The Sun.
London, England, 1858-06-21 00:00:00

[LEFT SITTING ]

HOUSE OF COMMONS—(This Evening.)
The S2.EAKER took the chair at four o'clock.
PRIVATE BILLS.
The following private bills were further considered
and ordered to be read a third time :—Athenry and
Team Railway ; Eirkenhead Improvement Commis-
'loners (Gas and Water) ' • Dublin and Meath Railway ;
North Yorkshire and Cleveland Railway ; ReddiTcli
Stockton ; Midclesbrougb, and Yarm Water,
and the Stockton and Darlington Railway (North
Biding Linea).
The lends' ameadmelti to the following, bills were
considered and agreed to :—Exeter and Exmouth Rail-
way; London, Britabton' aodS.•Coas.,RAilway (Capital,
age.) ; Stains% wokingbam and Wiling Railway,
and the Chiswick Improvement.
The following bills were read a third time • Chester
and Holyhead Railway ; . •
eveland ,ilway (changed
from Durham and Cleveland Union Railway) ; Hove
Improvement ; and St. Leonard, Shoreditcb, Parirsh.
EDUCATION IN IRELAND.
Colonel FREESTUN presented a petition from
Oemington, county of Dorset, praying that the use of
the Bible in schools in Ireland may not debar them
from a share of the national grant fur education.
MAURITIUS.
Mr. LINDSAY moved aa address for returns of the
revenue and expenditure cf the Government of the Man-
riticis during the year 1857 ; of the balance,. and invest-
meats in this country of the said Government
during the same year; aril, of any copies or extract a of
correspondence relating to an additional grant of 5,0001.
per annum by the Government of Mauritius towards
Imperial military expenditure.—Agreed to.
THE CANDACE, AFRICAN STEAMER.
Mr. CLIVE asked whether it was the intention of
the Board of Trade to institute any inquiry
as to the
cause of the loss of the Candace, African steamer.
Mr. HENLEY said it was true this unfortunate
vessel was run down by a Dutch vessel bound for Ba-
tavia, and several lives were lost. The Board of Trade,
under the circumstances, had not thought it necessary
to institute legal proceedings, as it was the intention of
the survivors to do so, and that be had no doubt would I
be of a very searching description.

BELFAST.
Mr. MACARTNEY asked the Chief Secretary for
Ireland whether the attention of her Majesty's Govern-
m_ent had been called to the state of the municipal affairs
:lithe borough of Belfast ; and if it was intended to take
y steps in relation thereto ?
Lord NAAS said the attention of her Majesty's Go-
lrerninsot bad been called to this important question,
aud they p„ posed, as soon as possible, to issue a corn
'Motion to i
.1 no._ quirae into the administration of the borough
muni;;;Lybothadaeregarded the money borrowed by the
illto the present State of
by them, and also generally
Antaafyaxation in the borough
THE
General WYNDEthaIWaARRANT, 1856.
fey War, when the report sal; ed
the Secretary of State
Royal Corornis+ion she Warrant of Oct. 1856, might be expected to be laid
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eon the table; and, in the vent of there being any
y, whether he would consider the preprie'yofsusp-endde:
lag the operation of that Warrant until the report viav
made
lagE ARMY WARRANT, 1851.
Col. NORTH asked the Secretary of State for War
whether, in compliance with the intimations made by
him to the house on the 18th March la-t, it was the in-
tention of the Royal Commission appointed to consider
the warrant of October, 1854, relative to promotions in
the army, to afford an opportunity to every class of offi-
cers who thought themselves aggrieved of being fulls
beard before it
• General _EEL said it was his wish tisei
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