The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-04 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

Their Lordships assembled shortly after Half-past
Twelve o'clock.

SAVINGS BANK (IRELAND) BILL.
This Bill was read a third time and passed.
ROYAL ASSENT.

The Royal Assent was given by Commission to the
following twenty-nine public and private Bills :
Sugar Duties.
Diplomatic Relations (Court of Rome).
Postage on Newspapers (Channel Island).
Post Horses Licenses, &c.
Spirits (Dealers in).
British Spirits Warehousing.
Distilling from Sugar.
Slave Trade (Equator).
Nuisances and Contagious Diseases.
Controverted Elections.
Battersea Park, &c.
Royal Military Asylum.
Poor Removal (No. 2).
Poor-law Union Charges (No. 2).
Poor-law Auditors Proceedings Restriction.
Milbank Prison.
Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers.
Commons Inclosure Act Amendment .
Commons Inclosure (No. 2).
Sheep and Cattle Importation Prohibition.
Sheep and Cattle Contagious Disorders Prevention.
Drainage Certificates.
Lock-up Houses.
Transfer of Landed Property (Ireland).
Labour Poor (Ireland).
Dublin Police.
Reproductive Loan Fund Institution (Ireland).
Westminster Improvement.
The Earl of Glengall's Estate.
The Lords Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor,
the Earl of Shaftesbury, and the Marquis of Clanricarde.

CITY OF LONDON SEWERS BILL.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE moved that the
standing orderF, 26 and 155, should be dispensed with
as far as this Bill was concerned, which was agreed to.
The Earl of RAI)NOR opposed the further proceed-
ing of the Bill unless a clause which he proposed, limit-
ing the operation of the Bill to two years, should be
agreed to.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE hoped his Noble
Friend would not press his amendment.
After a few words from Lord MONTEAGLE and the,
Earl of MOUNTCARIELL,
The Earl of RADNOR said he should certainly Eress
his amendment to a division.
Strangers was then ordered to withdraw, and tteri
Lordships divided on the amendment, when there:sp-
peared—
Contents
Non-contents
Majority against the amendment ---I
The Bill was then read a third time and pasSed, and
their Lordships adjourned until Five o'clock.

Their Lordships resumed at Five o'clock.
COPPER AND LEAD DUTIES BILL.
After a few words from the Earl of Falmouth, and a
short explanation from the Earl of Desert and the Mar-
quis of Lansdowne,
The Earl of MOUNTCASHET., denied that he was
bound by any agreement which other Noble Lords
might make, and he should, therefore, obstruct the Bill
by every means in his power, as a measure injurious to
the national industry of England and of Ireland.
The Earl of FALMOUTH would move as an amend-
ment that the Bill be read a third time that day six
months.
Strangers were ordered to withdraw, and their Lord-
ships divided, when there appeared—
Contents 25
Not-contents ll
Majority in favour of the Bill —l4
The Bill was then read a third time and passed.
EXCHEQUER BILLS BILL.
On the motion that this Bill be read a third time,
Lord MONTEAGLE rose for the purpose of direct-
ing the attention of their Lordships to the unsatisfactory
nature of the financial situation of the country.
(LEFT SPEAKING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at One o'clock.
HORSHA.

Mr. BRAMSTONbrought up the report of the
Committee appointed to try the merits of the petition
against the return of Mr. Fitzgerald, for Horsham, which
stated that Mr. N. H. S. Fitzgerald was not duly
elected, but that Lord Edward Howard was duly
electeJ ; and that Mr. Fitzgerald was, by himself and
his agents, guilty of treating, and had,: therefore, ren-
dered himself incapable of sitting in the present Par-
liament.
The Clerk of the Crown attended and amended the
return.

