The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-05 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Twelve o'clock.
The West of England and South Wales Drainage
Company Incorporation Bill was read a third time and
passed.
The following reports were considered and agreed to
and the Bills ordered to be engrossed :
Rawlins' (or Bishops Hull Curacy) Estate Bill.
Worcester Turnpike Trust Bill.
Mr. BROTHERTON presented a petition from an in
dividual named Spring, stating that he had a claim upon
an Hon. Member of the House which he was unable to
recover, in consequence of the Hon. Gentleman having
no assets to distrain upon, and praying the Houso to
pass the Bill for vacating the seats of insolvent Members.
The Hon. Gentleman also presented a petition from the
City of London in favour of a uniform penny receipt
stamp.
Sir F. BARING presented a petition from Portsmouth
in favour of Parliamentary reform.
Mr. I'. WESTHEAD presented a petition praying
the House to pass a Bill to enable members of the
Free Church of Scotland to obtain sites for their
churches.

Mr. EWART presented a petition to the same effect.
Sir GEORGt STRICKLAND presented a petition
from Preston in favour of secular education.
PUBLIC HEALTH—THE CHOLERA.
Mr. MONSELL gave notice that to-morrow he
should ask the First Commissioner of Woods and
Forests whether he had been informed that the cholera
had broken out in Moscow and Petersburgh, and
whether it was the intention of Government to take any
steps for improving the public health in Ireland; also
that he should ask the First Lord of the Admiralty
whether it was the intention of Government to estab-
lish a steam-packet station on the West Coast of Ire-
land, now that railways had been opened to that part of
the island?

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS
ADJOURNMENT BILL.
Mr. GREENE, in moving the second reading of this
Bill, reminded the House that the prorogation of Par-
liament put an end to the progress of measures which
were the❑ in an unfinished stage, and the pre-
sent Bill had been introduced for the purpose
of removing the inconvenience and expense which
this system inflicted upon the country. If the
House would take the trouble to glance over the business
of the last few years they would find that towards the
close of every session all sorts of Bills in great number
came crowding upon them from the House ot Lords, and
on many occasions many of those Bills were obliged to
be discharged in consequence of there not being sufficient
time to get through them before the prorogation day.
Of course, having to introduce these dropped measures
di novo, tended to increase the business ot the succeed-
ing session, and the natural result was that a session
seldom or never passed without their having a large
number of Bills greatly in arrear. This was an evil ad-
mitted on all hands, and the only question to be consi-
dered was bow to get rid of it. A remedy could be pro-
vided by resorting to the prerogative of the Crown,
or by passing a distinct measure upon the subject. For
his own part, he confessed that he preferred the latter
plan, and accordingly he had ventured to introduce this
Bill to provide that, is certain cases, Bills in an ad-
vanced stage should be hung up trom one session to
another.

Mr. GOULBURN did not wish to take up the time
of the House, but he could not help taking that oppor-
tunity of expressing the doubts ho entertained as to the
expediency of passing this Bill. It was true that the
business of the House greatly accumulated towards the
close of every session, but he was afraid the Bill would
get rid of that evil by establishiug a more aggravated
one. If this Bill passed he very much feared that public
measures which ought not to be delayed in their pro-
gress through the House would be deferred from session
to session, to the great injury:of the
_public; and he would
suggest that instead of adopting this Bill some steps should
be taken to induce the other House to expedite their
proceedings as much as possible, so as to prevent a
crowd of Bills coming down at the close of their
sittings.—(Hear, hear.)
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, without entering into the
general question involved in this Bill, put it to the Hon.
Member opposite, whether it would not be as well to
refer the Bill to the consideration of a Select Com-
mittee.

Mr. S. CRAWFORD objected to this Bill alto-
gether, and should feel it to be his duty to give it his
most decided opposition. He should, therefore, move as
an amendment, that it be read a second time this day
six months.

