The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-22 00:00:00

IMPUIAL r PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF -COMMONS—(Tms DAY.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The following bills were read a third time and passed :
Portsmouth New Dock; changed from Portsmouth New
Docks and Railway; Scottish Central Railway; Sevenoaks
Railway; and Somerset Central Railway.
The following bills were read a second time :—Bagenals-
town and Wexford Railway ; Dublin and Wicklow Rail-
way; Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway; Gloucester and
Cheltenham Tramivay Abandonment ; Ipswich (Borough)
Fishery; Liverpool Exchange; Midland Great Western
Railway of Ireland (Liffey Branch, &c.) ; Midland Great
Western Railway of Ireland: (Sligo Extension) ; and the
Newry and Armagh Railway.
On the motion of Colonel W. PATTEN, the following
were agreed to :—That the report from the select com-
mittee on standing orders, made on the 29th day of March
last, in reference to the petition for additional provision to
be inserted in the North-Eastern and Bedale Railway
Companies Amalgamation Bill in the last session of Par-
liament, be read ; that the parties be permitted to intro-
duce that additional provision in the same bill in the pre-
sent session, if the committee on the bill shall think fit.
That, in the case of the Bray Commons Bill, standing
order 169 be suspended, and that the bill be read a second
time on Thursday, the 30th day of the instant June, pro-
vid that three clear days' notice thereof be given at the
Private Bill-office.

NEW WRITS.
The following new writs were then moved for:—
For the borough of Tiverton, in the room of Lord Pal-
merston, who has accepted the office of the First Lord of
her Majesty's Treasury.
For the city of London, in the room. of Lord 'John Rus-
sell, who has accepted the office of her Majesty's Secretary
of State for Foreign.AffairS. '
For the Radnorshire boroughs, in the room of Sir George
Cornwall Lewis, Bert.,'who has .accepted the office of her
1 Majesty!, Secretary of State for the Home Department.
For the borough of Morpeth, in the room of Sir George
Grey, Bart., Who hai -accepted the office of Chanoellor of
the Ruchy of'Laneaster. - '
For the University of Oxford, in the room of the Right
Hon. W. E. Gladstone, who has accepted the,office o
Chancellor of the. Exchequer. .
For Devonport, in the room of the Right Hon. James
Wilson, who has accepted the office of Vice President of
the Board of Trade. •
For Wolverhampton, in the room of Sir Richard Bethell,
who has accepted the office of her Majesty's Attorney
General for England.. _ -
For Reading, in the Room of Sir Henry Singer Keating,
who has accepted the office of . her Majesty's Solicitor•
General. .
`For Newcastle-upon-Tyne in. 'the room of the Right
Hon. T. E. Headlam, who has accepted the office of Judge-
Advocate-General. .
For Halifax, in the room of Sir Charles Wood, Bart.,
who has accepted the office of her Majesty's Secretary of
State for India. '
' For South Wiltshire in the room of the Right Hon.
Sidney Herbert, who has accepted the office of her Majesty's
Secretary of State for War..
. . For Ashton-Under-Lyne, in the room of the Right Hon.
Milner Gibion, who has accepted the office of President of
the Poor Law Board. -'• ' ".
For Bedford, in the room of Mr. Whitbread, who has
accepted the office.of a Civil Lord of the 'Adedialty.
For Caine, in the room. of the Right Hon: R. Lowe, who
has accepted the , office of Vices President of the Privy
Council for Education.,
Fe, Edintargh-, in the roe/1i of Mr. Moncrieff, who has
been appointed Lad AdVoeafe of Sc
For Wigtonrin, the room 'of Sir' William Dunbar, who
has been appointed a-Lord of,the Treasury. ,
.For Ennis, in .the fpoin.of J..,31. Fitzgerald,-Attorney-
Geneml for Ireland: . -4 . . ,
Far -Cork, 'in the' room of Sergeantc Deasy, Solicitor-
General for Ireland. :- ' • -- --' ' . ' ' •
For Kerry,. tar...the, room:of ,liord Castlerosse,. who has
acoe,pted the office-of Treasnre,k of the Household.
For ClOnmell, in, the room of .Mr.. Bagwell, -,one. of the
Lords of the Treasury. • -t
' • . ' MR.' GII,,PIN.' ' •
Mr. BRAND ino4ed, pursuant tomotice,:ihtit the house
at it rising adjourn,ta: Thursday; thei3Oth rust.
Mr. 'W. 0. STANIABY called.attention to' a para-
graph in the .-Times of ,this morning, in which it was
stated that an, attempt had been made to corrupt Mr.
' Gilpin, the member for NoithaMpton,'ln the discharge of
his duty, and to influence him in giving his vote in the late
.division against the Government; -by offering him a pecu-
niary consideration of the 'grossest and .most direct kind.
When the house met after the adjournment he would ask
the hon. member for Northampton what steps he meant to
take to vindicate his character. . . ,
Mr. BLACKBURN said there was another passage in
the paragraph . which Might also be inquired into, •viz.,
that in which it was stated that • Mr,i -Vernon Smith had
informed his law, agent that, in consequence of the unjust
attacks upon 'him when in of by his. distinguished
services, her Majesty had thought proper to elevate him to
the peerage. ' - I
Mr. BOUVERIE said there-was a wide distinction be-
tween the two cases.: ' The one ;was a direct allegation,
which, if true,, showed that a gross breach of the privilege
of the house had been 'committed, while the other was a
matter With which the house had nothing to do.
Mr. T. D'UNCOMBE 'suggested the proper course to
pursue would be to have the editor of the paper in which
the paragraph. appeared summoned to attend at the bar,
to state his authority for the insertion of the article.
Colonel DUNNE said the house would waste their, time
if they attended to squibs and attacks in the newspapers.
Mr. G. CLIVE said the question. in reference to Mr.
Gilpin must drop, unless the hon. member for Finsbury,
was_prepared to name .the persOit heqvished summoned to
the bar.
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After some tliwitission, : • , •
Mr. STANLEY iutimated that ho would lay a copy of
the Times on the table, and, then move that the publisher
be called to the bar at a subsequent period.
The motion_for the adjournment of the house was then
agreed to. •
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THE 'BOROUGH.. OP SANDWICH.
On the motion of Mr;BRAND that a new writ be issued
for this borough in the roost of Mr. Knatchbull Hugessen,
one of the Lords of the Treasury,
Mr. A. STEWART asked the clerk to read the petition
presented against the borough.
Sir DENIS LE MARCHANT read a petition against the re-
turn of Lord Clarence Paget and Mr. Hugessen, on the
ground of bribery.
Mr. STEWART said he had no wish to move a resolu-
tion, but he should be glad to learn what course he should
take under the circumstances.

