The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-15 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

',HOUSE OF LORDS-LAST EVENING.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on ,the woolsack
at five o'clock.

The resignation of Mr. Edwards, Reading Clerk and
Clerk of Private Committees of the House of Lords, was
received and accepted.
AUGMENTATION OF SMALL BENEFICES.

The LORD CHANCELLOR presented returns re-
lative to the augmentation of Small Benefices .13ill.
The total sum received by the sale of certain livings
in the gift of the Lord 'Chancellor had amounted
to £113,129. The sum received during the last year
had been £57,329. The condition of the money market
had not been very favourable to the disposal of advowsons,
as only 24 out of those offered for sale had been disposed
of, but there was constant inquiry for them, and he had no
doubt but that the greatest benefit would in the end result
from the passing of the act.
The Earl of DERBY asked if the noble and learned
lord could tell the average number of years' purchase
generally paid for the living.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said the returns were so
made out as to show that.
CASE OP MR. IRVING.

Lord CLEMENTS moved that an address be presented
to her Majesty for a copy of the correspondence relative to
the case of Mr. Henry Mei D'Arcy Irvine, a justice of
the peace in Ireland, who had been dismissed from
the magistracy, and also relative to the police and
their insubordination to the authority of the magistrates ;
and relative to the disrespect shown by the Under Secre-
tary of the Lord Lieutenant to the magistracy, by enter-
ing into correspondence with subordinate officers of police,
upon subjects which should have been addressed to the
magistrates. The noble lord, in moving for the return,
read extracts from a correspondence he had had with cer-
tain police officers relative to the state of personal safety
in Donegal.
The motion was agreed to.
Their lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COABIONS-LAST EVENING.
The SPEAKER, took the chair at 4 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The standing orders were declared to have been com-
plied with in the case of several private bills, and some
private bills were read a first time.
PETITIONS.
Colonel DuNN presented petitions from the King's county
against the arbitrary powers conferred on the Irish consta-
bulary of entering private premises.
Colonel SYKES presented a petition from officers en-
gaged in the India service, setting forth certain grievances
of which they complained, and praying for their redress.
Sir J. SHELLEY presented a petition from bankers and
other persons in Westminster, praying for a reduction of
the duty on fire insurance.

FOREIGN BILLS OF EXCHANGE.
Mr. MOFFATT moved for a return of the amount re-
ceived for stamps on foreign bills of exchange under the
Act 17 and 18 Vic., c. 83, for the respective years 1860 to
1864 inclusive (in continuation of Parliamentary paper No.
196, of session 1864).—Ordered.
IMMIGRANTS AND LIBERATED AFRICANS.
Mr. MOFFATT moved an address for return showing
the number of immigrants and liberated Africans admitted
into each of the British West India Colonies, as well as the
places from whence they were introduced, from the year
1843 to the end of the year 1856, and in each year since
the Ist day of January, 1857, to the end of the year
1864. Similar return for Mauritius; and return of the
number of those who have returned from each place in
each year to their own countries, and (as far as can be
ascertained) the amount of earnings remitted through Go-
vernment agency in their behalf (in continuation of Par-
liamentary Paper, No, 201,_of_Session 1864).—Ordered.