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London, England, 1850-06-01 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS, May 31.

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The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock.
The following Bills were read a third time:—
Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway.
Stourbridgc Union Rates.
ROYAL ASSENT.
The Usher of the Black Rod here appeared at the bar
of the House, and summoned the Speaker to the House
of Lords to hear the Royal assent given to certain Bills
(for which see Lords' report).
PETITIONS..
Mr. MUNTZ presented a petition against slave-
grown sugar from Birmingam.
Mr. HARRIS presented a petition from Norwich
to the same effect ; also petitions from the same place
aganst capital punishment, and in favour of the Mar-
riage Bill.

Colonel LINDSAY presented a petition from Wigan,
praying that the Savings Bank Bill might be referred to
e Select Committee.

Sir H. WILLOUGHBY presented a petition from a
savings bank in Norfolk to the same effect.
Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD presented a petition
from the board of guardians at Rochdale against cer-
tain clauses in the Local Assessments Bill now before
the House.
Lord DUDLEY STUART presented a petition from
the ratepayers of St. Pancras against the Interments Bill.
Mr. HAMILTON presented a petition from Exeter,
against any further grant to the College of Maynootb.
Mr. WYLD presented petitions from the ratepayers
and inhabitants of St., James, Piccadilly, St. Anne,
Soho, Camden-town, London and its vicinity, and others,
praying for alteratioli in the Metropolitan Interments
Bill.

Mr. HUME presented a petition from Mr. Owen
Roberts, of Carnarvon, complaining of certain proceed-
ings of the Commissioner of the Woods and Forests.
The Hon. Member gave notice that as soon as the
petition was printed he should take the opportunity of
calling the attention of the House to the subject.
Mr. M. GIBSON presented a petition from the mem-
bers of the Manchester Stock Exchange against the
Stamp Duties Bill now before the House.
Sir G. GREY presented a petitio❑ from the trustees
of the Alnwick Savings Bank praying for an inquiry
into the management of savings' banks.
Mr. NEWDEGATE presented a petition from
Trinidad against the importation of slave-grown sugar.
Mr. LOCKE presented a petition from the Eastern
Counties Railway against the Stamp Duties Bill.
SLAVE-GROWN SUGAR.
Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEY gave notice that he
should, in the event of the motion of the Right Hon.
Baronet (Sir E. Buxton) being negatived, bring
under the consideration of the House the Act of the
4th September, 1848, with the view of preventing the
expiration, in 1854, of the duties on foreign and slave
grown sugar.

COFFEE.

Mr. ANSTEY gave notice that on Thursday, the 13th
of June, he would move for a Select Committee to in-
quire into the causes which gave rise to decline in the
importation of foreign and colonial coffee.
CHURCH BUILDING ACT.
Mr. ADDERLEY inquired whether it was the inten-
tion of the Government to introduce any Bill for the
amendment of the Church Building Act ?
Sir G. GREY replied that a draft of a Bill on the
subject was in preparation, founded on the report of the
Commission, and he hoped shortly to lay it before the
House.
THE CENSUS.

In reply to Mr. NEWDEGATE.
Sir a GREY said it was the intention of Govern•
ment to introduce a Bill this session for the purpose of
taking a census of the population, but be was unable to
state at what period.

METROPOLITAN INTERMENTS BILL.
Lord DUDLEY STUART wished to appeal to the
Right. Hon. Baronet the Home Secretary with regard
to the Interments Bill. Could the Right Hon. Baronet,
under all the circumstances of the case, find it con-
sistent to proceed with this Bill on Monday? Last
Monday the House went into Committee pro forma
to enable the Right Hon. Baronet to introduce certain
amendments. Those amendments had neither been
printed nor circulated till this morning, and to his know-
ledge there were many Hon. Members who had not seen
the amended Bill up to that moment, and he therefore
put it to the Right Hon. Baronet whether it was right
to proceed with this important Bill till Honourable
Members had had an opportunity of consulting their con-
stituents upon it.—(Hear, hear.)
Sir DE LACY EVANS made a similar appeal to the
Right Hon. Baronet.

Sir GEORGE GREY did not think his Noble Friend
had made a reasonable request. The Bill had been
committed pro forma, with the view of introducing
certain alterations, which were yesterday printed and