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  .wayback-search-1 .search-field.wayback-search svg.wayback-search {
    position: absolute;
    top: 2px;
    left: 3px;
    width: 2.4rem;
    height: 2.4rem;
  }

  .wayback-search-1 .search-field.wayback-search .fill-color.wayback-search {
    fill: #999;
  }

  @media (min-width: 890px) {
    .wayback-search-1 form.wayback-search {
      margin: 0 auto;
    }

    .wayback-search-1 p.wayback-search {
      margin-bottom: 3rem;
      font-size: 1.6rem;
      text-align: center;
    }

    .wayback-search-1 img.wayback-search {
      margin: 0;
    }

    .wayback-search-1 fieldset.wayback-search {
      margin: 0 auto;
      font-size: 0;
    }

    .wayback-search-1 fieldset.wayback-search a.wayback-search,
    .wayback-search-1 .search-field.wayback-search {
      display: inline-block;
      width: 50%;
      vertical-align: middle;
    }

    .wayback-search-1 fieldset.wayback-search a.wayback-search {
      text-align: center;
    }

    .wayback-search-1 .search-field.wayback-search svg.wayback-search {
      width: 2.8rem;
      height: 2.8rem;
    }

    .wayback-search-1 .search-field.wayback-search .fill-color.wayback-search {
      fill: #333;
    }

  }

  .wayback-search-1 p.wayback-search {
    margin-bottom: 1rem;
    font-size: 1.6rem;
    text-align: center;
  }

  .wayback-search-1 fieldset.wayback-search {
    padding: .5rem;
    border-radius: 5px;
    box-shadow: none;
  }

  .wayback-search-1 input.wayback-search {
    padding-left: 3rem;
    margin-top: .3rem;
    font-size: 1.4rem;
    border-color: #bca38e;
    background: #fff;
  }

  .wayback-search-1 input.wayback-search::placeholder,
  .wayback-search-1 input.wayback-search::-webkit-input-placeholder {
    color: #8e8e8e;
  }

  .wayback-search-1 .search-field.wayback-search svg.wayback-search {
    top: 50%;
    transform: translateY(-50%);
  }

  @media (min-width: 890px) {

    .wayback-search-1 fieldset.wayback-search a.wayback-search,
    .wayback-search-1 .search-field.wayback-search {
      display: block;
      width: auto;
    }

    .wayback-search-1 fieldset.wayback-search a.wayback-search {
      margin: 0 1.5rem;
    }

  }
</style><!-- Shady DOM styles for save-page-form -->
<style scope="save-page-form-1">
  .save-page-form-1 div.save-page-form {
    display: grid;
    grid-template-columns: 1fr auto;
    grid-column-gap: .8rem;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    border: none;
  }

  .save-page-form-1 input.save-page-form[type="text"] {
    width: 100%;
    height: 3rem;
    box-sizing: border-box;
    border: 1px solid #999;
    border-radius: .5rem;
    color: #222;
    font-size: inherit;
  }

  .save-page-form-1 input.save-page-form[type="submit"] {
    -webkit-appearance: none;
    -moz-appearance: none;
    appearance: none;
    padding: .4rem .8rem;
    font: normal 1.3rem 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
    text-transform: uppercase;
    color: #fff;
    border: none;
    border-radius: 16px;
    background: #222;
    cursor: pointer;
  }

  .save-page-form-1 .error.save-page-form {
    display: none;
    margin-top: .5rem;
    font-weight: bold;
    color: #ffcd27;
  }

  .save-page-form-1 .visible.save-page-form {
    display: block;
  }

  @media (min-width: 890px) {
    .save-page-form-1 h3.save-page-form {
      margin-top: 0;
      font: normal 100 1.6rem 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
    }

  }
</style><!-- Shady DOM styles for wayback-slider -->
<style scope="wayback-slider-1">
  .wayback-slider-1 h4.wayback-slider {
    font-size: 1.6rem;
  }

  .wayback-slider-1 a.wayback-slider {
    text-decoration: none;
    color: #fff;
  }

  .wayback-slider-1 ul.wayback-slider {
    padding: 0;
    margin: 0;
    list-style: none;
  }

  .wayback-slider-1 li.wayback-slider+li.wayback-slider {
    padding-top: 1.5rem;
  }

  @media (min-width: 890px) {
    .wayback-slider-1 h4.wayback-slider {
      margin: 0 0 1rem 0;
      font-weight: 100;
    }

    .wayback-slider-1 ul.wayback-slider {
      font-size: 1.3rem;
    }

    .wayback-slider-1 li.wayback-slider {
      padding-bottom: .5rem;
    }

    .wayback-slider-1 li.wayback-slider+li.wayback-slider {
      padding-top: 0;
    }

    .wayback-slider-1 li.wayback-slider a.wayback-slider {
      display: block;
      overflow: hidden;
      white-space: nowrap;
      text-overflow: ellipsis;
    }

  }

  @media (min-width: 890px) {
    .wayback-slider-1 {
      display: block;
      grid-column: 1 / 4;
      padding: 0 1.5rem;
    }

    .wayback-slider-1 h4.wayback-slider {
      margin-top: 0;
      font: normal 100 1.6rem 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
    }

    .wayback-slider-1 .grid.wayback-slider {
      display: grid;
      grid-template-columns: minmax(auto, 260px) 1fr minmax(auto, 260px);

      grid-column-gap: 2.5rem;
    }

    .wayback-slider-1 .link-lists.wayback-slider {
      display: grid;
      grid-template-columns: calc(50% - 1.25rem) calc(50% - 1.25rem);
      grid-column-gap: 2.5rem;
    }

  }
</style><!-- Shady DOM styles for more-slider -->
<style scope="more-slider-1">
  .more-slider-1 ul.more-slider {
    padding: 0;
    margin: -1rem 0 0 0;
    list-style: none;
  }

  .more-slider-1 a.more-slider {
    display: block;
    padding: 1rem 0;
    text-decoration: none;
    color: #fff;
  }
</style><!-- Shady DOM styles for media-subnav -->
<style scope="media-subnav-1">
  .media-subnav-1 h4.media-subnav {
    font-size: 1.6rem;
  }

  .media-subnav-1 a.media-subnav {
    text-decoration: none;
    color: #fff;
  }

  .media-subnav-1 ul.media-subnav {
    padding: 0;
    margin: 0;
    list-style: none;
  }

  .media-subnav-1 li.media-subnav+li.media-subnav {
    padding-top: 1.5rem;
  }

  @media (min-width: 890px) {
    .media-subnav-1 h4.media-subnav {
      margin: 0 0 1rem 0;
      font-weight: 100;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 ul.media-subnav {
      font-size: 1.3rem;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 li.media-subnav {
      padding-bottom: .5rem;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 li.media-subnav+li.media-subnav {
      padding-top: 0;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 li.media-subnav a.media-subnav {
      display: block;
      overflow: hidden;
      white-space: nowrap;
      text-overflow: ellipsis;
    }

  }

  .media-subnav-1 img.media-subnav {
    display: block;
    width: 90px;
    height: 90px;
    margin: 0 auto 1rem auto;
    border-radius: 45px;
  }

  .media-subnav-1 h3.media-subnav {
    margin-top: 0;
    font-size: 1.8rem;
  }

  .media-subnav-1 .icon-links.media-subnav {
    display: -webkit-box;
    display: -ms-flexbox;
    display: flex;
    -webkit-box-pack: space-evenly;
    -ms-flex-pack: space-evenly;
    justify-content: space-evenly;
    text-align: center;
  }

  .media-subnav-1 .icon-links.media-subnav a.media-subnav {
    display: inline-block;
    width: 12rem;
    margin-bottom: 1.5rem;
    overflow: hidden;
    white-space: nowrap;
    text-align: center;
    text-overflow: ellipsis;
  }

  .media-subnav-1 .icon-links.media-subnav a.media-subnav+a.media-subnav {
    margin-left: 2rem;
  }

  .media-subnav-1 .featured.media-subnav h4.media-subnav {
    display: none;
  }

  @media (min-width: 890px) {
    .media-subnav-1 {
      display: -ms-grid;
      display: grid;
      -ms-grid-columns: 40% 20% 40%;
      grid-template-columns: 40% 20% 40%;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 .wayback-search.media-subnav {
      -ms-grid-column: 1;
      -ms-grid-column-span: 3;
      grid-column: 1 / 4;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 h3.media-subnav {
      display: none;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 .icon-links.media-subnav {
      -ms-grid-column: 1;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 .icon-links.media-subnav a.media-subnav {
      padding-top: 3.5rem;
      max-width: 16rem;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 .links.media-subnav {
      padding: 0 1.5rem;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 .featured.media-subnav {
      -ms-grid-column: 2;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 .featured.media-subnav h4.media-subnav {
      display: block;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 .top.media-subnav {
      -ms-grid-column: 3;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 .top.media-subnav ul.media-subnav {
      display: -ms-grid;
      display: grid;
      -ms-grid-columns: 50% 3rem 50%;
      grid-template-columns: 50% 50%;
      -ms-grid-rows: (auto)[7];
      grid-template-rows: repeat(7, auto);
      grid-column-gap: 3rem;
      grid-auto-flow: column;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 .top.media-subnav ul.media-subnav>*.media-subnav:nth-child(1) {
      -ms-grid-row: 1;
      -ms-grid-column: 1;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 .top.media-subnav ul.media-subnav>*.media-subnav:nth-child(2) {
      -ms-grid-row: 2;
      -ms-grid-column: 1;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 .top.media-subnav ul.media-subnav>*.media-subnav:nth-child(3) {
      -ms-grid-row: 3;
      -ms-grid-column: 1;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 .top.media-subnav ul.media-subnav>*.media-subnav:nth-child(4) {
      -ms-grid-row: 4;
      -ms-grid-column: 1;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 .top.media-subnav ul.media-subnav>*.media-subnav:nth-child(5) {
      -ms-grid-row: 5;
      -ms-grid-column: 1;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 .top.media-subnav ul.media-subnav>*.media-subnav:nth-child(6) {
      -ms-grid-row: 6;
      -ms-grid-column: 1;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 .top.media-subnav ul.media-subnav>*.media-subnav:nth-child(7) {
      -ms-grid-row: 7;
      -ms-grid-column: 1;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 .top.media-subnav ul.media-subnav>*.media-subnav:nth-child(8) {
      -ms-grid-row: 1;
      -ms-grid-column: 3;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 .top.media-subnav ul.media-subnav>*.media-subnav:nth-child(9) {
      -ms-grid-row: 2;
      -ms-grid-column: 3;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 .top.media-subnav ul.media-subnav>*.media-subnav:nth-child(10) {
      -ms-grid-row: 3;
      -ms-grid-column: 3;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 .top.media-subnav ul.media-subnav>*.media-subnav:nth-child(11) {
      -ms-grid-row: 4;
      -ms-grid-column: 3;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 .top.media-subnav ul.media-subnav>*.media-subnav:nth-child(12) {
      -ms-grid-row: 5;
      -ms-grid-column: 3;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 .top.media-subnav ul.media-subnav>*.media-subnav:nth-child(13) {
      -ms-grid-row: 6;
      -ms-grid-column: 3;
    }

    .media-subnav-1 .top.media-subnav ul.media-subnav>*.media-subnav:nth-child(14) {
      -ms-grid-row: 7;
      -ms-grid-column: 3;
    }

  }
</style><!-- Shady DOM styles for media-slider -->
<style scope="media-slider-1">
  .media-slider-1 .media-slider-container.media-slider {
    position: relative;
  }

  .media-slider-1 .overflow-clip.media-slider {
    display: none;
    position: absolute;
    top: 3rem;
    right: 0;
    left: 0;
    height: 0;
    overflow: hidden;
    transition: height 0.2s ease;
  }

  .media-slider-1 .information-menu.media-slider {
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    right: 0;
    left: 0;
    padding: 0;
    height: 31.9rem;
    overflow-x: hidden;
    font-size: 1.4rem;
    background: #333;
  }

  .media-slider-1 .open.media-slider {
    display: block;
  }

  .media-slider-1 .hidden.media-slider {
    display: none;
  }

  .media-slider-1 .info-box.media-slider {
    padding: 1rem;
  }

  @media (max-width: 889px) {
    .media-slider-1 .overflow-clip.open.media-slider {
      display: block;
      height: 35.8rem;
      left: 4rem;
      top: 0;
    }

  }

  @media (min-width: 890px) {
    .media-slider-1 .overflow-clip.media-slider {
      display: block;
    }

    .media-slider-1 .information-menu.media-slider {
      left: 0;
      z-index: 3;
      height: auto;
      min-height: 21rem;
      background: #474747;
      transform: translate(0, -100%);
      transition: transform 0.2s ease;
    }

    .media-slider-1 .overflow-clip.open.media-slider {
      height: 22rem;
    }

    .media-slider-1 .information-menu.open.media-slider {
      transform: translate(0, 0);
    }

    .media-slider-1 .info-box.media-slider {
      max-width: 100rem;
      padding: 1.5rem 0;
      margin: 0 auto;
    }

  }
</style><!-- Shady DOM styles for desktop-subnav -->
<style scope="desktop-subnav-1">
  .desktop-subnav-1 ul.desktop-subnav {
    position: relative;
    z-index: 3;
    padding: .8rem 0;
    margin: 0;
    font-size: 1.2rem;
    text-transform: uppercase;
    text-align: center;
    background: #333;
  }

  .desktop-subnav-1 li.desktop-subnav {
    display: inline-block;
    padding: 0 15px;
  }

  .desktop-subnav-1 a.desktop-subnav {
    text-decoration: none;
    color: #aaa;
  }

  .desktop-subnav-1 a.desktop-subnav:hover,
  .desktop-subnav-1 a.desktop-subnav:active,
  .desktop-subnav-1 a.desktop-subnav:focus {
    color: #fff;
  }

  .desktop-subnav-1 .donate.desktop-subnav svg.desktop-subnav {
    width: 1.6rem;
    height: 1.6rem;
    vertical-align: top;
    fill: #f00;
  }
</style><!-- Shady DOM styles for signed-out-dropdown -->
<style scope="signed-out-dropdown-1">
  .signed-out-dropdown-1 .nav-container.signed-out-dropdown {
    position: relative;
  }

  .signed-out-dropdown-1 nav.signed-out-dropdown {
    position: absolute;
    right: 0;
    z-index: 4;
    overflow: hidden;
    font-size: 1.6rem;
    background-color: #333;
    transition-property: top;
    transition-duration: 0.2s;
    transition-timing-function: ease;
  }

  .signed-out-dropdown-1 .initial.signed-out-dropdown,
  .signed-out-dropdown-1 .closed.signed-out-dropdown {
    top: -1500px;
  }

  .signed-out-dropdown-1 .closed.signed-out-dropdown {
    transition-duration: 0.5s;
  }

  .signed-out-dropdown-1 .open.signed-out-dropdown {
    max-width: 100vw;
    overflow: auto;
  }

  .signed-out-dropdown-1 h3.signed-out-dropdown {
    padding: 0.6rem 2rem;
    margin: 0;
    font-size: inherit;
    overflow: hidden;
    text-overflow: ellipsis;
  }

  .signed-out-dropdown-1 ul.signed-out-dropdown {
    padding: 0.4rem 0 0.7rem 0;
    margin: 0;
    list-style: none;

    max-height: calc(100vh - 7.2rem + 1px);
    overflow: auto;
    box-sizing: border-box;
  }

  .signed-out-dropdown-1 .divider.signed-out-dropdown {
    margin: 0.5rem 0;
    border-bottom: 1px solid #666;
  }

  .signed-out-dropdown-1 a.signed-out-dropdown,
  .signed-out-dropdown-1 .info-item.signed-out-dropdown {
    display: block;
    color: #fff;
    text-decoration: none;
    padding: 1rem 2rem;
  }

  .signed-out-dropdown-1 .info-item.signed-out-dropdown {
    font-size: 0.8em;
    color: #a0a0a0;
  }

  .signed-out-dropdown-1 .callout.signed-out-dropdown {
    position: absolute;
    margin-left: 10px;
    padding: 0 5px;
    border-radius: 2px;
    background: #fee257;
    color: #2c2c2c;
    font-size: 1.4rem;
    font-weight: bold;
  }

  .signed-out-dropdown-1 a.mobile-upload.signed-out-dropdown {
    display: flex;
    justify-content: left;
    align-items: center;
  }

  .signed-out-dropdown-1 a.mobile-upload.signed-out-dropdown svg.signed-out-dropdown {
    fill: #fff;
    margin-right: 1rem;
    height: 1.4rem;
    width: 1.4rem;
  }

  @media (min-width: 890px) {
    .signed-out-dropdown-1 nav.signed-out-dropdown {
      display: flex;
      overflow: visible;
      top: 0;
      left: auto;
      z-index: 5;
      transition: opacity 0.2s ease-in-out;
      font-size: 1.4rem;
      border-radius: 2px;
      background: #fff;
      box-shadow: 0 1px 2px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15);
    }

    .signed-out-dropdown-1 nav.signed-out-dropdown:after {
      position: absolute;
      right: 7px;
      top: -7px;
      width: 12px;
      height: 7px;
      box-sizing: border-box;
      color: #fff;
      content: '';
      border-bottom: 7px solid currentColor;
      border-left: 6px solid transparent;
      border-right: 6px solid transparent;
    }

    .signed-out-dropdown-1 h3.signed-out-dropdown {
      display: none;
    }

    .signed-out-dropdown-1 ul.signed-out-dropdown {
      max-height: calc(100vh - 8.5rem + 1px);
    }

    .signed-out-dropdown-1 .divider.signed-out-dropdown {
      border-bottom-color: #666;
    }

    .signed-out-dropdown-1 a.signed-out-dropdown {
      padding: 0.5rem 2rem;
      color: #333;
      transition: background 0.1s ease-out, color 0.1s ease-out;
    }

    .signed-out-dropdown-1 .info-item.signed-out-dropdown {
      padding: 0.5rem 2rem;
      font-size: 0.8em;
      color: #6f6f6f;
    }

    .signed-out-dropdown-1 a.signed-out-dropdown:hover,
    .signed-out-dropdown-1 a.signed-out-dropdown:active,
    .signed-out-dropdown-1 a.signed-out-dropdown:focus {
      color: #fff;
      background: #4b64ff;
      outline: none;
    }

    .signed-out-dropdown-1 .initial.signed-out-dropdown,
    .signed-out-dropdown-1 .closed.signed-out-dropdown {
      opacity: 0;
      transition-duration: 0.2s;
    }

    .signed-out-dropdown-1 .open.signed-out-dropdown {
      opacity: 1;
      overflow: visible;
    }

    .signed-out-dropdown-1 a.mobile-upload.signed-out-dropdown {
      display: none;
    }

  }

  @media (min-width: 890px) {

    .signed-out-dropdown-1 .initial.signed-out-dropdown,
    .signed-out-dropdown-1 .closed.signed-out-dropdown,
    .signed-out-dropdown-1 .open.signed-out-dropdown {
      right: 18.5rem;
    }

  }

  @media (min-width: 990px) {

    .signed-out-dropdown-1 .initial.signed-out-dropdown,
    .signed-out-dropdown-1 .closed.signed-out-dropdown,
    .signed-out-dropdown-1 .open.signed-out-dropdown {
      right: 26rem;
    }

  }
</style><!-- Shady DOM styles for ia-topnav -->
<style scope="ia-topnav-1">
  .ia-topnav-1 {
    ;

    color: #fff;
    font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
  }

  .ia-topnav-1 primary-nav.ia-topnav:focus {
    outline: none !important;
  }

  .ia-topnav-1 #close-layer.ia-topnav {
    display: none;
    position: fixed;
    top: 0;
    right: 0;
    bottom: 0;
    left: 0;
    z-index: 3;
  }

  .ia-topnav-1 #close-layer.visible.ia-topnav {
    display: block;
  }

  .ia-topnav-1 .topnav.ia-topnav {
    position: relative;
    z-index: 4;
  }

  @media (max-width: 889px) {
    .ia-topnav-1 desktop-subnav.ia-topnav {
      display: none;
    }

  }
</style>
<style>
  body {
    transition: opacity ease-in 0.2s;
  }

  body[unresolved] {
    opacity: 0;
    display: block;
    overflow: hidden;
    position: relative;
  }
</style>








<ia-topnav locallinks="true" waybackpagesarchived="1 trillion" class="x-scope ia-topnav-1"><!---->
  <div class="topnav style-scope ia-topnav">
    <primary-nav class="style-scope ia-topnav x-scope primary-nav-1"><!---->
      <nav class="style-scope primary-nav">
        <button class="hamburger style-scope primary-nav" title="Open main menu"
          data-event-click-tracking="TopNav|NavHamburger">
          <icon-hamburger class="style-scope primary-nav x-scope icon-hamburger-1"><!---->
            <svg viewBox="0 0 40 40" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" aria-labelledby="hamburgerTitleID hamburgerDescID"
              class="style-scope icon-hamburger">
              <title id="hamburgerTitleID" class="style-scope icon-hamburger">Hamburger icon</title>
              <desc id="hamburgerDescID" class="style-scope icon-hamburger">An icon used to represent a menu that can be
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THE 


JOURNALS 


OF THE 


HOUSE of COMMONS. 




















JOURNALS 


OF THE | Soddbs.cant A 


HOUSE of COMMONS. 








From JANUARY the 31st, 1837, 


In the SEventH Year of the Reign of 


Kinc WILLIAM the Fourth, 


To Juty the 17th, 1837, 


In the First YEaR of the Reign of 


QUEEN VICTORIA. 


Sane. amano 


SEss. 1837. 


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Printed by Order of The House of Commons. 














Vou. 92. A2 
































JOURNALS 


OF THE 


HOUSE of COMMONS. 











VOL. 92. 




















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Message to 
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Writs issued in 
the Recess. 


Members take 


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1837. 








Martis, 31° die Januari ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi [Vt Regis, 1837. 


A MESSAGE was delivered by 
Clifford, Gentleman Usher of t 
Mr. Speaker, 
The Lords, authorized by virtue of His Majesty’s 
Commission, desire the immediate attendance of this 


Honourable House in the House of Peers, to hear 
the Commission read. 


Accordingly Mr. Speaker, with the House, went 
up to the House of Peers :—And being returned ; 


Sir Augustus 
e Black Rod: 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, that, in pur- 
suance of the directions of the Act 24 Geo. 3, ¢.26, 
he had issued his Warrants to the Clerk of the 
Crown in Great Britain, to make out new Writs for 
the election of Members to serve in Parliament for 
the Borough of Calne, in the room of the Earl of 
Kerry, deceased ; for the County of Renfrew, in 
the room of Sir Michael Shaw Stewart, Baronet, de- 
ceased ; for the Borough of Malton, in the room of 
John Charles Ramsden, Esquire, deceased ; and, 
for the Borough of Evesham, in the room of Sir 
Charles Cockerell, Baronet, deceased; and also his 
Warrant to the Clerk of the Crown in Ireland, to 
make out a new Writ for the electing of a Member 
to serve in Parliament for the County of Longford, 
in the room of Lord Viscount Forbes, deceased. 


Several Members, returned upon new Writs, took 
the Oaths required by law, and delivered to the Clerk 
of the House an Account of their Qualification. 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant 
to the Clerk of the Crown, to make out a new Writ 
for the electing of a Knight of the Shire to serve in 
this present Parliament for the County of Bucking- 


ham, in the room of James Bachwell Praed, Esquire, 
deceased. 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant 
to the Clerk of the Crown, to make out a new Writ 


for the electing of a Burgess to serve in this present 
Vor. 92, 


Parliament for the Borough of Morpeth, in the room 
of the Honourable Edward George Granville How- 
ard, who, since his election for the said Borough, 
hath accepted the office of Steward of His Majesty’s 
Manor of East Hendred, in the county of Berks. 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant Carlow County 
to the Clerk of the Crown in Jreland, to make out a W"* 
new Writ for the electing of a Knight of the Shire to 
serve in this present Parliament for the County of 
Carlow, in the room of Thomas Kavanagh, Esquire, 
deceased. 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant Dungarvan 
to the Clerk of the Crown in Jreland, to make out ¥" 
anew Writ for the electing of a Burgess to serve in 
this present Parliament for the Borough of Dun- 
garvan, in the room of Michael O’ Loghlen, Esquire, 
who, since his election for the said Borough, hath 
accepted the office of one of the Barons of His 
Majesty’s Court of Exchequer in Lreland. 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant Cashel Writ. 
to the Clerk of the Crown in Ireland, to make out a 
new Writ for the electing of a Citizen to serve in 
this present Parliament for the City of Cashel, in the 
room of Stephen Woulfe, Esquire, who, since his 
election for the said City, hath accepted the office of 
His Majesty’s Solicitor General in Lreland. 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant Anglesea Writ. 

to the Clerk of the Crown, to make out a new Writ 
for the electing of a Knight of the Shire to serve in 
this present Parliament for the County of Anglesea, 
in the room of Sir Richard Bulkeley Williams 
Bulkeley, Baronet, who, since his election for the 
said County, hath accepted the office of Steward or 
Bailiff of His Majesty’s three Chiltern Hundreds of 
Stoke, Desborough and Bonenham, in the county of 
Buckingham. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, that he had Breach of 
received a Letter from the Lord High Chancellor, and Privilege. 
also a Letter from Edmund Lechmere Charlton, Es- 
quire, a Member of this House, which Letters Mr. 
Speaker read to the House, as follow: 


Mr. Speaker, 31st Jan. 1837. 
I have the honour of making known to you, 
for the information of the House of Commons, that 
B2 I issued 













































































4, 31° Januarie. 


I issued my Warrant on the 26th of November last, 
for the commitment of Edmund Lechmere Charlton, 
Esquire, one of the Members for the Borough of 
Ludlow, for a Contempt of the High Court of 
Chancery, in writing, and — a certain Letter, 
dated the 24th of October last, to William Brougham, 
Esquire, one of the Masters of that Court; which was 
followed by a certain other Letter, dated the 9th 
of November last, addressed to myself. 


I have thought it right to make this communica- 
tion, for the purpose of accounting for the probable 
absence of the Rasunits Member, and of testify- 
ing my profound respect for the Honourable House. 


I have the honour to be, Sir, 
Your most obedient Servant, 


Cottenham. 
To the Right honourable The Speaker. 


Fendall’s Hotel, Palace-yard, 
Sir, 31st Jan. 1837. 

I have just reason to believe that Mr. William 
Pell (who is a Messenger in the Court of Chancery), 
and others employed by him, are determined, under 
the directions of the Lord Chancellor, to interrupt 
me in my progress to the House of Commons this 
day; and I humbly request, therefore, as I am 
thereby deterred from attending, that you will vouch- 
safe to extend to me your protection. 

I seek not to vihiewe myself from the criminal 
jurisdiction of the Realm, well knowing the privi- 
lege of Parliament, which is allowed in cases of 
public service for the Commonwealth, must not be 
used to the danger of the Commonwealth. 

To be protected, however, from any violence of the 
Crown, or its Ministers, is, I apprehend, the esta- 
blished and undoubted privilege of a Member of 
Parliament. To this hour I know not of what Iam 
accused, except from public report; but, neverthe- 
less, I ask for no more than to be allowed, without 
molestation, to take my Seat, that I may state what 
I do know of the matter to the House, and then 
bow with all respect to their decision, be it what 
it may. 

I have the honour to be, Sir, 
Your obedient, humble servant, 
To the E. L. Charlton. 
Right honourable The Speaker. 


Ordered, That the said Letters be printed; and 
taken into consideration To-morrow. 


Outlawries A Bill for the more effectual preventing Clan- 
Bill. destine Outlawries, was read the first time; and 
ordered to be read a second time. 


Mr, Speaker Mr. Speaker reported, that the House had been at 
ary . the House of Peers, at the desire of the Lords Com- 
ommis- - e ° 

sioners’ Speech, Missioners appointed under the Great Seal for hold- 
ing this present Parliament; and that the Lord 
High Chancellor, being one of the said Commis- 
sioners, made a Speech to both Houses of Parlia- 
ment ; of which Mr. Speaker said he had, to prevent 
mistakes, obtained a Copy, which he read to the 
House, as followeth : 


My Lords and Gentlemen, 


We are commanded by His Majesty to acquaint 
yous that His Majesty continues to receive from all 

oreign Powers the strongest assurances of their 
friendly disposition, and His Majesty trusts that 
the experience of the blessings which oa confers 
upon Nations will tend to confirm and secure the 
present tranquillity. 

His Majesty laments that the civil contest which 
has agitated the Spanish Monarchy has not yet 
been brought to a close; but His Majesty has con- 
tinued to afford to the Queen of Spain that aid 
which, by the Treaty of Quadruple Alliance of 
1834, His Majesty engaged to give, if it should 
become necessary; and His Majesty rejoices that 


A. 1837. 


His co-operating force has rendered useful assistance 
to the troops of her Catholic Majesty. 

Events have happened in Portugal, which for a 
time threatened to disturb the internal peace of that 
country. His Majesty ordered, in consequence, a 
temporary augmentation of His Naval force in the 
Tagus, for the more effectual protection of the per- 
sons and property of His subjects resident in Lis- 
bon; and the Admiral commanding His Majesty’s 
squadron was authorized, in case of need, to afford 
protection to the person of the Queen of Portugal, 
without, however, interfering in those constitutional 
questions which divided the conflicting parties. 

His Majesty has directed the Reports of the Com- 
missioners appointed to inquire into the state of the 
Province of Lower Canada to be laid before you, 
and has ordered us to call your attention to that 
amperes subject. 

e have it also in charge to recommend for your 
serious deliberation those provisions which will be 


‘submitted to you for the improvement of the Law, 


and of the administration of Justice; assuring you 
that His Majesty’s anxiety for the accomplishment 
of these objects remains undiminished. 

We are enjoined to convey to you His Majesty’s 
desire that you should consult upon such further 
measures as may give increased stability to the Esta- 
blished Church, and promote concord and good- 
will. 


Gentlemen of the House of Commons, 


The Estimates of the year have been prepared 
with every desire to meet the exigencies of the Public 
Service in the spirit of a wise economy. His Ma- 
jesty has directed them to be laid before you without 
delay. The increase of the Revenue has hitherto 
more than justified the expectations created by the 
receipts of former years. 

His Majesty recommends an early renewal of 
your inquiries into the operation of the Act per- 
mitting the establishment of Joint Stock Banks. 
The best security against the mismanagement of 
Banking affairs must ever be found in the capacity 
and integrity of those who are entrusted with the 
administration of them, and in the caution and the 
prudence of the public; but no legislative regula- 
tion should be omitted which can increase and in- 
sure the stability of establishments upon which com- 
mercial credit so much depends. 


My Lords and Gentlemen, 


His Majesty has more especially commanded us 
to bring under your notice the state of Ireland, and 
the wisdom of adopting all such measures as ma 
improve the condition of that part of the United 
Kingdom. His Majesty recommends to your earl 
consideration the present constitution of the Muni- 
cipal Corporations of that country, the laws which 
regulate the collection of Tithes, and the difficult 
but pressing question of establishing some legal 
provision for the Poor, guarded by prudent regu- 
lations, and by such precautions against abuse, as 
your experience and knowledge of the subject enable 
you to suggest. 

His Majesty commits these great interests into 
your hands, in the confidence that you will be able 
to frame Laws in accordance with the wishes of His 
Majesty, and the expectations of His people. His 
Majesty is persuaded, that should this hope be 
fulfilled, you will not only contribute to the welfare 
of Ireland, but strengthen the Law and Constitution 
of these Realms, by securing their benefits to all 
classes of His Majesty’s subjects. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Resolution for 
to His Majesty, to offer our humble Thanks for “¢4"*: 
the gracious Speech which His Majesty has directed 
to be delivered by the Lords Commissioners. 

To express our satisfaction at learning that His 
Majesty continues to receive from all Foreign Pow- 
ers the strongest assurances of their friendly dispo- 





sition, 











7 Witt. LV. 


sition, and our participation in His Majesty’s con- | 
fidence that the experience of the blessings which | 
Peace confers upon Nations will tend to confirm 
and secure the present tranquillity : 

To state that we lament with His Majesty, that 
the civil contest which has agitated the Spanish 
Monarchy has not yet been brought to a close, but 
that we learn with satisfaction that His Majesty 
has continued to afford to the Queen of Spain that aid | 
which, by the Treaty of 1834, His Majesty engaged | 
to give if it should become necessary, and we re- | 
joice that His Majesty’s co-operating force has ren- 
dered useful assistance to the troops of her Catholic 
Majesty : 

To express our regret that events have happened 
in Portugal which for a time threatened to disturb 
the internal peace of that country; and to thank 
His Majesty for having ordered in consequence a 
temporary augmentation of His naval force in the 
Tagus, for the more effectual protection of the per- 
sons and property of His subjects resident in Lisbon, 
and for authorizing the Admiral commanding His 
Majesty’s squadron, in case of need, to afford pro- 
tection to the person of the Queen of Portugal, 
without, however, interfering in those constitutional 
questions which divided the conflicting parties: '» 

To offer our humble acknowledgments to His 
Majesty for having directed the Reports of the Com- 
missioners appointed to inquire into the state of 
Lower Canada to be laid before us, and to assure 
His Majesty that we will give our attention to that 
a ee subject : 

umbly to acquaint His Majesty, that we will not 
fail seriously to Taicsle upon the provisions which 
may be submitted to us for the improvement of the 
law and of the administration of justice, and to 
assure His Majesty that our anxiety for the accom- 
plishment of these objects also remains undi- 
minished : 

To submit that, in obedience to His Majesty’s ex- 
pressed desire, we will consult upon such further 
measures, aS may give increased stability to the 
Established Church, and promote concord and good- 
will : 

Humbly to thank His Majesty for ordering the 
Estimates of the year to be prepared with every 
desire to meet the exigencies of the Public Service, 
in the spirit of a wise economy, and for directing 
them to be laid before us without delay: 

That we rejoice to learn that the increase of the 
Revenue has hitherto more than justified the expec- 
tations created by the receipts of former years’: 

That we are sensible of the importance of an early 
renewal of our inquiries into the operation of the 
Act permitting the establishment of Joint Stock 
Banks: 

That we participate in the opinion, that the best 
security against the mismanagement of banking 
affairs must ever be found in the capacity and integ- 
rity of those who are intrusted with the administration 
of them, and in the caution and prudence of the 
public ; but we are, nevertheless, persuaded, that no 
legislative regulation should be omitted which can 
increase and insure the stability of establishments 
upon which commercial credit so much depends : 

Humbly to assure His Majesty, that we will 
direct our attention to the state of Jreland, which 
His Majesty has been graciously pleased to bring 
especially under our notice; and that, convinced 
of the wisdom of adopting all such measures as may 
improve the condition of that part of the United 
Kingdom, we will take into our early consideration 
the present constitution of the Municipal Corpora- 
tions of that country, the laws which regulate the 
collection of tithes, and the difficult but pressing 
question of establishing some legal provision for the 
poor, guarded by prudent regulations, and by such 
perresecne against abuse as our experience and 

nowledge of the subject may enable us to suggest : 

To express our gratitude for the confidence with 

Von. 92. 





31° Januarz.—1° Februariz. 


5 


which His Majesty commits these interests into our 
hands, and to declare to His Majesty that we 
entirely share in His Majesty’s persuasion, that 
should we be able to frame laws upon these matters in 


| accordance with the wishes of His Majesty and the 


sapere of His people, we shall not only con- 
tribute to the welfare of Lreland, but strengthen the 
law and constitution of these Realms, by securing 
their benefits to all classes of His Majesty’s Sub- 
jects.” 


Ordered, That a Committee be —— to draw Committee 
up an Address to be presented to His Majesty upon to draw up 
the said Resolution :-~And a Committee was a dress. 
pointed of Mr. Ayshford Sanford, Mr. Villiers 

Stuart, Lord John Russell, Mr. Chancellor of the 
Exchequer, Lord Viscount Palmerston, Lord Vis- 

count Howick, Mr. Poulett Thomson, Sir John Hob- 

house, Lord Viscount Morpeth, Mr. Attorney General, 

Mf. Solicitor General, Mr. Bernal, Mr. Baring, 

Mr. Edward John Stanley, Mr. Charles Wood, Mr. 

Robert Steuart, and the Lord Advocate, or any Five 

of them :—And they are to withdraw immediately. 


Ordered, That the Speech of the Lords Commis- Speech referred. 
sioners to both Houses of Parliament be referred 
to the Committee. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 





Mercurii, 1° die Februari ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi [Vt Regis, 18 37. 
PRAYERS. 


PETITION of several Persons whose names London and 
are thereunto subscribed, for leave to bring in Brighton 
a Bill for making a Railway from London to Brighton, (Stop onson’s 
to commence on the line of, and to form a commu- Line.) 
nication with, the intended Railway from London to 
Southampton, was presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Land-owners in the counties of Sur- London and 
rey and Sussex, and Inhabitants of London, Croydon a Rail- 
and Reigate, in the county of Surrey, and Brighton, Live) saseans 
in the county of Sussex, for leave to bring in a Bil for 
making a Railway communication between the Me- 
tropolis and the towns of Brighton, Shoreham, Lewes, 
and the port of Newhaven, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Trustees for executing the Act for Lobley Hill 
repairing the Road from the Turnpike Road between Read. 
Gateshead and Hexham, and Lobley Hill, in the 
County of Durham, to Burtryford, in the Parish of 
Stanhope, in the same County, together with several 
Branches therefrom, for leave to bring in a Bill for 
amending and enlarging the term and powers of the 
said Act, and for altering and increasing the Tolls, 
was presented, and read, and a Bill was ordered to 
be brought in accordingly, by Mr. Bowes and Mr. 
Pease. 


A Petition of Justices of the Peace of the county worcester 
of Worcester, for leave to bring in a Bill for enabling County Hall. 
them to raise a further sum of money for carryin 
into effect an Act passed in the first and sasoad 
years of His present Majesty, for erecting a County 
Hall and Courts of Justice, and also for providing 
accommodation for His Majesty’s Justices of Assize 
in and for the county of Worcester, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Company of Proprietors of the Ejjesmere and 
Ellesmere and Chester Canal, for leave to bring in Chester Canal, 
a Bill to alter and amend the several Acts enabling 
them to make a Reservoir, and to establish Vessels 
for the conveyance of goods from Ellesmere Port 
across the River Mersey, and also to amend and 
enlarge the powers of the Act relating to the said 








B3 Canal, 








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Standing 
Orders. 


Clarence (Dur- 
ham) Railway. 


Cranfield 
Inclosure. 


Torquay 


Roads. 


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Leicester 
Corporation 
Estates. 


Aberdeen 
Roads. 


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Canal, and to enable the said Company to raise a 
further sum of money, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed, 
to whom shall be referred all Reports from Com- 
mittees on Petitions for Private Bills, in which it 
shall be stated, that any of the Standing Orders of 
this House have not been complied with; and to 
report their opinion thereupon from time to time to 
the House:—And a Committee was appointed of 
Sir John Wrottesley, Sir George Clerk, Lord Viscount 
Clive, Lord Viscount Ebrington, Mr. Estcourt, Sir 
Thomas Fremantle, Mr. Montagu Chapman, Sir James 
Graham, Sir Edward Knatchbull, Mr. Wilson Patten, 
Mr. Pendarves, Sir Robert Price, Lord Viscount 
Sandon, Sir George Strickland, and Mr. Alderman 
Wood, with Power to send for persons, papers and 
records. 

Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 


A Petition of the Company of Proprietors of the 
Clarence Railway, for leave to bring in a Bill to alter 
and amend the several Acts for making a Railway 
from the River Tees, near Haverton Hill, in the 
Parish of Billingham, to a place called Sim Pasture 
Farm, w the Parish of Heighington, all in the 
County of Durham, with certain Branches there- 
from, and to enable them to raise a further capital or 
joint stock, was presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Owners or Proprietors of land in 
the parish of Cranfield, in the county of Bedford, 
for leave to bring in a Bill for dividing, allotting and 
inclosing several open fields and commonable and 
waste lands and grounds im the said parish, was pre- 
sented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
brought in accordingly, by Lord Charles Russell and 
Lord Viscount Alford. 


A Petition of Trustees for executing an Act for 
more effectually making and repairing the Roads 
between Newton Abbott and Brixham, Kingswear 
and Dartmouth, Shaldon and Torquay, and also be- 
tween Torquay and Saint Mary Church, and the 
Bridge to be built over the River Teign at Shaldon, 
and for making and repairing several other Roads 
communicating therewith, all in the county of Devon, 
for leave to bring in a Bill for continuing the term 
and altering and enlarging the powers of the said 
Act, and for making and maintaining certain new 
lines of road, was presented, and read ; and a Bill 
was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Sir 
John Yarde Buller and Mr. Montague Parker. 


A Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses 
of Leicester, for leave to bring in a Bill to empower 
them to sell and dispose of so much of their Real 
Estates as will enable them to pay off and discharge 
the monies borrowed upon the credit of the rates of 
the said borough, and to pay and satisfy the interest 
of the said monies so borrowed, until the principal 
shall have been discharged by and out of the rents 
and annual profits of the said Real Estates, was pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Owners, Proprietors or Occupiers 
of land in several parishes in the county of Aberdeen, 
for leave to bring in a Bill for making and maintain- 
ing several lines of road in the said county, was 
ga and read; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 


A Petition of Commissioners for executing several 
Acts for regulating the Police of the city of Edin- 
burgh and adjoining districts, and for other purposes, 
for leave to bring in a Bill to continue, alter, enlarge, 


explain and amend the said Acts, was presented,| S$ 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


1° Februari. 





A. 1837. 


A Petition of Proprietors of estates, and others Carlton and 
enjoying rights of common, for leave to bring in a Lofthouse 
Bill for inclosing, dividing and allotting divers com- "°°" 
mon and waste lands within the hamlet. of Carlton, 
in the township of Lofthouse-cum-Carlton, in the 
parish of Rothwell, in the West Riding of the county 
of York, was presented, and read; and a Bill was 
ordered to be rough in accordingly, by Sir John 
Beckett and Mr. Baines. 


A Petition of Bankers, Merchants, Traders and Belfast 
others interested in the improvement of the Port H#bou. 
and Harbour of Belfast, in the county of Antrim, 
for leave to bring in a Bill to alter and amend an 
Act passed in the first and second years of the reign 
of His present Majesty for the further improvement 
of the said Port and Harbour, and for other pur- 
poses, was presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


A Petition of Traders and Inhabitants of the se- Hinckley 
veral parishes, townships, hamlets and places here-S™*!! Debts. 
inafter mentioned, for leave to bring in a Bill for a 
more easy and speedy method of recovering Small 
Debts within the townships, hamlets or places of 
Hinckley, in the counties of Leicester and Warwick, 
or one of them, and of Wykin, Burbage, Sketchley, 

Earl Shilton, Barwell, Sharnford, Sapcote, Ston 
Stanton, Aston Flamville, Elmsthorpe, Stoke Gold- 
ing, Higham-on-the-Hill, Stapleton and Dadlington, 
all in the county of Leicester, and of Wolvey, Burton, 
Hastings, Stretton, Baskerville and the Hydes, all 
in the county of Warwick, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Owners and Occupiers of houses, Runcorn Gas. 

lands and buildings in the town of Runcorn, other- 
wise called Higher Runcorn and Lower Runcorn, 
and within the township or chapelry of Halton, both 
in the parish of Runcorn, in the county of Chester, 
for leave to bring in a Bill for lighting with Gas the 
said town, and the contiguous parts of the said town- 
ship or chapelry, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Stockton-upon- Tees ;— Edinburgh ; Church Rates, 
—Alcester ;— Modbury ;— Tamworth ;— Bradford, 
Wilts, (Countess of Huntingdon’s Chapel) ;—Brad- 
ford, Wilts, (Independents) (two Petitions) ;— Holt ; 
~——and, Bradford, Wilts, (Baptists); praying for the 
abolition of Church Rates,—were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Merchants, Traders, and others of sheriffs Courts. 
Brighton, for extending the recovery of debts in 
Sheriffs’ Courts to debts under 501., and to giving 
redress by law against married women living apart 
from their husbands, and receiving credit on their 
own account, was presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions of Governors and Subscribers to the Grand Juries 
Bandon Dispensary and Fever Hospital ;—and, (iel"4) Act 
Innishannon Dispensary, praying for the repeal of 
the Clause in the Grand Juries (Ireland) Act, 
passed in the last Session of Parliament, affecting 
the salaries of medical superintendents of dispen- 
saries, — were presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Procurators before the Sheriff Court Attormies’ 
of Dumbartonshire, praying for the repeal of the ©" 
annual license Duty imposed upon attornies and 
agents practising in the courts of law in Scotland, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of Consumers of Soap in Port Glas- Soap. 
gow, praying for the repeal of the excise Duty on 

oap, was } aoe and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 





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Orders and 
Resolutions. 
Petitions 
against Returns 
(Great Britain.) 


D° - (Ireland.) 


Transmission of 
Petitions from 
Treland. 


Petitions 
alleging 
Bribery. 


Peers. 


Peers of 
Treland. 


Bribery. 


Witnesses, 


7 Witt. IV. 


Ordered, That all persons who will question any 
Returns of Members to serve in Parliament for any 
County, City, Borough or place in Great Britain, 
do question the same within fourteen days next, and 
so within fourteen days next after any new Return 
shall be brought in. 

Ordered, That all persons who will question any 
Returns of Members to serve in Parliament for Ire- 
land, do question the same by presenting a Petition 
to this House within fourteen days next, and so 
within fourteen days next after any new Return 
shall have been brought into the office of the Clerk 
of the Crown of Great Britain, or by lodging a Pe- 
tition in the Office of the Clerk of the Crown in 
Treland, within fourteen days next, and so within 
fourteen days next after any new Return shall have 
been brought into the said office of the Clerk of the 
Crown in Great Britain. 

Ordered, That when any such Petition shall have 
been lodged in the said office of the Clerk of the 
Crown in Ireland, within the time before limited, 
the said Clerk shall forthwith make a Copy thereof, 
to be preserved in the said office, and immediately 
thereupon shall transmit such original Petition (in 
the method used in conveying Returns of Writs) to 
The Speaker of the House of Commons, to be b 
him laid before the House ; and that in case no ve 4 
Petition shall have been lodged in the said office 
within the time before limited, the said Clerk of the 
Crown shall forthwith transmit a certificate in the 
like manner to The Speaker of the House of Com- 
mons, signed by himself, or his Deputy, specifying 
the time when such Return was made, and that no 
such Petition had been lodged in his office previous 
to the date of such certificate. 

Ordered, That all persons who shall question any 
Return of Members to serve in the present Parlia- 
ment, upon any allegation of bribery or corruption, 
and who shall in their Petition specifically allege 
any payment of money or other reward to have been 
made by any Member, or on his account, or with his 
privity, since the time of such Return, in pursuance 
or in furtherance of such bribery or corruption, may 
question the same at any time within twenty-eight 
days after the date of such payment; or, if this 
House be not sitting at the expiration of the said 
twenty-eight days, then within fourteen days after 
the day when the House shall next meet. 

Resolved, That no Peer of this Realm, except 
such Peers of Jreland as shall for the time being be 
actually elected, and shall not have declined to serve 
for any county, city or borough of Great Britain, 
hath any right to give his vote in the election of any 
Member to serve in Parliament. 

Resolved, That it is a high infringement of the 
liberties and privileges of the Commons of the United 
Kingdom, for any Lord of Parliament or other Peer 
or Prelate, not being a Peer of Jreland at the time 
elected, and not having declined to serve for any 
county, city or borough of Great Britain, to concern 
himself in the Election of Members to serve for the 
Commons in Parliament, except only any Peer of 
freland at such elections in Great Britain respec- 
tively, where such Peer shall appear as a Candidate, 
or by himself, or any others, be proposed to be 
elected ; or for any Lord Lieutenant or Governor of 
any county, to avail himself of any authority derived 
trom his commission, to influence the election of any 
Member to serve for the Commons in Parliament. 

Resolved, That if it shall appear that any person 
hath been elected or returned a Member of this 
House, or endeavoured so to be, by Bribery, or an 
other corrupt practices, this House will proceed with 
the utmost severity against all such persons as shall 
have been wilfully concerned in such a or other 
corrupt practices. 

Resolved, That if it shall appear that any person 
hath been tampering with any Witness, in respect 
of his evidence to be given to this House, or an 


Committee thereof, or directly or indirectly hath 
Vou, 92. 


1° Februari. 7 


endeavoured to deter or hinder any person from ap- 
pearing or giving evidence, the same is declared to 
be a high crime and misdemeanor; and this House 
will proceed with the utmost severity against such 
offender. 

Resolved, That if it shall appear that any person 
hath given false evidence in any case before this 
House, or any Committee thereof, this House will 
proceed with the utmost severity against such 
offender. 


posed That the Serjeant-at-Arms attending this 
ouse do, from time to time, take into his custody 
any Stranger or Strangers that he shall see, or be 
informed of to be, in the House or Gallery while the 
House, or any Committee of the whole House, is 
sitting ; and that no person so taken into custody 
be discharged out of custody without the special 
Order of the House ; 

An Amendment was proposed to’be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the words “That the” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the words 
“ public be freely admitted into the Strangers’ Gal- 
“ Jery without a Member’s order, as well as without 
“ any fee to the Officers of this House; but that 
the Strangers’ Gallery continue to be cleared (as 
at present) on the motion of a Member, and during 
the Divisions of the House,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Question ; 
he House divided : 

The Yeas to the old Lobby ; 

The Noes to the new Lobby. m 

Tellers for the Yeas, {ur cone Fatt ‘ } 172. 

Mr. Ewart, 

Tellers forthe Aes Mr. Wakley : } 11 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That the Serjeant-at-Arms attending 
this House do from time to time take into his cus- 
tody any Stranger or Strangers that he shall see or 
be informed of to be in the as or Gallery, while 
the House, or any Committee of the whole House 
is sitting ; and that no person so taken into custody 
be discharged out of custody without the special 
order of the House. 

Ordered, That no Member of this House do pre- 
sume to bring any Stranger or Strangers into the 
House or Gallery thereof, while the House is sitting. 


of Middlesex and Westminster do take care that 
during the Session of Parliament the passages 
through the streets between Temple Bar and West- 
minster Hall shall be kept free and open; and that 
no obstructions be made by cars, drays, carts or 
otherwise, to hinder the passage of the Members to 
and from this House; and that the Serjeant-at-Arms 
attending this House do give notice of this Order 
to the Officers aforesaid. 

Ordered, That the Constables. in waiting do take 
care that there be no Gaming or other disorders in 
Westminster Hall, or the passages leading to the 
House, during the sitting of Parliament, and that 
there be no annoyance by chairmen, footmen or 
otherwise, therein or thereabouts. 

Ordered, That the said Orders be sent to the High 
Bailiff of Westminster; and that he do see the same 
put in execution. 


within the Lobby of the House, or upon the stairs 
leading thereto. 

Ordered, That the Serjeant-at-Arms attending 
this House do take care that there be no Gaming 
or other disorders in the room appointed for the 
Footmen attending the Members of this House to 
wait in. 

Ordered, That the Serjeant-at-Arms attending 
this House do take into his custody such Footmen 
_as shall presume to disobey the Orders of the House ; 
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A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- Strangers, 


Ordered, That the Constables and other Officers Constables. 


Ordered, That no Footman be permitted to be Footmen. 





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Letters. 


Votes and 
Proceedings. 


Private Bills. 
No, 1. 


Prayers. 


Select 
Committees, 





8 1° Februarie. A. 1837. 


and that no such Footmen be ree out of cus- 
tody but by the special Order of the House. 

Ordered, That, to prevent the intercepting or 
losing of Letters directed to Members of this House, 
the person appointed to bring Letters from the 
General Post Office to this House, or some other 
person to be appointed by the Postmaster General, 
do for the future every day during the Session of 
Parliament, Sundays excepted, constantly attend, 
from ten of the clock in the morning till seven in the 
afternoon, at the place appointed for the delivery of 
the said Letters, and take care during his stay there 
to deliver the same to the several Members to whom 
they shall be directed, or to their known servant or 
servants, or others bringing notes under the hands 
of the Members sending for the same. 


Ordered, That the said officer do, upon his going 
away, lock up such Letters as shall remain unde- 
livered ; and that no Letter be delivered but within 
the hours aforesaid. 

Ordered, That the said Orders be sent to the 
Postmaster General. 

Ordered, That when any Letter or Packet directed 
to this House shall come to Mr. Speaker, he do 
open the same; and acquaint the House, at their 
next sitting, with the contents thereof, if proper to 
be communicated to this House. 

Ordered, That the Votes and Proceedings of this 
House be printed, being first perused by Mr. Speaker; 
and that he do appoint the printing thereof; and 
that no person but such as he shall appoint do pre- 
sume to print the same. 

The House was moved, That the Standing Order 
of the House of the 18th day of June 1811, “ That 
all Petitions for Private Bills be presented within 
fourteen days after the first Friday in the next and 
every future Session of Parliament,” might be read ; 
and the same being read ; 

Resolved, That this House will not receive any 
Petition for Private Bills after Friday, the 17th day 
of this instant February. 

Resolved, That no Private Bill be read the 
first time after Monday, the 20th day of March 
next. 

Resolved, That this House will not receive any 
Report of such Private Bill after Monday, the 5th 
day of June next. 

Ordered, That the said Resolutions be printed. 


Ordered, That the Serjeant-at-Arms attending 
this House do from time to time, when the House 
is going to Prayers, give notice thereof to all Com- 
mittees; and that all proceedings of Committees 
after such notice be declared to be null and 
void, 

“ Resolved, That no Select Committee shall, with- 
out previous leave obtained of the House, consist 
of more than fifteen Members ; that such leave shall 
not be moved for without notice; and that, in the 
case of Members proposed to be added or substituted, 
after the first appointment of the Committee, the 
notice shall include the names of the Members pro- 
posed to be added or substituted. 

“ Resolved, That Lists be affixed in some con- 
spicuous place in the Committee Clerks’ Office, and 
in the Lobby of the House, of all Members serving 
on each Select Committee. 

“3. Resolved, That it be recommended to every 
Member moving for the appointment of a Select 
Committee, to ascertain previously whether each 
Member proposed to be named by him on such 
Committee will give his attendance thereupon. 

“ Resolved, That to every question asked of a 
witness under examination in the proceedings of any 
Select Committee, there be prefixed in the Minutes 
of the Evidence, the name of the Member asking 
such question. 

“ Resolved. That the names of the Members pre- 
sent each day, on the sitting of any Select Committee, 


be entered on the Minutes of Evidence, or on the 
Minutes of the proceedings of the Committee (as 
the case may be), and reported to the House on the 
Report of such Committee. 

“ Resolved, That, in the event of any division 
taking place in any Select Committee, the Question 
proposed, the name of the Proposer, and the respec- 
tive votes thereupon of each Member present, be 
entered on the Minutes of Evidence, or on the 
Minutes cf the Proceedings of the Committee (as 
the case may be), and reported to the House on the 
Report of such Committee. 


The House was moved, That the Standing Order Petitions for 
of the House of the 19th day of August, in the last Private Bills. 
Session of Parliament, relative to the appointment 
of a Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills, 
might be read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed, 
to whom all Petitions for Private Bills are to be re- 
ferred, except those for making any Turnpike Road, 
or to continue or amend any Act for making, main- 
taining, keeping in repair, or improving any Turnpike 
Road :—And a Committee was appointed of Mr. 
Shaw Lefevre, Mr. Evelyn Denison, Mr. Robert 
Palmer, Mr. Charles Barclay, The O’ Conor Don, 
Mr. Wrightson, Mr. Pease, Mr. Hawes, Mr. Henry 
Handley, Mr, Greene, Sir Harry Verney, Mr. Craw- 
ford, Mr. Ayshford Sanford, Mr. Cnaiin, Mr. 
Diwvett, Lord Worsley, Mr. Plumptre, Mr. Aglionby, 
Mr. Bowes, Mr. p eit Baring, Mr. George 
Philips, Mr. Robert Clive, Mr. William Gordon, 
Mr. Strutt, Sir John Yarde Buller, Mr. Chalmers, 
Mr. Fergus, Mr. Hope Johnstone, Mr. Horsman, Mr. 
Poulter, Mr. Villiers Stuart, Mr. Morgan John 
O’ Connell, Mr. Vesey, Mr. Bramston, Mr. Halford, 
Mr. Hale, Lord Viscount Eastnor, Mr. Tatton Eger- 
ton, Mr. Bell, Mr. Henry Marwell, Mr. Woodhouse, 
and Mr. Hope. 


The House was moved, That the Resolutions of Divisions of the 
the House of the 18th day of February, in the last House. 
Session of Parliament, relative to Divisions of the 
House, might be read ; and the same were read, as 
follow : 

“ Resolved, That, upon every Division, the House 
be entirely cleared ; the Yeas and the Noes being 
sent forth into two separate Lobbies. 

“ Resolved, That Four Tellers and Four Clerks 
be appointed, two of each to be stationed at the 
entrance of the respective Lobbies. 


“ Resolved, That the doors being simultaneously 
opened by the Speaker’s order, the Names of the 
Members be taken down by the Clerks on ruled 
paper, with numbered lines (or marked off upon a 
printed List), as they re-enter the House by the 
opposite Door, the Tellers counting, and announcing 
the result at the Table, as at present. 


“ Resolved, That the Lists of the Division be then 
brought up to the Table by the Tellers, and depo- 
sited there, for insertion, in alphabetical order, in 
the Votes.” 

Resolved, That the present mode of publishing 
Division Lists be extended to Divisions when the 
House is in Committee, in all cases where five Mem- 
bers shall require it. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, that he had Election Peti- 
received from the Deputy Clerk of the Crown and ticns eT 
Hanaper in Ireland, a Petition of Charles Fox, Esq.; nn 
and also,a Petition of Lovell Edgeworth, Esq. and 
others, Freeholders, complaining of an undue Elec- 
tion and Return for the county of Longford: And 
the said Petitions were laid upon the Table. 

A Petition of Charles Fox, of Rutland-square, in Longford 
the city of Dublin, Esquire, was read ; setting forth, nage i 
That the Petitioner was a Candidate at the last position of 
Election for a Member to serve in this Parliament Charles Fox, 


for the County of Longford; that at the said Esq- 





election 











the 








7 Wit. IV. 


election Luke White, Esquire, was also a Candi- 
date duly nominated as a fit and proper person 
to serve in Parliament for the said county; that on 
Friday, the thirtieth day of December last, the 
oll was closed at said Election, when the High 
Sheriff of said county unduly declared the said 
Luke White to be duly elected, although the majo- 
rity of legal voters was given in favour of the Peti- 
tioner; that, pursuant to the Act to amend the Re- 
presentation of the People of Jrelund,a special session 
for the purpose of registering voters, was appointed 
by the Lord Lieutenant of Lreland, to be holden in 
the county of Longford, to commence at Longford, 
on Wednesday, the tenth day of October, one thou- 
sand eight hundred and thirty-two, and John Francis 
Fosberry, Esquire, barrister-at-law, was, pursuant to 
said Act, duly appointed by warrant under the hand 
of the Lord Lieutenant of Zreland, to be Deputy of 
the Assistant Barrister for the said county of Long- 
ford, for the duty of presiding at the special session 
so first to be held for registermg votes, and all the 
ea duties, rights and privileges of the Assistant 
arrister of the said county of Longford, were, by 
virtue of such warrant, given to and imposed upon 
the said John Francis Fosberry ; that the said John 
Francis Fosberry undertook the said duty, and pro- 
ceeded with the registration of voters accordingly ; 
that the said special session was continued by seve- 
ral adjournments from the said tenth day of October 
one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, until 
the fifteenth day of November in the same year, 
when James Doherty, Esquire, a barrister, was, under 
colour of a warrant professing to be under the hand 
of the Lord Lieutenant of Jreland, illegally ap- 
pointed for the duty of presiding as Deputy to the 
Assistant Barrister of the said county of Longford, 
at the said special session for the registration of 
votes for the said county, the rights, powers and 
authorities of the said John Francis Fosberry bein 
in no manner revoked, recalled or annulled, and the 
said John Francis Fosberry still continuing in exer- 
cise of all the rights, powers and authorities so 
given to him by the warrant first hereinbefore men- 
tioned, and the appointment of the said James 
Doherty was wholly void, inoperative, and contrary 
to law, and gave to or vested in him no power, 
authority or jurisdiction whatsoever; and the re- 
gistry so held by him thereunder was coram non 
judice, and the persons so by him entered on the 
registry thereby acquired no right of voting; that, 
from and after the said respective times of their 
appointments, the said John Francis Fosberry and 
James Doherty sat daily in the court-house of 
Longford, in separate courts, and each separately 
determined upon the validity of the claims of per- 
sons coming forward to register, and each adjudged 
and declared claimants to be eutitled to be regis- 
tered, and each signed certificates declaratory of the 
right of such persons to vote; that the list of claim- 
ants to be registered was, in obedience to the Act 
of Parliament, called over three several times; 
and that, on the twenty-second of November, the 
said special session for registration of votes was by 
public proclamation duly closed; that a great num- 
ber of persons who were not qualified to vote for 
Knights of the Shire for said County, of persons 
who were disqualified, of persons who had ceased 
to be qualified, of persons who were not entitled by 
estate, and of persons who were not entitled by 
reason of the value of their holdings, were, by many 
decisions of the said John Francis Fosberry and 
James Doherty, which Petitioner is advised and be- 
lieves to be contrary to law, unduly admitted to be 
registered, and unduly obtained certificates, which, 
so long as they continue,will entitle them to vote,and 
also to re-register, on the production thereof, without 
further proof on oath; and a large number of per- 
sons whose registry was invalid, in not being con- 
formable to law, did in like manner unduly procure 
certificates objectionable as aforesaid; that a large 
Vot. 92. 





1° Februari. 9 


number of persons whose claims ought to have been 
rejected, were admitted to be registered as free- 
holders, by virtue of alleged freeholds under leases 
of land for a life or lives made by a lessor who 
had not at the time of making the same a free- 
hold estate therein; that a large number of persons 
were admitted to be registered, and obtained certi- 
ficates objectionable as aforesaid, who held the lands 
out of which they claimed to register by leases made 
by landlords whose interest had been evicted ; that 
a large number of persons were admitted to be re- 
gistered, and obtaiied certificates objectionable as 
aforesaid, who had become insolvent, and others 
who had become bankrupt, whose interest in the 
lands and premises of which they claimed to re- 
gister, were legally vested in their respective assig- 
nees ; that a large number of persons were admitted 
to be registered as leaseholders, and obtained certi- 
ficates objectionable as aforesaid, who held the lands 
out of which they claimed to register by leases made 
for a term of twenty years by a landlord who had 
not at the time of making the same an unexpired 
term of twenty years therem ; that a large number 
of persons were admitted to be registered, and ob- 
tained certificates objectionable as afuresaid, who 
held the lands out of which they claimed to register 
by leases antedated, and purporting to be for a term 
of twenty years, and made by a landlord who had 
not, at the time of making same, an est. eh term 
of twenty years therein; that a large number of per- 
sons were admitted to be registered, and obtained 
certificates objectionable as aforesaid, who held the 
lands out of which they claimed to register by leases 
made by a landlord whose interest in the lands and 
premises had ceased to exist, or had expired; that 
a large number of persons were admitted to be re- 
gistered, and obtained certificates objectionable as 
aforesaid, who had no title in the lands and pre- 
mises out of which they claimed to register, and 
who did not produce any deed, lease or instrument, 
grant or demise in support thereof, and who pro- 
duced fraudulent ar fictitious papers, torn and 
effaced, alleging they held under same, but from 
which no trace of any execution of any grantor or 
grantee, or the nature of the tenure, or statement of 
quantity of land or yearly rent, could be discovered, 
nor any stamp visible thereon ; that a large number 
of persons were admitted to be registered, and ob- 
tained certificates objectionable as aforesaid, who 
had ceased to be qualified in respect of the lands out 
of which they claimed to register, having sub-let 
and sub-divided same; that a large number of 
persons were admitted to be sal and obtained 
certificates objectionable as aforesaid, who held as 
joint tenants under leases made since the year one 
thousand eight hundred and twenty-three ; that a 
large number of persons were admitted to be re- 
gistered by the said John Francis Fosberry and 
James Doherty, who had not in the lands or pre- 
mises from which they sought to register a bene- 
ficial interest of the clear yearly value of not less 
than ten pounds sterling, Over and above all rent 
and charges as required by said Act hereinbefore 
mentioned ; that the said John Francis Fosberry 
and James Doherty took an erroneous view, and 
acted on false premises in the mode of ascertaining 
the value of the premises out of which the persons 
claiming to register sought to vote; that, prior to 
the said special session for the registry of voters, a 
vast number of notices were served on the clerk of 
the peace for the said county of Longford, without 
the knowledge or consent, and contrary to the de- 
sire of the persons whose names were made use 
of, and whose property or interests in the lands 
held by them was altogether insufficient to entitle 
them to be registered; that during the continuance 
of said special session great and unnatural excite- 
ment prevailed, and great and undue influence, as 
well by promises as by threats and intimidations, 
was used by persons of notoriously dangerous cha- 

c racter, 











PLL POLES 


rn ne LS SNELL NL TT EL BIEN DE 





10 1° Februari. 


racter, and who were at the same time bound to stand 
their trials under indictments, framed against them 
for serious political offences, and by the clergy of the 
Roman Catholic persuasion, by means whereof a 
large number of persons in whose names notices had 
been served, were induced and compelled to come for- 
ward and claim to be registered, and to put a false 
and exaggerated value upon the lands, many of 
whom frequently declared that they could not re- 
gister, but that they dare not refuse to come forward 
and swear as they were desired; that by reason of 
the many erroneous and illegal decisions of the said 
John Francis Fosberry and James Doherty, and of 
the undue influence and intimidation aforesaid, a 
great number of persons who ought not to have 
been and who were not entitled to be admitted to 
be registered, were unduly put upon the registry of 
the county of Longford as qualified voters, and 
unduly became possessed of certificates on parch- 
ment, declaring them to be registered voters of said 
county, and entitled to vote at Elections of Mem- 
bers of Parliament to represent the said county ; that 
shortly after said special registry session, in pursu- 
ance of a writ for that purpose to him directed, Wil- 
loughby Bond, Esquire, the then High Sheriff of said 
county of Longford proceeded to hold his court for 
the election of two Knights of the Shire to repre- 
sent the said county of Longford in Parliament ; 
that the Candidates at the said Election were the 
Right honourable Lord Viscount Forbes (since de- 
ceased), Anthony Lefroy, Luke White, and James 
Halpin Rorke, Esquires, who were severally pro- 
posed and seconded, and a poll having been de- 
manded and proceeded upon, the same was conti- 
nued from the eighteenth December, one thousand 
eight hundred and thirty-two, until the twenty- 
second day of December in same year, when the 
said Returning Officer declared the said Luke White 
and James Halpin Rorke duly elected to serve in 
Parliament as Knights of the Shire for said county 
of Longford; that a Petition was presented by the 
freeholders of said county, complaining of an undue 
Return, and praying the House to take into consi- 
deration several matters and things contained 
therein, and to remove from the registry of the said 
county the names of such persons as should appear 
to have been fraudulently and improperly regis- 
tered, and that the said Viscount Forbes and 
Anthony Lefroy might be declared duly elected, as 
appears by the Journals of the House; that a 
Committee was struck for the purpose of inquiring 
into the matter and allegations contained in said 
Petition, and lists were exchanged in the usual 
way; that the lists given in on part of the Peti- 
tioners contained the names of certain voters im- 
peached by them as objectionable and bad; that 
a scrutiny was gong into by said Committee, and 
the majority by which the said Luke White and 
James Halpin Rorke were returned, was taken 
down, and a majority being established for said 
Viscount Forbes and Anthony Lefroy, who were 
thereupon declared by the said Committee to be duly 
elected, and the same having been reported to the 
House, the Return was amended accordingly ; that 
the votes declared by said Committee to be bad 
votes, and so reported to the House, were, in 
obedience to The Speaker’s warrant, duly removed 
from the registry of said county; that, besides the 
votes so successfully impeached before said Com- 
mittee, and taken off the registry, there was a con- 
siderable number of votes impeached by the then 
Petitioners, and included by them in their exchanged 
lists, but which it was not competent for said Peti- 
tioners to proceed to invalidate after a majority had 





been established sufficient to seat the said Lord 
Forbes and Anthony Lefroy, but which votes, though | 
equally objectionable as those ordered to be struck | 
off the registry, still continue on the registry of said 


county; that since the decision of said committee, 


George French, Esquire, the Chairman of said | 





A. 1837. 


county of Longford, or Frederick Lindesey in his 
stead, have held the usual quarter session for the 
registry of voters for said county, pursuant to said 
Act; that by many illegal and erroneous decisions 
of the said George French and Frederick Lindesey, 
a great number of persons who were not qualified, 
of persons who were disqualified, of persons who 
had ceased to be qualified, of persons who were not 
entitled by estate, and of persons who were not 
entitled by value to be registered as voters for said 
county of Longford, were from time to time unduly 
admitted to be registered, and unduly obtained cer- 
tificates, which, so long as they continue, will entitle 
them to vote ; and a large number of persons whose 
registry was invalid in not being conformable to 
law, did in like manner unduly procure certificates 
objectionable as aforesaid; that a large number of 
persons whose claims ought to have been rejected, 
were admitted to be registered by said George French 
and Frederick Lindesey, as freeholders by virtue of 
alleged freeholds under leases of land for a life or 
lives, made by a lessor who had not at the time of 
making the same a freehold estate therein ; that a 
large number of persons were admitted to be 
registered, and obtained certificates objectionable 
as aforesaid, who held the lands out of which they 
claimed to vote, by leases made by landlords whose 
interest had been evicted; that a large number of 
persons were admitted to be registered, and ob- 
tained certificates objectionable as aforesaid who 
had become insolvent, and others who had become 
bankrupt, whose interest in the lands and premises 
out of which they claimed to register, were legally 
vested in their respective assignees; that a large 
number of persons were admitted to be registered 
as leaseholders of the value of ten pounds sterling, 
and obtained certificates objectionable as aforesaid, 
who held the lands out of which they claimed to 
register by leases made for a term of twenty years, 
by landlords who had not at the time of making 
the same an unexpired term of twenty years therein ; 
that a large number of persons were admitted to be 
registered, and obtained certificates objectionable as 
aforesaid, who held the lands out of which they 
claimed to register by leases antedated and purport- 
ing to be for a term of twenty years, and made by 
a landlord who had not at the time of making same 
an unexpired term of twenty years therein; that a 
large number of persons were admitted to be regis- 
tered, and obtained certificates objéctionable as 
aforesaid, who held the lands out of which they 
claimed to register, by leases made by a landlord 
whose interest in the lands and premises had ceased 
to exist, or had expired ; that a large number of per- 
sons were admitted to be registered, and obtained 
certificates objectionable as aforesaid, who had no title 
in the lands and premises out of which they claim 
to be registered, and who did not produce any deed, 
lease or instrument, grant or demise, in support 
thereof, and who produced fraudulent and fictitious 
papers torn and effaced, alleging they held under 
same, but from which no trace of any execution by 
grantor or grantee, nor the nature of the tenures, 
any covenants, statement of quantity of land, or 
yearly rent could be discovered, nor any stamp 
visible thereon; that a large number of persons 
were admitted to be registered, and obtained certi- 


ficates objectionable as aforesaid, who had ceased 


to be qualified in respect of the lands out of which 
thev claimed to register, having sub-let and sub- 
divided same; that the said George French and Fre- 
derich Lindesey, took upon themselves to re-register, 
and to issue certificates to a number of persons, 
whose claims to vote for Knights of the Shire for 
the said county of Longford, had been inquired into 
by said committee, and whose votes had been de- 
clared to be bad votes, and directed to be removed 
from the registry of the said county as aforesaid, and 
which had been so removed, although the said claim- 
ants produced no other or better qualification pone 
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7 Witt. IV. 


that on which they had formerly registered; that a 
large number of persons were admitted to be regis- 
tered by said George French and Frederick Lindesey, 
who held as joint tenants under leases made since 
the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty- 
three ; that a large number of persons were ad- 
mitted to be registered by the said George French 
and Frederick Lindesey, who had not in the lands 
or premises out of which they sought to register, a 
beneficial interest of the clear yearly value of not 
less than ten pounds sterling over and above all 
rent and charges, as by said Act required ; that the 
said George French and Frederick Lindesey, took 
an erroneous view, and acted on false grounds, in 
their mode of ascertaining the value of the pre- 
mises out of which the persons claiming to register 
sought to vote; that at the said several quarter 
sessions a great number of notices for registering 
were served upon the Clerk of the Peace for the 
said county of Longford, without the knowledge, and 
contrary to the desire, of the persons whose names 
purported to be affixed to the said notices, and 
whose property or interest in the lands held by them 
were altogether insufficient to entitle them to be 
registered; that great and undue influence and 
intimidation was used to induce and compel the 
said persons for whom notices had been so served, 
to attend at the said several quarter sessions, and 
there, by false representations, undue influence, and 
by threats, were induced and compelled to place an 
exaggerated and excessive value upon their lands ; 
that, by reason of the many erroneous and illegal 
decisions of the said George French and Frederick 
Lindesey, and of the undue influence and intimida- 
tion as aforesaid, a great number of persons who 
ought not to have been, and who were not entitled 
to be admitted, were unduly put upon the registry 
of the county of Longford, and illegally appear 
thereon as qualified voters, and unduly became pos- 
sessed of certificates on parchment, declaring them 
to be entitled to vote at Elections of Members of 
Parliament to represent the said county; that, in 
— of a writ for that purpose to him directed, 

ir Percy Nugent, Baronet, High Sheriff of the 
county of Longford, proclamation of the time and 
place of holding thereof having been duly made, 
proceeded on the twenty-sixth day of December 
last, to hold his Court for the Election of a Knight 
of the Shire to represent said County of Longford 
in Parliament, in the room of Lord Viscount Forbes, 
deceased ; that the said Charles Fox, and Luke 
White appeared, and were severally proposed and 
seconded as Candidates at said Election, and a poll 
having been demanded and proceeded upon, the 
same was continued from said twenty-sixth day of 
December last until Friday, the thirtieth day of 
December ; that during the continuance of said poll, 
very many of the persons who had been illegally, 
unduly, and erroneously registered by the said John 
Francis Fosberry and James Doherty, at said 
special session, and by the said George French and 
Frederick Lindesey, at said several quarter ses- 
sions, tendered their votes for the said Luke White, 
and were received; that very many persons who, 
since the time of being registered and procuring 
certificates on parchment as registered voters of 
said county, but who had ceased to be qualified by 
reason of their having parted with the freehold, and 
sold or sub-let, and sub-divided the lands out of 
which they registered, or who had been ejected or 
removed therefrom, and of persons who had parted 
with the possession in the whole or in part of the 
lands from which they registered, of persons whose 
interest in the lands out of which they registered 
had ceased by expiration of the time for which 
the lands were held; of persons whose title had 
ceased to exist by reason of’ the lease or title out of 
which their interests were derived having expired ; 
of persons who registered as freeholders, and whose 
qaalifications as such freeholders had ceased by tlie 

Vor. 92. 


1° Februari. 





11 


falling of the life or lives in their leases ; of persons 
who had registered out of two, three or more instru- 
ments, and where the interest derivable under one 
or more of such instruments had dropped and ceased 
to exist ; of persons who had become bankrupt, and 
of persons who had become insolvent; of persons 
whose title and interest in the lands out of which 
they registered had ceased by the death of the life 
or lives for which they held ; of persons whose votes 
had been ordered by the Resolution of the House 
to be removed from the registry of said county, as 
being bad votes, and who had not been at all re- 
registered ; of persons who were bribed to vote ; of 

ersons who were unduly treated at and before said 

lection ; of persons ~ when duly called upon 
for that purpose, at the time of coming forward to 
poll, did. not take the proper form of oath by law 
prescribed ; and of persons whose registry was im- 
perfect and informable, tendered their votes for the 
said Luke White, and were received ; that objections 
having been made to the votes of the said persons, 
the Returning Officer and his Assessor declared 
themselves bound by the production of the certifi- 
cates on parchment, which they decided to be con- 
clusive evidence of their right of voting, and directed 
the votes of the said persons to be admitted, and 
to be entered on the poll for the said Luke White ; 
that the said Sir Percy Nugent, being such Return- 
ing Officer, and thereby disqualified from voting at 


the said Election, voted notwithstanding for the said 


Luke White; that, from the time the vacancy in the 
representation in said county was made known, 
and the said Charles Fox was announced as a Can- 
didate, up to the time of holding the said Election, 
and during the continuance thereof, the most unna- 
tural excitement prevailed in the different districts 
in said county; noted agitators and demagogues 
traversed it by day, making most violent harangues, 
calculated to inflame the minds of the people, and 
to excite a bad and hostile feeling against the said 
Charles Fox as a Candidate to represent said county, 
and by night armed parties went about to the houses 
of the voters supposed to be in the interest of the 
said Charles Fox, who took from their beds the said 
voters, threatened them, and after placing them on 
their knees, swore them on pain of death and 
destruction to themselves and their families not to 
vote for the said Charles Fox, but to vote for the 
said Luke White; and in order further to intimidate, 
in many instances dug graves near the residences 
of the said voters; that the clergy of the Roman 
Catholic persuasion, both publicly and in the chapels, 
during said period denounced the said Charles Fox 
as an enemy to the people, and called over, stand- 
ing at the altars and doors of said chapels, the 
names of the freeholders in the parishes, and who 
were usually in the habit of attending at said 
chapels, and then and there caused and compelled 
said voters to stand forward and sign a paper, or 
put their marks thereto, pledging themselves to 
vote for the said Luke White; that the said Luke 
White, by himself, his agents, friends and managers, 
committee-men, partisans, and others on his behalf, 
were guilty of the most flagrant and notorious acts 
of intimidation, thereby basely and unlawfully pro- 
curing by threats divers other persons to vote at the 
said Election through fear of being persecuted, and 
themselves and their families injured and ill-used, 
to forbear to give their votes for the said Charles 
Fox, in violation of the rights of Election, the pri- 
vileges of Parliament, and freedom of Election ; 
that the said Luke White, by himself, his agents, 
managers, and friends, and others on his behalf 
before, and at and during the Election, were guilty 
of open and notorious acts of bribery and corruption 
of the Electors of said county, in order to influence 
the Electors to give their votes to the said Luke 
White, and to refuse and forbear to give their votes 
for the said Charles Fox, and also of attempting and_ 
endeavouring to bribe and corrupt the Electors of 

c2 said 











Petition of 
Freeholders. 





12 1° Februariz. 


said county to givetheir votes to the said Luke White, 
and to refuse and to forbear to give their votes for 
the said Charles Fox, in order that the said Luke 
White might be returned to serve in Parliament 
for said county, and that the said Luke White hav- 
ing been recently appointed Lord Lieutenant of said 
county, did, after the issuing of the Writ for the 
Election of a Member to serve in Parliament, in the 
room of Lord Viscount Forbes, deceased, and at 
and during said Election, by himself, his agents, 
managers, and friends, and others, on his behalf, 
and at his cost and charge, give, present, and allow 
to divers persons having and claiming to have voices 
in said Election, money, presents, gifts and rewards, 
and make promises, agreements, obligations and 
engagements, to give and allow rewards, gifts and 
money, to and for divers persons having voices in 
the said Election, and to and for the use, advantage, 


benefit and emolument, profit and preferment, of such | 


persons, in order to be elected, and for being elected 
to serve in this Parliament for said county of Long- 


ford, in violation and defiance of the Standing Order 


and Orders of the House, and of the laws and sta- 
tutes of this Realm, for preventing bribery at elections 
of Members of Parliament ; and the said Luke White, 
by himself, his agents, managers, and by other persons 
on his behalf, as well before as at and during the 
said Election, did, by gifts and rewards, and b 
threats and promises, agreements and securities, for 
gifts and rewards, corrupt, procure, and attempt and 
endeavour to corrupt and procure, divers persons 


being and claiming to be Electors of the said | 


County of Longford, to refuse and forbear to give 
their votes for the said Charles Fox, in order that 
he the said Luke White might be elected and re- 
turned to serve in this present Parliament as a Mem- 
ber for said County. of Longford, by all which means 
and by other illegal practices, the said Luke White 
obtained a colourabie majority over the Petitioner 
on the poll taken at the said Election, and was ille- 
gally returned a Knight of the Shire to serve in this 
Parliament for said County of Longford, to the pre- 
judice and injury of Petitioner, who was duly elected 
by a majority of legal votes given for him, and who 
ought to have been returned a Knight of the Shire to 
serve in this Parliament for the said County of Long- 
ford; the Petitioner therefore most humbly prays, 


“That the House will take into their consideration the 


several matters and things hereinbefore stated, and 
will remove from the registry of the said County of 
Longford, and strike off the poll of the said Elec- 
tion the names. of such persons as shall appear to 
have been improperly admitted to be registered, and 
to vote as aforesaid, and that the said Luke White 
may be declared not duly elected or returned ; and 
that Petitioner may be declared duly elected to serve 
in this Parliament for the said County of Longford, 
and his name substituted in the Return for the said 
County, or that the Election and Return of the said 
Luke White may be declared to be null and void ; 
and that the House may make such order, and give 
such further relief in the premises for securing the 
freedom of Ejection in said County as to the House 
shall seem fit. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be taken into con- 
sideration upon Tuesday, the 28th day of this instant 
February, at three of the clock in the Afternoon. 

A Petition of Lovell Edgeworth, of Edgeworths- 
town, in the county of Longford, Barry Fox, of 
Annamore, in the King’s County, Samuel W. Blackall, 
of Colamber, in said county of Longford, and Wil- 
liam Shirley Ball, of Harcourt-street, mn the city of 
Dublin, Esquires, freeholders of the said county, as 
well on behalf of themselves as of several other free- 
holders of the same county, who claimed to vote, 
were entitled to vote, and did vote at the last Elec- 
tion in and for the said county of Longford, was also 
read ; setting forth, That the Petitioners are, and at 
the last Election of a Knight of the Shire for the 
County of Longford, held m the town of Longford, 





A. 1837. 


were freeholders of the said County, and were en- 
titled to vote at the said Election ; that at the said 
Election Charles Fox and Luke White were Candi- 
dates to represent said County in Parliament ; that 
a poll being demanded, the same was granted and 

roceeded on, and Sir Percy Nugent, baronet, High 

heriff of the said County, acted thereat as Return- 
ing Officer, and at the close of the poll on Friday, 
the thirtieth day of December last, unduly declared 
the said Luke White to be duly elected; that, by 
the Act of the 2d and 3d years of King William the 
Fourth, chapter 88, it is provided, that no person 
shall be admitted to vote at any Election of a Mem- 
ber or Members to serve in any future Parliament, 
unless such person shall have been qualified as 
therein specified, and duly registered under said Act; 
and it is further provided, that no registry made 
| after the passing of said Act shall be valid, unless 
made conformably to the provisions of said Act; 
that by the said Act it is also provided that, after 
the commencement of said Act, a special sessions 
for the purpose of registering voters should be holden 
in each county by and before the assistant barrister 
for such county, on such day or days, and at such 
| places, as the Lord Lieutenant of Jreland should 
appoint ; and it is further provided and enacted by 
said Act, that the said Lord Lieutenant should, and 





y| he was thereby authorized, by warrant under his 


hand, to appoint for the duty of presiding at the 
special session to be first held for registering voters 
under the said Act in any County, any barrister or 
barristers of not less than six years’ standing at the 
Trish bar, to be assistant to or deputies of the as- 
sistant barrister, or chairman of such County, and 
all the powers, duties, rights and privileges given 
or imposed by the said Act upon any assistant bar- 
rister or chairman, are by virtue of such warrant 
given to and imposed upon such assistant or deputy; 
that the said Act prescribes the mode in which the 
registry of voters shall be conducted, and enacts, 
that upon any person being declared entitled to be 
registered as a voter, such person shall obtain a 
certificate, on parchment, declaring such right ; that 
a special session was, under and by virtue of said 
Act, appointed by the Lord Lieutenant to be holden 
in and for the County of Longford, to commence at 
Longford on Wednesday, the tenth day of October 
one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and that 
John Francis Fosbury, Esquire, was, by warrant 
under the hand of the Lord Lieutenant, appointed 
for the duty of presiding at the special session so 
first appointed to be holden, and all the duties, rights 
and privileges of the assistant barrister of the said 
County of Longford, were, by virtue of such warrant 
given to and imposed upon the said John Francis 
fosbury; that the said John Francis Fosbury under- 
took the said duty, and proceeded with the regis- 
tration of voters accordingly ; that the said special 
session was continued, by several adjournments, 
from the said tenth day of October one thousand 
eight hundred and thirty-two, until the fifteenth day 
of November in the same year, when James Doherty, 
Esquire, a barrister, was, under colour of a warrant 
professing to be under the hand of the Lord Lieu- 
tenant of Jreland, illegally appointed for the duty 
of presiding as deputy to the assistant barrister of 
the said County of Longford, at the said special 
session for the registration of voters for the said 
County, the rights, powers and authorities of the 
said John Francis Fosbury being in no manner re- 
voked, recalled or annulled, and the said John 
Francis Fosbury still continuing in exercise of all 
the rights, powers and authorities so given to him 
by the warrant first hereinbefore mentioned, and the 
appointment of the said James Doherty was wholly 
void, inoperative, and contrary to law, and gave to 
or vested in him no power, authority or jurisdiction 
whatsoever, and the registry so held by him there- 
under, was coram non judice, and the persons so by 
him entered on the registry thereby acquired - 

right 




















7 Wut. IV. 


spective times of their appointments, the said John 
E rancis Fosbury and James Doherty sat daily inthe 
Court House of Longford, in separate courts, and 
each separately determined upon the validity of the 
claims of persons coming forward to register, and 
each adjudged and declared claimants to be entitled 
to be registered, and each signed certificates ; that 
the list of claimants to be registered was, in obe- 
dience to the Act of Parliament, called over three 
several times, and that on the twenty-second day of 
November, the said special session for registration 
of voters, was by public proclamation duly closed ; 
that by many illegal and erroneous decisions of the 
said John Francis Fosbury and James Doherty, a 
great number of persons who were not qualified, of 
persons who were disqualified, of persons who had 
ceased to be qualified, of persons who were not en- 
titled by estate, and of persons who were not entitled 
by value to be registered as voters, for the said 
County of Longford, were unduly admitted to be 
registered, and unduly obtained certificates, which, 
so long as they continue, will entitle them to vote, 
and also to re-register on the production thereof, 
without further proof on oath, and a large number 
of persons whose registry was invalid, and not being 
conformable to law, did in like manner unduly pro- 
cure certificates, objectionable as aforesaid ; that a 
large number of persons whose claims ought to have 
been rejected, were admitted to be registered as 
freeholders, by virtue of alleged freeholds under 
leases of land for a life or lives, made by a lessor 
who had not at the time of making the same a free- 
hold estate therein ; that many persons holding lands 
by virtue of grants.and leases made to them by the 
Royal Canal Company, and the New Royal Canal 
Company in Ireland, were admitted to be registered 
and obtained certificates objectionable as aforesaid, 
although by an Act of Parliament passed in the thir- 
tieth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George 
the Third, confirmed and re-enacted by several sub- 
sequent Acts, itis provided that it shall not be lawful 
for any person whatsoever to vote at any Election of 
any Member or Members of Parliament, by virtue of 
any grant, lease, or demise, made to him by either 
of said Companies; that a large number of per- 
sons were admitted to be registered, and obtained 
certificates objectionable as aforesaid, who held the 
lands out of which they claimed to register by leases 
made by landlords whose interest had been evicted; 
that a large number of persons were admitted to be 
registered, and obtained certificates, objectionable 
as aforesaid, who had become insolvent, and others 
who had become bankrupt, whose interest in the 
lands and premises out of which they claimed to 
register, were legally vested in their respective as- 
signees; that a large number of persons were ad- 
mitted to be registered as leaseholders, and obtained 
certificates, objectionable as aforesaid, who held the 
lands out of which they claimed to register by leases 
made for a term of twenty years, by a landlord who 
had not at the time of making the same an unex- 
pired term of twenty years therein; that a large 
number of persons were admitted to be registered, 
and obtained certificates, objectionable as aforesaid, 
who held the lands out of which they claimed to 
register by leases antedated, and purporting to be 
for a term of twenty years, and made by a landlord 
who had not at the time of making the same an un- 
expired term of twenty years therein ; that a large 
number of persons were admitted to be registered, 
and obtained certificates, objectionable as aforesaid, 
who held the lands out of which they claimed to 
register by leases made by a landlord whose interest 
in the lands and premises had ceased to exist, or 
had expired ; that a large number of persons were 
admitted to be registered, and pon certificates, 
objectionable as aforesaid, who had no title in the 
lands and premises out of which they claimed to 


register, and who did not produce any deed, lease, 
Vot. 92. ‘ 


1° Februariz. 


right of voting ; that from and after the said re-| 





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or instrument, grant or demise, in support thereof, 
and who produced fraudulent and fictitious papers, 
torn and effaced, alleging that they held under the 
same, but from which no trace of any execution by 
grantor or grantee, nor the nature of the tenure, 
statement of quantity of land, or yearly rent, could 
be discovered, nor any stamp visible thereon ; that 
a large number of persons were admitted to be re- 
gistered, and obtained certificates, objectionable as 
aforesaid, who had ceased to be qualified in respect 
of the lands out of which they claimed to register, 
having sublet and subdivided same; that a large 
number of persons were admitted to be registered, 
and obtained certificates, objectionable as aforesaid, 
who held as joint tenants under leases made since 
the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty- 
three ; that a large number of persons were admitted 
to be registered by the said John Francis Fosbury 
and James Doherty, who had not in the lands or 
premises from which they sought to register, a bene 
ficial interest of the clear yearly value of not less 
than ten pounds over and above all rents and 
charges, as required by the said Act in that case made 
and provided ; that the said John Francis Fosbury 
and James Doherty, took an erroneous view, and 
acted on false premises in the mode of ascertaining 
the value of the premises out of which the persons 
claiming to register sought to vote ; that prior to 
the said special session for the registry of voters, 
a vast number of notices were served on the Clerk of 
the Peace for said county of Longford, without the 
knowledge or consent, and contrary to the desire of 
the persons whose names were made use of, and 
whose property or interest in the lands held by them 
was altogether insufficient to entitle them to be re- 
gistered ; that during the continuance of said special 
session, great and unnatural excitement prevailed, 
and great and undue influence, as well by promises 
as by threats and intimidation, was used by persons 
of notoriously dangerous character, and who were 
at the same time bound to stand their trials under 
indictments framed against them for serious — 
offences, and by the clergy of the Roman Catholic 
persuasion, by means whereof a large number of 
persons in whose names notices had been served, 
were induced and compelled to come forward, and 
claim to be registered, and to puta false and ex- 
aggerated value upon the lands, many of whom fre- 
quently declared that they could not register, but 
that they dare not refuse to come forward and 
swear as they were desired ; that by reason of the 
many erroneous and illegal decisions of the said 
John Francis Fosbury and James Doherty, and of 
the undue influence and intimidation aforesaid, a 
great number of persons who ought not to have been, 
and who were not, entitled to be admitted to be 
registered, were unduly put upon the registry of the 
county of Longford, as qualified voters, and unduly 
became possessed of certificates on parchment, de- 
claring them to be registered voters of said County, 
and entitled to vote at Elections of Members of 
Parliament to represent the said County; that 
shortly after said special registry session, in pur- 
suance of a writ for that purpose to him directed, 
Willoughby Bond, Esquire, the then High Sheriff of 
said county of Longford, proceeded to hold his 
Court for the election of two Knights of the Shire 
to represent the said county of Longford in Parlia- 
ment ; that the candidates at the said Election were 
the Right honourable Lord Viscount Forbes, since 
deceased, Anthony Lefroy, Luke White and James 
Halpin Rorke, who were severally proposed and 
seconded, and a poll having been demanded and 
proceeded upon, the same was continued from the 
eighteenth day of December in the same year, when 
the said Returning Officer declared the said Luke 
White and James Halpin Rorke, duly elected to 
serve in Parliament as Knights of the Shire for said 
county of Longford; that a Petition was presented 
by some of the Petitioners and other freeholders of 
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14 


said County, complaining of an undue return, and 
praying the House to take into consideration several 
matters and things contained therein, and to re- 
move from the registry of the said County the 
names of such “ge as should appear to have 
been fraudulently and improperly registered, and 
that the said Viscount Forbes and Anthony Lefroy, 
might be declared duly elected, as _— by 
the Journals of the House; that a Committee 
was struck for the purpose of inquiring into the 
matters and allegations contained im said Petition, 
and lists were exchanged in the usual way; that 
the lists given im, on part of the Petitioners, con- 
tained the names of certain voters impeached by 
them as objectionable and bad; that a scrutiny was 
gone into by said Committee, and the majority by 
which the said Luke White and James Halpin Rorke 
were returned, was taken down, and a majority being 
established for said Viscount Forbes and said An- 
thony Lefroy, who were thereupon declared by the 
said Committee to be duly elected, and the same 
having been reported to the House, the return 
was amended accordingly; that the votes de- 
clared by said Committee to be bad votes, and so 
reported to the House, were, in obedience to 
The Speaker’s warrant, duly removed from the 
registry of said County ; that, besides the votes so 
successfully impeached before said Committee, and 
taken off the registry, there was a considerable 
number of votes impeached by the then Petitioners, 
and included by them in their exchanged lists, but 
which it was not competent for said Petitioners to 
roceed to invalidate, after a majority had been es- 
tablished sufficient to seat the said Lord Forbes and 
Anthony Lefroy, but which votes, though equally 
objectionable as those ordered to be struck off the 
registry, still continue on the registry of said 
County ; that since the decision of the said Com- 
mittee, George French, Esquire, the Chairman of 
said county of Longford, or Frederick Lindesey, 
Esquire, in his stead, have held the usual quarter 
sessions for the registry of voters for said County, 
pursuant to the said Act; that by many illegal and 
erroneous decisions of the said George French and 
Frederick Lindesey, a great number of persons who 
were not qualified, of persons who were disqualified, 
of persons who had ceased to be qualified, of persons 
who were not entitled by estate, and of persons who 
were not entitled by value, to be registered as 
voters for said county of Longford, were from time 
to time unduly admitted to be registered, and unduly 
obtained certificates, which so long as they continue, 
will entitle them to vote, and a large number of per- 
sons whose registry was invalid, in not being con- 
formable to law, did in like manner unduly procure 
certificates, objectionable as aforesaid ; that a large 
number of persons whose claims ought to have been 
rejected, were admitted to be registered by said 
George French and Frederick Lindesey, as free- 
holders, by virtue of alleged freeholds, under leases 
of land for a life or lives, made by a lessor who had 
not at the time of making the same a freehold estate 
therein; that many persons holding lands by virtue 
of grants and leases made to them by the Royal 
Canal Company in Jreland, were admitted to be 
registered, and obtained certificates, objectionable 
as woresaid, although by an Act passed in the 
thirtieth year of the reign of his late Majesty King 
George the Third, confirmed and re-enacted b 
several subsequent Acts, it is provided that it shall 
not be lawful for any person whatsoever to vote at 
any election of any Member or Members of Parlia- 
ment, by virtue of any grant, lease or demise, made 
to him by either of said Companies ; that a large 
number of persons were admitted to be registered, 
and pete y certificates, objectionable as aforesaid, 


who held the lands out of which they claimed to 
vote by leases made by landlords, whose interest 
had been evicted ; that a large number of persons 
- were admitted to be registered, and obtained cer- 





1° Februari. 


| tificates, objectionable as atoresaid, who had become 





A. 1837. 


insolvent, and others who had become bankrupt, 
whose interest in the lands and premises out of 
which they claimed to register were legally vested 
in their respective assignees ; that a large number 
of persons were admitted to be registered as lease- 
holders of the value of ten pounds, and obtained 
certificates, objectionable as aforesaid, who held the 
lands out of which they claimed to register by lease 
made for a term of twenty years, by landlords who 
had not at the time of making the same an unex- 
pired term of twenty years therein; that a large 
number of persons were admitted to be registered, 
and obtained certificates objectionable as aforesaid, 
who held the lands out of which they claimed to 
register by leases antedated, and purporting to be 
for a term of twenty years, and made by a landlord 
who had not at the time of making same an unex- 
pired term of twenty years therein; that a large 
number of persons were admitted to be registered, 
and obtained certificates objectionable as aforesaid, 
who held the lands out of which they claimed to 
register by leases made by a landlord whose interest 
in the lands and premises had ceased to exist, or 
had expired; that a large number of persons were 
admitted to be registered and obtained certificates 
objectionable as aforesaid, who had no title in the 
lands and premises out of which they claimed to 
register, and who did not produce any lease or in- 
strument, grant or otherwise, in support thereof, and 
who produced fraudulent and fictitious papers, torn 
and effaced, alleging they held under same, but 
from which no trace of any execution by grantor or 
grantee, nor the nature of the tenure, statement, or 
quantity of land or yearly rent, could be discovered, 
nor any stamp visible thereon ; that a large number 
of persons were admitted to be registered, and ob- 
tained certificates, objectionable as aforesaid, who 
had ceased to be qualified in respect of the lands 
out of which they claimed to register, having sub- 
let and subdivided same; that the said George 
French and Frederick Lindesey, took upon them- 
selves to re-register, and to issue certificates toa 
number of the persons whose claims to vote for 
Knights of the Shire for the‘said County of Long- 
ford, had been inquired into by said Committee, 
and whose votes had been declared to be bad votes, 
and directed to be removed from the registry of said 
County, as aforesaid, and which had been so re- 
moved, although the said claimants produced no 
other or better qualification than that on which they 
had formerly registered; that a large number of 
persons were admitted to be registered by said 
George French and Frederick Lindesey, who held as 
joint tenants under leases made since the year 
One thousand eight hundred and twenty-three ; 
that a number of persons were admitted to be regis- 
tered by the said George French and Frederick 
Lindesey, who had not in the lands or premises out 
of which they sought to register, a beneficial interest 
of the clear yearly value of not less than ten pounds 
over and above all rent and charges as by the Act 
required ; that the said George French and Frederick 
Lindesey took an erroneous view, and acted on false 
grounds, in their mode of ascertaining the value of 
the premises out of which the persons claiming to 
register sought to vote; that at the said several 
quarter sessions, a great number of notices for 
registering were served upon the Clerk of the Peace 
for the said county of Longford, withcut the know- 
ledge and contrary to the desire of the persons whose 
names purported to be affixed to the said notices, 
and whose property or interest in the lands held 
by them was altogether insufficient to entitle 
them to be registered; that great and undue in- 
fluence and intimidation was used to induce and 
compel the said persons for whom notices had 
been so served, to attend at the said several 
quarter sessions, and they by false representations, 
undue influence, and by threats, were induced and 





compelled 








7 Wrut. IV. 


compelled to place an exaggerated and excessive 
value upon their lands ; that by reason of the many 
erroneous and illegal decisions of the said George 
French and Frederick Lindesey, and of the undue 
influence and intimidation aforesaid, a great number 
of persons who ought not to have been, and who 
were not entitled to be registered, were unduly put 
upon the registry of the County of Longford, and 
illegally appear thereon as qualified voters, and un- 
duly became possessed of certificates on parchment 
declaring them to be entitled to vote at elections of 
Members of Parliament to represent the said County ; 
that in pursuance of a writ for that purpose to him 
directed, Sir Percy Nugent, Baronet, High Sheriff of 
the County of Longford, proclamation of the time 
and place of holding thereof having been duly made, 
proceeded on the twenty-sixth day of December last 
to hold his court for the election of a Knight of the 
Shire to represent said County of Longford in Par- 
liament, in the room of Lord Viscount Forbes, de- 
ceased ; that Charles Fox and Luke White appeared, 
and were severally proposed and seconded as Can- 
didates at said Election, and a poll having been 
demanded and proceeded upon, the same was con- 
tinued from said twenty-sixth day of December last 
until Friday, the thirtieth day of December; that 
during the continuance of said poll, very many of 
the persons who had been illegally, unduly and 
erroneously registered by the said John Francis 
Fosbury and James Doherty, at said special session, 
and by the said George French and Frederick Linde- 
sey at said several quarter sessions, tendered their 
votes for the said Luke White, and were received ; 
that many persons who since the time of being 
registered, and procuring certificates on parchment 
as registered voters of said County, but who had 
ceased to be qualified, by reason of their having 

arted with their freeholds, and sold or sublet, and 
subdivided the lands out of which they registered, 
or who had been ejected or removed therefrom, and 
of persons who had parted with the possession in 
the whole or in part of the lands from which they 
registered, of persons whose interest in the lands 
out of which they registered had ceased, by expira- 
tion of the term for which the lands were held, of 
persons whose title had ceased to exist by reason 
of the lease or title out of which their interests were 
derived having expired, of persons who registered 
as freeholders, and whose qualifications as such free- 
holders had ceased by the falling of the life or lives 
in their leases, of persons who had registered out of 
two, three or more instruments, and where the in- 
terest derivable under one or more of such instru- 
ments had dropped and ceased to exist, of persons 
who had become bankrupt, and of persons who had 
become insolvent, of persons whose title and interest 
in the lands out of which they registered had ceased 
by the death of the life or lives for which they held, 
of persons whose votes had been ordered by the 
Resolution of the House to be removed from the 
registry of said County, as being bad votes, and 
who had not been re-registered, of persons who 
were bribed to vote, of persons who were unduly 
treated at and before said Election, of persons who, 
when duly called upon for that purpose at the time 
of coming forward to poll, did not take the proper 
form of oath by law prescribed, and of persons whose 
registry was imperfect and informal, tendered their 
votes for the said Luke White, and were received ; 
that objections having been made to.the votes of 
said persons, the Returning Officer and his assessor 
declared themselves bound by the production of the 
certificates on parchment, which they decided to be 
conclusive evidence of their right of voting, and di- 
rected the votes of the said persons to be admitted, 
and to be entered on the poll for the said Luke 
White; that the said Sir Percy Nugent being such 
Returning Officer, and thereby disqualified from 
voting at the said Election, voted notwithstanding 
for the said Luke White; that, from the time the 
vacancy in the representation of said County was 
made known, and the said Charles Fox was an- 
nounced as a Candidate, up to the time of holding 

VoL. 92. 


1° Februarzz. 





15 


the said election, and during the contmuance thereof, 
the most unnatural excitement prevailed in the dif- 
ferent districts in said County, noted agitators and 
demagogues traversed it by day, making most violent 
harangues, calculated to inflame the minds of the 
people, and to excite a bad and hostile feeling against 
the said Charles Fox as a candidate to represent 
said County, and by night armed parties went about 
the houses of the voters supposed to be in the in- 
terest of the said Charles Fox, who took from their 
beds the said voters, threatened them, and, after 
placmg them on their knees, swore them, on pain 
of death and destruction to themselves and their 
families, not to vote for the said Charles Fox, but to 
vote for the said Zuke White; and, in order further 
to intimidate, in many instances, dug graves near 
the residences of said voters ; that the clergy of the 
Roman Catholic persuasion, both publicly and in 
their chapels, during said period, denounced the said 
Charles Fox as an enemy to the people, and called 
over, standing at the altars and doors of said chapels, 
the names of the freeholders in their parishes who 
were usually in the habit of attending at said chapels, 
and then and there caused and compelled said voters 
to stand forward and sign a paper, or put their marks 
thereto, pledging themselves to vote for the said 
Luke White; that the said Luke White, by himself, 
his agents, friends, managers, committee-men, par- 
tisans, and others on his behalf, were guilty of the 
most flagrant and notorious acts of intimidation 
thereby basely and unlawfully forcing by threats 
divers other persons being qualified to vote at the 
said Election, through fear of being persecuted, and 
themselves and their families injured and ill-used, 
to forbear to give their votes for the said Charles 
Foz, in violation of the rights of election, the privi- 
leges of Parliament, and freedom of election ; that 
the said Luke White, by himself, his agents, ma- 
nagers and friends, and others on his behalf, before 
and at and during the Election, were guilty of open 
and notorious acts of bribery and corruption of the 
electors of said County, in order to influence the 
electors to give their votes to the said Luke White, 
and to refuse and forbear to give their votes for the 
said Charles Fox, and also of attempting and endea- 
vouring to bribe and corrupt the electors of said 
County to give their votes to the said Luke White, 
and to refuse and forbear to give their votes for the 
said Charles Fox, in order that the said Luke White 
might be returned to serve in Parliament for said 
County ; and that the said Zuke White having been 
recently appointed Lord Lieutenant of the County, 
did, after the issuing of the Writ for Election of a 
Member of Parliament in the room of Lord Viscount 
Forbes, deceased, and at and during said Election, 
by himself, his agents, managers and friends, and 
others on his behalf, and at his costs and charge, 
give, present and allow to divers persons having and 
claiming to have voices in said Election, money, 
presents, gifts and rewards, and make promises, 
agreements, obligations and engagements to give 
and allow rewards, gifts and money to and for divers 
persons having voices in the said Election, and to 
and for the use, advantage, benefit and emolument, 
profit and preferment of such persons, in order to 
be elected, and for being elected, to serve in this 
Parliament for said County of Longford, in violation 
and defiance of the Standing Order and Orders of 
the House, and of the laws and statutes of this 
Realm for preventing bribery at Elections of Mem- 
bers of Parliament; and the said Luke White, by 
himself, his agents, managers, and by other persons 
on his behalf, as well before as at and during the 
said Election, did by gifts and rewards, and by 
threats and promises, agreements and securities for 
gifts and rewards, corrupt, procure and attempt and 
endeavour to corrupt and procure divers persons 
being and claiming to be electors of the said County 
of Longford to refuse and forbear to give their votes 
for the said Charles Fox, in order that he the said 
Luke White might be elected and returned to serve 
in this present Parliament as Member for said County 
of Longford; by all which means, and by other 

c4+ illegal 








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Controverted 
Elections 
(Ireland.) 


Journal to be 
printed. 


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16 1° Februari. 


illegal practices, the said Luke White obtained a 
dciaaie majority over the said Charles Fox on 
the poll taken at the said Election, and was illegally 
returned a Knight of the Shire to serve in this Par- 
liament for said County of Longford, to the prejudice 
and injury of the said Charles Fox, who was duly 
elected by a majority of legal votes given for him, 
and who ought to have been returnd a Knight of 
the Shire to serve in this Parliament for the County 
of Longford; the Petitioners, therefore, inasmuch 
as no scrutiny or investigation of the persons illegally 
admitted to be registered, could or was permitted to 
take place at the said Election, and inasmuch as the 
examination of matters and things affecting the free- 
dom of Elections, the correction of abuses, and the 
removal of fraudulent votes are most important, 
most humbly pray, That the House will take the 
several matters and things above stated into their 
consideration, and remove from the Registry of the 
said County of Longford the names of such persons 
as shall appear to them to have been improperly 
admitted to be registered, and to vote as aforesaid ; 
and that the said Luke White may be declared not 
duly elected or returned, and that the said Charles 
Fox may be declared duly elected to serve in Par- 
liament for the said County of Longford, and his 
Name substituted in the said Return, or declare the 
Election and Return of the said Luke White to be 
null and void, and that the House may make such 
order, and give such further relief in the premises for 
securing the freedom of election in the said County 
as the House shall think fit. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be taken into con- 
sideration at the same time that the preceding Pe- 
tition is ordered to be taken into consideration. 

Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant, 
or Warrants, for such persons, papers and records, 
as shall be thought necessary by the several Parties 
on the hearing of the matter of the said Petitions. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, that, in pur- 
suance of the Act 42 Geo. 3, c. 106, for regulating 
the Trial of Controverted Elections, or Returns of 
Members to serve in the United Parliament for Jre- 
land, he had received from the Deputy to the Clerk 
of the Crown in Jreland, Lists of Barristers-at-Law, 
of above six years’ standing, who have consented, 
under their hands and seals, to act as Commissioners, 
or as Chairmen to the Commissioners, for the pur- 
poses of the said Act. 

Ordered, That the said Lists be deposited in the 
Office of the Clerk of this House. 

Ordered, That the Journal of this House, from 
the end of the last Session of Parliament to the end 
of this present Session, with an Index to the Ninety- 
second Volume, be printed. 

Ordered, That One thousand Copies of the said 
Journal and Index be printed by the appointment 
and under the direction of John Henry Ley, Esquire, 
Clerk of this House. 

Ordered, That the said Journal and Index be 
age by such Person as shall be licensed by 

r. Speaker, and that no other Person do presume 
to print the same. 


Ordered, That a Committee of Privileges be ap- 
pointed :—And a Committee was appointed of Mr, 
Bernal, Mr. Williams Wynn, Lord John Russell, 
Sir Robert Peel, Lord Viscount Clive, Lord Viscount 
Palmerston, Mr. Goulburn, Mr. Hume, and all the 
Knights for Shires, Gentlemen of the Long Robe, 
and Merchants, m the House: And they are to 
meet upon Friday next, in the Afternoon; and to 
sit every Wednesday, Friday, and Monday, in the 
Afternoon ; and all who come are to have voices; 
and they are to take into consideration all such 
matters as shall or may come in question, touching 
Privileges; and to report their proceedings, with 
their opinion thereupon, to the House, from time to 
time ; and the Committee are to have power to send 
for persons, papers and records, for their informa- 


.tion ; and if any thing shall come in question touch- 


ing the matter of Privilege of any Member, he is to 
withdraw during the time the matter is in debate. 


A. 1837. 


consideration the Letters addressed to Mr. Speaker 
by the Lord High Chancellor and by Edmund Lech- 
mere Phadien, Heaton, a Member of this House :— 
The said Letters were again read. 

Ordered, That the said Letters be referred to the 
Committee of Privileges to examine into, and report 
upon the same to the House. 

Ordered, That it be an Instruction to the Com- 
mittee, That they do meet To-morrow, and proceed 
upon the matter referred to them. 


give directions, that there be laid before this House, 
Copies of the Charters of. Incorporation granted 
by His Majesty to the University of London; and 
University College, London. 

Ordered, That the said Address be —_ to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


mittee appointed yesterday to draw up an Address 


up an Address accordingly; and the same was read, 
as followeth: 


Most gracious Sovereign, 


We, Your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal Sub- 
jects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great 
Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled, beg 
leave to return Your Majesty our humble Thanks for 
the gracious Speech which Your Majesty has di- 
rected to be delivered by the Lords Commissioners. 

We beg to express our satisfaction at learning 
that Your Majesty continues to receive from all Fo- 
reign Powers the strongest assurances of their 
friendly dispositions, and our participation in Your 
Majesty’s confidence, that the experience of the 
blessings which Peace confers upon Nations, will 
tend to confirm and secure the present tranquillity. 

We lament with Your Majesty, that the civil 

contest which has agitated the Spanish Monarchy, 
has not yet been brought to a close; but we learn 
with satisfaction that Your Majesty has continued 
to afford to the Queen of Spain that aid which, by 
the Treaty of 1834, Your Majesty engaged to give, 
if it should become necessary; and we rejoice that 
Your Majesty’s co-operating force has rendered 
useful assistance to the troops of her Catholic Ma- 
jesty. 
‘ We regret that events have happened in Portugal 
which for a time threatened to disturb the internal 
peace of that country, and we thank Your Majesty 
for having ordered, in consequence, a temporary 
augmentation of Your Naval Force in the Tagus, 
for the more effectual protection of the persons and 
property of Your subjects resident in Lisbon, and 
| for authorizing the Admiral commanding Your Ma- 
|jesty’s squadron, in case of need, to afford protec- 
tion to the person of the Queen of Portugal, with- 
out, however, interfermg in those constitutional 
questions which divided the conflicting parties. 


We offer our humble acknowledgments to Your 
Majesty for having directed the Reports of the Com- 
missioners appointed to inquire into the state of 
Lower Canada to be laid before us ; and we assure 
Your Majesty that we will give our attention to that 
important subject. 

We will not fail seriously to deliberate upon the 
provisions which may be submitted to us for the im- 
provement of the Law, and of the administration 
of Justice; and we assure Your Majesty that our 
anxiety for the accomplishment of these objects 
remains undiminished. 

In obedience to Your Majesty’s expressed desire, 
we will consult upon such further measures as may 
give increased stability to the Established Church, 
and promote concord and good-will. 

We humbly thank Your Majesty for ordering the 
Estimates of the year to be prepared with every de- 
sire to meet the exigencies of the Public Service, - 

the 








The Order of the day being read, for taking into 8 


to be presented to His Majesty; That they had drawn , 





reach of 
Privilege. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented London _ 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased to University, &amp;c. 


Mr. Ayshford Sanford reported from the Com- Address 
reported, and 
greed to. 








Speech to be 
considered, 


Printing. 


Printed Papers, 
No. 2. 





7 Witt. IV. 


the spirit of a wise economy, and for directing them 
to be laid before us without delay. 

We rejoice to learn that the increase of the Re- 
venue has hitherto more than justified the expecta- 
tions created by the receipts of former years. 


We are sensible of the importance of an early 
renewal of our inquiries into the operation of the 
Act permitting the establishment of Joint Stock 
Banks ; and we participate in the opinion Your 
Majesty has been pleased to express that the best 
security against the mismanagement of Banking 
affairs must ever be found in the capacity and in- | 
tegrity of those who are entrusted with the adminis- 
tration of them, and in the caution and prudence of 
the public; but we are nevertheless persuaded that 
no legislative regulation should be omitted which 
can increase and insure the stability of establish- 
ments upon which commercial credit so much de- 
pends. 

We humbly assure Your Majesty that we will 
direct our attention to the state of Jreland, which 
Your Majesty has been graciously pleased to bring 
especially under our notice; and, convinced of the 
wisdom of adopting all such measures as may im- 
prove the condition of that part of the United King- 
dom, we will take into our early consideration the 
present constitution of the Municipal Corporations 
of that Country, the Laws which regulate the collec- 
tion of Tithes, and the difficult but pressing question 
of establishing some legal provision for the Poor, 
guarded by prudent regulations, and by such pre- 
cautions against abuse as our experience and know- 
ledge of the subject may enable us to suggest. 

We cannot but feel grateful for the confidence 
with which Your Majesty commits these interests 
into our hands, and we are persuaded, with Your 
Majesty, that, should we be able to frame Laws upon 
these matters in accordance with the wishes of Your 
Majesty, and the expectations of Your Majesty’s 
People, we shall not only contribute to the welfare 
of Ireland, but strengthen the Law and Constitu- 
tion of these Realms, by securing their benefits to 
all classes of Your Majesty’s Subjects. 


The said Address being read a second time ; 


Resolved, That this House doth agree with the 
Committee in the said Address to be presented to 
His Majesty. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Ordered, That the Speech of the Lords Commis- 
sioners to both Houses of Parliament, be taken into 
consideration To-morrow. 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed 
to assist Mr. Speaker in all matters which relate to 
the Printing executed by Order of this House, and 
for the purpose of selecting and arranging for print- 
ing Returns and Papers presented in pursuance of 
Motions made by Members of this House, which 
may be referred to the said Committee:—And a 
Committee was appointed of Mr. Labouchere, Mr. 
Hume, Sir Robert Inglis, Sir Thomas Fremantle, Mr. 
Francis Baring, Lord Viscount Lowther, Mr. Vernon 
Smith, and Dr. Bowring, with Power to send for 
persons, papers and records. 

Ordered, That Three be the Quorum. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Statement of the Terms on which, and the Places 
whereat, the Votes of the House, and the Reports 
and Papers printed by its Order, may be had by the 
public, according to the Resolution of the House of 
the 13th of August 1836. 

Mr. Hume accordingly presented the said State- 
ment. 

Ordered, That the said Statement do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 
Vou. 92. 


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Mr. Fox Maule presented,—Return to an Address Freemen. 


to His Majesty, dated the 5th day of August, in the 
last Session of Parliament, for a Return of the Num- 
ber of Persons who have been admitted to the 
Freedom of the Cities and Boroughs in England 
and Wales which returned Members to Parliament 
in the years 1833, 1834 and 1835, and of the Sum 
paid by each Person for Stamp Duty on such ad- 
mission to the Freedom n each City and Borough. 


_Mr. Fox Maule also presented, pursuant to the Court of Session 
directions of several Acts of Parliament,—A Return (Scotland.) 


of the Number of Causes instituted and decided in 
the Court of Session in Scotland, between the 1st 
day of January 1826 and the Ist day of January 
1837, showing the Number of Causes ready for 
Judgment, but not disposed of, during the last of 
these dates. 


Act of Sederunt, regulating the Fees of the Sheriff Sheriff and 


and Stewart Clerks of Scotland, dated the 7th day (Scotland, a 


of July 1836. 
Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 


Jovis, 2° die Februarii ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi [Vt Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 








Ms Campbell, from the Court of Directors of East India 
LVI. the East India Company, was called in; and Company: 


at the bar presented, pursuant to the directions of 
several Acts of Parliament,— Resolutions of the 
Court of Directors of the East India Company, being 
the Warrants or Instruments granting any Pension. 
Resolutions of the Court of Directors of the East 
India Company, being the Warrants or Instruments 
granting any i or Gratuity. 

List, N° 60, specifying the Particulars of the 
Compensation proposed to be granted to certain re- 
duced Servants of the East India Company’s Service 
in England, under an Arrangement sanctioned by the 
Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India, 
and laid before The Honourable the House of Com- 
mons on the 20th March 1834. 

List, N° 61, specifying the Particulars of the 
Compensation proposed to be granted to certain 
Persons reduced from the East India Company’s 
Service, under an Arrangement sanctioned by the 
Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India, 
and laid before The Honourable the House of Com- 
mons on the 26th February 1835. 

List, N° 62, specifying the Particulars of the 
Compensation proposed to be granted to certain 
Persons late of the Maritime Service of the East 
India Company, under an Arrangement sanctioned 
by the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of 
India, and laid before The Honourable the House 
of Commons on the 26th February 1835 :—And then 
he withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, that the Clerk Lists or 
had caused to be prepared Sessional Lists of Mem- Committees, 


bers to serve on Committees on Petitions for Private 
Bills, and on Private Bills. 
Ordered, That the said Lists be printed. 


Sir John Beckett presented a Bill for inclosing Cariton and 
of Lofthouse-cum-Carlton, Lofthouse 
in the Parish of Rothwell, in’ the West Riding of 1¢lsure Bill 


Lands in the Townshi 


the County of York: And the same was read the 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


Ordered, That the Petition for the Aberdeen Road Aberdeen 
Bill, which was presented yesterday, be referred ¥o=4. 


. Mr. William Gordon and the East Scotland 
ast. 


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Cranfield 
Inclosure Bill. 


Mochnant 
Inclosure. 


Brighton, 
Lewes, and 
Newhaven 
Railway. 


London and 
Brighton 
Railway 
(Stephenson’s 
Line.) 


London and 
Brighton Rail- 
way (Rennie’s 
Line.) 


Worcester 
County Hall, 


Ellesmere ong 
Chester Canis) 


Clarence (Dur= 
ham) Railway. 


Leicester 
Corporation 
Estates. 


Edinburgh 
Police. 


Belfast 
Harbour, 


Hinckley 
Small Debts. 


Runcorn Gas. 


Church Rates, 


18 


Lord Russell presented a Bill for inclosing and 
exonerating from Tithes, Lands in the Parish of 
Cranfield, in the County of Bedford: And the same 
was read the first time ; and ordered to be read a 
second time. 


A Petition of the Lord of the Manor, and Owners 
of estates, lands and grounds in the several parishes 
of Llanymynech, Llanrhaidr-yn Mochnant, Llanar- 
mon mynydd mawr, Llanarmon dyffryn Ceiriog, Llan- 
silin and Llancadwalader,in the county of Denbigh, 
for leave to bring in a Bill for dividing, allotting 
and inclosing certain commons, commonable lands, 
wastes and waste lands in the said parishes, and 
within the several manors of Carreghofa, Mochnant 
and Cynlleth-yr-Jarl, in the said county, was pre- 
sented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
brought in accordingly, by Mr. Williams Wynn and 
Mr. Wilson Jones. 


A Petition of Owners and Occupiers of property 
in the towns of Brighton, Lewes and Newhaven, or 
on the line of a Railway proposed to be made from 
the South Eastern Railway to those places — 
tively, for leave to bring in a Bill for making a Rail- 
way to Brighton, Lewes and Newhaven, from the 
proposed South Eastern Railway, at or near Oxted, 
m the county of Surrey, or at or near Godstone, in 
the same county, was presented, and read ; and re- 
ferred to the Select Committee on Petitions for 
Private Bills. 


Ordered, That the Petition for the Zondon and 
Brighton Railway Bill (Stephenson’s Line), which 
was presented yesterday, be referred to the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


Ordered, That the Petition for the Zondon and 
Brighton Railway Bill (Rennie’s Line), which was 
presented yesterday, be referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


Ordered, That the Petition for the Worcester 
Oounty fall Bill, which was presented yesterday, 
/be referred totic Seicct Committee on Petitions for 
Private Bills. 


Ordered, That the Petition for the Ellesmere and 
Chester Canal Bill, which was presented yesterday, 
be referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for 
Private Bills. 


Ordered, That the Petition for the Clarence (.Dur- 
ham) Railway Bill, which was presented yesterday, 
be referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for 
Private Bills. 


Ordered, That the Petition for the Leicester Cor- 
poration Estates Bill, which was presented yesterday, 
be referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for 
Private Bills. 


Ordered, That the Petition for the Edinburgh 
Police Bill, which was presented yesterday, be re- 
ferred to the Select Committee on Petitions for 
Private Bills, 


Ordered, That the Petition for the Belfast Har- 
bour Bill, which was presented yesterday, be referred 
to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private 
Bills. 

Oraered, That the Petition for the Hinckley Small 
Debts Bill, which was presented yesterday, be re- 
ferred to the Select Committee on Petitions for 
Private Bills. 


Ordered, That the Petition for the Runcorn Gas 
Bill, which was presented yesterday, be referred 


to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private 
Bills. 


Petitions from Blairgowrie ;—Lethendy ;—Path- 
struie ; — Pitcairn ; — Muchart ; — Tillicoultry ; — 
Whithorn ; — Hammersmith ; — Wrentham ;— Lei- 


2° Februari. 








