The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-17 00:00:00

BILL.

This Bill was read a third time and passed.
DRAINAGE OF LANDS (IRELAND) BILL.
This Bill was read a third time and passed.
STOCK IN TRADE EXEMPTION BILL.

This Bill was read a third time and passed, as were
also the Joint-Stock Companies' Bill, and the Polling at
Elections (Ireland) Bill.
The other Bills on the table were advanced a stage,
and their Lordships, at a Quarter to Seven, adjourned
till to-morrow at One o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, July 16.
The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly after Three.
NEW MEMBER FOR CORK.
Dr. POWER was introduced by Mr. Maurice O'Con.
nell and Mr. Callaghan, and took the oaths and his
seat for the county of Cork, in the room of the late
Daniel O'Connell, Esq., deceased.
PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORS BILL.
Sir DE LACY EVANS, after some discussion as to
the incorrectness of the division that took place upon the
Parliamentary Electors Bill, withdrew the measure for
the present session.
THIRD READING. _ _ _

The Edinburgh and Bathgate Railway (Deviation and
Amendment) Bill was read a third time, and passed.
LORDS' AMENDMENTS.
The Loids' amendments to the following Bills were
considered and agreed to :
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway
(Deviation of Main Line and Chester Branch, &c.)
Buckingham and Brackley Junction Railway, and
Oxford and Bletchley Junction Railway Companies
Amalgamation and Extension of Lines.
Caledonian Railway (Edinburgh Station, and Branches
to Granton, and to the Edinburgh and Glasgow
Railway).
Chester and Holyhead Railway (Extension at Holyhead).
Edinburgh and Northern Railway (Improvement of the
Ferry between Ferry Port on Craig and the north
shore of the river Tay).
Edinburgh and Northern, and Edinburgh, Leith, and
Granton Railways Amalgamation.
Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Junction Railway (Alteration of Main Line and
Hawes Branch).
London (City) Improvements.
Northern Counties Union Railway Deviation.
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Railway.
South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole Railway (Penis
tone, &c., and Purchase of Sheffield, Rotherham,
Barnsley, Wakefield, Huddersfield and Goole Rail-
way, Dun Navigation, and Dearne and Dove Canal).
Wear Valley, Bishop Auckland and Weardale, Wear-
dale Extension, and Wear and Derwent Railways,
and Shildon Tunnel Amalgamation.
York and North Midland Railway
Branches).
Station and
Branches).
SYSTEM OP GOVERNMENT IN TRINIDAD.
Mr. 1113
E presented a petition from Trinidad com-
plaining of the
present system of Government in that
oolony, and praying for a House of Assembly.
Mr. OSBORNE, PTes(Vnteß-LAW.
perary Union, stating that lea petition from the Tip•
awt?tahuonudt under the
bloodshed.iew Irish
poor-law could not be collected

PORTUGAL,
Air. OSBORNE wished to ask the Noble Lord (J.
the Noble Lord
Russell) a question in the abs
the second
the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, By
,By
liberty of the
article in the treaty with Portia.
Tided that the decrees taking away the it
was
pro-
subject of the press should be revoked.
Diario recently issued contained a decree continuing as
the
suspension of the liberty of the subject and of taupineg
for; an indefinite period, he wished to know whether-rs
the Noble Lord was aware of this ; and whether he in
tended to take any step to compel the Government of
Portugal to fulfil the treaty ?
L, who spoke very indistinctly,
Lord JOHN RUSSEL
was understood to say, that he was aware that the
liberty of the subject and of the press had been suspended
and that they had not ;been revoked. The revocation
of the decrees on the subject was assented to by the
Queen and her Government, but refused by the Junta ;
but he believed the continuation of the decree com-
plained of was merely temporary, and that it would be
immediately revoked.
Mr B. OSBORNE—
also wished to know whether it
was true that the French and Spanish Ambassadors
had protested against the conduct of Colonel Wylde at
Oporto ?
Lord J. RUSSELL said he believed they had pro
tested.

POOR-LAW AMENDMENT BILL.
Mr. HINDLEY wished to know whether, in the event
of this Bill coming down from the House of Peers with
the clause of the Hon. Member for Evesham (Hr. Borth-
wick) omitted, the Government would consent to its re-
insertion ?
Mr. FERRAND said no less than fifty Members who
bad left town bad stated that if the Government offered
any opposition to the clause that they would come up to
town for the express purpose of supporting it. If the
Government would state that they would not oppose