The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-27 00:00:00

NOTICES OF MOTION.

Captain BERKELEY gave notice that to-morrow, at
the time of private business, he would draw the attention
of the House to the hardship and injustice inflicted on
the public by the promoters of railway schemes pro-
posing to interfere with the navigation of arms of the
sea, and navigable rivers, and to nicve that Committees
should not entertain such schemes without the sanction
of the Lords of the Admiralty.
Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN gave notice that to-morrow
he should ask the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite
if it was the intention of the Government to bring
forward in that House any measure founded on the re-
port of the Land Commissioners of Ireland.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL gave notice that he in-
tended in Committee on the Colleges (Ireland) Bill to
propose various amendments. The Noble Lord then
laid on the table copies of the amendments which
he intended to propose. They were as follows :
First, to insert the " halls" among the buildings to be
provided for by the grant ; secondly, to omit the limita-
tion of the money to be applied to each college and have
only the gross sum ; thirdly, to give the nomination of
professors, after 1846, to the president, vice-president, and
professors ; fourthly, to insert the chaplain before the
bursars" and librarians. These amendments, if
adopted, would require some additional clauses.

- RETURNS.
Mr. HUME moved for various returns of the number
of visitors, &c. to Westminster Abbey, St. Paul's, and
the Tower, and of the sums received from them, and of
the number of visitors admitted gratuitously to Hamp-
ton Court in the years 1841, 1842, 1843, and 1844, in
continuation of former returns on the same subject.—
Agreed to.

The lioN. MEMBER also complained that certain returns
to be made from the Treasury, which he had moved for
some time since, had not been made, and moved that
they be made forthwith.

fir G. CLERK made some reply, which was quite
.naudible in the gallery.

Mr. lIUMEThe returns are made to the Treasury
quarterly. All they have to do then is to extract them.
The returns can be made in a day, and I cannot wait.—
(A laugh.)
The motion was agreed to.
Sir C. NAPIER moved for certain returns relating to
the manning and outfit of the ships of the experimental
squadron, which were ordered.
FLOGGING IN THE ARMY.
Dr. BOWRING presented a petition of rather a re-
mark able character from Liverpool. It was signed by
3,185 individuals, and prayed for the abolition of the de-
grading punishment of flogging in the army and the
navy. The petition had originated with a lady, the
daughter of Sir W. Ross, and she had obtained the whole
of the signatures.
Mr. HUME begged to inform his Hon. Friend that he
had moved for returns in continuation of former returns
of the number of instances in which corporeal punishment
had been infficted in the army and navy, and as soon as
those returns should have been printed, and should be
in the hands of Members, he would call the attention of
the House to the subject.—(Hear, hear.)
The petition was then ordered to lie on the table.
LOCAL JURISDICTIONS IN YORKSHIRE.
Lord G. SOMERSET gave notice that, on Monday,
he should move for leave to bring in a Bill to abolish
certain private jurisdictions in Yorkshire.
POST-OFFICE COMMUNICATION WITH THE
SCILLY ISLANDS.
Captain PECIIELL moved for copies of correspon-
dence between Mr. Augustus Smith and the Postmaster-
General, on the subject of the Post-office service of the
Scilly Islands, in continuation of certain returns moved
for on the 6th of March.

The GALLANT OFFICER, in reference to the returns
which he had moved for on the Gth of March, asked
when it was likely they would be made?

Mr. CARDWELL would inquire into the subject,
and would inform the Hon. and Gallant Gentleman to-
morrow.

JUSTICES' CLERKS BILL.

Captain I'ECHELL asked the Right Hon. Baronet
the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if it
it was his intention to proceed with the Justices' Clerks
Bill to-morrow ?

Sir J. GRAHAM replied that it was.
MEDICAL BILL.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL asked if the Right Hon.
Gentleman was prepared to state whether or not he
would proceed with the Medical Bill?
Sir J. GRAHAM was not prepared so soon as he had
expected to state his intentions with regard to the
Medical Bill.

PRIVILEGES OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
On the order of the day for the House taking into its
consideration the report of the Committee on Printed
Papers, on the subject of the case Howard v. Gossett,
being read,
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said that he rose to
move, in accordance with the recommendations of the
Committee, that, in the case of Howard v. Gossett, a
writ of error should be brought against the judgment of
the Court of Queen's Bench. The House would
observe that that report was not founded on the
unanimous recommendation of the Committee.
His Honourable and Learned Friend the Member
for Worcester, his Hon. Friend the Member for the
University of Oxford. and his Noble Friend the Member
for Shropshire, had dissented from the recommendation
of that report, but he was bound to say,
that notwithstanding this difference of opinion,
the Committee had received most useful informa-
tion, and most desirable assistance from those Hon.
Members.—(Hear, hear.) He was not insensible
of the difficulty of the task which be had un-
dertaken, or of the hopelessness of attempting to
reconcile these differences of opinion which invariably
arose whenever the privileges of that House became
matter of discussion. He was aware that he should be
opposed by two very different classes of opponents. On
the one side he should be met by some of the most
talented and powerful Members of that House,
who were on every occasion anxious that their privileges
should be maintained with a high hand, and who ob-
jected to everything that bore the remotest resemblance
to submitting any question relating to them to any other
tribunal—to those the recommendation of the Commit-
toe would appear to savour of weakness and pusillani-
mity.—(Hear, hear.) There was another class, at the
head of which was his Honourable Friend the Mem-
ber for the University of Oxford, who were of
opinion that in that part of the House there
should be the most unqualified submission.
With regard to the first class of opponents, he would
venture to mention, in reply to them, the names
of some of the Members who composed' the Com-
mittee ; and he would select those names without
any invidious distinction. Ho would mention the name