The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-18 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—(This Day.)

Their lordships assembled for public business at 12
o'clock. In the ab.ence of the Lord Chancellor, Lord
Redesdale, the deputy speaker, occupied the woolsack.

COMMITTEES.
The following bil!s passed through committee, and
were reported to the house without amendments :—The
Customs' Duties ; the Race Horse Act Amendment ;
the Cinque Ports Amendment ; and the Pauper Main-
tenance Bile.

THIRD RE A DINGS.
The following bills were severally read a third time
and passel :—Tho Income-tax ; Indemnity ; Copyhold
and Inclosure Commissioners, &c. ; Extra Parochial
Places; and Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Bills.
FIRST READINGS.
The following bills were severally read a first time :
The Mutiny ; Marine Mutiny ; Speaker's Retirement ;
Exchequer iii 13 ; and the Consolidation Fund Appro-
priation Bills.
Their lordships adjourned at half-past 12.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—(This Day.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock.
NEW MEMBER.
The O'D‘moghue took the oaths an I his Beat for the
county of Tipperary, in the room of James Sadleir ex-
pelled the house.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The following private bills were considered and ordered
for third reading—Electric Telegraph Company, and the
Great Southern and Western Railway (Capital).
The Orkney Roads Bill was read a second time and
order to be committed.
The Aldershot Railway Bill was withdrawn in conse-
quence of the objections of the War Department.
GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY BILL.

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This bill, for legalising the payment of a dividend to
the shareholders in the Great Northern Railway, was
read a first time.
ENFIELD FACTORY. _ _

Mr. SPOONER moved foratia;c-ount of the tote.
sutn expended at Enfi4l Factory, from the Ist day of
January, 1854, to the 31st day of March, 1857 ; the
amounts under the fellowing heads to be separately
specified, viz. :—Building, Machinery, Miscellaneous
Stores, Salaries, and Wages. And, statement of the
number of guns delivered into st qv, up to the 31st day
of Marcb, 1857, from Enfield.—Agreed to.
MR. SPEAKER'S RETIREMENT BILL.

This bill was read a third time and passed.
The SPEAKER rose and said—l should nob be doing
justice to my own feelings were I to permit the passing
of this bill through its final stage in this house without
Expressing most gratefully my most respectful and sin-
cere acknowledgment of this mark of approbation of
my humble services in the chair, and at the noble and
generous manner in which those services have been re-
warded. (Loud cheers.)
Sir G. GREY moved that the observations of the
Speaker be entered on the minutes of the proceedings of
the house. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. WALPOLE seconded the motion.
Agreed to unanimously.
EXCHEQUER BILLS (21,049,700/.) BILL.
This hill was read a second time and passed.
CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION)
BILL.
This bill was read a third time and passed.
MUTINY BILL.
1:12.8 bill was real a third time and passed.
MARINE muriNY BILL.

Thia bill was read a third time and passed.
he above bah were then ordered to be taken to the
House of Lords (this sitting) for a fir,t reading in that
house.

MINISTERS' MONEY (IRELAND) Wu,.
On the motion of Mr FAGAN, for the second reading
of this bill'
Mr. BAGWELL supported the second reading, The
hon. gentleman complained not only of the injustice of
this tax, which was a renewal of the old penal laws of
Ireland, but of its unjust assessment. The small bo-
rough of Clonmel, which he represented, was assessed at
2411., whilst Kilkenny, a larger place, was assessed at
only 307/., and the large city of Limerick but 8101,
Mr. MEA.GHER supported the bill and suggested to
the Government the necessity of passing this bill. The
provinciA towns affected by the tt.x returned 10 mem-
bers, and influenced the counties returning about 10
mere, and he thought it was a question now for their
consideration whether they would make friends or ene-
mies of these members.

Mr. 11013,SMAN said that no practical result could
in this session result from the second reading of this bill.
It must be admitted that the tax was a grievance, and
during the twenty years he had been in Parliament the
suLjr et had been one of much agitation and discussion
in Ireland, and also of much discussion in that house.
Atter reviewing the present bearing of the tax, he said
the course the

After some farther discussion, in which Mr. M`Guire,
Mr. A. Black, Sir D. Norreys, Mr, Beatnish, Mr.
Cowan, Lord Palmerston, Mr. Kinnaird, and Mr.
'Heard too!: part, relative to the abolition also of the
annuity tax Of Scotland,
Mr. FAGAN expreased his thar,ka at the statement
that had been made by the Government, which would
be a "message of peace to Ireland" superior to that of
the late Sir Robert Peel.
Mr. HENLEY condemned the whole discussion,
which would lead to no benefit, except in an electioneer-
ing point of view,

'Tile bill was read a second time, and ordered to be
committed that day three months.
SECOND READINGS.
The orders for the second reading of the following bills
were ordered to be discharged :—The Carl sle Canonries ;
Lunatic Asylum (Irel:ind) ; The Tenants' Compensation
(Ireland) ; and the Registration of Long Leases (Scot-
land).

