The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-12 00:00:00

CAMBRIDGE BURGESSES.

Mr. WATSON presented a petition from several
burgesses of Cambridge, complaining that they were
not placed on the list of voters for that borough, though
they were entitled to the franchise, and had taken the
necessary steps to obtain it.
DESTITUTE PERSONS (IRELAND) BILL.
On the motion of Mr. LABOUCHERE, that the
order of the day for the third reading of this Bill be
read,
NEWSPAPERS PUBLICATION OF DIS-
PATCHES.

Mr. ROEBUCK, seeing the Noble Secretary for
Foreign Affairs in his place, wished to put a ques-
tion. In the Morning Chronicle of this morning,
a dispatch, dathed the 11 th instant, signed Palmer-
ston, and directed to the Marquis of Normanby,
was published. It was not the matter of the dispatch
with which he wished to find fault, but to the circum-
stance appearing in a newspaper before it could have
reached Lord Normanby, to whom it was addressed, or
the Court to whom the communication was to he made.
Now he wished to know whether the
o l
appear-
ance of such a document in a public journa
l
was was not in contravention of the rules which regulated
diplomatic correspondence, and contrary to the courtesy
which should be observed with regard to such commu-
nication.Ho was exceedingly grieved to make
this statement, as he believed that the conduct and
the good faith of the political
,agents of the No-
ble Lord and of the N.0134' Lord himself with
respect to the recent 4i'elations with France,
had been completely vindicated. Still it was
abso-
lutely necessary that the good faith, candour, and
straight-forward conduct of the Government should
be maintained beyond all suspicion.— (Hear, hear.)
The question he wished to put to the Noble Lord was
this, and he wus sure he would pardon hina.for s
doing
.o
—had he any cognisance of any document of the kind?
Lord PA LNIEESTON said the fact was, that yester-
day evening he laid on the table the cotinuation of the
correspondence which he had previously laid before the
House. That continuation contained the last dispatch
of M. Guizot to Count Oliviera, which had been officially
communicated to her Majesty's Government. It also con-
tained a dispatch from him (Lord Palmerston) to Lord
Normauby, that there was no intention on the part of the
Government to reply to that last dispatch. He
certainly must return his thanks to the Hon.
Member for the handsome manner in which
he had spoken of the conduct of her Majesty's Govern-
ment, in connexion with these dispatches. These
papers also contained a dispatch from Lord Nor-
manby, complaining of the inferences that night
'be drawn from certain statements which had
been made in the Franch Chambers ; also his
(Lord Palmerston's) answer to Lord Normanby, stating
that the confidence of the Government in him had not
been shaken by anything that had passed.—(Hear,
hear.) These papers, as be had said, were presented
yesterday, and the Hon. and Learned Gentle man must
be aware that a short time must elapse before they
could be circulated to all the Members of the House.—
(Hear, hear.) Lie was sorry, • that by some accident,e
the papers had not been generally delivered, but
hish
begged to tender the Hon. and Learned Gentlemanh.
(Lord Palmerston's) copy. (The paper was handedf by aim
Members to the Hon. and Learned Member or
amidst considerable laughter.) It might' he thought,
be instructive to the Hon. and Learned Gentleman.
The Bill was then read a third time and passed.
FEVER IN IRELAND.
Sir F. FRENCH wished to call the attention of the
lion, Gentleman the Secretary for Ireland Mr.
fev Lera-
bouchere) to the recent extraordinary increase( of
in Ireland. He had received several letters this day
stating that fever was greatly on the increase. lie
wished to suggest that the valuable medical institutions
of Ireland should be made available for the purposes
of the ailing during the prevalence of the present
calamity. He also wished to know what steps the Go-
vernment proposed to take in order to alleviate the suf-
ferings of those persons?
Mr. LABOECHERE believed that the statement of
the Honourable Gentleman was correct. He stated
last Session that if the Government found it
necessary, the Board of Health in Dublin
would be renewed. The Lord Lieutenant, owing to
communications which had been made to him, had made
that renewal, and the board had been in operation during
the last three weeks. The attention of the Government
was fully directed to the question.
RAILWAYS
(IRELAND) BILL.
Lord G. BENTINCK moved the second reading of
this Bill.
Lord NEWRY presented a petition from Newry in
favour of it.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said
before ho directed his attention to the important mea-
sure before the House, he wished to offer a few
observations on what had already taken place.
There were one or two symptons of party feeling in the obser-
vations which fell from one or two gentlemen on the other side
of the House. He was perfectly ready to believe that his
Noble Friend was willing to abstain from all partp expressions,
and he could assure the Noble Lord that such was the feeling
of her Majesty's Government. If the measure were carried,
they were not prepared to undertake the responsibility
of carrying it out. But it was of such importance
end magnitude, that they were not prepared to adopt is. A
plan w hien was to give no less a sum than sixteen millions.
Lord G. BENTINCK—Not more?