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

THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Earl STANHOPE presented a petition from the trustees
of•the British Museum stating the utter inadequacy of its
present space for its rapidly growing collections. He
would call attention to the matter on a future day.
Their lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—LAsT EvENm.
The SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Tay Bridge and Dundee Union Railway Bill, and
the West Kent Railway Bill were read a second time.
THE MALT TAX.
Sir E. B. LYTTON presented petitions from several
farmers in Herts, praying for a repeal of the malt tax.
Sir F. KELLY and other lion. members presented peti-
tions to the same effect.
THE SEWAGE OF THE METROPOLIS.
Mr. AYRT ON presented a petition from certain in--
habitants of Bow in favour of an inquiry into the best
means of utilising the sewage of the metropolis,
SHEEP (IRELAND).

Sir F. HEYGATE moved for a return of the number of
sheep supposed to have been killed by dogs in each con-
stabulary district in Ireland, from the Ist day of January,
1865 ; and the number of cases, if any, in which the owner
of the dogs has been discovered, and made amenable.—
Ordered.
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- THE ARMY.
Mr. FORSTER moved an address for return showing
the total number of battalions of infantry in the British
army, the Indian local European army, and the embodied
militia (exclusive of the Foot Guards and colonial corps),
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with their distribution at home, in the colonies, and in
India, from 1863 to the present time (in continuation of
Parliamentary paper No. 85, of session 1863).—Ordered.

THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Mr. WALPOLE presented a petition from the trustees
of the British Museum, praying that the house would take
the means, and with as little delay as possible, of provid-
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ing increased accommodation in the British Museum, in

order that the petitioners might be released from the tract
which they had undertaken. The hon. and learned mem-
ber also gave notice that on an early day he would draw

the attention of the house to this subject.
BOROUGH FRANCHISE EXTENSION BILL.

Mr. COLLINS asked the hon. member for Leeds whe-
ther it was his intention to proceed with the second reading
of the Borough Franchise Extension Bill in the week fixed
by law for holding the courts of quarter sessions through-

out England and Wales.
Mr. BAINES said that ho would postpone the bill from
the sth April to the 3d of May.
LIFE INSURANCE.
Mr. AYRTON asked the Secretary to the Treasury,
with reference to the memorandum prefixed to the tables
framed under the act 27 and 28 Vic., c. 43, for effecting in-

surances on lives, whether the statement that a person in-
suring his life for £2O will be at liberty to increase the
amount insured from time to time up to £lOO means that
such increase shall be made at the option of the assured,
without his producing on each occasion of increase satis-
factory proof that his life and occupation are as healthy as
they were at the time of the first insurance.
Mr. F. PEEL said that tables on the subject were before
hon. members, and every information would be afforded on
the part of the Government, in addition to what was
already supplied.

STATISTICAL TABLES RELATING TO FOREIGN

COUNTRIES,

Mr. WHITE asked when the statistical tables relating
to foreign countries, pvescribed on the 25th July last, would
be distributed to members.

Mr. M. GIBSON said that the documents in question
would be before the house in two or three weeks.
TAXES IN EUROPE.

In reply to Mr. WHITE,

Mr. LAYARD said there had been considerable difficulty
in obtaining these returns, but they were now in the hands
of the printers of the house, and would shortly be in the
hands of hon. members.