The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-19 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS, Feb..lE.

The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour.
The Hon. H. FITZROY, lately created one of the Lords
of the Admiralty, took the oaths and his seat for the
borough of Lewes.
REPORT OF SUB•COMMITTEE OF THE
STANDING ORDERS ON RAILWAY BILLS.
Sir W. HEATHCOTE brought up the report cf the
Sub-Committee on the standing orders on private Bills.
The following Railway Bills were reported to have
complied with the standing orders:—The Manchester
and Birmingham Extension, the Leeds and Bradford,
the North British, the London and South-Western, the
Leeds and West Riding Junction, the Leeds, Sheffield,
and Manchester, the West York, and other Bills.
MEDICAL REFORM BILL.
Mr. BECKETT presented a petition from the Medical
practitioners of Leeds, expressing the approval of parts
of the proposed Medical Reform Bill, and declaring their
conviction that the removal of the present restrictions
would only have the effect of encouraging quackery.
Mr. BROTHERTON presented a petition from Man-
chester, in favour of the Medical Reform Bill.
FACTORIES ACT.

Mr. BROTIIERTON presented petitions from Ren-
frewshire and other places in Scotland, praying that
the provisions of the Factories Act might be extended to
bleach wthrks.
AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS.
Lord RENDLESIIAM presented a petition which he
requested might be read by the clerk at the table—it
complained of the general agricultural distress, of the
burdens that press upon agriculture, and prayed for the
repeal of the malt-tax.
MEDICAL REFORM BILL.

Lord MARSIIAM presented a petition from the Isle
of Sheppy, in Kent, against the Medical Reform Bill.
Mr. \V ODEHOUSE presented a petition from a ;.lace
in Norrolk,rgainst the Medical Reform Bill.
THE MALT-TAX.

The HoN. MEMBER also presente;l a petition from the
same place, f)r the repeal of the malt-tax.
MEDICAL REFORM BILL.

Mr. F. FRENCH presented a petition from a place
in Ireland in favour of the Medical Reform Bill.

THE MALT-TAX.

Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIEN presented a petition
from a place in Sussex for the repeal of the malt-tax.
NAVIGATION OF THE TYNE.
Mr. MATHESON presented a petition for leave to
bring in a Bill to regulate the navigation of the Tyne.

INCREASE OF THEY NAVY. -
Mr. HAWES presented a petition from certain indi-
viduals who were opposed to war, against the proposed
increase of the navy.
THE TRINITY HOUSE.
Mr. HUTT presented a petition from Hull, complain-
ing of the mode of . election of the brothers of the
Trinity House.

MEDICAL REFORM.
Mr. 0. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from York
against the Medical Reform Bill.
GAME LAWS —BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.
Mr. BRIG Irr presented a petition from Aylesbury
against the game-laAs, which the petitioners described as
tending to increase crime, and to aggravate the dis-
tress of the farmers, by destroying tk,ir crops.
MEDICAL HEFORNT.
Sir G. GREY presented a petition from some medical
practitioners of Devonport, against certain provisions of
the Medical Reform Bill.
Mr. S. WORTLEY presented a similar petition, from
a place in Yorkshire.
MINISTERIAL CHANGES—NEW WRITS.
.Mr. YOUNG moved for a new writ for the Eastern
Division of the County of Kent, in the room of the
Right Hon. Sir Edward Knatchbull, Part., who had
accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.—(Cheers and laughter.)
—Ordered.
The HoN. MISIBEII also moved fur a new writ
for the borough of Thetford, in the room of William
Bingham Baring, tsq., who had accepted the office of
her Majesty's Paymaster-General.—(Hear, hear.)
NOTICES OF MOTION.

Mr. COWPER gave notice that he would, on the 4th
of March, move for leave to bring in a Bill on the sub-
ject of gardens.
Mr. WILLIAMS gave notice that he would, in Com-
mittee on Ways and Means, move that all persons re-
ceiving public money in Ireland be subject to the same
income-tax as in Eniiland.
Mr. MACKINNON postponed his motion on> the
health of towns.
Sir R. INGLIS postponed for a week his motion on
ierra Leone.
Dr. BOWRING postponed his motion on the public
accounts till Tuesday next.
BURDENS ON LAND.
Mr. WARD gave notice that he would, on this day
fortnight, renew his motion respecting the exclusive and
particular burdens on land
SUGAR DUTIES.
Lord J. RUSSELL gave notice that he would, on
moving the order of the day for going into Committee
of Ways and Means for the purpose of proposing the
sugar duties, move a resolution by way of amendment,
.6 That it is the opinion of this House that the plan pro-
posed by her Mijesty's Government in reference to the
sugar duties, professing to keep up a distinction between
free-labour sugar and foreign slave-grown sugar, is
impolitic, snd would aggravate the evils of a protecting
duty to their colonies at the expense of the consumer;
ild tend to impair the revenue, and render the re-
moval of the property and income-tax, at the end of
three years, very improbable and uncertain."—(Hear.)