The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-08 00:00:00

LONDON,

tem of land tax quotas in the several counties and dis-
tricts throughout England, Wr.le3 and Scotland.
MAX PACKET STATION.—Mr. Herbert to call
the at ention ofi the house to the importance of estab-
lishing a mail packet station-on the South or West Coast
of Ireland.

CATHEDRALS AND CHURCHES.—Mr. Evart, address
to her Majesty, as the head of the national church, pray-
ieg that her Majesty will be graciously pleased to take
i►ito consideration the expediency of causing our cathe-
drals and churches to be generally open (so far as is
practicable) throughout the day, with a view to en-
courage the practice of private devotion therein, es-
pecially for the benefit of the poorer classes of the
community.
RAMSGATE HARBOUR.—Mr. Mackinnon, select com-
mittee to investigate the revenue, condition, and expen-
diture of the harbour of Ramsgate.
SALE OF A PICTURE.—Mr. Charteris, to call the at-
tention of the First Lord of the Treasury to the recent
sale by public auction at Messrs. Christie 's of a picture
which is confidently believed by many persons to be the
work of RaffAelle.

JOURNEYMEN BAICIIRS. —Lord R. Grosvenor, bill to
improve the sanitary condition of the journeymen
bakers.

THE LEGAL QUAYS-Sir W. Molesworth, select coin
mittee t) inquire into the regulations of the board of
customs that forbid the landing and warehousing certain
articles of foreign produce free of duty, and many others
paying very low duties on the Southwark side of the
Thames, and permit similar articles to be landed and
warehoused at certain wharves, called legal quays, on
the north bide of the river.

EDUCATION (IRELAND.)—Mr. G. A. Hamilton, ad-
dress t 3 her Majesty on the subject of scriptural edu-
cation in Ireland; and to call the attention of the Hou:e
to the position in which the clergy and laity of the Es-
tablished Church are placed who object, on conscientious
grounds, to the rules and principles of the national sys-
tem of education in that country.

CARRICK-ON-SHANNON UNION.—MT. G. A. Hamil-
ton, to present a petition from the guardians of the
Carrick-on-Shannon Union, complaining of gross mis-
management and abuses by the late ♦ice-guardians and
other officials.

MADRAS RAlLWAY.—Viscount Jocelyn, copies of any
correspondence which may have taken place between
the Court of Directors and the Madras Government, in
reference to the proposed Madras Railway.
MINISTERS' MONEY (IRELAND).—Mr. Fagan to move
the following resolution:—" That the tax called ' Minis-
ters' Money,' levied in eight corporate towns in Ireland,
is partial and oppressive•, is injurious to the beat inte-
rests of religion; and alike odious to the Protestant
clergy, who receive it, as to the Roman Catholic people,
who pay it; and, inasmuch as a select committee of
this house recommended that it should be abolished,
and that the Protestant minister in these corporate
towns should receive equivalent incomes out of the reve-
nues of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, this house is
of opinion, that steps should be taken to give effect to
such recommendation."
COMMERCIAL INFORMATION.--Mr. Nowdegate, to call
the attention of the house to the inconvenience and
danger, arising from the tardy production, insufficiency,
and defective nature of the commercial information sup-
plied to Parliament.
QUALIFICATION Or MEMBERS.—Mr. Osborne, to
move the abolition of the property qualification for
Members of Parliament in England, Wales, and
Ireland.

KILIIIISTI, &C., UNToNs.—Mr. P. Scrope, select com-
mittee, to inquire into the recent administration of the
poor-law in the Kilrush, Scariff, Ennistymon, and Clif-
den Unions.

EvicnoNs,Ac. (IRELAND).—Mr. P. Scrope, bill to
check systematic house-levelling and depopulation in
Ireland.
METROPOLITAN SUPPLY OF WATER,—Lord R. Gros-
yonor, to ask the Secretary of State for the Home De-
partment, whether it is probable that measures will
be introduced this year to remedy the present defective
water supply to the poorer classes of the metropolis.
MALLOW UNI *N —Sir D. Norreys, to present a peti-
tion from the board of guardians of the Mallow Union,
complaining of evidence given berore a committee of the
house by a member of the Board of Health in Ireland,
and praying for inquiry.
FEVER HOSPITALS (IRELAND).--Sir D. Norreys, to
move for papers relating to the erection of a fever hoe
pital at Buttevant by the Relief Commissioners or Bard
of Health; and copies of all correspondence during the
last twelve months, between boards of guardians and the
Poor-law Commissioners, or Board of Health, complain-
ing of the continuance of temporary fever hospitals by
the Board of Health.