Mr. CLIVE said the usual course was, when the seat
was not claimed, to issue the writ.
The SPEAKER said that in 1852 Sir A. Cockburn was
petitioned against, but the writ was issued, as the seat
was not claimed. The inquiry-, however, was not stayed,
but subsequently proceeded with.
Mr. BOUVERIE was of opinion that there could be no
difficulty in the ease. If Mr. Hugessen should be proved
on inquiry guilty of bribery, his opponent on the forthcom-
ing election could claim his seat.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said there were cases in which
election committees recommended the suspension of the
seat, but if the writ for Sandwich issued now, that would
be impossible.
Mr. M'MAHON moved the adjournment of the debate
for a month, but after a lengthened conversational debate
the motion was withdrawn, and the writ ordered to issue.
Mr. BRAND then moved for a new writ in the room of
Lord Bury, who has accepted the office of Comptroller of
the Household.—Agreed to.
MONMOUTH.
Sir W. JOLLIFFE moved for a new writ, in the room
of Colonel Somerset, who has accepted the office of Steward
of the Chiltern Hundreds.—Agreed to.
THE CASE OF MR. GILPIN.
Mr. W. A. STANLEY said, seeing the hen. member
for Northampton in his place, he begged to call the atten-
tion of the house to the paragraph which appeared in Th.
Times, and ask the hon. member what steps ho intended to
take on the occasion. The hon. member having read the
paragraph,
Mr. C. GILPIN said he would have desired that the
hon. member should have given him notice of his inten-
tion of bringing the matter before the house ; he had
not read the article, nor had his attention been drawn to it,
but from what he heard read 'by the hon. gentleman he had
no objection to state that he took no part, either directly or
indirectly, in the publishing of the article.
CLEFT SPEAKING.j