The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-19 00:00:00

LORDS' SUMMARY.

Their Lordships met at Five o'clock.
Lord DACRE presented a petition in favour of a
repeal of the corn laws but asking inquiry into the pro-
ceedings of the Anti-Corn-law League.

The Earl of KINNAIRD said that the Corn• law
League ware only acting constitutionally and courted
inquiry into their proceedings.
The Earl of ROSEBERY presented a petition from
Linlithgow in favour of the total and immediate repeal
of the corn laws.

The Marquis of LANSDOWNE postponed the presenta-
tion of the petition, of which he had given notice, from
the colony of Vaa Diemen's Land, relative to the con-
victs of that colony.
Lord BEAUMONT moved, pursuant to notice, for papers
relative to the interference of England and France in the
affairs of Rio de la Plata. He believed that nothing
was more dangerous than such an interference as had
taken place. He believed that the interference had
taken place for the support of a faction and nothing clue.

(LEFT SITTING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at ten minutes before
Four o'clock.

NEW MEMBERS.
Mr. T. O'BRIEN took the oaths and his seat for the
city of Cashel, in the room of Dr. Stock, who has ac-
cepted the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds.
Mr. LOCKHART took the oaths and his seat for the
county of Selkirk.
RAILWAY BUSINESS.
The following railway Bills were read a second time,
and were ordered to be committed :—London and South
Western Railway (Farnham and Alton Branch) ;
Lon-
don and Brighton Railway (East Grinstead Branch) ;
Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction Railway ;
Wisbeach, St. Ives, and Cambridge Junction Railway ;
and Brighton, Lewes, mid Hastings Railway Devia-
tions, and Eastbourne, Hailsham, Seaford, and
.New-
haven Branches.

The London and York Railway Bill was read a first
time, and ordered to be read a second time.
Mr. GREENE moved that no notice for a Committee
on a petition for a private Bill be received at the Private
Bill-office which shall fix for the first meeting of sec
committee any day later than Friday, the 6th da•. of
March next. That no notice of postponement of any
such committee be received at the Private Bill Office ex-
cept by the authority of the Committee on Petitions for
private Bills. That no private Bill be read a fir.t thee
later than the next day but one after the report of the
Commttee on Petitions, or of the Standing Orders' Com-
mittee, on such Bill, as the case may be, shall have been
laid on the table, except by special order of the house.
That there be no more than twenty-one clear days be-
tween the first reading of any private Bill, not being a
railway Bill, and the second reading thereof, except
by special order of the House. That no private Bill,
not being a railway Bill, which shall now have been
read a first time, shall be read a second time after ten
clear days from this day, except by special order of the
House.—Motion agreed to.
Mr. WOOD presented several petitions in favour of
the West Riding;Union Railway Bill from:various places
in Yorkshire.

STANDING ORDERS.
Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET moved that Nos.
7,8, and 9, of standing order 87, be rescinded.—
Agreed to.

THE MACCLESFIELD AND LICHFIELD
RAILWAY.

Mr. MUNTZ withdrew the petition intended to be
presented in favour of the Macclesfield and Lichfield
Railway.
CHURNET VALLEY BRANCH AND NORTII