FEES IN COURTS OF LAW AND EQUITT.—Mr. Bon-
verie, to ask her Majesty's Government whether it is
their intention to take any steps. by introducing a bill
into Parliament; or otherwise, to carry into effect the re-
commendations of the select committee upon fees of last
year, suggesting important improvements of the present
practice in the Court of Chancery on this subject.
FIRE INSURANCES.—CoI. Sibthorp, reduction of duty
on fire insurances.
NATIONAL- LAND COMPANT.—Mr. F. O'Connor, bill
to wind up the affairs of thitcompany.
TITHES.—Mr.. Wyld, bill to regulate the tithe rent
charge by the annual average price of corn.
SEAMEN'S GROG.—Sir George Pechell, copy of the
report and proceedings of the committee appointed by
the Board of Admiralty to inquire into the effects of
the present issue of spirits to the crews of her Majesty's
ships.

POOR-LAW (IRELAND).—Mr. P. SCrOpe, select COM•
mittee to inquir• into the recent administration of the
poor-law in several of the distressed unions of the west
and south of Ireland.

CRIME IN SCOTLAND.—Mr. Cowan, to more for va-
rious returns in refifence to this subject.
SALE OF POISONIL—MT. Stanford, select committee
to inquire if any restriction (and if any, what restric•
tions) should be imposed by Parliament on the sale of
poisons.
SUGAR.—Sir Edward Buxton, that it is unjust end im•
politic to expose the free-grown sugar of the British
colonies and possessions abroad to a competition with
the sugar of. foreign slave-holding and slave-trading
countries.

PARLIAMENTARY VOTERS,,&C. (TRELA.ND) BILL.—On
bringing up the report on this bill, Mr. M. rower,
Viscout Castlereagh, Mr. Reynolds, and Mr. Aastey to
move amendment.,,„

ORE, NEWCASTLE, AND BERWICK RAILWAY BILLS.
—On bringing up the reports on question of the third
reading of these bills, Mr. Barnard to move that they be
respectively postponed for one month.
THE ROYAL ACADEMY GRANT.—Mr. Ewart, in
committee of supply on miscellaneous estimates, to op-
pose this grant.

HOUSE OF COMMONS PRIVATE BUSINESS.
LIST OF PETITIONS FOR PRIVATE BILLS,

AND PROCEEDING THEREUPON. SESS. 1850.
A Parliamentary document just issued gives the fol-
lowing account of Bills before the House of Commons,
and indicates the stage at which each. Bill now stands:—
Aberdeen Railway, read 2d time Feb. 11.
Architects, Civil Engineers, Builders, and General Fire
and Life Insurance Annuity, and Reversionary In-
terest Company (incorporation of the company under
a different name), read 3d time March 18.
Athy, Ckstlecomer, and Kilkenny Road, read 2d time
March 18.
Belfast Improvement, read 2d time, Feb 19.
Bilston, liiiprovement, Market, Waterworks, and Ceme-
tery, read 2d time Feb. 19..
Birkenhead Dock Trustees, read 2d time Feb. 12.
Birkenhead Improvement, read 3d time March 14.
Birmingham and Pershore Road, read Ist time Feb. 7.
Bolton Improvement, read 2d time Feb. 22.
Borough of Salford Waterworks and Improvement, read
2d time Feb. 22.
Bradford Improvement, Police, and Purchase and Closing
of Bradford Canal, read 2d time Feb. 18.
Bridge across the River Clyde, opposite to South Port-
land-street, Lsurieston, Glasgow, read 2d time Feb. 25.
Brighton Improvement, Purchase of Royal Pavilion and
Grounds, and Amendment of Existing Act, read 2d
time Feb. 14.
Bristol Waterworks Act Amendment, read 3d 'time
March 15. •
British Electric Telegraph Company, read Id time Feb. 22.
Buckingtamshire Railways, real 3d time March 18.
Cairnwell, Braemar, and Strath Dee Turnpike Roada,
withdrawn. e
Caledonian Railway (repeal of lease of Glasgow, Barr-
head, .and Neiliton Direct and Glasgow Southera
Terminal Railways), petition presented Feb. 7.
Caledonian and Edinburgh and Glasgow Railways
Amalgamation, 2d reading put off for six months.
Caledonian and Glasgow. Paisley aid Greenock Rail-
ways, Caledonian and Wishaw and Coltness Railways
petition presented Feb. 7.
Caledonian and Wishaw and Coltness Railways, read 2d
time Feb. 18.
Cambridge Regulation and Improvements, Markets and
Fairs, read 2d time Feb. 11. •
Cambridge and Shepreth Junction Railway, and Branch
to join the Eastern Counties Railway, 2d reading put
cff for six months.
Cardiff Waterivorkf, read 2d time Feb. 25. .
Carlisle Gas Light and Coke Company, read 23 time
Feb. 11.

