The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-11 00:00:00

(LEFT SPEAKING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS—(THIS EVENING.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
Mr. SOTHERON moved that the period limited by
the house for the second reading of all railway or canal
bills, containing any powers of amalgamation, lease,
working arrangement, or other combination of interest
between different companies, be extended to Monday,
the 18th day of April.
Agreed to.

The following bills were read a third time and passed:
—Eastern Counties Railway (North Woolwich, &c.) ;
Evesham Bridge.
The Runcorn and Weston Canal Bill was considered
and agreed to.
The following bills were read a second time :—Amber-
gate, Nottingham, and Boston and Eastern Ju•neLion
Railway (No. 1) ; Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston
and Eastern Junction Railway (Sale, &c.), (No. 2) ;
Ardrossan Railway; Bedale and Leyburn Railway; Bed-
ford Extension Railway ; Birkenhead Dock Company ;
Birmingham and Oxford Junction, Birmingham, Wol-
verhampton, and Dudley and Great Western Railways ;
Boston and Midland Counties Railway and
.Docks ;
Cornwall Railway ; Darlington and Barnard Castle Rail-
way ; Dean Forest, Monmouth, Usk, and Pontypool
Railway ; Eastern Counties Railway (Purchase of
Railways, &c.) ; East Grinstead Railway ; East
Lancashire Railway (No. 1) (Clifton to Salford) ;
East Lancashire Railway (No. 2), (Southport, &e.) ;
Furness Railway ; Hereford, Ross, and Gloucester
Railway ; Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal, and
London and North-Western Railway; Hull and
Hol-
derness Railways ; Leamington, Warwick, and Strat-
ford-upon-Avon Railway ; Leeds, Bradford, andliali-
fax Jtinction Railway ; Leeds Northern Railway ;
Limerick, Ennis, and Killaloe Junction Railway ;. Li-
merick, Ennis, and Killaloe Junction Railway (Power
to Sell, &c.) ; Llynvi Valley Railway ; London and
North-Western and Buckinghamshire Railways ; London
and North-Western and London and Blackwall Railways;
London and North-Western and Midland Railway Com-
panies Amalgamation ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin-
colnshire Railway (Barnsley) ; Montgomeryshire Rail-
way ; Newry and Enniskillen Railway ; Noah and
South-Western (Hampstead and City Junction) Railway;
Oxford, Worcester, .and Wolverhampton Railway (Wol-
verhampton Station, &c.) ; Peebles Railway; Pm tadown
and Dungannon Railway ; Roscrea and Parsonstown
Junction Railway ; Saint Ives and West Cornwall Junc-
tion Railway ; Severn and Wye Railway and Canal ;
Shrewsbury, Ironbridge, and Bridgnorth Railway ;
South Wales Mineral Railway; South Wales Railway
(Monmouth) ; South Wales Railway (Pembroke, &c.) ;
South Wales Railway (Power to Purchase, &c.) ; Swan-
sea Valley Railway ; Wimbledon and Croydon Railway;
Worcester and Hereford Railway; Milford Haven
Docks.

PETITIONS.
Mr. TURNER presented a petition from Liverpool
against the opening of the Crystal Palace on Sundays.
Mr. M. SITH presented a petition from the Arch-
deacon of Rochester, against the admission of Jews into
Parliament, and a similar petition fro. .1 Tonbridge.
Mr. THORNLEY presented a petition from Wolver-
hampton, in favour of international arbitration.
Mr. DUNCAN presented a petition from Dundee,
against University Tests.
Mr. BROWN presented a petition from the post-
masters in Lancashire praying for a modification of the
post-horse and carriage tax.
Sir B. IL INGLIS presented a number of petitions
from various parts of the country against the admission
of Jews into Parliament.
Mr. BUTLER presented two petitions—one from
Bishopsgate, and the other from Bermondsey—against
the opening of the Crystal Palace on Sundays.
Mr. EWART presented a petition from a place' in
Scotland, praying for the repeal of the taxes on know-
ledge.

Mr. LASLEVT presented a petition from Winchester
against the opening of the Crystal Palace on Sundays.
Mr. PHINN presented a petition from Maidstone,
praying the house to introduce a clause into the Crimi-
nal Assaults on Women Bill, sanctioning corporal pun-
ishment.

Mr. Sergeant SHEE presented two petitions from
places in Ireland, in favour of the Tenant Right (Ire-
land) Bill.

Mr. WALLER presented a petition from Peter-
borough, praying the house to take steps to restrict
Sunday traffic on railways.

Mr. T. DIINCOMBE presented a petition from a
place in Suffolk, complaining of
thetruck system,oit. and
Praying the house to take steps to put a stop t
Mr.-MOFFATT presented a petition from Tobago in
favour of ocean penny postage.
Sir A. CAMPBELL presented several petitions from
various places in Scotland against the admission of Jews
into Parliament.
Mr. HUME presented a petition from Lambeth pray-
ing for the abolition of church rates ; also several peti-
tions from various places in Scotland against University
Tests.
Sir J. PAICINGTON presented a petition against the
Clergy Reserves Bill.
Mr. COLLIER presented a petition from r-
dettlians oement .f Plymouth praying for a revision of the laGwua of
s