A. 1837, 


cester ; —Gildersome ;— Wickham Market ; — and, 
Rillington; praying for the abolition of Church 
Rates,—were presented, and read ; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of John Dillon, praying the House to John Dillon. 


take his Petition, presented on the 16th day of June 
last, into consideration, and order an inquiry into 
the facts and circumstances connected with the attack 
on, and seizure of, the “ Peru,” and the disposal of 
the money arising therefrom, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Medical 
Return of the Names of all the Medical Officers Officers 


now employed by the Guardians of Unions ; spe- 
cifying whether they are Members of the College 
of Physicians or of Surgeons, or Licentiates of the 
Apothecaries’ Company, or belong to more than one 
of those Bodies, with the Dates of their respective 
Diplomas and Certificates. 


(Poor Law Act.) 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, an Belfast 
Account of the Rates levied by the Corporation for Harbour. 


preserving and improving the Port and Harbour of 
Belfast, since the 23d August 1831, under an Act 
passed in that year, intituled, “ An Act for the fur- 
ther improvement of the Port and Harbour of Bel- 
fast, in Ireland, and other purposes ;” ne 
separately the Sums received in each year for Pilotage, 
Ballast, Quayage and Tonnage Dues; also for Li- 
censes; and distinguishing the Rates levied off 
Coasters from those levied off Vessels employed in 
the Foreign Trade, and also distinguishing the Rates 
paid by Steamers from those paid by other Vessels : 
—Of the Sum expended by the same Corporation 
for the same period, and the items of Expenditure :— 
A separate and detailed Account of the Money paid 
by the Corporation for Salaries or other Payments 
to Surveyors, Engineers, Parliamentary Agents, Soli- 
citors, and travelling Expenses of Members of the 
Corporation for the last Ten years:—Accounts of 
the Money expended in actual Work and purchase 
of Land for carrying into effect the Harbour Im- 
provement authorized by 1 and 2 Will. 4, c. 55:— 
Of the Number of Persons who voted at the several 
Elections of Members of the Corporation under the 
Act land 2 Will. 4, c. 55:—Of the lands and Here- 
ditaments the property of the Corporation, specify- 
ing the tenure by which they are held, and the 
Income derived from them :—Of the Suits pending 
to which the Corporation is a Party, and the nature 
thereof :--Of the Salaries paid by the Corporation, 
to whom and for what Services, for the last Five 
years :—An Annual Account of the Vessels trading 
to and from the Port of Belfast for the last Five years, 
specifying the Tonnage, and separating Steamers 
and Colliers from other Vessels :—and, an Account 
of the Vessels now registered in the Port of Belfast, 
with the Names of their Owners and Tonnage. 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed, Public 
to whom shall be referred all Petitions presented to Petitions. 


the House, with the exception of such as complain 
of undue Returns, or relate to Private Bills; and 
that such Committee do classify the same, and pre- 
pare Abstracts, in such form and manner as shall 
appear to them best suited to convey to the House 
all requisite information respecting their contents, 
and do report the same from time to time to the 
House ; and that such Reports do in all cases set 
forth the Number of Signatures to each Petition :— 
And that such Committee have Power to direct the 
printing in extenso of such Petitions, or of such 
parts of Petitions as shall appear to require it :— 
And a Committee was appointed of Mr. Oswald, Sir 
Robert Peel, Mr. O’ Connell, Sir Robert Inglis, Sir 
Richard Vyvyan, Mr. Wilson Patten, Mr. Hume, Sir 
Edward Knatchbull, Mr. Clay, Mr. Tooke, Mr. G'reene, 
and Dr. Bowring, with Power to report their ob- 
servations thereupon to the House. 
Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 
A Petition 


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Hand-loom 
Weavers. 


Municipal 
Corporations 
Act. 


Soap. 


» Prisoners. 


Lobley Hill 
Road Bill. 


Whitby and 
Pickering 
Railway. 


Winfrith and 
Wool Inclosure. 


Factories, 


Factories, 


7 Witt. IV. 


A Petition of Hand-loom Weavers of Longtown, 
praying for the establishment of Boards of Trade for 
regulating the prices of Hand-loom Weaving, was pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Freemen of Godmanchester, praying 
the House to amend the Municipal Corporations Act, 
by rendering the Evidence of a freeman valid in any 
case or cause in which he or his privileges are con- 
cerned, was presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


Petitions from Greenock ;—Perth ;—and, Chard ; 
praying for the repeal of the Duty on Soap,—were 


presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this House, 
a Return of the Number of Prisoners of both Sexes, 
removed from time to time from one Prison to 
another, for the purpose of trial at Sessions and 
Assizes in England and Wales, in the year ending 
31st January 1837, and the distances of such Prisons, 
with a description of the manner in which the 
Prisoners were conveyed, and an account of the Ex- 
pense thereof. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Mr. Bowes presented a Bill for more effectually 
repairing the Road from the Turnpike Road between 
Gateshead and Hexham, near Lobley Hill, in the 
County of Durham, to Burtryford, in the Parish of 
Stanhope, in the same County; together with several 
Branches therefrom: And the same was read the 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Petition of the Whitby and Pickering Railway 
Company, for leave to bring in a Bill for amending 
an Act passed in the third year of the reign of His 
present Majesty , for making a Railway from Whitby 
to Pickering, in the North Riding of the County of 
York, and for enabling them to raise a further sum 
of money, was presented, and read; and referred 


to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private 
Bills. 


A Petition of Owners or Proprietors of lands 
within the parishes of Winfrith, Newburgh and 
Wool, in the county of Dorset, for leave to bring in 
a Bill for dividing, inclosing and allotting, and dis- 
charging from Tithes, certain open and common 
fields, meadows, pastures, commons, commonable 
lands and waste grounds within the said parishes, 
was presented, and read ; and a Bill was ordered to 
be brought in accordingly, by Mr. William Ponsonby 
and Lord Ashley. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this House, 
a Return of the Number and Names of Persons 
summoned for Offences against the Factory Act, 
between the 1st of May 1836, and the 1st of January 
1837; specifying the Date of the Conviction or 
Hearing, the Place of Hearing, by whom each Con- 
viction was made, the Place in which the Offence 
was committed, the precise nature of the Offence 
in each case, and the manner of appropriating such 
Penalties and Costs. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty A such Members of this House as 
are of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy 
Council. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this House, 
— = all Rules and Regulations issued by the 

OL. 92. 


2 Februariz. 








19 


Factory Inspectors since May 1836 :—and, Of all In- 
structions and Letters issued by the same to Super- 
intendents, Certifying Surgeons, and Mill Occu- 
aca of their respective Districts, for the same 

eriod. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Coune 


Lord John Russell presented, by His Majesty’s Religious 
command,—tThe First Report of the Commissioners (Sentlend) 
of Religious Instruction, Scotland. (Scotland. 
‘ ‘aaa That the. said Paper do lie upon the 

able. 


A Petition of the Great Western Railwa 
pany, for leave to bring in a Bill for conning the 
ine of the said Railway, and the Branch therefrom 
to Trowbridge, was presented, and read; and re- 
anny to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private 
ills. 


A Petition of the Great Western Railway Com- Great Western 
pany, for leave to bring in a Bill for extending the ard , 
line of the said Railway from Acton, in the count ee 
of Middlesex, to near the Basin of the Paddington 
Canal, in the parish of Paddington, in the said 
County, was presented, and read; and referred to 
the Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


Com- Great Wester 
Railway 
( Trowbridge.) 


A Petition of Owners and Occupiers of property, Oxford and 
or Residents in or near an intended Railway from i worn 
Oxford, to jom the Great Western Railway near" 
Didcot, in the county of Berks, for leave to bring 
in a Bill for making the said Railway, was presented, 
and read; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of the Company of Proprietors of the Bristol and 
Bristol and Gloucestershire Railway Compan + oan 
and, of Merchants, Traders and Inhabitants of the i 
city of Bristol, for leave to bring in a Bill to make 
an extension, or new line of Railway from and out 
of the said Railway, in the parish of Westerleigh, 
in the county of Gloucester, and terminating in the 
parish of ian Valence, in the same county ; 
and also a Branch Railway from and out of the said 
Railway in the parish of Saint Philip and Jacob, 
in the city of Bristol, and terminating in the same 
parish, and to divert, alter and improve the existing 
line of the said Railway, was presented, and read ; 
and referred to the Select Committee on Petitions 
for Private Bills. 


The House was moved, That the Act 6 and 7 Registration 
Will. 4, c. 85, for Marriages in England, might be 4 Marriages 
read ; and the same was read. - 

The House was also moved, That the Act 6 and 7 
Will. 4, c. 86, for registering Births, Deaths and 
Marriages in England, might be read ; and the same 
being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to suspend the operation of the said Acts: And that 
Lord John Russell and Mr. Solicitor General do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Common Law 
abolish certain Offices in the Superior Courts of Courts Bill. 
Common Law, and to make provision for a more 
effective and uniform establishment of Officers in 
those Courts: And that Mr. Serjeant Goulburn, 
Mr. Freshfield, and Mr. Aglionby, do prepare, and 
bring it in. 

The House was moved, That the Act 5 and 6 Municipal 

Will. 4, c. 76, to provide for the Regulation of Muni- —— 

cipal Corporations in England and Wales, might be ~ 
read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
amend the said Act: And that Mr. Attorney Gene- 
ral and Mr. Solicitor General do prepare, and bring 
it in. 


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20 9°__ 3° Februariz. 


A. 1837. 


Spain. Resolved, That an humble Address be presented | Sums paid fo- watering, the Sums paid for cleansing, 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased | and the Sums paid for any other purpose, and for 
to give directions, that there be laid before this what purpose; also all Sums remaining due and 
House, a Return of the Amount of Military and | owing by them for such purposes on the last day of 
Naval Stores, Arms and Ammunition, furnished to | the year 1835 ; also the several amounts of Monies 
the Queen of Spain, under the stipulations of the | received from any Gas, Water or other Company, 
Quadrupartite Treaty, and the Amount of Payment | or from any Person or Persons, or remaining due 
received for the same, by His Majesty’s Govern- | and owing to them by any Person or Persons, Com- 
ment :—The Number of Vessels of War and Steam- | pany or Companies, on 1¢. ast day of the year 1835, 
boats employed on the Northern Coast of 7 on account of paving, or of damage done to pave- 


since the date of the Treaty ; and of Marines, 


rtil- | ments ; also the Amount of any Debts due by such 


lery, Engineers, and Sappers and Miners, employed Boards on the last day of the year 1832, with the 
in the co-operation granted by His Majesty to her | rate of interest thereon, the Amount of all Annuities 


Catholic Majesty. 


and the Amount of interest of Annuities, and of 


Ordered, That the said Address be presented to | principal Monies paid to that period; also the 


His Majest 


as are of 
Council. 
siomy ofthe Ordered, That a Standing Committee of Sixteen 
ouse. 


Members be appointed to assist Mr. Speaker in the 
direction of the Library, to whom shall be referred 
all matters relating thereto :—And a Committee was 
appointed of Sir Robert Inglis, Mr. Chancellor of 
the Exchequer, Sir Robert Peel, Sir Henry Hardinge, 


by such Members of this House | amount (if any) of Money borrowed, with the rate 
is Majesty’s most honourable Privy of Interest thereon, during each of the years 1833, 


1834 and 1835, together with all the Costs attending 
such repayment or borrowing; also the amount of 
Rate or Rates levied, and the amount received, 
with the per centage on the Collection, and all other 
Expenses thereof; also the Salaries of all Officers or 
Persons employed, distinguishing each Officer and 
Person, and his Salary, the amount of all Law Ex- 


enses during the said Three years, and whether 
Dr. Luskington, Mr. Goulburn, Mr. Shaw, the Lord F 7 , 1 ith th f 
Advocate, Mr. Williams Wynn, Mr. Warburton, Lord ee a ee a 


Viscount Clive, Mr. Stewart Mackenzie, Mr. William 
Gladstone, Mr. Tooke, Mr. Fazakerly, and Mr. 


Gally Knight. 
Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 
Lords Commis- 
considered. 


same was again read, by Mr. Speaker. 


And a Motion being made, That a Supply be 


granted to His Majesty ; 


Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into a Committee, to consider of that 


Motion. 


Freemen. 
No.4. which was presented yesterday, be printed. 


Court of Session 
(Scotland.) 


No. 5. be printed. 


Registration 
and Marriages for a limited time, the operation of two Acts passed 
“ . in the last Session of Parliament, for registering 
aNO. Se 
Marriages in England: And the same was read the 
first time; and ordered to be read a second time 
To-morrow ; and to be printed. 


Municipal 
Corporations 


Bill. 
Ne. 6 


an Act for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations 
in England and Wales: And the same was read the 
first time; and ordered to be read a second time 
upon Monday next; and to be printed. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 


Qo 


Veneris, 3° die Februarii ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi IV" Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 
Pancras RDERED, That there be laid before this 
Local Acts. House, Returns, from the Commissioners or 
Trustees empowered by the undermentioned Acts 
to pave, light, cleanse, water, and wateh certain 
Districts in the Parish of Saint Pancras, of all the 


, The House, according to Order, proceeded to take 
sioners’ Speech into consideration the Speech of the Lords’ Com- 
missioners to both Houses of Parliament; and the 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Freemen, 


Mr. Attorney General presented a Bill to amend | 


Rent, if rented, of Offices or Premises, Yards or 
Buildings, when built, at what Costs, and when taken 
possession of, and all the Expenses since incurred 
in repairing, altering or keeping the same ; also, the 
Number of Commissioners, the Number who have 
qualified and acted during the said years 1833, 1834 
and 1835, the Places, Number and Times of Meet- 
ings of such Commissioners, or any Committees 
thereof ; and giving full account of all other Income 
and Expenditure, and of all Monies due to or from 
such Commissioners, up to December 31, 1835. 


The Commissioners of the following Districts :— 
South-west District, 12 Geo. 3, c. 69, 31 Geo. 3, 

ce. 18, and 52 Geo. 3, c. 74 ;—Highgate, 15 Geo. 3, 
c. 43 ;—Somers Town, 29 Geo. 3, c. 71, and 3 Geo. 
4,c. 81; Doughty-street, 37 Geo. 3, c. 80 ;— Bed- 
ford Estate, 39 and 40 Geo. 3, c. 49 ;— Southampton 





Ordered, That the Return relative to the Court | Estate, 41 Geo. 3, c. 131, 43 Geo. 3, c. 139, and 
of Session (Scotland), which was presented yesterday, 55 Geo. 3, c. 25 ;—Shinners’ Estate, 48 Geo. 3, 


c. 86 ;—Lucas Estate, 50 Geo. 3, c. 147 ;— Harrison 
Estate, 50 Geo. 3,c.107;—Brewers’ Estate, 51 Geo. 


Lord John Russell presented a Bill to suspend, | 3, c. 155 ;—Calthorpe Estate, 54 Geo. 3, c. 229 ;— 


Union Estate, 54 Geo. 3, c. 173, and 56 Geo. 3, c. 82; 
Mansfield Place, 55 Geo. 3, c. 53 ;—Kentish Town, 


Births, Deaths and Marriages in England ; and for | 57 Geo. 5, c. 14;—Camden Town, 3 Geo. 4, c. 82 ; 


| — Battle Bridge, 5 Geo.4, c. 70 ;— Gloucester Place, 
'7 and 8 Geo. 4,c. 45;—North of Park-street Dis- 
trict, 3 and 4 Will. 4:—This last Act is a General 
Act; the others are all local. 


| _ Mr. Dougan, Clerk to the Commissioners of the 
| Lucas Estate, was called in; and at the bar pre- 
| sented, —A Return to the said Order (so far as 
relates to the Zucas Estate) :—And then he with- 
drew. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 








A Petition of the Corporation of the Guardians Ise of Wight 
of the Poor within the Isle of Wight, for leave to Poor Rates. 
bring in a Bill to alter and amend an Act of the 
sixteenth year of the reign of King George the Third, 
to continue the Corporation of the Guardians of the 
Poor within the Isle of Wight, and to confirm the 
powers and authorities now vested in the said Cor- 
poration, and to provide new powers and regulations 
for the Members of the same, and to repeal an Act 

assed in the eleventh year of His present Majesty, 


Monies (if any) in their hands, and all Sums of | intituled, “An Act for establishing a House or Houses 
of Industry in the Isle of Wight, for the reception, 
maintenance and employment of the Poor belonging 
to the several Parishes and Places within the said 
Island,” was presented, and read ; and referred to 
the Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 

A Petition 


Money due and owing to or by them, on the last 
day of the year 1832; also the Monies received and 
expended by them during each of the years 1833, 
1834 and 1835, particularly distinguishing the Sums 
paid for paving, the Sums paid for lighting, the 








Birm 
Gas. 


Mocl 
Inclo: 


Sout 
Ham 
Rail 


Live 
Con 


Wir 
Bil 


Sai 
Pay 


Vi 
As 


M: 
Le 





Birmingham 
Gas. 


Mochnant _ 
Inclosure Bill. 


Southwark and 
Hammersmith 
Railway. 


London and 
Dover (South 
Eastern) Rail- 


way, 


Liverpool 
Apothecaries 
Company. 


Winfrith and 
Wool Inclosure 
Bill, 


Saint Pancras 
Paving. 


Victuallers’ 
Assurance 
Compan Ys 


Manchester and 
eeds Railway. 





7 Witt. IV. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Birmingham, for 
leave tobring ina Bill for better supplying with Gas 
the Streets, Dwelling-houses and other Buildings 
within the said town, and parishes or places of Edg- 
baston, Duddeston and Nechels, Deritend, Bordesley, 
Aston, Moseley, Yield, King’s Norton, and Hands- 
worth, adjoining thereto, was presented, and :ead ; 
and referred to the Select Committee on Petitions 
for Private Bills. 


Mr. Williams Wynn presented a Bill for inclosing 
Lands in the several Parishes of Llanymynech, 
Llanrhaidr-yn Mochnant, Llanarmon mynydd mawr, 
Llanarmon dyffryn Ceiriog, Llansilin and Llancad- 
walader, in the County of Denbigh: And the same 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time. 


A Petition of Merchants, Traders and others, of 
the city of London, and its vicinity, for leave to bring 
in a Bill for making and maintaining a Railway from 
the southern extremity of Southwark Bridge, in the 
borough of Southwark, in the county of Surrey, to 
or near the Lane called The G'reen Lane, in the 
parish of Battersea, in the said county, and thence 
crossing the River Thames bya bridge or viaduct, and 
to be continued to and join the Birmingham, Bristol 
and Thames Junction Railway, at or near to land or 
ground commonly called Zee’s Nursery Grounds, 
on the north side of Hammersmith Road, in the parish 
or hamlet of Hammersmith, or the parish of Ken- 
sington, in the county of Middlesex, was presented, 
and read ; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of the South Eastern Railway Com- 
pany, for leave to bring in a Bill for altering, amend- 
ing and extending the line of the South Eastern 
Railway, from London to Dover, was presented, and 
read ; and referred to the Select Committee on Pe- 
titions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Members or Proprietors of the 
Liverpool Apothecaries Company, for leave to bring 
in a Bill to enable them to sue and be sued in the 
name of some one person, was presented, and read ; 
and referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for 
Private Bills. 


Mr. William Ponsonby presented a Bill for in- 
closing Lands in the Parishes of Winfrith, Newburgh 
and Wool, in the County of Dorset: And the same 
was read the first time ; and ordered to be read a 
second time. 


A Petition of Vestrymen, or other Inhabitant 
Householders of the parish of Saint Pancras, in the 
county of Middlesex, for leave to bring in_a Bill for 
consolidating, amending and enlarging the powers 
and provisions of the several Acts for paving, re- 
pairing, lighting, watering, cleansing, and otherwise 
regulating and improving the several streets, squares, 
crescents, circuses, gardens, ways, passages, courts 
and places within the said parish of Saint Pancras, 
and for placing the same under the care, manage- 
ment and control of the Vestry of the said parish, 
was presented, and read ; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Members or Proprietors of the 
Licensed Victuallers’ and General Fire and Life As- 
surance Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to 
enable them to sue and be sued in the name of the 
Chairman or Deputy Chairman, or one of the Di- 
rectors for the time being of the said Company, was 
presented, and read ; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of the Manchester and Leeds Railway 
Company, for leave to bring in a Bill for amending 


and enlarging the powers of an Act passed in the 
Vou. 92. 


3° Februari. 





Q1 


sixth and seventh years of the reign of His present 
Majesty, for making a Railway from Manchester to 
Leeds, was presented, and read ; and referred to the 
Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills, 


Lancaster and 
Preston Rail- 
way. 


A Petition of Owners and Proprietors of estates 
within, and also Merchants, Manufacturers, Traders 
and other Inhabitants of the town and neighbour- 
hood of Lancaster, and the town of Preston, and 
other places in the county palatine of Lancaster, for 
leave to bring in a Bill for making a Railway from 
Lancaster to Preston, was presented, and read ; and 
referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for 
Private Bills. 


A Petition of Proprietors of estates within the Newbold 
manor of Newbold, in the parish of Chesterfield, in Mlosure- 
the county of Derby, for leave to bring in a Bill for 
dividing, allotting and inclosing certain commons 
and waste grounds within the said manor, was pre- 
sented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
brought in accordingly, by Mr. Cavendish and Mr. 


Gisborne. 


Petitions from Halesworth (Independents) ; — Church Rates. 

Wortwell ;— Wortwell-with-Harleston ;—Halesworth 
(Baptists) ;— Walpole;— Denton; — Bungay ;— Hud- 
dersfield ;— Holmfirth ;— Newcastle-upon- Tyne ;— 
West Calder ; —Barnard Castle ; —Little Baddow ; 
Perth (Inhabitants) ;— and, Perth Congregational 
Church, Mill-street, praying for the abolition of 
Church Rates, were presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Matthew D’ Arcy Talbot, a claimant French Claims. 
on the fund provided by France, for compensating 
British Subjects for losses sustained by the seques- 
tration and confiscation of their property in that 
country in 1793, complaining of his claim not having 
been liquidated, and praying that the House will 
take his case into consideration, and afford him 
relief, by the investigation of his claim before a Com- 
mittee, was presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 

Ordered, That the Petition be printed. 


A Petition of Overseers of the Poor of Newtown, Poor Law Act. 
Llanllwchairn, Bettws, Aberhafesp, Mouchtre, Pen- 
strowed, Llanwnog, and Kerry, in the county of 
Montgomery, complaining of the operation of the 
Clauses relating to Bastardy, in the Poor Law Act ; 
and praying relief, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Chairman of a Meeting of Elec- Vote by Ballot. 
tors and Inhabitants of Worcester, praying the House 
not to pass any law for taking Votes by Ballot, was 
tigi and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
able. 


A Petition of Medical Superintendents of Dis- 


Grand Juries 





pensaries in the county of Tyrone, praying for the gai -_m 


repeal of certain Clauses in the Grand Juries (Jre- 
land) Act of the last Session, relating to the payment 
of the salary of Medical Attendants, and for a 
thorough and complete reform of the laws regulating 
Medical Education in that country, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Serjeant Goulburn presented a Bill to abolish Common Law 
certain Offices in the Superior Courts of Common Courts Bill, 
Law, and to make provision for a more effectiveand No.7. 
uniform Establishment of Officers in those Courts : 

And the same was read the first time ; and ordered 
to be read a second time upon Thursday next ; and 
to be printed. 


Sir John Yarde Buller presented a Bill for mak- Torquay 
ing, repairing and improving certain Roads near eds Bill 
5) &gt; 
Torquay, Brixham, Dartmouth, Newton Abbot, and 
Shaldon, in the County of Devon: And the same 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time. 





Petitions 


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22 3° Februariz. 


Soap. Petitions from Perth;—and, Dumbarton; praying 
for the repeal of the Duty on Soap,—were presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Adjournment. Resolved, That this House will, at the rising of 
the House this day, adjourn till Monday next. 

Saint Asaph Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 

——— to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased to 


give directions, that there be laid before this House, 
a Return of all Remonstrances made to the Church 
Commissioners respecting the Union of the Sees of 
Saint Asaph and Bangor, and the abstraction of 
Welsh Tithes from those Dioceses; showing from 
what Bodies or from what Parishes such Remon- 
strances have emanated. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this et as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Registration The Registration and Marriages Bill was, ac- 
and Marriages 


Bill. cording to Order, read a second time; and com- 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for 
Monday next. 


Committee on 
Motion for 


Supply; 


The Order of the day being read, for the House 
to resolve itself into a Committee, to consider of the 
Motion made yesterday, That a Supply be granted 
to His Majesty ; 

Ordered, That the Speech of the Lords Commis- 
sioners to both Houses of Parliament, be referred 
to the Committee. 

Then the House resolved itself into the Com- 
mittee ; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal re- 
ported, That the Committee had come to a Reso- 
lution. 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon Mon- 
day next. 


Lords Commis- 
sioners’ Speech 
referred. 


Grand Juries 


(ireland) Bil The House was moved, That the Act 7 Will. 4, 


c. 116, to consolidate and amend the Laws relating 
to the Presentment of Public Money by Grand 
Juries in Jreland, might be read; and the same 
being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
amend the said Act: And that Lord Viscount Mor- 
peth and Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer do pre- 
pare, and bring it in. 


Sedition The House was moved, That the Act 6 Geo. 4, 
(Scotland) Bill. © 47, for restricting the punishment of Leasing- 
making, Sedition and Blasphemy in Scotland, might 
be read ; and the same being read ; 
Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to amend the said Act: And that the Lord Advocate 
and Mr. Wallace do prepare, and bring it in. 


Court of Sessio. The House was moved, That the Act 50 Geo. 3, 

(Scotland) Bill. ©, 112, for abridging the Form of abstracting De- 
crees of the Court of Session in Scotland, and for 
the Regulation of certain parts of the Proceedings 
of that Court, might be read; and the same was 
read. 

The House was also moved, That the Act 59 Geo. 3, 
c. 85, to amend an Act passed in the fifty-fifth year 
of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled, 
“ An Act to facilitate the Administration of Justice 
in that part of the United Kingdom called Scotland, 
by extending Trial by Jury to Causes,” might be 
be read; and the same was read. 
The House was also moved, That the Act 

3 and 4 Will. 4, c. 13, to provide for the execution 
of the Duties performed by the Barons of Exche- 
quer in Scotland, in relation to the Public Revenue, 
and to place the Management of the Assessed Taxes 
and Land Tax in Scotland under the Commissioners 
for the Affairs of Taxes, might be read; and the 
same being read ; 





A. 1837. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
make certain Alterations in the Duties of the Lords 
Ordinary, and in the establishment of Clerks and 
Officers of the Court of Session and Court of Com- 
mission for Teinds in Scotland, and to reduce the 
Fees payable in those Courts: And that the Lord 
Advocate and Mr. Attorney General do prepare, and 
bring it in. 


The House was moved, That the Act 10 Geo. 4, Small Debts 
c. 55, for the more effectual Recovery of Small (Scotland) Bill 
Debts, and for diminishing the Expenses of Litiga- 
tion in Causes of small Amount in the Sheriff Courts 
in Scotland, might be read; and the same being 
read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for the more effectual recovery of Small Debts in 
the Sheriff Courts, and for establishing Circuit 





Courts for the trial of Small Debt Causes by the 
Sheriffs in Scotland: And that the Lord Advocate 
and Mr. Wallace do prepare, and bring it in. 


The House was moved, That the Act 3 and 4 Will. 4, Court of 
c. 13, to provide for the execution of the Duties per- (Seatitnd) Bill 
formed by the Barons of Exchequer in Scotland in* : 
relation to the Public Revenue, and to place the 
management of the Assessed Taxes and Land Tax 
in Scotland under the Commissioners for the Affairs 
of Taxes, might be read ; and the same being read; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
regulate certain Offices in the Court of Exchequer 
in Scotland: And that Mr. Robert Steuart and Mr. 
Baring do prepare, and bring it in. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being put, Sittings of the 
That it being desirable, except in particular cases, House. 
that the sittings of this House should not be con- 
tinued after midnight, when any Motion is brought 
on for discussion after twelve o'clock at night, and 
a Member rises to speak to Order, and moves that 
the further Debate on such Question be adjourned to 
a future day, Mr. Speaker shall immediately declare 
the Debate adjourned, without putting the Question 
to the House, and proceed to the other Orders of 
the day; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 


Tellers for the f Mr. Brotherton, 61 
Yeas, Mr. Ewart : } , 
Tellers for the f Mr. Attorney General, } 147 
Noes, Mr. Edward John Stanley: ; 


So it passed in the Negative. 


Petitions from Electors of the county of Roxburgh Fictitious Votes 
(Districts of Melrose and Hawick); —Resident Non- (Scotland. ) 
electors of the county of Roxburgh (District of Mel- 
rose) ;—Resident Non-electors of the county of Rox- 
burgh residing in Hawick ;—Resident Electors of the 
county of Peebles ;—Non-electors resident in the 
county of Peebles ;—Resident Electors and Non- 
electors of the Stirling district of the county of 
Stirling ;—Resident Electors of the county of Sel- 
kirk ;—and, Resident Non-electors of the county of 
Selkirk; complaining of the creation of fictitious 
Votes for Members to serve in Parliament for 
counties in Scotland ; and praying for relief;—were 
= and read ; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed Fictitious Votes 
to inquire how far the intentions of the Reform Bill (Scotland.) 
are defeated by the creating and registering of 
fictitious and improper Votes in the Counties of Scot- 
land. 

Ordered, That the Committee be nominated upon 
Monday next. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, that he had Breach of 
received a Letter from Edmund Lechmere Charlton, Pvilese- 





Esquire, 





Upper Canada. 


7 Wit. IV. 


Esquire, a Member of this House ; which he read 
to the House, as followeth : 
Sir, 

I have the honour to inform you, that persons 
stating that they have a warrant from the Lord 
Chancellor, have forced their way into the house in 
which I am staying, and have compelled me to go 
to the Fleet Prison with them. 

I had flattered myself that while the matter was 
under the consideration of a Committee of Privi- 
leges, such violent proceedings as these would have 
been avoided, but I am sorry to say I am mistaken. 

I have only to add, that I hope you will be so good 
as to read this Letter to the House, and that they 
will extend to me the Privilege that, under similar 
cases, has been given to Members of Parliament. 

I have the honour to be, 
Sir, 
To the Your obedient, humble servant, 
Right honourable The Speaker. £. LZ. Charlton. 
Friday evening, half past five o’clock. 


Ordered, That the said Letter, be referred to the 
Committee of Privileges. 

Ordered, That the Warden of the Fleet Prison, 
or other officer in whose custody Edmund Lechmere 
Charlton, Esquire, may be, do bring the said Ed- 
mund Lechmere Charlton, Esquire, in safe custody on 
Monday next, at one of the clock, to the Committee 
of Privileges, and so from time to time as often as 
his attendance shall be thought necessary, and that 
Mr. Speaker do issue his warrant accordingly. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House,a Copy ofall Orders in Counciland Instructions 
sent to Upper Canada by His Majesty’s Secretary 
of State for the Colonies for the regulation of the 
Sale or grant of Lands in that Province :—Copy of 
all the Orders of the Lieutenant Governor in 
Council, and the Lieutenant Governor in Upper 
Canada, for the regulation of the location or grant 
of Lands in that Province in force on the 1st of Ja- 
nuary 1835, and Copies of every Order in Council 
in that Province respecting the same, up to the 
1st of August 1836 :—Return of all the Patents for 
Grants of Lands from the Crown in Upper Canada, 
between the Ist April and 1st August 1836; stating 
the Names of the Persons to whom granted, the 
Quantity of Lands, and the Township and County 
in which such Land is situated, the Date of the Pe- 
tition or other application for such Land, and the 
Date of Location, with the Terms and Conditions of 
the same ; also, the Dates of the Patents issued for 
such Lands; stating also, the several Payments 
made in Money, or by Note or other Security, dis- 
tinguishing what part has been paid in Money or 
otherwise ; and also the Amount of Fees paid for 
the same :—Copy of the Instructions or Orders in 
Council from His Majesty’s Secretary of State sent 
to Upper Canada, under which the Surrender by the 
Indians of their Lands were made to His Majesty ; 
the Number of Acres of Land surrendered since 
1820; stating the Date of each Surrender, and the 
Terms or Conditionsof each Surrender :—and, Copy 
of the Orders in Council of the Lieutenant Governor 
in Council, or Orders by the Lieutenant Governor, 
for the acceptance of such surrender from the 
Indians, and for the subsequent Sale or Grant of 
the same ; —_ the Number of Grants, and 
the Quantity of Land so granted; the Number of 
Sales, and the Quantity of Land so sold; together 
with the Amount of Money received for the same, 
and the Amount of the Purchase-money remaining 
due and unpaid, and the Nature of the Security for 
the same. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this hoes as are 


of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 
Vor. 92. 


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23 


Lord Viscount Morpeth presented a Bill to amend Grand Juries 
an Act passed in the seventh year of His present (Ireland) Bill, 
Majesty, for consolidating and amending the Laws No.8. 
relating to the Presentment of Public Money by 
Grand Juries in Zreland: And the same was read the 
first time; and ordered to be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next; and to be printed. 


The Lord Advocate presented a Bill for amend- Sedition __ 
ing an Act of his late Majesty, for restricting the (Seotland) Bill. 
Punishment of Lessing-&lt;atlheap, Sedition and Blas- No. 9. 
phemy in Scotland: And the same was read the 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time 
upon Friday next ; and to be printed. 


The Lord Advocate presented a Bill to make Courtof Session 
certain Alterations in the Duties of the Lords Ordi- (Scotland) Bill. 
nary, and in the establishment of Clerks and Officers No. 10. 
of the Court of Session and Court of Commission 
for Teinds in Scotland, and to reduce the Fees pay- 
able in those Courts: And the same was read the 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time 
upon Friday next ; and to printed. 


The Lord Advocate presented a Bill for the more Small Debts 
effectual recovery of Small Debts in the Sheriff (Scotland) Bill. 
Courts, and for establishing Circuit Courts for the No. 11. 
trial of Small Debt Causes by the Sheriffs in Scot- 
land: And the same was read the first time; and 
ordered to be read a second time upon Friday next; 
and to be printed. 


A Petition of the Commercial Railway Company, London and 
for leave to bring in a Bi] to amend an Act passed Blackwall | 
in the sixth and seventh years of His present Ma- a 
jesty, for making a Railway from the Minories to 
Blackwall, with Branches, to be called “ The Com- 
mercial Railway,” was presented, and read; and 
referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for 
Private Bills. 


And then the House adjourned till Monday 
next. 








Lune, 6 die Februarii; 
Anno 7° Willielmi [Vt Regis, 1837. 
PRAYERS. 


R. Patterson, Clerk to the Commissioners for Pancras 
the Kentish Town Lighting and Watching Local Acts, 
Act, was called in; and at the bar presented,—Fur- 
ther Return to an Order, dated the 3d day of this 
instant February, for Returns relating to paving, 
lighting, watching, &amp;c. the Parish of Saint Pancras 
during the years 1832, 1833, 1834 and 1835, so far 
as relates to the Kentish Town Lighting and Watch- 
ing Act :—And then he withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 

Mr. King, Clerk to the Commissioners for the 
Gloucester-place Paving and Gravelling Act, was 
called in; and at the bar presented,—A Further 
Return to the said Order, so far as relates to the 
Gloucester-place Paving and Gravelling Act, Kentish 
Town :—And then he withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Ruddle, from the Audit Offices, was called in ; Naval Receipt 
and at the bar presented, pursuant to the directions "4 Expendi- 
of an Act of Parliament,—A Copy ef an Account 
of the Naval Receipt and Expenditure for the year 
ended the 31st March 1836:—And then he with- 
drew. 

Ordered, That the said Account do lie upon the 
Table. 

A Petition of the North Midland Railway Com- Leeds and 
pany, for leave to bring in a Bill for altermg the Derby Railway. 
line of the Leeds and Derby Railway, for enabling 

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24 


the said Company to purchase additional lands and 
buildings, and for amending the Act relating to the 
said Railway, was presented, and read ; and referred 
to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private 
Bills. 





Carlton and 
Lofthouse 
Inclosure Bill. 


The Carlton and Lofthouse Inclosure Bill was 
read a second time; and committed to Sir John 


Bechett and the York List. 


A Petition of the Lord Provost, Magistrates and 
Common Council of the city of Glasgow, for leave 
to bring in a Bill to alter and amend the several 
Acts for paving, lighting, cleansing the Streets, re- 
gulating the Police, and otherwise improving the 
said city, was presented, and read; and referred 
to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private 


Bills. 


Glasgow Police. 


Tamworth A Petition of the Birmingham and Derby Junction 
hate Railway Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to 
ailway. 


alter and extend the line of the said Railway, and 
to amend the Act relating thereto, was presented, 
and read ; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Merchants, Tradesmen and Inha- 
bitants of the city of Worcester, for leave to bring 
in a Bill for making a Railway commencing by a 
junction with the Birmingham and Gloucester Rail- 
way, in the hamlet of Wadborough, in the parishes of 
Saint Andrew, Pershore and Holy Cross, Pershore, 
or one of them, in the county of Worcester, and 
terminating by a junction with the Grand Junction 
Railway, in the parish of Bushbury, near Wolver- 
hampton, was presented, and read; and referred 
to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private 


Bills. 


Worcester and 
Wolverhampton 
Railway, 


Deptford Pier, A Petition of the Deptford Pier and Improvement 
Company, for leave to bring in a Bill for enabling 
them to raise a further sum of money, for amending 
andenlarging the powers and provisions of the Act for 
making and maintaining the said Pier and Works, 
and for increasing and altering the tolls, was pre- 
sented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


Ashborne and 


A Petition of Trustees for carrying into execution 
Leek Road. 


the Acts for repairing the Road from Ashborne, in 
the county of Derby, to Leek, in the county of Staf- 
ford,and from Ryecroft Gate, upon Rushton Common, 
to Congleton, in the county of Chester, for leave to 
bring in a Bill to alter, vary or amend the powers 
and provisions of the said Acts, was presented, and 
read; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in ac- 
sg by Sir Oswald Mosley and Sir George 
Jrewe. 


A Petition of the Greenwich Pier Company, for 
leave to bring in a Bill to alter, vary, amend, render 
more effectual and increase the powers and provisions 
of the Act for making and maintaining the said Pier, 
was presented, and read; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


Greenwich Pier. 


Lobley Hill 


A Petition of Proprietors and Occupiers of lands 
Road Bill. 


in the county of Durham, in the neighbourhood of 
the Lobley Hill Turnpike Road taking notice of the 
Lobley Hill Road Bill, and praying that a Clause 
may be inserted therein, exempting limestone and 
lime used for agricultural purposes, as well as the 
coals to be used in burning the same, from toll, in 
passing along the said Turnpike Road, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Merthyr Tydfil 
and Cardiff 
Railway. 


A Petition of the Taff Vale Railway Company, for 
leave to bring in a Bill for altering and amending 
the Act for making a Railway from Merthyr Tydfil 
to Cardiff, for altering and diverting the line of the 


6° Februarazz. 








A. 1837. 


said Railway, and for making several Branch Rail- 
ways leading from and out of the same, was pre- 
sented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


sre 


A Petition of Owners and Occupiers of property Manchester 
or Residents upon or near the line of a proposed Rail- 24 Tamworth 
way from Manchester, to join the Birmingham and “""“*%' 
Derby Junction Railway at or near Tamworth, with 
branches, to be called “The Manchester South Union 
Railway,” for leave to bring in a Bill for making the 
said Railway, was presented, and read ; and referred 
to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private 


Bills. 


tio 


A Petition of the Liverpool and Manchester Rail- Liverpool ang 
way Company, for leave to bring in a Bill for en- — 
abling them to raise a further sum of Money, and 
for amending and enlarging the powers of the se- 
veral Acts relating to the said gen was pre- 
sented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


Pr 
(I 


A Petition of Commissioners for executing the Whitby 
Act for paving, repairing, cleansing, lighting, watch- !™Provement, 
ing, widening and regulating the Streets, Lanes, 
Alleys and Public Passages within the town of 
Whitby, in the county of York, for preventing en- 
croachments, nuisances and annoyances therein, 
for regulating the carriages, cartmen and porters 
there, and for making convenient approaches to the 
Bridge over the River Esk, within the said town, for 
leave to bring in a Bill for amending and altering the 
powers and provisions of the said Act, and for in- 
creasing or altering the Duties, Rates and Assess- 
ments, was presented, and read ; and referred to the 
Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


So 


Petitions from Leeds ;—Newcastle-upon- Tyne ;— Church Rates. 
Melksham ;— Kirby Moorside ;— Pickering ;—Lan- 
caster (Catholics) ;—--Kirby Lonsdale ;—Lorton ;— 
Prusall ; — Lancaster (Congregationalists) ;— Gar- 
stany ;—Ulverston ;— Truro ;— Darlington ;— Bing- 
ley; — Yeadon; —Kippin;—Taunton (Inhabitants) ; 
Paul's Chapel, Taunton ;—Rawden ;—Kiddermin- 
ster ;— Chalom ;—Postern Chapel, Newcastle-upon- 
Tyne ;—Allerton;-— Clavering Place, Newcastle-upon- 
Tyne ;—and, Scone; praying for the abolition of 
Church Rates,— were presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Est! 


or 


Ord 
the 


Lai , 2 Ext 
A Petition of Consumers of Soap in Truro, praying Soap. 


for the repeal of the Duty thereon, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Ipswich, praying for Poor Law Act. Lan 
the repeal of the Poor Law Act, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


a ‘ Ord 
A Petition of the Company of Proprietors of the Bridgewater ‘ 


Bridgewater and Taunton Canal Navigation, for snd te 
leave to bring in a Bill for making a New Cut for “""" 
the Navigation of Barges, Boats and other Vessels 

from and out of the said Canal, in the parish of 

North Petherton, in the county of Somerset, into the 

River Parrett, below the town of Bridgewater ; and 

also a Basin or Dock at or near the end of the said 

Cut, was presented, and read ; and referred to the 

Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


Servi 
provi 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Foreign Lette 
a Return of the Number of Letters received from and 
expedited to France, month by month, since the last 
Post Office Treaty with that Country, made up to 
the last day of January 1837; with a similar Return, 
containing a similar period of time immediately 
previous to the date ofthe said Treaty. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return of the Rates of Postage on Foreign Letters 
Inward and Outward, charged before and since the 
said Treaty with France. 


Regi 
and } 
Bill, 


The 





Lobley Hill 
Road Bill. 


Court of 
Exchequer 
(Scotland) Bill. 


No. 15. 


Public Peti- 
tions, 


Proclamations 
(Ireland.) 


Supply. 


Estimates, &amp;c. 
ordered = 


Seamen. 


Ordinary of 
the Navy. 


Extra Navy. 


Land Forces. 
Ordnance. 
Services not 
provided for. 


Navy Debt. 


Regis: ration 
and Marriaves 
i Ct 


7 Wit. IV. 


The Lobley Hill Road Bill was read a second 
time ; and committed to Mr. Huté and the York 
List. 


Mr. Robert Steuart presented a Bill to regulate 
certain Offices in the Gourt of Exchequer in Scot- 
land: And the same was read the first time; and 
ordered to be read a second time upon Friday, the 
17th day of this instant February; and to be 
printed. . 


Mr. Oswald reported from the Select Committee 
on Public Petitions; That they had examined the 
Petitions presented from the 1st to the 3d days of 
this instant February, both inclusive; and had 
directed him to make a Report thereof to the House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return of all Proclamations issued by the autho- 
rity of the Lord Lieutenant of Jreland, for the ap- 
prehension of Persons concerned in Murders, Fire- 
raising, forcible entry of Houses, and other Outrages 
during the Six months ending 31st January 1837, 
with the Rewards offered therein. 


Mr. Bernal reported from the Committee to 
whom it was referred to consider of the Motion 
made upon Friday last, That a Supply be granted 
to His Majesty, a Resolution; and the same was 
read, as followeth : 

Resolved, That a Supply be granted to His Ma- 


jesty. 


The said Resolution, being read a second time ; 

Resolved, Nemine Contradicente, That this House 
doth agree with the Committee in the said Resolu- 
tion, That a Supply be granted to His Majesty. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
next, resolve itself into a Committee, to consider of 


the Supply granted to His Majesty. 


Ordered, That an Estimate of the Charge of 
Wages and Victuals forthe Seamen and Marines to 
serve in His Majesty’s Fleet to the 31st March 1838, 
be laid before this House. 


Ordered, That an Estimate of the Ordinary of, 
the Navy, to the 31st March 1838 ; with an Esti- | 


mate of the Half-pay of Officers of the Navy, and 
such of the Officers of the Royal Marines as were 
employed in the last War, be laid before this 
House. 

Ordered, That an Estimate of the Charge for 
Works in His Majesty’s Yards, and for payment of 
the hire of Transports, to the 31st March 1838, be 
laid before this House. 

Ordered, That an Estimate of the Charge for 
Guards, Garrisons and other Land Forces, to the 
31st March 1838, be laid before this House. 

Ordered, That an Estimate of the Charge of the 
Office of Ordnance for Land and Sea Service, to the 
31st March 1838, be laid before this House. 

Ordered, That an Account of Services incurred, 
and not provided for by Parliament, be laid before 
this House. 

Ordered, That an Estimate of the Debt of His 
Majesty’s Navy, to the 31st March 1837, be laid 
before this House. 

Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
to give directions to the proper Officers to lay before 
this House the said Estimates and Account. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this “a as are 
of His Majesty's most honourable Privy Council. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee upon the Registration and Mar- 
riages Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal re- 
ported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 

Vox. 92. 


6° Februariz. 





25. 


A Petition of James Hansard and Luke Graves Petition of 
Hansard, on behalf of themselves and Sons, Printers Messrs. 


to the House, was presented, and read; setting 
forth, That the Petitioners were, in the year one 
thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, appointed, 
and have since continued, Printers to the House; 
that under certain Resolutions passed by the House 
on the thirteenth day of August, one thousand eight 
hundred and thirty-five, and the eighteenth day of 
March one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, 
all Parliamentary Papers and Reports were, for the 
purpose of rendering the same more accessible to 
the public, directed to be sold by the Petitioners at 
a rate below their actual cost, and from which sale 
the Petitioners derive no profit; that in the month 
of April one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, 
the Petitioners printed, as such Printers as aforesaid, 


the Reports of William Crawford, Esquire, and the ’ 


Reverend Whitworth Russell, the Inspectors for the 
Home District of the Prisons of Great Britain ; 
that in the said Report is contained the following 
passage: “ we also found several books; amongst 
them Guthrie’s Grammar, a Song book, the Keep- 
sake Annual for 1836, and the by . 
18 plates, published by Stockdale, 1827. This last 
is a book of a most disgusting nature, and the 
plates are obscene and indecent in the extreime;” 
that in the month of October last year the Peti- 
tioners received from one John Joseph Stockdale 
(supposed to be the person alluded to in the Report 
above mentioned) an intimation that he was about 
to bring an action against the Petitioners, to recover 
damages for having enpre and published the para- 
graph above set forth in the said Reports; that the 
said John Joseph Stockdale has subsequently com- 
menced an action for libel in the Court of King’s 
Bench against the Petitioners, having first laid his 
damages at the sum of one thousand pounds, and 
subsequently increased such damages to the enor- 
mous sum of twenty thousand pounds; that the 
said cause nowstands for trialon Tuesday the seventh 
day of February instant; that, in consequence of 
the House not being then sitting, the Petitioners 
were unable to inform the House of the fact and 
circumstances of the said action against the Peti- 
tioners, but conceiving that the authority of the 
House, and its privilege to publish the said Report, 
would be a complete bar to any action, and being, 
moreover, unwilling that any disadvantage should 
be sustained, owing to a want of form, the Peti- 
tioners directed their solicitors to take the necessary 
steps for defending the said action; that the Peti- 
tioners, under the advice of an eminent special 
pleader, desired to plead in bar of the said action 
the privilege of the Petitioners, as Printers and 
Publishers to the House, and its protection from 
such cause of action; that a special plea to that 
effect was accordingly prepared, but struck out from 
the pleadings by order made by Mr. Justice Litt/e- 
dale, one of the honourable Judges of the Court of 
King’s Bench, on the ground that such defence was 
open under the plea of “ Not Guilty;” that the 
Petitioners, thus anxious specially to plead the 
authority of the House for publishing the said Re- 
ort, but not being allowed to do so, have pleaded 
“ Not Guilty,” and “ that the matter contained in 
the said Report respecting the book published by 
the said John Joseph Stockdale is true ;” that the 
laintiff, the said John Joseph Stockdale, suing the 
Potitionens in P tes pauperis, the Petitioners, in the 
event of their defeating the said action, will probably 
fail in recovermg even taxed costs from the said 
laintiff; that the public sale of the papers of the 
aes is stated by the said plaintiff as an aggrava- 
tion of his cause of action; and praying the in- 
structions of the House in the matter of this their 
Petition. 
Ordered, That the Petition do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 





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Hansard. 





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Municipal The Municipal Corporations Bill was, according 


— to Order, read a second time; and committed to a 

“i Committee of the whole House, for Wednesday, the 
15th day of this instant February. 

Fictitious Votes The Order of the day being read, for nominating 

(Scotland.) —_ the Select Committee on Fictitious Votes (Scotland); 


A Committee was nominated of Mr. Horsman, 
Sir William Rae, the Lord Advocate, Lord Stanley, 
Sir Thomas Fremantle, Mr. Warburton, Mr. Fox 
Maule, Mr. George Ferguson, Mr. Dunlop, Mr. 
Bingham Baring, the O’ Conor Don, Sir Hugh Camp- 
bell, Mr. Edward Buller, Lord Viscount Stormont, 
and Mr. Walter Campbell; with Power to send for 
persons, papers and records. 

Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 


Public Resolved, That in this present Session of Parlia- 
ae ment all Orders of the day set down in the Order 
Book for Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, shall 
be disposed of before the House will proceed upon 


any Motions of which Notices shall be entered in 
the Order Book. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for extending the remedies of Creditors — the 
property of Debtors, and for abolishing Imprison- 
ment for Debt, except in certain cases of fraud: 
And that Mr. Attorney General and Mr. Hawes do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


Lord John Russell reported to the House, That 
His Majesty having been attended with their Address 
of bignes mer: last, was pleased to receive the same 
very graciously, and to give the following Answer : 


Imprisonment 
for Debt Bill. 


Answer to 
Address. 


I have received with satisfaction your loyal and 
dutiful Address. 

I rely with confidence on your mature considera- 
tion of those subjects to which I have called your 
attention. 

It will be My earnest endeavour, with the blessing 
of Divine Providence, to preserve the Peace of 
Europe, to maintain the honour of My Crown, and 
to promote the welfare of My People. 


Registration of 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
Voters’ Bill, 


for the more effectual Registration of Persons en- 
titled to vote in the Election of Members to serve 
in Parliament in England and Wales: And that 
Mr. Attorney General and Mr. Solicitor General do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


Joint Stock 


an A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 
anks, 


posed, That a Select Committee be appointed to 
inquire into the operation of the Acts permitting the 
establishment of Joint Stock Banks in England and 
Ireland, wonder certain restrictions, and whether it 
be expedient to make any amendment in the pro- 
visions of those Acts ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ inquire” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words “ generally into the state of Banking, and 
“ the causes of the changes in the circulation since 
“ December 1833,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That the words 
poposed to be left out stand part of the Question ; 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Tuesday morning ; 


Martis, 7° die Februarii, 1837: 


And the Question being put ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the old Lobby ; 

The Noes to the new Lobby. 

Tellers for the Yeas,{ = — jit. 
Mr. Hume, , 

Tellers for the Noes, Mr. Villiers: } 42. 


So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 


26 6°—7° Februariz. 








A. 1837. 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed 
to inquire into the operation of the Acts permitting 
the establishment of Joint Stock Banks in England 
and Jreland, under certain restrictions, and whether 
it be expedient to make any amendment in the pro- 
visions of those Acts:—And a Committee was ap- 
pointed of Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir 
Robert Peel, Mr. Poulett Thomson, Sir James 
Graham, Mr. Clay, Mr, Goulburn, Mr. Baring, 
Mr. Loch, Mr. Morrison, Mr. John Abel Smith, 
Mr. Pattison, Sir John Wrottesley, Mr. Matthias 
Attwood, Mr. Strutt, Sir Thomas Fremantle, Mr. 
Shaw, Mr. O’Connell, Mr. Hamilton, and Mr. 
Jephson; with Power to send for persons, papers 
and records. 

Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 

Ordered, That the Committeee be a Committe of 
Secresy. 


The House was moved, That the Act 9 Geo. 4, Salmon 
c. 39, for the Preservation of the Salmon Fisheries se - 
in _—— might be read; and the same being ‘ eee 
read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to amend the said Act: And that Mr. Patrick 
Stewart and Mr. Loch do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed Fictitious Votes 

to inquire how far the intentions of the Reform Bill (Ireland.) 
are defeated by creating and registering fictitious 
and improper Votes in Lreland :—And a Committee 
was appointed of Lord Granville Somerset, Mr. 
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Lefroy, Mr. O’ Con- 
nell, Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Serjeant Ball, Mr. Serjeant 
Jackson, Mr. More O’ Ferrall, Mr. Emerson Tennent, 
Mr. ng Sanford, Mr. Milnes Gaskell, Mr. 
Strutt, Mr. Hogg, Mr. Charles Villiers, and Sir Ro- 
bert Ferguson, with Power to send for persons, papers 
and records. 

Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Recorders 
empower the Recorder in Corporate Cities and Towns Courts Bill 
to divide his Court in certain cases: And that Mr. 

Stuart Wortley and Mr. Baines do prepare, and 


bring it in. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Ventilation of 
a Copy of a Letter addressed by Dr. Reid to the the House. 
Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests, on the 
subject of the alterations that have taken place in 
the Ventilation of the House of Commons. 


Mr. Attorney General presented a Bill for the Registration of 
more effectual Registration of Persons entitled to Voters’ Bill. 
vote in the Election of Members to serve in Parlia- No. 14. 
ment in England and Wales: And the same was 
read the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time upon Wednesday, the 15th day of this instant 
February ; and to be printed. 


Mr. Hawes presented a Bill for extending the Re- Imprisonment 
medies of Creditors against the Property of Debtors, fr Debt Bil 
and for abolishing Imprisonment for Debt, except No. 13. 
in certain cases of Fraud: And the same was read 
the first time ; and ordered to be read a second time 
upon Wednesday, the 15th day of this instant Fe- 
bruary ; and to be printed. 


Mr. Stuart Wortley presented a Bill to empower Recorders 
the Recorder in Corporate Cities and Towns to divide Courts Bill 
his Court in certain cases: And the same was read No. 12 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time upon Friday next ; and to be printed. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till near one of the clock on Tuesday morn- 
ing, adjourned till this day. 








Pancras 
Local Acts. 


Ventilation of 
the House. 


Dee (South) 
Road. 


Midland 
Counties 


Railway. 


Fishguard 
Harbour. 


Torquay 
Read Bill, 


Poor Law Act. 


Church Rates, 





7 Wit. IV. 


Martis, 7° die Februari ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi IV Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


R. Houlding, Secretary to the Inspectors for 
lighting that part of the Parish of Saint Pancras 
situated North of the Canal Bridge in the Hampstead 
Road, was called in; and at the bar presented,— 
Further Return to an Order, dated the 3d day of 
this instant February, fora Return relating to paving, 
cleansing, lighting, &amp;c. the Parish of Saint Pancras 
(so far as relates to the district North of the 
Canal Bridge in the Hampstead Road) :—And then 
he withdrew. 
Ordered, That the said Return dolie upon the Table. 


Mr. Wailer, from the Office of Woods and Forests, 
was called in; and at the bar presented, pursuant 
to Order,—A Copy of a Letter from Dr. Reid to 
Lord Duncannon, dated February 4th, 1837, relative 
to the Acoustic and Ventilating Arrangements lately 
made in the House of Commons:—And then he 
withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of Owners, Proprietors or Occupiers 
of lands in or near the several parishes or places 
thereinafter mentioned, for leave to bring in a Bill 
for making and maintaining a Turnpike Road along 
the south side of the River Dee, to commence at or 
near to the Old Bridge of Dee, in the parish of Nigg, 
in the county of Kincardine, and terminating at the 
Slug Turnpike Road, in the parish of Banchory 
Ternan, was presented, and read; and referred to 
General Arbuthnott and the East Scotland List. 


A Petition of the Midland Counties Railway Com- 
pany, for leave to bring in a Bill for altering, amend- 
ing and enlarging the powers of the Act for making 
the said Railway, and for making and maintaining 
several Branch Railways to be connected therewith, 
was presented, and read ; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Freeholders, Land-owners, Mer- 
chants, Traders, Ship-owners and Master Mariners 
of the town and neighbourhood of Fishguard, other- 
wise Abergwain, in the county of Pembroke, for leave 
to bring m a Bill for improving the Harbour and 
Port of Fishguard, otherwise Abergwain, and erect- 
ing, making and maintaining one or more Breakwater 
or Breakwaters, Pier or Piers, and Basin or Basins, 
in such Harbour and Port, was presented, and read ; 
and referred to the Select Committee on Petitions 
for Private Bills. 


The Torquay Road Bill was read a second time ; 
and committed to Sir John Yarde Buller and the 
Devon List. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Salford, against the 
introduction of the Poor Law Act into that district, 
and for the repeal of the said Act, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Towcester ;—Curry Mallet ;— II- 
minster ;— Wellington (Lower Meeting);—Wellington 
(Baptists) ;—Chard ;—-Blindmore, (Buckland Saint 
Mary) and Staple Fitzpaine;— Milverton ;— Wivelis- 
combe;— Bishop’s Hull;— North Curry ;— Broad- 
way ;—Hatch Beauchamp ;— Otley (two Petitions) ; 
— Menstone ;— Dunfermline ; — Gosport ;— Horn- 
castle ;— Morley ;— Burley ; — Poole; —Chipping 
Campden ; — Perth ; — Leith ; —Odiham;— North 
Leith;—Stalybridge 3—Ashton-under-Lyne;--Hyde; 
—Crondall ;— Dukinfield ; — Narborough ; — and, 
Tiverton; praying for the abolition of Church Rates, 


—were presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


7° Februarie. 


27 


A Petition of Feuars and Proprietors of houses Registration 
and land in Bathgate, praying for the amendment of Voters 

of the law relative to the Repietretinn of Voters in Setlend.) 
Scotland, was presented, and read; and ordered to 


lie upon the Table. 


Grand Juries 


A Petition of Medical Superintendents of Dis- (Ireland) Act. 


pensaries in the county of Donegal, praying for the 
wee of so much of the Grand Juries (Jreland) Act 
of the last Session as regulates the Salaries of Me- 
dical Superintendents to Dispensaries, was presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Glasgow ;—and, Bristol ; praying Soap. 
for the repeal of the Duty on Soap,—were presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Mungret and Crecora, tithes, xc. 
in the county of the city of Limerick, praying for the (Ireland. 
abolition of Tithes, and a reform in the Corporations 

in Ireland, for the adoption of Vote by Ballot, and 

for a provision for the Poor, was presented, and read ; 

and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Owners of property or Residents in Edinburgh 
or near the line of a proposed Railway from Edin- and Glasgow 
-_ to Glasgow, for leave to bring in a Bill for Bailey: 
making the said Railway, with a branch to Falkirk, 

was presented, and read; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Owners of property or Residents on Glasgow and 
or near the line of a proposed Railway from Gilas- Ayr Railway. 
gow to Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr, for leave to 

bring in a Bill for making the said Railway, was 
presented, and read; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented spain. 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
to'givedirections, that there be laid before this House, 
a Return of Naval Slops and Provisions issued from 
any of His Majesty’s Victualling Yards or Ships of 
War, for the use of the British Legion, or any other 
Forces serving her Majesty the Queen of Spain, and 
of the Value thereof; likewise the Amount received 
in whole or in part by His Majesty’s Government 
for the same. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


A Petition of Innkeepers and Publicans in the Innkeepers. 
county of Hants, praying for a revision and con- 
solidation of the laws relating to Innkeepers, Pub- 
licans and Licensed Victuallers, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Factories. 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Returns of the Number of Mills and Fac- 
tories within the District of each Inspector of Fac- 
tories; and also of the Number visited by the 
Inspectors or their Superintendents between 1st 
August 1836 and 1st February 1837 :-—Of the In- 
formations received by the Inspectors during the 
same period, respecting any alleged violations of the 
Factory Act; stating the measures taken by the 
Inspectors in consequence of such information. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this eon as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Ordered, That the First Report of the Commis- Religious 
sioners of Religious Instruction (Scotland), which Instruction 


was presented upon Thursday last, be printed. a J 


Ordered, That the Annual Account of Naval naval Receipt 
Receipt and Expenditure, which was presented yes- and Expendi- 
terday, be printed. ture. 





Vor. 92. 





No. 16. 


A Petition 


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28 7°—8° Februari. A. 1837. 


County Rates. A Petition of Inhabitant County Rate-payers of 
Northumberland, praying that the management of 
the County Rates may be placed under the control 
of the Rate-payers, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


King’s Remem- Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
(Seotlngas)” Copies of all Minutes, Reports and Correspondence, 
_— respecting the Offices of King’s Remembrancer and 
Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer in Scotland, since 
22d May 1835. 
Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Copies of all Correspondence between the Treasury 
oak the Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer, respecting 
the performance of his duties. 
Mr. Baring accordingly presented the- said 
Papers. 
Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Municipal The House was moved, That so much of the Lords 

‘ikea Commissioners Speech to both Houses of Parliament 
at the opening of the Session as relates to Ireland, 
might be read; and the same was read, as fol- 
loweth : 

“ His Majesty has more especially commanded us 
to bring under your notice the state of Ireland, and 
the wisdom of adopting all such measures as may 
improve the condition of that part of the United 
Kingdom. His Majesty recommends to your earl 
consideration the present constitution of the Muni- 
cipal Corporations of that country, the laws which 
regulate the collection of Tithes, and the difficult 
but pressing question of establishing some legal 
provision for the Poor, guarded by prudent regula- 
tions, and by such precautions against abuse, as 
your experience and knowledge of the subject enable 
you to —— ; ; 

“ His Majesty commits these great interests into 
your hands, in the confidence that you will be able 
to frame Laws in accordance with the wishes of His 
Majesty, and the expectations of His People. His 
Majesty is persuaded, that should this hope be ful- 
filled, you will not only contribute to the welfare of 
Treland, but strengthen the Law and Constitution of 
these Realms, by securing their benefits to all classes 
of His Majesty’s subjects.” 

A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 
posed, That leave be given to bring in a Bill for the 
regulation of Municipal Corporations and Borough 
Towns in Jreland:—And a Debate arising there- 
upon ; 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Wednesday morning ; 


Mercurii, 8° die Februarii, 1837: 


Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till this 
day. 


_— on Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
Carriages — for the better regulation of ied Carriages and 
—— of Omnibuses used in or near the Metropolis, and 
aaa of the Drivers and Attendants thereof: And that 
Mr. Alderman Wood and Mr. Thomas Gladstone do 

prepare, and bring it in. 


Sheriffs Courts The House was moved, That the Act 3 and 4 Will. 
Bill. 4, &gt;. 42, for the further Amendment of the Law and 
the better advancement of Justice, might be read ; 

and the same being read ; 
Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to extend the powers of the said Act: And that 
Captain Pechell and Mr. Wigney do prepare, and 


bring it in. 


Judges’ Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
Opinions Bill. +4 authorize Courts of Sessions of the Peace, to re- 
serve points of law in Criminal cases: And that Sir 
Eardley Wilmot and Mr. Dugdale do prepare, and 


bring it in. 





Mr. More O’ Ferrall reported the Registration and Registration 
Marriages Bill; and the Amendments were read, = Marriages 
and agreed to; and an Amendment was made to“ 
the Bull. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time To-morrow. 


The House was moved, That the Order made upon Spain, 
Thursday last, for presenting to His Majesty an 
humble Address, that He will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return of the Amount of Military and 
Naval Stores, Arms and Ammunition, furnished to Bric 
the Queen of Spain, under the stipulations of the Har! 
Quadrupartite Treaty, and the Amount of Payment 
received for the same, by His Majesty’s Govern- 
ment :— The Number of Vessels of War and Steam- 
boats employed on the Northern coast of Spain, since 
the Date of the Treaty; and of Marines, Artillery, 
Engineers, and Sappers and Miners, employed in 
the co-operation granted by His Majesty to her 
Catholic Majesty, might be read; and the same 
being read ; 
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Spain, Che 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased Birk 
to give directions, that there be laid before this ” 


House, a Return of the Amount of Military and 
Naval Stores, Arms and Ammunition, furnished to 
the Queen of Spain, under the stipulations of the 
Quadrupartite Treaty, and the Amount of Payment 
received for the same, by His Majesty’s Govern- 


ment. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to Cha 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are and 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. - 


Captain Pechell presented a Bill to extend the Sheriffs Courts 
Powers of an Act of the third and fourth years of Bill. 
His pages Majesty, for the further amendment of No,17. 
the Law and the better advancement of Justice: 
And the same was read the first time ; and ordered 
to be read a second time upon Friday next; and to 
be printed. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 


till after twelve of the clock on Wednesday Ash 
morning, adjourned till this day. ro 
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Mercurii, 8° die Februarii ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi IV" Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 
M R. Cunningham, Clerk to the Commissioners Pancras 
for Paving, &amp;c. the South Western District of Loca! Acts Ma 
Saint Pancras, was called in, and at the bar pre- va 


sented,—Further Return to an Order, dated the 3d 
~~ of this instant February, for a Return relating 
to Paving, Lighting, &amp;c. the Parish of Saint Pancras 
(so far as relates to the South Western District) :— 
And then he withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 

Mr. Willsher, Clerk to the Inspector for lighting &amp; 
the District North of Park-street and South of the 
Canal Bridge, Hampstead-road, was called in ; and 
at the bar presented,—Further Return to an Order, 
dated the 3d day of this instant February, for a Re- 
turn relating to lighting, paving, &amp;c. the Parish of 
Saint Pancras (so far as relates to the North of 
Park-street, Camden Town, and South of the Canal 
Bridge in the Hampstead-road ) :—And then he with- 


drew. Gr 
Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the i 
Table. 


Petitions from James Cornoch, of Gossington Hall, Bristol and 
in the — of Slimbridge, in the county of Glou- Gloucester 


Railway. 
cester, — 





squire ;—and, Robert Canning, of Hartpury, 
in 





Bridlington 
Harbour. 


Chester and 
Birkenhead 
Railway. 


Chariton Kings 
and Marsworth 
Railway, 


Ashborne and 
Leek Road 
Bill. 


Manchester 
and Stafford 
Railway, 


Church Rates, 


Grand Juries 
(Ireland) Act, 


7 Witt. IV. 


in the connty of Gloucester, Esquire, and Chairman 
of the Provisional Directors of a proposed Company 
for making a Railway from Gloucester to Bristol, 
complaining that the Standing Orders of the House in 
respect to the Petition for the Bristol and Gloucester 
Railway Bill, had not been complied with,and praying 
that they may be heard, by themselves, their counsel 
or agents, before the Committee to whom the said 
Petition is referred, were presented, and read ; and 
referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for 
Private Bills. 


A Petition of Commissioners for executing the 
Acts for re-building and repairing the Piers of Brid- 
lington, alias Burlington, in the east riding of the 
county of York, for leave to bring in a Bill for re- 
pealing the said Acts, and for granting further and 
more effectual powers and provisions for the im- 
provement, preservation and general government 
and regulation of the said Piers and Harbour, and 
the several works connected therewith, was pre- 
sented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Owners of estates and property on 
the line of an intended Railway from Chester to 
Birkenhead, in the county of Chester, or residents 
within the said city of Chester, and the neighbour- 
hood thereof, for leave to bring in a Bill for making 
the said Railway, was presented, and read ; and re- 
ferred to the Select Committee on Petitions for 
Private Bills. 


A Petition of Owners or Proprietors of estates, 
lands, tenements and hereditaments within, and In- 
habitants of the several cities, towns and places 
thereinafter mentioned, or some of them, for leave to 
bring in a Bill for making and maintaining a Rail- 
way, to commence in the parish of Charlton Kings, 
in the county of Gloucester, and to terminate by a 


junction with the London and Birmingham Railway, 


in the parish of Marsworth, in the county of Buck- 
ingham, was presented, and read; and referred to 
the Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


Sir Oswald Mosley presented a Bill for amending 
two several Acts of the seventh and tenth years of 
his late Majesty King George the Fourth, for re- 
pairing the Road from Ashborne, in the County of 
Derby, to Leek, in the County of Stafford, and from 
Ryecroft Gate, upon Rushton Common, to Congleton, 
in the County of Chester: And the same was read 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


A Petition of Owners or Proprietors of estates on 
the line of, or in the neighbourhood of, the Railway 
hereinafter mentioned, or interested in the trade of 
Manchester and its district, for leave to bring in a 
Bill for making and maintaining a Railway from 
Manchester to Stafford, was presented, and read ; 
and referred to the Select Committee on Petitions 
for Private Bills. 


Petitions from Barton Saint David;—Morebattle; 
—Blockley ; — Bedworth ;— Bulkington ; — Wake- 
field ; — Foleshill ; — Kenilworth ; — Jewin-street 
Chapel, London ;— Errol ;— Dunfermline ; — Pit- 
rodie ;— Errol (Secession Congregation) ;—Black- 
pool;—and, Elswick; praying for the-abolition of 
Church Rates, —were presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Governors of the Dispensary of Dun- 
derrow, Tissassin and Clontead, praying for the re- 
peal of so much of the Grand Juries (Ireland) Act of 
the last Session as regulates the Salaries of Medical 
Superintendents of Dispensaries, was presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Vou. 92, 





8° Februarie. 

















29 

A Petition of Farmers and Tradesmen of Brandon, Tax Carts. 
praying for the repeal of that part of the Act of the 
ast Session of Parliament, requiring the name, re- 
sidence and occupation of the owners of Taxed Carts 
to be painted in two-inch letters on the most con- 
spicuous part of the carriage, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Kileoman and Robin ;—and, Kil- Municipal 
leden; praying the House to pass a measure for the So aoe 
reform of the Corporations of Ireland, founded - 
the same —_— with those measures alread 
passed for the reform of the Coporations of England 
and Scotland,—were presented, and read ; and or- 
dered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Freeholders and Inhabitants of Kil- ities 
leden, in the county of Mayo, praying for the abolition (Ireland.) 
of Tithes in Jreland, was presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Abraham Thomas, and others ;— Soap. 
Robert Walton, and others ;—and, Hawick ; praying 
for the repeal of the Duty on Soap,—were pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Lord John Russell reported to the House, that Answer to 
their several Addresses of the Ist, 2d, 3d and 7th Addresses. 
days of this instant February (that His Majesty 
would be graciously pleased to give directions that 
the sae therein mentioned might be laid before 
this House) had been presented to His Majesty ; and 
that His Majesty had commanded him to acquaint 
this House, That He will give directions accordingly. 


Sir Andrew Leith Hay presented, pursuant to an Ordnance 
Address to His Majesty,—Estimates of the Office Estimates. 
of Ordnance for the year 1837-38, with Comparative No. 18. 
Abstract of the Estimate 1837-8 with 1836-7. 

Ordered, That the said Estimates do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Church Rates 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, an Account of the Sums now due and owing 
which have been borrowed on the credit of the 
Church Rates in the several Parishes of England 
and Wales; stating how secured, whether by Mort- 
gage, Annuity or otherwise, and the Names of 
the Parties to whom such Sums are due and owing. 
Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this * ie as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


A Petition of Freeholders, Occupiers of land and Church Rates. 
Inhabitants of Tilehurst and Theale, praying that 
no class of His Majesty’s subjects be exempted from 
the payment of Church Rates, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Sir Eardley Wilmot presented a Bill to authorize Judges’ 
Courts of Sessions of the Peace to reserve Points of Opinions Bill. 
Law in Criminal Cases: And the same was read the No. 19. 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time 
upon Friday, the 17th day of this instant February ; 
and to be printed. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on Petitions Petitions for 
for Private Bills have Power to send for persons, Private Bills 
Committee. 
papers and records. 


A Petition of Edward Joshua Cooper, Esquire, siigo Salmoa 
the Committee of the estate of Joshua Edward Fishcries. 
Cooper, Esquire, a lunatic, for leave to bring in a 
Bill for establishing a Salmon Fishery in the hivers 
of Arrow and Owenmore, in the County of Sligo, 
was presented, and read ; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


Mr. Fox Maule presented, pursuant to the direc- Stannaries 
tions of several Acts of Parliament,—A Return ofCeurt 
Law 


(Cornwall.) 





the Rules and Orders applying to the Common 
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side 





i 





Hi 
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a RL = 


Poor Law Act. 


Court of Session 


(Scotland.) 


Marriages 
(Manchester. ) 


Fictitious Votes 
(Scotland.) 


London and 
Brighton 
Railway 


(Gibbs’s Line, ) 


Poor Law Act. 


Sheriff and 
Stewart Clerks 
(Scotland.) 


No. 20. 


30 8°—-9° Februariz. 


side of the Court of the Vice-Warden of the Stan- 
naries of Cornwall. 

Rules and Orders applying to the Equity side of 
the Court of the Vice-Warden of the Stannaries of 
Cornwall. 

General Order of the Poor Law Commissioners 
for England and Wales, respecting the election of 
Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Boards of 
Guardians. 

General Order of the Poor Law Commissioners 
for England and Wales, for the keeping, examining 
and auditing the Accounts of Unions, and of the 
several Parishes of which they are composed. 


Mr. Fox Maule also presented, pursuant to an 
Address to His Majesty, dated the 17th day of 
August, in the last i of Parliament,—A Re- 
turn of the Amount of Fees levied by the Auditor 
of the Court of Session for each of the years 1833, 
1834 and 1835, for auditing Accounts judicially 
remitted to him; also, and separately, the Amount 
of Fees for the same period levied by him, for 
auditing Accounts extra-judicially, the attendance 
given by him on Public Business during the same 
— and specifying what proportion of the said 

usiness is performed by himself, and what by 
Deputies or Assistants; also, and separately, the 
Amount paid for Office Rent, Clerks’ Salaries, and 
other Charges, in separate columns. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Number of Marriages by License 
and Banns solemnized in the Collegiate Church of 
Manchester during the year 1821, with a Statement 
of Fees allotted im either case to the Chaplains, 
Clerks and Choristers. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Number of Publications of the Banns 
of Matrimony in the years 1821 and 1835 respec- 
tively; with the Amount of Fees in each case when 
the Marriage was not afterwards solemnized. 


A Petition of Electors and Non-Electors of the 
county of Clackmannan, complaining of the creation 
of fictitious Votes for Members to serve in Parliament 
for counties in Scotland, was presented, and read; 
and referred to the Select Committee on Fictitious 
Votes (Scotland). 


A Petition of Inhabitants of the counties of 
Middlesex, Surrey and Sussex, or Owners and Pro- 
prietors of estates and property on the line of an 
intended Railway from or near Croydon, in the 
county of Surrey, to Brighton, in the county of 
Sussex, for leave to bring in a Bill for making 
a Railway Communication between London and 
Brighton, by Merstham, Reigate and Horsham, 
commencing by a junction with the proposed London 
and Croydon Railway, in the parish of Croydon, 
and terminating at or near the junction of Upper 
North-street and the Western Road, in the town of 
Brighton, was presented, and read; and referred 
to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private 


Bills. 


A Petition of Rate-payers and Inhabitants of Kid- 
derminster, praying for the repeal of the Poor Law 
Act, was presented, and a ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 

A Petition of Moy Thomas, of Great Bell Alley, 
Coleman-street, in the city of London, gentleman, 
praying that compensation be awarded to those 
Vestry Clerks who have held their respective offices 
for a certain number of years, and whose emolu- 
ments have been or shall be affected by the operation 
of the Poor Law Act, was also presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the Act of Sederunt regulating the 
Fees of Sheriff and Stewart Clerks (Scotland), which 
was presented upon Wednesday last, be printed. 








A. 1837. 


Ordered, That Dr. Reid’s Letter on the subject te of 
of the Ventilation of the House, which was pre- “°° 
sented yesterday, be printed. No. 21, 


Ordered, That the Papers relative to the King’s King’s Remen. 
Remembrancer, and the Lord Treasurer’s Remem- (Soudan 
brancer (Scotland), which were presented yesterday, No. 22, 
be printed. ; 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming the Municipal 
adjourned Debate upon the Question ye yes- pe wet 
terday, That leave be given to bring in a Bill for = 
regulation of Municipal Corporations and Borough 
Towns in Jreland:—The House resumed the said 
adjourned Debate. 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Thursday morning ; 


Jovis, 9° die Februarii, 1837: 
And the Question being put ; 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in the Bill: 
And that Lord John Russell and Lord Viscount 


Morpeth do prepare, and bring it in. 


The House was moved, That the Act 3 and 4 Will. Vagrants 
4, c. 40, to repeal certain Acts relating to the re- rien’). - 
moval of Poor Persons born in Scotland and Ireland, Removal Bill, 
and chargeable to Parishes in England, and to make 
other provisions in lieu thereof, until the first day of 
May One thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, 
and to the end of the then next Session of Parlia- 
ment, might be read; and the same being read ; 
Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
make perpetual the provisions of the said Act: And 
that Mr. Robert Palmer and Mr. Walter do prepare, 
and bring it in. 


Lord John Russell presented a Bill for the regu- Municipal 
lation of Municipal Corporations and Borough Towns nelond) Bil ; 
in Ireland: And the same was read the first time ; — 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Friday, No. 23. 
the 17th day of this stant February; and to be 
printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Supply. 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


The Grand Juries (Zreland) Bill was, according Grand Juries 
to Order, read a second time; and committed toa (Ireland) 
Committee of the whole House, for this day. 


A Motion being made, That this House will, this Roads, and 
day, resolve itself into a Committee, to consider of oo . 
enabling the Lord Lieutenant of Jreland tomake a (Ireland) Bill 
grant from the Consolidated Fund in advance to the 
Board of Works in Jreland, in certain cases, for the 
repair of Roads, and also for the purpose of defray- 
ing the expenses of the Constabulary in Jreland 
for the conveyance of certain classes of prisoners ; 

Lord Viscount Morpeth, by His Majesty’s com- 
mand, acquainted the House, That His Majesty, 
having been informed of the subject-matter of this 
Motion, recommends it to the consideration of the 
House. 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The House was moved, That the Act 9 Geo. 4, Offencesagainst 
c. 31, for consolidating and amending the Statutes the Person Bill 
in England relative to Offences against the Person, 
might be read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
amend the said Act: And that Mr. Arthur Trevor 
and Mr. Grove Price do prepare, and bring it in. 


The House was moved, That the Act 1 Will. 4, Sale of Beer 
c. 64, to permit the general Sale of Beer and Cider ®#!!- 
by retail in England, might be read ; and the same 
being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
amend the said Act: And that Mr. Arthur Trevor 
and Mr. Grove Price do prepare, and bring it in. 

Ordered, 


Beer ! 


Vagre 

Scot! 
Trelar 
Remo 


Adjo 


land 


N 


orn: 





Beer Houses. 


Vagrants 
(Scotland and 
Ireland) f 
Removal Bill. 


No. 24. 


Adjournment. 


Bank of Eng- 
land, 


National Debt, 


Imperial Gas 
Light and Coke ( 
mpany, 





7 Wit. IV. 





8°— 





Mr. Robert Palmer presented a Bill to make 
perpetual an Act for repealing certain Acts relating 
to the removal of Poor Persons born in Scotland 
and Ireland, and chargeable to Parishes in England, 
and to make other provisions in lieu thereof: And 
the same was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time upon Wednesday next ; and to 
be printed. 


And then the House having continued to sit till 
a quarter of an hour after two of the clock on 
Thursday morning, adjourned till this day. 








Jovis, 9° die Februarii ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi IV Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


‘ik House met; and being counted by Mr. 
Speaker, it appeared that Forty Members were 
not a yet it being four of the clock, Mr. 
Speaker took the Chair, and again counted the 
ni ; and Forty Members not being present :— 
The House was cui by Mr. Speaker, without 
a Question first put, till To-morrow. 








Veneris, 10° die Februarii ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi IV“ Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


R. Smee, from the Bank of England, was 

called in; and at the bar presented, pursuant 
to the directions of several Acts of Parliament,— 
An Account of the Amount of all Exchequer Bills, 
or Treasury Bills, and other Government Securities, 
which have been purchased by the Governor and 
Company of the Bank of England, or on which 
any Sum or Sums have been lent and advanced for 
the Public Service by the Governor and Company 
of the said Bank in the year ending the 5th day of 
January 1837; showing what Amount of such Bills, 
before the making up of this Account, has been 
paid off and discharged, and the Amount of such 
Exchequer Bills, or Treasury Bills, or other Govern- 
ment Securities, which was in the hands of the 
Governor and Company of the said Bank on the 
5th day of January 1837 aforesaid. 
_ An Account of the Amount of Balances of Sums 
issued for the payment of Dividends due, and not 
demanded, and for the payment of Lottery Prizes, 
or Benefits which had not been claimed, and which 
remained in the hands of the Governor and Com- 
pany of the Bank of England on the thereunder- 
mentioned days, being those next before the issue 
from the Exchequer of Money for the payment of 
Dividends on account of the National Debt, for each 
of the four preceding Quarters respectively. 

An Account of the Receipt and Expenditure of 
£.1,591,924. 5. 2. in one year, from the 7th Janu- 
ary 1836 to the 5th January 1837, by the Com- 
missioners appointed by the 26th Geo. 3, for the 
Reduction of the National Debt:—And then he 
withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said A 


Table. ccounts do lie upon the 


Mr. Filer, from the Imperial Gas Light and Coke 
ompany, was called in; and at the bar presented, 
pursuant to the directions of an Act of Parliament, 
—A Return of the Contingency Fund of the Im- 


°_10° Februariz. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Number of Houses licensed to sell 
Beer and Cider by Retail in England and Wales 
during the year 1836 ; distinguishing those in which 
it is permitted to be consumed on the premises, and 
those in which it is not. 





31 


perial Gas Light and Coke Company :—And then 
he withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Belfast Charitable Society of the town of Bel 
for leave to bring in a Bill for amending and en- 
larging the powers of two Acts of the fortieth and 
fifty-seventh years of the reign of King George the 
Third, for supplying the said Town with pure and 
wholesome Water from certain Fountains, the Pro- 
perty of the Petitioners; and also for amending, 
altering and enlarging the powers of an Act of the 
thirteenth and fourteenth years of the reign of King 
George the Third, “ for badging such Poor as shall 
be found unable to support themselves by Labour, 
and otherwise providing for them, and for restrain- 
ing such as shall be found able to support them- 
selves by Labour and Industry from begging,” was 
presented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


ing Orders relative to Bills for making Railways, (§ 


for the London and Brighton Railway Bill (Stephen- 
son’s Line.) 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for making a Railway to join the London and 
Southampton Railway near London, and to form a 
Communication between London and Brighton, by 
way of Shoreham: And that Lord George Lennox 
and the Earl of Surrey do prepare, and bring it in. 


had been complied with in the case of the Petition 
for the Londonand Brighton Railway Bill(Rennie’s 
Line.) 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for making a Railway from the London and Croydon 
Railway to Brighton, with Branches to Shoreham, 
Newhaven, Lewes and Hove: And that Mr. Alsager 
and Mr. Shaw Lefevre do prepare, and bring it in. 


mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Stand- 


had been complied with in the case of the Petition 
for the Brighton, Lewes and Newhaven Railway Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for making a Railway from the South Eastern Rail- 
way to Brighton, with Branches to Lewes and New- 
haven: And that Mr. Elphinstone and Sir Charles 
Blunt do prepare, and bring it in. 


ing Orders relative to Bills for regulating County 
Rates, had been complied with in the case of the 
Petition for the Worcester County Hall Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in Bill 
to amend and enlarge the powers of an Act passed 
in the first and second years of His present Ma- 
jesty, for erecting a County Hall and Courts of 
Justice, and also for providing Accommodation for 
His Majesty’s Justices of Assize in and for the 
County of Worcester: And that General Lygon and 
Mr. Winnington do prepare, and bring it in. 


of the Petition for the Hinckley Small Debts Bill, 
the application does not come within the Standing 
Orders of the House relative to Bills for the more 
easy recovery of Small Debts. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 





Vor. 92. 


E4 Mr. 


A Petition of the President and Assistants of the Belfast 
‘ast Waterworks, 
? and Poor. 


Mr. Shaw Lefevre reported from the Select Com- London and 
mittee on Petitionsfor Private Bills; That the Stand- Brighton 


had been complied with in the case of the Petition Line.) 


Mr. Shaw Lefevre reported from the Select Com- London and 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills, That the Stand- — 

= ° : : ‘ ailwa 

ing Orders relative to Bills for making Railways, (Rennie’sLine.) 


Mr. Shaw Lefevre reported from the Select Com- Brighton, 
Lewes, and 


ing Orders relative to Bills for making Railways, jaa 


Mr. Shaw Lefevre reported from the Select Com- Worcester 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Stand- Coty Hall. 


Mr. Shaw Lefevre reported from the Select Com- Hinckley 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That in the case S™*!! Debts. 








5 


SSS ee 


7 Ne TR ee 


Runcorn Gas, 


Wormegay 
Drainage. 


Hayle Cause- 
way Road. 


Swansea 
Waterworks. 


Whitby and 
Pickering 
Railway. 


Bristol Court 


of Conscience. 


Bristol 
Improvement, 





32 10° Februari. A. 1837. 


Mr. Shaw Lefevre reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Stand- 
ing Orders relative to Bills for lighting any City or 
Town with Gas, had been complied with in the case 
of the Petition for the Runcorn Gas Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill! 
for lighting with Gas the Town of Runcorn, other- | 
wise called Higher Runcorn and Lower Runcorn, | 
and also the Township or Chapelry of Halton, both | 
in the Parish of Runcorn, in the County of Chester : | 
And that Mr. Edward John Stanley and Mr. Wil-| 
braham do prepare, and bring it in. | 


A Petition of the Reverend Daniel Henry Lee 
Warner, clerk, lord of the honor and manor of 
Wormegay, in the county of Norfolk, and owner of 
divers messuages, lands and hereditaments within 
the same, and of John Berners Plestow, Esquire, and 
Owners and Proprietors of lands and hereditaments 
in the said honor, manor and parish, and of the lands 
and grounds through which the drain called Polver 
Drain, thereinafter mentioned, runs or passes, for | 
leave to bring in a Bill for draining certain fen lands 
in the parish of Wormegay, in the county of Norfolk, 
was presented, and read ; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Trustees for executing the Act 
for building a Bridge and making a Causeway and 
Turnpike Road from or near Griggs Quay, in the 
Parish of Uny Lelant, over Hayle River and Sands, 
in the Parish of Saint Erth, to Carnsew Quay, 
through Hayle Foundery, in the said Parish of Saint 
Erth and Penpoll, in the Parish of Phillack, all in 
the county of Cornwall, for leave to bring in a Bill 
for extending the said Turnpike Road from the 
western end of the said Causeway towards Penzance, 
was presented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to 
be brought in accordingly, by Mr. Pendarves and 
Sir Charles Lemon. 


A Petition of several Persons whose names are 
thereunto subscribed, for leave to bring in a Bill for 
the erection and construction of Waterworks for the 
better supplying with water the town and borough 
of Swansea, was presented, and read; and referred 
to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private 


Bills. 


Mr. Robert Palmer reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the 
Standing Orders relative to Bills for making Rail- 
ways, had not been complied with in the case of the 











Petition for the Whitby and Pickering Railway Bill, 
inasmuch as the names of the parishes and townships 
were not inserted in the notice in the newspapers, 
and the Petition is for a Bill for other purposes besides 
“ altering the existing Tolls, Rates or Duties, or of 
continuing or amending any former Acts solely for 
the purpose of Tolls ;”’ but it was stated by the Pe- 
titioners that it is not intended by the proposed Bill 
to take any fresh powers for making, varying, extend- 
ing or enlarging the said Railway. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders. 


A Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses 
of the city of Bristol, for leave to bring in a Bill for 
amending and enlarging the powers of an Act of the 
first year of the reign of their Majesties King Wil- 
liam and Queen Mary, for certain Courts of Con- 
science in the Cities of Bristol and Gloucester, so 
far as relates to the city of Bristol, was presented, 
and read ; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses 
of the city of Bristol, for leave to bring in a Bill for 
amending and enlarging the powers of an Act of 
the 28th year of the reign of King George the Third, 


for the regulation of Buildings and Party Walls 

within the city of Bristol, and the liberties thereof, T 
and for extending the powers of the said Act to the 
whole of the said city, according to the present. metes 
and bounds under the Municipal Reform Act, was 
presented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses Bristo! 
of the city of Bristol, for leave to bring in a Bill for Encroachments, ' 
altering, amending and enlarging the powers of an 
Act of the 28th year of the reign of King George the 
Third, for removing and preventing encroachments, 
obstructions, annoyances and other nuisances within 
the city of Bristol, and liberties thereof, and for ex- 
tending the powers of the said Act to the whole of 
the said city, according to its extended metes and 
bounds under the Municipal Reform Act, was pre- 
sented, and read ; and referred to. the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


so 


A Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses Bristol Small 
of the city of Bristol, for leave to bring in a Bill for Tenements. 
altering, amending and enlarging the powers of an 
Act of the 3d year of the reign of his late Majesty : 
King George be Fourth, for the employment, main- 
tenance and regulation of the Poor of the city of 
Bristol, and for altering the mode of assessing the 
rates for the relief of the Poor, and certain rates 
authorized to be raised and levied within the said 
city by certain Acts for improving the Harbour there, 
and for paving, pitching, cleansing and lighting the 
same city, and for the relief of the Churchwardens 
and Overseers from the collecting of such rates, and 
for amending the Act for paving, pitching, cleansing 
and lighting the said city, and for better assessing 
and collecting the rates and assessments on divers 
houses, buildings, lands, tenements, hereditaments 
and other premises let out at low rents, or let out in 
parcels to undertenants, or to lodgers in separate 
apartments, within the said city, was presented, and 
read ; and referred to the Select Committee on Peti- 
tions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of the York and North Midland Rail- York and 

way Company, for leave to bring in a Bill for altering North Midland 
and amending the powers and provisions of an Act ®***y: 

assed in the sixth year of the reign of His present 
Majesty, for making a Railway from the city of York ( 
to and into the township of Altofts, with various ( 
branches of Railway, all in the west riding of the 
county of York, or county of the said city, was pre- 
sented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


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m™ wo 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee Clarence (Dut- 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Standing ham) Railway. : 
Orders relative to Bills for making Railways, had ] 
not been complied with in the case of the Petition 1 
for the Clarence (Durham) Railway Bill, inasmuch 
as the names of the parishes and townships were 
not inserted in the notice in the newspapers, and 
the Petition is for a Bill for other purposes besides 
altering the existing tolls, rates or duties, or of con- 
tinuing or amending any former Acts solely for the 
purpose of tolls; but at the same time the Com- 
mittee think it right to state, that it appeared to 
them that no land or other property is intended to 
be taken, or any new works contemplated under the 
proposed Bill. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders. 


fee Get fod 


A Petition of Owners of lands or buildings or Lancaster 
other real property proposed to be taken for the or emg 
purposes of the Lancaster and Preston Railway, , 
complaining that the Standing Orders of the House 
in respect to the application for the said Bill, had 
not been complied with; and praying that they may 
be heard by their counsel or agents against the same, 
was presented, and read ; and referred to the Select ‘ 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 














A Petition 





7 Wixt. IV. 


A Petition of Owners and Occupiers of property 
proposed to be taken for the purposes of the Tam- 
worth and Rugby Railway, complaining that the 
Standing Orders of the House in respect to the appli- 
cation for the said Bill, had not been complied with, 
and praying that they may be heard, by their counsel 
or agents, against the same, was presented, and read; 
and referred to the Select Committee on Petitions 
for Private Bills. 


Tamworth 
and Rugby 
Railw aye 


Dee (South) 


General Arbuthnott reported from the Committee 
Road. 


on the Petition for the Dee (South Side) Road Bili ; 
That the Standing Orders relative to Turnpike Bills, 
had been complied with. 

Ordered, That leave be given to ey in a Bill 
for making and maintaining a Turnpike Road from 
the old bridge of Dee, in the parish of Wigg, to the 
Slug Turnpike Road, in the parish of Banchory- 
Ternan, all in the county of Kincardine, and for 
other purposes: And that General Arbuthnott and 
Captain Gordon do prepare, and bring it in. 


Scarborough 


~_ A Petition of Commissioners for executing the 
arbour, 


Acts for enlarging the Pier and Harbour of Scar- 
borough, in the county of York, for leave to bring in 
a Bill for repealing the said Acts, and for granting 
further and more effectual powers for the improve- 
ment and preservation of the said Pier and Harbour, 
and for the construction of additional piers, jetties, 
breakwaters and works, was ssteniah and read ; 
and referred to the Select Committee on Petitions 
for Private Bills. 


Privileges 
Committee. 


Ordered, That the Committee of Privileges have 
leave to sit during the sitting, and notwithstanding 
the adjournment, of the House. 


Trinity (North 
Leith) Harbour 
and Docks. 


A Petition of the several Persons whose names 
are thereunto subscribed, for leave to bring in a Bill 
for constructing and maintaining a Harbour, Dock or 
Docks, Piers and other works connected therewith, 
at Trinity Bay, in the parish of North Leith, in 
the county of Edinburgh, was presented, and read ; 
and referred to the Select Committee on Petitions 
for Private Bills. 


Chester and A Petition of Residents in the city of Chester, or 

Crewe Railway. Owners and Occupiers of property on the line of a 
proposed Railway from Chester, to join the Grand 
Junction Railway, near Crewe Hall, for leave to 
bring in a Bill for making the said Railway, was 
presented, and read; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


Brixham 
Harbour and 
Market. 


A Petition of the Lords and Ladies of the Manor 
of Brixham, in the county of Devon, for leave to 
bring in a Bill to alter and amend the provisions, and 
increase the Tolls, Rates and Dues levied under an 
Act passed in the thirty-ninth year of the reign of his 
late Majesty King George the Third, to enable the 
Lords of the Manor of Brixham, in the County of 
Devon, to repair and enlarge or rebuild the Pier 
or Quay at Brixham Quay, within the said Manor, 
to improve the Harbour, to regulate the Moorings 
of Vessels therein, and to establish a Market there, 
was presented, and read; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


Belfast and 
Hollywood 
i way. 


A Petition of Owners and Occupiers of lands, and 
Merchants, Traders and others resident in and 
near the towns of Belfast and Hollywood, in the 
counties of Antrim and Down, for leave to bring in a 
Bill for making and maintaining a Railway from Bel- 
fast to Hollywood, was presented, and read; and 
referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for 
Private Bills. 


= Pier A Petition of the Most noble Walter Francis 
; Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, for leave to 
bring in a Bill for constructing a Pier, with proper 
Vou. 92. 


10° Februari. 





33 


conveniencies, at the shore of Granton, in the parish 
of Cramond, and county of Edinburgh, and also 
for making and maintaining a Road from the said 
Pier to join the Road leading from the town of Leith 
to Queensferry, at or near to a point to the west 
of Inverletth Row, was presented, and read; and 
referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for 
Private Bills. 


Petitions from Glasgow ; — Northwich ;— Fal- Soap. 
mouth ;— Melksham; — Pollokshaws; — Falkirk; — 
Lanark and Hamilton ;—and, Airdrie; praying for 
the repeal of the Duty on Soap,—were presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Monmouth ;— Nairn; — Maccles- Church Rates, 
field ;— Nantwich ;-— Perth ;— Newport, Monmouth ; 
— Denny ;— Blaby ;— Hindley ;— Wigan ;—Brether- 
ton ;—TIlheston( Baptists) ;—J/keston, (Independents) ; 
— Kilhan ; — Loddiswell ; — Long Buchby ; — 
Dunse ;— Street ;—and, Wirksworth; praying for the 
abolition of Church Rates,—were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of Householders, Land-owners and 
Inhabitants of Horsepath, praying that Church 
Rates may not be abolished, was also presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Members of the Town Council of Ludlow 
Ludlow, complaining of having been refused the Charities. 
possession of certain documents relating to the 
Corporation of that Borough, by certain members 
of the old corporate body, whereby they state them- 
selves to have been embarrassed in their municipal 
duties, and praying relief, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Saint Mary-le-bone, window Tax. 
praying for the repeal of the Tax on Windows, was 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of Members of the Radical Associa- Poor Relief 
tion of Saint Mary-le-bone, praying for the esta- (Ireland. ) 
blishment of Boards in every parish in Zreland, with 
power to levy rates for the relief of the poor, was 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Ossulston 
Return, from the Court of Requests for the hundred oe 
of Ossulston, im the county of Middlesex, of the see —_ 
Amount of Suitors’ Cash which has been received, Requests. 
from the establishment of the Court to the present 
time, in each and every year; the Amount which 
remains unclaimed, and in whose hands it is depo- 
sited, and on what Security; the Amount, if any, 
which has been expended or appropriated, for what 
purpose or purposes, and by what authority. 


A Petition of Inhabitant Householders of Leicester, Poor Law Act. 
praying for the Amendment of the Poor Law Act, 
was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of Owners and Masters of Vessels Brighton 
employed in Mackarel Fishing at Brighton, pray- Fisheries. 
ing for relief from the injury they are constantly 
sustaining from the French trawl boats, by which 
their trade in Mackarel catching is at bsg 
entirely destroyed, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the ‘Table. 


Petitions from Macclesfield;—and, Worcester ; Tobacco. 
praying for the reduction of the Duty on Tobacco, 
—were presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Taunton, praying Fire Insurances. 
for the Reduction of the Duty on Fire Insurances, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


F A Petition 





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Wishaw and 
Coltness Rail- 
way. 


Municipal 
Reform 
(Ireland), &amp;c. 


Fictitious Votes 
(Ireland.) 


Welsh 
Bishops. 


Religious 
Instruction 


( Australia.) 


Navy Estimates, 
No. 25. 


Trade and 
Navigation. 


34, 10° Februari. 


A Petition of the Wishaw and Coltness Railway 
Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to extend and 
enlarge the powers and provisions of an Act passed 
in the fourth year of the Reign of his present 
Majesty, for extending the time for completing the 
said Railway, was presented, and read; and referred 
to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private 
Bills. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Brentford, praying 
that the Municipal Corporations (Jreland) Bill 
may pass into a law, and that Tithes in Jreland be 
abolished, was presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Dublin ;—and, Thomas Healy, of 
the city of Dublin; complaining of the creation of 
fictitious Votes for Members to serve in Parliament 
for Counties in Ireland, and praying for relief,— 
were presented, and read ; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Fictitious Votes (Jreland.) 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Bryngwran, praying 
that no individual who is unacquainted with the 
language of the Welsh people may be henceforward 
instituted to a Bishoprick in Wales, was presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Copies of all Despatches or Instructions 
addressed to the Governors of the Australian Colo- 
nies or to Ecclesiastical Functionaries in the same, 
since Ist April 1835, relating to the enlargement of 
the means of Religious Instruction and Public 
Worship in those Colonies, and of all Replies which 
have been received to the same; together with 
Copies or Extracts of any communications referred 
to in such Despatches. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Mr. Charles Wood presented, pursuant to an 
Address to His Majesty,—Navy Estimates for the 
year 1837-38. 

Ordered, That the said Estimates do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, an 
Account of the Imports of the principal Articles of 
Foreign and Colonial Merchandize, of the consump- 
tion of such Articles, and of the Customs Duties 
received thereon, in the year ended 5th January 
1837, compared with the Imports, Consumption 
and Receipts of the preceding year, ended 5th Ja- 
nuary 1836 :—Of the Exports of the principal Ar- 
ticles of Foreign and Colonial Merchandize, in the 
year ended 5th January 1837, compared with the 
Exports of the preceding year, ended 5th January 
1836 :-—Of the Snes of the principal Articles of 
British and Irish Produce and Manufactures, in 
the year ended 5th January 1837, compared with 
the Exports of the preceding year, ended 5th Ja- 
nuary 1836 :—Of the gross and net Produce of the 
Daties of Customs in the year ended 5th January 
1837, compared with the Produce of the preceding 
year, ended 5th January 1836:—Of the Number 
and Tonnage of Vessels, distinguishing the Countries 





A. 1837. 


Clearances of the preceding year, ended 5th Janu- 
ary 1836; distinguishing the Vessels employed in 
the intercourse between Great Britain and Ire- 
land from other Coasters. 

Mr. Charles Wood accordingly presented the said 
Accounts. 

Ordered, That the said Accounts do lie upon the 
Table. 


cil, dated 5th October 1836, for ratifying four 
Schemes proposed by the Ecclesiastical Commis- 
sioners under the provisions of an Act for carrying 
into effect the Reports of the Commissioners ap- 
pointed to consider the state of the Established 
Church in England and Wales, with reference to 
Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues, so far as they 
relate to Episcopal Dioceses, Revenue and Patron- 
age; viz. For transferring the Archdeaconry of Berks 
from the Diocese of Salisbury to that of Oxford :— 
For transferring the Archdeaconry of Dorset from 
the Diocese of Bristol to that of Salisbury : —For 
uniting the Sees of Gloucester and Bristol :—For 
founding the new Bishoprick of Ripon. 

Orders in Council, dated 22d December 1836, for 
ratifying two Schemes proposed by the Ecclesias- 
tical Commissioners under the provisions of an Act 
for carrying into effect the Reports of the Commis- 
sioners appointed to consider the state of the Esta- 
blished Church in England and Wales, with refer- 
ence to Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues, so far 
as they relate to Episcopal Dioceses, Revenue and 
Patronage; viz. For charging the See of Durham 
with a contribution towards the smaller Sees :—For 
fixing the Income of the See of Ripon, and endow- 
ing it with Estates from York and Durham, and for 
making certain changes in the Dioceses of York, 
Durham and Ripon :—For transferring the Arch- 
deaconry of Coventry from the Diocese of Lichfield 
and Coventry to that of Worcester. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Account of the Number of Vessels, and the Amount 
of their Tonnage, entered Inwards from Foreign Parts 
at the Port of Hull, in the year ending 5th January 
1837; specifying the Ports from which each Vessel 
cleared, and distinguishing British from Foreign 
Vessels :—Of the Number of Steam Vessels, and 
the Amount of their Tonnage entered Inwards at the 
Port of Hull during the last Four years respectively. 


Account of the gross and net Amount of Customs 
Duty received during the year ending 5th January 
1837 :—Also, the gross and net Amount received at 
each Port in the United Kingdom during the same 
period, compared with similar Receipts during the 
preceding year. 


Act of the ninth year of his late Majesty King 
George the Fourth, for the preservation of the Sal- 
mon Fisheries in Scotland: And the same was read 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second time 
upon Friday, the 17th day of this instant February ; 
and to be printed. 





Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 


to which they belonged, which entered Inwards and | for transferring to the Commissioners of the Admi- 
cleared Outwards in the year ended 5th January | ralty all Contracts, Bonds and other Securities, 


1837, compared with the Entrances and Clearances 
in the preceding year, ended 5th January 1836 ; 
stated exclusively of Vessels in ballast, and of those 
employed in the Coasting Trade, or the Trade be- 
tween Great Britain and Ireland :—-Of the Number 
and Tonnage of Vessels which entered Inwards and 
cleared Outwards, with Cargoes, at the several 
Ports of the United Kingdom, in the year ended 5th 
January 1837, compared with the Entrances and 


| entered into with the Postmaster-General in relation 
' to the Packet Service: And that Mr. Charles Wood 


and Sir Charles Adam do prepare, and brig it in. 


\to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return of the Names of British Colonies 
having local Legislatures, any branch of which is 
elective ; 








Lord John Russell presented, pursuant to the di- Ecclesiastical 
rections of an Act of Parliament,—Orders in Coun- Commission. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, an Hull Port. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, an Custows. 


Mr. Patrick Stewart presented a Bill to amend an Salmon 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Coleaial e 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased #3" 





Common Law 


Courts Bill. 


Registration 
and Marriages 
Bill. 


Roads and 
Conveyance 
of Prisoners 


(Ireland. ) 


Post Office 
Contracts Bill. 


No, 27. 


Sedition 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Court of Session 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Small Debts 


(Scotland) Bill. 


Recorders 
Courts Bill. 


Sheriffs Courts 
Bill, 


Suppl Ye 


Poor Relief 
(Ireland.) 





7 Witt. IV. 


elective; of such Colonies the Members of whose 
Legislatures are wholly nominated by the Crown, 
and of the Colonies governed by orders of the 
Crown without the intervention of a local Legisla- 
ture; also, the Names of all Persons appointed by 
Mandamus or order of the Crown, Members of any 
Legislative Council in any British Colony, in the 
years from 1820 to 1836, both inclusive ; distin- 
guishing the Name of the Colony in which any such 
Appointment was made; also, the Names of all 
Persons appointed by the Crown to any Judicial; 
Office, or to the office of Attorney or Solicitor Ge- 
neral, or other Legal Office in any of the British 
Colonies, in the years from 1820 to 1836, both in- 
clusive; stating the Title of the Offices to which 
such Persons were appointed. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Ordered, That the Common Law Courts Bill be 
read a second time upon Monday next. 


Ordered, That the Registration and Marriages 
Bill be read the third time upon Monday next. 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into a Committee, to consider 
of enabling the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to make 
a grant from the Consolidated Fund in advance to 
the Board of Works in Jreland, in certain cases, 
for the repair of Roads, and also for the purpose 
of defraying the Expenses of the Constabulary in 
Ireland for the conveyance of certain classes of 
Prisoners. 


Mr. Charles Wood presented a Bill for transferring 
to the Commissioners of the Admiralty all Con- 
tracts, Bonds and other Securities entered into with 
the Postmaster-General in relation to the Packet 
Service: And the same was read the first time; 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Mon- 
day next; and to be printed. 


The Sedition (Scotland) Bill was, according to 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Friday next. 


The Court of Session (Scotland) Bill was, accord- 
ing to Order, read a second time ; and committed to 
a Committee of the whole House, for Tuesday, the 
21st day of this instant February. 


The Small Debts (Scotland) Bill was, according 
to Order, read a second time; and committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Tuesday, the 
21st day of this instant February. 


The Recorders’ Courts Bill was, according to 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Friday next. 


The Sheriffs’ Courts Bill was, according to Order, 
read a second time; and committed to a Committee 
of the whole House, for Tuesday, the 21st day of 
this instant February. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House was moved, That so much of ‘the 
Lords Commissioners’ Speech to both Houses of 
Parliament at the opening of the Session, as relates 
to Ireland, might be read; and the same was read, 
as followeth : 

“‘ His Majesty has more especially commanded us 
to bring under your notice the state of Ireland, and 


the wisdom of adopting all such measures as may 
Vox. 92. 





10° Februari. 





35 


improve the condition of that part of the United 
Kingdom. His Majesty recommends to your early 
consideration the present constitution of the Muni- 
cipal Corporations of that Country, the laws which 
regulate the collection of Tithes, and the difficult 
but pressing question of establishing some legal pro- 
vision for the Poor, guarded by prudent regulations, 
and by such precautions against abuse, as your 
experience and knowledge of the subject enable you 
to suggest. 

“ His Majesty commits these great interests into 
your hands, in the confidence that you will be able 
to frame Laws in accordance with the wishes of His 
Majesty, and the expectations of His People. His 
Majesty is persuaded, that should this hope be ful- 
filled, you will not only contribute to the welfare of 
Ireland, but strengthen the Law and Constitution ‘ 
of these Realms, by securing their benefits to all 
classes of His Majesty’s Subjects.” 

And a Motion being made, That this House will, 
upon Monday next, resolve itself into a Committee, 
to consider of imposing a Rate on the Occupiers of 
Rateable Hereditaments, for the more effectual Relief 
of the Poor in Jreland ; 

Mr. Edward John Stanley, by His + %* com- 
mand, acquainted the House, That His Majesty, 
having been informed of the subject-matter of this 
Motion, recommends it to the consideration of the 
House. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 


next resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill County Rates 
for the better Management of County Rates in Eng- 8!" 
land and Wales: And that Mr. Hume and Mr. Alston 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Election 
to regulate Expenses at Elections: And that Mr, Expenses Bill. 
Hume and Mr. Aglionby do prepare, and bring 


it in. 


A Petition of Residents within the towns of Depi- Westminster 
ford and Greenwich, in the county of Kent, and — = 
Croydon, in the county of Surrey, or Owners of Sulees. 
property on or near the line of an intended Railway 

from Westminster Bridge to join the Greenwich Rail- 

way at Deptford, with a branch to join the Croydon 

Railway at Vew Cross, for leave to bring in a Bill 

to make the said Railway, was presented, and read; 

and referred to the Select Committee on Petitions 

for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Physicians and Surgeons of Limerick, Grand Juries 
praying for the repeal of so much of the Grand (Ireland) Act. 
Juries (ZJreland) Act passed in the last Session of 
Parliament as affects the Salaries of Medical Super- 
intendents of Dispensaries, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Post Ofiice. 
a Return, in detail, of the Number of Cases which 
have occurred from 5th January 1829 to 5th January 
1837, in each year, of Letters, franked or unfranked, 
addressed to Persons in London, Dublin or Edin- 
burgh, or which have been applied for through the 
General Post Offices of those Cities, containing 
Money, Bills, Bank Notes, or other Property, which 
have “oe secreted or purloined by any Person in 
the employment of the Post Office Department, or 
been demanded therefrom by Private Parties as 
undelivered ; with the Amount thereof in each case 
in each year eine: aro the Names and 
Situations of all Persons dismissed or removed from 
the Post Office Department as above, under the 
allegation of having purloined or secreted Letters, 
franked or unfranked, or been concerned therein, 
containing Money, Bills, Bank Notes, or other pro- 
perty, belonging to Private Parties, with the Amount 
in each instance ; also, a Return, as above, of all 





F2 Persons 








Grand Juries 
(Treland) Bill. 


Adjournment, 


Controverted 
Elections Bill. 


Post Office 
(Dublin.) 


36 10°— 13° 


Persons who have actually defrauded the Revenue 
Department of the Post Office, and been dismissed 
therefor; stating, in either case, if the first Offence 
was visited with removal or dismissal, or if repeated 
previous thereto :—Also, the nature of the Security 
taken by the Post Office regarding the abstracting 
or purloining Monies or other Property by those 
employed therein; stating if the Parties becoming 
Sureties are bound to make good and restore Private 
Property, when abstracted or purloined by the Ser- 
vants of the Public in that Department, or only for 
their fraudulent acts against the Revenue. 


Resolved, That this House will, immediately, re- 
solve itself into a Committee upon the Grand Juries 
(Treland)Bill:—-The House accordingly resolved itself 
into the Committee; and, after some time spent 
therein, Mr.Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Ber- 
nal reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon Mon- 
day next. 


Resolved, That this House will, at the rising of 
the House this day, adjourn till Monday next. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to amend the Law relating to the Trial of Contro- 
verted Elections: And that Mr. Charles Buller and 
Mr. Strutt do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return, showing the Names and Situations of all 
Persons, if any, employed in the Post Office in 
Dublin, who have carried on, or do carry on, any 
other Employment or Business, the nature thereof, 
hours of attendance, aud whether any portion of 
such extra Employment or Business has been car- 
ried on in the Post Office Building at any time 
during the years 1831, 1832, 1833, 1834 and 1835, 
or the present year. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Books and Papers belonging to the 
General Post Office in Dublin sold in the year 1831 ; 
showing the Dates of the Sales, the Purchasers’ 
Names, the rate per cwt. or lb., the Gross Produce, 
the manner in which the Proceeds were applied, 
and the Authority for such application of them ; 
together with a Return from the several Depart- 
mepts of the Post Office, namely, Inland, British 
Mail, Registry, paid and unpaid, Dead Letter, Letter 
Bill, Writing Office, Penny Post, Alphabet and 
Paid Window, Letter Carrier’s Office, Mail Coach 
Office, Receiver General, Accountant General, and 
Secretary’s Office ; stating as nearly as possible the 
Number and Description of the Books, Vouchers 
and Papers removed from each Office, and the 
Number of Years they had been accumulating ; with 
a Copy of the Order or Orders under which the 
said Waste Books, Vouchers, &amp;c. were separated 
from what were deemed useful, and the authority 
by which they were removed from the possession of 
the heads of the Departments. 

Ordered, ‘Vhat there be laid before this House, 
Similar Returns for the years 1832, 1833, 1834 and 
1835. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return, detailing all Sums of Money paid in the 
year 1831, out of the Post Office Revenue, under 
the head of Salaries or Allowances to Deputy Post- 
masters, Keepers of Receiving Houses, Sub and 
Penny Post Offices, Letter Carriers or other Persons 
in Ireland, for which the sanction of the Treasury 
had not been obtained at the time of payment, and 
whether the Disbursements have as yet been au- 
thorized by the Treasury ; and if so, the Dates of 
the authority. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Similar Returns for the years 1832, 1833, 1834 and 


1835. 








Februari. A. 1837. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of all Arrears due by late Deputy Post- 
masters in Jreland, deemed insolvent; and of all 
Arrears due by Deputy Postmasters out of office, 
but not deemed Insolvent, as they respectively stood 
in the Post-Office Books on 5th January 1831 ; 
stating the Towns, the Names of the aforesaid Post- 
masters, the Names and Residences of their Secu- 
rities, the Amount due at the above date by each, 
the steps which have been taken, if any, since 5th 
January 1831, for the recovery of the Arrears; and 
the result in each case :—and, a Copy of the Report 
or Reports of the Commissioners of Imprest, re- 
specting the Accounts of the Post Office in Dublin, 
from the year 1815 to 1832 inclusive. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Deputy 


Return, showing in detail, and in columns, the Gross Postmasters. 


and Net Income of the Deputy Postmasters and 
Mistresses in Great Britain and Ireland; stating 
the Amount of their fixed Salaries, and of their 
Emoluments or Perquisites arising out of Private 
Delivery Letter Boxes, the Amount paid annually 
per Box, the Number of Subscribers for Private 
Boxes, with any other item of Emolument :—Also, 
in separate columns, the Sums paid out by each 
Postmaster for Office-rent, for Salaries to Clerks, 
and for other outlays ; stating the Number of Clerks, 
and distinguishing those paid by the Crown from 
those paid by the Postmaster; also, whether paid 
wholly by fixed Salary, or partly by Fees, Christmas- 
boxes, or the like; also, stating if the Post Office 
belongs to the Crown, or if any is being built b 

the Crown; and whether that_part of the Public 
who have private Boxes are better accommodated, or 
differently accommodated, or served earlier, than 
that portion of the Public who receive their Letters 
without private Boxes ; if differently accommodated, 
state the nature and extent of the difference. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Penny Posts. 


Return of the Names of all Places in Great Britain 
and Ireland in which a Penny Post is established 
for the conveyance of Letters beyond the Post Town 
to which they are directed ; with reference &gt; the 
Act of Parliament authorizing the Post (fare to 
establish the same. 


Mr. Arthur Trevor presented a Bill to amend an Sale of Beer 


Act of the fourth and fifth years of His present Ma- Bill. 


jesty, for the sale of Beer and Cider by Retail in No. 28. 


England: And the same was read the: first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Friday, 
the 24th day of this instant February; and to be 
printed. 


Mr. Arthur Trevor presented a Bill to amend Offences against 
and render more effectual an Act of the ninth year the Person Bill. 
of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, for No. 29. 


consolidating and amending the Statutes in England 
relative to Offences against the Person: And the 
same was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time upon Wednesday, the 22d day 
of this instant February ; and to be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Court of Court of Session 
Session (Scotland), which was presented upon Wed- (Scvtland.) 
nesday last, be printed. No. 30. 


And then the House adjourned till Monday 
next. 








Luna, 13° die Februari ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi 1V* Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


M R. Crafer, from the Treasury, was called in ; perring 

and at the bar presented, pursuant to the di- Fishery. 

rections of several Acts of Parliament,—Report, by 

the Commissioners for the Herring Fishery, of their 
Proceedings 


Paym 
Gene! 


Gene! 
Regis 
Paym 
Gene! 
Fines 
Reco 


Coun 
(Dub 


Cour! 
Exch 
(Irels 


Russi 
Dutce 


Cour 
Com 


Gree 


Post 
(Dub 





7 Witt. IV. 


Proceedings year ended 5th April 1836, being 
Fishing 1835. 


13° Februarie. 


37 
Books, Vouchers, &amp;c. were separated from what were 
deemed useful, and the authority by which they were 


Paymaster Copy of Treasury Minute, dated 19 November | removed from the possession of the heads of the 
General’s Office 4 356° containing Regulations for the government of | Departments :—Similar Returns for the years 1832, 
the Office of His Majesty’s Paymaster General. 1833, 1834 and 1835. 
General Copies of Warrants adding the General Register} A Return, detailing all Sums of Money paid in 
Register and = Office, and the Paymaster General’s Office to the | the ee 1831, out of the Post Office Revenue, under 
PaymalsOfice. Schedule of the Act 4 and 5 Will. 4, c. 24. _ | the head of Salaries or Allowances to Deputy Post- 
Fines and Return of Compensations granted to Lords of Li-| masters, Keepers of Receiving Houses, Sub and 
Recoveries.  berties and other Persons, for loss of Fines by the| Penny Post Offices, Letter Carriers or other Persons 
operation of the Act for the abolition of Fines and | in Ireland, for which the sanction of the Treasury 
Recoveries. had not been obtained at the time of payment, and 
Council Office Copy of Treasury Minute, dated 2¢ November | whether the Disbursements have as yet been autho- 
(Dublin. ) 1836, regulating the establishment of the Council | rized by the Treasury; and if so, the Dates of the 
Office in Dublin. authority :—Similar Returns for the years 1832, 
Court of Return of Compensations granted to Officers of} 1833, 1834 and 1835. 
Exchequer = the Court of Exchequer in Ireland, for Losses in} A Return of all Arrears due by late Deputy Post- 
(Ireland.) consequence of the Act 4 and 5 Will. 4, c. 55. masters in Ireland, deemed Insolvent, as they re- 
Account of Fees received in the Office of Second | spectively stood in the Post Office Books on 5th 
Remembrancer of the Court of Exchequer in Ireland, | January 1831; stating the Towns, the Names of the 
and of Disbursements thereout, to the 5th January | aforesaid Postmasters, the Names and Residences 
1837. of their Securities, the Amount due at the above 
Russian An Account, made up to the 31st December 1836, | Date by each, the steps which have been taken, if 
Dutch Loan. of the Sums which have been paid and applied within | any, since 5th January 1831, for the recovery of the 
the year 1836, by virtue of an Act 55 Geo. 3, c. 115, | arrears ; and the result in each case. 
intituled, “ An Act for carrying into effect a Con-| A Return of all Arrears due by late Deputy Post- 
vention between His Majesty and the King of the | masters in Ireland, deemed Insolvent; and of all 
Netherlands and the Emperor of All the Russias,” | Arrears due by Deputy Postmasters out of office, but 
for paying and satisfying the Interest on the part of | not deemed Insolvent, as they respectively stood in 
the Loan therein agreed to be borne by His Majesty | the Post Office Books on 5th January 1831; stating 
on all or any of the Securities therein mentioned, | the Towns, the Names of the aforesaid Postmasters, 
and towards paying and satisfying the Principal | the Names and Residences of their Securities, the 
taereof (in case the Principal of any of the said} Amount due at the above Date by each, the steps 
Securities shall have been paid); and also for paying | which have been taken, if any, since 5th January 
the Expenses of carrying the said Act into execu- | 1831, for the recovery of the Arrears ; and the result 
tion, and the Sinking Youd for the extinction of the | in each case :—And, a Copy of the Report of the 
same. Commissioners of Imprest, respecting the Accounts 
Court of Accounts of Fees received and Disbursements by | of the Post Office in Dublin, from the year 1811 to 


Common Pleas, 


Greek Loan. 


Post Office 
(Dublin.) 


Edward Robert Porter, Esquire, Clerk of the War- 
rants in the Court of Common Pleas, from ist Fe- 
bruary to 25th November 1836, both inclusive, and 
the Disbursements thereout. 

An Account of all Sums issued out of the Conso- 
lidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Bri- 
tain and Ireland, in pursuance of the Act 2 and 
3 Will. 4, c. 121, and 6 and 7 Will. 4, c. 94, for 
enabling His Majesty to carry into effect a Conven- 
tion made between His Majesty and the King of the 
French, the Emperor of All the Russias, and the 
King of Bavaria, for payment of the Interest and 
Sinking Fund of one-third part of the Loan to be 
contracted for by the King of Greece in the year 
ending 5th January 1837. 

Mr. Crafer also presented, pursuant to Order,— 
A Return, showing the Names and Situations of all 


5th January 1817 :— And then he withdrew. 


Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Tierney, from the Tax Office, was called in ; Assessed Taxes, 


and at the bar presented, pursuant to the directions 
of an Act of Parliament,—Return, by the Solicitor 
for the Affairs of Taxes in England, of Copies of all 
Cases which have been stated and signed by Com- 
missioners acting in the execution of the Acts re- 
lating to the Assessed Taxes subsequent to the 
10th day of February 1836, being the date of a like 
Return made under the directions of the same Act 
in the last Session of Parliament :—And then he 
withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Lord George Lennox presented a Bill for making pondon ana 
a Railway to join the London and Southampton Rail- Brighton _ 
way near London, and to form a communication ate A Bill 
between London and Brighton by way of Shoreham: oo 4 
And the same was read the first time; and ordered 
to be read a second time. 


Persons, if any, employed in the Post Office in Dub- 
lin, who have carried on, or do carry on, any other 
Employment or Business, the nature thereof, Hours 
of Attendance, and whether any portion of such 
extra Employment or Business, has been carried on 
in the Post Office Building at any time during the 
years 1831, 1832, 1833, 1834 and 1835, or the pre- 
sent year. 

