The Sun.
London, England, 1857-05-20 00:00:00

i when he would be prepared to submit to the house the
regulations for the future government of these banks t
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said
that the second reading of this bill stood for to-morrow.
He intended to ask the house to allow the bill to be read
without opposition, and then to commit it pro forma to
make certain alterations that bad been suggested to him.
He thought it would be better to take the discussion
on the bill on its details in committee. He proposed
to go into committee on the bill either on Friday or
Monday next. He proposed to make certain alterations
in the regulation clauses, but he did not intend to set
out the regulations in full in the act.
MILITIA REGIMENTS.
Capt. D. O'CONNELL asked the Under Secretary
for War, whether it was the intention of her Majesty's
Government to make any change in the relative rank of
the regimentalcaptains and adjutants of militia regiments,
so as to affect the seniority of the former over the lat-
ler ; and, if so, whether he would lay on the table any
correspondence or memorials, and answers thereto,
which explain the reasons for such a change
Sir J. RAMSDEN said that the alteration the hon.
gentleman alluded to had been under the careful consi-
deration of the Government, and was so at this time,
but that no conclusion had yet been come to.
Major SIBTHORP asked the Under Secretary for
War, whether it was the intention of her Majesty's Go-
vernment to call out any of the militia regiments for
training this year ; and if so, what regiments and at
what period
Sir J. RAMSDEN said it was impossible to answer
the question until after the estimates had been voted, for
on that depended the number of men to be called out for
training. The Government did not intend to call the
militia out until after the harvest.
SUPERANNUATION PENSIONS.
Mr. GROGAN asked the Under Secretary for War
when the superannuation pensions would be granted to
the surveyors and draftsmen lately dismissed from the
Ordnance Survey Branch of the War Department,
Dublin, to which they were entitled under the Treasury
minute of 1855 I
Sir J. RAMSDEN said that the granting of the pen-
sions, and the time when they were granted, rested with
the Treasury.

QUEEN ANNE'S BOUNTY.
Mr. HADFIELD moved for copies of all communi-
cations or letters that had been addressed to and re-
ceived from the Archdeacon of Salop, in the diocese of
Lichfield, by the Secretary to the Governors of (been
Ann's Bounty, from the Ist day of February, 1853, to
the present time, in reference to proposed improve-
ments in the management of the Bounty-office, and
with a view to the interests of the poorer clergy ;
and of all the minutes and records of the proceedings
and resolutions that had been taken and passed thereon
by the governors, and of the correspondence that had
taken place in relation to such corsmunication or let-
ters, or in consequence thereof.—Agreed to.
CHELSEA BRIDGE
Sir J. SHELLEY asked the President of the Board of
Works when Chelsea Bridge was likely to be opened for
public traffic, whether it had been decided on that it
should be a toll-paying bridge, and, if so, after paying
the usual expenses of keeping up the bridge, what would
be done with any surplus that remained ?
Sir B. HALL said he hoped this bridge would be
opened to the public in August next. It would be a tax-
paying bridge by act of Parliament, which declared that
the proceeds should be devoted, first, in support and
maintenance of the bridge, and to pay off the cost of
construction ; and if that should be done the surplus to
be handed over to the funds for metropolitan improve-
ments.