The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-24 00:00:00

IRISH APPOINTMENTS.

On the motion that the house at its rising should a
journ until Monday next,
Mr. MACARTNEY asked if the appointment of an
Income tax Commissioner which had recently been
made was to fill up the vacancy occasioned by the re-
tirement of Mr. O'Flaberty, the Irish Commissioner ?
Lord PALMERSTON replied in the negative.
Mr. F. FRENCH complained that it was too much
the practice of appointing Englishmen to Irish offices.
He thought such offices ought to be more freely dis-
tributed amongst Irishmen.
Mr. WILSON declared that the appointment to
which special reference had just been made in no way
related to Ireland. Its duties were wholly confined to.
England.

The subject then dropped.
INTERMENT ACT.
Mr. A. PELLATT drew attention to the imperfec-
tions which prevailed in the existing Interment Act.
They were so framed as to place Dissenters at the mercy
of the bishops, and the consequence was that they were
compelled, when burying their dead upon consecrated
ground, to dispense with the services of their own minis-
ters, and put up with those of clergymen belonging to
the Church of England. (Hear, hear.) In
point of fact, the bishops refused to consecrate
the Church portion of a cemetery unless it was walled
off from that appropriated to Dissenters ; and he, there.
fore, called upon the house:to deal with the subject imme..
diately, by taking the law of consecration out of the
hands of the bishops, and bring it within the jurisdic.
tion of the civil government.

Lord PALMERSTON did not anticipate that there
would be any difficulty in this matter so far as the me-
tropolis wai concerned. No metropolitan graveyard hal
been closed which was not previously reported against,
while he was given to understand that those grave.
yards that had been closed had made ample provisions
for the burial of the dead in cemeteries.
Mr. FITZROY defended the existing law, and stated
that in the case of public cemeteries, Dissenters and
Churchmen contributed in equal proportion towards
their support.
Mr. HADFIELD said the hon. member for South-
wark had twice attempted to bring this subject formally
before the house, and twice bad he been counted out.
This evening's discussion, however, had by no means
exhausted the'subject, and since he thought the " count-
ings out " were attributable to official interference,
nwotuld still
persevere until he got a night for ventilating
he hoped the honourable memberentilatig the
whole
question.
Mr. W. WILLIAMS denounced the practice of
counting out whenever the question for discussion was
imp:flat:Ude to the Government.
After a few words from Mr. MALINs the motion for
adjournment was agreed to.
NEWSPAPER STAMP BILL.
Mr. DEEDES gave notice that on the motion for the
second reading of the Newspaper Stamp Bill, he should
move as an amendment that the second reading be post.
poned until after the Chancellor of the Exchequer had
made his financial statement.
DWELLING-HOUSES (SCOTLAND) BILL.
This bill was read a second time and ordered to be
committed.

• EDUCATION OP THE PEOPLE OF SCOTLAND.
The LORD-ADVOCATE, in moving for leave to bring
in a bill to provide for the education of the people of Scot.
land, begged to remark in the first place that the bill wag
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