A Return of the Books and Papers belonging to 
the General Post Office in Dublin sold in the year 
1831; showing the Dates of the Sales, the Purchasers’ 
Names, the Rate per cwt. or lb., the Gross Produce, 
the manner in which the Proceeds were applied, 
and the Authority for such application of them ; to- 
gether with a Return from the several Departments 
of the Post Office, namely, Inland, British Mail, 
Registry, = and unpaid, Dead Letter, Letter Bill, 
Writing Office, Penny Post, Alphabet and Paid 


Mr. Alsager presented a Bill for making a Rail- London ana 
way from the London and Croydon Railway to Brighton — 
Brighton, with Branches to Shoreham, Newhaven, (Heaniy’cLine ) 
Lewes and Hove: And the same was read the first . 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


Petitions of Sir George Chetwynd, of G'rendon Tamworth and 
Hall, in the county of Warwick, Baronet, owner and Rugby Railway, 
occupier of property proposed to be taken in making 
the Railway hereinafter mentioned ; — Richard 
Mottram, of Polesworth, James Gilbert, of the same 


Window, Letter Carriers’ Office, Mail Coach Offic 

Receiver General, Accountant General and Secre- 
tary’s Office ; stating as nearly as possible the Num- 
ber and description of the Books, Vouchers and 


place, labourer, Isaac Hall, of Arnington, labourer, 
Joseph Hall, of the borough of Tamworth, farmer, 
the Reverend Richard Rouse Bloxam, of Brinklow, 
Doctor in Divinity ;— Reverend James Roberts, of 


Witherley, clerk, William Broadbent, of Atherstone, 
farmer and victualler, William Vincent Ridley, of 
Atherstone, chemist and druggist, Charles Wathes, of 

F3 Manchester, 


Papers removed from each Office, and the Number 

of years they had been accumulating ; with a Copy 

of the Order or Orders under which the said waste 
Vox, 92. 








Birmingham 
Plate and 
Crown Glass 
Company. 


Leicester 
Small Debts. 


Brighton, 
Lewes, and 
Newhaven 


Railway Bill. 


Stockport 
Improvement. 





Birmingham 
Gas. 


London and 
Dover (South 
Eastern) Rail- 
way. 


——= 


eae 


San ae 





Manchester 
and Leeds 
Railway. 





38 


Manchester, farmer ;—and, of the Midland Counties 
Railway Company ; complaining that the Standing 
Orders of the House in respect to the application for 
the Tamworth and Rugby Railway Bill, had not 
been complied with ; and praying that they may be 
heard, by their counsel or agents, against the same, 
—were presented, and read; and referred to the 
Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of the Birmingham Plate and Crown 
Glass Company, for leave to bring in a Bill for in- 
vesting the said Company or Partnership with powers 
to enable them to sue and be sued in the name of 
the manager or one of the directors of the said Com- 
pany or Partnership, was presented, and read ; and 
referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for 
Private Bills. 


A Petition of Traders and Inhabitants of several 
towns, parishes and places in the neighbourhood of 
Leicester, for leave to bring in a Bill for extending 
the powers and provisions of an Act passed in the 
last Session of Parliament for the more easy and 
speedy Recovery of Small Debts, within the Borough 
of Leicester, to several Towns, Parishes and Places 
in the Neighbourhood of the said Borough, and in 
the said County of Leicester, was presented, and 
read; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Petitions for Private Bills. 


Sir Charles Blunt presented a Bill for making a 
Railway from the South Eastern Railway to Brigh- 
ton, with Branches to Lewes and Newhaven: And 
the same was read the first time ; and ordered to be 
read a second time. 


A Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses 
of Stockport, for leave to bring in a Bill for lighting 
with Gas, paving, cleansing and otherwise improving 
the said Borough, and the neighbourhood thereof, 
was presented, and read ; and referred to the Select 


Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Standing 
Orders relative to Bills for lighting any City or 
Town with Gas, had been complied with in the case 
of the Petition for the Birmingham Equitable Gas 
Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for more effectually supplyimg with Gas the town 
of Birmingham, and certain parishes, hamlets and 
places adjoining thereto, by a Company to be called 
“The Birmingham Equitable Gas-Light Company :” 
And that Mr. Greene and Sir Eardley Wilmot do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Standing 
Orders relative to Bills for making Railways, had 
been complied with in the case of the Petition for 
the London and Dover (South Eastern) Railway Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to alter and extend the line of the South Eastern 
Railway, and to amend the Act relating thereto : 
And that Mr. Law Hodges and Mr. Fector do pre- 
pare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Standing 
Orders relative to Bills for making Railways, had 
been complied with in the case of the Petition for 
the Manchester and Leeds Railway Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for enabling the Manchester and Leeds Railway 
Company to vary the Line of such Railway, and for 
amending and enlarging the powers and provisions 
of the Act relating thereto: And that Lord Stanley 
and Mr. Wilson Patten do prepare, and bring it in. 


13° Februari. 








A. 1837. 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee Leicester 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That in the case of — 
the Petition for the Leicester Corporation Estates" *" 
Bill, the application does not come within the 
Standing Orders. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to enable the — of Leicester to apply the 
proceeds of their Real Estates in payment of Money 
borrowed for the purchase and enlargement of the 
Gaol and House of Correction for the borough of 
Leicester: And that Mr. Halford and Mr. Serjeant 


Goulburn do prepare, and bring it in. 


A Petition of Landholders and Rate-payers, in Waterford 
the county of Waterford, for leave to bring in a Bill County Rates, 
for the uniform valuation of Lands and Tenements 
for the purpose of levying County Rates, in the 
county of Waterford, was presented, and read ; and 
referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for 
Private Bills. 


A Petition of Land-owners, Merchants, Ship- Weiland uth 


owners and Tradesmen interested in the drainage Drainage, 
by and navigation of the River Welland, in the 
county of Lincoln, for leave to bring in a Bill for 
altering, amending and enlarging the powers and 
provisions of the several Acts for improving the Out- 

fall of the said River, and for increasing or altering 

the Tolls thereby authorized to be levied, was pre- 
sented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 

mittee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Landed Proprietors, Mine Owners, Manchester 
Farmers, Merchants, and Inhabitants of Wrexham and 4n4 Statiord 
Ruabon, taking notice of the application for leave to B+. 
bring in the Manchester and Stafford Railway Bill, 
and praying that such Bill may pass into a law, was 
presented and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of Commissioners appointed for making Dublin 
wide and convenient ways, streets and passages in Wide Stee 
and about the city of Dublin, for leave to bring in 
a Bill for extending and enlarging the powers of the 
several Acts for improving certain Ways, Streets and 
Passages, and for making further Improvements in 
and about the said City, was presented, and read ; 
and referred to the Select Committee on Petitions 
for Private Bills. 


General Lygon presented a Bill to amend and Worcester 
enlarge the Powers of an Act passed in the first and — ae 
second years of His present Majesty, for erecting ~ 
a County Hall and Courts of Justice, and also for 
providing Accommodation for His Majesty’s Justices 
of Assize in and for the County of Worcester: And 
the same was read the first time ; and ordered to be 
read a second time. 


General Lygon presented a Bill for maintaining Hayle Caus- 
the Causeway and Turnpike Road from Girigg’s wy Roa! *” 
Quay, in the Parish of Uny Lelant, over Hayle 
River and Sands, and through Hayle Foundery, in 
the County of Cornwall, and for extending the said 
Turnpike Road from the western end of the said 
Causeway towards Penzance: And the same was 
read the first time ; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


A Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses Worceste: 
of the city of Worcester, for leave to bring in a Bill Cattle Muh 
for erecting and providing a Cattle Market-place 
within the said .city, was presented, and read; and 
referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for 


Private Bills. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Cardiff, for leave to Carditl Ga 
bring in a Bill for lighting the said town with Gas, 
was presented, and read; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 
A Petition 


Cardit 


Impro 


Birmi 
and C 
Railv 


Man 
and’ 


Rail 


Pad 


Roc 
Bu 








Cardiff 
Improvement. 


Birmingham 
and Gloucester 
Railway. 


Manchester 
and Tamworth 


Railway. 


Paddington 
Estates. 


London 
Grand Junction 
Railway, 


Rochdale and 
Burnley Roads, 


Aberdeen 
Roads, 


Berry and 
Paterson’s 
Patent, 


7 Witt. IV. 


A Petition of Commissioners for executing the 
Act for better paving, cleansing and lighting the 
Streets, Lanes and Public Passages in the Town of 
Cardiff, and the Liberties thereof, and for removing 
and preventing Nuisances and Annoyances therein, 
for leave to bring in a Bill for extending and enlarging 
the powers of the said Act, and for altering and 
increasing the Rates, was presented, and read ; and 
referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for 
Private Bills. 


A {Petition of the Birmingham and Gloucester 
Railway Company, for leave to bring in a Bill for 
amending and enlarging the powers and provisions 
of an Act passed in the sixth and seventh year of the 
reign of His present Majesty, for making a Railwa 
from Birmingham to Gloucester, with a hash 
therefrom, was. presented, and read; and referred 
to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private 


Bills. 


A Petition of Sir George Chetwynd, of Grendon 
Hall, in the county of Warwick, Baronet, complain- 
ing that the Standing Orders of the House in respect 
to the application for the Manchester and Tamworth 
Railway Bill, had not been complied with, and pray- 
ing that he may be heard, by his agent, against the 
same, was presented, and read; and referred to the 
Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of the Minister, Churchwardens, Over- 
seers of the Poor, and Inhabitants, householders of 
Paddington, for leave to bring in a Bill for vesting 
in Trustees certain lands belonging to the said parish, 
called or known by the name of the Bread and 
Cheese Lands, situate at Bayswater and West- 
bourne, in the said parish, and for enabling the 
Trustees to demise or lease the said lands, or any 
part thereof, for any term or number of years not 
exceeding ninety-nine years, was presented, and 
read; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of the London Grand Junction Railway 
Company, for leave to bring in a Bill for extending 
the time for completing the said Railway, was pre- 
sented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Trustees for executing an Act passed 
in the sixth year of the reign of his late Majesty, 
for repairing the Road leading from the town of 
Rochdale, in the county palatine of Lancaster, to 
the town of Burnley, in the said county, and for 
repairing certain other Roads to communicate there- 
with, for leave to bring in a Bill for altering, amend- 
ing and enlarging the powers and provisions of the 
said Act, and for increasing the Tolls, was presented, 
and read ; and a Bill was ordered to be brought 
m accordingly, by Mr. Wilson Patten and Mr. 


Entwisle. 


Captain Gordon reported from the Committee 
on the Petition for the Aberdeen Roads Bill; that 
the Standing Orders relative to Bills for making 
Turnpike Roads, had been complied with ; and that 
they had examined the matter of the Petition. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for making and maintaining certain Roads in the 
County of Aberdeen: And that Captain Gordon 
and Captain Ferguson do prepare, and bring it in. 


A Petition of John Gyllyatt Booth, of Crouch 
Hall, Hornsey, in the county of Middlesex, Esquire, 
F; rancis Stedman, of Baron-street, Pentonville, in the 
said county, Esquire, Sir Feliz Booth, of Portland 
Place, in the said county, Baronet, Banister Flight, 
of Highbury, in the said county, Esquire, Samuel 
Grimsdell, of Sun-street, Bishopsgate, m the city of 


London, Esquire, and Francis William Staines, of 
Vou. 92. 


13° Februari. 





39 


No. 72, Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square, in the said 
county of Middlesex, Esquire, for leave to bring in 
a Bill for establishing a Company to be called “The 
Patent Dry Gas Meter Company,” for the purpose 
of manufacturing Gas Meters, and for enabling them 
to accept a transfer and assignment of the several 
Patent rights granted to Miles Berry and George 
Bertie Paterson, for securing to them the sole use 
and exercise of certain improvements in the construc- 
tion of Meters or apparatus for measuring Gas or 
Fluids, was presented, and read ; and referred to the 
Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


Mr. Hawes reported from the Select Committee 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Stand- 
ing Orders relative to Bills for making — 
had been complied with in the case of the 
tition for the Great Western Railway ( Trowbridge) 
Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to alter the line of the Great Western Railway, and 
to amend the Acts relating thereto: And that Mr. 
Robert Palmer and Mr, Charles Russell do prepare, 
and bring it in. 


Mr. Hawes reported from the Select Committee 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Stand- 
ing Orders relative to Bills for making Railways, 
had been complied with in the case of the Peti- 
tion for the Great Western Railway (Paddington) 
Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to enable the Great Western Railway Company to 
extend the line of such Railway, and for other pur- 
poses relating thereto: And that Mr. Charles Russell 
and Mr. Robert Palmer do prepare, and bring it in. 


Great Western 
Railway 
(Trowbridge. ) 


Great Western 
Railway 
(Paddington.) 


Mr. Hawes reported from the Select Committee Oxford and 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Stand- Great Western 


ing Orders relative to Bills for making Railways, 
had been complied with in the case of the Peti- 
tion for the Ozford and Great Western Rail- 
way Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for making a Railway from Ozford, to join the 
Great Western Railway near Didcot, witha Branch 
therefrom to Abingdon: And that Mr. Robert 
Palmer and Mr. Harcourt do prepare, and bring 
it in. 

A Petition of Merchants, Traders, Manufacturers 
and others, resident in Manchester and Sheffield, 
for leave to bring in Bill for making and main- 
taining a Railway from Sheffield to Manchester, 
was presented, and read ; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Thomas Isaac Dimsdale, of Hanley 
Road, in the parish of Islington, in the county of 
Middlesex, Esquire, for leave to bring in a Bill for 
embanking, draining and otherwise improving the 
Waste Lands near the rivers or loughs commonly 
called Lough Swilly and Lough Foyle, and the 
Letterkenny River or River Swilly, situate respec- 
tively in the county of Donegal, and county or city 
and county of Londonderry, for making and main- 
taining a Navigable Cut or Canal from the Lake of 
Lough Swilly aforesaid, to the River of Lough Foyle, 
called the River Foyle, in the liberties of the city 
of Londonderry; and also a Cut or Canal from 
the said Letterkenny River, or River Swilly, at a 
place called Farsetmore to Letterkenny, was _pre- 
sented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


Railway. 


Sheffield and 
Manchester 
Railway. 


Lougt: Swilly 
and Leugh 
Foyle Canals, 
&amp;e. 


A Petition of Robert Campion, of Whitby, Banker, Whitby 


taking notice of the application for leave to bring in Improvement, 


the Whitby Improvement Bill, and preying that 
a Clause may be inserted in such Bill, to allow the 
same drawback on all Coals, Coke or Cinders, which 
shall be used or consumed at the muriate a 

F4 the 








Midland 
Counties 


Railway. 


Poor Law Act. 


Church Rates. 


Soap. 


Poor Laws 
(Ireland. ) 


J. Tyler. 


Tithes 
(Lreland.) 


Vote by Ballot. 


Municipal 
Corporations 


(Ireland) Bill. 


Fire Insurances, 


40 


the Petitioner as those used at his allum works, was 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of the North Midland Railway Com- 
any, complaining that the Standing Orders of the 
ma in respect to the application for the Midland 
Counties Railway Bill, had not been complied with, 
and praying that they may be heard, by their agents, 
against the same, was presented, and read; and 
referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for 
Private Bills. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Bowling, praying 
that an inquiry may be instituted at as early a 
period as possible into the principles and working 
of the Poor Law Act, and that the Clauses relating 
to Bastardy may be repealed, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Coventry (five Petitions) ;— Nairn ; 
— Ichford ;— Leominster ; — South Petherton; — 
Dunblane ; — Balbeggie ;— Saint Ninian’s (Mode- 
rator of the Relief Presbytery) ;—Frome;—Chel- 
wood, and other places ;— Canterbury ;— Warkworth ; 
— Forfar ;—Paisley ;— Castle Donington ;—Alyth; 
— Dunfermline ;—Grantham;—and, Matlock Bath ; 
praying forthe abolition of Church Rates,—were pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Liskeard ;--Stirling ;—and, New- 
castle-upon- Tyne; praying for the repeal of the Duty 
on Soap,—were presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Dublin ;—and, Tamworth; pray- 
ing for the introduction of Poor Laws into Ireland, 
—were presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


A Petition of John Tyler, late of Pump-court, 
Temple, London, but now of Staple Inn, in the 
county of Middlesex, Gentleman, complaining of the 
loss of his office of Deputy Clerk of the Warrants, In- 
rolments and Estreats of the Court of Common Pleas, 
by the operation of the Act 6 Geo. 4, for abolishing 
the sale of Offices in the Court of Common Pleas in 
England, whereby it was provided that the office of 
Clerk of the Warrants, Inrolments and Estreats 
should, on any future appointment thereto, be exe- 
cuted in person, and praying the consideration of 
the House to his case m the proposed new arrange- 
ment for the appointment of Officers in the Superior 
Courts of Common Law, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Longford ;—Denis Me Carthy ;— 
Scrabby and Collumbhill East ;—Granard ;— Cloon- 
guish; — and, Creagh and Tullow ; praying for the 
abolition of Tithes m Jreland,—were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Scrabby and Columbkill East ;— 
Creagh and Tullow;—Granard ;— Cloonquish ;-- 
vnd, Longford; praying that at all elections for 
Members to serve in Parliament the Votes be taken 
by Ballot,—were presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Longford ;—Cloonguish ;— Creagh 
and Tullow ;—Granard ;—and, Scrabby and Co- 
lumbkill East; praying that the Municipal Corpora- 
tions (reland) Bill may pass into a law,—were 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 


Table. 


Petitions from Perth;—and, Iiminster; praying 
for the repeal of the Tax on Fire Insurances,—were 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


13° Februari. 








A. 1837. 


A Petition of Resident Electors of Perth, com- Fictitious Votes 
plaining of the creation of fictitious Votes for Mem- Scotland.) 
bers to serve in Parliament for Counties in Scotland, 
was presented, and read ; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Fictitious Votes (Scotland.) 


A Petition of Charles Porter, of Saint Martin’s, Municipal 
Stamford Baron, in the county of Northampton, ie 
clerk, statmg that a debt is due to him by the ‘ 
borough of Saint Alban, for money borrowed, which 
the Town Council allege they are advised cannot, 
under the provisions of the Municipal Corporations 
Act, be advanced out of the corporate funds, in 
liquidation of his claim, and praying that a Clause 
may be inserted in the Municipal Corporations 
Bill authorizing the payment out of the funds and 
rates of boroughs of debts similarly incurred, was 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of the Rev. Eugene Mulholland, D. D. Roman 
of the University of Rome, praying that a law may be Cetholic Clergy 
enacted to provide that the canon law of the Church (**#"*) 
of Rome be fairly observed between the several 
orders of the Clergy of that church, was presented, 


and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. _ 


Cot 


Mr. Oswald reported from the Select Committee Pablic 
on Public Petitions ; That they had examined the Petitions. 
Petitions presented on the 6th, 7th and 8th days 
of this instant February; and had directed him to 
make a Report thereof to the House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Ordered, That the Accounts from the Bank of Bank of Eng. 
England, which were presented upon Friday last, land. 
be printed. No. 82. 
Ordered, That the Accounts relative to Trade Trade and 
and Navigation, which were presented upon Friday Navigation. 
last, be printed. No. 33, 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Leicester, for leave to Leicester Gas. 
bring in a Bill for lighting the said town with Gas, 
was presented and read; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


(Ire 


(Ire 


A Petition of Edmund Lechmere Charlton, Esquire, Ludlow 
Member for the borough of Ludlow, and now a pri- Charities. 
soner under an order of the Lord Chancellor, in the 
Fleet Prison, denying the allegations contained in the 
Petition of Members of the Town Council of Ludlow, 
which was presented upon Friday last, and praying 
that they may be called to the bar of the House, and 
required to prove the truth of their allegations, was 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 

Ordered, That the Petition be printed. 


Ordered, That the Petition of the Members of Ludlow 
the Town Council of the borough of Ludlow, with ©" 
relation to the Charities cf that Borough, which was 
presented upon Friday last, be printed. 


and 
Bill, 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Bonded Goods. 
Return of Places having the Privilege of bonding 
Foreign Goods in Great Britain and Ireland, 
stating to what Ports they belong. 


Post 
Con 


Stafford 


A Moti as i i rO- ' 
lotion was made, and the Question being pro Fomugh Writ 


posed, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant to 
the Clerk of the Crown to make out a new Writ for 
the electing of a Burgess to serve in this present 
Parliament for the Borough of Stafford, in the room 
of Sir Francis Holyoake Goodricke, Baronet, who, 
since his election for the said Borough, hath ac- 
cepted the office of Steward or Bailiff of His Ma- 
jesty’s three Chiltern Hundreds of Stoke, Desborough 
and Bonenham, in the county of Buckingham ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” to 


the end of the Question, in order to add the words 
“ no 


Gray 
(Tre 


Su PI 





Common Law 
Courts Bill. 


Poor Laws 
(Ireland.) 


Poor Relief 
(Ireland.) 


Registration 
and Martiagc s 
Bill, 


Post Office 
Contracts Bill. 


Grand Juries 
(Irelaud) Bill. 


Supp! 5. 


7 Wit. IV. 


no Warrant for a new Writ be issued for the 
electing of a Burgess to serve in Parliament for 
the Borough of Stafford, until ten days after the 
commencement of the next Session of Parlia- 
ment,” instead thereof. 
And the Question being put, That the words pro- 
posed to be left out stand part of the Question ; 
The House divided : 
The Yeas to the old Lobby; 
The Noes to the new Lobby. 
Tellers for the { Mr. Chetwynd, 
Yeas, Sir Thomas Fremantle : 
Tellers for the {f Mr. Divett, 
Noes, \ Mr. Hall: 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 
Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant 
to the Clerk of the Crown to make out a new Writ 
for the electing of a Burgess to serve in this present 
Parliament for the Borough of Stafford, in the room of 
Sir Francis Holyoake Goodricke, Baronet, who, since 
his election for the said Borough, hath accepted the 
office of Steward or Bailiff of His Majesty’s three 
Chiltern Hundreds of Stoke, Desborough and Bo- 
nenham, in the County of Buckingham. 


7} 
J 


The Common Law Courts Bill was, according to 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Friday next. 


Lord John Russell presented, by His Majesty’s 
command,—Report of George Nicholls, Esquire, on 
Poor Laws in Ireland. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee, to consider of imposing a Rate 
on the Occupiers of rateable Hereditaments for the 
more effectual Relief of the Poor in Ireland. 


(In the Committee.) 


Motion made, and Question, That it is the opinion 
of this Committee, “ That it is expedient to provide 
for the better administration of Relief to the desti- 
tute Poor of Ireland, and to authorize the levy of 
a Local Rate for that purpose,” put, and agreed to. 

Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Reso- 
lution. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 


And the House, having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Tuesday morning ; 


Martis, 14° die Februarii, 1837: 


The ingrossed Bill to suspend, for a limited time, 
the operation of two Acts passed in the last Session 
of Parliament, for registering Births, Deaths and 
Marriages in England, and for Marriages in Eng- 
land, was, according to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Post Office Contracts Bill was, according to 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Friday next. 


Mr. Bernal reported the Grand Juries (Zreland) 
Bill; and the Amendments were read, and agreed 
to; and Clauses were added, and Amendments were 
made, to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed; and read the third time this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply i 

Resolved, at this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 

Vor. 92, 


13°—14° Februari. 








41 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return of the Number of Manor Courts now ex- 
isting in the several Counties in Jreland; specifying 
the Places over which the Jurisdiction of each Court 
extends, and the greatest distance of any place 
within such Jurisdiction from the ordinary place or 
places of holding such Court. 


Ordered, That Mr. Strutt and Mr. Ayshford 
Sanford be discharged from any further attendance 
on the Select Committee on Fictitious Votes (Jre- 


* | land.) 


Ordered, That Mr. French and Mr. Morgan John 
O’ Connell be added to the Committee. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Number of Letters for Foreign Coun- 
tries remaining at the Dead Letter Office, in con- 
sequence of the outward Postage not being paid, 
made up, week by week, to the 31st January 1837, 
from the time of giving effect to the last Post Office 
Treaty with France; and a similar Return, fora 
similar period, previous to that Treaty. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Number of Letters registered, week 
by week, for Foreign Countries, since the said Treaty 
with France, and of the extra Charge for registration 
to those Countries. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Number of English Newspapers sent 
to the Continent of Europe, week by week, from 
the time of giving effect to the last Post Office 
Treaty with France, made up to the 31st January 
last; and a similar Return for a similar period 
previous to that Treaty. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return, for the same periods, of Foreign Newspapers 
received from the Continent of Europe for delivery 
in His Majesty’s Dominions. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of all Meetings under all Commissions and 
Fiats in Bankruptcy from 1st January to 31st De- 
cember 1836; specifying the respective Commis- 
sioners before whom each Meeting was held, the 
object and purpose of such Meetings, and the day 
and hour appointed for holding such Te — 
From each Official Assignee of the Court of Bank- 
ruptcy of every Commission and Fiat of ergy on] 
under which any Dividend has been paid by him, 
on and since 1st May 1833 to 1st January 1837 inclu- 
sive, with the date of the Commissioners’ Order 
for making the same, and the Amount thereof, and 
the Amount of the Allowance made to each Official 
Assignee in each of such Bankruptcies :—and, an 
Account from each Official Assignee of the Court of 
Bankruptcy of the Amount of all Sums of Money at 
his order or disposition, or in his hands, under every 
Commission and Fiat of Bankruptcy, bearing date 
on or subsequent to 16th July 1833, to 1st February 
1837 inclusive, not paid into the Bank of England 
to the credit of the Accountant in Bankruptcy, with 
the Date when the several Sums respectively were 
paid into his hands. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Copy of the Minute of the Treasury respecting 
Bonding Warehouses. 


Mr. Edward John Stanley presented a Bill for 
lighting with Gas the Town of Runcorn, otherwise 
called Higher Runcorn and Lower Runcorn, and 
also the Towne or Chapelry of Halton, both in 
the Parish of Runcorn, in the County of Chester : 
And the same was read the first time; and ordered 
to be read a second time. 


A Petition of John Higgin, the younger, of Lan- 
caster, Gentleman, complaining that the Standing 
Orders of the House in respect to the application 
for the Lancaster and Preston Railway Bill had not 
been complied with, and praying that he a 

G ear 


Manor Courts 
(Ireland.) 


Fictitious Votes 


(Ireland 
Comnuittee, 


Foreign Letters 


Newspapers 
(English and 
Foreign. ) 


Bankrupte 


Court and Fiats. 


Bonding 
Warehouses. 


Runcorn Gas 
Bill. 


Lancaster and 
Preston Rai!- 
way. 





Hinckley 
Small Debts 
Bill. 


Southwark and 
Hammersmith 
Rai | way. 


Sheriff Clerks 
(Scotland. ) 


Justice of the 
Peace Clerks 
(Scotland.) 


Petitions for 
Private Bills. 


42 13°—14° Februarii. A. 1837. 


heard against the same, was presented, and read ; 
and referred to the Select Committee on Petitions 
for Private Bills. 


The House was moved, That the Report in respect 
to the Petition for the Hinckley Small Debts Bil, 
which was yesterday made from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills, might be read ; 
and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill for 
the more easy and speedy recovering Small Debts 
within the Parish of Hinckley, and other places 
therein mentioned, in the counties of Leicester and 
Warwick: And that Mr. Halford and Mr. Packe do 


prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That the —— 
Orders relative to Bills for making Railways, ha 
been complied with in the case of the Petition for 
the Southwark and Hammersmith Railway Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for making and maintaining a Railway from the 
South end of Southwark Bridge, to join other Rail- 
ways at or near the South and West parts of the 
Metropolis: And that Mr. D’Eyncourt and Mr. 
Wilks do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Fox Maule presented a Return to an Address 
to His Majesty, dated the 17th day of August, in 
the last Session of Parliament, for a Return, by the 
Sheriff Clerks of the different Counties in Scotland, 
and their Deputies and Assistants, of the Total 
Amount of Fees levied by them for the years 1833, 
1834 and 1835; specifying, in detail, the Amount of 
Fees levied under the Small Debt Act, upon Precog- 
nitions ; of Fees under the Bankrupt Statute, and 
the Amount of all other Fees, with the Amount of 
the Annual Expenses of the Sheriffs’ Clerks Offices ; 
specifying, separately, the Office Rents, the Fees 
and Salaries of the Depute Clerks, with their Names 
and other Charges ; a the Dates of the Appoint- 
ments as Sheriff Clerks, the Sums paid for the 
Office ; the Attendance given; whether they hold 
any other Offices ; and the Residence of the Sheriff 
Clerks, for the years 1833, 1834 and 1835; the same 
to be signed by Sheriff Clerks and their Deputes. 

Mr. Fox Maule also presented,— Return to an 
Address to His Majesty, dated the 17th day of 
August, in the last Session of Parliament, for a Re- 
turn, by the Justice of Peace Clerks of the different 
Counties in Scotland, and their Deputies and As- 
sistants, of the Total Amount of Fees levied b 
them for the years 1833, 1834 and 1835; speci- 
fying, in detail, the Amount of Fees levied under the 
Small Debt Act, upon Precognitions, of Fees under 
the Bankrupt Statute, and the Amount of all other 
Fees, with the Amount of the Anuual Expenses of 
the Justice of Peace Clerks Offices ; specifying se- 
parately, the Office Rents, the Fees and Salaries of 
the Depute Clerks, with their Names and other 
Charges; also, the Dates of the Appointments as 
Justice of Peace Clerks, the Sums paid for the 
Office, the Attendance given, whether they hold any 
other Offices, and the Residence of the Justice of 
Peace Clerks, the Returns to be signed by them and 
their Deputes. 

Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table. 


And then the House, having continued to sit till 


a quarter of an hour before one of the clock 
on Tuesday morning, adjourned till this day. 





Martis, 14° die Februarii ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi IV" Regis, 1837. 
PRAYERS. 
QROER ED, That the Select Committee on 
Petitions for Private Bills, have leave to sit this 


day till five of the clock during the sitting of the 
House. 














Mr. Douglas, Clerk to the Commissioners for Saint Pancras 
Paving, Lighting, &amp;c. the Southampton Estate, in 1! Acts. 
the Parish of Saint Pancras, was called in; and at 
the bar presented,—Further Return to an Order, 
dated the 3d day of this instant February, for Re- 
turns relating to biden, Lighting, Watching, &amp;c. the 
Parish of Saint Pancras during the years 1832, 1833, 

1834 and 1835, so far as relates to the Southampton. 
Estate :—And then he withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 

Table. 


A Petition of Trustees for carrying into execution LlanrwstRoads, 
the Acts for repairing and widening several Roads 
leading to, through and from the towns of Bala and 
Doilgelley, in the county of Merioneth, and other 
Roads therein se | in the counties of Mont- 
gomery, Denbigh and Salop, and for repairing several 
other Roads in the counties of Merioneth and Den- 
bigh, for leave to bring in a Bill for continuing the 
term, and altermg and amending the powers and 
provisions of the said Acts, so far as the same relate 
to the Roads between Aber-y-pwill, through Penire- 
voelas to Llanrwst, and between Beaver Pool Bridge 
and Llanrwst, and for making turnpike a certain 
highway from Eglwysfach, in the county of Denbigh, 
to Llanrwst, in the said county, was presented, and 
read ; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in ac- 
cordingly, by Mr. Wilson Jones and Mr. Bagot. 


A Petition of Traders and Inhabitants of Lough- Loughborough 
borough, and several other parishes, townships and Small Debts, 
places in the counties of Leicester and Nottingham, 
for leave to bring in a Bill for the better recovery of 
Small Debts in the said parishes, townships and 
places, was presented, and read; and referred to 
the Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


Mr. March Phillipps presented a Bill to enable Leicester 
the Corporation of Leicester to apply the Proceeds Corporati 
of their Real Estates in payment of Money borrowed ; 
for the Purchase and Enlargement of the Gaol and 
House of Correction for the Borough of Leicester : 

And the same was read the first time; and ordered 
to be read a second time. 


A Petition of the London and Croydon Railway London and 
Company, for leave to bring in a Bill for altering, Croydon 
amending and enlarging the powers and provisions ®#!¥y- 
of the Act for making the said Railway, and for ex- 
tending the time for making the station and other 
works in the parish of Saint Olave, in the borough 
of Southwark, was presented, and read ; and referred 


to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private 
Bills. 


A Petition of Directors of the Zondon and Black- London and 
wall Railway and Steam Navigation Depét Com- sana 
. . . . ommercia 
pany, taking notice of the application for leave to Raijway. 
bring in the London and Blackwall Commercial 
Railway Bill, and praying that they may be consi- 
dered as joining in the Petition of the said Com- 
mercial Railway Company, for leave to bring in the 
said Bill, was presented, and read; and referred 


to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private 
Bills. 


A Petition of Inhabitants and Rate-payers of Kidderminster 
Kidderminster, for leave to bring in a Bill for better — 
assessing and collecting the poor and other rates of 
the said town and borough, and for making the 
same payable by the owners of small tenements 
within the same, instead of by the occupiers, was 
presented, and read; and Ba Sows to the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Subscribers to and Promoters of the Portsmouth . 
Portsmouth Junction Railway, and Owners and Pro- Junction Rail- 
prietors of land on the line thereof, for leave to bring 
in a Bill for making a Railway from Portsmouth to 
join the London and Southampton Railway in or near 

the 


way. 





Wore 
Wolv 
Raily 


Birm 
Gas | 


Saint 
Pavi 


Isle 
Poor 


Bill 


Oxf 
Gre 
Rai 


Gal 
Cra 


Pre 
Ws 








7 Wit. IV. 


the parishes of North Stoneham and South Stoneham, 
in the county of Southampton, was presented, and 


read; and referred to the Select Committee on Pe- 
titions for Private Bills. 


Worcester and 
Wolverhampton 
Railway. 


A Petition of Merchants, Manufacturers, Factors, 
Tradesmen and Inhabitants of Kidderminster, taking 
notice of the application for leave to bring in the 
Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway Bill, and 
praying that such Bill may pass into a law, was 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 


Table. 


Sir Eardley Wilmot presented a Bill for more 
effectually supplying with Gas the Town of Birming- 
ham, and certain Parishes, Hamlets and Places ad- 
joining thereto, by a Company, to be called “ The 
Birmingham Equitable Gas-Light Company :” And 
the same was read the first time ; and ordered to be 
read a second time. 


Birmingham 
Gas Bill. 


Saint Pancras 
Paving. 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Standing 
Orders relative to Bills for improving Cities or Towns, 
had been complied with in the case of the Petition 
for the Saint Pancras Paving Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for repealing several Acts for paving, lighting, water- 
ing and cleansing certain parts of the parish of Saint 
Pancras, in the county of Middlesex, and for grant- 
ing other powers in lieu thereof: And that Sir 
Samuel Whalley and Mr. Hume do prepare, and bring 
it In. 

Isle of Wight 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee 
Poor Rates. 


on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Standing 
Orders relative to Bills for levying Poor Rates, had 
been complied with in the case of the Petition for 
the Isle of Wight Poor Rates Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to alter and amend the Powers of an Act passed in 
the sixteenth year of the reign of his Majesty King 
George the Third, to continue the Corporation of 
the Guardians of the Poor within the Isle of Wight, 
and for other purposes in the said Act mentioned: 
And that Sir Richard Simeon and Lord Worsley do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


Great Western 
ilwa 


(Paddington 
Bill. siti 


Mr. Charles Russell presented a Bill to enable the 
Great Western Railway Company to extend the Line 
of such Railway, ok for other purposes relating 
thereto: And the same was read the first time; and 
ordered to be read a second time. 


Great Western 

raed 
rowbrid 

Bie 


Mr. Charles Russell presented a Bill to alter the 
Line of the Great Western Railway, and to amend 
the Acts relating thereto: And the same was read 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


Oxford and 
Great Western 
Railway Bill, 


Mr. Harcourt presented a Bill for making a 
Railway from Ozford to join the Great Western 
Railway near Didcot, with a Branch therefrom to 
Abingdon, to be called “ The Oxford and Great 
Western Union Railway :” And the same was read 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


Galley Hill and 


Gunn A Petition of Trustees for executing the Acts for 


amending the Road from the bottom of Galley Hill 
to the Cross in Cranfield, in the county of Oxford, 
for leave to bring in a Bill for continuing the term, 
and altering and amending the powers and provisions 
of the said Acts, and for increasing the tolls, was 
presented, and read ; and a Bill was ordered to be 


brought in accordingly, by Mr. Harcourt and Lord 
NVorreys. 


Preston and 
yre Railway, 


A Petition of the Preston and Wyre Railway and 
Harbour Company, for leave to bring in a Bill for 
altering the line of the said Railway, and for amend- 


ing and enlarging the powers and provisions of the 
Vor. 92. 


14° Februari. 


fleet, in the county of Derby, Esquire, and William 





43 


Act for making the same, was presented, and read ; 


and referred to the Select Committee on Petitions 
for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Owners of Land in the county of Zan- Preston and 
caster,or Manufacturers, Merchants and others inter- Wyre Dock. 
ested in the trade of Preston, and the manufacturing 
and trading districts of Lancashire, for leave to bring 
in a Bill for constructing and maintaining a Dock or 
Docks at Wyre, in the said county, was presented, 
and read; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Petitions for Private Bills. 


Lord Stanley presented a Bill for enabling the Manchester 
Manchester and Leeds Railway Company to vary the ae 
Line of such Railway, and for amending and en- ”"* “"" 
larging the powers and provisions of the Act relating 
thereto: And the same was read the first time ; and 
ordered to be read a second time. 


A Petition of several Persons whose names are West London 
thereunto subscribed, for leave to bring in a Bill for = bse 
establishing a or in the western suburbs of 4 
London, was presented, and read; and referred to 
the Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of John Wilkinson Clay, of Northwing- Midland 
ounties 

Clay, of Shirland Park, in the same county, Esquire, — 

complaining that the Standing Orders of the House 

in respect to the application for the Midland Counties 

Railway Bill, had not been complied with, and pray- 

ing that they may be heard, by themselves, their 

agents and witnesses, against the same, was pre- 

sented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 

mittee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


Petitions from Bristol (four Petitions) ;—Rock- Seap. 
savage and Weston ; — Runcorn ;— Thomas Clarke, 
and others ;—and, William Mason, and others; pray- 
ing for the repeal of the Duty on Soap,—were 
gia and read; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 


Petitions from Forres ;— Little Ayton ;— Chair- Church Rates. 
man of the North United Associate Secession Con- 
gregation of Perth; — Falmouth ;— Dumfermline ; 
— Loughton ; — Southwold ; — Knowl ; — Burton ; 
— Bisley;-— Clapham; — Tyldesley with Shacker- 
ley; — North Petherton; — King’s Weigh House 
Meeting, Fish-street, London , — Highfield ; —Bos- 
ton ;— Hackney ;— Kidderminster ; — Brimpton ;— 
Bridgwater (three Petitions) ; — Sudbury ;-- - Long 
Crendon;—Sutton Valence ;— Hadleigh ;—Eynsford ; 
—Chichester ;—Headcorn ;-——and, Cranbrook ; pray- 
ing for the abolition of Church Rates,—were pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Armagh, in the Tithes, &amp;c. 
county of Mayo, praying for the abolition of Tithes (Ireland.) 
in Ireland, the adoption of Vote by Ballot, and a 
reform in .the Municipal Corporations of Ireland, 
similar to that granted to England and Scotland, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Stowmarket, praying Fire Insurance, 
for a reduction of the Duty on Fire Insurances, was 
ner and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
able. 


A Petition of Medical Practitioners of the Queen’s Grand Juries 
County, praying for the repeal of the Clause in the ete dana 
Grand Juries (Ireland) Act passed in the last Session 
of Parliament affecting the salaries of Medical Super- 
intendents of Dispensaries, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Bradford, in the county of York ; Poor Law Act. 
—Bowin and Kingston ;— Kendal ;— and, Merthyr 
Tidvil; praying for the repeal of the Poor Law Act, 
G2 —were 





Cranfield 


Inclosure Bill. 


Clapton 
Inclosure. 


Manchester 
and Stafford 
Railway. 


Universal 
Suffrage, &amp;c. 


Saddleworth 


Reservoirs, 


Hand-loom 
Weavers. 


Church Rates. 


Municipal 
Corporations 


(Ireland) Bill, 


44, 


—were presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 

A Petition of Guardians of the Poor of the Romney 
Marsh Union, praying the House not to listen to the 
misrepresentations and clamours raised against the 
Poor Law Act, was also presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The Cranfield Inclosure Bill was read a second 
time ; and committed to Lord Charles Russell and 
the Bedford List. 


A Petition of James Adam Gordon, Esquire, Lord 
of the manor of the parish of Clapton, in the county 
of |Somerset, and Owners of estates, lands and 
grounds within the said parish, for leave to bring in 
a Bill for dividing, allotting and inclosing divers 
commons, commonable lands, common fields and 
moors, in the said parish, was presented, and read ; 
and a Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly 
by Mr. William Miles and Mr. Sanford. 


Petitions of Occupiers of lands and buildings, in 
the county of Chester ;— and, Owners of lands, 
buildings and estates, in the courty of Chester, a 
or near the line of the proposed branch of the Man- 
chester and Chester and Staffordshire Junction Rail- 
way, from Alderley to Crewe; taking notice of the 
application for leave to bring in the Manchester and 
Stafford Railway Bill; and praying that such Bill 
may not pass into a law,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of William Garnett, of Manchester, in 
the county of Lancaster, Esquire, complaining that 
the Standing Orders of the House in respect to the 
merge for the Manchester and Stafford Railway 

ill, had not been complied with, and praying that 
he may be heard, by himself, his agents and witnesses 
against the same, was also presented, and read; and 
referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for 
Private Bills. 


A Petition of the Chairman of a Meeting of In- 
habitants and Rate-payers of Lambeth, praying the 
House to pass a law which shall give universal 
Suffrage, Vote by Ballot, Annual Parliaments, and 
the removal of the Property Qualification of Mem- 
bers of Parliament, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Owners or Occupiers of mills and 
factories on the River Zame, and other streams 
flowing to or from or below the same, for leave to 
bring in a Bill for making and maintaining embank- 
ments, reservoirs and works, for penning up and 
collecting and retaining the waters, streams and 
rivers below a certain reservoir situate upon the 
principal stream or source of the River Tame, in 
Redstochen Dean, in Denshaw, in the township of 
Quick and parish of Saddleworth, in the west riding 
of the county of York, in order to provide a_ better 
supply of water for the Mills, Factories and Works 
belonging to the Petitioners and others, was pre- 
sented, and read ; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Hand-loom Weavers of Brampton, 
praying for the establishment of Boards of Trade for 
regulating the prices of Hand-loom Weaving, was 
— and read ; and ordered to lie upon the 


able. 


Petitions from Winslow ;—and, Monks Eleigh ; 
praying the House not to consent to any enactment 
for the abolition of Church Rates,—were presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Westport ;—and, Aughagour ; pray- 
ing that the Municipal Corporations (Jreland) Bill 
may pass into a law,—were presented, and read ; 


and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


14° Februariz. 








A. 1837. 


Petitions from Westport ;—and, Aughagour ; pray- Vote by Ballot, 
ing for the adoption of Vote by Ballot in the election 
of Members to serve in Parliament,—were presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Westport, praying for Tithes 
the abolition of Tithes in Jreland, was presented, (eland.) 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Shaw Lefevre reported from the Select Com- Liverpoo! In 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That in the ete 
case of the Petition for the Liverpool Apothecaries’ _— 
Company Bill, the application does not come within 
the Standing Orders of the House. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to enable the Liverpool Apothecaries Company to 
sue and be sued in the name of the Chairman, De- 
puty Chairman, or of any one of the Directors of the 
said Company, and for other purposes: And that 
Mr. Ewart and Lord Viscount Sandon do prepare, 
and bring it in. pa 

Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee Worcester and 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Stand- Wolverhampton 
ing Orders relative to Bills for making Railways, ®*!"*y- 
had been complied with in the case of the Peti- 

- for the Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway 

ill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for making a Railway from the Birmingham and 
Gloucester Railway, near Worcester, to the Grand 
Junction Railway, near Wolverhampton, with branches 
therefrom, to be called “‘ The Grand Connection Rail- 
way:” And that General Lygonand Mr. Winnington 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


Br 


an 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee Leeds and 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Standing Derby (North 
Orders relative to Bills for making Railways, had (id) 
been complied with, in the case of the Petition ™ 
oo the Leeds and Derby (North Midland) Railway 

ill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to enable the orth Midland Railway Company to 
alter the line of the said Railway, and the Act 
relating thereto, and also to make two branches to 
communicate with the same: And that Sir John 
Beckett and Mr. Baines do prepare, and bring it in. 


Co 
(I 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee Lancaster Li 
on Petitions for Private Bills; and to whom the 2nd Preston 
Petitions of John Bond and others; and, of John ®!**y- 
Higgin, complaining of non-compliance with the 
Standing Orders, were referred ; That the Standing 
Orders relative to Bills for making Railways, had 
been complied with, in the case of the Petition for 
the Lancaster and Preston Railway Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for making and maintaining a Railway from the 
Town of Lancaster to the Town of Preston, in the Co 
County Palatine of Lancaster: And that Lord Stan- 
ley and Mr. Wilson Patten do prepare, and bring 
it in. 

Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee Victuallers’ 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That in the case ta 
of the Petition for the Licensed Victuallers As-P””” 
surance Company Bill, the application does not 
come within the Standing Orders of the House. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to enable the Licensed Victuallers and General Fire 
and Life Assurance Company to sue and be sued in 
the name of the Chairman, Deputy Chairman, or of 
any one of the Directors of the said Company, and 
for other purposes: And that Mr. Hawes and Mr. 

D’ Eyncourt do prepare, and bring it in. 

Liverpool und 
Manchester 
Railway: 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Standing 
Orders relative to Bills for making Railways, had 
been complied with in the case of the Petition for 
the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Bill. 
' Ordered, 





Whitby 
Improvement. 


Merthyr Tydfil 
and Cardiff 
Railway. 


Bridgewater 
and Taunton 
Canal. 


Court of 
Chancery 
(Ireland.) 


Lighthouses. 


Caoutchouc 
Company. 


Manchester 
and Tamworth 
way. 





7 Wit. IV. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to enable the Liverpool and Manchester Railway 
Company to raise more Money, and for amending 
and enlarging the powers and provisions of the 
several Acts relating to the said Railway: And that 
Lord Francis Egerton and Lord Viscount Sandon 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Standing 
Orders relative to Bills for improving Cities orTowns, 
had been complied with in the case of the Petition 
for the Whitby Improvement Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for better paving, cleansing, lighting, watching and 
improving the Town of Whitby, in the north riding 
of the county of York: And that Mr. Aaron Chap- 
man and Mr. William Duncombe do prepare, and 
bring it in. 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee 
on Petitions for ‘Private Bills ; That the Standing 
Orders relative to Bills for making Railways, had 
been complied with in the case of the Petition for 
the Merthyr Tidfil and Cardiff Railway Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
enable the Taff Vale Railway Company to alter the 
Line of the said Railway, and the Act relating 
thereto, and to make additional Branches: And 
that Mr. Guest and Mr. Robert Clive do prepare, and 
bring it in. 

Mr. Shaw Lefevre reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the 
Standing Orders relative to Navigation Bills, had 
been complied with in the case of the Petition for 
the Bridgewater and Taunton Canal Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
enable the Company of Proprietors of the Bridge- 
water and Taunton Canal Navigation to continue 
the Line of the Canal below the Town of Bridge- 
water, and for varying the Powers of the several 
Acts relative to the said Canal: And that Mr. 
William Miles and Mr. Gore Langton do prepare, 


and bring it in. 


Mr. Fox Maule presented, pursuant to the direc- 
tions of an Act of Parliament,—General Order 
made by the Lord High Chancellor of Zreland under 
the authority of the Act 4 Geo. 4, c. 61. 

Mr. Fox Maule also presented, pursuant to an 
Address to His Majesty, dated the 5th day of July, 
in the last Session of Parliament,—Return of the 
whole Receipt and Revenue of the Corporation of 
Trinity House of Deptford Strond ; distinguishing 
the particular Sources from which the same are de- 
rived, together with a particular and detailed Ac- 
count of the appropriation for the year 1835. 

Ordered, That thesaidPapers dolieupontheTable. 


A Petition of Directors of the London Caoutchouc 
Company, for leave to bring in a Bill for incorporat- 


ing the said Company, for the purpose of encourag-. 


ing and procuring the production and collection of 
Caoutchouc in His Majesty’s Colonies and Planta- 
tions abroad, and the importation thereof into this 
country, and for encouraging and promoting dis- 
coveries and improvements in the produce of 
Caoutchouc, or in the application of it to the arts or 
manufactures, was presented, and read; and re- 


ferred to the Select Committee on Petitions for Pri- 
vate Bills. 


Mr. Shaw Lefevre reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills ; and to whom 
the Petition of Sir George Chetwynd, Baronet, com- 
plaining of non-compliance with the Standing Or- 
ders, was referred; That the Standing Orders rela- 
tive to Bills for making Railways, had been complied 
with in the case of the Petition for the Manchester 
and Tamworth Railway Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
“ — a Railway from Manchester to the Bir- 

OL. 92. 


14° Februariz. 





45 


mingham and Derby Junction Railway, at or near 
Tamworth, with Branches, to be called “ The Man- 
chester South Union Railway:” And that Lord 


Francis Egerton and Mr. Ryle do prepare, and 
bring it in. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, that he had Longford 
received a Letter from Luke White, Esquire, who is Comty Elec- 
returned a Knight of the Shire to serve in this pre- 
sent Parliament for the County of Longford, that 
he, the said Luke White, did not intend to defend 
his Return for the said County. 

And the said Letter, being delivered in at the 
Table, was read, as followeth : 


To the Right honourable The Speaker of the 
House of Commons. 
Sir, 


Petitions having been presented by Charles Foz, 
Esquire, and Lovell Edgeworth, Esquire, and others, 
against my Return at the last Election for the 
County of Longford, 1, as Sitting Member, beg to 
inform you, and I do hereby declare, that it is not 
my intention to defend my Wlection or Return. 

I have the honour to be, Sir, 
Your most obedient servant, 
House of Commons, L. White. 
14 Feb. 1837. 


The House was moved, That the eleventh, twelfth 
and thirteenth sections of the Act 9 Geo. 4, c. 22, 
to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to the 
Trial of Controverted Elections, or Returns of Mem- 
bers to serve in Parliament, might be read ; and the 
same were read. 

The House was also moved, That the several 
Orders made upon Wednesday, the 1st day of this 
instant February, for taking into consideration, upon 
Tuesday, the 28th day of this instant February, the 
Petition of Charles For, of Rutland-square, in the 
city of Dublin, Esquire ; and also the Petition of 
Lovell Edgeworth, of Edgeworthstown, in the county 
of Longford, and several other Freeholders, com- 
plaining of an undue Election and Return for the 
said county, might be read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That the said Orders be discharged. 

Ordered, That the said Petitions be taken into 
consideration upon Tuesday, the 11th day of April 
next, at three of the clock in the Afternoon. 


A Message from the Lords, by Sir Giffin Wilson Message from 

and Mr. Senior: the Lords 
Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Alepsons’ 
for naturalizing Martin Alepson and Matthew Alep- N+. Bill. 
son; to which the Lords desire the concurrence of 
this House: And also, 


The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Frank Castelli’s 


for naturalizing Frank Castelli; to which the Lords N*t- Bill. 
desire the concurrence of this House: And also, 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Michael 
for naturalizing Michael Castelli; to which the a dee 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House:—And-""* 
then the Messengers withdrew. 


A Petition of Sir George Chetwynd, of Grendon ‘Tamworth 
Hall, in the county of Warwick, Baronet, com- and Rugby 
plaining that the Standing Orders of the House, in ®*!"*- 
respect to the Ey for the Tamworth and 
Rugby Railway Bill, had not been complied with, 
und praying that he may be heard, by his agents and 
witnesses, against the same, was presented, and 
read; and referred to the Select Committee on Peti- 
tions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Owners or Lessees of lands and Dublin and 
grounds affected by the a hereinafter men- Rallees? 
tioned, for leave to bring in a Bill for making and : 
maintaining a Railway from Dublin to Kilkenny, 
was presented, and read ; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


a3 Ordered, 





Paymaster 
General’s Office. 


No. 34. 
Post Office 
(Dublin.) 

No. 35. 

. Sheriff Clerks 
(Scotland. ) 

No, 36. 

Justice of 


Peace Clerks 
(Scotland.) 


No. 37. 


Members’ 
Qualification. 


Parish Vestries 
Bill. 


Patents for 
Inventions 


Bill. 


John Dillon, 


Taw of Libel 
Lili. 


Catholic 
Worship and 
Education 


Lands (Ireland) 
Bill. 


Fees paid by 
Meu.bers. 


Collection of 


Tanes, 


46 


the Paymaster General’s Office, which was presented 
yesterday, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Returns relative to the Post 
Office (Dublin), which were presented yesterday, be 

rinted. 

4 Ordered, That the Return relative to Sheriff 
Clerks (Scotland), which was presented yesterday, 
be printed. 

brdered, That the Return relative to Justice of 
Peace Clerks (Scotland), which was presented yes- 
terday, be printed. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being put, 
That leave be given to bring in a Bill to abolish the 
Property Qualification of Members of Parliament ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 


Tellers for the f Sir William Molesworth, 104. 


Yeas, Mr. Leader: 
Tellers forthe f Mr. Arthur Trevor, Liss 
Noes, Mr. Maclean: | Bers 


So it passed in the Negative. 


Ordered, That leave be given te bring ina Bill 
to abolish the system of Plural Vo.ing im Vestries 
and Unions, and to secure to each Rate-payer the 
right of givmg one Vote, and no more: And that 
Mr. Wakley and Mr. Elphinstone do prepare, and 


bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
amend the practice relating to Letters Patent for 
Inventions, and for the better encouragement of the 
Arts and Manufactures: And that Mr. Mackinnon 
and Mr. Baines do prepare, and bring it in. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being put, 
That a Select Committee be appointed to inquire 
into the circumstances connected with the Seizure 
and Condemnation of the Vessel called the Peru, m 
the Admiralty Court in Jreland, in the year 1822, 
and the disposal of the proceeds thereof ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 

Tellers for the Yeas, ee a } 16. 
Mr. John Parker, } a2 


Mr. Fox Maule: 
So it passed in the Negative. 
Ordered, That leave be given to bring ina Bill 
to amend the Law of Libel: And that Mr. O’ Connell 
and Mr. Lynch do prepare, and bring it in. 


Tellers forthe Noes, 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a 
Bili to secure the Title and enjoyment of Lands 
and Tenements granted for purposes of Catholic 
Worship and of Education in Jreland : And that 
Mr. O’Connell and Mr. Lynch do prepare, and 
bring it in. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Amount of the several Fees demanded 
from a Member on taking his Seat in this House, at 
a General Election, and when returned upon a new 
Writ upon a vacancy ; by what Authority charged, 
and to what Purposes applied. 

Ordered, That there pe laid before this House, a 
Return of the Amounts not paid into the Exchequer, 
but deducted for Costs of Collection and all other 
purposes, from the gross Amounts received by the 
Customs, Excise, Stamps and Taxes, Post Office, 
and every other Department of Revenue, for the year 
ending the 5th January 1837. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Amounts received by the Army, Navy, 
Ordnance, Civil, and all other Departments of Ex- 
penditure, from all sources, except Parliamentary 
Grants, or issues from the Exchequer, for the year 
ending the 5th January 1837. 


14° Februari. 


Ordered, That the Treasury Minute relative to | 





A. 1837. 


The House was moved, That the Act 5 and 6 Prisons’ Regu. 


Will. 4, c. 38, for effecting greater uniformity of !ation Bill. 


Practice in the Government of the several Prisons in 
England and Wales, and for appointing Inspectors 
of et in Great Britain, might be read; and the 
same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to extend the provisions of the said Act: And that 
Mr. Fox Maule and Mr. Baring do prepare, and 


bring it in. 


to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of the Annual Report from the Agent 
for Emigration in Canada for 1836. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as 
are of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


on the Occupiers of rateable Hereditaments, for the 
more effectual Relief of the Poor in Ireland, a Reso- 
lution, which was read, as followeth : 

Resolved, That it is expedient to provide for 
the better administration of Relief to the Destitute 
Poor of Ireland, and to authorize the levy of a 
Local Rate for that purpose. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, was 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That a Bill be brought in upon the said 
Resolution: And that Mr. Fox Maule, Lord John 
Russell, and Lord Viscount Morpeth, do prepare, and 
bring it in. 


The ingrossed Bill to amend an Act passed in the 
seventh year of His present Majesty, for consoli- 
dating and amending the Laws relating to the Pre- 
sentment of Public Money by Grand Juries in Jre- 
land, was, according to Order, read the third time ; 
and ingrossed Clauses were added, by way of riders, 
and Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


the same was read the first time ; and ordered to be 
read a second time upon Monday, the 27th day of 
this instant February ; and to be printed, 


Mr. Fox Maule presented a Bill for extending an Prisons’ Rego- 
Act of the fifth and sixth years of His present ‘ation Bil. 


Majesty, for effecting greater uniformity of Practice 
in the Government of the several Prisons in England 
and Wales, and for appointing Inspectors of Prisons 
in Great Britain: And the same was read the first 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time upon 
Friday next; and to be printed. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 





Mercurii, 15° die Februarii ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi [V“ Regis, 1837. 
PRAYERS. 


the East India Company, was called in; an 
at the bar presented, pursuant to the directions of 
an Act of Parliament,—List, N° 63, specifying the 
Particulars of the Compensation proposed to be 
granted to certain reduced Servants of the East India 
Company in England, under an arrangement sanc- 
tioned by the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs 
of India, and laid before The Honourable the House 
of Commons on the 26th February 1835 :—And then 
he withdrew. 
Ordered, That tke said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 





Mr. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Emigration 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased (©) 


Mr. Fox Maule reported from the Committee to Poor Relief 
whom it was referred to consider of imposing a Rate (freland.) 


Grand Juries 
(Treland) Bill. 


Mr. Fox Maule presented a Bill for the more poor Relief 
effectual Relief of the destitute Poor in Zreland : And (Ireland) Bill 
No. 38. 


No. 39. 


M* Campbell, from the Court of Directors of East India 


d Company. 


Dep 


Fish 
Har 


Mid 
Cou 
Rail 


Mai 
and 
Roa 


Ous 
Drai 


Ove 
and 





Deptford Pier. 


Fishguard 
Harbour. 


Midland 
Counties 
Railway. 


Manchester 
and Oldham 
Roads. 


Ouse Banks 
Drainage. 


Over Inclosure 
and Drainage, 


Gorbals Police, 





7 Wit. IV. 


Mr. Robert Palmer reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Stand- 
ing Orders relative to Bills for making or improving 
Piers, had been complied with in the case of the 
Petition for the Deptford Pier Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to alter and amend the powers and provisions of an 
Act of the fifth year of the reign of His present 
Majesty, for making and maintaining a Pier and 
other Works at Deptford, in the County of Kent : 
And that Mr. Barnard and Mr. Angerstein do pre- 
pare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Robert Palmer reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Stand- 
ing Orders relative to Bills for making Piers, Ports 
or Harbours, had been complied with im the case of 
the Petition for the Fishguard Harbour Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for improving the Harbour and Port of Fishguard, 
otherwise Abergwain, in the county of Pembroke: 
And that Mr. Scourfteld and Sir John Owen do pre- 


pare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Robert Palmer reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; and to whom 
the Petitions of the North Midland Railway Com- 
pany ; and, John Williamson Clay and William Clay, 

squires, complaining of non-compliance with the 
Standing Orders, were referred ; That the Standing 
Orders relative to Bills for making Railways, had 
not been complied with in the case of the Petition 
for the Midland Counties Railway Bill, inasmuch 
as it appeared to the Committee that part of the 
subscription to the amount of One hundred and 
seventy thousand pounds is to be advanced by the 
Midland Counties Railway Company, who have no 
power to bind themselves, their heirs, executors, 
administrators or assigns for the payment of the 
money subscribed by them as required by the 
Standing Order on Railway Bills, N° 11, and that 
the remainder of the subscriptions of the other 
parties to the contract amounts to less than one half 
of the estimated expense of the proposed Railway. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Select 


Committee on Standing Orders. 


A Petition of Trustees for executing the Act for 
more effectually improving the Roads from Man- 
chester, through Oldham, to Austerlands, in the parish 
of Saddleworth, and from Oldham to Ashton-under- 
Lyne, and from Oldham to Rochdale, for leave to 
bring in a Bill for extending the term and altering 
and enlarging the powers and provisions of the said 
Act, for altermg the tolls and for making a new line 
or diversion of road, was presented, and read ; and 
a Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by 
Mr. Lees and Mr. John Fielden. 


A Petition of Commissioners acting in execution 
of the Acts relating to the New River or Cut from 
Eau Brink to King’s Lynn, in the county of Norfolk, 
called the Eau Brink Cut, for leave to bring in a 
Bill for amending and enlarging the powers and 
provisions of the said Acts, and for improving, sup- 
porting and repairing as well the banks on both 
sides of the River Ouze, as also the four several 
bridges over the same, was presented, and read ; 
and referred to the Select Committee on Petitions 
for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Proprietors of estates within the 
parish of Over, in the county of Cambridge, for leave 
to bring in a Bill for inclosing, dividing, allotting 
and embanking certain commons,commonabie lands, 
common fields, meadows, pastures, moors, wastes 
and waste grounds within the said parish, and for 
exonerating the same from Tithes, was presented, 
and read; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Petitions for Private Bills. : 


A Petition of Magistrates and Commissioners of 
Police for the barony of Gorbals, in the county of 
Vox. $2. 


15° Februariz. 





~ 
47 
Lanark, for leave to bring ina Bill for continuing 
the term and altering, enlarging and explaining the 
powers and provisions of an Act made in the fourth 
year of the reign of his late Majesty King George 
the Fourth, for regulating the Police of the Barony of 
Gorbals, in the County of Lanark, paving, cleansing 
and lighting the Streets, erecting a Bridewell, and 
other purposes relating thereto, was presented, and 
read ; and referred to the Select Committee on Pe- 
titions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Persons whose names are thereunto stirling Canal. 

subscribed, for leave to bring in a Bill for making 
and maintaining a navigable Cut or Canal irom the 
lands of Cozethill, in the parish of Saint Ninians, 
near to the town of Stirling, to the Forth and Clyde 
Canal, at or near to Loanhead, in the parish of 
Denny, with branches therefrom, was presented, and 
read ; and referred to the Select Committee on Pe- 
titions for Private Bills. 


Mr. Wilson Jones presented a Bill for more effec- Llanrwst. 
tually repairing, improving and maintaining certain Rods Bill. 
Roads leading to and from the Town of Llanrwst, 
in the County of Denbigh: And the same was read 
the first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Petition of the Zondon and Birmingham Rail- London and 
way Company, for leave to bring in a Bill for enabling Birmingham 
them to raise an additional sum of money, was pre- — 
sented, and read ; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


Mr. Wilks presented a Bill for making and main- Southwark and 
taining a Railway from the south end of Southwark ey 
Bridge, to join other Railways at or near the South ““"°7 ©" 
and West parts of the Metropolis: And the same 
was read the first time ; and ordered to be read a 
second time. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of the city of Worcester, Severn | 
for leave to bring in a Bill for improving, deepening Navigation 
and enlarging the River Severn from Shone Bench, 
in the parish of Elmore, in the county of Gloucester, 
to Gladder or Whitehouse Brook, near Stourport, in 
the county of Worcester, was presented, and read ; 
and referred to the Select Committee on Petitions 
for Private Bills. 


Sir John Bechett presented a Bill to enable the Leeds and 
North Midland Railway Company to alter the Line of Derby (North 
the said Railway; and also to make two Branches to weg we 
communicate with the same: Andthe same wasread 
the first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


Sir John Beckett presented a Bill to enable the Merthyr Tydfil 
Taff Vale Railway Company to alter the Line of and Cardiff 
the said Railway and the Act relating thereto, and to B¥!*y Bill 
make additional Branches: And the same was read 
the first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses Newcastle- 

of Newcastle-upon- Tyne, for leave to bring in a Bill ypon-Tyne 
: 5 3 ° mprovement. 

for altering, amending, enlarging and extending the 
powers of the several Acts for paving, cleansing, 
lighting and otherwise improving the said borough, 
was presented, and read ; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bilis. 


A Petition of Trustees for executing the Act for Biddulph 
making and maintaining a Road from the Tunstall ®o=4:- 
and Besley Turnpike Road at Gillow Hollow, in the 
Parish of Biddulph, in the County of Stafford, to 
Park-lane, communicating with the Congleton and 
Leek Turnpike Road, near Dane in Shaw Bridge, 
in the county or Chester, with a Branch to the said 
Tunstall and Besley Turnpike Road at Lick-lane, in 
the said Parish of Biddulph, for leave to bring in a 
Bill for continuing the term and powers of the said 
Act, was presented, and read; and a Bill was ordered 
to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. George Wil- 
braham and Sir Philip Egerton. 


A Petition of Magistrates and Town Council of Dundee : 
the royal burgh of Dundee, for leave to bring in a ew 
G4 Bill 








Moatrose 
Harbour. 


Paisley Police. 


Glasgow, 
Paisley, and 
Greenock 
Railway. 


Tower Hamlets 
Small Debts. 


Tondon and 
Blackwall 
Commercial 


Railway. 


Bristol and 
Gloucestex 
Railway. 


48 


Bill for altering, extending and amending the powers 
and provisions of an Act made in the sixth = of 
the reign of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, 
for opening certain new Streets in the Burgh of 
Dundee, and otherwise improving the said Burgh, 
and for making certain other Improvements within 
the said Burgh, was presented, and read; and re- 
ferred to the Select Committee on Petitions for 
Private Bills. 


A Petition of Magistrates and Town Council, Mer- 
chants, Ship-owners and Inhabitants of the royal 
burgh of Montrose, or connected in trade with the 
port thereof, for leave to bring in a Bill for more 
effectually maintaining, improving and extending the 
Harbour of Montrose, and for constructing and main- 
taining new and additional quays, wharfs, piers and 
other works connected therewith, was presented, and 
read; and referred to the Select Committee on Peti- 
tions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Commissioners of Police for the 
burgh and suburbs of Paisley, for leave to bring in 
a Bill for altering, amending and enlarging the powers 
and provisions of the several Acts relating to paving, 
lighting, cleansing and watching the Burgh of Pais- 
ley, and Suburbs thereof, for improving and forming 
certain Streets and erecting a Bridewell or Workhouse 
therein, and for regulating the Police and Markets, 
was presented, and read; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Glasgow, Paisley, 
Port Glasgow and Greenock, and Owners and Occu- 
piers of estates and property on the line of an in- 
tended Railway from or near Glasgow, by Paisley 
and Port Glasgow, to Greenock, for leave to bring 
m a Bill for making the said Railway, was presented, 
and read ; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Commissioners for executing the Act 
for the more easy and speedy recovery of Small 
Debts within the Tower Hamlets, for leave to bring 
ina Bill for altering, amending and enlarging the 
powers and provisions of the said Act, was presented, 
and read; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Petitions for Private Bills. 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee 


on Petitions for Private Bills; and to whom the 


Petition of the London and Blackwall Railway Com- 
pany, praying that they may be considered as joining 
in the Petition for the London and Blackwall Com- 
mercial Railway Bill, was referred; That the Stand- 
ing Orders relative to Bills for making Railways, 
had been complied with in the case of the Petition 
for the London and Blackwall Commercial Railway 
Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
enable the Commercial. Railway Company to extend 
the Line of such Railway, and to amend the Act 
relating thereto: And that Mr. Patrick Stewart and 
Mr. Thomas Duncombe do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Shaw Lefevre reported from the Select 
Committee on Petitions br Private Bills; and to 
whom the Petitions of James Cornock; and, Robert 
Canning, complaining of non-compliance with the 
Standing Orders, were referred; That the Standing 
Orders relative to Bills for making Railways, had not 
been complied with in the case of the Petition for 
the Bristol and Gloucester Railway Bill, inasmuch 
as the line of Railway appears by the Plan to ter- 
minate in the Parish of Moreton Vallance, and by 
the Section the final junction is shown to be in the 
Parish of Standish, and that in the intermediate 
space between those two points, it is intended that 
the Railway shall run parallel with the Cheltenham 
and Swindon line, on land which will be purchased 
by that Company in order to join on a level ; and 
it also appeared that a Parish Road in the Parish 
of Berkeley, described on the Plan is not marked 


15° Februariz. 








A, 1837. 


on the Section, and also that the height of the 
Railway over or under the surface of the ground 
is not marked in figures at the point where the 
Railway crosses two other Roads, in the Parisheso 
Cam and Kingswood, and at the junction of the 
Cheltenham and Great Western Railway; and also, 
that the Plan, Section and Book of Reference were 
not deposited at the office of the Clerk of the Peace 
for the County of Gloucester, but it appeared in 
evidence that the Plans had been deposited at 
another Office at Dursley, where the Clerk of the 
Peace has an office. 


Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders. 


A Petition of the London and Southampton Rail- London and 
way Company, for leave to bring in a Bill for ee 
making certain alterations in the line of the said“ " 
Railway, and for amending and enlarging the 
powers and provisions of the Act relating thereto, 
was presented, and read ; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


Lord Francis Egerton presented a Bill for making Marchester 
a Railway from Manchester to the Birmingham and a wor 
Derby Junction Railway, at or near Tamworth, with — 
Branches, to be called “ The Manchester South 
Union Railway :” And the same was read the first 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


Lord Francis Egerton presented a Bill for enabling Liverpool aud 
the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company to Manchester 
raise more Money, and for amending and enlarging B*!'"*) Bil 
the Powers and Provisions of the several Acts relat- 
ing to the said Railway: And the same was read 
the first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


Mr. Halford presented a Bill for the more easy and Hinckley 
—— recovering Small Debts within the Parish of Small Debts 
inckley, and other Places therein mentioned, in“ * 
the Counties of Leicester and Warwick: And the 
same was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time. 


A Petition of the Manchester and Liverpool Plate Manchester 
Glass Company, for leave to bring in a Bill for and Liverpoot 
enabling them to sue and be sued in the Names of eaten 
certain persons, was presented, and read; and re- 
ferred to the Select Committee on Petitions for 
Private Bills. 


Lord Stanley presented a Bill for making and Lancaster 
maintaining a Railway from the Town of Lancaster and Preston 
to the Town of Preston, in the County Palatine of B+i!y Bill 
Lancaster: And the same was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time. 

A Petition of John Stevenson, of Preston, praying 
that he may be heard, by himself, his counsel or 
agent, against the said Bill, was presented, and read; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Bankers, Merchants, Manufacturers, poseapnne 
Owners of property and Inhabitants of Preston, hag 
praying that the Manchester and Stafford Railway ° 
Bill may pass into a law, was presented, and read; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of the eastern district Fast London 
or portion of London, and neighbourhood thereof, for Gs. 
leave to bring ia a Bill for establishing a Company 
for better lighting the said District and Neighbour- 
hood with Gas, was presented, and read ; and re- 
ferred to the Select Committee on Petitions for Pri- 
vate Bills. 


Mr. Ewart presented a Bill to enable the Liver- Liverpool | 
pool Apothecaries Company to sue and be sued in Apothetwr:, 
the Name of the Chairman, Deputy Chairman, or of saasiti 
any one of the Directors of the said Company, and 
for other purposes: And the same was read the first 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


_ Alepsons’ Naturalization Bill was read the first Alepson' 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time. Nat. Bi 


Frank 


Fran 
Cast: 
Nat. 


Mick 
Cast 
Nat. 


Belfi 
Hart 


Stan 
Orde 


Whi 
Pick 
Rail 
Clar 


(Du 
Rail 


Sto 
Can 


Pic! 
Rai 


Ch 


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Frank 
Castelli’s 
Nat. Bill. 


Michael 
Castelli’s 
Nat, Bill. 


Belfast 
Harbour. 


Standing 
Orders; 


Whitby and 
Pickering 
Railway. 


Clarence 
(Durham) 
Railway. 


Stourbridge 
Canal. 


Whitby and 
Pickering 
Railway Bill, 


Church Rates, 


London and 


irmingham 
ailway, 





7 Wit. IV. 


Frank Castelli’s Naturalization Bill was read the 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


Michael Castelli’s Naturalization Bill was read 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


A Petition of the Corporation for preserving and 
improving the Port and Harbour of Belfast, com- 
plaining that the Standing Orders of the House, in 
respect to the application for the Belfast Harbour 
Bill, had not been complied with, and praying that 
they may be heard, by themselves, their agents and 
witnesses, in support of the allegations of their Peti- 
tion, was presented, and read ; and referred to the 
Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


Sir John Wrottesley reported from the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders relative to Private 
Bills, several Resolutions, which were read, as 
follow : 

1. That in the case of the Petition for the Whitby 
and Pickering Railway Bill, the Parties be permitted 
to proceed with their Bill. 

2. That in the case of the Petition for the Cla- 
rence (Durham) Railway Bill, the Parties be per- 
mitted to proceed with their Bill on proof to the 
Committee on the Bill, that Notices containing the 
List of Parishes, Townships and Places through 
which the Railroad passes, have been given in three 
successive Newspapers of the County of Durham. 

The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 


A Petition of Owners and Occupiers of certain 
iron works, coal works, lands, minerals and other 
property on the line of an intended Canal from the 
Stourbridge Navigation, at or near the Leys Iron- 
works, in the parish of Kingswinford, in the county | 
of Stafford, to a place called the Oak Farm Col- 
liery, in the same parish and county, for leave to 
bring in a Bill for making the said Cut or Canal, 
with a Branch therefrom, to the Sandhills, in the 
said parish of Kingswinford, was presented, and 
read ; and referred to the Select Committee on Pe- 
titions for Private Bills. 


The House was moved, That the Report in respect 


15° Februarii. 


49 


any further or additional powers, Clauses may be 
inserted in the Bill, compelling them, at their own 
expense, to keep a proper police office in every 
= as well during the entire formation of the 

ailway as during the period such Railway shall 
continue, was presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


Petitions of Thomas Taylor and others ;—and, Soap. 
John Gough and others ; praying for the repeal of 
the Duty on Soap,—were presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Chelmsford, praying Fire Insurances. 
for the repeal of the Duty on Fire Insurances, was 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of Parishioners of Newcastle, in the Tithes; ana, 
county of Limerick, praying for a reform of the Municipat 
Municipal Corporations, and for the abolition of hae 
Tithes in Jreland, was presented, and read; and ; 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Tithes’ Com. 
Return, to the latest period to which such Return mutation, 
can be furnished, by the Tithe Commissioners of 
England and Wales, of the Negociations which 
have taken place between Tithe-owners and Land- 
owners for a Voluntary Commutation of Tithes into 
a Rent-charge ; showing the average Sum received, 
in the Parishes in question, for Tithes during the 
Seven Years preceding 31st December 1835, the 
demands of Increase or Decrease made, and the 
Issue of the Negociations, so far as they have pro- 
ceeded. 


A Petition of Land-owners in the county of Kent; tithes’ Com 
praying the House to revise the Act for the Commu- mutation Act. 
tation of Tithes, in order that before the law shall 
become compulsory, it may be enacted, that a bonus 
be given to the land-owners as a remuneration for 
the risk imposed on them ; that the occupiers under 
existing leases may, as heretofore, be alone respon- 
sible for the payment of the rent-charge ; that land 
ceasing to be in tillage, may no longer be liable as 





to the Petition for the Whitby and Pickering Rail- | 
way Bill, which was this day made from the Select | 
Committee on Standing Orders relative to Private | 
Bills, might be read; and the same being read ; | 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill | 
to enlarge and amend the powers and provisions of 
an Act relating to the Whitby and Pickering Rail- | 
way, in the North Riding of the County of York: 
And’ that Mr. William Duncombe and Mr. Cayley 


do prepare, and bring it m. 


| 


| sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
. : at | Table. 

— Great Yarmouth ;— Whitburn ; —Salisbury ; — | — 
Hamilton;—- Durhamand Northumberland ;—Arun-) « 


Petitions from Beaminster ;— Wincanton ;—Risca; 


del ;— Deptford; — Hare Court, Aldersgate-street, 
London; — Wilton; — Blaenavon district, Mon- 
mouth; — Bathgate; — Truro; — Maygate, Dun- 
fermline;— Gateshead ;— Kettering ;— Nuneaton ;— 
Swalwell ;— Rattray ;— Smethwick ;—Great Mar- 
low ;—Abergavenny ;— and, Milford, Hants; pray- 
ing for the abolition of Church Rates,—were pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 

Petitions from Beauchamp Roding ; — Beech- 
ing Stoke ;—Lea, Wilts ;—and, Moreton; praying 
that Church Rates may not be abolished,—were also 


age and read ; and ordered to lie upon the 
able. 


A Petition of Members of the Committee of the 
Association formed for the protection of property in 
Rugby, praying that when the London and Bir- 


mingham Railway Company apply to the House for 
Vor. 92, 


arable land to the payment of tithes; and that the 
value of the tithe shall be estimated only from the 
produce of the corn, &amp;c. to be obtained by the 
ordinary mode of farming, and not from what ma 
have been produced by the outlay of a large an, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of Burgesses and Inhabitant House- Municipal 
holders of Sunderland ; praying that the Municipal — 
Corporations Bill may pass into a law, was pre- 


A Petition of John Gribble, of Barnstaple ; pray- 
ing that in the said Bill it may be enacted, that no 
Justice for any borough shall be eligible for the 
| office of Mayor, Alderman or Councilman, and that 
any Justice interfering in the election of a Town 
Councilman directly or indirectly, shall be subject 
to such pains and penalties as the House shall see 
fit, was also presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 

A Petition of Francis Agar and James George 
Towler, both of that part of the parish of Clewer, 
within the borough of New Windsor, Churchwarden 
and Overseer of the said parish, and Inhabitants of 
| that part of the said et situate without the ambit 

of the said borough, praying that Clauses may be 
introduced into the said Bill, declaring the rights 
and liabilities of parishes partly situate within, and 
partly without any city, town or borough subject to 
the Municipal Corporations Act, was also presented 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

H A Petition 





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Attornies’ 
Certificates. 


George Landels. 


Poor Law Act, 


Werneth and 
Littleborough 
Road. 


Annan 
Fisheries, 


Roxburgh 
Roads and 
Mertun Bridge. 


Darlaston 
and Shelton 
Road. 


Dundalk and 
Dunleer Road. 


50 15° Februari. 


A Petition of Attornies and Solicitors of His 
Majesty’s Courts at Westminster, practising in the 
county of Somerset, praying, for the repeal of the 
Duty on their annual Certificates, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of George Landels, late a Lieutenant in 
His Majesty’s 22d regiment of Foot, complaining of 
having been dismissed the Service by sentence of 
a Court Martial; stating the particulars of his 
case, and praying for the appointment of a Select 
Committee to inquire into the circumstances, was 


presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants, being Rate-payers, 
Mechanics, and other Labourers in Romney lron- 
works, in the counties of Glamorgan and Monmouth, 
praying for the repeal of the Poor Law Act, was 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of Trustees for executing the Act for 
improving and maintaining the Road from Werneth 
to Littleborough, and other Roads communicating 
therewith in the county of Lancaster, for leave to 
bring in a Bill for enlarging and amending the 
powers and provisions of the said Act, and for dis- 
charging the said Trustees from the necessity of 
making and completing and maintaining in _ as 
a Turnpike Road, a certain part of the line of Roads 
comprised in the said Act, was presented, and read ; 
and a Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, 
by Mr. Bootle Wilbraham and Lord Francis Egerton. 


A Petition of Proprietors of Salmon Fishings in 
the River Annan, in the county of Dumfries, and in 
the Rivers and Streams running into the same, and 
also within the mouth or entrance of the said River, 
and the shores or sea-coast adjoming to the same, 
for leave to bring in a Bill for the more effectual 
preservation and increase of the breed of Salmon, 
and for better regulating the Fisheries im the said 
River, and in the Rivers and Streams running into 
the same, was presented, and read ; and referred to 
the Select Committee on Petitions for Private 


Bills. 


A Petition of Trustees for executing the Act for 
more effectually repairing and maintaining certain 
Roads in the County of Roxburgh, and other Roads 
connected therewith, leading into the Counties of 
Berwick, Northumberland and Durham, and Pro- 
prietors of lands in the said counties, or some of 
them, and of the Subscribers for the erection of the 
Bridge hereinafter mentioned, for leave to bring in 
a Bill for continuing the term, and altering and 
enlarging the powers and provisions of the said Act, 
for making Turnpike, widening, diverting and im- 
proving the Highway from Eccles to Saint Boswell’s 
Green, and for building a Bridge over the River 
Tweed, at or near the place where the said highway 
crosses the said river, was presented, and read ; and 
referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for 
Private Bills. 


A Petition of Trustees for executing the Act for 
improving the Roads from Darlaston Bridge, through, 
Newcastle-under-Lyme, to Butt-lane and Linley-lane, 
and from the Black Lion to Shelton Wharf, all in 
the county of Stafford, for leave to bring in a Bill 
for extending the term, and amending and enlarging 
the powers and provisions of the said Act, and for 
making a new Branch of Road, was presented, and 
read; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in 
accordingly, by Mr. Edward Buller and Sir John 
Wrottesley. 


A Petition of Trustees for executing the Act for 
amending the Road from Dundalk to Dunleer, in 
the county of Louth, for leave to bring in a Bill for 
continuing the term and powers of the said Act, was 
presented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 








A. 1837. 


brought in accordingly, by Mr. Bellew and Mr. An- 
thony Lefroy. 


Mr. Mackinnon presented a Bill to amend the Patents for 
Practice relating to Letters Patent for Inventions, Inventions Bill, 
No. 40. 


and for the better Encouragement of the Arts and 
Manufactures: And the same was read the first 
time; and ordered to be read a second time upon 
Wednesday, the ist day of March next; and to be 
printed. 


A Petition of Innkeepers and Publicans, licensed Innkeepers. 


victuallers of several towns, boroughs and parishes in 
the county of Salop, praying for a revision and con- 
solidation of all the Acts of Parliament which govern 
and regulate Innkeepers and Publicans, the repeal of 
the tax on innkeepers’ servants, the repeal of the Act 
that prevents one licensed victualler supplying ano- 
ther with spirits without a special license for that 
purpose, and such an alteration of the Beer Act as 
will lead to the gradual abolition of Beer-houses, 
and stop the increase of licenses, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Burgesses of Hythe, in the county Hythe 


of Kent, and of the several Persons entitled to be CotPoration. 


enrolled on the Burgess Roll of the said borough, 
complaining of the decision of the Mayor of the 
said borough, and James Robertson, one of the as- 
sessors under the Municipal Corporations Act, in 
regard to expunging the names of fifteen persons 
from the Burgess List of the said borough; and 
stating, that in order to rectify such decision, an ap- 


plication was made to the Court of King’s Bench 


in Michaelmas Term last for a mandamus, calling 
on the Mayor and assessors of the said borough to 
place on the Burgess List of the said borough the 
names of the said fifteen persons before mentioned, 
but the Court refused to grant a rule, on the ground 
that the Mayor, who revised the Burgess List, was 
not then in office, although it was stated by counsel 
to the Court, that the said Mayor had been re- 
elected to the said office on the 9th day of Novem- 
ber last, and that in consequence of the decision 
given by the Court of King’s Bench with respect to 
the above-mentioned application, the Petitioners 
consider that the powers vested in mayors and as- 
sessors under the Municipal Corporations Act are 
arbitrary and vexatious in the extreme, and such as 
the Petitioners submit ought not to be given to any 
municipal officers, and praying that the names of 
the said fifteen persons may be inserted on the Bur- 
gess Roll of the said borough, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
Ordered, That the Petition be printed. 


A Petition of Sir George Chetwynd, of Gréndon Tamworth 


Hall, in the county of Warwick, Baronet, owner and te 
ALLWAYe 


proprietor of property proposed to be taken in mak- 
ing the Railway hereinafter mentioned, complaining 
that the Standing Orders of the House in respect to 
the application for the Tamworth and Rugby Rail- 
way Bill, had not been complied with, and praying 
that he may ke heard, by himself, his agents and wit- 
nesses, in support of the allegations of his Petition, 
was presented, and read; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself into 
a Committee upon the Municipal Corporations Bill. 


(In the Committee.) 
Bill read 1°; to be read 2°, paragraph by para- 
graph. 
Preamble postponed. 
Causes, N* 1 to N°6, amended and agreed to. 
Ciavse, N°7 (Corporations not dissolved by neg- 
lect to make new Burgess Roll) read. 
Amendment proposed: P. 3. 1. 40. After “ Of- 
“ fice” to insert “then existing in their number.” 
Amendment, 





Municipal 
Corporations 
Bill. 





Tn 


for 


Re, 
Vor 








7 Wit. IV. 


Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 
Criause, N° 7, agreed to. 
Cravusss, N® 8 and 9, agreed to. 
Cravuse, N° 10 (Mayor or Councillor to convene 
a Meeting of the Council to supply vacancies in the 
office of Alderman or Mayor)——read. ; 
Motion made, and Question put, That the said 
Clause be postponed ; 
The Committee divided. 


15° Februariz. 


51 


day of April One thousand eight hundred and Fifty- 
four, might be read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
amend the said Act, so far as the same relates to 
the granting of Compensations, Superannuations or 
Allowances to Officers who may be affected by the 
discontinuance of the said Company’s Trade: And 
that Mr. Robinson and Mr. George Frederick Young 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


Tellers for the f Sir Frederick Pollock, 
Ayes, Sir William Follett : 


The House was moved, That the Act 5 and 6 Municipal 
Will. 4, c. 76, to provide for the Regulation of Muni- Offices Decla- 


116. 


ration Bill, 


Imprisonment 
for Debt Bill. 


Registration of 


Tellers for theJ Mr. Attorney General, } gs 
Noes, Mr. Ward: ‘ 

Cuauses, N°10 to N° 12, amended, and agreed to. 

CrauseE, N° 13, agreed to. 

Ciauses, N14 and 15,amended, and agreed to. 

Cravusss, N16 and 17, agreed to. 

Cravusz, N° 18, amended, and agreed to. 

Criavuse, N° 19, agreed to. 

Crause, N° 20, amended, and agreed to. 

New CLAusEs. 

Cuiausss (A.), (B.), (C.), and (D.), added. 

Cravsz(E.) (Providing for the support of Hospi- 
tals for poor Freemen, their Widows and Daughters 
in all cases where such have been maintained out of 
the Funds of any Corporation, but where no spe- 
cific endowment has been mede)——brought up, 


and read the first time, and second time. 
Question put, That the Clause stand part of the 


cipal Corporations in England and Wales, might be 
read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for the relief of Persons elected to Municipal Offices 
under the said Act, and entertaining conscientious 
objections to subscribe the Declaration therein men- 
tioned: And that Mr. Baines and Dr. Lushington do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Court of 
Return of the Number of Cases which have been Chaucery. 


heard before the Master of the Rolls and the Vice- 
Chancellor upon exceptions taken to the Master’s 
Report, between the 31st December 1831, and the 
31st December 1836; distinguishing the Number of 
cases in which such Exceptions have been wholl 
over-ruled, and the Number of cases in’which on | 
Exceptions have been allowed wholly or in part, or 
in which it has been referred back to the Master to 
review his Report. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Bankrupt 


Bill - Return of the Number of Bankrupt Petitions heard Petitions. 
Win Cinentsiites dialed: by the Vice-Chancellor in each of the Five years 
Tellers for the f Mr. Hodgson Hinde, 7 preceding the establishment of the Court of Review : 

Ayes Mr. Maclean: f 48. |—Of the Number of Issues tried before any Judge 
Tellers for the ( Mr. Robert Steuart, of the Court of Review :—Of the Number of Cases 
Noes, Mr. Solicitor General: } 91. | in each year in which Witnesses have been examined 


Ciause (F.) (Providing that if Elections for the 
Council do not take place on the day prescribed, 
still the Election shall be valid) brought up, and 
read the first time. 

Cxrausg, by leave, withdrawn. 

CrauseE (To enable Boroughs to raise the Rate 
for which Interest is to be paid) brought up, 
and read the first time. 

Cxausg, by leave, withdrawn. 

Preamble agreed to. 


Bill, as amended, to be reported. 








Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair, and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon Fri- 
day next. 





The Imprisonment for Debt Bill was, according 
to Order, read a second time ; and committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Wednesday, the 
1st day of March next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 


vivd voce before the Court of Review :—And of the 
Number of Bankrupt Petitions heard in the Court 
of Review in each year since its establishment. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Privy Council 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 4PP* 


to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return of the Number of Appeals and Pe- 
titions heard before the Privy Council in each of the 
Five years preceding the establishment of the Ju- 
dicial Committee, and of the Number of Appeals 
and Petitions (other than Petitions with respect to 
Patents) heard before the JudicialCommittee in each 
year since its establishment :—And of the days on 
which the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council 
has sat in each year since its establishment, for the 
hearing of Appeals and Petitions (other than Peti- 
tions respecting Patents); distinguishing what Mem- 
bers of the Judicial Committee were present at each 
such sitting, and stating the Names or Titles of the 
Appeals and Petitions heard or in course of hearing 
at each of such sittings. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Voters Bill, reading of the Registration of Voters Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time| The House was moved, That the Act 5 and 6 
upon Friday next. Will. 4, c. 71, for appointing Commissioners to con- 
Vagrants The V tinue the Inquiries concerning Charities in England 
(Scotland and B+] wi  agrants (Scotland and Ireland) Removal | and Wales, until the First day of March One thou- 
Ireland) ull was, according to Order, read a second time ; | sand eight hundred and Thirty-seven, might be read ; 
Removal Bill, and committed to a Committee of the whole House, and the same being read ; 
for Wednesday, the 1st day of March next. Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
Supply, | alien . to continue the powers of the Commissioners: And 
PP nn - he aig Seng 00k, Cor Se See that Mr. Solicitor General and Mr. Fox Maule do 
? * © = &gt; be 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, prepare, and bring it in. 
resolve itself into the said Committee. The House was moved, That the Act 7 Geo. 4, 
a c. 63, to provide for er improving and re- 
Offcers Bill The House was moved, That the Act 3 and 4 | building Shire Halls, County Halls and other Build- 


Will. 4, c. 85, for effecting an arrangement with the 

East India Company, and for the better government 

= ale Indian Territories, till the Thirtieth 
OL, ¢ &gt; 





ings for holding the Assizes and Grand Sessions, 
and also Judges’ Lodgings, throughout England and 
Wales, might be read; and the same being read ; 

H 2 Ordered, 





SAS a 


52 15°—-16° Februari. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to amend and explain the said Act: And that Mr. 
Solicitor General and Mr. Attorney General do pre- 
pare, and bring it in. 


East India Mr. Robinson presented a Bill for amending an 
Officers Bill. Act of His present Majesty, intituled, “ An Act for 
No. 43. 


effecting an Arrangement with the East India Com- 
pany, and for the better government of His Majesty’s 
Indian Territories, till the Thirtieth day of April One 
thousand eight hundred and Fifty-four,” so far as 
the same relates to the granting of Compensations, 
Superannuations or Allowances to Officers who may 
be affected by the discontinuance of the said Com- 
pany’s Trade: And the same was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Friday, 
the 24th day of this instant February; and to be 
printed. 


Charities Com- 
mission Bill, 


No. 41. 


Mr. Solicitor General presented a Bill to continue, 
for a limited time, the powers of the Commissioners 
for inquiring concerning Charities in England and 
Wales: And the same was read the first time; and 
ordered to be read a second time upon Monday next; 
and to be printed. 


Shire Halls Bill. Mr. Solicitor General presented a Bill to explain 
No.42. and amend an Act of the seventh year of his late 
Majesty King George the Fourth, to provide for 
improving and re-building Shire Halls, County Halls 
and other Buildings for holding the Assizes and 
Grand Sessions, and also Judges’ Lodgings, through- 
out England and Wales: And the same was read the 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time 
upon Monday next; and to be printed. 


Charlton Kings 
and Marsworth 
Railway. 


A Petition of Charles Lawrence, of Cirencester, 
complaining that the Standing Orders of the House 
in respect to the application for the Charlton Kings 
and Marsworth Railway Bill, had not been complied 
with ; and praying that he may be heard, by him- 
self, his agents and witnesses, against the same, was 
presented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


Herring Ordered, That the Report of the Commissioners 
Fishery. of the Herring Fishery, which was presented upon 
No.44. Monday last,'be printed. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 


Jovis, 16° die Februarii ; 


Anno 7° Willielmi IV“ Regis, 1837. 





PRAYERS. 


Pancras R. Grane, Clerk to the Commissioners of the 
Local Acts. Skinners’ Estate, Saint Pancras, was called 
in; and at the bar presented,—Further Returns to 
an Order, dated the 3d day of this instant February, 
for Returns relating to Paving, Cleansing, Lighting, 
&amp;e. the Parish of Saint Pancras (so far as relates 
to the Bedford Estate and the Skinners’ Estate) :— 
And then he withdrew. 
Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 


Table. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, that a Return 
of the Amount of the several Fees demanded from 
a Member on taking his Seat in this House, at a 
General Election, and when returned upon a new 
Writ upon a vacancy, by what authority charged, 
and to what purposes applied, was upon the Table. 


Fees paid by 
Members. 


Chester and 
Birkenhead 
Railway Bill. 


Mr. Shaw Lefevre reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Stand- 
ing Orders relative to Bills for making Railways, 
had been complied with in the case of the Petition 
for the Chester and Birkenhead Railway Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for making a Railway from Chester to Birkenhead: 











A. 1837. 


And that Mr. George Wilbraham and Mr. Jervis do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Shaw Lefevre reported from the Select Com- Edinburgh 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Stand- Pelice- 
ing Orders relative to Bills for improving Cities and 
Towns, had been complied with in the case of the 
Petition for the Edinburgh Police Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for continuing, altering and amending certain Acts 
for regulating the Police of the City of Edinburgh, 
and the adjoining Districts, and for other purposes 
relating thereto: And that Mr. Attorney General 
and the Lord Advocate do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Shaw Lefevre presented a Bill to enable the London and 
Commercial Railway Company to extend the Line @lackwall | 
of such Railway, and to amend the Act relating Salone | Bill. 
thereto: And the same was read the first time; and 


ordered to be read a second time. 


A Petition of the London and Greenwich Railway Londen and 
Company, for leave to bring in a Bill for enabling — 
: ailway. 
them to raise a further sum of money to complete 
the said “oy was presented, and read; and re- 
ferred to the Select Committee on Petitions for 
Private Bills. 


Mr. William Duncombe presented a Bill to enlarge Whitby and 
and amend the Powers and Provisions of an Act re- i ' 

: ‘ : : é ailway Bill. 
lating to the Whitby and Pickering Railway, in the 
North Riding of the County of York: And the same 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time. 


A Petition of the Durham and Sunderland Rail- Durham and 
way Company, for leave to bring in a Bill for vary- — 
ing the Line of the said Railway, for enabling the ” 
said Company to raise a further sum of money, and 
for altering and amending the powers and provisions 
of the Act for making the said Railway, was pre- 
sented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of the Right honourable Edward Ear] Clun Forest 


of Powis, lord of the honor or lordship of Clun, in Melosure Bill 


the county of Salop, and of Proprietors of estates 
within the said honor or lordship, for leave to bring 
in a Bill for inclosing and dividing certain commons 
or waste lands within the said honor or lordship, 
was presented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to 
be brought in accordingly, by Mr. Robert Clive and 
the Earl of Darlington. 


A Petition of the Leicester and Swannington Leicester and 
Railway Company, for leave to bring in a Bill for Swannington 
enabling them to raise a further sum of money, was seated 
presented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of the Most honourable Brownlow, Stamford — 
Marquis of Exeter, for leave to bring in a Bill for Wate" 
better supplying the town and borough of Stamford 
with Water, was presented, and read; and referred 


to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private 
Bills. 


Captain Gordon presented a Bill for making and Aberdeen 
maintaining certain Roads in the County of Aber- Rds Bill. 
deen: And the same was read the first time ; and 
ordered to be read a second time. 


A Petition of Owners of estates situate in the Wisbech Gaol 
Isle of Ely, in the county of Cambridge, and in sé a 
the several counties of Norfolk and Lincoln, and _ 
also of Freeholders and other Inhabitants therein, 
for leave to bring in a Bill for building a new 
Gaol and House of Correction and a new Sessions 
House or Court House for the said Isle of Ely, and 
for the several divisions within the same, and for 

certain 


Ca 


Gi 


Say 








Campsie Canal. 


Glasgow Road. 


Stirlingshire 
Roads and 
Bridge. 


Sevenuaks and 
Wovdsgate 
ads, 


Dublin Roads. 


Ardrossan and 
Johnstone 
Railway. 


Loanhead and 
Stirling Canal. 


7 Wit. IV. 


certain parts of the adjoining counties of Norfolk 
and Lincoln, was presented, and read ; and referred 
to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private 
Bills. 


A Petition of Owners and Tenants of lands and | 


other heritages, and Proprietors and Tenants of ma- 
nufactories and others, inhabitants of the parishes 
of Campsie, in the county of Stirling, and of Cadder, 
in the county of Zanark, and Merchants of the city 
of Glasgow, for leave to bring in a Bill for making 
a navigable Cut or Canal from the Forth and Clyde 
Canal, at or near to or upon the lands of Easter 
Cadder to Campsie alum-works, in the said county 
of Lanark, was presented, and read ; and referred 
to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private 
Bills. 


A Petition of Vice-Admiral the Honourable Charles 
Fleming, one of the trustees of the Turnpike Road 
leading from Glasgow to Redburn Bridge by Cum- 
bernauld, and also of Alexander Campbell, clerk to 
the said Trustees, for leave to bring in a Bill for 
making and maintaining a Road from the south 
side of the Road leading from Glasgow to Carntyne, 
to a point at or near to the east end of Blackfriars- 
street, or Regent-street, or Regent-place, in the said 
city of Glasgow, was presented, and read; and re- 
ferred to Mr. Oswald and the West Scotland List. 


A Petition of Trustees of Turnpike Roads in the 
counties of Stirling, Dumbarton, Lanark and Perth, 
Trustees for Statute Labour in the said counties, 
and Proprietors and Inhabitants of lands in the said 
counties, for leave to bring in a Bill for continuing 
the term, and altering and enlarging the powers and 
provisions of the several Acts “ for more effectually 
repairing several Roads in the Counties of Stirling, 
Dumbarton, Lanark and Perth,” and for amending, 
widening, repairing and maintaining, as Turnpike, 
several Roads in the said county of Stirling, and to 
erect and maintain a Bridge over or across Gona- 
chan Glen and Gonachan Burn, was presented, and 
read ; and referred to the Select Committee on Pe- 
titions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Trustees for executing the Act for 
repairing the Roads from Sevenoaks Common to 
Woodsgate, Tonbridge Wells, and Kipping’s Cross, 
and from Tonbridge Wells to Woodsgate, in the 
County of Kent, for leave to bring ina Bill for 
altering and amending the powers of the said Act, 
and for increasing or altering the Tolls, was pre- 
sented, and read; and referred to Mr. Law Hodges 
and the Kent List. 


A Petition of Land-owners of the county of Dub- 
lin, and of the county of the city of Dublin, for 
leave to bring ina Bill for consolidating and amend- 
ing so much and such part or parts of several Acts 
of Parliament as relate to the making, amending, 
widening, improving and keeping in repair the public 
Roads within the said county of the city and county 
of Dublin, was presented, and read ; and a Bill was 
ordered to be brought in accordingly, by Mr. Evans 
and Mr. Christopher Fitzsimon. 


A Petition of the Company of Proprietors of the 
Glasgow, Paisley and Ardrossan Canal, and Pro- 
prietors and Shareholders of the Railway herein- 
after mentioned, for leave to bring in a Bill for 
altering, amending and enlarging the powers and 
provisions of the Act for enabling the said Company 
to make a Railway from Johnstone, in the county of 
Renfrew to Ardrossan, in the county of Ayr, and 
for varying and altering the line of the said Rail- 
way, at or near Saltcouts, was presented, and read ; 
and referred to the Select Committee on Petitions 
for Private Bills. 


A Petition of the Company of Proprietors of the 
Forth and Clyde Navigation, for leave to bring in a 
Bill for making and maintaining a Cut or Canal 

Von, 92. 


16° Februarae. 





53 
from the village of Loanhead, in the parish of Denny, 
and county of Stirling, to the village of Denny, in 
the said parish of Denny, and several branch Cuts 
or Canals to be connected therewith, was presented, 


and read ; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Commissioners for improving the Hartlepool Pier. 


pier and port of Hartlepool, in the county of Dur- 
ham, for leave to bring in a Bill for amending the 
several Acts for improving the said Pier and Port, 
for enabling the Petitioners to raise a further sum 
of Money, and for increasing or altering the Tolls, 
was presented, and read; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Trustees for executing the Act for Leeds and 


repairing the Road from Leeds to Otley, in the west Otley Road. 


riding of the county of York, for leave to bring in a 
Bill for repealing the said Act, and for granting 
further and additional powers in lieu thereof, for in- 
creasing the Tolls, and for making and maintaining 
a diversion or new line of Road, was presented, and 
read ; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in ac- 
cordingly, by Sir John Beckett and Mr. Stuart 
Wortley. 


A Petition of Proprietors of estates within the Ashby and Hel 


parishes of Ashby and Hellington, in the county of lington Inclo- 
sure Bill. 


Norfolk, for leave to bring in a Bill for dividing, 
allotting and inclosing certain open Fields, Com- 
mons and uninclosed Lands and waste Grounds, 
within the said parishes, was presented, and read ; 
and a Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, 
by Mr. Wodehouse and Sir William Browne Folkes. 


A Petition of Trustees for executing the Acts for Merthyr Tydfil 


more effectually repairing the Road from the Neath ®o4s- 


Turnpike Road at or near Abernant, through Mer- 
thyr Tidfil, in the county of Glamorgan, to join 
the Turnpike Road within the Abergavenny District, 
near Rhydyblew House, in the county of Monmouth, 
for leave to bring in a Bill for continuing the term, 
and altering and enlarging the powers of the said 
Acts, for enabling the said Trustees to raise a 
further sum of money, and for making a new line, 
or branch of Road, was presented, and read; anda 
Bill was ordered to be brought in accordingly, by 
Mr. Guest and Colonel Wood. 


A Petition of Henry Norwood Trye, of Leck- Chariton Kings, 
and Marsworth 
Railway. 


hampton Court, in the county of Gloucester, Esquire, 
complaining that the Standing Orders of the i 

in respect to the application for the Charlton King’s 
and Marsworth Railway Bill, had not been complied 
with, and praying that he may be heard, by himself, 
his agents and witnesses, against the same, was 
presented, and read; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of the South London Market Com- St. George's 
Southwark) 
Market. 


pany, for leave to bring in a Bill to alter and amend ¢ 
the powers and provisions of an Act passed in the 
fourth year of the reign of His present Majesty, 
for erecting, establishing and maintaining a Market 
in the Parish of Saint George-the-Martyr, in the 
Borough of Southwark, in the County of Surrey, 
was presented, and read ; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Trustees for executing an Act Ellend Bridge 
passed in the fifty-fifth year of the reign of King #4 Sa 
ad. 


George the Third, for making and maintaining a 
Road from Elland Bridge, in the Parish of Halifaz, 
to join the Dewsbury and Elland Turnpike Road, at 
or near to a certain Obelisk belonging to Sir George 
Armytage, Baronet, in the parish of Dewsbury, all 
in the West Riding of the county of York, for leave 
to bring in a Bill to enlarge the term and powers 
of the said recited Act, and to increase the tolls, was 
presented, and read; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


H 3 A Petition 





a 





Sea c 


Hf 


Mansergh, &amp;e. 
Inclosure. 


Birmingham, 
Bristol, and 
Thames Junc- 
tion Railway, 


Shropshire and 
North Wales 
Assurance 
Company. 


Shrewsbury 
and Shropshire 
Coal Company. 


Nottingham 
Inclosure and 
Improvement. 


National 
Endowment 
and Assurance 
Society. 


Biddulph 
Roads Bill. 


Belfast and 
Lisburn Road. 


Antrim and 
Coleraine Road. 


Kilmarnock 
and Troon 
Railway. 


54. 16° Februari. 


A Petition of Owners of messuages, lands and 
tenements within the several townships or divisions 
of Mansergh, Lupton, Old Hutton, and Holme Scales, 
and New Hutton, in the parishes of Kirkby Lons- 
dale, Burton and Kirkby-in-Kendal, in the county 
of Westmorland, for leave to bring in a Bill for 
dividing, inclosing and allotting several commons, 
mosses, waste lands and other commonable lands 
within the said townships or divisions, was pre- 
sented, and read; and a Bill was ordered to be 
brought in accordingly, by Lord Viscount Lowther 
and Colonel Lowther. 


A Petition of the Birmingham, Bristol and Thames 
Junction Railway Company, for leave to bring ina 
Bill for extending the line of the said Railway, and 
for altering, amending and enlarging the powers 
and provisions of the Act for making the same, was 
presented, and read; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Members or Proprietors of the 
Shropshire and North Wales Assurance Company, 
for leave to bring in a Bill for enabling them to sue 
and be sued in the name of some one person, was 
presented, and read ; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Members or Proprietors of the 
Shrewsbury and Shropshire Coal Company, for leave 
to bring in a Bill for enabling them to sue and be 
sued in the name of some one person, was presented, 
and read ; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Petitions for Private Bills. 

A Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen and Bur- 
gesses of the town of Nottingham, for leave to bring 
in a Bill for inclosing and improving certain meadows 
within the parish of Saint Mary, in the town of 
Nottingham, and for making communications be- 
tween the said meadows and the town of Vottingham, 
by means of a Bridge to be erected over the Notting- 
ham Canal, was presented, and read ; and referred 
to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private 


Bills. 


A Petition of Subscribers to the Company called 
or known by the name of “The National Endowment 
and Assurance Society,” for leave to bring in a Bill 
for enabling them to sue and be sued in the name 
of any one of the Directors, or of the Secretary of the 
said Society, was presented, and read ; and referred 
to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


Mr. George Wilbraham presented a Bill for better 
maintaining the Road from Gillow Hollow, in the 
parish of Biddulph, in the County of Stafford, to 
the Congleton and and Leek Turnpike Road at Park- 
lane, in the Township of Congleton, in the County of 
Chester, with the Road therefrom at Lich-lane, 
in the said Parish of Biddulph: And the same 
was read the first time ; and ordered to be read a 
second time. 


A Petition of Members of the Grand Jury of 

the county of Antrim, assembled at the Summer 
y ’ 

Assizes 1836, and a Committee appointed for the 
purposes hereinafter mentioned, for leave to bring 
ina Bill for widening, diverting and improving the 
several Roads leading from Belfast to Lisburn, was 
presented, and read ; and referred to Mr. Kirk and 
the Ulster List. 


A Petition of Members of the Grand Jury of the 
county of Antrim, assembled at the summer Assizes, 
1836, for leave to bring in a Bill for making a new 
line of road from Antrim to Coleraine, was presented, 
and read ; and referred to Mr. Kirk and the Ulster 
List. 


A Petition of the Company of Proprietors of the 
Kilmarnock and Troon Railway, for leave to bring 
in a Bill for making certain alterations in the line 
of the said Railway, and for altering and amending 














A. 1837. 


the Act relating thereto, was presented, and read ; 
and referred to the Select Committee on Petitions 
for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Members or Directors of the Wor- Norwich Yarn 
wich Yarn Company, for leave to bring in a Bill for Co™P#2y. 
enabling them to sue and be sued in the name of 
some one officer of the said Company, was presented, 
and read ; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of the city of Bristol Bristol 
and county of the same city, or resident within the Cemetery. 
immediate neighbourhood thereof, for leave to bring 
in a Bill for establishing a General Cemetery in an 
open situation near the said city, for the interment 
of the dead, was presented, pore read ; and referred 
. the Select Committee on Petitions for Private 

ills. 


A Petition of Magistrates and Town Council of Dundee 
the royal burgh of Dundee, for leave to bring in a Waterworks. 
Bill for better supplying the said burgh and suburbs 
with Water, was presented, and tee ; and referred 


to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private 
Bills. 


A Petition of Owners and Proprietors of property, Bath and 
and other Persons, on or near the line of an in- — 
tended Railway from the Great Western Railway, iit 
in the city of Bath, and also in the parish of Bath- 
ampton, in the county of Somerset, to Weymouth, in 
the county of Dorset, for leave to bring in a Bill 
for making the said Railway, was presented, and 
read; and referred to the Select Committee on Pe- 
titions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Owners of estates and property upon Bolton and 
or near the line of an intended Railway from Bolton Preston Rail- 
to Preston, in the county palatine of Lancaster, or “*™ 
Inhabitants of the said towns of Bolton or Preston, 
for leave to bring in a Bill for making the said 
Railway, was presented, and read; and referred 
to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private 
Bills. 


A Petition of several Persons whose names are North Metropo- 
thereunto subscribed, for leave to bring in a Bill for litan Cometery. 
establishing a General Cemetery in an open situation 
on the northern side of the adh, was pre- 
sented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of the Corporation for preserving and Belfast Harbour 
improving the Port and Harbour of Belfast, for leave (No. 2) 
to bring in a Bill for altering, extending, explaining 
and amending the powers and provisions of an Act 
passed in the first and second years of the reign of 
His present Majesty, for the further improvement 
of the Port and Harbour of Belfast, in Ireland, and 
for other purposes, and for making further improve- 
ments in the said Port and Harbour, was presented, 
and read ; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of the Lord Provost, Magistrates and Leith and 
Council of the city of Edinburgh, for leave to bring ee bi 
in a Bill for constructing additional works in the 
Harbours of Leith and Newhaven, and for making 
the necessary roads and acc. sses thereto, for pay- 
ment of the stipends to the ministers of the said 
city of Edinburgh, for the support and improvement 
of the college and public schools, for defraying the 
expenses of the Municipal government of the said 
city, and for other purposes therewith connected, 
was presented, and read ; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Shareholders, Owners and Occupiers Kingsworthy 
of property and Inhabitants of towns and places on = — 
or near the line of the Railway hereinafter men- Réiiway. 
tioned, for leave to bring in a Bill for making an : 
maintaining a Railway commencing by a junction 
with the London and Southampton Railway, in the 

parish 


Dov 


Vict 
(Ma 
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Cait 
Roac 


Cour: 
Grea 
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Deptford and 





7 Wit. IV. 


parish of Kingsworthy, in the county of Southampton, 
and terminating by a junction with the Bristol and 
Exeter Railway, in the parish of West Monckton, 
in the county of Somerset, was presented, and read; 
and referred to the Select Committee on Petitions 
for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of the towns, and Owners 


Dover Railway. and Occupiers of property on the: line and in the 


Victoria Park 
(Manchester) 
Company, 


Caithness 
Roads. 


Courtenhall and 


neighbourhood of the Railway hereinafter mentioned, 
for leave to bring ina Bill for making a Railway 
commencing by means of a junction with the London 
and Greenwich Railway, in the parish of Saint Paul, 
Deptford, in the county of Kent, and terminating 
in the parish of Saint James, Dover, in the said 
county, and several branches to be connected there- 
with, was presented, and read; and referred to the 
Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Owners and Occupiers of estates 
and other Inhabitants of Manchester, for leave to 
bring in a Bill for erecting dwelling-houses, with 
gardens and pleasure grounds attached thereto, 
within a convenient distance from Manchester, with 
proper rules and regulations for the due government 
and management thereof, for the accommodation, 
benefit and advantage of the Inhabitants of the said 
town,.was presented, and read; and referred to the 
Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Trustees for Turnpike Roads, and 
Proprietors of lands in the county of Caithness, for 
leave to bring in a Bill for continuing the term and 
altering and enlarging the powers and provisions of 
the Act for making, repairing, widening and keeping 
in repair certain Roads and Bridges in the county 
of Caithness, and for better regulating and rendering 
more effectual the Statute Labour in the said county, 
and conversion money in lieu thereof, was presented, 
and read ; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in 
accordingly, by Sir George Sinclair and Mr. Loch. 


A Petition of Owners of estates in, or Inhabitants 


Great Wigston of, the several towns and parishes in the counties of 


Railway. 


Church Rates, 


Northampton and Leicester, for leave to bring in a 
Bill for making a Railway commencing by a junction 
with the London and Birmingham Railway in the 
parish of Courtenhall, in the county of Northampton, 
and terminating by a junction with the Midland 
Counties Railway, in the parish of Great Wigston, 
in the county of Leicester, was presented, and read ; 
and referred to the Select Committee on Petitions 
for Private Bills. 


Petitions from Sulgrave;—Frome (five Petitions) ; 
— King Sutton;— Weston by Weedon ;— Kunares- 
brough ;—Holdenhurst ;—Stow-on-the-Wold, Naun- 
ton, and other places ;— Trudoa Hill ;—Little Elm, 
Chapmanslade ;—Leighton ;—Standerwick ;—Bech- 
ington; — Cambridgeshire and Suffolk ;— Cudding- 
ton ;— Berkley ;—Southampton ;—Little Staughton ; 
— Roxton ;— New Walsingham; — Middleton Che- 
ney; — Hochliffe; — Aylesbury ;—Great Yarmouth; 
-— Tarves ;— Hackney ;—Ministers and Laymen as- 
sembled in London, Deputies from various parts of 
the Empire, to consider the means to be adopted to 
effect the extinction of Church Rates ;—Bedford 
(three Petitions) ; —Diss ; — Wattisfield ;— Chelms- 
ford ;— Kensington; —Great Yarmouth (Chairman 
of a Meeting); —Tutbury ;—Hartley Row ;—Nun- 
eaton ; —Sheerness ; —Bradford, York ;-—Grafton- 
street, Soho ;—Beaulieu Rails ;— Wellingborough ;— 
Deputies from Congregations of Protestant Dis- 
senters within twelve miles of London ;— Whitchurch ; 
— Edinburgh (Albany-street Chapel) ;— Barnstaple; 
—Plymouth ; — Harpole ; — Milton ; — Blisworth ; 
— Earls Barton ; —- Kingsthorpe ; —Hackleton ; — 
Kislingbury ;— Moulton ; —Clipstone ;— Aldwinkle; 
— Woodford ; — Ravensthorpe ; — Thrapstone ; — 
Tavistock ; — Glastonbury ; — Horwich ; — Bridg- 
water; — Welch Pool;— Bangor; — Wincanton ;— 
New Sarum; — Salisbury; — Northampton; —Dun- 
VoL. 92. 


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55 


Sermline ;—and, Glasgow; praying for the abolition 
of Church Rates,—were presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of Minister, Churchwardens, Land 
holders and Inhabitants of Chatham, praying tha, 
Church Rates may not be abolished, was also pre 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table.” 


Petitions from Birmingham (Chairman of a Meet- Friendly 
ing) ;—Southampton (two Petitions) ;— Canterbury ; Societies, 
— William Squire ;—Members of the Friendly So- 
ciety of the Clickers ;—James Wright ;—Secretary 
and Stewards of a Society in Birmingham ;—Joseph 
Bott, Secretary of the Rose Society, Birmingham ;— 
and, Members of the Spanish Leather Dressers’ Be- 
nefit Society, and the Friends of Humanity ; praying 
for the amendment of the Law relating to Ki riendly 
Societies,—were presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Ayr ;—Plymouth ;—Ohkehampton ; soap. 
—and, Tavistock ; praying for the repeal of the 
Duty on Soap,—were presented, and read; and or- 
dered to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the Petition of the Committee of London and 
the Association formed for the protection of property Birmingham 
in the town of Rugby and its neighbourhood, for Bway. 
compelling the London and Birmingham Railway 
Company to maintain an efficient Police during the 
progress of their works, which was presented yester- 
day, be printed. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, an Queen Anne’s 

Account of all Monies received and disbursed by Bounty. 
the Governors of Queen Azne’s Bounty, since the 
Return made to Parliament, dated 29th June 1831; 
— all the Poor Livings augmented by the 
said Bounty since the said Return; showing also 
the Amount now rae te | to the credit of the said 
Governors in any Public Stock, on mortgage, or on 
any other private security, and the balance now in 
the hands of the Treasurer; specifying also whether 
any and what portions of the Monies received have 
been applied to any other purposes than the aug- 
mentation of Poor Livings ; together with the Dates 
when all such Monies were so applied, and the pur- 
poses for which such Payments or Advances have 
been made. 


A Petition of the Lord Provost, Magistrates and Shipwreck. 
Council of the city of Edinburgh, prying the House 
to adopt the recommendations of the Select Com- 
mittee of the last Session, on Shipwrecks, was pre 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Abbeyleix ;— Ballyroan ;— Kil- Tithes 
cullen ;— Gormanstown ;—Rathdowney ;— Kilkenny ; (Irelaud.? 
—Saint Paul’s, Dublin ;—Monaghan ;— Currin ;— 
Galloon ;— Clones ;—Drumcoloher ;—Killilathan;— 
Kilmore;—Knochmark and Cullmullen ;— Navan ;— 
and, Duleek; praying for the abolition of Tithes in 
Treland,—were presented, and read ; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of William Keavem, and John Hussey, 
praying the House to order the authorities in the 
Court of Exchequer in Ireland not to persevere in a 
case against them for Tithes, was also presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Gormanstown ;— and, Kilcullen ; Poor Laws 
praying for the introduction of Poor Laws into Jre- ee 
land,—were presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Dublin( National Trades) ;— Bally- Municipal 

roan;—A bbeyleix ;—Gormanstown ;—Rathdowney ; (lreiend) Bille 
—Saint Paul's, Dublin; — Kilkenny ;— Kilcullen ; 
— Monaghan ; — Clones ; — Currin ; — Galloon ;— 
Knockmark and Cullmullen ;—and, Kilmore; pray- 
ing that the Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Bull 
may pass into a law,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


H 4 A Petition 








Innkeepers. 


London and 
Brighton 
Railway 
(Mills’s Line.) 


Great Western 
Railway Bili 
(Trowbridge. 


Manchester 
and Stafford 
Railway. 


West Cork 
Mining 
Company. 


Bath Gas. 


London and 
Dover Railway. 


House of Lords, 


Vote by Ballot, 


Fire Insurances. 


56 


A Petition of Innkeepers and Publicans, Licensed 
Victuallers, in the counties of Chester and Stafford, 
praying for a revision of the Acts of Parliament re- 
gulating.their trade, and for the gradual abolition 
of Beer-houses, was presented, and read; and or- 
dered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Owners and Occupiers of property 
on the line and in the neighbourhood of the Rail- 
way hereinafter mentioned, and also of Merchants, 
Traders and others of the city of London, for leave 
to bring in a Bill for making a Railway without a 
Tunnel, commencing at or near a certain place called 
“The Oval,” at Kennington, in the parish of Saint 
Mary, Lambeth, in the county of Surrey, and termi- 
nating at or near Brooker’s Chapel, in the town and 
parish of Brighton, in the county of Sussex, was 
presented, and read ; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of the Company of Proprietors of the 
Wilts and Berks Canal Navigation ; praying that 
they may be heard, by their counsel or agents, against 
the Great Western * Sean Bill ( Trowbridge), was 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of William Garnett, of Manchester, 
Esquire, complaining that the Standing Orders of 
the House in respect to the application for the Man- 
chester and Stafford Railway Bill, had not been 
complied with; and praying that he may be heard, 
by himself, his agents and witnesses, against the 
same, was presented, and read ; and referred to the 
Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Shareholders in the West Cork 
Mining Company, regulated by an Act passed in 
the fourth year of His present Majesty, intituled, 
“ An Act to encourage the Working of Mines and 
Quarries in Jreland, and to regulate a Joint Stock 
Company for that purpose, to be called ‘The West 
Cork Mining Company,’ ”’ for leave to bring in a Bill 
for amending and enlarging the provisions of the 
said Act, was presented, and read; and referred to 
the Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Bath, for leave to 
bring in a Bill for establishing a Joint Stock Com- 
pany for better lighting the said City and Borough 
with Gas, was presented, and read; and referred 
to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private 


16° Februari. 





Bills. 


A Petition of Landed Proprietors, Merchants and | 
others residing in the county of Kent, taking notice 
of the application for leave to bring in the London 
and Dover Railway Bill, and praying that such 
Bill may not pass into a law, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lic upon the Table. 


Petitions from Gormanstown ;—and, Kilcullen ; 
praying the House to adopt such measures as may 
render the House of Lords amenable to public opi- 














A. 1837. 


Mr. Williams Wynn reported from the Select Committee of 
Committee of Privileges; to whom were referred two Privileges. 


Letters to Mr. Speaker, one from the Lord Chan- 
cellor, dated January 31st, 1837, and the other 
from Edmund Lechmere Charlton, Esquire, a Mem- 
ber of this House, dated January 31st, 1837, and to 
whom was also referred another Letter from Mr. 
Charlton to Mr. Speaker, dated February 3d, 1837; 
and who were empowered to report their Proceed- 
ings, together with their opinion thereupon, to the 
House, from time to time; That they had examined 
the matters to them referred, and had agreed to the 
following Report : 

In reporting upon the question which has been 
referred to Your Committee, they propose to follow 
the course which usually has been adopted upon 
such occasions, of first stating the circumstances of 
the particular case, and afterwards the law and 
usages of Parliament as it appears to apply to them. 

The Warrant for Mr. Charlton’s commitment to 
the Fleet, and the Order of Court on which it was 
founded, were produced to the Committee, and it 
appeared that he was committed by the Lord 
Chancellor for writing a Letter, addressed to Wil- 
liam Brougham, Esquire, one of the Masters of the 
High Court of Chancery, containing matter scanda- 
lous with respect to the said Master, and an attempt 
improperly to influence his conduct in the matter 
pending before him, “ which the said Lord Chancel- 
lor deemed to be a Contempt of the Court of 
Chancery.” The order not proceeding to set forth 
the Letter in question, or to specify the parts of it 
on which these charges were grounded. 

