The Sun.
London, England, 1825-07-01 00:00:00

COMIII"11;ES.

The Earl of SHA I'TESBURY took the Chair, when the
Isle of Man Trade Bill, the Navigation Encouragement Bill, .
the Newspapers' Duties Reduction Bill, the Smuggling Pre.,
ventive Bill, the Goods Warehousing Bill, -and the Dubin
Streets .Widening,Bill,• passed through the Committees, and
'Were reported, Without any aMendments, to the House. • •
CUM BINA TION LAWS.

Mr. BROGDEN and others., from the Hausa of Commons,
brought up a copy of the Report of the Select Committee of the
House of Commonson the. Combination Laws, in consequence
of a message from this House.
The same Deputation then brought up the Combination
Laws Amendment Bill. •

The Earl of WESTMORELAND moved the first readil:
of the 841, which was accordingly read, and ordered RI be'
printed. - • •
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY gave notice, in the absence
of a Noble Friend (Liverpool), that, if the present Bills should
be upon the table in time, it was the intention of his Noble
Friend to move the second reading of the Bill to-morrow.—
Adjourned at HALF-PAST SEVEN O'CLOCK. to to-morrow
morning. -

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
COMBINATION LAWS.

Alderman THOMPSON presented petitions upon the Com-
bination Laws, from William Curling and John -Frederick
Young, ship-builders, of the river Thames ; from the sawyers
in their employment ; and from the shipwrights in the employ-
ment of Henry Fletcher, ship-builder, and praying for -some
protection against the effects of unlawful union among the'
operatives.
After some discussion between Mr. Hume, Alderman
Thompson, Sir M. W. Ridley, an'd Sir J, Wrotresley, in the
course of which the latter took occasion to defend the condttct
of the Committee on the new bill, the petitions were ordered to.
be printed.

PRIVATE BILLS.
Mr. LITTLETON postponed his resolutions concerning th-4
management of business in private Committees till next
sion : the advanced state of this session did not allow any
hope of discussing the subject with that full deliberation which
it required.
Mr. BROUGHAM concurred with the propriety of post.
ponement. He had given his attention anxiously to this sub.
ject, and he entertained serious doubts of the efficacy of the
plan suggested. He thought thct the error lay deeper—hi tila
yery.constituency of committees, which, upon the whole, by.
allowing them to follow the proportions of majorities in the
House, tended to give too much preponderance to the Crown in
• the discuscion-of questions affecting private property.
Mr. S. WQR.TLEY recommended some mode of appeal in.
very flagrant cases to a Committee appointed by ballot, or in any
other way. • • • - • •
Mr. GRENFEL r, and Mr. LITTLETON. said a. few words

CROKER thought that the beat regulation would be to
revive the standing order, which required the clerk to take the
name of the members who attended Committees daily, instead
of taking them on the first day only. Then it would be seen
.who were the members whose attendance was limited to the
last day.
Mr. -CA LCRA FT was convinced that justice had bean dent'
in every case ; and he deptecated the idea of members consent:
ink; to put a stigma on their general conduct, when none of them
could mention a single instance of abuse.
'IRELAND.
Lord PALMERSON brought 'up the Report of the Corp-
Mittee on the state of Ireland.
Mr. ABERCROM BY said, that if it were expected that this
report was-likely to give any light upon the whole or any eon:::
siderable portion of the matter referred to .it, the House v:oulds:;-t
be mistaken, for it was utterly impossible that any report ade:::
quate to that could have been made Much valuable•infortna-
tion had been elicited respecting the Catholics of Ireland 4.;but
so deficient was it in other.respects, that it would be highly de-; *AI
hirable that it should be re-appointed early in the next-session, t'A
wish instructions to confiise' their labours to specific parts of that _
very generalinquiry which had been reterred'u.thern: • •
- Mr. BROUGHAM, presented a petition ficiin Jetties Ste-
phenson, complaining of,the restrictions en dt:btors••jh_Stafford ' •
gaol. -h.
Sir J. WROTTESLEY explained, and justified:4lK ,regu.