The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-13 00:00:00

fourtt Wbition

SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock.
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Twelve o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The report on the Dublin, Ashbourne, Slane, and
Drogheda Roads Act Continuation and Amendment
Bill was considered and agreed to, and the Bill ordered
to be engrossed.
The Great Indian Peninsula Railway Company Bill
was read a second time and ordered to be committed.
PE rITIONS.

Mr. HODGES presented several petitions from Kent,
pray ing the repeal of the hop duty.
Mr. FRE WEN presented petitions numerously signed
from the following places:—Battle Rye, Iden, Play den,
Ticehurst, Bexhill, and Hollington, Salthurst, Ewhurst,
and Bodiam, Ashburnham and Pentiurst, Bude and
Westfield, L•klesham, Pett and Guestling, Nintield and
Hove, Rubertsbridge and Etchingham, Wittingham and
Harttield, Peasmar.h and Iloilo:lore, Ilailshau! and Htl-
lingby, Beckley and Northiam; also petitions from
.
Mountfi.-Id, Whatlington, and Seddleacomb, praying for
the repeal of the war duty on hops..
Mr. PEACOCK presented a petition from Southamp-
ton in favour of the Marriage Bill.
Lord 11. VANE presenttd a petition from Stockton-
on-Tees in favour of international arbitration.
Mr. BROWN presented a petition from Manchester
in favour of the Bankruptcy Amendment Bill.
Mr. BANKES presented petitions trom Bristol and
Clifton in favour of the Bill for the prevention of cruelty
to animals.
Mr. CHARLES LUSHINGTON presented a petition
from the fishmongers and poulterers of the metropolis,
praying the House to prohibit the sale of fish and poultry
after 10 o'clock on Sundays.
Mr. REYNOLItS presented a petition from the mer-
chants, factors, grocers, and dealers in Irish spirits, of
Ballibay, praying to be placed on an equal tooting with
the manufacturers, importers, and dealers of foreign and
colonial spirits.
Mr. MULLINS presented a petition in favour of the
Bill for the prevention of cruelty to animals.
Mr. -COWEN presented a petition from Messrs. W.
and R. Chambers, publishers, of Edinburgh, praying for
a repeal of the excise duties on paper. Also a petition
in favour of the Bill fur the prevention of cruelty to I
animals.
' Mr. A GLIONBY presented a petition in favour of the
Copyhold Entranchi,ement Bill.
Sir J. PAKING.ION presented a petition from the
poor-law officers of a union in Northumberland, pray-
ing for a superannuation fund.
NOTICES OF MOTION.

Mr. BANKES gave notice that ou Thursday, the
21st, he should move that the House resolve itself into
a Committee of the whole House, to take into conside-
ration the manufacture and sale of bread.
Mr. BUM gave notice of his intention, this day
week, to move an address to the Throne for returns
connected with the value of certain church livings,
amongst which was St. Man's, Lambeth.
RETURNS.

Sir ROBERT FEIiGUSON moved for an abstract of
the net produce of the revenue of Ireland, paid into the
Exchequer in the years ended the sth day of January,
1847, 1848, and 1849, distinguishing the years. Accounts
of the net public income and expenditure of Ireland for
the years ended the sth day of January 1847, 1848, and
1849, distingushing the years, and showing the whole of
the ways and means provided within the same perio;!s,
together with the application thereof. Ot the amount of
duties of excise in each revenue dist. ict of Ireland, in
each of the years ended the sth day of January 1847,
1848, and 1849. Ot the amount of duties of cusLoms of the
revenue districts ot Ireland, in eac'. of *he years ended the
sth day of Januar) 1847, 1848, and 1849. Statements show-
ing the annual average quantity of the following articles
retained for home consumption in Ireland in each of the
years ended the sth day of January, 1847, 1848, and
1849 respectively, viz., wine, spirit-, foreign and home-
made tobacco, tea, coffee, sugar, flax seed, cotton yarn,
cotton wool, woollen and worsted yarn, silk, raw and
thrown, iron, unwrought, timber, deals, and coals; and
showing the annual average quantities of the following
articles exported irom Ireland in each of the years ended
the sth day of January, 1847, 1848, and 1849 respec-
tively, distinguishing the exports to Great Britain from
those to foreign countries, viz., oxen, sheep, swine,
horses, t aeon and hams, beef and park, butter, wheat
and wheat flour, oats and oatmeal, Irish spirits, linen
manufactures, linen yarn, and cotton manufactures
(in continuation of Parliamentary Paper No. 585,
of Session 1846) ; accounts of the amount of
stamp duties collected in each stamp district of
Ireland, for the years ended the sth day of January,
1847, 1848, and 1849, distinguishing each year; and, of
the amount of postage coil, cu.(' in each county of Ire-
land, for the years ended the sth day of January, 1847,
1848, and 1849, distinguishing each )ear.—Agreed
CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