Your Committee therefore directed the Letter 
to be produced, inasmuch as they considered that, 


although the Lord Chancellor had the power to 


declare what he deemed to be a Contempt of the 
High Court of Chancery, it was necessary that The 
House of Commons, as the sole and exclusive judge 
of its own Privileges, should be informed of the 
particulars of the Contempt, before they could de- 
cide whether the Contempt was of such a character 
as would justify the imprisonment of a Member. 
They also summoned Mr. Charlton before them, 
and afforded him an opportunity of fully stating his 
case, 

Upon the whole examination, the Letter appears 
to Your Committee to be expressed in an intemperate 
and improper manner. The Letter, however, was 
occasioned by information derived from the Solicitor 
in the cause, the correctness of which Mr. Charlton 
had no reason to doubt; but they are of opinion 


that it is offensive to the Master, and thereby to the 


authority of the Court under which he acted, and 
was an attempt improperly to influence his conduct 
in the matter pending before him, with a view to 
obtain a further hearing, to which, if applied for in 
a proper manner, Mr. Charlton would have been 
entitled. 

It was found, in the course of the investigation, 
that Mr. Joseph Parkes, the solicitor for the parties 
who appeared before the Master in opposition to 
Mr. Charlton’s clients, had, during the interval 


: . | whi , i ; 
nion,—were presented, and read ; and ordered to lie | which occurred’ between the issue of the Warrant 


upon the Table. 


Petitions from Abbeyleix ;— Ballyroan ; — Kil- 
kenny ; — Gormanstown ; — Glaunalaney ; — Saint 
Paul's, Dublin;— Rathdowney ;— Monaghan ;— Kil- 
cullen ;— Galloon; — Clones; — Currin ;—and, 
Knockmark and Cullmullen; praying for the adoption 
of Vote by Ballot in the election of Members to serve 
in Parliament, — were presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Richmond, in the county of York ; 
—-Edinburgh ;—and, Canongate and Holy Cross, 
Edinburgh; praying for the repeal of the Duty on 
Fire Insurances,—were presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 





and its execution, written a Letter at the request of 
a third person, containing the following assurance: 
“Mr. Charlton may take my honour, and I have 
never yet violated it, that he is perfectly secure in 
coming to my house ‘to see if we can adjust the 
Ludlow matters,” and that Mr. Chariton did after- 
wards, in consequence, attend a meeting at the house 
of Mr. Parkes without any interruption or attempt 
to execute the Warrant by the officers who held it. 
Your Committee therefore felt it necessary to ascer- 
tain whether the execution of a Process issued on 
the ground of punishing a Contempt of the Court of 
Chancery, had in any manner been allowed to be 
enforced or suspended at the discretion of one of the 
litigant parties, or to be rendered subservient to his 
objects. This inquiry has tended considerably to 

lengthen 


No. 45, 








ne 


7 Wut. IV. 


lenothen their proceedings, but the result has satis- |__ Complaint being made to the House of a printed Complaint 
fied them that no power had ever been given by any Newspaper, intituled, “ The Morning Chronicle,” made of a 


16° Februari. 57 


° New ° 
person, or exergised by the Solicitor for that pur- dated Thursday, February 16th, 1837, printed and ital 


pose. 


Upon the law and usage of Parliament, as 
affecting this case, Your Committee beg leave to 
refer to the statement contained in the Report of 
the Committee of Privileges on the case of the Ho- 
nourable William Long Wellesley, presented to the 
House on the 26th July 1831, the precedents cited 
in which they will not here repeat. 


The Committee are deeply impressed with the 
difficulty and importance of the question referred to 
them, in the absence of authorities to which they 
can refer as clearly in point and directly bearing on 
this particular case. It will be seen, from the early 
cases, that the ancient definition of Privilege of Par- 
liament, is, that it belongs to every Member of the 
House, except in cases of treason, felony, or refusing 
to give surety of the peace. 

These exceptions, by the statement of the Com- 
mons in 1641, are further extended to all indictable 
offences; by their Resolution in 1697, to forcible 
entries and detainers; and, in 1763, in conformity 
with the principle of the Declaration of 1641, and of 
a subsequent Resolution in 1675, to printing and 
publishing seditious libels; to which may be added 
the Resolution of the Lords in 1757, that Privilege 
shall not protect Peers against process to enforce 
the Habeas Corpus. 


The ordinary process for contempts against per- 
sons having privilege of Parliament or of Peerage, 
has not been that of attachment of the person, but 
that of sequestration of the whole property, which 
has been found sufficient to vindicate the authority 
of the Courts, even in cases of some aggravation. 

It is stated by Blackstone, that “ Contempts com- 
mitted even by Peers, when enormous and accom- 
panied with violence, such as forcible rescous and 
the like, or when they import disobedience to the 
King’s writs of prohibition, Habeas Corpus, and the 
rest, are punishable by attachment ;” and the same 
doctrine has on different occasions been expressed 
by other writers, and by Judges of high authority. 

The only cases, however, in which attachments 
have been found by the Committee to have been 
actually issued against privileged persuns, are that 
of Earl Ferrers, by the King’s Bench, and that of 
Mr. Long Wellesley, by the Court of Chancery, 
already referred to. 

The former was a case of disobedience to a writ of 
Habeas Corpus, to which, “ while the discussion was 
pending,” it had been declared by the House of 
Lords, Privilege of Parliament did not extend; the 
other was that of the forcible removal of a ward of 
the Court of Chancery, and placing her out of the 
jurisdiction of the Court, which obviously could only 
be checked by the most prompt oj efficacious 
remedy. 

Since the sitting of the last Committee of Privi- 
leges, the Act of 2 and 3 Will. IV. c. 93, intituled, 
“ An Act for enforcing the Process upon Contempts 
in the Courts Ecclesiastical of England and Ireland,” 
has passed, by which Contempts of the Ecclesias- 
tical Courts, “ in face of the Court, or any other 
Contempt towards such Court, or the process thereof, 
are directed to be signified to the Lord Chancellor, 
who is to issue a writ de contumace capiendo, for 
taking into custody persons charged with such Con- 
tempt,” in case such person “ shall not be a Peer, 


Lord of Parliament, or Member of the House of 
Commons.” 


Under all the circumstances of the case, Your 
Committee are of opinion, that Mr. Charlton’s claim 
to be discharged from imprisonment by reason of 
Privilege of Parliament, ought not to be admitted. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 

Vox. 92. 








published by John Black, No. 332, Strand, in re- 
spect of a paragraph containing reflections on certain 
Members of the Committee of Privileges :—The said 
Paper was delivered in; and the paragraph com- 
plained of read. 

A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That John Black do attend this House To- 
morrow :—And the said Motion was, with leave of 
the House, withdrawn. 


A Petition of Inhabitants within the southern Roborough 
division of the hundred of Roborough, in the county Hundred 


of Devon, and Proprietors of property within the 
said hundred, for leave to bring in a Bill for esta- 
blishing a Court for the recovery of Small Debts 
not exceeding Five Pounds, within the southern 
division of the said hundred, was presented, and 
read; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Petitions for Private Bills. 


Mr. Oswald reported from the Select Committee Public 
on Public Petitions; That they had examined the Petitions. 


Petitions presented on the 10th and 13th days of 
this instant February; and had directed him to make 
a Report thereof to the House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 


tand be printed. 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed Publication of 
to examine Precedents with respect to the Circula- Printed Papers. 


tion and Publication of Reports and Papers printed 
by Order of this House, and to ascertain the Law 
and Practice of Parliament prior to and since the 
order for the sale of such Papers :—And a Commit- 
tee was appointed of Lord Viscount Howick, Sir 
Robert Peel, Mr. Attorney General, Mr. Williams 
Wynn, Mr. Tancred, Sir William Follett, Mr. Charles 
Villiers, Sir Frederick Pollock, Mr. Roebuck, Lord 
Stanley, Sir George Strickland, Sir Robert Harry 
Inglis, Mr. Serjeant Wilde, Sir George Clerk, and 
Mr. O’Coznnell, with Power to send for persons, 
papers and records, 
Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Benefices Plu- 
for restraining and regulating the holding of Bene- tality Bill. 


fices in plurality, and for amending the Laws re- 
lating to the residence of the Clergy: And that 
Lord John Russell and Mr. Chancellor of the Exche- 


quer do prepare, and bring it in. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being put, Benefit 
That a Select Committee be appointed to inquire Societies 


fully into the law respecting Benefit Societies ; 
The House divided : 
The Yeas to the new Lobby; © 
The Noes to the old Lobby. 


Mr. Barlow Hoy, } 
Tellers for the Yeas,{ Mr. Hume: 66. 


Tellers for the Noes, = — }r42, 


So it passed in the Negative. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being put, Bishops. 


That it is the opinion of this House, That the sitting 
of the Bishops in Parliament is unfavourable in its 
operation to the general interests of the Christain 
Religion in this country, and tends to alienate the 
affections of the People from the Established 
Church ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 


Tellers forthe ¢ Mr. Charles Lushington, \ 9. 
Yeas, Mr. Hawes: ar 

Tellers for the ; Mr. Baring, } 197 
Noes, | Lord Dalmeny : ; 


So it passed in the Negative. 
I Ordered, 














Public Walks 
and Institutions 
Bill. 


Public Houses 
—_— 
Bill. 


Prisoners 
(Sussex. ) 


Convicts 
(Ireland.) 


Stage Coaches 
(Ireland,) 


Bankruptcy 
Court. 


58 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for the Establishment of Public Walks and Play- 
grounds, and of Public Institutions, Libraries and 
Museums, for the purpose of promoting the health, 
morals, instruction and enjoyments of the People: 
And that Mr. Buckingham, Mr. Tulk, and Mr. 
Brotherton, do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for the better regulation of all places at which in- 
toxicating Drinks are sold, with a view to diminish 
the crime and misery of which they are the fruitful 
source: And that Mr. Buckingham, Mr. Tulk, and 
Mr. Wyse, do prepare, and bring it in. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return of the manner in which Prisoners 
for trial were confined during the times the Quarter 
Sessions and Assizes were holden in the County 
of Sussex, in the year ending 31st Jannary 1837, 
especially as to Dimensions of Rooms, Classifica- 
tion, and separation of Prisoners of both Sexes. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Names of all Convicts discharged 
from the several Gaols in Ireland, before the Expi- 
ration of their respective Sentences, since the 1st 
May 1835; distinguishing the Offences of which 
they were respectively convicted, the Sentences pro- 
nounced uponthem, the Date of Discharge, and the 
Authority under which they were discharged, 
whether oral or written ; distinguishing also, the Cases 
in which such Convicts were under Rule of Bail, 
and stating whether any, and what Bail was given 
before the Discharge of such Convicts respectively. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Copies of Orders issued to the Police in Ireland, 
since 1st December 1836, directing them to enforce 
the provisions of the Act 50 Geo. 3, c. 32, regulating 
the Conveyance of Passengers and Luggage in Stage 
Coaches in Jreland, with the Date of such Order or 
Orders :—Of any Summonses issued in pursuance 
of such Orders by the Police in any County in Jre- 
land, and the Dates of such Summonses :—Of any 
Order directing that the Police should not enforce 
the Provisions of said Act 50 Geo. 3, c. 32, and the 
Date of such Order :—and, of any Order that the 
Summonses issued in pursuance of said Order of 
December 1836, should not be proceeded upon, but 
that the Proceedings should be stayed. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 








Veneris, 17° die Februari ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi IV“ Regis, 1837 


PRAYERS. 

N R. Basil Montague, from the Court of Bank- 

ruptey, was called in; and at the bar pre- 
sented, pursuant to the directions of an Act of 
Parliament,—A Statement of the Amount transferred 
and paid out as Dividends:—Of the Amount paid 
by Orders of Court and of the Judges, from the 31st 
day of December 1835 to the Ist day of January 
1837; also showing the unappropriated Balance 
existing on the following Accounts, and standing to 
the credit of Basil Montague, Esquire, as Accountant 
in Bankruptcy, on 1st January 1837; namely, 1st, 
The Bankruptcy Fund Account; 2d, The Interest 
arising from Bankruptcy Fund Account ; 3d, The 
Unclaimed Dividend Account; 4th, The Secretary 
of Bankrupts’ Account; 5th, The Secretary of Bank- 
rupts’ Compensation Account; together with Ap- 
pendixes to the two last-named Accounts, of the 


16°—17° Februariz. 








A. 1837. 


Payments made, to whom, and whether as Salaries, 
Compensations or other Allowances :—And then he 
withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Paper*do lie upon the 
Table. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on Standing Standing 
Orders relative to Private Bills, have leave to sit this '4«ts- 
day till five of the clock, during the sitting of the 
House. 


Mr, Robert Palmer reported from the Select Com- Greenwich 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Stand- Pit 
ing Orders relative to Bills for erecting Piers, had 
been complied with in the case of the Petition for 
the Greenwich Pier Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
alter and amend an Act of” the last Session of Par- 
liament, intituled, “ An Act for making and main- 
taining a Pier, Wharf and other Works at Green- 
wich, in the County of Kent,” and to extend the 
powers of the said Act: And that Mr. Angerstein 
and Mr. Barnard do prepare, and bring it in. 


A Petition of Owners and Occupiers of land in Streatley and 
or near the places hereinafter mentioned, for leave ao 
to bring in a Bill for erecting, building and main-~" ™ 
taining a Bridge over the River Thames, at or near a 
place called Streatley-street,in the parish of Streatley, 
in the county of Berks,to the opposite shore or side 
of the River Thames, in the parish of Goring, in the 
county of Oxford, together with proper and con 
venient roads, avenues and approaches thereto, was 
presented, and read; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Merchants, Traders and Inhabitants Dowlais 
of the chapelry or village of Dowlais, in the parish M+ 
of Merthyr Tydfil, in the county of Glamorgan, for 
leave to bring in a Bill to establish and erect a 
Market-place in the said village, was presented, and 
read; and referred-to the Select Committee on Pe- 
titions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Subscribers to the Undertaking Dungeness 
hereinafter mentioned, for leave to bring in a Bill Harbour. 
for making and maintaining a Port or Harbour on 
the coast of the county of Kent, at the point or 
promontory of Dungeness, was presented, and read ; 
and referred to the Select Committee on Petitions 
for Private Bills. 


A Petition of the Right honourable Maurice Fitz- American Steam 
gerald, Captain Francis Beaufort, R. N., Simon sven 
MGillivray, and George Richardson Porter, for a 
leave to bring in a Bill to explain, alter and amend 
several Acts for facilitating intercourse by Steam 
Navigation between the United Kingdom and the 
Continent, and Islands of America and the West 
Indies, was presented, and read ; and referred to the 
Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of the Dublin and Drogheda Railway Dublin and 
Company, for leave to bring in a Bill for altering Droshe4 
the line of the said Railway, and for amending the canes 
Act relating thereto, was presented, and read; and 
referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for 


Private Bills. 


A Petition of Occupiers of land and others, In- Oxford and 
habitants of Culham, praying that they may be a —" 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, against stile 
certain parts of the Oxford and Great Western Rail- 
way Bill, was presented, and read ; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on Petitions Private = 
for Private Bills have leave to sit this day till five of Pett™ 
the clock, during the sitting of the House. 

A Petition 


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team 


stern 


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ills 
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7 Wit. IV. 


Cork and Pass A Petition of Subscribers for making and main- 

sage Railway taining a Railway from the city of Cork, to the town 
of Passage, for leave to bring ina Bill for making 
and maintaining the said Railway, was presented, 
and read; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Petitions for Private Bills. 


Lendon and 
Dover (South- 
Fastern) Rail- 
way Bill, 


Mr. Law Hodges presented a Bill to alter and 
extend the Line of the South-eastern Railway, and 
to amend the Act relating thereto: And the same 
was read the first time ; and ordered to be read a 
second time. 


Hastings A Petition of Owners and Occupiers of property, 

Improvements oy Residents within the parishes of Saint Mary 
Magdalen and Saint Leonard, in the county of 
Sussex, for leave to bring in a Bill for watching, 
paving and lighting, and otherwise improving certain 
parts of the said parishes, was presented, and read ; 
and referred to the Select Committee on Petitions 
for Private Bills. 


Ashford and A Petition of Subscribers towards or otherwise 
b . . . . 
Railvay. &gt; engaged in promoting an intended Railway from 


the South-eastern Railway, at or near Ashford, in 
the county of Kent, to or near the city of Canéer- 
bury, for leave to bring ina Bill for making the said 
Railway, was presented, and read; and referred to 
the Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


Durham Junc- A Petition of the Durham Junction Railway Com- 

tion Railway. Hany, for leave to bring in a Bill for extending and 
enlarging the said Railway, by making and main- 
taining two Branch Railways therefrom, was pre- 
sented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


Glossop 


A Petition of Owners and Proprietors of mills, 
Reservoirs. 


manufactories and other works situate upon the 
River Etherow, otherwise the Mersey, and on the 
tributaries of the said river, which arise in the parish 
of Glossop, in the county of Derby, for leave to 
bring in a Bill for making and maintaining certain 
reservoirs upon the said tributary streams in the said 
parish of Glossop, for more effectually and regularly 
supplying with water the mills, manufactories and 
works on the said river and tributary streams, was 
presented, and read ; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


London and 
Blackwall 
Commercial 
Railway. 


A Petition of Inhabitants and others of the parish 
of Saint Botolph Aldgate Within, in the city of Lon- 
don, complaining that the Standing Orders of the 
House in respect to the application for the London 
and Blackwall Commercial Railway Bill, had not 
been complied with ; and praying that they may be 
heard, by their agent, against the same, was pre- 


sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of several Persons whose names are 
thereunto subscribed, for leave to bring in a Bill 
for making a Railway from the Clarence Railway, 
in the parish of Billingham, in the county of Dur- 
ham, to the Tide Harbour at Harilepool, in the 
parish of Stranton, in the said county, was presented, 
and read ; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Petitions for Private Bills. 


Clarence and 
Hartlepool 
Union Railway, 


CastleEden A Petition of Owners and Proprietors of estates 
a in the county of Durham, and of Traders and others 
Hartlepool Tesident in the city of Durham, for leave to bring in 
Junction) Rail- 2 Bill for making and maintaining a Railway from 
way. Castle Eden, in the parish of Castle Eden, in the 
county of Durham, and terminating in the parish of 
Merrington, in the said county, was presented, and 
* read; and referred to the Select Committee on Peti- 

tions for Private Bills. 
bey Small A Petition of Commissioners for executing the 


Act for the more easy Recovery of Small Debts 
VoL. 92. 








17° Februariz. 59 


within the Borough of Derby, and the, Liberties 
thereof, and others, Inhabitants of Derby, for leave 
to bring in a Bill for amending and extending the 
powers and provisions of the said Act, was presented, 
and read ; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Owners and Proprietors of, or other- Gazeley 
wise interested in, certain messuages, lands, grounds !uclosure. 
and other hereditaments within the parish of Gaze- 
ley, in the county of Suffolk, for leave to bring in a 
Bill for dividing and allotting certain commons and 
commonable fields in the said parish, was presented, 
and read; and a Bill was ordered to be brought in 
accordingly, by Mr. Harland and Colonel Rush- 
brooke. 


Sir John Beckett reported from the Committee on Carlton and 
the Carlton and Lofthouse Inclosure Bill ; That the Lofthouse In- 
Standing Orders relative to Bills of Inclosure, had ‘s™¢ Bill 
been complied with; and that they had examined 
the allegations of the Bill, and found the same to be 
true; and that the Parties concerned had given their 
consent to the Bill, to the satisfaction of the Com- 
mittee ; and that the Committee had gone through 
the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto; and the 
Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Leeds, for leave to Leeds Water- 
bring in a Bill for the construction of necessary works. 
works for better supplying the said Town with Water, 
and for levying Rates for the same, was presented, 
and read ; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Subscribers to a Company, to be London 
called “The National Cemetery Company,” for National 
leave to bring in a Bill for establishing a public °° 
Cemetery in the suburbs of the Metropolis, was pre- 
sented, and read ; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Owners and Occupiers of lands and Butterhouse 
premises in the parishes of Stockport, in the county Green and 
of Chester, and Manchester, in the county of Lan- 6" Reed: 
caster, for leave to bring in a Bill for making and 
maintaining a Turnpike Road from Butterhouse 
Green, in the township of Bredbury, in the parish 
of Stockport, to the Gorton Turnpike, on the Ardwick 
and Mottram Turnpike Road, was presented, and 
read ; and referred to Sir John Beckett and the 
Chester List. 


A Petition of Denne Denne, of Littlebourn, in the Deptford and 
county of Kent, Esquire, complaining that the Stand- Dover Railway. 
ing Orders of the House in respect to the applica- 
tion for the Deptford and Dover Railway Bill, had 
not been att with, and praying that he may be 
heard, by his counsel, agent and witnesses, against 
the same, was presented, and read; and referred 


to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private 
Bills. 


A Petition of Proprietors of estates, and Occu- Dundalk and 
piers of lands in and Inhabitants of the counties of Cava" Railway. 
Louth, Monaghan and Cavan, and other counties 
adjoining or near to the same, for leave to bring in 
a Bill for making a Railway from Dundalk to Cavan, 
was presented, and read ; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of William Ogilvie, Thomas Freeman Cotton Joint 
and John Penrice, for leave to bring in a Bill for StockCompany. 
forming a Joint Stock Company for the general ma- 
nufacture of Cotton in all its branches in. England 
and Ireland, was presented, and read ; and referred 
to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private 
Bills. 


12+ A Petition 






























































en ge 













Milton Park 

(Gravesend) Royal Terrace Pier and Gardens, and of the Free- 

mprovement: hold Investment Company at Milton next Gravesend, 
in the county of Kent, for leave to bring in a Bill 
for erecting an Esplanade and Baths, with suitable 
approaches thereto, at Milton aforesaid, and for 
paving, cleansing and lighting the same, was pre- 
sented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for private Bills. 


Polloc and A Petition of the Polloc and Govan Railway Com- 
Govan Railway. pany, for leave to bring in a Bill for altering and 
amending the powers and provisions of the several 
Acts for making and maintaining a Railway from 
the lands of Polloc and Govan to the River Clyde, | 
at the Harbour of Broomielaw, in the county of 
Lanark, was presented, and read; and referred 
to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private 


Bills. 
Slamannan A Petition of the Slamannan Railway Company, 
Railway. for leave to bring in a Bill for altering and explain- 


ing the powers of the Act for making the said Rail- 
way, and for making a branch Railway therefrom, 
was presented, and read ; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 
Dundee Police. A Petition of Commissioners for executing the Act 
for better paving, lighting, watching and cleansing 
the burgh of Dundee, and for building and main- 
taining a Bridewell there, for leave to bring im a Bill 
for altermg and amending the said Act, and the 
powers thereby granted, and also for regulating the 
Police of the said burgh, was presented, and read ; 
and referred to the Select Committee on Petitions 
for Private Bills. 


Stirling A Petition of Daniel Mac Ewen, and others, for 

Railway. leave to bring in a Bill for making a Railway from 
Stirling to Lock, No. 16, on the Forth and Clyde 
Navigation, with a Branch to Alloa and Kersie Ferry, 
all in the county of Stirling, was presented, and 
read; and referred to the Select Committee on Pe- 
titions for Private Bills. 


Glasgow Water. A Petition of Owners or Occupiers of houses or 
other property in the city of Glasgow, for leave to 
bring in a Bill for better supplying the said City, 
and the Suburbs thereof, with Water, was presented, 
and read ; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Petitions for Private Bills. 


Blochairn A Petition of Owners and Tenants of lands and 
Canal. other heritages through which the Cut or Canal 
hereinafter described is proposed to be carried, and 
Proprietors and Tenants of manufactories in Duke- 
street, Glasgow, where the same is proposed to ter- 
minate, and Merchants of the city of Glasgow, and 


60 17° Februariz. 


A Petition of Directors and Proprietors of the | 





A. 1837. 


A Petition of Joshua Procter Westhead, of Man- Westhead’s 
chester, small-ware manufacturer, for leave to bring Patent. 
‘in a Bill for enabling him to sell and assign to a 
| Joint Stock Company certain Letters Patent granted 
to him for certain improvements in the manufacture 
of small wares, was presented, and read; and re- 
ferred to the Select Committee on Petitions for 
Private Bills. 


A Petition of Directors of the Anti Dry-rot Com- Anti Dry-rot 
pany, for leave to bring in a Bill for incorporating Company. 
them, and granting to them all such powers, pri- 
vileges and authorities as are usually given or granted 
to bodies corporate, was presented, and read ; and 
referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for 
Private Bills. 





A Petition of the Company of Proprietors of the Stratford-upon. 
Stratford-upon-Avon Canal Restention, for leave to Avon Canal. 
bring in a Bill to alter, amend and enlarge the powers 

and provisions of the several Acts relating to the 

said Canal Navigation, and to alter, vary or increase 

the tolls, was presented, and read; and referred 

-— the Select Committee on Petitions for Private 

ills. 


A Petition of several Persons whose names are Birkenhead 
thereunto subscribed, for leave to bring in a Bill and Chester 
for making a Railway from Birkenhead to Chester, Bs. 
was presented, and read; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Proprietors of estates and Occupiers publin and 
of lands in and Inhabitants of the counties of Dub- Mullingar 
lin, Kildare, Meath, Westmeath and Longford, for Bailway. 
leave to bring in a Bill for making a Railway from 
the city of Dublin to the town of Mullingar, with 
two branches therefrom, was presented, and read ; 
and referred to the Select Committee on Petitions 
for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Henry Fourdrinier, of Burston, in Fourdrinier’s 
the county of Stafford, and Sealy Fourdrinier, of Patent. 
Westminster, in the county of Middlesex, late whole- 
sale stationers and paper manufacturers, for leave to 
bring in a Bill to revive and extend the term of 
certain Letters Patent assigned to them for the in- 
vention of making paper by means of machinery, 
was presented, and read ; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of the oy Gas-Light Company, Belfast Gas. 
for leave to bring in a Bill for altermg, amending 
and enlarging the powers and provisions of an Act 
passed in the fourth year of the reign of his Majesty 





Inhabitants of the east end of that city, for leave to 
bring in a Bill for making a navigable Cut or Canal 
from a point on the south side of the Monkland 
Canal, opposite to the lands of Blochairn, to the 
north of a street in Glasgow, called Duke-street, was 
presented, and read; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


Commercial A Petition of Members or Proprietors of the 
at os Commercial Steam Packet Company, for leave to 
** bring in a Bill for enabling them to sue and be 
sued in the name of some one person, was presented, 
and read; and referred to the Select Committee on 

Petitions for Private Bills. 


Sievier’sPatent. A Petition of Robert William Sievier, of Hen- 
rietta-street, Cavendish-square, in the county of Mid- 
dlesex, Gentleman, for leave to bring in a Bill for 
enabling him to sell and assign to a Joint Stock 
Company his Patent and patent rights for certain 
improvements in the making or manufacture of 
cables, ropes, whale-fishing and other lines, was 
presented, and read; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


King George the Fourth, for lighting with Gas the 
| town of Belfast, and the suburbs thereof, was pre- 
| sented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 
| mittee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


| 


A Petition of the Birmingham Gas-Light and Birmingham 
Coke Company, for leave to bring in a Bill for ex- Gas- 
plainnmg and amending an Act passed in the fifty- 
ninth year of the reign of King George the Third, 
for better supplying the Town of Birmingham, in 
the County of Warwick, with Gas, was presented, 
|and read; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Owners and Occupiers of lands on, fast Thichley 
and Persons interested in, the lines of Railway here- and Frosterley 
inafter mentioned, for leave to bring in a Bill for B#l¥*y- 
| making a Railway from and out of the Stockton and 
Darlington Railway, in the township of East Thick- 
ley, in the parish of Saint Andrew Auckland, in the 
county of Durham, to the township of Frosterley, in 
the said county, with branches therefrom, was pre- 
sented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills. 





A Petition 


Har 
Pier 


Hai 
Do 
Rai 


We 
Ma 


Ste 


Hi 





Hartlepool 
Pier. 


Hartlepool 
Dock and 
Railway. 


Westmiuster 
Market. 


Stainforth and 
Keadby Canal. 


Sheffield and 
Halifax Road. 


Wakefield 
Waterworks, 


Bamsle 
Waterworks, 


Liverpoc| 
(Mersey) 
Conservancy, 





7 Witt. IV. 


A Petition of Fishermen and others resident in 
and near Hartlepool, taking notice of the application 
for leave to bring in the Hartlepool Pier Bill, and 
praying that such Bill may not pass into a law, and 
that they may be heard, by themselves, their counsel 
or agents, against the same, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Fishermen and others residing in and 
near Hartlepool, setting forth, That the Petitioners 
are informed, that, in conformity with notices publicly 
given, it is the intention of the proprietors of the 
Hartlepool Dock and Railway to ask leave to bring 
in a Bill to enlarge and vary their powers and pri- 
vileges, and praying that they may be heard, by 
themselves, their counsel or agents, against the 
same, was presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


A Petition of Traders and Inhabitants of the 
several parishes of Saint John-the-Evangelist and 
Saint Margaret, in the city and liberties of West- 
minster, and other parties interested in the under- 
taking, for leave to bring in a Bill for establishing 
a Market at or near or fronting a certain street or 
place called Strutton-ground or Strutton-street, and 
extending to and including a certain other street or 


17° Februari. 








place called Duck-lane, in the said parishes, was 
presented, and read ; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


61 

A Petition of Persons whose names are thereunto Edinburgh 
subscribed, for leave to bring ina Bill for making — 
a Railway from the city of Edinburgh to the towns “"'"* 
of Dunbar and Haddington, with branches there- 
from, was presented, and read; and referred to the 
Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen and Bur- Liverpool 
gesses of Liverpool, for leave to bring in a Bill for !™provement. 
improving and widening certain streets, and erecting 
public oe in the said borough on land be- 
longing to the Corporation, was presented, and read ; 
and referred to the Select Committee on Petitions 
for Private Bills. 


A Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen and Bur- Liverpool 
gesses of Liverpool, for leave to bring in a Bill for (Acts Amend- 
altering, amending and enlarging the powers of Met) Improve- 
several Acts for building Churches in Liverpool, 
paving, lighting and cleansing the streets, for the 
better recovery of small debts therein, and otherwise 
improving the said Borough, was presented, and 
read; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of the Great North of or Rail- Hurworth and 
way Company, for leave to bring in a Bill for ex- York Railway, 
tending the said Railway from Hurworth to York, 


‘and for amending and enlarging the powers of the 


| Act relating thereto, was presented, and read; and 


i : referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for 
A Petition of the Company of Proprietors of the | Pyjyate Bills. 


Stainforth and Keadby Canal Navigation, and of | 
the Company of Proprietors of the Navigation of 
the River Dun, for leave to bring in a Bill for | 
enabling the said Company of Proprietors of the | 
Stainforth and Keadby Canal Navigation, to transfer | 
the management thereof, and all their rights and | 
interests therein, to the Company of Proprietors of | 
the Navigation of the River Dun, and to alter, | 
amend, extend and enlarge the powers and provi- | 
sions of the several Acts relating to the said Canal | 
Navigation, was presented, and read ; and referred | 


to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private | 
Bills. | 


A Petition of Trustees for executing the Act for | 
more effectually repairing the Road from Halifaz | 
to Sheffield, im the West Riding of the county 
of York, so far as relates to the third District 
of the said Road, and for diverting and altering 
the said District of Road, for leave to bring in a 
Bill for continuing the term and enlarging the powers 
of the said Act, and for increasing and altering the 
tolls, was presented, and read; and a Bill was or- 
dered to be brought in accordingly, by Sir George 
Strickland and Lord Viscount Morpeth. 





A Petition of Inhabitants of the town of Wake- 
field, or neighbourhood thereof, in the west riding 
of the county of York, for leave to bring in a Bill 
for better supplying the said town and neighbour- 
hood thereof with Water, was presented, and read ; 


and referred to the Select Committee on Petitions 
for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of the town of Barns- 
ley, or the neighbourhood thereof, in the west riding 
of the county of York, for leave to bring in a Bill 
for better supplying the said town and neighbour- 
hood with Water, was presented, and read; and 


referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for 
Private Bills. 


A Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses 
of Liverpool, and the Trustees of the Liverpool Docks, 
for leave to bring in a Bill for the better conservancy 
and improvement of the Navigation of the River 
Mersey, and Port and Harbour of Liverpool, was 
presented, and read ; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills. 





Vox. 92, 


Mr. Shaw Lefevre reported from the Select Com- Ellesmere and 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Chester Canal. 
Standing Orders relative to Navigation Bills, had 
been complied with in the case of the Petition for 
the Ellesmere and Chester Canal Bill. 

rdered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to amend and enlarge the powers of the several Acts 
relating to the Ellesmere and Chester Canal: And 
that Lord Viscount Clive and Sir Rowland Hill do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Shaw Lefevre reported from the Select Com- London and 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Brighton 
Standing Orders relative to Bills for making Rail- (oibhes Line.) 
ways, had been complied with in the case of the pea 


| Petition for the London and Brighton Railway Bill 


(Gibbs’s Line). 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for making a Railway from London to Brighton, to 
be called “The London and Brighton Railway :” 
And that Mr. Patrick Stewart and Mr. John Stewart 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Shaw Lefevre reported from the Select Com- Charlton Kings 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; and to whom and Marsworth 
the Petition of Charles Lawrence, complaining of mabuny. 
non-compliance with the Standing Orders, was re- 
ferred; “That the Standing Orders relative to Bills 
for making Railways, had not been complied with, 
in the case of the Petition for the Charlton King’s 
and Marsworth Railway Bill, inasmuch as there are 
several discrepancies between the Plan and Section, 
and that the aia’ at Sandiwell and near Broad- 
well End, and at Stanton Saint John’s, are not ac- 
curately laid down on the Plan and Section, and that 
the lengths thereof do not agree on the said Plan. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Se- 
lect Committee on Standing Orders. 


A Petition of Land-owners, Merchants and Inha- Portsmouth 
bitants of Portsmouth, and the neighbourhood Commercial 
thereof, in the county of Southampton, for leave ?°°** 
to bring in a Bill for constructing and maintaining 
a Dock or Docks, Wharf or Wharfs, and Quay or 
Quays, along the south-western shore of the Harbour 
of Portsmouth, was presented, and read; and re- 
ferred to the Select Committee on Petitions for 
Private Bills. 


13 + A Petition 








Fisheries 
(Ireland) 
Company. 


Devizes and 
Melksham 
Railway. 


Long Eaton 
and Tupton 
Railway. 


Long Eaton 
and Nether 
Birchwood 
Railway. 


Parrett 
Navigation. 


Maryport and 
Carlisle Rail- 
way. 


Manchester, 
Bolton, and 
Bury Naviga- 
tion and Rail- 
way. 


Bann (Lower) 
Navigation. 


62 


A Petition of J. Elley and others, for leave to 
bring in a Bill for altermg and amending an Act 
made in the fifth year of the reign of His present 
Majesty, for establishing a Joint Stock Company 
for the prosecution and extension of the Fisheries 
off the shores of Lreland, and for the improvement 
of the sea-coasts in connexion with such Fisheries, 
was presented, and read; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Owners and Occupiers of a 
or residents on or near the line of an intended Rail- 
way hereinafter mentioned, for leave to bring in a 
Bill for making a Railway from the borough of 
Devizes to Melksham, both in the county of Wilts, 
was presented, and read; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of the Midland Counties Railway 
Company, for leave to bring ina Bill for making 
a Railway, commencing by a junction with the main 
line of the said Midland Counties Railway, at the 
north bank of the Cranfleet Cut, in the township 
of Long Eaton, in the parish of Sawley, in the 
county of Derby, and terminating by a junction 
with the North Midland Railway, at the Road lead- 
ing from North Wingfield to Tupton, in the town- 
ship of Tupton, in the parish of North Wingfield, 
in the said county of Derby, and several branches 
therefrom, was presented and read ; and referred to 
the Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of the Midland Counties Railway 
Company, for leave to bring in a Bill for making a 
Railway commencing by a junction with the main 
line of the said Midland Counties Railway, at or 
near the north side of the Cranfleet Cut, in the 
township of Long Eaton im the parish of Sawley, in 
the county of Derby, and termmating in the town- 
ship of Nether Birchwood, in the “peer of Alfreton, 
in the said county of Derby, and several branches 
therefrom, was presented, and read; and referred 


to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private 
Bills. 


A Petition of Members of the Committee of ma- 
nagement of the Parrett Navigation Company, for 
leave to brmg in a Bill for altering, amending and 
enlarging the powers of an Act passed in the sixth 
year of the reign of His present Majesty, for im- 
proving the navigation of a portion of the River 
Parrett, and for making a navigable Canal from 
the said River to Barrington, all in the county of 
Somerset, and for improving the Navigation of the 
River Yeo, otherwise Ivel, was presented, and read ; 
and referred to the Select Committee on Petitions 
for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of the town and port 
of Maryport, in the county of Cumberland, and 
others interested therein, for leave to bring in a Bill 
for making a Railway from the town and port of 
Maryport, and to jom the Newcastle-upon- Tyne and 
Carlisle Railway, in the parish of Saint Cuthbert, 
Carlisle, in the same county, was presented, and 
read; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of the Manchester, Bolton and Bury 
Canal Navigation and Railway Company, for leave 
to bring in a Bill for extending the line of the said 
Railway, so as to form a junction with the Man- 
chester and Liverpool Railway, in the parish of 
Manchester, tor altering and amending the several 
Acts relating to the said Navigation and Railway, 
and for increasing or altering the tolls, was pre- 
sented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Shareholders in the Lough Neagh 


17° Februari. 























A. 1837. 


for the conversion of the Lower Bann River into 
a navigable Canal from Lough Neagh to the Sea 
below Coleraine, and for levying tolls and duties 
on vessels passing through such Navigation, was 
presented, and read; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Members of the East India Agri- East India 
cultural Company, for leave to bring in a Bill for Agricultural 
; : ‘ Company. 
incorporating the said Company, was presented, and 
read ; and referred to the Select Committee on Pe- 
titions for Private Bills. 


Sir John Wrottesley reported from the Select Com- Standing 
mittee on Standing Orders relative to Private Bills, Orders ; 
several Resolutions, which were read, as follow: 

1. That in the case of the Petition for the Bristol Bristol and 
and Gloucester Railway Bill, the Standing Orders — 

ailway. 
ought not to be dispensed with. ‘ 

2. That in the case of the Petition for the Mid- Midland Cow. 
land Counties Railway Bill, the Standing Orders ts Railway. 
ought not to be dispensed with. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Owners of estates and Occupiers King’s Ferry 
of lands, in the parishes of Shotwick, Burton, Nes- 24 Liverpool 
ton and Bebbington, for leave to bring in a Bill — 
for making a Turnpike Road from the Lower King’s 
Ferry, in the piers of Hawarden, in the county of 
Flint, to the Rock Ferry, in the parish of .Bebbing- 
ton, in the county of Chester, was presented, and 


read; and referred to Mr. Mostyn and the Wales 
List. 


A Petition of several Persons whose names are Lowestoft 
thereunto subscribed, for leave to bring in a Bill for 4%" 
making and maintaining a Harbour, Docks and 
other Works, near the town of Lowestoft, in the 
county of Suffolk, was presented, and read; and 
referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for 
Private Bills. 


A Petition of several Persons whose names are Ramsgate 

thereunto subscribed, for leave to bring in a Bill for 224 Marsste 
ae : : Cemetery. 

establishing a Cemetery in an open and convenient 
situation in the neighbourhood of Ramsgate and 
Margate, in the county of Kent, for the interment 
of the dead, was presented, and read; and referred 
to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private 
Bills. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of the parish of Mer- Merthyr Tyaii 
thyr Tydfil, in the county of Glamorgan, for leave Magistates. 
to bring in a Bill for renewing or continuing the 
term and amending the powers of an Act passed in 
the 10th year of the reign of his late Majesty, “ to 
provide for the more effectual execution of the Office 
of a Justice of the Peace within the Parishes of 
Merthyr Tydfil and Gellygare, and Aberdare, in 
the county of Glamorgan,” was presented, and read ; 
and referred to the Select Committee on Petitions 
for Private Bills. 


The House was moved, That the Report in re- Clarence 
spect of the Petition for the Clarence (Durham) meg 
Railway Bill, which upon Wednesday last was made sella 
from the Select Committee on Standing Orders, re- 
lative to Private Bills, might be read ; and the same 
being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
alter, amend, explain and enlarge the powers of the 
several Acts for making and maintaining the Clarence 
Railway: And that Mr. Bowes and Mr. Pease do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


A Petition of the Eastern Counties Railway Com- London an¢ 
pany, for leave to bring in a Bill for altering sea 
and amending an Act passed in the last Session of ; 
Parliament, “ for making a Railway from London 


to Norwich and Yarmouth, by Romford, Chelms- 


Improvement Company, for leave to bring in a Bill | ford, Colchester, and Ipswich, to be called “ The 


Eastern 





Tpswit 
Impro 
and [ 


Collie 
Tide. 
(Dep 


Collie 
and S 
Canal 


Holm 
Rese 


Mou 
Harb 


Chur 





ifil 





Ipswich 
Improvement 
and Docks. 


Collier and 
Tide Docks 
(Deptford, &amp;c.) 


Collier Dock 
and Surrey 
Canal. 


Holme 
Reservoirs. 


Mounts Bay 
Harbour, 


Church Rates, 


7 Wit. IV. 


Eastern Counties Railway,” and for altering and 
varying the line of the ms Railway, was presented, 
and read ; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Owners of property in the town of 
Ipswich, or Merchants, Traders and Rate-payers 
resident within the said town and the neighbourhood 
thereof, for leave to bring in a Bill for extending 
the powers of several Acts for improving the town 
of Ipswich, and for making Docks therein, and to 
alter or increase the Rates or Tolls, was presented, 
and read; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Subscribers to the London Collier 
Tide Docks, and Owners and —— of property 
required for the site of the same, for leave to bring 
in a Bill for making Docks for the reception and ac- 
commodation of Ships and Craft engaged in the 
Coal Trade in the parishes of Saint Paul, Deptford, 
in the county of Kent, and Saint Mary, Rother- 
hithe, and Saint Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, in 
the county of Surrey, was presented, and read; and 
referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for 
Private Bills. 


A Petition of Owners and Occupiers of lands, 
houses and other premises in the several parishes of 
Saint Mary, Rotherhithe, Saint Giles, Camberwell, 
Saint Mary, Newington, Saint Mary, Lambeth, and 
Battersea, in the county of Surrey, Saint Paul, 
Deptford, in the counties of Kent and Surrey, and 
Saint Nicholas, Deptford, in the county of Kent, 
for leave to bring in a Bill for making Wet Docks 
adjoining to the Grand Surrey Canal, in the parish 
of Saint Mary, Rotherhithe, for the reception of 
Colliers, and for extending the said Canal to Wine 
Elms, in the parish of Battersea, was presented, 
and read ; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Owners or Occupiers of mills and 
factories situate on or near the River Holme, and 
other brooks or streams connected therewith, in the 
west riding of the county of York, for leave to 
bring in a Bill for making and maintaining Reser- 
voirs, Embankments and other works on the said 
river, was presented, and read; and referred to the 
Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of several Persons whose names are 
thereunto subscribed, for leave to bring in a Bill for 
making and maintaining a Breakwater at or near 
Penlea Point, in Mount’s Bay, in the parish of 
Saint Paul, near the town of Penzance, in the 
county of Cornwall, and making and maintaining a 
a Harbour in Mount’s Bay aforesaid, was presented, 
and read; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Petitions for Private Bills. 


Petitions from Cockermouth ;—Maulden ; —South- 
ampton ; — Christchurch; — Ashton-under-Line ; — 
Carlton; — Woburn, Bedford ; — Kingston-upon- 
Thames ;—Great and Little Broughton ;—Sopley ; 
— Keysoe; — Winterbourne ;— Bugbrook ; — Little 
Brington ;— Welford ; —Ecton ;—Great Gidding; 
— Northampton; — Spaldwich ; — Melbourne ; — 
South Shields; — Northwick ; — Middlewich ; — 
Derby (four Petitions) ;— Massley ;— Little Eaton;— 
Somersham ;— Nottingham (two Petitions) ;— Great 
Yarmouth ;—Town Council of Chester ;— Walworth ; 
—Denbigh ;— Kingsland ; — Carnarvon; — Staly- 
bridge ; — Bradford; — Niton and Rond ; — Yar- 
mouth and Willow; — Corporation of Warwick; — 
Mansfield ;— Kincardine ; — Saint Neot’s; —Salis- 
bury ; — Stoney Stratford ; — Sherington ;— Fenny 
Stratford ;—North Crawley ;—Corporation of .Der- 
by; — Warwick ; — Preston ; — Auchtermuchty ; — 
John Edwards; — Strathmiglo; — Dunfermline, 

Vox. 92. 


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63 


Moderator of the Presbytery ;—Ceres ;— Protestant 
Dissenters of Derby Circuit ;—Saint Ives, Hunt- 
ingdon ;— Mere ;—and, Rochester, Chatham and 
Strood ; praying for the abolition of Church Rates, 
—~were presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 

Petitions from Bridgwater ; — Trull; — Etchil- 
hampton ;—All-Cannings ;— Windlesham ; — Staple- 
grove;—and, Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd; praying that 
Church Rates may not be abolished,—were also 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Trustees of the Turnpike Road from Railroads. 
Sandwich, through Deal to Dover, praying that 
the House in passing Bills for making Railroads, 
will take measures to protect the money ad- 
vanced on Turnpike Securities, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Enniscorthy ;— Saint Mary’s, New Municipal 

Ross ;— Edermine and Oilgate ;—Burrishroole ;— re 
Ballymore and Killale;—Nohill ;—Kilkenny West; (eiand) Bil. 
—-Kilbeggan and Rahue ;—Street ;—Clones East ; 
—and, Birr; praying that the Municipal Corpora- 
tions (Jreland) Bill may pass into a law,—were pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


Petitions from Kileoman and Robin ;—Augha- Tithes 
gour ; — Enniscorthy ; — Edermine and Oilgate ;-— (elan4-) 
and, Birr; praying for the abolition of Tithes in 
Ireland,—were presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from New Sarum ;—and, Birr ; praying Vote by Ballot. 
for the adoption of Vote by Ballot in the Election of 
Members to serve in Parliament,—were presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Innkeepers and Publicans, Licensed Innkeepers. 
Victuallers, in Canterbury, Hythe, Maidstone, Graves- 
end, Faversham and Epsom, praying for a revi- 
sion of the Acts of Parliament regulating their 
trade, and for the gradual abolition of Beer-houses, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of Manufacturers of Tobacco in Hanley, Tobacco. 
complaining of restrictions on their trade by the 
Excise Regulations, and praying for such relief from 
the Permit and Survey system as the House shall 
think proper, was presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Magistrates, Clergy and Inhabi- Municipal 
tants of Warrington, praying that the Municipal Cnehond) Bill 
Corporations (Ireland) Bil may not pass into a law, — 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 

A Petition of Persons holding the offices of Turn- 
cocks in the Pipe Water Department of the Corpo- 
ration of Dublin ;—and, een being Officers 
appointed by and serving under the Corporation of 
the city of Dublin; praying that provision may be 
made in the said Bill to secure them from losses to 
be occasioned by the passing thereof,—were also 
— and read; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 


A Petition of Thomas Bradley, Esquire, late Lieut.-Col. 
Lieutenant Colonel of His Majesty’s 2d West India Bradley. 
Regiment, complaining of his dismissal from the 
army, and of the conduct of Colonel Arthur in in- 
flictmg corporal punishment in an unusual mode, 
and with barbarous severity at Honduras, and pray: 
ing for inquiry, was presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Nantwich, praying Criminal Law. 
the House not to sanction any general measure for 
the revision of the Criminal Law which shall retain 
the punishment of death for any other crime than 
that of murder, was presented, and read; and 





ordered to lie upon the Table. 


14 A Petition 








64. 17° Februariz. A. 1837. 


Small Debts A Petition of Inhabitants of Blairgowrie, praying 

(Scotland) Bill. that the Small Debts (Scotland) Bill, may pass into 
a law, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


Fictitious Votes A Petition of Electors and Non-electors of Dollar 

(Scotland-) and Logie, complaining of the creation of. Fictitious 
Votes for Members to serve in Parliament for coun- 
ties in Scotland, and praying relief, was presented, 
and read; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Fictitious Votes (Scotland.) 


Soap. Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Accounts of all Soap made in each Town in Great 
Britain; distinguishing Hard from Soft, from 5th 
January 1836 to 5th January 1837 :—Of wee 
exported, specifying the Port from whence “we : 
and the Amount of Drawback paid thereon, from 
5th January 1836 to 5th January 1837 :—Of the 
Quantity of Soap, distinguishing Hard from Soft, 
and the Amount of all Allowances and Drawbacks 
made to the Manufacturers of Woollens, Linens, 
Silks, and others, from 5th January 1836 to 5th 
January 1837 :—Of all Soap exported to Ireland, 
Hard and Soft, the Port from whence shipped, and 
the Amount of Drawback paid thereon, from 5th 
January 1836 to 5th January 1837:—Of all Soap 
imported into Great Britain, Hard and Soft, the 
Port at which it was imported, the Amount of Duty 
paid thereon, from 5th Januaay 1836 to 5th J 7 
1837; distinguishing the Quantity imported in eac 
year :—Of the Names of all Persons convicted of 
defrauding the Revenue arising from Soap; the 
Dates of Conviction; the Amount of the several 
Penalties; whether the Person so convicted has 
been previously convicted or fined, or had Penalties 
compromised; the Amount paid to the seizing 
Officers for each Conviction ; and the Names, Dates, 
Amount of Penalties paid on all cases which have 
been compromised, from 5th January 1836 to 5th 
January 1837. 


Soap. Petitions from Bristol (two Petitions) ;— Philip 
Jones and others ;—and, Frome; praying for the 
repeal of the Duty on Soap,—were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Mary-le-bone A Petition of Householders and Inhabitants of 
— of the Borough of Mary-le-bone, in the county of Mid- 
— dlesex, for leave to bring in a Bill for establishing 
a Court of Requests for the Recovery of Debts 
under Ten Pounds within the said borough, was 
presented, and read ; and referred to the Select Com- 

mittee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


Bamsley A Petition of Rate-payers of Barnsley, reciting 
Improvement an Act passed in the year 1822, for lighting, paving, 
- cleansing, watching and improving that Town, and 
praying the House to repeal the Qualification Clause, 
make all the Rate-payers eligible to office, and give 
them a vote in the election of Commissioners, was 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 


Table. 


Ellesmere A Petition of Trustees for executing the Acts for 
Roads. repairing the Roads from Shrewsbury, through Elles- 
mee, in the County of Salop, and Overton, in the 
County of Flint, to Wrexham, in the County of 
Denbigh, and other Roads in the said Acts men- 
tioned, so far as relates to the Ellesmere District of 
the said Roads, for leave to bring in a Bill for con- 
* tinuing the term and powers of the said Acts, and for 
varying or altering the Tolls, was presented, and 
read; anda Bill was ordered to be brought in accord- 
ingly, by Mr. Ormsby Gore and Mr. Hamilton. 


Beliast A Petition of John Wallace, of Belfast, in the 
Harbour county of Antrim, attorney-at-law, and others, for 
(No.3.) leave to bring in a Bill for altering the mode of 


electing the Trustees appointed by the Act for im- 








proving the Port and Harbour of Belfast, was pre- 
sented, and read; and referred to the Select Commit- 
tee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Owners of Collieries, and divers Warkworth 
large fields of Coal, and Merchants, Traders and Harbour. 


Ship-owners residing in or trading near the town of 
Warkworth, in the county of Northumberland, for 
leave to bring in a Bill for forming a Harbour in the 
said parish of Warkworth, as a tow of Refuge, 
and for deepening, widening and otherwise im- 
proving the Navigation of the River Coguet, within 
the said parish, with all necessary Piers, Jetties and 
other Works, Roads and Approaches connected 
therewith, was presented, and read ; and referred to 


the Select Committee on Petitions for Private 
Bills. 


A Petition of several Persons whose names are p 
. ° ° ., Exeter and 
thereunto subscribed, for leave to bring in a Bill Falmouth 
for making a Railway from Exeter to Falmouth, Railway. 


was presented, and read ; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of several Persons whose names are 
thereunto subscribed, for leave to bring in a Bill for 
making a Railway from a piece or parcel of land 
near Lawn Bridge, in the parishes of Gillingham 
and Motcombe, or one of them, in the county of 
Dorset, to a piece or parcel of land situate in the 
parish of Durston, in the county of Somerset, there 
to unite with a certain Railway now in progress of 
execution, called “ The Bristol and Exeter Rail- 
way, was presented, and read; and referred to the 
Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


Mr. Shaw Lefevre reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; and to whom 
the Petition of the Corporation of Belfast, complain- 
ing of non-compliance with the Standing Orders, 
was referred ; That the Standing Orders relative to 
Bills for making Docks and Harbours, had not been 
complied with, in the case of the Petition for the 
Belfast Harbour (No. 1) Bill, inasmuch as no Esti- 
mate and Subscription List were deposited in the 
Private Bill Office. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders. 


Mr. Shaw Lefevre reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the 
Standing Orders relative to Bills for making Piers, 
Ports or Harbours, had been complied with in the 
case of the Petition for the Bridlington Harbour 
Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for improving the Piers and Harbour of Bridlington, 
in the East Riding of the county York, and for 
rendering the same more safe and commodious as a 
Harbour of Refuge: And that Mr. Bethel and Mr. 
Beilby Thompson do prepare, and bring it in. 


Gillingham 
and Durston 
Railway. 


Belfast 
Harbour 
(No. 1.) 


Bridlington 
Harbour. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Court of 
reading of the Court of Exchequer (Scotland) Bill ; a Bil 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time (Stsn4 &gt;® 


upon Monday, the 27th day of this instant Fe- 
bruary. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee upon the Post Office Contracts 
Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal reported, That 
the Committee had gone through the Bill; and di- 
rected him to report the same, without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be ingrossed; and read 
the third time upon Monday next. 


Lord Viscount Howick presented, pursuant to an 
Address to His Majesty,—Estimate of the Charge 
of His Majesty’s Land Forces for Service at gir 

an 


Post Office 
Contracts Bill. 


Army 
Estimates+ 


No. 47. 








7 Witt. LV. 


and Abroad, from the 1st of Apmil 1337 to the 31st 
of March 1838, being 365 days. 


Paper (A.)—Detail of the Charge of His Majesty’s 
Land Forces for Service at Home and Abroad, 
for 365 days, from the 1st April 1837 to the 
31st March 1838. 

Paper (B.)—Detail of the Charge of the Land 
Sues at Home and Abroad, as estimated for 
the Twelve months, from 1st April 1837 to the 
31st March 1838; distinguishing the Numbers 
of Officers and Non-commissioned Officers of 
each Rank, and the Numbers of Rank and File ; 
and also showing the daily and annual Pay and 
Allowances of each Rank, and the Charges for 
Agency and Clothing. 

Abstract of the Distribution of the Forces on the 
1st February 1837, and on the 1st February 
1836. 


Lord Viscount Howick also presented, by His 
Majesty’s command,— Estimate of the Charge of 
General Staff Officers and Officers of the Hospitals 
serving with His Majesty’s Forces at Home and 
Abroad, and of His Majesty’s Garrison of the Tower 
of London; from the 1st April 1837 to the 31st 
March 1838; inelosing, 


Particulars of the Pay and probable Contingent 
Expenses of General Staff Officers and Officers 
of the Hospitals in the United Kingdom and 
on Foreign Stations, except India, for 365 days, 
from the ist April 1837 to the 31st March 
1838. 

Particulars of the Pay of General Staff Officers 
and Officers of the Hospitals for Service on 
Foreign Stations, excepting India, and of the 
Pay of Clerks, &amp;c. of the said Officers, from 
the 1st April 1837 to the 31st March 1838, both 
days inclusive. 


Estimate of the Charge of the Allowances to the 
Principal Officers of the Public Departments there- 
under-mentioned, their Deputies, Clerks and Contin- 
gent Expenses, for 365 days, from the Ist April 1837 
to the 31st March 1838. 

Estimate of the Charge of the Royal Military 
College, from the 1st April 1837 to the 31st March 
1838. 

Estimate of the Charge of the Royal Military 
Asylum, and of the Hibernian Military School, from 
the 1st April 1837 to the 31st March 1838, being 
365 days. 

Estimate of the Charge of Volunteer Corps, from 
ist April 1837 to the 31st March 18388. 


Estimate of the Charge of Allowances as Rewards 
for distinguished Services, not exceeding three-fifths 
of the Emoluments of Garrison Appointments which 
have become vacant; and also of Allowances to 
Officers of His Majesty’s Garrisons at Home and 
Abroad, holding their Appointments as Rewards for 
Military Service, but to which no efficient Military 
Duty attaches; and which Appointments will be 
abolished on Vacancies occurring, when Rewards 
for distinguished Military Service will be granted 
in lieu thereof; from 1st April 1837 to 31st March 
1838, both days inclusive, being 365 days. 


Estimate of the Charge of the Pay of General | 


Officers in His Majesty’s Forces, not being Colonels 
of Regiments, from the 1st April 1837 to the 31st 
March 1838, both days inclusive, being 365 days. 
Estimate of the Charge of Full Pay for Reduced 
and Retired Officers of His Majesty’s Forces, from 
ist April 1837 to 31st March 1838, being 365 days. 
Estimate of the Charge for Half Pay and Military 
Allowances to Reduced and Retired Officers of His 
Majesty’s Forces, from 1st April 1837 to 31st March 
1838, both days inclusive, being 365 days. 
Estimate of the Charge of Half Pay and Reduced 
Allowances to Officers of Disbanded Sasi Corps, 
of Pensions to Wounded Foreign Officers, and of 


Allowances to the Widows and Children of De- 
Vot. 92. 


17° Februarze. 





65 


ceased Foreign Officers, from 1st April 1837 to 31st 
March 1838, both days inclusive, being 365 days. 

Estimate of the Charge of Pensions to be paid to 
Widows of Officers of the Land Forces, from 1st 
April 1837 to 31st March 1838, both days inclusive, 
being 365 days. 

Estimate of the Charge of Allowances on the 
Compassionate List ; of Allowances as of His Ma- 
jesty's Royal Bounty; and of Pensions, Gratuities, 
and Allowances to Officers for Wounds, from 1st 
April 1837 to 31st March 1838, both days inclusive, 
being 365 days. 

Estimate of the Charge of Chelsea and Kilmain- 
ham Hospitals ; of the In-Pensioners of those Esta- 
blishments; of the Out-Pensioners of Chelsea Hos- 
pital ; and of Pensions granted to discharged Negro 
Soldiers, from the 1st April 1837 to the 31st March 
1838. 

Estimate of the Charge of Allowances, Compen- 
sations and Emoluments, in the nature of Superan- 
nuation or Retired Allowances, to Persons formerly 
belonging to the several Public Departments there- 
under-mentioned, in the United Kingdom, from the 
1st April 1837 to the 31st March 1838, both days 
inclusive, being 365 days. 

Abstract of the Estimates of Effective Army Ser- 
vices for 365 days, from 1st April 1837 to 31st March 
1838. 

Abstract of the Estimates of Non-effective Army 
Services, from 1st April 1837 to 31st March 1838. 

Comparative Abstract of the Estimates of Army 
Services, for the year ending 31st March 1837, and 
for the year ending 31st March 1838; showing the 
difference between the Numbers to be maintained, 
the probable Charges, and the amounts provided or 
to be provided for each Service, after deducting 
Appropriations in Aid. 

Supplemental Estimate of the Charge which will 
probably be incurred for the Maintenance, Clothing 
and other Expenses of three Companies of Mounted 
Riflemen, and of two provisional Battalions of In- 
fantry, and of other provisional Corps, which have 
been raised for the temporary Service of His Ma- 
jesty at the Cape of Good Hope. 

Ordered, That the said Estimates do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


The Municipal Corporations (Jreland) Bill was, Municipai 
Corporations 


({reland) Bill. 


according to Order, read a second time ; and com- 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for 
Monday next. 


The Prisons Regulation Bill was, according to Prisons’ Regu- 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a lation Bill, 


Committee of the whole House, for Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Supply. 


mittee of Supply ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Resolved, That this House will, at the rising of Adjournment, 


the House this day, adjourn till Monday next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee upon the Sedition (Scotland) Bill ; 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal aes, That 
the Committee had gone through the Bill; and di- 
rected him to report the same, without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be ingrossed ; and read 
the third time upon Tuesday next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Recorders’ 
Courts Bill. 


into a Committee upon the Recorders’ Courts Bill ; 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Sir George Clerk reported, 
That the Committee had gone through the Bull, and 
made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 


K Sir 








Petitions for 
Private Bills 
Committee. 


Municipal 
Corporations 
Bill. 


Judges’ 


Opinions Bill. 


Common Law 


Courts Bill. 


Common Law 
Officers’ Com- 


pensation. 


66 


Sir George Clerk reported the Bill accordingly ; 
and the Report was ordered to be taken into further 
consideration upon Wednesday next; and the Bill, 
as amended, to be printed. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on Petitions 
for Private Bills, have leave to sit To-morrow, not- 
withstanding the adjournment of the House. 


Mr. Bernal reported the Municipal Corporations 
Bill; and the Amendments were read, and agreed 
to; and a Clause was added to the Bill. 

Another Clause was offered to be added to the 
Bill, regulating the mode of electing Aldermen upon 
vacancies :—And the said Clause was brought up, 
and read the first time. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question being 
put, That the said Clause be now read a second 
time ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 

Tellers for the ¢ Mr. Scarlett, } 34 

Yeas, \ Mr. Hodgson Hinde: ; 

Tellers for the { Mr. Bernal, 1 99 

Noes, 1 Sir Thomas Troubridge: J ~~ 

So it passed in the Negative. 

Another Clause was offered to be added to the 
Bill, for the election of two persons to execute the 
office of Sheriff:—And the said Clause was brought 
up, and read the first time. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question being 
put, That the said Clause be now read a second time; 
it passed in the Negative. 

Another Clause was offered to be added to the 
Bill, providing that a Rate may be levied for the 
purpose of paying any debt chargeable upon the 
Rates of any Borough contracted for before the 
passing of the Act. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question being 
put, That the said Clause be now brought up; it 
passed in the Negative. 

Another Clause was offered to be added to the 
Bill, that Hospitals for the maintenance of aged and 
decayed Freemen may continue to be supported out 
of the Corporation Funds. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question being 
put, That the said Clause be now brought up; it 
passed in the Negative. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed ; and read the third time upon Monday 
next. 


The Judges’ Opinions Bill was, according to Order, 
read a second time; and committed to a Committee 


of the whole House, for Wednesday, the 1st day of 


March next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Common Law Courts Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


A Motion being made, That this House will, 
upon Monday next, resolve itself into a Committee, 
to consider of making provision, out of the Conso- 
‘idated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great 
Britain and Ireland, for any deficiency which may 
arise in the amount of Fees of the Courts of Com- 
mon Law, under the provisions of any Act to be 


passed m the present Session of Parliament for 


abolishing certain Offices in the Superior Courts of 
Common Law ; 

Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, by His Ma- 
jesty’s command, acquainted the House, That His 
Majesty, having been informed of the subject-matter 
of this Motion, recommends jt to the consideration 
of the House. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


17° Februari. 








A. 1837. 


The Registration of Voters’ Bill was, according to Registration of 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a a 
Committee of the whole House, for Wednesday, the 
1st day of March next. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being Fictitious Votes 
put, That the O’ Conor Don be discharged from any oa 
further attendance on the Select Committee on ; 
Fictitious Votes (Scotland) ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the old Lobby ; 

The Noes to the new Lobby. 

Tellers for the Yeas,{ Lehre : } 130. 

Tellers for the Noes, iy -daaaaaas 16. 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

A Motion was made, and the Question being 
proposed, That Mr. Divett be added to the said 
Comunittee ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the name of “ Mr. Divett,” 
and inserting the name of “ Mr. Patrick Maxwell 
Stewart,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the name of 
Mr. Divett stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 

Tellers for the ¢ The Lord Advocate, 11 

Yeas, Mr. Fox Maule: J ° 
Tellers for the ¢ Lord Viscount Stormont, | 40 
Noes, | Sir George Clerk: . 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That Mr. Divett be added to the said 


Comunittee. 


Ordered, That the O’ Conor Don and Mr. Strutt Petitions for 
be discharged from any further attendance on the Private Bills 
Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 

Ordered, That Mr. Baines and Mr. Law Hodges 
be added to the Committee. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Fees Fees paid by 
paid by Members, which was laid upon the Table Members. 
yesterday, be printed. No. 48. 


Mr. Alderman Wood presented a Bill for the better Hackney 
Regulation of Hackney Carriages and of Omnibuses a 
used in and near the Metropolis, and of the Drivers -_ _ 

ill. 
and Attendants thereof: And the same was read No.49 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second time “~°*” 
upon Wednesday, the 1st day of March next ; and 
to be printed. 


Lord John Russell presented, by His Majesty’s Poor Laws 
command,—The Second Report of the Commissioners (Ireland) 
for inquiring into the Condition of the Poorer Classes 
in Ireland. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Belfast _ 
Returns of the Names of al] Subscribers to the Royal Academica 
Belfast Academical Institution, with the Amount — 
and Date of their respective Subscriptions :—Of the 
Names of all Persons (Ministers excepted) who have 
been acknowledged as Successors tothe original Sub- 
scribers, with a Statement of the Law by which 
they have been so acknowledged :—Of the Names 
of all Ministers who have been acknowledged as Pro- 
prietors, in virtue of Money subscribed by their 
Predecessors or Congregations, with a Statement of 
the Law by which they have been so acknowledged : 

—Of the Names of all Persons (if any) who have 
applied to be recognized as Successors to Subscribers, 
and whose Claims have been rejected, with the Rea- 
sons of such rejection :—Of the Names of all Pro- 
fessors receiving Salaries from Government, the 
Number of Lectures and Examinations annually 
held by each Professor, with the Amount of Salary 
allotted to each:—Of the Number of Students 

in 


Stan 
Ord 
Com 


Spai 


Hin 
Sma 
Bill, 


Mar 
and 
Rail 


Car 
Loft 
Tne 


Llar 
Roa 


Elle 
and 
Can, 





Standing 
Orders 
Committee. 


Spain. 


Bonding 
Warehouses. 


Collectors 
of Taxes 
(Scotland.) 


Hinckley 
Small Debts 
Bill. 


Manchester 
aud Tamworth 


Railway Bill. 


Carlton and 
fthouse 
liclcsu 


Llanrwst 
Roads Bill. 


Ellesmere 
and Chester 
Canal Bill, 


ill. 


7 Wixt. IV. 


in the Class of each endowed Professor, during the 
last Three years ; distinguishing those considered as 
Candidates for the Ministry, and the Religious 
Bodies to which they respectively belong :— Of the 
Names of all Professors who hold plurality of Pro- 
fessorships, with the reason of such Appointment :— 
Of the Names of all Professors not endowed by Go- 
vernment, with the Number of their Students, and, 
so faras may be ascertained, the Religious Bodies 
to which they belong :—and, Copies of all Bye-laws 
enacted since the year 1810. 





And then the House adjourned till Monday next. 








Luna, 20° die Februarii ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi IV" Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


QRDER ED, That the Select Committee on 

Standing Orders relative to Private Bills, have 
leave to sit this day till five of the clock, during the 
sitting of the House. 


Mr. Crafer, from the Treasury, was called in ; 
and at the bar presented,—Return to an Address 
to His Majesty, dated the 7th day of this instant 
February, for a Return of the Amount of Military 
and Naval Stores, Arms and Ammunition, fur- 
nished to the Queen of Spain under the stipula- 
tions of the Quadrupartite Treaty, and the Amount 
of Payment received for the same by His Majesty’s 
Government, 

Mr. Crafer also presented,—Returns to an Ad- 
dress to His Majesty, dated the 7th day of this 
instant February, for a Return of the Naval Slops 
and Provisions issued from any of His Majesty’s 
Victualling Yards or Ships of War, for the use of 
the British Legion, or any other Forces serving her 
Majesty the Queen of Spain, and of the value 
thereof: likewise the Amount received in whole or 
in part by His Majesty’s Government for the same. 

Mr. Crafer also presented, pursuant to Order,— 
Copy of the Minute of the Treasury respecting 
Bonding Warehouses. 

Mr. Crafer also presented, pursuant to the direc- 
tions of an Act of Parliament,—A Statement of the 
Names of Persons, other than Distributors or Sub- 
Distributors of Stamps, appointed by virtue of the 
Act 5 and 6 Will. 4, c. 64, s. 10, as Collector of 
Land and Assessed Taxes in Scotland, with the 
Salary and Allowances appertaining to that Office : 
—And then he withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 


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to the Ellesmere and Chester Canal: And the same 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time. 





General Zygon presented a Bill for making a Worcester and 
Railway from the Birmingham and Gloucester Rail- sie “ 
way, near Worcester, to the Grand Junction Railway, om 
near Wolverhamptcn (with Branches therefrom), to 

be called ‘The Grand Connection Rauway’: And 

the same was read the first time ; and ordered to be 

read a second time. 

A Petition of Peter Prattinton, of Bewdley, in 

the county of Worcester, Bachelor of Medicine, 

praying that the said Bill may not pass into a law, 

was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 

the Table. 

A Petition of George New, of Hadley, in the 

county of Worcester, praying that he may be heard, 

by himself, his counsel or agent, against the said 

Bill, was also presented, and read ; and ordered to 

lie upon the Table. 


The Worcester County Hall Bill was read a se- Worcester 
cond time; and committed to General Lygon and County Hall 
the Worcester List. “i 


Mr. George Wilbraham presented a Bill for making Chester and 

a Railway from the City of Chester to Birkenhead : ery 
And the same was read the first time; and ordered 
to be read a second time. 


The Biddulph Roads Bill was read a second time ; Biddulph 
and committed to Mr. George Wilbraham and the ®4s Bill. 
Chester List. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of the town and neigh- Manchester 
bourhood of Middlewich, in the county of Chester, heggi 
praying that the Manchester and Stafford Railway a 
Bill may pass into a law, was presented, and read ; 

and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Owners and Occupiers of estates Manchester 
and property, and others resident in the neighbour- aud Tamworth 
hood of Tamworth, in the counties of Stafford and a 
Warwick, upon the line of a projected Railway from 
Manchester, to jom the Birmingham and Derby 
Junction Railway, at or near Tamworth, or some of 
the branches thereof ;—and, Bankers, Merchants, 
Manufacturers, Traders and other Inhabitants of 
Leek, in the county of Stafford; praying that the 
Manchester and Tamworth Railway Bill may pass 
into a law,—were presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Barnard presented a Bill to alter and amend ——_ 
an Act of the last Session of Parliament, intituled, *‘" “"" 





Table. 


The Hinckley Small Debts Bill was read a second 
time ; and committed to Mr. Halford and the Lei- 
cester List. 


A Petition of Thomas Kinnersley, of Clough Hall, 
in the county of Stafford, Esquire, praying that he 
may be heard, by himself, his counsel or agent, 
against the Manchester and Tamworth Railway Bill, 


was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


An ingrossed Bill for inclosing Lands in the Town- 
ship of Lofthouse-cum-Carlton, in the Parish of 
Rothwell, inthe West Riding of the County of York, 
was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Sir John Beckett do carry the Bill 
to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Llanrwst Roads Bill was read a second time ; 


ree committed to Mr. Wilson Jones and the Wales 
ist. 


“ An Act for making and maintaining a Pier, Wharf 
and other Works at Greenwich, in the County of 
Kent,” and to extend the Powers of the said Act: 
And the same was read the first time; and ordered 
to be read a second time. 


The Leicester Corporation Estates Bill was read Leicester 
a second time; and committed to Mr. Serjeant Corporation 
2 . 3 Estates Bill. 
Goulburn and the Leicester List. 


Mr. Bethell presented a Bill for improving the Bridlington 
Piers and Harbour of Bridlington, in the East Harbour Pill. 
-Riding of the County of York, and for rendering 
the same more safe and commodious as a Harbour 
of Refuge: And the same was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time. 


The Hayle Causeway Road Bill was read a second Hayle Cause- 
time; and committed to Mr. Pendarves and the “#y Read Bill. 
Cornwall List. 


Mr. Hawes presented a Bill to enable the Licensed Liccnsed 
Victuallers and General Fire and Life Assurance Victuallers 
Company to sue and be sued in the name of the 


Assurance 





Lord Viscount Clive presented a Bill.to amend 
= enlarge the Powers of the several Acts relating 
OL. 92. 





Company Bill. 


Chairman, Deputy Chairman, or of any one of the 
Directors of the said Company, and for other pur- 
K 2 


poses : 








Chester and 


Crewe Railway. 


Scarborough 
Harbour. 


Liverpvol 
Apothecaries 
Company Bill. 


Fire Insurances. 


Church Rates. 


Tithes 
(Ireland.) 


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poses: And the same was read the first time ; and 
ordered to be read a second time. 


Mr. Shaw Lefevre reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the 
Standing Orders relative to Bills for making Rail- 
ways, had been complied with in the case of the 
Petition for the Chester and Crewe Railway Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for making a Railway from the city of Chester to 
join the Grand Juncti »n Railway, near Crewe Hall, 
in the county of Chester: And that Lord Robert 
Grosvenor ani Mr. Jervis do prepare, and bring 
it in. 

Mr. Shaw Lefevre reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bi'ls; That the 
Standing Orders relative to Bills for making Har- 
bours, had been complied with in the case of the 
Petition for the Scarborough Harbour Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for rendering the Harbour of Scarborough, in the 
north riding of the county of York, more safe 
and commodious as a Harbour of Refuge: And 
that Sir John Johnstone and Sir Frederick Trench 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


The Liverpool Apothecaries Company Bill was 
read a second time; and committed to Mr. Ewart 
and the Lancaster List. 


Petitions from Nottingham ;—Ashburton ;—and, 
Bury Saint Edmund's; praying for the repeal of 
the Duty on Fire Insurances,—were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Yelling ;—Hackney ;—All Saints, 
Poplar ;— Old Gravel Lane, Ratcliff;—Old Ford, 
Bow ;— Bethnal Green;— Poultry, London ;— Great 
Dunmow ; — Chowbent; — Swinton; —- Nottingham 
(twoPetitions); —Manchester ; — Lowestoft , — Ly- 
mington ; — Melbourne; — Henrietta-street, Bruns- 
wich-square ; — Henley-on-Thames ; — Old Kent 
Road ; —Newbury ; —Islington ;—Stepney ;— Com- 
mercial Road ;—Shadwell ;— Manchester ;— Hackney 
Road ;—Wychklyffe Chapel, London ;—Little Pres- 
cott-street, Middlesex ; — Mill Wall, Middlesex ; — 
Upper Clapton ;— Walworth ;— Devizes ;— Pock- 
lington ; —- Billericay ; — Wethersfield ; — Colches- 
ter ; — Chelmsford (two Petitions) ; — Bocking ; 
— Little Waltham ;—Students for the Dissenting 
Ministry of Colleges in and near the Metropolis ; 
— Swanland ; — Driffield; — Great Grimsby ; — 
Mold ; — Holywell ; — Buckingham ; — Newcastle- 
upon- Tyne ; — Hetton-le-Hole ; — Stowmarket ; — 
Auchtermuchty ; — Kingston-upon-Hull ; -— Allen- 
dale;— Haydon Bridge; —Abdie ;— Braintree ;— 
Stebbing ; — Maldon ; — Stalybridge ; — Holling- 
worth and Mottram; — Houghton-le-Spring ; — 
Hooley Hill and Red Hall;— Oldham; — Redruth; 
— Newton ;— Hereford ;— Tynemouth ;— Martock;— 
Edinburgh ; —Aldermanbury, London ;-- Fareham ; 
—and, Llanbrynmair; praymg for the abolition of 
Church Rates,—were presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from Colaton Rawleigh; —Mordon;— 
Bridford;— Talaton;— Ottery Saint Mary ;—Otter- 
ton; — Sidmouth ; — Northam ;— Foston ;— Great 
Yeldham; — Colchester (two Petitions) ;—Chairman 
and Secretary of the Middle District Church Society, 
Dundee ;---Lincoln ; —Wotton Basset;—and, Brent 
Ely; praying that Church Rates may not be abo- 
lished,—were also presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Moancoin ;—Athenesius, Kilbredy 
and Balinvana ; — Cove ;—Athlone ;— Upper Glan- 


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mire ;—-Killoe;— Cork (three Petitions) ;-—Carriched- 
mond ; — Columbkill ;—Shrule ;— Edgeworthstown ; | 
—Abdbeylura ;— Blackditches ;— Bray ;— Wicklow ; | 
—Barrendarrig ;—and, Lacken; praying for the 
aboution of Tithes in Jreland, —were presented, | 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 





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} 





A. 1837. 


Petitions from Garrocloyne;—Lemonaghan ;—and, Tithes 
Whitechurch, praying for the abolition of Tithes, (eland), &amp;e, 
and that the ye Corporations (Ireland) Bill 
may pass into a law,—were presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Macroom, praying Tithes 
for the abolition of Tithes, and that the Municipal (Ireland), &amp;e, 
Corporations (Ireland) Bill may pass into a law, 
and also that the Election of Members to serve in 
Parliament may be taken by Ballot, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Lismore;—Naul ;— Hollywood ;— Municipal 

Lusk ; — Rathmines ; — Upper Glanmire; — Cork a 
(three Petitions) ;— Kingston-upon-Hull ; ime 
eassy, and other places;— Fahans and Dyser- 
tagany ;—Kildorrery and other places ;— Warring- 
ton ; —Carrigeen ; — Ferriter ;—Mallow ; — Cloyne 
and Kilteshkin ;— Churchtown ;—Ightermurrough ;— 
Charleville ;— Clonmel (two Petitions) ;—Midleton ; 
Cove ;—Kilmacdonough ;—Kilmahon ;— Newmarket 
(Cork) ;—Kilworth ;—A thlone ;— Shrule ;— Columb- 
kill ; — Abbeylarra ;— Edgeworthstown ;— Bray ;— 
Wicklow ; —Barrendarrig ; —Lacken ;—Carriched- 
mond ;—and, Killoe; praying that the Municipal 
Corporations (Ireland) Bill may pass into a law,— 
were presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


Petitions from Dalkey; — Upper Glanmire ; — Vote by Ballot 
Cork (three Petitions) ;—Athenesius, Kilbreedy and 
Balinvana ;—Moancoin ;— Killoe ;— Collumbhill ;— 
Edgeworthstown ;—Carrickedmond ; — Abbeylarra ; 
—Blackditches (two Petitions) ;— Lacken ;— Bar- 
rendarrig ;—and, Bray; praying that the election 
of Members to serve in Parliament may be taken 
by way of Ballot,—were presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Llandovery and Llangadock ;— Soap. 
Llandilo ;—and, Paisley ; praying for the repeal of 
the Duty on Soap,—were presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Chairman of a Meeting of In- Factories Act. 
habitants of Bradford, York, praying for the 
amendment of the Factories Act, was presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Buckfastleigh; — Dolgelly ; — Poor Law Act 
Southcoates ; — Drypool; —and, Marfleet; praying 
for the amendment of the Poor Law Act,—were 
gig and read; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 


A Petition of Occupiers of Eel Weirs at Killaloe, Shannon 
complaining that the Commissioners of the Shannon Navigation 
Navigation intend to deprive them of their Weirs, 
and praying that they may have full and adequate 
compensation for the loss of their property, was 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 


Table. 


_ A Petition of Inhabitants of Cockermouth, pray- Poor Lavs 
ing for the introduction of Poor Laws into Zreland, “#*#"*) 


was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee Tamworth and 
on Petitions for Private Bills; and to whom the Rughy _— 
Petitions of Sir George Chetwynd and others; _ 
Richard Mottram and others; James Roberts and 
others; Sir George Chetwynd; the Midignd 
Counties Railway Company ; and, Sir George Chet- 
wynd; complaining of non-compliance with the 
Standing Orders, were referred; That the Standing 
Orders relative to Bills for making Railways, had 
not been complied with in the case of the Petition 
for the Tamworth and Rugby Railway Bill, inas- 
much as No. 25, in the parish of Polesworth, and 
No. 12, in the extra patochiat place of Combe Fields, 
are not described upon the enlarged scale on the 

Plans, 





7 Witt. IV. 


Plans, and are not inserted in the Book of Reference ; 
and inasmuch as the height of the Railway is not 
marked on the Section at the highway leading from 
the Hinckley Turnpike Road to Nuneaton ; and in- 
asmuch as at the point of passage of the Railway 
over the Oxford Canal, in the parish of Monks Kirby, 
it is not stated whether any and what alteration is 
intended to be made in the level of such Canal, 
but the height of the Railway above such Canal, in 
feet and inches, is laid down as twelve feet; and 
inasmuch as at the point of passage of the Railway 
over the Oxford Canal, in the parish of Newbold- 
upon-Avon, it is not stated whether any and what 
alteration is intended to be made in the level of such 
Canal, but the height of the Railway above such 
Canal in feet and inches is laid down as seven feet 
six inches ; and inasmuch as at the point of junction 
of the Railway with the London and Birmingham 
Railway, it is not stated whether any and what 
alteration is intended to be made in the level of the 
said London and Birmingham Railway, but the 
height of the Railway is stated in feet and inches; 
and inasmuch as at the point of junction of the Rail- 
way with the Birmingham and Derby Railway, it 
is not stated whether any and what alteration is 
intended to be made in the level of the said Bir- 
mingham and Derby Railway, but the height of the 
Railway is stated in feet and inches; and inas- 
much as at the crossing of the Oxford Canal in the 
township of Little Harborough, it is not stated in 
the Section lodged with the Clerk of the Peace at 
Leicester, whether any and what alteration is in- 
tended, whereas upon the Section lodged in the 
Private Bill Office, it is stated to remain unaltered ; 
and inasmuch as at the Road from Shuttington to 
Grendon it is stated in the Section at Leicester to be 
raised seventeen feet, whereas at the same Road in 
the Section lodged in the Private Bill Office, it is 
stated to be eighteen feet; and inasmuch as at the 
cutting near the twenty-fourth mile on the Section at 
Leicester, the cutting is stated to be ten feet six 
inches, whereas in the section at the Private Bill 
Office it is stated to be eleven feet ; and inasmuch as 
at the crossing of the Oxford Canal at the twenty- 
fifth mile, it is stated in the Section deposited at 
Leicester to be seven feet, and in the Section at the 
Private Bill Office it is seven feet six inches; and 
inasmuch as the Road from Warton to Grendon, 
which is stated to be raised sixteen feet in the Sec- 
tion at the Private Bill Office, is not shown at all 
in the Section lodged with the Clerk of the Peace at 
Leicester ; and inasmuch as in the Section lodged 
with the Clerk of the Peace at Leicester, the height 
of the Road at Bilton is incorrectly marked, and it 
is not stated whether any alteration is intended to be 
made; and inasmuch as the copy of the Plan, 
Section and Book of Reference were not deposited 
with the Clerk of the Peace for the county of Lei- 
cester, until seven minutes past midnight of the 30th 
of November last ; and inasmuchas the Plan lodged 
with the Clerk of the Peace at Leicester, does not 
contain the numbers 63, 64, 65, 66 and 664, in the 
parish of Mewbold-upon-Avon; and inasmuch as 
the following errors appear in the Books of Re- 


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of “ John George Norbury, Esquire,” it being in the 
ownership of é S. Baxter, Esquire, and Edward 
Neald, Esquire, Trustees of the late James Owen: 
and, 8th, No. 51, is entered “ in the ownership of 
Stafford Stratton Baxter, Esquire,” it being in the 
ownership of Ralph Thompson, Esquire: and, 9th, 
Nos. 52 and 53 are entered “in the ownership of 
Thomas Cooper Hincks, and in the occupation of 
John Weetman,” it being in the ownership of 
Ralph Thompson, Esquire, and in the occupation of 
Sampson Smith: 10th, Township of Attleborough, 
in No. 922, is omitted the word “ ditto,” under the 
head of “ Owner,” in the copy deposited in the 
Private Bill Office of this House : 11th, “ Township 
of Hartshill,’ No. 96, is entered “in the owner- 
ship of Joseph Tabener, and in the occupation 
of Joseph Tabener,” it being in the ownership of 
Mary Goce, Dempster Dempster Hemming and Richard 
Gee, and in the occupation of Susannah Miles ; but 
it appeared to the Committee that the mistake occurs 
only in the Books of Reference deposited with the 
Clerks of the Peace ; but that in the copies depo- 
sited with the Parish Clerks, and in the Private Bill 
Office, the error had been corrected by a note 
affixed to such entry: 12th, and inasmuch as in the 
case of the crossing of the Railway at the turnpike 
Road at Witherley Bridge, that part of the Road being 
within one hundred yards of the county bridge, belongs 
to the county of Warwick, and not to the Trustees of 
the Turnpike Road ; and inasmuch as, 13th, at the 
crossing of the Atherton and Sheepy Turnpike Road 
at Alders Mill Bridge, that part of the Road being 
within one hundred yards of the county bridge, belongs 
to the county of Leicester, and not to the Trustees of 
the said Road; and inasmuchas application in writing 
was not made to Mr. William Bassett, one of the 
Committee for Warwick Moor; but it appeared to 
the Committee, that notice in writing had been served 
upon twenty of such Committee ; and inasmuch as 
no notice in writing had been made to the owners, 
or reputed owners, of Witherley Bridge and of 
Alders Mill Bridge respectively ; and inasmuch as 
Joseph Hall, an owner and occupier in the parish 
of Tamworth, Isaac Hall, an occupier in the parish 
of Amington, and William Vincent Ridley, an owner 
and occupier in the parish of Atherstone, had been 
wrongly entered as assenting in the List of Owners 
and Occupiers deposited in the Private Bill Office. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders. 


Mr. Shaw Lefevre reported from the Select Com- Brixham 


mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the 
Standing Orders relative to Bills for making Har- 
bours, and erecting Market-places, had been com- 
plied with, in the case of the Petition for the Brix- 
ham Harbour and Market Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for improving, enlarging and maintaining the Pier, 
Harbour and Market of Brixham, in the county of 
Devon, and for the formation of a Breakwater in 
Torbay: And that Sir John Yarde Buller and Mr. 
Montague Parker do prepare, and bring it in. 


ference :—1st, In the parish of Amington is omitted 


Mr. Aglionby reported from the Select Committee Manchester 
“No. 2, pasture—Owner, Mary Blood, widow :— 


on Petitions for Private Bills ; and to whom two Pe- hare 
ailway. 


Occupier, Mary Blood, widow :” — 2d, In the 
parish of Tamworth, No. 154, is omitted the word 
“ditto,” under the head of Occupier: 3d, In the 
parish of Aénsty, No. 2, is omitted the name of the 
occupier in the copy deposited in the Private Bill 
Office: 4th, and m No. 7, is omitted the word 
“ ditto,” under the head of Occupier, in the copy 
deposited in the Private Bill Ottice: 5th, In the 
parish of Tamworth, township of Bolehall, is omitted 
the occupiers of No. 136: 6th, In the parish of 
Merivale, No.3, is entered “in the ownership of Luke 
Faux, Esquire,” it being in the ownership of the 
Rev. Gerrard Thomas Andrews: 7th, In the parish 
of Mancetter, No. 44, is entered “in the ownership 


Vot. 92, 





titions of William Garrett, of Manchester, Esquire, 
complaining of non-compliance with the Standing 
Orders were referred; That the Standing Orders 
relative to Bills for making Railways, had not been 
complied with in the case of the Petition for the 
Manchester and Stafford Railway Bill; firstly, 
inasmuch as the fixed point to which the datum 
horizontal line is referred is not stated on the sec- 
tion with sufficient accuracy and clearness; on 
examination of the section, it appears that the fixed 
point to which the said line is referred is there 
stated to be 137 feet below Store-street, and that 
the Railway does not pass Store-street; it is in- 
tended that the Railway should not enter upon, but 

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70 20°—21° 


should terminate at Store-street, upon a line level 
with the front of the houses; the width of the Rail- 
way where it so terminates is 20 feet, and the level 
of the street for that width does not vary much ; 
the street is about 200 yards in length, with a re- 
gular fall of from three to four feet ; it appeared to 
the Committee that the reference in the section to 
Store-street generally is too vague, and that no one 
could ascertain with certainty in what part of the 
street the fixed point is taken; but it dia not ap- 
pear to the Committee that there was any intention 
to mislead ; the surveyor making the section under- 
stood in the construction he put upon the said 
Standing Order, that the fixed point must be at 
some place in the section; and he meant to make it 
ge on the section, that the fixed point was at 
the centre of the Railway where it jos upon Store- 
street; it appeared to the Committee, from evi- 
dence laid before them, that if it had been stated on 


the section that the fixed point was at that part of 


Store-street where the Railway terminates, no mis- 
conception could have arisen ; and that, according to 
the practice of surveyors and engineers, the centre 
of the Railway at such termination would have been 
understood to be designated : secondly, the Standing 
Order, No.5, had not been complied with, inasmuch 
as the Railway crosses the Grand Trunk Canal (its 
height being at such crossing 16 feet above the 
surface of the round), but such height is not marked 
in figures in the section laid before the Committee 
from the Private Bill Office; it appeared, however, 
to them from evidence, that such omission of the 


figures is an error in copying; and that the height of 


. . o ? . 
the Railway over the surface was marked in figures 


at such crossing on the original draft of the section, 
as well as on the several copies deposited with the 
clerks of the peace and the parish clerks. 
Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders. 
Lough Swilly A Petition of Proprietors, Gentry, Merchants, 
and Lough Traders and Inhabitants of Letterkenny, taking no- 
Foyle Canals, ° ‘ ° ‘ . _  % 5 
&amp;e. tice of the application for leave to bring in the Lough 
Swilly and Lough Foyle Canals Bill, and praying 
that such Bill may pass into a law, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Standing 


Sir John Wrottesiey reported from the Select Com- 
Orders ; 


mittee on Standing Orders relative to Private Bills, 
several Resolutions, which were read, as follow: 
Charlton Kings 1. Thatin the case of the Petition for the Charl- 
and Marsworth ton Kings and Marsworth Railway Bill, the Parties 
—— be permitted to proceed with their Bill. 

2. That im the case of the Petition for the Bel- 


Belfast Harbour 


(No. 1.) fast Harbour Bill (No. 1) the Parties be permitted 
to proceed with their Bill. 
The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 
Char'ton Kings The House was moved, That the Report in re- 
a spect of the Petition for the Charlton Kings and 


Marsworth Railway Bill, which was this day made 
from the Select Committee on Standing Orders rela- 
tive to Private Bills, might be read; and the same 
being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for making a Railway from Cheltenham to join the 
London and Birmingham Railway near Marsworth, 
im the county of Buckingham, with an extension 
thereof to join the Cheltenham and Great Western 
Union Railway at Cheltenham, and a branch to Oz- 
ford: And that Mr. Praed and Mr. Craven Berkeley 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


Frank Castelli's Frank Castelli’s Naturalization Bill was read a 


Nat. Bill. second time ; and committed to Mr. Bannerman and 
the Middlesex List. 

eg Alepsons’ Naturalization Bill was read a second 

vat, Dil, 


time; and committed to Mr. Bannerman and the 


Middlesex List. 








Februariz. 


A. 1837. 


Michael Castelli’s Naturalization Bill was read Michael 
a second time; and committed to Mr. Bannerman ang 
and the Middlesex List. sven 


Mr. Labouchere presented, by His Majesty’s com- Post Ofiice, 
mand,—The Seventh Report of the Commissioners 
appointed to inquire into the Management of the 
Post Office Department. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the Table. 


Lord John Russell presented, by His Majesty’s Lower Canada, 


command,—Reports of the Commissioners appointed Nv. 50. 
to inquire into the Grievances complained of in Lower 
Canada. 
Papers relative to the Affairs of Lower Canada. Lower Canada, 
Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the No, 57. 


Table ; and be printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- yfunicipai 
mittee on the Municipal Corporations (Jreland) Bill; Corporations 

A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- (eland) Bill 
— That it be an Instruction to the Committee, 

hat they have Power to make provision therein for 

the abolition of such Corporations, and for such 
arrangements as may be necessary, on their abo- 
lition, for securing the efficient and impartial admi- 
nistration of Justice, and the peace and good govern- 
ment of Cities and Towns in Ireland :—And a Debate 
arising thereupon ; 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Tuesday morning ; 


Martis, 21° die Februarii, 1837: 
Ordered, Thatthe Debate be adjourned till this day. 


The Charities Commission Bill was, according Charities 
to Order, read a second time; and committed to a — 
Committee of the whole House, for this day. ” 


The Shire Halls Bill was, according to Order, Shire Halls Bil. 
read a second time; and committed to a Committee 
of the whole House, for Friday next. 


The ingrossed Bill for transferring to the Commis- Post-Orice 
sioners of the Admiralty all Contracts, Bonds and Conte's Bil, 
other Securities entered into with the Postmaster 
General in relation to the Packet Service, was, at- 
cording to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Supply. 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the third Municipal — 
"$e +. . Corporations 
reading of the Municipal Corporations Bill ; Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
To-morrow. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Common lev 
into a Committee, to consider of making provision, a 
out of the Consolidated Fund of the United King-! . 
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, for any deficiency 
which may arise in the amount of Fees of the Courts 
of Common Law, under the provisions of any Act 
to be passed in the present Session of Parliament, 
for abolishing certain Offices in the Superior Courts 
of Common Law. 

(In the Committee.) 

Resolved, That it shall be lawful for the Lord 
High Treasurer, or the Commissioners of His Ma- 
jesty’s Treasury, to direct payment out of the Con- 
solidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great 
Britain and Ireland, of all such Sums of Money as 
may be required to pay the Salaries of Officers, 
Clerks and Messengers to be appointed by any Act 
of this present Session for abolishing Offices in the 
Superior Courts of Common Law, and for making 
provision fora more effective and uniform establish- 
ment of Officers in those Courts, and also all such 
sums of Money as may be required to carry 6 

efiect 


wAe 


Aborigines. 


Assessed Taxes 
(Scotland.) 


East Tndia 
Company. 


York and 
North Midland 


Nallway, 


alisea 
“ 
Waterworks, 


7 Wit. IV. 


effect any provisions contained in any such Act for | 
compensating Officers named in or abolished by 
any such Act. 

Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Ross 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Reso- 
lution. - 


Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed 
to consider what measures ought to be adopted with 
regard to the native Inhabitants of Countries where 
British Settlements are made, and to the neigh- 
bouring Tribes, in order to secure to them the due 
observance of justice, and the — of their 
rights ; to promote the spread of civilization among 
them; and to lead them to the peaceful and voluntary 
reception of the Christian Religion :—And a Com- 
mittee was appointed of Mr. Fowell Buxton, Mr. 
William Gladstone, Mr. Hawes, Mr. Bagshaw, Sir 
Rufane Donkin, Mr. Holland, Mr. Charles Lushing- 


20°—21° Februarie. 





ton, Sir George Grey, Mr. Pease, Mr. Baines, Mr. 
Andrew Johnston, Ma. Hindley, Mr. Plumptre, Mr. 
Wilson, and Colonel Thompson, with Power to send 
for persons, papers and records. 

Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 

Ordered, That the Committee have Power to re- 
port the Minutes of the Evidence taken before them, 
together with their observations thereupon, from 
time to time, to the House. 

Ordered, That the Minutes of Evidence taken 
before the Select Committee in the last Session upon 
the same subject, together with the Report of the 
said Committee, be referred to the Committee. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour before one of the clock 
on Tuesday morning, adjourned till this day. 





Martis, 21° die Februarii ; 

Anno 7° Willielmi IV“ Regis, 1837. 
PRAYERS. 

MoM: Tierney, from the Tax Office, was called in ; 


and at the bar presented, pursuant to the 
directions of an Act of Parliament,— Return of 
Copies of Cases stated and signed by the Commis- 
sioners acting in the execution of the Assessed Tax 
Acts, determined by the Judges in Scotland since 
the date of a like Return made in the last Session of 
Parliament :—And then he withdrew. 
Ordered, That the said Return dolie upon the Table. 


Mr. Campbell, from the Court of Directors of the 
East India Company, was called in; and at the bar 
presented, pursuant to the directions of an Act of 
Parliament,—An Account of Allowances, Compen- 
sations, Remunerationsand Superannuations granted 
to the Officers and Servants of the Board of Com- 
missioners for the Affairs of India, and of the East 
India Company, in 1836 :—And then he withdrew. 


Ordered, That the said Account do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Robert Palmer reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the 
Standing Orders relative to Bills for making Rail- 
ways, had been complied with in the case of the 
— for the York and North Midland Railway 

ill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill | 
to alter the Line of the York and North Midland | 
Railway, and to amend the Act relating thereto: And 
that Mr. John Henry Lowther and Mr. John Charles 


Dundas do prepare, and bring it in. 





Mr. Robert Palmer reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the 
Standing Orders relative to Bills for supplying Cities 
or Towns with Water, had been complied with in the 


ca . of the Petition for the Swansea Waterworks Bill. 
on. 92. 








/may pass into a law,—were presented, and read ; 
! . 
_and ordered to lie upon the Table. 





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Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for better supplying with Water the town and bo- 
rough of Swansea, in the county of Glamorgan: And 
that Mr. John Henry Vivian and Mr. Talbot do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Evelyn Denison reported from the Select Com- Berry and 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That in the Paterson’s 
case of the Petition for Berry and Paterson’s Patent *“" 
Bill, the application does not come within the Stand- 
ing Orders relative to Bills for confirming or pro- 
longing the term of Letters Patent, inasmuch as the 
application is for forming a Company to be called 
“The Patent Dry Gas Meter Company,’ and to enable 
the said Company to purchase certain Letters Patent. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for forming and regulating a Company to be called 
“The Patent Dry Gas Meter Company, ’and to enable 
the said Company to purchase certain Letters Patent: 

And that Mr, Finghes Hughes and Mr. Heathcoat 
do prepare, and bring it in. 
Sheffield ana 


Manchester 
Railway. 


Mr. Evelyn Denison reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Stand- 
ing Orders relative to Bills for making Railways, 
had been complied with in the case of the Petition 
for the Sheffield and Manchester Railway Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for making a Railway from Sheffield, in the west 
riding of the county of York, to Manchester, in the 
county of Lancaster: And that Mr. John Parker and 
Mr. Mark Philips do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Evelyn Denison reported from the Select Com- Leicester 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That in the S™#!! Debts. 
case of the Petition for the Leicester Small Debts 
Bill, the application does not come within the 
Standing Orders of the House. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to extend the powers and provisions of an Act passed 
in the last Session of Parliament for the more easy 
and speedy recovery of Small Debts within the Bo- 
rough of Leicester, to several other towns, parishes 
and places in the County of Leicester: And that 
Mr. Halford and Mr. Packe do prepare, and bring 
it in. 

Mr. Evelyn Denison reported from the Select Com- Worcester 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Stand- Cattle Market. 
ing Orders relative to Bills for erecting or improving 
Market-places, had been complied with in the case 
of the Petition for the Worcester Cattle Market Bill. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table, 


Mr. Evelyn Denison reported from the Select Com- Paddingtor 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Stand- /***te* 
ing Orders relative to Bills for the maintenance or 
employment of the Poor, had been complied with 
in the case of the Petition for the Paddington Estates 
Bill. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of John Aubrey Whitcombe, of the city severn 

of Glasgow, complaining that the Standing Orders Navigation. 
of the House in respect to the application for the 

Severn Navigation Bill, had not been complied with, 

and praying that he may be heard, by himself, his 

counsel or agent, against the same, was presented, 

and read; and referred to the Select Committee on 

Petitions for Private Bills. 


Petitions from Inhabitants of Brighton ;— Lewes 3 London and 
—and, Owners and Occupiers of land and houses Brighton _ 
and Inhabitants of Hurstperpoint ; praying that the Railway Pil 


° ° ‘ ; ° Rennie’ 
London and Brighton Railway Bill (Rennie’s Line) Cine) ; 


Petitions from the Honourable Charles Hope, ad- Edinburg): 
vocate, and James Hope, Esquire, writer to the signet, eta 
commissioners of the Earl of Hopetoun, now residing ““""*Y: 
in Italy ;—Lessees of farms on the estates of the 
Earl of Hopetoun, in the county of Linlithgow ;— 


| Occupiers of ground, houses or other properties on 


K 4 the 








Edinburgh 
and Glasgow 
Railway. 


Glasgow and 
Ayr Railway. 


72 
the estates of the Earl of Hopetoun, in the county of | 
Linlithgow ; — Robert Downie, Esquire, of Appin, 
Chairman of the Incorporation of the Edinburgh and 
Glasgow Union Canal, and a proprietor of stock in 
that Company ;—Company of Proprietors of the 
Edinburgh and Glasgow Union Canal ;— Norman 
Shairp, Esquire, of Houston, S. M. Thriepland, 
Esquire, of Middleton, and Alexander Majoribanks, 
Esquire, of Majoribanks, and other persons whose 
names are thereunto subscribed, being trustees or 
creditors of the Roads made and maintained under 
an Act passed in the first year of the reign of His 
present Majesty, for more effectually making and 
repairing the Road from the new bridge over the 
water of Almond, on the confines of the counties of 
Edinburgh and Linlithgow, to Baillieston, in the 
county of Lanark,and certain branch Roads connected 
therewith, or owners or occupiers of land on the 
line of the proposed Railway between Edinburgh 
and Glasgow ;—Alexander Ruthven, occupier of pro- 
perty in the town of Linlithgow, West Lothian, pro- 
posed to be taken for the formation of the projected 
Edinburghand Glasgow Railway ;— Charles Chrystie, 
weaver, Garngibber, in the parish of Kirkintilloch ; 
— Walter Gowans, residing at Midhope, in the parish 
of Abercorn, and county of Linlithgow ; — James 
Maitland Hog, of Newliston, Esquire ; — James 
Gowans, builder, at Newton, in the parish of Aber- 
corn, and county of Linlithgow ;—Sir Alexander 
Charles Maitland Gibson, of Clifton Hall, Baronet ; 
—William Logan White, of Kellerstain, Esquire, in 
the county of Mid-Lothian ;—Thomas Aikenhead, 
owner and occupier of lands, houses and other here- 
ditaments in the town of Linlithgow, West Lothian, 
proposed to be taken for the formation of the pro- 
jected Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway ; —John 
Lauder and John Jamieson, owners and occupiers of 
lands, houses and other hereditaments in the town 
of Linlithgow, West Lothian, proposed to be taken 
for the projected Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway ; 
—Company of Proprietors of the Forth and Clyde 
Navigation ; — Alexander Calder and W. Cheech, 
owners and occupiers of lands, houses and other 
hereditaments in the town of Linlithgow, West Lo- 
thian, proposed to be taken for the formation of the 
projected Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway ; — 
Owners and Occupiers of lands, grounds, houses and 
other hereditaments in the counties of Edinburgh, 
Linlithgow, Stirling and Lanark ;— and, William 
Ellis, solicitor before the Supreme Courts in Scot- 
land; complaining that the Standing Orders of the 
House in respect to the application for the Edinburgh 
and Glasgow Railway Bill, had not been complied 
with; and praying that they may be heard, by them- 
selves and their agents, against the same,-—were 
presented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


Petitions from Magistrates and Council of May- 
bole;—and, Girvan; taking notice of the applica- 
tion for leave to bring in the Edinburgh and Glas- 
gow Railway Bill ; and praying that such Bill may 
pass into a law,—were presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from William Dixon, of Govan Colliery ; 


21° Februari. 





--and, David Robertson, of Great George-street, | 
Westminster,agent for the Right honourable Charles | 
Walter Lord Blantyre, a minor, and his Guardians, | 
complaining that the Standing Orders of the House | 
in respect to the application for the Glasgow and 
Ayr Railway Bill, had not been complied with ;| 
and praying that they may be heard, by themselves, | 
their counsel or agents, against the same,—were pre-| 
sented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills. 

Petitions from Magistrates and Council of the 
burgh of Maybole;—and, Girvan; taking notice of 
the application for leave to bring in the said Bill ; and 
praying that such Bill may pass into a law,—were 
presented, and read ; and ordered tolie upon the Table. 











A. 183 


Petitions from Owners and Occupiers of land Londor and 
situate upon or near to the line of Railway called Rafiwey Bil 
“ The Direct London and Brighton Railway ;’—and, (Rennie’s 
William Balcombe Langridge, of Lewes, in the Line.) 
county of Sussex, Esquire ; praying that the London 
and Brighton Railway Bill (Rennie’s Line) may not 
pass into a law,—were presented, and read; and or- 
dered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Inhabitants of Brenchley and Hors- prighton, 
monden ;—East Peckham, Hadlow and the neigh- Lewes, and 
bourhood ;—Leigh, Penshurst and the neighbour- ean 
hood ;— Tonbridge ;—and, Marden and Goudhurst ; i teats 
praying that the Brighton, Lewes and Newhaven 
Railway Bill may pass into a law,— were presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Robert Samuel Palmer, of Trafalgar- vubiin 
square, in the parish of Saint Martin-in-the- Fields, (St- Michan’s) 
for leave to present a Petition for leave to bring in M™Provemet 
a Bill for improving the parish of Saint Michan, 
in the city of Dublin, was presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Robert Samuel Palmer, of Trafalgar- Drogheda 
square, in the parish of Saint Martin-in-the-Fields, 24 Kells 
for leave to present a Petition for leave to bring in oy. 
a Bill for making a Railway from Drogheda to Kells, 
in the counties of Meath and Longford, was pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Brighton, praying London and 
the House to pass a Bill during the present Session, —_— Bil 
for making a Railway from London to Brighton, eee 
and to select such one of the projected lines as will 
confer the greatest benefit on the town of Brighton 
and the public, was presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of William Sykes Ward, of Leeds, in Leeds and 
the county of York, gentleman, complaining that the Derby (North 
Standing Orders of the House in respect to the te 
application for the Leeds and Derby Railway Bill, si 
had not been complied with ; and praying that he 
may be heard, by himself, his counsel or agent, 
against the same, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Inhabitants of Newton, in the county Manchester 
of Lancaster ;—and, Warrington; taking notice of and Stafford 
the application for leave to bring in the Manchester Bway: 
and Stafford Railway Bill; and praying that such 
Bill may pass into a law,—were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Law Hodges reported from the Committee Sevenoaks 
on the Petition for the Sevenoaks and Woodsgate #4 Woodszat: 
Road Bill; That the Standing Orders relative to _ 
Turnpike Bills, had not been complied with ; but it 
appeared to the Committee, that the necessity for 
the application did not appear until the 28th day of 
January last, when the clerk to the Trustees received 
notice of legal proceedings being about to be insti- 
tuted on behalf of the stage coach proprietors, touch- 
ing their liability to payment of Toll,and which ques- 
tion had been considered as decided in June last by 
the Magistrates, at the instance of the same parties, 
and who, although such decision was against them, 
had taken no further steps to try the question from 
June last until January, as above stated ; and it fur- 
ther appeared to the Committee, that the annual 
amount of Toll averaged about 6,00U/., and that the 
proportion of such Toll from stage coaches, vans, &amp;c. 
which have hitherto paid Toll every time of passing, 
had averaged annually from 2,500/. to 3,000/.; and 
that the averaged annual disbursements of the trusts, 
exclusive of improvements, had been 4,7001., so 
that in the event of the result of an action at law 
being against the trustees, there might be an annual 
deficiency of more than one-third of the annual re- 
ceipts, and no sufficient sum left to meet the annual 
expenses of the Road. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Select 
Committce on Standing Orders. 

Petitions 


Ch 
Bi 


Cla 
Un 


Bri 
Har 
Ma 


Clar 
ham 
Bill, 


Westminster 
Bridge and 
Greenwich 
Railway. 


Chester and 
Crewe Railway 
Bill. 


Charlton Kings 
and Marsworth 
Railway Bill. 


Clarence and 
Hartlepool 
Union Railway. 


Brixham 
Harbour and 
Market Bill. 


Clarence (Dur= 
ham) Railway. 
Bill, 


Church Rates. 


7 Wit. IV. 


Petitions from Joseph Hardcastle, of Hatcham 
House, New Cross, in the parish of Saint Paul, 
Deptford, Esquire ;—and, Charles Tufton Blicke, 
of Park Crescent, Mary-le-bone, in the county of 
Middlesex, Esquire, complaining that the Standing 
Orders of the House, in respect to the application 
for the Westminster Bridge and Greenwich Railway 
Bill, had not been complied with ; and praying that 
they may be heard, by themselves, their agents and 
witnesses, against the same,—were presented, and 
read ; and referred to the Select Committee on Pe- 
titions for Private Bills. 


Lord Robert Grosvenor presented a Bill for making 
a Railway from the City of Chester to join the Grand 
Junction Railway near Crewe Hall, in the County of 
Chester, to be called “The Chester and Crewe Rail- 
way:” And the same was read the first time; and 
ordered to be read a second time. 


Mr. Praed presented a Bill for making a Railway 
from Cheltenham to join the London and Birming- 
ham Railway near Marsworth, in the County of 
Buckingham, with an extension thereof to join the 
Cheltenham and Great Western Union Railway at 
Cheltenham, and a Branch to Oxford: And the 
same was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time. 


A Petition of Owners and Occupiers of lands and 
hereditaments through which the Railway herein- 
after mentioned is proposed to be carried, complain- 
ing that the Standing Orders of the House in respect 
to the application for the Clarence and Hartlepool 
Union Railway Bill had not been complied with, and 
praying that they may be heard, by their agents 
and witnesses, against the same, was presented, 
and read; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Petitions for Private Bills. 


Sir John Yarde Buller presented a Bill for im- 
proving, enlarging and maintaining the Pier, Har- 
bour and Market of Brixham, in the County of 
Devon, and for the formation of a Breakwater in 
Torbay: And the same was read the first time; 
and ordered to be read a second time. 


Mr. Alderman Wood presented a Bill to alter, 
amend, explain and enlarge the Powers of the several 
Acts for making and maintaining the Clarence Rail- 
way: And the same was read the first time ; and 
ordered to be read a second time. 


Petitions from Chobham ;— High Laver ;—Chip- 
ping Ongar ;— Hutton ;— Bourton-on-the-Water and 
Clapton ;—Farway ;-—Saint Mary, Bedford ;—Mor- 
ton-in- Marsh ;—Saint Martin, Colchester ;—Rowde ; 
—Beckford and Ashton-under-Hill;— King’s Lynn; 
—Lidlington ;—Tidenham;—Layer de la Haye ;— 
Hartest cum Boxted; — Sherborne Saint John; — 
Bourton-on-the-Hill;—A ylesford ;— Lower Guiting ; 
— Sevenhampton ;— Wick Risington ; — Estrop ;— 
Tangmere ; —Bobbingworth ; —Greensted juxta On- 
gar ;— Berechurch ; —Uley ;—Great Oakley ;—Ca- 
vendish ;—Virley and Salcott ;—Long Newnton ;— 
Drewsteignton ; — Saint Peter, Colchester ;— Dum- 
mer ;— Beaumont ;— Horsley;—Great Risington;— 
Lower Slaughter ;— Temple Guiting ;— Upper Slaugh- 
ter;—Saint Paul, Malmesbury ;—Wield ;— Fyfield : 
— Little Laver ;— Washfield ;— Luppitt ; —Bradley ; 
—Thoroke Parod ;—Orsett ;—Little Risington ;— 
Dean; —Winterbourn ;—Avebury and Winterbourn 
Monkton ;—Cold Ashton ; —Twyning ;—-Littleham; 
— Locking ; —- Stow-on-the- Wold ; — Driffield and 
Harnhill ;—Stanstead ;— Bleddington ;—All Saints, 
and Saint Botolph, Colchester ;—and, Dursley ; pray- 
ing that Church Rates may not be abolished,—were 
presentea, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 

Petitions from Bury Saint Edmund’ s;—Swanage ; 
— Wallingford ;— Blandford ;— Darlington ;— Kelso 
(two Petitions);— Pembroke and Pembroke Dock ;— 
= ~— ;—Northiam; — Ipswich ;— Brigh- 

on. 92. 





21° Februari. 
ton ;—Denny Loanhead ;—Lingfield ;— Faversham ; 








73 


— Battle ;—Lymington; — Church-lane, Northamp- 
ton Sa ;—Stirling ;— Broom Gate-street, 
Lanark ;— Uttoxeter ; —Kilmarnoch ;— Abingdon ; 
—AHall Green, Haworth ;—Linton;—Somerton ;— 
Church-street, Blackfriars ;— Oswestry ;-- Mundham ; 
—Blunham ;— Newburgh ;— Croydon ;— Walsall ;— 
and, Milnathort; praying for the abolition of Church 
Rates,—were also presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Navan ;—-Donoughmore ;— Dalkey ; Municipal 

—Kiltoghart ;—Rahoon an ;— Clemanto Cncdend) Bill 
and Tubrid ; — Rathfarnham ; — Bell Clare ; i , 
Moycullen ;—Athenry ;— Eirke, Fertagh and Glas- 
han; — Urlingford ;— Callan, Coolagh and New- 
town ;— Tuam ; — Kilcummin ; — Caher ; — Clare 
Galway ;— Annadown ;-— Thomastown ;— Thurles ; 
—East Lusk ;—Kilmacow ;—Saint Nicholas, Gal- 
way ;—Moancoin ;—Limerich ;—~Cappoquin ;— Car- 
rickmacross ;— Clonleigh ; — Ballyporeen ; — Aug- 
havoe ; — Innismacsaint, Devenesh and Boho ;— 
Munterconnaught and Castlerahan ;—Denn ;—Der- 
rygrath ;—Kilmackallen ;— Offerlane ;—Rosbercon ; 
—Urney and Annegeliffe ;—Killaraught ;—Drum- 
cliffe ;— Kilmactraney ;—Shancoagh and Killadoon ; 
— Claragh;— Tallow ; —Templeboy ;— Anna West; 
—Fermoy ; — Ballymachue and Drumloman ; — 
Stradbally ;—Kilmallock and Ballingaddy ;— Effin ; 
— Templemore ;— Drumlane ;— Cloneen ;-— Castleiney ; 
—Saint Audeon, Dublin;—Aughana ;—Ballynahill, 
Ballysumaghan and Kilross ; — Killerry ; — Saint 
John, Sligo ;— Taunagh ;— Kilfree ;—Killyshandra ; 
—and, Saint Pancras (Middlesex); praying that the 
Municipal Corporations (Zreland) Bill may pass 
into a law,—were presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Members of the National ‘Trades House of Lords. 
Political Union of Dublin, praying the House to 
introduce such plan of Reform of the House of 
Lords as may be calculated to insure their co-opera- 
tion with this House in the passing of wholesome 
laws, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 


upon the Table. 


A Petition of Members of the National Trades Elective 
Political Union, Dublin, praying the House to ex- Franchise. 
tend the Elective Franchise to all males of legal 
age, and unstained by conviction of any crime, or at 
least to all rate-payers, whether householders or not, 
and to relieve its acquirement and exercise from the 
many impediments by which it is at present incum- 
bered, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


Petitions from Members of the National Trades 
Political Union, Dublin ;—Inhabitants of Donough- 
more ;—Kiltoghart ;—Caher ; and, Thurles; pray- 
ing that the election of Members to serve in Par- 
liament may be taken by Ballot,—were presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Vote by Ballot 


Petitions from Zaracor and Gallow ;— Tulleroan;— Municipal 
Mohill ;—and, Fethard and Killusty ; praying that pn oye 
the Municipal Corporations (Zreland) Bill may pass pene 
into a law, and that Tithes be abolished,—were pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Donoughmore ; —. Caher ;— Kil- Tithes 
toghart ;—and, Thurles; praying for the abolition (!l#¢.) 
of Tithes in Jveland,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Tullohortan ;-— Tubrid ; — and, Manicipa! 


Brigown; praying that the Municipal Corporations yk ie 
(Ireland) Bill may pass into a law, that Tithes be aig diry 


abolished, and the Vote by Ballot adopted,—were Ballot. 
— and read; and ordered to lie upon the 


able. 


L A Petition 





— oe 


74 21°—99° Februariz. 


Dublin Burial A Petition of Inhabitants of the united parishes 

Gerunds. of Saint Michael and Saint John, in the city of 
Dublin, complaining of the difficulty of sepulture 
under which the poor of that city labour from the 
want of a free burial ground, by reason of which, 
dead bodies are frequently left over ground five or 
six days, to the great peril of the health of the 
inhabitants, and praying the House to take the 
subject into consideration, and grant a free burial 
ground in one or more of the outlets of that city, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


Poor Law Act. A Petition of the Board of Guardians of the Poor 
of the Isle of Thanet Union, in the county of Kent, 
praying tue House to sustain the Poor Law Com- 
missioners in their proceedings, by refusing to sanc- 
tion any measure inconsistent with the spirit and 
object of the Poor Law Act, was presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


West Cork A Petition of William Revell Vigers, of Russell- 
ne Com- square, in the county of Middlesex, Esquire, was 
ai presented, and read; setting forth, That the Peti- 


tioner, in conjunction with John Fam Timins, 
Francis Sapte, John George Lacy, Thomas Phill- 
potts and Benjamin Austen, did, on the 16th day of 
February instant, present a Petition to the House, 
praying for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the 
provisions of the Act of Parliament, intituled, “ An 
Act to encourage the working of Mines and Quarries 
in Ireland, and to regulate a Joint Stock Company 
for that purpose, to be called ‘ The West Cork 
Mining Gomeens"” that such Petition was re- 
ferred by the House to the Select Committee on 
Petitions for Private Bills; that the Petitioner was 
informed this morning, that such Petition had either 
been abstracted from the Journal Office, or had 
been mislaid; that the Petitioner is fearful that he 
may be delayed and prejudiced by reason of the 
said Petition not being forthcoming before the said 
Committee ; and praying that the copy of the Peti- 
tion thereunto annexed, may be received and sub- 
stituted for the Petition which has been so ab- 
stracted or mislaid as aforesaid, before the said Com- 
mittee ; and that the Petitioner may be in nowise 
delayed in the prosecution of his Bill in consequence 
thereof. 

Ordered, That leave be given to present a Copy 
of the said Petition, as desired. 

A Copy of the said Petition of Shareholders in 
the West Cork Mining Company, was accordingly 
presented, and read ; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills. 

London and 


The London and Brighton Railway Bill (Ste- 
Brighton henson’s Li : j ‘ond ti S d 
Railway Bil Penson’s ne), was read a second time; and com- 
(Stephenson’s mitted. 


Line.) 

London and The London and Brighton Railway Bill (Rennie’s 
Reiwsy ni; Line), was read a second time ; and committed. 
(Rennie’s Line.) 

— The Brighton, Lewes and Newhaven Railway 
Newhaven Bill, was read a second time ; and committed. 
Railway Bill. 

Bridgewater Mr. William Miles presented a Bill to enable the 


oie Company of Proprietors of the Bridgewater and 
* Taunton Canal Navigation to continue the Line of 
the Canal below the Town of Bridgewater, and for 
varying the Powers of the several Acts relative to 
the said Canal: And the same was read the first 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


London and A Petition of Inhabitants of Mewhaven, praying 
Rrighton |, the House, that in deciding on the different lmes for 
eye making a Railroad from London to the coast of 
Sussex, it will adopt such line as will secure a ter- 

minus at the Harbour of Newhaven, by the most 

direct eligible route that is consistent with a ready 
communication between London and Brighton, was 








A. 1837. 


resented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the he 
able. 

A Petition of Thomas singe 9~+ of N° 31, Broad- tondon ana 
street Buildings, in the city of London, praying that Brighton _ | 
he may be aed by himself or sank te any Railway Bills (se 
Bill or Bills for the construction of a Railway or 
Railways between London and Brighton, was pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. - 

a! 

A Petition, praying for a grant of Public Money to Whale Ships, - 
extricate the Crews of six Whale Ships from their 
a situation in Davis’s Straits, was offered to 

presented :—But the King’s Recommendation 
not having been signified, the Petition was not 
received. 

Ordered, That the Statement from the Bank- Bankruptcy Gen 
ruptey Court, which was presented upon Friday last, Court. Offic 
be printed. No. 52, - 

Ordered, That the Returns relative to Spain, Spain. 
which were presented yesterday, be printed. No. 53, 

Ordered, That the Treasury Minute relative to Bonding 
Bonding Warehouses, which was presented yester- Warehouses, 
day, be printed. No. 54, 

Mr. Oswald reported from the Select Committee Public 
on Public Petitions; That they had examined the Petitions. 

Petitions presented on the 14th, 15th and 16th days 
of this instant February; and had directed him to 
make a Report thereof to the House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 

A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Roupell and yfessage from 
Mr. Senior : the Lords. 

Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Registration 
Act to suspend, for a limited time, the operation of 874 Marriages 
two Acts passed in the last Session of Parliament, ~* 
for registering Births, Deaths and Marriages in 
England, and for Marriages in England, with 
Amendments ; to which Amendments the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House: And also, 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Salamé’s 
for naturalizing Abraham Victor Salamé; to which N*- Bill 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House :— 

And then the Messengers withdrew. 
Alien: 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Municipal 
the adjourned Debate upon the Question proposed Circlend) Bil 
yesterday, That it be an Instruction to the San OO 
mittee on the Municipal Corporations (Zreland) Bill, 
that they have Power to make provision therein for Recis 
the abolition of such Corporations, and for such ar- —~ ) 
rangements as may be necessary, on their abolition, ‘ 
for securing the efficient and impartial Administration 
of Justice, and the Peace and good Government of 
Cities and Towns in Ireland :—The House resumed 
the said adjourned Debate. 


And the House, having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Wednesday morning ; 


Mercurii, 22° die Februarii, 1837: 


Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Court of Sein 
mittee on the Court of Session (Scotland) Bill ; aaa 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Small | 
mittee on the Small Debts (Scotland) Bill; (Scotland). 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the da poo | read, for the Com- sheriffs’ Courts 
mittee on the Sheriffs’ r, eo ill ; Bill, 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
The 


next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 








sion 


Bill. 


yurts 


Prisons’ Regu- 
lation Bill, 


Sedition 


(Scotland) Bill. 


Charities Com- 
mission Bill. 


Common Law 
Officers’ Com- 
pensation. 


