The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-03 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before Four
o'clock.
Mr. FEancius O'CONNOR was in his place, and dis-
played his former anxiety to shake bands with every
one present, not excluding even the Speaker or the
Sergeant-at-Arms.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Lords' anr.ndnaents to the following Bills were
considered and agreed to:—
Athlone Markets and Customs.
Glasgow, lidmarnock, and Ardrossan Railway.
L•incaster Waterworks, Cemetery, and Gas.
Newmarket Railway.
South Essex Estuary and Reclamation Bill.
The following Bills were read a third time and passed—
Great Western Railway (No. 2).
London and North-Western and Buckinghamshire
Railways.
Monmouthshire Railway and Canal.
Shrewsbury and Birmighham Railway.
Shrewsbury and Chester Railway.
Swansea Local Board of Health.
Wycombe Railway.
The following Bills worn considered and agreed to:—
Birkenhead, Lancashire. and Cheshire Junction Railway.
Chester and Holyhead Railway.
Exeter Roads.
Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland.
Shrewsbury and Birmingham, and Shrewsbury and
Chester Railway Companies Amalgamation.
Tees Conservancy.
York and North Midland Railway.
The Balmoral Estate Bill was read a second time, and
ordered to be committed.
PETITIONS.

Mr. LACY presented a petition from Walworth,
praying for the inspection of nunneries.
Mr. SPOONER presented a petition to the same effect
from the female inhabitants of a place in Ireland.
Mr. HUTT presented a petition from Gateshead in
favour of ocean penny postage.
Mr, BANKES presented a petition from Dorzetshire,
praying for the repeal of the 3,laynooth grant.
Mr. A. STAFFORD presented a petition from North-
ampton against the Militia Bill.

Mr. FIT ZROY presented a petition from a Mecha,
nics' Institution, praying for the free delivery of Parlia
mentary papers to mechanics' institutes.
LOSS OF THE BIRKENHEAD.

On the motion of Mr. A. STAFFORD, the pro-
cedings of the court-martial held upon the surviving
officers of the Birkenhead were ordered to be laid on the
table.

PUBLIC BUSINESS.

