The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-10 00:00:00

PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The following bills were read a second time :—Glasgow
and South-Western Railway (Kilmarnock Direct); Neath
Water; Glasgow and South-Western Railway (City of
Glasgow Union); Great Torrington Roads ; Lancashire
and Yorkshire Railway and Lancashire Union Railways
Companies ; Preston and Wyre Railway, Harbour, and
Dock; North London Railway; and Luddenden Valley
Railway.

The following bills were read a third time and passed :
Bath Gas, West Worthing Improvement, and Bristol
Water.

THE REVISED CODE.
Earl GRANVILLE laid on the table certain papers

relative to the Revised Code, but his lordship was quite
inaudible in the reporters' gallery.
RECORD OF TITLES IRELAND BILL.
On the motion of the LORD CHANCELLOR, this bill

went through committee.
SHEEP AND CATTLE BILL.
This bill went through committee.
MARRIAGES (LAMBOURNE) BILL.
On the motion of the Bishop of OXFORD, this bill
was read a second time.
UNION OFFICERS (IRELAND) S UPERANNIJATION

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BILL.
Earl ST. GERMANS, in moving the second reading
of this bill, explained its provisions at some length.
Earl of DONOUGHMORE moved as an amendment that
the bill should be read a second time that day six months,
which gave riso to some discussion, in which the Earl of
Enniskillen and the Earl of Leitrim took part.
The Earl of DERBY drew attention to the fact that
the noble lord the mover of the bill had not received the

support of Irish peers in that house, and if the motion
went to a division he would vote for the amendment.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE supported the mo-
tion for the second reading of the bill.
The house then divided, and there appeared—
Contents 73
Non-content
Majority —27
The bill was then read a second time.
THE EDMUND'S CASE.
Lord WYNFORD rose to present a petition from Mr.
Edmunds, but it was ruled that it would be out of order
for him to do so.

Lord REDESDALE then moved that the following pas-

sage from the report of the select committee on the resig-
nation by Mr. Edmunds of certain offices, and on the pension
granted to him by that house, be read :—" The committee

have examined the chairman of committees as to the know•

ledge by the members of the select committee (which he
attended) of any circumstances which might disentitle Mr.
Edmunds to a pension." He stated that there was a general
knowledge or impression on the part of most of the mem-
bers of the committee that, in consequence of certain pecu-
niary transactions in which Mr. Edmunds had been con-
cerned in the Patent Office, he had resigned his appoint-
ment in it. " But," he added, " the petition was presented
to the house without observation, and no order was made
directing the committee to inquire into it. We had only
the facts stated in the petition which wore referred to us,

and upon these facts we had to inquire what pension Mr.

Edmunds should bo considered entitled to. It is to be re-
gretted that the committee did not feel it to be their duty,

under the circumstances, to act upon their general know-
ledge or impression so far as to interpose some delay before

the question was finally disposed of in form of a pension,
which, had the circumstances been fully known, would
probably not have been recommended."
Tho passage in question having been read by Mr.
ELINGSBY BETHELL,
Lord REDESDALE then moved : "1. That the petition
of Mr. Edmunds stating that, after having served the
house seventeen years as reading clerk and clerk of the
private committees, he desired to retire, and praying
the house to grant him such allowance as to their lord-
ships may seem fit, having been presented on Tuesday,

Feb. 14, by the Lord Chancellor, without any comment
being made thereon by him or any other member of the
Government present ont that occasion, and referred to the
select committee on the office of clerk of the patents, with-
out any special order or instruction in relation thereto,