Aliens Bill, 


Registration 
and Marriages 
Bil, 


7 Wit. LV. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Prisons’ Regulation Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being Yead, for the third 
reading of the Sedition (Scotland) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time this 
day. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee upon the Charities Commission 
Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. Baring reported, That 
the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 


Mr. Serjeant Goulburn reported from the Com- 
mittee to whom it was referred to consider of makin 
provision, out of the Consolidated Fund of the Uni- 
ted Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for any 
deficiency which may arise in the amount of Fees 
of the Courts of Common Law, under the provisions 
of any Act to be passed in the present Session of 
Parliament for abolishing certain Offices in the Su- 
erior Courts of Common Law, a Resolution, which 
was read, as followeth : 

Resolved, That it shall be lawful for the Lord 
High Treasurer, or the Commissioners of His Ma- 
jesty’s Treasury, to direct payment, out of the Con- 
solidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great 
Britain and Ireland, of all such sums of money as 
may be required to pay the Salaries of Officers, Clerks 
and Messengers to be appointed by any Act of this 
present Session for abolishing Offices in the Superior 
Courts of Common Law, and for making provision 
for a more effective and uniform establishment of 
Officers in those Courts, and also all such sums of 
money as may be required to carry into effect any 
provisions contained in any such Act for compen- 
sating Officers named in or abolished by any such 
Act. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 

Ordered, That it be an Instruction to the Com- 
mittee on the Common Law Courts Bill, That they 
have Power to make provision therein, pursuant to 
the said Resolution. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for the naturalization of Aliens in certain cases: And 
that Mr. Wason and Mr. Potter do prepare, and 
bring it in. 

The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 
intituled, An Act to suspend, for a limited time, the 
operation of two Acts passed in the last Session of 
Parliament, for registering Births, Deaths and Mar- 
riages in England, and for Marriages in England ; 
and the same were read, as follow : 

Pr. 1. 1. 9. After “the” insert “ full operation 
“ of the.” 
_ Pr. 1. 1.17. Leave out from “ That” to “ that” 
in Pr. 3. 1. 1. and insert “ subject to the proviso 
“ hereinafter contained, the said two Acts respec- 

tively shall be construed as if the words ‘ last day 

of June’ had been inserted in the said Acts, instead 
of the words ‘ First day of March,’ in every place 
where the last-mentioned words are found in the 
said Acts respectively: Provided always.” 
_ Pr. 3. 1. 3. Leave out “ said,” and in the same 
line, after “ March,” insert “ now next ensuing.” 

Pr. 3. 1.13. After “ England” insert “ as if this 
“ Act had not been passed.” 

Pr. 8. 1.15. Leave out “ last recited.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 


agreed to the Amendments made by their Lordships. 
Vot. 92. 


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15 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Liverpool, 
Copy of any Report and Survey of the Harbours Holyheud, and 
of Liverpool, Holyhead and Port Dynllaen, or any y.;ho.. 
of them, made in pursuance of the Resolution of 

the Committee on the London and Dublin Commu- 

nication in the last Session of Parliament; and also 

of the Correspondence between the Lords Commis- 


sioners of the Treasury and the Admiralty respecting 
the same. 


Mr. Baring presented, pursuant to Order,—A Proclamations 

Return of all Proclamations issued by the authority UT!#"“) 

of the Lord Lieutenant of Jreland, for the apprehen- 

sion of Persons concerned in Murders, Fire-raising, 

forcible entry of Houses, and other Outrages, during 

each of the Six months preceding 31st January 1837, 

with the Rewards offered therein. 

. Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 

able. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour after twelve of the 
clock on Wednesday morning, adjourned till 
this day. 








Mercurii, 22° die Februarii ; 


Anno 7° Willielmi IV“ Regis, 1837. 
PRAYERS. 


CGRDER ED, That the Select Committee on standing Orders 
Standing Orders relative to Private Bills, have Committee. 
leave to sit this day till five of the clock, during the 

sitting of the House. 


Resolved, That all Petitions for leave to present Petitions for 
a Petition for a Private Bill, be referred to the Select — — 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills ; and that pote Bills. 
the said Committee do report to the House their 
opinion on the propriety of granting the prayer of 
such Petition. 


Mr. Shaw Lefevre reported from the Select Com- Glasgow and 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; and to whom Ayr Railway. 
the Petitions of William Dixon; and, David Ro- 
bertson, complaining of non-compliance with the 
Standing Orders, were referred; That the Standing 
Orders relative to Bills for making Railways, had 
been complied with, in the case of the Petition for 
the Glasgow and Ayr Railway Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring ina Bill 
for making a Railway from Glasgow to Paisley and 
Ayr, and from a point on the said Railway near 
Blairland to Kilmarnock, to be called “ The Glas- 
gow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway,” with 
Branches: And that Mr. Dunlop and Mr. Hastie 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


Salamé’s Naturalization Bill was read the first Salamé’s 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time. Nat. Bill. 


A Petition of Zsaac Lyon Goldsmid, of Saint London and 
John’s Lodge, Regent’s Park, Esquire, praying, That Brighton 
he may be heard, by himself, his cabal oe agent, (Groph avons 
against certain parts of the London and Brighton Line.) 
Railway Bill (Stephenson’s Line), was presented, and 
read, 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and that the Petitioner be 
heard, by himself, his counsel or agent, upon his 
Petition, if he think fit ; and counsel heard, in favour 
of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


Petitions from the Provost, Magistrates and Town gEginburvh 
Council of the royal burgh of Ayr ;—Incorporated and Glaszow 
Trades of the royal burgh of Ayr ;—and, Master, Bui!way. 
Assistants and other Members of the Merchant Com- 
pany of the royal burgh of Ayr; taking notice of the 
application for leave to bring in the Glasgow and 
Edinburgh Railway Bill; and praying that such Bill 
may pass into a law,—were presented, and read ; 
ne § ordered to lie upon the Table. 


L2 Petitions 








Glasgow and 
Ayr Ritoes. 


Galway and 
Athlone Rail- 
way. 


Oxford and 
Great Western 
Railway Bill. 


Oxford and 
Great Western 
Railway Bill. 


Manchester 
and Leeds 
Railway Bi!l 


Standing 
Orders ; 


Mancheste’ 
and Stafford 
Railway. 


Sevenoaks 
and Woodsgate 
Road. 


Rugby and 
Tamworth 
Railway Bill. 


Runcorn 
Gas Bill. 


London and 
Brighton 
Railway 
(Mills’s Line.) 


Boiton and 
Preston 
Railway. 


Great Western 
Railway Bill 
( Paddington.) 


Great Western 
Railway Bill 
( Trowbridge.) 


76 22° Februarii. 


Petitions from the Provost, Magistrates and Town } 
Council of Ayr ;—Magistrates and Council of the 
royal burgh of Jrvine;— Merchant Company of Ayr; 
—and, Incorporated Trades of Ayr; taking notice 
of the application for leave to bring in the Glasgow 
and Ayr Railway Bill; and praying that such Bill 
may pass into a law,—were presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of John O’ Hara, of Raheen, in the 
county of Galway, land-owner, for leave to present 
a Petition for leave to bring in a Bill for making a 
Railroad or Tramroad from Galway to Athlone, 
with a branch to Ballinasloe, was presented, and 
read; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Owners and Occupiers of land in 
Culham and Nuneham Courtnay, praying that the 
Oxford and Great Western Railway Bill may not 
pass into a law, was presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


The Ozford and Great Western Railway Bill was 
read a second time; and committed to Mr. Harcourt 


and the Ozford List. ‘ 


The Manchester and Leeds Railway Bill was read 
a second time ; and committed to Lord Stanley and 
the Lancaster List. 


Lord Viscount Ebrington reported from the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders relative to Private 
Bills, several Resolutions, which were read, as follow: 

1. Resolved, That, in the case of the Petition for 
the Manchester and Stafford Railway Bill, the 
Parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill. 

2. Resolved, That, in the case of the Petition for 
the Sevenoaks and Woodsgate Road Bill, the Parties 
be permitted to proceed with their Bill on giving the 
necessary notices in three successive Newspapers of 
the county of Kent, such Notices to be proved before 
the Committee on the Bill. 

3. Resolved, That, in the case of the Petition for 
the Rugby and Tamworth Railway Bill, the Stand- 
ing Orders ought not to be dispensed with. 

The two first Resolutions, being read a second 
time, were agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


The Runcorn Gas Bill was read a second time; 
and committed to Mr. Edward John Stanley and the 
Chester List. 


A Petition of Edward John Leman, of N° 2, Agar- 
street, Strand, in the county of Middlesex, com- 
plaining that the Standing Orders of the House in 
respect to theapplication for the Londonand Brighton 
Railway Bill (Mills’s Line), had not been complied 
with, and praying that he may be heard, by himself, 
his ageut and witnesses, against the same, was _pre- 
sented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Edward Cropper, of Liverpool, mer- 
chant, and Joseph Hornby, of the same place, mer- 
chant, complaining that the Standing Orders of the 
House in respect to the application for the Bolton 
and Preston Railway Bill had not been complied 
with; and praying that they may be heard, by them- 
selves and their agents, against the same, was pre- 
sented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


The Great Western Railway Bill (Paddington) was 
read a second time ; and committed to Mr. Charles 


Russell and the Middlesex List. 








A. 1837. 


A Petition of the Corporation of Gloucester, com- Severn — 
plaining that the Standing Orders of the House in N@vigetion. 


respect to the application for the Severn Navigation 
Bill, had not beén complied with ; and praying that 
they may be heard, by themselves, their agents and 
witnesses, against the same, was presented, and 
read ; and referred to the Select Committee on Peti- 
tions for Private Bills. 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee Glasgow Police 


on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Standing 
Orders relative to Bills for improving Cities or Towns, 
had been complied with in the case of the Petition 
for the Glasgow Police Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
continue, for a limited term of years, the Acts re- 
lating to the Police of the city of Glasgow; to vest 
the management of the Statute Labour Conversion 
Money of the said city in the Board of Police thereof, 
and for other purposes therein mentioned: And that 
Mr. Oswald and Lord William Bentinck do prepare, 
and bring it in. 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee Preston and 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Standing Wyre Peck. 


Orders relative to Bills for making Docks, had been 
complied with in the case of the Petition for the 
Preston and Wyre Dock Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for making and maintaining a Dock or Docks at 
Wyre, in the County Palatine of Lancaster: And 
that Mr. Wilson Patten and Mr. Hesketh Fleetwood 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee Saddleworth 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Standing Reservoirs. 


Orders relative to Bills for supplying Towns or 
Places with Water, had been pt with in the 
case of the Petition for the Saddleworth Reservoirs 
Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for embanking, and making and maintaining Re- 
servoirs in the Parish of Saddleworth, in the County 
of York: And that Sir George Strickland and Lord 
Viscount Morpeth do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee Loughborough 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That in the case of Smal! Debts 


the Petition for the Loughborough Small Debts Bill, 
the application does not come within the Standing 
Orders of the House. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for the more easy and speedy Recovery of Small 
Debts within the Town of Loughborough, and other 
places therein mentioned, in the Counties of Leicester 
and Nottingham: And that Mr. March Phillipps 
and Mr. Packe do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee Preston and 
on Petitions for Private Bills ; That in the case of Wyre Railvsy- 


the Petition for the Preston and Wyre Railway Bill, 
the Standing Orders relative to Railway Bills, had 
not been complied with, inasmuch as such parishes 
and townships only through which the deviation 
passes have been inserted m the Newspapers, and 
not those through which the original line is autho- 
rized to be made, and inasmuch as the datum hori- 
zontal line on the section is not referred (in writing) 
to any fixed point; and inasmuch as no actual 
estimate of the expense of the proposed deviation 
has been deposited in the Private Bill Office, but a 
certificate, duly signed by the engineer, has been 
deposited, certifying that the intended deviation in 
the line of Railway may be executed within the sum 
authorized to be raised under the existing Act, and 
inasmuch as no new subscription contract has been 


The Great Western Railway Bill ( Trowbridge) was | deposited in the Private Bill Office. 


read a second time; and committed to Mr. Charles | 


Russell and the Gloucester List. | 


Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Select 


Committee on Starding Orders. 
Mr. 


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Birmingham 
and Gloucester 
Railway. 


West London 
and Westmin- 
ster Cemetery. 


York and 
North Midland 
Railway Bill. 


Manchester 
and Stafford 
Railway. 


Deptford and 
Dover Railway 
[Subscription 
List,} 


Message from 
the Lords, 


Grand Juries 
(Ireland) Bill, 


7 Witt. IV. 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Standing 
Orders relative to Railway Bills, had not been com- 
plied with in the case of the Petition for the Bir- 
mingham and Gloucester Railway Bill, inasmuch as 
such parishes and townships only through which 
the deviation passes have been inserted in the news- 

apers, and not those through which the original 
fine is authorized to be made; and inasmuch as at 
the extension of the Railway in the parish of Chel- 
tenham, it is not stated whether any and what altera- 
tion is intended to be made in the original line of 
Railway at the point of junction between it and such 
extension, but it appeared in evidence to the Com- 
mittee, that no alteration was intended. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders. 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That in the case of 
the Petition for the West London and Westminster 
Cemetery Bill, the application does not come within 
the Standing Orders of the House relative to Bills for 
purchasing or enlarging Burial Grounds, inasmuch 
as it is not intended to levy Rates or Duties for the 
—— of the undertaking. 
rdered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. John Henry Lowther presented a Bill to alter 
the Line of the York and North Midland Railway, 
and to amend the Act relating thereto: And the 
same was read the first time; and ordered to be read 
a second time. 


The House was moved, That the Report in re- 
spect to the Petition for the Manchester and Stafford 
Railway Bill, which was this day made from the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders relative to 
Private Bills, might be read; and the same being 
read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for making a Railway from Manchester to join the 
Grand Junction Railway, in the parish of Castle 
Church, in the County of Stafford, to be called 
“ The Manchester, Cheshire and Staffordshire Rail- 
way, with certain Branches therefrom: And that 
Mr. Bootle Wilbraham and Mr. Brotherton do pre- 
pare, and bring it in. 


A Petition of Owners and Occupiers of land in 
the line of the projected Kent Railway from Deptford 
to Dover, complaining of the names of certain needy 
and indigent persons having been inserted in the 
Subscription List for the said Railway, and pray- 
ing the House to cause this violation of its privi- 
leges and Standing Orders to be inquired into, was 
presented, and read. 

A Petition of the there-undersigned Persons who 
have signed a deed, called “The Kent Railway Sub- 
scribers’ Deed and Parliamentary Contract,” stating 
that the Petitioners signed the said Deed at the re- 
quest of one Jacob Castello, for the sum of four 
shillings, being informed at the time, by a person in 
the office of Mr. Frederick George Hamond, that 
there was no responsibility in doing the same; and 
praying that they may be diochaeged from their liabi- 
lity on the said Deeds, was also presented, and read. 
_ Ordered, That the said Petitions be referred to a 
Select Committee to inquire into the matters therein 
contained. 


Ordered, That the Committee be nominated upon 
Friday next. 


A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Roupell and 
Mr. Senior : 


Mr. Speaker, 
The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
Act to amend an Act ae in the seventh year of 
His present Majesty, for consolidating and amend- 


ing the Laws relating to the Presentment of Public 
Von. 92. 


92° Februariz. 





77 


Money by Grand Juries in Ireland, with Amend- 
ments; to which Amendments the Lords desire the 
concurrence of this House :—And then the Mes- 
sengers withdrew. 


Petitions from Peterborough ;— Maidstone ;—Len- Church Rates. 
ham ;— East Bergholt ;—and, Lincoln; praying for 
the abolition of Church Rates,—were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
Petitions from High Halstow;— Wakes Colne and 
Chapel ;— Thomas Streatfield ;—Stow, Lincoln ;—- 
and, Long Melford ; praying that Church Rates may 
not be abolished,—were also presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Baillie and Town Council, Burghs of 
Feuars and Householders within the burgh of barony pote J 4 
of Creetown, and Inhabitants of the parish of Kir oe 
malrock, praying that in any Bill which may be ine 
troduced into Parliament for the improvement of 
the magistracy, and for altering and amending the 
sets of burghs of barony in Scotland, that burgh 
may be included in the number of those which are 
to have a Provost, was presented, and read; and 
orgered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Fermoy ;—Munterconnaught and Tithes 

Castleraham ; — Offerlane ; — Killaraught ;— Tau- (reland.) 
nagh ; — Clonmany ; — Denn; — Killyshandra ;— 
Dromloman and Bally M‘Hugh;—Urney and Anne- 
geliffe ;—Saint Audeon, Dublin ;— Rosbercon ;—In- 
nismacsaint, Devonish and Boho ;—Carricmacross ;— 
Drumceliffe ;— Kilfree ;— Derrygrath ;—Clonleigh ; 
— Castle Iney ; — Cloneen; — Aughavoe ; — Anna 
West ;— Ballingaddy and Kilmallock ; —Cappoquin ; 
—Saint Mary and Saint Peter, Rathmines ;—Strad- 
bally ; — Cloncha ; — Kilmackallen ;— Effin ;—Cul- 
daff ;—Kilmactranny, Shancough and Kalladoon ;— 
Drumlane ;— Templemore ; — Templeboy ;— Bally- 
poreen ;— Ballinahill, and other places ;—Saint John, 
Sligo ;—Aughana ;—and, Killerry; praying for the 
abolition of Tithes in Ireland,—were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Aughana ;— Clonen ; — Killerry ; Vote by Ballot. 
—Ballinakill, and other places ;—Clonloo ;—Saint 
John, Sligo ;— Templeboy ;— Killmackalen ;— Kil- 
mactranny and other places ;—Munterconnaught and 
Castlerahan ;— Drumeliffe ;— Denn ;— Ballyporeen ; 
—Aughavoe ; —Urney and Annegeliffe; — Derry- 
grath ; — Clonleigh; — Taunagh ; — Stradbally ;— 
Drumlane ;—Kilmallock and Ballingaddy ;—Clon- 
cha ; —Saint Audeon, Dublin; —Culdaff ;—Temple- 
more; — Effin; — Clonmany ; — Baliymacue and 
Drumloman ; — Killyshandra ; — Kilfree ;— Castle 
Iney ;— Anna West ;—Carrickmacross ;—Rosbercon ; 
—and, Innismacsaint, Devonish and Boho; praying 
that the Votes for Members at Elections to serve in 
Parliament may be taken by way of Ballot,—were 
— and read; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 


Petitions from Culdaff;— Cloncha ;—and, Clon- Municipal 
many; praying that the Municipal Corporations Corporations 
(Ireland) Bill may pass into a law,—were pre- (teland) Bill. 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


Petitions from Ballycahill;—and, Holycross ; pray- Municipal 
ing that the Municipal Corporations (/reland) Bill lated) bo 
may pass into a law, and that Tithes be abolished, 4, oo 
and Vote by Ballot adopted, —were presented, and 


read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Proclama- Proclamatio: : 
tions (Ireland), which was presented upon Tuesday (Ireland.) 
last, be printed. No. 56. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Municipal 
the adjourned Debate upon the Question proposed Cn reel 
upon Monday last, That the Committee on the —— 

L3 for 








Adjournment. 


Committees 
to sit. 


Public Records 
Bill. 


Court of 
Chancery. 


78 29°—_.9.3° 


for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in Jre- 
land have Power to make provision therein for the 
abolition of such Corporations, and for such arrange- 
ments as may be necessary, on their abolition, for 
securing the efficient and impartial administration 
of Justice, and the Peace and good Government of 
Cities and Towns in Jreland:—The House resumed 
the said adjourned Debate. 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Thursday morning ; 


Jovis, 23° die Februarii, 1837: 


And the Question being put ; 
The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 
The Noes to the old Lobby. 


Tellers for the { Sir George Clerk, 
Yeas, { Mr. Ross : }oae. 
Tellers forthe f Mr. Charles Wood, } 329 
Noes, Mr. Edward John Stanley: ; 


So it passed in the Negative. 

Resolved, That this House will, immediately, re- 
solve itself into a Committee upon the said Bill 

The House accordingly resolved itself into the 
Committee; and, after some time spent therem, 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress in 
the Bill; and that he was directed to move, That the 
Committee may have leave to sit again. ' 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday, 
the 3d day of March next, again resolve itself into 
the said Geasiities. 


Resolved, That this House will, at the rising of 
the House this day, adjourn till To-morrow. 


Ordered, That all Committees have leave to sit, 
notwithstanding the adjournment of the House. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to provide for the safe custody, better preservation, 
and more convenient use of the Public Records of 
England and Wales: And that Mr. Charles Buller, 
Mr. Hawes, and Sir Charles Lemon, do prepare, and 
bring it in. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Amount of the Sums of Money paid 
into the Bank of England to the Credit of the 
Accountant General of the Court of Chancery, and 
placed to the Credit of ‘The Suitors’ Fee Fund,’ under 
the Act 3 and 4 Will. 4, c. 94, in each year since 
the 26th day of November 1833 (the day the Act 
came into operation:)—An Account of the several 
Sums of Money paid in each of the said years out of 
the same Fund ; distinguishing how much has been 
paid for Salaries, and how much on any other Ac- 
count ; specifying on what Accounts such last-men- 
tioned Sums have been paid respectively (as for 
Compensations, &amp;c. under § 48 :)—An Account of the 
Surplus Cash, Stocks and Funds, if any, which 
stood to the Credit of ‘ The Suitors’ Fee Fund Ac- 
count’ at the end of each year, from the 26th day 
of November 1833, and how the same has been in- 
vested and and applied ; and what, if any thing, is 
now standing to the credit of the Account of Monies 
p:aced out to provide for the Officers of the High 
Court of Chancery: (See § 36, 3 and 4 Wiil. 4, 
ce. 94:)—An Account of the Amount paid in each of 
the said years to the Clerk of the Reports for 
Office Copies made by him, § 37 :—A like Account 
of the Amount paid in each of the said years to the 
Clerks of the Entries respectively for Entries made 
by them :—A like Account of the Amount paid in 
each of the said years to the Assistant Clerk of the 
Clerk of the Affidavits for Office Copies of Affidavits 
made by him:——A like Account of the Amount 
of the Sums paid in each of the said years to the 
Clerks of the Examiners respectively for Office 
Copies made by them :--and, A like Account of the 





Februarit. A. 1837. 


Amount of the Sums of Money received or taken 
in each of the said years by each of the copying or 
writing Clerks of the Masters in Ordinary of the 
said Court respectively for Copies or Transcripts 
made by them, § 40, 3 and 4 Will. 4, c. 94. 


to examine into the State, Funds and Managemen 
of the Diocesan, Royal, and other Schools of Public 
Foundation in Ireland; as also into the system of 
Education pursued therein, with a view to increasing 
their utility ; and also to inquire how far it may be 
practicable and expedient, and from what resources, 
to improve, extend, and permanently maintain acade- 
mical Education in that Country, and to report 
thereon to the House. 

Ordered, That the Committee be nominated To- 
morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Offences against the Person Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
To-morrow. 


Courts Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration To-morrow. 


mittee on the Common Law Courts Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


mittee of Supply 5 
Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


reading of the Municipal Corporations Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bian be read the third time To 
morrow. 


tee on the Small Debts (Scotland) Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the third Sedition 


reading of the Sedition (Scotland) Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time To- 


morrow. 


agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed ; and read the third time To-morrow. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 
intituled, An Act to amend an Act passed in the 
seventh year of His present Majesty, for consoli- 
dating and amending the Laws relating to the Pre- 
sentment of Public Money by Grand Juries in Jre- 
land ; and the same were read, as follow: 

Pr. 4. 1.20. Leave out from “ delivered” to 
“ to” in 1. 22. 

Pr. 8. 1. 5. Leave out from “ Treasurer” to 
“ and” in Pr. 10. 1. 1. 

Pr. 18. 1. 3. Leave out “ Clerk of the Peace,” 
and insert “ Secretary of Grand Jury.” 

Pr. 18. 1. 14. Leave out “ Presentment.” 

Pr. 18. 1. ult. Leave out Clause (B.), added, by 
way of rider to the Bill. 

The said Amendments, being read a sccond time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That*Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 


ships. 
Ordered, 





Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed Education 
¢ (ireland.) 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Recorders’ 
further consideration the Report on the Recorders’ Courts Bill. 


The Order of the | being read, for the Com- Common Law 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- supply. 
The Order of the day being read, for the third Municipal 


The Order of the day being read, for the Commit- Small Debts 


Mr. Solicitor General reported the Charities Com- Charities 
mission Bill; and the Amendments were read, and — 








tro 


ee a el 


re 





il. 


Bill. 


$ 
ll. 


Monies in the 
Exehequere 


Sheffield and 
Manthester 
Railway Bill. 


Exchequer Bills 


7 Wit. IV. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
an Account, showing the Amount of Monies in the 
Exchequer, or remaining to be received on the 20th 
February 1837, to complete the Aids granted by 
Parliament for the Service of the years 1833, 1834, 
1835, 1836 and 1837. 

Mr. Baring accordingly presented the said Ac- 
count. 

Ordered, That the said Account do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. John Parker presented a Bill for making a 
Railway from Sheffield, in the West Riding of the 
County of York, to Manchester, in the County of 
Lancaster: And the same was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 


(PublicWorks-) » Return of the Names of the Commissioners ap- 


Criminal Cases 
(Ireland.) 


County Rates 
Bill. 


No. 55. 


Metropolis 
Police, 


Horse Patrol, 


pointed and now officiating for the issue of Exche- 
uer Bills for Public Works in England, Wales and 
cotland :—Account of the yearly Expenses of the 
Board of Commissioners for the issue of Exchequer 
Bills for Public Works for each year, in con- 
tinuation of the Return dated 7th March 1836 :— 


Amounts allotted to the Commissioners for distri- | 


bution under the several Acts of Parliament passed 
for that purpose ; the Amount remaining unappro- 
priated :—Amounts advanced to Borrowers, and 
contracted to be advanced ; the Dates of such Ad- 
vances, and how to be repaid ; the objects thereof ; 
Rates of Interest; Amounts of Interest paid, of 
Principal repaid, and of Principal remaining un- 
aid. 
Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return of all the Criminal Cases submitted for 
the Decision of the Lord Lieutenant, on Memorial 
and Recommendation, from 12th May 1835 to this 
day; distinguishing those decided unfavourably, 
without reference to Judge or Assistant Barrister ; 
those decided favourably without such reference ; 
those decided unfavourably after, and favourably 
after, similar reference ;—of those decided favourably 
without reference to Judge or Assistant Barrister ; 
distinguishing how many were referred to Magis- 
trates or others, for local information ; how many to 
Gaol authorities for report of conduct ; how many 
were discharged on Medical Report, and how many 
on recommendation of character. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return of how many, when any, of those dis- 
charged before the expiration of their Sentence, 
since May 1835, have since been re-committed. 


Mr. Hume presented a Bill to establish Councils 
for the better Management of County Rates in Eng- 
land and Wales: And the same was read the first 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time upon 
Wednesday next ; and to be printed. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till half an hour after three of the clock on 
Thursday morning, adjourned till To-morrow. 








Veneris, 24° die Februari; 
Anno 7° Willielmi IVti Regis, 1837. 
PRAYERS, 


R. Golden, from the Metropolitan Police Office, 

was called in; and at the bar presented, 
pursuant to the directions of several Acts of Parlia- 
ment,—An Account of all Monies demanded, re- 
ceived and expended for the purposes of the Metro- 
politan Police Establishment, made up to the 31st 
day of December 1836. 

An Account of all Monies received and expended 
for the purposes of the Police Horse Patrol, for the 
Quarter ending the 31st day of December 1836: 
—And then he withdrew. 

Von. 92, 


99° 93°__.94° Februarit. 














79 


Ordered, That the said Accounts do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Phillimore, from the Office of the Commission- East India 
ers for the Affairs of India, was called in; and at the Sls. 


bar presented, pursuant to an Address to His Ma- 
jesty, dated the 21st day of April, in the last Ses- 
sion of Parliament,—Copies of the Reports and 
other Documents relating to the State of the Gaols 
in our East Indian Possessions, which have been 
received since the last East Indian Act came into 
operation :—And then he withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon theTable. 


Mr. Miller, from the Secretary of Bankrupts Bankropt 
| Office, was called in; and at the bar x 
— to Orders,—Returns of the Number of 


ankrupt Petitions heard by the Vice-Chancellor 
in each of the Five years preceding the 11th day of 
January 1832, being the time of the establishment 
of the Court of Review :—Of the Number of Issues 
tried before any Judge of the Court of Review :— 
Of the Number of Cases in each year in which Wit- 
nesses have have been examined vivd voce before the 
Court of Review :—and, Of the Number of Bank- 
rupt Petitions heard in the Court of Review in each 
year since its establishment :—And then he with- 
drew. 

Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table. 


Petitions from Bankers, Merchants, Manufac- Manchester 


7 : paar _ and Tamworth 
turers, Traders, and Inhabitants of Oldham ;—Ma Railway Bill 


pane Merchants, Manufacturers, Traders, and 
nhabitants of Salford, Manchester, and the neigh- 
bourhood ;—Inhabitants of, and Persons interested 
in property within the town and parish of Abbots 
Bromley, in the county of Stafford, near to which 
parish the Line of Railway is intended to pass ;— 
Land-owners, Mine-owners, Merchants, Manufac- 
turers and Inhabitants of Stoke-wpon- Trent ;— 
Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of Vewark-upon- 
Trent ;— Bankers, Menclitetls. Manufacturers, 
Traders and Inhabitants of Wigan ;— Derby; — 
Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of Stockport ;— 
Bankers, Merchants and others, of Stockport ;— 
Owners and Occupiers of Estates and Property in 
the county of Chester ;—Inhabitants of, and Persons 
interested in property within the parishes of Wes- 
ton-upon-Trent, Stowe, Colwich and Colton, in the 
county of Stafford; —Rugeley; —Mayor, Aldermen 
and Burgesses of ottingham ;— Bankers Mer- 
chants, Manufacturers, Traders and Inhabita~ts of 
Nottingham ;—Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of 
Lichfield ;—Bankers, Merchants, Traders and In- 
habitants of Lichfield, and other Owners of property 
therein ;— Merchants, Manufacturers and Inhabit- 
ants of Walsall ;—Owners and Occupiers of estates 
and property in and within Macclesfield ;— Bankers, 
Merchants, Manufacturers, Traders and Inhabitants 
of Macclesfield ;—Land-owners, Mine-owners, Mer- 
chants, Manufacturers and Inhabitants of Hanley 
and Shelton ;—Inhabitants of, and Persons interes- 
ted in, property within the parish of Longdon, in the 
county of Stafford; —Land-owners, esowien, 
Merchants, Manufacturers and Inhabitants of Long- 
ton and Lane-end; — Merchants, Manufacturers, 
Tradesmen and Inhabitants of Burton-upon-Trent ; 
—Cotton Spinners, Traders and Inhabitants of Bol- 
lington, in the county of Chester ;—Bankers, Mer- 
chants, Manufacturers, Traders and Inhabitants of 
Blackburn, in the county of Lancaster ;—Merchants, 
Manufacturers, Traders and Inhabitants of Bolton ; 
— Warrington, and the immediate neighbourhood ;—- 
Bankers, Hescheata, Manufacturers and Inhabitants 
of Ashton-under-Lyne, and the towns of Staly Bridge 
and Dukinfield ;—and, Merchants, Manufacturers 
and Inhabitants of Hooley Hill, in the parish of 
Ashton-under-Lyne, and of Denton and Haughton, 
in the parish of Manchester; praying that the Man- 
chester and Tamworth Railway Bill may pass into 

L4 a law, 


resented, Petitions, 





Sai us 


Ss 


a 


| 
| 


is 
aetmmamnees 





Greenwich 
Pier Bill, 


Manchester 
and Stafford 
Railway. 


Courtenhall and 
Great Wigston 
Railway. 


Leeds and 
Derby Railway 
(North Mid- 
land) Bill. 


Tong Eaton and 
Tupton ; and, 
Long Eaton 
and Nether 
Birchwood 
Railway Bills. 


80 Q4° Februariz. 


a law, —were presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from Bankers, Merchants, Manufac- 
turers and Inhabitants of Birmingham ;— Derby ;— 
Bankers, Merchants and Inhabitants of Leicester ; 
— Midland Counties Railway Company ;—and, 
Owners and Occupiers of land on the Line (five 
Petitions); praying that the said Bill may not pass 
into a law,—were also presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from Josiah Dean ;—James Hancock, of 
Longport, in the parish of Wolstanton, in the county 
of Stafford ; — William Cartlidge, of Wolstanton, 
farmer ;—James Spencer, of Dale Hail, in the parish 
of Burslem ;— Thomas Fernley, of Stockport, cotton 
spinner and manufacturer ;—and, the Grand Junc- 
tion Railway Company ; praying that they may be 
heard, by their counsel or agents, against the said 
Bill,—were also presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


The Greenwich Pier Bill was read a second time ; 
and committed to Mr. Angerstein and the Kent 
List. 


Petitions from Merchants, Manufacturers, Traders 
and Inhabitants of Clitheroe ;—Inhabitants of the 
town and neighbourhood of Nantwich ;— Whit- 
church, Salop;— Bankers, Merchants, Manufac- 
turers, Traders and Inhabitants of ag aes ;—and, 
Bankers, Merchants, Traders and Inhabitants of 
Bilston ; taking notice of the application for leave 
to bring in the Manchester and Stafford Railway 
Bill; and praying that such Bill may pass into a 
law,—were presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 

Petitions from Land-owners, Mine-owners, Mer- 
chants, Manufacturers and Inhabitants of Longton 
and Lane-end ;—and, Owners and Occupiers of 
land within Stoke-upon- Trent ; taking notice of the 
application for leave to bring in the said Bill; and 
praying that such Bill may not pass into a law,— 
were also presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


Petitions from Sir Henry Halford, of Wistow Hall, | 
in the county of Leicester, Baronet ;—and, Susannah | 
Manlove Thackeray, of the town of Northampton, | 
widow ; complaining that the Standing Orders of 
the House had not been complied with in respect 
to the —— for the Courtenhall and Great 
Wigston Railway Bill; and praying that they may 
be heard, by their counsel or agents, against the 
same,—were presented, and read; and referred to 
the Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. | 

| 





The Leeds and Derby Railway (North Midland) | 
Bill was read a second time; and committed to Sir | 
John Bechett and the York List. | 


| 
A Petition of the North Midland Railway Com- | 








A. 1837. 


set forth in the first of the two Petitions above 
referred to, which said Petition so first presented 
was referred to the Select Committee appointed 
to inquire into the compliance with the Standing 
Orders of the House; that the Petitioners pre- 
sented a Petition to the House, complaining that 
the Standing Orders in reference to the said Peti- 
tion so first presented had not been complied with ; 
and praying to be heard in proof of such allegation 
before the Committee or Sub-Committee to whom 
such Petition might be referred; that accordingly 
the Petitioners appeared, and were heard by their 
agents before the said Sub-Committee, and the 
Standing Orders of the House were reported not to 
have been complied with in respect of the said Peti- 
tion of the Midland Counties Railway Company 
first presented to the House, and it was referred to 
the Select Committee on Standing Orders to report 
on the expediency of allowing the Standing Orders 
which had not been complied with to be dispensed 
with; that the said Select Committee reported that 
the Standing Orders of the House ought not to be 
dispensed with; that nevertheless the said Midland 
Counties Railway Company have presented to the 
House the two Petitions before-mentioned, one 
thereof being precisely the same as that in respect 
of which the Standing Orders of the House have 
been reported not to have been complied with, and 
the other thereof being to effect a portion of the 
objects contemplated by the said last-mentioned 
Petition ; that the line of Railway, for leave to make 
which the said three Petitions have been presented, 
would be a competing line with that authorized to 
be made under the Act incorporating the Peti- 
tioners; that the Petitioners humbly submit, that it 
is contrary to the invariable practice of the House 
to allow several Petitions to be presented in the 
same Session in respect of the same undertaking, 
where one thereof has been rejected on the ground 
of non-compliance with the Standing Orders, with- 
out the special leave of the House first obtained for 
that purpose, and praying that the said Midland 
Counties Railway Company may not be allowed to 
proceed further upon either of the Petitions last 
resented by them as hereinbefore mentioned. 

Ordered, That the said Petition do lie upon the 

Table. 


A Petition of Bankers, Merchants, Manufac- severn | 
turers, Traders and Inhabitants of Ludlow, taking Navigatiou 


notice of the application for leave to bring in the 
Severn Navigation Bill, and praying that such Bill 
may pass into a law, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The Merthyr Tydfil and Cardiff Railway Bill was Merthyr Tydfil 


read a second time; and committed to Lord Vis- #4 —_, 
Railway Bill. 


count Clive and the Wales List. 


The Whitby and Pickering Railway Bill was read Whitby an¢ 


asecond time; and committed to Mr. William Dun- +0 
ailway Dill. 


pany, was presented, and read ; setting forth, That | combe and the York List. 


two Petitions have been presented to the House 
under the corporate seal of the Midland Counties 
Railway Company, the one for leave to bring in | 
1 Bill to enable them to extend the line of the said | 
Midland Counties Railway to join the line of the 
North Midland Railway, in the parish of North | 
Wingfield, in the county of Derby, and to make | 


Mr. Evelyn Denison reported from the Select Severn | 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills; and to Nave" 


whom the Petitions of John Aubrey Whitcomb; 
and, of the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of 
the city of Gloucester, complaining of non-com- 
pliance with the Standing Orders, were referred ; 


certain branch Railways as therein mentioned, and! That the Standing Orders relative to Navigation 
the other for leave to bring in a Bill to enable | Bills, had not been complied with in the ease of the 
the said Midland Counties Railway Company to Petition for the Severn Navigation Bill, inasmuch 
extend the line of the said Railway to Nether Birch- | as, 1st, no sufficient notice has been given in the 


‘wood, in the parish of Alfreton, in the said county newspapers of a certain navigable Cut intended to 


of Derby; that previously to the presentation of be made from the River Severn into the Gloucester 
the above-mentioned two Petitions, and during the and Berkeley Canal, commencing at or near No. 48, 
present Session of Parliament, the said Midland | on the Plan deposited in the Private Bill Office, in 
Counties Railway Company presented another Pe-| the parish of Hempstead, and terminating at or near 
tition to the House, praying for leave to bring in, No. 44, in Lanthony south hamlet, both in the 
a Bill for affecting the self-same purposes as those county of Gloucester; the notices are divided into 

| two 





7 Wit. IV. 


two branches, the first embracing certain improve- 
ments proposed to be made in the navigation of the 
River Severn; the second giving notice of an inten- 
tion to divert certain waters for the purposes of such 
improvements; under the first head are given notices 
of a Bill to improve the navigation of the River 
Severn, by widening, deepening, cleansing, embank- 
ing, extending and enlarging the said river, and by 
altering and diverting the course thereof in certain 
places, and making new Cuts for the purpose of 
avoiding angles and bridges, and for rendering the 
navigation more commodious in other respects, but 
there is no notice of an intention to make any 
navigable communication from and out of the River 
Severn into and with the Gloucester and Berkeley 
Canal: under the second head, notice is given only 
of an intention to divert into the River Severn, or 
into some extension or variation thereof, or cut 
communicating therewith, a part of the water from 
the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal: that the Com- 
mittee are of opinion, that a notice of an intention 
to divert water ee a canal is not a sufficient notice 
of an intention to make a communication there- 
with for the purposes of navigation; 2dly, inas- 
much as the notices do not contain the name of the 
Stroud navigation, the waters of which at present 
run into the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal, and 
will flow into the new cut communicating with the 
River Severn, in consequence of the communication 
intended tp be made between the said river and the 
Gloucester and Berkeley Canal; 3dly, inasmuch as 
the Books of Reference deposited with the Clerks of 
the Peace contain a Road called a Public Road 
(marked No. 46, in Lanthony south hamlet, in the 
county of Gloucester,) in respect of which no appli- 
cation was made, but subsequently application was 
made to Mr. Higford, who stated himself to be the 
proprietor of the Road, and his answer is entered 


.in the Lists deposited in the Private Bill Oftice ; 


4thly, inasmuch as in the before-mentioned cut at 
Gloucester, commencing at No. 48, and terminating 
at No. 44, the section does not describe the levels 
by feet and inches in figures; a vertical scale is, 
however, given; 5thly, imasmuch as the Plan de- 
posited in the Private Bill Office is not a dupli- 
cate of the Plan deposited with the Clerk of the 
Peace for the county of Gloucester, in that the pro- 
posed Cut on the eastern side of the Haw Bridge, 
in the parish of Deerhurst, in the county of Glou- 
cester, as laid down in the Plan deposited with the 
Clerk of the Peace for the said county, passes 
through two fields, Nos. 10 and 11, into which the 
Cut does not extend, according to the Plan lodged 
in the Private Bill Office; but it appeared to the 
Committee, that application was made to the pro- 
prietors of the said fields; 6thly, inasmuch as the 
Section lodged in the Private Bill Office is not a 
duplicate of the Section lodged with the Clerk of the 
Peace of the county of Gloucester, the line given in 
the Private Bill Office Section of the cut at Glou- 


24° Februariz. 





81 


the case of the Petition for the Birmingham Plate 
and Crown Glass Company Bill, the application does 
not come within the Standing Orders of the House. 
Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
enable the Birmingham Plate and Crown Glass 
Company to sue and be sued in the name of the 
Chairman, Deputy Chairman, or of any one of the 
Directors for the time being of the said Company, 
and for other purposes: And that Sir Eardley Wil- 
mot and Mr. Dugdale do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Evelyn Denison reported from the Select wWeliand Outfall 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Drainage. 


Standing Orders relative to Drainage and Navigation 
Bills, had been complied with in the case of the Pe- 
tition for the Welland Outfall Drainage Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
increase the Tonnage Rates and Duties granted by 
an Act passed in the fifth year of the Reign of his 
late Majesty King George the Fourth, for improv- 
ing the Outfall of the River Welland, in the County 
of Lincoln, and to alter and enlarge the powers of 
the said Act: And that Mr. Heathcote and Mr. 
Handley do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Evelyn Denison reported from the Select Ouse Banks 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Drainage. 


Standing Orders relative to Drainage Bills, and to 
Bills for building Bridges, had been complied with 
in the case of the Petition for the Ouse Banks Drain- 
age Bill. 

~ Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
alter, extend and enlarge the powers given to the 
Ouse Bank Commissioners appointed under the Eau 
Brink Act of the first and second years of His pre- 
sent Majesty’s Reign: And that Sir William Browne 
Folkes and Sir Jacob Asiley do prepare, and bring 
it in, 


A Petition of Anthony Morris Storer, of Purley Great Western 


House, in the county of Berks, praying that he may 
be heard, by himself, his counsel or agent, against 
certain parts of the Great Western Railway Bill 
( Trowbridge), was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by himself, his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, 
if he think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of Edward Bolton King, of Umbers- siratford-upon- 
lade, in the county of Warwick, Esquire, complain- Avon Canal. 


ing that the Standing Orders of the House, in re- 
spect to the application for the Stratford-upon-Avon 
Canal Bill had not been complied with ; and pray- 
ing that he may be heard, by himself, his agents 
and witnesses, against the same, was presented, and 
read ; and referred to the Select Committee on Pe- 
titions for Private Bills. 


Mr. Bootle Wilbraham presented a Bill for mak- Menchester 


cester as the proposed level of surface water being ing a Railway from Manchester to join the Grand "4 Stafford 
omitted in the Section deposited with the Clerk of Railway Bill. 


the Peace of the said county, and the Gloucester 
and Hereford Canal lock, which is marked in the 
longitudinal Section of the Maisemore branch in 


Junction Railway, in the Parish of Castle Church, 
in the County of Stafford, to be called “ The Man- 
chester, Cheshire and Staffordshire Railway,” with 


certain Branches therefrom: And the same was 


the copy deposited in the Private Bill Office being 
omitted in the copy deposited with the Clerk of the 
Peace for the said county of Gloucester: 7thly, 
inasmuch as in the Section describing the levels, the 
level of only one bank is given; the same bank, 
however, is not always described, but the course of 
the towing-path is followed; it appeared, however, 
in evidence before the Committee, that it had not 
been the practice of engineers to give the level of 
more than one bank. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders. 


read the first time ; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


Sir John Wrottesley reported from the Select Com- standing 
mittee on Standing Orders relative to Private Bills, Orders; 
several Resolutions, which were read, as follow: 

1. Resolved, That, in the case of the Petition for Birmingham 
the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Bill, the a 
Parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill. ia 

2. Resolved, That, in the case of the Petition for the Preston and 
Preston and Wyre Railway Bill, the Parties having Wyre Railway. 
stated that the proposed deviation will produce a 





Rirmingham diminution of the expense as originally estimated, 
cite and Mr. Evelyn Denison reported from the Select | they be allowed to proceed with their Bill, on depo- 
soa Committee on Petitions for Private Bills; That in siting forthwith in the Private Bill Office an estimate 


Von, 92, M of 











Birmingham 
and Gloucester 
Railway. 


Preston and 
Wyre Railway. 


Preston and 
Wyre Dock 
Bill. 


West London 
and Westmin- 
ster Cemetery. 


London and 
Brighton 
Railway Bill 
(Stephenson’s 
Line.) 


Glasgow Police 
Bill. 


Southwark and 
Hammersmith 


Railway Bill. 


Southwark and 
Hammersmith 


Railway Bill. 


82 Q4° Februariz. 


of such deviation, establishing the above fact ; such | 
deposit to be proved at the first meeting of the Com- 
mittee on the Bill. 

The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 


The House was moved, That the Report in respect 
to the Petition for the Birmingham and Gloucester 
Railway Bill, which was this day made from the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders relative to 
— Bills, might be read; and the same being 
read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to amend an Act passed in the last Session of Par- 
liament, for making a Railway from Birmingham to 
Gloucester, to extend the Line of the said Railway, 
and to make Branches therefrom to the city of Wor- 
cester and the town of Tewkesbury: And that Lord 
Granville Somerset and Mr. Henry Hope do prepare, 
and bring it in. 


The House was moved, That the Report in respect 
to the Petition for the Preston and Wyre Railway 
Bill, which was this day made from the Select Com- 
mittee on Standing Orders relative to Private Bills, 
might be read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to alter the Line of the Preston and Wyre Railway, 
and to amend the Act relating thereto: And that 
Mr. Wilson Patten and Mr. Hesketh Fleetwood do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Hesketh Fleetwood presented a Bill for making 
and maintaining a Dock or Docks at Wyre, in the 
County Palatine of Lancaster: And the same was 
read the first time ; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


The House was moved, That the Report in respect 
to the Petition for the West London and Westminster 
Cemetery Bill, which, upon Wednesday last, was 
made from the Select Committee on Standing Orders 
relative to Private Bills, might be read ; and the same 
being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for establishing a Cemetery for the Interment of the 
Dead, westward of the Metropolis, by a Company, 
to be called “ The West of London and Westminster 
Cemetery Company:” And that Mr. Wakley and 
Mr. Thomas Duncombe do prepare, and bring it in. 


A Petition of Nathaniel Hall, of Brighton, in 
the county of Sussex, Esquire, praying that he may 
be heard, by himself, his counsel or agent, against 
certain parts of the London and Brighton Railway 
Bill (Stephenson’s Line), was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by himself, his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, 
if he think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


Lord James Stuart presented a Bill to continue, 
for a limited term of years, the Acts relating to the 
Police of the City of Glasgow ; to vest the manage- 
ment of the Statute Labour Conversion Money of 
the said City in the Board of Police thereof; and 
for other purposes therein mentioned : And the same 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time. 


Petitions from Owners of lands, Lessees, Inha- 
bitant Householders and Occupiers of Lambeth ;— 
and, Owners of lands, Lessees, Inhabitant House- 
holders and Occupiers of Lambeth, and Merchants 
and Traders in the city of London; praying that 
the Southwark and Hammersmith Railway Bill may 
pass into a law,—were presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The Southwark and Hammersmith Railway Bill 
was read a second time; and committed to Mr. 
D’ Eyncourt and the Surrey List. 








A. 1837. 


Petitions from William Farrington, of Shawe Hall, Bolton ana 
in the county of Lancaster, iain ; — Richard Preston Rail. 
Clayton Browne, and others, in the said county ;— “** 

and, Joseph Hornby, of Liverpool, merchant, and 

Edward Cropper, of the same place, merchant, 
complaining that the Standing Orders of the House 

in respect to the application for the Bolton and 

Preston Railway Bill, had not been complied with 

and praying that they may be heard, by themselves, 

their counsel or agents, against the same,— were 
presented, and read; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


The House was moved, That the Order made upon London and 
the 17th day of this instant February, that leave Brighton 
be given to bring in a Bill for making a Railway (Gibbs's Line.) 
from London to Brighton, to be called “The London 
and Brighton Railway,” might be read; and the 
same being read ; 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for making a Railway from the London and Croydon 
Railway to ~—— to be called “ The London 
and Brighton Railway:” And that Mr. Patrick 
Stewart and Mr. John Stewart do prepare, and 
bring it in. 

Mr. Patrick Stewart presented a Bill for making London and 
a Railway from the London and Croydon Railway Brighton a 
to Brighton, to be called “The London and Brighton 329 Bil 


: : 4 Gibbs’s Liue, 
Railway:” And the same was read the first time ;¢ , 
and ordered to be read a second time. 


The London and Blackwall Commercial Railway London and 


Bill was read a second time ; and committed to Mr. - re 
Patrick Stewart and the Middlesex List. Railway Bill, 


The House was moved, That the Report in respect Belfast 
to the Petition for the Belfast Harbour Bill, which, Harbour. 
upon Monday last, was made from the Select Com-‘"” ” 
mittee on Standing Orders relative to Private Bills, 
might be read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to alter, amend and extend the powers of an Act 
passed in the first and second years of the reign of 
His present Majesty, for the further improvement 
of the Port and Harbour of Belfast, in Ireland, and 
for other purposes: And that the Earl of Belfast 
and Mr. Kirk do prepare, and bring it in. 


The Aberdeen Roads Bill was read a second time ; Aberdeen 
and. committed to Captain Gordon and the East Beads Bill. 
Scotland List. 


The Lancaster and Preston Railway Bill was read Lancaster 
a second time; and committed to Lord Stanley and 2”4 Preston 
: Railway Bill. 
the Lancaster List. 


Sir George Strickland presented a Bill for em- saddleworth 
banking, and making and maintaining Reservoirs Reservoirs Bill. 
in the Parish of Saddleworth, in the County of 
York: And the same was read the first time ; and 
ordered to be read a second time. 


Lord Francis Egerton presented a Bill for im- Werneth and 
proving and maintaining the Road from Dryclough, a 
through Shaw, New Hey and Milnrow, to Rochdale,“ ~'* 
and other Roads in the County of Lancaster: And 
the same was read the first time; and ordered to 


be read a second time. 


A Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses midland 
of Nottingham, taking notice of the application for Counties 
leave to bring in the Midland Counties Railway Bill; 84: 
and praying that such Bill may pass into a law, was 
= and read ; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 


A Petition of the Zondon and Birmingham Rail- Manchester and 
way Company, praying that the Manchester and Tamwort, _ 
Tamworth Railway, and Tamworth and Rugby 
Railway Bills, may not pass into a law, was pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Motion 


Railway Bills. 


Manche: 
and Tan 


Railway 


t 


Royal 4 
to Bills. 


Manch 
aod Ta 
Railwa 


Liver 
Mane 
Raily 


Lond 
Brig! 
Rails 
(Mill 


Birn 
Bris 
Thai 
tion 








Manchester 
and Tamworth 


Railway Bill ; 
t 


Royal Assent 
to Bills. 


Manchester 
aod Tamworth 
Railway Bill. 


Liverpoo! and 
Manchester 


Railway Bill. 


London and 
Brighton 
Railway 


(Milly's Line.) 


Birmingham, 
Bristol, and 
Thames Junc- 
tion Railway. 


Kingsworth y 

and West 

Monckton 
ailway, 


7 Wit. IV. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 
posed, That the Manchester and Tamworth Railway 
Bill be now read a second time:—And a Debate 
arising thereupon— ‘ 


A Message, by Sir Augustus Clifford, Gentleman 

Usher of the Black Rod: 
Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords, authorized by virtue of His Majesty’s 
Commission, for declaring His Royal Assent to seve- 
ral Acts agreed upon by both Houses, do desire the 
immediate attendance of this Honourable House in 
the House of Peers, to hear the Commission read. 

Accordingly Mr. Speaker, with the House, went 
up to the House of Peers :—And being returned ; 

Mr. Speaker reported, That the House, at the desire 
of the Lords, authorized by virtue of His Majesty’s 
Commission, had been at the House of Peers, where 
a Commission under the Great Seal was read, giving, 
declaring and notifying the Royal Assent to the 
several Public Bills therein mentioned; and that 
the Lords thereby authorized, had declared the 
Royal Assent to the said Bills :—Which Bills are 
as follow : 

An Act to suspend, for a limited time, the opera- 
tion of two Acts passed in the last Session of Par- 
liament, for registering Births, Deaths and Marriages 
in England, and for Marriages in England. 

An Act to amend an Act passed in the seventh 
year of His present Majesty, for consolidating and 
amending the Laws relating to the Presentment of 
Public Money by Grand Juries in Jreland. 


Then the House resumed the said Debate ; 

And the Question being again proposed, That the 
Manchester and Tamworth Railway Bill be now 
read a second time ; 

The Amendments following were proposed to be 
made to the Question; viz. To leave out the word 
“ now,” and at the end of the Question to add the 
words “ upon this day six months.” 

And the Question being proposed, That the word 
“now” stand part of the Question :—The said 
proposed Amendment was, with leave of the House, 
withdrawn. 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read a second 
time :—The Bill was accordingly read a second 
time ; and committed. 


The Liverpool and Manchester Railway Bill was 
read a second time; and committed to Lord Fruncis 
Egerton and the Lancaster List. 


A Petition of the Members of the Provisional 
Committee for promoting the London, Brighton and 
Shoreham Railway, complaining that the Standing 
Orders of the House in respect to the application 
for the London and Brighton Railway Bill (Mills’s 
Line), had not been complied with, and praying that 
they may be heard, by their counsel or agents, against 
the same, was presented, and read; and referred to 
the Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of William, Earl of Listowel, com- 
plaining that the Standing Orders of the House in 
respect to the application for the Birmingham, 
Bristol and Thames Junction Railway Bill, had not 
been complied with, and praying that he may be 
heard, by himself, his counsel or agent, against the 
same, was presented, and read; and referred to the 
Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Richard Brickdale Ward, solicitor 
to the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company, com- 
plaining that the Standing Orders of the House 
in respect to the application for the Kingsworthy 
and West Monckton Railway Biil, had not been 
complied with, and praying that he may be heard, 
by himself, his agent and witnesses, against the 
same, was presented, and read ; and referred to the 
Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 

Vot. 92. 


94° Februariz. 








83 


Mr. Robert Palmer reportea om the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the 
Standing Orders relative to Bills for making Rail- 
ways, had been complied with in the case of the 
Petition for the Portsmouth Junction Railway Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for making a Railway from Portsmouth to join the 
London and Southampton Railway, in or near the 
Parishes of North Stoneham and South Stoneham, 
in the County of Southampton: And that Mr. Shaw 
Lefevre and Mr. Mackinnon do prepare, and bring 
it In. 


Portsmouth 
Junction 
Rai lway. 


Mr. Robert Palmer reported from the Select Com- Stourbridge 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Cal. 


Standing Orders relative to Navigation Bills, had 
been complied with in the case of the Petition for 
the Stourbridge Canal Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for making a Canal from the Stourbridge Navigation, 
near Brookmoor, in the Parish of Kingswinford, in 
the County of Stafford, to the Oakfarm Colliery, 
with a branch to the Standhills, both in the said 
Parish of Kingswinford and County of Stafford: 
And that Sir Oswald Mosley and Mr. Edward Buller 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Robert Palmer reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the 
Standing Orders relative to Bills for making Rail- 
ways, had been complied with inthe case of the 
Petition for the London and Southampton Railway 
Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring a Bill to 
alter the Line of the London and Southampton Rail- 
way, and to amend the Act relating thereto: And 
that Mr. Shaw Lefevre and Mr. Fleming do pre- 
pare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Robert Palmer reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; and to wkom 
the Petitions of Joseph Hardcastle and Charles 
Tufton Blicke, complaining of non-compliance with 
the Standing Orders, were referred ; That the Stand- 
ing Orders relative to Bills for making Railways, 
had been complied with in the case of the Petition 
for the Westminster Bridge and Greenwich Railway 
Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for making a Railway from Westminster Bridge to 
join the Greenwich Railway at Deptford, with a 
Branch to join the Croydon Relboay at New Cross : 
And that Mr. Alderman Wood and Mr. Hawes do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


London and 
Southampton 
Railway. 


Westminster 
Bridge and 
Greenwich 
Railway. 


Mr. Brownlow, Clerk to the Commissioners of Pancras 


the Harrison Estate, Saint Pancras, was called in ; 
and at the bar presented,—Further Return to an 
Order, dated the 3d day of this instant February, 
for a Return relating to paving, cleansing, lighting, 
&amp;e. the Parish of Saint Pancras (so far as relates 
to the Harrison Estate) :—And then he withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table, and be printed. 


Lord John Russell presented, by His Majesty’s 
command,—-Report of the Commissioners appointed 
to inquire into the state of the Public Records. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants and Householders within 


| the parish of Saint Leonard, Shoreditch, and of the 


eastern district or portion of London, and neighbour- 
hood thereof, in the county of Middlesex, complain- 
ing that the Standing Orders of the House in respect 
to the application for the East London Gas Bil, 
had not been complied with, and praying that they 
may be heard, by themselves, their agents and wit- 
nesses, against the same, was presented, and read ; 
and referred to the Select Committee on Petitions 
for Private Bills. 


mM 2 Petitions 


Local Acts. 


Public Records. 


No. 60. 


East London 
Gas. 








~ ecm onan yas eee 


Church Rates. 


Tithes 
(Ireland. ) 


Municipal 
Corporations 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Vote by Ballot. 


Fictitious Votes 
(Scotland.) 


Soap. 


Poor Law Act, 


Foor Law Act, 
&amp;c, 


84 Q4°—95° Februariz. 


Petitions from Dudley; — and, Barford Saint 
Martin; praying that Church Rates may not be 
abolished,—were presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from Wellingborough ; — Stewarton ;— 
Fishguard ;—Newport, Monmouth (two Petitions) ; 
—-Mayor of Newport (Monmouth);— and, Fen- 
wick; praying for the abolition of Church Rates,— 
were also presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Spiddle, praying for 
the abolition of Tithes in Jreland, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Spiddle, praying that 
the Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Bill may pass 
into a law, was presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Spiddle, praying that 
the votes at all elections for Members to serve in 
Parliament may be taken by Ballot, was presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie wpon the Table. 


Petitions from resident Electors of Beith ;—and, 
Non-Electors of Beith ; complaining of the creation 
of fictitious Votes for Members to serve in Parlia- 
ment for counties in Scotland, and praying relief,— 
were presented, and read ; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Fictitious Votes (Scotland.) 


A Petition of David Lawrie, and others, praying 
for the repeal of the Duty on Soap, was presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Milton ;— Hoxne ;—Blything ;— 
and, Chailey ; praying that the Poor Law Act may 
not be repealed,—were presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie npon the Table. 

Petitions from Hammersmith ; — Thomas Mock- 
ridge ; — Horsmonden ; —Dudley ; — Leicester ; — 
Eton ;— Hoxne ;— Canterbury ;— Warwick ;—Chair- 
man of a Meeting of Inhabitants of Saint Leonard, 
Shoreditch ;— Kendal ;—Stapleton ;— Lewes ;—and, 
Southwark ; praying for the amendment of the said 
Act,—were also presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from Hammersmith (Chairman of a 
Meeting); — Saint Andrew Undershaft, London ;— 
and, Reverend Harry Bristow Wilson, rector of the 
parish of Saint Thomas-the-Apostle, London ; pray- 
ing that those parishes may be exempted from the 
operation of the said Act,—were also presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from the President and Council of the 
British Medical Association ;—and, Members of the 
Medical Society of London; praying the House to 
institute an inquiry into the medical treatment of 
the sick poor under the said Act,—were also pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 

Petitions from Barnsley ;—-Linton (Chairman of 
a Meeting) ;— Newmarket (Chairman of a Meeting) ; 
—Saint Ives, Huntingdon (Chairman of a Meeting) ; 
— Bury Saint Edmund's (Chairman of a Meeting) ; 
—Saint Neot’s (Chairman of a Meeting);— Hunting- 
don (Chairman of a Meeting) ;—Jpswich (Chairman 
of a Meeting) ;—Gamlingay (Chairman of a Meet- 
ing);—- Cambridge (Chairman of a Meeting) ;— Little 
Bolton ;— Bolton ;—Rainow ;— and, Macclesfield ; 
praying for the repeal of the said Act,—were also 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 


Table. 


A Petition of the Working Classes of the Inha- 
bitants of Kibworth, praying for the repeal of the 
Poor Law Act, and also for Universal Suffrage, Vote 
by Ballot, and Annual Parliaments, was presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 








A. 1837. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- Poor Law Act, 
posed, That a Select Committee be appointed, to 
inquire into the operation of the Poor Law Amend- 
ment Act, and to report their opinion thereupon to ‘ 
the House ; 
An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the words “ into the” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the words 
“ administration of the relief of the Poor under the 
orders and regulations issued by the Commis- 
sioners appointed under the provisions of the Poor 
Law Amendment Act,” instead thereof. 
And the Question being proposed, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Question : 
—And a Debate arising thereupon ; 
Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till Mon- 
day next. 


“ 
“ 
“cc 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Saturday morning ; 


Sabbati, 25° die Februarii, 1837: 


Resolved, That this House will, at the rising of Adjournment, 
the House this day, adjourn till Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Sale of Beer 
reading of the Sale of Beer Bill ; Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second East India 
reading of the East India Officers Bill ; Officers Bill. 
Ordered That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Shire Halls Bil. 
mittee on the Shire Halls Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday, 
the 13th day of March next, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Prisons’ Regu. 
mittee on the Prisons’ Regulation Bill; lation Bal 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for nominating Deptford and 
the Select Committee on the Petitions respecting [Subse = 
the Subscription List of the Deptford and Dover List.) alin 
Railway ; 

Ordered, That the Committee be nominated upon 
Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for nominating Education 
the Select Committee on Education (Jreland) ; (Iseland.) 

Ordered, That the Committee be nominated upon 
Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Offences against 
reading of the Offences against the Person Bill; te Pers" Bi 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Recorders’ 
further consideration the Report on the Recorders’ Courts Bill 
Courts Bill; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Common Liv 
mittee on the Common Law Courts Bill; Courts Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Supp!y- 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, That this House will, wpon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee, 


The Order of the day being read, for the third Municipsi 
reading of the Municipal Corporations Bill ; a 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time upon" * 
Monday next. 
The 





ay 
1 


ainst 
Bill. 


ns 


Sedition , 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Charities 
Commission 
Bill. 


Recovery of 
Tenements Bill. 


Marines. 


Artillery. 


Marines. 


Church Rates 
Regulation. 


Berry and 
Paterson’s 
Patent Bill. 


Controverted 
Elections Bill. 


No. 57. 


Public Records 
Bill. 


No. 58. 


Recovery of 
Tenements Bill. 


No. 59. 


Deputy 
Lieutenants 


(Ireland.) 


Factories. 





7 Wit. IV. 


The ingrossed Bill for amending an Act of his la t 
Majesty, for restricting the Punishment of Leasin g 
making, Sedition and Blasphemy in Scotland, was 
according to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The ingrossed Bill to continue, for a limited time, 
the Powers of the Commissioners for inquiring con- 
cerning Charities in England and Wales, was, ac- 
cording to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for facilitating the recovery of the possession of 
Tenements after the determination of the Tenancy : 
And that Mr. Aglionby and Mr. Ewart do prepare, 


and bring it in. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 


a Return of the Dates of the First Commissions of 


all the Field Officers not being General Officers, 
and of the twenty senior Captains, and the fort 


senior First Lieutenants, serving upon Full Pay of 


the Royal Marines, on the 1st February 1837; 
stating the Date of their Promotion to the Rank in 
which they were respectively serving on that day. 


Q4°—95°_-97° Februari. 


85 


Regulations issued by the Factory Inspectors since 
May 1836 :—and, Of all Instructions and Letters 

issued by the same to Superintendents, Certifying Sur- 

_geons and Mill-occupiers, of their respective Districts, 
for the same period. 

A Return of all Remonstrances made to the St. Asaph 
Church Commissioners respecting the Union of the 44 Bangor 
Sees of Saint Asaph and Bangor, and the Abstrac- °°""™ 
tion of Welsh Tithes from those Dioceses; showing 
from what Bodies or from what Parishes such Re- 
monstrances have emanated. 


Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Church Rates. 

to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 

House, an Account made up to the 31st December 

1835, of all Sums whereof the Payment now remains 
| charged upon the Church Rates in England and 
| Wales; distinguishing such Sums as are respec- , 

tively due to the Church Building Commissioners, 
| to the Exchequer Bill Loan Commissioners, and to 
Individuals, under the Authority of Acts of Parlia- 
meut, or otherwise, so far as relates to the Sums 
| due to the Church Building Commissioners. 
| Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
| His Majesty by such Members of this Sion as are 
| of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


A Petition of John Hingeston, the Master of the Liverpool 











Ordered, That there be laid before this House, | Society of the Art and Mystery of Apothecaries of Apothecaries 
a Corresponding Return of an equal Number of the city of London, and George Johnson and David Company Bill. 
Officers of each Rank on Full Pay of the Royal| Clapton, the Wardens of the said Society, praying 


Artillery, and of the Royal Engineers. 


| that they may be heard, by themselves, their counsel 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, lor agents, against certain parts of the Liverpool 
Copies of all Memorials addressed to the Board of | Apothecaries Company Bill, was presented, and read. 


Admiralty, by Officers of the Royal Marines, on the 
subject of Promotion, since January 1829; and their 
Lordships Answers. 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 


next, resolve itself into a Committee to consider of 


the payment of Church Rates. 


Mr. Hughes Hughes presented a Bill for forming 
and regulating a Company to be called “ The 
Patent Dry Gas Meter Company,” and to enable 
the said Company to purchase certain Letters 
Patent: And the same was read the first time ; and 
ordered to be read a second time. 


Mr. Charles Buller presented a Bill to amend 
the Law relating to the Trial of Controverted Elec- 
tions, or Returns of Members to serve in Parliament: 
And the same was read the first time ; and ordered 
to be read a second time upon Wednesday, the 8th 
day of March next; and to be printed. 


Mr. Charles Buller presented a Bill to provide 
for the safe Custody, better Preservation, and more 
convenient use of the Public Records: And the 


same was read the first time ; and ordered to be | 


read a second time upon Wednesday, the 15th day 
of March next ; and to be printed. 


Mr. Aglionby presented a Bill for facilitating the 
Recovery of the Possession of Tenements after the 
Determination of the Tenancy: And the same was 
read the first time ; and ordered to be read a second 


time upon Wednesday, the 15th day of March next; 
and to be printed. 


Mr. Fox Maule presented, pursuant to the direc- 
tions of an Act of Parliament,— Copies of Returns 
received from the Clerks of the Peace of the there- 
undermentioned Counties in Jreland, relating to 
the Qualifications of Deputy Lieutenants for the 
Counties of Armagh, Cork, Down, and Londonderry. 

Mr. Fox Maule also presented, pursuant to several 


Addresses to His Majesty,—Copies of all Rules and 
Vor. 92. 


| Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 

| Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
| by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsei heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour after Twelve of the 
clock on Saturday morning, adjourned till 
Monday next. 





Luna, 27° die Februari ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi 1Vt Regis, 1837. 
PRAYERS. 


N R. Coombe, the Town Clerk of Gravesend, was 
called in; and at the bar presented, pursuant Gravesend 
to the directions of an Act of Parliament,—An Ac- *'“" 
| count of the Receipt and Application of Monies for 
the year ending the 29th July 1836, under the several 
Acts relating to the Pier or Jetty at Gravesend, in 
the County of Kent :—And then he withdrew. 


Ordered, That the said Account do lie upon the 
Table. 








Mr. Robinson, Clerk to the Commissioners of the 
Battle Bridge Paving Trust, was called in; and at Pancras — 
the bar presented,—Further Return to an Order, oases 
dated the 3d day of this instant February, for a 
Return relating to Paving, Cleansing, Lighting, &amp;c. 
the Parish of Saint Pancras (so far as relates to the 
Battle Bridge Paving Trust) :—And then he with- 
drew. 


Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


The Committee on the London and Brighton pondon and 
Railway Bill (Stephenson’s Line), was nominated of Brighton _ 
Lord George Lennox and the Sussex List. sate te 

Ordered, That all the Members serving for the ria ‘aa 
several Counties, and for the Boroughs therein, 
through which Counties the said Railway is intended 
to pass, be Members of the said Committee. 


m3 Ordered, 








are 


To Apt RE 





London and 
Brighton 
Railway Bill 
(Mills’s Line.) 


London and 
Brighton 
Railway Bill 





86 27° Februari. 


Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken | 


before the Committee on the London and Brighton 
Railway Bill (Stephenson’s Line) in the last Session 
of Parliament, be referred to the Committee. 
Ordered, That a Message be sent to the Lords, 
to request that their Lordships will be pleased to 
communicate to this House, a printed Copy of the 
Evidence taken before their Lordships in the last 
Session, in the Committee on the Zondon and 
Brighton Railway Bill (Stephenson’s Line): And that 
Lord George Lennox do carry the said Message. 


A Petition of Harry Colville Bridger, of Old 
Shoreham, in the county of Sussex, complaining that 
the Standing Orders of the House in ig to the 
application for the London and Brighton Railway Bill 
(Mitts’s Line), had not been complied with, and 
praying that he may be heard, by himself, his agents 
and witnesses, against the same, was presented, and 
read; and referred to the Select Committee on Pe- 
titions for Private Bills. 


The Committee on the London and Brighton 
Railway Bill (Rennie’s Line), was nominated of 


(Rennie’s Line.) Mr. Alsager and the Sussex List. 


Brighton, 
Lewes, and 
Newhaven 


Railway Bill. 


Leeds Water- 


works, 


Hurworth and 
York Railway. 


Manchester 
and Liverpool 
Plate Glass 
Company, 


Ordered, That all the Members serving for the 
several Counties, and for the Boroughs therein, 
through which Counties the said Railway is intended 
to pass, be Members of the said Committee. 

Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken 
before the Committee on the London and Brighton 
Railway Bill (Rennie’s Line), in the last Session of 
Parliament, be referred to the Committee. 


The Committee on the Brighton, Lewes and New- 
haven Railway Bill was nominated of Sir Charles 
Blunt and the Sussex List. 

Ordered, That all the Members serving for the 
several Counties, and for the Boroughs therein, 
through which Counties the said Railway is intended 
to pass, be Members of the said Committee. 


A Petition of Merchants, Tradesmen and Inha- 
bitants of Lewes, praying that the said Bill may pass 
into a law, was presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Robert Palmer reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Stand- 
ing Orders relative to Bills for supplying Cities or 
Towns with Water, had been complied with in the 
case of the Petition for the Leeds Waterworks Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for the better supplying with Water the Town and 
Neighbourhood of Leeds, in the West Riding of the 
County of York: And that Sir John Beckett and 


Mr. Baines do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Robert Palmer reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Stand- 
ing Orders relative to Bills for making Railways, 
had been complied with in the case of the Petition 
for the Hurworth and York Railway Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to enable the Great North of England Railway Com- 
pany to extend the Line of their Railway, and to 
make two Branches therefrom, and for other pur- 
poses relating thereto: And that Mr. Pease and Mr. 
Cayley do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Robert Palmer reported from the Select Com- 


A. 1837. 


Directors of the said Company, and for other pur- 
poses: And that Mr. Wilson Patten and Mr. Hind- 
ley do prepare, and bring it in. 


A Petition of Henry Lash, and others, praying Torquay 
that the Torquay Roads Bill may not pass into a law Roads Bil, 
as it now stands, was presented, and read; and re- 
ferred to the Committee on the Bill. 


Mr. Aaron Chapman presented a Bill for better Whitby 
paving, cleansing, lighting, watching and improving ee 
the Town of Whitby, in the North Riding of the" 
County of York: And the same was read the first 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


Petitions from the Right honourable Viscount Great Western 
Barrington ;—and, William Bowles, of Hill-street, epee 
in the parish of Saint George, Hanover-square, in the ee 
county of Middlesex, a captain in His Majesty’s 
Navy; praying that they may be heard, by them- 
selves, their counsel or agents, against certain parts 
of the Great Western Railway Bill ( Trowbridge),— 
were presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


A Petition of John Stunt, of N° 57, Strand, in Southwark and 
the county of Middlesex, boot-maker, praying that oe 
the Southwark and Hammersmith Railway Bill may — 
not pass into a law as it now stands, was presented, 
and read; and referred to the Committee on the 
Bill. 

A Petition of the London and Southampton Rail- 
way Company, praying that they may be heard, by 
themselves, their counsel or agents, against certain 
parts of the said Bill, was also presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


Petitions from Clergy, Gentry, Land-owners,Traders Manchester 
and Inhabitants of Penkridge ;—and, Bankers, Mer- eames 4 
chants, Traders and Inhabitants of Wolverhampton ; eit 
praying that the Manchester and Stafford Railway 
Bill may pass into a law,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Arthur Chichester, of Staplake, in Exmouth 
the county of Devon, Esquire, for leave to present Market. 
a Petition for leave to bring in a Bill for better re- 
gulating, maintaining and improving the Harbour 
of Exmouth, was presented, and read ; and referred 


to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private 
Bills. 


A Petition of John Chiesman, of Leeds, complain- Leeds Water- 
ing that the Standing Orders of the House in respect works Bill. 
to the application for the Leeds Waterworks Bill 
had not been complied with, and praying that he 
may be heard, by his agents and witnesses, against 
the same, was presented, and read ; and ordered to 


lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee Londou and 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Standing se ga 
Orders relative to Railway Bills, had not been com- baie 





plied with in the case of the Petition for the London 


mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That in the | and Birmingham Railway Bill, inasmuch as no No- 


case of the Petition for the Manchester and Liver- 
pool Plate Glass Company Bill, the application 
does not come within the Standing Orders of the 
House. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring ina Bill 
to enable the Manchester and Liverpool Plate Glass 
Company to sue and be sued ia oe Name of the 
Chairman, Deputy Chairman, or of any one of the 


| tices had been given in the N ewspapers of the several 


counties through which the Railway is authorized 
to be made ; but it appeared to the Committee, that 
no land or other property is intended to be taken, 


or any new works contemplated under the proposed 
| Bill. 
Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Select 


| Committee on Standing Orders. 


Mr. Greene 





Leice 
Swan 
Railv 


Leice 


Stam 
Wate 


Victo 
(Man 
Comy 


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Nort 
Assu 


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and | 
Rai! 


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Rail 





Leicester and 
Swannington 
Railway. 


Leicester Gas. 


Stamford 
Waterworks, 


Victoria Park 
(Manchester) 
Company. 


Shropshire and 
North Wales 
Assurance 
Company. 


Edinburgh 
and Glasgow 


Railway, 


Edinburgh 
and Glascow 
ilway, 


7 Wit. IV. 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Standing 
Orders relative to Railway Bills, had not been com- 
plied with in the case of the Petition for the Leices- 
ter and Swannington Railway Bill, inasmuch as the 
= and townships were not inserted in the 

otices in the Newspapers, and the Petition is for 
a Bill for other purposes besides “ altering the exist- 
ing tolls, rates or duties, or for continuing or amend- 
ing any former Acts solely for the purpose of tolls ;” 
but it appeared to the Committee, that no l#nd or 
other property is intended to be taken, or zeny new 
works contemplated, under the proposed Bill. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders. 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Standing 
Orders relative to Bills for lighting Cities or Towns 
with Gas, had been complied with in the case of the 
Petition for the Leicester Gas Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for better lighting with Gas the Borough of Leices- 
ter,in the county of Leicester: And that Mr. Ser- 
jeant Goulburn and Mr. Thomas Gladstone do pre- 


pare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Standing 
Orders relative to Bills for supplying Cities or Towns 
with Water, had been complied with in the case of 
the Petition for the Stamford Waterworks Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for better supplying with Water the Town and 
Borough of Stamford, and places adjacent thereto, 
in the counties of Northampton and Lincoln: And 
that Mr. Finch and Colonel Chaplin do prepare, and 
bring it in. 

Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That in the case of 
the Petition for the Victoria Park (Manchester) 
Company Bill, the application does not come within 
the Standing Orders of the House. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for establishing a Company for the purpose of 
laying out and maintaining an ornamental Park, in 
the Townships of Rusholme and Moss-side, in the 
County of Lancaster: And that Mr. Mark Philips 
and Mr. Brotherton do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That in the case of 
the Petition for the Shropshire and North Wales 
Assurance Company Bill, the application does not 
come within the Standing Orders of the House. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 


~ to enable the Shropshire and North Wales Assurance 


Company to sue and be sued in the name of their 
Managing Director for the time being, or any one 
of the General or Local Directors of the said Com- 
pany: And that Lord Viscount Clive and Mr. Robert 
Clive do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; and to whom 
several Petitions, complaining of non-compliance 
with the Standing Orders, were referred ; That the 
Standing Orders relative to Bills for making Rail- 
ways, had been complied with in the case of the 
Petition for the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway 
Bill. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of David Robertson, of Great George- 
street, Westminster, agent for the Right honourable 
John Earl of Hopetoun, and the Honourable Charles 
Hope, and James Hope, Esquire, commissioners of 
the said Earl, was presented, and read; setting 
forth, That on the 21st day of February instant, a 
Petition was presented to the House, in the names 

Vor. 92. 


27° Februari. 








87 


of John Earl of Hopetoun, and of the Honourable 
John Hope and James Hope, his commissioners in 
the matter of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, 
complaining, upon various grounds set forth in that 
Petition, that the Standing Orders had not been 
complied with; that in the matter of the said Raii- 
way, the estimated expense amounts to the sum of 
893,0001., and four contracts are stated to have been 
entered into by persons subscribing to the intended 
undertaking, copies of which have been deposited 
in the Private Bill Office, one by persons residing 
in Liverpool and its neighbourhood, another by per- 
sons residing in Manchester and its neighbourhood, 
a third by persons residing in Edinburgh and its 
neighbourhood, and a fourth by persons residing in 
Glasgow and its neighbourhood, and upon the face 
of these contracts the subscription of persons in 
England (including some in Jreland, and one in the 
United States of America), amount to the sum of 
481,2501., while the subscriptions of persons in 
Scotland amount only to the sum of 239,250/.; that 
among other objections upon Standing Orders in the 
said Petition mentioned, there was an objection 
stated in the following terms: “That in all these 
contracts (with the exception of a few persons in 
the Glasgow contract), the places of abode of the 
persons whose names are therein set down, are totally 
omitted,” while it is manifestly impossible for the 
Petitioners to check the authenticity of subscriptions 
to this enormous amount, particularly in regard to 
persons residing in Liverpool, Manchester, and else- 
where in England, among whom individuals are 
stated as subscribers in one sum to the amount of 
20,0002. and upwards ; that the said Petition was, 
in the usual manner, referred to the Select Com- 
mittee to whom all Petitions for Private Bills are 
referred ; that the matter of the said Petition came 
on for discussion upon Wednesday, the 22d of Feb- 
ruary instant, before the Sub-committee of the said 
Select Committee, and such Sub-committee, after 
hearing the agents for the parties, intimated their 
opinion that the Standing Orders relating to Private 
Bills in general, which directs that every subscrip- 
tion list required to be deposited in the Private Bill 
Office do contain the christian and surnames and 
places of abode, together with a description of the 
quality or calling of the subscribers to the work, 
and the sums by them respectively subscribed, did 
not apply to Railway Bills, and that this had been 
superseded by the order in regard to Railway Bills 
requiring, that before any Petition for a Railway 
Bill is presented to the House, a subscription to the 
amount of one-half of the estimated expense, at 
least, shall be entered into by persons under a con- 
tract, binding themselves, their heirs, executors, 
administrators or assigns, for the payment of the 
money so subscribed, and they accordingly over- 
ruled the objections taken to the contracts in the 
present case; that these did not set out the places 
of abode of the subscribers, nor, in all cases, their 
christian names ; that it was stated in the said Sub- 
committee, on the part of the Petitioners, that it was 
necessary for them to see the original contracts in 
this case, particularly those drawn according to the 
forms of the law of Scotland, before it could be 
known whether these were of any validity or not, 
and that the promoters of the Bill, when previously 
applied to, had refused to permit any inspection of 
them to be had, and the Petitioners therefore claimed 
production of such original contracts before the 
Committee, but the said Sub-committee intimated 
their opinion, that it was not necessary to produce 
these original contracts, and they finally came to a 
resolution, that the Standing Orders had been com- 
plied with in this case ; that the Petitioner considers 
the decision of the said Sub-committee, in the mat- 
ters aforesaid, to be of much importance, as affecting 
the interests of his constituents, but of infinitely 
greater importance so far as the interest of the pub- 
lic is concerned ; and while he begs leave to — 

M 4 the 








Glasgow and 
Ayr Railway. 


Scarborough 
Harbour Bill. 


Portsmouth 
Junction 
Railway Bill, 


88 97° Februarit. 


the highest respect for the said Sub-committee, he_| 
deems it necessary to bring this matter under the 
special notice of the House; that during the last 
Session of Parliament, the House saw fit to establish 
many new rules in regard to Railway Bills, and which 
rules it was considered necessary, with a view to the 
protection of the interests of the public, to frame in 
much stricter terms than had Deoutalees existed, 
and at this early period of the present Session, there 
have been few opportunities of bringing the meaning 
and import of those rules into discussion ; that the 
Petitioner has always regarded the Standing Order 
which required the christian and surnames and places 
of abode, together with a description of the quality 
or calling, of the subscribers to any undertaking of 
this kind, to be set out in a list to be deposited in 
the Private Bill Office, as one of the greatest safe- 
guards to the public, and he has considered that 
the Standing Orders with regard to the depositation 
of contracts was meant and intended as a further 
security to the public in regard to Railway Bills in 
ee but according to the decision which has 
«en given in this case, there will be less protection 
to the public in the matter referred to, in regard to 
Railway Bills, than there is in regard to Road 
Bills, or any other Bills in which lists of subscribers 
are directed to be deposited; that the Petitioner 
therefore humbly submits to the consideration of the 
House, whether the salutary rule in their Standing 
Orders, directing the christian and surnames and 
places of abode of subscribers to an undertaking of 
this kind to be inserted in a subscription list, and 
deposited in the Private Bill Office, be or be not 
still in force ; whether it can be superseded by the 
depositation, as in this case, of copies of contracts 
which do not contain the places of abode of the par- 
ties stated to have subscribed the same, and which, 
in many instances, do not state the christian names 
of those persons ; and whether the original contracts 
in this case ought not to have been produced, and 
submitted to the inspection of the Sub-committee, 
and of the parties who were so materially interested 
in them; that the Petitioner begs leave finally to 
remark, that in the present case more than two-thirds 
of the subscriptions entered into to make this Rail- 
way, which is to be situated in and exclusively con- 
nected with Scotland, appear to have been entered 
into by persons a in England, of whom the 
arties chiefly interested and to be affected by the 
imtended measure could know nothing ; and praying 
the House to take the premises into consideration, 
and make such order, or give such directions therein, 
as to them shall seem meet. 
Ordered, That the said Petition do lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of David Robertson, of Great George- 
street, Westminster, agent for the Right honourable 
Charles Lord Blantyre, a minor, and his Guardians, 
pt of the decision of the Select Committee 
on Petitions for Private Bills, in relation to the 
Glasgow and Ayr Railway, containing the same | 
allegations as the preceding Petition relating to the 
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, and praying the 
‘louse to take the premises into consideration, and 
make such order and give such directions therein as 
to them shall seem meet, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Sir John Johnstone presented a Bill for rendering 
the Harbour of Scarborough, in the North Riding 

















of the County of York, more safe and commodious 





A. 1837. 


of Southampton: And the same was read the first 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


Mr. Mackinnon presented a Bill to alter the Line London and 
of the London and Southampton Railway, and to Railway Bil 
amend the Act relating thereto: And the same was 
read the first time ; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


The House was moved, That the Order made on 
upon Friday last, That leave be given to bring in a Grown Glass 
Bill to enable the Birmingham Plate and Crown Company. 
Glass Company to sue and be sued in the name of 
the Chairman, Deputy Chairman, or of any one of 
the Directors for the time being of the said Com- 
pany, and for other purposes, might be read; and 
the same being read ; 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to enable the Birmingham Plate and Crown Glass 
Company to sue and be sued in the name of the 
Chairman or Manager for the time being of the said 
Company, and for other purposes: And that Sir 
Eardley Wilmot and Mr. Dugdale do prepare, and 


bring it in. 


A Petition of the Provost, Magistrates and Town Edinburgh 
Council of Dunbar, taking notice of the application a 
for leave to bring in the Edinburgh and Glasgow - 
Railway Bill, and praying that such Bill may pass 
into a law, was presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Magistrates and Town Council Edinburgh 
of the burgh of Dunbar, taking notice of the appli- i, 
cation for leave to bring in the Edinburgh and 
Dunbar Railway Bill, and praying that such Bill 
may pass into a law, was presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Druggists and Apothecaries of Liverpool 
Liverpool;—and, Manchester ; praying that they may Ch enny Bill 
be heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
against certain parts of the Liverpool Apothecaries 
Company Bill,—were presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be re- 
ferred to the Committee on the Bill; and the Peti- 
tioners heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
upon their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel 
heard, in favour of the Bill, against the said 
Petitions. 


Mr. Wilson Patten presented a Bill for repairing, Rechisle 
maintaining and improving the Road from the Town Rivads Bill. 
of Rochdale to the Town of Burnley, and other 
Roads communicating therewith, and for making 
and maintaining other Roads also to communicate 
therewith, all in the County Palatine of Lancaster : 

And the same was read the first time ; and ordered 
to be read a second time. 


A Petition of Trustees of the Preston and Gar- Lancaster 
stang Turnpike Road, praying that the Lancaster Treilwey Bill 
and Preston Railway Bill may not pass into a law 
as it now stands, was presented, and read; and 
referred to the Committee on the Bill. 


A Petition of the Right honourable Lord Mid- Long Eaton - 
dleton, complaining that the Standing Orders of the logis ol 
House in respect to the application for the Long Nether Birch- 
Eaton and Tupton; and, Long Eaton and Nether wood Railways 


Birchwood Railway Bills, had not been complied 


as a Harbour of Refuge: And the same was read | with, and praying that he may be heard, by his 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second| agents and witnesses, against the same, was pre- 


time. 


Mr. Mackinnon presented a Bill for making a 
Railway from Portsmouth to join the London and 
Southampton Railway, in or near the Parishes of 
North Stoneham and South Stoneham, in the County 





sented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of William Penny, of Westborne House, Great — 
in the parish of Paddington, in the county of Mid- (padaingtor) 
dlesex, Esquire, praying that he may be heard, by 


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Belf. 
Hart 
(Ne. 


Belfa 
Wate 


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oyle 
&amp;e, 


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and ( 
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7 Witt. [V. 


his counsel or agent, against certain parts of the 


Great Western 
sented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to 
the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner 
heard, by his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, if 
he think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


ailway Bill (Paddington), was pre- 


Westminster Mr. Alderman Wood presented a Bill for making 

— a Railway from Westminster Bridge to_join the 

Railway Bill, Greenwich a at Deptford, with a Branch to 
join the Croydon Railway at New Cross: And the 
same was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time. 

Salamé’s Salamé’s Naturalization Bill was read a second 

Nat. Bill. time; and committed to Sir Frederick Trench and 
the York List. 

Mochnant The Mochnant Inclosure Bill was read a second 


Inclosure Bille time ; and committed to Mr. Williams Wynn and 
the Wales List. 


Petitions from Henry Kelsall, of Chester, agent for 
and on behalf of Joseph White, of Great Sutton, in 
the county of Chester, Esquire ;—and, John Cotting- 
ham Johnson, of Aldermanbury Church-yard, in 
the city of London ; complaining that the Standing 
Orders of the House in respect to the application for 
the Birkenhead and Chester Railway Bill, had not 
been complied with in such a manner as to authorize 
the introduction of the said Bill,—were presented, 
and read ; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Petitions for Private Bills. 

A Petition of Richard Green, of Bolton Hail, in 
the township of Poulton-cum-Spitile, in the county 
of Chester, complaining that the Standing Orders of 
the House in respect to the application for the said 
Bill, had not been complied with, and praying that 
he may be heard, by himself, his agents and wit- 
nesses, in support of the allegations of his Petition, 


Birkenhead 
and Chester 
Railway. 


f was also presented, and read ; and referred to the 


Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


Belfast 
Harbour 
(Ne. 1.) Bill. 


The Earl of Belfast presented a Bill to alter, 
amend and extend the Powers of an Act passed in 
the first and second years of the Reign of His present 
Majesty for the further Improvement of the Port 
and Harbour of Belfast in Ireland, and for other 
purposes: And the same was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time. 


Belfast 


Waterworks. 


Petitions from the Marquis of Donegall ;—and, 
John Wallace, of Belfast, in the county of Antrim, 
solicitor; complaining that the Standing Orders of 
the House in respect to the application for the Bel- 
fast Waterworks, had not been complied with; and 
praying that they may be heard, by themselves, their 
agents and witnesses, against the same,—were pre- 
sented, and read ; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of the Marquis of Donegail, and of 
the Earl of Belfast, complaining that the Standing 
Orders of the House in respect to the application for 
the Lough Swilly and Lough Foyle Canals, &amp;c., Bill, 
had not been complied with, and praying that they 
may be heard, by their agents and witnesses, against 
the same, was presented, and read ; and referred to 
the Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


Lough Swilly 
and Lough 
Foyle Canals, 
&amp;e, 


Birmingham Lord Granville Somerset presented a Bill to amend 
hea an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, for 


making a Railway from Birmingham to Gloucester; 
to extend the Line of the said Railway ; and to make 
Branches therefrom to the City of Worcester and the 
Town of Tewkesbury: And the same was read the 
first time; and ordered to be read a second time. 


Deptfurd and 

ver Railwa 
Subscription 
List,] 


Petitions from Directors of the Kent Railway 

¥ Company ;—and, Frederick George Hamond, of 

Coma Esquire; taking notice of the allegations 
OL, 92, 


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89 


contained in the Petitions presented upon Wednesday 
last, complaining of the names of certain needy and 
indigent persons having been inserted in the Sub- 
scription List of the Deptford and Dover Railway 
Bill; and praying that they may be heard, by 
themselves, their counsel or agents, on the matters of 
the said Petitions, before any Committee to which 
the House may refer the consideration of the same, 


—were presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


Petitions from Bankers, Corn Merchants, Traders Manchester 
and Inhabitants of Newark ;—and, Inhabitants of ae neg 
Ipstones; praying that the Manchester and Tamworth “"™*Y ©™ 
Railway Bill may pass into a law,—were presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The Winfrith and Wool Inclosure Bill was read _ aut 
a second time; and committed to Mr. William p..° "“oN® 
Ponsonby and the Dorset List. 


A Petition of the East India Company, praying London and 
that they may be heard, by their counsel or agents, arene 
against certain parts of the London and Blackwall , 
Commercial Railway Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by their counsel or agents, upon their Petition, if 
they think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of the East India Company, praying London and 
that they may be heard, by their counsel or agents, — Railway 
against the London and Dover Railway Bill, was 
— and read; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 


A Petition of the Trustees for the Creditors of the Trinity (Nomh 
city of Edinburgh, complaining that the Standing Leitt) Harbour 
Orders of the ng in respect to the application . 
for the Trinity (Vorth Leith) Harbour and Docks 
Bill had not been complied with, and praying that 
they may be heard, by themselves, their agents and 
witnesses, against the same, was presented, and 
read; and referred to the Select Committee on Pe- 
titions for Private Bills. 


ailway Bill, 


Mr. Hastie presented a Bill for making a Railway Glasgow and 
from Glasgow to Paisley and Ayr, and from a point = wanted 
on the said Railway near Blairland to Kilmarnock, 
to be called “ The Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, 
and Ayr Railway,” with Branches: And the same 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time. 


A Petition of Owners of ne gi! on the line of Gillingham 
Railway thereinafter mentioned, complaining that — =—" 
the Standing Orders of the House in respect to the 
application for the Gillingham and Durston Railway 

Bill had not been complied with, and praying that 

they may be heard, by themselves, their agents or 
witnesses, against the same, was presented, and 

read; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Patrick Costello, of Carraroe, in Longford 
the county of Longford, farmer, Gilbert Mullooly, Election. 
of Lahery, in the same county, farmer, and Hubert 
Farrell, of Lahery, in the same county, farmer, 
electors of the said county of Longford, and who 
claim to have had a right of voting for a Member 
to serve in this present Parliament for the said 
county, at the last Election for such county, and 
who did vote at the said Election, was delivered in, 
and read; setting forth, That the Petitioners were 
Electors for the said county of Longford at the last 
Election of a Member to serve in this present Par- 
liament for the said county, in the room of the 
Honourable George John Forbes, commonl called 
Lord Viscount Forbes, deceased, and still are Electors 
for the said county, and voted at the said Election 
for Luke White, Esquire, one of the Candidates at 
that Election to represent the said county in Par- 

N + liament ; 








SDs tewe— a= aia 


SE A ON a ee 


National 
Endowment 
and Assurance 
Society. 


East London 
Gas. 


Fourdrinier’s 
Patent. 


Castle Eden 
and Merrington 
(Clarence and 
Hartlepool 
Junction) 
Railway. 


Belfast and 
Hollywood 
Railway. 


90 97° Februari. 


liament; that the said Luke White was at the said 
Election duly elected and returned to serve in this 
resent Parliament for the said county; that the 
Petitioners find that certain Petitions complaining 
of the said Election and Return of the said Luke 
White to serve in this present Parliament for the 
said county, that is to say, a certain Petition pur- 
porting to be a Petition of Charles Fox, Esquire, 
a Candidate at the said Election, and also a Petition 
purporting to be a Petition of Lovell Edgeworth, 
Barry Fox, Samuel W. Blackall and William Shirly 
Ball, Esquires, therein described as freeholders of 
the said county, have been presented to the House, 
and that the said Luke White, being at the time the 
Sitting Member for the said county, did, on the 
fourteenth day of February, in the present year, 
inform the House, by a declaration in writing sub- 
scribed by him, and delivered in at the Table of the 
House within fourteen days after the presentation 
of the said Petition, that it was not his intention to 
defend his Election and Return; that the Petitioners 
are desirous that they may be admitted as parties 
in the room of the said Luke White, in opposition 
to the said Petitions, and in defence of the said 
Election and Return; the Petitioners therefore 
humbly pray, That they may be admitted as parties 
in the room of the said Zuke White, according to the 
form of the Statute in such case made and provided. 
Ordered, That the said Petitioners be admitted 
parties in the room of the said Luke White, Esquire, 
according to the prayer of the said Petition. 


Mr. Robert Palmer reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That in the 
case of the Petition for the National Endowment 
and Assurance Society Bill, the application does 
not come within the Standing Orders of the House. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to enable the National Endowment and Assurance 
Society to sue and be sued in the Names of one of 
the Directors, or Chairman or Secretary of the 


Society: And that Mr. Pease and Mr. Grote do | 


prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Robert Palmer reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; and to whom 
the Petition of Inhabitants of Saint Leonard, Shore- 
ditch, complaining of non-compliance with the 
Standing Orders, was referred; That the Standing 
Orders relative to Bills for lighting Cities or Towns 
with Gas, had not been complied with in the case of 
the Petition for the East London Gas Bill, inasmuch 
as only one Notice was affixed upon the church- 
doors of the respective parishes within the months 
of August, September, October or November. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders. 


Mr. Robert Palmer reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the 
Standing Orders relative to Bills for Letters Patent, 
had been complied with in the case of the Petition 
for Fourdrinier’s Patent Bill. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Robert Palmer reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the 
Standing Orders relative to Railway Bills, had been 
complied with in the case of the Petition for the 
Castle Eden and Merrington (Clarence and Hartle- 
pool Junction) Railway Bill 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 

Mr. Robert Palmer reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the 
Standing Orders relative to Bills for making Rail- 
ways, had not been complied with in the case of the 
Petition for the Belfast and Hollywood Railway 
Bill, inasmugh as the Plan, Section and Book of 
Reference were not deposited in the Private Bill 
Office until the 2d day of January last. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Se- 
lect Committee on Standing Orders, 











A. 1837. 


Mr. Robert Palmer reported from the Select Com- Stratford-upon. L 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills ; and to whom 4¥™ Canal. 
the Petition of Edward Bolton King, Esquire, com- 


plaining of non-compliance with the Standing Orders, " 
was referred; That the Standing Orders relative to E 
Navigation Bills, had not been complied with, in the 

case of the Petition for the Stratford-upon-Avon N 
Canal Bill, inasmuch as no Subscription List had P 
been deposited in the Private Bill Office ; and it ap- 

peared to the Committee, that the Petitioners having 7 


no power under their existing Acts to raise money for 
the purposes intended, have deposited a document 


under their common seal, purporting to be an under- R 
taking to defray the expenses of the new works by P 
a Loan to be raised under the powers of the Bill now 

about to be applied for. F 


Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders. 


Mr. Robert Palmer reported from the Select Com- Stockport 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Improvement. 
Standing Orders relative to Bills for improving 
Cities or Towns, had been complied with in the case 
of the Petition for the Stockport Improvement Bill. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Sir Henry Halford, of Wistow Hall, Courteenball 
in the county of Leicester, Baronet ;—and, Stephen a Wig- 
Manning, of Kingsthorpe, in the county of South-" °°". 
ampton; complaining that the Standing Orders of 
the House in respect to the application for the 
Courteenhall and Great Wigston Railway Bill, had 
not been complied with; and praying that they may 
be heard, by themselves, their agents and witnesses, 
against the same,—were presented, and read; and 
referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for 
Private Bills. 


Lord George Lennox reported, That he had carried London and 
to the Lords the Message of this House of this ee ae 
day, requesting that their Lordships would be (auahames 
pleased to communicate to this House a printed Line.) 
copy of the Minutes of the Evidence taken in the 
last Session before the Committee of their Lord- 
ships’ House on the London and Brighton Railway 
Bill (Stephenson’s Line); and that their Lordships 
had been pleased to communicate a printed copy of 
the same, as desired by this House; and he delivered 
the same in at the Table. 

Ordered, That the said Minutes of Evidence be 


referred to the Committee on the Bill. 


i -l eh 


A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Brougham Message from 

and Mr. Senior : we kam 
Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Post Office " 
Act for transferring to the Commissioners of the © 3" 
Admiralty all Contracts, Bonds and other Securities 
entered into with the Postmaster General in relation 
to the Packet Service, without Amendment: And 
also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Carlton and 


Act for inclosing Lands in the Township of Lofé- ee Bill. 


house-cum-Carlton, in the Parish of Rothwell, in 
the West Riding of the County of York, with 
Amendments; to which Amendments the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House :—And then 


the Messengers withdrew. 


Petitions from Farnham ; — Wolverhampton ; — Church Rates 
and, Swanwick and Riddings ; praying for the aboli- 
tion of Church Rates,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of Householders, Landholders and 
Inhabitants of Abbess Roding, praying that Church 
Rates may not be abolished, was also presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Merchants, Manufacturers and Cotte 
other Gentlemen connected with the Cotton Trade, 
residing at Bury, in the county of Lancaster, pray- 
ing for the repeal of the Duty on Cotton, was pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Ordered, 





Lighthouses. 
No. 62. 


Monies in the 
Exchequer. 


No. 63. 
Metropolitan 
Police. 

No. 64. 
Horse Patrol. 


No. 65. 


Bankrupt 
Petitions. 


No. 66. 


Factories. 


No. 67. 
Municipal 


Corporations 
Bill. 


Canada. 





7 Wit. IV. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Lighthouses, 
which was presented upon the 14th day of this 
instant February, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Account of Monies in the 
Exchequer, which was presented upon Wednesday 
last, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Account relative to the Metro- 
politan Police, which was presented upon Friday 
last, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Account relative to the Horse 
Patrol, which was presented upon Friday last, be 
printed. 

Ordered, That the Returns relative to Bankrupt 
Petitions, which were presented upon Friday last, 
be printed. 

Ordered, That the Papers relative to Factories, 
which were presented upon Friday last, be printed. 


The ingrossed Bill to amend an Act for the Re- 
gulation of Municipal Corporations in England and 
Wales, was, according to Order, read the third time ; 
and ingrossed Clauses were added to the Bill, by 
way of riders. 

Another ingrossed Clause was offered to be added 
to the Bill, by way of rider, “‘ That a person entitled 
to be admitted to the freedom of a Borough at the 
time of the passing of the Act, shall be entitled to 
be admitted on the same conditions as any person 


who shall have acquired his title after the passing 
of the Act :””—And the said Clause was brought 
up, and read the first time. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the said Clause be now read a se- 
cond time ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the old Lobby ; 

The Noes to the new Lobby. 

Tellers for the ¢ Mr. Edward John Stanley, ) 4). 

Yeas, Mr. Baring : } . 

Tellers for the f Mr. Thornely, 14 

Noes, U Mr. Wakley : } ° 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

The said Clause was accordingly read a second 
and third time, and agreed to; and made part of 
the Bill, by way of rider. 

Then another ingrossed Clause was added to the 
Bill, by way of rider. 

Another ingrossed Clause was offered to be added 
to the Bill, by way of rider, “ That no person holding 
the office of Recorder, Deputy Recorder, or Assistant 
Barrister, in any city or borough in England or 
Freland, shall be eligible to serve in Parliament, or 
to be an Alderman, Seunciller or Police Magistrate 
in such city or borough: ””—And the said Clause 
was brought up, and read the first time. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the said Clause be now read a se- 
cond time ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 
The Noes to the old Lobby. 


Tellers for the Yeas, { a reg } 52. 
Tellers for the Noes, my i party . }u 1. 


So it passed in the Negative. 

Another ingrossed Clause was offered to be added 
to the Bill, by way of rider, “ That Rate-payers shall 
vote in the Ward wherein they reside :””—And the 
said Clause was brought up, and read the first 
time. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the said Clause be now read a se- 
cond time :—-It passed in the Negative. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House moved, That so much of the Lords 
Commissioners’ Speech to both Houses of Parlia- 


ment at the opening of the Session as relates to 
Vot. 92, 


97° Februari. 





« The Order of the day 





91 


Canada, might be read ; and the same was read, as 
followeth : 

“ His Majesty has directed the Reports of the 
Commissioners appointed to inquire into the state of 
the Province of p nee Canada to be laid before you, 
and has ordered us to call your attention to that im- 
portant subject.” 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into a Committee to consider of 
the state of the Province of Lower Canada. 

Ordered, That the Reports of the Commissioners 
appointed to inquire into the Grievances complained 
of in Lower Canada, which was presented upon the 
20th day of this instant February ; and also the Pa- 
pers relative to the Affairs of Lower Canada, which 
were presented upon the 20th day of this instant 
February, be referred to the Committee. 


Petitions from Sutton in Holderness ;—Kettering ; 
— Maldon;— Horsham;— Peter Bussey ;— and, Saint 
Mary Abbotts, Kensington ; praying for the amend- 
ment of the Poor Law Act,—were presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of Owners of property, Rate-payers 
and Inhabitants of Llanidloes; praying for the re- 
peal of the said Act, was also presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of the Guardians of the Poor of the 
Cuckfield Union, Sussex, praying that no measure 
may be passed calculated to impede the operation, 
affect the principle, or materially alter the provisions 
of the said Act, was also presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate upon the Amendment which, 
upon Friday last, was proposed to be made to the 
Question, ‘‘ That a Select Committee be appointed 
to inquire into the operation of the Poor Law 
Amendment Act, and to report their opinion there- 
upon to the House;” and which Amendment was, 
“To leave out from the words ‘ into the’ to the 
end of the Question, in order to add the words 
‘ administration of the relief of the Poor under the 
‘ orders and regulations issued by the Commis- 
‘ 
‘ Law Amendment Act,’ instead thereof :”—The 
House resumed the said adjourned Debate. 

And the Question being again proposed, That the 
words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Question:—The said proposed Amendment and 
Motion were severally, with leave of the House, 
withdrawn. 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed 
to inquire into the administration of the relief of 
the Poor under the orders and regulations issued by 
the Commissioners appointed under the provisions 
of the Poor Law Amendment Act. 

Ordered, That the Committee do consist of twenty- 
one Members :—And a Committee was appointed 
of Lord John Russell, Mr. Walter, Mr. Fazakerley, 
Sir James Graham, Mr. Poulett Scrope, Mr. Baines, 
Mr. Hume, Sir Thomas Fremantle, Mr. Cartwright, 
Mr. Barneby, Mr. Sutton Bucknall Estcourt, Mr. 
John Ponsonby, Mr. Loch, Mr. Wakley, Sir Os- 
wald Mosley, Mr. Charles Villiers, Mr. Robert 
Gordon, Mr. William Miles, Mr. Harvey, Mr. Law 
Hodges, and Mr. John Chichester, with Power to 
send for persons, papers and records. 

Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Poor Relief (Zreland) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time To- 
morrow. 


reading of the Court o 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 

upon Wednesday next. 

The 


N 2 


Poor Law Act. 


Poor Law Act, 


sioners appointed under the provisions of the Poor , 


Poor Law Act 


Poor Relief 
(Ireland) Bill, 


being read, for the second Court of 
] Exclequer 


Exchequer (Scotland) Bill ; (Scotland) Bill, 








92 27°—28° 


Court of Session The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
(Scotland) Bill. mittee on the Court of Session (Scotland) Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


cael Debts The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
(Scotland) Bill. vittee on the Small Debts (Scotland) Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


Sale of Beer The Order of the day being read, for the second 
Bil. reading of the Sale of Beer Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 


Prisons’ Regu- 
lation Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Prisons’ Regulation Bill; 
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Order of the day being read, for nominating 
the Select Committee to examine into the state, 
funds and management of the Diocesan, Royal and 
other Schools of public foundation in Ireland; as 
also into the system of Education pursued therein, 
with a view to increasing their utility; and also to 
inquire how far it may be practicable and expedient, 
and from what resources, to improve, extend and 
permanently maintain academical Education in that 
Country, and to report thereon to the House ; 

A Committee was nominated of Mr. Wyse, Lord 
Viscount Morpeth, Mr. Shaw, Mr. William O’ Brien, 
Lord Viscount Mahon, Sir Robert Ferguson, Mr. 
Mackinnon, Mr. Jephson, Mr. Vesey, Sir Richard 
Musgrave, Mr. John Young, Dr. Bowring, Mr. 
Mackenzie, Sir Charles Lemon, and Mr. Morgan 
John O’ Connell ; with Power to send for persons, 
papers and records. 

Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 

Ordered, That the Report, together with the Mi- 
nutes of the Evidence taken before the Committee 
in the last Session upon the same subject, be referred 
to the Committee. 


Education 
(Ireland.) 


Offences against The Order of the day being read, for the second 

the Person Bill. reading of the Offences against the Person Bill ; 
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Supply. 


Church Rates. The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee, to whom it was referred to consider of the 
payment of Church Rates ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 


next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Consisturial Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a | 
Court Return, in columns, by the Commissary Clerk of 
(Scotland.) 


Edinburgh, of all Causes, distinguishing each Class, 
instituted and decided in the Consistorial Court of 
Scotland in each year, from 1828 to 1830, both in- 
clusive ; specifying such as were advocated in the 
Court of Session; also, the Amount of the Accounts 
of Expenses as rendered in the aforesaid Causes ; 
and showing the Sums taken off the Accounts, if 
taxed ; also, the Number in each class of Consistorial 
Causes transferred by the aforesaid Commissary Clerk 
after the 6th October 1830 to the Court of Session. 
Ordered, That there be laid hefore this House, a 





Februariz. A. 1837. 


Ordered, That the Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Saimon 
Bill be read a second time upon Wednesday next. _ Fisheries 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Tuesday morning ; 


Martis, 28° die Februarii, 1837: 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Freemen’s _ 
repeal the Stamp Duty now paid on admission to the Admission Bill 
Freedom of Corporations in England and Wales: 

And that Mr. William Williams, Mr, Wason, and 
Mr. Philip Howard, do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, an Lead. 
Account of the Quantity of Lead and Lead Ore im- 
ported into the United Kingdom ; distinguishing 
the Countries from which imported, and the Amount 
of Duty received thereon. 

Ordefed, That there be laid before this House, an 
Account of the Quantity of all Lead and Lead Ore, 
distinguishing pig and rolled Lead, Shot, Litharge 
and Lead Paint, exported from the United Kingdom 
in the year ending 5th January 1836 ; stating the 
Countries to which the same have been exported. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Artillery. 
Return of the Officers of the Royal Artillery, Royal 
Artillery Drivers, Corps of Royal Engineers, and 
Royal Sappers and Miers, killed or wounded in 
action during the late War with France, from the 
year 1808 to 1815 inclusive, stating the Names of 
the Officers, and specifying the Actions. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Marines, 
Corresponding Return of the Royal Marine Corps. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Ordnance. 
Return of the Regimental Officers of the Ordnance 
Corps employed on colonial and foreign duty, as 
well as on home service, for December 1836. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Marines, 
Corresponding Return of the Royal Marine voigg 
employed abroad or afloat, and on home service, for 
December 1836. 


Ordered, That a Message be sent to the Lords, to Agriculture. 
request that their Lordships will be pleased to com- 
municate to this House, a Copy of the Minutes of 
Evidence taken before the Committee on Agricul- 
| ture appointed by their Lordships in the last Ses- 
‘sion:—And that Mr. Shaw Lefevre do carry the 
| said Message. 





Mr. Attorney General presented a Bill for con- Edinburgh 
tinuing, altering and amending certain Acts for re- Police Bill. 
gulating the Police of the City of Edinburgh and 
the adjoining Districts, and for other purposes re- 
lating thereto: And the same was read the first 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 





resented, by His Majesty’s Lower Canada. 


Sir George Grey 
apers relative to the Affairs No. 61. 


| Command,—-Further 
of Lower Canada. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


And then the House, having continued to sit till 
half an hour after twelve of the clock on 
Tuesday morning, adjourned till this day. 








Martis, 28° die Februari ; 





Return, in columns, by the principal Clerks of the | 
Court of Session, of the Number of Causes trans- | 
ferred from the Consistorial Court in 1830 to the | 
Court of Session; distinguishing each class of | 
Causes so transferred, instituted and decided in 
that Court in each year from 1830 to 1836, both 
inclusive; also, the Amounts of Accounts of Ex- 
penges as lodged with the Clerk of Court, and show- | 
ing the Sums taken off the same, if taxed, ia each | 
Consistorial Cause in the Court of Session from | 
1830 to 1836 inclusive. | 


| 


Anno 7° Willielmi 1V* Regis, 1837. 
PRAYERS. 
ETITIONS from Bankers, Merchants, Traders Worcester and 
and Inhabitants of Gloucester ;—Bankers, Mer- ee” 
chants, Owners of property, and Inhabitants of ®"9 °™ 

Congleton ;—Merchants, Bankers, Traders and In- 
habitants of Stourport ;—Merchants, Bankers and 
Inhabitants of Bristol (two Petitions) ;— Tewkesbury ; 
— Hereford ;— Wolverhampton ;— lronmasters and 
other Persons interested in the coal and iron trade 
of Wolverhampton ;— Bankers, Manufacturers and 
Inhabitants 


(Scotland) Bill, 


Star 
Wal 
Bill. 


Wor 
Wol 
Rail 


Lani 
and 


Pres 
Wyr 
Bill. 


Dub 
- 
mp! 


Dro; 
and 


Rail 


Dub 
Dro 
Rail 


Dut 
Kilk 
Rail 


Star 
Ord 


Lon 
Bin 
Rail 








7 Wit. IV. 


Inhabitants of Worcester ;—Merchants, Manufac- 
turers, Factors, Tradesmen and Inhabitants of Stour- 
bridge; — Inhabitants of Cheltenham ;— Bankers, 
Merchants, Factors and Inhabitants of Chester ; — 
and, Inhabitants of Droitwich; praying that the 
Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway Bill may 
pass into a law,—were presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Stamford Mr. Finch presenteda Bill for better supplying 
 —_v with Water the Town and Borough of Stamford, 


and Places adjacent thereto, in the Counties of 
Northampton and Lincoln: And the same was read 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


Worcesterand The Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway Bill 
a was read a second time ; and committed to General 
“ey Lygon and the Worcester List. 

Ordered, That all the Members serving for the 
several Counties, and for the Boroughs therein 
through which Counties the said Railway is intended 
to pass, be Members of the said Committee. 


Lancaster A Petition of George Jacson, of Barton Lodge, 
ae ay Bill in the parish of Preston, in the county of Lancaster, 
Esquire, praying that he may be heard, by himself, 
his counsel or agent, against certain parts of the 
Lancaster and Preston Railway Bill, was presented, 
and read. 
Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by himself, his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, 
if he think fit ; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 
Preston and Mr. Wilson Patten presented a Bill to alter the 
a Railway Tine of the Preston and Wyre Railway, and to 
amend the Act relating thereto: And the same was 
read the first time ; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 
Dublin Ordered, That the Petition for leave to present 
oo a Petition for the Dublin (Saint Michan’s) Improve- 
ment Bill, which was presented upon Tuesday last, 
be referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for 
Private Bills. 
Drogheda Ordered, That the Petition for leave to present 
Ris =a Petition for the Dublin and Kells Railway Bill, 
. which was presented upon Tuesday last, be referred 
to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private 
Bills. 
ar and A Petition of the Trustees of the Roads leading 
— from the city of Dublin over Ballybough and An- 
nesley Bridges, complaining that the Standing Orders 
of the House in respect to the application for the 
Dublin and Drogheda Railway Bill, had not been 
complied with, and praying that they may be heard, 
by their counsel or agents, against the same, was pre- 
sented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills. 
Dublin and A Petition of the Company of Undertakers of the 
Railwane Grand Canal in Ireland, complaining that the Stand- 
, ing Orders of the House in respect to the applica- 
tion for the Dublin and Kilkenny Railway Bill had 
not been complied with, and praying that they may 
be heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
against the same, was presented, and read; and 
referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for 
Private Bills. 
ating Sir John Wrottesley reported from the Select Com- 
sate mittee on Standing , es relative to Private Bills, 
several Resolutions, which were read, as follow: 
London and 1. Resolved, That, in the case of the Petition for 
— the London and Birmingham Railway Bill, the Parties 


be permitted to proceed with their Bill. 
Vor. 92. 


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2. Resolved, That, in the case of the Petition for pene er 
the Stratford-on-Avon Canal Navigation Bill, the Navigation, 
Parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill. 

3. Resolved, That, in the case of the Petition for Leicester and 
the Leicester and Swannington Railway Bill, the —— 
Parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill. “a 

4. Resolved, That, in the case of the Petition for Belfast and 
the Belfast and Hollywood Railway Bill, the Parties Hollywood 
be permitted to proceed with their Bill. - 

5. Resolved, That, in the case of the Petition for Severn _ 
the Severn Navigation Bill, the Standing Orders Navigation. 
ought not to be dispensed with, so far as regards the 
Cut intended to be made from the River Severn into 
the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal; but that the 
Parties be permitted to proceed with the other parts 
of their Bill. 

6. Resolved, That, in the case of the Petition for East London 
the East London Gas Bill, the Standing Orders °** 
ought not to be dispensed with. 

The five first Resolutions, being read a second 
time, were agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Jumes Studi Broadwood, Esquire, Fondon and 
; righton 

and others, Owners or Occupiers of Estates and Raijiway Bil 
property upon or near the line and in the imme- (Stephenson’s 
diate neighbourhood of the Railway hereinafter Line.) 
mentioned, praying that they may be heard, by 
themselves, their counsel or agents, against certain 
parts of the London and Brighton Railway Bill (Ste- 
phenson’s Line), was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of the Chairman and other Directors Tamworth 
of the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway ee 
Company, and of the Solicitor and Agent for con- nies 
ducting the Bill hereinafter referred to, was presented, 
and read; setting forth, That a Petition was lately 
presented to the House by the Birmingham and 
Derby Junction Railway Company for leave to bring 
ina Bill to alter, amend and extend the line of the 
said Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway, and 
to amend the Act relating thereto; that the Peti- 
tioners, the Directors of the said Company, as a 
deputation from the Board of Directors, and the Pe- 
titioner, Samuel Carter, as the solicitor and agent of 
the said Company, have been engaged in promoting 
the proceedings on the Petition for leave to bring in 
the said Bill; that such Petition was referred to the 
Select Committee upon Petitions for Private Bills, 
who reported that the Standing Orders of the House 
had not been complied with in various particulars ; 
that such Report was referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on the Standing Orders of the House, who 
have reported that the Standing Orders ought not to 
be dispensed with ; that the grounds of the two first 
heads of non-compliance with the Standing Orders 
stated in the Report of the Committee on the Peti- 
tion (suggested by a Petition of Sir George Chet- 
wynd, Baronet, against the Bill, which was referred 
to that Committee) is, that a certain barn belonging 
to the said Sir Gorge Chetwynd, situate in an out- 
lying field, and a certain cow-shed of the Earl of 
Craven, both being within one hundred yards of the 
line of the projected Railway, but which are not 
mentioned in the Book of Reference thereto, are not 

ut upon an enlarged scale on the plan of the said 
Tater, nsten the new Standing Order of the House, 
which directs, that where the Railway is intended 
to pass through any buildings, yards, court-yards 
or land, within the curtilage of any building, an 
additional plan shall be laid down upon an enlarged 
scale; that the only other matter of non-compliance 
investigated by the said Select Committee on*Stand- 
ing Orders was, that the height of the Railway was 
not marked in feet and inches over a highway at 
N3 Nuneaton, 





East London 
Gas. 





94 


Nuneaton, in Warwickshire; this highway running 
into a main Turnpike Road near the point where the 
Railway was proposed to cross it, and being of the 
same level, as appears by the section, the height 
being marked over the Turnpike Road, and one bridge 
being designed to serve for both Roads, a plan, which 
being explained in the written notice to the Sur- 
veyors of the Highways, appeared to them satis- 
factory, one assenting, the other being neuter; that 
on the other points referred by the Committee on 
the Petition to the Select Committee on Standing 
Orders, the promoters of the Bill were prepared with 
the fullest explanation, to show that due diligence 
had been used to comply with the spirit and inten- 
tion of the Standing Orders in every case ; that the 
two first heads of non-compliance (especially that 
regarding the said barn) were mainly insisted on 
before the Select Committee on Standing Orders of 
the House ; that the Standing Order which is sup- 
posed to have been infringed relates to buildings 
through which the line of Railway is intended to 
pass; but as the line of Railway projected by the 
said Company was not intended to pass through the 
said barn and cow-shed, and as the same were pur- 
posely omitted from the Book of Reference, and of 
course could not be taken under the powers of the 
Act, the Petitioners believed that in this respect 
they had complied with the Standing Orders of the 
House ; that the said barn and cow-shed could not 
be taken for the purposes of the Act the Petitioners 
were convinced, because they were not mentioned 
in the Book of Reference, and could not be included 
in the Schedule to the Act ; and every Railway Act 
contains a Clause that nothing therein contained 
shall authorize the Company to take, injure or damage 
for the purposes of the Act any house or other 
building other than such as are specified in the 
Schedule to the Act (that Schedule being an extract 
from the Book of Reference), without the consent 
in writing of the owner; that if the Petitioners have 
been mistaken in their construction of the Standing 
Orders cf the House relating to this point (this 
being the first year of their operation), and if it 
should be thought that the said barn and ‘cow-shed 
are subject to be taken or injured under the powers 
of the Act, the Petitioners submit that some re- 
striction may be provided by the Select Committee 
on Standing Orders of the House, or by the House, 
by which the same shall be effectually protected, as 
they are not in fact required for the purposes of the 
Railway; that the Petitioners (with the other holders 
of shares in the said Company) have already ex- 
pended great sums of money in endeavouring to 
comply with the said Standing Orders of the House, 
and they believe that they have exercised due dili- 
gence in that endeavour, and that any accuracies 
which exist are only such as are unavoidable in 
similar proceedings, and that no party is injured by 
them ; but that, on the contrary, the fullest notice 
has been given to all concerned, the promoters of 
the Bill having, in addition to the written notices, 
required by the Standing Orders, caused personal 
application to be made in almost every instance ; 
and praying, That the said Bill may be allowed 
to proceed, or that the House will afford such 
other relief in the premises as to them shall seem 
meet. 

Ordered, That the said Petition do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be taken into con- 
sideration upon Friday next. 


A Petition of Inhabitant Householders in the 
eastern district or portion of London, and neighbour- 
hood thereof, in the county of Middlesex, taking 
notice of the application for leave to bring in the 
East London Gas Bill, and setting forth, That, 
owing to some misapprehension on the part of the 
secretary to the East London Gas Company, the 
notices required by the Standing Orders of the House 


28° Februari. 





A. 1837. 


to be affixed to the church-doors had not been en- 
tirely completed within the exact time required by 
the said Standing Orders, although otherwise duly 
affixed for three succeeding Sundays ; that the no- 
tices required to be given in the Newspapers and in 
the London Gazette, have been duly published within 
the specified time; and praying, That the House 
will be pleased in the present case, being one of 
great importance to a large and populous portion of 
the metropolis, to dispense with so much of its 
Standing Orders as requires that the notices on the 
church-doors of the several parishes should be affixed 
before the 30th day of November previous to the 
Session of Parliament, was presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Cavendish presented a Bill for inclosing Lands Newbold _ 
in the Manor of Newbold, in the Parish of Chester- close Bill. 
field, in the County of Derby: And the same was 
read the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


The Ellesmere and Chester Canal Bill was read Ellesmere and 
a second time; and committed to the Earl of Dar- oo Canal 
lington and the Chester List. , 


The Chester and Birkenhead Railway Bill was Chester and 
read a second time; and committed. — 
ailway Bill. 
A Petition of Traders and Inhabitants of Market Hinckley 
Bosworth, Cadeby, Sutton Cheney, Newbold Verdon, Small Debts 
Barlestone, Nailstone, Barton-in-the-Beans, Con-~'* 
gerston, Carlton, Sibston and Shenton, m the county 
of Leicester, praying that those places may be in- 
cluded within the jurisdiction of the Court to be 
established under the provisions of the Hinckley 
Small Debts Bill, was presented, and read; and re- 
ferred to the Select Committee on Petitions for 
Private Bills. 


