The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-05 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock.

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BRIGHTON STAKES.
2 to 1 agst St. Rosalie
5 to 1 agst Fernhill
6 to 1 agst Beebee Bunnoo

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.
ROYAL ASSENT.

The R.,,yal Ascent was given co-day, by commission,
to the following seventeen public and private Bills:
The Population.

The Fakorieg.

The lidetropolitm Interments.
Municipal Corporations (Ireland).

Highway Rati-s.
Au-v*li= Colonies Government.

Vestries and Vestry Clerks.
The Trnst'e Aet (1850).

Bills of Exchange:
Gorbals Gravitation Water Company.
Bridge across the River Clyde (opposite to South Port•
land-street, Laurieston, Glasgow)•
Birmingham and rershorc-road (Act to continue Act o:

6th Geo. IV.)
Peterborough Improvement, Police, and Cemetery
(Amendment of exi.ting Acts).
Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport Railway (Deviations,
Enlargement of Stations).
Manchester. Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway.

Chippindatl's Divorce, and ...—.
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Ashby Divorce.
The Lords Commissioners were the LORD CHAN
CELLOR, the Earl of MINTO, and the Earl of CARLISLE.
Their Lordships aiii,urned during pleasure.

Their Lordships resumed shortly after Five o'clock.
CRUELTY TO ANIMALS (SCO ['LAND) BILL.
On the motion of the Earl of MINTO this Bill passed
through Committee.
PUBLIC LIIiRAIUES AND MUSEUMS BILL.
•.
• This Bill passed throe b Committee.
COMMONS ENCLOSURE (No. 2) BILL.
This Bill was read a second time on the motion of the
Earl of CARLISLE.
PETITIONS.
Lord HARDWICKE presented a petition against the
Rating of Small Tenements Bill from Liverpool.
The Marquis of SALISBURY presented a petition in
favour of the Bill.
CHARITABLE TRUSTS BILL. •

Lord REDESD ALE presented a petition against this
Bill, and ho;-ed it would be withdrawn.
Lord BROUGHAM most reluctantly withdrew
.the
Lord STANLEY presented a petition against the Bill.
He regretted that the Bill haa not been brought in
earlier. and brought in in that House, which it might
have been, without infringing on the privileges of the
other House; and while on the subject of privilege, he
would observe that he understood that the Bill for the
suppression of outrage in Ireland, which had been intro-
duced in that House, had been dropped in the other
House because it interfered with their privileges, and
that another Bill had been introduced there which had
been threatened to be defeated by delay. He considered
that • the Miuisters were responsible for having intro-
duced a 81l into this House interfering with the pri-
vileges of the other, and therefore they were responsible
for any 'delay which might have taken place.
After a few observations from Lord LANGDALE and
Lord WHARNCLIFFE, the was withdrawn.
STEAM COMMUNICATION WITH AUSTRALIA.
Lord TALBOT presented peiitions from Glasgow and
from Plymouth praying for the-establishment of a regu-
lar slam communication • between this country and
Australia. Divers sums had been voted by the
legislatures of the different colonies to pro-
mote steam communication with the mother country,
and already they could command with the amount
of postage for letters to Australia, 40,0001. per annum
derived from those colonies for that purpose. Three
routes had been proposed; one by Singapore in con-
nexion with the Oriental. Company, another by the
Cape of Good Hope, and another by the Isthmus of
Panama. He considered the route by Singapore the
easiest, but he understood there was some difficulty on
the part of the East India Company; but he thought it
was the duty of the Government to take some route,
and if their difficulties
.were insuperable, they should
take the route either by the Cape of Good Hope or by
Panacea. It would be of great benefit to our South
African colonies to open a route by the Cape of Good
Hope and Mauritius, which would also promote
emigration. The route by Panama would secure
us against any impediment to the transmission of
our mails in cons« quence of an European war.
On the whole he thougut, iethaps. that the route of
Panama was the best, as we had a line of stenmers ready
to take up the transit on the Pacific. He wished to im-
press upon the minds of their Lordships the rail im-
portance of this subject and the absolute necessity that
existed for establishing some rapid steam communication
with our Australian colonies.

Earl GREY said taut Government were fully aware
of the extrrnrs importance of the subject to which
the Noble Earl had drawn their Lordship attention, and
could assure him that the Government were extremely-
anxious to establish a rapid ste::.m communication with
Australia. lie considered tte route by Singapore the
most desirable, and ho thought the offer made by the
Oriental Company an exceecingly fair one, and most
beneficial to tho public.—(llear, hear.) The East
India Company coy:A:ler-A that nut of regard
to their own officers they ought to oppose it.
Ho thought, however, thee he might say that ere long a
steam communication with the west coast of Africa and
the Cape of Good Hope would be established, and by
that means with Australia, and also by a line from
Singapore. He entertained a sanguine hope that even-
tually both lines would be established, but at present
there were ditlicultizs whiet prevented the establish-
ment of kit line by Singapore. Ile thought it extremely
desirable that the matter could be amicably settkd with
the East ledis Company.
Lord MONTEAGLE thought that if ever there was a
step taken by a gre4 company exercising almost Imperial
fuectioes, ly to set them wrong with the people cf
this country, it was this opposition of the East India
Company to steam communication with Australia.
(LEFT STEAMING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The EPEAKI:II took the Chair shortly after Twelve
o'clock.

LORDS' AMENDMENTS.

The Lords' amrndment•► to the fullowirg Biils were
comidvred stld ug,r( el to:—
East of Fitt. R•ii A-ly.
West Cornwall Railway.
iiirvoure3) Estate.
Somervtlie's, or (auford Rretory) Estate.
Wtstaiinster Temporary Bridgp.

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AMENDED BILLS.
The following Bills, as amended, were considered and
agreed to:—
B.shop of Lnntion (Saint Michael' Church, Chester-
tquare) E,tate.
Loadt,a (City) Schocl.4 f..r 0-pbans-of Freemen.