The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-03 00:00:00

POST-OFFICE.

Mr. ANSTEY gave notice that to-morrow he should
ask the Home Secretary whether it was true that the
regular order of getting up appointments in the Post-
office_, H
had been departed from in the ease of the chief
clerk to the money-order office.
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contract or otherwise, the work was done by
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these four years, showing
balance-sheet for each of
each year on the London Gazette; the profit or loss in
to whom paid or disposed ot ; eye; also, if profit, staVng
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funds supplied. Similar return forloss' stating from what
zetle, for the same period: and, the Edinburgh Ga-
s
:or the Dublin Gazette, from the period
returns, yearly,
pa-
tentee was paid a commuted allowaece.also when the
the Government establishment of the Royal accounts of
seamen at Greenwich, in the year 1849, ,t
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veral officers in the military department and in
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branch ; the number of pensioner., and establishment;4the civil
the number of superannuated officers, and the total e
pease in the year: and, of the moneys 'expended uponl
rep miring and extending farm-houses, &c., in that year,
exhibiting the tame kind of account in detail for 1849
as the Return No. 112, of 1840, exhibited for the year
1839.—Agreed to.
RAJA BROOKE.
Mr. HUME wished to ask the Noble Lord at the head
of the Goverment, whether the letter which appeared
in the Times newspaper, relative to the proceedings of
Raja Brooke, wa-: a lair copy of the letter which had
been received, and whether the Noble Lord had insti-
tuted any inquiries relative to the transaction alluded to?
Lord J. RUSSELL replied that the subject was con-
sidered by the Government when the papers were laid
before them. Those papers had since been laid on the
table of the House.
POST-OFFICE LABOUR ON SUNDAYS.
Mr.
"ME wished to know whether her .MajeSt3's
Government
would have any objection to allow a CM-

mittee to be appointed to consider the project on which
the House had agreed on Thursday night, to present an
address to her Majesty. He had received several com-
munications from commercial parties, stating that if the
mails were suspended on Sundays, serious consequences
would logow, of which few in the House had any
idea.—(Hear, hear.)
Lord J. RUSSELL said he could not state at pre-
sent whether the Government was prepared to consent
to the appointment of a Committee on the subject.
FREE TRADE.
Mr. DISRAELI gave note that to-morrow he would
present a petition from Lancashire signed by 15,000
persons, landowners, manufacturers, farmers, artizans,
and labourers, praying for a more equitable legislation
with respect to home labour and produce.—(Hear.)
BOARD OF HEALTH.
Mr. B. OSBORNE wished to know why the report of
the Board of Health which was laid upon the table of
the House the other day bad not been distributed among
the Members?
bir G. GREY was unable to state why copies of the
report had net been furnished to Members.
Lord ASHLEY said the distribution of the report
had been delayed in consequence of an accident hap•
petting to one of the stone tables of the lithographer.
THE STATE OF THE SERPENTINE.
Mr. B. OSBORNE wished to put another question
with reference to that report. A great many of the in-
habitants of Kensington had made strong complaints c•f
the unpleasant smell emitted from the river, or rather
pool, known as the Serpentine, and he was desirous of
knowing whether the .Government could give any ex-
planation relative to the state of that water?
Lord SEYMOUR said he had lately had an inter-
view with a deputation on the subject, and he was at pre-
sent making inquiries as to how the nuisance complained
of might be diminished.
HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY.
Mr. GLADSTONE asked the Under-Secretary for
the Colonies whether her Majesty's Government were
prepared to lay on the table of the House an account of
the measures they had taken, in pursuance of the ad-
dress of this House during the session of 1849, re-
specting the Hudson's Bay Company?
Lord J. RUSSELL was understood to reply in the
affirmative.

MURDERS IN ARMAGH.
Mr. NAPIER, asked the Hon. Secretary for Ireland,
whether the Executive, Government had directed any
proceedings to be taken in reference to the coroner of
the county of Armagh, in consequence of the publication
of the letter in the Times of 30th May, to which his
name was attached as the writer thereof ?

Sir G. GREY replied in the negative.
OATHS BILL.

Mr. NEWDEGATE wished to ask the Noble Lord
when he intended to proceed with the Bill relating to the
oath of abjuration ?
Lord J. RUSSELL said he did not intend to proceed
with it either this or next week.