The Committee on the Manchester and Tamworth Manchester 
Railway Bill was nominated of Lord Francis Eger- and Tamworth 
: Railway Bill. 
ton and the Lancaster List. 


The Werneth and Littleborough Road Bill was Werneth and 
read a second time; and committed to Lord Francis ae 
° oad Bill. 
Egerton and the Lancaster List. 


Petitions from Lessees and Occupiers of premises Great Western 
held under the Bishop of London and pore, ener Railway Bill 
of the Paddington Estate ;—The Grand Junction (Pa4is) 
Waterworks Company ; — and, Robert Tubbs, of 
Brook-street, Hanover-square, Esquire; praying that 
they may be heard, by themselves, their counsel or 
agents, against certain parts of the Great Western 
Railway Bill (Paddington),—were presented, and 
read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit ; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee London and 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That in the case of pence 
the Petition for the London and Greenwich Railway espe 
Bill, the Standing Orders relative to Bills for mak- 
ing Railways, had not been complied with, inasmuch 
as no notices had been given in the Newspapers of 
the several counties through which the Railway is 
authorized to be made ; but it appeared to the Com- 
mittee, that no land or other property is intended to 
be taken, or any new works contemplated, under the 
proposed Bill. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders. 


Mr. Evelyn Denison reported from the Select Westminster 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills; That in M@rket- 
the case of the Petition for the Westminster Market 





Bill, 





Ipswich 
Improveme 
and Dock. 


Hastings 
Improves 


Granton 
and Roa 


Liverpe 


Improv 


Hurw 
York | 
Bill, 


Carlt 
Lofth 
Thelos 








Ipswich 
Improvement 
and Dock. 


Hastings 
Improvement. 


Granton Pier 
and Road. 


Liverpool 
Improvement. 


Hurworth and 
York Railway 
Bill, 


Carlton and 
house 
lhelosure Bill, 


7 Wit. IV. 


Bill, the Standing Orders relative to Bills for erect- 
ing Market Places, had been complied with. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for providing a Market and Market-place at or near 
a place called Strutton Ground, in the united 
parishes of Saint Margaret and Saint John-the- 
Evangelist, in the city of Westminster: And that 
Mr. Hume and Mr. Alderman Wood do prepare, and 
bring it in. 

Mr. Evelyn Denison reported from the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills ; That the 
Standing Orders relative to Bills for supplying Cities 
or Towns with Water, and also to Bills for making 
Docks, had been complied with in the case of the 
Petition for the Ipswich Improvement and Dock 
Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for further improving and rendering more com- 
modious the Port ot Zpswich, and constructing a 
Wet Dock there, and for amending the several Acts 
for the improvement of the Town of Lpswich : And 
that Mr. Wason and Mr. Morrison do prepare, and 


bring it in. 


Mr. Evelyn Denison reported from the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills ; That the 
Standing Orders relative to Bills for the Improve- 
ment of Cities or Towns, had been complied with 
in the case of the Petition for the Hastings Im- 
provement Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for paving, lighting, watching and otherwise im- 
proving a certain District within the Parishes of 
Saint Mary Magdalen and Saint Leonard, in the 
County of Sussex, to be called “ The District of 
Saint Mary Magdalen, Hastings:” And that Mr. 
Hawes and Mr. Strutt do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Evelyn Denison reported from the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills ; That the 
Standing Orders relative to Bills for building Piers, 
and also to Turnpike Bills, had been complied with 
in the case of the Petition for the Granton Pier and 
Road Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
enable the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensbury to 
make and maintaina Pier at Granton, in the Parish 
of Cramond, and a Road therefrom to join the Road 
leading from Leithto Queensferry, in the County of 
Edinburgh: And that Sir George Clerk and Mr. 
Pringle do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Evelyn Denison reported from the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the 
Standing Orders relative to Bills for improving Cities 
or Towns, had been complied with in the case of 
the Petition for the Liverpool Improvement Bill. 


Ordered, That that the Report do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Pease presented a Bill to enable “The Great 
North of England Railway Company” to extend the 
Line of their Railway, and to make two Branches 
therefrom, and for other purposes relating thereto : 
And the same was read the First time ; and ordered 
to be read a second time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 
intituled, An Act for inclosing Lands in the Town- 
ship of Lofthouse-cum-Carlton, in the Parish of 
Rothwell, in the West Riding of the County of York; 
and the same were read, as follow : 

Pr. 1. 1.16. Leave out “ and.” 
Pr. 1.1. 17. Leave out “ Esquires.” 
Pr. 1.1. 18. Leave out “ Esquire,” and insert 
“* Esquires.” 
Pr. 1. 1. 25. After “ Tithes ” insert “ of the 
commons and waste lands.” 
Pr. 1.1. 26. Leave out from “ aforesaid” to 
“ And” in 1. 29. 
Vo. 92, 


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Pr. 2. 1.1. Leave out from “ Wylde” to “ And” 
in 1. 2. 

Pr. 2. 1. 12. Leave out from “ Wylde” to “ Jo- 
“ seph” inl. 138. 


Pr. 42. 1. 4. Leave out “ and none other.” 
Pr. 44.1. 14. Leave out “ sold.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Sir John Beckett do carry the Bill 
to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


A Petition of the North Midland Railway Company, 
complaining that the Standing Orders of the House 
in respect to the application for the Long Eaton and 
Tupton Railway Bill, had not been complied with, 
and praying that they may be heard, by themselves, 
their agents and witnesses, against the same, was 
presented, and read; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of the North Midland Railway Com- 
pany, complaining that the Standing Orders of the 
House in respect to the application for the Long 
Eaton and Nether Birchwood Railway Bill, had not 
been complied with, and praying that they may be 
heard, by themselves, their agents and witnesses, 
against the same, was presented, and read; and 
referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for 
Private Bills. 


Long Eaton 
and Tupton 
Railway. 


Long Eaton and 
Nether Birch- 
wood Railway. 


Petitions from Charles Langdon, James Bennett and Gillingham 
others, Owners of property on the line of Railway — 


hereinafter mentioned;— and, Thomas Dashwood, 
agent for John Dale, Esquire, and Thomas Collins 
and others, Owners of property on the line of Rail- 
way hereinafter mentioned ; complaining that the 
Standing Orders of the House in respect to the ap- 
plication for the Gillingham and Durston Railway 
Bill, had not been complied with ; and praying that 
they may be heard, by themselves or their agents, 
against the same,—were presented, and read; and 
referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for 
Private Bills. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Hereford, praying 
that they may be heard, by their counsel or agents, 
against certain parts of the Charlton Kings and 
Marsworth Railway Bill, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Rev. James Armitage Rhodes, 
of Horsforth Hall, near Leeds, Clerk, praying that 
he may be heard, by himself, his counsel or agent, 
against certain parts of the Manchester and Leeds 
Railway Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by himself, his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, 
if he think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


liway. 


Charlton Kings 
and Marsworth 
Railway. 


Manchester and 
Leeds Railway 
Bill. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of the town and neigh- Wellingborough 
bourhood of Wellingborough, for leave to present Small Debts. ” 


a Petition for leave to brmg in a Bill for a more 
easy and speedy method of recovering Small Debts 
within the said town, was presented, and read ; and 
referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for 
Private Bills. 


The House was moved, That the Report in respect Glasgow and 
of the Petition for the Glasgow and Ayr Railway Ayt Railway. 


Bill, which, upon Wednesday last, was made from 
the Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills, 
mizht be read ; and the same being read ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question being 
put, That the Report be re-committed to the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills :—It passed 
in the Negative. 


nN4 A Petition 











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96 28° Februari. 


Lough Swilly A Petition of the Marquis of Donegall and the 
i fought Earl of Belfast, complaining that the Standing 
oyle Canals, ; : ee 

Orders of the House in respect to the application 
for the Lough Swilly and Lough Foyle Canals Bill, 
had not been complied with, and praying that they 
may be heard against the same, was presented, and 
read ; and referred to the Select Committee on Pe- 

titions for Private Bills. 


Edinburgh and The House was moved, Thatthe Report in respect 

Glasgow Rail- of the Petition for the Edinburgh and Glasgow Rail- 

_ way Bill, which was yesterday made from the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills, might be 
read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for making a Railway from Edinburgh to Glas- 
gow, with a Branch to Falkirk: And that Lord 
William Bentinck and Lord James Stuart do pre- 
pare, and bring it in. 


Fire Insurances. Petitions from the Provost, Magistrates and Town 
Council of Stirling ;—and, Haddington; praying for 
the repeal of the duty on Fire Insurances,—were 
— and read; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 


Fictitious Votes A Petition of the Provost, Magistrates and Town 

(Scotland.) ~~ Council of Stirling, complaining of the creation of 
fictitious Votes for Members to serve in Parliament 
for Counties in Scotland, and praying relief, was 
presented, and read; and referred to the Select 
Committee on fictitious Votes (Scotland.) 


Church Rates. — Petitions from Rickling ;—Littlebury;—Birdbrook, 
Steeple Bumsted, and other places ;—Fairsted ;— 
Wendens Ambo ;— Weeley ; — Faulkbourn;— Quen- 
don; — Bradwell-juxta-Coggeshall; -- Witham; -- 
Sible Hedingham and Gosfield; — Arkesden ; — 
Boreham ; — Ardleigh ; — Broomfield; — Wenden 
Lofts, and other places ;—Great and Little Ma- 
plestead ; — Feering ; — Fordham ;— Langham ;— 
Toppesfield ;— Great Wigborough ;— Kelvedon ;— 
Clavering-with-Langley ;— Little Wigborough ; — 
Peldon ;—Mount Bures ;—Worming ford ;— Tolles- 
hunt Knights ;— East and West Mersea;—Myland;— 
Great Hockesley ;—Little Hockesley ;-—Nayland;— 
Birch ;— Thorp, Kirby and Walton ;—Marks Hall; 
—Tolleshunt Major ;— Hempstead ;— Braintree ;— 
Great and Little Coggeshall ;— Boxted ;— Great 
Sandford ;—Radwinter;— Great and Little Chester- 
ford;—and, Great Bardfield; praying that Church 
Rates may not be abolished,—were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Convicts. Mr. Fox Maule presented, pursuant to the direc- 
tions of an Act of Parliament,—Two Reports of John 
Henry Capper, Esquire, Superintendent of Ships and 
Vessels employed tor the Confinement of Offenders 
under Sentence of Transportation. 
Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Railways. A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 
posed, That a Select Committee be appointed, to 
inquire and consider how far it may be expedient to 
take measures for securing that all public Lines of 
Railway be laid and hereafter maintained at one and 
the same standard width, and to report their opinion 
thereon the House ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That”’ to 
the end of the Question, in order to add the words 
“ an humble Address be presented to His Majesty, 
praying that His Majesty will be graciously pleased 
to appoint a Royal Commission, to consider and 
report on all proposals for Railways or Canals which 
may be submitted to this House,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words pro- 
posed to be left out stand part of the Question :—It 
was resolved in the Affirmative. 








A. 1837. 


Then the main Question being put, That a Select 
Committee be appointed, to inquire and consider 
how far it may be expedient to take measures for 
securing that all public Lines of Railway be laid 
and hereafter maintained at one and the same stand- 
ard width, and to report their opinion thereon to 
the House :—It sonal in the Negative. 


The House was moved, That the Act 39 Geo. 3, Mint. 
c. 94, to ascertain the Salary of the Master and 
Worker of His Majesty’s Mint, might be read ; and 
the same was read. 

The House was also moved, That the Act 1 and 2 
Will. 4, c. 10, to reduce the Salary of the Master 
and Worker of His Majesty’s Mint, might be read ; 
and the same being read ; 

And a Motion being made, That leave be given to 
bring in a Bill to amend the several Acts relating to 
the Royal Mint ; 

Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, by His Ma- 
jesty’s command, acquainted the House, That His 
Majesty, having been informed of the subject-matter 
of this Motion, gives His consent, as far as His 
Majesty’s interest is concerned, that the House may 
do therein as they shall think fit. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in the Bill : 
And that Mr. Labouchere and Mr. Baring do pre- 
pare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed, Mint. 
to inquire into the establishment of the Royal Mint, 
and the system under which the fabrication and 
delivery of the Coin are conducted :—And a Com- 
mittee was appointed of Mr. Labouchere, Mr. Goul- 
burn, Mr. Hume, Mr. Herries, Mr. Warburton, Lord 
Viscount Lowther, Sir Charles Lemon, Mr. Thomas 
Baring, Mr. Pattison, the Earl of Lincoln, Mr. Rid- 
ley Colborne, Mr. Baring Wall, Mr. Clay, Sir Thomas 
Fremantle, and Mr. John Parker; with Power to 
send for persons, papers and records. 

Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 


Mr. Labouchere presented a Bill to amend several Mint Bill. 
Acts relating to the Royal Mint: And the same was No. 68, 
read the first time ; and ordered to be read a second 
time upon Monday next, and to be printed. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Ships’ Mort- 
alter and amend the Law relating to Mortgages on #* Pill 
Ships and Vessels: And that Mr. George Frederick 
Young and Dr. Lushington do prepare, and bring 


it in. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Prince Leopold. 
Return of all Sums of Money paid into the Exche- 
quer out of the Annuity granted to His Royal High- 
ness Prince Leopold, now King of the Belgians ; in 
continuation of the Return presented to Parliament 
in 1834, 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill County Bridges 
to remove from Counties the expense and liability of 8 
repairing the Highways over ~~ and the three 
hundred feet next adjoining to any Ends of the same : 

And that Mr. Barneby and Mr. William Miles do 


prepare, and bring it in. 


The House was moved, That the Act 56 Geo. 8, Penitentiary 
c. 63, to regulate the General. Penitentiary for Con- filb®) 
victs at Milbank, in the county of Middlesex, might 
be read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
amend the said Act: And that Mr. Fox Maule and 
Mr. Robert Steuart do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Barristers 
Return of the Names of Barristers appointed by the —. 
Crown to the Office of Recorder, since the passing 
of the Act 6 Will. 4, c.76; stating the year in which 
every such Barrister was called to the Bar; the City, 

Borough 


Cou! 
Bill. 


Poor 
(Irel 


Smal 


(Scot 


Wha 


Electi 
Exper 


Toba 


Lond 
Brigh: 
Railw 


Line, 


Edin 
Rail 


Glasy 
Ayr ] 
Bill. 


Court 
and S; 
(Scot 








ges 


: 
Bill. 


7 Witt. IV. 


Borough or Town in which the appointment has been 
made; the annual Payment agreed to be made to 
each Recorder, and the Resignations of Persons so 
appointed. 


Mr. Barneby presented a Bill to remove from 


County Bridges ; sap 
Bill. Counties the Expense and Liability of repairing the 


No. 69. Highways over Bridges,and the Three hundred Feet 
next adjoining to any Ends of the same: And the 
same was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time upon Wednesday, the 8th day of 
March next; and to be printed. 


Poor Relief The Order of the day being read, for the second 
(Ireland) Bill. reading of the Poor Relief (Zreland) Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
To-morrow. 


Small Debts The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
(Scotland) Bill. mittee on the Small Debts (Scotland) Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 
Whale Ships. Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Copies of Memorials addressed to the Lords of the 
Admiralty relatng to the missing Whale Ships, 
from Dundee, dated 5th December 1836 ; Hull, 17th 
December 1886; Aberdeen, 17th December 1836 ; 
with Copies of the Answers thereto :—Of the Minute 
of the Board of Treasury, dated 14th January 1837, 
relating to the Bounty offered with the hope of 
affording Relief to those Ships :—and, of the Me- 
morial from Dundee, dated 18th January last, and 
Copy of Treasury Minute of 24th January thereon. 


Mr. Hume presented a Bill to define and regulate 
the lawful Expenses at Elections of Members to 
serve in Parliament for England and Wales: And 
the same was read the first time ; and ordered to be 
read a second time upon Wednesday, the 15th day 
of March next; and to be printed. 


Election 
Expenses Bill. 


No. 70. 


Tobacco. A Petition of Residents in Manchester, praying 
for a reduction of the Duty on Tobacco, was pre- 


sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


— a A Petition of Inhabitants of the parish of Saint 
Railway pit Olave, Southwark, in the county of Surrey, praying 
(Reunie’s that they may be heard, by themselves, their counsel 
Line.) or agents, against certain parts of the London and 
Brighton Railway Bill, (Aennie’s Line) was pre- 
sented, and read. 
Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 
oe al A Petition of the Provost, Magistrates and Town 
ilway. Council of Haddington, taking notice of the appli- 
cation for leave to bring in the Edinburgh and 
Dunbar Railway Bill; and praying that such Bill 
may pass into a law, was presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 
Sieger and A Petition of Charles Snodgrass Buchanan, Es- 
my quire, of Cuninghamhead, in the county of Ayr, pray- 


ing that he may be heard, by himself or his counsel, 
against certain parts of the Glasgow and Ayr Rail- 
way Bill, was presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


Courtof Session . 
aud Small Debts 
(Scotland, ) 


A Motion being made, That this House will, To- 
morrow, resolve itself into a Committee, to consider 
of providing for the Compensations and Expenses 
which may arise under any Act to be passed in 
the present Session of Parliament to make certain 
alterations in the establishment of Clerks and Offi- 
cers of the Court of Session and Court of Commis- 


sion for Teinds in Scotland, and also under any other 
Von. 92. 


28° Februariz.— 1° Martiz. 





Q7 
( 
Act for the more effectual Recovery of Small Debts 
in the Sheriffs’ Courts in Scotland ; 

Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, by His Ma- 
jesty’s command, acquainted the House, That His 
Majesty, having been informed of the subject-matter 
of this Motion, recommends it to the consideration 
of the House. 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


And then the House adjoured till To-morrow. 





Mercurii, 1° die Martii ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi [Vt Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


M R. Crafer, from the Treasury, was called in ; Belfast 
and at the bar presented,—Return to several Harbour. 
Orders, dated the 2d day of February last, for Ac- 
counts of the Rates levied by the Corporation for pre- 
serving and improving the Port and Harbour of Bel- 
fast, since the 23d August 1831, under an Act passed 
in that year, intituled, “ An Act for the further Im- 
provement of the Port and Harbour of Belfast in 
Ireland and other purposes :”” specifying separately 
the Sums received in each year for Pilotage, Ballast, 
Quayage, and Tonnage Dues; also for Licenses ; 
and distinguishing the Rates levied off Coasters 
from those levied off Vessels employed in the Foreign 
Trade, and also distinguishing the Rates paid by 
Steamers from those paid by other Vessels :—Of the 
Sum expended by the same Corporation for the same 
period, and the items of Expenditure :—A separate 
and detailed Account of the Money paid by the 
Corporation for Salaries or other Payments to Sur 
veyors, Engineers, Parliamentary Agents, Solicitors 
and Travelling Expenses of Members of the Cor 
— for the last Ten years :—Accounts of the 

oney expended in actual Work and Purchase of 
Land for carrying into effect the Harbour Improve- 
ment authorized by 1 and 2 Will. 4, c. 55 :—Of the 
Number of Persons who voted at the several Elec- 
tions of Members of the Corporation under the Act 
1 and 2 Will. 4, c. 55:—Of the Lands and Here- 
ditaments the property of the Corporation, specify- 
ing the tenure by which they are held, and the In- 
come derived from them :—Of the Suits pending to 
which the Corporation is a party, and the nature 
thereof :—Of the Salaries paid by the Corporation, 
to whom and for what Services for the last Five 
years :—An Annual Account of the Vessels trading 
to and from the Port of Belfast for the last Five 
years, specifying the Tonnage, and separating Steam- 
ers and Colliers from otherVessels :—and, an Account 
of the Vessels now registered in the Port of Belfast, 
with the Names of their Owners and Tonnage. 

Mr. Crafer also presented, pursuant to Orders,— Hull Port. 
Accounts of the Number of Vessels, and the Amount 
of their Tonnage, entered inwards from Foreign Parts 
at the Port of Hull, in the year ending 5th January 
1837; specifying the Ports from which each Vessel 
cleared, and distinguishing British from Foreign 
Vessels :—and, of the Number of Steam Vessels, 
and the Amount of their Tonnage entered inward at 
the Port of Hull, during the last Four years respec- 
tively. 

An Account of the Gross and Net Amount of Cvstoms. 
Customs Duty received at each Port in the United 
Kingdom during the year ended 5th January 1837 ; 
and of the Gross and Net Amount of Customs Duty 
received at each Port in the United Kingdom, 
during the year ended 5th January 1837, compared 
with similar Receipts during the preceding year. 

A Return of the Names of all Places in Great Penny Posts. 
Britain and Ireland in which a Penny Post is esta- 
blished for the Conveyance of Letters beyond the 
Post Town to which theyare directed; with reference 
to the Act of Parliament authorizing the Post Office 
to establish the same. 


© Copies 











Liverpool, 
Holyhead, and 
Port Dynilaen 
Harbours, 


Whale Ships. 


Compeusations 
(Scotland.) 


East India 
Company. 


St. Pancras 
Local Acts. 


Southwark and 
Hammersmith 
Railway Bill. 


London and 
Brighton 
Railway Bills, 


Llanrwst 
Reads Bill. 


98 


Copies of any Report and Survey of the Harbours 
of Liverpool, Holyhead and Port Dynllaen, or any 
of them, made in pursuance of the Resolution of the 
Committee on the London and Dublin Communica- 
tion in the last Session of Parliament ; also of the 
Correspondence between the Lords Commissioners 
of the Treasury and the Admiralty respecting the 
same. 

Copies of Memorials addressed to the Lords of 
the Admiralty relating to the missing Whale Ships, 
from Dundee, dated 5th December 1836; Hull, 
17th December 1836; Aberdeen, 17th December 
1836 ; with Copies of the Answers thereto :—-Of the 
Minute of the Board of Treasury, dated 14th January 
1837, relating to the Bounty offered with the hope 
of affording relief to those Ships :—and, of the Me- 
morial from Dundee, dated 18th January last, and 
Copy of Treasury Minute of 24th January thereon. 

Mr. Crafer also presented, pursuant to the direc- 
tions of an Act of Parliament,—Copy of Warrant, 
granting Compensation to John Munro, Ordinary 
Macer of the Court of Session. 

Copy of Warrant granting Compensation to George 
Carphin, Commissary Clerk of Edinburgh :—And 
then he withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Campbell, from the Court of Directors of the 
East India Company, was called in; and at the bar 
presented, pursuant to the directions of an Act of 
Parliament,—Particulars of all Compensations, Su- 
perannuations and Allowances granted by the Court 
of Directors of the East India Company, and con- 
firmed by the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs 
of India, between the 1st January and the 31st De- 
cember 1836 (under the authority of the Act of the 3d 
and 4th Will. 4, c.85, s.7)to Persons who have been 
employed by or under the East India Company, 
whose interests have been affected by the discon- 
tinuance of the said Company’s Trade, and who have 
been reduced. 

List, N° 64, specifying the Particulars of the Com- 
pensation proposed to be granted to John Duncan, 
late of the Maritime Service of the East India 
Company, under an Arrangement sanctioned by the 
Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India, and 
laid before The Honourable the House of Commons 
on the 26th of February 1835:— And then he 
withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Perry, Clerk to the Commissioners for Paving, 
&amp;e., the Brewers’ Estate, Saint Pancras, was called 
in; and at the bar presented,—Further Return to 
an Order dated the 3d day of February last, for a 
Return relating to Paving, &amp;c., the Parish of Saint 
Pancras (so far as relates to the Brewers’ Estate) :— 
And then he withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of Henry Tritton, of Lombard-street, 
in the city of London, Banker, and several other 
Proprietors of the Bridge over the River Thames from 
Crelsea to Battersea, praying that they may be heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, against the 
Southwark and Hammersmith Railway Bill, was 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken 
before the Committee on the London and Brighton 
Railway Bills be printed at the Expense of the 
Parties, from the Gcauitins Clerks’ copy, if they 
think fit. 


A Petition of the Right honourable Sir Henry 
Parnell Baronet, and Alexander Milne, Esquire, 


1° Marti. 








A. 1837. 


Commissioners for the improvement of the Road 
from London to Holyhead, praying that they may be 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, against 
certain parts of the Llanrwst Roads Bill, was pre- 
sented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


The London and Dover Railway Bill was read a London and 
second time; and committed to Mr. Law Hodges Dover Railway 
and the Kent List. aes 

Ordered, That all the Members serving for the se- 
veral Counties and for the Boroughs therein through 
which Counties the said Railway is intended to pass, 
be Members of the said Committee. 


Petitions from Inhabitants of Birmingham ;— Birmingham 
and, Licensed Victuallers of Birmingham ; praying (Ne. .) 
that the Birmingham Gas (No. 1.) Bill may pass* °° 
into a law,—were presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from Proprietors or late Shareholders of 
and ina Company called “ The Birmingham Equit- 
able Gas Light Company,” praying that the said 
Bill may not pass into a law, was also presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from Owners and Occupiers of houses 
within or Inhabitants of the hamlets of Deretend 
and Bordesley, and of Duddeston and Nechells, in 
the parish of Aston-juxta-Birmingham ;—and, Inha- 
bitants of Birmingham; praying that they may be 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
against certain parts of the said Bill,—were also pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- Birmingham 
posed, That the Birmingham Gas (No. 1.) Bill be now a Bill 
read a second time; iiechia 

The Amendments following were proposed to be 
made to the Question ; viz. To leave out the word 
“ now,” and at the end of the Question to add the 
words “ upon this day six months.” 

And the Question being put, Thatthe word “now” 
stand part of the Question :—It was resolved in the 
Affirmative. 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read a second 
time :—The Bill was accordingly read a second 
time ; and committed to Sir Eardley Wilmot and the 
Warwick List. 


A Petition of the Trustees of the Ruscombe and Great Westem 
Reading Road, praying that they may be heard, by (Trowhe iége,) 
their counsel or agents, against certain parts of the 
Great Western Railway Bill ( Trowbridge), was pre- 
sented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to 
the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by their counsel or agents, upon their Petition, 
if they think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of 
the Bill, against the seid Petition. 


The Licensed Victuallers Assurance Company Licensed 
Bill was read a second time; and committed to Mr. pomnanl 
Hawes and the Surrey List. Comping 


Manchester 
and Leeds i 
Railway Bill. 


Petitions from Richard Sutcliffe, Esquire, of Lumb 
Bank, in Heptonstall, in the parish of Halifax;— 
The Earl of Scarborough ;— Ernest Hannibal Becker, 
of Chadderton, in the county of Lancaster ;—and, 
William Read King, agent to George Walmsley, of 
Naburn, in the county of York, Esquire, and John 
Brettargh, of Pendleton, inthe county of Lancaster, 
Coal Proprietor; praying that they may be heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, against cer- 
tain parts of the Manchester and Leeds Railway Bill, 
—were presented, and read. 


And 





Brixham 
Harbour and 
Market Bill. 


Manchester 
and Stafford 
Railway Bill. 


Great Western 
Railway Bill 
(Paddington.) 


Long Eaton 
and Tupton 
Railway. 


Shropshire and 
North Wales 
Assurance 
Company Bill. 


Birmingham 
Plate and 
Crown Glass 
Company Bill. 


first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


Lancaster and 
Preston Rail- 


way Bill. 


Manchester 
and Tamworth 
Railway Bill. 





7 Wit. IV. 


And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


The Brixham Harbour and Market Bill was read 
a second time; and committed to Mr. Montagu 
Parker and the Devon List. 


A Petition of Thomas Kinnersly, of Clough Hall, 
in the county of Stafford, Esquire, praying that he 
may be heard, by his counsel or agent, against the 
Manchester and Stafford Railway Bill, was _pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Langdon Haydon, of Maida Hill, 
in the parish of Paddington, in the county of 
Middlesex, \and-surveyor, praying that he may be 
heard, by himself, his counsel or agent, against cer- 
tain parts of the Great Western Railway Bill (Pad- 
dington), was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by himself, his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, 
if he think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Long Eaton and Tupton Railway Bill, which was 
presented upon the 17th day of February last, might 
be read ; and the same was read. 

The House was also moved, That the Order made 
the same day, for referring the said Petition to the 
Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills, 
might be read; and the same being read ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the said Order be discharged ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the old Lobby ; 

The Noes to the new Lobby. 


Tellers for the (Sir John Beckett, 1 120 
Yeas, \Lord Viscount Lowther: f°" 
Tellers for the Mr. Gisborne, ] 16 
Noes, Mr. Evelyn Denison : Mas 


So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 


Mr. Milnes Gaskell presented a Bill to enable 
“ The Shropshire and North Wales Assurance Com- 
pany" to sue and be sued in the Name of the 

anaging Director for the time being, or of any 
one of the general or local Directors of the said 
Company: And the same was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time. 


Mr. Dugdale presented a Bill to enable “ The 
Birmingham Plate and Crown Glass Company” to 
sue and be sued in the Name of the Chairman or 
Manager for the time being of the said Company, 
and for other Purposes: And the same was read the 


A Petition of the Preston and Wyre Railway and 
Harbour Company, praying that they may be heard, 
by themselves or their counsel, against certain parts 
of the Lancaster and Preston Railway Bill, was 
presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves or their counsel, upon their Petition, 
if they think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of 
the Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of Bankers, Merchants, Manufacturers, 
Traders and other Inhabitants of Preston, prayin 
that the Manchester and Tamworth Railway Bill 


1° Martiz. 





may pass into a law, was presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 
Vor. 92. 


99 


The Glasgow Police Bill was read a second time ; Glasgow Police 
and committed to Mr. Wallace and the West Scot- Bill. 
land List. 


A Petition of James Reid, of Kilmarnock, praying Glasgow ane 
that the Glasgow and Ayr Railway Bill may not Ay" Railway 
pass into a law, was presented, and read; and’ 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Owners and Occupiers of property Chariton Kings 
or Residents in North Wilts, praying that the and Marsworth 
Charlton Kings and Marsworth Railway Bill may ®*!v4y Bil 
not pass into a law, was presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Earl of Scarborough, praying Sheftield and 
that he may be heard, by his counsel or agent, a mene 
; ; " ilway Bill. 
against certain i of the Sheffield and Man- 
chester Railway Bill, was presented, and read; and 


ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee Norwich Yara 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That in the case of Company. 
the Petition for the Norwich Yarn Company Bill, 
the application does not come within the Standing 
Orders of the House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee Birmingham, 

on Petitions for Private Bills; and to whom the enna ll 
Petition of the Earl of Listowel, complaining of tion Railway 
non-compliance with the Standing Orders, was re- Bill. 
ferred ; That the Standing Orders relative to Railway 
Bills, had not been complied with in the case of the 
Petition for the Birmingham, Bristol and Thames 
Junction Railway Bill, inasmuch as Nos. 39, 41, 
52, 53, 61, 63, 65, 68, 71, 72, 73, 74 and 75, in the 
parishes of Saint Mary Abbottsand Saint Margaret’s, 
Westminster, are not upon the enlarged scale upon 
the Plan. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Se- 
lect Committee on Standing Orders. 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee Kingsworthy 
on Petitions for Private Bills; and to whom the and West 
Petition of Richard Brickdale Ward, complaining Wovck'™ 

; : 2 way. 
of non-compliance with the Standing Orders, was 
referred ; That the Standing Orders relative to Bills 
for making Railways, had not been complied with 
in the case of the Petition for the Kingsworthy and 
West Monckton Railway Bill, inasmuch as it is not. 
stated upon the section whether any and what alter- 
ation is intended to be made at the junction with 
the London and Southampton Railway, and at the 
junction with the Bristol and Exeter Railway re- 
spectively ; but it appeared to the Committee that 
no alteration was intended. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Se- 
lect Committee on Standing Orders. 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee Ashford and 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Standing et 
Orders relative to Bills for making Railways had” 
not been complied with in the case of the Peti- 
tion for the Ashford and Canterbury Railway Bill, 
inasmuch as in all cases where the Railway crosses 
turnpike roads, carriage roads, navigable rivers, 
canals or railways, or forms a junction with a rail- 
way without altering the level, it is not stated 
whether any or what alteration is intended to be 
made, and inasmuch as there are inaccuracies in the 
names or descriptions of the owners and occupiers 
in the Books of Reference deposited with the Clerks 
of the Peace in the several following instances ; viz. 
in the parish of Ashford, No.2, 24, 208, 30a, 46; 
Kennington, 14, 15, 17; Godmersham, 25, 41, 952, 

1032; Crundall, 1; Chilham, 45, 55, 59, 72 ; Charl- 
ham, 21, 22; Harbledown, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 22; 
Saint Dunstan, 28 ; and that in the parish of God- 
mersham, No. 109. it appeared to the Committee 

: o2+ that 





f 





Birmingham 
Gas Bill 
(No. 1.) 


Manchester 
and Stafford 
Railway Bill. 


Tamworth 
and Rugby 
Railway. 


Clarence ( Dur- 
ham) Railway 
Bill. 


Belfast Harbour 
(No. 2.) 


Chester and 
Crewe Railway 
Bill. 


London and 
Brighton 
Railway Biil 
(Rennie’sLine.) 


Bridgewater 
and Taunton 


Canal Bill, 





100 1° Martie. A. 1837. 


that the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury ought to 
have been added to the name of Edward Knight, 
as Lords of the several Manors ; but it appeared to 
the Committee that such inaccuracies had been 
corrected in the copies deposited with the parish 
clerks and in the Private Bill Office, by a note 
affixed to each entry; and inasmuch as the owners 
of Eastbridge Hospital, in the city of Canterbury, 
are not contained in the Lists of the Owners deposited 
in the Private Bill Office ; but it appeared to the 
Committee that such owners had been applied to 
previously to the 31st of December, and are, with 
one exception, assenting to the application. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Se- 
lect Committee on Standing Orders. 


Petitions from the Birmingham and Staffordshire 
Gas-Light Company ;—Creditors of the Birmingham 
and Staffordshire Gas-Light Company ;—and, the 
Birmingham Gas-Light and Coke Company; pray- 
ing that they may be heard, by themselves, their 
counsel or agents, against certain parts of the Bir- 
mingham Gas (No. 1.) Bill,—were presented, and 
read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be re- 
ferred to the Committee on the Bill; and the Peti- 
tioners heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
upon their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel 
heard, in favour of the Bill, against the said Pe- 
titions. 


Petitions from Ironmasters of Staffordshire ;— 
and Clergy, Gentry, Land-owners, Manufacturers, 
Traders and Inhabitants of Wilmslow ; praying that 
the Manchester and Stafford Railway Bill may pass 
into a law,—were presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the Report in respect of the Peti- 
tion for the Tamworth and Rugby Railway Bill, 
which, upon the 20th day of February last, was 
made from the Select Committee on Petitions for 
Private Bills, be printed. 














The Clarence (Durham) Railway Bill was read a 
second time ; and committed to Mr. Bowes and the 
Durham List. 


A Petition of the Marquis of Donegall, com- 
plaining that the Standing Orders of the House in 
respect to the application for the Belfast Harbour 
(No. 2.) Bill, had not been complied with, and 
praying that he may be heard, by his agents and 
witnesses, against the same, was presented, and 
read; and referred to the Select Committee on Pe- 
titions for Private Bills. 








The Chester and Crewe Railway Bill was read a | 


second time ; and committed to Mr. Jervis and the | 
Chester List. 


A Petition of John Martin Cripps and Rush 
Martin Cripps, both of Novington, in the parish of 
Westmerton, in the county of Sussex, Esquires, and 
of Ma;tha Baker, of Kemp Town, Brighton, in the 
county of Sussex, spinster, praying that they may 
be heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
against certain parts of the London and Brighton 
Railway Bill (Aennie’s Line), was presented, and 
read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to 
the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petition, if they think fit ; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. | 





The Bridgewater and Taunton Canal Bill was 
read a second time ; and committed to Mr. William 


Miles and the Somerset List. 
} 


Mr. Wakley presented a Bill for establishing a West London ° 
Cemetery for the Interment of the Dead westward "4 i 
of the Metropolis, by a Company to be called “ The pi, 
West of London and Westminster Cemetery Com- 
pany:” And the same was read the first time ; and 


ordered to be read a second time. 


Gillis 
The House was moved, That the Report in respect Belfast and and | 


of the Petition for the Belfast and Hollywood Rail- Hollywood a 


way Bill, which was yesterday made from the Select — 
Committee on Standing Orders relative to Private 
Bills, might be read ; and the same being read ; 
Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for making a Railway from the Town of Belfast to 
the Town of Hollywood, and for other purposes: 
And that Lord Viscount Castlereagh and the Earl of 
Belfast do prepare, and bring it in. 


Berry and Patterson’s Patent Bill was read a se- Berry and Droj 
cond time ; and committed to Mr. Hughes Hughes Paterson’s Ho 
and the Middlesex List. Patent Bill. 


Mr. Dunlop presented a Bill for making a Rail- Edinburgh 
way from Edinburgh to Glasgow, to be called “ The — Glasgow 
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway,” with a Branch to sendaen 
Falkirk: And the same was read the first time; 
ordered to be read a second time. 

: Dub 

Mr. Shaw Lefevre reported from the Select Com- Bolton and (St 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; and to whom the Preston Rail- sae 
Petitions of Edward Cropper; William Farrington ; 
and, Joseph Hornby, complaining of non-compliance 
with the Standing Orders, were referred ; That the 
Standing Orders relative to Bills for making Rail- 
ways, had not been complied with in the case of the 
Petition for the Bolton and Preston Railway Bill, 
inasmuch as that in the township of Blackrod the Der 
boundary between Nos. 36 and 37 on the Plan was Dov 
not shown, it appearing all as one field ; that there 
was no vertical measure shown from the datum line 
between the fourteenth and fifteenth miles, though 
there appeared to be a change in the gradient ; that 
the height of the Railway over or under the pas- 
sage of Fishergate-street, at Preston, was not shown 
on the Plan, and that the surface of the ground there 
was not shown on the Section ; but it appeared at 
the point mentioned a tunnel exists which the pre- 
sent applicants contemplate making use of, and that 
the levels are shown through the existing tunnel 
under the street; that the height over or under the 
surface of the ground at the junction with the Man- lo 
chester, Bury and Bolton Railway was not shown 7 
on the Section; but it appeared that, owing to the ( 
unfinished state of the Manchester, Bury and Bol- 
ton Railway, it was very difficult to show the actual 
point of junction; that the Subscription Contract 


' does not a all the objects stated in the 


Petition for the Bill, masmuch as it provides only 
for the formation of a Railway between Bolton and 
Preston, whereas the Petition prays in addition for Pe 
leave to purchase or rent a portion of the Lancaster 


| Canal and Tramroad. 


Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders. 


The Housewas moved, That the Report in respect of Leicester and fo 
the Petition for the Leicester and Swannington Rail- — 
way Bill, which was yesterday made from the Select “"""*™” 
Committee on Standing Orders relative to Private 
Bills, might be read; and the same being read ; 
Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
enable the Leicester and Swannington Railway Com- 
pany to raise a further Sum of Money: And that 
Mr. Packe and Mr. Halford do prepare, and bring 
it in. I 
The House was moved, That the Report in ye 2 Fourdrinier’s 
of the Petition for Fourdrinier’s Patent Bill, which Patent. 
upon Monday last was made from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills, might be read ; 
and the same being read ; 
- Ordered, 





Gillingham 
and Durston 
Railway Bill. 


Drogheda 
and Kells 
Railway. 


Dublin 
(St. Michan’s) 
Improvement. 


Deptford and 
Dover Railway 
[Subscription 
List.] 


London and 
Brighton 
Railway Bill 
(Mills’s Line.) 


Pateuts for 
Inventions Bill. 


Imprisonment 
for Debt Bill. 


Imprisonment 
for Debt Bill, 





7 Witt. IV. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for reviving and prolonging the term of certain Let- 
ters Patent assigned to Henry Fourdrinier and Sealy 
Fourdrinier, for the invention of making Paper by 
means of Machinery: And that Sir Oswald Mosley 
and Mr. Davenport do prepare, and bring it in. 


A Petition of William Pyle Taunton, William 
Dashwood, agent for John Dale, Esquire, and, 
John Phelps, agent for Thomas Major, owners of 
property on the line of Railway hereinafter men- 
tioned, complaining that the Standing Orders of the 
House in respect to the application for the Gilling- 
ham and Durston Railway Bill, had not been com- 
plied with ; and praying that they may be heard, by 
themselves, their agents and witnesses, against the 
same, was presented, and read; and referred to the 
Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


Mr. Aglionby reported from the Select Committee 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That in the case of 
the Petition for leave to present a Petition for the 
Drogheda and Kells Railway Bill, the Committee 
recommend that leave be given to present a Pe- 
tition. 

Ordered, That leave be given to present a Petition, 
as desired. 


Mr. Aglionby reported from the Select Committee 
on the Petitions for Private Bills; That in the case 
of the Petition for leave to present a Petition for the 
Saint Michan’s (Dublin) Improvement Bill, the 
Committee recommend that leave be given to pre- 
sent a Petition. 

Ordered, That leave be given to present a Petition, 
as desired. 


The Order of the day being read, for nominating 
the Select Committee to inquire into the matters con- 
tained in the Petitions er upon Wednes- 
day last, complaining of the names of certain needy 
and indigent persons having been inserted in the Sub- 
scription List for the Deptford and Dover Railway ; 

A Committee was nominated of Mr. Warburton, 
Mr. Dugdale, Mr. Brotherton, Mr. Aaron Chapman, 
Mr. Charles Lushington, Sir Eardley Wilmot, Mr. 
Thorneley, Mr. John Young, Mr. Daniel Gaskell, 
Mr. Forster, and Mr. George Evans; with Power 
to send for persons, papers and records. 

Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 


A Petition of John Laurence, complaining that 
the Standing Orders of the House in respect to the 
application for the London and Brighton Railway 
Bill (Miils’s line), had not been complied with, and 
praying that he may be heard, by himself, his 
agents and witnesses, against the same, was pre- 
sented, and read ; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Patents for Inventions Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday, the 12th day of April next. 


A Petition of John Drew, Keeper of His Majesty’s 
Prison for Debtors for the county of Devon, was 
presented, and read, taking notice of the Imprison- 
ment for Debt Bill, and praying that in the event 
of the same passing into a law, the losses the 
Petitioner will sustain thereby may be taken into 
consideration. 

Ordered, That the said Petition do lie upon the 
Table. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Imprisonment for Debt Bill ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
— put, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 

air ; 


Vot. 92. 


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101 


The House divided : 
The Yeas to the old Lobby; 
The Noes to the new Lobby. 


Mr. Wason: 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 
Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair :—The House accordingly resolved itself into 
the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 

Bill read 1°; to be read 2°, paragraph by para 
graph. 

Preamble postponed. 

CrauseEs, N° 1 and 2, amended, and agreed to. 

Cravusez, N° 3, agreed to. 

Cravuse, N° 4, amended, and agreed to. 

Crausgs, N° 5 to N° 11, agreed to. 

Cravusz, N° 12 (Defendant to deliver a Schedule 
of his Effects) read. 

Amendment proposed: P.7. 1. 14. After the 
word “ Westminster,” to insert the words “ being 
“‘ a person, who if this Act had not passed, might 
“ lawfully have been arrested upon a writ of capias 
“ ad satisfaciendum, upon the same judgment.” 


Question put, That those words be there inserted ; 
The Committee divided : 

Mr. Solicitor ete ? 
Tellers for the Ayes, Mr. Cutlar Fergusson: 54, 
‘ Mr. Jervis, 
Tellers for the Noes, Mr. Richards: 


Several other Amendments made. 

Cravuse, N° 12, as amended, agreed to. 

Crauses, N° 13 to N° 24, agreed to. 

Crause, N° 25 (Court of Request not to im- 
prison for more than Fourteen days) read. 

Motion made, and Question put, That the Clause 
stand part of the Bill; 

The Committee divided : 


’ Mr. Attorney General, 
Tellers for the Ay es, Mr. Solicitor General ‘+ 13. 
Vie 


Mr, Edward John 
Tellers for the Yeas, Stanley, 95. 
| Mr. ~~ : 
Tellers forthe Noes, Mr. Wakley, Jone. 





51. 





Tellers for the Noes, . ; a 


Cravses, N° 26 to N° 33, agreed to. 
Preamble agreed to. 
Bill, as amended, to be reported. 


And the House having continued to sit till after 

twelve of the clock on Thursday morning ; 
Jovis, 2° die Martii, 1837: 

Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon Mon- 
day next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Vagrants 
into a Committee upon the Vagrants (Scotland and a and 
Treland) Removal Bill; and, after some time spent aaa Bill. 
therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. 

Bernal reported, That the Committee had gone 
through the Bill, and directed him to report the 
same, without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be ingrossed ; and read the 
third time this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Judges’ 
mittee on the Judges’ Opinions Bill; Opinions Bill, 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday, the 
13th day of this instant March, resolve itself into 
the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Registration of 
mittee on the Registration of Voters Bill ; Voters Bill, 
Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


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Hackney 
Carriages 
(Metropolis)! 
Bill, 


Long Eaton and 
Nether Birch- 
wood Railway. 


Worcester and 
Wolverhampton 
Railway Bill. 


Manchester 
and Leeds 
Railway Bill. 


Charlton Kings 
and Marsworth 
Railway Bill. 


102 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
readiug of the Hackney Carriages (Metropolis) Bill ; 

A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 
posed, That the Bill be now read a second time :— 
And a Debate arising thereupon ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the Debate be now adjourned ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the old Lobby ; 

The Noes to the new Lobby. 

Tellers for the Yeas,/ Mr. Br otherton, 7. 

| Mr. Wason: 

Mr. Alderman Wood, )\ ,,, 


Tellers for the Noes, 


| Captain Pechell : 

And it appearing upon the Report of the division 
by the Tellers, that Forty Members were not present; 
and it being then half an hour after twelve of the 
clock on Thursday morning :—The House was ad- 
journed by Mr. Speaker, without a Question first 
put, till this day. 











Jovis, 2° die Marti; 
Anno 7° Willielmi [V" Regis, 18 37. 


PRAYERS. 

HE House was moved, That the Petition for 

the Long Eaton and Nether Birchwood Rail- 
way Bill, which was presented upon the 17th day 
of February last, might be read; and the same was 
read. 

The House was also moved, That the Order made 
the same day for referring the said Petition to the 
Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills, 
might be read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 


A Petition of BR. S. Worcester, and others, Owners 
and Occupiers of property on the line of Railway 
hereinafter mentioned, praying that they may be 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, against 
certain parts of the Worcester and Woiverhampton 
Railway Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in fa- 
vour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of Trustees of the Rochdale dis- 
trict of the Turnpike Road leading from Rochdale, 
through Middleton to Manchester, and, of Owners 
and Occupiers of lands and tenements in the neigh- 
bourhood of the said towns, praying that they may be 
heard by themselves, their counsel or agents, against 
the Manchester and Leeds Railway Bill, was pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of George Naylor, of Halifax, in the 
West Riding of the county of York, praying that he 
may be heard, by his counsel or agent, against 
certain parts of the said Bill, was also presented, and 
read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, if he 
think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the Bill, 
against the said Petition. 


Petitions from Inhabitants and Owners of property 
in Leominster ;— Thame ;— Hereford ;—Northleach ; 
~~ Whitney ;— Droitwich ;— Woodstock ;— Ledbury ; 
— Ludlow ; — Cheltenham ; — City of Gloucester ;— 
Tewhesbury ;— Tring ;— Oxford ;—Charlton Kings; 
— Stourport ; — Aylesbury ;— Stourbridge ;— Wor- 
cester;— and, Kidderminster; praying that the 
Charlton Kings and Marsworth Railway Bill may 
pass into a law,—were presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


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A. 1837. 


Petitions from James Dutton, and others, Owners 
and Occupiers of estates and property on or near 
to the line of Railway hereinafter mentioned ;— 
John, Baron Sherborne, of Sherborne, in the county 
of Gloucester ;—Eduward Impey, of the tithing of 
Westall, in the town and parish of Cheltenham, 
Esquire ;—Owners and Occupiers of property in 
Cheltenham; — High-street, Cheltenham; — Land- 
owners and Occupiers on the Line ;— Reverend 
Charles Coxwell, of Dowdeswell, and of Ablington 
House, in the parish of Bibury, in the county of 
Gloucester, Clerk ;—and, Inhabitants of Cirencester ; 
praying that they may be heard, by their counsel or 
agents, against the said Bill,—were also presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of Land-owners and Occupiers on and 
near to that part of the proposed line of the 
Charlton Kings and Marsworth Railway, which 
passes through the county of Buckingham, praying 
that the said Bill may not pass into a law, was 
also — and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


Gr 


an 


General Arbuthnott presented a Bill for making Dee (South) Li 
and maintaining a Turnpike Road from the old Road Bill. Pi 


Bridge of Dee, in the Parish of Nigg, to the Slug 
Turnpike Road, in the Parish of Banchory Ternan, 
all in the County of Kincardine, and for other pur- 
poses: And the same was read the first time; and 
ordered to be read a second time. 


Petitions from George Richard Pechell, Esquire, Oxford and R 


a captain in His Majesty’s Navy ;—and, Jonathan Great Westem 


Peel, Esquire, an occupier of land in the parish o 
Culham, in the county of Oxford ; praying that they 
may be heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
against certain parts of the Oxford and Great Western 
Railway Bill,—were presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


f Railway Bill. 


Mr. March Phillipps presented a Bill for the Loughborough 


more easy and speedy Recovery of Small Debts Small Debts 


within the Town of Loughborough, and other Places 
therein mentioned, in the Counties of Leicester and 
Nottingham: And the same was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time. 


ms ae 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- Charlton Kings ( 
posed, That the Charlton Kings and Marsworth ard Marsworth 
R 


Railway Bill be now read a second time ; 

The Amendments following were proposed to be 
made to the Question; viz. To leave out the word 
“now,” and at the end of the Question to add the 
words “ upon this day six months.” 

And the Question being proposed, That the word 
“now ” stand part of the Question :—The said pro- 
posed Amendment was, with leave of the House, 
withdrawn. 

_ Ordered, That the Bill be now read a second 
time:—The Bill was accordingly read a second 
time; and committed to Mr. Praed and the Buck- 
ingham List. 

Ordered, That all the Members serving for the 
several Counties, and for the Boroughs therein 
through which Counties the said Railway is intended 
to pass, be Members of the said Committee. 


ailway Bill. 


A Petition of John White, of Westbourn Green, in Great Westem 
the county of Middlesex, praying that he may be Railway Bil 


heard, by his counsel or agent, against certain ‘ 


| parts of the Great Western Railway Bill ( Padding- 


ton), was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, if he 
think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the Bill, 
against the said Petition. . 


Sir 


Paddington.) 








Granton Pier 
and Road Bill. 


Glasgow, 
Paisley, and 
Greenock 
Railway. 


Lancaster and 
Preston Rail- 
way Bill. 


Southwark and 
Hammersmith 
Railway Bill. 


Leicester 
Smal] Debts 
Bill. 


Leicester and 
Swannington 
Railway Bill. 


Belfast Harbour 
(No. 2.) 


Dublin 
(St. Michan’s) 
Improvement, 


Drogheda and 


Kells Railway. 


Dublin and 
Kilkenny 


Railway, 


7 Wit. IV. 


Sir George Clerk presented a Bill to enable the 
Duke or Buccleuch and Queensberry, to make and 
maintain a Pier at Granton, in the Parish of Cra- 
mond, and a Road therefrom to join the Road lead- 
ing from Leith to Queensferry, in the County of 
Edinburgh: And the same was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time. 


Petitions from Lord Blantyre, a minor, by his 
guardians, Proprietor of lands and estates in the 
line of the proposed Railway hereinafter mentioned ; 
and, John Richardson and John Connell, the 
agents of the Trustees for maintaining the Turnpike 
Roads leading from Glasgow to Greenock; complain- 
ing that the Standing Orders of the House in respect 
to the application for the Glasgow, Paisley and 
Greenock Railway Bill, had not been complied with ; 
and praying that they may be heard, by themselves 
or their agents, against the same,—were presented, 
and read; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Petitions for Private Bills. 





A Petition of Bankers, Merchants, Manufac- 
turers, Traders and Inhabitants of Blackburn, 
praying that the Lancaster and Preston Railway Bill 
may pass into a law, was presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Owners of lands, Lessees, Inha- 
bitant Householders and Occupiers, &amp;c., in the pa- 
rishes of Battersea, and Nine Elms and Lambeth ;— 
and Lambeth; praying that the Southwark and 
Hammersmith Railway Bill may pass into a law,— 
were presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


Mr. Tooke presented a Bill to extend the Powers 
and Provisions of an Act passed in the last Session 
of Parliament for the more easy and speedy Reco- 
very of Small Debts within the Borough of Leices- 
ter, to several other Towns, Parishes and Places, in 
the County of Leicester: And the same was read 
the first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


Mr. Tooke presented a Bill to enable the Leicester 
and Swannington Railway Company to raise a fur- 
ther Sun of Money: And the same was read the 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


Petitions from Robert Langtry, of Belfast, m 


the county of Antrim, Merchant ;—and, the Belfast 


and Cavehill Railway Company ; complaining that 
the Standing Orders of the House, in respect to the 
application for the Belfast Harbour Bill, (No. 2) 
had not been complied with ; and praying that they 
may be heard, by their agents and witnesses, against 
the same,—were presented, and read ; and referred 


to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private 
Bills. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of the parish of Saint 
Michan, in the city of Dublin, for leave to bring in 
a Bill for widening and improving the Streets from 
the Four Courts, near Richmond Bridge, to Consti- 
tution Hill and the King’s Inns, in the parish of 
Saint Michan, in the city of Dublin, was presented, 
and read; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Owners and Proprietors of estates, 
and also of Merchants, Traders and others resident 
in the county of Meath, and the county of the town 
of Drogheda, for leave to bring in a Bill for making 
a Railway from the said county of the town of Drog- 
heda to Kells, in the said county of Meath, was 
presented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of George Taylor, one of the Lessees 
of the Dublin and Kilcullen Turnpike Roads, com- 
plaining that the Standing Orders of the House, 

Vor. 92. 


2° Martie. 





103 


in respect to the application for the Dublin and 
Kilkenny Railway Bill had not been complied with, 
and praying that he may be heard, by himself, 
his agents and witnesses, against the same, was pre- 
sented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


Petitions from Merchants, Traders and Inhabitants Manchester 
of Dursley ;— and, Wootton-under-Edge ; praying #4 Tamworth 
that the Manchester and Tamworth Railway Bill may aang a 
pass into a law,—were presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Cromford Canal Company, Leeds and 
praying that they may be heard, by themselves, their pond _— 
counsel or agents, against certain parts of the Leeds Riles fans 
and Derby (North Midland) Railway Bill, was pre- 
sented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


Ordered, That the Petition of the Grand Junction Matter : 
Railway Company, which was presented upon the 294 tamworth 
24th rd of de last, wet that dey _ 
be heard, by their counsel or agents, against certain 
parts of the Manchester and Tamworth Railway Bill, 
be referred to the Committee on the Bill; and the 
Petitioners heard, by their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit ; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


Mr. Buckingham presented a Bill for the establish- Public Walks 
ment of Public Walks and Playgrounds, and of and Institutions 
Public Institutions, Libraries and’ Musuems, for the Bi! 
purpose of promoting the health, morals, instruction No. 83. 
and enjoyments of the People: And the same was 
read the first time ; and ordered to be read a second 
time upon Wednesday, the 15th day of this instant 
March ; and to be printed. 


Mr. Buckingham presented a Bill for the better pablic-houses 
Regulation of all places at which Intoxicating Drinks Regulation 
are sold, with a view to diminish the crime and B!. 
misery of which they are the fruitful source: And No. 84. 
the same was read the first time ; and ordered to be 
read a second time upon Wednesday, the 19th day 
of April next ; and to be printed. 


The York and North Midland Railway Bill was york ana 
read a second time; and committed to Mr. John North Midland 
Henry Lowther and the York List. Railway Bill. 

Ordered, That all the Members serving for the 
several Counties, and for the Boroughs therein, 
through which Counties the said Railway is intended 
to pass, be Members of the said Committee. 


Mr. Pendarves reported from the Committee on Hayle Cause- 
the Hayle Causeway Road Bill; That the Standing way Roac 
Orders relative to Turnpike Bills, had been complied ®" 
with ; and that they had examined the allegations 
of the Bill, and found the same to be true ; and had 
gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto; and the Amendments were read, and 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


Mr. Aglionby reported from the Select Committee Bristol Court 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That, in the case of of Conscience. 
the Petition for the Bristol Court of Conscience Bill, 
the application does not come within the Standing 
Orders of the House. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for granting more effectual Powers for the Regula- 
tion of the Court of Conscience within the City of 
Bristol: And that Sir Richard Vyvyan and Mr. 

Philip John Miles do prepare, and bring it in. 


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Bristol Small 
Tenements. 


Hartlepool Pier. 


Bristol 
Encroachments, 


Devizes and 
Melksham 
Railway. 


Waterford 
County Rates. 


Worcester 
Cattle Market. 


Courtenhall and 


Great Wigston 
Railway. 


104. 2° Martz. 


Mr. Aglionby reported from the Select Committee 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Standing 
Orders relative to Bills for the better maintenance 
and employment of the Poor, had been complied 
with in the case of the Petition for the Bristol Small 
Tenements Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for better assessing and collecting certain Parochial 
and other Rates on Small Tenements within the 
City and County of Bristol: And that Sir Richard 
Vyvyan and Mr. Philip John Miles do prepare, and 
bring it in. 


Mr. Aglionby reported from the Select Committee 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Standing 
Orders relative to Bills for erecting Piers, had been 
complied with in the case of the Petition for the 
Hartlepool Pier Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for amending an Act of the second year of the Reign 
of His present Majesty, and for granting further 
Rates and Powers for improving the Port of Har- 
tlepool, in the County of Durham: And that Mr. 
Harland and Mr. Bowes do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Aglionby reported from the Select Committee 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Standing 
Orders relative to Bills for improving Cities or Towns, 
had been complied with in the case of the Petition 
for the Bristol Encroachments Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for removing and preventing Encroachments within 
the City and County of Bristol, and for better re- 
gulating the Shipping, Rivers, Wharfs, Backs and 
Quays, and the Markets within the same, and for 
other purposes: And that Sir Richard Vyvyan and 
Mr. Philip John Miles do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Aglionby reported from the Select Committee 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Standing 
Orders relative to Railway Bills, had been complied 
with in the case of the Petition for the Devizes and 
Melksham Railway Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill for 
making a Railway from Devizes to join the Branch 
of the Great Western Railway leading to Bradford 
ator near Melksham, in the County of Wilts: And 
that Mr. Henry Estcourt and Mr. Long do prepare, 
and bring it in. 


Mr. Aglionby reported from the Select Committee 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Standing 
Orders relative to Bills for regulating County Rates, 
had been complied with in the case of the Petition 
for the Waterford County Rates Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for the uniform Valuation of Lands and Tenements 
for the purpose of levying the County Rates in the 
County of Waterford: And that Sir Richard Mus- 
grave and Mr. Villiers Stuart do prepare, and bring 
it in. 


The House was moved, That the Report in respect 
of the Petition for the Worcester Cattle Market Bill, 
which, upon the 21st day of February last, was made 
frori the Select Committee on Petitions for Private 
Bills, might be read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for removing the Markets held in the City of Wor- 


cester, in the County of Worcester, for the sale of 


Cattle, Horses, Sheep and Pigs, and for providing 
another Market-place in lieu thereof, and for pro- 
viding for the better and more effectual draining the 
said City: And that Mr. Robinson and Mr. Bailey 


do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee 
on Petitions for Private Bills; and to whom several 
Petitions complaining of non-compliance with the 
Standing Orders, were referred; That the Standing 








A. 1837. 


Orders relative to Railway Bills, had not been 
complied with in the case of the Petition for the 
Courtenhall and Great Wigston Railway Bill, 
inasmuch as N° 6 in the parish of Courtenhall, the 
property of Sir William Wake, and N° 1, in the 
parish of Collingtree, the property of the Rev. 
Benjamin Hill, are omitted in the Plan deposited 
in the Private Bill Office; but it appeared to the 
Committee that they were upon the Plans served 
with the notices upon the respective owners, and 
on the Plans deposited with the parish Clerks; and 
inasmuch as in the parish of Great Oxenden there 
is no enlarged Plan of a garden marked N° 10 in 
the Plan deposited in the Private Bill Office; and 
inasmuch as the Plan and Section are not drawn to 
the same horizontal scale between the road to Milton 
and the brook at the boundary of the parishes of 
Collingtree and Woolton, and also in the parish of 
Hardingstone, between the road to Queen’s Cross 
and the Grand Junction Canal, varying to the extent 
of four chains in the space of about two furlongs in 
the first instance, and to the like extent in the space 
of nearly a mile in the second instance ; but the 
engineer stated that the imaccuracy arose on the 
Plan and not on the Section; and inasmuch as 
there is no Section of the branch of the Railway 
from the parish of Duston to Barns Holme, in the 
borough of Northampton ; but it was stated to the 
Committee that it was the intention of the promoters 
of the Bill to abandon this branch ; and inasmuch 
as the datum horizontal line on the Section deposited 
in the Private Bill Office is not referred in writing 
to any fixed point; but it appeared to the Committee 
in evidence, that the words “ surface of the Grand 
Junction Canal at Far Cotton” were placed on the 
Plans deposited with the parochial clerks (in the 
parishes affected by the proposed Bill), and upon a 
Plan accompanying written notices served upon each 
owner, lessee and occupier upon the line ; and in- 
asmuch as in all cases where the line crosses turn- 
pike roads, carriage roads, navigable rivers, canals 
or railways, or forms a junction with a railway 
without altering the level, it is not stated whether 
any and what alteration is intended to be made; and 
inasmuch as in the Section deposited with the Clerks 
of the Peace for the county of Northampton, before 
the fourth and fifth mile the word “ Northampton” 
is omitted, and inasmuch as at the sixth mile the 
words “ lane to be raised six inches, and passed on 
the surface,” are not written; and inasmuch as the 
intended archings near the fourth and fifth mile in 
the valley of the Wen, and between the 20th and 
22d miles in the valley of the Welland, are not 
described on the Section, and the engineer stated to 
the Committee that he intends to make archings 
through other valleys on the line; and inasmuch as 
the occupiers of N° 24 and 25 in the parish of Kii- 
marsh are omitted in the Book of Reference deposited 
in the Private Bill Office; but it appeared to the 
Committee that notice was given to the occupiers, 
together with a Copy of that part of the Plan which 
applied to their property ; and inasmuch as in the 
Lists of Owners and Occupiers deposited in the Private 
Bill Office, the following inaccuracies appear ; 1st, 
in the parish of Broughton, trustees of “ Joseph 
Faulkner” should have been “ Joseph Tatham ;” 2d, 
Thomas Sears and Robert Sakley, entered as assent- 
ing, should have been entered as neutral; 3d. Briz- 
worth Parish Officers, “‘ Thomas Underwood” should 
have been “ Francis Underwood ;” 4th, in the parish 
of Great Gleni, John Beadman is omitted ; 5th, in 
the parish of Great Oxenden, Robert Buswell, en- 
tered as assenting, should have been entered as 
neutral; 6th, in the parish of Great Glenn, “ John 
Beardmore”’ should have been “ John Beadman ;” 
but it appeared, in evidence, to the Committee that 
Mr. James Abbey did apply to Mr. Beadman, the 
person wrongly entered as Beardmore. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders. 


A Petition 


Soutl 
Ham 
Rails 


Frat 
Nat. 


Mic 
Cas 
Nat 


Ale 
Nat 


St. | 
(So 
Mar 


Lis 
Me 





Southwark and 
Hammersmith 
Railway Bill. 


Frank Castelli’s 
Nat. Bill. 


Michael 
Castelli’s 
Nat. Bill. 


Alepsons’ 


Nat. Bill. 


St. George’s 
(Southwark ) 
Market. 


Liverpool 
Mersey 
Conservancy. 


Wishaw and 
Coltness 
Railw ay. 


Liverpool 
Improvement 
Acts Amend- 
ment, 


Worcester and 
Voiverhampton 
tiway Bill, 





7 Wit. [V. 


A Petition of Thomas Stirling, Esquire, and of 
Owners, Lessees or Occupiers of estates and pro- 
perty within the parishes of Battersea and Chelsea, 
praying that they may be heard, by their counsel 
or agerts, against the Southwark and Hammersmith 
Railway Bill, was presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of David Ker, of Battersea House, 
Battersea, and of Portavo, Donaghadee, in the 
county of Down, Esquire, M. P., praying that he 
may be heard, by his counsel or agents, against 
certain parts of the said Bill, was also presented, 
and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to 
the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner 
heard, by his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, 
if he think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


Ordered, That the Committee on Frank Castelli’s 
Naturalization Bill be revived ; and that they have 
leave to sit and proceed To-morrow. 


Ordered, That the Committee on Michael Castelli’s 
Naturalization Bill be revived; and that they have 
leave to sit and proceed To-morrow. 


Ordered, That the Committee on Alepsons’ Natu- 
ralization Bill be revived ; and that they have leave 
to sit and proceed To-morrow. 


Mr. Evelyn Denison reported from the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the 
Standing Orders relative to Bills for erecting Market- 
places, had been complied with in the case of the Pe- 
tition for the Saint George’s (Southwark) Market Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for altering, amending and enlarging the powers of 
an Act passed in the fourth year of the reign of 
William the Fourth, intituled, “ An Act for erecting, 
establishing and maintaining a Market in the Parish 
of Saint George-the-Martyr, in the Borough of 
Southwark and County of Surrey:” And that Mr. 
Alderman Humphery and Mr. Harvey do prepare, 
and bring it in. 


Mr. Evelyn Denison reported from the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills ; That the 
Standing Orders relative to Navigation Bills, and 
to Bills for making Railways, had been complied 
with in the case of the Petition for the Liverpool 
Mersey Conservancy Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for the better preserving and improving of the Port 
of Liverpool, and for providing for the safe Naviga- 
tion of the River Mersey: And that Mr. Ewart and 
Lord Viscount Sandon do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Evelyn Denison reported from the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the 
Standing Orders relative to Bills for making Rail- 
ways, had been complied with in the case of the 
Petition for the Wishaw and Coltness Railway Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for further extending the time for completing the 
Wishaw and Coltness Railway, in the County of 
Lanark: And that Mr. John Maawell and Mr. 
Oswald do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Evelyn Denison reported from the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the 
Standing Orders relative to Bills for improving 
Cities or Towns, had been complied with in the case 
of the Petition for the Liverpool Improvement Acts 
Amendment Bill. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Bankers, Merchants, Owners of 
property and Inhabitants within the town, port and 


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neighbourhood of Liverpool, praying that the Wor- 
Vou. $2. 


105 


cester and Wolverhampton Railway Bill may pass 
into a law, was presented, and read ; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Owners of mills, buildings, lands Lancaster and 
and premises in Preston, praying that they may be Preston Rail- 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, against “*Y Bill. 
certain parts of the Lancaster and Preston Rail- 
way Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of Parishioners of Paddington, in Great Western 
vestry assembled, and other Inhabitants of the said Railway Bill 
— praying that the Great Western Railway (P*ddington.) 

ill (Paddington) may pass into a law, was pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Right honourable Edward Manchester 
Jervis, Viscount Saint Vincent, Baron Jervis, of epee 
Meaford, in the county of Stafford, on his own ei A Age 
behalf, and of the said Viscount and Thomas Jervis, and Stafford 
Esquire, one of His Majesty’s counsel, as trustees Railway Bills. 
named and appointed in or by virtue of the will of 
the late Right honourable John, Earl of Saint Vin- 
cent, deceased, praying that they may be heard, by 
themselves, their counsel or agents, against certain 
parts of the Manchester and Tamworth Railway; and, 
Manchester and Stafford Railway Bills, was pre- 
sented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Manchester and Tamworth Rail- 
way Bill; and the Petitioners heard, by themselves, 
their counsel or agents, upon their Petition, if they 
think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the Bill, 
against the said Petition. 


Lord Viscount Sandon presented a Bill to enable Manchester 

the Manchester and Liverpool Plate Glass Company **¢ Liverpool 
° . Plate Glass 

to sue and be sued in the Name of the Chairman, Gonpany Bill 
Deputy Chairman, or of any one of the Directors 
of the said Company, and for other purposes: And 
the same was read the first time ; and ordered to be 
read a second time. 


The House was moved, That the several Acts pyst.ofice 
relating to the Duties of Postage and the privilege Acts Repeal 
of Franking, might be read; and the same being Bill. 
read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring ina Bill 
to repeal the several Laws relating to the Post 
Office: And that Mr. Labouchere, Mr. Baring and 
Lord Seymour do prepare, and bring it in. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill post-oftice 
for consolidating the Laws relative to Offences against Offences Bill. 
the Post Office of the United Kingdom: And that 
the same Gentlemen do prepare, and bring it in. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill post-Oftice 
for the Management and Regulation of the Post Managemen: 
Office: And that the same Gentlemen do prepare, 2" 
and bring it in. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Franking Bi, 
for regulating the sending and receiving of Letters 
and Packets by the Post, free from the Duty of 
Postage: And that the same Gentlemen do prepare, 
and bring it in. 


Ordered, That the Returns relative to Friendly Friendly 
Societies, which were presented upon the 16th day Secietics. 
of August, in the last Session of Parliament, be No. 7i. 

rinted. 

Ordered, That the Reports of the Superintendent Convicts. 
of Ships and Vessels employed for the confinement No. 72. 
of Convicts, which were presented upon Tuesday 
last, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Returns relative to the missing Whale Ships. 
Whale ships, which were presented yesterday, be No 73. 
printed. 


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106 2° Marti. 


St. Asaph 
and Bargo 
Dioceses, 
No.74. Friday last, be printed. 
— Courts Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
1 . 


next, resolve itself into a Committee upon the 


Sheriffs Courts Bill. 


County Rates Ordered, That the County Rates Bill be read a 
= second time upon Wednesday next. 


East India 


Ordered, That the East India Officers Bill be 
Officers Bill. 


read a second time upon Wednesday, the 22d day 
of March next. 


Recorders 


: Ordered, That the Report on the Recorders 
Courts Bill. 


Courts Bill, be taken into further consideration upon 
Wednesday next. 


Common Law 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 


Courts Bill. next, resolve itself into a Committee upon the Com- 
mon Law Courts Bill. 

Court of Ordered, That the Court of Exchequer (Scotland) 

Exchequer } &gt; pead a secc j 

(Scotlea 4) Bil. Bill be read a second time upon Wednesday next. 


Sale of Beer Ordered, That the Sale of Beer Bill be read a 
Bill. second time upon Wednesday next. 


Supply. Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the Committee of Supply. 


Salmon Ordered, That the Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) 
(Scotland) pi, Bill be read a second time upon Wednesday next. 
Poor Relief Ordered, That the Poor Relief (Zreland) Bill be 


(Ireland) Bill. read a second time To-morrow. 


Small Debts Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 

(Scvtland) Bill. next, resolve itself into a Committee upon the Small 
Debts (Scotland) Bill. 

Court of Session Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 

bee — solve itself intoa Committee to consider of providing 

[Compensation for the Compensations and Expenses which may 

to Officers.]} arise under any Act to be passed in the present 
Session of Parliament to wh certain alterations 
in the establishment of Clerks and Officers of the 
Court of Session and Court of Commission for 
Teinds in Scotland, and also under any other Act 
for the more effectual Recovery of Small Debts in 
the Sheriffs Courts.in Scotland. 


Marine Petitions from London;—and, Liverpool (two 

Insurances. Petitions); praying for the repeal of the Duty on 
Marine Insurances,—were presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Marine A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 

Insurances. posed, That the gradual diminution of Stamp Duty 
derived from Marine Policies, during several years 
of increasing trade, commerce and navigation, has 
fully demonstrated the impolicy of this Tax, in the 
discouragement of British Insurances, and the pro- 
motion of successful Foreign competition ; and that 
it is the duty of this House to take an early oppor- 
tunity to repeal or reduce the same :—And the said 
Motion was, with leave of the House, withdrawn. 


Sheriffs Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
(Scotland.) — to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased to 
give directions, that there be laid before this House, 
a Tabular Return of the Number of Days of Resi- 
dence of every Sheriff and Sheriff-Substitute in his 
Sheriffdom in Scotland, during the years ending 
31st December 1834, 1835 and 1836, showing the 
Courts held by each respectively in each year, and 


the Dates thereof; and distinguishing those of 


Registration of Voters from others; also, of the 
annual Salaries, and all other Emoluments received 








A. 1837. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Saint Asaph | by Sheriffs and Sheriffs-Substitute respectively, for 
and Bangor Dioceses, which was presented upon | Judicial Duties and all other Public Services re- 


spectively performed by them as above, in their 
Counties, distinguishing the Sums received for at- 
tending the Justiciary Circuit Courts, and for hold- 
ing Courts of Registration, and for travelling and 
other Charges relating thereto, and the Dates thereof; 
and stating also, if Sheriffs or Sheriffs-Substitute 
are employed and paid for Arbitrations, Convey- 
ancing or other Professional Business, and the 
average annual Emoluments derived therefrom :— 
Also, in columns, the Number of Causes of each 
class, in dependence, and of those instituted and 
decided in the County Courts, or appealed to the 
Sheriff and decided by him when out of the County, 
or when in his County, during the years ending 31st 
December 1834, 1835 and 1836; also, the average 
period Causes have depended, and the Number 
advocated to the Court of Session in the above years 
from the Sheriff or his Substitute respectively ; also, 
the Number of Interlocutors pronounced by Sheriffs- 
Substitute and Sheriffs respectively ; distinguishing 
how many of the latter were ailirming the Sub- 
stitutes’ Interlocutors, how many altering on in- 
cidental points, how many in part on the merits, 
and how many in -whole on the merits; also, the 
Number of Small Debt Causes decided on the first 
day of calling these Causes and how many continued 
and how many remitted to the ordinary Action 
Roll ; also, the Number of Summary Criminal 
Trials, and of Criminal Jury Trials, and of Civil 
Causes tried with the aid of a Jury, as above, in 
each County of Scotland ; the above Returns to be 
signed both by Sheriffs and their Substitutes. 
Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Sheri 
(Sco 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- Tumpike 


posed, That a Select Committee be appointed on 
Turnpike Tolls and Trusts, for the purpose of con- 
sidering such legislative Enactments as ought to 
be recommended on the subject:—And the said 
Motion was, with leave of the House, withdrawn. 


Roads, 
Char 
Trus 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill, Turnpike Roads 
to amend the Laws regarding Turnpike Trusts and Bill. 


Tolls in Great Britain: And that Mr. Mackinnon 
and Mr. Plumptre do prepare, and bring it in. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- City of 


posed, That there be laid before this House, a Copy 
of the Memorial, with the Answer thereto, presented 


to the Treasury from the Mayor and Inhabitants of 


Limerick, praying Relief from the Calamity they 
have lately suffered, occasioned by the Explosion 
of Gunpowder :—And the said Motion was, with 
leave of the House, withdrawn. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill, 
for the better Protection and Security of the Persons 
and Property of His Majesty’s Subjects residing in 
the neighbourhood of Railroads, Canals, and other 
Public Works sanctioned by Parliament, during the 
time of their construction : And that Mr. Dugdale and 
Lord Granville Somerset do prepare, and bring it in. 


Vag 
(Sex 
Trel 
Rer 


Limerick. 


Railroads and 
Public Works 
Bill. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being Sherifi-Clerks 
proposed, That the Judges of the Court of Session (Seta) 


in Scotland assign the Causes and Reasons which 
have induced them, under an Act of Sederunt, now 
on the Table of this House, to Tax the Inhabitants 
of certain Counties in Scotland, in the ratio of from 
one hundred to nearly two hundred per cent. more 
than in certain other counties, for precisely the same 
Public Duties being performed by the same class 
of Public Servants, namely, the Clerks to the Sti- 
pendiary Judges who preside over the Local Courts 
of Law existing in each county of Scotland :—That 
the said Judges do furnish, m a Tabular Mem 

opies 


Fe 





Sheriff-Clerks 
(Scotland. ) 


Charity 
Trustees. 


Vagrants 
(Scotland and 
Treland) 
Removal Bill. 


Answer to 
Addresses, 


Fees in Public 
Offices, 





7 Witt. [V. 


Copies of the Sheriff-Clerks’ Fees imposed by the | 
Acts of 1748, 1830 and 1836, so as to show the | 
difference in one view; and, further, that they re- 

ort the Data on which they have formed the new 
Table of Fees, with the Amount of Income they 
have calculated will accrue in whole yearly to each 
Sheriff-Clerk, whose Fees they have fixed in a man- 
ner apparently so unequal and arbitrary as respects 
them, as well as the People so to be taxed :—Also 
stating, by Name, those Sheriff-Clerks who perform 
their Duties in Person, and those who act by 
Deputy ; also the Dates of the Appointments of 
the Sheriff-Clerks of the counties of Aberdeen, Ayr, 
Dumfries, Edinburgh, Perth, Forfar and Lanark ; 
—Also, that the aforesaid Judges,do quote the 
Statutes authorizing them to fix the Fees of Sheriff- 
Clerks in 1748, 1830 and 1836, and make their Re- 
port with all convenient speed, seeing that their Act 
of Sederunt of 7th July 1836, was only reported to 
Parliament on ist February 1837, and if not altered 
or repealed by Parliament, will and must become 
law within Scotland in less than Three months ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” to 
the end of the Question, in order to add the words, 
“ there be laid before this House a Copy of the | 
“ Report of the Committee of the Judges of the 
“* Court of Session on the Fees of the Sheriff-Clerks 
“ in Scotland, dated 17th December 1835,” instead 
thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Question : 
—The said proposed Amendment and Motion were 
severally, with leave of the House, withdrawn. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Copy of the Report of the Committee of the Judges 
of the Court of Session on the Fees of the Sheriff- 
Clerks in Scotland, dated 17th December 1835. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return of the Cities and Boroughs in England 
and Wales, in which the Appointment of Charity 
Trustees has devolved, by order of the Lord Chan- 
cellor, on the Masters in Chancery, giving the 
Names of the Masters who heard them, and of the 
Trustees appointed. 





The ingrossed Bill to make perpetual an Act for 
repealing certain Acts relating to the Removal of 
Poor Persons born in Scotiand and Ireland, and 
chargeable to Parishes in England, and to make 
other provisions in lieu thereof, was, according to 
Order, read the third time, and an ingrossed Clause 
was added to the Bill by way of Rider. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act to alter, amend and make perpetual, 
an Act for repealing certain Acts relating to the 
Removal of Poor Persons born in Scotland and Ire- 
land, and chargeable to Parishes in England, and 
to make other provisions in lieu thereof. 

Ordered, That Mr. Robert Palmer do carry the 
Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer reported to the 
House, That their several Addresses of the 8th, 10th, 
14th, 15th, 16th and 24th days of this instant 
February, (that His Majesty would be graciously 
pleased to give directions, that the Papers therein 
mentioned might be laid before this House) had 
been presented to His Majesty, and that His Ma- 
jesty had commanded him to acquaint this House, 
that He will give directions accordingly. 


Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer presented, by 
His Majesty’s Command,—Report of the Commis- 
sioners appointed to — into the Fees, Gra- 
tuities, Perquisites and Emoluments of the several 
Public Offices of the Civil List Establishment. 
ae That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


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107 


Mr. Fox Maule, presented, pursuant to several London 


| Addresses to His Majesty,—Copies of the Charters University, see, 


of Incorporation granted by His Majesty to the 
University of Zondon, and University College, 
London. 

A Return of the manner in which Prisoners for Prisoners 
Trial were confined during the times the Quarter.(Sussex.) 
Sessions and Assizes were holden in the county of 
Sussex, in the year ending 31st January 1837, 
especially as to Dimensions of Rooms, Classifica- 
tion and separation of Prisoners of both Sexes. 

An Account made up to the 31st December 1835, 
of all Sums whereof the Payment now remains 
charged upon the Church Rates in England and 
Wales ; distinguishing such Sums as are respectively 
due to the Church Building Commissioners, to the 
Exchequer Bill Loan Commissioners, and to Indi- 
viduals, under the Authority of Acts of Parliament, 
or otherwise, so far as relates to the Church Build- 
ing Commissioners. 

. — That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. O'Connell presented a Bill to secure the Law of Libel 
Liberty of the Press: And the same was read the ®! . 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time No. 75. 


Church Rates. 


b Wednesday, the 15th day of this instant 


arch ; and to be printed. 


Mr. William Williams presented a Bill to repeal Freemen’s _ 
the Stamp Duty now paid on admission to the - Adminion Bil. 
dom of Corporations in England: And the same No.6, 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time upon Wednesday, the 15th day of this 
instant March; and to be printed. 


Mr. Fox Maule presented a Bill to amend the Penitentiary 
Acts for regulating the General Penitentiary at Mil- (Milbank) Bill. 
bank: And the same was read the first time; and No.77. 
ordered to be read a second time upon Monday 
next; and to be printed. 


Mr. Baring presented a Bill to repeal the several Post-Oftice 
Laws relating to the Post Office: And the same was Acts Repeal 
read the first time ; and ordered to be read a second —" 
time upon Friday, the 10th day of this instant No. 78. 
March ; and to be printed. 


Mr. Baring presented a Bill for consolidating the Post-Office 
Laws relative to Offences against the Post Office of Offences Bill. 
the United Kingdom: And the same was read the No. 79. 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time 
upon Friday, the 10th day of this instant March ; 
and to be printed. 


Mr. Baring presented a Bill for the Management Post-Office 
and Regulation of the Post Office: And the same Management 
was read the first time; and ordered to be reada 
second time upon Friday, the 10th day of this in- 
stant March ; and to be printed. 


No. 80. 


Mr. Baring presented a Bill for regulating the Franking Bill. 
sending and receiving of Letters and Packets by the No. 81, 
Post free from the Duty of Postage : And the same 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time upon Friday, the 10th day of this in- 
stant March ; and to be printed. 


Mr. Baring presented a Bill for restraining and Beuefices 
regulating the holding of Benefices in Plurality, Pty Bill 
and for amending the Laws relating to the Residence No. 82. 
of the Clergy: And the same was read the first 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time upon 
Thursday next; and to be printed. 


Sir Richard Vyvyan reported from the Select Public 
Committee on Public Petitions; That they had Petitions. 
examined the Petitions presented from the 17th to 
the 21st days of February last, both inclusive ; and 
had directed him to make a Report thereof to the 
House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


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Leicester Colonel Sibthorp reported from the Committee on 
se ag the Leicester Corporation Estates Bill; That they 
* had examined the allegations of the Bill, and found 
the same to be true; and had gone through the Bill, 
and made Amendments thereunto; and the Amend- 

ments were read, and agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 

ingrossed. 


Church Rates. Petitions from West Molesley ;— West Itchenor ; 
—and, Bozxgrove; praying that Church Rates may 
not be abolished,—were presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of Members of the Established Church, 
and of Dissenting Communions in the city of 
Gloucester ; praying for the abolition of Church 
Rates, was also presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


Hawkers’ A Petition of Licensed Hawkers and Pedlars in 
and Pedlars’ Scotland, praying for the repeal of the Act im- 
Licenses f 9, praying 
° posing Licenses upon them, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Fictitious Votes A Petition of Voters of the county of Linlithgow, 

(Scotland.) —_ complaining of the creation of Fictitious Votes in 
the election of Meinbers to serve in Parliament for 
Counties in Scotland; and praying relief, was pre- 
sented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Fictitious Votes (Scotland.) 


Tithes’ Com- 
mutation, 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Number of Notices for Commutation 
received by the Tithe Commissioners for England 
and Wales, from the date of their appointment to 
the 1st March, stating what Number of such Notices 
have been received during each calendar month, 
and the Names of the Counties in which the parishes 
or districts are situated for which such Notices have 
been given: Also, Return of the Number of Agree- 
ments received by the Commissioners up to the same 

eriod ; stating what Number of such Agreements 

ave been confirmed, and what Number rejected, 
together with the grounds for such rejection: Also, 
what Number of such Agreements are at present 
under the consideration of the different Diocesans, 
or otherwise waiting confirmation. 


Hackney Ordered, That the Hackney Carriages (Metro- 
&gt; 0 polis) Bill be read a second time upon Wednesday, 
Sn? is) the 22d day of this instant March. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 


Veneris, 3° die Marti ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi IV" Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


R. Romilly, from the Commissioners for esta- 
blishing Regulations in the Offices of the 
House of Commons, was called in; and at the bar 
presented, pursuant to the directions of an Act of 
Parliament,—Certificate of the Commissioners ap- 
pointed by an Act a in the 52d year of the 
reign of his late Majesty King George the Third, 
intituled, “ An Act to repeal an Act passed in the 
thirty-ninth and fortieth year of the oe of His 
present Majesty, for establishing Regulations in the 
Offices of the House of Commons, and for establish- 
ing other and further Regulations in the said 
Offices :’—And then he withdrew. 
Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


House of Com- 
mons Offices, 


Committees. Ordered, That all Committees have leave to sit 





Marti. A. 1837. 


Petitions from Haselor ;— Alcester ;— Kinwarton Church Rates, 
and Great Alne ;—Alderminster and Tredington;— 
Exhall-cum- Wixford ;— Lapworth ;—Salford, War- 
wick ;— Bidford ;— Wootton Wawen, Henley-in- 
Arden, and other — ;—Arrow ;—Aston Cant- 
low ;— Patney ;— Berwick Saint John, Wilts ;— 
Rushall and Charlton ;—Alvediston ;—Donhead St. 
Mary ;—Chilmark ;— Fonthill Bishop ;— Donhead 
Saint Andrew ;— Little Langford and Stapleford ;— 
Marden ; — Chirton; — Cliffe Pypart ;— Bishops 
Cannings ;—Tisbury ;—Great Wishford and South 
Newton ;—Fisherton Delamere and Bapton ;—.Brem- 
hill ;— Dinton ;— Baverstock and Compton Cham- 
berlain ; — Melksham-cum-Seend ; — Fovant ;—Up- 
haven ;—Sutton Veny ;—-Liitle Chishill ;—Heydon ; 
— Merton;—Ham;—Saint Mary,Guildford ;— Holy 
Trinity Guildford; — Saint Nicholas, Surrey; — 
Haslemere ;— Lymington ;— Havering ;— West Til- 
bury ;—-Chadwell Saint Mary ;— Hazeleigh ;— Nasing ; 
— Leeds ;—Woodham Mortimer ; — Ingatestone ;— 
Fryerning ; — Barking ; — Blackmore ;— Thoydon 
Gamon ;— High Ongar ;— Doddinghurst ;— Great 
Warley ;— North Weald Bassett ;— Cranham ; — 
Dagenham ; — Langdon Hiils ; — Childerditch ;— 
Cold Norton; — Danbury; — Woadham Ferns ;— 
Stowe Maries ;— Spring field ; — Hanningfield ;— 
Wethersfield ; - Horndon-on-the-Hill ;—-Chelmsford ; 
—Writtle ;—West Ham, Woodford, and other places; 
— Widford ;— Runwell ;— Little Warley ;—Staple- 
ford Tawney and Theydon Mount ;-—Ottringham ;— 
Lyme Regis ;—Saint Peter, Wallingford ;—Shipton 
aw 3— Minchin Hampton ;— Stroud ;— Tarde- 
bigg ;—Longdon ;— Berrow ; — Hanley Castle ;— 
Hagley 3;—Great Malvern;— Wolverley ; — Birt’s 
Morton ; — Upton-upon- Severn ; — Bromsgrove ; — 
Churchhill;— Kings Norton ;— Broom ;—Aylesbury ; 
—Last Moulsey;—Thames Ditton ;— Limpsfield ;— 
Kew; —Tandridge ;—Godstone ;—Long Ditton ;— 
Eversley ;—Oxstead ;-- Wandsworth ;— Mitcham ;— 
Corsham ;—Purton ;— Biddestone ;—Wroughton ;— 
Christian Malford ;— Newent ;— Alvington ;— Wool- 
astone ;—King Stanley ;— Frocester ;—Great Wash- 
bourne ;— Alderton ;— Treddington ; — Miserden ;— 
Saint Matthew, Stonehouse ;— Upton Saint Leonard’s; 
—Deerhurst ;—Olveston and Alveston ;—Westcote ; 
— Longborough and Seyincote; — Mangotsfield ;— 
Henbury ;—Stoke Gifford ;— Horfield ;— Tibberton ; 
— Rodborough ;— Ranoldswick ;— Archdeacon and 
Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Elv;—Swaffham 
Bulbeck ;—Swaffham Prior ;— Feversham ;—Little 
Shelford ;—Cherryhinton ;— Great Shelford ;— Chad- 
lington;— Southampton and Chilson, Oxford ;— 
Spelsbury ;— I ffley ;—Wilbarston .—Stoke Albany; 
— Saint John the Baptist, Peterborough ;—Tewkes- 





bury ; — Charlbury ;— Axminster ;— Beckleigh ;— 
Gittisham;-—Bicton;—Chittlehampton ;—Plymtree ; 
—FEast Budleigh ;— Powderham ;— Kilmington ;— 
Upottery ;— Warkleigh ;—- Tiverton ;— Heavitree ;— 
Leicester;—Great Saling ;—Haughton-le-Skerne ;—- 
Stainton-le-Street ;—Monk_ Hesildon ;— Aycliffe ;— 
Darlington;—Saint Paul, Bedford ;— Normanton ;— 
Ince ;—Preston Saint Mary ;— Horsham ;—Droit- 
wich and other places ;— Bradfield ;— Mistley ;— 
Northleach ;— Lawshall ;—Saint James, Colchester ; 
—Great Tey ;—Lexden ;-— Saint Giles, Colchester ; 
— Holy Trinity, Colchester ;— Tendring ; — West 
Bergholt ;—Milding ;—Bury Saint Edmund’s ;— 
Saint Mary, Lambeth ;—Crondall ;—Alresford ;— 
Old Alresford ;—Stony Stratford ;— Sudbury ;— 
Saint Mary-at-the- Walls, Colchester ;— Elmstead ;— 
Wrabness ;—Stanway ;—Aldham ;—Stoke, Suffolk; 
— East Thorpe ;— Haverhill ;—Onehouse ;—Wir ;— 
Saint Mary Magdalen, Colchester ;—Somerton ;— 
Saint Ives, Cornwail;— West Grinstead ;— North 
Barsham ;— Rusper ;—Nuthurst ;-—Eaton Socon ;— 














Marks Tey;~-Saint James, Westminster ;—Man- 
ningtree ;—- Barnsley, Arlington, and other places ;— 
Winslade ;— Saint Leonard, in Colchester ;—Leck- 


this day till four of the clock, during the sitting of | ford ;— West Tisted;— Petersfield ;— Amersham (two 
Petitions); — Wendover ; — Stratfield Turgiss ; — 
Whatsbury ;— 


the House. 














7 Witt. IV. 


ham ;—Quarley ;— Martin ;— Ryme Intrisica and 
Hermitage;—-Winterbourne and other places ;—F. ittle- 
worth;— Tarrant Keynston;— Stopham ;—Child Oke- 
ford ;— Damerham, South;— Tillington ;— Long Crit- 
chell and More Critchell ;— Petworth ;—Whichford ; 
—-Taunton;—-Saint James Standard Hill, Nottingham; 
—Saint Fluvias, Penryn;—Newton Saint Cyres ;— 
Brampford Speke ;—Saint Stephen, Exeter ;—Hock- 
worthy Culmstock ;—Badock;— All Saints, Bristol ; 
—Paul ;—Saint Werburgh ;—Clifton;— Wrington ; 
— Temple, Bristol;—Saint Philip and Jacob, Bris- 
tol ;—Norton Fitzwarren ;—Stapleton ;—Wrexham ; 
—Warnford ;— Minestead ; — Newchurch ;— Bent- 
worth;—South Warnborough ;—Gosport ;— Charlton 
with Clanfield ;—Rowner ;— West 'Tytherleigh ;-— 
Lyndhurst ;— Horncastle;— Thorp ;— Talmouth ;— 
Ashford ;—Ospringe ;—Patricksbourne and Bridge ; 
— Ellisfield ;— Sturry ; — Linby ;— Sheerness, Min- 
ster, Eastchurch and Queenborough ;— Willisborough; 
Bristol (two Petitions) ;— Saint John the Baptist, 
Bristol ; —Lostwithiel ;—Saint Augustin, Bristol ;— 
Saint Nicholas, Bristol ;—Saint Philip and Jacob, 
Bristol ;— Llanlivery ;— Dorchester ;—E lton-on-the- 
Hill ;-- East Stoke ;—Poole (two Petitions) ;—Yet- 
minster, Chelborough and Chetnole ;—Spettisbury 
and Charlton Marshall; — Puddletown ; — Sher- 
bourne ;—Whitechurch Canonicorum, Chideock, Stan- 
ton Saint Gabriel and Marshwood ;—Dorchester 
Saint Peter ;- Weymouth and Melcombe Regis ;-- 
Loders ;— Hinton Martell and Horton ;—Saint Mary 
Arches ;— East Bridgeford, Car, Colston and Knee- 
ton ;— Wiveliscombe ; — Iver;— Battle ;— Saffron 
Walden ;—Frating-cum-Thorington ;— Saint Osyth ; 
—Great Clackton ;—Brightlingsea ;—Vale of the 
Avon ; — Castleford ; — Wolverhampton ;— Great 
Bentley ;— Worcester ;— White Colme ;— Troubridge; 
— Great Yeldham, Little Yeldham, Stanbourne and 
Ovington-cum-Kilbury ;—Alresford ;— West Monk- 
ton; — Little Clapton;— Fontmell Magna, West 
Orchard, Compton Abbas, Ashmore and Medbury ; 
—Iwerne Minster ;—Langton;—Long Blandford ; 
—Almer, Winterbourne Zelstone and Winterbourne 
Anderstone ;— Tarrant Rushton and Tarrant Raw- 
ston;—T'arrant Monkton and Tarrant Launeeston ; 
— Broadway ;— Sedgehill ;— Bradford ;— Buckland 
Newton and Pulham ;— Winterbourne Saint Martin; 
—Dorchester All Saints ;—Charmouth, Wotton, 
Fitzpaine and Chatherston Lewston ; — Moreton, 
Affpuddle, Tomerspuddle and Tolpuddle ;— West 
Compton ;— Marteck ;—Hasilbury Bryan ;—Toller- 
porcorum ;— Egloskerry ; —Stourton Caundle, Purse 
Caundle and Caundle Marsh ;—Buadock ;—North 
and South Kilworth;—Great Glenn ;—Congerstone 
and Bilstone;— Hinckley ;— Newburgh and Narford; 
— Caistor Saint Edmund ;—Shotesham All Saints 
and Shotesham Saint Mary ;— Northampton ;— 
Honingham and East Toddenham ;—Northwold ;— 
Morningthorpe and Tritton ;— Long Stratton Saint 
Mary ;— Woodton ;— North Walsham ;— Barford ; 
—Cromer ;—Tasburgh ;—Treneglos and Warbstow ; 
— Appleton-upon-Wisk ; — Christowe; — Bishop’s 
Tawton ; — Ewell ;— Southmolton ;— Stapleford ;— 
Watton ;— Ware ; — Thundridge; — Lyme Regis 
(Independents) ;— Gamlingay ;— Rhes-y-cae ;-—Tely- 
bont and Penygarm ;—Tilshead Maddington and 
Rolston ;—Steeple Langford ;-—Beddington ;—Od- 
stock ;— Newton Tony ;— Landford ;—Winterborne 
and other places;— Stockton, Wilts;—Codford Saint 
Peter and Codford Saint Mary ;—Fonthill Gifford 
and Cricklade;—Shrewton Virgo ;—Stratford Tony ; 
—Privet ;—Bradninch ;—Fawley with Exbury ;— 
Weyhill ;—Dibden ;—Romsey Infra and Extra ; — 
Bedhampton ;—Archdeacon and Clergy of the Arch- 
deaconry of Stafford ;—Duxford ;—Cuaterham ;— 
Chaldon ; — Westham ;— Reading ; — Ormesby ;— 
Nunnington ;— Danby ,—Downholme and Grinton ; 
— Newton-upon-Ouse ; — Shelton-cum- Brotton ; — 
Over Helmsley ; — Dalby; — Overton ;— Lyett ;— 
Ayton and Newton, in Cleveland ;—Kirk Leaving- 
Voz. 92. 


3° Martz. 
Whitsbury ;— Buriton ;— a ;—East World- | 








109 


ton ;— Middleton ;— Furneux Brent and Stocking 
Pelham ;—Saint Stephen, Herts ;—Saundridge ;— 
Redbourn;—Saint Peter, Saint Alban’s ;— Royston ; 
—Saint Alban ;—Barkway and Reed ;—Bishop’s 
Stortford ;—Broxbourn ;—East Barnet and Chip- 
ping Barnet ;—Great Amwell ;—Truro (two Peti- 
tions) ;—Saint Mary’s, Leicester ;—Saint Martin, 
Leicester ;—Saint Nicholas, Leicester ;— Anstey ;— 
Sutton Benger; — Milverton; — Burlescombe ; — 
Nynehead ; — Camborne ; — Lytchett Minster ; — 
Arne ;— Wareham ; — Parkstone ; — Harlestone ;— 
Neatishead ;— Cosby ;— Evington ;—Salford, Beds ; 
— Brading ; — Fordwich ; -— Wickham Bishops ; — 
Westbere ;—Harbledown;— Kingstone ;— All Saints 
and Saint Mildred’s, Canterbury;— Hackirgton ;— 
Milford, Hants ;— Boldre ;—Hordle ;— Wilton ;— 
Steeple Ashton ;—Saint James Grayne ;—Swans- 
comb ; — Rochester ; — Great Totham and Little 
Braxted ;—Llandyrnog ;—Mundon ;—Layer Mar- 
ney ;— Langford ; — Parleigh ;— All Saints and 
Saint Peter Maldon ;—Heybridge ;—Saint Mary 
in Maldon ;-~ Millbrook ;— Bromham ;—Stagden ;— 
Dunton-cum- Mills ; — Tampsford ; — Northell ; — 
Flitwick ;—Uffculme;—Westerham and Edenbridge; 
— Potten ; — Northampton; — Blunham ; — Dun- 
stable ;— London ;— Fowey ;—Arreton ;— Kenning- 
ton ;— Brightling, Havant ;— Bradford, Wilts ;— 
Hastings ;—Cannington ;— Brentwood ;—Swannage; 
Odiham ;—Foxearth and other places ;—Ewhurst ; 
-—Stoneham ;—Lamarsh ;— Black Notley ;—New- 
port, Essex ;—Papplewick ;—Westmeon ;—Alpham- 
stone ;— Sedlescombe ;— Burwash ;— Dunstable ; — 
Ampthill ;—Llangenhafal ;— Llanychan ;— Llanele- 
dan ;—Derwen ;—-Gyffyliog ;—Clocaenog ; —Llan- 
wyfan ; —- Llanysays ;— Ruthin ;— Lawford ;— 
orebath ;—Fisherton Anger ;—Minister and Elders 
of Saint Andrew’s Scotch Church, London ;— Hul- 
cote ;—Farnborough ;—Bonchurch ;— Ashe ;—Stey- 
ning ;--and, Great Bromley, Essex; praying that 
Church Rates may not be abolisled,—were pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
Petitions from Liverpool ;—.Blackburn :—-Over 
Darwen ;— Blackburn (Baptists) ;—Chesterfield ;— 
Ashburton ;—Horsley ;—Minchinhampton ;—Wells ; 
—Keppell-street Chapel, Russell-square ;—Avening ; 
—Stroud ;—King Stanley :— Randwick ;— Wosd- 
chester ;—Stonehouse ;— Painswick ; -Rodborough ; 
— Leonard Stanley ;—Providence Chapel, Shore- 
ditch ;—Over Darwen ;— Horsham (Particular Bap- 
tists);—Horsham (General Baptists) ;—Jdorsham 
(Independents) ;— Greenock ; — Havant ; — Ports- 
mouth ;— Wigtown ;— Lancaster (Independents) ;— 
Bradford ;— South Shields ; — Chester-le-Street ;— 
Bradford (Baptists) ;—South Shields (Wallis-street 
Chapel) ;— Ashby-de-la-Zouch ;— High Wycombe ;— 
Reading ; — Handsworth ; — Little Chapel street, 
Soho ; — Walsall;— Minsterley ;— Dartmouth ; — 
Aberdeen ;—- Old Meldrum ;— Aylesbury ;— Foots 
Cray ;— Sevenoaks ;— Tenterden ;— Ramsgate ;— 
Ashford ; — Brenchley ;— Skene ; — Stuartfield ; — 
Creaton ; — Fish-street, Northampton ; -— Castle- 
hill, Northampton ; — King’s-street, Northampton 
(two Petitions); — Yelvertoft ; -—- Kilsby ;— Com- 
mercial-street, Northampton ; — Newport, Isle of 
Wight ;—Mattishall ;—East Dereham ;— Milford ; 
—Great Yarmouth; — Rendham ; — Beccles ; — 
Saffron Walden ;— Weirgloddwen ;— Debenham ;— 
Staines ;— Framlingham ;—Marshall-street, Golden- 
square ;— East and Mid Calder ;— Perth ;—Minister 
and President of the South United Associate Con- 
gregation ;—T'ay-square, Dundee ;—- Cutting’s-lane, 
Woodbridge ; — Bala; — Stonham; — Llandrillo ; 
— Builth ; — Crowfield ; — Buckingham Chapel, 
Palace-street, Pimlico; — Saint Anne, Westminster 
(Chairman of a Meeting); — Saint James, West- 
minster ;— Cirencester ;— Swaffham ;— Fakenham ;— 
Foulsham ;— Dolan ;— Melbourne ;— Bassingbourne ; 
—Falbourn ;—Saint Mary, Newington ;— Knotting- 
ley ;—Ackworth ;— Logialmond ie na Angus ;— 
Calverton ;—- George-street, Nottingham ;— Wood- 
P3 borough ; 





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Soap. 


Cotton Wood. 


field;—Arthur-street, Saint Margaret, Wesiminster ; 


110 3° Martiz. A. 1837. 


borough ;— Friar-lane, Nottingham ;— Dudley ;— | was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
Newcastle-upon-Tyne (Minister and Session Clerk) ; | the Table. 

—Upton-on-Severn;—Alnwich ;— Eythorne ;— Deal ; | ss ‘ 

— Deal (Congregationalists) ;—Co/dstream and Ber-| A Petition of the Baptist Congregation, Brook- Lord’s Day. 
wick (Moderator and Presbytery Clerk) ;—Howdon | street, Derby, praying the House to adopt measures 

Pans ;— Golcar ;— Margate ;—- Lambeth ; — Wal- | for the better Observance of the Lord’s Day, was pre- 
worth;—Cupar Angus ;— Taunton ;— Sunderland ; | sented,and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
—Ashton-under- Line ;—Gainsborough ;—Derby ;— | ie 

Heywood ;— Belper ;-— Yeaveley ;— Ashbourne ; —- | A Petition of the Magistrates and Town Council Salmon 
Melbourne ; — Clifton; — Bath ; — Stokesley ; — of Banff, praying that the Salmon Fisheries (Scot- (Seotieed) Bill 
Balmo ;— Norwich ; — Inverkeithing ; — Orkney | land) Bill may not pass intv a law, unless the Clause ” 
(Moderator and Clerk of the Presbytery) ;—Oak- | which prohibits fishing for Salmon by bag nets in 

hill ; — Skipton ; — Kirkwall ;—Corsley ; — War- the sea from six o’clock of the night of Saturday to 

minster ; — Heptizibah Chapel, Somerset ;— Chi-| six o’clock of the morning of Monday, be expunged, 

chester ; — Falmouth ;— Hackney ; — Commercial | was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 

Road ; — Stepney-green ; — Goodman’s Fields ;— | the Table. 


Coventry ; — Durham ; — Whitby ; — Sutton ; — | A Petiti ; ties 
Sutton Verney ;— Birmingham ;— Trowbridge _ ettion of inhalsiants of the royal bangle of Fistsieus Youn 


ip , cas _ Stirling, complaining of the creation of Fictitious S°°!#4-) 
Thor ee ee - pe Bawer Ne ?~~| Votes for Members to serve in Parliament for 

Prenat om “pane aie on pee we Pg | Counties in Scotland, and praying for relief, was 
Fale ' ~~ eas Hsinastela (two | = poy ek - referred to the Select 

.— 9 € Ss 

Petitions) ;— Paisley Secession Church;—Greenwich, | ommittee on Fictitious Votes (Scotland.) 
Maize Hill;—Abbey Close, Paisley ;—Ross ;— | 
Kington ;— Ryeford ;— Irvine ;— Paisley, Canal- | V 


street ;— Hastings ;—Irvine (Relief Congregation) ;— | counties of Berks and Oxford, praying for a revision 


Irvine (Baptists) ;— New Alresford ;— Eccleshill ;— - _o : 
West Deccan ;— Finsbury wv weeker ;— Har- | hg Hay on re — trade, 
low ;—Stansted, Birchanger, &amp;c. ;—Hertfordshire ; |“ = olition of Deer-houses, was 


Wareham ;— Dorchester ;— Tiverton ;—Ilchester ;— | egg and read ; and ordered to lie upon the 


Banbury ;— Yeovil ;—Heaver ;—Burrow Bridge ; | 
—Nechinger Road, Bermondsey ;— Olney ;—New- 
port Pagnell ;—Newport Pagnell (Independents) ; | bridge; praying that at all future Elections for Mem- 
— Faversham ;—Collier’s Rents, Southwark ;—Car- | bers of Parliament, the votes be taken by Ballot,— 
narvon (Baptists) ;—Unicorn-yard, Tooley-street;— | were presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
Carey-street, Chancery-lane ;-- Honiton ;—-Mitchel- | the Table. 

dean ;—Greenwich-road, Greenwich ;— Sheffield ;— 


A Petition of Inn-keepers, Publicans and Licensed Inn-keepers. 
ictuallers of several towns and parishes in the 





Peterhead ;—Okehampton ;— Lyme Regis ;—Moor-'| A Petition of Inhabitants of Rayleigh, praying Fire Insurances. 


bottom Chapel, Honley;—Cleckheaton ;—Stainland ; | for the repeal of the Duty on Fire Insurances, was 
—Tarporley ;—Saint Austell ;—-York ;—Clavering ; | presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the 


— Yetholm ;—Potterrow, Edinburgh ;— Nicholson- | Table. 


street, Edinburgh ;—Cowgate, Edinburgh ;—Castle- | 


street Chapel, Exeter ;— Honiton ;— Topsham ;-— A Petition of Owners of Whale Ships, and other Whale Ships. 
East Budleigh ;— Bridestowe ; — Halifax ;— Saint | Inhabitants of Dundee, praying the el to take 
George’s Meeting House, Exeter ;— Belstone ;— | into consideration the state of those vessels which 
Ottery Saint Mary ;— Leven ;— Ferry Port-on-| are now confined in the sea in Davis Straits, with 
Craig ;— Kennoway ;— Collegsie ;— Markinch ; —-| a view to their relief, was presented, and read; and 


Kettle ;— Leven ;— Potterspury ;-— Amersham ; — | ordered to lie upon the Table. 
ns bae.i Rae nome os om 

Then Daehn n Bldclane, Colchester + | 4 Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen, Burgesses Musici 

el i i ' __k,j, 2nd Inhabitants of Richmond, York, praying that Corporations 

Thaxted ;— Coggeshall ;—Great Coggeshall ;— Kel- | the Munieine! C ti Redieedl Mi meee (Ireland) Bill. 

vedon ;—Tirling and Great Wigborough ;—Lang-| « : Ai hi, con _s G retand) Dull may pass 

ham ; — Harwich ;— Halsted ;-— Huntingdon ; — | into a law, was presented, and read ; and ordered to 


Willingham ;— Cottenvam ;— Swavesey and Els- | lie upon the Table. 


worth;—Water Beach ;— Bond-street, Birmingham ; | o,° ; 
“ths , 7 . : 2, » Act. 
—Waterloo Road, Lambeth;— Norwich ;— Leicester ; A Petition of the Board of Guardians of the Poor Law Ac 


,.| Hartismere Union, in the county of Suffolk, taking 


—Cuastle inaham ;—Chipping Ongar ;— King’s . . . . 
ekg Pareles "Bridge Mi Petes, tah A -| notice of certam representations which have been 
st pan A. S b] J , | ., _ , Me . 
Thanet ;-- Barrington and Eversden;—Church Rate | ag be = — pw ig for psy 
Abolition Society (Chairman of a Meeting) ;—)| ~ . . ee ewes Hea, &amp; ae 
. 7p , ae parish of Stoke Ash, in the said union, reflecting 
Biggar ;— Dundee ;— Eagle-street, London ;—TVaun- | upon the administration of th Poor Law Act 
ton ;— Berwich-upon- Tweed ;— Gartside-street, Man- | « P ~ th: he id i yo Daa \ 7 ™ = 
chester ;— Hulme ;—Watton:—Pole Moor, } Cetin, | ina manner that may be highly detrimental to the 





public good ; and praying the House to direct that 


: . Inquiries may be made into their proceedings, was 
—Johnshaven;—Stanford Rivers ;—Abbotts Rooth- ’ “Ali. 

: ? J ? ; resented, an : : 

ini’ ;—— Bampton ;— Worcester ; —- Salendine Nook, | Mable , and read; and ordered to lie upon the 


Huddersfield ;— Auchtermuchty (Chairman of a Meet- | 


ing) ; — Bryngwran ; - - Graham-street, Birmin -| A Petition of Nobility, Clergy, Freeholders and Welsh Bishops. 
y 5 g~ | y&gt; Ly, 


ham ;— Cannon-street, Birmingham ;— Lawrence- | Inhabitants of the county of Carnarvon, complain- 
street, Birmingham ;—and, Woodbridge; praying for | ing of the misappropriation of the Revenues of cer- 
the Abolition of Church Rates,— were also presented, | tain Welsh Livings, and against the introduction to 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. | Bishopricks in Wales, of persons unacquainted with 
the Welsh language, was presented, and read ; and 


Petitions from Consumers of Soap in Penzance;— | i. 
ig ‘1, | Ordered to lie upon the Table. 


and, 7. C. Rattray, and others; praying for the 
Repeal of the Duty on Soap,—were presented, and 


read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Mr. John Maxwell presented a Bill for further Wishaw and 


extending the time for completing the Wishaw and ee Bill 
A Petition of Manufactwers and others, of Perth, | Coltness aes, in the County of Lanark: And ““" aio 
praying that Cotton Wool of every description may | the same was read the first time; and ordered to 
be admitted into the United Kirgdom free of Duty, | be read a second time. 

Mr 


Petitions from Bradford, Wilts; — and, Trow- Vote by Ballot, 








Vict 
(Mar 
Com 


Wor 
Cout 
Bill. 





Victoria Park 
(Manchester) 
Company Bill. 


Worcester 
County Hall 
Bill. 


Manchester 
and Tamworth 
Railway Bill. 


Ashborne 
and Leek 
Road Bill. 


Eliand Bridge 
and Dewsbury 
Road Bill. 


Whitby 
Improvement 
Bill, 


Elland Bridge 
and Dewsbur 
Road Bill, 


Trinity (North. 
Leith) Harbour 
and Docks, 


Exeter and 
Falmouth 
Railwa A 





7 Witt. IV. 


Mr. Mark Philips presented a Bill for establishing 
a Company for the purpose of laying out and main- 
taining an ornamental Park in the Townships of 
Rusholme and Moss-side, in the County of Lancaster : 
And the same was read the first time ; and ordered 
to be read a second time. 


General Zygon reported from the Committee on 
the Worcester County Hall Bill; That they had 
examined the allegations of the Bill, and found the 
same to be true; and had gone through the Bill, 
and made Amendments thereunto; and the Amend- 
ments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


Petitions from Magistrates, Merchants, Traders 
and Inhabitants of Stroud ;—Merchants, Manufac- 


turers, Silk Throwsters, Traders and other Inha-}Orders relative to Bills for building Bridges, had 


bitants of Congleton ;—and, Merchants, Manufac- 
turers, Traders and Inhabitants of Rochdale; praying 
that the Manchester and Tamworth Railway Bill may 
pass into a law,— were presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The Ashborne and Leek Road Bill was read a 
second time ; and committed to Sir Oswald Mosley 
and the Stafford List. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Elland Bridge and Dewsbury Road Bill, which was 
presented upon the 16th day of February last, might 
be read ; and the same was read. 

The House was also moved, That the Order made 
the same day, for referring the said Petition to the 
Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills, might 
be read; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for repairing and maintaining the Road leading from 
Elland Bridge, in the Parish of Halifax, into the 
Dewsbury and Elland Turnpike Road, near the 
Obelisk, in the Parish of Dewsbury, all in the West 
Riding of the County of York: And that Sir John 
Bechett, Mr. Baines and Mr. Stuart Wortley do pre- 


pare, and bring it in. 


The Whitby Improvement Bill was read a second 
time ; and committed to Mr. Aaron Chapman and 
the York List. 


Sir John Beckett presented a Bill for repairmg and 


Y maintaining the Road leading from Elland Bridge, 


in the Parish of Halifax, into the Dewsbury and 
Elland Turnpike Road, near the Obelisk, in the 
Parish of Dewsbury, all in the West Riding of the 
County of York: And the same was read the first 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee 
on Petitions for Private Bills; and to whom the Pe- 
tition of the Trustees for the Creditors of the city of 
Edinburgh, complaining of non-compliance with the 
Standing Orders, was referred; That the Standing 
Orders relative to Bills for making Harbours, and for 
making Docks, had been complied with in the case of 
the Petition for the Trinity (orth Leith) Harbour 
and Docks Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for constructing a Harbour, Dock or Docks, Piers 
and other Works at Trinity, in the Parish of North 
Leith and County of Edinburgh: And that Sir 
Andrew Leith Hay and Sir Edward Codrington do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Standing 
Orders relative to Railway Bills had not been com- 
plied with in the case of the Petition for the Exeter 
and Falmouth Railway Bill, inasmuch as in all cases 


where the Railway crosses turnpike roads, carriage 
Vo. 92, 


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111 


roads, navigable rivers, canals or railways, or forms 
a junction with a railway without altering the level, 
it is not stated whether any and what alteration is 
intended to be made, and inasmuch as the copy of 
the Plan, Section and Book of Reference was not 
deposited with the Clerk of the Peace for the county 
of Cornwall until half past three o’clock of the 
morning of the first of December last: but it ap- 
peared to the Committee that such delay was owing 
to the coach having been upset in a storm, in which 
the gentleman charged to deposit the same was 
travelling for that purpose, and to other delays 
caused by the storm. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Se- 
lect Committee on Standing Orders. 


on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Standing 


M 
been complied with in the case of the Petition for 
the Roxburgh Roads and Mertoun Bridge Bill: and 
it appeared to the Committee that so much of the 
application as related to Turnpike Bills, did not 
come within their jurisdiction. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee 0 


Orders relative to Inclosure and Drainage Bills, 
had been complied with in the case of the Petition 
for the Over Inclosure and Drainage Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for draining, inclosing, dividing and allotting certain 
Lands in the Parish of Over, in the County of 
Cambridge: And that Mr. Townley and Mr. Yorke 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


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Lancaster Canal Navigation ;—Thomas Tomlinson, © 


of Great George-street, Westminster, Esquire ;—~ 
and, Trustees for repairing the road from Garstang 
to Lancaster ; praying that they may be heard, by 
themselves, their counsel or agents, against certam 
parts of the Lancaster and Preston Railway Bill,— 
were presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be re- 
ferred to the Committee on the Bill; and the Peti- 
tioners heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
upon their Petitions, if they think fit ; and counsel 
heard, in favour of the Bill, against the said Pe- 
titions. 


spect of the Petition for the London and Birmingham 8 
Railway Bill, which upon Tuesday last was made 
from the Select Committee on Standing Orders re- 
lative to Private Bills, might be read ; and the same 
being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to amend the Acts relating to the London and Bir- 
mingham Railway: And that Mr. Dugdale and Sir 
Eardley Wilmot do prepare, and bring it in. 


Petitions from the Right honourable the Earl G 
of Carnarvon;—Company of Proprietors of the ® 
Kennet and Avon Canal Navigation ;—and, Samuel 
Merriman, of Brook-street, Grosvenor-square, Es- 
quire, M. D., praying that they may be heard, by 
themselves, their counsel or agents, against certain 
parts of the Great Western Railway Bill (Zrow- 
bridge),—were presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be re- 
ferred to the Committee on the Bill; and the Peti- 
tioners heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
upon their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel 
heard, in favour of the Bill, against the said Pe- 
titions. 


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Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee Roxburgh 
D Roads, and 


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| ver Inclosure 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Standing and Drainage. 


Petitions from the Company of Proprietors of the Lancaster ana 


reston Rail- 
ay Bill. 


The House was moved, That the Report in re- London and 


irmingham 
ailway. 


reat Western 


ailway Bill 


(Trowbridge. ) 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to Tamworth and 


ugby Rail- 


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Leicester 
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Portsmouth 
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Railway Bill. 


Southwark and 
Hammersmith 
Railway Bil. 


Worcester 
Cattle Market 
Bill. 


Hayle Cause- 
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Standing 
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London and 
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Junction (Tamworth and Rugby) Railway Company, 
which was presented upon Tuesday last, praying for 
a revision of the decision of the Select Committee 
on Standing Orders relative to Private Bills in re- 
spect of the Petition for the said Bill, and that the 
Bill may be allowed to proceed. 

The House was moved, That the Report in respect 
of the Petition for the said Bill, which upon the 
22d day of February last was made from the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders relative to Private 
Bills, might be read ; and the same being read ; 

A Motion was made, and the Question being 
proposed, That, with the concurrence of the Standing 
Orders Committee, the Report, in the case of the 
Tamworth and Rugby Railway, be referred back to 
the Committee, in order that they may fully inquire 
into all the allegations of the Petitioners, and report 
their opinion thereupon to the House :—And a 
Debate arising thereupon ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till Mon- 
day next. 


Mr. Thomas Gladstone presented a Bill for better 





A. 1837. 


2. Resolved, That in the case of the Petition for Ashford ang 
the Ashford and Canterbury Railway Bill, the Parties Gutere"y 
be permitted to proceed with their Bill. m 

3. Resolved, That in the case of the Petition for Kingsworthy 
the Kingsworthy and Westmonckton Railway Bill, °4 West- 


? monckton 


the Parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill. Railway. 


4. Resolved, That in the case of the Petition for Bolton aud 
the Bolton and Preston Railway Bill, the Parties be Pesto Rail- 
permitted to proceed with their Bill on introducing ii 
therein Clauses to prohibit the purchase of the 
Lancaster Canal and Tramroad, and to restrain 
them from breaking the surface of Fishergate-street, 

Preston, and that the Committee on the Bill do 
examine that such Clauses are inserted. 

5. Resolved, That in the case of the Petition for Birmingham, 
the Birmingham, Bristol and Thames Junction Rail- - eat = 
way Bill, the Standing Orders ought not to be tion Railway, 
dispensed with. , 

he four first Resolutions, being read a second 
time, were agreed to. 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 








lighting with Gas the Borough of Leicester, in the 
County of Leicester: And the same was read the 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


An ingrossed Bill to enable the Corporation of 
Leicester to apply the proceeds of their Real Estates 
in —— of Money borrowed for the purchase 
and enlargement of the Gaol and House of Cor- 
rection for the Borough of Leicester, was read the 
third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Thomas Gladstone do carry 
the Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


A Petition of Trustees appointed for maintaining 
and improving the Road from Titchfield to Cosham, 
in the county of Southampton, praying that the 
Portsmouth Junction Railway Bill may not pass 
into a law, was presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Stephen Moore, of Sapperton, in 
the county of Waterford, Esquire, praying that he 
may be heard, by himself, his counsel or agent, 
against certain parts of the Southwark and Ham- 
mersmith Railway Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by himself, his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, 
if he think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


Mr. Robinson presented a Bill for removing the 
Markets held in the City of Worcester, in the 
County of Worcester, for the sale of Cattle, Horses, 
Sheep and Pigs, and for providing another Market- 
lace in lieu thereof; and for providing for the 
Letiee and more effectual Draining the said City: 
And the same was read the first time; and ordered 
to be read a second time. 


An ingrossed Bill for maintaining the Causeway 
and Turnpike Road from Grigg’s Quay, in the 
Parish of Uny Lelant, over Hayle River and Sands, 
end through Hayle Foundery, in the County of 
Cornwall, and for extending the said Turnpike Road 
from the Western end of the said Causeway towards 
Penzance, was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr, Pendarves do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Sir John Wrottesley reported from the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders relative to Private 
Bills, several Resolutions, which were read, as 
follow : 

1. Resolved, That in the case of the Petition for 
the London and Greenwich Railway Bill, the Parties 
be permitted to proceed with their Bill. 


A Petition of Bankers, Merchants, Manufacturers, br aud 

| Traders and Inhabitants of Hanley, Burslem, Tun- paivay By. 

2 y Bill. 

_ stall, Stoke, Lane-end and Shelton, praying that the 
Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway Bill may pass 

| into a law, was presented, and read ; and ordered to 


lie upon the Table. 
The Rochdale and Burnley Roads Bill was read Rochdale 


; ; . d Burn! 
a second time ; and committed to Mr. Wilson Patten Roads Bill” 


and the Lancaster List. 


Mr. Lees presented a Billto amend an Act passed Manchester 
in the sixth year of the reign of King George the alge 
| Fourth, for more effectually improving the Roads 
| from Manchester, in the County Palatme of Lan- 

| caster, through Oldham to Austerlands, in the Parish 

| of Saddleworth, in the County of York, and from 

Oldham to Ashton-under-Lyne, and from Oldham 

to Rochdale, in the said County Palatine of ZLan- 

| caster: And the same was read the first time ; and 

| ordered to be read a second time. 

