The Sun.
London, England, 1859-08-02 00:00:00

SUPPLY.

The report on supply was brought up and received.
The Vexatious Indictments Bill was read a third time
and passed.

DUBLIN POLICE BILL.
Mr. VANCE opposed the second reading of the bill, and
it was agreed that the next stage of the bill should be taken
on Wednesday.
The Charitable and Provident Societies Bill was read a
second time, after a few brief words of explanation from
the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER.
The Coinage Bill was read a second time.

The Stamp Duties Bill was read a second time.
The Reserve Volunteer Force of Seamen Bill was read a
second time, the discussion to be taken on Friday on going
into committee.

The Government of India Act Amendment Bill was read
a second time.

The Universities Act Incorporation Bill was read a third
time and passed.
The Turnpike Trusts Arrangement Bill was read a second
time, as was the Turnpike Acts Continuance Bill.
The Customs Bill was also read a second time.
The Law Ascertainment Facilities Bill passed through
committee.

The Attorneys and Solicitors Bill was read a second
time. "

SETTLED ESTATES (1856) AMENDMENT BILL.
On the order of the day for the second reading of this
bill,
Sir J. SHELLEY objected that at that hour it was un-
derstood that no opposed bill was to be taken.
Mr. WHITESIDE said the object of the bill was simply
to put Sir Thomas Wilson in the same position as all
other British subjects, and to be heard in a court of law.
Sir Thomas Wilson had no intention whatever of building
upon Hampstead-heath, and he had told the member for
Finsbury that day, that if he wished it any proviso he might
desire to prevent that being done would be introduced. But
he protested against the metropolitan members uniting to
prevent a proprietor, against whom the House of Commons
and the House of Lords might have decided, from ever
again having a hearing in a court of justice. The object of
the bill was to prevent Sir Thomas Wilson from building
on the hard land in the vicinity of Hampstead-heath,
though they had given a railway company and a water
company rights to make a. railway and a reservoir on that
very land. If they passed a clause of that kind it would be
a disgrace.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that the right hon.
gentleman had shown not only great imagination, but great
ingratitude and want of accuracy in the statement he had
just made, because the right hon. gentleman had been in
communication with him, and had expressed very different
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Mr. WHITESIDE explained.
Sir M. PETO moved the adjournment of the debate, and
it was accordingly adjourned.
COURT OF PROBATE.
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This bill (comprising
ADULTERATION OF FOOD.
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second time, and ordered to be committed.
On the motion of SCIIOLEFIELD, the order for going
FIRE- WORKS ACTAME AMENDMENT BILL.
into committee on this bill was discharged.

On the motion that this bill be committed,
Mr. WHITESIDE moved that at that late hour the
committee be discharged.
Mr. WILLIAMS said the bill was a very important one.
It was most alarming to have those manufactories of fire-
works in populous neighbourhoods, and particularly in the
close neighbourhood of churches.
The order, after some remarks by Mr. J. LOCKE (whose
measure it is) and other hon. members, was postponed till
to-morrow (this day).
METROPOLITAN POLICE BILL.
The order for further proceeding with this bill at thislate
period of the session, was,
- On the order of Mr, COWPER, discharged.
DARTMOUTH ELECTION.
Mr. PALK moved that a new writ be issued for the re-
turn of a member to represent the borough of Dartmouth,
in the room of Edward Wyndham Harrington Schenley,
whose election had been rendered void.
Sir J. SHELLEY objected to the course taken by his
hon. friend, and begged to remind the house that he had
given notice of his intention to bring forward a motion, that
no writ be issued for the return of a member for any place
petitioned against until the committee had formally declared
the seat vacant. Without going in this question, he would
say that the house ought to know what were the facts of
the case. He believed that in nine cases out of ten hon.
gentlemen were hooked into these cases of bribery by parties
interested in carrying on these elections. He begged there-
fore to move that the writ in this case should not issue until
the house had an opportunity of reading the evidence given
before the committee.
Mr. ROEBUCK seconded the amendment, and in doing
so made an appeal to the noble lord at the head of the Go-
vernment, not to give his sanction to an unconstitutional
course of proceeding which it was probable would be at-
tempted. Any hon. gentleman who expected but disliked
exposure could apply the Government for the Chiltern
Hundreds in order to avoid what would be a painful pub- •
licity, but in such cases he trusted the noble lord would re-
fuse to grant the favour. (Hear, hear.) He would remind
the house that some time ago the country was told that
great corruption had been practised by gentlemen on that
(the Opposition) side of the house. (Hear, hear.) He was
sorry to say that late discoveries had shown that the cor-
ruption was on the other side. (Hear, hear.) The result of
that, however, was apparently that noble lords and right
hon. gentlemen were now sitting upon that (the Govern
ment) side of the house, for pretty nearly the majority,
which placed them there had been disfranchised on account
of bribery. (Hear, hear.) Having made that appeal to the
public virtue of the noble lord he would add one remark as
to the conduct of committees. When a member of that
house was petitioned against upon the ground of bribery,
he must say he had no such faith in the simplicity of man-
kind as to suppose that any human being would spend
£2,000, £3,000, or £4,000 iu order to seat another person in
that house except with the knowledge, if not by the direc-
tions of the hon. member himself. (Cries of "No," and
Hear, hear.") Was there anybody of so soft a head, or so
tender a heart, as to believe that a man would be so wild as
to give £3,000 or £5,000 to benefit another without that
other person knowing anything of it ? (Hear, hear.) The
statements made within the ast 10 days were enough to
shock the country, and by a party calling itself Liberal—
(hear, hear)—a great number of whom he recollected in
1830 raising an outcry against the corruption of the ancient
boroughs. (Hear, hear.) Nothing was ever done in those
ancient boroughs worse than had been done lately. It did
behove the house to take into its serious consideration how
it could put a stop to these thins, and he hoped hon. gen-
tlemen who served upon committees would have the eour-
age to be honest, and not add base hypocrisy to tl‘c, horrible
corruption that now prevailed. ("Oh," a 12,4 tcHear.") He
said hypocrisy, because. he though; no reasonable being
could imagine that a man would spend £6,000 or £B,OOO for
the benefit of another vithout the sanction or cognisance of
that other. akar, hear.)
Sir Q, QR,By said he did not think anything had been