The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-14 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF (.OM.IIONS, May 13.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock.
THAMES CONERVANCY.
On the motion of Mr. MASTERMAN, the following
Members were appointed as the Select Committee on
the Thames Conservancy Bill:—Viscount Jtorpeth, Mr.
W. Cowper, Mr. Ward, Mr. Masterman, Mr. Pattison,
Mr. A. Chapman, Mr. Hume, Mr. Alderman Copeland,
Sir James Duke, Mr. Brewster, Sir E. Filmer, Mr. An-
trobus, Colonel Thomas Wood, Mr. A. Smith, and Mr.
Thomas Baring.

THIRD READINGS.
The following Bills were read a third time and passed:
Bingley Gas.
Eastern Union and Hadleigh Junction Railway (Sale to
the Eastern Union Railway Company).
Ewell Rates.
Kingston-upon-Thames Small Tenements.
Terrington Marsh Division, Allotment, and Inclosure.

REPORTS.
The reports on the following Bills were brought up:—
Birkeninad Commissioners Dock Acts Amendment (as
to Construction of Sea Wall along Wallasey Pool).
Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction Railway (De-
viations between Duntocher Lime Works and Bowl-
ing, &c.)
Dublin, Dundrum, and Rathfarnham Railway (Exten-
sion to Stephen's Green).
Dunfermline Waterworks.
Ea,tern Counties Railway (Spalding to Newark).
Eastern Counties Railway (Peterborough to Folkingham).
Gloucester and Dean Forest Railway (Construction of
Docks).
Great Western Railway (Branches to Egham, Staines,
Brentford, and Twickenham).
Imperial Continental Gas Association.
Kingsnorton, Northfield, &c. Rates.
JM•Leod's (Dalkeith Glebe) Estate.
Newry and Enniskillen Railway.
Norfolk Railway (from Thetford to the Lowestoft Rail•

way! near Reedham, with a branch to Hatesworth).

Payne's Patents Assignment.
Preston and Wyre Railway.
Windsor Railway.
Windsor, Staines, and South-Western Railway (Rich.
mood to Windsor, &c.)
Windsor, Staines, and South Western Railway (Staines
to Ascot and Wokingham, with Branches).
CONSIDERATION OF REPORTS.
The reports on the following Bills were considered
and agreed to:—

British Commercial Insurance Company (No. 2).
Caledonian Railway (Glasgow, Garukirk, and Coat
bridge Railway, Branch to Glasgow Station).
Cork, Blackrock, and Passage Railway.
Cork and Bandon . Railway
_ _

Eastern Union and Ipswich and Bury Saint Edmund's
Railways Amalgamation.
Southampton and Dorchester Railway (Weymouth
Branch).
HEALTH OF TOWNS BILL.

Petitions in favour of this Bill were presented by Mr.
C. Berkeley from medical practitioners in Cheltenham;
by Mr. St insfield and by Mr. Aglionby, from piano-
forte makers in Dudley.
MEDICAL REGISTRATION BILL.
Petitions in favour of this Bill were presented from a
medical practitioner in Wolverhampton, by Mr. H.
Berkeley, from Cheltenham; by Mr. Villiers, from Wol-
verhampton; and by Mr. Ainsworth, from Bolton.
TENANT RIGHTS.

Two petitions were presented by Hon. Members in
favour of due compensation being afforded to tenants for
improvements.
PUBLICATION OF NIARRIAGES.

Lord IL VANE presented a petition from the
guardians of the Stockport Union, stating that more
publicity should be given to marriages, as a great means
towards preventing the laws of affinity from being
broken.

MR. OVEREND, THE SHEFFIELD MAGIS-

TRATE.

Mr. T. S. DUNCOMBE presented a petition,
agreed to at a public meeting at Sheffield, which was
called by a requisition signed by almost every house.
holder, over which a member of the town council pre-
sided (the mayor having refused to preside), and signed
by 17,000 persons, stating that the prosperity of the
country, and safety of the industrious classes, was
only to be promoted by the proper administration of
the laws, and complaining of the conduct of Mr. Wilson
Overend, one of the magistrates of Sheffield, in whom
they stated they had no confidence, as his decisions
were not consonant with justice ; that he had con-
victed many persons under the Combination Act, and
sentenced them to three months' imprisonment and
hard labour, and that nearly all his decisions had been
subsequently quashed; that recently three respectable
working men were brought before him under the Com-
bination Act, that he sentenced them ;to three months'
imprisonment with hard labour, but that his decision
was quashed at the ensuing quarter-sessions; that he
had invariably decided in favour of the employer
and against the employed, and had in consequence given
the greatest dissatisfaction in the town. The petitioners
therefore prayed the House to order a return of the
number :of convictions under the Combination Act in
Sheffield since Mr. Overend became one of the magis-
trates of the borough, particularising those which had
been quashed, land further praying the House to insti-
tute an inquiry into Mr. Overend's conduct. The Hon.
Gentleman concluded by moving that the petition be
printed with the votes, and giving notice that he should
call the attention of the 'louse to the subject on Tuesday.