Petitions from Samuel Fielden Hartley, of Skir- Manchester 
coat, in the parish of Halifax, merchant and mill- Railway Bil 
owner ;—Company of Proprietors of the Calder and 
Hebble Navigation ;—and, Company of Proprietors 
of the Rochdale Canal; praying that they may be 
_ heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, against 
| certain parts of the Manchester and Leeds Railway 
Bill,-—were presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit ; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 











Petitions from William Sykes Ward, of Leeds, Leedsand 
Gentleman ;—and, John Balguy and others, Owners —— 
and Occupiers of lands and property on the line and Railway Bill. 
in the neighbourhood of the deviations in the Rail- 
way, and of the branch Railways hereinafter men- 
tioned ; praying that they may be heard, by them- 
selves, their counsel or agents, against certain parts 
of the Leeds and Derby Railway Bill,—were pre- 
sented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit ; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


A Petition of William Murray, Esquire, of Touch- Sticling Canal. 

adam, in the county of Stirling, complaining that 
the Standing Orders of the House in respect to the 
application for the Stirling Canal Bill, had not been 
complied with; and praying that he may be heard, 
by his agents and witnesses, against the same, was 
presented, and read; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 





A Petition 


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Stirling 


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Loanhead and 
Stirling Canal. 


Charlton Kings 
and Marsworth 
Railway Bill. 


Warkworth 
Harbour. 


Leeds Water- 
works Bill, 


Sheffield and 
Manchester 
Railway Bill. 


Deptford and 
Dover Railwa 
[Subscription 
List.] 


Great Western 
Railway Bill 
(Trowbridge.) 


Dublin and 
Kilkeany 
Railway, 


7 Witt. IV. 


A Petition of William Murray, Esquire, of Tou- 
chadam, in the county of Stirling, complaining that 
the Standing Orders of the House in respect to the 
application for the Loanhead and Stirling Canal Bill, 
had not been complied with; and praying that he 
may be heard, by his agents and witnesses, against 
the same, was presented, and read ; and referred to 
the Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Manufacturers, Mill-owners and 
others interested in the prosperity of the woollen 
manufactures of the county of Gloucester, praying 
that they may be heard, by themselves, their counsel 
or agents, against certain parts of the Charlton 
Kings and Marsworth Railway Bill, was presented, 
and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to 
the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of the most Noble Hugh Duke and 
Earl of Northumberland, complaining that the Stand- 
ing Orders of the House, in respect to the applica- 
tion for the Warkworth Harbour Bill, had not been 
complied with, and praying that he may be heard, 
by his counsel or agents, against the same, was pre- 
sented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


Sir John Beckett presented a Bill for the better 
supplying with Water the town and neighbourhood 
of Leeds, in the West Riding of the county of York: 
And the same was read the first time; and ordered 
to be read a second time. 


The Sheffield and Manchester Railway Bill was 
read a second time; and committed to Mr. John 


Parker and the York List. 
Ordered, That the Petition of the Directors of 


¥ the Kent Railway Company ; and also, the Petition 


of Frederick George Hamond, Esquire, which were 
presented upon the 27th day of February last, be 
referred to the Select Committee on the Deptford 
and Dover Railway Subscription List ; and that the 
Petitioners be heard, by their counsel, in support of 
their Petitions. 


Ordered, That all the Members serving for the 
several Counties, and for the Boroughs therein, 
through which Counties the Great Western Rail- 
way Bill (Zrowbridge) is intended to pass, be Mem- 
bers of the Committee on the said Bill. 


Mr. Aglionby reported from the Select Committee 
on Petitions for Private Bills, and to whom two 
Petitions, complaining of non-compliance with the 
Standing Orders were referred ; That the Standing 
Orders, relative to Bills for making Railways had 
not been complied with in the case of the Petition for 
the Dublin and Kilkenny Railway Bill, inasmuch as : 
Firstly, the height of the Railway over the surface of 
the ground is not marked on the section in figures, at 
least twice in every mile, in addition to such mark at 
every crossing of a turnpike road and public carriage 
road, navigable river, canal, and railway, and junc- 
tion with a railway; viz. it isnot so marked between 
the 13th, and 14th miles, nor between the 58th and 
59th miles. It appeared, however, to the Commit- 
tee, that between the 13th and 14th mile it is so 
marked once, and also once over the crossing 
of a public carriage road ; it appeared also, that for 
3-4ths of a mile the Railway runs upon a level 
with the surface of the ground, being rather over 
it at each end for the space of about 1-8th of a mile ; 
it appeared also, that between the 58th and 59th 
mile the height is so marked once where the Rail- 
Way crosses a private road, and also twice where 
it crosses public carriage roads: Secondly, inasmuch 

Von. 92. 


38° Martiz. 





113 


as at the point where the Railway crosses the Grand 
Canal at Salins, it is not stated expressly whether 
any alteration in the present level of the ground is 
intended to be made ; in like manner there is no such 
statement where it crosses the Naas Branch, nor 
where it crosses the Barrow Navigation Canal, nor 
where it crosses the navigable river Barrow ; it ap- 
peared however to the Committee, that no altera- 
tion is intended to be made in the present level in 
any one of these instances, and that the height of 
the Railway over the present level of the water at 
those places respectively is marked on the section 
in feet and inches ; it appeared also, that full com- 
munications, both personally and by letter, stating 
the particular manner in which the Railway was 
intended to cross the same, and the height over the 
surface of the water, with a reference to the Plan 
and Section, was made to the Grand Canal Com- 
pany and the Barrow Navigation Company, and 
any further information they might require was ten- 
dered to them, but they demanded none, and made 
no objection. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders. 


Petitions from James Hozier, Esquire, of Tan- 
nochside, in the county of Lanark ;—and, the Com- 
pany of Proprietors of the Glasgow Water-works, 
complaining that the Standing Orders of the House, 
in respect to the application for the Glasgow Water 
Bill, had not been complied with ; and praying that 
they may be heard, by themselves, their agents and 
witnesses, against the same,—were presented, and 
read ; and referred to the Select Committee on Peti- 
tions for Private Bills. 


The Edinburgh Police Bill was read a second 
time ; and committed to Mr. Oswald and the East 
Scotland List. 


The House was moved, That the Report in re- 
spect of the Petition for the Bolton and Preston 
Railway Bill, which was this day made from the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders relative to 
Private Bills, might be read; and the same being 
read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for making a Railway from Bolton-le-Moors to 
Preston, in the county palatine of Lancaster: And 
that Lord Stanley, Mt. Bolling, and Mr. Wilson 
Patten, do prepare, and bring it in. 


The House was moved, That the Report in re- 
spect of the Petition for the Ashford and Canterbury 
Railway Bill, which was this day made from the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders, relative to 
Private Bills might be read; and the same being 
read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for making a Railway from the South Eastern Rail- 
way near Ashford to Canterbury, with a Branch: 
And that Mr. Law Hodges and Major Beauclerk do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


Glasgow Water. 


Edinburgh 
Police Bill. 


Bolton and 
Preston Rail- 
way. 


Ashford and 
Canterbury 
Railway. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That in pur- Parliamentary 
suance of the authority vested in him by the Reso- 48°"* 


lution cf the House, of the 16th day of August, in 
the last Session, he had established certain Rules 
to be observed by the Officers of the House, and 
by all Parliamentary Agents and Solicitors engaged 
in prosecuting proceedings in the House of Com- 
mons, upon any Petition or Bill. 


Ordered, That the said Paper be printed. 


No. 88. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, that he had Election Pe- 
received from the Deputy Clerk of the Crown and tion received 


Hanaper in Ireland, a Petition of John Matthew 
Galwey, Esquire, complaining of an undue Elec- 
tion and Return for the Borough of Dungarvan : 
And the said Petition was laid upon the Table. 

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A Petition of John Matthew Galwey, of Ducks- 
pool, in the County of Waterford, Esquire, who was 
a Candidate at the last Election for the Borough of 
Dungarvan, in said county, in that part of the 
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 
called Ireland, was read; setting forth, That the 
election fur the said borough of Dungarvan com- 
menced on Monday morning, the thirteenth day of 
February, in this present year; that John Power, 
Esquire, was proposed by the Reverend Nicholas 
Foran, parish priest of the parish of Dungarvan, 
although he the said MNicholas was not qualified to 
vote at said Election, he not having been duly re- 
gistered, pursuant to the provisions of the Act of 
the second and third of King William the Fourth, 
chapter eighty-eight, and that the Petitioner having 
been duly proposed and seconded, the said John 
Power and Petitioner were put in nomination by 
John Hudson, Esquire, who then acted as Return- 
ing Officer of oil Borough, as fit and proper per- 
sons to represent the said Borough in the present 
Parliament in the room and stead of the Right 
honourable Michael O’ Loghlen, the late Member 
for said Borough, who had been elevated to the 
Bench ; that a great majority of the electors of said 
Borough is composed of fishermen, and persons 
little removed from an actual state of pauperism, 
professing the Roman Catholic religion, not having 
substance sufficient to provide them and their nu- 
merous destitute families with the common neces- 
saries of life even for the day’s consumption ; and 
thus poor and grossly ignorant as they are, la- 
bour under the delusive influence which their spi- 
ritual pastors, the said Nicholas Foran and his 
coadjutors or curates, the Reverend Patrick Fo- 
garty and Patrick Hally have acquired over them ; 
that Petitioner is a Roman Catholic, and that the 
Reverend Mr. Shanahan is the parish priest of the 
parish of Abbeyside, also situate within said Borough 
contiguous to the said town and chapel of Dungar- 
van, and but a short space from the residence of 
Petitioner ; that on the Sunday previous to the com- 
mencement of said Election, it having been given 
out that the said Wicholas Foran and Patrick Fo- 
garty would address the congregation on the sub- 
ject of the Election, an unusual number of the 
parishioners, in which were included a preponderat- 
img majority of the poorer electors of said Borough, 
assembled in the parish chapel of said town of 
Dungarvan, which is capable of holding three thou- 
sand persons; and the said Patrick Fogarty, as if 
it were an inherent part of divine service, during the 
progress of saying Mass, addressed the people in an 
audible and impressive manner, commanding them 
not to leave the chapel, as Father Foran, then pre- 
sent, intended to speak to them ; that accordingly 
the said Nicholas Foran having to elevate himself, 
ascended the altar, and having addressed the people 
therefrom, commented in a severe manner, and in 
language not to be misunderstood by his audi- 
tory, on the conduct of the Lords of Parliament, 
which he characterized as repugnant to the best 
interests of Ireland; and then, adverting to a body 
which he called the Conservatives, denominated 
them as the destructives of their Country (mean- 
ing Ireland), earnestly exhorted the electors not 
to vote for any Conservative, well knowing at the 
time who the Candidates were to be, and that 
he was to be the person selected to propose the said 
John Power; that the Reverend Nicholas Foran, 
surrounded by a numerous body of parish and curate 
priests, amongst whom were the said Patrick Fo- 
garty, Patrick Halley and Father Shanahan, Peti- 
tioner’s parish priest, on the following day after 
the precept for holding the Writ of Election had 
been read, though not duly qualified to vote or 
speak at said Election, mounted on the hustings, 
and after a political speech of considerable length, 
proposed the said John Power as a fit and proper 
person to represent the said Borough of Dungarvan 


3° Martiz. 








A. 1837. 


in the present Parliament ; that, during the polling 
on the said first and every succeeding day of said 
Election, the said Patrick Fogarty addressed the 
electors in favour of the said John Power, whilst, in 
the most severe and inflammatory terms, he in- 
veighed against the Petitioner, designating him as 
the Orange candidate, by which unconstitutional 
means, and the intimidating manner of said priests 
and others in their interest, in the booths and else- 
where in said Borough, the said John Power ob- 
tained a colourable majority, greatly swelled by the 
corrupt and undue means used and resorted to by 
them and their agents, friends and others employed 
by and on behalf of the said John Power as herein- 
after mentioned ; that the said Patrick Fogarty, by 
having industriously circulated in said town of Dun- 
garvan, nay even published in the provincial news- 
papers, a correspondence which had passed between 
the Prime Minister of the United Empire, his private 
Secretary and himself, and insinuated that such was 
the favourable estimation in which that highly dis- 
tinguished personage professed to hold him, he would 
be able to procure the restoration of the bounty on 
Fish, the inclosure of the Cunnigar, and provide 
means for their subsistence, nay, even that he could 
upon his recommendation procure official appoint- 
ments to places of trust and profit, added to his 
sacerdotal authority, has, in conjunction with his 
superior, and other undue means, succeeded from 
time to time in inducing numerous persons professing 
to be electors, to prefer strangers for the representa- 
tion of said Borough to Petitioner, although the 
said priests and their party well knew that Petitioner 
had largely subscribed to the erection of their com- 
modious chapel; that Henry Withen, Esquire, an 
active agent of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, 
the proprietor of landed property, comprising a large 
portion of the limits of said Borough, aided and 
assisted by Petitioner’s own parish and other priests, 
daily and constantly attended at the polling booths, 
and by intimidating gestures, manners and other 
undue means, resorted to by them and others therein, 
deterred many voters who came to vote for the Peti- 
tioner from voting for him, and coerced them to vote 
for the said John Power; that the said John Power 
was declared by the Returning Officer to have ob- 
tained the majority of votes at said Election, and 
was accordingly returned as duly elected to serve as 
a Member for the said Borough of Dungarvan in 
this present Parliament; that said majority in favour 
of the said John Power, was but a colourable one, 
and was procured by undue, illegal and unconstitu- 
tional means ; that during said Election many per- 
sons were admitted to poll and did poll on behalf 
of the said John Power, who were not entitled to 
vote thereat in any character, or upon any legal 
grounds whatever, and who had been unduly and 
improperly registered as electors for the said Bo- 
rough, or who, since the time of their registry, had 
from deaths and various causes and reasons ceased 
to be qualified or became disqualified from voting 
at said Election; that great numbers of persons 
who were registered, and claimed to vote as tenants 
or occupiers of houses, warehouses, counting-houses 
or shops, were admitted to poll, and did poll for the 
said John Power, who, at the time of said Election, 
were in arrear for more than one half year’s Grand 
Jury or Municipal Cesses, Rates or Taxes then due 
and payable in respect to the premises, in right of 
the occupation of which such persons were regis- 
tered and claimed to vote, and who were thereby in- 
capacitated from voting at said Election ; that many 
other persons were admitted to poll and did poll in 
favour of said John Power, who, at the time of their 
registry as such tenants and occupiers as aforesaid, 
were in arrear for more than one half year’s amount 
of such Cesses, Rates and Taxes, then being due 
and payable, and were thereby incapacitated and 
disabled to be so registered or to vote at the said 
Election ; that many other persons claiming to vote 


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as Such tenants or occupiers as aforesaid, were ad- 
mitted to poll and did poll in favour of the said 
John Power, who had been unduly and improperly 
registered, not having at the time of such registry 
held or occupied for the space of six calendar months 
previous to the time of such registry, any house, 
warehouse, counting-house or shop, within the said 
Borough, of the clear yearly value of not less than 
ten pounds ; that many other persons who were re- 
gistered and claimed to vote as such tenants or 
occupiers as aforesaid, were admitted to poll and 
did poll in favour of the said John Power, who, 
since the time of their registry, had ceased to hold 
or occupy the premises in respect to which the 
had been so registered, and in right of which they 
claimed to vote, and who had thereby become dis- 
abled and disqualified from voting at said Election ; 
that many other persons who were registered and 
claimed to vote as such tenants or occupiers as 
aforesaid, were admitted to poll and did poll in 
favour of the said John Power, who were disabled 
and disqualified, because that, since the time of their 
registry, they underlet or sublet part and parcel of 
the premises in respect of which they had been so 
registered, and in right of which they claimed to 
vote, and did not retain in their own possession a 
part of sufficient value to entitle them to vote, or 
of the bond fide value of ten pounds yearly; that 
many other persons who registered and claimed to 
vote as such tenants or occupiers and freeholders 
as aforesaid, were admitted to poll, and did poll in 
favour of the said John Power, who did not at the 
time of such registry hold or occupy the premises 
in respect to which they had been so registered, and 
in right of which they claimed to vote separately, 
or in their own right, but as joint tenants jainlly 
with another person or other persons, and therefore 
were disabled and disqualified from voting at said 
Election; that many electors were induced and com- 
pelled to vote and did vote in favour of the said John 
Power, in consequence of the various threats, inti- 
midations and corrupt measures, countenanced and 
practised by the said John Power, his friends, agents, 
supporters and priestly partisans ; that the deputies 
presiding in the polling booths at said Election, though 
required to do so on behalf of Petitioner by his in- 
spectors, did not administer the oath, schedule (B.), 
by said Act of the second and third of William the 
Fourth, chapter eighty-eight, directed to be taken 
by voters at polling ; that the said John Hudson, 
acting as such Returning Officer as aforesaid, re- 
ceived votes of many persons, who, during the said 
Election, or within six calendar months previous to 
it, or within fourteen days after it was completed, 
were employed -by or on behalf of the said John 
Power, as agents, attornies, poll clerks, flag-men, or 
in some other capacity, for the purpose of said Elec- 
tion, and who, either before or during or after said 
Election, accepted and took from the said John 
Power, or other person or persons on his behalf, pay- 
ment in money, or security for money, for and in 
consideration, or with reference to such employment, 
and who were not, therefore, legally entitled to vote 
at said Election, but who tendered their votes, which 
were received for the said John Power, and whose 
votes ought to have been rejected; that the said 
John Power, by himself, his friends or agents, and 
by a person or persons employed on his behalf, 
before and at and after the test of the writ of sum- 
mons to Parliament for holding said Election, and 
after the vacancy happened to supply which the said 
Election was held, in order to procure him, the said 
John Power, to be returned to serve in this present 
Parliament for the said Borough, directly orindirectly, 
gave, presented, or allowed, to a person or persons 
having or claiming a right to vote at said Election, 
money, meat, drink, entertainment, or provision, 
cockades, and other marks of distinction, also made 


presents, gifts, rewards or entertainments, and did 
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115 


promise, agree, oblige and engage to give or allow 
money, meat, drink, provision, presents, enter- 
tainment or reward to or for such person or persons 
having or claiming to have a vote ‘or votes in said 
Election, or to the said Borough in general, or to or 
for the use, advantage, benefit, employment, profit 
or preferment of said person or persons or Borough, 
in order to be elected, or for his the said John 
Power’s being elected to serve in Parliament for 
said Borough, and whereby the said John Power 
disabled and incapacitated himself to serve in Par- 
liament for said Borough; that, by the several frau- 
dulent and illegal means aforesaid, and by divers 


y | other turbulent, corrupt, improper and unconstitu- 


tional practices, the said John Power obtained said 
colourable majority of votes over the Petitioner, and 
procured himself to be returned to serve for the said 
Borough of Dungarvan, whereas the Petitioner had 
a large majority of legal votes at the said Election, 
and ought to have been returned to serve in Parlia- 
ment for the same ; the Petitioner, therefore, most 
humbly prays the House to take the premises into 
consideration, and to declare the said Election and 
Return of the said John Power wholly null and 
void, and that he be declared to be disabled and 
incapacitated to serve in the present Parliament for 
said Borough, and that the Petitioner was duly 
elected, and ought to have been returned to serve 
in Parliament for said Borough of Dungarvan, and 
that the Return of the said John Power may be set 
aside, and the name of the Petitioner substituted for 
the name of the said John Power in the said Re- 
turn, and that the Petitioner may have such fur- 
ther relief in the premises as to the House may 
seem fit. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be taken into 
consideration upon Thursday the 13th day of April 
next, at three of the clock in the Afternoon. 

A Petition of John Matthew Galwey, of Ducks- 
pool, in the county of Waterford, Esquire, who was 
a Candidate at the last Election for the Borough 
of Dungarvan in said county, in that part of the 
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 
called Ireland, was delivered in, and read; setting 
forth, That the Election for the said Borough of 
Dungarvan commenced on Monday morning, the 
thirteenth day of February in this present year ; 
that John Power, esquire, was proposed by the 
Reverend Nicholas Foran, parish priest of the 
parish of Dungarvan, although he the said Nicholas 
was not qualified to vote at said Election, he not 
having been duly registered pursuant to the pro- 
visions of the Act of the second and third of King 
William the Fourth, chapter eighty-eight, and that 
the Petitioner having been duly — and se- 
conded, the said John Power and Petitioner were 
put in nomination by John Hudson, esquire, who 
then acted as Returning Officer of said Borough, 
as fit and proper persons to represent the said 
Borough in the present Parliament in the room and 
stead of the Right honourable Michael O’ Loghlen, 
the late Member for said Borough, who had been 
elevated to the Bench; that a great majority of the 
electors of said Borough is composed of fishermen 
and persons little removed from an actual state of 
pauperism, professing the Roman Catholic religion, 
not having substance sufficient to provide them and 
their numerous destitute families with the common 
necessaries of life even for the day’s consumption ; 
and thus poor and grossly ignorant as they are, 
labour under the delusive influence which their 
spiritual pastors, the said Nicholas Foran and his 
coadjutors or curates, the Reverend Patrich Fo- 
garty and Patrick Hally, have acquired over 
them; that Petitioner is a Roman Catholic, and 
that the Reverend Mr. Shanahan is the parish 
priest of the parish of Abbeyside, also situate within 
said Borough contiguous to the said town and chapel 
of Dungarvan, and but a short space from the resi- 

Q 2 dence 


Petition of 
John Matthew 


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116 


dence of Petitioner; that on the Sunday previous 
to the commencement of said Election, it having 
been given out that the said Nicholas Foran and 
Patrick Fogartj would address the congregation 
on the subject of the Election, an unusual number 
of the parishioners, in which were included a_pre- 
onderating majority of the poorer electors of said 
Daeh, assembled in the parish chapel of said 
town of Dungarvan, which is capable of hold- 
ing three thousand persons ; and the said Patrick 
Fogarty, as if it were an inherent part of divine ser- 
vice, during the progress of saying Mass addressed 
the people in an audible and impressive manner, 
commanding them not to leave the chapel, as Father 
Foran, then present, intended to speak to them; 
that accordingly the said Nicholas Foran, having to 
elevate himself, ascended the altar, and having ad- 
dressed the people therefrom, commented in a severe 
manner, and in language not to be misunderstood 
by his auditory, on the conduct of the Lords of 
Parliament, which he characterized as repugnant to 
the best interests of Ireland; and then, adverting 
to a body which he called the Conservatives, deno- 
minated them as the destructives of their country 
(meaning Jreland), and earnestly exhorted the elec- 
tors not to vote for any conservative, well knowing at 
the time who the candidates were to be, and that he 
was to be the person selected to propose the said 
John Power; that the Reverend Vicholas Foran, 
surrounded by a numerous body of parish and curate 
priests, amongst whom were the said Patrick 
Fogarty, Patrick Halley and Father Shanahan, 
Petitioner’s parish priest, on the following day after 
the precept for holding the Writ of Election had 
been read, though not duly qualified to vote or 
speak at said Election, mounted on the hustings, 
and after a political speech of considerable length, 
proposed the said John Power as a fit and proper 
person to represent the said Borough of Dungarvan 
in the present Parliament ; that, during the polling 
on the said first and every succeeding day of said 
Election, the said Patrick I’ogarty addressed the 
electors in favour of the said John Power, whilst, 
in the most severe and inflammatory terms, he in- 
veighed against the Petitioner, designating him as 
the Orange candidate ; by which unconstitutional 
means, and the intimidating manner of said priests 
and others in their interest, in the booths ot else- 
where in said Borough, the said John, Power ob- 
tained a colourable majority, greatly swelled by the 
corrupt and undue means used and resorted to by 
them and their agents, friends and others, em- 
ployed by and on behalf of the said John Power 
as hereinafter mentioned; that the said Patrick 
Fogarty, by having industriously circulated in said 
town of Dungarvan, nay,even published in the pro- 
vincial newspapers, a correspondence which had 
passed between the Prime Minister of the United Em- 
ire, his private Secretary, and himself,and by having 


msinuated that such was the favourable estimation in | 


which that highly distinguished personage professed 
to hold him, that he would be able to procure the re- 
storation of the bounty on fish, the inclosure of the 
Cunniyar, and provide means for their subsistence, 
nay, even that he could upon his recommendation 
procure official appoimtments to places of trust and 
profit, added to his sacerdotal authority, has in con- 
junction with his superior, and by other undue means, 
succeeded from time to time in inducing numerous 


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sa professing to be electors, to prefer strangers | 


or the representation of said Borough to Petitioner, 
although the said priests and their party well knew 
that Petitioner had largely subscribed to, the erection 


of their commodious chapel; that Henry Withen, | 


esquire, an active agent of his Grace the Duke of 
Devonshire, the proprietor of landed property, com- 
prising a large portion of the limits of said Borough, 
aided and assisted by Petitioner’s own parish and 
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polling booths, and by intimidating gestures, man- 
ners, and other undue means, resorted to by them 
and others therein, deterred many voters who came 
to vote for the Petitioner from voting for him, and 
coerced them to vote for the said John Power ; that 
the said John Power was declared by the Returning 
Officer to have obtained the majority of votes at said 
Election, and was accordingly returned as duly 
elected to serve as a Member for the said Borough 
of Dungarvan in this present Parliament; that said 
majority in favour of the said John Power was but 
a colourable one, and was procured by undue, ille- 
gal and unconstitutional means; that during the 
said Election many persons were admitted to poll 
and did poll on hehalf of the said John Power, who 
were not entitled to vote thereat in any character, 
or upon any legal grounds whatever, and who had 
been unduly and improperly registered as electors 
for the said Borough, or who since the time of their 
registry, had from deaths and various causes and 
reasons ceased to be qualified or became disqualified 
from voting at said Election; that great numbers 
of persons who were registered and claimed to vote 
as tenants or occupiers of houses, warehouses, 
counting-houses, or shops, were admitted to poll, 
and did poll, for the said John Power, who, at the 
time.of, said Election were in arrear for more than 
one half year’s Grand Jury or Municipal Cesses, 
Rates or Taxes then due and payable in respect to 
the premises, in right of the occupation of which 
such persons were registered and claimed to vote, 
and who were thereby incapacitated from voting at 
said Election; that many other persons were ad- 
mitted to poll, and did poll in favour of said John 
Power, who at the time of their registry as such 
tenants and occupiers as aforesaid, were in arrear 
for more than one Ralf year’s amount of such Cesses, 
Rates and Taxes, then being due and payable, and 
were thereby incapacitated and disabled to be so 
registered or to vote at the said Election; that 
many other persons claiming to vote as such tenants 
or occupiers as aforesaid, were admitted to poll and 
did poll in favour of the said John Power, who had 
been unduly and improperly registered, not having 
at the time of such registry held or occupied for 
the space of six calendar months previous to the 
time of such registry any house, warehouse, count- 
ing-house or shop, within the said Borough, of the 
clear yearly value of not less than ten pounds ; 
that many other persons who were registered and 
claimed to vote as such tenants or occupiers as 
aforesaid, were admitted to poll and did poll in 
favour of the said John Power, who, since the time 
of their registry, had ceased to hold or occupy the 
premises in respect to which they had been so re- 
gistered, and in right of which they claimed to vote, 
and who had thereby become disabled and disqua- 
lified from voting at said Election ; that many other 
persons who were registered and claimed to vote as 
such tenants or occupiers as aforesaid, were ad- 
mitted to poll and did poll in favour of the said 
John Power, who were disabled and disqualified, 
because that, since the time of their registry, they 
underlet or sublet part and parcel of the premises in 
respect of which they had been so registered, and 
in right of which they claimed to vote, and did not 
retain in their own possession a part of sufficient 
value to entitle them to vote, or of the bona fide 
value of ten pounds yearly; that many other per- 
sons who registered and claimed to vote as such 
tenants or occupiers and freeholders as aforesaid, 
were admitted to poll and did poll in favour of the 
said John Power, who did not at the time of such 
registry hold or occupy the premises in respect to 
which they had been so registered, and in right of 
which they claimed to vote separately, or in their 
own right, but as joint tenants jointly with another 
person or other persons, and therefore were disabled 
and disqualified from voting at said Election ; that 

many 








7 Witt. IV. 


many electors were induced and compelled to vote 
and did vote in favour of the said John Power, in 
consequence of the various threats, intimidation 
and corrupt measures, countenanced and practised 
by the said John Power, his friends, agents, sup- 


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117 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant 
or Warrants for such persons, papers and records 
as shall be thought necessary by the several parties 
on the hearing of the matter of the said Petitions. 


porters and priestly partisans; that the deputies 
presiding in the polling booths at said Election, 
though required to do so on behalf of Petitioner 


Mr. Robert Palmer reported from the Select Com- Bath and 


mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the be ogy 


by his inspectors, did not administer the oath sche- 
dule (B.) by said Act of the second and third of Wil- 
liam the Fourth, chapter eighty-eight, directed to 
be taken by voters at polling; that the said John 
Hudson, acting as such Returning Officer as afore- 
said, received votes of many persons, who, during 
the said Election or within six calendar months pre- 
vious to it, or within fourteen days after it was com- 
pleted, were employed by or on behalf of the said 
John Power, as agents, attornies, poll-clerks, flag- 
men, or in some other capacity, for the purpose of said 
Election, and who, either before or during or after 
said Election, accepted and took from the said John 
Power, or some other person or persons on his be- 
half, payment in money or security for money, for 
and in consideration, or with reference to such em- 
ployment, and who were not, therefore, legally en- 
titled to vote at said Election, but who tendered 
their votes, which were received for the,said John 
Power, and whose votes ought to have been re- 
jected ; that the said John Power, by himself, his 
friends or agents, and by a person or persons em- 
ployed on his behalf, before and at and after the 
test of the writ of summons to Parliament for 


Standing Orders relative to Bills for making Rail- 
ways, had been complied with in the case of the 
Petition for the Bath and Weymouth Railway Bill. 
Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for making a Railway from Bath to Weymouth, 
communicating with the Great Western Railway at 
Bath, with Branches therefrom, to be called “ The 
Bath and Weymouth Great Western Union Rail- 
way:” And that Mr. William Miles and Mr. 
Robert Williams do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Robert Palmer reported from the Select Glasgow, 
aisley, and 


Committee on Petitions for Private Bills; and to P 
whom two Petitions complaining of non-compliance p 
with the Standing Orders, were referred ; That the 
Standing Orders relative to Bills for making Rail- 
ways, had been complied with in the case of the 
Petition for the Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock 
Railway Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for making a Railway from Glasgow to Greenock, 
to be called “ The Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock 
Railway :” And that Mr. Patrick Stewart and Mr. 
Wallace do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Robert Palmer reported from the Select London and 


Committee on Petitions for Private Bills; and to — 


holding said Election, and after the vacancy hap- 
whom the Petitions of Edward John Leman ;—the (Milles Line.) 


pened to supply which the said Election was held, 


m order to procure him, the said John Power, to be 
returned to serve in this present Parliament for the 
said Borough, directly or indirectly, gave, presented 
or allowed, to a person or persons having or claim- 
ing a right to vote at said Election, money, meat, 
drink, entertainment or provision, cockades, and 
other marks of distinction, also made _ presents, 
gifts, rewards or entertainments, and did promise, 
agree, oblige and engage to give or allow money, 
meat, ava, provision, presents, entertainment or 
reward to or for such person or persons having or 
claiming to have a vote or votes in said Election or 
to the said Borough in general, or to or for the use, 
advantage, benefit, employment, profit or prefer- 
ment of said person or persons or Borough, in order 
to be elected, or for his the said John Power’s being 
elected to serve in Parliament for said Borough, and 
whereby the said John Power disabled and inca- 
pacitated himself to serve in Parliament for said 
Borough; that, by the several fraudulent and illegal 
means aforesaid, and by divers other turbulent, cor- 
rupt, improper aud unconstitutional practices, the 
said John Power obtained said colourable majority 
of votes over the Petitioner, and procured himself 
to be returned to serve for the said Borough of 
Dungarvan, whereas the Petitioner had a large 
majority of legal votes at the said Election, and 
ought to have been returned to serve in Parliament 
for the same; the Petitioner, therefore, most humbly 
prays the House to take the premises into consi- 
deration, and to declare the said Election and Re- 
turn of the said John Power wholly null and void, 
and that he be declared to be disabled and incapa- 
citated to serve in the present Parliament for said 
Borough, and that the Petitioner was duly elected, 
and ought to have been returned to serve in Par- 
liament for said Borough of Dungarvan, and that 
the Return of the said John Power may be set 
aside, and the name of the Petitioner substituted for 
the name of the said John Power in the said Re- 
turn, and that the Petitioner may have such further 
relief in the premises as to the House may seem fit. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be taken into con- 
sideration upon Thursday the 13th day of April next, 
at the same time that the preceding Petition is 
ordered to be taken into consideration. 

Vou. 92. 





Provisional Committee of the London, Shoreham and 
Brighton Railway (Stephenson’s Line);— Harry Col- 
ville Bridger ;—and, John Lawrence; complaining of 
non-compliance with the Standing Orders, were re- 
ferred ; That the Standing Orders relative to Bills for 
making Railways, had not been complied with in the 
case of the Petition for the London and Brighton 
Railway Bill (Mills’s Line); inasmuch as certain 
property inserted in the Book of Reference, as 
“house and garden,” and numbered on the Plan 
12, Morden parish, is not laid down in an additional 
Plan upon a scale of not less than a quarter of an 
inch to 100 feet; the said property being situate 
within 100 yards of the intended line of Railway, 
to which extent the notices in the newspapers de- 
scribe the Petitioners’ intention of taking a power 
to deviate from the line laid down in the Plan; and 
inasmuch as certain property inserted in the Book 
of Reference, as “ house, building and ground,” and 
numbered on the Plan as N° 3, Sutton parish, is 
not described on the enlarged Plan; also for the 
same cause in Cheam parish, N®* 22, 23 and 25; 
also in Epsom parish, N° 41; also in Leatherhead 
parish, N° 74 and 75; also in Mickleham parish ; 
N* 18, 48 and 64; also in Dorking parish, 
N*® 58, 61, 87 and 96; also inasmuch as there is 
no fixed point stated on the Section deposited with 
the Clerk of the peace of the county of Surrey, to 
which the datum line is referred ; also inasmuch as 
“ the height of the Railway over or under the sur- 
face of the ground” is not marked “ twice in every 
mile, and also at every crossing of a turnpike road 
and public carriage road, navigable river, canal or 
railway, or junction with a railway, in the following 
instances, in the 1st, 2d, 17th, 33d, 36th, 39th, 41st, 
42d and 47th miles; it also appeared that it was 
alleged in the Petition of the Provisional Committee 
of the London, Shoreham and Brighton Railway 
Company, that the measured heights of certain roads 
and rivulets did not agree with the figures marked 
on the Section ; but the Committee considered that 
it was not within their province to go into the accu- 
racy of the measurements, conceiving that it would 
be matter for the consideration of the Committee on 
the Bill; and it also appeared that the Section de- 
posited in the Private Bill Office was not a Copy of 


Q 3 those 








Belfast Harbour 


(No. 2.) 


Werneth and 
Littleborough 
Road Bill. 


Manchester 
and Stafford 
Railway ; and, 
Manchester 
and Tamworth 


Railway Bills. 


Convicts 


(Ireland.) 


Customs. 


No. 85. 


Penny Posts. 


No. 86. 


Church Rates, 
No. 87. 


Church Rates 
Regulation. 


118 


those deposited with the Clerks of the Peace for 
the Counties of Surrey and Sussex, inasmuch as 
the words “ datum line, high water, Brighton,” a 
peared on the Section deposited in the Private Bull 
Office, and not on those deposited with the Clerks 
of the Peace. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders. 


A Petition of John Wallace, of Belfast, in the 
county of Antrim, Solicitor, complaining that the 
Standing Orders of the House in respect to the a 
plication for the Belfast Harbour (No. 2) Bill, had 
not been complied with; and praying that he may 
be heard, by his agent or witnesses, against the 
same, was presented, and read ; and referred to the 
Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Castleton and Butter- 
worth, in the parish of Rochdale, praying that the 
Werneth and Littleborough Road Bill, may not pass 
into a law as it now stands, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Richard Edensor Heathcote, of 
Longton Hall, in the county of Stafford, Esquire, 
praying that the Manchester and Stafford Railway 
Bill may pass into a law, and that the Manchester 
and Tamworth Railway Bill be rejected, was pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Names of all Convicts under sentence 
or rule of Transportation who have been discharged 
from the Hulks or Transports in any of the Ports of 
Ireland, since 1st May 1835; distinguishing the 
Offences of which they have been respectively con- 
victed, the Place of Trial, the Sentences pronounced 
or recorded upon them, and whether any and what 
commutation or remission of the original Sentence, 
or any part thereof, had previously been granted ; 
stating, also, the Date of the Discharge, and the 
Nature of the Authority under which such Convicts 
were respectively discharged, with the date or time 
thereof. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Names of all Convicts under sen- 
tence or rule of Transportation whose Sentences 
were commuted to Imprisonment, since 1st Ma 
1835; distinguishing the Offences of which they 
had been convicted respectively, the Place of Trial, 
the Sentence pronounced upon them, and the period 
of Imprisonment substituted for Transportation, and 
whether such substituted Sentence was remitted, or 
in any and what manner modified. 


Ordered, That the Account of Duties of Customs 
received at each Port in 1835 and 1836, which was 
presented upon Wednesday last, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Return relative to Penny Posts, 
which was presented upon Wednesday last, be 
printed. 

Ordered, That the Account relative to Church 
Rates, which was presented yesterday, be printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for the House 
to resolve itself into a Committee to consider of the 
payment of Church Rates ; 

ord John Russell, by His Majesty’s command, 
acquainted the House, That His Majesty, having 
been informed of the subject-matter of this Motion, 
recommends it to the consideration of the House. 

Resolved, That this House will, immediately, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee :—The House 
accordingly resolved itself into the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 


Motion made, and Question proposed, That for 
the repair and maintenance of Parvehial Churches 
and Chapels in England and Wales, and the due 
celebration of Divine Worship therein, a permanent 
and adequate provision be made out of an increased 


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‘value given to Church Lands, by the introduction of 





a new system of management, and by the applica- 
tion of the proceeds of pew rents, the collection of 
Church Rates ceasing altogether from a day to be 
determined by law; and that in order to facilitate, 
and give early effect to this Resolution, the Com- 
missioners of His Majesty’s Treasury be authorized 
to make advances on the security, and repayable 
out of the produce of such Church Lands. 

Motion made, and Question, That the Chairman 
do report Progress, and ask leave to sit again—— 


P-| put, and agreed to. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the matters to them referred; and that he was 
directed to move, That the Committee may have 
leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Resolved, That this House will, at the rising of Adjournment. 


the House this day, adjourn till Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Municipal 


mittee on the Municipal Corporations (Lreland) Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Registration of 


mittee on the Registration of Voters Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Supply. 


mittee of Supply ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second poor Relief 


reading of the Poor Relief (Zreland) Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Monday next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Court of Session 


into a Committee to consider of 


— for the 
Compensations and Expenses whic 


may arise under 


any Act to be passed in the present Session of Par- to Officers.] 


liament to make certain alterations in the establish- 
ment of Clerks and Officers of the Court of Session, 
and Court of Commission for Teinds in Scotland, 
and also under any other Act for the more effectual 
Recovery of Small Debts in the Sheriffs Courts in 
Scotland. 

(In the Committee.) 


1. Resolved, That the salaries which may be 
granted to the Officers of the Court of Session and 
Court of Commission for Teinds in Scotland, in pur- 
suance of any Act of this Session of Parliament, shall 
be payable out of the Fee Fund of the said Court of 
Session, and any deficiency in the said fund shall 
be made good in manner directed by an Act of the 
fiftieth year of King George the Third. 

2. Resolved, That all Compensations which may 
be granted in pursuance of the said Act of this 
Session of Parliament, shall be paid out of the 
Monies which by several Acts of her late Majesty 
Queen Anne were made chargeable with the charges 
of the Court of Session in Scotland. 

3. Resolved, That the travelling and other charges 
incurred by the Sheriff and Sheriff Clerks, under 
an Act of the present Session of Parliament for esta- 
blishing Circuit Courts for the Trial of Small Debt 
Causes in Scotland, shall be rendered annually in 
the Exchequer with the other charges of the Sheriff, 
and paid out of the public Revenue in Scotland. 

Resolutions to be reported. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Robert 
Steuart reported, That the Committee had come to 
several Resolutions. 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon Mon- 
day next. 





Resolved, 











Factory 
Children. 


Imprisonment 
for Debt 
[Compensation 
to Gaolers and 
others. ] 


Publication of 
Printed Papers, 


7 Wit. IV. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return of the Number and Names of the 
Surgeons who have furnished the Inspectors of Fac- 
tories with Tables, containing the Stature cf Children 
measured by them; of the Total Number so mea- 
sured between the ages of Nine and Ten, of Ten and 
Eleven, of Eleven and Twelve, and of Twelve and 
Thirteen years respectively ; and of the Number of 
each age who were under and above the standard 
laid down by the Inspectors as a guide to the ap- 
pointed Surgeons in their respective Districts ; also, 
the height of the lowest and of the tallest in each 
class of Children of the said respective ages, and the 
average height of the Total Number measured of 
each class respectively, by each Surgeon. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


A Motion being made, That this House will, im- 
mediately, resolve itself into a Committee, to consider 
of granting Compensation to Gaolers and others 
who may suffer from the operation of any Act to be 
passed in the present Session of Parliament for 
abolishing Imprisonment for Debt ; 

Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, by His Ma- 
jesty’s command, acquainted the House, That His 
Majesty, having been informed of the subject-matter 
of this Motion, recommends it to the consideration 
of the House. 

Resolved, That this House will, immediately, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee :—The House 
accordingly resolved itself into the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That the Lords Commissioners of His 
Majesty’s Treasury be empowered to grant Com- 
seme out of the Consolidated Fund of the 

nited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, under 
certain regulations to be hereafter prescribed, to the 
Keepers of Gaols, who may sustain Loss from the 
operation of any Act which may be — in the 
present Session of Parliament for abolishing Im- 
prisonment for Debt. 


Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Robert 
Steuart reported, That the Committee had come to 
a Resolution. 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon Mon- 
day next. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on the pub- 
lication of Printed Papers have Power to report their 
Proceedings and opinion thereupon, from time to 


3° Marti. 


119 


complaining of non-compliance with the Standing 
Orders, were referred; That the Standing Orders 
relative to Bills for making Railways, had not been 
complied with in the case of the Petition for the 
Birkenhead and Chester Railway Bill, masmuch 
as the Book of Reference was not deposited in 
the Private Bill Office until the 4th of January; 
but that it appeared to the Committee that the delay 
was caused by a snow storm, which prevented the 
arrival of the mail until the evening of the 3d of 
January, and that according to the ordinary rate of 
travelling it would have arrived in time to have been 
deposited in the Private Bill Office before the 1st of 
January; that the name of Mr. 7. White, an owner 
on the line, was not inserted in the Book of Re- 
ference, but it appeared to the Committee that it 
was a question whether the property belonged to 
him oe We trustees ; and that every attention had 
been paid by the parties promoting the Bill in 
making their application, but that they were deceived 
by one of the trustees of the property ; and from 
the same mistake his name did not also appear in 
the List of Owners, and therefore no application was 
made to him for his consent. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, an Public Income 
Account of the Public Income and Expenditure of — Expeudi- 


the United Kingdom in the years ended 5th January" 
1835, 1836 and 1837; distinguishing the actual 
Payments for the Expenses incurred in the Collection 
and Management of the Revenue ; for the Charges 
of the Public Debt (the Terminable Annuities bemg 
also valued by estimate); for the Expenses of the 
Civil Government; the Allowances to the Royal 
Family, and to His Royal Highness Prince Leopold ; 
the Establishment of the Lord Lieutenant of Lreland; 
the Expenses of the two Houses of Parliament, and 
the Civil Departments ; the other Pensions on the 
Consolidated Fund or the Gross Revenue; and the 
Civil List; also, the Payments for the Administration 
of Justice; Diplomatic Expenses; and the Payments 
on account of the Sums voted for the Army, Navy 
and Ordnance Services ; also Public Works, Bounties, 
Post Office, the Quarantine and Warehousing Esta- 
blishments, and all other Payments not coming 
under any of the foregoing heads ; with an Appendix 
showing the several items composing each en of 
the Account. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, an Exchequer Bills 
Abstract, showing the Total of Principal and Interest (Public Works. ) 


received, and the Amount returned into the Ex- 
chequer by the Commissioners now officiating for 
the issue’ of Exchequer Bills for Public Works in 
England, Wales, and Scotland, 


The House was moved, That the Report in respect Kingsworthy 


time to the House. of the Petition for the Kingsworthy and West Monck- 24 West 


Ordered, That the Petition of Messrs. Hansard, 


Monckton 


Hackney 
Carriages, 
Convictions, 


Birkenhead 
and Chester 
ailway, 


which was presented upon the 6th day of February 
last, be referred to the Committee. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return of the several Informations and 
Convictions, as also Penalties levied in each case on 
Drivers and Proprietors of Hackney Coaches or 
Chariots, Cabriolets, Omnibuses and other public 
Stages duly licensed within the Cities of London 
and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark, from 
March 1835 to March 1837 inclusive. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Mr. Morgan John O'Connell reported from the 
Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills; 
and to whom the Petitions of Henry Kelsall; — 
~~ _T Johnson ;—and, Richard Green, 

OL. 92, 





ton Railway Bill, which was this day made from the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders relative to 
Private Bills, might be read ; and the same being read ; 
Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for making a Railway from the London and South- 
ampton Railway, in the Parish of Kingsworthy, in 
the county of Southampton, to join the Bristol and 
Exeter Railway, in the Parish of West Monckton, 
in the County of Somerset, to be called “ The South 
Western Railway:” And that Mr. Wason, Mr. Mor- 
rison and Mr. Benett, do prepare, and bring it in. 


Petitions from the Most honourable George Au- Bann (Lower) 
gustus Marquis of Donegall ;—and, Nicholas de la Navigation. 


Cherois Cromelin, of Currardore Castle, in the county 
of Down, Esquire, complaining that the Standing 
Orders of the House in respect to the application 
for the Lower Bann Navigation Bill, had not been 
complied with; and praying that they may be heard, 
by their agents and witnesses against the same,— 
were presented, and read ; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


Q4 A Petition 








London and 
Blackwall 
Commercial 
Railway Bill. 


Fast India 
Maritime 
Officers. 


Lancaster 
and Preston 


Railway Bill. 


St. Pancras 
Local Acts. 


London and 
Blackwall 
Commercial 


Railway Bill. 


London and 
Brighton 
Railway Bill 
(Stephenson’s 
Line.) 





120 3°—6° Martie. A. 1837. 


A Petition of Christopher Richardson, of Lime- 
house, timber merchant and wharfinger, praying that 
he may be heard, by his counsel or agent, against 
certain parts of the London and Blackwall Com- 
mercial Railway Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, if he think 
fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the Bill, against 
the said Petition. 


A Petition of Charles Pennington, late an officer 
in the East India Company’s Maritime Service, pray- 
ing the House to pass a law to enable the East India 
Company, under the control of the Board of Com- 
missioners for the affairs of India, to grant compen- 
sation to such of their maritime officers at present 
excluded from compensation, as had served ten years 
and upwards, and had not abandoned the service on 
the 13th of August 1834, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Bankers, Merchants, Traders and 
Inhabitants of Preston, praying that the Lancaster 
and Preston pee | Bill may pass into a law, was 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 


lable. 


And then the House adjourned till Monday 
next. 





Lune, 6° die Marti; 
Anno 7° Willielmi IV" Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


M R. Thompson, Clerk to the Commissioners for 
saving, &amp;e., the Calthorpe Estate, was called 
in; a at the bar presented,—Further Return to 
an Order, dated the 3d day of February last, for 
a Return relating to Paving, Cleansing, Lighting, 
&amp;c., the Parish of Saint Pancras (so far as relates 
to the Calthorpe Estate) :—And then he withdrew. 


Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon. the 
Table. 


The House being informed, that the Sheriffs of the 
city of London attended at the door, they were called 
in; and at the bar presented,—A Petition of the 
Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Commons of the city of 
London, in Common Council assembled :—And then 
they withdrew. 

And the said Petition was read; praying that they 
may be heard, by their counsel or agents, against 
certain parts of the London and Blackwall Com- 
mercial Railway Bill. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by their counsel or agents, upon their Petition, if 
they think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 

sill, against the said Petition. 


Petitions from William Stanford, of Preston-place, 
in the county of Sussex, Esquire; — Sir Timothy 
Shelley, of Field-place, in the county of Sussex, 
Baronet ;—and, William Gorringe, of Kingston by 
Sea, im the county of Sussex, Esquire, and Wélliam 
Pennington Gorringe, of Southwick, in the said 
county, son and heir apparent of the said William 
Gorringe; praying that they may be heard, by them- 
selves, their counsel or agents, against certam parts 
ofthe London and Brighton Railway Bill (Stephen- 
son’s Line),—were presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 











A Petition of the Commissioners of Greenwich Greenwich 
Hospital, praying that they may be heard, by their Piet i" 
counsel or agents, against certain parts of the Green- 
wich Pier Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by their counsel or agents, upon their Petition, if 
they think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


Ordered, That the Committee on the London and London and 
Brighton Railway Bill (Stephenson’s Line) have = ighton 
. ailway Bill 
Power to send for persons, papers and records. (Stephenson’s 
Line.) 
Ordered, That the Committee on the London and London and 
Brighton Railway Bill (Rennie’s Line) have Power Brighton 
to send for persons, papers and records rene Oak 
P » papers P (Rennie’s Line.) 
The Manchester and Stafford Railway Bill was Manchester 
read a second time; and committed to Lord Francis ote 
Egerton and the Lancaster List. — 
Ordered, That all the Members serving for the 
several Counties, and for the Boroughs therein, 
through which Counties the said Railway is intended 
to pass, be Members of the said Committee. 


Petitions from Owners and Occupiers of property pie 
on the line of the proposed Manchester and Stafford Railway Bill 
Railway, and others, in the parishes of Stone, Saint 
Mary Stafford, and Eccleshall;--Madeley ;-- Cheshire ; 
— Lancashire ;— - Land-owners, Mine-owners, Mer- 
chants, Manufacturers and other Inhabitants of 
Stohe-upon- Trent, in the Staffordshire Potteries ;— 
Hanley, Shelton and Burslem ;—and, Bankers, Mer- 
chants, Manufacturers, Traders and Inhabitants of 
Stockport; praying that the Manchester and Stafford 
Railway Bill may not pass into a law,—were pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of George Whieldon, Esquire, and other 
Persons, being Proprietors of lands and other pro- 
perty in the county of Stafford ;—Henry Dixon and 
others, Owners of lands, buildings and estates in the 
county of Chester ;—and, William Mellor, and other 
Occupiers of lands and buildings in the county of 
Chester ; praying that they may be heard, by them- 
selves, their counsel or agents, against certain parts 
of the said Bi!l,—were also presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 

Petitions from Clergy, Bankers, Merchants, Manu- 
facturers, Owners of property and Inhabitants of 
Manchester ;—Landed Proprietors, Bankers, Mine- 
owners, Manufacturers, Farmers, Traders and Inha- 
bitants of Holywell, and other places ;—Inhabitants 
of Saint Helen’s, near Prescot ;—Bankers, Merchants, 
Manufacturers, Owners and Inhabitants of Oldham; 
—Inhabitants of Leigh ;—Mayor, Aldermen, Com- 
mon Council and Inhabitants of Denbigh;—Bankers, 
Merchants, Manufacturers, Traders and Inhabitants 
of Blackburn;—Clergy, Gentry, Bankers, Merchants, 
Traders and Inhabitants of Tiverton ;— Land-owners 
and Farmers in the vale of Clwyd; — Aldermen, 
Burgesses and Inhabitants of Ruthin;—Magistrates, 
Aldermen, Common Councilmen and Inhabitants 
of Newcastle-under-Lyne ;—Owners of property and 
Inhabitants of Ashton-under- Lyne, and other places ; 
— Land and Mine Owners, Manufacturers and 
Traders in the Staffordshire Potteries ; — Clergy, 
Merchants, Manufacturers and Inhabitants of Sal- 


ford; — Bankers, Merchants, Manufacturers and 


Inhabitants of Kendal ;—Land-owners, Ley-payers 
and Inhabitants of Holmes Chapel ;—Bankers, Mer- 
chants and Inhabitants of Worcester ;—Land Pro- 
prietors, Mine-owners, Manufacturers, Farmers and 
Inhabitants of Mold ;— Land-owners, Burgesses, 
Ley-payers and Inhabitants of Congleton ;~-Council 
of the borough ef Congleton ;--Clergy, Gentry and 

Inhabitants 


wt TP hee 


si 


oe 








Manchester 
and ‘Tamworth 


Railway Bill. 


Leicester 
Small Debts 
Bill. 


Wisbech Gaol 
and Cuurt 
House, 


Liverpool 
Mersey Con- 
servancy Bill. 


Lancaster 
and Preston 
Railway Bill, 


Oxford and 
Great Western 
Railway Bill. 


London and 
Brighton 
Railway Bill 
(Rennie’s Line. 


Llanew st 
Roads Bill. 


Dee (South) 
Road Bill. 


7 Wut. IV. 


Inhabitants of Stone ;—and, Bristol; praying that 
the said Bill may pass into a law,—were also pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of Bankers, Merchants, Traders and 
Inhabitants of Derby, praying that the Manchester 
and Tamworth Railway Bill may not pass into a law, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 

A Petition of Persons being Proprietors of lands 
and other property within the county of Stafford, 
praying that they may be heard, by their counsel or 
agents, against certain parts of the said Bill, was 
also presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by their counsel or agents, upon their Petition, if 

‘they think fit ; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


The Leicester Small Debts Bill was read a second 
time ; and committed to Mr. March Phillipps and 
the Leicester List. 


A Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen and Bur- 
gesses of Wisbech, taking notice of the application 
for leave to bring in the Wisbech Gaol and Court 
House Bill, and praying that such Bill may pass into 
a law, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


Mr. Ewart presented a Bill for the better pre- 
serving and improving of the Port of Liverpool, and 
for providing for the safe Navigation of the’ River 
Mersey: And the same was read the first time ; and 
ordered to be read a second time. 


Petitions from Bankers, Merchants, Manufac- 
turers, Traders and Inhabitants of Warrington ;— 
and, Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of Lancaster ; 
praying that the Lancaster and Preston Railway 
Bill may pass into a law ;—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Culham and Nuneham 
Courtenay, praying that they may be heard, by them- 
selves, their counsel or agents, against certain parts 
of the Oxford and Great Western Railway Bill, was 
presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to 
the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Reigate, Chipstead, 
Merstham, Gatton, Horley and Charlwood ; praying 
that the London and Brighton Railway Bill (Ren- 
nie’s Line), may pass into a law, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Wilson Jones reported from the Committee on 
the Llanrwst Roads Bill, and to whom the Petition 
of Sir Henry Parnell and Alexander Milne Esquire, 
Commissioners of the Holyhead Road, was referred ; 
That the Standing Orders, relative to Turnpike Bills 
had been complied with, and that they had con- 
sidered the said Petition, and had heard counsel in 
favour of the Bill; and had examined the allega- 
tions of the Bill, and found the same to be true ; 
and had gone through the Bill, and made Amend- 
ments thereunto; and the Amendments were read, 
and agreed to. 

_ Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


_ The Dee (South) Road Bill was read a second 
time ; and committed to General Arbuthnott and the 
East Scotland List. 

Vor. 92, 


6° Martiz. 





121 


A Petition of Sir George Chetwynd, of Grendon Tamworth 
Hall, in the county of Warwick, Baronet, praying 34 Rugby. 
the House to give its support to the decision of ®*!™*y Bi! 
the Committee on the Standing Orders in respect 
to the Petition for the Tamworth and Rugby Rail- 
way Bill, and not allow the case to be again re- 
opened, was presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


The Newbold Inclosure Bill was read a second Newbold _ 
time ; and committed to Mr. George Cavendish and lclosure Bill. 
the Derby List. 


A Petition of William Crawshay, praying that he Merthyr Tydfil 
may be heard, by himself, his counsel or agent, od Cardit, 
against the Merthyr Tydfil, and Cardiff Railway ““""Y *" 
Bill, was presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 

A Petition of Land-owners, Owners of houses 
and others in the parish of Merthyr Tydfil, praying 
that they may be heard by themselves, their counsel 
or agents, against certain parts of the said Bill, was 
also presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of Owners and Occupiers of a cotton Manchester 
mill situate on the banks of the Rochdale Canal, ny 
within the borough of Rochdale, in the county pa- is 
latine of Lancaster; praying that the Manchester 
and Leeds Railway Bill may not pass into a law as 
it now stands, was presented, and read; and re- 
ferred to the Committee on the Bill. 


Mr. Thomas Duncombe presented a Bill for re- St. Pancras 
pealing several Acts for paving, lighting, watering Paving Bill. 
and cleansing certain parts of tie parish of Saint 
Pancras, in the County of Middlesex, and for grant- 
ing other Powers in lieu thereof: And the same was 
read the first time ; and ordered to be read a se- 
cond time. 


The Birmingham Plate and Crown Glass Com- Birmingham 
pany Bill was read a second time; and committed eee 
to Mr. Dugdale and the Warwick List. Company Bill. 

The Committee on the Chester and Birkenhead charter and 
Railway Bill was nominated of Mr. George Wil- ph.cmen. 

a Rail Bill. 
braham and the Chester List. ee 


The House was moved, That the Report in re- Stockport 
spect of the Petition for the Stockport Improvement —_— 
Bill, which upon the 27th day of February last was =~ 
made from the Select Committee on Petitions for 
Private Bills, might be read; and the same being 
read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for improving and regulating the Borough of Stock- 

ort, in the Counties of Chester and Lancaster : 
And that Mr. Henry Marsland and Mr. Brotherton 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


A Petition of Farmers, Fishermen and Wreck- Lough Swilly 
owners on the Ennishowen side of Lough Foyle, in a. 
the county of Donegal, taking notice of the appli- rte 4 
cation for leave to bring in the Lough Swilly and 
Lough Foyle Canals, &amp;c., Bill; and praying that 
such Bill may not pass into a law, was presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The Granton Pier and Road Bill was read a second Granton Pier 
time ; and committed to Sir George Clerk and the *"¢ “ose Bil 
East Scotland List. 


The House was moved, That the Report in — ——- 
of the Petition for the London and Greenwich Rail- pr 
way Bill, which upon Friday last was made —_- 

R the 


Railway. 








122 6° Martiz. 


the Select Committee on Standing Orders relative 
to Private Bills, might be read ; and the same being 
read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring im a Bill 
to enlarge the powers of an Act passed in the third 
year of the reign of His present Majesty, intituled, 
“ An Act for making a Railway from London to 
Greenwich :” And that Mr. Dottin and Mr. Anger- 
stein do prepare, and bring it in. 


Saddleworth | The Saddleworth Reservoirs Bill was read a se- 
Reservoirs Bille cond time ; and committed to Sir George Strick- 
land and the York List. 


London and Mr. Dottin presented a Bill to enlarge the 
Reiley Bill, wers of an Act passed in the third year of the 


eign of His —— Majesty, intituled, “ An Act 
for making a Railway from London to Greenwich :” 
And the same was read the first time; and ordered 
to be read a second time. 


Great Westen Mr. Charles Russell reported from the Committee 
Railway Bill on the Great Western Railway Bill (Paddington) : 
(Paddington.) ond to whom several Petitions against the said Bill 
were referred ; That the Standing Orders relative to 
Bills for making Railways, had been complied with; 
and that they had considered several of the said 
Petitions, aon had heard counsel in support of two 
of them; and had also heard counsel in favour of 
the Bill; and that the Committee had inquired into 
the several matters required by the Resolutions of 
the House of the 1st day of March 1836; and had 
also examined the allegations of the Bill, and found 
the same to be true; and had gone through the Bill, 
and made Amendments thereunto. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; 
and be printed. 


Standing Sir John Wrottesley reported from the Select Com- 

Cotes; mittee on Standing ae relative to Private Bills, 
several Resolutions, which were read, as follow: 

Courteenhall 1. Resolved, That in the case of the Petition for 


po — the Courteenhall and Great Wigston Railway Bill, the 
“* Parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill on 
abandoning the Branch Railway from the parish of 
Duston to Barnes Holme, in the Borough of Vorth- 
ampton ; and that the Committee on the Bill do exa- 
mine into the compliance with such Order, and report 

the same to the os on the report of the Bill. 


Exeter and 2. Resolved, That in the case of the Petition for 
ee the Exeter and Falmouth Railway Bill, the Parties 
&lt;i be permitted to proceed with their Bill. 
Dublin and 3. Resolved, That in the case of the Petition for 
ae the Dublin and Kilkenny Railway Bill, the Parties 
™ be permitted to proceed with their Bill. 
Birkenhead 4. Resolved, That in the case of the Petition for 
and Chester the Birkenhead and Chester Railway Bill, the Par- 
ailway. ; = : : - 
ties be permitted to proceed with their Bill. 
The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 
York and 


Petitions from Inhabitants of Castleford, Hough- 
Ralvey Bile ton and Pontefract Park ,—Allerton, Bywater and 
other places ;—and, Pontefract; praying that the 
York and North Midland Railway Bill may not 
pass into a law,—were presented, and read ; and 

ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of Sir William Mordaunt Milner, of Nun 
Appleton, in the county of York, Baronet, and Ed- 
ward Taylor, of Bolton Lodge, in the said county, 
Esquire, praying that they may be heard, by them- 
selves, their counsel or agents, against certain parts 
of the said Bill, was also presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit ; and counsel heard, in fa- 
vour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


Tamworth and 
Rugby Rail- 
way Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate upon the Question proposed 








A. 1837. 


upon Friday last, That, with the concurrence of the 
Standing Orders Committee, the Report in the case 
of the Petition for the Tamworth and Rugby Railway 
Bill be referred back to the Committee, in order that 
they may fully inquire into all the allegations of the 
Petitioners, and report their opinion thereupon to 
the House :—The House resumed the said adjourned 
Debate. 

And the Question being again proposed :—The 
said Motion was, with the leave of the anil with- 
drawn. 


The House was moved, That the Petition of the Tamworth and 
Chairman and Directors of the Birmingham and a 
Derby Junction Railway, which was presented upon “7 ~*" 
the 28th day of February last, might be read; and 
the same being read ; 

A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That the said Petition, together with the 
Report of the Select Committee on Petitions for 
Private Bills, on the Petition for the Tamworth and 
Rugby Railway Bill, be referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Standing Orders, to inquire into the 
matters contained in the said Petition and Report, 
and to report their opinion thereupon to the House : 

—And the said Motion was, with leave of the House, 
withdrawn. 


Petitions from Inhabitants of Fareham, and other Portsmouth 
towns and villages and hamlets situate on the function 
line of the projected Portsmouth Junction Railway, “'“*) °™ 
or Owners or Occupiers of land within the several 
parishes thereof ;—and, Owners and Occupiers of 
land —= to be taken for the formation of the 
— Portsmouth and Southampton Junction 

allway; praying that the Portsmouth Junction 
Railway Bill may not pass into a law,—were pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Edward Carlyon, of Greenway, in Torquay 
the county of Devon, Esquire, a Lieutenant-Colonel Road Bill. 
in His Majesty’s Army ;—Henry George Cary, of 
Tor Abbey, in the county of Devon, Esquire ;—and, 
Inhabitants of Tormoham and Torquay; praying 
that they may be heard, by themselves, their counsel 
or agents, against certain parts of the Torquay Road 
Bill, were presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit ; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


The Manchester and Liverpool Plate Glass Com- Manchester 
pany Bill was read a second time ; and committe a 
to Mr. Wilson Patten and the Lancaster List. Company Bill. 

Mr. Alston reported from the Committee on the Cranfield _ 
Cranfield Inclosure Bill; That the Standing Orders Inclosure Bill 
relative to Bills of Inclosure had been complied 
with, and that they had examined the allegations 
of the Bill, and found the same to be true; and 
that the Parties concerned had given their consent 
to the Bill, to the satisfaction of the Committee ; 
and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, 
and made Amendments thereunto; and the Amend- 
ments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed. 


The Shropshire and North Wales Assurance Com- Shropshire and 
pany Bill was read a second time ; and committed a 
to Mr. Robert Clive and the Salop List. Company Bill. 

A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- West London 
posed, That the West London and Westminster "4 carr 
Cemetery Bill be now read a second time ; Bill. j 

The Amendments following were proposed to be 
made to the Question, viz., To leave out the word 
“ now,” and at the end of the Question to add the 
words “ upon this day six months.” 


And 


meer 








Lancaster 
and Preston 
Railway Bill. 


Belfast 


Water-works, 


Dublin and 
Kilkenny 
Railway, 


Birkenhead 
and Chester 
Railway, 


Dublin and 
Kilkenny 


Railway Bill. 


7 Wit. LV. 


And the Question being proposed, That the word 
“ now” stand part of the Question :—The said pro- 
posed Amendment was, with leave of the House, 
withdrawn. 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read a second 
time:—The Bill was accordingly read a second 
time, and committed to Mr. Wakley and the Mid- 
dlesex List. 


Two Petitions from Mortgagees of the Garstang 
and Lancaster Turnpike Road, praying that the 
Lancaster and Preston Railway Bill may not pass 
into a law as it now stands,—were presented, and 
read ; and referred to the Committee on the Bill. 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee 
on Petitions for Private Bills; and to whom the 
Petitions of the Marquis of Donegall; and, John 
Wallace, complaining of non-compliance with the 
Standing Orders, were referred; That the Stand- 
ing Orders relative to Bills for supplying any City 
or Town with Water, and for the relief of the Poor, 
had not been complied with in the case of the Peti- 
tion for the Belfast Water-works and Poor Bill, 
inasmuch as the townland of Ballyaghagan is not 
inserted in the Notices, and inasmuch as the Notices 
affixed on the church doors are not copies of those 
inserted in the Newspapers; but it appeared to 
the Committee, that such Notices on the church 
doors were copies of Notices which had been pre- 
viously inserted three times in the Ulster Times 
(published in Belfast for the county of Antrim), 
and in the Newry Telegraph for the county of Down, 
and which Notices were abandoned, as they did not 
contain all the powers intended to be applied for by 
the Petitioners; and inasmuch as the drawing of 
the Section does not correspond with the figures 
which describe a cutting of three feet within the 
lands of Strand Millis, and inasmuch as no account 
of the money subscribed for the Undertaking, nor 
the names of the subscribers, with the sums sub- 
scribed, were lodged in the Private Bill Office ; but 
a paper was lodged in the Private Bill Office pre- 
viously to the presentation of the Petition, purport- 
ing to be an undertaking by the President and 
Assistants of the Belfast Charitable Society, stating 
that the expense of the proposed works was intended 
to be defrayed out of the funds of the said Society, 
or by means of monies to be raised under the powers 
of the intended Bill, such paper being signed by 
Adam John Macrory, Solicitor for the said Society. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders. 


The House was moved, That the Report in respect 
of the Petition for the Dublin and Kilkenny Rail- 
way Bill, which was'this day made from the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders relative to Private 
Bills, might be read; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for making and maintaining a Railway from the 
City of Dublin to the City of Kilkenny, to be 
called “The Great Leinster and Munster Railway :” 
And that Mr. O’ Connell and Mr. Maher do prepare, 
and bring it in. 


The House was moved, That the Report in respect 
of the Petition for the Birkenhead and Chester 
Railway Bill, which was this day made from the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders relative to 
a Bills, might be read ; and the same being 
read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for making a Railway from Birkenhead to Chester : 
And that Mr. George Wilbraham and Lord Stanley 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. O’ Connell presented a Bill for making and 
maintaining a Railway from the City of Dublin to 
the City of Kilkenny, to be called “ The Great 

Vox. 92. 


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123 


Leinster and Munster Railway:” And the same 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time. 


Mr. Edward John Stanley reported from the Runcorn Gas 
Committee on the Runcorn Gas Bill; That they Bi! 
had examined the allegations of the Bill, and found 
the same to be true; and had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto; and the 
Amendments read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed. 


Ordered, That all Petitions presented to the House Poor Law Act. 
during the present Session of Parliament relative 
to the Poor Law Act, be referred to the Select Com- 
mittee upon that subject. 


A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Dowdeswell Message from 

and Mr. Senior : the Lords, 
Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Cherities Com- 
Act to continue until the First day of July, One ™*! Bill. 
thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, the powers 
of the Commissioners for inquiring concerning Cha- 
rities in England and Wales, without Amendment : 

And also, 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Becker's 
for naturalizing John Becker, to which the Lords N*- Bill. 
desire the concurrence of this House: And also, 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Henry Anthony 
for naturalizing Henry Anthony Mette, to which peas 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House: ““"~* 
And also, 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Bernard 
for naturalizing Bernard Mette, to which the Lords rg 
desire the concurrence of this House: And also, nein 

The Lords do communicate to this House, a copy Agriculture. 
of the Report made from the Select Committee 
appointed by their Lordships in the last Session of 
Parliament to inquire into the state of Agriculture 
in England and Wales, together with the Minutes 
of Evidence, and Appendix and Index, as desired 
by this House :—And then the Messengers with- 
drew. 


ecker’s 


Becher’s Naturalization Bill was read the first Ree +5 
at. ul. 


time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


Bernard Mette’s Naturalization Bill was read the Bemard 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. ge 
Henry Anthony Mette’s Naturalization Bill was Henry Anthony 


read the first time ; and ordered to be read a second sag 
time. = 


Lord Viscount Lowther presented a Bill for in- Mansergh, &amp;e. 
closing Lands within the Townships or Divisions —_ 
Mansergh, Lupton, Old Hutton and Holme Scales ; 
and New Hutton, in the Parishes of Kirkby Lons- 
dale, Burton-in-Kendal and Kirkby-in-Kendal, in 
the County of Westmorland: And the same was 
read the first time ; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


A Petition of the Hammersmith Bridge Company, Southwark and 
praying that they may be heard, by themselves, Hammersmith 
their counsel or agents, against certain parts of the ®*!”*y Bill 
Southwark and Hammersmith Railway Bill, was 
presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to 
the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petition, if they think fit ; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Croydon, praying London and 
that the London and Brighton Railway Bill (Gibds’s Brighton _ 
Line) may pass into a law, was presented, and read ; (Gibbe, rad ) 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. : 

R 2 A Petition 





124 


Saddleworth A Petition of Inhabitants of Staley, Staley Bridge, 

Reservoirs Dukinfield, and Ashton-under-Lyne, praying that 
the Saddleworth Reservoirs Bill may not pass into 
a law, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 

Courteenhall § A Petition of Thomas Reeve Thornton, of Brock- 

Sales” hall, in the county of Northampton, Esquire, taking 

Bill. notice of the application for leave to bring in the 
Courteenhall and Great Wigston Railway Bill, and 
praying that he may be eal, by his counsel, 
agents and witnesses against the same, was pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 

Election Pe- Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had 

oo received from the Deputy Clerk of the Crown and 


Hanaper in Jreland, a Petition of Walter Newton 
and others, complaining of an undue Election and 
return for the County of Carlow. 

And the said Petition was laid upon the Table. 

A Petition of Walter Newton, of Dunleckney, 


Carlow County 


se a William Fitz-William Burton, of Burton Hall, 
nea tl Robert Clayton Browne, of View Mount, and Wil- 


liam Fishbourne, of the town of Carlow, all in the 
county of Carlow, Esquires, Freeholders and Elec- 
tors of the said County of Carlow, on behalf of 
themselves and others, claiming to have had and 
having a right to vote at the last Election for a Mem- 
ber to serve in Parliament for the said County, was 
read ; setting forth, That all the Petitioners were, at 
and during the Election of a Member to serve in 
Parliament for the said County of Carlow, electors 
of, and had a claim to have a right to vote for, a 
Knight to serve in Parliament at the said Election 
for the said County; that the usual writ having 
been issued and directed to the Sheriff of the said 
County of Carlow, commanding him to proceed to 
the Election of a Knight of the Shire for the said 
County to serve in the present Parliament, in the 
room and stead of Thomas Kavanagh, Esquire, de- 
ceased, and the same having been delivered to 
Richard Butler, Esquire, the late High Sheriff of 
the said County, on the third day of February one 
thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, he did on 
the fourth day of February one thousand eight hun- 
dred and thirty-seven, cause proclamation to be 
made, that an Wection for the said County of Car- 
low would be holden at the County Court-house in 
the town of Carlow, in obedience to said Writ, on 
the fourteenth day of February then next, when 
and where he would proceed to the Election of a 
Knight of the Shire to represent the said County in 
the present Parliament, in the room of the said 
Thomas Kavanagh; that the Shrievalty of the said 
Richard Butler having expired intermediately 
between the making of the said proclamation and 
the day thereby fixed for holding the said Election, 
and George Rous Keough, Esquire, having been ap- 
pointed Sheriff of the said County, he, on the sixth 
day of February one thousand eight hundred and 
thirty-seven, duly took the oath by law required, 
and then and there became and was the Sheriff of 
the said County, and so continued from thence 
hitherto; that, at the said Election, Thomas Bunbury 
and Nicholas Aylward Vigors, Esquires, were can- 
didz.tes to represent the said County in Parliament ; 
that at a county court holden on the said fourteenth 
day of February by the said George Rous Keough, 
so being such High Sheriff, pursuant to said pro- 
clamation, the said Thomas Bunbury, as also the 
said Nicholas Aylward Vigors were severally pro- 

osed and seconded, and offered themselves to the 

jlectors of the said County as fit and proper per- 
sons to represent the said County of Carlow in the 
present Parliament; that, after a show of hands by 
the Electors, the Sheriff declared the majority to be 
in favour of the said Nicholas Aylward Vigors, 
whereupon a poll was demanded in the usual manner 
for the electors of the said County, and also for the 


and Electors. 


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A. 1837. 


said Thomas Bunbury, pursuant to the Statutes in 
such case made and provided ; that the said Sheriff 
proceeded on the fifteenth day of February to poll 
the said County, and continued to do so until Sa- 
turday the eighteenth day of February following, 
when he declared the majority of votes to be in 
favour of the said Nicholas ylward Vigors, who 
was thereupon declared in the return by the said 
Sheriff as duly elected ; that the numbers of voters 
| which appeared on the poll at the close thereof, were 
| for the said Nicholas Aylward Vigors six hundred 
and sixty-nine, and for the said Thomas Bunbury 
six hundred and thirty-three, making a colourable 
majority for the said Wicholas Aylward Vigors over 
the said Thomas Bunbury of thirty-six; that the 
said majority in favour of the said Wicholas Aylward 
Vigors was but a colourable majority, and that the 
said Return of said Vigors was an undue Return, and 
was procured, not only by violence, terror, threats, 
and intimidation, but by the grossest perjury, bribery 
and by the payment and promise of payment of 
large sums of money, by and on behalf of the Sitting 
Member, to electors, and to other persons capable 
of influencing electors of the said County, and of 
procuring and endeavouring to procure voters for the 
purpose of securing his return, and by other undue, 
legal, corrupt and unconstitutional means ; and the 
Petitioners = tg that in addition to the fraudulent 
and illegal practices of the said Vigors and his agents, 
the said Return was obtained by reason of improper 
conduct of the said Sheriff, his assessor and deputies ; 
as evidence thereof the Petitioners show that the 
Barrister who acted as assessor for the said Sheriff 
at the said Election, was not only selected without 
giving the said Thomas Bunbury, or those acting on 
his behalf, an opportunity of objecting to his fitness, 
but the said Barrister then was, and for a consider- 
able time theretofore had been, and now is a member 
of a certain illegal society or body of persons asso- 
ciated together in Jreland, and styling themselves 
“ The General Association of Ireland,’ and had 
shortly previous to the commencement of said Elec- 
tion taken an active and prominent part at the 
meetings of the said Association ; and the Peti- 
tioners show that the selection of an assessor from 
among the members of the said Association was the 
more especially objectionable and improper, because 
the fe Association had as a body in and by its 
ublic resolutions, entered into prior to the said 

lection, announced its determination to support the 
said Nicholas Aylward Vigors, and had actually de- 
puted several of its members, and especially Arthur 
French its secretary, to assist the said icholas 
Aylward Vigors at the said Election, which they 
accordingly did ; and, as the Petitioners believe and 
will be able to prove, said Arthur French did expend 
divers sums of money, entrusted to him by the said 
Association, and supplied out of its funds, in and 
towards the furthering the Return of the said JVi- 
cholas Aylward Vigors; and as further evidence of 
the improper conduct of the said Sheriff and his 
assessor, the Petitioners show that three of the four 
persons nominated by him as his deputies in the 
polling booths were violent partisans of the said 
Nicholas Aylward Vigors, and acted in a most 
unfair manner, and with the view and intent of ad- 
vancing the interests of the said Nicholas Aylward 
Vigors, and of preventing the Return of the said 
Thomas Bunbury, and to such an extent was the 
same manifested, that, although complaints of the 
misconduct of said deputies were repeatedly made 
to the Sheriff and his said assessor during the Elec- 
tion, and although in the course of one of the said 
polling days one of the said deputies was several 
times brought before the said Sheriff and his assessor, 
and accusations of distinct acts of misconduct and 
partiality preferred against him by the agents of the 
said Thomas Bunbury, and although on each of the 
said occasions the said Sheriff and his assessor ad- 
mitted said complaints to be well founded, yet je 

sal 














7 Wut. IV. 


said Sheriff, by the advice of his said assessor, refused 
to remove the said deputy, who, encouraged by such 
refusal, persisted in such his misconduct up to the 
termination of the said Election; the Petitioners 
show, as further evidence of the undue means by 
which the return of the said Nicholas ylward 
Vigors was procured, that the said Sheriff, by the 
advice of his said assessor, refused to receive the 
votes of duly qualified electors, who offered and 
tendered their votes, and required to be allowed to 
vote for the said Thomas Bunbury; and, on the 
other hand, admitted to vote at said Election, and 
placed on the poll as voters for the said Nicholas 
Aylward Vigors, several persons who did not pro- 
duce any certificates of their being registered as 
electors of the said County, and although there were 
no affidavits of registry purporting to be made by 
-such persons as required by law in the hands or 
custody of the Clerk of the Peace for the said 
County, or his deputies; and although the names of 
such particular persons had been in due course of 
law struck off the registry of said County, by virtue 
of an order for that purpose directed to the Clerk of 
the Peace of the said County, under the hand of the 
Speaker of the House, bearing date the twenty-fourth 
day of August one thousand eight hundred and 
thirty-five, and issued pursuant to, and in conformity 
with a Report bearing date the nineteenth day of 
August one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, 
and made by a Select Committee of the House duly 
appointed to try the merits of a certain Petition pre- 
sented to the House in the month of July one 
thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, against the 
Return of the said Wicholas Aylward Vigors and 
Alexander Raphaelas Members for the said County ; 
and on which occasion the said Nicholas Aylward 
Vigors and Alexander Raphael having been returned 
by a majority which was in part comprised of the said 
thirty-six voters, who comprised the entire colourable 
majority at the last Election, were unseated ; and as 
further evidence of the undue means by which the 
Return of the said Nicholas Aylward Vigors was 
procured, the Petitioners show, that the said Sheriff 
also admitted several other persons to vote at said 
Election, and placed them on the poll for the said 
Nicholas Aylward Vigors, although the names of said 
last-mentioned persons did not nor ought to appear 
on the register of the said County, they not in fact 
being electors thereof or qualified to vote at the said 
Election, they having been struck off the register of 
the said County by virtue of the said order. of the 
said Speaker of the House, pursuant to the said 
Report of the said Select Committee, and although 
there were not any affidavits of the registry of several 
of said last-mentioned persons in the hands orcustody 
of the Clerk of the Peace of the said County, or his 
deputy ; the Petitioners further show, that all said 
several persons were admitted to vote, and placed on 
the poll, as deriving their right to be electors of the 
said County by virtue of registry effected by them 
respectively prior to the said Order of the Speaker of 
the House, and the said Report of the said Select 
Committee, and which said several registries were 
by said Report and Order declared to be null and 
void, the said several persons not having, in fact and 
truth, at the time of such their respective alleged 
registries, any sufficient qualifications entitling them 
to be electors of the said County, and having pro- 
cured themselves to he registered by means of fraud 
and perjury ; the Petitioners further show, that, not- 
withstanding such determination and Report of the 
said Select Committee, and the Order of the said 
Speaker, and the erasure of the names of said per- 
sons from the register of the said County, and not- 
withstanding that certified copies of said Heport and 
Order respectively were duly served on the said 
Sheriff and his assessor, prior to his admitting the 
said disfranchised persons to vote, the said Sheriff 
persisted in placing them on the poll; the Peti- 
tioners show that, as further evidence of the undue 
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125 


Return of the said Nicholas Aylward Vigors, that 
the said Sheriff admitted to vote, and placed on the 
poll, several persons who had not been duly or ai all 
registered as electors of the said County for six 
months previous to the test of the writ under which 
the said Election was holden; the Petitioners show, 
as further evidence of the undue means by which the 
Return of said Nicholas Aylward Vigors was pro- 
cured, said Sheriff and his assessor did, contrary to 
the provisions of the Statute in that case made and 
provided, allow and permit several different Bar- 
risters to attend and act at the same time as the 
counsel of the said Nicholas Aylward Vigors in the 
assessor’s booth and elsewhere, during the course of 
the said Election, several, if not all, of said Barristers 
being at the time members of the said General As- 
sociation, and some of them having been deputed by 
that illegal body to assist as counsel at said Elec- 
tion, and being accepted by the said Nicholas Ayl- 
ward Vigors, and employed by him as such; the 
Petitioners show, as further evidence of the undue 
means by which the Return of the said Wicholas 
Aylward Vigors was procured, that the said Sheriff 
and his assessor, after the final termination of the 
said poll, and after it had been ascertained that if 


‘the said persons who had been so disfranchised, and 


whose names had been struck off the register in 
manner aforesaid, had not been admitted to vote, 
or been placed on the poll, the said Thomas Bunbury 
would have had a majority of the legal voters, that 
is to say, after the hour of five o’clock in the even- 
ing of Saturday the eighteenth day of February 
one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, the 
said Sheriff, without any right whatever so to 
do, struck off the poll the vote of an elector who 
had been duly placed thereon, having voted for the 
said Thomas Bunbury on Wednesday the fifteenth 
day of February one thousand eight hundred and 
thirty-seven, and whose vote was continued in the 
said poll until after the final close thereof, and thereby 
increased the colourable majority of the said N- 
cholas Aylward Vigors from thirty-five to thirty-six ; 

that several persons were permitted and received b 
the said Sheriff to poll as freeholders and leaseholders 
in favour of the said Nicholas Aylward Vigors, who 
were not entitled to vote at the said Election, they 
not having been duly registered according to the 
Acts and Statutes now in force for the registry 
of persons entitled to vote at Elections in Jre- 
land, inasmuch as they had not at the time of 
their alleged registry, or at all, taken or subscribed 
such oaths or affidavits as are by said Acts or Sta- 
tutes directed and prescribed to be taken and 
subscribed by persons claiming to register, as lease- 
holders or freeholders, nor were any such affidavits 
ever lodged or deposited with the Clerk of the Peace 
for the said County, or his deputy, or filed among 
the records of the said County ; the affidavits which 
were in fact lodged or filed being insufficient, and 
not conformable to the laws now in force in respect 
thereof; that several other persons as well claiming 
to be freeholders as leaseholders were by the said 
Sheriff admitted to poll for the said Nicholas Ayl- 
ward Vigors, who were not entitled to vote at the 
said Election, though they appeared upon the face 
of the county books to have been regularly regis- 
tered, many of such last mentioned persons having 
in fact and truth prevailed on and induced the 
Deputy Assistant Barrister, and the Assistant Bar- 
rister, to admit them to register by means of the 
grossest fraud, misrepresentation and perjury, and 
several of them so registered not having in fact and 
truth at the time of their said registry, or at all, 
any legal or vested title whatever to the lands and 
remises out of which they were so registered, and, 
in fact and truth, the freeholds and leaseholds of 
several other of said persons in respect whereof they 
were so admitted to register, were not of sufficient 
yearly value to entitle them to do so, or to confer 
the qualification required by law to entitle a 
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126 6° Marti. 


to vote at an Election for Representatives for the 
said County; and others of said persons having 
been unduly and illegally registered by the said 
Deputy Assistant Barrister and Assistant Barrister, 
although they had not been for the six months pre- 
vious to the time of their respective registries in 
possession of the premises out of which pa claimed 
to register, under or bY virtue of any sufficient or 
other title or estate conferring a franchise or right of 
voting, their respective titles and estates having 
been granted and conveyed to them immediately 
previous to or within six months prior to the date of 
their said registries, for the purpose, and with the 
view and intent of manufacturing votes at Elections; 
and several other of the persons so registered, al- 
though professing to derive their respective leases 
from persons not competent to grant same, not hav- 
ing any sufficient estate or title to enable them to 
make or grant such leases ; that several other per- 
sons were permitted and received by the said Sheriff 
to poll as fecholders and leaseholders at said Elec- 
tion in favour of the said Wicholas Aylward Vigors, 
who were not at all entitled to vote thereat, mas- 
much as previous thereto, and subsequent to the 
registry of their freeholds or leaseholds, the estates 
or interests in right of which they had so registered, 
had either in the whole or in part been assigned, 
surrendered, evicted or otherwise determined, so as 
not to leave any sufficient qualification to vote in 
said persons at the time of the said Election, as the 
Petitioners could have proved at said Election, if 
allowed any opportunity so to do, and could still 
prove the same; and also, that the said Wicholas 
Aylward Vigors well knew, previous to and at the 
time of said Election, that said persons had no 
right to vote thereat ; that several other persons who 
had not any votes, and were not at all electors of 
the said County, were admitted to vote and placed 
on the poll at the said Election, such last-men- 
tioned persons having at said Election personated 
electors who were either dead or were absent from 
said Election, and the Petitioners show that several 
of such persons so fraudulently personating electors 
of said County, were enabled successfully to per- 
petrate the said frauds so committed by them by 
reason of the said Sheriff allowing several of said 
persons so personating voters, as well as electors, to 
vote at places not allowed by law, and by the said 
Sheriff receiving the votes of such persons so per- 
souating electors and others at such illegal places, 
and not within the booths by law appointed for the 
purpose, where only the votes of any electors could 
awfully be received ; and the Petitioners show that 
no votes should have been received or admitted on 
the poll, save in the said booths appointed for poll- 
ing, and that all votes given at than in such 
booths should be struck off the poll; that the said 
Nicholas Aylward Vigors himself, by his agents and 
managers, and by persons employed by him and on 
his behalf, did, after the teste of the Writ for said 
Election, and during the said Election, and before 
the commencement of same, give, present and allow 
to various persons having or claiming to have votes 
in said Election, money, meat, drink, entertainment, 
and did make and enter into promises, agreements, 
obligations and engagements, to give and allow 
money, meat, drink, presents, rewards and entertain- 
ments, to and for such persons, in order to procure 
their votes, and to be elected, and for being elected 
a Member to serve in this present Parliament for the 
said County of Carlow; that, for a considerable time 
previous to and during the said Election, the priests 
and Roman Catholic clergy of the said County 
interfered with, and influenced the electors of the 
Roman Catholic persuasion in a most illegal, violent 
and unconstitutional manner, in order to compel 
them to vote for the said Nicholas Aylward Vigors ; 
that, previeus to, and in contemplation of, and dur- 
ing the said Election, the said priests and Roman 
Catholic clergy not only used their utmost exer- 








A. 1837. 


tions to excite a rancorous hostility against the said 
Thomas Bunbury, but availed themselves of the 
superstition of many of the most ignorant Roman 
Catholic electors, to mduce them to believe that 
they would be highly criminal, and incur the risk of 
damnation, if they voted for the said Thomas Bun- 
bury, or any other person but one supported by 
them; that the said priests and Roman Catholic 
clergy did not vy Mans all their spiritual influence 
against the said Thomas Bunbury, but in many in- 
stances threatened several Electors who were un- 
willing to vote against the said Thomas Bunbury, 
that their properties and persons would suffer mjury 
in case they resisted or disobeyed the commands of 
the said priests, or refused to submit to their dicta- 
tion; that, in consequence, and under the influence 
of the fear and terror, and general intimidation pro- 
duced by such illegal and unconstitutional threats, 
many electors voted contrary to their own wishes 
and inclinations against the said Thomas Bunbury, 
and many others of the said electors who wished 
and desired to vote for said last-mentioned candi- 
date, were deterred and prevented from voting at the 
said Election; that the said priests and Roman 
Catholic clergy did, shortly previous to the said 
Election, enter into a general plan or confederacy 
to attend thereat, and remain at the different booths 
during the time of taking the poll, with the view 
and intent of thereby intimidating the Roman Ca- 
tholic electors of said County from voting in accord- 
ance with the commands which they had previously 
received from the said priests; that, in pursuance 
of such plan and determination, several Roman Ca- 
tholic priests not only acted as agents for the said 
Ni kedas Aylward Vigors during the said Election, 
but also attended in each polling booth during the 
entire time of polling each day, and having taken 
up conspicuous positions in said booths, where every 
person coming to poll must necessarily see them, 
they did in the most violent manner endeavour to 
intimidate and deter the Roman Catholic electors 
coming forward to vote for the said Thomas Bun- 
bury from doing so, and thereby did deter some 
from voting at all, and terrified others to vote 
against the said Thomas Bunbury; that many Ro- 
man Catholic electors were, under the excitation and 
fear produced by addresses from the Roman Catholic 
clergy, and certain persons, members of the said 
General Association, pressed forward to the hust- 
ings, and induced to vote, contrary to their wishes 
and inclinations, for said Nicholas Aylward Vigors ; 
that the priests and other Roman Catholic clergy of 
said County did, in addition to the acts aforesaid, 
resort to other violent, illegal and unconstitutional 
methods of terrifying and intimidating the electors 
of said County in the exercise of the Elective Fran- 
chise against the said Thomas Bunbury, and in order 
to secure the return of the said Nicholas Aylward 
Vigors as a Member to serve in the present Parlia- 
ment for the said County; that the said Nicholas 
Aylward Vigors accepted and availed himself of the 
aforesaid acts and conduct of the said Roman Ca- 
tholic clergy, and other persons, members of the 
said Association, and accepted and made use of 
their services and exertions, and employed them as 
agents during the said Election, although he was 
fully cognizant of the said illegal and unconstitu- 
tional acts committed by the said persons, and of 
the means resorted to by them to control and defeat 
the freedom of Election; that by the above and 
other undue means, and by the many illegal and erro- 
neous decisions made by the Deputy Assistant Bar- 
rister and Assistant Barristers of the said County, 
on the occasion of their registering the said Electors 
in and for the said County, the said Nicholas Ayl- 
ward Vigors obtained a colouvable majority, and was 
returned to serve in Parliament for the said County, 
in open violation of the law and freedom of Elec- 
tion, and to the great prejudice of the Petitioners 
and of the said Thomas Bunbury, who had, — 

the 


Fictit 
(Irel 


Lone 
Unis 


Co 





Kictitious Votes 
(Ireland. ) 


London 
University, &amp;c. 
Nos. 

89 &amp; 90. 
Prisoners 
(Sussex. ) 

No. 118. 


Drury Lane 
Theatre, 


Copper, 





7 Wit. IV. 


the said Election, as it is submitted it will appear 
upon fair scrutiny of the poll, and an investigation 
of the qualification of the persons who voted, a great 
majority of the good and legal votes, and ought 
therefore to have been returned as Representative of 
the said County ; and for all the causes aforesaid, 
the Petitioners humbly pray, That the said Wicholas 
Aylward Vigors may be declared not duly elected, 
and that the said Thomas Bunbury may be declared 
to be duly elected, and may be declared in the place 
of the said Nicholas Aylward Vigors to take his 
seat as a Knight to represent the said County in 
this weet Parliament; or that the said return, and 
the Election, may be declared null and void, and the 
parties sent to a new Election ; and that the votes 
of the several persons improperly registered and 
allowed to poll as aforesaid may be struck off the 
as ; and that the registry of the ages may also 

e amended by striking off the books of the County, 
in the hands of the Clerk of the Peace, the names 
of all such persons as shall appear to have been 
unduly or improperly registered; and that such 
steps may be taken and directions given as will 
effectually prevent and restrain the present High 
Sheriff, or any future High Sheriffs of the said 
County, from permitting to vote, or placing on the 
poll at any future Election for the said County, the 
several — who have been struck off the Re- 
gistry of the said County, in manner aforesaid, or 
who shall, in compliance with the prayer hereof, be 
so struck off; and also that such proceedings may 
be taken or orders given as will in future prevent 
and restrain the Sheriffs of the said County from 
making undue Returns of Members to serve in the 
House for the said County; and that the House 
may grant such further relief to the Petitioners as 
the merits of their case may require. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be taken into 
consideration upon Tuesday, the 18th day of April 
next, at three of the clock in the Afternoon. 

Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant 
or Warrants for such persons, papers and records | 
as shall be thought necessary by the several parties | 
on the hearing of the matter of the said Petition. 








| 


Ordered, That Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer | 


be discharged from any further attendance on the | 
Select Committee on Fictitious Votes (Jreland.) 

Ordered, That Mr. Attorney General for Zreland | 
be added to the Committee. 


Ordered, That the Copies of Charters of- Incor- 
poration granted by His Majesty to the University 
of London ; and, University College, London, which 


6° Marti. 


127 
exported :—Of the Quantities of Copper exported 
from the Port of London, in the year ending 5th 
January 1837; distinguishing each sort, and to what 
Country exported :—Of the Quantities of Copper 
exported from the Port of Liverpool, in the year 
ending 5th January 1837; distinguishing each sort, 
and to what Country exported :—And, of all Copper 
Ore that has been imported into the United Kingdom, 
without payment of Duty, for the purpose of ex- 
portation, in the year ending 5th January 1837. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Tin. 


an Account of all Tin imported into the United 
Kingdom in the year ending 5th January 1837; 
distinguishing from what Countries imported. 
Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
an Account of all Tin exported from the United 
Kingdom in the year ending 5th January 1837 ; 
distinguishing to what Countries exported. 


A Motion being made, That this House will, To- 
motrow, resolve itself into a Committee, to consider 
of authorizing advances to be made from time to 
time out of the Consolidated Fund of the United 
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the 
pee oe of Bullion, in order to provide supplies of 
Coin for the Public Service ; 

Lord John Russell, by His Majesty’s command, 
acquainted the House, That His Majesty, having 
been informed of the subject-matter of this Motion, 
recommends it to the consideration of the House. 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- Canada. 


posed, That the Order of the day, for the House to 
resolve itself into a Committee upon the state of the 
Province of Lower Canada, be now read ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” to 
the end of the Question, in order to add the words 
“ Major Beauclerk, Mr. Serjeant Goulburn, Mr. 
“ Freshfield, Mr. George Frederick Young, Mr. Tho- 
mas Attwood, and Mr. Hindley, be added to the 
Select Committee on the Poor Law Amendment 
Act,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words pro- 
posed to be left out stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the old Lobby ; 

The Noes to the new Lobby. 

Tellers for the f Mr. Robert Steuart, 152 

Yeas, \ Mr. Fox Maule : } — 
Tellers for the f Mr. Walter, 104 
Noes, Mr. Thomas Duncombe : } : 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 


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were presented upon Thursday last, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Return relative to Prisoners 
(Sussex), which was presented upon Thursday last, 
be printed. 


A Petition of Alfred Bunn, lessee of the Theatre 
Royal Drury Lane, complaining of having been re- 
stricted by the Lord Chamberlain from performing an 
Opera, called “ Fair Rosamond,” during Lent, which 
has occasioned a serious loss to the Petitioner and 
the various other persons employed in and about the 
said Theatre, and the numerous families dependent 
for their support on the Theatre being kept open, 
and praying the interference of the House, was pre- 
sented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Accounts of all Copper imported into the United 
Kingdom in the year ending 5th January 1837 ; dis- 
tinguishing each sort of Copper, from what Country, 
and into what Ports imported :—Of the Quantities 
of Copper exported from the United Kingdom in 
the year ending 5th January 1837; distinguishing 


each sort, from what Port sent, and to what Country 
‘ 


Vo t. 92. 


Ordered, That the Order of the day, for the House 
| to resolve itself into a Committee upon the state of 
'the Province of Lower Canada, be now read ; and 
ithe same being read:—The House resolved itself 
into the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 


Paragraph in the King’s Speech relative to the 
Province of Lower Canada, read. 

Motion made, and Question, That, since the 31st 
day of October, in the year 1832, no provision has 
been made by the Legislature of the Province of 
Lower Canada, for defraying the charges of the Ad- 
ministration of Justice, and for the support of the 
Civil Government within the said Province, and that 
there will, on the 10th day of April now next ensuing, 
be required, for defraying in full the charges afore- 
said to that day, the sum of £.142,160. 14s. 6d. 
put, and agreed to. ; 

Motion made, and Question, That at a Session 
of the Legislature of Lower Canada, holden at the 
City of Quebec, in the said Province, in the months 
of September and October 1836, the Governor of the 
said Province, in compliance with His Majesty’s 
commands, recommended to the attention of the 
House of Assembly thereof the Estimates for the 

R4 current 








Mint (Purchase 
of Bullion.) 





ae 


Mint Bill. 


Imprisonment 
for Debt Bill 
[Compensation 
to Gaolers.] 





128 


6°—7° 


current year, and also the Accounts, showing the 
arrears due in respect of the Civil Government, and 
signified to the said House His Majesty’s confidence 
that they would accede to the application which He 
had been commanded to renew for payment of the 
arrears due on account of the Public Service, and 
for the Funds necessary to carry on the Civil Go- 
vernment of the Province———put, and agreed to. 

Motion made, and Question, That the said House | 
of Assembly, on the 3d day of October 1836, by an | 
Address to the Governor of the said Province, de- 
clined to vote a Supply for the purposes aforesaid, 
and by the said Address, after referring to a former 
Address of the said House to the Governor of the 
said Province, declared that the said House persisted, 
amongst other things, in the demand of an Elective 
Legislative Council, and in demanding the repeal of 
a certain Act passed by the Parliament of the United 
Kingdom in favour of the North American Land 
Company ; and by the said Address the said House 
of Assembly further adverted to the demand made 
by that House of the free exercise of its control 
over all the branches of the Executive Government; 
and by the said Address the said House of Assembly 
further declared that it was incumbent on them in 
the present conjuncture to adjourn their deliberations 
until His Majesty’s Government should by its acts, 
especially by rendering the second branch of the 
Legislature conformable to the wishes and wants of 
the People, have commenced the great work of 
justice and reform, and created a confidence which 
alone could crown it with success put, and 
agreed to. 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That in the 
existing state of Lower Canada, it is unadvisable 
to make the Legislative Council of that Province an 
Elective Body; but that it is expedient that measures 
be adopted for securing to that branch of the Legis- 
lature a greater degree of public confidence. 

Amendment proposed: To leave out from the 
words “ Lower Canada” to the end of the Question, 
in order to add the words “ it is advisable to make 
“ the Legislative Council of that Province an Elective 
“ Body,” instead thereof. ; | 

Motion made, and Question, That the Chairman | 
do report Progress, and ask leave to sit again 
put, and agreed to. | 




















Martit. 


A. 1837, 


Mr. Robert Steuart reported the Imprisonment Imprisonment 
for Debt Bill; and the Bill was re-committed to a for Debt Bill, 


Committee of the whole House. 

The House was moved, That the Resolution which 
was this day reported from the Committee, to whom 
it was referred to consider of granting Compensa- 
tion to Gaolers and dthers who may suffer from the 
operation of any Act to be passed in the present Ses- 
sion of Parliament, for abolishing Imprisonment 
for Debt ; and which Resolution was then agreed to 
by the House, might be read ; and the same being 
read ; 

Ordered, That it be an Instruction to the Com- 
mittee, That they have Power to make provision 
therein, pursuant to the said Resolution. 

Then the House resolved itself into the said Com- 
mittee ; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Robert Steuart 
reported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Robert Steuart reported the Bill accordingly ; 
and the Report was ordered to be taken into further 
consideration on Monday next; and the Bill, as 
amended, to be printed. 


No. 91, 


The Penitentiary (Milbank) Bill was, according to Penitentiar 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a (Milbank) Bill 


Committee of the whole House, for Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Court of Session 


mittee on the Court of Session (Scotland) Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


(Scotland) Bill, 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Common Law 


mittee on the Common Law Courts Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


Courts Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Registration of 


mittee on the Registration of Voters Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Voters Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- supply. 


mittee of Supply ; 


Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 


And the House having continued to sit till after, solve itself into the said Committee. 


twelve of the clock on Tuesday morning ; | 


Martis, 7° die Martii, 1837: | 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal | 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress | 
in the matters to them referred; and that he was | 
directed to move, That the Committee may have | 
leave to sit again. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday | 


next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 
| 


The Mint Bill was, according to Order, read a| 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Poor Relief 


reading of the Poor Relief (Jreland) Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Friday next. 


(Ireland) Bill 


Sir Robert Steuart reported from the Committee Court of Session 
to whom it was referred to consider of providing for (Scotland) Bill; 


the Compensations and Expenses which may arise 


end, Small 
ebts (Scot- 


under any Act to be “ogee in the present Session jand) Bill 


of Parliament to ma 


e certain alterations in the [Compensation 


second time ; and committed to a Committee of the establishment of Clerks and Officers of the Court Offcers.] 


whole House, for Friday next. | 
Mr. Robert Steuart reported from the Committee, | 
to whom it was referred to consider of granting Com- | 
pensation to Gaolers and others who may suffer from 
the operation of any Act to be passed in the present | 
Session of Parliament for abolishing Imprisonment | 


of Session and Court of Commission for Teinds in 
Scotland, and also under any other Act for the 
more effectual Recovery of Small Debts in the Sheriffs 
Courts in Scotland, several Resolutions, which were 
read, as follow: 

1. Resolved, That the Salaries which may be 
granted to the Officers of the Court of Session and 


for Debt, a Resolution, which was read, as followeth: Court of Commission for Teinds in Scotland, in 
Resolved, That the Lords Commissioners of His | pursuance of any Act of this Session of Parliament, 
Majesty’s Treasury be empowered to grant Compen-| shall be payable out of the Fee Fund of the said 
sation, out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Court of Session; and any deficiency in the said 
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, under cer-| Fund shall be made good in manner directed by an 
tain Regulations to be hereafter prescribed, to the Act of the Fiftieth year of King George the Third. 
Keepers of Gaols who may sustain loss from the| 2. Resolved, That all Compensations which ma 
operation of any Act which may be passed in the be granted in pursuance of the said Act of this Ses- 
present Session of Parliament, for abolishing Im-|sion of Parliament, shall be paid out of the Monies 
prisonment for Debt. which, by several Acts of her late Majesty Queen 
The said Resolution, being read a second time,! Anne, were made chargeable with the Charges of 
was agreed to. | the Court of Session in Scotland. 





3. Resolved, 











7 Wit. IV. 


3. Resolved, That the Travelling and _ other 
Charges incurred by the Sheriff and Sheriff Clerks, 
under an Act of the present Session of Parliament, 
for establishing Circuit Courts for the Trial of Small 
Debt Causes in Scotland, shall be rendered annu- 
ally in the Exchequer, with the other Charges of 
the Sheriff, and paid out of the Public Revenue of 
Scotland. 

The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That it be an Instruction to the Com- 
mittee on the Court of Session (Scotland) Bill, that 
they have Power to make provision therein pursuant 
to the two first of the said Resolutions. 

Ordered, That it be an Instruction to the Com- 
mittee on the Small Debts (Scotland) Bill, that they 
have Power to make provision therein, pursuant to 
the last Resolution. 


6°—-7° Martiz. 


129 


turns of the Amount of the Sums of Money paid into 
the Bank of England to the credit of the ] oveciaed 
ant General of the Court of Chancery, and placed 
to the Credit of “The Suitors’ Fee Fund,” under 
the Act 3 and 4 Will. 4,c. 94, in each year since 
the 26th day of November 1833 (the day the Act 
came into operation :)}—Account of the several Sums 
of Money paid in each of the said years out of the 
same fund ; distinguishing how much has been paid 
for Salaries, and how much on any other Account ; 
specifying on what Accounts such last-mentioned 
Sums have been paid respectively (as for Compen- 
sations, &amp;c., under s. 48 :}—Account of the Surplus 
Cash, Stocks and Funds, if any, which stood to the 
Credit of “ The Suitors’ Fee Fund Account” at 
the end of each year, from the 26th day of Novem- 
ber 1833, and how the same has been invested and 
applied; and what, if any thing, is now standing 
to the Credit of the “ Account of Monies placed out 


- Trinity Ordered, That there be laid before this House, | to provide for the Officers of the High Court of 
om Copies of the Charters under which the Trinity | Chancery,” s. 36:—Account of the Amount paid 
House of Hull collects Primage, Buoyage, Beacon- | in each of the said years to the Clerk of the Re- 
age, Fines upon Aliens, Elders Turns, and all other | ports for Office Copies made by him, s. 37 :—A like 
Dues, Fines and Charges whatever. Account of the Amount paid in each of the said 
years to the Clerks of the Entries respectively for 

Marines. 


Kingsworthy 
and West 
Monckton 
Railway Bill. 


Railroads and 
Public Works 
Bill. 


No. 92, 


Loughborough 
Smail Debts 
Bill, 


London and 
tighton 
Railway Bill 


(Gibbs’s Line.) 


Mr. Charles Wood presented, pursuant to Orders, 
—Return of the Dates of the first Commissions of 
all the Field Officers (not being General Officers), 
and of the Twenty senior Captains, and the Forty 
senior First Lieutenants serving upon Full Pay of 
the Royal Marines, on the 1st February 1837; 
stating the Date of their promotion to the rank in 
which they were respectively serving on that day. 

Copies of all Memorials addressed to the Board 
of Admiralty, by Officers of the Royal Marines, on 
the subject of Promotion, since January 1829; and 
their Lordships’ Answers. 

Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Wason presented a Bill for making a Rail- 
way from the London and Southampton Railway, 
in the Parish of Kingsworthy, in the County of 
Southampton, to join the Bristol and Exeter Rail- 
way, in the Parish of West Monckton, in the County 
of Somerset, to be called “The South Western 
Railway:’’ And the same was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time. 


Mr. Dugdale presented a Bill for the better Pro- 
tection and Security of the Persons and Property of 
His Majesty’s Subjects residing in the Neighbour- 
hood of Railroads, Canals and other Public Works 
sanctioned by Parliament, during the time of con- 
struction: And the same was read the first time; 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Wed- 
nesday, the 15th day of this instant March ; and to 
be printed. 


The Loughborough Small Debts Bill was read a 
second time ; and committed to Mr. March Phil- 
lipps and the Leicester List. 


Ordered, That the London and Brighton Rail- 
a Bill (Gibbs’s Line), be read a second time this 
ay. 


And then the House, having continued to sit till 
a quarter of an hour before One of the clock 
on Tuesday morning, adjourned till this day. 








entries made by them:—A like Account of the 
Amount paid in each of the said years to the As- 
sistant Clerk ‘of the Clerk of the Affidavits for Office 
Copies of Affidavits made by him :—-A like Account 
of the Amount of the Sums paid in each of the 
said years to the Clerks of the Examiners respec- 
tively for Office Copies made by them :—and, A like 
Account of the Amount of the Sums of Money 
received or taken in each of the said years by each 
of the copying or writing Clerks of the Masters in 
Ordinary of the said Court respectively, for Copies 
or Transcripts made by them, s. 40 :—And then he 
withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Egan, from the Office of the Lord Warden 
of the Cinque Ports, was called in; and at the bar 
presented, pursuant to the directions of several Acts 
of Parliament,—An Account of the Receipts and 
Appropriations of the surplus Rates of Pilotage :— 
And then he withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Account do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Campbell, from the Court of Directors of the 
East India Company, was called in; and at the 
bar presented, pursuant to the directions of an Act 
of Parliament,—Resolutions of the Court of Direc- 
tors of the East India Company, being the War- 
rants or Instruments granting any Pension. 

Resolutions of the Court of Directors of the East 
India Company, being the Warrants or Instruments 
granting any Salary or Gratuity :—And then he 
withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Palmer, from the Commissioners of the 
Doughty Estate, was called in; and at the bar pre- 
sented,—Further Return to an Order dated the 
3d day of February last, for a Return relating to 
paving, cleansing and lighting, &amp;c. the parish of Sainé- 
Pancras (so far as relates to the Doughty Estate :) 
—And then he withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Pilotage. 


East India 
Company. 


St. Pancras 
Local Acts, 


Martis, 7° die Martii ; 
Anno 7 Willielmi I[V* Regis, 1837. 


The Manchester and Oldham Roads Bill was read Manchester 
a second time; and committed to Mr. Lees and the 24 Oldhan: 


Roads Bill. 
Lancaster List. 
PRAYERS. 


R. Parkinson, from the Office of the Account- 
ant General of the Court of Chancery, was 


Court of 


Mr. Robert Palmer reported from the Select Com- Maryport and 
Chancery, 


mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the — Rail- 
called in; and at the bar presented,Return to an | Standing Orders, relative to Bills for making Rail- w° 
Order dated the 22d day of February last for Re- | ways, had been complied with in the case of the 

Vor. 92. S Petition 








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Cork and Pas- 
sage Railway. 


a 
Goring Bridge 
and Roads, 


Dowlais 
Market. 


Manchester 
and Leeds 
Railway Biil. 


Dundee 
Improvement. 


Montrose 
Harbour. 


Dundee 
Water. works. 


130 7° Marti. 


Petition for the Maryport and Carlisle Railway 
Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for making a Railway from the Town and Port of 
Maryport to the Borough of Carlisle, to be called 
“ The Maryport and Carlisle Railway:” And that 
Sir James Graham and Mr. Irton do prepare, and 
bring it in. 

Mr. Robert Palmer reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the 
Standing Orders relative to Bills for making Rail- 
ways had been complied with, in the case of the 
Petition for the Cork and Passage Railway Bill. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Robert Palmer reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills ; That the Stand- 
ing Orders relative to Bills for Building Bridges 
had been complied with, in the case of the Petition 
for the Streatley and Goring Bridge and Roads Bill, 
but that it appeared to the Committee that so much 
of the application as relates to Turnpike Roads did 
not come within their jurisdiction. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for making and maintaining a Bridge over the River 
Thames from Streatley, in the County of Berks, to 
the opposite shore in the Parish of Goring, in the 
County of Ozford, with proper approaches thereto : 
And that Mr. Robert Palmer and Mr. Walter do 


prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Robert Palmer reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the 
Standing Orders relative to Bills for erecting Market 
Places had been complied with im the case of the 
Petition for the Dowlais Market Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for providing a Market Place and Market at the 
Village of Dowlais, inthe Parish of Merthyr Tydfil, 
in the County of Glamorgan: And that Mr. Guest, 
Mr. Mansel Lalbot and Mr. Dillwyn do prepare, and 
bring it in. 

A Petition of Trustees for repairing the Turnpike 
Roads leading from Todmorden to Fulledge-lane 
End, praying that they may be heard, by them- 
selves, their counsel or agents, against certain parts 
of the Manchester and Leeds Railway Bill, was pre- 
sented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


Mr. Chalmers reported from the Select Committee 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Standing 
Orders relative to Bills for improving Cities or Towns 
nad been complied with, in the case of the Petition 
for the Dundee Improvement Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to alter and amend an Act of the sixth year of the 
Reign of His late Majesty, for opening certain 
Streets in the Burgh of Dundee, and for otherwise 
a said Burgh: And that Mr. Chalmers 
and Sir Henry Parnell do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Chalmers reported from the Select Commit- 
tee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Stand- 
ing Orders relative to Bills for making Harbours, 
and to Bills for making Docks, had been complied 
with, in the case of the Petition for the Montrose 
Harbour Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for Improving the Harbour of the Burgh of Montrose, 
in the county of Forfar: And that Mr. Chalmers 
and Sir Henry Parnell do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Chalmers reported from the Select Committee 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Standing 
Orders relative to Bills for supplying Cities or 

















A. 1837. 


Towns with Water, had been complied with, in the 
case of the Petition for the Dundee Water-works 
Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for supplying the Burgh of Dundee, and the Suburbs 
thereof with Water: And that Mr. Chalmers and 
Sir Henry Parnell do prepare, and bring it in. 


Petitions from Inhabitants of Dartmouth, — Torquay 
and Torquay; praying that the Torquay Road Bill 84 Bill. 
co | pass into a law ;—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of Creditors of the Torquay and Dart- 
mouth Turnpike Road, praying that the said Bill may 
not pass into a law, was also presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The Westminster Bridge and Greenwich Railway Westminster 
Bill was read a second time ; and committed to Mr. —— — 
Alderman Wood and the Middlesex List. Railway Bill 

Petitions from Proprietors and Inhabitants of Glasgow and 
Ardrossan ;— Merchants, Bankers, Traders and 4 Railway 
others, of Beith ;—Commissioners of Supply of the ~” 
county of Ayr;—Proprietors and other Inhabitants of 
Kilbirnie (two Petitions) ;—Saltcoats ;—Kilmaurs ; 
—Stevenston ;—Draghorn ;—Dalry ;—Dundonald ;s 
—Lochwinnock ;—Trustees for the Improvement of 
the Harbour of Jrvine;—Merchants, Bankers, Bur- 
gesses, Proprietors and others of Irvine ;— Chancel- 
lor, Magistrates and Council of Prestwick ;—Inha- 
bitants of Johnstone ;—Port Glasgow ;— Kilbarchan; 
—Merchants, Bankers, Manufacturers and Inha- 
bitants of Paisley ;—and, Glasgow; praying that 
the Glasgow and Ayr Railway Bill, may pass into 
a law,—were presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Common Councilmen and Inhabitants London and 
of the ward of Aldgate, London, praying that the Lon- Blackwall 
don and Blackwall Commercial Railway Bill may not poner 
pass into a law, was presented, and read; and ordered . 
to lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from Inhabitant Householders, Occu- 

piers, Owners of houses, lands and premises in Saint 
Botolph, Aldgate, in the ward of Portsoken, London; 
—and, Proprietors of certain quays called legal 
quays, situate in Lower Thames-street, in the city of 
London ; praying that they may be heard, by them- 
selves, their counsel or agents, against certain parts 
of the said Bill,—were also presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


Petitions from Bankers, Merchants, Manufac- Lancaster 

turers, Traders and Inhabitants of Bolton-le-Moors ; and Preston 
— Manchester ;— Liverpool ;— Wigan ;— Kendal ;— ®+i!w*y ~~ 
Land-owners, Gentry, Merchants, Manufacturers, 
Traders and Inhabitants of Ulverstone;—Merchants, 
Manufacturers, Traders and Inhabitants of Zancas- 
ter ;—and, Owners and Proprietors, Lessees or Occu- 
piers of factories, mills and manufactories in Zan- 
caster; praying that the Lancaster and Preston 
Railway Bill may pass into a law,—were presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Scourfield presented a Bill for improving the Fishguard 
Harbour and Port of Fishguard, otherwise A bergwain, Harbour Bill. 
in the County of Pembroke: And the same was 
read the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


A Petition of Trustees of the Doncaster and Tad- York and 
caster Turnpike Road, praying that the York and North &lt;—"'’ 
North Midland Railway Bill may not pass into a Bel"4y *" 
law as it now stands, was presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions 


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7 Wi. IV. 


Petitions from Trustees of the Turnpike Road from 
Barnsdale to Leeds, and the branch from and out of 
the same to Aberford, and also Creditors of the Tolls 
of the said Road ;—and, the Right honourable John 
Francis, Lord Howden; praying that they may be 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, against 
certain parts of the said Bill,—were also presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Elland Bridge 
and Dewsbury 
Road Bill. 


The Elland Bridge and Dewsbury Road Bill was 
read a second time; and committed to Sir John 
Bechett and the York List. 


Belfast Harbour ‘The Belfast Harbour (No. 1.) Bill was read a 
(No.1.) Bill. second time ; and committed to the Earl of Belfast 
and the Ulster List. 


seam aud A Petition of Michael Clayton, of Lincoln’s Inn, 
a Bi in the county of Middlesex, and of Charlwood Park, 


(Gibbs's Line.) in the county of Surrey, Esquire, praying that he 
may be heard, by himself, his counsel or agent, 
against certain parts of the London and Brighton 
Railway Bill (Cibbs’s Line), was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


London and 
Southampton 
Railway Bill. 


The London and Southampton Railway Bill was 
read a second time; and committed to Mr. Mackinnon 
and the Hants List. 

Ordered, That all the Members serving for the 
several Counties, and for the Boroughs therein, 
through which Counties the said Railway is intended 
to pass, be Members of the said Committee. 


Portsmouth 
Junction 


Railway Bill. 


Petitions from Citizens of Winchester ;— Inha- 
bitants of South Stoneham and Botley ;— Land- 
owners and Inhabitants of Titchfield ;—and, Fare- 
ham ; praying that the Portsmouth Junction Railway 
Bill may pass into a law,—were presented, and read; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of Shareholders in the Portsmouth 
Junction Railway, praying that the said Bill may 
not pass into a law, was also presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Portsmouth 
Junction 
Railway Bill. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 

age That the Portsmouth Junction Railway Bill 
e now read a second time; 

The Amendments following were proposed to be 
made to the Question; viz. To leave out the word 
“ now,” and at the end of the Question to add the 
words “ upon this day six months.” 

And the Question being put, That the word “now” 
stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 

Tellers for the ¢ Mr. Mackinnon, a] 44 

Yeas, Mr. Thomas Duncombe: Jf ~* 

Tellers for the ( Captain Pechell, 1 

Noes, U Mr. Baring : J 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
“* upon this day six months” be added at the end 
of the Question ; it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Then the main Question, so amended, being put ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon this day six months. 


77. 


Stirling Canal. © Mr. Robert Clive reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; and to whom 
the Petition of William Murray, Esquire, complain- 
ing of non-compliance with the Standing Orders, was 
referred ; That the Standing Orders relative to Navi- 
gation Bills, had not been complied with in the case 
of the Petition forthe Stirling Canal Bill, inasmuch 
as William Murray, Esquire, the superior of certain 
feus, between 30 and 40 in number, entitled to certain 
feu duties and to certain casualties on the entry of 
an heir and singular successor, and also as the owner 
of the mines and minerals under such feus, had no 
Vot. 92. 


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131 


notice, as superior and owner aforesaid, of the in- 
tended application in regard to such feus, and that 
his name, as such superior and owner, ought to have 
been inserted in the Book of Reference; but it ap- 
peared to the Committee that Mr. Murray’s feus 
were confined to that part of the intended canal 
between the town of Stirling and the whins of Milton, 
at N° 39 on the Plan. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders. 


Mr. Robert Clive reported from the Select Com- Loanhead and 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills ; and to whom Stitling Canal. 
the Petition of William Murray, Esquire, complain- 
ing of non-compliance with the Standing Orders, was 
referred ; That the Standing Orders relative to Navi- 
gation Bills, had not been complied with in the case 
of the Petition for the Loanhead and Stirling Canal 
Bill, inasmuch as William Murray, Esquire, the 
superior of certain feus, between 30 and 40 in number, 
entitled to certain feu duties, and to certain casualties 
on the entry of an heir and singular successor, and 
also as the owner of the mines and minerals under 
such feus, had no notice, as superior and owner 
aforesaid, of the intended application in regard to 
such feus, and that his name, as such superior and 
owner, ought to have been inserted in the Book of 
Reference ; but it appeared to the Committee that 
Mr. Murray’s feus were confined to that part of the 
intended Canal between the town of Stirling and the 
whins of Milton, at N° 39 on the Plan; and also 
inasmuch as the only Subscription List produced, 
is an undertaking by the Forth and Clyde Naviga- 
tion Company, who it does not appear were autho- 
rized by their Act to apply the funds belonging to 
the Company to any such purpose as that proposed ; 
and that, supposing them to possess ed powers, 
it appears the subscription which they undertake to 
make amounts to £.107,378. 2s., and that there is 
no sufficient surplus for that purpose. 





Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders. 


A Petition of Owners and Occupiers of houses in London and 
Brunswich-square and Terrace, m the parish of Brighton 
Hove, in the county of Sussex, praying that the (Renuit'sLine.) 
London and Brighton Railway Bill (Rennie’s Line) 
may pass into a law, was presented, and read ; and 


ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Corporation for preserving and Belfast Harbour 
improving the Port and ; sree of Belfast, praying (N° 1.) Bill. 
that they may be heard, by themselves, their counsel 
or agents, against certain parts of the Belfast Har- 
bour (No. 1.) Bill, was presented, and read. 
Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bull, against the said Petition. 


The Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Bill Birmingham 
was read a second time; and committed to Lord and Gloucester 
Granville Somerset and the Gloucester List. any 

Ordered, That all the Members serving for the 
several Counties, and for the Boroughs therein, 
through which Counties the said Railway is intended 
to pass, be Members of the said Committee. 


A Petition of Lieutenant Colonel Robert Martin London and 
Leake, of Woodhurst, in the parish of Oxted, in the — Railway 
county of Surrey, praying that he may be heard, by’ 
himself, his counsel or agent, against certain parts 

of the London and Dover Railway Bill, was pre- 

sented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 

by himself, his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, 

if he think fit ; and counsel heard, in favour of the 

Bill, against the said Petition. 





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132 


Saint Pancras 
Paving. 


A Petition of Mortgagees of the Rates collected 
under several Acts for paving and lighting the 
Streets in the parish of Saint Pancras, complaining 
that the Standing Orders of the House, in respect 
to the application for the Saint Pancras Paving 
Bill, had not been complied with, and praying that 
they may be heard, by themselves, their agents and 
witnesses, against the same, was presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The House was moved, That the Report in re- 
spect of the Petition for the Stratford-upon-Avon 
Canal Bill, which upon the 28th day of February 
last was made from the Select Committee on Stand- 
ing Orders relative to Private Bills, might be read ; 
and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
consolidate and extend the Powers and Provisions 
of the several Acts relating to the Stratford-upon- 
Avon Canal Navigation: And that Sir Eardley 
Wilmot and Mr. Dugdale do prepare, and bring 
it in. 


