The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-14 00:00:00

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AL PARLIAMENT.
(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEALER took the Chair shortly after Twelve
o'clock.

PETITIONS.
Mr. TANCRED presented a petition from Banbury
in favour of the Religious Houses Bill.
Mr. BLAIR presented a petition from Falkirk against
Papal aggression.
Mr. WESTHEAD presented a petition from Roman
Catholics at linaresbro' against the Religious Houses
Bill.

Mr. HUME presented a petition from certain indivi-
duals in the metropolis against the clause in theSu Sunday
Trading Bill preventing shaving after ten o'clock on
Sunday.—(A laugh.)
Mr. HENRY presented a petition from Manchester in
favour of the Religious Houses Bill.
Mr. HERRIES presented a petition frumthelaws.
association
of shipowners at Belfast against the navigation
Mr. RICARDO presented a petition from the
Roman Catholics at Stoke-upon-Trent against the Re-
ligious Houses Bill.
Sir G. STRICKLAND presented two petitions to the
same effect from, places in Lancashire.
Mr. W. PATTEN presented a similar petition from
Roman Catholics also in places in Lancashire.
Mr. JOHN
EVANS presented a petition from place&
in Wales in favour of giving county courts jurisdiction
in cases of bankruptcy.
Mr. FORBES presented petitions from Edinburgh
and other places in Scotland against Lord Melgund'a
Educational Bill.
Lord DUDLEY STUART presented a petition from
Marylebone against the Religious Houses Bill.
Mr. GEACH presented a petition from Coventry
against the taxes on knowledge.
Mr. NEWDEGATE presented petitions from places
iu Warwickshire in favour of the Religious Houses Bill.
NATIONAL REFORM.
Mr. HUME postponed his motion, which dropped
yesterday in Consequence of their being " no House,."
with respect to a But for amending the national repre-
sentation, until the 3d of June.
THE "NO HOUSE" OF YESTERDAY.
Mr. CHRISTOPHER complained that there should
have been " no House" yesterday, when so many irne
portant notices of motion were on the paper. Mr.
Hume had a motion for amending the nation al
representation, and he thought it was very
extraordinary that, after the agitation for re-
form out of the House, and the fact that the Go-
vernment were defeated not many days ago on
a question for the extension of the fraec.hise,
that only twenty-one Members should be present
at four o'clock, our, of which there were only six de-
serving to be called Radical Reformers, and only two
members of the Government. He should like to k now
where the Hun. Gentleman the Member for the 'lV,!st
Riding and the Eon. Members fur Manchester we re
when so ;important a question was to be brought
for-
ward? Where, also, was the Attorney-General, who,
at his last election, had promised his support to au oh
extensive measures of reform? He did think he was;
justified in asking whether these Gentlemen were
sincere in their advocacy of measures for reforming the
represen tation.—(Hear.)
Mr. HUME excused his absence by stating
that he esas in attendance on tha Commit/ ee
on the Army and Navy Estimates. He was
no pretending reformer, but sincerely desir ed
that the national representation should be extended, a; id
he was greatly disappointed to find that he had not t tan
opportunity of bringing forward the motion. When lie
recollected how ibis motion was cheered when he ga re
notice of it, he did expect that a greater numbe r of
Members would have been present.
Sir G. GREY said he was sure the Hon. Member
had satisfactorily explained the reason of his absence.
The motion of the Hon. Gentleman was well known to
be tixed for last night, and he could only attribute the
absence of Members to a general indisposition to d is-
cuss the question, when the Government had promis ed
to bring forward a measure of reform next session, at id
especially when the House had sat very late for the la. at
few evenings.
Mr. J. WILLIAMS made an attack on Mr. Hume far
having stated at the meeting of the Marylebone Vestry
that he had more friends among the Conservatives than
the Lit,erala.

Mr. HUME said he had been so many years in oppo -
sition that he thought he had as many friends on ono
aide of the House as the other.

Mr. W. WILLIAMS considered that some alteration
of the rules of the House with regard to the number of
Members required to be present at four o'clock was,
necessary, with the view of preventing such an occur—
rence again.
Mr. BANKES observed that the absence of many•
Members was occasioned by the long corridors and lob—
bies which they had to traverse after leaving Com—
mittees, in order to be present at the making of a House,.
Mr. REYNOLDS taunted the Liberal Members with
being absent when any great question of civil and reli—
gious liberty was corning on. He had himself seen yes—
terday many reformers hiding in holes and corners in,
the lobbies like drowned political rats, instead of attend
ing to their duty.—(Hear, hear.)
After a few words from Mr. BERNAL and Colonel
SIBTROar,
Mr. AGLIONBY thought it was extremely inju:cious
to the cause of Reform to make attacks on individuals
and political bodies in the House. A considerable
number of sincere Reformers, who had no desire
" to bark" the question, were kept away entirely through
accident yesterday, and not from any desire to pro-vent
the motion being broeght forward. He thought Hon.
Members were only injuring the cause by bringing
such motions on during the present session, and strongly
recommended their postponement until next session.
After some further desultory discussion, the subje
dropped.
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