The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-11 00:00:00

THIRD READINGS.

The following Bills were read a third a third time and
passed :—Deeside Railway ; Forth and Clyde and Monkland
Navigation Junction; Herculaneum Docks; London and
South Western Railway (Farnham and Alton Branch.
CHORLEY WA lERWORKS,ByItY, AND STOCK.

PORT IMPROVEMENT BILLS.
On the motion of Mr. ESTCOURT, an instruction was
agreed to the Committee of Selection to refer the Chorley
Waterworks, the Bury Improvement (No. 2), and the Stock.
port Improvement Bills, to the South Lancaster List and the
same selected Members ; and the Saithouse Embankment Bill
to the North Lancaster List and the above selected Members.
Sir HOWARD DOUGLAS presented a petition from
Liverpool in favour of the Liverpocl and Berwick Rahway (as
we understood).
The Ilerculanean Docks Bill was read a third time and
passed.

THE GAUGES.
Sir GEORGE GREY said he would wish to know if the
Government intended to propose any measure founded on the
minute of the Board of Trade relative to the report of the
Broad Gauge Commission ?
Sir. G. CLERK said he wished to state in answer to the
question of the Right Hon. Baronet, that it was his intention
to move, on Monday next, a series of resolutions founded upon
the report of the Broad Guage Commission.
LIGHTHOUSES.
Mr. P. STEWART said he wished to put a question to
the Right Hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer
on a subject of great importance—namely, the subject of light-
houses. He wished to ask if it was the intention
of Government to carry out the recommendation of the Com-
mittee which sat upon the subject last year—namely, that all
lighthouses and buoys, necessary for the sate navigation of our
seas and rivers, should be paid for and maintained out of the
public revenue, instead of from tolls levied upon the tonnage
of shipping ?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER admitted
that the subject was one of very great importance, and one
which had long been under the consideration of Government,
but he could give no assurance to the lion. Member of carry-
ing nut the recommendation of the Committee.
Mr. AINSWORTH moved that the petitions of J. Fletcher
Fletcher, against the Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Canal
Navigation and Railway Bill, and the Manchester, Bolton,
and Bury Canal Navigation and Railway Extension Bill, be re-
ferred to the Committee on the Bills.
After a few words from Lord Granville Somerset, Mr.
Greene, and Mr. Hodgson,
Mr. AINSWORTH withdrew the motion.
IMPROVEMENT OF IRELAND.—(COEPENSATION
TO TENANTS, POWER OF EJECTMENT, AND
SHORT LEASE BILLS.)
Lord LINCOLN, in moving for leave to introduce Bills to
provide Compensation to Tenants of Land in Ireland for
Improvements made by them ; to amend the Law in re-
in respect to the power of Ejectment and Distress in Ireland,
and to provide for a short form of Lease of Lands and Tenement.
said it was his duty, a few days ago, to address the House on a
subject connected with Ireland, on which great feelings of
antagonism were created in that House and elsewhere.
Bet it was now his duty to address the House on a subject which
he trusted would meet with the general approbation of the
House. It was one on which he hoped all men would
unite, as it was one on which no feelings of political
animosity would be excited, one on which they could enter
with no different feelings, except to emulate each other as to
what was hest to be done to improve the condition of the people
of Ireland by improving their condition, and put them in a
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better security of the investment of their capital in
land, for without that security the proper cultiva-
tionit would better suit the commerce of the House to
He need not inform the House that a comrni.,si n had been
appointed to inquire into the stale of Ireland, and that that
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their attention to the tenant system of Ireland.—( Hear'
hear.) Three Alembers of that commission were also
Members of that House, and that they were fully (114alid