The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-28 00:00:00

BOUNDARIES OF BOROUGHS.

In reply to Mr. BUTLER,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the
formal arrangements of boroughs would entirely depend
upon the decision of the Boundary Commissioners.
SCURVY IN THE MERCANTILE NAVY.

In reply to Mr. Alderman SALOMON;
Mr. CAVE said scurvy had disappeared from the navy
in consequence of the use of lime juice and vegetables;
and as there were certain defects in the law with respect
to the carrying and storing of lime juice, steps would be
taken to remedy that evil.
THE FENIAN CONVICT BURKE.

In reply to The OTONOGHL'E,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said her
Majesty's Ministers had, after the most anxious inquiry,
come to tho conclusion that it would not be their duty to
interfere with the sentence of the law with respect to the
convict Burke, who was found guilty of high trea-
son. But within the last few days a divided opinion
had become apparent, and the Government felt
that the deterring effect of carrying that sentence
into effect could not be attained in the face of that divided
opinion. Her Majesty had been most graciously pleased,
on the recommendation of her Ministers, to express her
will that the capital sentence on the convict Burke should
be remitted. (Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") He hoped
her Majesty would never have to repent that most gra-
cious act of clemency, and that it might be looked back to
with perfect and complete satisfaction.
MORNINU SITTINGS.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the

suspension of the standing orders with the view of moving
that the house for the future would commence its sittings
on Tuesdays and Fridays at two o'clock in the afternoon
and continuo until seven o'clock. That public business
would at that hour be suspended, and resumed again at

nine o'clock.
Mr. BOUVERIE moved, as an amendment, that the
morning sittings, as proposed by the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, should, by way of experiment, be confined to
the ensuing month of June.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, said he had
no desire to oppose the amendment of the right hon. gen-
t!em•an, tut as the m)tioa wai na.mely parmissive and
might be altered in a week, he did n3t think it, was neces-

sary to alter it.
The amendment of Mr. Bouvorie, however, was ultl-

mat.dy agreed to.
THE lIEPRE6ENFATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL.

Tile house went i.)to committee on this bill.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he

would make a few obServations with respect to a subject
on which there appeared some misunderstanding. In
laying the resolution he had done on the table with
respect to the compound householder, he thought the
Government were in that resolution embodying the
proposition of the hon. member for Newark, which
stated that no person other than the occupier should be
rated, and also that they had embraced in the rider which
ho hon. member for Pomfret had thought it was desirable
to make to the proposition of the hon. member for Newark.
The direction give❑ to the person who drew up the clause
was to embody such a clause as would fulfil to the

very letter and spirit the proposal of the hen, member
for Newark. He was surprised that it should have been
said that the Uovernment had in what they had done