The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-20 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF LORDS—LAST EVENING.
The LORD CIIANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.
PARLIAMENTARY OATHS BILL.

The Marquis of WESTMEATH presented 40 petitions
against this bill, and said that he had already presented
00 petitions on the same subject.
THE IRISH CHURCH. _ _ .

The Earl of BELAIORE presented a petition against any
interference with the funds of the Established Church in
Ireland. -

PRIVATE BITSINESS.

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The Paisley Water Bill was read a second time. The
Southgate and Colney Hotel Gas Bill, and the Manchester
Royal Exchange Bill were severally read a third time and
passed.
PARLIAMENTARY OATHS AMENDMENT BILL
Earl RUSSELL, moved that the house should go into
committee on this bill. The noble lord, who was almost
inaudible, was understood to say that he wished to cor-
rect some errors of a verbal character in the bill, and ac-
cepted the amendment which had been proposed.
The LORD CHANCELLOR made some observations
bearing on the legal construction of some of the terms of
the bill which bad reference to the amendment alluded to
by the noble lord.
The house then went into committee on the bill, and
clause 1 was agreed to.
The Marquis of BATH moved an amendment with re-
ference to the admission of Jews into Parliament, but it
was negatived without a division.
Lord CHELMSFORD then moved a proviso, saving the
supremacy of the Crown.
Lord CAMOYS, as a Roman Catholic, did not object to
the amendment personally, but he feared that many of his
co-religionists would regard it as making them parties to
a declaration of the supremacy of the Crown. •
Lord CHELMSFORD contended that the Royal
supremacy was an essential part of the Sovereign's pre-
rogative.
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGII would vote for the
amendment, although he had no doubt that it would not
be long before there would be a proposal to repeal it.
Earl GREY believed that no substantial advantage would
accrue from passing the proviso.
Earl RUSSELL accepted the amendment as a compro-
mise, and expressed his appreciation of the course taken
by noble lords in not raising a factious opposition to the
bill.
The Earl of DERBY hoped there was no foundation for
the apprehension uttered by Lord Ellenborough that there
would hereafter be an attempt made to disturb the settle-
ment provided by the bill.
The proviso was then agreed to, and the bill passed
through committee.
The Cattle Contagious Diseases Bill and the Cattle-
sheds in Burghs (Scotland) Bill were also passed through
committee, and the standing orders having been suspended
were read a third time and passed. _ _ _

The remainder of the sitting was occupied by a discus-
sion on tho state of the Court of the Queen's Bench in
Ireland and Chief Justice Lefroy's capacity to continue in
the discharge of his judicial duties, and the subject of
breech-loading small arms.
Their lordships ajourned at a quarter past eight o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—LIST EVEN VG.
The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The fqllowing bills were read a third time and passed:—
Bridgewater and Taunton Canal and Bristol and Exeter
Railway, Ross and Cromarty Road; Stourbridge Gas Act
Amendment, Tain Water, and Wrexham and Minera
Railway.

HORSHAM ELECTION.
The report of the Horsham Election Committee was
brought up by the Chairman ; it was to the effect that
Mr. It. W. Hurst, the sitting member, was duly elected.
PO OR REL IEF.
Mr. CHAMBERS asked the President of the Poor-law
Board whether it was his intention, and if so when, to in-

troduce a bill into Parliament founded on the recommen.

dations of the select committees on poor relief, in reference

to the religious rights of inmates of workhouses ; and
further, if such be his intention, to ask that he would give
sufficient notice of the same for boards of guardians,
unions, and parishes to have the opportunity of express-

t ing their opinions upon such an important measure.
Mr. VILLIERS said at the close of the last session he
introduced a bill for the amendment of the poor law, and
in it were clauses relating to the subject mentioned by the
hon. and learned gentleman. lie intended to reintroduce
the bill this session, and full time would be allowed all

parties to consider its provisions.
CHOLERA.
Sir J. C. JERVOISE asked the Vice-President of the
Committee of Council on Education whether the attention
of the Medical Officer of the Privy Council had been di-
rected to a statement in the newspape,rs that the Emp6ror

and Empress of the French had visited the cholera hospi
tins in Paris, and that M. Gustave Girard had made experi

meats in demonstration of the non-infectious nature of the

cholera ?

Mr. BRUCE said the medical officer of the Privy Couu-
.
'cil,likeUther persons, had seen an account of the merito-
rious act performed by the illustrious personages referred
to, and also to the daring experiments performed by 31.
Girard,. who had placed a portion of the perspiration from
the brow of a man who had died from cholera to the tip of
.his tongue ; but such an-act 'did not prove conclusively
that cholera was non-infections. The steps taken by the
French Government by directing strict quarantine against
cholera in the East showed that they were as much alive
to the dangers of cholera as the English Government.