The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-19 00:00:00

HOUSE OF LORDS.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool-
sack shortly after Five o'clock.
A message from the Commons brought up several Bills.
The Exchequer bills Bill was read a third time and
passed. _ _

Lord PORTMAN presented petitions from Somerset
in favour of the grant to the College of Maynooth.
Lord BEAUMONT presented petitions from the
Catholics of Clithero, complaining of donations and be-
quests left for Catholic purposes having been appro-
priated to subjects other than those for which they were
intended.
The Bishop of ST. DAVID'S presented several pe-
titions against the grant to the College of Maynooth.
Lord MONTEAG LE presented petitions in favour of
the grant to the College of Maynooth from Tunbridge
Wells, signed by three Protestant clergymen and a great
number of inhabitants of that town.

The Marquis of ELY piesen;(7cl a petition from the
inhabitants and parishioners of the parish of Keleskerry,
in the county of Tyrone, against the grant to the College
of Maynooth.

Lord STOURTON presented a petition against the
Debtors and Creditors 'Bill.
PUBLIC MUSEUMS BILL.
Lord WIIARNCLIFFE moved the committal of the
Public Museums Bill.
_ _

The Bill then went through Committee, in which cer-
tain amendments Here agreed to.
Lord ASHBURTON presented a petition from an in-
dividual, whose name the Noble Lord did not mention,
complaining of the hardship he had experienced by the
operation of the 20/. claike of the Debtors and Creditc,rs
Act.

The Marquis of BREADALBANE presented a num-
ber of petitions against the increased Maynooth Grant.
These were petitions against the proposed endowment.
His Lordship then presented petitions from Glasgow and
several other places against all grants to religious bodies,
one of which, from the Free Church of St. Cyrus, and
Dr. Keith, its head man of European eminence. These
might be said to express the feelings of the Dissenters,
and to exhibit the force of the voluntary principle.
RAIL WAYS.
Lord BROUGHAM was about to speak, when
The Earl FITZWILLIAM begged to interrupt the
Noble Lord, by moving for the appointment of a Select
Committee for inquiry into the representations and com-
plaints of landowners whose lands were intersected by
any railway.

LAW REFORM.
Lord BROUGHAM could not help expressing his
pleasure at having given way to his Noble Friends, espe-
cially the Noble Lord connected with Yorkshire; and he
was rejoiced to find that the subject was likely to be taken
up with some prospect of utility. He had risen to
bring under their Lordships' notice that subjeet
of universal and enduring interest—the improve-
ment of the jurisprudence of the country. It was
now seventeen yesrs since he had first brought this sub-
ject under the attention of Parliament in another House,
of which he was at that time a Member. The re-
sult of his motions in that place had been the ap-
pointment of two commissions, one fur the im-
provement of real property law, and the other tor
the improvement of the process of the courts of law.
The results of the reports of these two Com-
missions was the the suggestic n or the pass-
ing of Acts fur the amendment of the Civil
Law of the country. One of these laws was the improve-
ment of the law with respect to personal rights, which
were called in the language of the Courts the law
real and personal actions. It was with a geat sense of
obligation that he referred to the services of the eminent
men who had given their services on those commissions.