The Sun.
London, England, 1859-03-08 00:00:00

DIVINE SERVICE IN THE ARMY.

Mr. ClllEElmeved an address for return showing the
distribution of the sums voted in the army estimates for the
year 18ZU, for allowances to officiating clergymen for per-
forming Divine service to the military at home and abroad
(in contivation of parlianientary paper, No. 36, of the pre-
sent session), stating the names of the commissioned or
permanent chaplains and assistant chaplains to the forces,
with the amount of their respective salaries and allowances,
and the religious denominations to which they respectively
belong, distinguishing those who were appointed during
the said year, and specifying the churches with which they
had been previously connected, and showing also the
names and cost of the religious books paid for out of the
sum so voted, and in what proportion they were distri-
buted among the soldiers of each religions denomination.
And similar return of the religious instruction provided for
her Majesty's forces in India, at the various military sta-
tions in that country, or in the field, during the past year,
specifying the name and religious denomination of each
chaplain or assistant chaplain appointed during the year,
and the amount of outfit, if any, allowed.—Agreed to.
PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.
Mr. COX gave notice that, on the motion for the second
reading of the Government Parliamentary Reform Bill, he
would move the insertion of a clause for the repeal of
the Septennial Act, and the shortening of the duration of
Parliament.

CAPITATION GRANT.
Sir A. AGNEW asked the Vice-President of the Com-
mittee of Council whether it was his intention to propose
the extension of the Capitation Grant to Schools in Scot-
land?
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ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH
the Chancellor of eCOMPANY.
A NYthe Mr. BERKELEY asked
Ex-
chequer whether, in the event of certain conditions being
accepted by the Atlantic Telegraph
.Company, it was -in-
tended to confer upon them exclusivelytguwareanuid nteeoertsubbe-
vention, or whether the same privilege
extended to any other company that might be taheefissrsttheto
establish an efficient fine of communication across
Atlantic
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it
was not the intention of the Government to grant exclusive
privileges to any particular company.
AUSTRIAN MILITARY DESERTERS.
Mr. BOWYBR asked the Under Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, whether it was true that military deserters
and other subjects of the Emperor of Austria were being
or had been lately received and enrolled as soldiers by the
Sardinian Government; also whether her Majesty's Go-
vernment had received any information regarding the ob-
ject of that enrolment, and had offered any and what ad-
vice to the Sardinian Government on the subject with re-
ference to the preservation of the peace of Europe ?
Mr. SEYMOUR FITZGERALD said it was much to
be regretted that the Sardinian Government had adopted
the course alluded to, and her Majesty's Government had
given that Government advice not to have recourse to any
act that would lead to an interruption of the pacific
arrangements that were being made by the European
powers.
LANDED ESTATES COURT (IRELAND).
Mr. J. FITZGERALD asked the Chief Secretary for
Ireland whether it was the intention of Government to re-
commend the appointment of a third judge of the Landed
Estates Court (Ireland), in the room of Judge Martley,
lately deceased, having regard to the return' contaffied
in
Parliamentary paper, 83, of the present session
Lord NAAS said that no judge hadsann' appointed,
but the matter was under consideration.

PREPAYMENT OF LETTERS.
1111 r. RICH moved that while this house Would support
measures for the correction of any abuses of the privilege
of transmittin,, letters through the post without previous
payment, and for the ' gradual restraint of the practice
itself, yet it considered that the order by the Postmaster_
General of the 27th day of January last, under the autho-
rity of a Treasurywarrant o the 29th day of January last,

which absolutely deprives the public of this privilege, by
directing thit all home letters posted after the 10th day
of February last, and not prepaid ' should be opened at
the Post-office and returned to the writers, would expose
individuals to serious inconvenience and injury : and
Anther, that the compulsoiy prepayment of foreign and
colonial letters, under like penalties, required revision.
The hon. gentleman, after a•few observations, withdrew his
motion.