The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-14 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.
The House met to-day at a Quarter-past One, in order
to forward all the Bill 3 on the table a stage, and also for
the purpose of giving the Royal assent by Commis-
sion to a great number of public and private Bills.
The Earl of BEDEsnALE, in the absence of the
Lord Chancellor, took his seat on the Woolsack.
Lord EDDIS3UBX laid several reports and papers
on the table.
The House then adjourned during pleasure, her
Majesty's Commission fir giving the Royal assent not
having arrived at the House.
LOYA L ASSENT.

At half--past two o'clock, the Royal Commission
baying arrive t, Lord CA7IPBELL, Lord MONTEAGLE, and
Lord Ennisuuttv took their seats below the Throne, robed
as Lords Commissioners. when the Royal Assent was
given to the foiluv.lng seventy-six public and private
Bills:
The Duke of Cambridge's Annuity.
Marlborough Howe.
County Courts Extertilon.
Navy Pay.
Borough Bridges.
Public Libraries and Museums.
Electors (Ireland).
Parliamentary Voters (Ireland).
Equivalent Compa❑y's Annuity Redemption.
Canterbury Settlement Lands.
Registration of D2i.ds (Ireland).
Excise Sugar and Licences.
Commons Inclosure (No. 2).
Borough Courts of Review (Ireland).
Deanery of Sr. Burian Divison.
Sheep and Cattle Contagious Disorders Prevention

Continuance.
Court of Chancery (Ireland).
Fees of Court of Common Pleas (No. 2).
Mancheiter Bonding Amendment.
Turnpike Acts Continuance.
Fisher:es..
Grand Jury Cess (Ireland).
General Board of Health (No. 2).
Municipal Corporation (Ireland) (No. 2.)
Cruelty to Animals (Scotland).
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National Gallery (Edinburgh).
Mercantile Marine (No. 2).
Registration of Judgments Offices (Ireland).
Engines for taking Fish.
Ecclesiastical Commission.
Railways Abandonment.
Benefices in Piardity.
Small Tenements Rating.
Inspection of Coal Mines.
Borough Gaols,
Police Superannuation Fund.
Summary Jurisdiction (Ireland).
Poor Relief.
London Bridge Approaches Fund.
Crime and Outrage (Ireland) Act Continuance.

Customs.
Assizes (Ireland).
Stamp Duties (No. 2).
Assessed Taxes Composition.
Union of Liberties with Counties.
lAer of Copyright of Dasign (Amendment).
Biiston I pproverue.nt, Ahrket, Water-works, and Ceme.

tery.
West Cornwall Railway.
East of Fife Railway.
Westminster Improvement.
Birkenhead Doek Trustees.
Glasgow Iliarkcts and Slaughter-houses.
Bishop of London (St. Michael's Church, Chester-square,

Estate.
Marylebone and rinchley Turnpike Roads (to continue
and amend the Acts relating to the above Roads).
Liverpool, Crodpy, .and tionthport Railway (sale or lease
to the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company).
River Lee Trust.
Wolverhampton Improvement Act Amendment.
St Andrew's and Quebec Railroad Company.
Belfast Int rrovernr•nt.
Bishop of London Estate (St. Gabriel's Church, Pimlico).
Oxford, •Worees:f r, and Wolverhampton Railway.
The Hartlepool Wcst Harbour and Dock.
Westminster Temprary Bridge.
Cavendish (or Harcourt's) Estate.
Somerville's or Mills (13arford R-ctory) Estate.
London (City) School for Orphans of Freemen.
Earl of Craven's (or Sir John Johnstone's) Estate.
Duke of of Buckingham's Estate.
Tuftbn Estate.
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Earl of Glengall's Eitate.
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Sir Henry M. Vavas..ur's Estate.
Earl of Effin7,ham's Emma,
Viscount Middleton'. Estate.
Bowes Estate.
The Earl of Lincoln's Divorce.
Hall's Divorce.

The Royal Cororni3tion having conclude&
Lord C.,OIPISELL to his teat on the Woolsack as
Deputy Speaker, in the absence of the Lord Chancellor

mEssAGF, Flzo-4 THE COMMONS.

A Message from the Commons brought up several
Bills.

THIRD READINGS.

The following BiLs were read a third time and
paiserl:—
Spitalflelds and Shorediteh New Street.
Transfer of Improvret4nr, Loans.
L%w Fund Datirs (irti4nd).

Savings Banks (Tio,.nil),
Holyhead Haziwur. . .

Lough Corrib Impr,vrne.:lt Company.

Compeniatioa (Irvlaw?).
General "Lard of fl,a,!th (No. 3).

Cmsolidated Fund A pc,ropriat!on.
Lord MONTEAGLE presented petitions from Van
Diemen's Land against the Australian Colonies Bill;
also a petition from New South Wales to the same
effi et.

The petitions were ordered to be laid upon the table

THE POSTAL REGULATIONS.

