The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-21 00:00:00

WELLS.

Mr. TUFNELL moved that the Clerk of the
Crown be instructed to issue a writ for the election of
a burgess to represent Wells in Parliament in the
room of Mr. Hayter, who had accepted the office
of Judge•Advocate.—Agreed to.
COMMITTEE ON ELECTIONS.

Mr. T lIORNELY presented the seventh report
of this Committee.
ROYAL COMMISSION.

Sir A. CLIFFORD, the Usher of the Black
Rod, appeared at the table and summoned
the Speaker ar,d the House to hear the royal assent
given to several Bills (for which see Lords' report).
CALNE. _

On the motion of Mr. TUFNELL, a new writ
was ordered to be issued for the election of a Member
to represent Caine in Parliament, in the room of
Lord Shelburne, who had been appointed one of the
Lords of the Admiralty.
OPPOSED RETURNS. .

The SPEAKER -informed the House that the
Examiner of Recognizances had reported that the
recognizances of the parties petitioning against the
returns for the following places were unexceptionable :
—Carlow, Newbury, Northern division of the county
of Stafford, Hereford, Andover, Lincoln, Hythe,
Newcastle-under-Lyme, and Marlborough.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

Mr. LABOISCHiIii, in rising to call the atten-
tion of the House to the report of the Select Com-
mittee on Private Business, and to move the adoption
of the resolutions contained in that report, said it
would not be necessary for him to detain the House
at any great length, because he stated so fully when
he moved the appointment of the Committee the urgent
necessity there was for making some improvement
in the mode of conducting the private business of the
House.—(Hear.) On that occasion he expressed his
belief that although there might not be room for im-
provement with regard to unopposed Bills, there was
a very extensive field for improvement as regarded
opposed Bills. The Committee had accordingly
examined the best evidence they could collect upon
this subject, and the result they had arrived
at was that the opposed Bills, as well as the un-
opposed, might, with great advantage, be placed
under the supervision of the Chairman of Ways
and Means. The Committee had found that the
unopposed Bills had been so strictly investigated that
it was impossible for errors to creep into them ; and
the consequence was, that parties who were anxious
that their Bills should escape the vigilance of the Hon.
Gentleman who filled the office of Chairman of Ways
and Means got up sham opposition to their measures ;
and
therefore the Committee proposed that before any
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also proposed to give the Chairman of
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general power to examine and
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into private Bills,
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this
of Nays
stated that
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he was afraid the Chairman o
Means would be unable to undertake thesVear and
addition to the other duties he had to performutliens'the
in
House, but a sufficient case had not been made out far
the appointment of a second officer, and the Commit-
tee therefore proposed that all those duties should be
,imposed upon the Chairman of Ways and Means. He