The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-25 00:00:00

LORDS' AMENDMENTS.

The Lords' amendments to the following Bills were
considered and agreed to :
Airdrie and Coatbridge Waterworks.
Belfast Improvement.
East Lancashire Railway (Deviations and Branches).
Yurness Railway Extensions.
Huddersfield and Sheffield and Manchester and Leeds
Railways Amalgamation.
Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's Railway (Norwich
Extension).
Kenningt,m-lane, &c. Lighting,
Kilmarnock Waterworks.

Liverpool and Bury and Manchester and Leeds Rail-
ways Amalgamation.
London and Brighton and London and Croydon Rail-
ways Consolidation.
London and Brighton Railway (Wandsworth Branch).
Oxford, Worcester, and Woverhampton Railway.
Rothesay Municipal and Police.
Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester Junction Railway
(Extensions and Deviations).
Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester Junction Railway
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(Crickheath and Wem Lines).
Wath-upon-Dearne Improvement.
SECOND READINGS.
Bortbwick's Estate Bill was read a second time, and
ordered to be committed.
THIRD READINGS.
The Dublin Cemeteries Bill and the Tramoro Era-
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read a third time and passed.
On the motion.ot
Viscount NORTHLAND, the re-
port bankment Bill were
on the Dublin. Belfast, and Coleraine Railway was
ordered to be considered on Monday next.
Mr. SPOONER presented a petition from the Rev.
Mr. Pyne, in the diocese of Dublin, complaining of
being removed by the Archbishop of the same, for be-
longing to the Evangelical Union. He also presented
several other petitions from Ireland, complaining of the
tax called " Ministers' Money," and praying for its repeal.
air. S. CRAWFORD presented a petition, numerously
signed by the gentry and clergy of the county of Tip-
perary, representing the great advantage which had
accrued to the county by the Public Works Bill, and
praying that the louse would cause the recommenda-
tion of its Committee, in 1835, to be acted upon.
The HoN. MEMBER also presented a petition, signed
by the Presbyterian congregation of Warrington, pray-
ing for the abolition of capital punishments.
Mr. HUME presented a petition from a native of
India, a resident in England, in the service of the Raja
of Sattara, praying that the House would order an in-
quiry into the complaints of his master, whom, he said,
was oppressed and borne down by means of bribery and
corruption.

BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.
Sir G. GREY said it was the intention of his Noble
Friend the First Lord of the Treasury, on Aonday, to
move that as the public business did not now occupy so
much time as at the commencement of the session, that
After that day public business should commence at
half-past four, instead of five o'clock, as heretofore.
FLOGGING IN THE ARMY.

Dr. BOWRING gave notice, that on the motion for
going into a Committee of Supply on the Army Esti-
mates, he should propose that flogging in the army
be immediately abolished.
PUBLIC EXHIBITIONS.
Mr. HUME moved fur a return of the number of
persons who visited the British Museum, the Tower, and
Hampton Court Palace, in 1844 and in 1845, with the
view of ascertaining whether there was a sufficient
number visiting these exhibitions to allow of their being
opened from five to seven in the evening in summer.'
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The Hox. ME)InEn gave notice that he would post-
pone his motion concerning the Adininiitration of Jut.tice in Scotland till Monday.

ST. JAMES'S PARK.

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Mr. HUME, seeing the Noble Lord, the late Presi-•
dent of the Woods and Forests, in his place, wished-to
ask him; in reference to St. James's Park, whether
new regulations as to admission had been adopted,
eluding certain parties from the park?'
Lord LINCOLN said that no instructions had bet*,
given to that effect during his time in office; on the -ptipvfl
tray, considerable relaxation had been made in,Optilts_
of admission.—(Hear, hear.)_
Mr. HUME moved that the petition of Govin4 1..--.
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Wittul (presented May 25th), should be printect
Agreed to.
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