ROYAL COMMISSION.
Shortly after one o'clock Sir Augustus Clifford ap
peered at the table, and summoned the House to hear
the Royal Assent given to several Bills, which will be
found in our report of the House of Lords.
The SPEAKER, on his return, read the list of Bills.
FEVER (IRELAND) BILL.
On the motion of Sir G. GREY, the Lords' amend-
ments to this Bill were agreed to.
SAVINGS' BANKS (IRELAND) BILL.
On the motion of the RIGHT HON. BARONET, the
Lords' amendments to this Bill were also agreed to.
LOCAL INQUIRY BILL.
The Lords' amendments, to this Bill, on the motion of
Mr. HUME, were agreed Co.
NEW MEMBERS.
The following Members took the oaths and' the,ir,
seats :—Lord Edward Howard, for Horsham, and Mr.
Harris, for Leicester; Mr. Ellis made the usual affir-
mation on taking his seat for the same place, he beings
member of the Society of Friends.
CHELTENHAM ELECTION.
Sir W. CLAY moved that the evidence taken before
this Committee be printed. He then proceeded to de-
fend the Committee from the aspersions cast upon him-
self and the Committee. He said, in consequence of the
remarks made upon him in the speech of Mr. Craven Berke-
ley, he had placed himself in the hands of a friend of un-
doubted honour, but on mature consideration, consider-
ing that he had been sitting as the Chairman of the
Committee in a judicial capacity, and that it would be
better to leave the aspersions to the decision of the
House—to those who had best known him—(Hear,
hear)—he had felt it his duty to take no further
step in the matter. The Committee, in both its deci-
sions, was unanimous—(Hear, hear)—and if any one
had come into the room during their deliberations, ho
would have found that the politics of either party was
not made matter of consideration.—(llear, hear.) It
was most important to the House that the decisions of its
Committees should be come to fearlessly; but if they were
to be menaced in the way he and the Committee had
been in this case, Members would hesitate to sit on such
tribunals. If Mr. C. Berkeley had been guilty of a
breach of the privileges of the House, he had
no wish to hike any vindictive step against
him, because some allowance must be made for
the painful position in which he was placed, and
the natural excitement in which Mr. Berkeley no
doubt laboured in addressing a public assembly;
but he trusted the House would express, by a resolu-
tion, its opinion of the way in which the Committee had
discharged its duty in this matter.—(Hear, hear.)
Lord J. HAY defended the Committee, and said he
had advised his Hon. Friend not to seek private re-
dress for what was nothing less than an aspersion upon
the character of the House.
Lord PALMERSTON considered it would be suf-
ficient if the House were to express its general opinion that
the Committee had properly discharged its duty. He was
sure any real friend of Mr. Craven Berkeley would
inform him that his conduct, which no doubt took place
in a moment of excitement, was an entire contradiction
of not only the ordinary affairs of life, but in direct
contradiction of the principles by which the House
was actuated.—(Hear, hear.) Great public injury would
result if members of Committees of the House were
compelled to discharge their onerous duties under the
influence of fear.
The motion agreed to.
Swlßas THOMAS TURTON.
In reply to Mr. HENLEY,
Mr. WILSON stated that Sir Thomas Turton was
muche blame existed,
appointed by the Chief Justice of India, that he gave
security for 10,0001., which he regretptreodpwerasdinepaadretqmueantte.
to cover his liabilities. It appeared that the chief
surety was entirely free from blame. The subject now
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objection.
Parliament
SUPERANNUATION OF OFFICERS IN
GOVERNMENT OFFICES.
Mr. HUME said next session he should move for a
Committee to inquire into the administration of super-
annuation in the several Government offices, and that
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SAVINGS' BANKS (DUBLIN).
Mr. REYNOLDS gave notice of his intention, early
in the next session, to move for the appointment of a
Select Committee to inquire into the cause of the failure
of th
a question from Mr.
Hamilton, said there was nothing against the personal
honour of Mr. Justice Wills, that caused his removal
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EpW LD übfrom the Chief Justiceship of the Supreme Court of
New South Wales.
ARMY (IRELAND).
Lord G. BENTINCK postponed asking the following
question, of which he had given
notice, in consequence of
the absence of Sir G. Grey—to ask the Secretary for Ire-
land, the number of stand of fire-arms, pikes, and other
weapons, powder, and ammunition seized by or surren-
dered to the Government of Ireland, subsequent to the
passing of the Act, 11 Vict., c. 2, to the latest period of
which Government had information.
STEAM-SHIPS.

Lord G. BENTINCK alto postponed the following
question, in consequence of the absence of the President
of the Board of Trade:—To ask the President of the
Board of Trade a question with regard to the accuracy
of the return last presented, as regards the comparative
measurement of steam-ships under the old and new
=do of measurement.