The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-08 00:00:00

REPORTS.

The following reports were brought up and ordered to be
engrossed :
Birkenhead (Commissioners) Dock Acts Amendment (con-
struction of New Docks and alteration of Culvert).
Birkenhead Dock Company and Herculaneum Dock Company
Amalgamation.
Caledonian Railway (Branch across Clyde and Glasgow
Station.)
Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway (No. 4).
Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's Railway (No. I)—Extension
to Yarmouth.
The reports on the following Bills were further considered
and agreed to :
Shipowners' Towing Company.
Terrington Marsh Division, Allotment, and Harbour.
Mr. GREENE moved That the order made on the 3,lday of
this instant May, referring the petition of the Lancaster and
Carlisle Railway Company, against the North Western Rail-
way (Deviations at Skipton, Casterton, and Sedbergh ) Bill,
to the Committee on the Bill, be read. That the said order
be discharged. That the utition be withdrawn.-- Agreed to.
MEDICAL REGISTRATION BILL.
Petitions were presented in favour of the Medical Registra-
tion Bill, by Dr. Bowring, Mr. Tatton Egerton, and Captain
Berkeley.

HEALTH OF TOWNS.
Lord EBRINGTON and Captain BERKELEY presented
petitions in favour of the Health of Towns Bill.

GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.
Mr. GISBORNE moved, pursuant to notice, " That it be
an Instruction to the Committee oil the Great Northern Rail-
way (Deviations between London and Grantham) Bill, to
entertain the petition signed by William Fletcher Norton
Norton, the Chairman of the Ambergate, Nottingham,
Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway Company (presented
3d May), as the petition of that Company, although it does
not bear the corporate seal of the company."
Mr. ESTCOURT doubted the propriety of granting the
motion.

Mr. AGLION BY thought the motion ought to be agreed
to, believing that if it was not great injustice would be done.
After some observations from Mr. GREENE,
Mr. GISIIORNE said, that considering the circumstances
under which the petition was drawn up, he thought the House
should accede to his motion. He would press it to a division.
After some further conversation, the House divided, when
there appeared—
For the motion l9
Against it 65

Majority against the petition... —46
The announcement of the numbers was received with loud
cheers.

Mr. ORNISBY GORE moved that the evidence given be-
fore the Committees on the Shropshire Union Railways and
Canal Bills (Chester and Wolverhampton Line, Shrewsbury
and Stafford Line, and Newtown and Crewe Line), in the
last session of Parliament, be referred to the Committee on
Group No. 21 of Railway Bills.
Sir JAMES GRAHAM mid that, as chairman of the group
to whom this evidence was to be referred, he was unwilling to
say anything, but they had all the evidence before them which
they could desire.

Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL said, that if they were always
referring evidence to a Committee, in the manner proposed,
the session would be closed before the labours of the Committee
had been completed.
Mr. ORMSBY GORE then wlhdrew his motion.
HEALTH OF TOWNS BILL.

Dr. BOWRING presented two petitions from the composi-
tors of the London periodical press in favour of the Health of
Towns Bill.

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.
Viscount SANDON moved, That in the case of the Chester
and Holyhead Railway Bill, in Group No. 24, a Commis-
sion, having been appointed to examine the merits of the
proposed harbour at Holyhead, in reference to which the plans
of the above railway have been prepared, it be an instruction to
the Committee on the said Bill, that the consideration of the
same be postponed until the report of said Commission be re-
ceived.

On the motion being seconded,
Mr. W. 0. STANLEY thought that the Noble Lord might
have allowed the Committee to receive the evidence
on this Bill before he brought forward this motion.
He considered that the Government might have ad-
vanced the progress of this measure, instead of allow-
ing it to be deferred to this late period of the session.
He had no desire to oppcse the motion of the Noble Lord, but
he at the same time thought that the promoters of this scheme
had not been too well treated.
After a few words from Lord SANDON, the motion was
agreed to:

Several message., were brought from the Lords.
IMPORTATION OF COPPER ORE.

Mr. MUNTZ gave notice that on the 13th of May he
should move that the House resolve itself into Committee on
the duties imposed on the introduction of copper ore into this
country, with a view to their total abolition.
RAILWAY CAPITAL.

Mr. HUME moved that it be an instruction to the Select

Committee on Railways that they do not pass the preamble
of any Bill where :the companies suing for it did not possess
sufficient capital.
DROPPED ORDERS.—POOR REMOVAL BILL.

Mr. G. BANK ES postponed his motion for the repeal ol
,his Bill till Tuesday next.
HOSIERY BILL.

Sir H. HA LFORD postponed the second reading of the
Hosiery Bill till Tuesday next, but hoped that the Government
would give some facility for the progress of the Bill.
TENANT-RIGHT (IRELAND) BILL.
Mr- S. CRAWFORD, on being called upon, said that he
really did not know what to do with this Bill. It appeared
that there was not the slightest probability of its coming on
on Wednesday next, and he very much feared that no House
would be made on Wednesday, the 19th—(Laughter)—but if
the Government would agree to make a House, he would fix
the second reading for that dm—This was agreed to.
POSTPONEMENT OF FURTHER MONEY GRANTS

TO IRELAND.
On the question being put that the House at its rising do
adjourn till Monday,

3lr. HUME said, he observed that the Bill for
voting 620,000!. to certain Irish railways stood on the
orders of the day for to-night. Now, he wished to ask
the Noble Lord at the head of the Government whether it
was his intention to proceed with the Bill to-night, after what
had occurred last evening in another place?
Lord JOHN RUSSELL—Sir, in reply to the question of
the Hon. Gentleman, I beg to state that independently of
what has taken place in another House it is my intention to
postpone the second reading of the Bill till Friday nest.—
( Cheers.)
The motion for the adjournment was then agreed to.
HAYDOCK LODGE.

Mr. W. 0. STANLEY wished to ask the Secretary of
State for the Home Department if, in conformity with the
recommendation of the Commissioners in Lunacy in their last
report upon Haydock Lodge, the magistrates of the county of
Lancaster, on the renewal of the license this year, have re-
quired the proprietor, Mr. Coode, to reside on the premises;
and also to provide a competent medical assistant, likewise to
reside in the asylum ?
Sir G. GREY, in answer to the question, said—l beg to
state, that originally a correspondence took place between the
Commissioners and the visiting justices on the subject of this
license, and the result was that it was only granted for a short
period. Upon its renewal the license was granted in
the name of Mr. Jackson, who resided on the premises,
and he un:lerstood that, at the same time, security was taken
to insure the appointment of a resident medical officer ; and a
gentleman named Green, a most competent person, had since
been appointed to the office.
Mr. IV. 0. STANLEY gave notice that, on Tuesday, he
should call the attention of the House to the report of the
Commissioners on this subject.

IRISH PAUPERS.
Sir B. HALL wished to ask a question of the Right Hon.
Baronet the Secretary of State for the Home Department.
He wished to know whether the Government had received any
information with respect to 250 Irish paupers sent to Liverpool
by the Mayor and inhabitants of Wexford, 130 of whom im-
mediately became chargeable to the parish of Liverpool? He
also wished to know whether any steps had been taken to prevent
the spread of disease consequent
upon this influx of Irish paupers,?
He wished also to know whether it was the intention of her
Majesty's Government to take any steps to relieve the great
pressure of the poor's-rates: in various parts of England and
Wales,
by the influx of those ps.upers ; and also, whether it was