The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-05 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS--(YESTERDAY.)
ROYAL ASSENT.
The Royal assent was given by commission to the fol
.owing bills :
Succession Duty.
Common Lodging Houses.
Convicted Prisoners Removal and Confinement.
Savings Banks Annuities.
Coinage Offences (Colonies).
Colonial Bishops Act Extension.
Patronage Exchange.
Taxing Officer, Common Law Business (Ireland).
Bankruptcy (Scotland).
Land Revenues.
Copyholds.
Customs Duties.
Dublin Parliamentary Registration.
Stamp Duties.
Stamp Duties (No. 2).
Resident Magistrates (Ireland).
Turnpike Trusts Arrangements.
Sheep, &c., Contagious Diseases Prevention.
Battersea Park.
Westminster Bridge.
Spitalfields to Shoreditch Improvement.
Pimlico Improvement.
Whittlebury Forest.
Barnsley Waterworks (No. 2).
London Docks.
Midland Railway (Leicester and Hitchin).
Burford, Leachlade, and Swindon Roads.
Shipley and Bramley Road.
Wildmore Fen and East and West Fens Highways.
South Eastern Railway (North Kent Railway to the
Thames, &c.)
York and North Midland Railway (Re-issue of Hull and
Selby Purchase Shares).
London and North Western and London and Blackwall
Railways.
Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax Junction Railway.
Alston Roads.
R•oscrea and Parsonstown Junction Railway.
Limerick, Ennis, and Killaloe Junction Railway.
South Eastern Railway (Reading Extension, &c.)
Warrington and Altrincham Railway. (Stockport).
Eastern Counties Railway (North Woolwich, &c.)
Burton-upon-Trent Improvement (No. 2).
Carlisle Canal and Port Carlisle Railway.
Electric Telegraph Company of Ireland.
Norwich and Spalding Railway.
Copper Miners in Engand Company.
South Eastern Railway (Strood to Maidstone).
Victoria (London) Docks.
East Kent Railway.
South Staffordshire Waterworks.
Forth and Clyde Junction Railway.
Upton St. Leonard's, Birdlip, and Brimpsfield Road.
Dewsbury, Heckmondwike' and Batley Water.
Wakefield and Sheffield Road.
St. Ives (Cornwall) Harbour.
St. Helen's Canal and Railway.
Pendleton, Swinton, &c., Road.
Leeds Northern Railway.
Bedale and Leyburn Railway.
Hohne Reservoirs (No. 2).
Spalding Improvement.
Bideford Extension Railway.
Whitechapel Improvement.
Great Southern and Western Railway (Ireland).
Llanidloes and Newton Railway.
Waveney Valley Railway.
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway
(Barnsley).
Llynvi Valley Railway.
Nantwich and Woore Road.
Ayrshire and Galloway (Smithstown and Dalmellingtou)
Railway.
Caledonian Railway (Connecting Branch with Edin-
burgh and Glasgow, &c.)
Furness Railway.
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.
Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee Railway.
Great Western Railway (Henley).
Lands Improvement Company (No. 2).
St. Ives and West Cornwall Junction Railway.
South Eastern Railway (Canterbury and Whitstable, &c.)
London and North Western Railway (Oldham Branch.)
New Roes (Free) Bridge.
British Electric Telegraph Company.
London and North Western Railway (Northampton, &c.)
London and North Western Railway (St. Alban's, &c.)
West Harptry Road.
Newry and Enniskellen Railway.
Westminster Improvements.
East Lancashire Railway (No. 2) (Southport, &c.)
London and South Western Railway (Basingstoke and
Salisbury Branch).
Birkenhead Dock Trustees.
East London Waterworks.
Halifax Waterworks and Improvement.
Limerick and Foynes Railway.
Llanelly Railway and Dock (No. 2).
Ribble Navigation.
Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway.
Blyth and Tyne Railway.
Milford Haven Docks.
Londonderry, Enniskillen, and Sligo Railway (No. 2).
Birmingham and Oxford Junction, and Birmingham,
Wolverhampton, and Dudley and Great Western
Railways.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Improvement.
Birkenhead Dock Company.
Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford Railway (Here-
ford, &c.)
Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford Railway (Taff
Vale).
West London and Crystal Palace Railway).
Chorley Improvement.
Cotham's Estate.
Crowe's Disabilities Removal.
Hall Dare's Estate.
Moore's (Brown's Trustees) Estate.
Pemberton Leigh's Estate.
Earl of Egremont's Estate.
Archbishop of Canterbury's Estate.
Sneed Park Estate.
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vindictive
creditors,
from the irresponsibility and unjust dealings of fraudulent
debtors ; by Mr. Greufell, from the Local Board of Health
for the borough of New Windsor, in favour of the bill for
providing burial grounds.
TRUCK ACT AMENDMENT BILL.
Lord PALMERSTON said that many representations
had been made to him with respect to this bill, by masters
and workmen, and although they had not shaken his
opinion that some measure of the sort was required, still
he thought they were justly entitled to be heard before
Parliament legislated on the subject. It was therefore his
intention to move that the bill be read a second time this
day three months, with a view early next session of bring-
ing it forward in a modified form, and refering it to a
select committee, where both masters and men would have
an opportunity of stating their respective views as to the
effect of the measure upon their interests. (Hear.)
Mr. C. FORSTER expressed his regret that the noble
lord had been compelled, for the reasons stated, to post-
pone this bill, which was iAtevied to remedy & crying evil