The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-13 00:00:00

BILL.

This bill passed through committee, and was ordered
to be ready a third time on Monday.
PASSENGERS' ACT AMENDMENT BILL.

The house went into committee upon this bill.
In reply to Sir H. WILLOUGHBY,
Mr. F. PEEL said the object of the bill was to cor
rect certain anomalies in the present law, and to facili
tate the emigration of Chinese labourers to the West
Indies.

The house then resumed, and the bill was ordered, to
be read a third time on Monday.
REDEMPTION OF THE LAND TAX.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER asked
for leave to bring in a bill further to amend the law with
respect to the redemption of land tax ; and moved the
said bill through its several stages. The right hon. gen-
tleman explained that the object of it was to supply some
deficiences in the bill which had already passed both
houses. It enacted that the redemption under the for-
mer bill should, in the first instance, be confined to par-
ties having an interest in the land, and not only so, but
that when effected by them the tax should merge and
cease, as if, in fact, it had had no existence at all.
The motion was agreed to, and the bill was then
brought in and passed through its several stages, and
was passed.
DRAINAGE WORKS ON THE SHANNON.

On the motion of Col. DUNNE a return was ordered
of a copy of a memorial presented by the inhabitants of
the town of Banagher, in Ireland, and its vicinity, to
the Lord Lieutenant, complaining of the injury they
sustained from the effects of the drainage works on the
Shannon at Meelick.
HIGHWAYS IN IRELAND.

Leave was given to Mr. MMAHON to bring in a bill
to consolidate and amend the laws relating to highways
in Ireland.

The bill was subsequently brought in and read a firs

time.

Lord PALMERSTON presented a petition from
Sheffield in favour of the opening of the Crystal Palace
on Sundays.
ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE.
Mr. WILSON moved that the house do adjourn until
one o'clock on Monday, and that the sitting be continued
during the day, and without adjournment at four
o'clock.—Agreed to.
VACANCY FOR DUNGARVON.

In reply to Mr. F. FRENCH,
Mr. BERKELEY said he believed that Mr. Maguire
had not yet accepted the Chiltren Hundreds, in order to
create a vacancy for Dungarvon, and until he did a new
writ could not be issued.
The house adjourned shortly after two o'clock until
Monday.

AUSTRALIA.

(BY ELECTRIC TBLEGBAPII.)

PLYMOUTH, SATURDAY.

The ship Washington Irving, Captain John Jones, is
off the port, and has landed passengers. She has a
complete cargo of wool, tallow, and hides, from Moreton
Bay, and 15,000 ounces of gold from Sydney, which she
left on the 27th April, five days after the Woolloomoo-
loo.

The Tamar, with some gold, left Sydney on the 22d
of April ; the Cambodia, without gold, on the 24th ;
the Regina was to sail in three days ; the Alberton in a
fortnight, and the Oriental in three weeks. The steam-
ship Cleopatra was at Sydney. Her proprietors then
proposed to send her one more trip to Port Philip, pre-
paratory to ber final departure from Sydney on the
28th July for England, by Cape Horn, touching at New
Zealand and the South• Sea Islands.

The last news of the Adelaide steamer was when she
was at the Cape of Good Hope, outward. The Agricola
was loading at Moreton Bay on the 12th of April. The
Washington Irving, excepting three, retains all her
original crew, who get double pay home. The extra
hands have 61. per month. She ran from Sydney. to,
Cape Horn in 331 days, having rounded the Cape on
the 30th May ; spoke, the sth August, the ship Kent,
130 days from Bombay, for Liverpool ; 6th August, the
Yankee Blade, 14 days from Liverpool, and the barque
Essex, nine days from Plymouth ; and on the 9th, the
barque Abigail, outward bound.