The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-05 00:00:00

RAILWAY AUDIT BILL.

Mr. LABOUCHERE, in answer to a question from
Mr. Locke, said that he must object to the further pro-
ceedings on the Railway Audit Bill, unless it was t)
contain the provision proposed by the Government.
POST-OFFICE.

The following petitions were present'd, and ordered
to lie on the table, for rescinding the late order pro-
hibiting the delivery of letters on the Lord's D Ly, from
Durham, Bungay, Bedhampton, Birmingham, Richmond
(York). and Coventry.
Mr. CARDWELL said it was his intention, in the
course of to-morrow, to communicate with the Noble
Lord on the subject of the Mercantile Marine Bill, in
respect to which he believed there would be a perfect
agreement between the Noble Lord and himself. In re-
ference to the subject alluded to by the Hon. Member
for Honiton (Mr. Locke), he (Mr. Cardwell) had been
r. quested to take an interest in the Railway Audit Bill.
He merely asked the Right Hon. Gentleman not to
postpone this Bill to such a distant time as to render it
impossible that the subject could be again brought for-
w .rd this session. (Here an Hon. Member reminded the
Speaker that the Bill was withdrawn.) He (Mr. Card-
well) was fdlly aware that it was abandoned by the Go-
vernment, and that was the reason which induced him
to make this suggestion to the Right Hon. Gentleman,

because it might be the interest of the railway proprie-
tors to take tin the question independently, and tl press
forward the Bill as it was framed by Lord S anley, the

provisions of which were incorporated with the present
measure. He, there'ore, hoped that the Right lion.
Gentleman would consent not to postpone it beyond
Monday next.

Mr. LABOU(.3IIERE, as we understood, acquiesced.
THE GREAT EXHIBITION OF 1851.

Lord J. RUSSELL, in answer to a question from
Sir B. Hall, said that he had no objection that the
discussion on his motion with respect to the exhibition
of 1851 taking place in Hyde-park should take prece-
dence f the order of the day.
Sir DE LACY EVANS having presented a petition
against the proposed exhibition taking place in Hyde-
park,
Colonel SIBTHORP rose to move that 'the report
respecting the proposed exhibition in Hyde Park in 1851
be submitted to a Select Committee of this House, for the
purpose of examination and duo consideration of the
same; and that the report of the said Select Committee
be laid upon the table of the House, and that the sanction
by this House be given to such report before any further
proceedings on the part of the Commissioners, with re-
gard to the said exhibition, shall be proceeded with or
adopted by them. He said a more unsatisfactory and
delusive report had never been laid before any delibera-
tive assembly. lie had put a question to the Attorney-
General as to the legality of cutting down certain trees
in Hyde-park, and the opinion given by the first law
officer of the Crown was altogether different to the opi-
nions since expressed by two of the most learned law
L e.ds in the other House of Parliament. He did not
think that the opinion of the Attorney-General upon this
question of constitutional law was very satisfactory.
Though these parks were said to be the property of the
Crown, yet it should be recollected that there were
votes annually taken in that House for their
care and in iintenancA. The Commissioners of Woods
and Fore,ts were the trustees for the protection
or the property there, but instead of protecting it, they
had been destroying it lately by cutting down trees in
Hyd.-park. Out of the ten trees marked for &Ante-
tioa I:Lie of them had been cut down, when it would ap-
pe tr that they had repented for their misdeeds on ac-
count of what had be-n said in Parliament, and left this
old tree standing. This propo led exhibition of 1851, he
believed, would prove most preju licial to the interests of
this country. It was as gross a fraud and imposition as
was ever practised upon an indtpitrious and unoffending
people. The live as well as the dead stock of the fo-
relent r woul I be introduced into this country—all kinds
of foreign tinsel and rubbish—(Laughter)—cheap an I
nasty trash and trumpery.—(Continuel laughter.) ILI
believed that socially, religiously, tn,rally, and puliti-
catty, this exhibition would prove the greatest curse this
country ever saw. Exertions were made to extract from
the unsuspecting tradesman's pocket a little of his hard
earnings for the purpose of supporting that which would
ultimately ruin him. The report stated that the site
chosen for this exhibition was the most natural and
proper. He believed that it was the most unnatural and
improper that could be selected. Neither was the