The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-29 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, April 28.
The House met this afternoon for the first time after
the Easter recs.:3, the SPEAKER. tnking the Chair a"
Four o'clock.

NEW MEMBERS.
Mr. Sergeant MURPHY took the oaths and his seat for
Cork; Mr. FRESHFIELD took th© oaths and his seat for
Boston; and Mr. MONCRIEFF, th 9 Lord Advocate for
Scotland, took the
THIRD READINGS.
The following Bills were read a third time and passed:
Aberdeen Public Records.
Harwich Improvement, Quays, and Pier.
neathcote's Divorce.
Richmond and Lancaster Turnpike Road (Western Dis-
trict) Continuation of Term, &o.
The following Bills were considered and agreed to:—
Charing Cross Bridge.
Royal Naval School.

PETITIONS.
Mr. HASTIE presented a petition 'against Papal
aggression.
Mr. G. BERKELEY presented petitions from Glou-
cestershire to the same Effect.
Mr. CHRISTOPHER presented a large number of
petitions from places in Lincolnshire complaining of agri-
cultural distress.
Mr. SPOONER presented a petition praying for a
more equal adjustment of the income-tax.
Mr. FITZROY presented a petition praying that the
Coroners' Bill may be referred to the consideration of
a Select Committee.
Mr. COWAN presented several petitions from places
in Scotland against Papal aggression..
Lord BERNARD presented two petitions to the same
effect from places in the county of Limerick.
Mr. lIERRIES gave notice that h© should to-morrow
present a petition from the shipowners of London, and
move that it be printed.
Mr. ANSTEY presented petitions from4oomembers
of the Jewish persuasion in London against the Sunday
Trading Bill.
Mr. SPOONER presented a petition from Cirencester
against the property-tax•
a petition from the clergy and
Mr. CHILD presented
inhabitants of Colwich, Staffordshire, against Papal
aggression.
resented a petition from the Cocker-
Mr. ELLIS P
mouth and Workington Railway Company praying for
a more equitable rating of railways.
Mr. FULLER presented a petition from Bodiam,
Sussex, complaining of agricultural distress; also peti-
tions from Beckley, Wartling, Brede, and Uckfield,
Sussex, and from Horsemonden, Hawkhurst, and Brenda-
ley, Kent, praying that Id. in the pound might be taken
off hops.

INCOME-TAX.
Colonel SIBTHORP gave notice that when the House
went into Committee on the Property and Income-tax
Bill he should move amendments to the effect that tenant
farmers and occupiers of land, as well as officers in the
army and navy, should be exempted from the tax.
REPEAL OF THE MALT-TAX.
Mr. PACKE gave notice that when the Hon. Member
(Mr. Cayley) brought forward his motion for the repeal
of the malt-tax, he should move an amendment to the
effect that half the tax be repealed.
AMENDMENTS ON ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES
BILL.
Lord J. RUSSELL said that perhaps it might be con-
venient if he were to state now, agreeably to his pro-
mise before the recess, the view which the Government
took with regard to the amendments which were pro-
posed to be inserted in the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill in
Committee, and more particularly those which had been
proposed by the Honourable Member for Midhurst. With
respect to the first clause in those amendments, her
Majesty's Ministers . would have no objection to it in
tv,inciple, but they thcught that it would be carried into
effect more completely by the terms of the preamble of
their own Bill. With regard to the other clauses which
the Hon. and Learned Gentleman had given notice of, her
Majesty's Ministers had found, after full consideration,
that they could not agree in them. With respect to the
preamble of the Bill he (the Noole Lord) wished to re-
serve any opinion until the House should have gone
through the clauses and settled what form the enactment
would take.