The Sun.
London, England, 1853-06-16 00:00:00

(LEFT SPEAKING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS--(THIS EVENING.)
The SrRAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The following bills were read a third time and passed :
—Aberdeen Tailors' Incorporation Estate ; Ayrshire
and Galloway (Smithatown and Dalmellington) Railway ;
Bideford Extension Railway ; ' East and West India
Docks and Birmingham Junction Railway (No. 2) ;
Electric Telegraph Company of Ireland ; Glasgow and
South-Western Railway (No. 2) ; Llanidloes and New-
town Railway ; Roscrea and Parsonstown Junction
Railway ; Wimpole, Wrestlingworth, and Potton Road ;
York and North Midland Railway (re-issue of Hull and
Selby Purchase Shares) ; Copper Miners in England
Company.

The report upon the Burford, Leachdale, and Swin-
don Roads Bill was considered, and agreed to, and the
bill was ordered to be read a third time.

PETITIONS.
Mr. OLIVEIRA presented several petitions from
Suffolk, against the Education Bill.
Mr. FREWEN presented a petition from Sussex,
praying for the repeal of the malt and hop duties.
A considerable number of petitions were presented
against the bill for the registration of assurances.
Mr. SPOONER presented a petition from Bilston in
favour of the ocean penny postage.
Mr. DUFFY presented petitions from the borough of
Enniskillen, Dublin, the county of Kerry, the county of
Monaghan, and Burton-on-Trent, against the bill for the
inspection of nunneries.
Mr. LUCAS presented a considerable number of peti-
tions to the same effect from places in England and Ire-
land.

TAUNTON ELECTION.
The members of the committee on the Taunton elec-
tion were called to the table and sworn.
They sit to-morrow at 11 o'clock.
PETITIONS.
Sir G. PECHELL presented a petition from Brighton
in favour of an uniform penny postage to all ports in the
world.
Mr. M. GIBSON presented two petitions from Man-
chester praying for the repeal of the Newspaper Stamp
Act.

Mr. A. PELLATT presented several petitions from
Southwark against the Education Bill.
Mr. HADFIELD presented a petition from the emi-
grants for Van Diemen's Land in the ship Calcutta, in
favour of the ocean penny postage.
Lord G. MANNERS presented a petition from a place
in Cambridgeshire against the attorneys' certificate duty.
Mr. HUME presented a petition from booksellers in
Edinburgh, against the printing and publishing of edu-
cational works by the Government.
Lord H. VANE presented a petition from the Roman
Catholics of Darlington and neighbourhood, against the
Inspection of Nunneries Bill.
Mr. PHINN presented a petition from Bath, in
favour of ocean penny postage.

RIVER TIVY.
Viscount EMLYN asked the first Lord of the Admi-
ralty whether it was the intention of the Government
to take any steps to carry out the recommendations con-
tained in Captain Washington's report on the encroach-
ments on the bed of the river Tivy ?
Sir J. GRAHAM said it was not the intention of the
Government to incur any expense on the part of the
public in the removal of the obstructions in the harbour,
but they had given notice to the parties who had deposited
them in the tide-way not to do so for the future, and if
they disobeyed that notice the Attorney-General would
be directed to prosecute them.

IRISH TURNPIKE ROADS.
In reply to Mr. IVIAGAN,
Sir J. YOUNG declined to give any assurance that
steps would be taken by the Government for the re-
moval of toll bars on certain roads in Ireland, observing
that such removal would be an interference with the
private rights of the debenture holders.
SUCCESSION TAX AND CORPORATIONS.
Mr. FRESHFIELD asked the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer whether he proposed that the succession tax
should apply to property of corporations, such as the
royal hospitals of St. Bartholomew, St. Thomas, and
Bethlehem, held in trust for the relief of the sick poor,
and for the care and cure of insane persons?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he
stated the other evening that the plan the Government
intended to propose would apply to corporations gene-
rally, including corporations of an eleemosynary charac-
ter ; but the hon. member would get more clear and
authent►c information on the subject when the plan itself
was before the house.

