The Sun.
London, England, 1853-07-20 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT,

HOUSE OF COMMONS—(THIS DAY,
The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Lords' amendments to the Ayrshire and Gallo-
way (Smithstown and Dalmellington) Railway ; Cale-
donian Railway (Connecting Branch with Edinburgh
and Glasgow Railway) ; and Furness Railway Bills were
considered and agreed to.
The Severn and Wye Railway and Canal Bill was
read a third time and passed.
The Pauncefort Duncombe's Estate Bill was read a
second time.

A number of petitions were presented by various hon.
members in favour of the Recovery of Personal Liberty
(Inspection of Nunneries) Bill.
VACCINATION EXTENSION BILL.
Sir J. PAKINGTON moved the second reading of
this bill, which had come down from the House of
Lords, and the object of which he explained to be to
protect the public against the ravages of the small-pox.
The voluntary system had been found insufficient, and
it had been found necessary to introduce a measure for
compulsory vaccination. England and France were the
only two countries in Europe where vaccination was
not compulsory.

CLITHEROE ELBCTION.-COMMITTAL OF A
WITNESS.

At this point,
Mr. G. HAMILTON appeared at the bar, and re-
ported that as Chairman of the Clitheroe Committee, he
had committed a witness named Robert Fowler to the
custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms, for prevarication in
giving his evidence before the committee.
The debate was then resumed by
Lord PALIVIERSTON, who said the house was greatly
indebted to the right hon. gentleman for introducing this
subject to the house. He thought the details and ma-
chinery of the bill might be improved in committee ;
but on the understanding that the right hon. gentleman
would give his attention to the subject, he should cor-
dially support the second readinc, of the bill.
Mr. BRADY objected to the bill, as being impracti-
cable and inadequate to the purpose for which it was
intended. He believed the voluntary system would not
have failed had it not been for the introduction of the
contract system which had set the medical professors
against it.

—Sir G. STRICKLAND objected to the principle of
the bill. He objected to the compulsory clause, and he
thought the house went too far in passing measures of a
compulsory nature. He thought the voluntary principle
in all things would, in the long run, always succeed best
in this country.
Mr. FREWEN also objected to the bill.
The bill was then read a second time.
ATTORNEYS' CERTIFICATE DUTY (No. 2.)
BILL. 8
Lord R. GROSVENOR moved the second reading of
the bill. He had postponed the second reading from
time to time, and had he been pressed to bring it on at
an earlier period he should probably have declined
to do so ; but as the financial scheme of the Al
Chancellor of the Exchequer had safely passed
through the ordeal to which it had been very properly
subjected, and as the returns of the quarter's revenue,
lately published, showed a considerable surplus, he
thought he was not taking an unjustifiable course in now
pressing for the entire reduction of the tax. The pro-
position of the right hon. gentleman with regard to the
tax had not been at all approved of by the attorneys and
solicitors. He understood that the Government had
been beating up for recruits in all directions, and it was
said that they had succeeded in obtaining the support of
the right hon. gentleman the member for Manchester
and his friends, on the understanding that the Govern-
ment would take the newspaper taxes into their favour-
able consideration. If the right hon. gentleman the
Chancellor of the Exchequer would give an assurance
that he would take the tax into his consideration next
session, he should not press the bill to a second reading.
r Mr. MURROUGH denounced the bill as a political
sham. He never had seen such a ridiculous manner of "
advocating the cause of a class as the course adopted by
the noble lord, and he thought that if the noble lord
bad taken as straightforward and sincere a course as the
right hon. gentleman the member for Manchester, the
attornies would now be in as good a position as the
newspaper proprietors were.
Mr. HUME had always been opposed to the abolition I
of the tax, but he did not think the hon. gentleman was
advancing the interests of the attornies by imputing 1.
partial motives to any member of that house.
[LEFT SITTING.]