The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-11 00:00:00

SAVINGS BANKS.

Mr. COLLINS asked the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer if her Majesty's Government intended to bring in
a bill with reference to savings banks, or to appoint a
select committee to consider the whole subject, including
the appropriation of savings banks securities for purposes
other than those required for answering the drafts of the
trustees of such institutions.
The CHANCELLOR. cf the EXCHEQUER said it
was not his intention to introduce a bid this session,
119 t to refer it to a select committee.

..r. _ REFORMATORY SCHOOLS.
'1
-,-. _ PARIgETT asked the Vice-President of the
"3"d of Education, whether it was the intention of the
Lords of the
Committee
cancel the minute d of Council on Education to
far as it relatedated the 2d day of June, 1856, so
ecretaar6y reformatory school?, certified
hi the S
and, e
if so, whether it was
State under the Act 17 and
18 Vic., C.
r vireeek at present allowed by
i
th ntended that the 7s. per
Hone-office for the care
inmate detained under senten:ld maintenance of sacs
school should be the only publizc moanY such reformatory
l'.3* granted for such
purpose.
Mr. CO WTER said
that no
now
8c
andllooltshahtad been
shortlyadmitted under the minute referred to,
the allowance under that minute would ce,,,
THE STATE OF THE THAMES.
Mr. ADDERLEY asked the First Commissioner of
Works, whether any report had been made by Idr.
Gurney, in reply to the reference which he promised to
make to him on the subject of the state of the Thames
opposite the Houses of Parliament ; and, if such a rii=
port had been made, whether he would lay it on the
able of the house ?
Sir B. said bad been .
Mr. Gurney,
and he would lay it on the table of the
house.

TELEGRAMS PROM INDIA.
Mr. LYGON asked the President of the Board of
Control on whom rested the responsibility of providing
that the intelligence transmitted by electric telegraph
to this country from the East Indies should represent as

accurately as possible the detailed informatio_

ft conveyed

by the mails f
Mr. Y. SMITH said, in consequence of som a "du.-
sion arising in the first instance in the tram
of telegrams from India, instructions had been igent to
the Governments of Bombay and Calcutta to ti tanqmit
them which was now done, and sometimes by tb e Con-.
suls.
CONVEYANCE OF TROOPS TO INDU
Sir S. PAKINGTON asked the First Lord of the
Treasury—l. Whether it was true that Lord Stratford
de Radcliffe telegraphed to her Majesty's Gayer nment
that he had obtained a firman from the Sultan for the
passage of troops through Egypt to India, and if so,
what was the date of that communication ! 2. Whether
it was true that Lord Elphinstone telegraphed to Lo rd
Canning that he had steam vessels at Bombay which h e
could send, if desired, to Suez, to facilitate the convey -
ance of troops overland to India. 3. What was the
date of the friendly offer made to her Majesty's Govern-
ment by the Emperor of the French to permit British
troops to pass through France on their way to India
Mr. V. SMITH, in the absence of Lord Palmerston,
answered the second question to the effect that Govern-
ment had no information of suoh a telegram having been
transmitted for the purposes named, and his private
correspondence led him to believe that no such telegram
was transmitted.
Lord PALMERSTON afterwards answered the
other question, to the effect that Lord Stratford
applied to her Majesty's Government to know if he
should apply for the permission, but that at the time,
30th June, it was inexpedient or him to do so, arising
from a variety of causes, principally the period of the
year, when the heat would have been injurious to the
troops, and the want of transports at Suez to carry them
on.

THE CLIVE FUND.
Sir J. PAKINGTON asked, what was the present
state of a fund of 70,000/., created by a donation of.
Lord Clive in 1765, who paid a legacy, which he received
to that amount, into the East India Company's Trea-
sury at. Fort William, to be at interest for the support of
European officers and soldiers who might be disabled or
decayed in the Company's service in Bengal, and for the
widows of officers and soldiers who might die on service
there
Mr. V. SMITH said that he had not yet been in-
formed by the East India Company, lontreferred the right
hon. baronet to the evidence of Mr. P. Melville, given
in 1852, which stated that the Clive Fund was absorbed,
and that the East India Company paid the pensions
granted under it out of their own revenues.
TROOPS FOR INDIA.

Mr. ADDERIif asked the Secretary of State fir
the Colonies whether any more regiments than the 95th,
89th, and 13th had been sent from the Cape to India ;
whether the 95th was not under orders for New Zealand,
and the 89th relieving them ; whether the two regiments
so deducted from the forces at the Cape were all the set-off
against the addition of the German Legion on full pay,
equal to four regiments in strength ; and, whether the
total result of an increase of forces at the Cape by two
regiments, was wholly at the expense of this country.
Mr. LABOTICHERE said that he proposed to-mor-
row to lay on the table of the house, papers that would
give information relative to the conductof the governors
of colonies in the immediate vicinity of India. He
thought that it would then be found that they had done
everything they possibly could to send assi,tance to
India—(hear)--particularly the governor of the Cape of
Good Hope, who had anticipated the direction of the
home Government, both in the supply of troops and
horses. So anxious were the people of Cape Town to
send troops to India that they volunteered to do garrison
duty to enable the governor to spare them, notwith-
standing the town was full of Kaffir prisoners.