The Sun.
London, England, 1825-03-03 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Mercurii, 20 die Marta, 1825.
ItaftwAYs—Liverpool and Manchester—Bill read a second
t!tne, and committed; Petition from Dublin, in favour—to
lie on the table ; and from j. S. Leigh, complaining that
the Standing Orders have not been complied with—referred
to a Committee. Portland and Womersley—Bills ordered.
CANALS—Gloucester
and Berkeley—Bill ordered.
CoMPANlES—Hibernian Mining, Dublin Gas Light, and Hi-
bernian Gas Light—Bills ordered.
ROADS—Penwortham—Bill reported, to be ingrossed. Man-
chester and Ashton, Haslingdon, 'Wakefield and Derby, Ta..
vtstock and Plymouth, and Cromford and Worksworth—Bills
ordered.
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PRovEEriTs—Ardwick—Bill reported, to be ingrossed.
1,
"f ethY—Bill ordered. Londonderry—Petition 'for a reduc-
tion
of , the Toll on Derry Bridge—to lie on the table.
in‘l.l,,ltcll—St. Dunstan's in the East—Report on Petition for
referred to the Select Committee on Standing Orders.
s—London and 'Westminster Oil—Petition of Nathaniel
Stallwood, against—referred to the Committee on the Bill,
COunsel ordered.
POLlCE—Gorbals--retition of Inhabitants, against—to lie on
the table.
R9IIAN CATHOLIC CLAlMS—Petition from Manchester and

Salford; in favour—to lie on the table.
CORN LAWS—Petition from Colne, against—to lie on the table.
COUNTY COURTS BlLL—Petitions from Kirkby in Kendal,
Guisbrough, and New Malton, in favour—to lie on the
table ; and several against certain Clauses in the Bill—re-
ferred to the Committee on the Bill.
1/A!,I4K OF IRELAND ACT—Petition_ from Dublin, complain-

ing of the construction thereof—to lie on the table.
EDUCATION IN IRELAND—Petition from New Ross, rela-
tive to the application of the grant of money for—to lie on
the table.
UrrLAwFuL SOCIETIES (Ireland) BlLL—Several Petitions
against—to lie on the table.
A ssZssED TAXEs—Petitions for the repeal thereof, from Ely
and Guisbrough—to lie on the table.
ATTORNIES TAX—Petition of the Faculty of Procurators,

against—to lie on the table.
CANDLE DUTlES—Petition from Glasgow, against—to lie

on the table.
'IA3IP DUTlES—Petitions from Cork, for the repeal of the
Duties on Fire Insurances; and from Tynemouth, for repeal'
of the Duties on Receipts—to lie on the table.
s
Harr LICENCES DUTY—Petition from Cork, for the re-
duction thereof—to lie on the table.
°AL DUTlES—Petition from Bodmin, against—to lie on the
table.
STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE—The following Resolu-
tions reported
That in the cases of the Petitions for Cheltenham, Chelten-
ham and Gloucester, and Dunstable and Windsor Roads—
ntanchester and Dee Canal—Motheringham and Dunston
Drainage—Glasgow Oil, and Hinckley Gas Lights—Hammer-
smith Bridge—St. Andrew's (Holborn) Church—Dyffrin and
Llanvi, Manchester and Bolton, and East London Railways—
the Standing Orders ought not to dispensed with.
That in the case of Poole Church Petition, the parties be
allowed to proceed.
That, in the case of the Edinburgh and Leith Waterworks
petition for Provision, the Parties be permitted to proceed with
i'neir Bill ; and that leave be granted that Notices may be in-
serted three times in some one newspaper of each of the several
uounties of Edinburgh Dumbarton, Lanark, and Linlithgow,
Z%._viliere there may be none such, then in a newspaper of some
of litntY atljoining or near thereto l;
and also, affixed to the doors
'oe of Houses at a General Sessions of the Peace for
eacit of the said several Counties ; and that a Plan, Section,
and Book of Reference, be deposited with the respective Clerks
of the Peace for the said several Counties ; and also that a Plan,
Section, Book of Reference, Lists of Owners and Occupiers,
J:dstimate and Subscription-paper, be deposited in the Private
Bill Office; and that the Committee on the Bill do examine,
in the first place, how far the said Orders shall have been corn-
Plied with, and do report the same to the House on the Report
of the Bill. - -
That in the case of the Halifax and Sheffield Road Petition,
the parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill, and that
leave be granted that a Plan, Book of Reference, List of
wners and Occupiers, Estimate, and Subscription paper, be
deposited in the Private Bill Office, on or before the 20th day
of this instant March ; and that the Committee on the Bill do
examine, in the first place, how far the. said Orders shall have
been complied with, and do report the same to the House on
he Report of the Bill.
That in the cases of the Stratford-le-Bow Church-yard, and
Chelsea Church Petitions, the parties be permitted to proceed
with their Bills, and that leave he granted that Notices may be
' inserted three times in some one Newspaper of the County of
I‘liddlesex, and in the London Gazette, and also affixed to the
door of the Sessions House, at the next Easter Quarter-sessions
of the Peace for the said County; and that the Committee on
the Bill do examine, in the first place, how far the said Orders
Shall have been complied with, and do report the same to the
House on the Reports of the Bills.

