING).
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE presented a petition
from Belfast against the Ecclesiastical Courts (Ireland)
Bill.
The Earl of CARLISLE presented several petitions
praying that Dissenters might not be excluded from ad-
ministering trust funds of endowed grammar schools.
THAMES WATERMEN
LL. AND LIGHTERMEN
BI
Lord EBURY, as chairman of the committee to which
this bill had been referred in the first instance, explained
on
to
their lordships the reasons for not being in his place
Tuesday evening last when the bill was under discussion.
Having alluded to the censure passed on the proceedings of
the committee, he proceeded to vindicate the course
ad
Lord CAMPBELL said ho was sure no blame could
possibly be attributed to the noble lord.
SECOND READINGS.
The following bills were read a second time :—Mersey
Docks and Harbour, and Poole Water.
THIRD READINGS
The following bills were read a third time and passed :
Whitehaven Harbour and Town; Liverpool New Ex
change Buildings; and East Suffolk Railway.
SANDWITH'S DIVORCE BILL.
The standing orders were dispensed with, and this bill
passed through committee.
RED SEA AND INDIAN TELEGRAPH (No. 2)
BILL.
The standing orders were again dispensed with, and this
bill was read a third time and passed.
SUPERANNUATION BILL.
This bill passed through committee.
COMBINATION OF WORKMEN BILL.
This bill passed through committee.
On the bringing up of the report,
Lord WENSLEYDALE moved an addition to the first
clause. This gave rise to a desultory discussion, after
which the addition was agreed to.
AFFIDAVITS BY COMMISSION BILL.
This bill was read a third time.
MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS BILL.
This bill passed through committee.
THE STATE OF EUROPE.
The Earl of MALMESBURY postponed, until Monday
next, his statement relative to the state of Europe.
VOTE OF THANKS TO THE ARMY IN INDIA.
The Earl of DERBY then rose for the purpose of moving
the following votes of thanks :
" That the thanks of this house be given to the Right
Hon. Charles John Viscount Canning, G.C.8., her Ma-
jesty's Viceroy and Governor-General of India; the Right
Hon. Lord John Elphinstone, G.C.B. Governor of the
Presidency of Bombay ; Sir John Laird Mair Lawrence,
Bart., G.C.8., late heutenant-governor of the Punjaub ;
Sir Robert North Collie Hamilton, Bart., agent to the
Governor-General in Central India ; Henry Bartle Edward
Frere, Esq., commissioner of Scinde ; Robert Montgomery,
Esq., late chief commissioner in Oude—for the ability
with which they have severally employed the resources at
their disposal for the re-establishment of peace in her Ma-
jesty's Indian domiLions.
That the thanks of this house be given to General the
Right Hon. Lord Clyde, G.C.8., Commander-in-Chief in
India; Lieutenant• General Sir James Outram, Bart.,
G.C.B. ; Major-General Sir Hugh Rose, G.C.B. ;
Major-General Henry Gee Roberts ; Major-General
George Cornish Whitlock ; Major-General Sir Archdale
Wilson, Bart., K.C.B. ; Major-General Sir James Hope
Grant, K.C.B. ; Major-General Sir William Rose Mans-
field, K.C.B. ;. Major-General Sir Thomas Harle Franks,
K.C.B. ; Major-General Sir Edward Lugard, K.C.B. ;
Major-General Sir John Michel, K.C.B. ; Brigadier-
General Robert Walpole, C.B. ; Brigadier-General Sir
Robert Napier, K.C.B.—f.,r the eminent skill, courage, and
perseverance displayed by them during the military opera-
tions by which the late insurrection in India has been
effectually suppressed.
" That the thanks of this house be given to the other
gallant officers of her Majesty's army and navy, and also of
her Majesty's Indian forces, for the intrepidity, zeal, and
endurance evinced by them in the arduous operations of the
late Indian campaign.
" That this house doth highly approve and acknowledge
the valour, self-devotion, and brilliant services of the non-
commissioned officers and private soldiers, both European
and native, who have taken part in the suppression of the
recent disturbances in India ; and that the seine be signified
to them by .6.,e commanders of their several corps, who are
des: red to than:r them for their gallant behaviour."
[LEFT SPEAKING.]

HOUSE OF COIMONS—(THis EVENING).
The SPEAKER. took the chair at 4 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Maybole and' Girvair. .Railway Bill, and the IVans•
beck Railway Bill were read d third time and passed.
The amendments to the folldw:ng bills were considered
and the bills ordered for third readh.le: :—East Kent Rail-
way Company ; Herne Bay and •Caversham Railway
(Margate Extension) ; Wear Navigatioi, and Sunderland
Docks.
Mr. FITZROY moved that, in the case of all private
bills originating in the House of Lords, the staZlding orders
be suspended ; and that, on the bringing up of the reports
from the committees on such bills, they be forthwith read
the third time, or considered and read the third time, its the
case may be.—Agreed to.
MR. CHISHOLM ANSTEY, &c.
Mr. E. JAMES moved for the following returns
—Address for copies of all correspondence, judge' ns, or
other papers, on the follow ing- subjects, or any of them :-
1. The resignation of the justiceship of the peace for
Hong Kong by Mr. T. Chisholm Anstey, sent in to
the local government on the 13th day of May, 1858. 2.
His suspension on the 7th day of August, 1858, from the At-
torney-Generalship of the colony of Hong Kong, and from
the office of counsel to the superintendency of trade in China.
