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

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SUN OFFICE, Six o'Clock.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMON;—(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
Kunross Rail sexy ; Great Southern and Western
Railway (capital) ; Great Western and Brent-
fend Railway ; Hartlepeol Exteneion and Head-
land Improvement ; Kinross-shire Railway ;
low and Feronoy Rad vay ; Metropolitan New
Streets and Improvements ; Nlonk'and Railways ; Nor-
folk E teary 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-
toe Road Bills.
BIRKENHEAD DOCKS (CONSTRUCTION)
BILL.
On the motion for the second reading of this bill,
Mr. GIBSON withdrew his opposition to the bill.
After some remarks from Mr. HADEIRLD,
Mr. G. BUTT said that the bid was substantially the
same as the one rejected by the house last year, and was
one of three Mies bearing more or less on the same ques•
tion, via., the conservancy of the Mersey and dock accom-
modation at Liverpool. Upon the understanding that
the bill should be discussed in committee, he 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 to 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 el-cted by the ratepayers, and
it acted in the most cordial manner for the
good 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
bad only exercised that right 13 times within the last
82 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 be had hoped a similar
course would have been pursued in this case as had been
adopted with the two previous bills, and the discussion
take ein 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, hear.)
The question of town dues and local tolls on shipping
was an incidental one, and did not constitute the prin-
ciple of the bill. Tne main principle of the bill was to
consolidate the Liverpool and Birkenhead Docks, and to
vest the management and control in one public and in-
dependent trust--(hear, hear)—and make the trade
of the port tributary to local interest, which was not the
case under the present management. This, though
a private bill, dealt with important national interests,
connected witb the trade and commerce of the cowry.
The public had a right to demand the,e docks should
be controlled by a responsible public board, and that the
benefits accruing from it sheull go towards benefiting
the trade and commerce of the country.
Mr. L. DAVIES supported the second reading of
the lel!, on the ground that a sum 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 had never
heard a complaint.
Mr. SPOONER supported the second reading of the
bill.
Mr. HEADLAM 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 co other hands. In this case it
was the Great Western Railway Company wko 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 UCKFIELD RAILWAY.
Toe sojourned debate on the committal of this bill
was resumed, and after same 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
Agairst it 4B
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 laid on the table of the house.
INCOME AND PROPERTY TAX.
Petitions were presented against the present assess-
ment of the income and property tax.
BREACHES OF TRUST.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL gave notice that on
Friday, the 20th, he 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
which has taken place since January, 1865, between
the Poor-law Board and the local authorities
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 let day
of January, 1856, and the Ist day of January, 1857.
JUDGMENTS, EXECUTION, &e. BILL.
On the motion for the second reading of this
Col. FRENCH moved the second reading of the bill
that day six months.
Mr. WMAHON- seconded the amendment. The
bill had been through four committees, in as many
years, and was now imperfect. It disregarded every
known element of justice, fur the purpose of carrying
out the views of some Scotch lawyers to elevate their
jurisprudence above the common law of England.
Mr. BLAND opposed the bill, as injurious and ob-
jectionable to the profession and the country.
Mr. HADFIELD supported the bill, as being an ex-
cellent one for the United Kingdom. A judgment once
obtained should have effect in the three countries, and
cot entail on creditors the necessity of following a
debtor, and bring an action against him in each country
for the Herne debt. The Irish members appeared to op-
pose the bull, because Ireland had no money with which
to pay her debts.
Mr. GEORGE and Mr. Humus opposed the bill,
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL forlnirpelearniadi said that
the bill appeared to be misunderstood, or it had been
misrepresented by hon. speakers. Ile excludedsfariodmthhaist
theco effectnsidera it wouldtionw havehenco on anynsideri prngaonfess lion,
and
he thought it a disgrace that a creditor having obtained
judgment against a debtor in one part of the United
Kingdom, and be should leave and go to another, that
the creditor should be compelled., to follow him, and
commence proceedings again. It was to prevent that
state of things, that this bill was ,introduced. The bill
gave no greater facilities for obtaining judgment for debt
than now existed.
Mr. NAPIER :did not consider that the bill was in
that clear and perfect state required before the house
passed it. It was a very good bill in theory, but it
would not work well when put in practice.
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The bill was then read a second time,
NEW WRIT.
On the motion of Mr. HAYTER a new writ was issued
for Londonderry in the room of Sir R. Bateson, who had
accepted the Cbiltern Hundreds.
The committee on public moneys was re-appointed.
The house then adjourned.

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IMPERIAL PAR LIAMEN T.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-(YESTERDAY.)

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the wool,ack
at five o'clock.

Lord LIICAN gave notice that on Thereday flex', he
should put a question to her M.jesty's Government as
to whether they were about to take any steps to inquire
into the expenses to which Scotch and fri,n peers were
subjected in proving their title to vote for representative
peers.

Lord KINNAIRD brouOt in two bills upon the
subject of education in Scotland. The first related to
parochial schools, and was similar to the one introduced
last year, The other one was to promote the instruction
of young persons employed at night in factories.
The ;,ills were severally read a first time.
AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS.
Lord \VYNFORD asked whether it was the intention
of her Majesty's Government to introduce a bill this
ession similar to the ono of last year with regsri to
agricul.ural statiAtos. There was much 31-ixety at:road
to know the intentions of the Government on the
subject.

I,lrd STANLEY of ALDERLEY said, having con-
sulted some p,rsone interested in the sui.ject during the
recess, and finding that such a measure would not meet
with their concurrence, he was unwilling to introduce
such a measure, however much he might personally
wish it. It was not, therefore, his intention during the
present session to introduce a similar measure. At the
same time if the agricultural interest evince any
desire for the enactment of such a law, he should
have no objection to introduce a measure or to support
any proposition for the purpose. _ _

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Lord FAVERSHAM. said it was entirely owing to
the machinery of the bill of last year that it became so
unpopular.
After a conversation between Lord STANLEY and Lord
DUNGANNON, the subj9ct dropped.