. ADVERTISEMENT DUTY.
In reply to Mr. T. M. GIBSON,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said
the Government had no intention whatever of proposing
any alteration in the advertisement duty, except to re-
duce it from ls. 6d. to 6d.
_Mr. T. M. GIBSON said as the resolution now stood,
advertisements in books would be liable to the duty,
. which had not been the case hitherto.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the
resolution was open to amendment in that respect.
MR. KEOGH'S EXPLANATION.
Mr. REOGII raonsedto make the statement of which he
had given notice, h asked the indulgence of both sides
of the house Whit defended himself from charges
which had been
against him, and which im-
pugned his veracity and personal
aceh honour. Altercations
had too often taken
not the
Irish members,
but in this case he was
whiotiheh originator of the
dispute, for the attack of
m previousm e
made behind his back, and withroeuet
remember
dnowtieas
to himself. The house would
Friday last a discussica took place
e that on
1 in another
place, in which his name was prominently brought f r
ward, but as that discussion was about to be revived in
-
a proper tribunal, he should allude to it as little as
possible. It was right that he should state that the
only notice he had of the discussion to which he referred
was given to him by his hon. friend the member for
Roscommon, about five o'clock on Friday night. He
alluded to this discussion for the purpose of passing by
the noble personage who introduced it—(a laugh)—but
not so those who followed. A noble lord, who had

filled the high office of Lord-Lieutenant of Ire-
land, deprecated his appointment under the present
Government ; whilst another noble earl, who was some-
times described as the chivalrous earl, followed that
statement up with the expression of his opinion that his
(Mr. Keogh's) appointment was the least reputable
which the present Government had made. (Hear.) He
was at the bar of the House ofLords at the time this opinion
was expressed, and he felt somewhat astonished at it,
knowing that a noble lord who acted as the Chief Secre-
tary for Ireland under the late Government had offered
him office. (Hear.) He immediately communicated that
fact to a noble duke, who stated it to the house ; but it
now seemed that the noble lord to whom he had referred
denied having made such an offer. New this was some-
what strange, seeing that the noble earl, at the forma-
tion of the late Government, ran about in search of him
in all directions, and called repeatedly at the Reform Club,
where his appearance excited considerable surprise to see
if he could find him there. It happened, however, at the
time that he was not a member of the club, and the
noble lord applied to several of his friends to know
where he was to be found. The noble lord was told
the club to which he belonged, and at that club
the noble lord saw him. These circumstances he de-
tailed in a note which he addressed to the noble lord
last Saturday, reminding him that at an interview
which he had with him at his own house, the noble lord
offered him office under Lord Derby's Government, stat-
ing that he had authority to do so from Major Beresford
—a laugh)—and he required to know if the noble lord
remembered the circumstance. (Hear.) This letter
was delivered on Saturday, but it was not until Tuesday
he got a reply. It was true the noble lord was not at
home on Saturday or Sunday, but the noble lord
returned to town on Monday. Still it was not until
the following day that the noble lord made any reply,
when he wrote back denying that he had ever made him
or his friends an offer of office under Lord Derby, either
directly or indirectly. (Hear.) Now, after what the noble
earl said in another place, it was impossible for him to
pass this denial by without calling their attention
to the circumstance. He had never stated that the
noble lord had made an "offer" of office. What he
stated was that the noble lord asked him if he would
"accept office" under Lord Derby, if it was offered to
him ; and so far as that offer went, he could prove it
distinctly, because he stated it to his hon. and gallant friend
the member for Middlesex immediately after it was made,
besides other honourable members of the house, including
the honourable member for Galway. (Hear, hear.)
But more than that, later in the session, the honour-
able and gallant gentleman the member for North
Essex winningly remonstrated with him for opposing Lord
Derby's administration, after Lord Naas had offered him
office. (Hear, hear.) His hon. and learned friend the
member for Cork, was by at the time this remonstrance
was made, and the tone and manner of the hon. and gal-
lant gentleman having attracted his hon. and learned
friend's attention, he asked what had been going on, and
he (Mr. Keogh) frankly told him at once. (Hear, hear.)
Now, he wanted to know, if, after this, the noble lord
(Lord Naas) still adhered to his denial. Did he
believe the statement of the Earl of Derby, that "no
suggestion, offer, or hint of office," had ever been
made to him by any one connected with the late Govern.
ment, because if he did, he begged to inform the house
that he had another evidence in his possession of the
offer having been made. Last year, Mr. O'Flaherty, a
mutual friend of himself and the noble lord, travelled
from Kingston to Dublin. The noble lord stated that he
had expected better treatment at his (Mr. Keogh's)
hands after the offer of office which he had made him.
(Hear.) There were other proofs that he could mention
of office, and these he would now go into.
[LEFT SPEAKING.]