The Sun.
London, England, 1848-02-08 00:00:00

A.IV.

Mr. AGLIONBY m'ived that all petitions which
had ben present,Al to the Howe, praying for inquiry
into the fees imposed upon the suitors of the iligh
Court of Chancery in England, in pursuance of the
powers contained in the Act 5 and 6 Vic. c. 103, be
referred to the Committee on Fees and Salaries in
Courts of Law and Equity.—Motion agreed to.
MASTERS IN CHANCERY.

Mr. AGLIONBY moved for a return, showing
the data of the appointment of each of the present
Masters in Ordinary in Chancery, with the annual
mount of each of their respective salaries, and when
paid; also stating whether any and which of
such present Masters were under any and
what Act or Acts of Parliament entitled, upon
retirement, to any and what retiring pension ; and
also stating whether any and what masters in ordi-
nary have, since the year 1880, retired upon any and
what retiring pension, and for what periods the same
were respectively paid and received.
Motion agreed to.
Mr. OSBORNE said he understood the estimate
for the new Houses of Parliament was 1,400,0001.,
and he wished to ask the Noble Lord the First Com-
missioner of Woods and Forests, whether he had any
objection to lay upon the table of the House a detailed
account of the estimate ? and also whether the Woods
and Forests were responsible for the amount?
Lord MORPETH replied that the Hon. Gentle-
man had correctly stated the amount of the estimate,
and he trusted the architect would be able to carry it
ovt.—(Hear, and laughter.)
Mr. OSBORNE said, after the answer just given
by the Noble Lord, and considering that they had a
deficient and sinking revenue, he was entitled
to put a question to the First Lord of the
Treasury, and he begged to ask if the Noble
Lord was prepared to check this enormous
expenditure that was going on, and if he would give
that House an assurance that no more than 1,400,0001.,
as specified in the estimate, should be spent upon the
building.
Lord J. RUSSELL could say no more than what
had already been stated by his Noble Friend, of
course he could not undertake to be responsible for
the estimate of an architect.

Mr. OSBORNE said, then he would give notice
that on the earliest opportunity he could call the at-
tention of the House to the subject.
Mr. SCULLY moved that the petition of John
Sadleir, Esq., M.P. (presented 20th December), be
referred to a Select Committee on the petition of Sir
Willoughby Jones relating to the Cheltenham elec-
tion.—Agreed to.
MR. C. ANSTEY'S MOTION.

Mr. HUME submitted to the Hon. Member for
Youghal whether, considering that an important
debate on a national question had been adjourned to
that night, it was prudent in him to bring forward a
motion, containing forty articles, every one of which
would give rise to an ordinary day's debate, to the
interruption of the adjourned debate. He did not
make this request with the view of shirking the
questions likely to be raised by the Hon. Gentleman's
motion, because he was most anxious that they should
be debated, but he could not promise him a patient
hearing on that occasion, and seeing that the House
was anxious to proceed with the adjourned debate, he
hoped the lion. Gentleman would not persevere in
his suction to night.
Mr. STAFFORD as the mover of the Amend-
ment under discussion last night, he begged
to state that from the communications he had had
with Honourable Members o❑ his side of the House,
he could assure the Hon. Member for Youghal that
it was the wish of that si '.e of the House that the
adjourned debate should cicse this evening. He
therefore most strongly appealed to the Hon. and
Learned Member for Youghal to postpone his motion.
Mr. C. ANSTEY said, before he proceeded to
answer the appeal of the Hon. Gentleman who had
just sat down, he thought it right to state that he
had not been fairly dealt with by the Hon. Member
for Montrose, because the Hon. Member had made
a similar request to him in private, when he gave him
a satisfactory answer, and how the Hon. Member had
repeated the question, with the assistance and support
of a number of impatient Members, who were anxious
to proceed with another subject. He told the
Hon Gentleman in private, and he now told the House
that he could not consent to postpone his motion.
He had assured :those Hon. Members that, let the

consequences be what they might, he would perse-
vere in his motion, and on the faith of that statement
several lion. Mcznbera who intended to be present du-
ring the discussion on the Jews Bill had left the
House ; he therefore must say, most respectfully, to
the Honourable Member for Montrose that it was
impossible for him to accede to his application.
Lord J. RUSSELL fully admitted that it was
perfectly competent for the Honourable Member to
proceed with his motion if he pleased, but if he did
so he must understand that he pursued such a course
against the wishes of the House.—(Hear, hear.) It
was for the public convenience alone that he had
asked the Hon. Member to postpone his motion.
Mr. C. ANSTEY was perfectly aware of the
responsibility he incurred in persevering in his mo-
tion. He was sure, when he informed the Noble
Lord that his motion was likely to effect not only his
colleagues but himself, that the Noble Lord would
at once admit the importance of the subject, and
would be the last man to attempt to prevent his bring.
ing it forward. He did not undervalue the impor•
tance of the Bill under discussion before the House,
he would not deny that it was a national measure, but
before he sat down he would undertake to satisfy the
House that the motion he was about to bring forward
was far more important and of greater consequence
than the Jewish Bill. The subject he had ,to bring
under the notice of the House was foreign
aggression abroad and treason at home. lie
could not have conceived until this day that any
servant of the Crown could wish to postpone till a
future period the decision of so important a question as
that which he now brought forward. As far as he was
concerned the question of personality between him
and the Noble Lord was quite put out of the way.
It was a very painful duty which he had to dis-
charge, he had to present to the House the condition
of a country ruined, her treasures lavished, her blood
spilled like water, her policy made the scorn and
laughing-stock of other countries, and all this brought
about by one person who acted in defiance of all laws,
and that parsons whose conduct he was about to
bring before the House was the lion. Member for
Tiverton (Lord Palmerston). The preservation of
the Indian possessions and their colonies from
the ambition of Russia depended upon the
the decision which the House should come to upon
the questions contained in his motion.
(LEFT SPEAKING.)

rADSTOW,FED:S. —The Marquis or Abcrcorn, of
Londonderry, which was stranded near the Uanuet in
December, was to-clay got off, and brought into thin
harbour.