The Sun.
London, England, 1856-02-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, FE.BRITARY 23, 1856.

Sittingbourr e and Sheerness Railway, and Stotfl,ll
and Lossiemouth Harbour Improvement.
Sir J. WALMSLEY presented a petition from a
working man in Bristol. He had taken the precaution
of inquiring into the character of the petitioner before he
presented the petition, and he found he was
quite trustworthy. The petitioner stated a pea-
tion was about to be presented to that house against
the opening of the Crystal Palace and British Muieurn
on Sundays, and that the signatures thereto were obtained
in a most Objectionable manner. They consisted of the
names of infants of tender age, paupers and others who
were not free agents, and under those circumstances
he prayed that a remedy might be adopted to meet the
evil, which existed to a very great extent.
Mr. BAINES presented a petition in favour of the
bill for the abolition of local dues upon shipping.
Mr. M. GIBSON presented several petitions from
Manchester with a similar prayer.
THE NERBUDDA. _
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Mr. OTWAYl7egged;(;;;ka question of the First
Lord of the Admiralty of painful interest. There some
time ago appeared a report in the public prints of the
total loss of the Nerbudda, with 130 walls on board.
No official notification of the loss had been made to the
public or the relatives of those on board, and he now
begged to ask for any information the Government had
on the pubject ?
Sir C. WOOD said he had not yet received any official
information on the subject, and until he had received
that information he thought he should not be justified in
making any report on the subject until all hope bad
gone. He was sorry to say there was at present all
absence of any information.
IRISH BILLS.

Sergeant O'BRIEN asked the Chief Secretary for
Ireland whether the Government would agree to post-
pone till some early day after Easter further proceeding
with the Juvenile Offenders (Ireland) Bill, the Burial
Grounds (Ireland) Bill, and the Prisons (Ireland) Bill,
inasmuch as several of the Irish members would be ab•
sent during the assizes /
Mr. HORSMAN said, with respect to those bills, he
intended to take the second readings pro forma, and
postpone their further consideration unt►l after Rider.
COMMUNICATION WITH IRELAND.

Mr. GROGAN asked the Secretary to the Treasury
whether any and what steps, since the issuing of the
minute of the 19th day of October, 1555, had
been taken by the Government to facili-
tate and improve the postal and passenger
communication between London and Dublin ; whether
the hours of departure from, and arrival at, those cities
respectively of the mails, and the time to be employed
on the journey, bad been decided on ; whether any
tenders for the performance of that service bad been
called for by the Government ; whether any tenders for
that service had been sent in to the Government ; and
what was the present state of negotiations on this
subject

Mr. WILSON said that communications with the
Chambers of Commerce of Belfast and Dublin had taken
place with respect to the hours most convenient for the
mails to arrive in Ireland. When the answers bad been
received, tenders with those hours mentioned would be
sent forth.