The Marquis of WORCESTER, iu moving the
second reading of this Bill, said he would occupy a very
few minutes of the time of the House. The Bill was in-
troduced to ithpruve the Act passed in 1835, which had
been found difficult to carry out in cases where cruelty
had been undoubtedly proved. It hid, in fact, been found
difficult to fix the saddle on the right horse. Many
cases had occurred where servants had been em-
ployed in driving hackney coaches, omnibuses, and
other public vehicles with defective animals; but
the fine under the existing law was inflicted upon
the servant and not the master, a ee ect
which this Bill removed. Another ot,j,ct of the Btil
was to increase the fine from 40a. to 51., and to facilitate
the obtainment of evidence for the proof of ownership.
In a case which occurred no later than Monday last, it
was preyed before a magistrate in Kent that some horses
had been starved, but the ownership could not be made
out according to law, and the complaint was dismissed.
Ha was not aware that there was any particular diffi-
culty; he trusted the House would read the Bill a
second time, and any opposition to it might be taken in
Committee.—(Cheers.)
Mr. HUME thought that they were just as likely to
mystify as to simplify law by accumulating legislation.
Ho wished therefore to know whether the Acts already
in existence were not sufficient for the purpose. Ile
asked the qaestion, not that he was at all unfriendly to
the Bill, but quite the contrary.—(Hear, hear.)
Sir G. GREY said that this was not a new Bill, but
the amendment upon the present law was simply to sub-
stitute imprisonment for a pecuniary penalty.—(Hear.)
The Marquis of WORCE6TER—ExactIy so.
Mr. HENRY wished to know whether there was any
clause in the 8.11 to prevent steeple chasing.
Mr. MACKINNON_ said that he thought he could
answer the question. There was a clause to prevent
horses from b -ieg over-driven. He thought that would
meet the evil.—(Great laughter.) There were no ob-
jectionable details in the Bill, and the sooner it was read
a second time the b. tter.

Mr. BROWN inquired whether this Bill extended to
England and Ireland.
The Marquis of WORCESTER replied in the ne-
gative.
Mr. BROWN then said that in Committee he should
move a clause fur the purpose of extending its operation
to Scotland.

An HON. MEMBER rose and said that he should move
a clauie that, it do nut extend to Scotland.

Mr. HENLEY thought that while promoting a good
measure they should Lot du so inconsiderately, and
thus obviate the very advantage which they desired to
obtain.

Sir G. GREY said that there was no new principle in
the Bill. It had been ♦ery carefully considered, and
though there were details which would require amei.d
nicht in Committee, the Bill was upan the whole well
adapted to accomplish the purpose it was intended to
effect.

The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to
be committed this day week.

COUNTY RATES AND EXPENDITURE BILL

On the second reading of this Bill being proposed,
Mr. HUME said that he had intended to reserve his
observations till the Bill was in a subsequent stage, but
having received communications from several lem-
bers, he thought it would ba batter to meet any
objections to it in liaise. By the Reform Bill the
ctnaad
dnneeexpenditure ,
andof the rates in
a preliminary bo-
roughsji e
ion
re-
port had been made by a Committee of the House
appointed to consider the mode of amending the collec-
tion and expenditure of the rates in counties. That was
signed by Mr. Shaw Lelevre and two other Members,
and it was decidedly in
favour H
of an alteration.having
proffered always
evidence strong
ece interest in the subject, he had
before that Committee. He need
upon the
not, it was true, have expreasedany opinion
matter, but having observed the measure for
the rating in boroughs, and being desirousro obtain-
inglatin for those who paid the rates the right to regulatetn
ex,ienditure of them, he bad in consequence in 1834 iti•
troduced a Bill with the knowledge and sanction of the.
Ministry of the day. The object of the Bill was to
separate the financial from the judicial administration of
every county. He pie pesed to place the former under
the direction of a board composed of persons:elected by
those who had the best right to select them, the rate-
payers. The judicial admioi“ration he proposed to
leave to the magistrates, who bad been appointed by her
Majesty. This Bill was read a first time, but it appeared
seme opposition was offered to the Bill by the County
Members, and while he (Mr. Hume) was moving the
second reading the Noble Lord at the head of the Go. ,
verument walked out of the House. The Bill differed I
from the one introduced in 1837 in this respect; instead
of having a new election of the members to form the
board, it had been represented to him by several public
meetings in Lancashire that. as the guardians of the
different unions were a representative body, the board
might consist of a member from each union, and certain

county magistrates who were to have ex officio stets,
and he had introduced a provision in the Bill to that
effect. It the House assented to the principle of the
measure he would move that it be referred to the Com-

mittee up stairs, and if that Committee thought fit. to
increase the number of magistrates to one-half of the
guardians, he should have no objection to alter the Bill
in chat resr.ct. The Committee ot 1848 concluded that the
principle of the county rate was open to serious ob-
jection, on the ground that the charge was imposed by
persons who were not elected by the rate-payers. No
tax of such magnitude was laid upon any subject except
by his representative, and if that were so surely the House
would not consider it unreasonable to assent to the

principle of the Bill, particularly at the present time,
when there was a general desire that some economy
should be effected. There could be no doubt, if an ex-

ce ption to all rules connected with the administra••

tion of public money, in this country existed, that
it called for some ;mruediato alteration. Taking