The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-08 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS-THIS EVENING.

The SPEAKER took the Chair at 4 o'clock.
Sir A. GUINNESS took the oaths and his seat for Dublin.
MR. REARDON AND THE LIBERAL PARTY.
Mr. C. BENTINCK gave notice that on Friday next on
going into committee of supply he should call the atten-
tion of the house to a letter written by the right hon.
member for South Lancashire to a person unknown with
reference to Mr. Reardon and the Liberal party.
NO VA SCOTIA. _ _

Mr. BRIGHT gave notice that on the 16th he should
call the attention of the house to a petition he had pre-
sented from Nova Scotia.

METROPOLITAN POLICE.
. .

Mr H. LEWIS asked the Secretary of State for the
Home Department whether it was his intention to lay upon
the table of the house copy of the evidence taken by, and
of any report made to, the Secretary of State for the
Home Department by the committee appointed by him to.
conduct certain inquiries into the management of the me-
tropoli.an police?

fir. HAIL DY said he did not intend to print the report
as the inquiry was a departmental one, and looked upon
as a confidential inquiry.

RETIRING OFFICERS

Captain MACKINNON asked the First Lord of the
Admiralty if the statement contained in an article in
the Army and Navy Gazette of the 16th of May, 1868, that
the opinion of the law officers of the Crown in 1862
on the F. G. captains' reserved list was formed from a
falsified copy of the Order in Council of 1851, which go-
verned that list, and that such alteration in the wording
of the Order in Council misstated the case, as laid before
the law officers of the Crown, and caused an adverse
judgment to their claim, was true ; and, if so, did he in-
tend to persist in refusing the claims of those officers ?
Mr. CORRY said he had inquired into the whole mat-
ter, and he was enabled to say that no such falsified list
was at all considered.
THE RITUAL COMMISSION.

Mr. W. LESLIE asked the Secretary of State for the
Home Department how soon the Appendix to the Second
Report of the Ritual Commission, which had been for some
weeks in the hands of her Majesty's printers, would be de-
livered to the public?
Mr. HARDY said he really could not say. It was a
very bulky volume, containing over 1,700 pages.
CLERKS OF THE PEACE.

Mr. GORST asked the Secretary of State for the Home
Department whether it was the duty of the clerks of the
peace, on or before the 10th instant, to issue their
precepts to the overseers of their respective districts,
with general instructings for the proceedings of the over-
seers in reference to registro.tiou ; and whether it was
possible to stop the issue of such precepts; or whether
such precepts would have to be hereafter cancelled by the
subsequent loss of fresh precepts, containing differentia-
Unctions to the various overseers ?

Mr. HARDY said the clerks of the peace had no power
to alter the law, and, therefore, until Parliament repealed
an act it must be obeyed.
THE PUBLIC SUPPLIES—THE NEW PARLIA-

MENT, •
Mr. CHILDERS asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer
for how many months of the present financial year it was
intendel tb take the remaining votes in supply, including
those to be reported this day ?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it was
intended to take the supplies for the whole of the year.
(Hear, hear.) That course had been taken when a go-
vernment, which was not the casa with the present one,
was labouring under the carrying of a vote of
want of confi !Once. He thought had he taken
them only for nine months the greatest difficulty
would be occasioned to the public service. It was only
just that time should be givoi for those parties to register
themselves under the new Reform Bill, and it was the great
desire of her Majesty's Government to get the supplemen-
tary measures to the Reform Bill so forward as to enable
all parties to take advantage of the 20th of July. He
thought that, taking the most sanguine view of matters,
and supposing all the supplementary measures to pass, it
would be almost impossible for the new Parliament to meet
except for a very few days before Christmas next—(hear,
hear)— and that it would be some days before that Parlia-
ment could go into a committee of supply. He thought it
would be fine steeringcould they surmountthe debate on the
address, and then go into committee. Under such cir-
cumstances it had been thought advisable to take the
votes of supply for the entire year—(hear, hear) and not
for nine months. (Hear, hear.) It was a burning desire
with the Government to got the Parliament dissolved
(hear, hear)—ia order that the opinion of the
couutry might be taken on a very important
subject, iu order that they might be relieved
from a state of thing's that had been rendered almost
intolerable. (Rear, hear.)
MORNING SITTING.
In reply to Mr. IiANKEY . . .

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Mr. DISREALI said the morning sitting to-m)rrow was
one apart from the arrang,meut ho had put forth at the
commencement of the session. Ho would give the house
an opportunity of expressing its opinion on that point
before any alteration was finally made.
THE IRISH PRISONERS.

Sir F. HEYGATE asked the Chief Secretary for Ire-
land whether there was any truth in the statements, copied
from the Weekly Roos newspaper by the Irish cor-
respondent of the Times of the Ist of Juno, to
the effect that the Crown solicitor, Mr. S. L. Ander-
son, offered John P. Murray £lOO sterling, with a
Government situation in Ireland or the colonies, provided
that he would give such information as would convict Col.
Nagle and the other prisoners of the so-called Jackmel
expedition?
The Earl of MAYO said the assertion was totally and
entirely false. (Hear, hear.)
THE ASSASSINATION OF THE DUKE OF