NOTICES OF NOTIONS FOR THIS DAY.
1, Mr. Maberly-Repeal of the whole of the Assessed Taxes.
2. Mr. Hume—To move the following Resolution—,4 That no
Member shall vote for or against any Question iniwhich he
has a direct pecuniary interest."
3• Mr. Herries—Bill to provide for the application of monies
arising in certain cases of assessments for Land Tax.
ORDERS OF THE DAY FOR THIS DAY.
1. Game Laws Bill—Second reading.
2- Quarantine Act—Committee thereupon.
3• Assessed Taxes Bill—Second reading.

NOTICE GIVEN YESTERDAY.
Wednesday, March 9.
Sir Geo. Hill—Bill for the regulation of Co-partnerships of
Certain Bankers in Ireland.
Thursday, Aprill4.
Sir Henry Parnell—To refer Linen Bounty Laws, and Irish
Linen. Laws, to a Committee of the whole House.
PRIVATE BILLS.
Second Readings for this Day.
Cromford and Peak Forest, and Flintshire Railways.

THE THAMES TUNNEL.-Yesterday Mr. W.
SMITH, M.P., Chairman of the Thames Tunnel Company,
Proceeded to Rotherhithe, to commence this great under-
taking, accompanied by the directors, auditors, engineer, sur-
,v,eYor, and other officers of the Company. The knowledge that
Ln, e first stone of it was to be laid yesterday, excited consider-
bustle in the parish of Rotherhithe, and attracted to it
4411 Y persons of respectability and influence. Among the per-
Colonel"ns were Admiral Sir E. Codrington, Capt. Lyon,R.N.
Grant, Aldermen Atkins and Heygate, Dr. Wollaston,
and several Ladies with whose names we were unacquainted.
'Alien flags were drawn across the streets in the vicinity
0f the intended structure ; the bells of the parish church rung
ati intervals during the day, and the whole parish seemed to
exult in the commencement of this national enterprise. At one
o'clock the Directors of the Company arrived on the ground where
the tunnel is to commence. Mr. Brunel displayed and explained
to the persons present the drawings descriptive of the in-
tended proceedings. Mr. W. Smith, previously to laying the
stone, made a long discourse on the utility of the arts and sci-
ences, and exemplified it by reference to this gigantic under-
taking. The Rev. Mr. White offered up a prayer for the suc-
cess of it ; after which the first stone was laid by Mr. Smith,
With the usual formalities, amid the cheers of the surrounding
Multitude. He then filled up a bumper of wine, and drank it
°t/' to the success of the subscribers, a ceremony which excited
a repetion of the same noisy greeting. At three o'clock,
the Directors and their friends withdrew from the platform to
partake of a cold collation in a large workshop in the neighbour-
hood, which had been fitted up for the occasion. (Several toasts
Were drank, and several speeches were made laudatory of the
k.:,hairman, the Directors, and the undertaking ; and the party
dispersed at five o'clock, after expressing a wish that their next
Meeting might be at the other side of the river.

Soura.—Marshal SouLT, Duke of Dalmatia, is
seen each morning going to mass with a huge Prayer-book,
!cloud in red morocco, carried before him ! Under Napoleon
he was a
into
General but under the Bourbons he has
dwindled in a hypocritical worshipper of the power of the
Jesuits.

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MASONIC NOTICES FOR NEXT WEEK.
ENGLAND.
Monday, March 7, LONDON, Nos.o 5,
289. 10, 27, 89, 218,
Commite
Boy's School, at 7.
COUNTRY: No. 20; 64, 72, 102, 148,
191, 202, 219, 267, 311,
360, 368, 369, 372, 398,
423, 498, 502, 503, 509,
597, 632, 638, 644.
r, -8, Losnox. Nos. 12, 23, 62, 100, 128,
290, 300, 367, 421, 479.
COUNTRY. No. 24, 67, 87, 130, 138,
145, 211, 263, 292, 340,
427, 604, 626, 640, 668,
714.
\Vednesday, -9, LoNno N. Nos. 3, 11, 16, 19, 29, 47,
96, 237, 257, 334, 353,
435.
COUNTRY. Nos. 159, 213, 215, 232,
314, 344, 440, 442, 447,
478, 543, 647, 661.
Thursday, -. 10, LONDON. Nos. 6, 18 25, 34, 79,
194, 271, 299, 301, 326,
338, 499.
COUNTRY. No. 51,110,111, 115,153,
172, 178, 269, 278, 354,
397, 596, 531, 540, 591,
657, 670.
Friday,

Tuesday,

11, LONnoN.
COUNTRY. Nos. 4'3, 282, 283.
-- 12, LONDON. " ' *
COUNTRY. No. 412.

The Paris Papers of Monday, with the Etoile
dated Tuesday, arrived last night. There is an
article in the latter Journal from the Austrian
Observer, which contradicts the report of the land-
ing of any part of the Egyptian army in the Morea,
and admits that the intestine divisions among the
Greeks had been appeased, and that OMER
PACIIA, instead of obeyi►►g the orders of the
Porte to proceed to Salonichi, would in all pro-
bability join the insurgents. The King of SPAIN'S
health is completely restored.

Hamburg Papers to the 26th instant arrived
this morning. They are still chiefly filled with
details of the late inundation. The following
are the only articles possessing any political
interest:—

BERLIN, FEB. 22.