The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-07 00:00:00

lITILL, Fin. b.

STOCK EICHANGII.—The sales are—Blackburn, Darwen, and Bol-
ton, New, 11%—Ainbergate, Nottingham, Boston, &c.,
31. Us. 6d. —GlasgoW, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 411.--Flull and Barns-
ley Junction, Us. 6d.—kiouth Midland, 41. 12s.—Shrewsbury and
Birmingham, 31. Is. lid.—Shropshire Union, die.
MUD" FIELD, Fes. 5.

ST•CL EXCHAIGI.—The sales are—Grimsby and Sheffield, Ex-
tension, 31. Os. (Kt —Ditto, Railway and Dock, 4%—East Lincoln-
shire. 23(—Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 41. U.—Sheffield and Lin-
colnshire Extension, 174—South Yorkshire Ceal Railway, 234—
West Riding Union, 6/. Is. 6d.
YORK, Fan. 5.
Brock Excnawns.—The WC., are—Grand Union, 11. 12s.—Ips-
wich and Bury, s—Leicester and Bedferd, 1/. 1 Is. 6d.—London
and Tork, 41. Ss. 6d.—Newcastle and Berwick, 2174—Newcastle
and Darlington Extensions, 10% —North British (Carlisle Exten-
sion), V. I t s.—North Kent and Direct Dover, 2% —York and North
Midland Extension, (East and West Riding), 10.
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TINE, Faa. 5.
STOCK EXCIIANGSI.—The sales are—Manchester, Dutton, and Mat-
lock, U.. p.—North Staffordshire, a p.
BRISTOL, Fs.. L.
STOCK EXCIIA NON.— Th• Sales are—Caledonian. 14%—Ditto, New,
4—Newcastle and Berwick, 2234—South Devon, 10%—Taff Vale.
New, 1%.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF LORDS, Friday, Feb. 6
The Earl of SILAITESBI7AY took his seat on the Wool•
sack at ten minutes after Five.
CRIMINAL LAW.
Lord CAMPBELL moved for a copy of the last
report of the Criminal Law Commissioners. He had
spoken to his Noble and Learned Friend the Lord
Chancellor on the subject, and he had no objection to
the production of the report.
NEW ZEALAND.

Lord LYTTELTON presented a petition from New
Zealand, praying that a humble address be presented to
her Majesty, praying her Majesty to adopt some mea-
sures to mitigate the evils resulting from the increase of
convicts in that colony.
THE INCONVENIENCE OF A NAME.
Lord BEAUMONT wished to call the attention of
the Noble Earl opposite (the Earl of Aberdeen) to
a subject on which he had presented a petition last
week. The petitioner was a gentleman of the name
of Mr. henry Graham, who had travelled in Italy,
and whose passport was regularly revised at Marseilles
by the Sardinian Consul-General. After this, how-
ever, the petitioner was detained by the police at Nice
for twenty-four hours, and, when allowed to depart, no
explanation of the cause of detention was given to him,
further than that his name was Graham. He threat-
811t d to complain to the British Consul there,
and afterwards to the British Minister at
Turin. No apology had yet been made for his
detention, and no reason had been assigned for it, ex-
cepting that he bore the odious name of Graham—
(Laughter)—aad therefore it was that he (Lord Beau.
wont) wished to call the attention of the Noble Lord
opposite to the subject. He wished to know, as that
Noble Lord had thought proper to have some correspon-
dence with the Sardinian Government, whether there
aas any prospect of being indemnified for the loss he
had sustained by this detention?
The Earl of ABERDEEN said that it was perfectly
true that the Sardinian Government had detained a per-
son of the name of Graham, as stated by the Noble
Lord. He bad been detained and subjected to some in-
convenience on account of his name. He (the Earl of
Aberdeen) would say there was no better name
in Great Britain ; yet, at the same time, there
was no name sufficiently good that would not
be occasionally in disgrace. It appeared the
detention in the present case arose from a person of the
name of Graham, at Brussels, in Belgium, had been
guilty of forgery or swindling, and having fled, the
Belgian Government communicated with the different
ports of Europe, and among others, with the Sardinian
Government, desiring them to take any person
of that name that might pass through their
territory. In consequence of this, Mr. Graham
was detained twenty-four hours in his own hotel,
but as soon as the mistake was known he was dismissed.
His carriage was I aid, and the other expenses incidental
to his detention were sent, and beyond these, he (Lord
Aberdeen) was not aware of any loss he had been sub-
jected to. The Sardinian Government explained to
him the mistake, apologised for his being detained, and
made good any loss he might have been made to suffer.
The gentleman had declared that the detention arose
from persecution on aceount of the name of Graham,
and claimed a pecuniary indemnity, but under the cir-
cumstances he (Lord Aberdeen) could not make any ap-
plication to the Sardinian Government. That Govern-
ment had done all that was required—they had explained
the mistake, intimated that the detention was uninten-