Chester and Holyhead Railway, read 2J time Fob. 22.
Childwall Waterworlcs, read 2d time Fob. 21.
C hippenh am Waterworks, withdrawn.
Clerical, Medical, and General Life Assurance Society
recd 2J time Feb. 11.
Clerkenwell Improvement, Amendment of Acts, and
transfer of powers, read Ist time Feb. 12.
Colonisation Assurance Company, read 2d time Feb. 22,
Copper Minors Company (England) read 2d time

Feb. 27.
Cork Docks and Ilarbour. Improvement, read 2d time

Feb. 22.
Coventry and Wolvey
Feb. It.
Cromford and Newhaven Turnpike Road, read' 2d time
Feb. 11. Turnpike Road, read let time
Croydon anlßeigate Turnpike Road, read Ist time
Feb. 8.
Direct London and Portsmouth Railway (abandonment
of the railway and dissolution of the company),
re3d
Ist time Feb it.
Dublin, Dundium, and Rathfarnham Railway (extension
or revival of powers roe the purchase of lands and com-
pletion of works, amendment or repeal of Acts), read
2J time Feb. 25.
Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway, read 2d time
Feb. 13.
Dublin and Drogheda Railway, read 2d time Feb. 11.
Dumfries and Maxwelltown Waterworks, read 2d time
Feb. 19.
Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway, read 2d time
March 1.
Dundee and Perth and Aberdeen Railway Jtinution,
read 2d time Feb. 15.
•
Dundee and Perth and Aberdeen Railway jUnctiort,
Dundee and Arbroath, and Dundee and' Nerityli
Railways, read let time March 15.

East and West India Doclc3, and Birmingham Junction
Railway, read 2,1 time Feb. 19.
Eastern Union Railway, read second time Fcb. 25.
Ea it of Fife Railway, read Ist time Feb. 4.
_ . .

Elinburgh Slaughteihouses Removal, read 21 time Feb.
12.
Edinburgh and Glasgow and Edinburgh and Battinte
Railways Amalgamation, read 2d time Feb. 11.
Electric Telegraph Company (amendment of Act), peti-
tion presented, Feb. 28.
Elgin Guildry Fund Society Incorporation, read 2d
time Feb. 12.
Embankment and Reclamation (Ireland), read 21 time

Feb. 13.
Exeter and Crediton Railway, read 21 time Feb. 22.
Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, read
21 time, Feb. 19. -
Farmer's Estate Society (Ireland) read 2d time March 4.
Forth and Clyde Navigation, read 2d time Feb. 19.
Garstang and Heiring Syka Turnpike Road, rea 1 Ist
time March 12.
Gatton Lodge to Povey Cross Turnpike Road, read Ist
tine Feb. 8.
Glasgow, Airdrie, and Monklands Junction Railway
and Glasgow College Lands, read Ist time Fab. 4.
Glasgow, Barrlical, and Neilston Direct Railway, read
2d time Feb. 12.
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrosian Railway, r.al 23
time Feb. 25.
Glasgow Markets and Slaughterhouses, read 2d time
Feb. 18.
Glasgow and Shotts Turnpike Roads Improvement, read
.2d time Feb. 494
Godstone and Highgate Turnpike Road, read 2.(1 time
Feb. 11.
Gorbale Gravitation Water Company, read 2d time
Feb. 22.
Great Central Gas Consumers' Company (No. 1) with-
drawn.
Great Central Gas Consumers' Company (No. 2) read
2d time March 4.
Great Northern Railway Deviations. Amendment of
Acts, Alteration of Tolls, and of East Lincolnshire
Railway, Tolls, read 2d time Feb. 13.
Greenwich Hospital Improvement, read 2,1 time
March 12.
Guardian Fire and Life Assurance Company, real 2d
time Feb. 12.
Hartlepool West Harbour and Docks, read 2d time
Feb. 22.
Hartley's Divorce, read 2d time March 26.
Herne Bay. Improvement, read 2d time Feb. 19.
Heronsyke and Eamont Bridge Turnpike Rost!, read
Ist time Feb. 12.
Inverness Bridges, read 2d time Feb. 19.
Ipswich•GenenaCemettiy, read 2d time March 4.
Kent Water Works, read 2d time Feb. 11.
Kew and Petersham Vicarage, read 2d time Feb. 13.
Killarney Junction Railway, read 2d time Feb. 25.
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, read 2d time
Feb. 26.
Leamington Priory Paving, read 2il time Feb. 25.
Leeds and Halifax Turnpike Road (continuation of term
as to certain parts of the road), read Ist time. Feb. 4.
Leeds and Halifax Turnpike-roads (Thornton districts),
read Ist time Feb. 8.
Leeds and Thirsk Railway (extension of time for com-
pletion of Leeds and Hartlepool Railway), petition
presented Feb. 5.
Leicester and Hitchin Railway, read Ist time Feb. 4.
Licensed Victuallers and General Fire and Life .Assu-

