The Sun.
London, England, 1855-05-12 00:00:00

AFFIRMATIONS (SCOTLAND) BILL

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The report of this bill was received.
FISHERIES (BRITISH ISLANDS AND
FRANCE) BILL.
The house then went into committee on the Fisheries
(British Islands and France) Bill, and agreed to all its
elauses.:

CHARITABLE TRUSTS (1855) BILL.
The Charitable Titieta (1855) Bill passed through com•
mittee.

Their lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—YESTERDAY.
The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.
The Hartlepool Gas and Water Bill, and the Folke-
stone Improvement Bill were read a third time and
passed.

- The following bills were considered, and ordered to be
read a • third time :—Aberdare Valley Railway ; Dun-
dalk and Blackrock Railway ; Dundalk and Enniskillen
Railway ; Glasgow and South-Western Railway ; Lon-
don Necropolis and National Mausoleum.
The following bills were read a second time : Bill's
Estate ; Downing-street Public Offices Extersion ;
Woolmer Forest ; and National Loan Fund Life Assu-
rance Society (Stamp duty on Memorials thereupon).
PETITIONS.
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Petitions were presented by Sir J. Walnisley, from a
congregation in Loughborough, praying for the abolition
of church rates; by Sir S. a petition very
numerously signed by the ileabitants of Nor 'icil
against the Sunday Beer Bill; also petitions for the ,boli-
tion of church rates ; by Mr. T. Egerton, from Run..orn,
against the grant to Mayoooth ; by Nlr. E. Ball, several
petitions from Cambridgeshire against the Mayn ioth
grant ; also, several petitions for the abolition of ("lurch
rates ; by Mr. Cobden, several petitions from York Shire
against church rates; by Mr. Lowe, two, petitions l'rora
New South Wales against the constitution sent 1n me
by the Legislative Council, and praying the house to
take the framing of a constitution into their own hands ;
also a petition from Kidderminster against church etes ;
by Sir W. Clay a number of petitions from metropolitan
parishes against church rates.
THE VIENNA NEGOTIATIONS.

Mr. M. GIBSON gave notice that he should move
on the earliest day available that a humble addr' ss be
Presented to her Majesty to thank her for the p -oto-
cola laid upon the table of the house, aria to
represent
to her Majesty that the assent of
Cllanr ?e, England, Austria, Russia, and Turkey, i'. the
oiple of the four original articles, which forme,, the
• Of tlae.negotiation, offered a reasonable ex-ecta-
unix that e
hotTenciscaeinitedi
ayzdiattiar might be terminated, and to ii.form
the house have heard with nuch
broken t.,_
third
as to the precise mode of corn-
be broken ofc.A.-ivrr•littea.darilAtiilielicazused the negotiatior. s tl
Mr. PELL
Attorney or Solicitor Ge-
lilinuaiblerilorlt of the Commissioner's of
neral, when the
Patents, required by
to be presented annually to str':ol.ll6:bicetlai., ed.uBp3i,:itti3l,
counts up to December 31,
185.:e
house-,
tbwaittlith:repor:
table ?
upon the table
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL rept
was an annual one, and would be laidedu
about the same time as last year.
OFFICERS' STAMPED RECEIPTS.
Major FEILDEN asked the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, whether officers in the army and the ki 'tic
were bound to give a stamped receipt for their pay, to
the paymaster, every fortnight, or whenever they ri ight
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-, Nbe_paid.an amount exceeding forty shillings ?
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, I',.' „ ''.-1::;;,.,,,i-..:_,%.: . , tor any description of military pay, either for
-' -A '-',• : 7.4.4t,..-"r!%;; 14 Ose,regular service or on half-pay. (Hear..)-
V.k._\4- 1,,,,,,,,.?4.:iii,,,:‘ ,-,;. -PAYMENT OF COSTS.
'l\''''..l),,', , 17-77i4 Wlienat ~".,.."41(INSON asked the Attorney-General
\--:-.4- ''-":` i.:;i:',..stiatir • '""` his intention to propose an alteration it, the
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Z Ati.‘(l, \k'-1' la with regard to the payment of coats by
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