The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-07 00:00:00

NEW WRIT.

Mr. HATTER moped for a new writ for linarea-
borough is the room of the Right Hon. W. S. Laseelles,
deceased.—d_greed to.
PETITIONS.

Mr. FREWEN presented a petition from attorneys in
Sussex in lay ur of the repeal of the certificate duty.
Mr. C. LUSHINGTON presented a petition from
Soho, praying for measures fur the promotion of temper-
ance amorg she people.
Lord Ml LGU NI) presented a petition from Greenock
in favour of secular education in Scotland.
Mr. GROGAN presented a petition from a parish Ira
Duelin cempiaining of the influx of paupers to that me-
tropens trim ,he country.
Mr. J. EVANS presented two petitions from Wood-
stock, in Monmouthshire, against Papal aggression and
the Maynootn grant.
Lord NAAS presented a petition from the county of
Down in fivfair of the Home-made Spirits in Bond Bill.
Mr. CHRISTOPHER presented petitions tram at-
torneye in Lincoln, Sou.hampton, Portsmouth, and other
places, praying for the repeal of the certificate duty.
Mr. SCULLY presented a petition from the county of
Tipperary, praying for au inquiry into the law respect-
ing the importation of foreign flour.
Mr. COWAN presented a petition from the trustees
of the prevent E,rl of Fife and other parties against
the Seoch Salmon Filheries
Toe Merepiis of GRANBY presented a petition from
Ceylon agssuat any alteration of the coffee duties.
Mr. RIjARDO presented a petition from Stoke-
npo_rn:rrent against the attorneys' certificate duty.
M . J. Stuart, Mr. Miles, and Mr. Sotheron presented
similar
Mr. VESEY presented a petition from mill-owners,
in Queen's County against too free importation of flour.
Mr. BERNAL pres.nteci a petition from chemists at
Gravesend in favour of the Pharmacy Bill.
NOTICES OF MO
Mr. G. BANKES gave notice that, to-morrow, he
should submit a resolution to the House having reference
to the ca,o of the persons summoned on the ht. Alban's
Election Committee, who had fled the country.
Lard DUNCAN gave notice that if the annual report
of the Woods and Forests was not produced before
Friday he should move that it be forthwith laid on the
table.
Mr. STUART gave notice that, on Thursday, he
should present a petition from the Isle of Skye on the
subject of tho destitution in the Highlands, and he should
take the same opportunity of asking the Right Hon.
Baronet the Secretary of State for the Home Department
if he had received the report of Sir J. M•Neil in refer-
ence to the destitution, and the means to be taken for its
removal.
INHABITED HOUSE DUTIES BILL.
The House then went io Committee on this Bill.
Ola clause 1 being proposed,
Mr. EWART moved the addition of the following
enacted, that stories of buildings (as
win "41:—'' And be it
the ease of model lodging-
houses, or of flats in Scot-
land)
or Tarts hereo
occupied as separate dwellings,
tsetf,i
y
and a3seasad to the poor-rate, shall be held
to he inhabited ptia rw
ae
n...
houses under this Act, and
shall ho subject to the same liabilities and exemptions
Its are, with regard
Act and the scheauiteo inhabited dwelling-houses, in this
annexed provided."
Mr. HUME considered the house-tax was in
ered that
every respect preferable t the • w-tax ; but he was
disposed sallowt think that if c! innate
ture re all exemP •
twos of this na-
be resorted to for the of avoiding
the tax by persons who ee
kinds of evasions would
t purpose
merit of a house-tax conaiste% The great
ral, and equal, and he thought, therefore bijeai yn
gi Certain, gene-
' exten,,ed to houses over fortya shillings.
ereforetliat it ougal to
Mr. SLANEY dirt not ,t 4
eheap cottages in the country were t?s,':` 48°R why, if
the tax, dwallings of the humbler elexempted from
the
building
towns, where land was of more value,
in large
enjoy the same privilege. Tea reass;oe'fo'h.6ll2 not
so many habitations under one roof, in
polls, and on oitfkrent stories, instead of
them separately and distinct was that the sites
r°
g
expensive, rod he thought the Government oughte -
nou
t
to discourage the movement, now very general over ias
country, tor erecting lodging-houses for the labouring_
classes, by imposing a tax on this description of erft-
tioree which ho trust,d nruld considerably increase d
ring the next five or six years.
Mr. A. HASTIE `aid that from ingeiries he hers
mode he found that iii Glasgow elope 3.600 persons who
did net pay the wiedow-
tax would he ohligethd to pay the
inhabited house-tax. ..1 las would, he o
Scotland;
els, 1:1
the ease with regard to the other towns of
therefore, as far as that country was cenceruO, he
thought no benefit would arise at all.
The CHANCEELOR of the EXCHEQUER said h©
quite agreed alai
the lion. Member tur Montrose,
that all excmptiocs to this
lox were bud in principle.
051ers4
~.ts
He /mould ov if any
tenement the vrerent amendment, becausey
tenement alai: sing to be rated separately to the
eelf74
poor e-rate were not also obliged to be rated
separately as houses, he might just as well bid good bye
to the tax altoeether, as fir as the case of Scotland was
concerned. The estimated reduction ot tax upon that
country amounted to no Willi than 10,0001.