The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-10 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE or, on °ivy,
M- O'I.3ONNELL presented a petition from
the ratepayers of a plade in the county of Clare, com-
plaining of the operation of the Irish poor-law.
JAMAICA.

Lord G. BENTINCK asked if the Government had
received any in!ormatien fresolutions in favour of pro-
tection having been passed by influential meetings in the
con,tiy.

Mr'. HAWES said he had heard of such meetings
taking place, but he had no authentic information with
respect to them.

NAPLES AND SICILY.
Mr. URQUHART asked whether, in the event of a
collision in the Mediterranean between the forces of the
King of Naples and any late or present subjects
of that Crown, it was the intention of her Majesty's
Government to employ the naval fore, of this country on
behalf of either the one side or the other?

Lord J. RUSSELL—I beg to decline giving a reply
:o th© question. .

STATE OF IRELAND.
➢ir. GROGAN referred to a correspondence in the
newspapers with respect to repealers being allowed to
be sworn as special constables, and asked if it was cor-
rect that the Lord-Lieutenant had stated that repealers
were eligible.

Sir W. SONIERVILLE had no reason to believe that
the correspondence was not authentic; not having re-
ceived any official communication, he could not reply to
the question upon authority.
REPEAL OF THE UNION.
Mr. GROGAN inquired, considering the state of
IrelaLd, and the expressed opinion of several statesmen,
that there was no difference between the repeal of the
union and civil war, what was the opinion of the Go-
vernment with respect to the proceedings of those who
advocated the repeal of the union?
Lord JO LIN RUSSELL said, as association fcr the
purpose of effecting the repeal of the union by other
than constitutional means was undoubtedly illegal; but if
it was an associatiion strictly• confined to asking the
House for a repeal of the Act of Union by petitioning
Parliament, the House had already received petitions
with that prayer; there was nothing illegal in associ-
ating for the purpose of petitioning the Route for a
repeal of the union.
INSURRECTION IN SINGAPORE.

Mr. HUTT wished to know from the Under-Secretary
of State for the Colonies whether he had received any
information relative to the insurrection, or the reported
insurrection, of the slave population of Singapore.
Mr. lIAWES had received no official information on
the subject.
SEPARATE IMPRISONMENT.

Lord NUGENT, seeing the Right Hon. Baronet the
Secretary of State for the Home Department in his place,
wished to know whether he had in contemplation aey
measure of amendment of the gaol discipline principle,
particularly with a view to the modification of the sepa-
rate system of confinement.
Sir G. GREY said that he had not any. measure in
contemplation on the subject.
Lord NUGENT said, that such being the case, he
would himself move for leave, early next session, to
bring in a Bill on the subject.
CONVICT SYSTEM.
Mr. HUME wished to know whether the Government
were preparing any measures with respect to convicts ?
Sir G. GREY said that some preparations were
making on that subject.
SUPPLY—ARMY ESTIMATES.
The House then resolved itself into a Committee of
Supply, and;
Mr. FOX MAULE moved a vote of 123,8001. to de-
fray the charge of the embodied militia in Ireland.
After a short discussion the vote was agreed to.
NAVY ESTIMATES.
Mr. WIRD said, if he had brought the navy estimates
for the ensuing year under the consideration of the House
at an earlier period of the session, he should have felt it to
be his duty to bring each separate vote before it • but the
g
whole subject of the navy expenditure having been referred
by the House to a Select Committee, he
was saved the
necessity of so doing on this occasion. The report of that
Committee was now in the hands of Honourable Members,
and with all due deference to the Honourable and Gallant
Admiral on the other side of the House, who was in such
haste to express an opinion on it that he did not wait for its
publication, saying there was nothing worthy of attention
in it, he (Mr. Ward) felt bound to state, on the contrary,
that he had seldom seen any Parliamentary paper combine
so much impartiality with so much patient research, and
such a sincere desire to arrive at the truth, with so much
caution in conducting the process. His Noble Friend the
Member for Totnes, who was in the chair of that Com-
mittee, would likewise, he was sure, admit that the inquiries
of that body were met in a spirit of the utmost candour sad
fairness by the Government, and that the different depart-
ments of the public service to which they referred had given
it all the information in their power. It was also a matter of
congratulation that in on examination which extended over
four mouths, and embraced a period of twelve years, there
should have been so few blots hit, especially as regarded the
great department of which he (Mr. W.) was a member.
As the best mode of dealing with the subject more imme-
diately under discussion, he (Mr. W.) should propose to take
1 the report of the Committee in hand, and state to the House
what were the recommendations in that document which the
Admiralty agreed with, what were these it dissented from.