Sir DENHAM NORREYS trusted his Honourable
Friend would not think it necessary to
persevere in his
amendment, for the Bill,his opinion had been ren-
dered absolutely requisite by the great accumulation
which had taken place of late years in both the private
and the public business of the House.
in
Lord MAHON would readily consent to refer this
Bill to the consideration of a Select Committee. Although
he was opposed to many parts of the Bill he still
thought that it was one which might be usefully enter-
tained. Many measures which were sent up to the
Lords late in the session were often lost from the want
of time to get through them, and he thought they
might safely and properly provide that such measures
should be taken up in the next session at the stage they
were in when Parliament was prorogued.—(Hear.)
Mr. URQUHART attributed the delay which took
place in the progress of public Bills to the neglect of
Government in allowing many important measures to
rest in the hands of individual Members, and he thought
this Bill would extend that abusive system. He should
give it his decided opposition.
Mr. MOWATT could see no real objection to the
Bill. It would enable parties who ;lad private Bills in a
partially advanced stage to resume them in that stage
in a succeeding session, without going to the expense of
beginning again de novo, and ho therefore trusted the
amendment would not be pressed to a division.
Mr. S. CRAWFORD said, after what had passed, he
did not feel himself justified in persevering with his
amendment, and with the permission of the House he
would withdraw it.
The amendment was accordingly withdrawn'
Bill read a second time. and the

(LEFT SITTING)

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, TUESDAY EVENING.
In consequence of some alteration in the arrange-
ments of the Court, Mr. Devin Reilly's trial is post-
poned until to-morrow (Wednesday).
A warrant was issued yesterday under the Treason
Felony Act against Mr. Martin, proprietor of the Irish
Felon newspaper.
The officer entrusted with the warrant has been un-
able to execute it, in consequence of the disappearance
of Mr. Martin, who is evidently keeping out of the way
to avoid capture.

In the Court of Queen's Bench yesterday, at half-past
four o'clock, the jury found a verdict of Guilty against
Patrick Gogarty and the other traversers.
The CHIEF JUSTICE sentenced Gogarty to seven
years' transportation; English, to two years' impri-
sonment; and the remainder to one Year's imprison-
ment.

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE

BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION.
Sir,—On Monday, the 3d, the debate was con-
tinued on the Sugar Duties, without producing much
that was new, except the assent given by Lord John
Russell at the end, to the impossibility of getting
through any set of Resolutions by the sth of this
month; the consequence of which is, that the duties
under the Act of 1846 must go on for the present.
An alteration in one article of the intended Minis-
terial scale was proposed, and negatived by 231 to 169.
I hope I have written enough, not to be set down
as believing that Free Trade includes the trade in
stolen pocket-handkerchiefs. But there is no banner
raised on the other side. The Anti-Slavery party is
extinct, or only perceptible in the adverse camp.
They would keep out slave-grown sugar, if asking
for tree-labour sugar at a shop would do it. But
they have no notion of any united action, either on
the Government or on public opinion. They would
at this moment turn over the coast of Africa to
restoration of the Slave Trade,. to gratify a crotchet
they have, that the way to diminish the evils of
highway robbery is to do nothing to anger highway-
men. And the Free-traders, or some of them, I
fear, have an indistinct notion, that to cover tropical
America with slave labour, Would be a capital thing
for trade.
On Tuesday the House met at twelve o'clock, but
comparatively little was done. At a quarter before
eight the House was counted out, upon a motion
againstinterferences with foreign states. The fact
I suppose is, that everybody likes interference
when it is his own way, and dislikes it when the
contrary.
I am, Sir, your obedient leti t$
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SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 4.--The American mail
steamer Hermann, Captain Crabtree, having taken on
board a supply of coals, sailed this morning for Bremen.
She has on board about 200,000 dollars in specie for
Germany. The Wonder sailed this morning for Havre
with the American mails, ex-Hermann, from New York;
likewise a considerable amount of specie and gold coin
intended for France. Th Peninsular and Oriental
Steam Navigation Company's ship Canton sailed to-day
for China via the Cape of Good Hope; and the t
Transit, intended to run on the river Nile, in the serveameripe
of the Egyptian government, sailed this afternctoil
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