The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-09 00:00:00

POLICY OF INSURANCE BILL.

Lard CLANIZICARDE;;Wv;crtht;;;cond---reading of
this bill.

The LORD CIIAIN.TCELLOR considered that this bill
ought to be referred to a select committee. Since the reign
Georgo 11. a great deal of legislation had taken place on
the subject.
The bill was read a second time.
RELIGIOUS SITES BILL. .

The report of the amendmentsw
wasbrought
;
befor the house, and the bill passed.
THE DEMONSTRATION IN HYDE PARK.

Earl COWPER, wished to inquire into the late proceed-
ings in Hyde-park, and to move that papers relative to the
orders given as to the closing of the park and the
instructions given to the police be laid on the table. He
reprobated severely the conduct of a Government keep-
ing in office on sufferance, and carrying out a
measure of reform without consulting the interests and
wishes of the people. It was not the wish of any one on
his side of the house to disturb the present Government,
but he did consider it was his duty to request a further
amount of information on the matter, and the best course
to pursue, in his opinion, was to give a plain history of the
facts from the commencement. The noble earl then re-
ferred to the original opinion given by the law officers of
the Crown on the closing of the Park, and the
still later proceedings. He would ask were there
no other lawyers as able as the legal gentlemen
who advised the Crown ? When a vast amount
of expression of opinion on the part of the people bad
taken place on the subject, still it was only on Sunday
afternoon that the meeting was permitted to take place ou
Monday. The Government bad filled the neighbourhood
with the military and police, and then had given
way, inflicting a great blow on the constitutional
authority and bringing it into contempt. He could not
too highly praise the conduct of the people on Monday.
(Hear, hear.)
The Earl of DERBY felt inclined to thank the noble
earl for having brought up the question in order that the
matter might be thoroughly discussed, and the opinion of
the house be passed upon it. But he must speak of the
great unfairness with which the right hon. gentleman the
Home Secretary had been treated. In conse-
quence of the protracted illness of Mr. Waddington,
and the anxiety of the Hyde-park meetings and
other circumstances weighing heavily upon a sen-
sitive nature, he was now so ill that he (the noble Earl)had
been obliged to accept his resignation. Lord Derby then
passed the highest eulogium on Mr. Walpole, and stated
that the course . pursued by the Government had been
most unflinching from the first day it was resolved upon,
and that there had been no vacillation on the subject
whatever. He then reviewed the whole of the policy
of the Government on the subject since 1856 till the
present time, quoting the opinions of various persons on
the subject, and by those opinions they had been guided
in 1866. In 1856 the Government had power to shut the
parks up, and no act had been passed on the subject since.
Their own lawyers had given a similar opinion in 1866.
(LEFT SPEAKING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS—TiIIs EVENING..
The SPEAKER took took the chair at four o'clock.
THE SALTERS' COMPANY.

Mr. MAGUIRE asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland if
his attention had been called to the proceedings of the
Salters' Company of London in connection with the
management of their property in Magherafelt, county
Derry.
Lord NAAS said he had no official information, but he
had been informed that there had been no very great in-
cr3ase of the rents on the Salters' Estate in Ireland,
neither had there been any violation of tenant right.
GREENWICH HOSPITAL.

In answer to Mr. SMITH,
Mr. CORR I said he could not give any definite an-
swer with respect to tho re-establishing a girls' school at
Greenwich Hospital.
THE ARMY OF RESERVE.

Col. GILPIN asked the Secretary of State for War
whether it was the intention of her Majesty's Government
to proceed with the plan for raising an army of reserve
proposed by the right hob. member for Huntin;don on
moving the army estimates this session ; and if so, when
it was likely to I)r proceeded with ?
_ Sir J. FAKING FON still it was the intention of the
Government to proceed with the plan. lie would give to-
morrow for taking the necessary vote, and he hoped to
bring it on without dolay,