The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-31 00:00:00

PERI l'A cll,l 3i EINT.

(THIS EVENING.)

HOUz.4E t.)F COMMONS.
There being only thirty-one-Me:111)0n: present at Four
o'clock, the House adjourned till to morrow.

HOUSE OF LORDS.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat upon the wool-
sack at Five o'clock.
THE NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.
The Marquis of 'CLANRICARDE said he had given
notice that he would move an address to be pressnted to
her Majesty on the subject of the report made yesterday
from the Select Committee on the building of the Houses
of Parliament. He thought they might move the address
nlw and discuss it and they could vgree to the wording at

a future time.
The Duke of WELLINGTON thought it would be
better to wait till they saw what the other House of
Parliament would do. It was his opinion that both
Houses should agree in the mode of proceeding.
IRISH RAILWAYS.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, after a few prelimi-
nary observations, which did not reach the gall,ry,
stilted that the grand jury of the county of Kerry had
c )mmissioned him to present a petition praying that
House to give as moth consideration as was in their
power to the various plans of iallwaye which were be-
fore Parliament, and begging that their Lordships
would, as far as they could consistently with their public
duty, expedite those Bills in such a manner as to give the
earliest employment to the people of Ireland. He wished
to c .t 1 the attention of the house to a matter of some
importance with reference to this petition, and he would
take this opportunity of asking his Noble Friend, the
First Lord of the Admiralty, a question with reference
to this subject. At various times, by the direction of the
Government, surveys had been made of the south-
western coast of In land, with a view of establishing

a v packet or military station, or both, and to
secure a go :d means of communication across the
Atlantic. He, therefore, wi,hed that the Govern-
ment should make up their minds as to the
place in which such station should be pla..!ed while
these various lines of railway were under consideration.
In the embarking of capital iii railways, it was impor
taut that some plan should be adopted respeeting a
packet and military station at the mouth of the Shannon,
at Valencia, at Pier Head, or at 13antry Msy, or some
other place that might be deemed more eligible. There
ought to be some understanding with the Government
with regard to such a measure, so that those railway s
should be male to 'answer in the.best way for public
purposes. He would give no opinion as to the best
point for a station ; he merely submitted the matter to
the consideration of the Government. And if a cheico

of a point was made, it should be known as soon as pos-
sible, in order that no difficulty might be thrown in the
way of those schemes which were proposed for railway
accommodation in Ireland. He would now present the
petition, which was in favour of the construction of
railways in Ireland generally.
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH was obliged to the
Noble Marquis for his suggestions, but he would beg
leave to inform him that the selection of a station eu the
west coast of Ireland rested with the Treasury and not
with toe Admiralty. With regard tie the ports
named for a packet station, he thought that
Valencia would not be selected—Bantry Bay
was better, but Cork was better than them both.
THE NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT. -

The Marquis of CLANRICARDE rose to move the
address of which he had given notice, relative to the
new Houses of Parliament. If they were about in any
way to adsise the Crown, upon any matter that would
touch the buildings erected for the service of the House
of Commons, thereby interfering, it not with the pri-
vilege, at least with the business of that He-use',
then indeed it would be nee cessary for them to con-
fer with the House of Commons, before they could
take any step in the matter. • They, however, did no
such thing. The address referred only to the buildings
for the sole use and service of the House of Lords. It
was a matter of fact, that the Board of Werks had been
incorporated with the office of the Woods and Forests.
There could be no doubt. that all palaces and buildings of
the Crown or great works id a public nature ereeeed
in the metreplis came under the superintendence
of that department. There was, therefore, nothing
said in the aedress which he was about to read.
Within the last, nine months the work, as regarded
their Lordships' house, had been at a stand still.
The delay originated out of the differences that arose
between the gentlemen employed in the execution eif the
work. The architect intrusted with the work and a
.scientific gentle man who had been called in to superin-
tend the ventilation and heetmg of the House
differed, and the consequence wets a total sus-
pension of the work, as regarded the c:,mple
tion of the House. What, then, did the Committee
do? They did not presume tee uneertake- to settle th.•
difference; and he held that it would not be eompetent
fur their Lordships or the Commons, or fur both, to in
terfere, as it was the Quo- n's privilege, and there ore
the Executive Gem reauent alone could het rfere. The
Comenivee therefore refer eel to the Executive
Govern Lent for the mterpesitien of their au-
thority, with a view that they would direct both
gentlemen to do their duty, and speedily and imme-
diately complete the work with which they had been
~,tru,tod. The emperearendence of the work having
fallen on the Woods and Forests dep: rtm nt, nee other
Commission or Board was established for ;hat purpose.
Now he considered that that was unfortunate, a, the
department of Woods and Forests had already so much
business thrown on them that they could not give the
weeks that serious attention which; they daserved. It
w:-All.l appear, no•withst.eidh g, that the culculte ions
m :,de by the architect, both as to time and < xpense, we re
erroneous ; and with that view he moved f.)r the committee.
The Committee telt bound tee make 50111 e suggestions,
which he was happy to say had been adopted by the
Commissioners of Woods and Forests. But, notwith-
standing this report, the Committee were powerless
upon one point, and that a point for which theN had
been appointed, namely, to accelerate ithe build-
ing of the House. They had not the powt r
to make the building go on as they wished for they had
not the power, and they were therefore obliged to call
upon supreme authori y to make them go on. They
had called upon the Commissioners of Woods and
Forests. He did not think that any public building,
erected by public money had ever been erected ex-
cept under thu snperitetendence of the Board of
Public Works, and he thought it was a great
pity that in the present case they had not acted in
the same prieciple. He maintained that the agreement
which had been entered into, had not been carried
out. He did no; wish to impute blame to any one ;
it was no doubt a work of a difficult nature.
The Noble Lord concluded by moving that an address
be presented to her Majesty, praying that her M-jesty
may be pleased to direct Mr, parry to proceed with the
New Houses without delay, and that 1)r. Reed be
directed not to interfere with the works by his plans of
ventilation ; and that directions be given for the com-
pletion of the Howe of Lords by -the commencement of
the next session.
The LORD CHANCELLOR having put the motion
Lord CANNING opposed the a
repert on which the address was
only been laid before their L rd h