The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-15 00:00:00

NEW MEMBERS.

Sir John Trollope, Lord H. Ltnnox, Mr. Disraeli, Mr.
Christopher, Mr. Napier, and Mr. Whiteside took the
oathaiand their seats on their rp-election.

NEW WRIL

On the motion of Mr. F, MACKENZIE, new writs
were ordered for the borough of Dungannon in the room
of 61e tinn. Mr. Knox, who had accepted the office of
one of her Majesty's Grooms in Waiting, and for the
borough of Coleraine in the loom of Mr. Boyd, who had
accepted the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds.
, PRIVATE BILLS.
The following Bills were read a second time, and
ordered to be commuted:
Aberdare Market and Slaughter-houses.
Belfast Harbour.

Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire Junction Railway
(Powers to lease,&e.)
Bramley and Ridgewick Read.
Cambridge to Ely and other Roads.
Glamford Briggs Waterworks.
Kingston and Shestbridge Roads.
Leeds Waterworks.
LONDON CORPORATION BILL.
On the motion for the second reeding of this Bill,
Mr. lIUME opposed the motion. Th. Bid.i
related
lisDnsed of as a
to much too vast,,; an interest to he
private Bill. The 13; ~ugh, to have been made a public
measure.—(Heir, nr.)
Mr. W. WILLIAitS knew nothing of the object of
the Bill, but be egt.e.A that it ought to be blade a public
meamre,
Sir JA'yIES MUM et-id, all that the Bill proposed to
do was to relieve the public of the obnoxious tax known
as ithe City toll, which yielded note :Ajmething like
6,0001. a-goer. Anotlwr provition is the Bill would
give all the .iatia
and tzix-peyers the right of
voting at the "T•ction of all their corporate offio..'re,
in-
tna Lord .Mayor hear.) A
third object of the Bill vies to repeal the law which made
it compulsory upon a man to take up his frecdom before
he could coramenca business within the City. In future,
all that would be required of him Would be that he
should have resided a year and a day and tenanted some
premises for that period, within the City.—(Hear.)
Mx% ROEBEJ:Ii submitted' that this could not be
treated as a privav Bill, it was essentially a public meat
-
sure, and so it ought to be treated.—(Elear.
The SPBAIiER,
NO )it was deeideuly a private Bill;
but, althutigh h was a private But, the lions did not
lose its authority over,it.—(Hear.) After it came down
from
the, conurawie_ bp stairs, it would b, still compe-
tent for the House to throw it out, or make it a public
rases ure.—( tiear; )..
After a few'wOrdsfrom Sir DE LACY EVANs,, the
Bill was read a ,;/,cond time arid ordered tb.be com-
muted; as were r.no the following Bills:
North-Western Railway.
St. Helen's Gas.
Shropshire Union Railways and Canal (Branch Canal to
connect Canal of Shropshire Union Railways, ac.)
_ LINCOLNSHIRE ESTUARY BILL.
Or the motion fo:- ;he second reeding of this Bill,
Cot. SIBTEIORI: rose to "bnose it, cud molted an
second amendment that the readiog be poqpcned until
this day six months.
®tier a brit aisem -
and the Bill withdrawn.mu), the amencliner3 wets agreed to

Mr. CANALS.mo
r. SPOONER
following resolution:—
" That in eases of Btiii '''-''—d th 2
lee
forming part of any general chain or syzt,na of inland
ing canals or nav;gatturis
water cominucioatiou, the pr:
or navigation farming part
,:frritttor. of any other canal
be entitled to be heard upon such general chain shall
'.4"
may present against any ~,,h 13tlls before the Coin-
y petition which they
inwoes
to
which
such
1301,,
shall
he
Mr. HENLEY opposed the ri referred."
allowed the runt, how e„uld trluiloo. If canals
It also to railways.—(llcar, h;4¢-,) lii
his opinfon the
, refuse to concede
remedy for the erl o9ntemplated by t.,-
to meet each sp dial coot:, with sepuav:ls resolution was
egislation.
After a elic,r fl.i.scusion tho resolatio
PETITIONS. u Was withdrawn.
LE presented a.
Admiral B-IVIEY petition
for this repgal, uf the posi-borsv duty. ~ ~ praying

Mr. SCULLY presented a petition from a place in
Ireland in favour of tenant right.
Sir G. CLERK presented a petition from Dover in
favour of the Pharmacy Bill.
Mr. W. WILSON presented a petition from Mr.
Rigby Wason, relative to the Westminster Improvement
Bill, and praying for inquiry (as we understood).
Mr. SPOONER presented a petition from Warwick-
shire against the Maynooth grant.
A large number of petitions were presented in favour
of the Pharmacy Bill.
Mr. EWART presented several petitions from London
against the Sale of Beer Bill.
Mr. S. WORTLEY presented two petitions from Roth-
sea against the Maynooth grant.
Mr. AGLIONBY presented several petitions from dif-
ferent parts of the metropolis in favour of the Copyhold
Enfranchisement Bill.
PROPERTY QUALIFICATION.

Mr. TUFNELL gave notice that on Wednesday next
he should more for leave to bring in a Bill to abolish the
property qualification of Member•,
HARWICH.

Sir DE LACY EVANS gave notice that on an early
slay he should move the appointment of a commission to
inquire into the corrupt practices that had prevailed bit
the election for Harwich.

RELIGIOUS HOUSES.
Mr. LACY gave notice that on an early day after
Easter he should move for a Select Committee to inquire
into the restraint imposed upon females in religious
houses.

