The Sun.
London, England, 1859-02-19 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS—(YESTERDAY).
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.
The Duke of NORFOLK presented a petition from
Horsham, complaining of the decision of the Lords Justices,
and praying that Dissenters might be allowed to administer
trust funds of Grammar Schools.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
On the motion of Lord REDESDALE, the following bills
were read a second time :—Bagnelstown and Wexford
Railway, Belfast and County Down Railway, Bury St.
Edmunds Gas, Commercial Dock Acts Amendment, Cork and
Kinsale Junction Railway, Dublin and Drogheda Railway,
Dublin and Wicklow Railway, Gloucester and Cheltenham
Tramway ; Aberdare and Great Northern and Western (of
Ireland) Railway-; Greenwich and South Eastern
Docks ; Holyrood and Bangor Railway; Ipswich
(Borough) Fishing ; Liverpool New Exchange Build-
ings ; Liverpool Sanitary ; Madras Irrigation Canal
Company ; Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland ;
(Cavan to Clones), Midland Great Western Railway of
Ireland (Liffey Branch), National Fire and Life In-
surance Company of Scotland, Newcastle-under-Lyne
Burgesses Lands, Newry and Armagh Railway, Nor-
wich Corn Exchange, Norwich New Streets, People's
Provident Assurance Society, Pneumatic Post Company,
Queen Charlotte's Lying-in Hospital, Railway Clearing
System, Scarborough Gas, Standard Life Assurance
Society, Thames Watermen and Lightermen, Tralee and
Killarney Rail% , Trinity-House, Leith; Ulster Rail-
way, and Victori 41 don) Docks.
T LOCK TOWER.
Lord CAMPBE complained of the tardy manner in
which the works connected with the Clock Tower were
prosecuted. He thought that such ,a circumstance was
a standing disgrace to the nation. He gave
notice that on an early day he should put a question to her
Majesty's Government as to the time in which it was ex-
pected the works would be completed.
COP YHOLD CONVEYANCE.
Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from
Mr. Fawcett respecting the present state of copy-
hold conveyance. The noble and learned lord said
the law on the subject was in a very defective
state, and entailed great loss and injury upon the owners
of land. lie therefore thought it would be highly desir-
able to pass a law which would remedy the grievance so
generally complained of; and with this view he hoped
shortly to introduce a measure with that object.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said it was impossible at
that moment to discuss the provisions of the noble and
learned lord's bill, as it was not before their lordships, but
the remarks that he had addressed to the house would re-
ceive the best consideration of the Government. He had
however alluded to the Government bill, which, to a certain
extent, related to the subject, but he thought it an incon-
venient practice to speak on complicated legal questions
in an indefinite and vague manner.
EDUCATION IN SCOTLAND.
The Earl of AIRLIE asked her Majesty's Government
whether it was their intention during the present session
to introduce a measure for the improvement of the system
of education in Scotland. The noble lord addressed
a few observations to their lordships, in which he allluded to
the state of the schools in Scotland, to the very low salaries
paid to schoolmasters, and to the cumbrous machinery
which had to be put in motion to obtain the dismissal of a
schoolmaster who had shown himself incapable to properly
discharge his duties.
Thhe Earl of DERBY said it was desirable that the
salaries of schoolmasters should be increased, but whenever
the sum was introduced there was so much difference of
opinion that up to the present time the point remained
unsettled. He could not at the present time say the Go-
vernment were prepared to introduce a bill on the subject,
although he should be much pleased if a moderate mea-
sure could be framed. He could only say that his learned
friend the Lord Advocate was to communicate with the
heritors, and if he should be enabled to bring
forward a bill it would afford him much
pleasure. At the present moment the only answer he could
give the noble earl was, that Government would give the
subject their most earnest attention.
Their lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—(YESTERDAY. )
The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.

NEW MEMBER.
Mr. Warrzsinz took the oaths and his seat for the Uni•
versity of Dublin.

PETITIONS.

Several petitions were presented praying for the repeal of
the duty on paper; that persons employed in the suburban
and provincial districts should be placed on the same footing
with reference to superannuation as the employees in. the
General Post-office in the metropolis ; for the admission. of
Dissenters to the trusteeship of Grammar Schools and
other foundations ; and in favour of Parliamentary Reform,