The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-13 00:00:00

THE NAVIGATION-LAWS.

In answer to a question put by Mr. FOSTER,
Mr. LABOUCHERE said, on the part of her
Majesty's Government, he would take an early opportu-
nity of stating the course which he proposed to take on

the question of the navigation-laws. - -
Mr. HERRIES said, with respect to the Committee
on the navigation-laws, it stood on the order of the
day for this night, but it seemed impossible that
it could come on in time convenient for any
discussion on the subject; and he ventured to propose to
the Hon. Gentleman the President of the Board of
Trade, that he would rather take it on another day.
He wished also to ask the Hon. Gentleman whether or
not the resolutions were the same, or in agreement,
with those proposed in the last session of Parliament?
There was an understanding then given that no discussion
should Ise allowed, after what took place, at so much
length, on the second reading of the Bill, and that the
Bill should be read a first time with a view to its being
circulated, so that the House might resume the discussion
on it in the present session, with a general knowledge of
the views of the Government as expressed in the Bill.
It would be important to know whether or no the reso
lutions were the same, or so nearly the same, as that
the understanding could be carried into effect.
Mr. LABOUCHERE could only repeat the difficulty
which he had always felt as to laying on the table copies
of any resolutions before they were debated in the
House. He was happy to say that he had made such
arrangements with respect to the navigation:llaws as
would save much difficulty. He proposed to bring the ques-
tion of the navigation-laws formally before the House on
Wednesday next, and then to postpone its consideration
till a future day. He could only express the opinion
which he had stated in the course of last session, that
it was inexpedient to enter into any discussion of the
measure until the second reading was regularly brought
before them, for all before-discussion conversation was
in his experience always injurious to the main question

at issue.
After a few words from Mr. HERRIES, who hoped
that the resolutions about to be submitted to the House
would contain all the principles of the measure,
Mr. HUME expressed a hope that the, resolutions
about to be introduced should comprise some measure
for regulating the payment of light dues, to which Mr.
Labouehere nodded a❑ assent.
TREATMENT 011' PAUPER CHILDREN AT
TOOTING, &c.

Lord DRUMLANRIG said, that seeing the Hon.
Member, who was President of the Poor-law Board, in
his place, he wished to ask whether any measures had
been taken for regulating the disposition of the pauper
children of the metropolis, and what was the number of
those children who had been sent to Tooting.
Mr. BAINES said that the number of children at
the Drouet establishment on the 13th of January last
was 1,372; sent from thirteen different unions. The

Poor-law Board had certainly seen the necessity of
altering the system of farming pauper children, and
doing away with the present regulations, and provision
bad been made for the reception of the children
of twelve out of the thirteen unions. The
thirteenth union was that of Chelsea, which had been
unable to provide for their children as yet, owing to the
indisposition of the proprietors of private establishments
to receive the inmates of any institution where cholera
had prevailed. The number of children who had been
altogether attacked by cholera in the Drouet establish-

meni, or after their removal from it, was 223, of whom a
great many had been declared convalescent. He was
happy to say that no new case of cholera had occurred
at Tooting since Saturday, the 13th of January.
GRANTS TO THE IRISH POOR.

Sir H. WILLOUGHBY wished to ask the Chan

eellor of the Exchequer if any expenditure of public
money in aid of the poor-law administration in Ireland,
and if any, to what amount and to what unions, had
been authorised under the Minute of the Lords Com-
missioners of the Treasury, dated the 16th day of

January, 1849.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said
that an aid had been granted to the extent of 3,0001.,
of which the sum of 2,620/. had been expended in the
unions of Scariff. Ballina, Westport, and Kenmare.
RAILWAY COMMISSION.

Mr. BREMRIDGE wished :o ask the President of
the Board of Trade whether (after the notice of a Bill
for consolidating the Boards of Excise and Taxes) it was
the intention of her Majesty's Government to continue
the present Railway Board as an independent board, or
whether her Majesty's Government contemplate, in the
present session of Parliament, bringing forward any
measure to place the railway business of the country
under the management of the Board of Trade?
Mr. LABOUCHERE said it was not the intention of
the Government to bring in a Bill to abolish the present
Railway Board. Several most important reductions had
been made in that Board, but he did not think it would
be for the interest of the public that the Railway
Commission should be set aside, or that it should form
part of the Board of Trade.
EXPENDITURE.

Mr. T. B. SMITH wished to ask the Chancellor
of the Exchequer whether he had any objection
to lay on the table of the House the particulars of that
portion of the expenditure which he intended should be
placed under the control of Parliament, which had not
hitherto been so.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said
that he had stated the other night that portion of the
expenditure that would be placed under the control of
Parliament.
BURIALS IN THE METROPOLIS.

Mr. URQUHART was understood to ask the
Noble Lord the First Minister of the Crown when
the measure respecting burials in the metropolis and
large cities, promised last session, would be presented to
the House.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that the subject was
under the consideration of the Government, 'but it was
not yet in a fit state to be brought forward for the con-
sideration of the House.
CALIFORNIA.

Sir F. T. BARING, in answer to a question from Sir
De Lacy Evans, said he could not hold out any expec-
tation to him that a ship of war would be permanently
stationed at California.
NEW HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Mr. GREENE, in answer to a question from Mr. B.
Osborne, observed that he could not say when the new
House of Commons would be in a fit state for the re-
ception of Members.
ENGROSSED BILLS.

On the motion for considering the resolutions relating
to Engrossed Bills,
Sir R. H. INGLIS expressed a hope that those parties
whose duty it was to draw up the drafts of Bills,
not being Members of the House, would in future
take more care in adapting the language and phrase-
ology of the Bills to the purposes for which each Bill
was intended: Very often the defective phraseology of the
Bill entirely defeated the object for which the B►ll itself
was intended. He, therefore, trusted that, for the future,
more attention would be paid to the matter.—(Hear.)
The resolutions were then considered and agreed to.
HABEAS CORPUS SUSPENSION (IRELAND)