The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-09 00:00:00

HOUSE OF LORDS-LAST EVENING.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
shortly before four o'clock.

THANKS TO THE ARMY IN ABYSSINIA.
The Earl of MALMESBURY stated that in conse-
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COTTON STATISTICS BILL.
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This bill was read a second time.
METROPOLIS SUB-WAYS BILL.

This bill was read a third time and passed.
The house then adjourned at twenty minutes past five
o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS-LAST 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
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NOVA 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 11. 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 tin
Home Department by the committee appointed by him to
conduct certain inquiries into the management of the me-
tropoliian police?

Mr. HARDY 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, tint
the opinion of the law officers of the Crown in 1832
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 tho Secretary of State for the
Home Department how soon the Appendix to the Second
Report of the Ritual Comniisiion, which had been for some
weeks in tho 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, co or before the 10th instant, to issue their
precepts to the overseers of their respective districts,
with general instructions for the proceedings of the over-
seers in reference to registration ; 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 different in-
structions to the various overseers ? •
Mr. HARDY said the clerks of the peace had no power
to altor the law, and,
therefore, until Parliament repealed
an act it must be obeyed.
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