The Sun. — 1845-04-15 (London, England)

PUBLIC ACCOUNTS. Dr. BOWRING postponed his resolution for improving the public accounts to this day fortnight. Mr. FERRAND gave notice that to-morrow he would put the following question to the Right Hon. Gentleman the:Secretary for Ireland:—Whether at the late election of a temporal Peer one or more Peers did not decline to vote, en account of their conviction that the Bequests Act was a contravention of the oath of supremacy and a violation ofthe constitution of the country, and whether their reasons for so declining to vote had not been laid before the Crown lawyers for their advice upon the subject ? He would also ask whether there would be any objection to bring that opinion before the House. Mr. 11. BERKELEY postponed his motion fur a Select Committee to inquire into the effects produced upon debtors and creditors by the operation of the Insolvency Act of last session. Mr. WARD also postponed his motion for a Select Committee to inquire into the burthens peculiarly affecting the agricultural interest. Lord J. MANNERS gave notice that he should, on that day fortnight, introduce a measure to alter and amend the law of mortmain. The Earl of LINCOLN postponed his Bill relating to the inclosure of common and waste lands in England and Wales and to their better drainage. Colonel SIBTHORP gave notice that to-morrow he should move that all the petitions for and against the grant to the College of Maynooth be printed. Mr. BROTHERTON moved for a return of the number of insolvencies, bankruptcies, and sequestrations in Scotland, in each year since 1815 to the present time. Also, the number of banks of issue in Scotland from the year 1815 to the present time ; stating the name or firm of each bank ; when commenced ; the amount of capital actually subscribed ; the annual average market fprice of the shares of each ; and the annual dividends paid by each bank to the shareholders. —Agreed to. Mr. F. FRENCH intended to ask ene or two questions of the Right Hon. Gentleman the Secretary for Ireland ; first, whether a malignant fever had broken out in the Cavan workhouse, and whether that was to be imputed to improper drainage ; secondly, he wished to know if it were true that the poor-rates in Ballinasloe had been obliged to be levied with the aid of a military force ; hinny, if the poor-law guardians in the unions of Lis. vol had applied for an armed force, stating that Id be impossible for them to collect the rates witlit.  and fourthly, if it were true that the poor-ra'e collector for the county of Roscommon had been lately murdered? Ho believed he might also ask whether the Right Hon. Baronet would hold out any hope that the Irish Pcorlaw would be in any degree amended during ibis session? Sir T. FREMANTLE said that he believed it was correctly stated that some persons in the Cavan workhouse had died of fever, but that he believed was not to be in any degree ascribed to any defect of sewerage in the workhouse. With regard to the employment of military force in the collection of' pcorrates, it was quite true that a military force had been employed to protect those persons who were employed in the levying distresses for those rates. The remaining question he was unable to answer, and he could hold out no expectation that the Irish Poor-law would be in any degree altered. It had worked well hitherto; and they were determined to give it a fair trial. CLERK OF THE PEACE BILL Mr.