The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-02 00:00:00

ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS' BILL.

Messengers from the Lords appeared at the table with
the Ecclesiastical Courts Bill, which was read a first
time.

IRISH TEMPORALITIES BILL.
Mr. SHAW said, he saw that his Hon. Friend, the
Member for Roscommon, had placed the name of his
Hon. Colleague (Mr. Hamilton) on the back of the Bill
which the Hon. Gentleman had got leave to bring in
last night on the subject of the Irish Temporalities.
Now, as he knew that his Hon. Colleague was opposed
to the Bill.—(Laughter)—he begged to move that the
order be discharged till another name was substituted.
Mr. S. FRENCH said, that the Bill was brought to
him by an influential body of church tenants ; but as
he knew that it would raise the suspicions of the friends
of the Church if it came from his (Mr. S. French) side
of the House, he advised them to procure the name
either of Mr. Hamilton or of the Right Hon. Gentleman
himself.—(Laughter.) They promised to commu-
nicate wtih Mr. Hamilton on the subject ; but
he had never heard froin.them on the subject.—Laugh-
ter.) lie had never heard till the present moment that
Mr. Hamilton objected to the Bill.—(Laughter.) It was
a matter of perfect indifference to him whose name was
on the Bill, but he thought it would be more in accord-
ance with fair play and Parliamentary usage if the Right
Hon. Gentleman allowed Mr. Hamilton to make his
own disclaimer.

Mr. SHAW wished to ask the Hon. Member for Ros-
common, if his Hon. Colleague (Mr. Hamilton) had
given him permission to put his (Mr. Hamilton's) name
on the Bill.

Mr. FRENCH would, in return, ask the Right Hon.
Gentleman if his Hon. Colleague had authorised him to
state that he desired that his name should not be placed
on the Bill.

Mr. SHAW—Certainly not. My colleague told me
that he understood the Hon. Gentleman opposite in-
tended to bring in a Bill on the subject, and he desired
me to give it every opposition in his power—(A laugh)
—to prevent it if possible, from being read a first time—
(Loud laughter)—because he considered it bad in prin-
ciple.—(Continued laughter.)
Mr. FRENCH said that the only principle of the Bill
to which the Hon. Gentleman was opposed, was one that
he (Mr. French) himself was opposed—namely, that
which proposed to invest the proceeds of the sales of
ecclesiastical property in the public funds. That clause
had been struck out, and it was now proposed that the
prooeeds should be invested in the purchase of land in
the simple.
The conversation here dropped, but it was understood
that some other name was substituted in the Bill for that
of Mr. Hamilton.

JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES.
Mr. GLADSTONE rose to move for a Committee of
the whole House, to consider the state of the law of
partnership, with a view to providing for the following
purposes, viz., " For the registration of joint-stock
companies, and fur conferring on such companies certain
privileges of corporate bodies, subject to the payment of
certain fees, and, on certain conditions and regulations,
and for preventing the establishment of fraudulent com-
panies. For the regulation of joint-stock companies.
For facilitating and improving the remedies at law
and in equity, in reference to joint-stock companies,
their members, directors, and other officers, whether
infer se or in relation to persons not being members
thereof, and for winding up the effairs of Companies
unable to meet their pecuniary engagements ; and for
enabling private partnerships to register the names of their
partners, and to sue and be sued in the name of their firm."
In bringing forward that motion he felt that he was
preposing to deal with a most important subject
nd one well worthy the attentive consideration
of that House, but he would not trouble the
House at any great length on the present occa-
sion. It would be useless for him to do se unless the
House were in possession of certain details which were
not yet before it, but which would be presented to them
shortly, when he would enter more at length iato the
subject.