The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-05 00:00:00

PETITIONS.

Mr. COWAN presented a petition from Edinburgh
in favour of an extension of the suffrage.
Mr. ADDERLEY presented a petition from the Cape
of Good Hope, praying that the promised constitution
for that colony may be carried into immediate effect.
Mr. W. MILES presented a petition from Somerset•
shire, praying that pauper lunatics might be confined in
proper lunatic asylums.
NOTICES OF MOTION.
Lord DUDLEY STUART gave notice that on an
early day he should move for the pro4uction of any pa-
pers that may have been received from foreign Govern-
mentt relative to the residence of political refugees.
Colonel SIB THORP gave notice that next week he
should move for a return of the expenses attendant upon
the removal of the Marble Arch from Buckingham Pa-
lace to Hyde-park.
Mr. MO WATT gave notice that Ott an early day he
should move for leave to bring in a Bill to improve the
water supply of the metropolis.
'PRESERVED MEAT.

Mr. MILES moved for returns shelving the date and
terms of the contract for preserved mcat for the use of
her Majesty's navy with Goldner, alai), the quantities
issued since the commencement of tb e above contract,
specifying the quantities fit for use, as well as the quan-
tities either condemned or returned into store as unfit
for use, from any of her Majesty's af;tores or ships whe-
ther at home or abroad; of the quantity of cases, if
any, the contractor has been allo wed to withdraw
from her Majesty's stores after having supplied the same,
stating how long such cases had been: in store; of corn.
plaints, if any, made of the state of i;kte salt provisions
issued to her Majesty's ships on the West India station
during the year 1851, showing the extra quantity
issued to make up the regulated riMowance, and the
quantities condemned or sold on her Majesty's account;
and the contract prices of beef and :pork for the years
1848, 1849, 1850, and 1851.—Agreed to.
ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH BETWEEN ENGLAND
AND IRELAND..

Mr.HERBERT wished to know from the Right Hon.
Gentleman the Secretary of State for the Home De-
partment if Government had received any communica.
tions relative to laying down the electric telegraph be.
tween England and Ireland?

Sir GEORGE GREY said he hul received several
proposals from different parties on th.e3 subject. These
parties were anxious to know what iiiisistance Govern-
ment was disposed to render them in the matter, but be
had delayed returning any answers u atil he had ascer-
tained which was the most likely company to carry out
the project. He admitted that it was highly desirable
that such a communication should be established.

LIBRARY COMMITTEE. --
Sir R. H. INGLIS moved the re- appointment of the
Library Committee as follows:—" That a Standing
Committee of 16 Members be appointed, to assist Mr.
Speaker in the direction of the Library, and to whom
shall be referred all matters relating thereto:—Sir Ro-
bert Harry Inglis, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Lord John Russell, Mr. Disraeli, Mr. Goulburn, Sir
James Graham, the Lord Advocate, Viscount Mahcn,
Mr. Attorney-General, Mr. Pendarres, Sir Wm. Somer-
ville, Mr. Monckton Milnes, Mr. Gladstone, Sir David
Dundas, Sir John Young, end Mr. Clive. Five to be
the quorum."—Agreed to.
BEER HOUSES IN SCOTLAND.
Mr. FORBES MACKENZIE moved that the House
now resolve itself into a Committee, to take into consi-
deration the sale of beer in Scotland.
Mr. SPOONER seconded the motion.
Mr. HUME objected to the motion. Be thought no
case had been made out for the necessity of legislation
on this subject, and until there had he should oppose any
mar rept to move in the matter.
Mr. EWART said that he hoped the -Hon. Member
would offer some explanation to the House before he pro-
ceeded with this Bill.
Mr. F. TifACKENZIE explained that this was a
measure which had passed the House of Lords last ses-
sion, but had been brought into this Hous a too late to be
considered.

The House then went into Committee, and leave was
given to bring in a Bill on the subject.
COUNTY RATES.

