The Sun.
London, England, 1856-02-27 00:00:00

CLERKS OF PARLIAMENTS.

Mr. L. KING moved for copies of the last patents,
or enrolments or patents, under which the clerks of the
Parliaments attending the Houses of Loris and Com-
mons were appointed : of the earliest extant patent
or enrolment of a patent, appointing a clerk of
the Parliaments • and of the oath of offing of clerk of the
Parliaments ; and, if the oath had been varied of the
several forms which had at different times been adminis.
tered.—Agreed to.
LOCAL DUES 'ON SHIPPING.

In answer to a question from Mr. LINDSAY,

Mr. LOWE said that it wa3 never intended that the
Board cif Trade should have the power of applying taxes
raised at one port for the benefit of another. The pur-
poses contemplated by the act were that the Mard of

Trade should have the application of the does to be levied
for shipping purposes at the port at which th- y were levied,
and that the hipping purpo3es to which the dues should
be applied stiould be decided on by the harbiur master,
and nit the Board of Trade—tho latter requiring, how-
ever, that an estimate of the expenses be forwarded to
them, that they might see that the money had been ap-
plied to shionirz pornores.
THE 'AVNEIL-TIILLOOH REPORT.

In answer to a queation from Mr. ROEBCCS,

Lard PALMERSTON laid on the table the warrant
appointing the commission to inquire into the conduct
of certain officers in the Crimea mentioned in the report,
and stated that the following officer. composed the com-
mission :—Lord Seaton, Gen. lki'Mahon, Earl Bescham,
Gen. Peel, Sir J. Bell, Gen. Knowles, and Gen.

. .
Rowan.
THE CRIMEAN COMMISSION—MR. ROE-
BUCK'S NOTICE.

Sir J. PAKINGTON—Sir, I wish to give notice
that, in the event of the bon, and learned member for
Sheffield bringing can his resolution relative to the report
of tbe-Crimean commisston, either as a substantive mo•
tion or in any other manner admitted by the forms of
the house, it is my intention to move the following
amendment to that resolution :—" Tint, in the opinion
of this house, the reports of Sir John Nl‘Neil and Colonel

Tulloch ought to have been submitted to the Commander-
in-Chief before. they were presented to Parliament,
whereby her Majesty's Government might have avoided
the objectionable proceeding of appointing a commission
to inquire, without equal or adequate means of informa-

. .
tion, into the conclusions at which another commission
had arrived ; and, while this house laments the indica-

tion thus given of a want of that concert and co-opera-
tion between the offices of the Secretary of State for War
and the Commander-in-Chief, which cannot be inter-
rupted without serious injury to the public service, it
has also observed with regret the prenaature appointment
to posts of importance in this country, while the inquiry
of the commissioners was still in progress, of officers
whose conduct is impugned by the said report=."
WITHDRAWAL OF THE LOCAL DUES ON
SHIPPING BILL.

Lord PALMERSTON said—l think it my duty to
Mate to the house the course which her Majesty's Go-
vernment has deemed it their duty to take with regard

to the measure now under the consideration of the

house. That measure was proposed to Parliament upon
a fall consideration of the matters to which. it relates.
Her Majesty's Government felt that the burthens which
exist on shipping and on the industry of the country by
reasonef thedifferent imposts and duties to which the bill
relates were matters deserving of the interference of
Parliament for the purpose of relieving thoie interests
from those imposts under which they laboured. (Hear.)
It was with that view that the measure now before the
house was proposed to Parliament. In the discussion
which has taken place on the bill nothing has been
adduced by those who have opposed the measure which
in any degree tends to shake the confidence of the Go-
vernment as to .the justice or policy of the course
they have pursued. (Hear, hear.) I will not now
enter into the arguments that have been adduced, but I
think it right to record the opinion of her Majesty's
Government, which have not been shaken, on the ques-
,tionof right.or policy they have adopted. In the course
of the discussion last night it was made manifest
that there are, in regard to the cases of towns
that would be hffected by the measure, a far
greater variety of different circumstances and of com-
plicated interest than perhaps her Majesty's Govern-
ment were at first led to suppose. (" Hear, hear," and
latglater.) These are mattors whioh awry mamma