tional, and paid the incidental expenses, so that he must
decline doing anything further in the matter.
The Duke of BUCCLEUCII laid upon the table of
the House certain returns relating to gaols in Ireland.
RAILWAY BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.

The Earl of DALHOUSIE, in rising to move the
suspension of the 224th standing order of the House,
said it would be necessary for him to direct their
Lordships' attention to the fact of two Committees bay-
ing been appointed, ene by the other House of Parlia-
ment, and the other by their Lordships, to consider the
best means of disposing of the railway busim-ss of the
session. These Committees were of a too fold character.
The first object to be considered by them was the possi-
bility of finding time to get through the railway business,
and the other the expediency of allowing
so large an amount of capital which these railway
schemes would require to be diverted from the usual
and ordinary sources of commerce. Both Committees
met the day after their appointment, and all the infor-
mation which the Government had in their possession
upon the subject was laid before them, and
the Committees considered generally the two
questions which had been referred to them. In the
first place. they suggested that a certain altera-
tion should be made in the mode of arranging and dis-
posing of the private business of the two House a of Par-
liament, because they thought it would tend to facilitate
the transactions of business of either House, and while it
would be convenient to those interetsed in the conduct
of that business, it would at the same time be productive
of advantage to the public interest. Their Lordships
were no doubt aware that according to the invariable prac-
tice of the House, railway business had commenced in
the other House of Parliament, and, as a neces ary
consequence, during the first two or three months of
the session their Lordships ware left entirely without
private business, and when it did conic before them,
they were so overwhelmed with it at a late period of their
sitting, that it was quite impossible for their Lordships
to give it that due attention which its im-
portance demanded. Their Lordships' Comteit-
tee had, therefore, determined to recommend an
alteration in the existing standing orders, and to meet
this arrangement, no doubt their Lordships would have
perceived that the Committee of the other House of
Parliament had reported to the House a recommenda-
tion that during the present session a certain por-
tion of ralway business should be commenced in
their Lordships' House. It was, therefore, for
them to consider what would be a convenient
division of the business. But the Committee
recommended that the railway Bills connected with
Ireland should be considered by their Lordships' House
in the first instance. There could be no objection waged
to this course, and their Lordships had a strong
reason for adopting it in the fact that it
would facilitate the legislation connected with Ireland.
Under the present circumstances of that country it
would be extremely desirable that such a course should
be adopted. Any Bills, therefore, that were to be
brought forward and considered beneficial for Ireland
should be passed as speedily as possible. The report of
the Committee in the House of Commons on the same
subject had recommended all railway Bills for Ire-
land to be commenced in that House. There was
a charge of five per cent. required to be paid on
all railway Bills in the House of Commons, but in that
House there was an alteration to ten per cent. An ex-
ception was proposed in the other House with regard to
certain Bills after the 10th July, and a similar altera-
tion was proposed in that House, but their Lord-
Ahips refused to acquiesce in it. They proposed
that ten per cent. should be paid on every
Bill. Now a very large proportion of the
Irish Bills fell under th. exception referred to, and it
would be hard to say that this should stand in the way
of their consideration. It appeared, therefore, to the
Committee appointed by their Lordships, that an altera-
tion might be made to obviate that inconvenience, and they
had unanimously recommended that those Bills on which
a deposit of five per cent. had been made, should before
the third reading pay the remaining five per cent.
It had been said that this alteration held out an

