The Sun.
London, England, 1858-03-16 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.--(This Evening.)
The SPEAKER took the okair tt 4 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The following private were read a second time :
--Porterona Bridge (Ireland), and Halifax Park and
Improvements.

PETITIONS.
Numerous petitions were presented against the admix•
sion of Jews to Parliament, and the legalising marriag 9
with a deceased wife's sister ; against the toll on Chelsea
New Bridge; for Parliamentary Ref inn, Christianity
in India, &c. &c.

The SPEAKERCASHEL announcELECTION ed that he. had received a
letter from the agent cf Mr. J. G. Scully, intimating
that he did not intend to proceed with the petition
charging hire with bribery and corruption at the late
election for the borough of Cashel, and he applied for
the discharge of the order.
Mr. WALPOLE moved that the application should
be referred to the GeneralAmsaittee on Elections, to
whom the petition had been referre i as to course of pro-
cedure. • He doubted if the petition could now be dis-
charged in the trainer proposed.
Mr. J. D. FITZGERALD urged that the house
was in a position to deal with the petition at once. He
should not, however, oppose the motion of the right
hon. gentleman the 110tne Secretary.
After some remarks from Col. FRENCH, Sir F. BARING
suggested the debate should be adjourned to give the
Government an opportunity of examining the law on
the subject. _
_ _

Mr. Secretary WALPOLE said he thought it would
be better to adjourn the debate. In the meantime the
facts of the case could be ascertained, and the state of
the law in reference to it.

Mr. BAGWELL suggested that the petition should
be discharged at once. It would not affect the sitting
member it that course were adopted. This was the
fourth p-tition that had been presented, and three of
them had been withdrawn. Ile thought it looked some-
thing like persecution to compel the prosecution of this
petition.

After some remarks from Mr. VANCE and Sir G.
GREY, the debate vras adjourned till Tuesday next.
SECRETARY OF STATE FOR SCOTLAND.
Mr. BAXTER gave notice that, shortly after the
Easter recess, he should move that it was the opinion cf
this house that an Under-Secretary of State for Scotland
shoall be appointed for the discharge of the political
duties at present attached to the Mice of Lord Advocate.
INDIAN ARMY REGULATIONS.
Mr. FAGAN gave notice that on Friday next he
should call the attention of the Secretary for War to
the Indian army regulations relative to the children of
soldiers under four years of age, and its effect with refe-
rence to Roman Catholic children.
TURNPIKE TRUSTS.
Col. WESTON gave notice that on Thursday next he
should put a question to her Majesty's Government rela-
tive to the abolition of turnpike trusts.
MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS.
Mr. COWPER gave notice that he should, on the
23d, move to introduce a bill for the regulation and
classification of practitioners in medicine and surgery.
CATHOLIC
PERSECUTIONSOOLFDRIEOAA:N

Captain O'CONNELL asked the Secretary for War
whether he had heard a statement that Brevet-Majn.
Ward, commanding her Majesty's 60th Rifles at Arcot,
ordered two Roman Catholic soldiers to the guard•
room for rausing to attend the service of the Estab-
lished Church on Christmas-day last ?
General PEEL said he had made inquiries at the
Horse
Guards
of relative
had been informed no repirt had been received by the
authorities
such
a t o
an occurrence.
ncctuhrerenne. question put to him, and he

CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF LONDON.
Mr. BRADY allied the Secretary for the Home De-
partment whether it was the intention of the Govern-
of to proceed with the bill for the better regulation
the Corporation of the City of London ?
•
Mr. WALPOLE said it was his intention to move
that the bill should be referred to the Committee to whom
the late Government proposed to rifer it.
THE CASE OF MR. HODGE.
Mr. HORS MAN put a question to the Chancellor of
the Exchequer relative to the apprehension of Mr.
Hodge in Sardinia, and asked if her Majesty's Govern
ment had any objection to his stating the circumstances
connected with the apprehension of l‘lr. IL.dge ; and
next, what was the nature of the correspondence tuat
had passed between the Sardinian and English Govern-
ments in reference to it ?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said
There is a treaty and extradition between the French and
Sardinian Governments, under which Mr. Hodge had
been arrested in Sardinia on some allegations connected
with the late attempt on the life of the Emperor of the
French. His person was demanded to be surrendered to
the French Government; but it appears that by the
'treaty Sardinia could not comply with that request with-
out previously obtaining the consent of the English
Government. Under these circumstances a demand
was made to her Majesty's Government that Mr. Hodge
should be surreudered by the Sardinian Government to
France.- Her Majesty's Government, in consequence,
requested that the papers keized on Mr. Hodge's person,