The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-19 00:00:00

THE HABEAS CORPUS WRIT.

it The Duke of NEWCASTLE introduced a bill respecting
the issuing of writs of habeas corpus in her Majesty's pos-
sessions abroad.

Their lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—YESTERDAY.
The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.
NEW MEMBER.
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Mr. P. A. TAYLOR took the oaths and his seat as mem-
ber for Leicester.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The following bills were read a second time :--Aberdeen
Police, Water, &c., Barnsley Coal Railway Extension,
Hull and Hornsea Railway, Lostwithiel and Fowey Rail-
way, Merionethshire Railway, Mersey Docks and Harbour
Board, Moretonhampstead and South Devon Railway,
North Devon Railway and Pock, South Yorkshire Rail-
way (Hull Extension), Trent, Ancholme, and Grimsby
Railway, and West Riding, Hull, and Grimsby Railway.
GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY (No. 2.) BILL.

On the motion for the second reading of this bill,

Mr. J. BROWN moved that the bill be read a second
time that day six months. He referred to the fact that
whenever this bill came before the house it was defeated
either in committee or in the second reading, and contended
that it was monstrous that a company like tho Great
Northern should be permitted session after session to re-
introduce it.
Mr. G. H. PACK defended the bill, and said that there
were only two or three landowners under the law who dis-
approved of it. He asserted also that the line would not
interfere materially with the country through which it
would pass, and that it would be a great advantage to the

public.
Lord GALWAY thought it was a very bad return to
make to the hon. member for Malton (Mr. J. Brown), after
the manner in which he had previously acted in reference
to the Great Northern, to intersect his land with this line,
without any corresponding advantage to the public. He
concluded by expressing a hope that the bill would be
rejected.
Mr ROEBUCK said that this house was not the proper
tribunal to decide this question, and he thought it right
that it should be referred to a committee up stairs.
Mr. M. MILNES opposed the bill, and called on the
house, by its rejection of it, to show that they could not
allow the interests of landowners to be overridden by a
powerrul company like the Great Northern.
Mr. M A SSEY considered that the house should read the
bill a second time, and its details could be dicussed fully
before a select committee. (Hear, hear.) The Great
Northern Company merely desired to make a loup line of
five or six miles, in order to relieve the main line from the
pressure of its goods traffic. He thought, under all cir-
cumstances, that the bill should receive the sanction of the
helve, and that it would be of much use to the public.
The amendment was agreed to without a division, and
the bill was accordingly rejected.
TOLL GATES 1N THE METROPOLIS.

Mr. WHITE gave notice that on Fr;day next he would
ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he
had received any information from the commissioner ap-
pointed to consider the subject, and whether any measure
would be adopted for the removal of the toll-gate obstruc-
tion in the metropolis.
PATENT LAWS.

Mr. RICARDO gave notice that he would (haw the at..
tention of the house to the propriety of an alteration in the
patent laws.
REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE.

Mr. COX asked the First Lord of the Treasury whether
it was the intention of the Government to introduce thig
session a bill to amend the representation of the pecple in
Parliament? (Laughter.)
Lord PALMERSTON—It is not the intention of Go-
vernment to introduce this session any bill to amend the
representation of the people in Parliament. (Laughter.)