The Sun.
London, England, 1853-05-09 00:00:00

DWELLING HOUSES FOR THE WORKING

CLASSES.

The Earl of SHAFTESBURY moved a resolution to
the effect, that before the first reading of any bill for the
construction of works which would take 30 or more
houses inhabited by the working classes in any one pa-
lish there should be deposited particulars respecting the
houses, and also information as to when any provision
was made in the bill for remedying the inconvenience
arising from the displacement of the inhabitants.—
Agreed to.

[LEFT SITTING.]

HOUSE OF COMMONS—(THIS EVENING.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The following bills were read a third time and passed :
—Adel Beck Reservoir, Madras Railway, and Belfast
and Ballymena Railway.
The following bills were read a third time :—Austra-
lian Agricultural Company, Dundee Waterworks, Great
Northern Railway (No. 1) • Londonderry, Enniskillen,
and Sligo Railway ; Lough Foyle and Lough Swilly
Drainage and Reclamation ; and Lough Foyle and
Lough Swilly Railway Bills.
The following bills were read a second time :—Burton-
upon-Trent Improvement (No. 2), and Rochdale Im-
provement (No. 2).
ROYAL ASSENT.
The Usher of the Black Rod appeared to summons
the Commons to hear the Royal assent given to certain
bills in the other house, a list of which will be found in
our Lords' report.
HUTCHINSON'S CLAIM BILL.
On the return of the Speaker,
Mr. OLIVEIRA moved the second reading of this bill,
which, he explained, was to provide for the payment of a
debt due from theEastlndiaCompanyto the representatives
of Mr. Hutchinson. That gentleman was for many years
the resident for the East India Company at the Court of
the Rajah of Travancore, and while acting in that capa-
city a debt became due to Mr. Hutchinson by the Rajah
of somewhere near 500,000 rupees. In 1797 both Mr.
Hutchinson and the Rajah died ; but various instalments
were paid by the successor of the Rajah to Mr. Hutchin-
son's representr.tives, amounting to 280,000 rupees. In
the year 1808 the East India Company assumed to
themselves the management of the revenues of Travan-
core, and immediately stopped the payment of any fur-
ther instalments. Up to the present time not a single
farthing had been paid, notwithstanding that a commit-
tee of that house, appointed in 1831, had recommended
that a bill should be introduced to compel the payment
of the whole claim. His object was to send this bill to
a committee up stairs, in order that its justice should be
fairly inquired into.
Mr. LOWE, on behalf of the Government, op-
posed the bill, on the ground that the trans-
actions for which the debt was contracted were
of the most questionable nature. When the com-
pany took to themselves the management of the revenue
of Travancore, ey appointed Mr. Munroe to draw up an
account of the Rajah's just debts, but Mr. Hutchinson's
representatives did not make their appearance before Mr.
Munroe, which was of itself a sufficient test of the cha-
racter of the claim. The House of Commons had thrown
out a bill of the same nature 21 years ago, and that he
thought was a very good reason why they should throw
out the present bill.
Mr. BRIGHT said that this case was one of many in
which great injustice might be done in consequence of
there being no tribunal before which claims of this nature
might be brought. He should support the second read-
ing of this bill in order that it might be sent before a
select committee.
Mr. COLLIER also supported the bill on the same
grounds.
Sir C. WOOD moved that this bill be read a second
time this day six months. He believed that the Rajah
was not fairly indebted to Mr. Hutchinson, but even if
it were, no reason had been shown why the East India
Company should be charged with it. All that they had
done was to advise the Rajah not to pay it until its jus-
tice was established. He believed this claim was a fraudu-
lent and collusive claim.
Mr. HUME supported the bill on the ground that
inquiry was necessary.
thisircla: W. HOGG opposed the bill on the ground that
china had been inquired into and had been found to
be untenable.
Mr. T. BUNCOMBE said he sat upon the committee
in 1842, which reported that Mr. Hutchinson's claim
was a just one, and he thoughtsomewhat strange
it
that the PreHsideebnetgoafutthoethi Board of Control should now
oppose it.
originally
therel was something more
in this claim than was gma ly supposed. It was re-
sisted not only by the Government., but by the East
India Company, and under these circumstances,
the house could do was to refer mstances, the least
also to a committee.
Mr. MARSHALL said he
was a
member of
the former committee, and from the monstrous state
of the accounts that were then produced, etaedeliittle
difficulty in arriving at the conclusion that t
was not made out. He had heard nothing since to alter
that opinion, and he must therefore resist the further
progress of this bill.
The house then divided, when there appeared—
For the second reading 4B
Against it lB6

