The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-08 00:00:00

SUPERANNUATION.

Lord CAMPBELL presented a petition from certain
Custom-house officers in the Hebride., praying for a re-
vision of the charge for the superannuation fund.

IRISH CONSTABULARY.

This bill was read a first time.
The house adjourned at five minutes past seven.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-(YESTERDAY.)

The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock.
The Lords' amemdments to the New River Company
Bill were agreed t(,.
The Bourn and Essendine Railway, Islington Parish
Acts Amendment, Lancaster and Carlisle and Ingleton
Railway, Lowestoft and Burgh Saint Peter Ferry and
Roads, Rhymney Railway, Tweed Fisheries, CAliston
Railway, Dexthorpe Turnpike Trust, and Richmond and
Kew Extension Railway Bills were read a third time
and passed.

PETITIONS.
Mr. NORRIS presented a petition from the manager
of the Abingdon Savings Bank, praying the house to
take steps to raise the interest allowed to savings bank

depositors, lest they should be tempted by the high rate
of interest elsewlv re to withdraw their deposits—(laugh-
ter)—by Mr. HENLEY from places in Osfordsbire against
the divorce bill ; by Mr. BEECSOFT from Leeds in favour
of the medical profession bill ; by Mr. WILLIAMS from
the proprietors of the South Lambeth Mews, asking for
the opinion of the law officers of the Crown with respect
to proceedings taken to compel unstamped newspapers
to give security.

BURIALS ACT AMENDMENT BILL.

On the motion for going into committee on this bill,
Sir W. JOLLIFFE objected to the principle of the
bill, and to the formation of the Burial Boards. He
considered it would be distasteful to the people, because
not being satisfied with separating paupers during life
from their friends, this bill proposed to separate them
when dead by providing pauper burial grounds.
Mr. MASSEY defended the introduction of the bill,
which was rendered necessary to remedy defects that
had prevented the effectual operation of a bill that had
been found on the whole to work successfully. No new
principle was introduced into this bill. It only gave
facilit es to the present organisation wilthout creating
new boards. The provision for pauper burial grounds
was only in ca,es where large union houses e'xieted, and
it had been introduced in consequence of representations
made to the Home-office relative to the expense inflicted
on small parishes contiguous to these houses, by having
to provide burial grounds .for the paupers, and also to
prevent over-crowding.
Sir H. WILLOUGHBY thought that a clause
should be inserted granting paupers the privilege of
selecting their place of burial.
After some remarks from Mr. SOTHERON,
Sir G. GREY said it was inconvenient to discuss
clauses out of committee. The object of the bill was
only to remedy the present law, and did nut give new
powers to the Secretary of State.
Mr. H. BERKELEY said his only fear was that this
bill would enable persons to make commercial transac•
tioos of the dead, and that it did not confer sufficient
power upon the Secretary of State.
After some further discussion, the house went into
committee.
Clauses 1 and 2 were agreed to.
On clause 3,
Mr. KNIGHT moved an amendment. The
clause provided fur the formation of burial boards on
the petition of not less than one-tenth of the inhabitants,
and he proposed the insertion of words that would
enable local boards of health to assume the power of
burial boards the same as town councils.
Sir G. GREY said the clause was inserted for the
protection of the inhabitants, but he had no objection to
the amendment.
The clause, as amended, was then agreed to.
Clause 4 was agreed to, with amendments.
On clause 5, to empower boards of guardians to font
themselves into burial boards to provide burial grounds
for the paupers,
Sir W. JOLLIFEE moved that the clause be ex-
punged.
Sir G. GREY said the clause was introduced on the
epreoentation he referred to at au early_ period of the