The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-21 00:00:00

NOTICES OF MOTION.

Mr. FERRAND begged leave to give notice that to-
morrow night he should ask the Secretary for the Hume
Department, if any inquiry was to be instituted into the
truth of a report now circulated in Sheffield, that the
body of John Darby, an inmate of the union workhouse
there, who died on the 10th of Dec., had been cut up
into quarters, and sold for Os. a quarter, and that the
Governor had refused to the friends of the deceased any
inspection of the books or any information. Also,
whether, on the 19th of February, five weeks after the
death, a coffin, purporting to contain the body of John
Darby, was interred in the church of the district.
Mr. E WART gave notice that to-morrow he should
present a petition from the inhabitants of Newcastle, in
New South Wales, against the present system of trans-
portation to that colony ; and also that on Tuesday after
the holidays he should move for an inquiry into the salt
monopoly in India.
SCOTCH REGISTRATION.

Mr. MACKENZIE gave notice that, on the order of
the day for going into Committee upon the Bill regu-
lating the registration of births, deaths, and marriages,
in Scotland, he should move that it bo read that day six
months.

Mr. HUME gave notice that to-morrow he should
ask her
Majesty's Government if they had any objection
to lay upon the table of the House the instructions under
which the naval officers at Portugal at present interfered
in the affairs of that country.
BUSINESS OF THE lIOUSE.
In answer to a question from Sir J. DUCKWORTH,
Lord J. RUSSELL said, that it was intended to post-
pone the Health of Towns Bill from Friday, the 28th
instant, to the Friday following. He would inform Vie
House to-morrow whether on Fiitlav, the 28th inst , the
Chancellor of the ; xchequer weeild lake me, Loan Dis-
count Bill, or whether he would Itope e that the house
go into Committee of Supply.
Mr. BUCK hoped the Government would not press
forward the Health of Towns 11;11, a. it was generally
Opposed by the lending towns in the kingdom.
COLONIAL AND BRITISH SPIRITS.
Mr. MOFFATT, in rising to bring before the House
his Bill for assimilating the warehousing privileges on
colonial and British spirits, said that he should trouble
the House with very few observatiene, as this question
had been sufficiently discussed already. His object
was to assimilate the warehousine !•rivileges on colonial
and British spirits. In Scotland and freland the privileges
of bonding and paying duty only on that portion which
was taken outer bond was already conceded, and he wiehed
that England would adopt the same rule. The principle
;
of the Bill had been recommended by the parties most
interested, and therefore best acquainted with the sub-
ject, and he thought that on the question of revenue
little opposition would be given by the Chancellor of
the Exchequer. With reference to any defrauding of
the revenue, he b
'ggod to remind the House, that while
there were 178 distillers in Scotland there had been only
67 informationsinformations lodged within the last few years,
while in Ireland, where there were ninety-seven
distillers, no informations had been lodged. Let them
contrast this state of things with England, where there
were few distillers and many informations. This regu-
lation only affected the manufacturers of spirits, and
therefore he was entitled to either one protection or the
other, and he believed that distillers generally, if they
wore left untrammelled, would rather distil from wet
corn than from
aucyar, On the other hand, they would
be glad if they haethe opportunity to distil from barley,
and, consequently if that were alloiTed, there would