Oa the motion that the Speaker do leave the Chair
for going into Committee of Supply,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER rose
and said that perhaps the House would permit him to
make some observations on the conduct of the business
before the House.—(Hear, hear.) It would be remem-
bered that, when last they met, it was fixed that the ad-
journed debate on Maynooth should take place to-
morrow morning at twelve o'clock. Since then represen-
tations had been made to him by the gentlemen
from Ireland that it would be unfair to renew the de-
bate then, and upon their representation he had con-
sented to allow the debate to stand over till Tuesday
next, at twelve o'clock, as it was his pleasure, as also
his duty, to consult the convenience of Honourable
Members irom Ireland, in disposing of a matter
of this nature.—(Cries of " Hear, hoar.") It wouH,
however, is the present state of public business be im-
possible .or the Government to make any other arrange-
ment fur facilitating the debate after Tuesday.—(Hear,
hear.) He proposed to-morrow morning to continue
the Committee of Supply,_ and tomorrow evening,
with the consent of the House. he proposed to go
into Committee on the New Zealand Bill.—(gear,
hear.) It was his first idea to take the Committee to-
morrow morning, but several gentlemen who were sit-
ting upon Committees upstairs had represented to him
that they took great interest in the question, but it would
be impossible fur them to attend in the morning; and in
deference to them he had fixed the Committee for the
evatiag. He wished now to impress upon the House the
gravity of the public business that remained to be dis-
patched at the present period of the session. Hon. Gen-
tlemen must be aware that much of it was of that
character which Government could have had a
control over at any earlier period.—(Hear, hear.)
Many of the measures were intended to continue already
existing laws, and although the time in which these
would have to be disposed of was short, yet he did not
despair, with the assistance of the House and becoming
energy, of being able to complete the business without
inteleering with that ulterior result which they were all
aexious should be attained,—(Hear, hear.) In going
into Committee of Supply he might, perhaps, be allowed
to make this remark, that while Government felt it to
be their duty to submit nothing to the consideration
of the House which was not of great urgency
r paramount ntcessity, he did hope that
Hon. Gentlemen generally, in the motions which
they might bring forward, would be iuflutnced by the
same feeling.—(Hear, hear.) At present there were a
variety of amendments on the paper en going into Com-
mittee of Supply, which under ordinary circum-
stances, and in the usual state of affairs,
Government would find it to be their duty to
give their attention to, but they were not matters of
urgency or dispatch, or of that character which the
House generally had recommended to be discussed in
the present session,
and he hoped the Hon. Gentlemen
who had charge of them would display a becoming for-
bearance and a self-abnegation, by abstaining to bring
them forward at this adeanced stage of the session.
He appealed to the House generally to facilitate the
progress of public business, and in doing so he begged to
state that Government were anxious, to close the session
at the period which all desired, and at the same time to
accomplish the important results which the urgent Inca.
sures they had brought forward were intended to pro.
duce.--(lleac, hear.)
Sir JAMES GRAHAM was glad to have the oppor-
tunity of drawing especial attention to the present state
of public business. He readily admitted that some for-
bearance ought to be shown to the Gtovernmeet with re-
ference to reeking motions upon going into Committee of
Supply, while there could be no doubt that the wish of the
country was that the labours of the present session
should be brought to a close within the shortest possible
time consistent with the due and proper discharge of
public business.—(Hear, hear.) It therefore appeared
to him to be of paramount importance to consider wkat
were the measures which it was indispensihle to dispose
of in the course of the present session. Just let him,
then, call the attention of the House to the fact that there
were 27 orders of the day on the paper which h©
held in his hand, besides four or five notices
of motion before going into Committee of Supply ;
but with respect to their urgency, ho denied that they
were of that character which rendered it indispensable
they should be decided in the present session of Perlis-
ment.—(Hear, hear.) The orders of the day could
be divided into branches. In the first place,
there was the law. What were the questions with refer-
ence to the administration of the law which they were
called upon to discuss on the 3d of June? There was
first the Comman Law Procedure Bill, which had come
down frona the other House of Parliament after having
been amply discussed, and whieh they were
now called upon to decide both in principle
and detail at the end of the session.—(Hear, hear.)
There was next the Masters of Chancery Abolition
Bill, and Improvement of Equity Jurisdiction Bill, in
reference to which not one step had yet been taken be-
yond introducing it to the House, and which would re-
quire full and careful consideration.—(Hear, hear.)
There was, besides, the Suitors in Chancery
Relief Bill, which stood in a similar position, and it was
impossible to exaggerate the importance of any of these
measures.—(Llear, hear.) Take Again the colonial
branch : there was the New Zealand Bill,twhich it was pro-
posed to take to-morrow, when they bad Committees sit-
ting up stairs upon measures of urgency and importance,
such as the East India Company's Charter and the laws
thhetlt
releting to the good government of Ireland with refer-
ence to crime and outrage. Then, again, there was the
other
Colonial Bishops' Bill, the Bishopric of Quebec Bill, and
charact:r'
Other. Bills of vast importance respecting the colonies,
was impossible to decide upon at this period of
ism
for inst
and in the existing state of affairs. On the
d, however, there were measures of a pressing
stairs, r
anewehich could not be passed over. There was,
0, a Bill which was now being considered up-
which it, tsse
tea as
!se the subject of crime and outrage in Ire-
the consolidation of the White-boy Act:,
(Hear, hear.)
Act to be reeewed
lortant should be passed this session.—
here was also the Encumbered Estates
had been introdu,cand a Bill of the greatest importance
of navy pay, deed by bY the Admiralty on the subject
(Hear, Leila) hick vas of a pressing character.
of Woods and learle-81,'tzt again, under the head
Etna Buitdings Act or heitdlere was the ii.etropo-
into tee Metropolitan by a Bill of 79 clauses,
ailed, cishasee, to be amended
Inter-
ments AC' to tae amended
be was under the
thatimprestionby a similar Bill;
although
settled thin latter measure had
there was the atietiolu termer session.
Sewers CommisEiou to be dist
n o, the water supply
and the renewalthem matters
posed of, all of 'of importance, and requir-
ing
'got rid of.—reitained 200 votes
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discussed
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for Youghal intended t_s'svul'hPo7 it laugb)—and he
should bo glad to 11 ( was possible for
all these various
disposed of within the 61). contemplated by
the Government. Under these, I,d nastences he should
Government show take tillMonde
suggest that the Gov y to
could press 0
consider what measures they
d Saving on, and what
measures they would abandon,
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