The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-27 00:00:00

PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The Lords' amendments to the South Eastern Railway
(Capital, &r.) Bill were considered and agreed to. The
Dublin, Wicklow, and Wexford Railway, with amend-
ments, was also considered. The Lancashire and Yorkshire
Railway (Bootle Branch, S,-e.) Bill was read a third time.
The Newcastle and -Under Lyme Marsh Land. Bill and the
Sneyd's Branch Railway Bill were considered and ordered
1:-.4 third reading.

THE DANISH CLAIMS.
Mr. MACAULAY presented a petition from Thomas
Ward on behalf of himself and others, claimants against
the Crown for losses incurred in the Secret Expedition to
Copenhagen in 1807. The hon. and learned member rerttl
some extracts from the petition, which stated that the
claimants were British merchants, and that a Royal Com-
mission had examined their claims and adjudicated
in their favour in 1810. Their report was presented to the
House of Commons by her Majesty's Government, and in
1811 a committee of the whole house passed a resolution
voting a "money address," which was presented by a
member of the Privy Council to her Majesty, who expressed
her desire to give effect to the wishes of the House of Com-
mons in this instance. However, notwithstanding these
proceedings, the petitioners' claims were unliquidated, and
they prayed the house to redress the grievance, which arose
out of an exceptional event in the history of the civilised
world. The hon. member gave notice that he would call the
attention of the house to the subject on a future occasion,
and move a resolution in reference to the subject.
DERRYMACASH RIOTS.
Sir W. -VERNER moved for copies of the several infor-
mations and dying declarations in relation to any of the
cases of homicide, riot, illegal or party processions, or
other criminal offences, alleged to have been committed in
the county of Armagh in the month of July last, taken
before a magistrate; also of entries in the Crown book in
reference to such proceedings, as well as other information
on the subject.—Ordered.
COURTS MARTIAL IN INDIA.
Mr. FREELAN asked the Secretary of State for India,
whether copies of the findings of the courts martial ap-
pointed in India fox the trial of officers charged with in-
sulting Mahometans while engaged in religious worship in
Egypt, and of any reprimands or comments on the proceed-
ing of the courts. martial by Sir Hugh Rose, had been re-
ceived by the Government; and whether there would be
any objection to lay such copies, if received, upon the table
of the house ?

Sir C. WOOD said that he was happy now to be in a
position to produce communications from Sir Hugh Rose,
and he would lay them on the table of the house it the hon.
member would move for them.
MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF NATIONAL
EDUCATION, IRELAND,
Mr. LONGFIELD asked the Chief Secretary for Ire-
land when he would furnish the return, ordered by the
house, of the names, &c., of the members of the present
Board of National Education in Ireland ?
Mr. CAR:DwELL Raid that, by the returns of the
Loa )e, he found that the return had been laid on the table
of the house, and a portion of it had been printed.
TIIE LATE CAPTAIN BRABAZON.

General PEE L asked the noble lord the First Lord of
the Treasnry, in the absence of the Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, who was prevented attending from
illness, what steps the Government had taken to
ascertain whether the report of the 'murder of
Captain Brabazon, of the Royal Artillery, by the Chinese,
Was true; and, whether the information received is derived
from the personal knowledge of the informants, or rested
merely on Chinese rumour?

THE ALLEGED OUTRAGE ON CAPTAIN- MAC-

DONALD.
Lord E. CECIL called the attention of the house to the
outrages on Captain Macdonald at Bonn ; and asked the
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he in
Landed to take any stops for the protection of British
subjects travelling in Prussia. The noble lord
detailecrthe circumstances connected with the event, and
contended that it was important to English travellers that
Rome statement should be made by the Government on this
Inflect, and he censured in very strong terms the conduct
abctrbitrary.
14! the Prussian authorities as unjust, illegal, and
lie thought the authorities ought to
viraZed of the danger which they incurred in
went to Prn„„.
~ Rimilar conduct. Before English travellers
they ought. to he made acquainted by their
Government :la:a
with Feniiiar
at travelling in that country was attended
regarded Englisrrng:ts and annoyances, particularly as
CAPTAIN 13
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Mr. GREGORY
sclia + RABAZON.
th reference to the alleged fate
of Captain Brabazon, who was as stated to have been decapi-
tad and his body thrown into the canal had not been dragTh.4 canal, it was asked why
that there wore so many
of " t
bodies
it was replied
th;oe bcsof the Chinese in
it that it would have been imssible
to have discovered
the body of Captain Brabazon out of the multitude of other
bodies. Ho had been informed by a
gentleman as
located in the neiAbourhood of the canal at the time
question, that he had not seen a human body in thecanaitlno.
Ile referred also to documents from Chinese authorities
show that the statements as to the death of Cap..
twin Brabazon were inaccurAte, and that he „vm