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 Lords 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 office of clerk of the
Parliaments ; and, if the oath hail 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 was never intended that the
B )ard of 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 Board of
Trade should have the application of the dues to be levied
for shippin g purposes at the port at which they were levied,
and that the shipping purposes to which the dues should
be applied should be decided on by the harbour master,
and not the Board of Trade—the 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 shinnirff purpocee.
THE MNEIL•TULLOCH REPORT.
In answer to a question from Mr. ROEBUCK,
Lord 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 officers composed the com-
mission : —Lord Seaton, Gen. M 'Mahon, Earl Beacham,
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
tha,', in the event of the hon. arid learned member for
Sheffield bringing on his resolution relative to the report
of the Crimean commission, either ac a substantive mo-
tion or in any other manner admitted by the forms of
the house, it is my intention to in evo the following
amendment to that resolution :—" That; in the opinion
of this house, the reports of Sir John M`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
bad 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 premature appointment
to p,,sts of importance in this country, while the inquiry
of the commissioners was still in progress, of officers
whose conduct is impuzned by the said report.”
WITHDRAWAL OF THE LOCAL DUES ON
SHIPPING BILL.

Lord PALMERSTON said—l think it my duty to
Mite to the house the course which her Majesty's Go-
vernment has deemed it their duty to take with regaro/
to the measure no-.v under the consideration of the
house. That measure was propos,:d to Parliament upon
a full consideration of the M t tn. 4 to which it relates.
Her Majesty's Government 1.:It that the burthens which
exist on shipping and on the industry of the country by
reason of thedifferent imposts and duties to which the bill
relates were matters deserving of the interference of
Parlament for the purpose of reliev:ng those 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 &ace 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.) II 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-
tion of 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 cares of towns
that would bo affected by the measure, a far
greater variety of different circumstances and of com-
plioated interest than perhaps her Majesty's Govern-
ment were at first led to suppose. (" Hear, hear," and
laughter.) These are matters which every gentleman