The Sun.
London, England, 1851-02-15 00:00:00

PAPAL AGGRESSION.

The Earl of ARUNDEL and SURREY'•presented a
petition from Armagh, deprecating any Government in-
terference with the Catholic religion.
Colonel VERNON presented seven petitions from the
counties of Down and Armagh against Papal aggression.
Colonel SIBTHORP presented a petition from Lincoln
to the same effect.
ATTORNEYS' CERTIFICATES.
Colonel THOMPSON presented a petition from a
solicitor at Bra !ford praying for a repeal of the duty on
attorneys' certificat"s.
COUNTY FINANCIAL BOARDS.
Sir GEORGE PECHELL presented a petition from
Brighton praying for the establishment of county finan-
cial boards.

AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS.
Mr. CHRISTOPHER presented several petitions
from Lincolnshire complaining of agricultural distress.
Mr. VERNON SMITH presented a petition in favour
of the total repeal of the window-tax.
Lord DUNCAN presented ,a similar petition.
Several other petitions were presented to the same
effect.
Mr. COWAN presented a petition from Edinburgh
praying the House to take steps for the effectual sup-
pression of the slave trade.
Mr. HINDLEY presented petitions from various
places in Cheshire against the window-tax.
Mr. GROG AN presented petitions from two Irish
journals, praying for the repeal of the paper duties.
A large number of petitions were presented complain-
ing of the Papal aggression.
Mr. W. WILLIAMS presented a petition from St.
Mary, Newington, praying for the repeal of the window-
tax.

Mr. J. WILLIAMS presented a similar petition from
St. Mary, Finsbury.
Sir E. BUX lON presented a petition from Chelsea
to the a ame effect.
MONOPOLY OF PRINTING THE BIBLE.

Mr. HUME gave notice, that on Monday week he
should move for copies of the documents under the au-
thority of which the Queen's printer, and the Universi-
ties of Oxford and Cambridge, enjoyed a monopoly of
printing the Bible.
THE PAPAL AGGRESSION.

Mr. GRATTAN wished to give notice that on the
first reading of the Bill for the repression of the Roman
Catholic heirerchy in the United Kingdom he intended
to move that the words " United Kingdom" should be
ft out.
The SPEAKER said that it was not competent for
the Hon. Memb,,r to make such a motion at the time he
had specified. No motion of that kind could be made
on the first reading of a Bill.
Mr. GRATTAN would then make his motion at the
proper time.
The SPEAKER—The proper time would be on read-
ing the title of the Bill.
DUBLIN SAVINGS BANKS.

Mr. REYNOLDS gave notice that he should at an
early period move that the depositors who had been in-
jure i by the failure of certain savings banks in Dublin
should be recompensed out of the public funds.
CEYLON.

Mr. FITZSTEPHEN FRENCH said, that seeing his
Hon. Friend the Under-Secretary for the Colonies in his
place, he wished to ask him why the letter of Mr.
Glenny to Sir Emerson Tennent has not been printed
with the correspondence respecting Ceylon, lately de-
livered to Members, and whether he had &By objection
now to lay it or its contents on the table of the House?
Mr. HAWES said that the letter to which his Hon.
Friend bad referred wasone of an entirely private nature.
It was written by the Archdeacon of Colombo to Sir
Emerson Tennent, and it was required by the writer that
it should not be produced unless the whole of its spirit
was oxpressrd. Sir E. Tennent did read so much of
the letter as was necessary to explain the matter to
which it referred, end to express its spirit. But the
letter itself was not in the possession of the Colonial-
office, and therefore could not be produced.
OVERCROWDING WORKHOUSES IN IRELAND.
Mr. P. SCROPE asked the Chief Secretary for Ire-
land whether it was true, as reported in the local jour-
nals. that the number of inmates in the Limerick union
workhouse exceeded the limit allowed by the sealed order
of the Poor-law Commissioners by more than 700, and,
if so, whether the Commissioners had taken any steps
thereupon?
Sir W. SOMERVILLE said it was quite true that
the pressure for accommodation in Limerick work-
house had been very great for some time past, and,
according as that pressure exhibited itself, the Com-
missioners had not failed to call the attention
of the board of guardians to it in order to induce them,
as far as laid in their power, to adopt some remedy. On
the 23d of Nov., the excess of inmates was 106, and on
the 28th of Dec. it had risen to 610, but in consequence
of the additional accommodation provided by the board of
guardians, it had, on the 4th of Jan., been reduced to
124. It was quite true that at one period, the Ist
of February, the excess of inmates exceeded the accom-
modatitn by 775. Then, again, in consequence of
fresh accommodation being provided, it appeared
from the last report which bad reached him that
the excess of inmates had been reduced to 507;
but the Honourable Gentleman should remember
that, though the excess was very large, yet
the workhouse accommodation of the Limerick
union was also enormous. When the excess was 507
the number of inmates actually accommodated within
the workhouse amounted to no less than 7,000. The
Hon. Member was under a mistake when he supposed
that the sanitary state of the workhouse was unsatisfac-
tory; on the contrary, he believed it was very satis-
factory, and that the medical officer was quite
satisfied with the accommodation and arrangements.
Mr. Lynch had been directed by the commissioners to
devote his attention entirely to the Limerick workhouse,
and he (Sir W. Somerville) had no doubt that very soon
there would be. an excess of accommodation as com-
pared with the number of people within the workhouse,
VALUATION OF PROPERTY IN IRELAND.
Mr. SCULLY asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland
if it was the intention of Government to introduce any
measure this session to correct the mode of taking the
general valuatien of Ireland (now in progress)?.
Sir W. SOMERVILLE replied that it was his inten-
tion on Monday next to ask leave of the House to in-
troduce a Bill to amend the laws relating to the valua-
tion of property in Ireland.
ENCUMBERED ESTATES COURT (IRELAND).
Mr. B. OSBORNE moved for a return of the names
of all persons holding any offices in the Encumbered
Estates Court in Ireland, with the amount of salary
paid to each, and stating whether or not previously em-
ployed in the public service, and in what capacity,

" HOUSEHOLD NARRATIVE."
Mr. MOWATT wished to rut a question to the
Chancellor of the Exchequer. It would be in his recol-
lection that some days ago a question was pat to him to
the elf, et whether he could state, with reference to the
legal proceedings against Bradbury and Evans, the pub-
lisher; of a journal conducted by Mr. Charles Dickens,
and entitled Household Narrative, the grounds on which
those legal prooeudings had been directed? He now
wished to know what particular point he alluded to on
that occasion when ho stated that the argument was to
be heard before the Barons of the Exchequer?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER recol-
lected that the other day a question had been put to him
by an Hon. Member whether that case was going or,
when ho replied that it was. He was again asked whe-
ther he woulJi agree to suspend the operation of the
stamp-laws will regard to similar publications till this
case was decided. To that he replied that he could not
agree to do so; and he had just the same answers to re-
turn on the present occasion.

Mr. M. GIBSON thought the Right Hon. Gentleman
had misunderstood the question which
him. The question was, whether he would inform the