The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-24 00:00:00

PUBLIC BUSINESS.

In reply to Lord J. MANNERS,
Lord J. RUSSELL stated that it was proposed to
take the army estimates to-morrow, the ordnance esti-
mates on Monday, and the Clergy Reserves of Canada
Bill to-morrow week ; but this latter arrangement was
not to be considered final.
Mr. SPOONER--But the Clergy Reserves Bill will
not be brought on before to-morrow week.
Lord J. RUSSELL replied certainly not.
BREACH OF PRIVILEGE.

Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from Col.
Dickson, complaining of the withdrawal of the petition
against the return of the sitting members for the borough
of Norwich. The hon. member then proceeded to call
the attention of the house to a question of privilege. His
attention was drawn to this subject by an advertisement
in the Times newspaper, in which Colonel Dickson stated
that he was ready to prove at the bar of the house that
a breach of privilege had been committed by Mr. Brown,
a parliamentary agent, in withdrawing this petition.
Brown was no agent at all of the petitioners, and had no
right to withdraw the petition, and if that wore the case, a
decided breach of privilege had been committed. He
would therefore move that Colonel Dickson and Mr.
Brown be summoned to the bar and questioned on the
subject of the petition. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. HUME deprecated the course his hon. friend had
taken in bringing forward this motion without notice.
Mr. W. PATTEN had no wish to strangle the mo-
tion of the hon. member, but considered that the matter
would be better disposed of by a select committee.
Lord J. RUSSELL considered that the petition
should be printed, and then it could be considered by
the house.
The SPEAKER said that it appeared to him at pre-
tent that no breach of privilege had been shown, and
that the motion was out of order unless the
house decided to the contrary ; but after some conversa-
tion,
Mr. DUNCOMBE consented to withdraw his origi-
nal motion, and moved that the petition be printed, with
the votes, with the view of founding a motion upon it

hereafter.
The original motion was accordingly withdrawn, and
the motion for printing the petition was agreed to.
NEWRY ELECTION COMMITTEE.

Mr. LASCELLES brought up the report of the
Newry committee, which was that Mr. Kirk, the sitting
member, had been duly elected a burgess to serve in the
ffesent Parliament for the borough of Newry.
THE AUSTRALIAN COLONIES.

Sir' J. PSKINGTON rose, pursuant to notice, to
coil the attention of the house to the state of the Austra-
lian colonies, and the question of transportation, and to
move for copies of the dispatch from Sir John Pakington
to the Governors of New South Wales, Victoria, and

South Australia, dated 15th December,' 1352, and his
dispatch to the Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen's
Land, dated 14th December, 1852. The right hon.
baronet refered to the manner in which the discoveries
of gold had stimulated both the energies of the colonists
and increased the interest felt for the colony in the
mother country. Not less than ten millions sterling
had been produced from this colony." Emigration, how-
ever, to that colony had not been attended with the
most happy results.
(LEFT SPEAKING.)

NEWRY AND BLACKBURN ELECTION
COMMITTEES.
Decisions were given this afternoon by the vote of
these committees—in the former case, declaring the sit-
ting member duly elected, in the latter unseating him.
A fuller report will be found in our Parliamentary
volumes.