The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-24 00:00:00

RADCLIFFE RACES.—(This Day.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
HEATON PARK HANDICAP.

Lazy Lass
De Ginkel

Three ran.
TWO-YEAR-OLD STAKES.

Hesperithnoa...
Cinderella
Lot Three

Thre' ran.
WILTON CUP.

Bracken
Game Pullet

... 2

Greencastle —. 3
Four ran.
STAND PLATE.

Skycutter
Pera

Fite ran. Won easy.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—(This Evening.)
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.

TRADE IN OPIUM.

The LORD CHANCELLOR laid on the table the
opinion of the law officers of the Crown, with respect to
the lvality of the manufacture and gale of opium.

NEWS FROM INDIA.

The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH said seeing the noble
lord, the Secretary of War, in his place, be begged to
DA him whether any further telegraphic intel:igencehad
been received from India.

Lord PANMIIRE said nothing further than the de-
spatch which had appeared in the newspapers had been
received.

The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH hoped be would be
allowed to suggest that it would be exceedingly conve-
nient if the Government of Calcutta, Madras, and
Bombay would endeavour to enlist the service
of some gentlemen who would be competent
to put upon paper short facts in an intelligible form.
If such a course was adopted such ambiguity would be
avoided as appeared in the last telegraphic dispatch.
Nothing was more unsatisfactory than the terms of the
despatch last received. He wished now to call the atten-
tion of the noble lord the Secretary at War to a subject
mentioned a few days ago on the subject of the number
of militia the Govern ruent proposed to embody. He under-
stood the noble lord to say that the Government had
taken a vote for 200,000/. for that purpose, and that this
sum was;to be applied to the embodiment of 10,000 men.
He begged to remind the noble lord that 30 battalions had
now been transferred to the service of the East India
Company. The expenses and pay of that force would
amount for six months to 410,0001. There were like-
wise four additional regiments of cavalry transferred to
the charge of the East India Company, whose pay
for the same period would be 29,0001. There wore
also 2,000 or 3,000 whose expense for a like
time would be 32,0001., there were likewise some sappers
and miners to be sent out whose pay might be set down
at 8,0001. Therefore, including the 450,0001., the
revenues of the country would be charged to
a less amount than usual by iabout 559,0001.
He calculated that the cost of the militia
proposed to be embodied would not amount to more than
300,0001, leaving a sum of 259,0001. surplus. He hoped
the Government would see the propriety of employing
the whole of the surplus in the erebodyment of a mili-
tia force beyond the number of 10,000 as proposed.
Lord PANMURE said the whole of the balance al-
luded to would be applied to t►he establishment of such a
force as would meet the exigencies of the case. The
noble earl should recollect that, independently of the
permanent charge of the militia, there wtro no leas
than 550 recruiting parties for the line dispersed through-
out the country. During the last three weeks no lees
than 16,000 recruits had been received.
Earl PO WIS said it would be very convenient if the
noble lord would specify the regiments of militia be
proposed to be embodied.
Lord PANMURE said as soon as the order in coun-
cil, which was a necessary preliminary step was issued,
every information on the subjmt would be given.
The subject then dropped.
THE DIVORCE BILL.

Lord REDESDALE called the aften'ion of their
lordships to what took place on Friday, relative to what
took p'ace on the subject of the consideration of the
Commons amendments to this bill Having explained
his conduct of the occasion, with a view of showing
that his motion to postpone the consideration of the
Commons'arnendments for six months was perfectly regu-
lar, and founded upon precedent. He complained of the
language used toward him by the noble and learned lord
on the Woolsack, as well as the noble earl the Lori
President of the Council. His course of prrceeding was
termed a trick, although be bad given notice of his motion,
and although be had sufficient support on that occasion
to defeat the bill altogether, he yec consented, in defer-
ence to the appeals made to him, to withdraw
his motion. He hoped that under the circumstance come
apology would be rendered him for the unjustifiable lan-
guage with which he had been aisaihd.
Earl GRANVILLE confessed his surprise at the

course taken by the noble lord previously, and' there-
fore be was induced to express his opinion rather warmly.
Before the discussion terminated he expreFsed his belief
that the noble lord, however unusual, was acting en-
tirely in accordance with precedent, and his own
sense of justice. Under these circumstance he felt that
he had no need to apologise.
[LEFT SITTING

HOUSE OF COMMON 9—(This Day.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at 3 o'clock,

THE ANN WILSON-EIIIGRANT VESSEL.

Mr. COI3DETT asked Mr. Secretary Labouchere
whether he had received any information with regard to
an emigrant vessel called the Ann Wilson, which sailed
from the Port of Liverpool on the 29th day of November
last ; particularly as regarded the alleged overcrowded
state of that vessel, the short supply of water, provisions
and medical comforts on board, and the fatal effects that
ensiled ; and whether any inquiry had been or would be
made into the factsl

Mr. LABOUCHERE said that no official informa-
tion had been received from the colony, but application
was made to the owners on the Government being made
aware of the circumstances, and an answer was returned
stating that she was,properly provisioned, and although
she was surveyed for 186 adults, she only took out 169.
He thought there must bo some misapprehension about
the matter, An inquiry would be icstituted, and if the
owners were found to blame, proceedings would be insti-
tuted against them for the recovery of theumal penalties,