ranee Company (No. 1), withdrawn.
Lieensed Victuallers and General Fire and Life Assu-
rance Company (No. 2). read 2d time Feb. 27.
Liverpool Cattle Market, read 3d time March 14.
Liverpool Corporation Waterworks (abandonment of
works, &c.), read Ist time Feb. 14.
Liverpool Corporation Waterworks (extension of time
for purchase of land, &c.), read Ist time Feb. 14.
Liverpool Docks, real 2d time Feb. 15.
Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport Railway (deviation,
enlargement of station, read 2d time Feb. 15.
Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport Railway (sale or
lease to the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Com-
pany, &c.), read 2d time Feb. 22.
London (City) Improvemeno, read 21 time Feb. 25.
London (Watford) Spring Water Company, read Ist

time Feb. 8.
London and Blackwall Railway. read 2d time Feb. 18.
Londonderry sad Coleraine Railway, read 2d time

Feb. 12. -
Londonderry and Enniskillen Railway, read 2d time
Feb. 12.
Manchester Bonding, read Ist time Feb. 15.
Manchester Rectory Division, read 2,1 time Feb. 19.
Manchester; Sheflield, and Lincolnshire Railway, read 2d

time Feb. 13.
Marylebone and Finchley Turnpike Roads, read lit time
Feb. 8.
Merionethshire Turnpike Roads, read Ist time Feb. 13.
Metropolitan waterworks (Henley-on-Thames and Lo-
ndon aqueduct). rcad Ist time Feb. 8.
Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland, read 2d

