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

ADVERTISING VANS, &c.

Colonel SIBTHORP asked the Seer. tary of State for
the Home Department whether he was pr, part d to tuke
effective measures for the stringent suppression of
barrel-organs and advertising vans in the metropolis?
Sir GEORGE GREY replied that the Commis-
sioners of Police bad issued notices that nuisances
of the kind to which the Gallant Colonel had referred,
which were dangerous obstructions in the public streets,
were illegal, and must be removed. He did not think
it was necessary to bring in a special Act of Parlia-
ment on the subject, the existing law being quite suffi-
cient to deal with the evil. _ .

Colonel SIBTROHP said in that case he would intro-
duce a Bill himself.

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ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
Mr. STANFORD asked the Secretary of State for
the Home Department whether the scale of charges
made by the Electric Telegraph Company, f,r the trans-
mission of information in criminal cases, where their aid
was necessary to &cure the ends of public justice, ha.,
iccupied his attention; and whether there was any in-
tention on the part of Government to ask tor Parlia-
mentary powers to secure a " maximum" rate of charge
in such eases, as was secured to the public for railway
travelling?
Sir G. GREY said the subject had not occupied his
attention, but obierved there was a clause in the com-
pany's Act which gave tee Board of Trade jurisdiction
with respect to the scale of charges.
CHARITABLE INSTITUTION NOTICES BILL.
On the motion of Mr. SPOONER the second reading
of this Bill was agreed to, and it was ordered to be com-
mitted on the 224 instant.
' LANDLORD AND TENANT BILL.

Mr. SPOONER moved the second reading of this
Bill, which he said was for the purpose of facilitating
the arrangements between the outgoing and in-coming
tenant relative to existing crops, and buildings erected
at the tet.aut's own expense.
fitter a bri.-f diaousidon respecting some of the details
of the Bill, the in don was agreed to.
RELIGIOUS HOUSES BILL.

Lord ARUNDEL and SURREY presented a grew,
number of petitions from different parts of the kingdom
against the Religious Houses_ Bill.
Mr. ROCHE also presented several petitions to the
same ett, et from places in Ireland.
Mr. J. O'BRIEN presented petitions from the parish
of Newmarket ou Fernes, county of Clare, also from
the parishes of Relealy and Killenkennely, same county,
against the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, and the Religious
Houses Bill.
Mr. CARDWELL presented a similarpetition from a
place in
.Lancashire.
Sir J. GRAHAM also presented a similar petition
from Louth, designating the Bill both as unworthy of
the honour and liberty and chivalry of the country; he
also presented two other petitions from Ireland to the
same effect.
Mr. P. HOWARD presented several petions also
to the same effect, one stating that if the Bill were
passed, it would &moult virtually to the banishment of
the ocetrpates of these religious houses, because they
would be compelled to remove to countries where such
houses were allowed to be established and maintained.
Mr. LACY moved the second reading of the Bill, the
object of which was to require the registration of ladies
residing in moutisteries or te her religious betties, and to
enable , the magistrates of qua, t r sessions to visit such
4stablishuients without 'notice, and to remove any lady
who should express a desire to leave them. He
Was informed that these houses bad greatly in-
creased within the last few years, the number which bad
ping,zrop?retdh,emt,h
bseyn added to the list during the last four ,kears being 19.
Vet al of them contained as many as 500 or even 1,000
inmates, and when they recollected imeances of. ladies
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