The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-06 00:00:00

THE SUN,

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF CoIIIMONS, April 5.
The SPEAICER. took the Chair a few minutes before
Four o'clock•
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The following Bills were read a third time and
passed:—
Portsea Gas.
Stockton Extension and Improvement.
Vale of Neath Railway.
Macclesfield Improvement.
The following Bills were considered and agreed to,
and ordered to be engrosed :
Barnstaple Markets and Fairs.
Glasgow Union Arcade.
Great Munster Fair.

Ilkley Waterworks.
Kelvin Bridge (Glasgow) and other Works.
London and Southampton Road, through Bishop's

Waltham.
Rhyl Improvement.
Skipton and Craco Road.
Sunderland Waterworks.
The Huddersfield Burial-ground Bill was read a second
time and ordered to bo committed.
PETITIONS.

Celonel THOHPSON presented a petition from the
seamen visiting the port of London against the Extra-
dition of Marine Deserters Bill, and praying for inquiry
into the subject to which the Bill relates.
Mr. PE TO presented a petition from a place in Suffolk
praying for the repeal of the malt-tax.
Mr. COBDEN presented a number of petitions from
places in the West Riding against the Millis Bill.
Mr. A. STAFFORD presented a petition from North
Northamptonshire, praying for the repeal of the post-
horse duty.

Mr. W. PATTEN presented a petition from Mr.
William Henry Barber, formerly a solicitor, who was
transported for life in 1843, upon a conviction of being
concerned in a forgery, but was liberated after serving
two years in Norfolk Island, praying for an inquiry into
the circumstances of his case.

Mr. HUME presented several petitions from Scotland
against calling out the militia.
Mr. WILLIAMS presented a petition from Lambeth
praying for the repeal of the post horse duty; also a
petition from the same place, praying for the repeal of
all taxes on knowledge.
EDINBURGH AND CANONGATE ANNUITY
TAX ABOLITION BILL.
Sir W. G. CRAIG wished to ask the Secretary for
the Home Department whether the Government had
decided whether the assent of the Crown should be given
to the Edinburgh and Canongate Annuity Tax Abulition

Mr. WALPOLE said he could not advise the Crown
to give its consent to the Bill as it now stood, and he
would advise that it should be withdrawn upon the un-
derstanding that the parties interested in it would be
consulted upon the best means of devising a scheme
which should meet the views of all parties.—(flear.)
On the motion of Sir W. G. CRAIG the order of the
day for the committal of the Bill was discharged.
GRAND JURIES.

Sir F. THESIGER gave notice that on Monday, the
19th, he would move for leave to bring in a Bill with
respect to the summoning of grand juries in the metro-
politan districts, and fur the amendment of the law re-
spQeting them.

PROPC)SED EXTENSION OF THE FRANCHISE.
Colonel ROXIILLY said he saw a notice on the paper,
that it was the intention of the Secretary of the Home
Department to propose that p,rsons who had served two
years in the militia should have a county vote, and he
wished to know whether he contemplated extendine, a
similar privilege to any other branch of the military
service?

Mr. WAL POo
notice he
LicE said he
gavetheother night, had intended, with refer-
ence to the n
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the earliest opportunity to-day, though the Gallant
Colonel had put the question to him,
to state that he
thought the notice had been given r
tither too hastily.—
(Laughter from the Opposition.)
The proposition ori-
ginated with hitnBelf, and he thought it would have been
a goal lon f PrcpoB it' or three purposes, viz., to
ensure respectable people as volunteers for the
militia; secondly, to insure continuous residence, so that
the volunteers might be ascertained from year to year;
and thirdly, as reward for public services done by
them in volunteering in the militia. Since he gave
notice he hid had an opportunity of consulting more
fully with all his colleagues, and they thought there
were so many difficuties and objections to the plan that
he had intended to take the earliest opportunity of
coming down to the House and stating, as he now did,
that be would not propose the alteration in
question in the Militia Bill.—(Hear, hear.) In an-
swer to the particular question of the Gallant Colonel,
he said he did riot think there was any analogy between
a militia consisting chiefly of those who were civilians
during the greater portion of the year, and soldiers and
sailors, who remained entirely under the control of the
Crown.
MISCELLANEOUS ESTIMATES.

In reply to Mr. WILLIAMS,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he
would lay the miscellaneous estimates un the table
almost immediately after the re-assembling of the House
atter Ester.