The Sun.
London, England, 1859-02-09 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT,

HOUSE OF COIVIMONS—(Tms DAY).
The SPEAKER took the chair at twelve o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The Electric Telegraph Company's Bill and some other
private bills were read a first time, and ordered for second
reading.

PETITIONS.

Petitions were presented in favour of the repeal of the
duty on paper, and praying that Dissenters might be per-
mitted to act as trustees to grammar schools when not ex-
pressly excluded by the founders._

SUPPLY.

Mr. FITZROY brought the report of the committee
of supply, and it was arranged that the house should again
go into committee on Friday.

SHIPPING.

Mr. INGHAM moved for a return of the number and
tonnage of sailing vessels registered at each of the ports of
Great Britain and Ireland, including the Isle of Man and
the Channel Islands, distinguishing those under and those
above fifty tons register, on December 31, 1858 ; similar re-
turn of steam vessels and their tonnage ; return of the num-
ber and tonnage of vessels that entered and cleared coast-
wise, at each of the ports of Great Britain and Ireland, Isle
of Man, and Channel Islands (including their repeated
voyages), distinguishing British from foreign vessels, and
steam from sailing vessels, between Dec. 31, 1857, and Dec.
31, 1858: like return from and to the colonies; further dis-
tinguishing British from foreign vessels ; also, from and to
foreign ports ; also distinguishing British from foreign ves-
sels : aggregate return of the number and tonnage of ves-
sels entered and cleared at each of the ports of Great Britain
and Ireland, Isle of Man, and Channel Islands (including
their repeated voyages), in the coasting, colonial, and foreign
trades, in the year 1858, distinguishing British from foreign
vessels : return of the number and tonnage of sailing vessels
registered at each of the ports of the colonies of the United
Kingdom respectively, distinguishing those under and those
above fifty tons register, on Dec. 31, 1858: similar return
of steam vessels and their tonnage : returns of the number
of vessels with their tonnage (distinguishing steam from
sailing vessels) that were built and registered, distinguish-
ing timber from iron vessels ; also, a similar return of ves-
sels sold and transferred ; also, a similar return of vessels
wrecked ; also, a similar return of vessels broken up, in the
year 1858 : of the number of colonial-built vessels and their
tonnage, registered at each of the ports of the United King-
dom, in the year 18:58, distinguishing the number and ton-
nage of each colony respectively : similar return of the num-
ber of foreign-built vessels and their tonnage : and, return
of the shipping employed in the trade of•the United King-
dom, exhibiting the number and tonnage of. vessels that
entered inwards and cleared outwards (including their re-
peated voyages), separating British from foreign vessels,
also steam from sailing vessels, and distinguishing the trade
with each country, in the year 1858 (in continuation of Par-
liamentary Paper, No. 260, of Session 1858).

COLONISATION AND SETTLEMENT (INDIA).
Mr. WILLIAM EWART moved that the select com-
mittee on Colonisation and Settlement (India) do consist of
eighteen members, viz. :—Mr. William Ewart, Mr. BaiWe,
Mr. Campbell, Mr. re Vere, Mr. Gregson, Mr. Kinnaird,
Mr. Knight, Mr. Lowe, Mr. Lygon, Mr. Arthur Mills, Mr.
Nisbet, Sir E. Perry, Mr. Richardson, Mr. Danby Seymour,
Mr. J. B. Smith, Mr William Vansittart, Mr. Villiers, and
Colonel Sykes.—Agreed to.
FUNDED DEBT, &c.

Mr. WILSON moved for returns showing the amount
of the capital of the Funded Debt on the Ist of July, 1858
and on the Ist of February, 1859: of the amount of the un-
unded debt at the same dates : and, of the amount of Ex-
chequer-bills which have been funded between the Ist of
July, 1858, and the Ist of February, 1859 ; the dates of such
funding; the rates at which the conversions were effected;
and the prices of Consols and Exchequer-bills at such dates.
—Agreed to.
The house adjourned at a quarter after 12 o'clock.

CORONERS AND MAGISTRATES.-THE

LAW OF INFANTICIDE.

Yesterday a special meeting of the Law Amend-
ment Society was held in the society's rooms,
Waterloo-place, for the purpose of considering the
present state of the law relative to coroners and
magistrates courts, and the necessity for a measure
of reform, so as to prevent the existence of a jarring
jurisdiction between the two courts, and, at the
same time, to consider the desirability of placing
the coroner's office in a more independent position.