The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-15 00:00:00

BILL.

Mr. HODGSON moved the second reading of this
Bill.

After a few words from Mr. GREENE and Lord CLIVE,
Dr. BOW]IING opposed the Bill, and said that in his
opinion the appointment of a Bishop of Jerusalem of it-
self would lead to great dissatisfaction and disadvantage.
He contended that a reverend gentleman, because he had
been appointed to that bishopric, had no right to
come to that House and claim to be naturalised.
'Mr. HUT I' also opposed the Bill, because he thought
it was framed in direct opposition to the spirit of the
Act of Parliament at preent in force on the subject of
naturalisati.,n.

Lord JOHN MANNERS advised the Hon. Member
who had introduced the Bill to withdraw it.
Mr. BO U V E tilE was also -opposed to the Bill.
Sir W. JAMES said ho should be sorry, if the
reverend gentleman really wished to avail him-
self of the privilege poss.e,,sed by British subjects
to give any opposition to the Bill ; but as long as the
rev. gentleman was not about to reside in England,
he could not see why he should seek for such privileges.
Mr. HODGSON said that it was the first time he
ever heard any objection. to the second reading of a
naturalisation Bill, and his IlOn. Friend, before calling
on him to show his reason fur itichse Bill, should have
stated his reasons against it.
Mr. ESCOrf said that this case did not come within
the provisions of the Act, but still he thought that no
obstacles should be thrown in the way of the reverend
gentleman.
Mr. J. COLLETT moved that the second reading of
the Bill be posponed until that day week, as the
Government should certainly know the object of such
a Bill.

Lord CLIVE seconded the motion.
Mr. HUMS regretted that her Majesty's Ministers
were not present to explain.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said that it was desired that
the Swiss gentleman, who held office as Bishop of Jeru-
salem, should bo Bishop of Jerusalem for England; and
in order to effect that, it was necessary to grant letters
of naturalisation. He saw no objection to such a course.
Sir J. GRAHAM said that there were some inaccu-
racies in the statement made by the Hon. Member for
Finsbury. In the first place, the appointment of the
bishop did not rest with the British Government, but
with the King of Prussia. Under an Act which had
been passed power was given to the Secretary of State
to advise her Majesty under certain limits to grant letters
of naturalisation, arid one was, that the party should
be resident in this country. He el'id not know the
circumstances under which the present Bill was brought
forward, nor the advantage which the rev. gentleman
proposed to himself by wishing to be naturalised ; but
be presumed that it could be explained by thi,
Hun. Gentleman who brought forward the motion.
He did not think the Bill should be passed as a matter
of course. Special reasons should be shown for grant-
ing this naturalisation. If those reasons were shown,
aed appeared sufficient to him, he should not oppose the
Bill. 'lle onus of proving these special reasons rested
with the promoters of the Bill.
Mr. EIV ART quite agreed with the opinions of the
Right Hon. Baronet who last addressed the House ;
he thought the proper course would be to have the Bill
printed; the House would then be in a position to judge
of the merits of the question.

Strangers were th'en ordered to withdraw, but no
division took place.
After a few words from Dr. BOWRING and Mr. T.
DUNCOMBE,

Mr. 110DuSON consented to the postponement of
the question for a week.
Mr. A6r'LIONBY thought that the question should be
postponed, not merely for the purpose of having
the Bill printed, but that when printed, it should be
placed in the hands of some of the members of her Ma-
jesty's Government, in order to have from them a
statement of Ike course they would adopt with
reference to the Bill. He did not wish to see it
thrown out at once without any inquiry—
There could be no doubt that the rev. gentleman was
de facto the Bishop of Jerusalem. He would suggest
that the matter should stand over for a week, in order
that it might receive the consideration of the House.
Mr. HODGSON said as many Hon. Members bed
expressed a wish to have further information on the
subject before the Bill was read a second time, he begged,
by the permission of the House, to postpone the motion
until Friday. •

Nlr. COIIETT moped tat the Bill be printed, in
order that the Louse might be in Fissessiort of tho details
of the measure, but as the motion was not seconded it
fell to the grouad.
Mr. Hurr reminded the Hon. Me nber that tl.e

House was fully in possession of the facts, and that i o
advantage w,uhi be gained by going to the expense of
printing the Bill.
Lord Kinnaird's (Sir John Webb's) Estate Bill was
read a third time.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.
Mr. TUOItNELY presented a petition from Thiry.
in Lancashire. praying fo. coy aoLnltlOn of the partial-
meat of death.