The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-25 00:00:00

THE LUNATIC ACT.

The Duke of RICH %lOND presented two petitions from
West Cheltington, against the present Lunatic Act.
(LEFT :ArriNG.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The SPEAKER, took the Chair at Four o'clock.
Messengers hunt the Court of Bankruptcy brought up cer.
tain returns.

Dlr. R. HODGSON moved that a Select Committee be
oppointedto inquire into the allegations contained in the peti-
tions of the Marquis of Ailsa, the magistrates of Newton-
upon-Ayr, and of the inhabitants of Mayhole, with reference
to the Glasgow and Belfast Union Railway Bill, and to report
to the House.--Sir George Grey, Mr. Bickham Escutt, Sir
Charles Douglas, Mr. Protheroe, acd Mr. Pendarves, with
power to sand for persons, papers, and records.
I'HE MINT.

Mr. AIUNTZ presented a petition, very numerously ant re-
spectably signed, praying that the Royal ARlit might be opened
for private individuals to coin metal on the same terms as ht
Calcutta, as shown in an order of the House, printed on the
61h of March last.

The following Reports were then farther considered, and
the Bills ordered to be engro,sed :—Blackhu n, IJarwen, and
Bolton Railway—Black Sluice Drainage—Girat Lein,ter and
Munster RilAay (No. I)—Hertford and Hatfield Railway—
Midland Railway ( giriningham E.xtenbion)—Wexford, Car-
low, and Dubin Junction ttanway.
EDUCATION IN WALES.

31r. WILLIAMS presented two petition; from Kilmarnock
praying that the House would take into its consideration mea.
surer for the education of the i.eople in Wales.

1 he Lords amendments in the following Bills were then
read and agreed to:—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire
Juncti. n Railway— Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham Rail-
way ( Stamford to Wisbeach) —Burnley linpro‘ ement and
Waterworks Direct London and Portsmouth Railway
Eastern Union Railway ( Ardleigh to Colchester)
Great North of England Rahway ( Boroughbridge Branch )
Great North of England Railway (Bedale Bran,h)—Liver-
pool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junction Rail-
way— Liverpool Sanatory ftegula, ions—Midland Railway ( Ere-
wash Valley Extension)—North Staffordshire Railway (Churnet
Valley Line) ( Amendments to b proposed)—Northumberland
Docks—North Western Railway—Rye and Der went Drainage
—York and Ninth Midland hallway (Leeds Extension).
Mr. GREENE moved—" That the Select Committee on
Group Ne. 59 of Railway Bills, have leave to proceed forth-
wiih with the Sheffield, Ashton•under-Lune, and Manchester
Railway (Peak Forest and Macclesfield Canal Purchase) Bill,
although OH notice of the sitting of the Committee on such
Bill sas been given in the Private Bill-ofEce ;—that it be an
instruction to the Committee to ettertion the petition of Gis-
borne Babington, although the same was not presented three
clear days before the first day of the sitting of the Committee."
—A:2r eed to.

The following reports were then brought up and agreed to,
and ordered to lie upon the table :-13,ackburn and Prtston
and East Lancashire Railways Amalgamation—Bristol and
Birmingham Railway ( Asnchurch, Tewkesbury, and Malvern
Line ) Bri.tol and Birmingham Railway (Gloucester and
Stonehouse Junction)—Caledonian Railway (Carlisle Devia-
tion)—Dover and Deal Railway—Eastern Counties and
I harni.s Junction Railway Branches—Furness Railway Ex-
ten-iuns—Great North of England Railway Purchase—
Hull arid Selby Railway Purchase—Kilmarnock Water-
works—Lancaster and Carli•le Railway (Ex ension to
the Cale.,onian Railway) and Lancaster arid Preston
Junction Railways Amalgamation—Leicester and Birmingham
Railway (with a branch)—Preston and Wyre Railway, Har-
bour, and Dock (Longridge Junction)—Richmond Railway
(Kew branch)—Sheffield New Streets—Sligo Ship Canal—
Strathtay and Breadalbane Railway—Surrey Iron Railway
Company Dissolving—Tenby, Saundersfoot, and South Wales
Railway—West Cornwall Railway.
THIRD READINGS.

The following Bills were read a third time and passed :
A.titew's Estate Bill, Edinburgh and Bathgate Railway,
Schoolmasters' Widows' Fund.
PAUPER LUNATICS BILL.
Mr. ALEX presented a petition from the rate-payers of the
parish of Ct.esterton, in the county of Cambridge, against the
Pauper Lunatics Bill.— It was ordered to lie upon the table.
Mr. BA NKES presented a pe irion from a place in Dor-
setshire. The petitioners • tated that they were residents in a
poor-law union, containing 20,000, where great irre-
gularities I revailed. of which they had complained
to the Poor law Commissioner, and they p: aged that the
House would appoint a speciat commission to investigate the
subject.

SUGAR.
Lord SANDON presented a petition from the sugar and
molasses merchants of Liverpool, stating that there was a great i
deficiency this year n the supply of sugar, there being only
three-fourths of the quantity of former sears, and praying the
House to take into considtraticn the best means of making up
the deficiency.