The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-01 00:00:00

LNIPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—YESTERDAY.
The SPEAKER took the chair at a quarter part 12 o'clOck.
NEW MEMBER.
Mr. CARDWELL, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster,
took the oaths and his seat on his re-election for the City
of Oxford. The right hon. gentleman was introduced by
Sir George Lewis and Mr. Brand.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Lords' amendments to the Eastern Counties Railway
Bill and theKilkenny Junction Railway Bill were considered
and agreed to.
Mr. DEEDES moved the following, to be added to
standing order 162 :—When in any bill a provision is in-
serted authorising any company to subscribe towards or to
guarantee or to raise any money in aid of the undertaking
of another company (which bill is not brought in by
the company so authorised, Of of which such
company is not a joint I remoter), proof shall be required
before the examiner that the company so authorised has
consented to such subscription, guarantee, or raising of
money, at a meeting of the proprietors of the ordinary
shares in such company, held specially for that
purpose, in the same manner and subject to the same
provisions as the meeting directed t 3 be held under stand-
ing order 162, and that such consent was given by such
proprietors, present in person or by proxy, holding at least
three-fourths of the ordinary paid-up capital of the com-
pany represented at such meeting, such proprietors being
qualified to vote at the meeting in right of such capital ;
and that the notices for the bill state the sum authorised
to be subscribed, or guaranteed or raised, and also state that
the consent of the company has been given as aforesaid.
In any case in which such consent has been given, it shall
not be necessary to submit the bill, in respect of such pro-
vision as aforesaid, to the approval of a meeting to be held
in accordance with standing order 162. That the said orders
be standing orders of this house. And to alter standing
order 163, by inserting "standing order 162 or" after the
word " of" in line 4 of that order.

Col. FRENCH and Mr. LOCKE objected to the addi-
ion to the clause.

Mr. NEWDEGATE considered the resolution proposed
was desirable, and illustrated his views by reference to his
personal experience in regard to public companies.
Mr. HENLEY agreed with the last speaker, and consi-
dered that the house would be doing a public service by
assenting to the amendment proposed.
After some further conversation the motion was agreed to.

COMMITTAL OF THOMAS CARTER.
Sir G. C. LEWIS said that he had boen asked a ques-
tion in respect to a person named Thomas Carter, who had
been imprisoned in the Isle of Wight as a vagrant. He
had received a communication from the committing
magistrate, to the effect that he had directed the report of
the evidence to be forwarded to the Home office, but it
had not yet been received. The magistrate also stated
that the conviction had been made on the evidence of some
police constables who had seen him wandering about
Ryde, and who stated that he had seriously frightened two
young women in the neighbourhood.
EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA.
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Colonel FRENCH inquired of the Under-Secretary of
State for the Colonies by whose sanction the rule had been
made at the Emigration-office that passages to Australia
would be given to English and Scotch men, but not to the
Irish?
Mr. FORTESCUE said that there was no such rule as
that implied by the question.
THE THAMES EMBANKMENT.

Sir J. SHELLEY inquired whether the Government
intended to adopt the recommendations contained in the
report of the Thames Embankment Commissioners, as re-
garded the line •f embankment proposed to be taken; and
whether they intended to appoint another commission for
the purpose of carrying out the work ; and, if not, to what
body they proposed to entrust the construction of the
embankment ?
Mr. COWPER said that the Royal Commission had just
made a report, in which they recommended a plan for the
embankment of the Thames, which would provide, with a
due regard to public and private interests, in a more efficient
manner than any previously, and Government proposed
to adopt it. The commissioners had also recommended
the appointment of a special commission to superintend the
carrying out of the works, but the Government did not in-
tend to comply with that recommendation, as the parties
who paid the coal duties were desirous that the
works should be under local control, and it was
not deemed desirable to create new authorities when
those already in existence were adequate to discharge their
functions. (Hear, hear.) In the bill which he intended to
introduce next session, he proposed that the power of seeing
the engineering works carried out be intrusted to the
Metropolitan Board of Works.
INDICTABLE OFFENCES (METROPOLITAN)
BILL.
On the motion of Mr. WALPOLE,
The order for going. into committee on this bill was dis-
charged, and the bill was withdrawn.