The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-30 00:00:00

ACADEMICAL EDUCATION BILL.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL seeing the Right Hon. Baronet
the Secretary of State for the Home Department in his place,
wished to ask him if it was his intention to move the order of
the day to-morrow for the second reading of the Irish Acade-
mical Education Bill.

Sir JAMES GRAHAM replied, that if the discussion of
privilege extended to any great length, which it was not un-
likely to do, he should not move the order of the day for the
second reading till Monday.
PRIVILEGE.

Mr. WATSON asked the Solicitor-General whether it was
the intention of Government to pay the 2001. in:the case of
Howard, or to allow an execution to issue against the de-
fendant ?

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL replied that the Hon.
Member was anticipating the discussion of to-morrow, and it
was quite impossible for him to answer the question of the
Hon. Member.

Mr. lIUME moved for certain returns relating to the Mint,
and more particularly relating to the Assayer's Department.—
Agreed to.
In answer to a question from Mr. MUNTZ,
Sir R. PEEL stated that negotiations were still pending on
the subject of the treaty with the island of Sicily, and as soon
as they assumed a more definite and matured shape he should
be prepared to lay them on the table of the House.
Lord PALMERSTON wished to ask the Right Honourable
Baronet, if he were prepared to bring in a measure to supply
the defect in the Act of 1827, relative to the enforcement of the
piracy law as respected the Brazilian coast.
Sir ROBERT PEEL assured the House that the subject
was still under the anxious consideration of the Government,
and would at an early period be brought forward.
Sir W. SOMERVILLE inquired when the Right Hon.
Baronet intended to proceed with the Irish Banking Bill ?
Sir R. PEEL feared he could not name any specific day, as
it would materially depend on the progress made in the dis-
cussion of the Irish Academical Education Bill.
LAST NIGHT'S DEBATE.

On the SPEAKER calling upon Mr. Henry Berkeley,
Lord ASHLEY rose, and said that he wished to trespass
on the House for a few moments only, on a matter personal to
himself. He had understood that his absence from last night's
debate had been very severely commented upon. He had
last night taken the chair at a meeting in a remote district of
Lambeth, for which he had been engaged for several months,
and where he had been detained for several hours, and he did
not think that at that late period of the evening it was neces-
sary to attend that House to take part in a division upon a mo-
tion, which whether it were successful or not, could lead to no
practical result.
IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT.

Mr. WAKLEY presented a petition from Finsbury, stating
that the Bill of last session had abolished imprisonment for
debt, except in cases of fraud and debts above 20/., and pray-
ing that as both Houses of Parliament had approved of the princi-
ple under that amount, they would adopt one also on all debts
above it.
Mr. HENRY BERKELEY then rose to move for a Select
Commit tee to inquire into the effects produced upon debtors and
creditors by the operations of the Insolvency Act of last ses-
sion, and in doing so, said that notwithstanding all the efforts
which had been made to induce the Right Hon. Baronet at
the head of the Government to inquire into the effect of the
Act of last session, by the perseverance of the Hon. Member
for Bath, he still continued to fondle this bantling of Lord
Brougham's, long after its father had thrown it aside. The
country suffered from this hasty and crude legislation. There
ht.d been a great want of care and deliberation in the passing
of that measure. The effect of the Act in question had been to
occasion a loss to the tradesmen of the country of three mil-
lions of money. It was hurried through Parliament at the end
of the summer, and was made into law before half the Mem-
bers were aware of it. At the last moment many of the con-
stituencies addressed the Members of that House, urging on
them the necessity of opposing its enactment. Among others,
his constituency applied to him to oppose the Bill. He opposed
it with many other=, and the grounds of opposition then
set forth were precisely similar to those advanced
by Lord Brougham in the other House of Parliament
this session against the law; the measure was carried against the
Opposition by the powerful statement of the Solicitor-General,