The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-04 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, June 3.
The SPEAKER took the Chair a tew minutes before
Four o'clock.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The following Bills were read a third time and
passed:—
Cardiff Waterworks.
Eastern Union Railway.
Garstang and Heiring Syke Turnpike Road.
Heronsyke ani Egmont Bridge Turnpike Road.
Midland Gre At Western Railway of Ireland.
Montrose Harbour.
Norwich Waterworks
South Wales Railway (Capital).
The following Bills as amended were considered and
agreed to:—
Croydon and Reigate Turnpike Road.
Snaith and Cowick, Union of the Townships, &c.
Tewkesbury Severn Bridge and Roads.
Tyne Navigation.
Wolverhampton Waterworks Act (Amendment and Ex-
tension of Works).
Sir W. JOLLIFFE moved that it be an instruction to
the Committee on Group 24 of Private Bills, that in tha
event of their deciding that the r aids included in the
Surrey and Sussex Turnpike Road Bill should terminate
at Foxley Hatch, instead of Godsrone, they have power
(if they shall think fir) to amend the Godstone and
Highgate Turnpike Road Bill, by including therein the
road between Godstone and Fuxley Heidi, which now
forms part of the roads included in the Surrey and
Sussex Turnpike Trust.
After a few words from Mr. W. PATTEN, the
motion was agreed to.

PETITIONS.

Mr. FRE WEN presented a petition from Sussex pray•
ing for the repeal of the malt tax ; also a petition from
the trustees of the Rye Savings Bank against the clause
in the Government Bill empowering the Government to
appoint trustees. savings banks.
Mr. DUNCAN presented a petition from Dundee
praying for certain alterations in the Saving• Banks Bill.
Mr. W. J. FOX presented petitions from Bermondsey,
South Shieldi,, and other places, in favour of a system of
secular education. .
The Earl of ARUNDEL and SURREY presented a
petition against the Metropolitan Interments Bill.
Mr. H. BERKELEY presented a petition to the same
effect.
Mr. KERSHAW presented a similar petition.
Sir J. TROLLOPE presented a petition tom a place
in Lincolnshire, praying that the Savings Banks Bill
might be referred to a Select Committee.
Colonel THOMPSON presented four petitions from
Lambeth in favour of the Metropolitan Interments Bill.
Sir J.WALMSLEY presented a petition from Bol-
ton against the Summary Jurisdiction Bill.
Mr. J. O'BRIEN presented a petition from Limerick
against the attorneys' certificate duty.
Mr.• LOCKE KING presented a petition from Cain-
, berwell in favour of the Marriage Bill.
Mr. C. LUSHINUTON presented a petition from
Westminster against the Metropolitan Interments Bill;
also a petition from Westminster praying for a revisal
ot• the law relating to lunacy.
Mr• CLAY presented a petition from the Hull Stock
Exchange praying for a repeal of the stamp duty on
►he transfer of railway and other shares in joint-stock
companies.
Mr• LASCELLES presented a ..petition from the
Corporation of Ripon against the Burgess Bill.
Sir. WILLIAM MOLESWORTH presented a peti-
tion praying for en expansive Interments Bill, and
against the Government measure.
Mr• MACGREGOR presented two petitions from
places in Scotland against the Marriage Bill.
Sir W. CLAY presented a petition from the parish 'of
St. John's, Wapping, praying for certain alterations in
rho Government Interments Bill.
Mr. GROGAN presented a petition from the North
Dublin Union against the Medical Charities Bill; also a
petition from Dublin against the Stamp Act.
• Sir G. GREY presented two petitions, one from
Marylebone and the otber from Lambeth, in favour of
the Interment Bill.

Lord J.—MANNERS presented a petition agreed to at
a public meeting 4.f factory labourer, at Manchester in
favour of a Ten Hours Bill. The Noble Lord also pre-
sented petitions to the same effect from delegates from
the manufacturing towns of the West Riding of Yorkshire,
and from factory workers at Bingley and Heyworth in
Lancashire.

Mr. Alderman THOMPSON presented a petition
from the wine merchants of London complaining of the
unequal and unfair operation of the import duties on
wine.

Mr. MILNER*GIBSQN t resented ;a petition from the
Newspaper-Stamp Commissioners, complaining of the
infractions of the stamp-laws by the lower class of news-
papers, and praying for an inquiry into the subject, with
the view to a revel of the law or to make it respected.
Lord HARRY VANE presented a petition from
Stockton-upon-Tees against certain clauses in the
Savings Banks Bill.
Lord DUDLEY STUART presented a petition,
signed by 237 ratepayers and other inhabitants of St.
Pancras, against the Metropolitan Interment Bill ; also
petitions from Marylebone and Paddington to the same
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