The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-01 00:00:00

CATHOLIC EDUCATION.

Sir W. MOLESWORTH presented a petition from
the Roman Catholic inhabitants of Mahon in favour of
a participation in the grant for educational purposes.
CHURCH AT HONG-KONG.

Dr. BOWRING gave notice that he should inquire
as to whether the grant of 6001. for a church at Hong-
Kong, which appeared among the miscellaneous esti-
mates, had been duly considered by her Majesty's Go-
vernment.

IMPRISONMENT OF A GIRL NAMED DAWSON.
Mr FERRAND gave notice that he should, to morrow,
move that the petition of John Dawson, complaining of
theillegal imprisonment of his daughter, be printed
with the votes.

EXCISE.
On the motion of Dr. BOWRING the following re-
turns were ordered:—.Returns, in columns, of the gross
amount of duty levied by the Excise, year by year, from
the year ending the sth day of January, 1800, to that
ending the sth day of 'January last, showing the rate of
duty on each article, and the amounts received on each;
of the net amounts paid into the Exchequer, exhibiting
the coat of collection, year by year, as above ; of the
number of Excise seizures in each year, as above, show-
ing the number of condemnations, the number that were
tried, and the number compromised, the value of the
seizures and penalties, the amount paid into the Exche-
quer, and the annual cost of Excise prosecutions.
PENSION WARRANT.
Sir H. DOUGLAS inquired of the Hon. Gentleman
the Secretary at War if he had any objection to lay on
he table of th House the late Pension Warrant?
Mr. F. MAULE had no objection.
CONVENTION BETWEEN FRANCE, SPAIN,

, AND PORTUGAL.
Mr. B. OSB .titNe: wished to know from the Noble
Lord the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, whether
the prott.col, which appeared in the papers of this
morning, respecting
a convention which had been
entered into by this country with France, Spain, and
;
Portugal for an armed
-,itervention was authentic, and
whether he was prepared to lay it on the table of the
House ? _ _ _

Lord PALMERSTON replied that the Noble Lord
the Member fur Lynn had intimated to him that he in-
tended to ask the same question, and also several others
upon the same subject. As far as the perusal of the docu-
ment enabled him to judge, he was in a position to state
that the protocol which had been published in the papers
was a fair and proper translation of the one agreed to on
Saturday week. He had no objection whatever to lay a
copy of it on the table of the House.
In answer to questions put by Lord G. BENTINCK,
Lord PALMERSTON replied that all the papers re-
ferringthe
table
of the House to the pro posed
in a
intervention
short
time,
would
whenlaidh
grounds which had led to the intervention would be
set forth. There had been a British naval force
in the Tagus, but no collision had yet taken place
between them and the insurgents. As it would
not be possible to go into Committee of Supply, if
at all, till a late hour tonight, be hoped the lion. Mem-
ber r Montrose would pospone his motion.
Mr. HUME said that he was unwilling to postpone
his motion beyond Friday, when he expected the papers
would be laid on the table of the House He would,
then fore, postpone his motion till that day, if he ob-
tained an assurance from the Government that this
should be the first order of the day then.
Lord J. RUSSELL intimated that the remainder of
the estimates would be taken on Friday.
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Mr. HUME said, that under these circumstances he
would take the discussion upon the subject that evening,
and he hoped that one of the remaining items in the
supplies would be postponed, that he might have an
opportunity of bringing it forward.
Lord J. RUSSELL said he was quite ready at any
time to bring on the discussion, if the papers conre,cted
with the subject were laid on the table. He could not,
however, permit himself to fix a day till the papers
were in the hands of the Members of the House.
Mr. HUME would like to know from the Noble Lord
the Secretary for Foreign Affairs what were the papers
which could not be ready. He thought a few days were
surely sufficient to have them in readiness.
Lord PALMERSTON said that every possible expe-
dition would be used in getting them ready, but in trans-
ections such as these a great amount of correspondence
necessarily passed, and it took some time to prepare it
to be laid before the House.
Lord GEORGE BENTINCK said,perhaps the Noble
Lord would also consent to lay upon the table of the
House the proclamation of the Queen to her subjects.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL said he should have no eb•
jection to lay the proclamation before the House when
the other papers should be produced; but he hoped
the House would not come to any decision upon
the subject until the matter was fuily before them.
There were the offers made by other Powers which the
House could no be aware of, and he therefore did not
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