The Sun.
London, England, 1857-02-11 00:00:00

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

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Companies

Closing Prices
yesterday.

Business
this day.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—(This Day.)
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock.
The following private bills were read a second time
and committed :—Blyth and Tyne Railway; Burslem
and Tunstall Gas ; Caledonian Railway (lines to Gran.
ton) ; Cork and Bandon Railway ; Dorset Central Rail-
way; Dublin and Wicklow Railway; Electric Tele-
graph Company ; Ely Valley Railway ; Fife and
Kinross Railway; Great Southern and Western
Railway (capital) ; Great Western and Brent-
ford Railway ; Hartlepool Extension and Head-
land Improvement; Kinross-shire Railway ; Mal-
low and Fermoy Railway ; Metropolitan New
Streets and Improvements ; Monkland Railways ; Nor-
folk Estuary Acts Amendment ; North Level Drainage ;
North Staffordshire Railway (Bridgewater Canals) ;
North-Western Railway ; Portadown and Dungannon
Railway ; Portsmouth Railway ; Pulteney Town Har-
bour ; Reading Railways Junction Railway ; Scottish
Central Railway ; Sittingbourne and Sheerness Rail:
way ; Stockton New Gas and Stockton Gas Consumers"
Companies ; Tweed Fisheries; and Wilmslow and Law.
ton Road Bills.
BIRKENHEAD DOCKS (CONSTRUCTION)
ILL.
On the motion for the second reading of this bill,
Mr. GIBSON withdrew his opposition to the bill.
After some remarks from Mr. HADFIELD,
Mr. G. BUTT said that the bill was substanti▪
ally the
same as the one rejected by the house last year, and was
one of three bills bearing more or less on the same ques-
tion, viz., the conservancy of the Mersey and dock accom-
modation at Liverpool. Upon the understandi▪
ng that
the bill should be discussed in committee, be would with-
draw his opposition to the second reading of the bill.
The bill was then read a second time and ordered to
be committed.
BIRKENHEAD DOCKS (MANAGEMENT) BILL.
This bill was read a second time and ordered to be
committed.
MERSEY CONSERVANCY AND DOCKS BILL.
On the motion for the second reading of this bill,
Mr. HORSFALL moved that the bill be read a second
time that day six months. The object of the bill was to
abolish the existing Liverpool Dock Trust, and fn trans.
fer its powers to a body of 21 persons to be elected by
the ratepayers. The constitution of the present Dock
Committee embraced 12 members of the Town Council
and 12 members elected by the ratepayers, and
it acted in the most cordial manner for the
Rood of the commerce of Liverpool and the country. The
Town Council had the power of exercising:the right of
veto over the proceedings of the committee, but they
had only exercised that right 13 times within the last
32 years. The hon. gentleman then entered into the his-
tory of dock accommodation in Liverpool, and added
that already the corporation of that port had expended
for dock accommodation 1,143,0001., and were ready to
expend one million and a half more to make the accom-
modation perfect, and in accordance with the report of
a committee of this house.
Mr. J. EWART seconded the amendment.
Mr. M. GIBSON said that he bad hoped a similar
course would have been pursued in this case as had been
adopted with the two previous bills, and the discussion
taken in committee. The measure was an attempt to
carry ont the recommendations of the Admiralty, the
Tidal Commissioners, a committee of this house, and
the requirements of an act of Parliament. (Hear, bear.)
The question of town dues and local tolls on shipping
was an incidental one, and did not constitute the prin-
ciple of the bill. The main principle of the bill was to
consolidate the Liverpool and Birkenhead Docks, and to
vest the management and control in one public and
iin-
dependent trust- -(hear, bear)—and make the trade
'wtth importantu national interests,anagement. This, though
a private of the port tributary to local interest, which was not the
casevuatnedebrill, dealt
the
present
connected with the trade and commerce of the country.
The public had a right to demand these docks should
be controlled by a responsible public board, and that the
benefits accruing from it ehoull go towards benefiting
the trade and commerce of the country.
Mr. L. DAVIES supported the second reading of
the bill, on the ground that a Burn of 13 millions annu-
ally was involved, affecting the trade and commerce of
the country, and that it was a fit subject for the consi-
deration of a committee.
Mr. HARCOURT VERNON supported the second
reading of the bill, and called upon the hon. member for
Liverpool to withdraw his amendment, and allow the
bill to go to a committee.
Mr. J. EWART defended the present management
of the Liverpool Docks, against which he bad never
heard a complaint.
Mr. SPOONER supported the second reading of the
bill.

Mr. HEA.DLAM supported the second reading of
the bill, that it might go to a committee, but he objected
to the house recognising the principle of one corporation
being able to apply for powers to transfer the property
of another corporation to other hands. In this case it
was the Great Western Railway Company who asked
the house to transfer the management of these docks to
other hands.

The amendment was then withdrawn, and the bill
was read a second time and ordered to be committed.
LEWES AND lICKFIELct RAILWAY.
WofAtTbi.s
bill
The adjourned debate on the
was resumed, and after some discussion, in which Sir C.
Burrell, Sir W. Jolliffe, Mr. Harcourt, Sir J. Shelley,
Mr. Brand, Mr. Bouverie, and Sir J. Pechell took part,
the house divided, when the numbers were—
For the motion
Against it 43
Majority
The bill was then ordered to be committed.
ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
This bill was brought in and read a first time.
NEW MEMBER.
The Right Hon. W. COWPER took the oaths
and his seat on his re-election for Hertford.

ARMY ESTIMATES.
Mr. F. PEEL brought up the Army Estimates, which
were hid on the table of the house.
INCOME AND PROPERTY TAX.
Petitions were presented against the present assess.
went of the income and property tax.
BREACHES OF TRUST.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL gave notice that on
Friday, the 20th, be would bring in a bill to render
fraudulent breaches by trustees criminal offences.
SIR ROBERT PEEL AND RUSSIA.
Mr. STAFFORD gave notice that to-morrow he
would ask Sir R. Peel whether the report of a speech
delivered by him on the 7th January, at Saltley, near
Birmingham, and reported in The Sun newspaper, was
correct, especially those parts referring to the Grand
Duke Constantine, General Mouravieff, and Prince de
Ligne.

POOR LAW.
On the motion of Sir G. B. PECHELL, the follow.
ing return was ordered :—Copies of all correspondence
whichhas
Boardtakenpla and h
place Since January, 1855,
lBssa,utbheotrwiteieesn
the Poor-law
of St. Marylebone and St. Pancras, in relation to the
administration of the poor-law ; together with any
letter or communication that may have been addressed
to the poor law board by the churchwarden of Saint
Marylebone upon the same subject, or upon the manage.
ment of the workhouse, or the conduct of the board of
guardians of that parish.
PAUPERISM.
On the motion of Mr. BOUVERIE, a return was
ordered showing the amount of pauperism on the Ist day
of January, 1856, and the Ist day of January, 1857.
JUDGMENTS, EXECUTION, iko. BILL.
On the motion for the second reading, of this bill,
Col. FRENCH moved the second reading of the bill
that day six months.
Mr. WMAHON seconded the amendment.
(Lxrr RITTINCI.)

rnE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 11 1857,