The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-06 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAIYLENT

HOUSE OF LORDS—Tins EVENING.
The LORD CUAXCELLOR took his seat on the wablsack
at five o'clock.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Ramsdon Estate, the Wilts and Gloucester Railway,
the Herne Bay Water, and the Cardiff and P'inarth Road
Bills were read a second time.

THE HUSH
.C6NSTABULARY.
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Lord LIFFORD gavenotice of a inotioti relative to the
Irish Con,tabular_y.

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TIIE WHITE HERRING FISHERY BILL.
This hill was eumunitted.
The house then atljourneil.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—This EVENING.
The SPEAKER. took the chair at four o'clock. •
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The following bids werd read a third time and passed :
;) r kat.y Suielerlaud Ferry, urr,y and Sussex
Juziction Railway, and Wolverhalepton New Water.
CORRUPT I'ILICTIC.2:S BILL.
Mr. R. lIUG.ESSEN gave notice that on the order of
day for tlio second reading of ttii,-; bill he should move
chat the order he discharged, aid that the bill be referred
to a select committee.
MARTIAL LAW IN THE COLONIES.
Mr. READLAA asked the Chancellor of the ache,
liter whether the attention of the Government had been
,tir..cted to the presentment of the grand jury in the case
of Colonel Nelson and .Lieutenant Brand, •‘ That ,martial
law should be more clearly defined by legislative enact-
Meat." And, whether the Government proposed in any
manner to act upon the recommendation of the grand
jury?
Tho CHANCELLOR of the EXCIIEQtUER said
the Government did not wish to wait for the presentment
of the grand jury, but his hon. friend the Secretary for the
Colonies had addressed a circular to the Colonial Govern-
ment, which he thought would be attended with very im-
portant results. Ile thought the best course for the
Government to pursue would be to'have a copy of the cir-
cular on the table of the house.

THE IRISH AND SCOTCH REFOR3I BILLS.
Mr. ESMONDE asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
in reference to his answer on Friday last, when he said,
in reference to a question on the subject of the Irish Re-
form Bill, " We shall take care of Ireland," what meaning
was to be attached to such answer ; whether such billwas
to be framed upon the principle of the Scotch Reform Bill
as explained by him • and when it would be introduced?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he
meant that the Government would take care that the en-
gegement they had entered into would be virtually carried
out, after the introduction of the Scotch bill, which
would take place ou Thursday or Monday at the latent.
After that his noble friend the Secretary for Ireland would
introduce the bill for Ireland. He (the Chancellor of the
Exchequer) had undertaken the charge of the Scotch bill
in consequence of the absence of the Lord-Advocate front
the house.

MR. OSBORNE'S "MARE'S NEST."
Mr. B. OSBORNE called the attention of the house to
a matter which, he said, had assumed the shape of a per-
sonal affair. He referred to the memorandum which the
hon. member for Swansea had drawn up, and also to the
copy he had made known to the house. lie was quite
prepared to produce his copy, and he thought the only
course open to the hon. member for Swansea was to pro:-
duce the secret document. If ho was wrong in what he
had stated about the document, he maintained that thu
memorandum was drawn up to influence votes, and that
his hon. friend had acted as a decoy duck, and that he
had succeeded in inducing fifty feathered and confiding
ducks to follow his example. He therefore called upon
the hon. member to produce the document as the only
way of setting the matter right.
Mr. DILL WYN said he was quite ready to produce the
original document if it was the wish of the house, bnt
unless that wish was expressed he should refrain from
doing so. He thought the proper course for the hon.
member for Nottingham to have pursued would have been,
after he had made his copy of the memorandum, to have
asked him whether his copy was correct or not. (Hear.)
Colonel TAYLOR said he had not ono word to add or
to retract from the statement he had sent to the news-
papers. He considered the conversation he had had with
the hon. member for Swansea was of a private nature.
Mr. 0. STANLEY said he never stated that the copy of
the document read by the hon. member for Nottingham
was a correct one. He stated that it was written from re-
collection after the reading of the memorandum of the hon.
member for Swansea. The proper time for him to have
denied the correctness of the copy was when it was first
read to the house by his hon. friend. This he had not
done, and now he came forward and denied that it was in.
consonance with the original document.
Mr. HIBBERT said he knew nothing about that mat-
ter, but he thought from what had come to his know-
ledge that the original document MIS a private communi-
cation.

Mr. LOWE said the name of tne Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer having been mentioned in connection with a mat-
ter which, it had been said, had led to certain members
having been influenced in that house, it was a matter

that required some explanation from some member of the
Government.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he
would, as there was then no question before the house,
take the opportunity of making some 'observations on the
motion for going into committee.
THE FENIAN PETITION.
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Mr. D. GRIFFITHS 'proceeded to refer to certain ob-
servations made by Mr. I.iYight on the presentation of the
petition telative .to the treaunent of the Fenian prisoners
last Friday, but after he had proceeded some time Sir
G. Grey said it was but right, before the subject was con-
verted into a question of privilege, notice of the fact should
be given.
The I.'E.I.KER also decided that before the matter
could b properly before the house it was requisite that
notice of his intention to do so shoal I be given.