encouragement for railway speculation; but by admitting
the consideration of those railways which paid five_ better
a
cent. they would not be placing the promoter in hete
cuonnddei tri otnhtehsaen
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al
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he
e w originatedoul
di n
to a speedy decision, as
employment to the
it would afford a facility of givjn.fet,p sthtreonogthlye r.rlelcooumse.
mend their Lordships to come.
allaletitatitehsistoplrvoaprod-s
sition proposed was, togive ;
Bills
now before the other House of
people of Ireland. In point o
passing the railway
t
Parliament. It was a power tact,
ro
advance railway projects
without in the slightest manner giving any facilities
in torcwilietiees
passre-
jected
li ic h
classof
were a
Billst p present
another
House which
of Parliament last session, and
n for the recommendation of
that House in that session, but he was of opinion they
which exist-
ence.
in
~chose There.etrhwere
e bubbleintroduced
o was
th e r
again
would not be persevered in. He was sure many of those
Bills would not make their appearance, and ho would
move such a course should be submitted as to prevent
their Lordships from having to deal with Bills which
were not of a bona fide nature. The standing orders on
such railway Bills, he would move, should be complied
with on or before the 6th Feb., and that before the
Bill was read a third time in that house, one-twentieth
of the amount sabscribed should be paid up. The Noble
Lord concluded by moving the resolution.

" Resolved—That it is the opinion of this Committee
that such portion of the standing order No. 224, as re-
quires a deposit of one tenth of the amount subscribed,
should be suspended, with respect to all such railway Bills
as shall commence in the House of Lords during the pre-
sent session.
" That no such railway Bill shall be read a first
time in this House unless a deposit of one-twentieth
part of the amount subscribed should have been made on
or before the 6th of February.
" That no such railway Bills should be read a third
time until a further deposit of one-twentieth part of the
amount subscribed should in like manner be paid.
" Resolved also, that it is the opinion of this Com-
mittee that this House should not receive any petition
for a railway Bill after Monday, the 23d of February."
Lord MONTEAGLE did not object to the general
principal of the proposal which had emanated from the
Committte but as there was much :misapprehenarns
with respectito the proceedings of the Legislature on this
subject, as regarded Ireland, he wished tfo
what it would affect the railway Bills o
the necessity.
coun-
try. He was not about to discuss ; but in-
tendedtat explaininof increasing the means of communicationleffeet which the
on
contingency.th e l abonr
to apply himself solely
market of Ireland under
of the railway
Bills in
Under the present system,
suggestions of the Committeeythwet
nonetecl could Met •
:upltdrehseanvet
lye the royal
which Irelratd vras inter"
iiway Bills received the royal assent last
tvepnassa(sd blavtfeorien t
ht %at
te
pseersi soir t
haes
y
than many, ra
assent before June or July; indeed, that was earlier
session. Now, however important and useful it m'g't
people of Ireland would not derive that advantage from
erbeulto,
ypaestsifratihlweyay
.Berilelsnoe
them which they stood so much in need of at the present
moment, on account of the failure of the potato crop.
There was one alteration to which his Noble Friend had
not alluded. It was allowing promoters of railway Bills
to prove simultaneously their compliance with the stand-
ing orders in both Houses. The adoption of this plan
would be a great improvement, and would save great
expense, for nothing could be more absurd than to bring
witnesses from Ireland and Scotland, from Land's End.
and from John o'Groats, to prove certain formalities ins