The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-03 00:00:00

PROGRESS OF BUSINESS.

Lord REDESDALE said that he was happy to inform
the house that considerable progress had been made in
regard to the amount of private business before the house,
and that there was a very small amount of business which
was not disposed of. _ _ _

Earl GRANVILLE took that apportunity of bearing
his personal testimony to the efforts of the noble lord
(Redesdale) in effecting that result. (Hear, hear.)
The Consolidated Fund Appropriation Bill went through
committee.

The Falmouth Borough Bill was read a third time and
passed.
The Harwich Harbour and the Colonial Governors Re-
tiring Pensions Bill passed through committee.
Several other bills were disposed of.
BURIAL SERVICE OF THE ESTABLISHED
CHURCH.
_

Lord EBURY moyedtl;ati;The opinion of this house
the Burial Service of the Established Church stood in
urgent need of revision.

[LEFT SITTING.]

HOUSE OF COMMONS—This EVENING.
The SPEAKER, took the chair at four o'clock.
STANDING ORDERS.

Col. W. PATTEN moved to rescind Standing Order 60,
and to insert the following in lieu thereof :—ln the case of
a railway bill authorising the construction of works by other
than an existing railway company incorporated by Act of
Parliament, and which has during the year last past paid
dividends on its ordinary share capital a sum not less than
8 per cent, on the amount of the estimate of expense,
and in the case of all bills other than railway bills a sum
not less than 4 per cent. on the amount of such estimate,
shall previously to the 15th January be deposited with the
Court of Chancery in England, if the work is intended to
be done in England, or with the Court of Chancery in Eng-
land, or the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, if such work
is intended to be done in Scotland, and with the Court of
Chancery in Ireland, if such work is intended to be done
in Ireland.

The motion was agreed to. -
THE CASE OF MR WINSLOW.

Major S. KNOX asked the Attorney-General whether
it was true that a pension had been granted by the Lord
Chancellor to Mr. Winslow, late one of the Masters in
Lunacy; and, if so, the amount of such pension, the grounds
upon which it was granted, and whether it was refused by
a former Chancellor ?
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said the Lord Chan-
cellor, it was quite true, had awarded a pension of £l,OOO
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petitionase
might be taken into consideration, he having been com-
pelled to resign his appointment through pecuniary pres-
sure. Before Lord Chancellor Chelmsford had time to de-
termine the matter, a change took place, and then a delay
of two years occurred. A petition was, at the end of that
time, presented to the present Lord Chancellor, and it
was accompanied by letters of recommendation from Lord
Lyndhurst, and a number of eminent legal gentlemen, and
even a letter from Lord Chelmsford, stating that it would
give him great pleasure to hear that the prayer of Mr.
Winslow's petition had been granted. The Lord Chan-
cellor having consulted the law officers of the Crown and
Mr. Bacon, he was assured he had the power to grant the
pension, notwithstanding the lapse of time. The pension
was then conferred, but its amount was not £1,200, but
£l,OOO.

THE DUNGARVAN ELECTION.
Mr. HEYGATE asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland
whether Mr. Barry who had made use of certain very
strong language at Dungarvan, and who appeared to hold
ultra and very advanced Socialist doctrines, was the law
adviser to the Castle at Dublin ?
Sir R. PEEL disclaimed that Mr. Barry was a Govern
ment candidate. With respect to Mr. Barry, he had autho-
rity from him to deny most positively the words attributed
to him.

Mr. VERNER asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland if
his attention had been given to the proceedings which are
stated to have taken place at a public dinner in Dublin
in honour of Mr. Gavan Duffy, at which the health of her
Majesty was reluctantly and not very respectfully proposed,
and received with general hissing and disapprobation, and
likewise to the presence there of two members of this
house, the members for Youghal and Dungarvan, the for-
frier one of her Majesty's counsel and the latter holding the
commission of the peace, neither of whom was represented
to have expressed disapproval of the disloyal conduct of
the assembly. He should like to know what steps the
Irish Government intended to take in the matter.
Sir R. PEEL said he believed the dinner referred to was
a private one, reporters, however, being present, given to
a gentleman who had been absent from Ireland many years.
(Laughter.) He (Sir R. Peel) was not responsible for the
opinions of the gentlemen who spoke at• that dinner. With
respect to the toast, " The Health of her Majesty," he be-
lieved it was given and responded to in the usual loyal
manner. He thought the proper course for the hon. gen-
tleman opposite was to put his questions to the two hon.
members referred to. (Hear, hear.)
The Lords' amendments to the Local Government
Supplemental Bill were considered and agreed to.
The Lords' amendments to the Navy and Marines (Pro-
perty) Bill were also considered and agreed to.
The Naval Discipline Act Amendment Bill was road a
second time.

• The Foreign Jurisdiction Act Amendment Bill passed
through committee.
The Rochdale Vicarage Bill passed through committee,
and was reported without amendment.

VOTE OF CENSURE ON THE LORD CHANCELLOR

Mr. HUNT then rose to make the following motion :
" That the evidence taken before the committee of this
house, on the Leeds Bankruptcy Court, discloses that a
great facility exists for obtaining public appointments by
corrupt means; that such evidence, and also that taken be-
fore a committee of the House of Lords in the case of
Leonard Edmunds, and laid before the house, shows a
laxity of practice and want of caution on the part of the
Lord Chancellor, in sanctioning the grant of retiring pen-
sions to public officers over whose heads grave charges are
impending, and in filling up the vacancies made by the re-
tirement of such officers, whereby great encouragement
has been given to corrupt practices ; that such laxity and
want of caution, even in the absence of any ira_
proper motive,
are, in the opinion of this house,
highly reprehensible, and calculated to throw discredit
on the administration of the high offices of State."
The hon. gentleman said he was fully impressed with the
importance of the step he was taking, because it was, in
fact, a vote of censure upon the Lord Chancellor, who was
at once the keeper of the Queen's conscience, the judge
of the High Court of Chancery and the Speaker of the
House of Peers. He had felt it to be his public duty to bring
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tracts from the voluminous ,report ,of the committee, and
also to compare the evidence of the different witnesses, in
order to justify the house agreeing to his motion.
(LEFT SITTING.)

[The house became very full soon after the hon. gentleman
commenced his speech. Lord Palmerston and the whole
of the .members of the Government were present on the
Ministerial benches, while those of the Opposition were
occupied by Mr. Disraeli, Lord Stanley, and all the
principal members of the Conservative party. The gal-.
lanes appropriated to members of the House of Peers and,
the Diplomatic Corps were all filled, and the greatest in-
terest appeared to exist on the subject.]