3. The case of the Queen v. Tarrant 1,,r libel, tired at the
November Sessions (1853) of the Hong Kong Supreme Court
(Criminal side). 4. The charge of alleged complicity of
Mr. Caldwell, T.P. and Protector of Chine
argesse atm Hde agaiongKonnstg,
with Hong Kong pirates. 5. The chine
the acting Colonial Secretary (Dr. Bridges) with reference
to the foregoing subject, and also the opiums farm monopoly.
6. The charges made against the Lie
of Hong
Kong (Colonel Caine) and his Chinese comprador, with re-
ference to extortion and bribe-taking, in the 1846 an
years d
1848. 7. The proceedings against Mr. May, s
registrar rinten-
dent of police at Hong Kong, Mr. Tarrant,of
deeds there, and. the police interpreter, Tong Aken, and the
dismissal of the police-coact interpreter, Assam, for having
severally given evidence against the said parties, or ach thny. oe
f
them. 8. The imperial regulations (if any) by whi
several suspensions or removals before mentioned were
authorised.
BILLS OF EXCHANGE AND PROMISSORY
NOTES.
iir. GLYN moved for a return, in a tabular form, of the
gross produce of the revenue arising from the sale of stamps
for bills of exchange and promissory notes in England and
Wales, in Scotland and in Ireland, respectively, stating the
same for each official quarter of each of the five years 1854
to 1858, both inclusive, and for the first quarter of 1859, dis-
tinguishing the entire amount of revenue arising: under
each denomination of stamp, and as regards the duties im-
posed by the change of tho scale of duties under the Act 17
and 18 Vic. c. 83; distinguishing the revenue under each
denomination of stamp employed for each of tize purposes
of inland bills, of foreign bills drawn in the UnittO King-
dom, and of the duty credited by means of adhesive sat
the
mps
on foreign bills drawn out of, but payable within,
United Kingdom (in continuation of Parliamentary paper,
No. 474, of session 1854).—Agreed to.
BONDING WAREHOUSES.
Mr. HADFIELD moved for an address for copy of the
report of the commissioners or other officers recently ap-
pointed by Government to inquire into the expediency. of
establishing bonding warehouses in large manufacturing
and other towns for the convenience of the irhabitantse of
of
those towns ; and, at the same time, into the best mo
tbe d
due
securing the revenues of the countiy by enforcing
and regular payment of duties chargeable on merchandise
and other at tides bonded therein, and preventing frauds.—
Agreed to.
GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION (JAMAICA) BILL.
Mr. GILPIN gave notice that to-morrow he would ask
the Secretary of the Colonies whether the Government
assent had been given to this bill, and also other questions.
GOODS IMPORTED INTO INDIA.
In reply to Lord DUNCAN and Mr. HADFIELD,
Lord STANLEY said he would lay on the table a copy
of the re ort of the tariff agreed on with reference to Eng-
lish s imported into India.
V TE OF THANKS TO INDIAN OFFICERS.
Colonel FREESTUN wished to ask the noble lord the
Secretary of State for India, previous to his moving the
thanks of this house to the army in India, whether he
would be pleased to include the name of Brigadier-General
Sir Thomas Seaton, K.C.8., who has done such gallant
deeds dt,:in_g the late war, for that honour. He need only
,er :ed in Affghaniston in 1840,1841, and 1842;
mention a I,:w of his services. He was at the capture of
of the :c.hoord, Cabul, and Jugdullock Passes ;
Bthheurtpforcoirnej
and action there in 1842; in the
defences of JellallabatZ
which led to the reoccupation
actions under Gen. Pollot,:k1
of Cabul. At the siege Of :)elhi, where he was severely
brought a convoy covering ten init..'
wounded, 23d July, 1857, and I,:esent at its capture, and
s in extent safely into
camp, having beaten the enemy four
.times his force, and
taking their guns, when his convoy was
threatened to be
molested. (Cheers.)
Lord STANLEY stated, in reply. to his g.z,2lant friend,
that he would state the course he intended to curgue) in
his statement.
VOTE OF THANKS
NDIAN TO LORD
ARMY. CANNING AND
THE I
Lord STANLEY then rose to move a vote of. thanks to
Lord Canning, Lord Clyde, and other officers of the British
and Indian armies. The noble lord's motion was
precisely similar to that moved by the Earl
of Derby in the House Usti sorts.
the He
bje re.
gretted his inefficiency to do justice to subject
which he had undertaken to bring before the
of the house, and which was one that appealed to the
feelings of every hon. member of that house, with
an unanimity that could not be expected on
political subjects. No doubt the outbreak in
India was
productive of disastrous results that
awgainst ould
these
take
a considerable time to remedy. But
evils, there were benefits that more than counterbalanced
them, for the conduct of our representatives in Indiltino
only inspired respect in other countries for out:
ruleuy
in India,
talent, but excited in the native mind a concoctionu of the
futility of any attempts to overthrow British
) Thep resent,
and nu.re permanent basis. (li
and it would have the effect of placing that rule on a firmer
hose courage, wisdom
their esteem to the gallant men to whe.
therefore, was a most appropriate time to Offer a tribute of
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and responsibility, as rarely fell
labour, such anxiellmeeting the
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difficulties of that postm age
the character of Englishman.
and the lot of any British statesmen, an. d in
and humanity which fo f
opinion ex-
tog nisolated acts of Lo d Canning, e •
steel with reroar • r arming, but the
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Hear. There wda 9 doubt some differencean
. ~ as that his general policy was both wise and
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disturbances
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hear.) Under these .circumstances, he
wok sql tb.a th.,
lard, 'se would agree with him that Lord COn-
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