The Sun.
London, England, 1860-02-09 00:00:00

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1111PERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS--(YEsTERDAY.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at twelve o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The standing orders were declared to have been complied
with in the case of several bills.
The following bills were read a second time :--Aylesbury
and Buckingham Railway ; Caine Railway ; Cardiff
Water; Land Loan and Improvement Company; London
and Blackwall Railway; London and North-Western (No.
1) ; Oxford, Worcester, and ,Wolverhampton, Newport,
Abergavenny, and Hereford, and Worcester and Hereford
Railways; St. Helen's Canal and Railway and London
and North-Western Railway Companies; Sudbury, Mel-
ford and Clare, and Bury St. Edmund's Railway.
PETITIONS.
Several petitions were presented from various parts of the
country against the unconditional abolition of church rates;
which proceeding occupied the house 40 minutes.
INCOME TAX.
Mr. FORSTER moved for a return showing the number
of persons charged to the income tax for the year ending
the sth day of April, 1859, under Schedule D, distinguish..
ing the number charged in each of the following classes,
viz., under £lOO a year, £lOO and under £l5O a year, £l5O
and under £2OO a year, and other incomes to £60,000 and
upwards; also a similar return under Schedule E, showing
the net amount of property and income tax for the same
year, classed under the several Schedules -(in continuation
of the Parliamentary Paper of Session 1859). And
similar return for Ireland.
Ordered.

SUGAR.
-Mr. C. FORSTER moved the following returns, which
were ordered :—Tabular return showing the quantities of
sugar of the several sorts imported into the United King •
doui, and the quantities retained for home consumption ;
together with the rates of duty charged thereon, and the net
revenue accruing therefrom in each year, from 1800 to 1859
inclusive ; followed by a comparative statement of the ave-
rage prices of British plantation and foreign sugar (ordinary
yellow Havannah) for the same series of years : Account
of the imports into the United Kingdom of sugar, molasses,
rum, coffee, cocoa, and cotton, from the West Indies, Bri-
tish Guiana, the Mauritius, and British possessiOns in India,
for the years 1831 to 1859 inclusive; distinguishing the quan-
tities from each colony and each possession in each year :
Similar account of the quantities of foreign sugar imported,
stating from whence, and the quantities from each place or
country : And account of the quantity of refined sugar and
sugar candy imported into the United Kingdom in the years
1848, 1849, 1850, 18.51, 1852, 1853, 1854, 1855, 1856, 1857,
1858, and 1859 respectively, stating the quantity retained
for home consumption, the rates of duty paid, and the
quantity exported : Return of the quantity of foreign sugar
entered for home consumption during each year, from 1831
to 1859 inclusive, distinguishing refined from unrefined ;
and also the several places from whence such sugar was
imported.

MILITARY ORGANISATION COMMITTEE.
In reply to Colonel DUNNE,
Mr. S. HERBERT said he would give notice of the
intention of Government with regard to the reappointment
of this committee.

NEW .
On the motion of Mr. LAING WRlTSwrits were ordered for
Hereford in the room of Mr. Cowper, vacant by his accept-
ance of the office of Chief Commissioner of the Board of
Works ; and for Gateshead, vacant by the appointment of
Mr. Butt as Vice President of the Board of Trade.
CURCH-RATES ABOLITION BI
On. the H
order of the day for the secoLITIO di reading LL.
of this
bill,