The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-14 00:00:00

INLAND REVENUE.

Mr. CRAWFORD (for Mr. Alderman Lawrence) asked
the Secretary to the Treasury when the report of the
Commissioners of Inland Revenue for the year ended the
31st March, 1867, which was presented to the:house in
August last, would be printed and placed in the hands of
members.

Mr. [UNT replied that it would, he hoped, be in tho
hands of members to-morrow.

THE FORTIFICATIONS.

Mr. O'BEIRNE asked the Secretary of State for War
when the report of the committee appointed to superin-
tend the experiments upon the Malta and Gibraltar shields
would be placed upon the table ; and whether the com-
mittee had been instructed to superintend and repc,rt upon
the experiments to be made ri ith reference to the Ber-
muda Fort and the Plymouth Breakwater Fort ; and if
the committee had not been so instructed, was it his in-
tention to place those experiments also under their super-
intendence ?

Sir J. PAKINGTON said the report relative to the
Malta and Gibraltar shields was almost completed, and
would, he hoped, be produced in about a week. The com-
mittee had not been instructed to report upon the shields
at either Bermuda or Plymouth ; but the hon. member
would recollect that four shields similar to those sent to
Malta had been sent to Bermuda, so that the report would
state the strength of those shields. The target at Ply-
mouth, he believed, would be...completed in a few weeks,
when the experiments would he made at that place.
THE COMPOUND HOUSEHOLDER.

Mr. SANDFORD asked the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer whether her Majesty's Government intended to bring
forward any measure to relieve the compound house-
holders from the personal payment of rates, to which they-
had been made liable by the repeal of the Small Tene-
ments Act ? _ _ _

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he
presumed that the hon. member did not refer to those who
lived in Parliamentary boroughs, 'because there were none
in those places. With respect to the point in question he
had to remind the hon. member that the alteration with
respect to the compound householder had been carried
unanimously by the house. The act that terminated
their existence only came into operation on the 29th of
September, and as yet there had been only one rate
levied under it, so that experience at the present mo-
ment was so very limited that her Majesty's Government
had thought it uuseemlyto impugn a decision of the house
come to so unanimously. (Hear, hear, and " Oh, oh.")
NATIVE RULE IN INDIA.

Mr. KINNAIRD asked the Secretary of State for India
if he Lad any objection to lay upon the table of the house
a copy of the papers containing the opinions as to the
comparative merits of British and native rule in India,
which had been collected and sent home by Sir John
Lawrence ?

Sir S. NORTHCOTE said there would be no objection
to produce the papers.
THE ISLAND OF ST. THOHAS.
Mr. KINNAIRD asked the Under Secretary of State for
the Colonies, whether the royal mail steamers were to
continue running to St. Thomas as the place for deliver-
ing and receiving the mails, or whether it was intended to
adopt any English island for this purpose; and, if so,
what island and harbour.
Mr. ADDERLEY said the mails did not continue to
run to St. Thomas, but that another island was about to
be selected for the purpose, but no final decision had yet
been come to on the subject.
TRENT VALLEY RAILWAY.

Mr. NEWDEGATE asked the Vice-President of the
Board of Trade, whether his attention had been directed
to the dangerous state of the Nuneaton Station and level
crossing on the Trent Valley Railway, and to the fatal
accidents which have recently occurred there ; and
whether he would have any objection to lay upon the
table of the house two reports of Colonel Yolland to the
Board of Trade on this subject ?

Mr. CAVE said the attjution of the Board had been
directed to the matter, and he should have no objection to
lay the reports moved for on the tibia of the house as
soon us they were made.
THE BOUNDARY COMMISSION.

1:r. BEAUMONT asked the Secretary of State for the
Home Department when the report of the Boundary Com-
mission would be delivered to Members of Parliament?

Mr. HA t)..DY said the repOrt had been received, but that
it was very voluminous. It would be placed in the hands
of members without rho least delay.
THE COURTS OF JUSTICE.
. _

Mr. BENTINCK asked the Secretary to the Treasury
whether an architect for the New Courts of Justice had
been appointed I
Sir U. BO \VYER asked if Sir H. Cairns's proposals had
been considered, because it was most important that that
learned gentleman's proposals should be fully considered
before the new courts were erected.
Mr. HUNT said in reply that no architect had yet been
appointed. The Royal Commission had no directions to
inquire into other matter than the best means of erecting
the new law courts.

