The Sun.
London, England, 1857-06-12 00:00:00

THE ITALIAN LEGION.

Major S. KNOX presented a petition from the mem-
bers of the late Italian La2ion, c miplainiug Viat the Go-
vernment bad broken faith with them.
•RAILWAY TRA.FFIC Acr.
Mr. GRIFFITH gave notice that he should bring in
a bill to repeal the 17 and 18 Vic., chap. 31, commonly
called the Railway Traffic Act.

THE STEAM NAVY.
S'r C. NAPIER ove notice that on the 7th July ha
should move for a return of the number of steam vessels
io each harbour, the nuMber of horse power, and whether
high or pre!-,ure, and screw or pa Idle wb eel, &o.
Mr. LAURIE asked the Under Secretary for War,
whether the regiments at and on their passage to the
Mauritius had orders to proceed to China ; and whether
the pay would be at tbo same rate as the regonents now
quartered in India ; and, if not, why not ! He also re-
peated the question as to when the orders of the Medjidi
will be i sued.
Sir J. RAIVISDEN said the troops on their passage
to the Mauritius were only in the usual course of relief.
The troops in China would only receive the usual pay
paid in Hong Kong. The list of persons e, titled to the
orders of the Medjidi would soon be published.
REFORMATORY SCHOOLS.
Sir EDWARD KERRISON asked the Secretary of
State for the Hume Department, whether it was his
intention to introduce amendments in the Reformatory
Schot Is Bill, to render more effectual the process of ob-
taining money from parents for the maintenance of their
children in reformatory schools!
Sir G. GREY said he intended to give notice of a
clause relative to payment to be introduced in the bill
before the house.
ELECTORS, &o. (METROPOLIS.)
Mr. WILLIAM WILLIAMS moved for a return
of the number of the electors in each of the Mett'opolitan
boroughs and city of Westminster on the register of
1856, and the number of all houses rated to the relief of
the poor, stating the number in each parish of the said
boroughs and city, and the population thereof at the
last census.

Agreed to.
HER MAJESTY'S DRAWING-ROOM:

On the motion for the adjournment of the house tint

Monday,
Mr. G. DUNDAS called the attention of the Govern-
ment to tbo inconvenience experienced by ladies attending
her Majesty's drawing room at St. James's Palace,
owing to the want of proper arrangements
for their reception and departure. The faulty
arrangements of which he complained had
been repeatedly brought before the public, and what
should be a pleasing and cheerful duty was thus made
a painful and distressing task. The hon. member
contrasted the difference between the time of the
Stuarts and the present age, • remarking that
what was ample in those days was now too
small, and apartments then considered lofty and spa-
cious were now insignificant and mean, and he descanted
in a most feeling manner on the sufferings of ladies
who had to submit to crushing, and other inconveniences
arising from want of space and better arrangements at
her Majesty's Drawing Rooms. The hon. gentleman
gave several illustrations from the suffering of that bril-
liant Court and assemblage of beauty, which no other
nation in Europe could boast of, that took place at Her
Majesty's Drawing room on Saturday last.
Sir B. HALL rose amid loud cries for Lord Ernest i
Bruce. The right honourable baronet said it was im-
possible to exaggerate the sufferings of the ladies who
attended Her Majesty'a Drawing-room. The a art-
molts were ample in formerdays when only about
p
a hundred or two hundred ladies assembled to pay
but the y were not now when
their respects totheir Queen,
upwards of 1,000 and often 1,200 or 1,400 attended for
that purpose- He had heard that the ladies dresses were
large in those days, but he believed they were not quite
Oa extensive as those now worn,! and, therefore, her Ma'

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j,sty c .inpasionating the inconvenience ladies were put
r,o in atttnding drawiug-rooms at St. James Palace,
instruc:ionq had been given to him to prepare places for
lroviding the necessary accorntnodatioa at Buckingham
Palace. (Cries of "No, co.")
Lord J. MANNERS asked if the Government in-
tended making the necessary alterations without
!owing to the house for a vote of money. (Hrar, hear,)
Sir B. HALL said the plans were not yet ready,
and that no money. woul] be expended without first
--,pp!ying to the house. (Hear.)
The j •c,, then dropped and the motion for adjourn-
ment was agreed to.

SUPPLY.
On the molon for the house going into cammittee of
Supply on the Civil S,rvice esmiraates.
Mr. COBBETT calA the attention of the house to
he e'rcumstances under which an order t build a wolk-
ouse was addressed by the Poor Law B )ard to the
guardians of the Preston Union, Laechaahire. The
grievance complained of was of a purely loc•1 character.
Mr, BOUVERIE, at some 1-ngth, txp'ained the
course he bad taken in reference to the Pres' on Union,
wrhic'a he sail was according to law, ar.d the sane as
had been adopted in other airoil it as es.
After some recaatks from Sir G. PECIIELL, an what he
culled ti.e illegal conduct of the Poor-!e.w B •ard, in call-
ing upon ex offie:o gnat:flans who rarely atteriderl the
Union meetiegs, to sign a requisition to the Poor-law
Brad, prayi•ig for the erection of a new workhouse,
against the wish of the elected guardians and toe rate-
oayer,,, . •
Mr 11. DRUMMOND mil he hoped the Poor Latv
133ard would not he frightened at the complaintk made
against them, and he expressed an opinion that more
power should be given them to interfere between the
ratepayers and the necessary wants of the poor.
Tho subj. et then dropped.
ST. JAMES'S-PARK. _

Sir F. BARTNG called the attention of the house to
the expenditure io St. James's-park, made without
a vote of the house, which was an infringement of
the privileges of the house. He did not object to the
expenditure of 11,0001. for the work in St. James's
Park, but he did to the Government entering on such
an expenditure without first consulting the house
upon the expense. Parliament had always been
jeaMus of inlriegeineLts of this character. Ile
also c:-.lled attention to a sure of 1,0001. for the great
clock, neither of which expenditures could be
considered emergencies, under which payments
were sometimes sanctioned without first asking
the consent of Parliament. These sums were cer-
tainly small, but that was a greater reason why they
should be complained of, to prevent them being made
matters of precedent hereafter.
[LEFT SPEAKING.]