The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-14 00:00:00

Mr. CHRISTIE asked for leave to biing in a Bill
to remove the doubts as to the Quakers' and Jews' mar:
riages, solemnized after the 2d of March, 1837. He was
induced to bring in this Bill in consequence of the
opinion that had been expressed on this subject by the
judges and the Law Lords since the passing of the
Act of 1833. No doubt had been cast on the marriages
solemnized before 1837, but undoubtedly some had been
thrown on those which had since taken place, and those
interested in the matter were anxious that a short Act
should be at once passed to confirm their marriages, and
he hoped no opposition would be offered to the intro-
duction of the Bill.
Dr. BOWRING seconded the motion.
The motion having been put,
Sir G. GREY bad much doubt as to the validity of
the documents to which the Honourable and Learned
Gentleman had referred, and he was assured by a high
authority that, in his opinion, those doubts had really
no existence. But, as doubts had been expressed as to
the validity of these marriages in certain quarters, he
had no objection to the introduction of the Bill.
Leave was then given to introduce the Bill.
BENGAL CUSTOMS.

On the motion of Mr. HUME the following return
was agreed to :—Accounts of the gross and net amount
of the Customs at the Presidency of Bengal (for the last
year the accounts have been received) ; also, of the se-
veral articles imported free, and of the net amount
received on each separate article paying duty in the last
year for which the accounts have been received; and of
the aggregate amount of duty received on each class—
classing them under the following heads, viz.:-1, A list
of all articles producing a less net revenue of
Customs duty than 1,000 rupees each article;
2, a list of articles producing more than 1,000 rupees,
and less than 5,000; 3, a list of articles producing 5,000
rupees, and less than 10,000; 4, a list of all articles
producing more than 10,000 rupees, and less than 100,000
5. A list of all articles producing more than 100,000
rupees, and less than 500,000. 6, A list of all articles
producing more than 500,000, so as to exhibit the
aggregate amount for each class, and the revenue of
these six clases. Also, a statement of any modifications
in the duties on imports since the return laid before
the House, in Parliamentary Paper, No. 116, of Session
. 1846 Similar account for the Presidency of Madras.
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Similar account for the Presidency of Bombay. Similar
account for the North Western Provinces. Also, a simi-
lar return of the several articles exported from each of

the three Presidencies and North Western Provinces,

under similar classes as to amounts. Also, a statement
of any modifications in the duties on goods exported,
classed in the same manner as for the imports.
TAXATION OF COSTS.

Mr. HIJME desired leave to bring in a Bill to esta-
blish a taxation of the biils of costs relative to
private Bills before the House of Commons.
The necessity of such a measure was very necessary
for no less a sum than 82,331,0001. wero expended upon
the promotion of Billa, having for their object the

public advantage. The Liverpool Dock Ifitll cost
31,0001. ; the Liverpool Waterworks cost 36,0182
these were only instances of a vast number.
If these Bills had been subjected to taxation before the
authorities, these extra charges could not have been
made, and the Bill which he proposed to introduce
would furnish a remedy for the evil. The
Trustees of the River Clyde, for clearing, preserving,
and improving the navigation of that river,
were put to an enormous expense, not in purchasing
land, but in forced litigation upon it. The expense
they had incurred since 1836, in law proceed-
ings, was 56,0001., a sum considerably greater
than what was expended upon the river itself.
A trifling local Act, which was to last for twenty years,
having expired, a Bill was brought in to continue
it. The Committee sat only one hour, and yet the
attorney sent in his bill for 1,9851. Oa being asked
the reason for this most enormous charge, he said,
that others made similar charges, and why should he
not do so. Me had that morning received information
from a committee at Bury. A Bill was introduced last
session called the Bury Improvement Bill., The object
of it was entirely sanatory, and yet the cost
was 3,696/.—a greater sum than was actually required
to effect the purposes of the Bill. He thought it right
that he should state these facts in authority
of his measure. He would trust no man in
these matters, as the Reform Corpbrations was quite as
bad as others. The Corporation of Glasgow was a
Reform Corporation, yet it had acted no better than any
of the others to which he had alluded. As an illustra-
tion of the enormous costa of Railway Bills, he might
mention the fact that last year the London and York Bill
cost 432,6201. He would now move for leave to bring in
the Bill.
Leave was then given to bring in the Bill.
SUPPLY.

On the order of the day that the Report be received,

Mr. HUME wished tio ask a question which he
had omitted last night. It was, whether Burnet's
patent solution for the :protection of canvass andtim-
ber had been introduced into the service of the navy ?
He had seen the most beneficial effects from it.

