The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-12 00:00:00

STANDING ORDERS REVISION.

Mr. WILSON PATTEN moved the nomination of
the following select committee, to revise the standing
orders :—Mr. Wilson Patten, Mr. Henley, Mr. Bou-
verie, Mr. Fitzroy, Mr. Sotheron, Mr. Evelyn Denison,
Sir W. Heathcote, Mr. Greene, Mr. Strutt, Sir Robert
Ferguson, Mr. Brotherton, Lord Stanley, Mr. Tatton
Egerton, Mr. Bonham Carter, and Mr. Ewart :—with
power to send for persons, papers, and records ; five to
be the quorum.

Agreed to.
VALIDITY OF' PROCEEDINGS (HOUSE OF
COMMONS) BILL.

This bill was read a second time and ordered to be
read a third time this evening.
METROPOLIS LOCAL MANAGEMENT BILL.
The house went into committee on this bill, commenc-
ing with clause 69 postponed from yesterday morning's
sitting.

Clauses up to 75 were agreed to.
On clause 76,
Sir B. HALL introduced an amendment to the effect
that the owners or builders of new streets should in the
first instance be obliged to put those streets into a pro-
per state of repair and pavements, and subsequently
that should be dose by the local authorities.
After some remarks by Mr. HENLEY and Sir H.
WILLOUGHBY,
The clause as amended was agreed to.
Clauses 78 and 79 were also agreed to after some
amendments. The effect of the latter clause is to pre-
vent gas companies from selecting particular streets in
a parish to light, but compels them to light the whole
of a district or none.

Clause 80 was expunged.
Clauses 81 to 86 were agreed to after amendments.
Clauses 87 and 88 were expunged.
Clauses 89 to 97 were agreed to.
Clauses 98 to 111 were agreed to.
On clause 112 some dismission, in which Mr. Henley,
Lord R. Grosvenor, Lordt Ebrington, Sir B. Hall, Sir
H. Willoughby, and Mr. Williams took part, arose as
to the limitation of powers of parochial authorities, but
it was eventually agreed to as amended.
Clauses 113, 114, and Ll 5 were agreed to without any
discussion.
Clause 116 was agreed to with a few verbal amend-
ments.
Clause 117 was adopted without discussion.
On clause 113 being pat, which gave protection to the
water companies of the nie tropolis, some discussion took
place, and several amendments were proposed.
Mr. Alderman CHALLIS objected to the clause, con-
sidering that the water companies of the metropolis were
sufficiently secure, and required no protection. If the
clause was persevered in as proposed to be amended, he
should certainly give it his decided opposition..
After some further discussion the amendments were
-withdrawn, and the clause as originally proposed was
ordered to stand part of the) bill.
Clauses up to 123 were agreed to without material
amendments.

On clause 124 being put,:
Sir H. WILLOUGHBY said that it was objection-
able, inasmuch as it would call upon all parishes to pay
their rates in a lumping snio.i.
Mr. WILLIAMS was airraid that the clause would
greatly interfere with the ric hts of electors.
Sir B. HALL said that ht t bad been advised that the
clause would not interfere with the rights of electors,
inasmuch as the public officers of any parish might, if
they chose, make these rates payable at a time that
would not interfere with the rights of electors.
Mr. HENLEY deprecated any rate being made on
one sum. They might be very well for persons of capi-
tal, but with respect to the poor man it was a very dif-
erent question.
Sir B. HALL consented to the amendment of the
clause, so as to prevent the evil complained of.
The clause was then agreed to.
The house then resumed.
The CHAIRMAN reported prozreas, and obtained
leave to sit again on Thursday, at 12 o'clock.
The house adjourned shortly before four to six o'clock.

The house ad;ourned at 6 o'clock.
j PETITIONS.
Mr. Cowan presented a petition from two places in
Scotland, in favour of the Lord Advocate's Bill for Edu.
cation. Petitions were ali“o presente:l by Capt.
from Bath, in favour of the Sunday Trading Bill ; by
Mr. Sch.lefield, from the vi'orking-men of the metropo-
lis, in favour of opening the National Gallery and Bri-
tish Museum on Sunday• and by Mr. Williams, from
the
clerZY and architects' of Lambeth, in favour of the
repeal of the B•er Act of last session.__.

OE R FISHERIES.
OD the motion of YS OYSTER FISHERIES.
On the mUtton of Sir G. B. PECHELL, copies
of the
several letters frorn'tile Board of Trade of the 28th day
of April, 1847, to the Commissioners of Customs,

and of the 31st day of July, 1849, to Messrs. Royston,
Alston, and Gibbs, on the subject of the oyster fishery
in the seas on the east coasts of England ; and a return
of all British and French fishing vessels that have
been seized under the provisions of the act for carry-
ing into effect the convention with France concerning
the fisheries, since the let day of January 1852 ; with
the date of such seizure, were ordered to b 3 laid upon
the table.
[LEFT SITTING.]

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, MIT 7.
Notice is hereby given that her Majesty will hold a
Drawing-room at St. James's Palace, on Thursday, 14th
June next, at two o'clock.
LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, JUNE 5.
Notice is thereby given, that her Majesty will hold
a levee at St. James's Palace, on Wednesday, the 27th
inst., at two o'clock.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, JUNE 9.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Antoine
Ernest Bresson as Consul at Gibraltar for the Emperor of
the French.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. Carlos
Crawford Dick as Vice-Consul at Glasgow for the Oriental
Republic of the Uruguay.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, JUNE 12.
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The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received a
Despatch from her Majesty's Consul at Rotterdam, en-
closing a Notice to Mariners, issued by the Netherlands
Minister of Marine, a translation of which is subjoined. a
(Copy) MARINE DEPORTMENT.