The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-21 00:00:00

INSOLVENT ACT.

Mr. 11. BERKELEY gave notice that, on the 11th
of April, he should move for leave to bring in a Bill to
repeal the Insolvent Act of lest session, and to pro.
mote the recovery of small debts.
Sir R. INGLIS gave notice that he should, imme-
diately after the recess, move for returns of the pur-
chases of land in New Zealand other than those con-
tained in the papers moved for by the Ilan. Member
for Cockermouth (Mr. Aglionby), and extending over

the same period of time.
RIVER SUIR NAVIGATION.
Mr. WYSE begged to move for a return of the
number of ships that have come up to Carrick-on-
Suir since the passing of the Suir Navigation Act,
names of ships, and captains, and where from; also
tonnage and how laden, coming and going.
• WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
Captain ROUS begged to give notice that lie
wouk, on an early day after Easter, move for returns
of all persons who had been fined for using deficient
weights and measures in England during the lad
three years.
MAYNOOTII COLLEGE.
Mr. WARD said he held in his hand a motion of
which he intended to give notice, but before he did
so he would wish to ask the Right Hon. Baronet at
the head of her Majesty's Government a question,
namely, whether it was not customary, in moving for
a money grant, such as that of the proposed grant to
Maynooth, to first bring it before a Committee of the
whole House?
Sir R. PEEL said that the Hon. Member opposite
was correct ; such was the course pursued by the
12-,ercc 1,2 aII ,i 44,7,01 of cuvtivusAir tn.-rricy 6raute, and
such certainly was the course he intended to adopt
in reference to his motion for the increased grant to
Maynooth.
Mr. WARD then begged to give notice that he
would, at the time it was most fitting to do so, move
that all further money grants for the purposes of re-
ligion be made out of the funds at present appro-
priated for the maintenance of the Protestant Epis-
copal Church.—(Hear, hear.)
UNIVERSITIES.
Mr. CHRISTIE moved for the following re-1
turns .:—Amount of paper duty remitted to each of
the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge in each of
the last ten years; distinguishing the amounts re-
mitted for books in the Latin, Greek, Oriental, or
Northern languages, and for Bibles, Testaments,
Prayer-boolcs, and Psalm-hooks. Account of any
annual payment to the Universities., of . Oxford
and Cambridge, charged on the. starlit); and taxes
revenue, with the origin of and authority for
such payment. The date of the first payment of each
of the sums voted in the Miscellaneous Estimates of
1844, to professors in the Universities of Oxford and
Cambridge, with a statement of any conditions at-
tached to the grant of any of those sums. Copy of
any correspondence or Treasury minute relative
to,the discontinuance, in 1826, of an annual vote of
1001. to a professor of the laws of England in the
University of Cambridge. Copy of so much of a
Treasury minute, dated the 28th day of August,
1832, as relates to payments to the Universities of
Oxford and Cambridge, charged on.the Civil List till
1834; and a statement as to which of these payments
are now charged on the land revenue of the Crown,
and which are now toted in the annual estimates.
Sir R. H. INGLIS would make no objection to
thlse returns, as he understood they were sanc-
tioned by her Majesty's Government ; but he would
move, by way of addition, for returns of the pay-
ments made by the Universities of Oxford and
Cambridge.
Mr. F. SHAW would move for similar returns in
relation to the University of Dublin.
The returns were ordered.
Mr. DODD presented petitions from the Croydon
Railway Company. praying for leave to bring in a
Bill to extend their line into various parts of Kent.
Sir G. CLERK brought up the Customs' Duties
Bill, which was read a first time, and ordered to be
read a second time, on Monday, the 31st inst.
DARTMOUTH ELECTION COMMITTEE.
Mr. TUFNELL moved that the minutes of pro•
ceedings and evidence taken before the Select Com -
mittee on the Dartmouth election petition be printed.
Mr. PAKL.NGTON said he believed that very
exaggerated statements had been- made to the public
as to the facts which had come out before that Com-
mittee. It had been his intention to make a timilar
motion to that of the lion. Gentleman, but as the
motion had been made, he had gnat pleasure in
seconding it.
Sir R.. PEEL thought it would he advisable to
adopt a general rule, that the proceedings of all elec-
tion Committees should be printed, as it was some-
what invidious now to move that the proceedings in a
particular case should be printed. Points of law
might arise on election petitions which the House
ought to he in possession of. He, therefore, thought it
would be better to establish a general rule.
Lord MA HON would venture to remind his Right
Hon. Friend, a; a "Member of the Printing Commit-
tee, of the large expense that would be incurred in
carrying out such a rule.—(Laughter, and cries of
" Oh, oh."
Mr. SHAW wished to know whether the Noble
Earl at the head of the Woods and Forests had any
objection to lay on the table of the Housgthe papers
he had in his possession relative to the Ornithological
Museum in Irelanl ?
The Earl of LINCOLN had no objection to the
production of the papers
Mr. DEN IsTISTOUN wist.ed to li•iow whether it

WdS the intention of the Government to support a
mrasare for preventing burial in towns, and whether
that was intended to be extended to burghs in Scot-
land?
Sir J. GRAHAM was not prepared to prevent in-
terment in towns.
RAILWAY FARES.
Mr. AIORISON, in putting the resolutions of
which he had given notice, thought that the House
and the country were satisfied that the railway system
was permanently established in the country. It waF.
needless to refer to the great advantages possessed
by this r.ystem, over the old plan of communica-
tion. It was not only advantageous to the
trade and commerce of the country that greater li-
A-csilitiksiskoldf obtained between the great depots
or
,yierZa.,_.. . ., but it was in . many cases a
700 After - '-ofe::-.,.•., olute uccessity. Little had
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b„. .-- been done :A-If-4. t as yet, comparatively ' with
;.7, What might beigPected, as men of science applied
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te.,; their tgl‘mts to the subject of improved methods of
...fi,: propolling le.cmotivca, whether nu the: atmospinrlc
principle or 0040/_6ther. Alccs.dy, howevir, the poor
aria their faits were enabled to enjoy one of the
most useful orluxuries at comparatively a small cost.