The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-19 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

110I7SE OF COMMONS---(THIS DAY.)
The Sr
EAKRII took the chair at twelve o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Aberdeen Shoemakers' Trade Estate Bill W*s
read a third time and passed.
PETITIONS.
Petitions wer© presented byMr. N.:MIR, from a plat*
in Ireland, against the Maynooth grant ; by Mr. Cow&,
from the Edinburgh Anti-Slavery Society, complaining
of the conduct of certain of the United States of America,
who imprisoned British subjects on resorting to their
ports, and if they were unable to pay the gaol fees they
were sold into perpetual slavery.
PUBLIC BUSINESS.
Lord J. RUSSELL moved, that the order of the day
for considering the Lords' amendments to the Oxford
Universityßill be read, for the purpose of postponement,
and in doing so the noble lord took the opportunity of
making a statement with res pect to the business of the
house. His attention had been called to a resolution
which appeared on the minute of the House of Lords of
the 2d of May, and which was to the effect that no bill
should be read a second time, except bills of supply,
after the 25th of July, unless they were measures of pe-
culiar urgency, or unless some special circumstances
should have been stated to justify the suspension of the
resolution. He did not kn ow that the house could com-
plain Clt, after the 25th of July, there should be anun.
willingness on the part of the House of Lords to consider
new measures, but at the same time there would be con-
siderable difficulty in regulating the business of this house
so as to accord with that role. However, he had thought
it best so to arrange the business of this house that the
, measures which came within 'this rule should be sent up
to the Lords' on Monday next. These bills would be
placed on the orders to-morro iv; but there was one bill in
which the house took even especial interest, and which
had already received especial attention ; he meant the
bill for the prevention of brit eery and corrupt practices
at elections, with regard to which there remained two
important points to be settled by the house. First, the
house had to decide whet her they would sanction
expenses of refreshments and, allowances for travelling
expenses ; and, secondly, they had to determine
whether any, and, if an's, what declaration should
oe made by members either at the election or on
taking their seats, that they had not been guilty of bribery
or any corrupt practice what Lever. This bill stands for
12 o'clock to-morrow, and he should hope that the house
would be able to settle these questions in sufficient
time to admit of the bill passing through all its stages,
and being sent up to the Lords on Monday. With that
view, therefore, he should propose, that if the bill was
not got through committee at the morning sitting to-
morrow, its consideration should be resumed again at
the evening sitting. (Hear, hear.) There were various
other public bills which would have to be pressed
forward in a similar manner ; he could not spe.
cify them now, but he would take care that they
should be all placed on the orders for to-morrow, so that
members should have ample notice of what they were.
(Hear.) "With this statement, he begged to move that
the order of the day for the consideration of the Lords'
Amendments to the Oxford University Bill be read for
the purpose of its being postponed until Thursday, the
27th inst., when he proposed to take it the first thing
at the evening sitting. (Hear, hear.) He thought also
that all the other bills which had come down from the
Lords had better be postponed in like manner. (Hear.)
Mr. NAPIER had understood that some of the
clauses of the Bribery Bill were to be recast. Would it
not be better to have these printed in the amended form ?
Mr. BO CVERIE said they were already printed, and
stood on the paper to-day.
Mr. HADFIELD said the Stamp Acts Amendment
Bill was a very important measure, and as one of its
clauses was based upon a miscalculation, he should ob-
ject to its being hurried forward.

Lord JOHN'' RUSSELL apprehended that that bill
came under the definition of a measure of Supply, and
therefore it need not be sent up to the Lords before the
25th instant.

The motion was then agreed to.
STANDING ORDERS.
The report of the Standing Orders Revision Commit-
tee was considered and agreed to.
CHURCH TEMPORALITIES, &c. (IRELAND).
On the order of the day for discussing the adjourned
debate on the motion of Mr: Sergeant Shee for leave to
bring in a bill to rearrange the Church Temporalities of
Ireland,

Mr. KENNEDY stated that he moved the adjourn• meet on the former occasion to give Mr. Serjeant Shea
an opportunity of replying to the statements which had
been urged against his motion.
Mr. Serjeant SIIEE accordingly replied at some length,
and contended that it was unfair to refuse him leave to
lay his bill on the table at a period of the session when
it was quite impossible that members could be troubled
with it any further this year.
[LEFT SITTING.]