The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-20 00:00:00

IVES I'ER.

EXTRAORDINARY FRACAS.-11exa:Ifier
private in the Scots Fusiliers, and Thomas Hazen,
proprietor of the Youthful Queen b.:er-house,
Princes-row, Pimlico, were charged with a series of
violent assaults.

After souse evidence had been given the case was
adjourned.

LuNDON GAZETTE-LAST EVENING.

WHITEHALL, MAY 18.
The Queen has been pleased to present the R v. Chris-
topher Knipe to the Vicarage of St. Clement's, Torrington,
in the county of Norfolk, and diocese of Norwich, void by
the death of the Rev. Thomas Thorogood Upwool.
WAR OFFICE, PALL-MALL, May 19.
70th Regiment of Foot—Major-General Charles Hastings
Doyle to be Colonel, vice General Sir George William
Paty, K. 0.8., deceased. •
sth Lancers —Paymaster John Warden MT:lrian to be
Paymaster.
Military Train—Lieutenant George Edward Brace to be.
Captain ; Ensign Robert Douglas Noake to be Lieu-
tenant. •
Royal Artillery—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Sidney K. Ray
. to .be Assistant-Surgeon.
Bth Foot—Captain Frederick B. M'Croa to be Major.
26th Foot—Lieutenant R. H. James to be Captain.
29th Foot—Captain Nathaniel Legard to be Major; Lieut.
Julius Tennyson to be Captain ; Egsign Liitledale to be
Licuten tnt ; Charles P. Cubitt, Gent.. to be Ensign.
31st Foot—Henry Butler, Gent., to be Ensign.
40th Foot—Ensign Charles Arthur Swinhoe to be Lieut.
by purchase; Ensign Joseph William Bazalgette, from
the 29th Foot, to be Ensign.
54th Foot —Lieutenant Dudley B. Coppinger to be Capt.
by purchase ; Ensign Walter Thomas Titnbrell to be
Lieutenant by purchase; Ensign John Elmund Harper
Crewe, from the 81th Foot, to be Ensign ; William Hol-
combe Francis, Gent., to be Ensign by purchase.
59th Foot—Ensiga Ralph Elmonstone Buchanan to be
Lieutenant.
60th Foot—Lieutenant John Gustavus Croshie to be Cap-
tain ; Ensign Arthur Pepys to be Lieutenant; Ensign
Richard Steele Rupert Fetherstonhaugh, to be Ensign.
64th Foot —Major and Brevet Lieutenant- Colonel Thomas
de Courcy Hamilton to be Lieutenant-Colonel.
68th Foot—Ensign Charles E. Ildertoc to be Lieutenant;
Charles E. rarke, Gent., to be Ensign.
74th Foot—Lieut. Simeon H. Hardy to be Adjutant.
98th Foot - Captain and Brevet-Major G. Dowden D.
Cleveland to be Major ; Lieut. Richard Townley to be
Captain ; Ensign Ernest E. M‘l3ride to be Lieutenant.
101st FootL-Lieutenant Arthur Corbet Maurice to be

Lieutenant.
102 d Foot—Lieutenant Reginald Coleridge Parry to be
Adjutant.
106th Foot—Lieutenant Henry Charles Reynolds to be

Lieutenant.
Rifle Brigade—Captain and Brevet-Major IT. R. Legge
Newdigate to be Major; Lieutenant Arthur. Blundell
George Sandys Hill to be Capt iin.
Recruiting District—Licutenaut Michael Clake to be Ad-
jutant. Half-pay—To be Lioutenant7Colonels by pur-
chase - Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Claud T.
l3ourehier, Major Somerset M. Clarke, Major Spencer
Henry Hutchins Edwards. To be Majors ty purchase
—Captain and Brevet Lieutenant-Col. Seymour John
Blane, Captain and Brevet-Major John Terence N.
O'Brien, Captain and Brevet Major Charles David Cun-
inghame Ellis, Captain Sylvester W. F. M. Wilson. To
be Captains by purchase--Lieutenant Cyril Blackburne
Tew, and Lieut. Henry Burton.
ADMIRALTY, MAY 16.
Royal Marine Light Infantry—Lieutenant Edward
Willoughby Grenville Byam to be Adjutant, vice Owen,
whose period of service has expired.

MAY 18.
William S. Luke, Esq., has been this day promoted to
the rank of Staff C‘iptain in her Majesty's Net.
George James Hodges, Esq., has this day been promoted
to the rank of Bathed Captain in her Majesty's Fleet,
under Order iu Council of 2Lith Juno, 18G7.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—Last Evening.

Amsterdam
Dit:o

Rotterdam..

11 la ... 12 19i

Antwerp ...
25 g-is 25 421
Brlssels

liamburgn ......... 13 91 ... 13 10/
l'aris Short ...• 25 15 ... 23. 221.
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DiLto„

3 Ms. ... 2 , 321 ... •2 4f.)

\Sarsritles..