time Feb. 25.
Montrose Harbour, read 24 time Feb. 12.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Carlisle Railway, read 2d
time Feb. 12.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Improvement, Amendment of
Acts, and New Streets, read 2d time Feb. 15.
New orth Road, read'2d time Feb. 11.
New River Company, read lst time Feb. 5.
North Kent Railway (continuation from Stroud through
Canterbury to Deal and Dover, &c.), petition presented
Feb. 11.
North Staffordshire Railway (Ashbourne branch, power
:to !elm, amendment of Acts), real 2d time Feb. 22.
North StaffeVdshire Railway (extension of tine for pur-
chase of lands, &c.), read 2d time Feb. 22.
North Staffordshire and Manchester, Sheffield. and Lin-
colnshire Railways Junction, real 2d time Feb. 25.
Norwich Waterworks, real 2d time Feb. 12.
Nottingham Freemen's Allotments, read 2d time Feb. 19.
Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton, Birmingham
and r 0
Companies, read 24 time Feb. 25i.
Oxford, Worcester, 5.
Junction, and Great Western Railway
and Wolverhampton Railway, read
time Feb.r
24
Peterborough Improvement, Police, and Cemetery, &c ,
xox oJ
sun on
read 2d time Feb. 25.
Pontypridd Gas Light and Cuke Company, read 24 time
Feb, 25.
Railway Assurance Company,
read 2d time March 5.
Railway Passengers' Assurance Company, read 2d time
Feb.ilßamsey, Upwood, and Great Raveley Turf Fens, and
Lock api t L
wayll.
ots and Lockspit Lands Drainage andlm-
provemeat, read 24 thee Feb. 18.
Marker, read 2d time, Feb. 12.
Union Waterworks, read 2d time Feb. 22.
River Dee Conservancy and Improvement, read 2d time
Feb. 25.
Readingieding Cattle
River Lee Trust, read Ist time Feb. 18.
Rochdale, though Bamford and Birtle to Bury, and other
Turnpike Roads, read 24 time Feb. 11.
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, read 24 time
Feb. 12.
Scottish Central Railway, read Ist time March 15.
.Feb. 22.
s
Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway, read 2d time
wUi nt
od
nr
a Railways and Canal, read 2d time
Feb. 19.
nd
toCn"lmickpriovement (amendment and extension
o u A
Union of the Townships, &c., read
ShFroepbsh2i2r.e
Southampton Waterworks, read 2d time Feb. 18.
South Devon Railway, read 2d time Feb. 12.
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ht htai a
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South-Etas-Ol Railway (amendment of Acts, powers to
raise additional capital), read 2d time Feb. 13.
Sonth7Bastern Railway (power to discontinue payment of
interest on calls paid on No. 3 and N 0.44 shares), &c.
read 2d time Feb. 13.
South Staffordshire Railway, read 23 time Feb. 22.
South Wales Railway (No. 1), read 2d time Feb. 12.
South Wales Railway (No, 2), read 2d time Feb. 22.
South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole Railway (amend-
ment of Acts, deviation at Doncaster, &c.), read 2d
time Feb. 19.
South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole Railway (amend-
ment of Acts, deviation to Woraborough, &c.), read
2d time Feb. 12.
Stourbridge Union Rates, road 2d time Feb. 13.
Suffolk and General Country Amicable Insurace Office,
real 3d time Match 15.
Surrey and Sussex Roads, read 2d time Feb. 11.
Swaaseaock Company, read 2d time Feb. 11.
Swansea,Alunicipat.Corporaticin, read 2d time Feb. 18.
Tewkesbury Severn Bridge and Roads, read 24 time
Feb.,l3.
Timber Preserving Company, read 2d time Feb. 25.
Tyne Navigation, read 2d time Feb. 11.
Tyne River Conservancy, read id time Feb. 11.
Ulverston, Milltherpe, and Lancaster, Turnpike Road,
read Ist time Feb. 12.
Victoria (London) Dock, read 24 time Feb. 26.
Wakefield Borough Market. read 2d time Feb. 11.
Walsall. Improvement and Market Act (1848) Amend-
ment, read 2d time Feb. 18.
Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow, and Dublin Railway,
read Ist time Feb. 13.
Waterford and Kilkenny Railway, read 2d time Feb. 26.
Waterford and Limerick Railway, read 2d time Feb. 12.
West Bromwich Rates, read 3d time March 14.
West Cornwall Railway, read 24 time Feb. 25.
Westminster Improvements, read 2d time Feb. 25.
Wolverhampton Waterworks Act (amendment and ex-
tension; of works), read 2d time Feb. 13. •
York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway (alteration of
levels, and extension of time, &c.), read a 2d time
Feb. 18.
York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway (arrangements
as to payment for the purchase of the Great North of
England Railway, &c.). read 24 time Feb. 12.
York and North Midland Railway, read 2d time Feb.ls.

MINING INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Mining Journal.)
Notwithstanding the holidays, there has been a
very fair amount of business done during the week,
and from present prospects we may reasonably calcu-
late on an active market during the coming one.
Several. Devon Great Consols shares have changed
hands during the week. The accounts, which are in
course of preparation for the annual meeting, will
show that the assets, over liabilities, will exceed the
amount of last year by upwards of 12,000/.
lleingston Dawn Consols is reported to have very
much improved, and shares have been in request at
former quotations, and business done at an advance.
Trelawny shares have been inquired for; the sale
of 139 tons of silver-lead ore, sold this week, realised
upwards of 2,3001.
South Tolgus, Stray Park, Carn Brea, Bedford
United, and Treviakey and Barrier shares have been
in demand.
At South Basset meeting, the statement of accounts
presented showed a profit of 1,9571. 17s. 91 for Jan.
and Feb. workings. A dividend, of 151. per share
was declared, leacing balance of 518/. ss. 4d. to next