The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-03 00:00:00

- THIRD READING.
The Tadcaster and Hatton Dial Turnpike Road
(Diversion, &.c., of the road in the parish of Tad-
caster) Bill was read a third time and passed.
CONSIDERATION OF REPORTS.
• The reports on the following Bills were further
considered ar.d agreed to :
The Derby Waterworks Bill.
Leishman s Estate (Govan Glebe Ferring) Bill.
Manchester General Cemetery Bill.
Battle•bridge and Hclloway Road Act Repeal Bill.
Bristol Docks Transfer Bill.
Bristol and Ciitton Gas Light Amendment Bill.
East and West Looe Harbour and Bridge Bill.
Eaet Indian Railway Company Incorporation Bill.
Herculaneum Dock Bill.
Penzance Waterworks Bill.
Stirling Waterworks Bill.

PETITIONS.
Mr. HAMILTON presented a petition from the
Church of England Lay Association of Dublin, pray-
ing for Parliamentary support for the schools of the
association.

Mr. DUNCAN presented a petition from Dundee
against the Diplomatic Relations with Rome Bill.
Mr. W. PATTEN presented a petition from
Bolton against the sale of spirituous liqaors on
Sunday.
Mr. AGLIONBY presented a petition from
Lewes, praying for the appointment of a Committee
to inquire into the compromises that had taken place
with respect to disputed elections.
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.
On the motion of Mr. HUDSON, it was ordered
that the evidence given before the Committee on the
Chester and Holyhead Railway (Extension at Holy-
head) Bill, in the session of 1847, be referred to the
Committee on the Chester and Holyhead Railway
(power to purchase, &c.) Bill, in Group No. 5 of
Railway Bills.
The dropped notices of motion were then re-ap-
pointed.