NATIONAL EDUCATION.
Mr. FORSTER asked the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer whether the education of the people having been re-
ferred to in her Majesty's Speech, it was the in-
tention of the Government to bring forward
during this session any bill affecting the elemen-
tary education of the people of England and Wales?
The lion. gentleman took the opportunity of going at
some length into the question of education, and said the
time hadarrived when it was impossible to leave the educa-
tion of the rising generation to the inability of the parent or
the apathy of the public. The subject was one of the
highest importance, and as it had been referred to in her
Majesty's most gracious Speech on the opening of Parlia-
ment, he hoped the right hon. gentleman would state the
intention of the Government on the subject.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the
subject, no doubt, was one of the highest importance, but
he must decline to enter into the discussion of such a
subject at that moment. If the hon. gentleman had
made a motion on the subject the Government would not
have shrunk from stating the course they thought the
country ought to follow. (Hear, hear.) He could on that
occasion, therefore, only say that it was the intention of
the Government to introduce a measure during the
present session of Parliament with respect to
the elementary education of the children of the
working classes. (Hear, hear.) It was out of no disre-
spect to the hon. gentleman that ho declined to enter into
the discussion of the matter that evening, but solely be-
cause at that particular time he was not prepared to enter
into the consideration of a matter of such very great im-
portance.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS BILL. __ _

Mr. WALPOLE moved the second reading of this bill,
the object of which was to place the public schools at
Eton, Harrow, Westminster, and other places under better
regulations than at presented existed.
rLEFT SPEAKING.]

LONDON GAZETTE.-THIS EVENING.

WAR-OFFICE, FEB. 14.

4th Dragoon Guards - John Dalton, Gent., to be Cornet.
6th Dragoon Guards—Cornet Murdoch Gillian Maclaine
to be Lieutenant ; Cornet T. Gordon Grieve to be
Lieutenant; F. Duncombe Shafto, Gent., to be Cornet;
H. Evans Gordon, Gent, to be Cornet.
7th Dragoon Guards - Lieutenant George Watson to be

Lieutenant.
Ist Dragoons—Lieutenant T. Joseph Walker to be Cap-
tain : Cornet G. Brown Russell to be Lieutenant ; John
Alfred Maurice, Gent., to be Cornet.
3d Hussars—John William Denne Hilton, Gent., to be

Cornet.
10th Hussars—Lieutenant Thomas Bulkoley to be Cap-
tain Cornet Uvedale Edward P. 0
Lieute-
nant; the Honourable Roger Gordon Molyneux to be
Cornet.
14th Hussars—Lieutonant William Henry France Palmer
to be Lieutenant ; Cornet Gerald Edmund M'Carthy to
Cornet.
15th Hussars—Cornet George Wetherall to bo Lieutonant; Cornet.
18th Cunliffe Lister Kay, Gent., to be
18th Hussars—Lieutenant Thomas H. Monteith Brown,
to be Lieutenant; Ensign Montagu Maule Slade to be
Cornet.
Royal Artillery—Major-General Burke Cuppage to be
Colonel-Commandant., Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-
Colonel Hugh Campbell, C. 8., to be Colonel, Captain and
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Gaspard Le Marchant Tup-
per to be Lieutenant-Colonel, Second Captain John
Theophilus Daubuz to be Captain, Lieutenant Herbert
Leonard Mitchell to be Second Captain, Lieut. Robert
Le Messurier to be Second Captain Second Captain
Donald Roderick Cameron to be Adjutant, Staff-Sur-
geon Wm. Ramsay Steuart to be Surgeon.
Stu
sto be Ensign. r Guards —Thomas William, Viscount Coke,
16th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Rhea Foulis to he Ensign.
21st Foot—Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Gus-
tavus Hume to be Major ; Captain Alfred Templeman,
ti be Major ; Lieutenant Edward Walker to be Captain ;
Ensign Bobcrt F. \Vi loughby to be Lieutenant; Gen-
tleman Cadet John Spurgin to be Ensign.
2.lth Foot—Ensign Charles Pope, to be Ensign.
28th Foot—Lieutenant Edward Brett to bnustructor of
Musketry.
35th Foot—Lieutenant Byron Cary to be Lieutenant ;
Staff-Surgeon Charles Poulton. M.D., to be Surgeon.
36th Foot—Captain George Beaneish to be Captain.
ADMIRALTY, Fan. 12.
Commander 'William Jardine has been this day pro-
moted to he a retired Captain, under her Majesty's orders
in Council of 3d August, 1860, 9th July, 1864, and 21th
March, 18i16.
bury Davenport Sarratt, Esq., has been this day
promoted to the rank of Staff Commander in her Ma-
jesty's Fleet.
John Cushen Sabben, Esq., has -aday, lon this promoted
to the rank of Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals ..111u
f Fleets on the Retired List.