The Sun.
London, England, 1858-03-24 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Seven, o'Clock.

NORTHAMPTON RACES.—(This Day.)

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]

ST. LIZ HANDICAP.

Gunboat

Old Trick
Queen Bess

Seven ran.

ALTHORP PARK STAKES.

Stockham
Filly by Wiadhound, out of Elcot's dam
Fusee

Thirteen ran.
CUP STAKES.

Broadlands
Martha
Master Bagot

Seven ran.
EARL SPENCER'S PLATE,

Yaller Gal
New Brighton
Wouvermans
Twenty-two ran.
RACING STAKES.

Kelpie
Happy Land.....
Harry Stanley

Four ran.
DELAPRE HANDICAP.

Little Gerard
Bianca Capella
Marauder

Ten ran.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(This Day.)
The SPZAILER took the chair at twelve o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The following bills were read a third time :—Dun-
dalk and Enniskillen Railway Bill, Midland Great
Western of Ireland Bill.
PRIVATE BILLS.

Colonel W. PATTEN moved that whenever a recom-
mendation shall have been made to a committee on a
private bill, either by the Chairman of Ways and
Means, or in a report from a departmeet of the Govern-
ment referred to the committee, the committee sha►l
notice such recommendation in their report and shall
state their reasons for dissenting, should such recom-
mendation be not agreed to— Agre©d to.
EAST INDIA tKING OF DELHI).
Mr. KINNAIRD moved for a copy of the evidence
taken before the court appointed for the trial of the
King of Delhi.—Agreed to.
LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY
CO M.PA.NY (WIGAN STATION).
Mr. WOODS moved for copies of the memorial from
the Mayor and Corporation of Wigan to the Board of
Trade on the subject of the Wigan station of the Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire Railway Company : and of Captain
Tyler's report upon that station ; together with any
correspondence which has taken place with the Board
of Trade on the subject.—Agreed to.
TRUSTEES RELIEF DILL.

This bill was brought from the Lords and read a firsi

ime.
VALUATION •OF LANDS (SCOTLAND) ACT

AIdENDAIWTT BILL.

Mr. DUNLOP moved the second reading of this bill,
which he said was rendered necessary by the present
defective state of valuation of land in Scotland, on
which the assessments were based. The object of the
bill was to establish one uniform system of valuation for
Scotland, under which all the local rates, as well as
public taxes, should be assessed. By the present law
deer forests, shootings, wood lands, and fen-duties
were exempt from valuation, unless they were actually
let or yielded a profit, and being so exempt they
could not be assessed as the public and local taxes.
He thought it would be better to read the bill a second
time, which would allow the opponents of partioular
parts of the bill to fully discuss them in committee.
Mr. CRAUFURD seconded the motion.
Lord DUNCAN moved the second reading of the bill
this day six months. The matters treated of in the bill
were fully discussed, and divisions taken on them on the
passing of the Act of 1854, which this bill was to amend.
He condemned the measure before the house as being
drawn up in a spirit dirtctly contrary to that which
pervaded the bill of 1854, and which Parliament
then confirmed. The Act of 1854 provided for the
valuation of deer forests, shootings, &0., when let, and
inlet. The fen daties was the most important part of
the bill, and had justly roused the indignation of the
people of Scotland, because if the bill was isasAed it
would materially interfere with the investments of the
savings of the middle classes in land, a fen duty in
Scotland being similar to ground rents in England;
end he put it to the house whether they would pass
a bill to compel the Alarquis of Westminster, or any
other English landed proprietor liable for the rates and
taxes of lend be had let on building leases. Such would
be the effect of this bill in Scotland, and as such a law
would be a maniftet injustice, he moved that the bill be
read a second time this day six months.
Mr. G. DUNDAS seconded the amendment.
After a discussion, in which Mr. Mackie, Mr, Finlay,
Mr. Black, Sir M. S. Stewart, Mr. Cowan, Lord Elcho,
the Lord Advocate, Colonel Sykes, Mr. Craufurd, Mr.
Blackburn, Sir J. Elphinstone, and Sir G. Montgomery
took part,
Mr. DUNLOP said he would not force his motion.
The amendment was then agreed to without a
division.

TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN.
Mr. HATOLIELL rose to move for copies of the re-
port of the Dublin Police Commissioners to the Chief or
Under Secretary for Ireland ; of warrant authorising an
inquiry by the Solicitor-General for Ireland and Mr.
Stronge, J.P.; and, of instructions (if any) to govern the

inquiry.
Lord NAAS appealed to the hon. gentleman to post-
pone his motion, in consequence of the unavoidable
absence of the Attorney-General for Ireland, who knew
what had been done in the matter, and who wished to

make a sta,,ernent on the subject.
Mr. HA-Tel-JELL declined to do so, and proceeded
LO detail the particulars which have already been pub-

Lisbed in connection with this matter.

Mr. BAGWELL seconded the motion.
Lord NAAS again complained of the conduc
of the honourable member, in not postpouieg
his motion, and its consequence moved the ad-
journment of the debate, on the ground that it could not
be properly discussed in the absence of the Attorney-
General for Ireland. He was in Dublin at the time of
the disturbance, and was well aware of ail that had been
done, having been consulted on the matter. He, how-
ever, entered into the course that had been pursued
with reference to the inquiry, which he said was
consistent with precedent, and added that means would
be taken to speedily bring the cause of complaint into a
court of justice for decision.
Wg/TESIDE (who was absent in consequence
of attending her Majesty's levee this morning for pre-
sentation since his appointment to the office of
Attorney-General for Ireland, entered the house just
before Lord Naas sat .down), after lamenting what had
occurred in Dublin between the police and the students
of Trinity College, said that doubts existed in his mind
of the legality of a commission issued by the will of the
Crown, contrary to the ordinary common law of the
land. He did not think such a commission had authority
to administer an oath. After examining the precedents
bearing on the question, which induced the Government
to open the inquiry, the right hon. and learned gentle-
man said the evidence was now being taken in a calm
and considerate manner, and on the 9th of April, when
the assizes; commenced, the parties complained of would
be put upon their trial, and he should be present to con-
duct the prosecutions.
Mr. J. D. FITZGERALD said great misrepresenta-
tion bad gone forth in reference to this matter, and he
expressed an opinion that the college authorities were to
blame fur not interfering earlier in the matter.
Had it been at Oxford or Cambridge the authorities
would have interfered much earlier. He believed it would
be found that no one was wounded from the swords of
the police, because, although they drew them, they did
not use them, though they did their batons, with which
they infinted several injuries. When the time canoe he
thought it would be found that greater injuries had been
inflicted on the police by the students than by the for-
mer on the latter. He condemned the course pursued
ny the Government in reference to the inquiry and its
sudden termination, without inquiry into what would
accused
prevent a repetition of the proceedings. The course
and would be a disgrace
ttoher.e adoptedthe inquiry wuair y beingh
Franch court
sou
injuesatricice of,
the gentleman who con-
ductedthe S oli el tor-General, who,
The rims had been of
a serious character, and on Saturday Light Dublin was for
several hours in the hands of a mob, yet no inquiry had
taken place into it. He asked the Government if Col.
urituj as their
prosecutor.
parties, was the officer in
pfutebrlic eaow
at
Browne, on the part of the police, had demanded a pub-
lic inquiry?
Mr. SPOONER condemned the conduct of the last
speaker on a motion of this kind entering into par-
ticulars and attacking the Government, when he knee'
that by the forms of the house the noble lord (Lord
Naas) and the Attorney-General for Ireland were
precluded by the forms of the house from again address-
ing the house to answer the statements of the learned
gentleman. To enable them to do so he should move
the adjournment of the debate.
Mr. PACKE seconded the motion.
Mr. M`CARTNEY" considered commissions of in
quay -
• useless_ They had never been known to be pro-
dilative of good. They had been considered by the ma-
gistracy of Ireland as a one-sided tribunal without
authority to enforce the law.
Mr. WHITESIDE said the right bon. and learned
gentleman (Mr. Fitzgerald) appeared to think that if In
had been in his (Mr. Whiteside's) place he would have
instituted a public inquiry into the conduct
of the police day by day—(hear)—but not OD
oath up to the 9th April, the day of the trials. If such
a course had been adopted, the person so advising it
ought, in his (Mr, Whitesidee) opinion, to be impeached