The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-21 00:00:00

ROME.

Lord BROUGHAM said that he had received the
most solemn assurances from M. Manzoni, that he had
never brought away any of the articles from the public
museums in Rome, nor did he believe that any other
person had done so.

IMPROVEMENT OF LAND (IRELAND) BILL.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE moved the second
reading of this Bill.—Agreed to.
The NOBLE MARQUIS then moved a suspension of the
standing orders.—Agreed to.
The Bill was then read a third time and passed.
NAVIGATION LAWS.

The Marquis of LANSDO WNE presented several
petitions in favour of a repeal of the navigationiaws.
The Noble Marquis, in moving the order of the day for
the House going into Committee on the Bill for the re-
peal of the navigation-laws, said that he had received a
communication from the Noble Earl who usually
took the chair of their Committees, stating
that he should, through illness, be unable to
attend their Lordships' House. He should therefore
move that Lord Beaumont take the chair.—Agreed to.
Their Lordships then resolved themelves into Com-
mittee on the Bill for the repeal of the Navigation-laws,
Lord Beaumont in the Chair.
Lord STANLEY then rose to move the amendments
of which he had given notice, v:x.,—To move, after
the word that" in page 1, lice 6, to insert 'rt inr
case it shall be made to appear to 'h' in
Majesty that any foreign country is willing to con-
cede the ships of this country the like privileges and
advantages as are enjoyed by or intended to
be conferred on the ships of such foreign country, or
advantages equivalent thereto, then and in such case it
shall be lawful for her Majesty, from time to time, by
any order or orders in council, to be published and re-
vocable as hereinafter mentioned, to authorise and declare
as follows, that is to say, it shall be lawful for her Majesty
to authorise and declare that the several sorts of goods,
being the produce of Europe, and enumerated in an Act
made and passed in the session of Parliament holden in the
eighth and ninth years of the reign of her Majesty,
intiutled An Act for the Encouragement of British
Shipping and Navigation,' or any of them, may, from
and after a day to be named in such order as afore-
said, be imported from any port or place into the
United Kingdom, to be used therein, in the ships of such
foreign country, anything in the said Act to the contrary
notwithstanding; provided always, that before such order
or orders shall be issued, such foreign country shall
have either conceded or agreed to concede to the ships
of this country the like privileges and advantages as
are enjoyed by, or intended to be conferred upon, the
ships of such foreign country, with reference to the
importation of such goods as aforesaid, into any
parts of its own dominion, in such manner as
that no British ship shall be either directly or
indirectly subject, in such foreign country, to any
duties or charges; of any sort or kind whatsoever, with
reference to the importation of such goods as aforesaid,
from which the ships of such foreign country are or
shall be exempt, or shall have conceded or agreed to
concede to the ships of this country other privileges and
advantages equivalent thereto. Section 2. And be it en-
acted, that it shall be lawful for her Majesty from time to
time, by any order or orders in council to be published
and revocable as hereinafter mentioned, to authorise and
declare that goods being the produce •oP Asia, Africa,
and America, other than the several goods hereinafter
enumerated, may be imported from any port or place
in Europe, Asia, Africa, or America, into the United
Kingdom, to be used therein, in British ships, or
in ships of the countries of which the goods are
the produce, or in ships of the countries for
which the goods are imported, anything in the said Act
for the encouragement of British shipping and naviga-
gation to the contrary notwithstanding : P.rovided al-
ways, that before any such order or orders shall be issued,
having reference to any foreign country, it shall be made
to appear to her Majesty that such country had eithercon-
ceded or agreed to concede to the ships of this country the
like privileges and advantages as are enjoyed by or intended
to be conferred on the ships of such country with reference
to the importation of such goods as aforesaid into any part
of its own dominions, so and in such manner as that no
British ships shall be either directly or indirectly subject
in such country to any duties or charges of any sort or
kind whatsoevt r with reference to the importation of such
goods as aforesaid for which the ships of such country are
or shall be exempt; provided also that nothing herein
contained shall authorise her Majesty to permit by such
tboeins
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exceptpro produce ese o OffaAsia,
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of
such order or orders the importation or admission intothe
United Kingdom, to be used therein, of any of the goods
and An
hereinafter
.suchsino goodssof
the
mayay
now be legally imported under the pro-
v said Act, intituled An Act for the
Encouragement of British Shipping and Naviga-
tion..' To
omit the repealing provisions of Section
11. To insert after Clause 6—' And where-
as it is expedient that her Majesty should
tericaTnt htiaotne ids,
be empowered to make regulations for the trade and
navigation of Canada, such as the geographical position
and peculiar exigencies of that colony may require ;
be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for her Ma-
jesty to enter into engagements with the United
States of America, whereby the ships of the said
United States may be enabled to import goods, the
produce of the said United States or, of Canada
into the United Kingdom from any port or place
on the river St. Lawrence, notwithstanding any pro-
visions to lhe contrary contained in the Act of Bth
and 9th Victoria, cap. 88, intituled An Act for the
Encouragement f British Shipping and Navigation ;'
provided always, that the privileges and facilities of
navigation and of trade, whether by sea or land, which
her Majesty may deem to be equivalent to such con-
cession, may be secured to the subjects of her
Majesty in their trade with the United States of Ame-
rica; and it shall be lawful for her Majesty to declare,
by order in council, that such engagements, on the foot-
ing of reciprocal advantage, have been entered into with
the said United States, and thereupon to make regula-
tions for the trade between Canada and tne United
Kingdom accordingly, for such time and subject to
such conditions for the termination thereof as shall be
therein specified," And was
[LEFT SPEARING.]

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair a few minutes before
Four o'clock.
NEW WRIT.
Mr. 2' NEW
moved Lr a new writ for the election
of a Member for Satherlandshire, in the room of Sir
David Dundas, who bad accepted the office of Judge-
Advocate-General.
THIRD READING.
The Leeds and Thirsk Railway (Power to guarantee
Interest on certain Shares, &c.) Bill, was read a third
tune and passed.

REPORTS.
The reports on the following Bills were taken into con-
sideration, and agreed to:—
East Anglian Railways (Ely and Huntington Railway
Extension cif Time).
Taunton Town and Market Improvement.
Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEY presented petitions
from Gloucestershire, praying for an arbitration clause
in international treatie,
.Worcester, complaining of the agricultural distress
AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS.
General LYGON presented a petition from the county
of
existing in that county.
IRISH COURT OF CHANCERY.
Mr. SADLEIII presented a petition from the clerks
in the Irish Court of Chancery, praying for compensation