Lord CANIPBEr.d. said that as he had not been pre-
sent when the report of the Commissioners on the Post-
office was presented to their Lordships, he would take the
present opportunity of stating how satisfied he was with
the result to which they had arrived. As ons of the judges
of the land, he could state that by the now regulations
which had been_ recently introduced the work of
mercy had often tom interrupt-d ; not to speak of
social inconveniene,s while on circuit, it was absolutely
necessary that communication should take place between
the judges and with the Home-office, but, by
this P,)st offiee regatation, all communication had
been cut off for twvnty-fmr hours. •More than one in-
stance hid occurre.il where very serious inconvenience.
almost affitcting human Ile, had occurred, and himself
and his brother Judea on circuit had found it impossible
to obtain any relnx,ition, even under such serious cir-
cumstances.

Lord moNTE,.xGLE said that he could not give a
testimony so striking e 2,. the Noble and Learned Lord,
but he could stare that an inst,nce had occurred in his
own family where had been found impossible, in con-
sequence of the Poit office regulations, to summon a
physician in a very urgent case by any other means than
by the electric telegraph. Had such a case occurred
with a poor man, it would have been impossible to have
got over the difficulty.
Their Lordships thou adjourned at lialf-past Three.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER tuck the Chair shortly after One
o'clock.

PETITIONS.

Lord D. STUART presented petitions from Maryle-
bone, praying for the separation of Church and State.
Mr. WYLD presented a petition complaining of the
cht.etive character of the Catalogue of the British Mu-
seum. and praying the House to take steps to remedy
the defect. The petition was signed by a great number
of authors and artists.
Mr. LOCKE presented a petition praying the House
to restore the delivery of letters on Sundays.
NOTICES OF MOTION.

Several notices of motion were given for next session.
RETURNS.

Mr. SCULLY moved for copies of all correspondence
in reference to the conduct of Thomas Young Prior;
Esq. (a magistrate for the county of Galway), with his
Excellency the Lora-L'eutenant of Ireland, or with the
Lords Justices, in the month of July 1850; and also, a
copy of any war:ants issued by the said Thomas Young
Prior, Esq., in June last, for the committal of prisoners
to the Brideweli of ClArden, in the county of Galway.—
Agreed to.
Mr. SCULLY moved for a return of the names of the
baronies and halt-baronies, with their respective coun-
ties, in Ireland, which have been proclaimed under the
Crime and Outrage Act, with the dates of the com-
mencement and ending of such proclamation; of the
number and expense of the exra police force in each
townland of the preclainied baronies; of the number and
description of arms taken or surrendered to the police
under the Act, in each barony; of the number and nature
of crimes committed in each of the proclaimed baronies,
from three months previous to the proclamation up to
the present date; ant, of the number of licences to carry
arms granted Zild ref wed under the Act.—Agreed to.
SUPPLY OF WATER IN THE METROPOLIS.
Mr. WYLD said, early this session several private
Bills were introduced for supplying the metropolis with
water, but the whole subject having been referred to the
Board of Health, those Bills were deferred from time to
time, to enable the House to see the report of that Board.
Ultimately that report was forthcoming, when the Bills
were thrown ou'. Now, it was very likely that a great
many of these schemes would be again deposited in the
Private Bill-ofilea, for the purpose of having them once
morn brought before :he douse next session, but it would
save a great deal of time and expense to the parties en-
gaged in those se!lecnem, if the Right Hon. Baronet the
Secretary of Sete Ix the lime Department, would
state if it was the intention of her Majesty's Govern-
ment to take anysteps during the recess for the better
supply of water tv the rnetrepolis.
Sir GEORGE GIi,EY said, the report of the Board of
Health would ree,ive the careent consideration of the
Government during the recess, but the Hon. Member
would doubtless r,eollfet that an appendix to that report
was proalised by the Board, which had rot yet been
produced. He was, therefore, net aware of what would
be the contents of that appendix, but the report

itself, and the evidimce— upon which it was
handed, would reccile the careful consideration
Government. ft c• tad nor, however, at this period
1.4(14 eay what proposit on OGvernment might hereafter think
?toper to Danko to rati:trient on the subject, nor could
undertake to Premise t'at Government would

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bring in any measure for the better supply
of water in the metropolis. With reference to the Bills
which had been thrown out this session, all he could say
was simply this, that if the parties who promoted
them this session should again think proper to re►i►e
them next session, they would do it with
their eyes open and with the knowledge that Go►ern-
mect might think it advisable that they should not re-
cei►e the sanction of Parliament. Under these circum-
stances he thought it would be imprudent for the parties
to incur any great expense in the matter.
THE RECENT POSTAL REGULATIONS.

Mr. THORNELY wished to ask the President of the
Board of Trade whether the report of the Commission
appointed to inquire into the working of the recent
postal regulations on Sunday was now ready, and if so,
whether be could state what course would be adopted
by the Government in consequence of that report?
Mr. LABOUCHERE replied that the report had been
completed and presented to the Treasury, and be under-
stood it had been laid on the table of the House; but,
of course, he was not prepared to say what steps would
be taken by the Treasury in pursuance of that report.
The Hon. Gentleman moved that the report be printed,
which, we understood, was aerefd to.