The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-08 00:00:00

FLOGGING.

Dr. BOWRING presented a from Belfast praying
for the immediate abolition of military flogging ; the peti-
tioners also trusted that officers in future would give to their
men more examples of temperance than they had hitherto
done.
Mr. T. S. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from Galway
respecting the destitute state of the fishermen of that place,
and praying the House to take the subject into their serious
consideration. There were no less than 4,000 individuals in
the most destitute state of distress in that place.
Mr. BROTHERTON presented a petition from York,
praying for the abolition of flogging in the army.
General LYGON presented a petition from Coventry, in
favour of the Small Debts Bill.
Mr. BRIGHT presented petitions against the sale of spiri-
tuous liquors on Sunday._
THE POST-OFFICE.

Mr. T. S. DUNCOM BE moved that the petition of Thomas
Mitchell respecting the alleged abuses in the Pest-office (pre-
sented 6th of August) be printed with the Votes.
Mr. PROTHEROE asked what redress the petitioner
sought; and was it the intention of the Hon. Member who pre-
sented the petition to ground may motion on it?
Mr. DUNCOMBE said that it was his intention to call the
attention of the House to the allegations coLtained in the pe-
tition.

The motion was then agreed to.
Captain PECHELL moved that the petition of the Rev.
Newton Kyme (presented August 6) be printed with the Votes.
—Agreed to.
AFFAIRS OF JERSEY.
Dr. BOWRING presented a petition from Mr, Le
Gras, of Jersey, praying that an inquiry be made
into the institutions of that island, with the object of
affording a remedy. He would on Monday move that the peti-
tion be printed with the votes.
KNIGHTS OF WINDSOR.

Mr. HUAIE presented a petition from ten of the Knights of
Windsor, complaining of the withholding certain property
willed to them by Henry the Eighth, and that they only re-
ceived a shilling a day.
VAN DIEMAN'S LAND.

Mr. HUME moved that the petition of the Free Colonists
of Van Dieman's Land (presented August 6) be printed
with the votes. His doing so was preparatory to his bringing
the subject of the petitioners under the consideration of the
House.—Agread to.

NEWSPAPERS.
Dr. BOWRING gave notice that he would move for the
Newspaper Stamps return.
WELLINGTON STATUE.
Mr. C. BERKELEY sa,d, that he had received a note
from the Noble Lord, the Secretary for the Woods and Forests,
desiring that he would postpone his motion respecting the
Wellington statue. Now he would not do so unless the Noble
Lord gave a good and valid reason why he should do so. The
Noble Lord had said that he bad received a letter from
her Majesty stating what were her feelings upon the
subject ; and he wished to know whether her Majesty of her
own free will had expressed an opinion upon the subject? If
such were the case, he would not interfere any further ; but if
the contrary were the case, he conceived the House ought to
give her Majesty better advice.
Lord MORPETH said he would inform the House of the
exact state of the matter. After he had received her Ma-
jesty's letter, he received one from the sub-committee of the
Wellington Committee, informing him that they had an im-
portant communication to make, and they requested that he
(Lord Morpeth) would not give an answer until they were able
to lay it betore him. He hoped that the Hon. Member would
consider that a good, valid, and sufficient reason.
Mr. CRAVEN BERKELEY said he wished to know if the
Noble Lord had any objection to lay the correspondence which
passed between him and the sub-committee on the table of
the House?
Lord MORPETH—I shall have no objection to do so after I
have made my answer to the House.
RAJAH OF SATTARA.
Mr. HUME said he was anxious to withdraw the notice
which was on the paper, to the following effect :—" That an
humble address be presented to her Majesty, pct yin that she
wit; be graciously pleased to order that an inquiry be forthwith
instituted, by the Supreme Government of India, into the cir-
cumstances connected with the disposal of Pertaub Sing,
Raja of Sattara ; and that that Prince, now an
exile, and a state prisoner at Benares, be afforded the oppor-
tunity of answering the charges brought against him by the
Bombay Government, and that these proceedings be so con-
ducted as to secure to:his Highness, the deposed Raja, the
benefit of a fair and impartial investigation, conducted in his
presence, or before his agent."
The notice was accordingly withdrawn.
NEW BILLS.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he
begged leave to give notice that he would, to-morrow,
ask leave to introduce several Bills.—(Laughter, and cries
of " Oh, oh !") The first would be a Bill to regulate
the naval expenditure and the naval and military departments.
The next would be a Bill to grant a limited sum out of
the Consolidated Fund, for the purpose of affording
employment to the poor, by promoting public works in
England. The next would be a Bill to make a similar pro-
vision for the employment of the poor in Ireland. Ano-
ther would be a Bill to extend the powers of the Grand Jury of
Irelnd with reqect to public works in Ireland. Ano-
ther a
would be to amend the Act of George 111., relative to offi-
cers of the House of Commons.
Mr. 'WILLIAMS wished to know whether her Majesty's
the
nvernment proposed to introduce any more new Bills during
present
tresennt session?—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) The
then lGastvefrenwm
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more
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new
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quite impossible to give these
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the
continuanceßills of w li cohf hn
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whichnoticebeen
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introducedto by the late
Government, with the exception of the ain reference to
public works in Ireland.
IRISH ARMS BILL.
Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE said that he had no wish,
in pro,.osing the question which he was about to
put, to embarrass the Government. A great many
Irish Members had already left town, but since the intimation
that had been given of the intention of the Government to
propose a continuance of the Irish Arms Bill, some of them
were now on their way back to London. It would greatly
expedite public business, therefore, if the Noble Lord at the
head of the Government stated frankly whether or not it was
the intention of the Government to revive the Bill in questiobe
n?
Mr. L ABOUCHERE said that it would, perhaps,
more convenient for him to answer the question of the
Hon. Member. After bestowing the most serious
deliberation on the measure in question, he had come to
the conclusion that there was much in the Irish Arms
Bill that was most exceptionable (Hear, hear)
whilst there was much in it, on the other
hand, that WU calculated to do much good. It.was the intention