. 138

Majority
The bill was accordingly thrown out.
HARWICH ELECTION.
Sir J. TYRELL moved that Mr. Speaker do issue
his writ to the Clerk of the Crown for the election of a
burgess for the borough of Harwich, in the room, of Mr.
Peacock, unseated on petition.
Sir DE L. EVANS objected to the motion, which he

THE CZAR AND THE EMPEROR OP CHINA.—A letter
from St Petersburg of April2s, mentioned in the Patrie,
of Paris, says :—" There is much talk in the best in-
formed circles of a secret mission of a Russian envoy,
sent to China overland, and who it is said, has already
arrived at Kiatha, a town belonging jointly to the two
Governments. It is confidently reported that the object
of the mission is to offer to the Sovereign of the Celestial
Empire the aid of Russia for the purpose of quelling the
insurrection in his dominions."
FURTHER EXTENSIVE EXCAVATIONS AT FOUNTAINS
ABBEY.—The Right Hon. the Earl de Grey, anxious to
carry out as speedily as possible the extensive excava-
tions now in progress at Fountains Abbey, has during
the past winter and up to the first of this month, em-
ployed a great number of workmen on the unexplored
ground east of the Chapter-house and between that
building and the south wall of the choir. The space
south and east of the Lady-chapel, too, has been cleared
for a considerable distance. The discoveries that
have been made are highly important and curious.
The passage leading from the abbot's house to the south
door of the Lady-chapel is now cleared to its original
level. On its east side has been a large doorway
leading into an open court. On its west side is
the base of a handsome building of the "perpendicular"
period, having a doorway from the said passage, and one
leading into the court on the south side of the choir.
In one corner is a circular staircase, lined with bricks,
once leading to the main apartment above—for this base
storey, which is a few feet below the regular level, was
merely the undercroft of the principal apartment above.
A few feet from the south wall of the choir are the re-
mains of a. wall which may have been intended to strengthen
the said choir wall by springing flying buttresses from it.
From the south-east corner buttress of the Lady-chapel
to the north-west corner of the abbot's hall has run a
wall dividing a spacious court south of the Lady-chapel
from the open cemetery which has been on the east side.
The most interesting part of the discovery are eight coffin
slabs, of different ages and designs, all laid in various
positions in this cemetery within 26 feet of the east
walls of the Lady chapel. They are sculptured with
crosses of different shapes—some incised, and some in
relief. One has on it a large sword and a shield charged
with " a bend." Another has the initial letter W
placed on one side of its cross. There is only one ridged
gravestone, and another slab has been so broken up as
to obliterate any sculptured or incised design, if it ever
bore any. Further east part of another sepulchral slab
was turned up, with the shaft of a cross on it ; and near
it an unfinished gable-cross. Mr. Harrison, bookseller,
of Ripon, has taken tracings and rubbings of the coffin
slabs, which it is his intention to have engraved,
for the new edition of Mr. Walbran's Guide. The
antiquary, and the lover of local and general
history, will ever feel grateful to the Right Hon. the
Earl de Grey for the spirit and care with which he has
caused this praiseworthy excavation to be conducted at
his great Abbey of Fountains. His lordship, in fact, has
set an example which it is to be hoped will be followed
by other possessors of our monastic remains, yet buried
in their rubbish. Mr. Walbran says in a recently pub-
lished paper that the excavations which have taken place
at his lordship's Abbey at Sawley, in Craven, is one of
the most perfect works of the kind ever accomplished in
England. Sawley Abbey was a great rubbish heap.
The whole of the plan has now been retrieved ; and the
resting places of two of England's middle-age worthies
discovered ; along with a mass of other curiosities of the
highest interest to history and art.

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