The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-14 00:00:00

COUNTY COURTS.

Lord BROUGHAMi moved for certain returns re-
lating to the county courts, respecting the fees received.
He considered that it was most unjust to demand from
suitors that they should not only have to pay for the ad-
ministration of justice to themselves, but that they should
have to provide for the expenses of the administration of
justice to others who should come alto. them. It was
entirely contrary to the principles laid down by Mr.
Bentham, and in the justice of which all were agreed.
He would take the opportunity of stating that the num-
ber of cases in which the matter ire dispute was above
101. which had been decided by the county courts was
32,000. The Noble and Learned Levi then asked in what
state of forwardness was ihe Criminal-law Digest ?
The LORD CHANCELLOR said that without no-
tice he not answer
CHURCHcouId BUILDINGSth
ACue I" AonMENDMENT BILL.
The Earl of CARLISLE moved the second read,ng
of this Bill. The Bill was founded upon a report which
bad met with the approval of the two Archbishops, the
Earl of Harrowby, and several other members of the
Church Building Commission. The object of the Bill
was to amend the law relating to church buildings, and
to give to the Church Building Commission the power
pew rents, and of securing free sittings to
of regulating t
members of the Church in all new Churches.
the poorer
The report expressed a
.desire that Parliament should deal
with the question of Church rates, but as the touching of
that subject might lead to irritation the Bill did not pro-
pose
to deal with it.
The Earl of PO CPIS made some observations, but in
so low a tone that even their purport could not be caught
in the gal!ery,
After a few words frcm Lord STANLEY,
The Bill was read a second time.
RATINGS IN IRELAND.
Lord MONTEAGLE rose to present, according to
notice, a petition from landowners of Kerry on the sub-
ject of local assessments for the construction of railways
in the south of Ireland. It was essential that their
Lordsnips attention should be directed to this subject.
Their Lordships had on a former occasion entertained a
Bill fur opening the line from Dublin to Cork, and this
was now one of the finest public works in Ireland. It
had been recommended in Mr. Drummond's report that
this line should be carried on to the west—that had
been undertaken by a company, but they had not
been enabled to complete the whole, and the petitioners
had consulted the localities, and had applied to the
grand juries of Kerry and Cork fpr assistance, and the
grand juries had unanimously decided on assisting from
their rates in the completion of that work, and the
question was whether Parliament was now disposed to
sanction that decision, and to authorise the advance-
ment of money from these rates to complete the
railway. In Galway a Government advance had
been made for the completion of railways, and the peti-
tioners asked that the counties might be permitted out
of their own resources to eo that which the Govern-
ment bad done for Galway. The proposed railway ran,
through the poorest districts in Ireland, and the comple-
tion of this railway would furnish work to from 3,000 to
4,000 of that destiaite population. He asked for no grant
of public money, but merely to use their own rates for
this perpoe, which would give employment to the desti-
tute population.
Lord REDESDALE admitted the importance of the
question. It seas a question as to whether they should
rate the public at largo for the benefit of private indi-
vidual?. By this Bill the original projectors of the
railway proposed to get rid of la. a share on their
original proposal when the Bill was passed, and they
also proposed to take the power of borrowing upon
the security of advances from the county rate, instead of
upon their own subscriptions, and thus they proposed to
construct a line for their own profit, entirely upon the
rteponsibility of the county-rates. There was also, it
meat be remembered, a line proposed to be con-
structed frown Killsrney to Valentia, a competing line,
the suburbans to which did not arm Parliament to seek
this power of taxing the counties which was sought for by
those whore the Noble Lord supported. He did not
think, unless turth,r reasons were shown, that it would
be advisable to grant the prayer of this petition.

(LETT SITTLNG.)

HOUSE OE COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Ch,ir at Fur o'clock.
NEW MEMBER,.

Mr. BETHELL (introduce) by Mr. Hutt and Mr,
Roundel Pwnarr) took tee oaths and his seat for Ayles.
bury.

THIRD READINGS.

The following Bills were read a third' time and
passed :
The C,,mmercial Docks Improvement.
Great Western Railway (Arrangements with reference
to the Purchase, &c., of the Wilts, Somerset, and Wey-
mouth, It-Always).
Saint Patrick's Cathedral (Dublin).
Stockton and Darlington, Wear Valley, and Middles-
brough and Redcar Railway Companies Amalgama-
tion (No. 2).
SHEFFIELD, ROTHERHAM, AND WAKEFIELD