The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-03 00:00:00

SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock.

TATTERSALLS'-(T111S EVENING).

ASCOT STAKES.
7to 1 agst Conscript (taken)
12 to 1 agst Shipwreck (taken)

ASCOT CUP.
C'to 4 agst Thormanby (taken)
3to 1 agst St. Albans (offered)

ST. LEGER.
3to 1 agst Kettledrum (taken)
sto 1 agst any other (offered)

IMPE DIAL PA RLIAMEN T.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—(Trus EVENING.)
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at 5 o'clock.

BANKRUPTCY AND INSOLVENCY BILL.
Lord CHELMSFORD said in the committee on this
bill he should move a clause preventing the bill having a
retrospective operation with respect to non-traders.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Wye Railway (Extension) ; Trent, Ancholme, and
Grimsby Railway; Belfast and County Down Railway ;
Penrith Harbour, Dock, and Railway; Stockton and Dar-
lington Railway (New Railway at Marske, &c.) bills were
read a second time. _ _

The Newgate and Metropolitan Meat and Poultry Mar-
ket, and Great Northern Railway (Purchase of Hertford
Branch) bills were read a third time and passed.
THE GALWAY CONTRACT.
The Marquis of NORMANBY rose to move an address
for copies of the correspondence between his Excellency the
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and her Majesty's Government
on the subject of the contract with the Atlantic Royal Mail
Steam-packet Company. The noble marquis having pre-
sented a petition in favour of the continuance of the mail
service at Galway, said on Thursday week he willingly
acceded to the request for postponment ; but he was sorry
to say that since that time a topic had been introduced to
prejudice the question by the Government. He then pro-
ceeded to deny that the Irish members had ever contem-
plated entering into any compact to support the Budget on
receiving an assurance that the Galway contract would
be renewed for six months. Thcre was a universal feeling
of regret in Ireland at the determination that had been ar-
rived at by the Government, a regret that was :shared in to
the full extent by the Lord Lieutenant. This opinion had
not been expressed in any private manner, but had been
made in Dublin to a deputation that had waited on
his lordship relative to the withdrawal of the contract.
He could not refrain from saying that it was most extraor-
dinary that the contract should have been withdrawn at
the moment and the manner it was. The objection .
to the vessel was also most irreconcilable, because she had

previously performed the voyage successfully, and within
the time allowed by the contract, and he could not help
hoping that, sooner or later, the prayer of the petition he
had presented would be accomplished.
Earl GRANVILLE said he thought it was irregular
and inconvenient to re-discuss a subject that had been de-
bated in another place. He did not think the noble lord
had been quite correct in saying that the noble lord
had been the only person alluded to in the com-
pact. Had such a compact been entered into, he
could not but say that it would have been most disgraceful
to all parties, and that the Government had better fall than
be kept on its legs by such a proceeding. (Hear, hear.)
He thought that the noble marquis ought to be the last
man to attack his noble friend the Secretary for Foreign
Affairs, and he thought his noble friend the Postmaster-
General would be perfectly ready to defend the course he
had thought it his duty to take. As to the motion of the
noble lord for papers, &c., he had to inform him that there
was no official correspondence of the description alluded to
in the possession of the Government•