The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-21 00:00:00

SELLING GAME.

Colonel SIBTHORP presented a petition from
Lincoln, complaining of the unlicensed sale of game,
and praying for a remedy.
ROME.

An HON. MEMBER presented petitions from places
in Somersetshire against diplomatic relations with
Rome. _ _ _

Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Cavan, Mr. Law, and Mr.
Goring presented petitions to the same effect.
NAVIGATION LAWS.

An Host. MEMBER presented a petition against the
repeal of these laws.
SANITARY REFORM.

Mr. C. L USHINGTON presented a petition for
a comprehensive Bill of Sanitary Reform.
CASUAL POOR.

Mr. PEARSON presented a petition, signed by
515 individuals, complaining of the treatment of
casual poor in union workhouses.
DIOCESAN COURT, MANCHESTER.
Mr. BRIGHT presented a petition from the Mayor
and inhabitants of Manchester, praying the House not
to sanction the proposed Court.
THE DEFENCES OF THE COUNTRY.

The Hos. MEatusz also presented a petition from
the Unitarians of Manchester against any increase of
the military.
Mr. THORNE LY presented a petition from Haver-
fordwest to the same effect, and praying for a reduc-
tion of the expenditure of the country.
TESTS (SCOTLAND).
Mr. COWAN presented a petition from Elgin
praying for the abolition of the tests applied to the
schoolmasters of Scotland.
SUNDAY TRADING. _ _ _

The How. MEMBER presented a petition from the
congregation of the National Scotch Church, Regent-
square, praying for the adoption of measures to sup-
press Sunday trading.
THE TEA. DUTIES.

Mr. CARDWELL presented a petition from the
Liverpool Society for the:Abolition of the Tea Duties,
praying that the duty of 2d. upon every 3d. expended
by the industrious classes in tea might be either re-
duced or abolished, in order to place it within the
reach of all, many millions of the people being pre-
vented from using it in consequence of its high price.
DUNDALK ELECTION.
Lord H. VANE brought up the report of this
Committee, which stated that Mr. Charles Carroll
M'Tavish had not been duly elected to serve in the
present Parliament for the borough of Dundalk, and
that William Torrens M'Cullagh was duly elected,
and ought to have been returned.
LAMBETH WATERWORKS.

Mr. Alderman HUMPHERY moved that it be an
instruction to the Committee on the Lambeth Water
works Bill to entertain the petition of the minister,
churchwardens, overseers, and inhabitants of the
parish of St. Olave' Southwark (presented against
the Bill an the 17th instant), although such petition
was not presented within seven clear days after the
second reading of such Bill.—Agreed to.
LANDLORD AND TENANT BILL.

Mr. SADLEIR wished to know whether it was
the intention of the Government to proceed with
their Landlord and Tenant Bill, or to defer the
further proceedings upon it until after the Easter
recess ?

Sir W. SOMERVILLE said that the Bill stood
for a second reading on Monday next, and until that
day arrived he could not state with certainty what
course the Government intended to pursue with
respeCt to that measure.
RAIL WAY COMMISSION.
Mr. BANKES gave notice of his intention, on the
28th inst., to bring under the consideration of the
House the- constitution of the Railway Commission,
with a view to the reduction of the public expendi-
ture.

SLAVE TRADE.
Mr. BAILEY gave notice of his intention on
Friday next, or any other day, on which the House
should be moved to go into a Committee, to
move an address to her Majesty, that she
would be graciously pleased to give orders that
negotiations should be entered into with foreign
Powers, for the purpose of relievink 'this country
from the expenses of keeping up a squadron in the
African seas for the suppression of the slave trade.
NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.
Lord DUNCAN gave notice of his intention to-
morrow• to ask the Noble Lord at the head of the
Woods and Forests whether he had any objection to
state to the House the names of the Commissioners for
the building of the new Houses of Parliament, and
the instructions given to them.
INJURY TO PROPERTY BY RIOTOUS
ASSEMBLIES.
Sir W. CLAY, pursuant to notice, asked the
Secretary of State for the Home Department
whether, in consequence of the explanation recently
given by the Attorney-General on the state of the
law as to remedies against the hundred or county
for injury done to property by riotous assemblies, it
was the intention of her Majesty's Government to in-
troduce any measure for the amendment of the law
in that particular.
Sir GEORGE GREY said that, without enter-
ing into the legal question, he would state to
the House that he had been advised no declaratory
Act was necessary ; and that the law, according to
the construction put upon it by the courts of law,
was perfectly clear.
Sir W. CLAY then gave notice of his intention,
after Easter, to move for leave to bring in a Bill to
amend the law.

SCOTCH UNIVERSITIES.
Mr. COWAN, seeing the Right Honourable the
Lord Advocate in his place, wished to ask