Mr. FRESHFIELD olitained leave to 'bring in a Bil
t 9 amend the laws relating to the assessment and collec.
tion of county rates in England and Wales.
THE QUEEN'S SPEECH.
The Address in reply to the Queen's Sip eech was con•
sidered and agreed to.

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On the •
granted to her
was a. motion of Mr. CORNEWALL LEWIS, it
tothact the House should go istto Committee
_o_nsider and report on the supplies to be
Majesty.
the Government to AND NAVY.
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in regard to the whether it was the intention of
arm.arry out any of the rec ommendations
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the House, that the lamps suspended from the
eld assure
were safe, and that there was no danger of their ceiling
upon the heads of Members • falling
Lord SEYMOUR said, in conaequen.ol, of the
state-
ment made yesterday that one of the chandeliers had
Callen down and gone through the floor, he had made
inquiries on the subject, and he had rec aived a paper,
signed by the clerk of the works, an d the contrac-
tor and the foreman engaged in sv.spending the
chandeliers, stating that no such occurr euce had hap-
P'ned, and that they were perft ctly se ; ure and safe.
It appeared, however, that, on 3rd Janus! ry, while fixing
one of them, a workman let fail a piece of iron which
went through the floor.
Mr. B. OSBORNE said he did not tr.ak-e the state-
ment on his own authority, but on that of a Member of
the Government, the Member for Lic hfield, whose
authority was the seconder of the Address..
Mr. HUME asked whether any steps bead been taken
to improve the ventilation of the House?
A motion was, however, made to adjc Mall the House,
which was put and agreed to.
The House then adjourned.

SHIPPING DISASTERS ON THE WELSH. COAST.-1 Lie
late severe gales have been productive of serious disasters to
the shipping on the coast of Wales, and the various harbours
of refuge have been crowded with vessels have put in
for shelter, having sustained more or less da.mage. At Thorn
the George and
aepstow to Dublin,
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was totally lost, the crew taking to the boa.t and barely
escaping with life. The wreck did not escape the plundering
propensities of some persons, who at ole a quantity of the
materials. The haven has been crowded with vessels, as
likemise have the roads at Penarth. 'bieyeral vessels received
damage at the Mumbles.

LONDON,

FRANCE.

The Ministers of Justice, War, and the Interior
have addressed the following circular to the Pro-
cureurs-Generaux

