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

UNIVERSITIES.

Mr. CHRISTIE moved for the following re-
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-books, and Psalm-books. Account of any
annual payment to the Universities of Oxford
and Cambridge, charged on the stamp 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 voted in the annual estimates.

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Sir R. H. INGLIS would make no objection to
those 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 Du.ies
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. PAKINGTON 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 similar
motion to that of the Hon. Gentleman, but as the
motion had been made, he had great pleasure in
seconding it.
Sir R. PEEL thought it would be 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 be in possession of. He, therefore, thought it
would be better to establish a general rule.

Lord MAHON would venture to remind his Right
Hon. Friend, as 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 House the papers
he had in his possession relative to the Ornithological
Museum in Ireland ?
The Earl of LINCOLN had no objection to the
production of the papers.
Mr. DENNISTOUN wished to know whether it
was the intention of the Government to support a
measure 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. MORISON, in putting the resolutions of
which he had given notice, thought that the House
and the country were satisfied
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needless to refer to the great advantages possessed
by this system over the old plan of communica-
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which would be enjoyed, when men of science and