EXTRA-PAROCIIIAL PLACES.
The Lords' amendments to thi3 bill wero considered
and agreed to,

PIMLICO IMPROVEMENTS.
Sir B. HALL obtained leave to bring in a bill to
extend the time for enabling the Commissioners of her
Majesty's Works to complete improvemerts in Pimlico
and in the neighbourhood of Buckingham Palace.
PUBLIC OFFICES EXTENSION.
Sir B. HALL obtained leave to bring in a bill to make
further provv,ion for enabling the Commissioner; of her
Majesty's Works to acquire a seat for additional offices
for the public service near Whitehall and her Majesty'r
Palace of Westminster.

In reply to S:r H. WILLOUGHBY,
Sir B. ITALL said that the object in bringing it: this
bill was to facilitate their progress under the
suspension
of standing orders in the ensuing seision of Parliament.
ELECTRIC TEL 'GRAPH CONINIUNICATION

WITH
In reply to questions from Sir D. NoRRErs and Mr.
OTWAY,

Mr. WILSON repeated the answer of the Chancel•
for of the Exchequer on a former oocasion, that telegra-
phic communication was to be made with India via
Silusia and the Persian Gulf. Ho was not prepared to
give au answer relative to the Euphrates 'Valley com-
munication.

PUBLIC CHARITIES.
Mr. PELLATT obtained leave to bring in a bid for
the incorperation of Public Charitie9, which was read a
first time and ordered to be read a second time that day
three months.

BURIALS.
Mr. PELLATT obtained leave to bring in a bill
relating to Burials in Cormerated and Unconsecrated
Ground, which was read a first time, and ordered to be
read a second time that day three months.
ADJOURNME/kr OF THE lIOUSE—MOLDA-
VIAN REGUGEES.
On the motion for the adjournment of the house till
Saturday,

Mr. OTWAY called attention to the state of 20 or 30
refugees from Wallachia in 1848 or 1849, who bad
been refused to return to their country, and he asked the
interference of the Government in their behalf.
Lord PALMERSTON said that the affair of the pro.
vinces were in a fair way of settlement and the Austrian
troops were evacuating them, and the Divans were
consideriog questions relative to the country, and there
was no doubt but that those gentlemen would return to
their country. He believed it only to be a question of
time when they should return.
The motion was agreed to, and the house adjourned at
half-past two o'clock, till Saturday.

SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXETER EfALL.---Ilan-
del's "Israel i❑ Egypt" will he performed on Friday, the
27th. Advantage will be taken of this performance to
hold the fist choral rehearsal for the great Handel Fes-
tival, which will take place under the direction of Mr.
Costa, in the large hall, Exeter-hall, on Friday evening
next, the 20th instant.

CANTERBURY HALL—In order to gratify the musical
tastes of the hundreds that nightly crowd this attractive
place of entertainment, it has been arranged to give, in
addition to the usually attractive programme, a series of
selections from the operatic compositions of some of
the best masters. The first of the series was taken from
"La Sonnambula ;" and the second, which has been
performed with great succels during the present week,
has been selected from the opera of the "Bohemian
Gill," by Bilfe. The solo parts are sussained by Madam
Marietta, Mr. lime, Mr. Corrie, and Mr. Farrant with
great ability. Mr.'Sam Collins, the Irish vocalist, who
lately joined this corps, has now completely established
himself as cue of its leading artistes. The great secret
of the success of Mr. C. Morton is that, from the com-
tnencemeGt of the end, rtaking., he has secured the ser-
vices of some of the best English singers, and has never
allowed a song to be sung at which the most modest
need blush,

Tuft MAILS.—SOUTHAMPrON, Tuesday.—The Royal
Mail Company's steamship Mlgelaltns, Captain G.
Abbott, sailed to-day with the West India, Mexican,
a
She takes
lay, of h
out 71
Bahama,,
passeng,rs, among
whom a h a m a
~,
MI s. Parry
and six daughters for Barbadoes, Quartermaster and
Mr'. Kerri.tge, Colonel Ready and faeii;y, &c., specie
l Pacific
are
Bay
value 4 8001., jewtl!, ry value 6,1001., and a full cargo.
The Belgian Royal Mail Ptearner Cotrititation, Captain
Pougin, B.R N., sailed tc-day for New York with 560
passengers and a large cargo.. The Peninsular and Ori-
ental Company's steamer Sultan, Capt. Cook, also sailed
tc-day for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar,
with the mails, a few pa:RerigerP, and a fair cargo .of
merchandise on freight. Tne Colombo, Captain Field,
wlO the India and China ma,ls, left Malta on the 10th
instant, at 8 p.m., and may be
into the graving dusk this
afternoon, and her re airs will be wenn diattly proceeded
with.