Mr. WARD replied, that it had been largely intro-
duced into the service of the dockyards, and was fast

increasing.
Captain PECHELL complained that what he had
stated last about the treatment of the officers connected
with the Haslar Hospital had not been answered. As a
petition OR the subject had been laid on the table, he
trusted that before the report was agreed to an explana-
tion would be given.
Mr. WARD said that the answer to the observations
of his Honourable and Gallant Friend was, that
all those abuses were of old date, but he
might state that in respect to the first of the cases to
which be had particularly referred there had been a
regulation established by which one half of the half-
pay had been made over to the friends of the
invalid. As respected the second of the cases,
he regretted to say, that a gross abuse had
existed, but the Government had taken measures

for its removal.—(" Hear, hear," from Captain Peche
By the advice of that excellent nobleman, Lord Ashley,
every effort had been used to ameliorate the condition of
the parties to whom his friend referred.

Sir G. GREY said that on the case being made known
to them, the Board of Admiraity had sent down in-
structions to direct that every attention that could be
shown should be paid to Lieutenant Cawse, and he be-
lieved that those instructions had been efficacious for the
purpose.

EXCHEQUER BILLS BILL.
This Bill passed through Committee. The whole o:
the clauses were agreed to.
PRISONS (IRELAND) BILL.
The report on this Bill was brought up and received,

FEVER (IRELAND) BILL.
On the motion for the third reading of this Bill,
Mr. FITZSTEPHEN FRENCH said he had just
returned from Ireland, and he could bear testimony to
the exertions government were making to mitigate the
sufferings of the Irish people. He wished to call the
attention of the House to the establishing some compe-
tent inspection over the existing and proposed fever hos-
pitals in Ireland. Committee after Committee had re-
commended the adoption of such a course as absolutely
necessary for the benefit of that country; yet nothing of
the kind had been hitherto effected. The nobility and
gentry of the entire country were in favour of the mea-
sure.

Mr. LABOUCHERE was quite aware of the neces-
sity of some competent inspector, but the Bill before the
House was only a temporary one, and he did not think
it necessary to include in that measure any provisions
adapted to a more permanent measure. He could assure
the House that the best attention of the Government
should be devoted to the subject. The Hon. Member
then proposed the addition of several clauses to the Bill,
which were then read.
Mr. F. FRENCH objected to the clauses introduced
by the Noble Lord, as he thought it was a sly attempt
to establish a medical board, which would be extremely
unpopular.
The clauses were agreed to, with a few verbal amend-
ments.

The Bill was then read a third time and passed.
Mr. FOX MAULE gave notice that on the reading
of the Army Service Bill, on Thursday, he should move
that the limited service and the Chelsea pension clauses
be divided into two Bills.

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The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of,
and the House adjourned at a Quarter to Seven o'clock.

LODGINGS FOR THE DEAD--IN THE BOROUGH.—
Valentine Haycock (a grave digger) being asked by the
Parliamentary Committee on the Health of Towns for an ex-
planation of the mode by which 20,000 coffins had been
placed in an acre of ground, says, we dig ten feet, and if we
can get twelve we do, and then we pile them one upon
the other, as many as the grave will hold, perhaps six, or
eight, or nine in it ; then, when that is full, we dig
another grave close by the side of it, and put another
nine or ten therein; that they were piled one on ano-
ther, just if you were piling up bricks. He says the
smell was "dreadful beyond all smell;" that he, himself,
raised the ground all over the place about six inches;
that the burial service was read over the graves by a
patten-maker, who lived close by. "He has 201. a year,"
says
Haycock; "he is a patten maker; he lives close by,
so it suits him very well." But this is not all. Haycock
stated, that at one time bodies were stacked in the vault
at the rate of IL each for six months. Lodging for the dead!
What became 9f them after the expiration of the six
months' tenancy he does not say; but the history of
ofra sameut teih of
if:oas:iiet_
London graveyards will readily suggest to you what was
the process of ejectment. The ways of the wicked,
occupat:
however, are not always prosperous, and a just Provi-
dence sometimes demonstrates His wrath by the nature
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the
rat© months certain, fell a victim to his beastly
to si t his house fn
A report appeared in a morning paper that
, ion,
worked in his shirt sloe inspired him with a sudden desire
order; ho came in from the country,
ter heaped up in the vault
The fear of the
sleeves at the piles of decaying mat-
die,dwent home ill, and, together
with his " head man," a few days. So may
unrighteous perish I—Mr. GinA. 'Walker's ,Second Lecture • '
on the Metropolitan Graveyards.

' Parliament ; of all sums paid each year for the rent of
houses as offices, for transacting the bubinea of Parlia-
ment ; the amount paid each year as allowance for
rent in lieu of official residences or apartments, for the
officers of the two Houses ; also, statement of the
time when the accommodation intended for those
officers and offices will be ready for occupation.
Also an account of the aggregate amount of all snms
paid by the Treasury or Woods and Foresti, on account
of the new Houses, including all allowances for house
rent for the use of officers, or for offices of the two
Houses, from 1834 to the present period.
Mr. BAILEY seconded the motion. He
thought that before the building was completed,
a sum of not less than two million pounds would
be expended, and he thought that it was high time for
Parliament to exercise some control over the expendi-
ture of so large a sum of money.
The motion was then agreed to.
QUAKERS' AND JEWS' MARRIAGES.