25:32i ... 25 4,1

Frankfort-on-the-Main ... ... 1201 ... 120 k
Vienna — ... 11. b 5 ... 11 9U
'Trieste — ~. 11 85 ... 11 90
Petersburg
Bath!' ... ... 6 26i ... 6 2if
Madrid — ..• 48 ..• 48;
.
Cadiz
Leghorn — ... 28 13 ... 28 25
Milan
Geuoa
Naples
Palermo .... —.... 28 15 ... 28 25
Messina._ ...
_l5 ... 28 23

Lisbon ..• 51 51
Oporto 5l 4.. 51

IhIEPERIAL 2,ARLIABIENT

ROUSE OF COMMONS—Tins DAY.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at 20 minutes past 12.

LIBEL BILL.

S it C. O'LOGIILEN moved the house go into committee
on t his bill, and in doing so assured Mr. Newdegate that
there was nothing adverse to Protestantism in the bill,
and :under such circumstances he hoped the hon. gentle-
man would withdrew his opposition to the bill.
Mr..N.TEWDEGATE said he opposed the bill on general
grounds, and not upon any religious feeling. He was
quite satisfied with Lord Campbell's Act, and so, he
thoughts %..,as the country and the persons affected by
the present; measure. The law made the publisher
of any new paper responsible for any libel it might
contain, which he thought a wise provi3ion. He
had uo desire to curtail the freedom of the press. He
wished to leave th© onus of libel where it now rested,
and not to shift it to the speaker, who might be
inaccurately rat urted. He considered the bill
one for the propagation of slander, and therefore he ob-
jected to going into committee.

Mr. ROEBUCK thought the bill ought to be allowed to
go into committee, where the objections to it could be
thoroughly discu4sed. Ht thought it was of the
utmost importance that the public shOuld ly) ac-
quainted wtth all that had pitssed at a public
meeting, and not a portion of it. - The reporters were,
under the present law, prohibited from reporting anything
that was libellous, and, in the event of their doing so,
their employers sutrered. lie thought the present law re-
quired amendment, and therefore he should vote for going
into committee.

Mr. T. CHAMBEILS opposed the bill. It was a pure
sophism to say that a full report of all meetings would
propagate the truth, as according to his notion it depended
on what the truth was that was spoken. The bill would
benefit none but the lovers of scandal, and therefore he
should oppose its going into committee.
Mr. NEATE supported the bill. It was due he thought
that power should be given to reporters to represent facts.
Ho had seen reports of meetings which conveyed quite a
different complexion to that which actually took place.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL supported the bill, be-
cause it gave the power to the person who believed him-
self injured of contradicting the statement, and it still
made the newspaper editors who carelessly and
recklessly published a libel responsible for any
act of that nature, and also liable to make compensa-
tion for the injury inflicted. Where reporters were ad-
mitted to any meeting, it was highly necessary that they
should have the power of reporting the whole truth. Ho
thought the advantages preponderated over the disadvan-
tages in the bill, and therefore he should give it his sup-
port. (Hear, hear.)
(LEFT SITTING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS—LAST EVENING.
The Lon]) CIIINCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
wt five o'clock.

THE STOCKBROKERS (IN IRELAND) BILL.
This bill was read a first time.
FRIENDLY SOCIETIES BILL.

The Earl of MALMESBURY said that before his noble
friend proceeded with this bill, that taking into considera-
tion the state of affairs, and this was the 19th of May,
and that there were so many important measures be-
fore Parliament, it would be impossible to carry out the
conditions of this bill at this time of the session. He pro-
tested that he should be supposed to oppose the bill, as he
should have been very well satisfied that it should have
proceeded. TheiWbitsuntide holidays were approaching,
and at another period there would be plenty of time to
take into consideration the bill at a future time. He
would therefore ask the noble earl to withdraw it.
The Earl of LICHFIELD said that having had the
intimation that the Government approved of the bill he
was very reluctant to withdraw it ; but he could not,
after the remarks of the noble earl, refrain from doing
so. He now moved that the bill be discharged.
This was immediately agreed to.

CONSECRATION OF CHURCHYARD ACT (1867)

AMENDMENT BILL.

The Bishop of OXFORD, in moving the second reading
of this bill, remarked that the alteration proposed was very
small. It only proposed that there should be a larger
space around the church. It would enable them to plant
trees and make a pretty effect, which would bo an orna-
ment to a country village.
The bill was then read a second time.
The United Parishes (Scotland) Bill was committed and
passed.
The Duchy of Cornwall Amendment Bill was com-
mitted and parsed.

The Alkali Act Continuance Bill was read a second
time.

Th 3 Endowed Schools Bill was committed with amend-
ments and passed. . .

The Etehange Bonds (£1,600,000) Bill was read a third
time and passed. _ _

Lord LIFFORD moved the appointment of a select
com-nittee on the Uout;tgious Diseases Bill, which was
agreed O. _ _

Tht it lordihipg thetradjournb 1.

lIOUSS' OF COMNIONS—LAST EVENING.
Tito SPEAKER took the Chair at 4 o'clovk.
TUE lIZISII Ulll7l{oll.

Mr. GLXDSTONE asked her M tjesty's Government
what courso they propose I to take on th)se;o:‘,l reading
of the Eitablished Cnurch (Erelan I) Pal, which skulls for
Friday, the 22d inst.
Mr. .DISRAELI sai I that as the Giverument looked
upon that bill as the first st 1p towards the disestablish-
mont of the Irish Church, they intended to meet it with the
greatest opposition in their power. (Loud cries of " hear,"
from the Ministerial side of the house.)