The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-06 00:00:00

S N, JUNE 6, 1848.

[PRICE SD.

YORK, NEWCASTLE, AND BERWICK RAIL-
WAY, &c. BILL.
This Bill was read a third time and passed.
CONSIDERATION OF REPORTS.

The Reports on the following Bills were further
considered and agreed to :
Bristol and Exeter Railway (Branch from Bleadon to
Wells, Glastonbury, and Street) Bill.
Bristol and Exeter Railway (Taunton and Castle
Cary Branch) Bill.
Drumpeller Railway Bill.
Great Northern Railway (Isle of Axholme Exten•
sion) Bill.
Leeds and Thirsk Railway (Harrogate and Pateley
Branch) Bill.
London and Blackwall Railway Improvement, and
Branches to the St. Katharine's and London

Docks Bill.
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway
(No. 2—Deviation of Line, and Power to Shrews-
bury and Birmingham, and Birmingham, Wolver-
hampton, and Dudley Railway Companies to con-
tribute and make arrangements) Bill.
SECOND READINGS.
The following Bills were read a second time, and
ordered to be committed :

Hamlyn's Estate Bill.
New Ross Port and Harbour Bill.
GREAT WESTERN OF BENGAL RAILWAY.
Mr. GREENE moved that the order made on the
20th of March last, referring the Great Western of
Bengal Railway Company Dissolution, and Transfer
of Capital to East Indian Railway Company Bill to
the Committee of Selection, be discharged ; that the
Bill be withdrawn.
Mr. MARTIN opposed the motion, and it was
ultimately withdrawn.

BOARD OF ORDNANCE.
Dr. 130 WRING gave notice that he should move
for a Select Committee to inquire into the constitu-
tion of the Board of Ordnance.
OATHS OF MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT.
In answer to a question of Sir R. H. INGLIS,
Lord J. RUSSELL sail he found he could not
introduce the Bill of which he had given notice with
respect to the oath of Members, but it was his
intention to propose, on Tuesday, the 27th instant,
that the House should go into Committee of the
whole House for the purpose of considering these
oaths. The Right Hon. Gentleman had referred to
the defeat which had attended the Jewish Disabilities
Bill in another place. The Right Hon. Gentleman
would remember that a majority of the House at
least had supported that measure.—(Loud cheers.)
With respect to the oaths of Members, he begged to inform the Right Hon. Gentleman that many
Noble Lords had scruples in taking the oath
of su
premacy, as they considered that the authority of the
Pope as a spiritual prince extended to this country.
It was with a view to obviate these scruples that he
proposed to introduce that Bill.
Sir R. H. INGLIS said the Noble Lord had
told the House that all her Majesty's subjects would
be able to take these oaths. He wished to know from
the Noble Lord if this would refer to Mahomedans
and Pagans ?—(Laughter and cheers.)
Lord J. RUSSELL said that it was only in-
tended to refer to the born subjects of her Majesty,
and he did not think there were many Mahomedans
or Pagans in these dominions.
CHARTIST DISTURBANCES.

In answer to a question from Mr. G. THOMP-
SON,

Sir GEORGE GREY said, with reference to
the question asked by the Honourable Member,
that he would have been better prepared to give
the information required if notice had been given
of the question. He had no hesitation in say-
ing that the police had acted throughout entirely
under the directions of the Home Office. After the
disturbances which had late taken place, to the annoy-
ance of the inhabitants in the localities is which the
meetings had been held, it was the intention of the
Government to put a stop to them. As the persons
who assemb'ed had committed acts of violence against
persons and property, it was the duty of the Govern-
ment to afford the inhabitants protection, so far as
they were allowed by law, and he believed the law
was complete in its effect for this purpose.
The particular meeting in the Tower Hamlets
to which the Honourable Member alluded was
not interrupted by the police, but after the
dispersing of the meeting the mob broke several
windows in a church in the neighbourhood and
the police were consequently obliged to interfere.
A conflict took place, but he was happy to say that
the police completely succeeded in routing the mob ;
not, however, until thirty policemen were severely
injured, and, he believed, one was stabbed
through the hand by one of the mob who
was armed with some dangerous weapon.
In consequence of the experience which the Govern-
ment had had of the nature of those proceedings—
proceedings which, he must say, deprived the parties
of any pretext of their being for a legitimate object--
he had directed the police to take effectual measures
to put a stop to them—(Hear, hear)—and he had no
doubt, indeed he was certain, that most effectual
and stringent measures would be put in
force to pat down proceedings that were calculated to
disturb the peace of those who were truly her Ma-
jesty's faithful subjects.—(Hear, hear.)
ITALY AND AUSTRIA.

Mr. MUNTZ, pursuant to the notice he had
given, wished .to ask the Noble Lord at the
head of Foreign Affairs whether it was true
that her Majesty's Government had interposed in Italy
in favoar of the Austrian Government; and if they
had, he wished to know to what extent?
Lord PALMERSTON was glad the Hon. Mem-
ber for Birmingham had put the question to him, as
it enabled the Government to deny the false and
calumnious reports that had been circulated with re-
spect to English agents in Italy. He could assure the
lion. Member that there was no foundation whatever
for the report to which he had referred—(Hear,
hear)—and that the British Government, what-
ever might be their feelings on the subject, had
done that which they considered to be their duty,
remained quiet spectators of what had been going on.
—(Hear.) With regard to what was going on
at Naples, he believed that they had been
greatly misrepresented, but it was his intention on a
future day to lay on the table of the House the
account given by the Charge d'Affaires at Naples,
which he believed would show that he had nothing
to do with them, and that they did not bear the
character which they had been reported to bear.
LAW EXPENSES AND JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
Mr. AG' LIONBY moved, pursuant to notice, for the
following returns :—Return of the names and amount
of monies paid for law expenses to solicitors to public
departments; stating whether for salary, professional
charges, or from bills paid by individuals for official
business, whether such solicitors are wholly or not paid
by fixed salaries, distinguishing, as far as may be, the
amount charged for attendances on the principal or
other officers of each department, with the total amount
of the bills for such attendances, and for law or other
expenses charged to the public since the last return ;
also, whether any such solicitors are engaged in private
business, and, if so, whether in partnership, with the
names of the partners, and the authority under which
the public appointments are held (in continuation of
Parliamentary Paper No. 603, of session 1843). Ac-
count of the number of private and joint-stock
banks registered in each year from 1842 to
1847, both inclusive, of all the joint-stock banks
existing in England and Wales on the Ist day of
January, 1848, specifying their names, the dates of
their establishment, the places where they had
branches established, with the number of partners in
each, on the Ist day of January, 1843, 1844, 1845,
1846, 1847, and 1848, distinguishing between those
banks that issued and those that did not issue notes

(in continuationof--Parliamentary Paper, No. 85, of
session 1843).
After some discussion, the motion was withdrawn.

BUSINESS OF THE NIGHT.

In answer to a question from Mr. RICARDO,
Lord J. RUSSELL stated that he did not intend
to bring on the debate on the navigation-laws unless
the Spanish question closed before ten o'clock. If;
however, the discussion on that topic terminated
before that hour he proposed that the debate on the
navigation-laws should be resumed, and he should
ask the Hon. Members who had motions on the paper
for to-morrow to postpone them till Thursday, in
order that the debate might be continued to-morrow.
Should the debate on the navigation laws not come
on to-night, of course it would stand over till Thurs-
day.