The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-07 00:00:00

BILL.

The CIIANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved
the order of the day for the House going into Committee
on this Bill, and in doing so, gave notice that next ses-
sion the Government would introduce a Bill to include
all Irish Roman Catholic Penal Acts in the present
measure.
The Bill then passed through Committee. Report to
be received to-morrow.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS' BILL.

On the report upon this Bill being brought up,
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said, he understood
that it was the intention of his Hon. Friend the Member
For Birmingham to raise the question of the propriety of
abolishing imprisonment for debt in cases of debts under
201. As his Right Hon. Friend the Secretary for the
Home Department was absent—unavoidably so—he
thought it would be better for his Hon. Friend to post-
pone the discussion till the third reading.
Mr. SPOONER said he did not intend to oppose the
clause in Coto, but he thought it ought not to come into
operation until the 25th March next, together with the
54th and 55th clauses. If his Hon. Friend the Solicitor-
General wished the discussion postponed, of course he
would do so.
The report was then agreed to, and the Bill was or-
dered to he read a third time to-morrow.
The House then adjourned till a Qearter before Four.

At a Quarter before Four o'clock the SPEAKER re-
sumed the Chair, when
Mr. MACKINNON gave notice that, early in the en-
suing session, he would move for leave to bring in a Bill
for the prevention of the smoke nuisance. He begged
also to give notice that he would take an early oppor-
tunity, ii the next session, of movitig for leave to bring
in a Bill to prevent interments in churches, or chapels,
or grounds in large towns.
Sir Augustus Clifford, the Usher of the Black Rod,
then summoned the House to hear the Royal assent
given to various Bills (for which see Lords' report).
RAILWAY BILL—LORDS' AMENDMENTS.
The SPEAKER having returned, and resumed the Chair,
the House went into Committee on the Lords' amend-
ments to the Railways Bill.
Mr. GLADSTONE said he had before stated to
the House the view which the Select Committee
on Railways had entertained on this subject. The
amendment of the Honourable Member for Wolver-
hampton went to impose on the Government the
duty of superintending and managing third-class trains;
and he had stated that in his opinion that was a duty
which it was impossible for the Government satisfac-
torily to discharge. The effect of the Lords' amend-
ments was to restrict the compulsory obligation to sun
particular trains, subject to the control of the Board of
Trade, to every week-day in Scotland, and in England
to every week day except Christmas-day and flood Friday.
So far, therefore, the Board of Trade had nothing to do
with any Sunday train. But a clause had been intro-
duced into the Bill in the House of Lords, which laid
down the principle, that if railway companies' should
run any trains at all on Suadays for passengers,
they should run at least one train for the
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sistent with the general principle of the Bill, he should
not oppose it. Another which he wished to mention
with regard to the amendments was, that the effect of
the Bill as it stood would be that, if the company ran
third-class carriages, they need only stop at the
stations for the other trains. A proposition had been
made that the third-class carriages should be covered
and provided with seats. He hoped the House would
not insist on the insertion of any provision of that kind_
He must confess that he did not think they could adopt.
such a proposition with justice to the railway companies;
and lie was convinced, that if such a stringent enactment
were carried some arrangement would be adopted by
the railway companies which would be most inconve-
nient to those whom it was intended to benefit- He,
therefore, proposed that the House should accede to the
amendments introduced into the Bill by the Lords. If
any amendment with respect to the rate of fare or any
other matter were adopted, it would necessarily delay the
period of the Bill receiving the Royal assent ; and under
those circumstances, he trusted the House would be sa-
tisfied with the arrangement which he proposed.
Mr. TIIORNELY said lie was very glad that the
principle upon which his amendment was founded, that
if trains were run at all on Sunday, there should be trains
for third-class passengers, had received the sanction of'
both Houses of Parliament. He felt it his duty now to
propose that the charge for the conveyance of passengers
by the Sanday trains should not exceed the price charged
for conveyance by the week trains, viz., Id. per mile.
Mr. ENTWISLE said the reason why he had op-
posed the Hon. Member's amendment on a former
occasion was, that while conferring a boon on the work-

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