" Monsieur le Procureur-General,--Animated with
the desire of putting an end to the difficulties which
have been caned by the numerous arrests which have
been made in consequence of the late disturbances,
and of seeing society delivered from the pernicious
elements which threaten to dissolve it, the Go-
vernment wishes that a decision shall be come
to in the shortest possible delay on the fate of all the
individuals compromised in the insurrectionary move-
ment, or attempts at disturbance which have taken place
since the 2d of December. Already, by a circular of
the 29th nit., inserted in the Moniteur, the Minister of
the Interior has given orders to the Prefects to imme-
diately set at liberty all those prisoners whom they
shall consider to have been only led astray, and who
may be released without any danger to public
security. The prefects have hastened to re-
spond on this subject to the intentions of the Prince
President, and those who have not yet done so, wili
order the immediate release of all those who may be
set at liberty without any further examination, and
give an account of the same as soon as possible to the
Ministers of the Interior and of War. Atter the execu-
tion of this measure there will remain in the prisons cer-
tain persons more or less compromised, with regard to
whom it is also desirable to come to a prompt determina-
tion. The Government has thought that, in order to
reconcile at the same time the interest of justice, of
general safety, and of humanity, that it cannot do
better than confide the trial of these prisoners in each
department to a kind of mixed tribunal, composed of
functionaries of different orders, sufficiently connected
with the places where the facts have occurred to be
able to appreciate their real character, and sufficiently
high placed in the hierarchy to understand the im-
portance of such a mission, to resolutely accept the re-
sponsibility of it, and to offer to society as to individuals
every guarantee of intelligence and impartiality. In order
to leave to these departmental commissions free liberty
of appreciation, all the judicial, administrative, and
military authorities who have been up to this time
charged to examine into the late events, such as the
military commissions, the examining magistrates, &c.,
are now completely to cease their operations. All the
documents connected with the examinations which they
have already gone into will be immediately sent to the
prefectures, to be there placed at the disposal of the
commission. The following is the manner in which this
commission will be formed, and the manner in which it
is to proceed:—
"1. The commission will be composed at the chief
town of a military division, of the commandant of the di-
vision of the prefect, and of the procureur-general or
procureur of the Republic ; at the chief town of court of
appeal which shall not be the chief town of a military
division, of the prefect of the military commandant of the
department, and of the procureur-general ; in all the
other departments, of the prefect, the military command-
ant, and the procureur of the Republic of the chief town.
" 2. The Commission thus composed will assemble at
the hall of the prefecture. There it will call for all the
documents which have been placed at its disposal, either
by the parquets, by the military commissions, or by the
civil administrations; and, after a mature examination,
will take with regard to each prisoner a decision,
which shall be transcribed on a register, with the motives
in support of it, and which shall be signed by three
members. If in the case of some of the prisoners the
documents collected aro not sufficiently explanatory
it
will order more information to be obtained, which may
be done by any judicial, administrative, or military agent,
indistinctly.
" 3. The measures which may be applied according to
the degree of culpability, the political and private ante-
cedents, and the family position of the accused, are the
following:—Being sent before the Councils of War,
transportation to Cayenne, transportation to Algeria
(two classes, expressed by the words more, less), expul-
sion from France, momentary removal from the terri-
tory, the obligation to reside in a determined
being sent before the correctional police, being
placed under the surveillance of the Ministerial
department of police, and being set at liberty.
However, the commission will send before the Councils
of War only such individuals as are evidently guilty of
murder or an attempt to murder, and will pronounce
transportation to Cayenne only on such of the accused
as have been previously tried and condemned by the
ordinary courts of law. In the departments which have
not been declared in a state of siege transportation to
Cayenne shall be pronounced against individuals of the
first category, even when not previously tried and con-
demned by the ordinary courts of justice.
"4. As soon as the deliberations shall have been
closed, a list of the matters decided on shall be drawn up
in triplicate and sent to the Ministers of Justice, Inte-
rior, and War. The said list shall contain-Ist, the
names, place of birth, and place of residence of the ac-
cused; 2d, the decision come to in each case; and 3d, in
a column for observations, a succinct sketch of the trial,
and, particularly, the motives which may have deter-
mined the commission to place the accused on the cate-
gory indicated in the decision, so that the Government
mayjudge of the merit of the several classifications.
" The present instructions have been deliberated on in
common by the Ministers of Justice, Interior, and War;
they are consequently to be executed by the designated
functionaries dependent on the three departments. These
functionaries will have to be perfectly penetrated with
the double motive which has dictated them; accord
amongst all the authorities, in order to co-operate in a great
measure of justice and general safety; and rapidity in com-
ing to a decision, in order to terminate as quickly as
possible a situation which cannot last any longer. The
Government reckons sufficiently on the intelligence and
devotedness of the members composing the commission,
to be convinced that they will proceed together in a
perfect understanding, and with all the activity pos-
sible towards the end which is to be attained. The Go-
vernment desires to have the fate of all the incrimi-
nated persons decided at late st by the end of February.
.. 6. These instructions are not applicable to the de-
the first military division. For
partments composing
the Other departments, they are to replace those which
may have been hitherto sent on the same subject to the
beads of the Departments of Justice, the Interior, and
the Army, and which are to be now considered null and
void.

. _
" Receive, Monsieur le Procureur-Gen6cal, the assur.
ante of our distinguished consideration.
" ABBATUCCI, Minister Of Justice.
"A. DE ST. ARNAUD, Minister Of War. "
F. DE PERSIGNY, Minister of the Interior."