The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-24 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, May 21
The 1.0;-:D CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool-
sack at the usual hour.
MAYNOOTH.

The Earl of FITZHARDINGE presented a great
number of petitions against the grant to Maynooth,
from the Wesleyan Congregations of Gloucestershire
and Somersetshire. lie could not conscientiously give
his support to this grant, if he thought that it was only
calculated to excite anxiety and displeasure in England,
without being calculated to give satisfaction to Catholic
Ireland.

THE CHURCH ACTS' AMENDMENT BILL.
This Bill was read a second time before the public
were admitted to the gallery.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said, that to his
astonishment an important Church Bill bad been for-
warded a stage before he entered the House. He had
always understood that the hour for commencement
of public business was five o'clock. He had come
into the House at that time, and learned that
this Bill had passed its second reading, al-
though he had been in personal communication
with a Right Reverend Prelate's secretary. This
Dill interfered with the rights of the Crown, and
he was, therefore, surprised that it should have been
read at so early a period of the evening. It was an in-
terference with the rights of the House.
Lord BROUGHAM said that the House would find
means for defending its rights.

Lord CAMPBELL said that as the hour for public
business was five o'clock, any attempt to carry a Bill
before that time was a contravention of the standing
orders.

Lord BROUGHAM—Oh ! If it be only a contraven-
tion of the standing orders the House could recover the

point.

- The LORD CHANCELLOR—The House is not in
that extreme state.

CIVIL AND CRIMINAL LAW COMMISSION.
Lord BROUGHAM said that he understood that a
report had been made by the Law Commissioners on the
10th of January, in which it was recommended that Li-
verpool should be added to the Northern Circuit.
The LORD CHANCELLOR—The Commissioners
have as yet made no report.
Lord BROUGHAM said he had certainly heard that
such was the case.

The LORD CHANCELLOR had heard so many
absurd things in the course of his life that he was not
surprised.

MAYNOOTH.

The Duke of CLEVELAND presented several peti-
tions against the grant to Maynooth.
The Earl of RODEN presented sixty-six petitions
from Protestant congregations in Ireland against the
grant to Maynooth, several from the Isle of Wight,
and three from Jersey, to the same effect. The
Noble Lord gave notice that when the Bill for the
endowment of Maynooth College came to be read a
second time, he would move for the appointment of a
Select Committee to inquire into the doctrines taught in
that school, and that the Bill be referred to the Com-
mittee.

The Duke of WELLINGTON moved the first read-
ing of the Maynooth Bill, and that it be printed. He
meant to give notice of the second reading of that Bill
on Monday, the 2d of June.
CONDEMNED SERMONS.

The Marquil of NOR •lANBY inquired of Lord
Wharncliffe whether any inquiry had been made as to
the propritty of admitting the public to hear the sermons
preached at Newgate before the condemned criminals ?
Lord WIIARNCLIFFE said that the matter had
been inquired into, but the report had not yet been

received:
SANATORY CONDITION OF TOWNS.

A NOBLE LOUD gave notice of a petition which he had
intended to present to the House that night from the
working classes at Manchester, praying that an inquiry
be made into their sanatory condition, but he would post-
pone its presentation until Monday next.
SMALL DEBTS BILL.

Lord BROUGHAM moved the first reading of a Bill
entitled " An Act for securing the payment of small
debts."

The motion was acceded to.