BOROUGH OF STAMFORD.
:qr. P. WOOD stated that it was his intention, on
the order of the day for going into Committee of
Supply, to move for the appoinsment of a Select
Committee, to inquire into the allegations contained.
in the petition of certain electors and inhabitants of
the borough of Stamford, which was presented upon
the 14th day of March last, complaining of the inter-
ference of the Marquis of Exeter, a Peer of the
realm, and Lord-Lieutenant of the county of North-
ampton, at the late and former elections of Members 1
to serve for the said borough.
THE LATE SERGEANT-AT-ARMS.
Sir GEORGE GREY stated, on behalf of Lord
John Russell, that it was his intention to make the
following motion to-morrow before the other orders
of the day :—.• TI-..st this House entertains a just
sense of the z'al end ability with which the late Sir
NV illiarn Gossett .uniformly discharged the duties of
the office of Se rjeant-at-Artni;, during the period of
his attendance 111:21/ this House."
MR. SMITH O'BRIEN AND TI-Fr E2dUTE
AT LIMERICK.
Mr. HAMILTON wished to know from the
Secretary of Stete for the Horne Department,
. whet4ier he had received any official account of what
. was stated and co:nmented upon in the daily news-
papers of that day, of a moral demonstration in the
city of Limerieli—of an emeute of the moral force
party in that city renainst the physical force party,
and that in that eineute Messrs. Meagher and O'Brien
had been obliged to seek protection from her Ma-
jesty's forces and the police ?
Sir G. GREY - had received a letter from the
Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, which in substance con-
firmed the statement the Hon Member had alluded to.
A meeting was held in the county of Lime•
rick, at which considerable violence had taken place,
and it was in consequence of the interference of the
military and police that the security of Mr. Smith
O'Brien and Mr. Meagher was accomplished.
STATE TRIALS (IRELAND).
Mr. HAMILTON, seeing the Secretary for :Ire-
land in his place, wished to know whether it was
true that Mr. Mitchell, of the United Irishman, had
put in dilatory pleas which would have the effect of
suspending the proceedings against him for some con-
siderable time ?
• Sir W. SOMERVILLE said that it was true that
Mr. Mitchell had put in such pleas, but he hoped
that it would be found that those pleas would not have
the effect of delaying the proceedings.—(Hear.)
MAKING NO HOUSE YESTERDAY.
Mr. 11U.;.11E, in reference to there being no House
made yesterday, stated that he trusted the Govern-
rnent would adopt some course in future by which a
House would be secured on that day on which alone
Members who had notices of motion could bring
• them on. Members had now given up one motion
. day for the convenience of the Government, and he
e thought it their duty to secure them that day. Yes-
.t terday there were several most important notices of
motion—especially one of the Hon. and Learned
. Member for Oxford—but, in consequence of there
• being no House, they could not he brought forward.
Sir G. GREY had come down to the House at
'P: half-past four o'clock, fully expecting that it was
sitting, and was extremely surprised to find that it
was not. It was no fault of the Government that no
House was made yesterday.
Mr. G. BERKELEY, in moving that the House
• should now adjourn, stated his belief that the House
had purposely not been made yesterday in conte-
• quence of the motion of the Honourable Member for
Oxford being calculated to bring to light the acts of
a Noble Duke.
Mr. P. WOOD, in seconding the motion fcr the
adjournment, also expressed his belief that a certain
party in that House had purposely prevented the
House being made, in order that he might not bring
forward his motion. That motion was one of great
importance to all parties concerned, and it being
so he had considered it to be his duty to bring it
•e forward at the earliest possible moment.
• Mr. HERRIES denied that there was any at-
t tempt on the behalf of the party with which he was
associated in that House, to prevent a House being
made yesterday. He was sure the Noble Duke who
had been alluded to had no fee; of the statements
that might be made in bringing forward the motion,
or the result of it.
Colonel SII2THORP said he had a right to ask
~- where the members of the Guohvefrnment were yester-
day ? They were paid en
,or doing their work,
and had subordinates enough •represent them in
that i-lou;e. How was it, then, that none of them
House
to him,
were in their places yesterday?
Isihoould be
that Government took care that no
made, in order that . the motion of these
Learned Me:-nber for Oxford, and
the questionno, ea,nd
Eon,. Memi-o.i for Stafford, should be quietlt t rid of.
Sir G. GREY said he was engaged in the business
of his office tin till nearly half-past four o'clock yes-
terday; but he should have been down at the usual
hour of five had he not been informed that there was
no Roust.—(Hear, hoar.) His absence, however, was
not singular, for he understood that not only the
Hon. Member for Staifordehire, but the Hon. Mere.
ber for Oxford, was not in his place at the opening of
the House yesterday. The truth was, however,
that the house not Nine; mede could be traced to a
very natural cause. Yesterday was only the second
sitting after the holidays, and no doubt many Hon.
Gentlemen, who were generally speaking the earliest
in attendance, had not yet returned to town. At all
events he must protest against wholesale charges
' being made against her Majesty's Government that
they were every now and then anxious to shirk the
consideration of questions. Government had no such
k.-desire, and he hoped Hon. Members would refrain
from indulging in these unpleasant insinuations.
L • - Mr..HORSMAN said the time had arrived when
it was imperatively necessary that Government should
.. etoome to an understanding with independent Members
—(Hear, a. House on other than Government nights.
us(trelmaart‘cheparra.)coclet hfad become, unfortunately, a
House being made Government: to prevent a
queetionLo'h(eun
—(Hear.)
wanted to shirk a troublesome
Sir G. GREY—e deny that.
Mr. HORSIIAN
said,be that as it might, some
understanding ought to be eto on this subject,
and he hoped that the Hone"; now that it had given
up every night but one, would take care that that one
was always secured to them.
Sir G. GREY said it was not the
on t
i;
e
Govern-
ment, but of those Members who bad d
aumrt stay t iooft s
paper to secure a House on this icular night.
Now the -House would remember that
Hon. Gentleman who had a notice on thsecareeply ny '
terday was present in his place,
00 bad
that Government should be charged with resorting
and it vt-ter yes.
to systematic plans to prevent a House being made.
After a few words from Sir J. WALMSLEY,
Sir T. BIRCH protested against •its being con.
silered a part of the duty of the Government to se-
'-cure a House on all occasions.—(hear, hear.)
Mr. 11. DRUMMOND said it was his opinion
that the members of the Government were greatly
overworked, and nobody could be responsible for a
heing roado but lion. Members themselves.
AMY ' 414 f te gk, i r words from Mr. G. BERKELEY, the
inderterte* the adjournment uf the House was
~,<'' withdrawneee\
Mr. HEIAMES said be understood his Hon. and
. ,
Learned 1?` ' the Member for Oxford had given
zotiee tha • :should bring his motion forward on
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