The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-23 00:00:00

IRISH GAOLS.

Mr. HERBERT wished to know whether any furthE r
steps would be taken by the Secretary for the Home
DepartweLt for the purpose of relieving the county
gaols in Ireland of a portion of the criminals confined in
them.
Sir G. GREY said, as the expense of preparing hulks
for the reception of convicts was very considerable,
Spike Island, in Cork Harbour, had been appropriate,l
for prisoners, and already 2,000, who were under seu-
tenet, of transportation, had been sent there. Transpor-
tation bad also been resumed, and a considerable
number of convicts had been sent out, and a vessel
would be ready soon to convey a farther number to Van
Diemen's Land.
IRISH FRANCHISE BILL.
In reply to Mr. STAFFORD,
Lord J. RUSSELL said he proposed that the House
should take the Lords' amendments to this Bill into con,
siderution to-morrow se'nnight.
PROGRESS OF PUBLIC BUSINESS.

In answer to Mr. STAFFORD,
Lord J. RUSSELL stated, that he proposed to take
the Lords' amendments on the Irish Franchise Bill into
consideration on Tuesday se'nnight (this day week). His
Lordship proceeded,—l propose on Friday at 12 o'clock
to take into consideration the Lords' amendments to the
Australian Colonies all. After the report upon the
Mercantile Marine Bill on Thursday, I propose to con-
sider the Lords' amendments upon the Metropolitan In-
terments Bill. I believe that they are not of very great
importance, and it is desirable to complete that 13i11 as
soon as possible. There is another Bill with respect to
which a question was put to me on Friday last,—l mean
the Oaths Abjuration Bill, which has reference to the
oaths taken by Members of Parliament. I was in hopes
of being able to bring on the consideration of that Bill
next week; but I find that there is still a considerable
quantity of business in the Committee of Supply, which
will probably take four or five nights. I could not, on
this account, hope successfully to carry that Bill through
this House in time to secure for it that consideration in
the House of Lords which it would deserve; and I
therefore do not intend to proceed with it in the present
session, but I shall go on with it at the earliest period
next cession.—(' Hear, hear," and a sarcastic " Oh, oh!"
from Colonel Sibthorp.) I may also state that to-night,
after supply, I shall propose to proceed with the third
reading of the Ecclesiastical Commission Bill.
On the motion for going into Committee of Sapoly.
MR. ROWLAND HILL AND THE POST-OFFICE.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER ruse,
and said that he thought it right to state with reference
to the aspersions thrown by the Hon. Member fur
Youghal on a certain official of the Post-office, that he
had received a letter from that gentleman giving a full
and perfect denial to all those statements.
Mr. ANSTEY said that he considered it due to him-
self to say, that he had stated nothing but what he had
documentary evidence to prove, and if he had been
allowed his Committee of Inquiry, he should have made
out a worse else against Mr. Rowland Hill.
BRITISH GUIANA.

Mr. HUME rose to call the attention of the House to
the situation of Guiana. It had been proved by the gover-
nor himself, that,for ten years, he had acted in antagonism
to the feelings of the people. In England even it was
said agitation ought to be avoided, as it was calculated
to do great mischief, and if it were objectionable in a
state like that, how much more objectionable must it
be in a small place similar to British Guiana.
The present Government of that colony was a
mockery, a delusion, and a snare, and therefore the
sooner it was changed for some more enlightened sys-
tem the better. At all events, the colonists themselves
sought fur no rights that were not enjoye 1 by other colo-
nies of no greater importance, and he for one felt that the
House could no longer refuse to grant their just demands.
The Hon. Member concluded by moving that the
dispatches received from British Guiana, since May last,
should be laid on the table of the House.
Lord JO(-TN RUSSELL said the chief obstacle to the
immediate production of the dispatches to which the
firth. Member for Montrose referred was,
.that the
Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies had
not yet found time to read them. Ile (Lord
John Russell) did not think that the party
in
Demerara. who asked the House to concede British in-
stitutions to them was it popular party in the colony, hut
were, on the contrary, a narrow oligarchy. It was the wish
of her Majesty's Government to int..roduc”uch institutions
in all the colonies, and in British Guiana among the
rest, so soon as the people were in a condition for their
reception.
Mr. HUME said the dispatches not having been read
by the Under-Secretary for the Colonies, he should
withdraw his motion.
The motion, however, was negatived.
THE PETITION OF MR. G. C. REDMAN.
Mr. MUTT rose to call the attention of the House to
the petition of Mr. G. C. Redman, presented on tte
12th of April last. There a ere circumstances
in the case of Mr. Redman which, in his (Mr.
Hutt's) opinion took it out of the common
kind. It was not the case of an individual; it was the
case of the British merchants in general, and of all who
involved might be in similar calamities. In the year
1833.34 Mr. Redman, in conjunction with other