SUGAR DUTIES.
Mr. J. WILSON wished to ask the Right Hon.
Baronet the Secretary for the Colonies what course he
intended to pursue with respect to his dropped notice
of motion on the subject of the sugar duties?—(Hear.)
Sir J. PAKINGTON would answer the question in a few
words. He felt it his duty as a member of the Opposition to
press upon the then Ministry what ho believed to be
the disastrous effects of their own acts.—(Hear, hear.)
He referred to the Act of 1846, modified by the subse-
quent Act of 1848, regulating the duties upon sugar. As a
members of the present Government, which were ac-
knowledged to be in a minority in that House, he con-
ceived it to be no less his duty to take whatever course
he might think best for promoting the objects which
the present Government had in view, and they did
not think that it would tend to relieve the West Indian
distress if they were, during the present session of Par-
liament, to press forward views and plans against
which there were recorded majorities upon several
occasions during the existing Parliament.—(Loud
Cheers.) They further thought that there
was nothing in the question of - the sugar
duties sufficiently special or sufficiently excep-
tional to justify them in making it an exception
to that intention on the part of the Govern-
ment, which had been announced in another
place by his Noble Friend the Prime Minister,
namely,not unnecessarily to press upon Parliament during
the present session those controverted questions of com-
mercial policy which they thought it better to reserve for
the judgment of another Parliament.—(Ministerial
cheers.) For the'se reasons it was not his intention during
the present session to bring forward the motion to which
the Hon. Member for Westbury had referred.—(Opposi-
tion cheers.) But he must beg leave to add one word more.
The opinion which he had expressed upon this subject,
whether in relation to the effects of the sugar Acts
upon the British colonies, or in relation to their effects
upon the great question of the slave trade, had
undergone no change whatever.—(Ministerial cheers.)
On the contrary, he was now receiving almost daily
the moat painful proofs of the distress which exists
amongst the British planters, bite the Government had,
nevertheless, determined that this question, like others of
the same nature, ought to be reserved for the
consideration of a future Parliament—(Renewed cheers)
—reserving distinctly to themselves the right hereafter
to deal with those questions, if they should be in a posi-
tion to do ao—(ol)—in such a manner as they thought
would beat meet the justice of each case, and what was
required by due regard to the interests of all classes
of seeiety.—(el,cers )
Mr. J. WILSON hopee then it was not intended to
dieturb elle sugar duties that would come into operation
en the sth of July ?—(Hear, hear.)
Sir J. PAKINU I'ON said it yeas not, and in reply
to another questioue hestated that the Beer Bill had
been taken up by the Hon. Member for East Kent.
KAFIR WAR. .•
Mr. ADDERLEY asked the becretary for the Co-
lonies whether any instructions would be sent by the
mail going out to the Cape of Good Hope on Tuesday,
the 16th, to General Cathcart, to suspend or alter the
instructions given him by Lord Grey, to lay down a
scheme of future policy fur this country to undertake
as to the defence of the frontier of that colony?
Sir J. PAKING'fON said he had not thought it his
duty so immediately to send out instructions to
Major-General Cathcart, either to suspend or to alter
that portion of the instructions of Lord Grey, to
which his Honourable Friend had adverted—(Hear)—
but he begged to add, that the present condition, and
the future government of the colony would be subjects
which would receive the earliest and anxious conside-
ration of her Majesty's Government.—(Hear.) In
answer,to the latter part of the question, he begged to say
that a statement had arrived by the last mail from the
municipality of Cape Town, complaining of unnecessary
delay on the part of the Legislative Council in passing
the constitution ordinance, and also complaining that
they had been devoting their time in passing other
ordinances of a general nature. He had, therefore,
thought it his duty to send. out a dispatch by
the present mail, pressing twon the Legislative
Council the necessity of considering the consti-
tion ordnance as soon as possible, and suggesting
that they should reserve all questions of legislation
which were not of an urgent nature for a future Par-
liarasnt.—(Hear.)_

ICI reply to Sir.DE LACY EVANS,
Sir J. PAYINGTON said that though the Govern-
ment had received most gratifying intelligence from
the Cape, it did not go the length of stating
that the war was concluded; but the Government had
reason to hope that the war would be concluded at no
distant period.—(Hear,)
INCUMBERED ESTATES (IRELAND).
The MASTER of the ROLLS asked the Chancellor
of the Exchequer whether it was the intention of her
Majesty's Government to introduce, in the present ses-
sion, any Bill for the purpose of continuing the Commis-
sion for the Sale of Incumbered Estates in Ireland.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said a
communication had been received from the Lord Chan-
cellor of Ireland on the subject, but as the Attorney-
General for Ireland had only arrived in England to-day,
he h•%d not had an opportunity of consulting with him
in reference to that communication. He suggested that
the Learned Gentleman should put the question on
some other occasion.

PROPOSED DUTY ON COALS.
Mr. HEADLAM asked the Chancellor of thA Ex-
chequer whether it was the intention of her Majesty's
Government to impose a tax upon coals?
Mr. DISRAELI said—l believe questions of this
kind, addressed •to the Chancellor of the Exchequer
before he has made his financial statement, are not con-
sidered in general very fair.—(Hear, hear.) Perhaps
the Hon. Gentleman will ..flow me to avail myself
of the privilege of official reserve, under ordinary cir-
cumstances, not to give a categorical reply to
an inquiry ; but I am perfectly willing to make this
case an exception to the general rule, and I can
assure the Llahourabl4 and Learned Gentleman
that no such intention txiste on the, part of her Majesty's
Government; but if the propr)sition is calculated to
obtain the favour of tha constituents' of the Hon. and
Learned Gentleman, I can assure him it will receive
on our part the most respectful attention.—(Loud
laughter.)