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

MPERIA

IAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—(YESTERDAY.)
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his scat on the woo:
sack at 5 o'clock. -

Lord DUNGANNON gave notice of his intention to
move for a copy of the depositions in the etse of an
assault adjudicated upon by the Justices of Kilkenny,
and in which certain persons connected with the Irish
Church Mission were complainants, and James Ryan
was defendant.

---- BREACHES OF TRUSTS.
Lord ST. LEONA RDS inquired whether it was the
intention of Government early next session to bring in a
bill to render persons guilty of a breach of trust crimi-
nally liable. The noble lord said the law as it at present
stood rendered it necessary that a measure of this nature
should be speedily passed, in order that the evils at pre-
sent existing might be remedied, and narrated several
cases that had occurred, in which numbers of widows
and orphans had lost the whole of their property
through the improper conduct of certain persons who
had been appointed their trustees.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said a bill had been
already prepared by the Government on the subject,
and it would be brought in immediately upon the as-
sembling of the new Plrliament, but it was only to meet
the cases of trustees who hart been criminally guilty for
their own benefit. Thdre was great difficulty in the
case.

Lord ST. LEONARDS said, such being the else, he
should bring in a bill as a pendant to the bill of the Go.
vernment to protect trustees who had properly per-
formed their duty.

Idered to be committed .:—Birkenhead District Gas and
Water; Weat London and Crystal Palace Railways
PETTY SESSION (IRELAND) BILL.
The t.rtler of the day far the second real. g of the
Petty Session (Ireland) Bill was read and discharged.
GRAND JURIES (IRELAND) BILL.
On the motion of Mr. BOW YER, the order for the
second reading of the Grand Juries (Ire ar d) Bill, axed
for to-morrow, was ordered to be discharged.
CLIFFORD'S PLAN OF LOWERING BOATS.
In reply to a question from Admiral WALCOTT,
Admiral BERKELEY said that the vessels employed
in transporting ships to China had been furnished with
Cliff ,rd's boat lowering gear. Every trial of it had
answered so well that he hoped before long it would be
adopted throughout the service.
SIR J. WNEILL AND COL. TULLOCLI.
Lord CASFLEROSSE appeared at the bar of the
house with her Majes'y's gracious reply to the address
praying for some special mark of favour to be conferred
on Sir J. M`Neill and Cel. Tulloch, which he read as
follows :—" I have received your address praying that
some special mark of approbation should be conferred
on Sir J. M`Neill and Col. Tuiloch in consideration of
their able services rendered by them as Commissioners
in the Crimea, and having taken the same into considera-
tion I have given directions for this purpose.
AP? E LIATE JURISDICTION.
Mr. BOWYER called the attention of the Home Se-
cretary to the decision in th• House of Lords yesterday
in the case of Gray and another v. Pierson, and after
entering into the particulars of that decision in reference
to the decision by the majority of the judges, he asked
if it were the intention of the Government at an early
period of next session for the improvement of the appel-
late jurisdiction of the House of Lords.
Sir G. GREY said he know nothing of the case re-
ferred to, and so far as the Government was concerned
he did not think the hon. member's explanation of the
facts of the case had been sufficient to require the inter-
ference of the Government with the appellate jurisdic-
tion of the House of Lords.

THE CASE OF HONORA BROSNAHAN.
Mr. 11. HERBERT asked the President of the
Poor Law Board whether his attention bad been called
to the eircemstances of the removal of a female pauper,
named. Honors Bresnahan, and her children, from the
Holborn Union to Ireland ; whether he had reason to
believe that the said Honora Brottaahan's husband was
born In &gland • and whether any remedy existed by
the present law !or the injustice inflicted on the woman
herself, and on the Tralee Uniin in Ireland, to which
she had been removed.
Mr. BOUVERIE said that he bad made inquiry re-
lative to this case, and the result was that the woman
was the wife of a mart who had been a policeman and
had deserted her. She became chargeable to the Holborn
Union, and on inquiry it could not be proved that the
husband hada settlement in this country, and as the clause
of irremovability did not apply to her case, she was re-
moved to Ireland in accordance with her wish.
PROSECUTION FEES.
In reply to a question from Mr. MOODY,
Sir G. GREY said that no uniform table of fees bad
been prepared under the 14 and 15 Vict , providing for
the expenses of prosecutions. Tables of fees were now
being acted on in several counties. As the hon. member
had not given him notice of the question, he was unable
then to state any particulars in reference to it.

TEE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENINI-1, IVIARCH 18, 1857.

Mr. Barnard, at Bidwell, in the parish of Houghton
Regis. _ _ _

The jury found the prisoner guilty, and the court
sentenced him to be transported for 20 yean.
Thomas Pedder, who yesterday pleaded guilty to
two charges of arson, was called up and re2eivecl
sentence of 14 years' transportation.
The assizes were brought to a close this after-
noon.

with them-ttcVng in concert-. Witness followed
them and. saw Grays lift Miss Ford's dress, while
the other covered her with her muff, and as soon as
they wore detected they ran off. Grays was taken
on the spot, and witness followed the other to a
house in the London-road, where she was secured.
He was positive they were both connected with the
robbery. _ _

Henry Lowden, painter, of Deptford, said he saw
Grays drop the purse, which he picked up and
handed to the prosecutrix.
Police-constable 123 P said he pursued Scofield
into a house up a court, iii the Lotidon-road, and,
after a desperate resistance, in which she scratched
his face and injured him very much, he succeeded
in taking her into custody. She was searched at
the station-house, and on her was found 21. ls.
lid, in gold and silver.
The prisoners, who asked for the assistance of an
attorney to defend them, were remanded until
Thursday. They declared that they were strangers
to each other.