The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-11 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS---(This Day•)

The §PEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock.
NEW MEMBER.
Mr. BUCHANAN took the oaths and his seat for Glas-
go w.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Cornwall Railway Bill was read a third time and
passed, and the Southampton, Bristol, and South Wales
Railway (Southampton and Salisbury, &c.), and Tralee
and Killarney Railway Bills were read a second time, and
ordered to be committed.
STEAM VESSELS.
Mr. T. BARING moved for a return, in a tabular
form, with consecutive numbers, of the whole of the
steam-vessels registered in the United Kingdom on or
before the Ist day of January, 1857 ; stating, in separate
cclomns, the following particulars ;—Vessels' Names ;
2. Port of Registry ; 3. Date of Build ; 4. Registered
Owners; 6. Ditoensions of Vessels in Length and
Breadth, and Depth of Hold ; 6. Tonnage (ex.
elusive of enoine room) and Gross Tonnage, dis-
tinguishing vessels built of iron and also vessels baying
screw propellers ; 7. Estimated horse power of their
engines, and giving the aggregate number of vessels and
amount of tonnage ; with an index for easy reference
attached to it, giving the names of the vessels iii alpha-
betical order, with numbers to each, corresponding with
those in the return (in continuation of Parliamentary
paper, No. 473, of session 1855). Agreed to.

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KOORIA MOORIA ISLANDS.
Sir J. DUKE moved an address for copies or extracts
of correspondence I,latinv to the cesF•ion of the K. oria
Mooria Island, to Great Britain by the Imaum of Mu:-
cat, arid to the grant of a hc,nce from the Crown to
John 01,1, of Li!.herland, near Liv,rp in!, in the county
of Lancaster, late ma-ter inaiiiier, and Joseph Hind,on
and James Henshall Hayes, hots of Liverpool aforesaid,
merchants and brokers, to take the guano on those..

Agreed to.
TURNPIKE TRU6TS ABOLITION (IRELAND)
BILL.

The order of the day for the second reading of this bill
was read and discharged.
ECCLESIASTICAL CORPORATIONS BILL.
On the motion of the Marqui•: of BLAN DFO RI). after
some remarks from Mr. E. DENISON arid Mr. WALPOLE,
the order of the day for the second reading of the Eccl.-,i-
-astical Corporations Bill was read and discharged. T •
object of the bill was to make better provision for the
parochial wants of the various dioceses throughout the
country. His lordship expressed a hope t'aat the new
Parliament would entertain the subject on an early day.
IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT, &0., BILL.
Mr. A. PELLATr rose to move the second reading
of this bill.
Sir G. GREY expressed a hope that the hon. member
would not proceed this session with this very important
bill.
Mr. A. PELLATT said he moved the second of
the bill to show the country and the persons ho repre-
sented that it was not his fault that the bill
was not proceeded with. The object of the
bill was to punish only fraudulent cans of debt,
and not those who were comparatively innocent,

from misfortune or from adverse circumstances
over which they had no control, or where no fraud was
committed by a person contracting a debt he was unable
to pay. A man should not be imprisoned for what %vas
a misfortune. Thousands of persons were committed
not because they would not pay their dab's, but because
they could not pay them.. Under the County Court Act
committals were greatly on the increase, and it
was lamentable to think bow much distress was occa-
sioned by the heads of poor families being locked up for
debt, and thereby being prevented from supporting their
families. By the criminal law imprisonment got rid of
a debt such as a fine, but not so with the civil law.
There were many instances of men having been impri-
soned four or five times for the same debt. In reference
to the Insolvent Court, the hon. member said that no
man ever got a pecuniary benefit from putting a man in
prison for debt, and he doubted if any creditor had
ever got a dividend from an Insolvent Court. He moved
the second reading of the bill for the sake of the debate.
Sir G. GREY said it was inexpedient for the house
at that period of the session, to enter into a debate with-
out any practical result being likely to follow from it.
He hoped the hon. member would withdraw his motion,
and that the house, acting on the general rule adopted
with bills of importance under such circumstances, and
refuse the second reading.
After some remarks from Mr. COBEBTT and Mr.
WHITESIDE,
The second reading of the bill was negatived without

a division.
GRAND JURIES (IRELAND) ACT (1836)
AMENDMENT BILL.
The order of the day tor the second reading of this bill
was read and discharged.

SUPPLY.
The house then went into C,lninittee of Supply.
The following
of Exchequer,wingvtte
wasag Braetilat: payable--:2l,0 in 1857 a
:_21,019.7001. for
the discharge t
present unprovided tor.
On the vote of 1,653,2001 for :he charges of certain
civil services till 31st Marco, 1858, including the educa-
tional grants.
Sir J. PAKINGTON protested against their increase,
and said that a bill such as that he had proposed would
greatly reduce them. The country did not get the ade-
quate return from these grants they ought to obtain.
Sir G. GREY def'nded the vote, in the course of
which he said he differed entirely from the right hon.
Bart., and he hoped the subject would be fully discussed
in the new Parliament.
Mr. HENLEY agreed with the Home Secretary that
the educational grants had been of great advantage to the
country.
Mr. E. DENISON hoped that in the next Parlia-
ment the Government would state their views on the
question of education. They must look to the increase
of these grants rather than to an improved system of
education.
Sir G. GREY said that in the new Parliament -thee
Tice-President of the Council would make such a state-
ment.
After some remarks from Mr. Evart, Sir J. niacin-
ton, Mr. Pellatt, and Sir 11. Willoughby,
Mr. SPOONER asked if the vote included a suns
for the Kensington Gore estate ?
• Mr. WILSON said no, and explained that all tho
votes were for continuous services for the ensuing:
three months. Nothing new had been introduced into
them.
The vote was agreed to.
On the vote of 1,610,0001. for the Revenue Depart:-
meet,
Mr. WILSON remarked that the home must expect;
a gradual and considerable annual increase in this de-
partment, for during the past 10 years our ahippin g
trade had doubled, and was still rapidly increasing.
The Post-office could not be looked upon as a source of
profit.
The vote was agreed to, and the house resumed, and
the report was ordered to be read to-morrow.
• INCOME TAX BILL.

This bill was considered as amended, and ordered Vo
be read a third time to-morrow.
EXTRA PAROCHIAL PLACES BILL. _

This bill was considered as amended, and ordered to
be read a third time to-morrow.
BILLS COMMITTED. . _

The Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Bill, the Customs
Duties Bill, the Indemnity Bill, the Copyhold and the
the Inclosure Commission, &c., Bill, passed through
committee, end were ordered to be read a third time to
morrow.

SECOND READINGS.
The following bills were read a second time :—Tit e
Racehoreennty Act Amendment Bill, the Pauper
tenance Bill and the Cinque Ports Act Amendment JAI,.

SAVINGS BANKS BILL,
On the motion of the CHA.NCELLOR, of the E.K.
CHEQUER, the order •f the day for the second readuag
of this bill was read and discharged.
The house adjourned at quarter-past 2 o'clock.

Judge Halliburton (Sam Slick) is to deliver a lecti Ire
at the City Hall, Gla4gow, on the 25th inst.
It is announced that the section of the Western R 163-
way from Levat to Rennes will be open to the public .on
the Ist of May.
Madame Cruvelli is about to make her reappearan
She has accepted an engagemetyt for two months 10
Lyons.
The Free Public Library of St. Margaret and St.
John, Westminster, was opened List night. Vice-C
cellor Sir W. Page Wood delivered the inaugural addr vsa.
There was a very full attendance.