The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-01 00:00:00

(LEFT SPEAKING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock.
THIRD READING.

The Newcastle and Carlisle Railway (Alterations of
and Branch from Alston Branch)

CONSIDERATION OF REPORTS.

The reports on the following Bills were considered
and agreed to, and the Bills ordered to be engrossed:—
Chester and Holyhead Railway (Increase of Capital,
with Powers to the London and North-Western
Railway Company to subscribe thereto) Bill.
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossau Harbour Acts
Amendment Bill.
SURVEYING OFFICERS.

Sir JOHN YAHDE BULLER moved that the re-
port of the surveying officers made in the last session
of Parliament, under the Preliminary Inquiries Act (9
and 10 Vie., c. 106), in the case of the Torquay Market
Bill, be referred to the Committee to whom the Bill of
the present session, under the - same name or title, in
Group 4 of Opposed Private Bills is referred.
Agreed to.

PETITIONS.
Mr. WILCOX presented a petition from Southampton
in favour of tha abolition of punishment of death.
Mr. BLACKSTONE presented a petition, praying
the House to take steps to relieve the existing agri-
cultural distress.
Mr. PALMER presented a number of petitions against
the Marriage Bill.
Mr. PLUMPTRE presented petitions to the same
effect.
Sir JOHN DUCKWORTH presented petitions against
the Oaths Bill.
Several Hose MEMBERS presented petitions in favour
of international arbitration.
Mr. S. CRAWFORD presented eleven petitions from
individuals residing in the metropolis, in favour of uni-
versal safferage, and petitions against State endowments
for religious purposes.
Mr. COBDEN presented a petition from Saddleworth,
in the West Riding, praying the House to pass a Bill to
regulate the county rate expenditure.
Sir JOSHUA WALIIbLEY presented a petition
from Leicester in favour of the Parliamentary Oaths
Bill.
Mr. BRIGHT presented a petition to the same effect,
and several petitions in favour of the Clergy Relief Bill,
and also petitions praying for the abolition of punish-
ment of death.
Mr. HAMILTON presented a petition praying for
the revival of the suppressed Irish bishoprics.
Several petitions were presented in favour of the
Clergy Relief Bill, and praying for the liberation of Mr.
Shore.
Mr. CHRISTOPHER presented a petition from a
place in Lincolnshire against the Parliamentary Oaths
Mr. SMITH presented a petition from Birmingham
praying tee House to take steps to insure efficient rail-
way travelling on Sundays.
Mr. S. WORTLEY presented several petitions in
favour of his Bill for legalizing marriage with a deceased
wife's sister.
Mr. I'. EGERTON presented a petition from a place
in the county of Chester against the Parliamentary
Oaths Bill.
General LYG ON presented a petition from a place in
Worcestershire against the Copyhuld Enfranchisement
Bill.
Mr. DEEDES presented petitions from Kent com-
plaining of agricultural distress.
MARRIAGE BILL.
Mr. EWART brought in the Marriage by License
Ball, which was read a first time, and ordered to be read
a second time to-morrow.
VOTE BY BALLOT.
Mr. 11. BERKELEY postponed his motion with re-
spect to taking votes for Members of Parliament by way
of ballot until the 17th inst.
PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.
Mr. T. D'E YN COURT gave notice of his intention to
ask for leave to bring in a Bill to shorten the duration
of Parliaments.
Mr. S. CRAWFORD gave notice that, on the motion
of the lion. Member for Montrose, to amend the national
representation, he should move an amendment to extend
the suffrage to all adult males, not disqualified by law,
which had been registered and resident for a certain
time within the electoral districts.
CLERGY RELIEF BILL.
Mr. C. LUSHINGTON gave notice that in the Com-
mittee on the Clergy Relief Bill, he should move that the
following words be added as a proviso to the 6th clause:—
" Provided always, that nothing in this Act now con-
tained shall authorise the refusal of the right of burial
in the accustomed manner to any dissenting person."
FETHARD FEVER HOSPITAL.
Mr. SCULLY moved for copies of all the corre-
spondence between the Board of Health, the Poor-law
Board, and the Board of Guardians of the Cashel Union,
sopretehe
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Agreed to.
MR. CIWE AND THE WORCESTERSHIRE
SESSIONS.
Sir J. PAKINGTON asked the Secretary of State
for the Home Department, whether the amount of the
recognizances of the Rev. Mr. Crewe, which were es-
treated by order of the Court for non-attendance to give
evidence on a trial at the Michaelmas Quarter Sessions
for Worcestershire, had been returned to Mr. Crewe by
order of the Treasury; and if so, upon what grounds,
and whether the forms and practice usual at the Trea-
sury and the Home-office on such occasions were ob-
served in this instance.
Sir G. GREY stated that after an inquiry had been
made into the facts of, the case the recognixances had
been returned by the Treasury to Mr. Crewe. It ap-
hoobmere,
but as the justices were not all p
ap-
peared that he attended the sessiorensse
onnt haedraeytuinrnOedet
t able to return to
in the evening, a distance of 13 miles, and afterwards
became so unwell that he was no
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Worcester on the following day.
Baronet, after detailing the universal course adopted in
cases of this kind, stated that in consequence of an acci-
dental omission it had not been followed in the present
instance.
PRIVILEGE.
REPORTING THE DEBATES—BREACH OF
Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL begged to call the attentionf
pri-
vilege. The sessional orders of the House
laid down that
House during
of the House to what he conceived was a breach o
strangers were not to be admitted into the
its debates, and that its debates should not be reported
without the permission of the house. He was not
going to argue at all upon the good sense of retaining
such a rule; at the same time, when strangers were
b_e
per-
mitted to report their proceedings if was but reasonable
that the House should expect them to' be fairly and
impartially reported. In a newspaper called
the Times—(Laughter)—a great violation of that
rule took place in the debate which occurred
on the third reading of the Rate in Aid Bill for Ireland._
Be believed the proper course would be to call the
printer of that paper to the bar to answer for his conduct,
and lee (Mr. J. O'Connell) would conclude with a mo-
tion to thlit effect. Lie found the proceedings of