Stratford-upon- 
Avon Canal. 


Liverpool The House was moved, That the Report in re- 

Improvement. gnect of the Petition for the Liverpool Improvement 
Bill, which upon the 28th day of February last was 
made from the Select Committee on Petitions for 
Private Bills, might be read; and the same being 
read ; 

. Ordered,. That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to enable the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of 
the Borough of Liverpool, to open and widen certain 
Streets and Places in the Town of Liverpool, and 
otherwise to improve the same, and to enable the 
said Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses to appropriate 
lands, tenants and hereditaments for public pur- 
poses, and also to erect public Buildings: And that 
Mr. Ewart and Lord Viscount Sandon do prepare, 
and bring it in. 


i The House was moved, That the Report in re- 
Acts Ament, Spect of the Petition for the Liverpool Improvement 
ment. Acts Amendment Bill, which, upon Thursday last, 


was made from the Select Committee on Petitions 
for Private Bills, might be read; and the same 
being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for altering, amending, improving and enlarging 
the provisions of certain Acts of Parliament re- 
lating to the Town of Liverpool, in the County 
Palatine of Lancaster, and for extending the same 
to the whole of the Borough of Liverpool, for the 
regulation of the times and places of payment of 
wages of Mechanics, labourers, and others in the 
said Borough, for the mitigation, by Justices, of 
penalties under bye-laws of the said Borough; for 
the summary recovery of the possession of shops 
and stands in Fairs and Markets of the said 
Borough, for the summary recovery of the tolls, 
stallage dues, town’s customs, and other revenue of 
the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the said 
Borough, and for the payment of the Clerks to the 
Justices of the said Borough, by Salaries in lieu of 
Fees: And that Mr. Ewart and Lord Viscount 
Sandon do prepare, and bring it in. 


Merthyr Tydfil 
and Cardiff 
Railway Bill. 


A Petition of the Marquis of Bute, praying that 
he way be heard, by his counsel or agent, against 
certain parts of the Merthyr Tydfil and Cardiff 
Railway Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, if he 
think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the Bill, 
against the said Petition. 


Cranfield An ingrossed Bill for inclosing and exonerating 
Juclosure Bill. from Tithes lands in the Parish of Cranfield, in the 
County of Bedford, was read the third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That Lord Russell do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


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A. 1837. 


A Petition of Mary Pincke, of Sharstead, in the Westminster 
county of Kent, widow, praying that she may be Grise amd 
heard, by her counsel or agent, against the West- Railway Bill, 
minster Bridge and Greenwich Railway Bill, was 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 

Petitions from the Trustees of New Cross Turnpike 
Roads ;— and, , Alexander Smith, of Grove-lane, 
Camberwell, Gentleman, praying that they may be 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, against 
certain parts of the said Bill,—were also presented, 
and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 





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The House was moved, That the Report in respect Exeter and 
of the Petition for the Exeter and Ialmouth Rail- Falmouth 
way Bill, which was yesterday made from the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders relative to 
— Bills, might be read; and the same being ¢ 
read ; . 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for making and maintaining a Railway from Exeter 
to the Town and Port of Falmouth: And that Lord 
Viscount Ebrington and Mr. Pendarves do prepare, 
and bring it in. 


A Petition of Thomas Chadwick,and James Ecroyd, Werneth and 
of Castleton, in the county of Lancaster, praying a 
that they may be heard, by themselves, their coun- ; 
sel or agents, against certain parts of the Werneth and 
Littleborough Road Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


Railway. 


an 2h Gd Gd Od 


The Glasgow and Ayr Railway Bill, was read Glasgow and 
a second time ; and committed to Mr. Dunlop and Ayr Ruilway 
the West Scotland List. ; — 
Ordered, That the Petition of Charles Snodgrass 
Buchanan, Esquire, which was presented upon the 
28th day of February last, praying that he may be 
heard by himself or his counsel, against certain parts 
of the said Bill, be referred to the Committee on the 
Bill; and the Petitioner heard, by himself or his 
counsel, upon his Petition, if he think fit; and 
counsel heard in favour of the Bill, against the said 
Petition. 
































Edinburgh 
and Glasgow 
Railway. 


A Petition of Commissioners of Supply of the 
county of Ayr, praying that the Edinburgh and 
Glasgow Railway Bill may pass into a law, was pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 





























A Petition of Thomas Greene, of William-street, Westminster 
New North Road, in the county of Middlesez, Bridge and 
complaining that certain parties have been solicited — 
and allowed to sign the Parliamentary Deeds re- " 
lating to the Westminster Bridge and Greenwich 
Railway, without being shareholders, and paid 
for so domg the sum of ten shillings, at the office 
of a surveyor in Bucklersbury, and praying the 
House to refer his Petition to a Select Committee 
to examine into the allegations contained therein, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee Dundee Police. 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Standing 
Orders relative to Bills for improving Cities or 
Towns, had been complied with, in the case of the 
Petition for the Dundee Police Bill. 
Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for amending an Act relating to the Police of the 
Town of Dundee, and for other purposes therewith 
connected: And that Sir Henry Parnell and Mr. 





































































































Chalmers do prepare, and bring it in. 
Mr. 








Collier Dock 
and Surrey 
Canal. 


Runcorn Gas 
Bill. 


Granton Pier 
and Road Bill. 


Manchester, 
Bolton, and 
Bury Naviga- 
tion and Rail- 
way. 


London and 
Brighton 
Railway Bill 
(Rennie’s Line.) 


Manchester 
and Stafford 
Railway Bill. 


Severn Navi- 
gation Bill, 


Durham and 
Sunderland 
ailwa 7 


7 Witt. IV. 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee 
on Petitions for Private Bills ; That the Standing 
Orders relative to Bills for making Docks, and also 
to Navigation Bills, had been complied with in the 
case of the Petition for the Collier Dock and Surrey 
Canal Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for making Wet Docks and other Works on the 
South side of the River Thames, at or near Rother- 
hithe, in the County of Surrey, to be called “ The 
Grand Collier Ducks :”” And that Captain Alsager and 
Mr. Alderman Wood do prepare, and bring it in. 


An ingrossed Bill for lighting with Gas the Town 
of Runcorn, otherwise called Higher Runcorn and 
Lower Runcorn, and also the Township or Chapelry 
of Halton, both in the Parish of Runcorn, in the 
County of Chester, was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Edward John Stanley do carry 
the Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of the city of Edin- 
burgh, praying that the Granton Pier and Road 
Bill may pass into a law, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Wilson Patten reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the 
Standing Orders relative to Navigation Bills had 
been complied with in the case of the Petition for 
the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Navigation and 
Railway Bill ; and the Petitioners having intimated 
to the Committee their intention to abandon the 
proposed Railway, the Committee did not inquire 
whether the Standing Orders relating to Bills for 
making Railways had been complied with. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to amend and extend the Acts relating to the Man- 
chester, Bolton and Bury Canal Navigation and 
Railway, and for other purposes relating thereto : 
And that Mr. Wilson Patten and Mr. Bolling do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


A Petition of Juliana Greig, wife of Alexander 
Greig, of Ashford Lodge, near Halstead, in the 
county of Essex, Esquire, and William Henry Whit- 
bread, of Southill, in the county of Bedford, Es- 
quire, Trustees and Guardians of Atwood Dalton 
Wigsell, a minor, praying that they may be heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, against 
certain parts of the London and Brighton Railway 
Bill ( Rennie’s Line), was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of Clergy, Gentry, Traders and Inha- 
bitants of Bath, praying that the Manchester and 
Stafford Railway Bill may pass into a law, was 
—. and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
‘able. 


The House was moved, That the Report in respect 
of the Petition for the Severn Navigation Bill, which 
upon the 28th day of February last was made from 
the Select Committee on Standing Orders relative to 
en Bills, might be read, and the same being 
read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for improving the Navigation of the River Severn 
from Stone Bench, in the County of Gloucester, to 
Gladder or Whitehouse Brook, in the County of 
Worcester: And that Mr. Winnington and Mr. Hol- 


Jand do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Standing 
Orders relative to Bills for making Railways had 

Vou. 92. 


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133 


not been complied with in the case of the Petition 
for the Durham and Sunderland Railway Bill, inas- 
much as the datum line referred to the surface of a 
field near Broomside, and not to any fixed point on 
the section ; and also, inasmuch as no subscription 
to the amount of one-half at least of the estimated 
expense had been entered into by persons under 
a contract binding themselves, their heirs, executors, 
administrators and assigns for the payment of the 
money so subscribed, but an undertaking under the 
seal of the Company to defray the expense out of 
the funds of the Company, was produced to the 
Committee. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders. 


relative to Bills for supplying Cities or Towns with 
Water, had been complied with, in the case of the 
Petition for the Wakefield Waterworks Bill. 
Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for better supplying with Water the Town of Wake- 
field, and the neighbourhood thereof, in the West 
Riding of the County of York: And that Sir George 
Strickland and Lord Viscount Morpeth do prepare, 


and bring it in. 


the case of the Petition for leave to present a 
Petition for the Wellingborough Small Debts Bill, 
the Committee are of opinion that leave ought not 
to be granted to present the Petition for the Bill. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Evelyn Denison reported from the Selec 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills; That in 
the case of the Petition for the North Metropolitan 
Cemetery Bill, the application does not come within 
the Standing Orders relative to Bills for purchasin 
or enlarging Burial Grounds, it not being mt 
to defray any part of the expense by rates or duties 
to be levied on the subject. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for the establishment of a.Cemetery for the inter- 
!ment of the Dead, Northward of the Metropolis, 
to be called “ The Portland Cemetery :” And that 
| Sir Samuel Whalley and Mr. Villiers do prepare, 


| and bring it in. 





i 


i 


Company Bill, the application does not come within 
| the Standing Orders of the House. ' 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


sodare ;— Roar ;—Cal/an and other places ;— Fresh- 
ford and Three Castles ;—Urlingford ; —Killamery 
and other places ;—Thomastown ;— Kilmacshalgon ; 
— Ballyragget ; — Claragh ; —Carrigeen ; —Joshua 
Walmesley, President of the Liverpool Tradesmen’s 
Reform Association ;— Wigan ; — Norwich ;—New- 
castle-upon- Tyne ;— Derby ; —W. Crawford, Chair- 
man of the Radical Club;—Great Yarmouth; — 
Ripon ;—Harlow and Epping ;—John Good, Chair- 
man of a Meeting of Inhabitants of Brighthelmstone ; 
-— Leominster ; — — ; — Richmond (York); — 
Saint Kew ;—-Wadebridge ;—Saint Minver ;—En- 
dellion; — Saint Mabyn ;— Saint Tudy and Saint 
Breward ; — Blisland; — Rathclone ; — Ardara ; — 
Dromard;—Saint Catherine ; —Tyholland ; —Kil- 
mactigue ;— Dysart Galen;—Curry ;—Templecrone ; 
— Bourney and Corbally;— Clonelty ; — Toumour 
and Drumratt ; — Aughnamullen West ; — New- 
port; — Nenagh and Lisbonny ; — Kildallon ; — 
Kiilenaule; —Termonfechin;— Ittaghand Kilcoleman; 
—Balentemple;—Wherry and Tissanin;--Clemanto 
and Tubrid — Ahamblish ; — Saint Canice;—Kil- 
dallen;-—Moville;— Killmore ;—-Tydavenet ;—Easky ; 

s3 —Lismore ; 





Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee on Wakefield. 
Petitions for Private Bills; That the Standing Orders Water. 


Mr. Evelyn Denison reported from the Select Wellingborough 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills; That in Small Debts., 


t North Metropo- 


Mr. Evelyn Denison reported from the Select West Cork 
| Committee on Petitions for Private Bills; That in ee Come 
, the case of the Petition for the West Cork Mining ia 


Petitions from Knaresborough ;—Mold ;— Balli- Vote by Ballot. 





Municipal 
Corporations 


— Bill, 
C. 


Tithes 
(Lreland.) 


Vote by Ballot, 
&amp;c. 


Elective 
Franchise. 


Vote by Ballot. 


134. 7°—8° 


— Lismore ;—Fahan and Dysertagny ;— Dundalk ;— 
Liverpool ; — Bridgwater ;—Robert Kellie Douglas ; 
—Liskeard ;—Forfar ;~ Charleville ;—Clahane and 
Ballyduff ;—Eirke and other places ;— Valentia ;— 
Falmouth ; — Grantham ;— Bristol ; — Ferriter ;— 
Limerick ; —-Kilcoleman ; —Ardagh ; — Devizes ;— 
Ballyhooly ;—-Coolcappagh ;— Crewe and Clooncraft 
West ; —Tarbert ; — Beak ;— Clones East ; — Ar- 
magh ;—Killeagh, Ardagh and Dangan ;— Lisgoold ; 
— Newmarket (Cork) ;— Kildorrery and other places; 
—Kilworth ;—Mallow ; —Middleton ; —Ightermur- 
hs ;— Newport ;—Kilkenny West ;— Rathkeale;— 
Kilronan ;—Castletown Roche ;—Ratoo, Killuryand 
Ballyheig ;—Ballylong ford ; —Killiney and Strad- 
bally ;—Odorney ;— Ballinacourty ;—Cambridge ;— 
Worcester ;—-Balmerino ;—_Duncormack, Killag, Kil- 
cone, Kilmanan, and Balliconnick ;—Oramore ; — 
Clare, Galway ;— Moycullen ;—Athenry ; — Saint 
Nicholas ;—Kilcummin;—Adricool and Liskeevey ;— 
Gorey ; —Shruel;—Saint Mary and Saint Peter 
Rathmines ; — Donough Patrick ; — Naul ; — East 
Lusk ; — Hollywood ; —Howth ; — Rathfarnam ; — 
Lusk ;—Ratoath ;—Cashel ; —Truro ;—Taunton ;— 
Dudley ; — Ackworth ;— Bath ; — Chelmsford ; — 
Evesham ;—Bargy and West Shielmaleer ;—Carne, 
Ladies Island, and Saint Iberius ;—Secretary of the 
Radical Political Union, Leith ;—Chairman and Se- 
cretary of the Radical Association, Barnsley;—Com- 
mittee of Management of the Edinburgh Radical 
Association ; — Maidstone; —Tonbridge (two Peti- 
tions) ;—Cranbrook ;—and, Northampton; praying 
that the Votes at Elections for Members to serve in 
Parliament be taken by Ballot,—were presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of the Union of Tintern, 
raying that the Municipal Corporations (Jreland) 
Bill may pass into alaw; that Tithes in Ireland be 
abolished ; that the Votes at Elections for Members 
to serve in Parliament be taken by Ballot; and that 
Poor Laws may be introduced into Ireland, was pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
A Petition of Inhabitants of Tynan, praying that 
the Municipal Corporations (Zreland) Bill may pass 
into a law; that Tithes in Jreland be abolished ; 
and that the Votes at Elections for Members to 
serve in Parliament be taken by Ballot, was also 
resented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 


Fable. 


Petitions from Ightermurrough ; — Tydavenet ;— 
and, Kilmactigue, praying for the abolition of Tithes 
in Ireland,—were presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Gloucester, praying 
the House to adopt Vote by Ballot in Elections for 
Members to serve in Parliament; to abolish the 
Rate-paying Clauses in the Reform Act, and to iimit 
the duration of Parliaments to a period not exceeding 
Three years, was presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Members of the Co-operative and 
Labour-exchange Association, and others, of Cocker- 
mouth, praying for Universal Suffrage, the Aboli- 
tion of the Pranety Qualification, and the adoption 
of Vote by Ballot, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being put, 
That leave be given to bring in a Bill for taking 
Votes by Ballot at Elections for Members of Parlia- 
ment ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 


Tellers for the Yeas,f Mr. Grote, } 153. 


Mr. Charles Buller: 
Mr. Poulter, 

Mr. Vernon Smith: 
So it passed in the Negative. 


Tellers for the Noes, f 265. 











Marti. A. 1837. 


Ordered, That the Return of the dates of first Marines, 
Commissions of Field Officers, and other Officers No, 93. 
of the Royal Marines, which was presented yester- 
day, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Memorials to the Admiralty 
by Officers of the Royal Marines relative to 
promotions, which were presented yesterday, be 
printed. 





Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Bribery at Lond 
more effectually to prevent Bribery and Corruption, F!ections Bill big 
and unnecessary charge and expense, in the Elec- Gibl 
tion of Members to serve in Parliament : And that ” 
Mr. Hardy and Mr. Aglionby do prepare, and bring 
it in. 

Coun 

And the House having continued to sit till after Bill. 
twelve of the clock on Wednesday morning ; 


Mercurii, 8° die Martii, 1837: 
Bribe 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Commissions, Elect 
a Return of all the Commissions that have been N 
issued or appointed under Act of Parliament, 
from November 1830, and not included in the Re- 
turn printed by order of this House in the last Ses- 
sion of Parliament, No. 528; the Number and 
Names of the Commissioners, Assistant Commis- 
sioners, Secretaries, Clerks, and other Persons at- Publi 
tached to each, and if employed individually in -™ 
more than one Commission, and in what Number 
so employed, the Places and Periods of Official 
Duties and Sittings, the Number of Days of each 
Sitting since the commencement of Duty, the Periods 
and Dates at which each Commission was issued, and 
Duty of each commenced, and the Period at which 
each closed or reported, the Salaries and Allow- st. P 
ances of each Officer or Person, the total Expenses Expe 
incurred, Amount actually paid and due, and for 
what cause withheld in each Commission; such 
Return to be made up to the latest Period in which 
the same can be made out. 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed Plan of Educa- 

to inquire into the progress and operation of the tio (Ireland.) 
new plan of Education in Jreland, and to report 
thereupon to the House:—And a Committee was 
appointed of Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, 
Lord Stanley, Mr. Shaw, Lord Viscount Ebrington, 
Mr. Goulburn, Mr. Sheil, Sir James Graham, Mr. 
Vernon Smith, Mr. William Gladstone, Mr. Wyse, 
Lord Francis Egerton, Mr. Fowell Buxton, Mr. 
Williams Wynn, Lord Leveson, and Sir Edmond 
Hayes; with Power to send for persons, papers 
and records. 


Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 


Ordered, That the several Subscription Contracts Railway | 
entered into by persons as Subscribers to Railways, guerhie" 
and deposited during the present Session in the Pri- "Ne 95 
vate Bill Office of this House, be printed. ar 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Lunacy Writs Su 
provide for the issuing of Writs for the Election of 8! la 
a Member of Parliament in cases of Lunacy: And 7 
that Mr. Roebuck and Mr. Aglionby do prepare, and 
bring it in. 








The House, according to Order, resolved itself Mint (Purchase 
into a Committee, to consider of authorizing ad- saieueeated 
vances to be made from time to time out of the 
Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great 
Britain and Ireland for the purchase of Bullion, in 
order to provide supplies of Coin for the Public 
Service. ~ 









(In the Committee.) 

Resolved, That the Lords Commissioners of His 
Majesty’s Treasury be authorized to direct the ad- 
vance out of the Consolidated Fund of the United 
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, of such 
sums 
































































London and 
Brighton 

ilway Bill 
(Gibbs's Line.) 


County Bridges 
Bill. 


Bribery at 
Elections Bill. 


No. 94. 


Public Peti- 
tions, 


St, Pancras 
Expenditure. 


Survey of 
Lands (Tithe 

utation 
Act) 


Great Western 
Railway Bill 
(Trowbridge, ) 


7 Witt. IV. 


sums of Money as may from time to time be neces- 
sary for the purchase of Bullion for Coinage. 
esolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Baring 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Reso- 
lution. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the London and Brighton Railway Bill 
( Gibbs’s Line) ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 


A Petition of Trustees of the Vew Cross Turnpike 
Roads, praying that the County Bridges Bill may 
not pass into a law, was presented and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Hardy presented a Bill more effectually to 
prevent Bribery and Corruption and unnecessary 
Charge and Expense in the Election of Members to 
serve in Parliament: And the same was read the 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time 
upon Monday, the 3d day of April next; and to be 
printed. 


Sir Richard Vyvyan reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Public Petitions ; That they had examined 
the Petitions presented from the 22d day of Febru- 
ary last to the 2d day of this instant March, both 
inclusive ; and had directed him to make a Report 
thereof to the House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of all Monies expended or Liabilities in- 
curred, by the Vestrymen and Directors of the Poor 
of the Parish of Saint Pancras, Middlesex, or by 
either of those Bodies, during the years 1833, 1834, 
1835, and 1836, on account of expenses of Parlia- 
mentary Proceedings ; distinguishing the Sums paid 
or Liabilities incurred in respect of applications to* 
Parliament for repealing Acts for paving the said 
Parish, and to whom paid or due ; also, an Account 
of all Monies expended or due for Printing and 
Advertisements, or otherwise, in respect of such ap- 
plications, and when and to whom paid or due: Also, 
an Account of all Monies paid or due for Costs in 
all Actions, Prosecutions, or other legal Proceed- 
ings commenced or prosecuted by or against such 
Vestrymen or Directors; distinguishing any Costs 

aid or due for defending any Action, Prosecution, 
or other legal Proceedings commenced by or against 
them, or any of them, or any other Person or Per- 
sons: Also, an Account of all Damages paid by 
them in respect of any such Action, Prosecution or 
other legal Proceedings, and when and to whom 
paid, and the Name or Names of the Vestryman or 
Vestrymen, or other Person or Persons by or against 
whom any such Action, Prosecution or other legal 
Proceedings, was or were commenced. 
‘ Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 

opy of Papers respecting the proposed Surveys of 
Lands wie tie Tithe Comnaietns Act. r 


A Petition of the Company of Proprietors of the 
Wilts and Berks Canal Navigation, praying that 
they may be heard, by their counsel or agents, 
against certain parts of the Great Western Railway 
Bill ( Trowbridge), was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by their counsel or agents, upon their Petition, if 
they think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour after one of the 
clock on Wednesday morning, adjourned till 


7°—8 Martii. 135 


Mercuri, 8° die Martii; 
Anno 7° Willielmi [Vt Regis, 1837. 
PRAYERS. 


ton ;—Honley (Chairman of a Meeting of Rate- 
payers) ;— Crompton ;— Chadderton ;— Ashburton ;— 
Cleasby ;— Wigan ;— Godmanchester ;— Stapleton ; 
— Saint Pancras (Middlesex) ;— and, Dewsbury, 
praying for the repeal of the Poor Law Act,—were 
presented, and read; and referred to the Select 
Committee on the Poor Law Act. 


Petitions from the Guardians of the Stow-on-the- 
Wold Union, in the counties of Gloucester and Wor- 
cester ;—and, River Union, praying the House not 
to consent to any extensive or material alteration in 
the system now established by Legislative enactment 
for the administration of Relief to the Poor,—were 
also presented, and read; and referred to the Select 
Committee on the Poor Law Act. 


Petitions from parishes of Zondon situate within the 
Walls ;—Saint Mary-the-Virgin, Aldermanbury ;— 
Saint Dunstan-in-the-East ;—Allhallows, London 
Wall;— Saint Stephen, Coleman-street ;—Saint Mil- 
dred, Poultry and Saint Mary, Colechurch ;—and, 
Saint Mary, Aldermary; praying that the parishes 
within the Walls of London may be exempted from 
the operation of the said Act,—were also presented, 
and read ; and referred to the Select Committee on 
the Poor Law Act. 


Petitions from North Bierley ;—Rev. John Ward ; 
—Ward of Leath (Cumberland) ;—Union of Ather- 
stone; — and, Saint Ives Union; praying for the 
Amendment of the said Act,—were also presented, 
and read; and referred to the Select Committee on 
the Poor Law Act. 


Petitions from Kingston-upon-Thames ;—Grant- 
chester ;—Coton ;— Trumpington ;—Tadlow ;— Little 
Wilbraham ; — Swavesey ;— Sawston ;— Soham; — 
Bottisham ; — Stapleford; — Streatham (two Peti- 
tions) ;-—-Blanchland ;—Clergy of the Deaneries of 
Ripon and Boroughbridge ;—Tarrant Hinton ;— 
Litlington ;— Midhurst ;— Eastbourne ;—Seaford ;— 
Willingdon ;— Folkington ; — Tevington ;—Bleching- 
ley ;—Owston ;—Saint Michael and Saint Mary de 
Grace, Gloucester ;—County of Monmouth ;—Kings- 
kerswell; —Bishop’s Lavington ;— Epping ;— Dover; 
—Coombinteignhead ;—Lydiard Tregoe ;—Swindon ; 
Somerford Magna ; — Liddiard Millicent ; —Oke- 
hampton ;—Uny Lelant ;—Stanway ;—Lea (Giou- 
cester) ;—Sampford Courtenay ;—Jacobstow ;— Mar- 
wood ;—Northlew ;— Belstone ;— Ashwater ;—Brad- 
ford (Devon) ; —— Holsworthy ; — ~ ee —Tet- 
cott ; — Sutcombe ; — Clawton ; — Thornbury ; — 
Black Torrington ;—West Pulford ;—Exbourne ;— 
Chittern All Saints and Chittern Saint Mary ;— 
Clifford Chambers ;—Shurdington ;— .Badgeworth ;— 
Longhope ;— Dorsington ;— Marston Sicca ;—Stone- 
house (Gloucester) ;-——Pebworth and Quinton ;—Lan- 
tegloss-by-Foweyand Lansollas ;— Liskeard and other 
places ; — Burcombe ; -- Middleborough ; —- Much 
Birch ;—Lang ford ;—Budville ;— West Buckland ; 
— Woodmansterne ;—— Tirley ;--Awre ;—Stowmarket 
and Stowupland ; -—- Campden ; — Withersfield ; 
Wickham Market ; — Hatherleigh ; — Honiton ; — 
Saint Michael’s, Winchester ;--Hursley and Otter- 
bourn ; — Kilmiston ; — Farley Chamberlayne ; -— 
Michaelmarsh ; — Farringdon ; —- Ludgarshall ; — 
Durrington and Netheravon ; — Metaling 3—West 
Dean ;—— Sutton Mandeville ;—Edington ;—Laver- 
stock ;—Salehurst ;--- Kennington (Kent) ;—Shadoa- 
hurst ;—Kingsworth ;—Clapham ;—Great Chart ;— 
Saint Leonard (Devon) ;—Warnham ;—Ramsey ;— 
Romansleigh ;— Saint Nicholas, Harwich ;—and, 
Bishopstone and Dovercourt; praying that Church 





this day. 
Vox. 92. 


Rates may not be abolished,—were presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
34 Petitions 


ETITIONS from Oldham ;— Rochdale ;— Roy- Poor Law Act. 


Church Rates. 














136 


Culmstochk ; —Market Lavington ; -—- Wrexham ; -- 
Chester ;--Churchwarden and Vestry Clerk of Saint 
Pancras ;—Moretonhampstead ;—Golcar, Minister 
and Deacons of the Baptist Church ;— Sway ;— 
Brecon ;-— West Houghton ;-—Aberystwyth ; --Old- 
ham ; -— Eccleshill ; -- Banff; -—- Lofthouse ;— Gis- 
borough; -— Uppottery ; — Paisley; — and, Saint 
Asaph ; praying for the abolition of Church Rates, 
—-were also presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the ‘Fable. 


A Petition of Merchants, Importers and others, 
in the Corn, Timber and Stave Trade, in the port of | 
London, praying for the better regulation of Steam | 
Boats plying between London Bridge and gine 

| 





| 


Steam Naviga- 
tion (Thames.) 


wich, that the Petitioners may be enabled to carry 
on their Trades in safety to themselves and without 
injury to their property, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to Jie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Westbromwich ;--Birmingham ;— 
Smethwick ;-—Malton ;-—Leicester ;— Liverpool ;— 
and, Bridgewater ; praying for the repeal of the Duty 
on Soap, were presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


Soap. 


A Petition of a Benefit Society in Birmingham, 
called “The Union Gift Society,” praying for the 
Amendment of the Act relating to Friendly Societies, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of the Lord Bishop and Clergy of the 
united dioceses of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, praying 
that the present system of Education in Jreland may 


Friendly 
Societies Act. 


Education 
(Treland.) 


8° Martiz. 


Petitions from Falkirk ;-—Montrose ;- —Kirriemuir; | 








A. 1837. 


Petitions from the Chairman of the Chamber of Bonding 
arehouses, 





| Commerce, of the Port of Plymouth ;—and, the Cham- 
ber of Commerce and Manufactures of Greenock; 
praying the House to pass a new law for the Bonding 
of Goods in Warehouses upon principles both of 
security to the Revenue and justice to the importers, 
—were presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 

Ordered, That the Petition from Greenock, be 


printed. 


Petitions from Paisley (two Petitions) ;— Wigan ; Cotton Wool. 
Preston ; —Stalybridge ; —Astley ; —Huddersfield ; 
—Lancaster ;—-Henry Harrison, Chairman of the 
Liverpool Brazilian Association ; — Stockport; — 
Greenock (two Petitions) ;—~and, Clitheroe ; praying 
for the repeal of the Duty on Cotton Wool,—were pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the President, Treasurer and Com- Imprisonment 
mittee of the Liverpool Guardian Society for the fr Debt Bill 
protection of Trade, praying that the Imprisonment 
for Debt Bill may not pass into a law as it now 
stands, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


Petitions from Importers in the port of London ; Tobacco. 
—Tobacco and Snuff Manufacturers in the port of 
London ;— President of the Liverpool American 
Chamber of Commerce ;—Liverpool (Importers) ;— 
Liverpool (Merchants) ;— Liverpool (Residents) ;-— 
Stockport ;— Newcastle-upon- Tyne ;—Bradford ;— 
and, Devizes ; praying for the repeal of the Duty on 
Tobacco,—were presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


Fr 











not be persisted in, but that a sum of Money may be 
appropriated out of the National Fund for the endow- 
ment and support of Schools to be conducted solely 
on Protestant principles, was presented, and read ; 
and referred to the Select Committee on the Plan of 


Education (Jreland.) 


A Petition of John Caldwell, for the introduction 
of Poor Laws into Jreland, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon on the Table. 


Poor Law 


(Treland.) 


Ministers’ 
Money 
(Ireland. ) 


A Petition of the Rev. James Carey, parish Priest 
of Swords, in the county of Dublin, and the Rev. 
J. D. Berrill, complaining of the seizure, by the 
bailiff of the Rev. J. Magee, of a valuable Picture 
from the Nuns of the Sienna Convent, in Saint 
Peter's, Drogheda, for the sum of 2/. 12s. 6d. 
claimed as Ministers’ Money, and praying relief, was 
agg and read ; and ordered to he upon the 

able. 


Municipal 
Corporations 


(ireland) Bill, ~~ Grange and Grove ; -—— Kells ; —Danesfort ; — 
) Bill. 


Abington ; — Boher ;— Termonfeckin;—Ahamlish ;— 
Ittagh and Kilcoleman;—Saint Canice, Kilkenny; 


—Saint John’s, Kilenvoy, Kilmain and Rahara ;— | 


Moville ;— Kilmore; —Killenaule ; —Tralee ;— Ba- 
lentemple ;—.Bourna and Corbally ;—Galashiels ;— 
Kildallen ;—Saint Mary, Dublan ;—Tyholland ;-- 
Ratoath ;—Nenagh and Lisbonny ;—Knockinny ;--- 
Ratheline ;— Dromond ; —Kilmactigue ;—Easky ;— 
Dysart Galen ;—Curry ;—Clonelty ;— Templecrone ; 
~ Kildatlen ; — Ardara ; —Newport (Tipperary) ;— 
Tomeour and Drumratt ;—Saint Catherine, Dublin ; 
—Tydavenet ; —Duagh ;—Killiney and Stradbally; 
Clahane and Ballyduff ; — Ballylong ford ;—Tar- 
bert ; —Valentia ; — Odorney ;— Ratoo and other 
places ; — Paisley ; — and, Carmarthen; praying 
that the Municipal Corporations (Jreland) Bill may 
pass into a law,—were presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


County Rates 


on Petitions from Uttoxeter ;— New Shoreham ; — 


Worthing ;—and, Saint James, Westminster ; pray- 
ing that the County Rates Bill may pass intoa law, 
—were presented ,and read ; and ordered to lie upon 


the Tabie. 


Petitions from Donamaggan and Kilmaganny ; 


Petitions from Donamaggan and Kilmaganny ;—- Tithes 

| Danesfort ;--Kells;--Grangeand Grove ;—Claragh ; (ireland. 

— Lisdowney ;— Freshfordand Three Castles ;—Saint 
Canice, Kilkenny ;—Saint John, Kilenvoy, &amp;c. ;-- 
Termonfeckin ;—Kildallon;—- Kilcolman and Ittagh ; 

—Ardara ;——Kildallen ;— Nenagh and Lisbonny ;—- 
Clonbroney ;—~ Moville ; -- Killenaule ;-- Tralee and 
Ratass ; — Augnamullen West ; — Balentemple ; —- 
Killmore ;--Whierry and Tissassin ;- Ahamlish ;— 
Ratheline ;-— Templecrone ;-—Clonelty ;--Easky ;— 
Dromard ;-— Curry ; — Saint Catherine (Dublin) ; 

——Tomeour and Drumratt ;--Bourna and Corbally; 
Newport ( Tipperary) ;-- Tyholland ;--Dysart Galen; 

— Odorney ;--Ratoo, Killury, and Ballyheig ;— 
Ferriter ;--Duagh ;-- Tarbert ;-- Clahaneand Bally- 

duff ; -—Valentia ;—Killiney and Stradbally;--Bal- 
lylongford;-—and, Cashel; praying for the abolition 

| of Tithes in Jreland,--were presented, and read ; and 

| ordered to lie upon the Table. 

| 













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Petitions from Lisdowney ;— Tulleroan ;-—Grange Vote by Ballot. 
and Grove ;—- Kells ;—_Donamagganand Kilmaganny ; 
—Dainsfort ;—Saint Mary-le-bone;—and, Tralee ; 
praying that the Votes at Elections for Members to 
serve in Parliament may be taken by Ballot,-—were 
| presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the 
| Table. 


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Petitions from the parishes of Saint Mark ; — Municipal 
and, Saint George, Dublin ; praying that the Muni- Ciocleud) Bil 
: : : : relaud) Bilt. 
| cipal Corporations (Ireland) Bill may not pass into a 
| law as it now stands,—were presented, and read; and 
| ordered to lie upon the Table. 
| Petitions from Robert Dickinson and William 
White, of the city of Dublin, solicitors ;—and, Price 
Dempsy, Clerk in the Court of Conscience under 
the Corporation of the said city; taking notice of 
the said Bill, and praying the House to cause pro- 
vision to be made for them, by compensation or 
otherwise, for the losses they will sustain by the 
abolition of their offices,—were also presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 



























































A Petition of Richard Hart, Esquire, Mayor of Hythe Corpo 
the borough of Hythe, in the county of Kent, and ration 
James Robertson, one of the assessors of the said 
borough, complaining of the unfounded allegations 
brought 

































it 
I. 


allot. 


ns 
Bilt. 


poe 


7 Witt. IV. 


brought against them, in their official capacities, in 

a Petition from certain individuals, burgesses of the 

town of Hythe, and presented to the House on Wed- 

nesday, the 15th of February last, and praying the 

House to take their case into consideration, was pre- 

sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
Ordered, That the Petition be printed. 


Petitions from Commissioners of Chapel-on-the- 
Heath and Bourton-on-the-Hill Turnpike Road (two 
Petitions) ;—Stump Cross Road (two Petitions) ;— 
Foss and Cross Road (two Petitions) ;—and, Second 
District of the Evesham Roads (two Petitions); com- 
plaining of the operation of the Highway Act passed 
in the last Session of Parliament, whereby the Peti- 
tioners, in common with every other trust, are de- 
prived of the customary aid of Statute Duty; and 
praying the House to replace their trusts in the same 
position as they stood before the passing of the 
above Act, either by restoring them their own former 
portion of Statute Duty and Composition, or a rea- 
sonable portion of the money rate raised in the re- 
spective parishes through which their roads extend, 
or to allow them to raise their toll in proportion to 
the loss they have sustained, and the debt they have 
incurred,—were presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


Highway Act. 


A Petition of Stewards of the Incorporated Com- 
panies of Newcastle-upon- Tyne, praying the House 
to pass some enactment, whereby the hospitals of 
aged freemen and widows, whether endowed or not 
endowed, may be continued and maintained to them 
for ever, as heretofore, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Freemen’s 
Hospitals. 


A Petition of Free-brothers of Morpeth, praying 
that a Clause may be inserted in the Municipal Cor- 
porations Bill, by which the Free-brothers of that 
borough may be admitted to the privileges of freemen, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


Customs Duties A Petition of Proprietors of land and Residents 

(le of Mau.) of Onchan, in the Isle of Man, setting forth that the 
Petitioners have heard with regret, through the 
Lieutenant-Governor of that Isie, that it is the in- 
tention of His Majesty’s Government to bring before 
the House a Bill, gradually to assimilate the Customs 
of that Isle to those of the United Kingdom ; and 
praying that previous to any alteration in the Duties 
their case may be argued by counsel before a Com- 
mittee of the House, was presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Municipal 
Corporations 
Bill. 


Fictitions Votes 


(Scotland) Petitions from East Linton;—and, Dalry; com- 


plaining of the creation of Fictitious Votes for Mem- 
bers to serve in Parliament for counties in Scotland, 
and praying relief,—were presented, and read ; and 
referred to the Select Committee on Fictitious Votes 
( Scotland.) 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Wigan, praying that 
an inquiry may be made into the actual effects of 
the Corn Laws, and the probable result of their 
gradual repeal, by an annual reduction of the exist- 
ing scale of Duties, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Corn Laws. 


Tire Insurances. 


Petitions from Dundee ;—Forfarshire and Perth- 
shire Fire Insurance Company ;—and, Arbroath ; 
praying for the repeal of the Duty on Fire Insurances, 
—were presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 


the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Aberfeldy, praying 
that the Small Debts (Scotland) Bill may pass into 
a law, was presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


Smail Debts 
(Scotland) Bill. 


i of 


. A Petition of Proprietors, Tenants and Inhabitants 
(Scotland.) 


of Dunblane, praying the House to pass a Bill for 

the appointment and election of Magistrates and 

Councillors in certain Burghs of Regality and Barony 
Vot, 92. 


8° Martie. 








137 


and unincorporated Towns in Scotland, was pre- 
ti and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
able. 


_ Petitions from Rawdon; —and, Huddersfield ; Foreign Wool 
raying for the repeal of the Duties on Foreign aici 
ool, and Olive Oil,—were presented, and read ; 

and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Clergy,Gentry, Bankers, Merchants, Manchester 
Traders and Inhabitants of ‘Plymouth, praying that ete = 
the Manchester and Stafford Railway Bill may pass 7 
into a law, was presented, and read; and ordered 

to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Richmond, praying Southwark and 
that the Southwark and Hammersmith Railway Bill Hammersmith 
se not pass into a law, was presented, and read ; B#llway Bill. 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of Henry Tritton, of Lombard-street, in 
the city of London, banker, and other persons, being 
proprietors of the Bridge over the River Thames, 
from Battersea to Chelsea; — Thomas Stirling, 

Esquire, and Owners, Lessees or Occupiers of estates 

and property within the parish of Battersea ;—and, 

Charles Fassett Burnett, and others, of Vuuzhall, 

in the parish of Lambeth, Co-partners, Brandy Mer-— 
chants, Vinegar Makers and Distillers; praying that 

they may be heard, by themselves, their counsel or 

agents, against certain parts of the said Bill,—were 

also presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


A Petition of Thomas Hill, of Croydon, in the London and 
county of Surrey, coal merchant, taking notice of PCY" 3. 
the application for leave to bring in the London and _ 
Croydon Railway Bill; and praying that he may be 
heard, by his counsel or agents, against such Bill, 
was en and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


Petitions from Inhabitants and Owners and Occu- London and 
piers of property in Croydon ;—and, Owners and Brighten | 
Occupiers of houses, farms and lands in the parishes (Rennie’s Line.) 
of Cuckfield, Balcombe and Worth; praying that 
the London and Brighton Railway Bill (Rennie’s 
Line) may pass into a law,—were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Martin Schunck, John Daniel Manchester 
Souchay, and others, of Manchester ;—and, Frederick #4 Leeds | 
William Benecke, of the city of London, merchant ; ®*!w#y 81! 
praying that they may be heard, by their counsel 
or agents, against certain parts of the Manchester 
and Leeds Railway Bill,—were presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by their counsel or agents, upon their Peti- 
tions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in favour 
of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


Petitions from Owners and Occupiers of land and Oxford and 
other Inhabitants of Liffey ;—and, Company of Pro- Rolvey Bile 
prietors of Sutton Courtney Bridge; praying that 
they may be heard, by their counsel or agents, 
against certain parts of the Oxford and Great Western 
Railway Bill,—were presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by their counsel or agents, upon their Peti- 
tions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in favour 
of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


A Petition of the Chairman of a Meeting of the Lowestoft 
Chamber of Commerce of Wewcastle-upon- Tyne, 1arbour. 
taking notice of the application for leave to bring 
in the Lowestoft Harbour Bill, and praying that 
such Bill may not pass into a law, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

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138 8° Marti. 


Hurworth A Petition of Inhabitants of Newcastle-upon- Tyne, 

and York = praying that the Hurworth and York Railway Bill 

septs may pass into a law, was presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Hurworth The Hurworth and York Railway Bill was read 
and York a second time ; and committed to Mr. Pease and the 
Railway Bill. 


Durham List. 


Belfast Harbour Ordered, That the Committee on the Belfast 
(No. 1.) Bill. Harbour (N° 1.) Bill, have Power to send for per- 
sons, papers and records. 


Preston and The Preston and Wyre Dock Bill was read a se- 
ho Dock cond time; and committed to Mr. Hesketh Fleet- 
. wood and the Lancaster List. 


Preston and The Preston and Wyre Railway Bill was read a 
iy Railway second time ; and committed to Mr. Hesketh Fleet- 
- wood and the Lancaster List. 

Ordered, That all the Members serving for the 
several Counties and for the places therein through 
which Counties the said Railway is intended to 
pass, be Members of the said Committee. 


London and The London and Brighton Railway Bill (Gibbs’s 

i Line) was, according to Order, read a second time ; 

(Gibbs's Line,) 2nd committed to Mr. Patrick Stewart and the 
Sussex List. 

Ordered, That all the Members serving for the 
several Counties and for the places therein through 
which Counties the said Railway is intended to pass, 
be Members of the said Committee. | 

A Petition of Merchants, Traders and Inhabitants | 
of Southwark ; praying that the said Bill may pass | 
into a law, was presented, and read ; and ordered to | 
lie upon the Table. | 





Stockport Mr. Henry Marsland presented a Bill for im- 
ee proving and regulating the Borough of Stockport, | 
: m the several Counties of Chester and Lancaster : | 
And the same was read the first time ; and ordered 

to be read a second time. 


Dundalk and Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee 
Cavan Railway.on Petitions for Private Bills, That the Standing 
Orders relative to Railway Bills had not been com- 
plied with in the case of the Petition for the Dun- 
dalk and Cavan Railway Bill, inasmuch as the 
alteration in the level of the Road is not stated on 
the section in the following imstances; viz. 1st, be- 
tween the seventeenth and eighteenth miles on the 
road from Castle Blayney to Dundalk ; 2d, between 
the fifteenth and sixteenth miles on the road to 
Castle Blayney ; 3d, between the fourteenth and 
fifteenth miles on the road from Dundalk to Castle 
Blayney. 
Ordered, That the Report be referred to the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders. 


Roborough Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee 
Hundred ~~ on Petitions for Private Bills ; That in the case of 
wet ») Small the Petition for the Roborough Hundred (Devon) 
Small Debts Bill, the application does not come 
within the Standing Orders of the House. 
Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for the recovery of Small Debts within the Southern 
Division of the Hundred of Roborough, in the 
County of Devon: And that Sir Edward Codrington 
and Mr. Collier do prepare, and bring it in. 


Aberdeen Captain Gordon reported from the Committee on 
Roads Bill. —_4 berdeen Roads Bill ; That they had examined the 
allegations of the Bill and found the same to be 
true; and had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto; and the Amendments were 

read, and agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 


ingrossed, 


A. 1837. 


A Petition of Physicians, Members of the Royal Liverpool 
College of Surgeons of London, and Licentiates of Apothecaries 


the Society of Apothecaries of London, practising at cme 


Manchester, praying that the Liverpool Apothecaries 
Bill may not pass into a law, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Mr. George Wilbraham presented a Bill for making Birkenhead 
a Railway from Birkenhead to Chester: And the 2nd Chester 
same was read the first time; and ordered to be ®#!wey Bill 
read a second time. 


Mr. Oswald reported from the Committee on the Glasgow Road, 
Petition for the Glasgow Road Bill; That the 
Standing Orders relative to Turnpike Bills, had been 
complied with ; and that the Committee had exa- 
mined the matter of the Petition. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for making and maintaining a Road from the Road 
leading from Glasgow to Carntyne, called Duke- 
street, to the East end of Blackfriars-street or Regent- 
street, in the said City of Glasgow: And that 
Mr. Oswald and Lord William Bentinck do prepare, 


and bring it in. 


Sir John Wrottesley reported from the Select Com- Standing 
mittee on Standing Orders relative to Private Bills ; Orders; 
several Resolutions, which were read, as follow: 

1. Resolved, That in the case of the Petition for Stirling Canal. 
the Stirling Canal Bill, the Parties be permitted to 
proceed with their Bill on abandoning that part of 
the Canal which lies between the Town of Stirling 
and the Whins of Milton, at N° 39, on the Plan, 
unless with the consent of William Murray, Esquire ; 
and that the Committee on the Bill do examine that 
this Order has been complied with; and do report 
the same to the House on the Report of the Bill. 

2. Resolved, That in the case of the Petition for Loanhead and 
the Loanhead and Stirling Canal Bill, the Parties Stirling Canal. 
be permitted to proceed with their Bill on abandon- 
ing that part of the Canal between the Town of 
Stirling and the Whins of Milton, at N° 125, on 
the Plan, unless with the consent of William Murray, 

Esquire ; and that the Committee on the Bill do 
examine that this Order has been complied with, 

and do report the same to the House on the Repost 

of the Bill. 

3. Resolved, That in the case of the Petition for Durham and 
the Durham and Sunderland Railway Bill, the —" 
Parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill. _— 

4. Resolved, That in the case of the Petition for London and 
the London and Brighton Railway Bill (Miils’s Line), — 
the Standing Orders ought not to be dispensed with. (Mill's Line.) 
The three first Resolutions, being read a second 

time, were agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Sir William Browne Folkes presented a Bill to Ouze —_, 
alter, extend and enlarge the powers given to the eee tant! 
Ouze Bank Commissioners appointed under the 
Eau Brink Act of the first and second years of His 
present Majesty’s Reign: And the same was read 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


Mr. William Duncombe reported from the Com- Whitby and 
mittee on the Whitby and Pickering Railway Bill ; R&lt;iway Bill. 
That, inasmuch as the Bill is merely to facilitate the 
carrying into execution an Act already passed, by 
giving powers to the Company for that a eas and 
does not contain any authority to take land or other 
property, and that no variation is proposed to be 
made in the present line; the Committee is of 
opinion that none of the matters required by the 
Standing Orders to be inquired into by the Com- 
mittees on Railway Bills apply to the present Bill; 
and the Committee had examined the allegations 
of the Bill, and found the same to be true ; and had 
gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 





thereunto. 
Ordered, 





Cat 
Bill 


Jan 


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Butterhouse 
Green and 
Gorton Road. 


Liverpool and 
Manchester 
Railway Bill. 


Worcester 
Cattle Market 
Bill, 


James Kerr. 


Currency. 
. 


Edinburgh 
and Glasgow 


Railway Bill, 


Patents for 
ventions Bill. 








7 Wiut. IV. 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Lord Francis Egerton reported from the Com- 
mittee on the Petition for the Butterhouse Green 
and Gorton Road Bill; That the Standing Orders 
relative to Turnpike Bills, had been complied with ; 
and that the Committee had examined the matter 
of the Petition. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill for 
making and maintaining a Turnpike Road from But- 
terhouse G'reene, in the County of Chester, to Gorton 
Bar, in the County of Lancaster: And that Lord 
Francis Egerton and Mr. Egerton do prepare, and 
bring it in. 


Lord Francis Egerton reported from the Com- 
mittee on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway 
Bill ; That inasmuch as the Bill is merely to facilitate 
the carrying into execution an Act already passed, 
by giving powers to the Company for that purpose, 
and does not contain any authority to take land or 
other property, and that no variation is proposed to 
be made in the present line, the Committee is of 
opinion that none of the matters required by the 
Standing Orders to be inquired into by Committees 
on Railway Bills apply to the present Bill ; and that 
the Committee had examined the allegations of the 
Bill, and found the same to be true ; and had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


The Worcester Cattle Market Bill was read a se- 
cond time ; and committed to Mr. Robinson and the 
Worcester List. 


A Petition of James Kerr, of the Inner Temple, 
Barrister-at-law, and late senior Judge of the Court 
of King’s Bench at Quebec, Judge of the Court of 
Vice-Admiralty for the province of Lower Canada, 
and Member of the Executive Council, complaining 


of having been removed from his offices without the | 
Plan deposited with the Clerk of the Peace for the 


form of judicial proceedings ; stating the particulars 
of his case; and praying the House to institute an 
inquiry into the whole of his conduct, and, after 
reviewing all the circumstances disclosed in his 
Petition, to grant him such relief in the premises as, 
with due regard to his advanced age of 71, and to all 
the circumstances of his case during nearly 40 years 
of public service, may appear to the House to be 
consistent with Colonial policy, and with the honour, 
dignity and justice of the Crown, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Edward Solly, of Curzon-street, | 


May Fair, Gentleman, Pe: ayn, | of the great 
dangers and losses to which the Banking and Com- 
mercial interests of this country are exposed, 
arising from the existing Mint and Currency regula- 
tions and the exportation of gold coin; suggesting 
either a return to the old system of prohibiting the 
export of our coin, with the circulation of guineas 
and il. silver notes, or, as an alternative, the 
raising the value of the present gold coin to 22s. 
silver, combined with the issue of i l. silver notes ; 
and praying the House to take the subject into con- 
sideration, and provide such a remedy as they may 
think fit, was presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Feoffees and Governors of Heriot’s 
Hospital ; praying that the Edinburgh and Glasgow 
Railway Bill may not pass into a law as it now 
stands, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


A Petition of James Henry Marsh, of N° 1 East- 
street, Spitalfields Market ; praying that the Patents 
for Inventions Bill may pass into a law, was pre- 
— and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

OL. 92. 







— 8° Marti. 139 


A Petition cf Richard Blakemore, of Melin Grrif- Merthyr 
ith, in the county of Glamorgan, Esquire, praying Railway Bill 


that he may be heard, by himself, his counsel or 
agent, against certain parts of the Merthyr Tydfil 
and Cardiff Railway Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill ; and the Petitioner heard, 
by himself, his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, 
if he think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of John Walker, of New Inn, in the Torquay 
county of Middlesex, Gentleman, praying that he ®d Bill. 


may be heard, by himself, his counsel or agent, 
against certain parts of the Torquay Road Bill, was 
presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by himself, his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, 
if he think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of 
the Bill, against the said Petition. 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee then “sana 
oO. 2. 


on Petitions for Private Bills, and to whom several 
Petitions complaining of non-compliance with the 
Standing Orders were referred ; That the Standin 

Orders relative to Bills for making Harbours had 
been complied with in the case of the Petition for 
the Belfast Harbour (No. 2.) Bill; but that the 
Standing Orders relative to Bills for making Docks 
had not been complied with, inasmuch as the Plan 
deposited in the Private Bill Office, and the Plans 
deposited with the Clerks of the Peace, are not 
duplicates respectively one of the other in the fol- 
lowing respects, viz. Ist. In the Plans deposited 
with the Clerks of the Peace, the sewer at the Bally- 
macarrett foundry is continued 200 feet beyond 
the point where it stops in the Plan deposited in 
the Private Bill Office. 2d. In the Plans deposited 
in the Private Bill Office, and with the Clerk of 
the Peace for the county of Down, the sewer is 
carried down to the mile water; whereas in the 


county of Antrim, it stops 180 feet short of the 











same. 
Ordered, That the Report be referred to the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders. 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee Blochairn 


on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Standing Canal. 


Orders relative to Navigation Bills had been com- 
plied with in the case of the Petition for the 
Blochairn Canal Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to make and maintain a Canal in the County of 
Lanark, from the Monkland Canal to the lands of 
Dunchattan, on the north side of Duke-street, of 
Glasgow: And that Mr. Oswald and Mr. Dunlop 


do prepare, and bring it in. 


A Petition of Free Burgesses of the City of Bristol, Lists of Voters. 


complaining of the Power given by the Municipal 
Corporations Act to Persons inserted in the List of 
Voters for Cities and Boroughs, to object to any 
other Person as not being entitled on the last day 
of July then next proceeding, to have his Name 
inserted in the List of Voters for the same City or 
Borough, and praying the House to remove the 
abuse complained of, was presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of the town, borough Okehampton 
and parish of Okehampton, praying the House to B°rvs. 


place the Municipal Government, together with the 
Funds and property of the said borough, now vested 
in the Mayor and Corporation and other feoffees, 
under such control and regulation as shall be best 
suited and most conducive to the good government 
and prosperity of the town, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

T2 A Petition 





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| 
it 





Manchester 
and Tamworth 
Railway Bill. 


Steam Con- 
munication with 
India. 


Church of 
Scotland, 


Church and 
State. 


Regium Donum. 


Lord’s Day. 


Richard 
M‘ Cormick. 


Record Com- 
mission Report. 


Factories. 


Factory 
Children. 


140 8° Martiz. 


A Petition of the Right Honourable Anne Shir- 
ley, commonly called Viscountess Tamworth, and, 
the Reverend James Cotton, clerk, the testamentary 

uardians of the Right Honourable Washington 

ewallis Shirley, commonly called Viscount Zam- 
worth, a minor; praying that they may be heard, by 
their counsel or agents, against certain parts of the 
Manchester and Tamworth Railway Bill, was pre- 
sented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by their counsel or agents, upon their Petition, if 
they think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of the Provost, Bailies, Treasurer and 
Councillors of Paisley, praying the House to adopt 
measures for the immediate establishment of a regu- 
lar and speedy communication by Steam between 
this country and Jndia, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the First United Associate Congre- 
gation, Paisley, praying the House to refuse all 
further endowments to the Church of Scotland, was 
gage and read; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 


A Petition of Parishioners and Inhabitants of 
Crawley, praying the House to preserve inviolate 
the union td Church and State, was presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Protestant Dissenters assembling in 
Hanover Chapel, Brighton, praying that no further 
grants may be made to poor dissenting Ministers 
under the name of Regium Donum, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Foxearth and other 
places, praying for the adoption of measures for se- 
curing the better Observance of the Lord’s Day, was 
= and read; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 


A Petition of Richard M¢Cormick, late a Private 
in the 17th Lancers, complaining of ill-treatment, 
and acts of oppression while in that regiment, and 
praying the interference of the House, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Charles Gay, of the Augmentation 
Office, Westminster, complaining of certain statements 
in the Minutes of Evidence taken before the Select 
Committee on the Record Commission, affecting his 
character and interests as an officer acting under that 
Commission, and praying for relief, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Fox Maule presented, pursuant to several 
Addresses to His Majesty,—a Return of the Number 
and Names of Personssummoned for Offences against 
the Factory Act, between the 1st of May 1836 and 
the 1st of January 1837; specifying the Date of 
the Conviction or Hearing, the Place of Hearing, by 
whom each Conviction was made, the Place in 
which the Offence was committed, the precise na- 
ture of the Offence in each case, and the manner of 
i wes such Penalties and Costs. 

A Return of the Number and Names of the 
Surgeons who have furnished the eo of 
Factories with Tables, containing the Stature of 
Children measured by them; of the total Number 
so measured between the Ages of Nine and Ten, of 
Ten and Eleven, of Eleven and Twelve, and of 
Twelve and Thirteen years respectively ; and of the 
Number of each Age who were under and above the 
standard laid down by the Inspectors as a guide to 
the appointed Surgeons in their respective Districts ; 
also, the height of the lowest and of the tallest in 
each Class of Children of the said respective Ages, 





Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 


A. 1837. 


and the average height of the total Number measured 
of each Class respectively, by each Surgeon. 


Mr. Fox Maule also presented, pursuant to Order, Tithes’ Com. 


—a Return of the Number of Notices for Commu- ™¥t#tion. 


tation received by the Tithe Commissioners for Eng- 
land and Wales, from the Date of their Appoint- 
ment to the 1st March, stating what Number of 
such Notices have been received during each calen- 
dar month, and the Names of the Counties in which 
the Parishes or Districts are situated for which 
such Notices have been given: Also, a Return of 
the Number of Agreements received by the Com- 
missioners up to the same period; stating what 
Number of such Agreements have been confirmed, 
and what Number rejected, together with the 
grounds for such rejection: Also, what Number of 
such Agreements are at present under the considera- 
tion of the different Diocesans, or otherwise waiting 
confirmation. 


Mr. Fox Maule also presented, pursuant to the di- Ecclesiastical 


rections of an Act of Parliament,—Copy of the Report Commission 


of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners of Jreland to 
the Lord Lieutenant. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


(Treland.) 


Sir ~~ Grey presented, pursuant to an Ad- Religious 
dress to 


is Majesty,—Copies of all Despatches (Aus “om 


or Instructions addressed to the Governors of the 
Australian Colonies, or to Ecclesiastical Functiona- 
ries in the same, since 1st April 1835, relating to the 
enlargement of the means of Religious Instruction 
and Public Worship in those Colonies, and of all 
Replies which have been received to the same ; to- 
gether with Copies or Extracts of any Communica- 
tions referred to in such Despatches. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the Table. 


struction 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Canada. 


into a Committee to consider further of the state 
of the Province of Zower Canada. 


(In the Committee.) 


Motion made, and Question proposed, That in the 
existing state of Lower Canada, it is unadvisable to 
make the Legislative Council of that Province an 
Elective Body; but that it is expedient that measures 
be adopted for securing to that branch of the Legis- 
lature a greater degree of public confidence. 


Amendment proposed: To leave out from the 
words “ Lower Canada,” to the end of the Ques- 
tion, in order to add the words, “ it is advisable to 
“ make the Legislative Council of that Province an 
“ Elective Body,” instead thereof. 


Question put, That the words proposed to be 
left out stand part of the Question ; 
The Committee divided. 


Tellers for the ¢ Mr. Robert Steuart, a 318 
Yeas, Mr. Edward John Stanley: J an 
Tellers for the { Mr. Leader, 56 
Noes, Mr. Roebuck: } sane 


Main Question proposed. 

Motion made, That the Chairman do report Pro- 
gress, and ask leave to sit again. 

The Committee divided : 


Tellers for thef Mr. Roebuck, 1 39 
Yeas, Sir William Molesworth: Jf °** 
Tellers for thef Mr. Robert Steuart, 287 
Noes, Mr. Edward John Stanley: ; 


Motion made, That the Chairman do now leave 
the Chair; 
The Committee divided : 
Tellers for the { Mr. Hume, } 14 
Yeas, Mr. Aglionby : ; 
Tellers for the { Mr. Robert Steuart, 176 
Noes, Mr. Edward John Stanley: } : 
Main Question again proposed. 
Motion again made, That the Chairman do report 
The 





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Controverted 
Elections Bill. 


County Bridges 
Bill. 


Sheriffs Courts 
Bill, 


County Rates 
Bill. 


Recorders 
Courts Biil. 


Court of 
Exchequer 
(Scotland) Bill, 


Sale of Beer 
Bill, 


Salmon 
Fisheries 
(Scotland) Bill, 


Small Debts 
(Scotland) Bill, 


Common Law 
Courts Bill, 


Supply. 


7 Wut. IV. 8°— 9° 


The Committee divided : 
Tellers for the ¢ Mr. Harvey, 


Yeas, Mr. Hindley : i 
Tellers for the { Mr. Robert Steuart, 164 
Noes, Mr. Edward John Stanley: , 


Main Question again proposed. 

Motion made, That the Chairman do now leave 
the Chair :—Motion by leave withdrawn. 

Main Question put. 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the f Mr. Solicitor General, } 144 


Yeas, Mr. Baring : 
Tellers for the f Mr. Hindley, } 16 
Noes, Mr. Hume: ‘ 


To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 





And the House having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Thursday morning ; 


Jovis, 9° die Martti, 1837: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had made further 
Progress in the matters to them referred ; and that 
he was directed to move, That the Committee may 
have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Controverted Elections Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday, the 22d day of March next. 


The County Bridges Bill was, according to Order, 
read a second time ; and committed to a Committee 
of the whole House, for Wednesday, the 19th day of 
April next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Sheriffs Courts Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the County Rates ill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
further consideration the Report on the Recorders 
Courts Bill; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Court of Exchequer (Scotland) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Sale of Beer Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time To- 
morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Small Debts (Scutland) Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Common Law Courts Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 

Vor. 92, 


Marti. 141 


Mr. Baring reported from the Committee to whom Mint (Purchase 
it was referred to consider of authorizing Advances of Bullion.) 
to be made from time to time out of the Consoli- 
dated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Bri- 
tain and Ireland, for the purchase of Bullion, in 
order to provide supplies of Coin for the Public 
Service, a Resolution, which was read, as followeth: 

Resolved, That the Lords Commissioners of His 
Majesty’s Treasury be authorized to direct the ad- 
vance out of the Consolidated Fund of the United 
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, of such 
Sums of Money as may from time to time be neces- 
sary for the purchase of Bullion for Coinage. 

he said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 

Ordered, That it be an Instruction to the Com- 
mittee on the Mint Bill, that they have Power to 
make provision therein, pursuant to the said Reso- 
lution. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Burghs 
to provide for the appointment and election of Magis- of Barony 
trates and Councillors in Burghs of Regality and (Stand) Bil. 
Barony, and unincorporated Towns, in Scotland: 
And that Sir Andrew Leith Hay and Sir Henry Par- 
nell do prepare, and bring it in. 


And then the House, having continued to sit till 
half an hour after two of the clock on Thurs- 
day morning, adjourned till this day. 








Jovis, 9° die Martii ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi [Vt Regis, 1837. 
Prayers. 


R. Holmes, from the Commissioners of Arundel arundel Port. 

Harbour, was called in; and at the bar, pre- 
sented, pursuant to the directions of an Act of Par- 
liament,—Report and Account of the Commission- 
ers acting under an Act passed in the sixth year of 
his Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled, 
“ An Act for the more effectual Security of the 
Harbour of Littlehampton, called Arundel Port, in 
the county of Sussex” :—And then he withdrew. 
. Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 

able. 


Mr. Crafer, from the Treasury, was called in; and Foreign Letters. 
at the bar, presented, pursuant to orders,—a Re- 
turn of the Number of Letters received from and 
expedited to France, Month by Month, since the 
last Post Office Treaty with that Country, made up 
to the last day of January 1837; with a similar 
Return, containing a similar period of time imme- 
diately previous to the Date of the said Treaty :—and, 

a Return of the Rates of Postage on Foreign Letters 
inward and outward, charged before and since the 
new Treaty with France. 

Return of all Sums of Money paid into the prince Leopold. 
Exchequer out of the Annuity granted to his Royal 
Highness Prince Leopold, now King of the Belgians; 
in continuation of the Return presented to Parlia- 
ment in 1834. 

Copy of Papers respecting the proposed Survey Survey of 
of Lands under the Tithe Commutation Act :—And Lands (Tithe 
then he withdrew. = 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Petitions from the Company of Merchants of the Edinburgh 
city of Edinburgh ;—Merchants, Bankers, Manufac- — ey 
turers, and others of the city of Edinburgh ;—He- Rane 
ritors, Householders, Farmers and Inhabitants of 
Stevenston ;—Merchants, Bankers, Manufacturers, 
Shipowners and Inhabitants of Glasgow ; — the 
Merchants’ House of Glasgow ;—Proprietors, House- 
holders and other Inhabitants of Ardrossan ;—Salt- 
coats ;— Merchants, Bankers, Manufacturers and 
other Inhabitants of Paisley ;—Heritors, House- 
holders and Inhabitants of Kilwinning ;—Lochwin- 





Tt 3 noch ;— 








142 


nock; — Kilbirnie ; — Proprietors, Householders, 
Farmers and Inhabitants of Dundonald ;— Inha- 
bitants of Greenock ;— Port Glasgow ;—Magistrates 
and Town Council of Jrvine ;—Proprietors, Mer- 
chants, Bankers, Burgesses and Inhabitants of 
Irvine;—Parliamentary Trustees of the Harbour of 
Irvine ;—the Agricultural Association of Carrick ; 
—Chancellor, Magistrates and Council of Prest- 
wick ;—Provost, Magistrates and Town Council of 
Falkirk ;—and, Heritors, Inhabitants and House- 
holders of Dalry; praying that the Edinburgh and 
Glasgow Railway Bill may pass into a law,—were 
— and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
able. 


Mr. Robert Palmer reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That in the 
case of the Petition for additional provision in the 
Hinckley Small Debts Bill, the application does 
not come within the Standing Orders of the House. 

Ordered, That it be an Instruction to the Com- 
mittee on the Hinckley Small Debts Bill, that they 
have Power to make provision therein pursuant to 
the prayer of the said Petition. 


Hinckley 
Small Debts. 


Slamannan 


Mr. Robert Palmer, reported from the Select Com- 
Railway. 


mittee on Petitions for Private Bills ; That the Stand- 
ing Orders relative to Bills for making Railways 
had been complied with in the case of the Petition 
for the Slamannan Railway Bill. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 
Campsie Canal. Mr. Robert Palmer reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Stand- 
ing Orders relative to Navigation Bills had been 
complied with, in the case of the Petition for the 
Campsie Canal Bill. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 
Gorbals Police Mr. Robert Palmer reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills ; That the Stand- 
ing Orders relative to Bills for Improving Cities or 
Towns had been complied with, in the case of the 
Petition for the Gorbals Police Bill. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Salamé’s 


sang Ad Sir Frederick Trench reported from the Commit- 
vate i . 


tee on the Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act for 
naturalizing Abraham Victor Salamé; That they 
had examined the allegations of the Bill, and found 
the same to be true; and had gone through the 
Bill, and directed him to report the same without 
Amendment :—And the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Sir Frederick Trench do carry the 
Bill to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


Mochnant 


Mr. Williams Wynn reported from the Committee 
Inclosure Bill. 


on the Mochnant Inclosure Bill; That the Standing 
Orders relative to Bills of Inclosure had been com- 
plied with ; and that they had examined the alle- 
gations of the Bill, and found the same to be true ; 
and that the Parties concerned had given their con- 
sent to the Bill to the satisfaction of the Committee ; 
and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, 
and nade Amendments thereunto ; and the Amend- 
ments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


Manchester 
and Tamworth 


Railway Bill. 


Petitions from Bankers, Corn Merchants, Traders, 
and Inhabitants of Grantham ;—and, Corporation 
of Grantham; praying that the Manchester and 
Tamworth Railway Bill may pass into a law ;—were 
SS and read; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 


Deptford and 


' Petitions from Trustees of the Turnpike Road 
Dover Railway: leading from Dartford to Strood, near Rochester ; 
—and, Creditors upon the said Road ; taking notice 





9° Martiz. 


A. 1837. 


of the application for leave to bring in the Deptford 
and Dover Railway Bill ; and praying that such Bill 
may not pass into a law,—were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Winnington presented a Bill for improving Severn Naviga. 
the Navigation of the Rivern Severn from Stone tion Bill, 
Bench, in the County of Gloucester, to Gladder or 
Whitehouse Brook, in the County of Worcester: And 

the same was read the first time ; and ordered to be 

read a second time. 


An ingrossed Bill to amend and enlarge the Worcester 
powers of an Act passed in the first and second a ~ 
years of His present Majesty, for erecting a County ~ 
Hall and Courts of Justice, and also for providing 
Accommodation for His Majesty’s Justices of Assize 
in and for the County of Worcester, was read the 
third time ; and an ingrossed Clause was added to 
the Bill by way of Rider. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Winnington do carry the Bill 
to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Ordered, That all the Members serving for the Sheffield and 
several Counties, and for the places therein, through se ny 
which Counties the Sheffield and Manchester Rail- ines 
way is intended to pass, be Members of the Com- 


mittee on the Bill. 


A Petition of Benjamin Wheeler Poulton, of Canon- Westminster 
bury, in the county of Middlesex, Gentleman, com- 2"48e 2" 
planing that certain Paupers and Persons in dis- Railway Bill. 
tressed circumstances have been induced to sign the 
Subscription Deed for the Westminster Bridge and 
Greenwich Railway for a pecuniary consideration, 
and praying the House to refer his Petition toa 
Select Committee to inquire into the charges con- 
tained therein, was presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 

Ordered, That the Petition be printed. 


Petitions from Alexander Scott, of Cheltenham, Charlton Kings 
Esquire ;—and, George Gustavus Chetwynd Talbot, Marva 
of Withington, in the county of Gloucester, clerk ; saaiiaes 
praying that they may be heard, by themselves, their 
counsel or agents, against certain parts of the Charl- 
ton Kings and Marsworth Railway Bill, were pre- 
sented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


The House was moved, That the Report in respect Durbam aud 

ofthe Petition for the Durham and Sunderland Rail- ais 
. . ~ al way Liles 

way Bill, which was yesterday made from the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders relative to Private 
Bills, might be read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
enable the Durham and Sunderland Railway Com- 
pany to alter a part of the main line of their Railway, 
to abandon another part thereof, to make other 
Branches therefrom, and to amend and enlarge the 
Powers of the Act for incorporating the said Com- 
pany: And that Mr. Harland and Mr. Arthur Tre- 
vor do prepare, and bring it in. 


The Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Bill was Edinburgh 
read a second time ; and committed to Lord William ase, 24 
Bentinck and the West Scotland List. _ 

Ordered, That all the Members serving for the 
several Counties, and for the Boroughs therein 
through which Counties the said Railway is intended 
to pass, be Members of the said Committee. 

Ordered, That the Petition of the Feoffees and 
Governors: of Heriot’s Hospital, praying that the 
said Bill may not pass into a law as it now stands, 
which was presented yesterday, be referred to the 





Committee. 
Ordered, 


oo ed ed et 


oO et et ee 





Charlton Kings 
and Marsworth 
Railway Bill. 


London and 
Brighton 
Railway Bill 
(Gibbs’s Line.) 


London and 
Brighton 
Railway Bill 


(Rennie’s Line.) 


West Cork 
Mining Com- 
pany. 


Belfast 
Harbour. 





Ordered, That the Petitions of James Dutton, and 
others, Owners and Occupiers of estates and pro- 
perty on or near to the line of Railway hereinafter 
mentioned ; John, Baron Sherborne, of Sherborne, 
in the county of Gloucester; Edward Impey, of 
the tithing of Westall, in the town and parish of 
Cheltenham, Esquire; Owners and Occupiers of 
property in Cheltenham; High-street, Cheltenham ; 


Reverend Charles Coxwell, of Dowdeswell, and of | 


Ablington House, in the parish of Bibury, in the 
county of Gloucester, Clerk; and, Inhabitants of 
Cirencester ; which were presented upon Thursday 
last, praying that they may be heard, by their 
counsel or agents, against certain parts of the Charl- 
ton Kings and Marsworth Railway Bill be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by their counsel or agents, upon their Peti- 
tions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in favour 
of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


Petitions from Thomas Hill, of Croydon; and 
Trustees for executing the Act for making and main- 
taining the Road from Foaley Hatch to Reigate; 
praying that they may be heard, by themselves, 
their counsel or agents, against certain parts of the 
London and Brighton Railway Bill, (Gibb’s Lme)— 
were presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


A Petition of Trustees for executing the Act for 
making and maintaining a Road from Moxley Hatch 
to Reigate, praying that they may be heard, by 
their counsel or agents, against certain parts of 
the London and Brighton Railway Bill, (Rennie’s 
Line,) was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by their counsel or agents, upon their Petition, if 
they think fit ; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


The House was moved, That the Report in re- 
spect of the Petition for the West Cork Mining Com- 
pany Bill, which, upon Tuesday last, was made from 
the Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills, 
might be read; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for amending and enlarging the provisions of an Act 
passed in the fourth year of the Reign of His pre- 
sent Majesty, intituled, An Act to encourage the 
working of Mines and Quarries in Jreland, and to 
regulate a Joint Stock Company for that purpose, 
to be called “ The West Cork Mining Company :” 
And that Captain Alsager and Mr. Callaghan do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


The House was moved, That the Order made 
upon the 2d day of February last, that there be laid 
before this House, Accounts of the Rates levied by 
the Corporation for preserving and improving the 
Port and Harbour of Belfast, since the 23d August 
1831, under an Act passed in that year, intituled, 
“ An Act for the further Improvement of the Port 
and Harbour of Belfast, in Jrelant#l, and ether pur- 
poses ;” oe separately the Sums received in 
each se for Pilotage, Ballast, Quayage and Ton- 
nage Dues; also for Licenses; and distinguishing 
the Rates levied off Coasters from those levied off 
Vessels employed in the Foreign Trade, and also 
distinguishing the Rates paid by Steamers from 
those paid by other Vessels :—Ofthe Sum expended 
by the same Corporation for the same period, and the 
Items of Expenditure ;—A separate and detailed 
Account of the Money paid by the Corporation for 
Salaries or other Payments to Surveyors, Engineers, 
ae ed Agents, Solicitors, and Travelling Ex- 

ou. 92, 





7 Wit. IV. 9° Marti. 143 


_penses of Members of the Corporation, for the las 


Ten years :—Accounts of the Money expended in 
actual Work and purchase of Land for carrying into 
effect the Harbour Improvement authorized by the 
Act 1 and 2 Will. 4, c.55:—Of the Number of Per- 
sons who voted at the several Elections of Members 
of the Corporation under the Act 1 and 2 Will. 4, 
c. 55:-—Of the Lands and Hereditaments, the Pro- 
perty of the Corporation, specifying the tenure by 
which they are held, and the Income derived from 
them :—Of the Suits pending to which the Corpora- 
tion is a Party, and the Nature thereof :—Of the 
Salaries paid by the Corporation, to whom, and for 
what Services, for the last Five years :—An Annual 
Account of the Vessels trading to and from the Port 
of Belfast, forthe last Five years, specifying the 
Tonnage, and separating Steamers and Colliers from 
other nds ;—and, an Account of the Vessels now 
registered in the Port of Belfast, with the Names of 
their Owners and Tonnage,—might be read; and 
the same being read ; 

Ordered, That a Return to the said Order be 
laid before this House forthwith. 


Mr. Edward Buller presented a Bill to amend Darlaston 

“ An Act for improving the Roads from Darlaston ®o*4s Bill. 
Bridge, through Newcastle-under-Lyme, to Butt- 

lane and Linley-lane, and from the Black Lion to 

Shelton Wharf, all in the County of Stafford,” and 

to provide for the further Improvement of the said 

Roads: And the same was read the first time ; and 

ordered to be read a second time. 


An ingrossed Bill for making and maintaining Aberdeen 
certain Roads in the County of Aberdeen, was read Roads Bill. 
the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Captain Gordon do carry the Bill 


to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


A Petition of John Stunt, of N° 57, Strand, in Southwark and 
the county of Middlesex, Bootmaker, freeholder of Hammersmith 
land situate at Fulham, in the said county, praying ®*!way Bill. 
that he may be heard, by his counsel or agent, 
against certain = of the Southwark and Hammer- 
smith Railway Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, b 
his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, if he think 
fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the Bill, against 
the said Petition. 


Petitions from Landowners, Occupiers and Inha- Westminster 
bitants of Lambeth -—Merchants, Bankers, Traders Bridge and 
and others of London, Westminster and Southwark ; Greenwich 
—and, Landowners, Occupiers and Inhabitants of“ "9 “"" 
Camberwell, Peckham and Dulwich, praying that 
the Westminster Bridge and Greenwich Railway Bill, 
may pass into a law,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Marquis of Donegall, complain- Bann (Lower) 
ing that the Standing Oulens of the House in respect Navigation, 
to the application for the Bann (Lower) Navigation 

Bill, had not been complied with ; and praying that 

he may be heard, by his agents and witnesses, 

against the same, was presented, and read ; and re- 

ferred to the Select Committee on Petitions for 

Private Bills. 


A Petition of the Company of Proprietors of the Worcester and 
Worcester and Birmingham Canal Navigation, pray- Wolverhampton 
ing that they may be heard, by themselves, their oo 
counsel or agents, against certain parts of the Wor- 
cester and Wolverhampton Railway Bill, was pre- 
sented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to 
the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petition, if they think fit ; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. om. 

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Se 


Cork and Pas- 
sage Railway. 


Glasgow and 
Ayr Railway 
Bill. 


London and 
Dover Railway 
Bill. 


Durham and 
Sunderland 
Railway Bill. 


Frank Castelli’s 
Nat. Bill. 


Michael 
Castelli’s 
Nat. Bill. 


Alepsors’ 


Nat. Bill. 


York and 
North Midland 
Railway Bill. 





144. 9° Martie. A, 1837. 


Mr. Callaghan presented a Bill for making a Rail- Cork and Pas. 
way from Cork to Passage: And the same was read 8° Railway 
the first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


The House was moved, That the Report in respect 
of the Petition for the Cork and Passage Railway 
Bill, which upon Tuesday last was made from the 
Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills, 
might be read; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill for 
making a Railway from Cork to Passage: And that 
Mr. Callaghan, Dr. Baldwin and Mr. Serjeant Jack- 
son do prepare, and bring it in. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Muirkirk, praying 
that the Glasgow and Ayr Railway Bill may not 
pass into a law as it now stands, was presented, and 
read; and referred to the Committee on the Bill. 


Ordered, That the Petition of the East India 
Company, which was presented upon the 27th day 
of February last, praying that they may be heard, by 
their counsel or agents, against certain parts of the 
London and Dover Railway Bill, be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by their counsel or agents, upon their Petition, if 
they think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


Mr. Harland presented a Bill to enable the Dur- 
ham and Sunderland Railway Company to alter a 
part of the main Line of their Railway, to abandon 
another part thereof, to make other Branches there- 
from, and to amend and enlarge the Powers of the 
Act for incorporating the said Company: And the 
same was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time. 


Mr. Bannerman reported from the Committee on 
the Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act for natu- 
ralizing Frank Castelli; That they had examined 
the allegations of the Bill, and found the same to 
be true; and had gone through the Bill, and di- 
rected him to report the same, without Amendment: 
—And the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bannerman do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


Mr. Bannerman reported from the Committee on 
the Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act for natu- 
ralizing Michael Castelli; That they had examined 
the allegations of the Bill, and found the same to be 
true; and had gone through the Bill, and directed 
him to report the same, without Amendment :—And 
the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bannerman do carry the Bill 
to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


Mr. Bannerman reported from the Committee on 
the Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act for natu- 
ralizing Martin Alepson and Matthew Alepson; That 
they had examined the allegations of the Bill, and 
found the same to be true; and had gone through 
the Bill, and directed him to report the same, 
without Amendment :—And the Bill was read the 
third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bannerman do carry the Bill 
to tae Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


A Petition of Lord Viscount Palmerston, and Own- 
ers of lands and tenements in Ledsham, Kippax and 
Methley, in the West Riding of the county of York, 
praying that they may be heard, by their counsel or 
agents, against certain parts of the York and North 
Midland Railway Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by their counsel or agents, upon their Petition, if 
they think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 








Ordered, That the Committee on the Merthyr Merthyr Tydfil 
Tydfil and Cardiff Railway Bill have Power to and Cardiff 
send for persons, papers and records. Railway Bill 


A Petition of the Reverend Charles Rogers, of Manchester 
Sowerby Bridge, in the county of York, Clerk, and and Leeds 
James Walton, of the same place, Millowner ; pray- ®*!*y Bill. 
ing that they may be heard, by themselves, their 
counsel or agents, against certain parts of the Man- 
chester and Leeds Railway Bill, was presented, and 
read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had Election Peti. 
received from the Deputy Clerk of the Crown and tion received 
Hanaper in Ireland, a Petition of Walter Newton, ®°™ 24. 
and others, freeholders of the county of Carlow, 
complaining of an undue Election and Return for 
the said County. 

And the said Petition was laid upon the Table. 

A Petition of Walter Newton, of Dunleckney, Carlow County 
William Fitz-William Burton, of Burton Hall, Ro- Election._ 
bert Clayton Browne, of View Mount, and William Petition of 
Fishbourne, of the town of Carlow, all in the county pay carl 
of Carlow, Esquires, Freeholders anda Electors of ; 
the said County of Carlow, on behalf of themselves 
and others, claiming to have had and having a right 
to vote at the last Election for a Member to serve 
in Parliament for the said County, was read; setting 
forth, That all the Petitioners were, at and during 
the Election of a Member to serve in Parliament for 
the said County of Carlow, electors of, and had a 
claim to have a right to vote for, a Knight to serve 
in Parliament at the said Election for the said 
County; that the usual writ having been issued 
and directed to the Sheriff of the said County of 
Carlow, commanding him to proceed to the Election 
of a Knight of the Shire for the said County to serve 


‘in the present Parliament, in the room and stead of 


Thomas Kavanagh, Esquire, deceased, and the same 
having been delivered to Richard Butler, Esquire, 
the late High Sheriff of the said County, on the third 
day of February one thousand eight hundred and 
thirty-seven, he did on the fourth day of February 
one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, cause 
proclamation to be made, that an Election for the 
said County of Carlow would be holden at the 
County Court-house in the town of Carlow, in obe- 
dience to said Writ, on the fourteenth day of Fe- 
bruary then next, when and where he would proceed 
to the Election of a Knight of the Shire to represent 
the said County in the present Parliament, in the 
room of the said Thomas Kavanagh; that the 
Shrievalty of the said Richard Butler having ex- 
pired intermediately between the making of the said 
proclamation and the day thereby fixed for holding 
the said Election, and George Rous Keough, Esquire, 
having been appointed Sheriff of the said County, 
he, on the sixth day of February one thousand eight 
hundred and thirty-seven, duly took the oath by 
law required, and then and there became and was 
the Sheriff of the said County, and so continued 
from thence hitherto; that, at the said Election, 
Thomas Bunbury and Nicholas Aylward Vigors, 
Esquires, were Candidates to represent the said 
County in Parliament; that, at a County Court 
holden on the said fourteenth day of Februa by 
the said George Rous Keough, so being such Hig 
Sheriff, pursuant to said proclamation, the said Tho- 
mas Bunbury, as also the said Nicholas Aylward 
Vigors, were severally proposed and seconded, and 
offered themselves to the Electors of the said County 
as 





7 Wit. IV. 


as fit and proper persons to represent the said | 


County of Carlow in the present Parliament ; that, 
after a show of hands by the Electors, the Sheriff 
declared the majority to be in favour of the said 
Nicholas Aylward Vigors, whereupon a poll was 
demanded in the usual manner for the electors of 
the said County, and also for the said Thomas Bun- 
bury, pursuant to the Statutes in such case made 
and provided; that the said Sheriff proceeded on 
the fifteenth day of February to poll the said County, 
and continued to do so until Saturday, the eighteenth 
day of February following, when he declared the 
majority of votes to be in favour of the said Nicholas 
Aylward Vigors, who was thereupon declared in the 
Return by the said Sheriff as duly elected ; that the 
numbers of voters which appeared on the poll at the 
close thereof, were, for the said Nicholas Aylward 
Vigors six hundred and sixty-nine, and for the said 
Thomas Bunbury six hundred and thirty-three, 
making a colourable majority for the said Wicholas 
Aylward Vigors over the said Thomas Bunbury of 
thirty-six ; that the said majority in favour of the 
said Nicholas Aylward Vigors was but a colourable 
majority, and that the said Return of said Vigors 
was an undue Return, and was procured, not only 
by violence, terror, threats and intimidation, but by 
the grossest perjury, bribery, and by the payment 
and promise of payment of large sums of money, by 
and on behalf of the Sitting Member, to electors 
and to other persons capable of influencing electors 
of the said County, and of procuring and endeavour- 
ing to procure voters for the purpose of securing 
his return, and by other undue, illegal, corrupt and 
unconstitutional means; and the Petitioners show, 
that in addition to the fraudulent and illegal prac- 
tices of the said Vigors and his agents, the said Re- 
turn was obtained by reason of improper conduct of 
the said Sheriff, his assessor and deputies ; as evi- 
dence whereof the Petitioners show that the Barrister 
who acted as assessor for the said Sheriff at the said 
Election, was not only selected without giving the 
said Thomas Bunbury, or those acting on his behalf, 
any opportunity of objecting to his fitness, but the 
said Barrister then was, and for a considerable time 
theretofore had been, and now is, a member of a 
certain illegal society or body of persons associated 
together in Ireland, and styling themselves “ The 
General Association of Jreland,” and had shortly 
previous to the commencement of said Election taken 
an active and prominent part at the meetings of the 
said Assuciation ; and the Petitioners show that the 
selection of an assessor from amongst the members 
of the said Association was the more especially ob- 
jectionable and improper, because the said Associa- 
tion had as a body in and by its public resolutions, 
entered into prior to the said Election, announced 
its determination to support the said Wicholas Ayl- 
ward Vigors, and had actually deputed several of 
its members, and especially Arthur French its se- 
cretary, to assist the said Wicholas Aylward Vigors 
at the said Election, which they accordingly did ; 
and, as the Petitioners believe and will be able to 
prove, said Arthur French did expend divers sums 
of money entrusted to him by the said Association, 
and supplied out of its funds, in and towards the 
furthering the Return of the said Nicholas Aylward 
Vigors ; and, as further evidence of the improper 
conduct of the said Sheriff and his assessor, the Pe- 
titioners show that three of the four persons nomi- 
nated by him as his deputies in the polling booths 
were violent partisans of the said Nicholas Aylward 
Vigors, and acted in a most unfair manner, and 
with the view and intent of advancing the interests 
of the said Nicholas Aylward Vigors, and of pre- 
venting the Return of the said Thomas Bunbury, 
and to such an extent was the same manifested, 
that, although complaints of the misconduct of said 
deputies were repeatedly made to the Sheriff and 
his said assessor during the Election, and although 


in the course of one of the said polling days one 
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145 


of the said deputies was several times brought before 
the said Sheriff and his assessor, and accusations 
of distinct acts of misconduct and partiality preferred 
against him by the agents of the said Thomas Bun- 
bury, and although on each of said occasions the 
said Sheriff and his assessor admitted said com- 
plaints to be well founded, yet the said Sheriff, by 
the advice of his said assessor, refused to remove 
the said deputy, who, encouraged by such refusal, 
persisted in such his misconduct up to the termina- 
tion of the said Election; the Petitioners show, as 
further evidence of the undue means by which the 
return of the said Nicholas Aylward Vigors was 
procured, that the said Sheriff, by the advice of his 
said assessor, refused to receive the votes of duly 
qualified electors, who offered and. tendered their 
votes, and required to be allowed to vote for the 
said Thomas Bunbury; and, on the other hand, 
admitted to vote at said Election, and placed on the 
poll as voters for the said Nicholas Aylward Vigors, 
several persons who did not produce any certificates 


of their being registered as electors of the said . 


County, and although there were no affidavits of 
registry purporting to be made by such persons as 
required by law in the hands or custody of the Clerk 
of the Peace for the said County, or his deputies, 
and although the names of such particular persons 
had been in due course of law struck off the Re- 
gistry of said County, by virtue of an order for that 
purpose directed to the Clerk of the Peace of the 
said County, under the hand of the Speaker of the 
House, bearing date the twenty-fourth day of August 
one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, and 
issued pursuant to, and in conformity with a Report 
bearing date the nineteenth day of August one thou- 
sand eight hundred and thirty-five, and made by a 
Select Committee of the House duly appointed to try 
the merits ofa certain Petition presented to the House 
in the month of July one thousand eight hundred 
and thirty-five, against the return of the said M- 
cholas Aylward Vigors and Alexander Raphael as 
Members for the said County; and on which occa- 
sion the said Wicholas Aylward Vigors and Alexander 
Raphael having been returned by a majority which 
was in part se abe of the said thirty-six voters, 
who comprised the entire colourable majority at the 
last Election, were unseated ; and as further evi- 
dence of the undue means by which the Return of 
the said Nicholas Aylward Vigors was procured, 
the Petitioners show, that the said Sheriff also ad- 
mitted several other persons to vote at said Election, 
and placed them on the poll for the said Nicholas 
Aylward Vigors, although the names of said last- 
mentioned persons did not nor ought to appear on 
the register of the said County, they not in fact 
being electors thereof or qualified to vote at the 
said Election, they having been struck off the re- 
gister of the said County by virtue of the said Order 
of the said Speaker of the House, —— to the 
said Report of the said Select Committee, and 
although there were not any aflidavits of the registry 
of several of said last-mentioned persons in the hands 
or custody of the Clerk of the Peace of the said 
County, or his deputy ; the Petitioners further show, 
that all said several persons were admitted to vote, 
and placed on the poll, as deriving their right to be 
electors of the said County by virtue of registry 
effected by them respectively prior to the said Order 
of the Speaker of the House, and the said Report 
of the said Select Committee; and which said several 
registries were by said Report and Order declared 
to be null and void, the said several persons not 
having, in fact and truth, at the time of such their 
respective alleged registries, any sufficient qualifica- 
tions entitling them to be electors of the said County, 
and having procured themselves to be registered by 
means of fraud and perjury; the Petitioners further 
show, that, notwithstanding such determination and 
Report of the said Select Committee, and the Order 
of the said Speaker, and the erasure of the — 
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146 9° Marti. 


of said persons from the register of the said County, 
and notwithstanding that certified copies of said Re- 

rt and Order respectively were duly served on 
the said Sheriff and his assessor, prior to his ad- 
mitting the said disfranchised persons to vote, the 
said Sheriff persisted in placing them on the poll ; 
the Petitioners show that, as further evidence of the 
undue Return of the said Wicholas Aylward Vigors, 
that the said Sheriff admitted to vote, and placed 
on the poll, several persons who had not been duly 
or at all registered as electors of the said County 
for six months previous to the test of the Wnit 
under which the said Election was holden ; the Pe- 
titioners show, as further evidence of the undue 
means by which the Return of said Nicholas Ayl- 
ward Vigors was procured, said Sheriff and his as- 
sessor did, contrary to the provisions of the Statute 
in that case made and provided, allow and permit 
several different Barristers to attend and act at the 
same time as the counsel of the said Wicholas Ayl- 
ward Vigors in the assessor’s booth and elsewhere, 
during the course of the said Election, several, if not 
all of said Barristers being at the time members of 
the said General Association, and some of them 
having been deputed by that illegal body to assist 
as counsel at the said Election, and being accepted 
by the said Wicholas Aylward Vigors, and — 
by him as such; the Petitioners show, as further 
evidence of the undue means by which the Return 
of the said Nicholas Aylward Vigors was procured, 
that the said Sheriff and his assessor, after the final 
termination of the said poll, and after it had been 
ascertained that, if the said persons who had been 
so disfranchised, and whose names had been struck 
off the register in manner aforesaid, had not been ad- 
mitted to vote, or been placed on the poll, the said 
Thomas Bunbury would have had a majority of the 
legal voters, that is to say, after the Rent of five 
o'clock in the evening of Saturday, the eighteenth day 
of February one thousand eight hundred and thirty- 
seven, the said Sheriff, without any right whatever 
so to do, struck off the poll the vote of an elector who 
had been duly placed thereon, having voted for the 
said Thomas Bunbury, on Wednesday the fifteenth 
day of February one thousand eight hundred and 
thirty-seven, and whose vote was continued in the 
said poll until after the final close thereof, and 
thereby increased the colourable majority of the said 
Nicholas Aylward Vigors from thirty-five to thirty- 
six ; that several persons were permitted and re- 
ceived by the said Sheriff to poll as freeholders and 
leaseholders in favour of the said Wicholas Aylward 
Vigors, who were not entitled to vote at the said 
Election, they not having been duly registered ac- 
cording to the Acts and Statutes now in force for 
the registry of persons entitled to vote at Elections 
in Ireland, inasmuch as they had not at the time of 
their alleged registry, or at all, taken or subscribed 
such oaths or affidavits as are by said Acts or Sta- 
tutes directed and prescribed to be taken and sub- 
scribed by persons claiming to register as leaseholders 
or freeholders, nor were any such affidavits ever 
lodged or deposited with the Clerk of the Peace for 
the said County, or his deputy, or filed among the 
records of the said County, the affidavits which 
were in fact lodged or filed being insufficient, and 
not conformable to the laws now in force in respect 
thereof; that several other persons as well claiming 
to be freeholders as leaseholders were by the said 
Sheriff admitted to poll for the said Nicholas Ayl- 
ward Vigors, who were not entitled to vote at the 
said Election, though they appeared upon the face 
of the County books to have been regularly regis- 
tered, many of such last-mentioned persons having 
in fact and truth prevailed on and induced the De- 
puty Assistant Barrister and the Assistant Bar- 
vister to admit them to register by means of the 
grossest fraud, misrepresentation and perjury, and 
several of them so registered not having in fact and 
truth at the time of their said registry, or at all, any 








A. 1837. 


legal or vested title whatsoever to the lands and pre- 
mises out of which they were so registered, and, in 
fact and truth the freeholds and leaseholds of several 
other of said persons in respect whereof they were 
so admitted to register, were not of sufficient yearly 
value to entitle them to do so, or to confer the qua- 
lification required by law to entitle persons to vote 
at an Election for Representatives for the said 
County; and others of said persons having been 

unduly and illegally registered by the said Deput 

Assistant Barrister and Assistant Barrister, althoug 
they had not been for six months previous to the 
time of their respective registries in possession of 
the premises out of which they claimed to register, 
under or by virtue of any sufficient or other title or 
estate conferring a franchise or right of voting, their 
respective titles and estates having been granted 
and conveyed to them immediately previous or 
within six months prior to the date of their said re- 
gistries, for the purpose, and with the view and in- 
tent of manufacturing votes at Elections, and seve- 
ral other of the persons so registered, although pro- 
fessing to derive their respective leases from per- 
sons not competent to grant same, not having any 
sufficient estate or title to enable them to make or 
grant such leases ; that several other persons were 
permitted and received by the said Sheriff to poll 
as freeholders and leaseholders at said Election in 
favour of the said Nicholas Aylward Vigors, who 
were not at all entitled to vote thereat, inasmuch as 
previous thereto, and subsequent to the registry of 
their freeholds or leaseholds, the estates or interests 
in right of which they had so registered, had either 
in the whole or in part been assigned, surrendered, 
evicted or otherwise determined, so as not to leave 
any sufficient qualification to vote in said persons 
at the time of the said Election, as the Petitioners 
could have proved at said Election, if allowed any 
opportunity so to do, and could still prove the 
same ; and also, that the said Nicholas AylwardVi- 
= well knew, previous to and at the time of said 
lection, that said persons had no right to vote 
thereat; that several other persons who had not any 
votes, and were not at all electors of the said County, 
were admitted to vote and placed on the poll at the 
said Election, such last-mentioned persons having 
at said Election personated electors who were either 
dead or were absent from said Election, and the 
Petitioners show that several of such persons so 
fraudulently personating electors of said County, 
were enabled successfully to perpetrate the said 
frauds so committed by them by reason of the said 
Sheriff allowing several of said persons so personat- 
ing voters, as well as electors, to vote at places not 
allowed by law, and by the said Sheriff’ receiving 
the votes of such persons so personating electors 
and others at anh illegal places, and not within 
the booths by law appointed for the purpose, where 
only the votes of any electors could lawfully be re- 
ceived; and the Petitioners show that no votes 
should have been received or admitted on the poll, 
save in the said booths appointed for polling, and 
that all votes given elsewhere than in such booths 
should be struck off the poll; that the said Vicholas 
Aylward Vigors himself, by his agents and mana- 
gers, and by persons employed by him and on his 
behalf, did, after the teste of the writ for said Elec- 
tion, and during the said Election, and before the 
commencement of same, give, present and allow to 
various persons having or claiming to have votes in 
said Election, money, meat, drink, entertainment, 
and did make and enter into promises, agreements, 
obligations and engagements, to give and allow 
money, meat, drink, presents, rewards and entertain- 
ments, to and for such persons, in order to procure 
their votes, and to be elected, and for being elected 
a Member to serve in this present Parliament for the 
said County of Carlow; that, for a considerable 
time previous to and during the said Election, the 
priests and Roman Catholic ‘Clergy of the said 
County 














7 Witt. IV. 


County interfered with, and influenced the electors 
of the Roman Catholic persuasion in a most illegal, 
violent and unconstitutional manner, in order to 
compel them to vote for the said Nicholas Aylward 
Vigors; that, previous to, and in contemplation of, 
and during the said Election, the said and 
Roman Catholic Clergy not only used their utmost 
exertions to excite a rancorous hostility against the 
said Thomas Bunbury, but availed themselves of 
the superstition of many of the most ignorant Ro- 
man Catholic electors, to induce them to believe 
that they would be highly criminal, and incur the 
risk of damnation, if they voted for the said Thomas 
Bunbury, or any other person but one supported by 
them; that the said priests and Roman Catholic 
Clergy did not only exert all their spiritual influence 
against the said 7’homas Bunbury, but in many in- 
stances threatened several electors who were un- 
willing to vote against the said Thomas Bunbury, 
that their properties and oes would suffer injury 
in case they resisted or disobeyed the commands of 
the said priests, or refused to submit to their dic- 
tation; that, in consequence, and under the influ- 
ence of the fear and terror, and general intimidation, 
produced by such illegal and unconstitutional 
threats, many electors voted contrary to their own 
wishes and inclinations against the said Thomas 
Bunbury, and many others of the said electors who 
wished and desired to vote for said last-mentioned 
candidate, were deterred and prevented from voting 
at the said Election; that the said priests and 
Roman Catholic Clergy did, shortly previous to 
the said Election, enter into a general plan or con- 
federacy to attend thereat,and remain at the different 
booths during the time of taking the poll, with 
the view and intent of thereby intimidating the Ro- 
man Catholic electors of said County from voting 
in accordance with the commands which they had 
previously received from the said priests; that, in 
epee of such plan and determination, several 
oman Catholic priests not only acted as agents for 
the said Nicholas Aylward Vigors during the said 
Election, but also attended in each polling booth 
during the entire time of polling each day, and having 
taken up conspicuous positions in said booths, where 
every person coming to poll must necessarily see 
them, they did in the most violent manner endeavour 
to intimidate and deter the Roman Catholic electors 
coming forward to vote for the said Thomas Bunbury 
from doing so, and thereby did deter some from 
voting at all, and terrified others to vote against the 
said Thomas Bunbury ; that many Roman Catholic 
electors were, under the excitation and fear produced 
by addresses from the Roman Catholic Clergy, and 
certain persons, members of the said General As- 
sociation, pressed forward to the hustings, and in- 
duced to vote, contrary to their wishes and inclina- 
tions, for said Nicholas Aylward Vigors ; that the 
priests and other Roman Catholic Clergy of said 
County did, in addition to the acts aforesaid, resort 
to other violent, illegal and unconstitutional methods 
of terrifying and intimidating the electors of said 
County, in the exercise of the Elective Franchise 
against the said Thomas Bunbury, and in order to 
secure the return of the said Nicholas Aylward Vigors 
asa Member to serve in the present Parliament for the 
said County; that the said Nicholas Aylward Vigors 
accepted and availed himself of the aforesaid acts 
and conduct of the said Roman Catholic Clergy, and 
other persons, members of the said Association, 
and accepted and made use of their services and 
exertions, and employed them as agents during the 
said Election, although he was fully cognizant of 
the said illegal and unconstitutional acts committed 
by the said persons, and of the means resorted to 
by them to control and defeat the freedom of elec- 
tion; that by the above and other undue means, 
and by the many illegal and erroneous decisions 
made by the Deputy Assistant Barrister and As- 
sistant Barristers of the said County, on the occasion 
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147 


of their registering the said electors in and for the 
said County, the said Nicholas Aylward Vigors 
obtained a colourable majority, and was returned 
to serve in Parliament for the said County, in open 
violation of the law and freedom of election, and to 
the great prejudice of the Petitioners and of the 
said Thomas Bunbury, who had, upon the said Elec- 
tion, as it is submitted it will appear upon a fair 
scrutiny of the poll, and an investigation of the 
qualification of the persons who voted, a great 
majority of the good and legal votes, and ought 
therefore to have been returned as representative of 
the said County; and for all the causes aforesaid, 
the Petitioners humbly pray, That the said Nicholas 
Aylward Vigors may be declared not duly elected, 
and that the said Thomas Bunbury may be declared 
duly to be elected, and may be declared in the place 
of the said Nicholas Aylward Vigors to take his 
seat as a Knight to represent the said County in 
this present Parliament; or that the said return, 
and the election, may be declared null and void, 
and the parties sent to a new election; and that the 
votes of the several persons improperly registered 
and allowed to poll as aforesaid may be struck off the 
poll; and that the registry of the County may also 
be amended by striking off the books of the County, 
in the hands of the Clerk of the Peace, the names 
of all such persons as shall appear to have been 
unduly or improperly registered; and that such 
steps may be taken and directions given as _ will 
effectually prevent and restrain the present High 
Sheriff, or any future High Sheriffs of the said 
County, from permitting to vote, or placing on the 
poll at any future election for the said County, the 
several persons who have been struck off the regis- 
try of the said County, in manner aforesaid, or who 
shall, in compliance with the prayer hereof, be so 
struck off; and also that such proceedings may be 
taken or orders given as will in future — and 
restrain the Sheriffs of the said County from making 
undue Returns of Members to serve in the House 
for the said County; and that the House may grant 
such further relief to the Petitioners, as the merits 
of their case may require. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be taken into 
consideration upon Thursday, the 18th day of April 
next, at the same time that their former Petition is 
ordered to be taken into consideration. 

Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant 
or Warrants for such persons, papers and records 
as shall be thought necessary by the several Parties 
on the hearing of the matter of the said Petition. 


Tullamoore ; — Kilronan ;—Dundalk ;— Swords and 
Malahide ;—and, Enniskillen; praying that the 
Municipal Corporations (Jreland) Bill, may pass 
into a law,—were presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


— Chute;—Brighstone ;— Cerne Abbas, &amp;c.;—Ship- 
ton Bellinger ;—Appleshaw ;—Fifield ;— Thruxton ; 
—Penton Mewsey ;— Walmer ; — Brooke; — Mill- 
brook ;— Yaberland ;— Frimley ;—Milton (Hants) ; 
Kirk Hamerton ;—Shelton ;— Cockgrove and Burton 
Leonard ; — Minskip, &amp;c.;— Borobridge ;— Bishop 
Monkton ;— Whizley ;— Aldborough ;—Colney En- 
gaine ; — Andover ; — Deal ;— Poulton-le-Fylde ;— 
Hadley ;—Stock and Buttsbury ;—Wennington ;— 
Great Hallingbury ;-— Rainham ;—South Ochendon; 
Hatfield Broad Oak ;—Shopland;—— Sutton (Essex) ; 
Rayleigh ;— Eye, kc. ;— Birmingham;— Great Ouse- 
burn ; — Staveley ; —Kirby Hill; — and, Wilstrop ; 
praying That Church Rates may not be abolished, 
—were presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 
Petitions from Billingshurst ;—Malmsbury ;— Tal- 
garth ;—Saint Ives (Huntingdon) ;- -Stromness ;— 





Holm ;—Denbigh ;— Howgate ; —Haworth ;—Saint 
v2 John 


Petitions from Philipstown and Ballycommon ;-~— Municipal 


Petitionsfrom Whitby ;— Canterbury ;— Throwley ; Church Rates. 














148 


John Square, Clerkenwell (Elder and Deacons ;)— 
Portsburgh ;— Bristow-street, Edinburgh (Pastors 
and Deacons ;)—Leslie ;— Barbican, London ;—New 
Broad-street, London ;—Kilbarchan ;—Paisley ;— 
Andover (two Petitions ;)}—Longparish ;— Warboys; 
—Hail Weston ;—Bluntisham ;— Spalding ;— Car- 
marthen (two Petitions ;)— Whitchurch (Salop ;) — 
Spencer-place, Goswell Road, London ;—Prince’s 

isborough ;—and, Newtown ; praying for the aboli- 
tion of Church Rates,—were also presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Tithes 


Petitions from Swords and Malahide; —Kilronan; 
(Ireland.) 


—Lismore ;— Ballycommon and Philipstown ; — 
Clones East ;—Errigle Treugh;—Fahans and Dy- 
sertagny ;— Aughaloo;--and, Dundalk; praying 
for the abolition of Tithes in Ireland ;—were pre- 


sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


Factories. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to persons 
No. 97. 


summoned for Offences under the Factory Act, 

which was presented yesterday, be printed. 
Ordered, That the Return relative to the Tithes 

Commutation Act, which was presented yesterday, 


Tithes’ Commu- 
tation Act. 


No.98. be printed. 
Factory Ordered, That the Return relative to Factory 
Children. Children, which was presented yesterday, be 
No. 99. printed. 
Ecclesiastical Ordered, That the Report of the Ecclesiastical 
Commission Commision (Zreland,) which was presented yester- 
(Ireland.) dav, be asinted 
No. 100. ye P : 
Poor Laws A Petition of Merchants, Traders and Inhabitants 
(Ireland.) = of Dundalk, praying for the introduction of Poor 
Laws into Jreland, was —" and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 
Landlord Petitions from Errigle Treugh;—and,Dungannon; 
and Tenant = praying the House to pass a Bill for the Amend- 
(Ireland.) ment of the Law of Landlord and Tenant in Jreland, 
—were presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 
Municipal Petitions from Banager ;—and, Lusmagh; pray- 
(rtiend) Bill ing that the Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Bill 


i may pass into a law, and Tithes in Jreland be abo- 
lished ;—were presented, and read ; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


Fictitious Votes A Petition of William Butt, of Ryde, in the Isle 

(Isle of Wight.) of Wight, Gentleman, and Richard Godman Kirk- 
patrick, of Newport, in the Isle of Wight, Gentle- 
man, complaining of the creation of Fictitious Votes 
for Members to serve in Parliament for the Isle of 
Wight; and praying the House to take measures 
for preventing the growth of an evil, which if not 
checked, will speedily destroy the honesty and inde- 
pendence of the county constituency, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Ordered, That the Petition be printed. 


Woo! and 
Woollen 
Manufactures. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Accounts of the Quantity of Sheep and Lambs’ Wool 
imported into the United Kingdom in the year 1836 ; 
specifying the Countries from which it came, the 
Quantity that paid a Duty of One Penny per pound; 
and the Quantity that paid a Duty of One Half- 
penny per pound; of the Quantity of Foreign Wool 
re-exported during the same period, and the Coun- 
tries to which it was sent; and of the Quantity 
remaining warehoused under bond on 5th January 
last :—Of the Quantities of British Sheep and 
Lambs’ Wool and Woollen Yarn exported from the 
United Kingdom in the year 1836; specifying the 
Countries to which they were sent ;—and, Of British 
Woollen Manufactures exported from the United 
Kingdom in the year 1836. 





9° Marti. 


A. 1837. 


Petitions from Carlisle ;— Manchester ;— Godley ; Cotton Wou, 
—Chorley ;—and, Burnley; praying for the repeal 
of the Duty on Cotton Wool,—were presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Ballycommon and Philipstown ;— Vote by Ballot, 
the county of Warwick ;—and, Newark-upon-Trent; 
praying that at all future Elections of Members to 
serve in Parliament, the Votes be taken by Ballot, 
—were presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


Petitions from Edinburgh ;— London ;—and, Rom- Fire Insurances, 
ford; praying for the repeal of the Duty on Fire 
Insurances,—were presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Irvine, praying for Soap. 
the repeal of the Duty on Soap, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Householders of Ackworth, praying Elective 
the House to devise some plan for extending the Franchise. 
Elective Franchise to every Householder, was pre- 


sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of Thomas Reeves, late Surveyor of ThomasReeves. 

Assessed Taxes, for the Western Division of Somer- 
set, complaining of having been placed on the 
retired List, and of being deprived of a large portion 
of the Statute Allowance ; and praying the House 
to take his case into consideration, and appoint a 
Committee to investigate the same, was presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of William Sell, Bodar of Dover Castle, Imprisonment 
and Gaoler and Keeper of the Prison there; praying ®* Debt Bill. 
the House to insert a Clause in the Imprisonment for 
Debt Bill, authorizing the Lords of the Treasury to 
give compensation to him for the loss he will sus- 
tain by the passing thereof, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Company of Merchants of the Merchant 
city of Edinburgh, praying the House to pass a law Shipping. 
regulating the construction of Merchant Vessels, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of James Bowditch, of Ewell, Solicitor, Channel 
praying that the Jurisdiction, Privileges and Norman !s!ands. 
aws of the Channel Islands, and that of the Jsle 
of Man in particular, may be inquired into by a Com- 
mittee to be appointed by the House, with a view to 
the correction and prevention of delays and abuses 
in the administration of justice ; and that, professing 
allegiance to the Soverign, they may no longer be 
permitted to possess an exclusive jurisdiction to the 
manifest injury of the commercial interests of Great 
Britain; but that process issuing from and out of 
the law courts at Westminster respectively, may 
from henceforward have full power and effect in 
those Islands, was presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Totness and Bridgetown ;— the Poor Law Act. 
Hundreds of Freebridge Lynn, Freebridge Marsh- 
land, Clackclose and Smithden (Norfolk) ;—John 
Corrie ;—and, Ann Verrier, of Thorn Falcon; pray- 
ing for the amendment of the Poor Law Act,— 
were presented, and read ; and referred to the Select 
Committee on the Poor Law Act. 


A Petition of James Thomas Wright, late of Imprisonment 
Burslem, but now a prisoner in the King’s Bench, ' Debt Bill 
praying that the Imprisonment for Debt Bill may 
pass into a law, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 





A Petition 











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Universal A Petition of the Chairman, Librarian and Secre- 

Suffrage, &amp;c. tary of the Society of Free Inquirers, Star-street, 
Paddington, praying. the House to pass a law esta- 
blishing Universal Suffrage, Annual Parliaments, 
Vote by Ballot, and no Furnatty qualification for 
Members of Parliament, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Small Debts A Petition of Magistrates, Council and Inhabi- 
(Scotland) Bill. tants of Auchtermuchty, praying that the Small 
Debts (Scotland) Bill may pass into a law, was 
oe ig and read; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 

A Petition of Merchants and other Inhabitants 
of Inverary, praying the House to make certain 
alterations and amendments in the said Bill, was 
also presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the table. 


Attornies’ 


A Petition of the Society of Solicitors in the Su- 
Certificates. 


preme Courts of Scotland, praying for the repeal 
of the Duty on their Annual Certificates, was pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Fictitious Votes A Petition of Inhabitants of Leslie, complaining 


(Scotland.) of the creation of Fictitious Votes for Members to 
serve in Parliament for counties in Scotland, and 
praying relief, was presented, and read; and re- 
ferred to the Select Committee on Fictitious Votes 
( Scotland.) 

Private Bill A Petition of the Provost, Magistrates and Town 

Committees, 


Council of Ayr, setting forth, That the Petitioners 
are deeply impressed with the conviction, that the 
mode which has hitherto been pursued of consti- 
tuting Committees of the House on Private Bills, 
calls loudly for revision and amendment, and pray- 
ing the House to devise some means for the removal 
of the grievance complained of, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen and Coun- 
cillors of the borough of Carmarthen, praying that 
the County Rates Bill may pass into a law, was 


presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
lable. 


County Rates. 


Army Civil Lord Viscount Howick presented, by His Ma- 
Departments. jesty’s command,—Report of the Commissioners 
appointed to inquire into the practicability, and 
expediency of consolidating the different Depart- 
ments connected with the Civil Administration of 
the Army. 
Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Leave of 


Ordered, That Mr. Kemp have leave of absence 
Absence, 


for three weeks, on account of illness in his family. 
Innkeepers. A Petition of Inn-keepers and Publicans, Licensed 
Victuallers resident in the county of Warwick, 
praying for a revision of the Acts regulating their 
trade, and for the gradual abolition of Beer Houses, 
was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 
Inclosure Bills, Resolved, That in all Inclosure Bills provision be 
made for leaving an open space sufficient for pur- 
poses of exercise and recreation of the neighbouring 
population ; provided, that in any case where the 
Committee on the Bill do not make such provision, 
they be required specially to report to the House 
their reasons for not complying with the Orders of 
the House. 

Ordered, That the said Resolution be made a 
Standing Order. 


a Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
bing Bill. for the establishment of a Marine Board, and for 
the better regulation of the Merchant Shipping of 


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149 


the Kingdom: And that Mr. Buckingham, Sir Ed- 
ward Codrington, and Colonel Thompson do prepare 
and bring it in. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being put, Texas. 
That an humble Address be presented to His Ma- 
jesty, that He will be graciously pleased to give 
directions that there be laid before this House, 
Copies of all Correspondence between the Govern- 
ment of Mexico and His Majesty’s Government on 
the subject of Texas, from the 1st March 1836 to 
the present date :—Also, of all Correspondence 
between the Government of the United States of 
America and His Majesty’s Government on the 
same subject for a like period ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 

Tellers for the { Mr. Barlow Hoy, } 28 

Yeas, { Mr. John Henry Lowther : F 

Tellers for the f Mr. John Parker, } 41 

Noes, L Mr. Hawes: ‘ 
So it passed in the Negative. 


The House was moved, That the Act 2 and 3 Reform of 
Will. 4, c. 45, to amend the Representation of the (England) a 
People in England and Wales, might be read ; and _ j 
the same being read ; 

A Motion was made, and the Question being 
put, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to repeal 
that portion of the said Act which requires the pay- 
ment of Rates and Taxes in Cities and Boroughs 
as the condition of Registration ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the old Lobby ; 

The Noes to the new Lobby. 


Tellers for the {f Mr. Thomas Duncombe, 49 
Yeas, Mr. Wakley : } : 
Tellers for the f Mr. Baring, 38 
Noes, Mr. Robert Steuart : } i 


So it was resolved in the Affirmative :—And that 
Mr. Thomas Duncombe and Mr. Leader do prepare, 
and bring it in. 


The House was moved, That the Act 1 and 2 Attornies and 
Geo. 4, c. 48, to amend the several Acts for the S»licitors Bill. 
regulation of Attornies and Solicitors, might be 
read ; and the same was read. 

The House was also moved, That the Act 3 Geo. 4, 

c. 16, to amend an Act made in the last Session of 
Parliament for amending the several Acts for the 
regulation of Attornies and Solicitors, might be 
read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to amend the said Acts: And that Mr. Tooke and 
Mr. Strutt do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Sheriffs’ Fees 
for better regulating the Fees payable to Sheriffs, 3i!!. 
Under-Sheriffs and Bailiffs upon the execution of 
Civil Process : And that Mr. Tooke and Mr. Serjeant 
Wilde do prepare, and bring it in. 


Resolved, That in future the Fees now payable Fees paid by 
by Members on taking their Seats in this House be Members. 
discontinued. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Benefices 
reading of the Benefices Plurality Bill ; Plerality Bul. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Glass Duty. 

a Return of the Amount of Duty charged on Glass ; 
distinguishing the Amount charged on Flint, Plate, 
Broad, Crown, Bottle and German Sheet Glass in 
the year 1836; together with the Amount of Draw- 
back on each description of Glass; the produce of 
the Duties in England, Scotland and Ireland, to be 
stated separately. 


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Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this House, 
a 
Counties in which the same are situated, that have 
been united under the powers and provisions granted 


Highways. 


by the 5th and 6th Will. 4, c. 50, for the purpose of | of His 


having one sufficient Person to be District Surveyor 
of the Highways within such united Parishes ; to- 
gether with the names of the Unions formed under 
the 4th and 5th of Will. 4, c. 76, to which such 
Parishes respectively belong. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


St. Pancras The Order for the second reading of Saint Pancras 
Paving Bill. Paving Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for repealing the several Acts for paving, lighting, 
watering and cleansing certain parts of the Parish 
of Saint Pancras, in the County of Middlesex, and 
for granting further, better and more effectual Powers 
in lieu thereof: And that Sir Samuel Whalley and 
Mr. Hume do prepare, and bring it in. 


Prisons. Mr. Robert Steuart presented, pursuant to the 
directions of several Acts of Parliament,—Copies 
of all Reports, and Schedules (B.), transmitted to 
the Secretary of State respecting Prisons. 

Criminal Tables of Criminal Offenders for the Fw 1836, 


(Seutland ) reported by His Majesty’s Advocate for Scotland. 


Grand Jory Accounts of Presentments made by the Grand 
Presentments Juries of the several Counties, Cities and Towns in 
(Ireland.) ——_Treland, in the year 1835. 


Privy Council Mr. Robert Steuart also presented,—Returns to 
Appeals. an Address to His Majesty, dated the 15th day of 
February last, for Returns of the Number of Appeals 
and Petitions heard before the Privy Council in 
each of the five years preceding the establishment 
of the Judicial Committee, and of the Number of 
Appeals and Petitions (other than Petitions with 
respect to Patents) heard before the Judicial Com- 
mittee in each year since its establishment :—and of 
the Days on which the Judicial Committee of the 
Privy Council has satin each year since its esta- 
blishment, for the hearing of Appeals and Petitions 
(other than Petitions respecting Patents) ; distin- 
guishing what Members of the Judicial Committee 
were present at each such sitting, and stating the 
Names or Titles of the Appeals and Petitions heard 
or in course of hearing at each of such Sittings. 
Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Attornies and 
Solicitors Bill. several Acts for the regulation of Attornies and So- 
No. 101. licitors: And the same was read the first time ; and 
ordered to be read a second time upon Thursday 

next ; and to be printed. 


Merchant _ Mr. Buckingham presented a Bill for the esta- 
Shipping Bill. }Jishment of a Marine Board, and for the better 
No. 102. regulation of the Merchant Shipping of the King- 
dom: And the same was read the first time ; and 

ordered to be read a second time upon Wednesday, 

the 12th day of April next; and to be printed. 


Fees in Public | Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Departments. Copy of the First Report of the Commissioners 


appointed by the Lords Commissioners of His Ma- | 


jesty’s Treasury to inquire into the Fees, Gratuities, 
Perquisites and Emoluments of Public Offices. 


Protestant Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
Dissenting to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
Ministers. +o give directions, that there be laid before this House, 


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A. 1837. 


a Return of the Names of the Commission by whom 
the Parliamentary Grants to Protestant Dissenting 
Ministers have been distributed, and the mode in 


eturn of the Names of all Parishes, and the | which they are apportioned. 


Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Sir George Strickland presented a Bill for widen- gnegieia ana 
ing and improving the Road from Halifax to Shef- Halifax Road 
field, in the West Riding of the County of York, Bill. 

so far as relates to the third district of the said 

Road, and for diverting the said district of Road, 

and making a Branch therefrom: And the same 

was read the first time; and ordered to be read 

a second time. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 








Veneris, 10° die Martii ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi IV“ Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


O# DERED, That the Select Committee on the Deptford and 

Petitions relating to the Deptford and Dover Dover Railway 
Railway Subscription List, have leave to sit this _— 
day till six of the clock, during the sitting of the “™ 
House. 


Ordered, That the Committee on the Torquay Torquay 
Road Bill, have leave to sit this day till six of the Road Bill, 
clock, during the sitting of the House. 


Mr. Wallace presented a Bill for making and Glasgow, 
maintaining a Railway from Glasgow to Greenock, oe 
by Paisley and Port Glasgow, to be called “ The Railway Bill 
lasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway :” And the 

same was read the first time; and ordered to be read 


a second time. 


A Petition of Trustees of the Surrey New Roads, Westminster 
praying that they may be heard, by themselves, their ae 
counsel or agents, against certain parts of the West- Railway Rill. 
minster Bridge and Greenwich Railway Bill, was 
presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 

by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 

favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


Petitions from Trustees of the Surrey New Roads; Southwark and 
—Commissioners of the Metropolis Turnpike Roads, — 
north of the Thames ;—and, Commissioners of the i 
Pavements within the manor of Southwark, called 
the Clink or Bishop of Winchester’s Liberty ; pray- 
ing that they may be heard, by themselves, their 
counsel or agents, against certain parts of the South- 
wark and Hammersmith Railway Bill,—were pre- 
sented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


The Stamford Waterworks Bill was read a second ato 
time; and committed to Mr. Finch and the Lincoln — ; 


List. 


Sir John Wrottesley reported from the Select Com- — 
mittee on Standing Orders relative to Private Bills, ; 
several Resolutions, which were read, as follow : 

1. Resolved, That, in the case of the Petition for Belfast 
the Belfast Waterworks and Poor Bill, the parties be ¥““*"°™" 
permitted to proceed with their Bill, on abandoning 
that part thereof which relates to the Relief of the 
Poor ; and that the Committee on the Bill do exa- 








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mine how far such order has been complied with, 
and do report the same to the House on the report 
of the Bill. 

2. Resolved, That, in the case of the Petition for 


Belfast Harbour 


(No. 2.) the Belfast Harbour (No. 2.) Bill, the parties be 
permitted to proceed with their Bill. 

Dundalk and 3. Resolved, That, in the case of the Petition for 

Cavan Railway. 


the Dundalk Western Railway Bill, the parties be 
permitted to proceed with their Bill, on introducing 
therein a Clause restraining them from altering the 
level of any turnpike road or public carriage road 
at the crossing of the Railway between the 17th 
and 18th miles on the road from Castle Blayney to 
Dundalk ; also between the 15th and 16th miles 
on the road to Castle Blayney, and also between 
the 14th and 15th miles on the road from Dundalk 
to Castle Blayney. 

The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 


Worcester and 
Wolverhampton 
Railway Bill. 


Petitions from the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop 
of Exeter, and John Benbow, of Mecklenburgh-square, 
Esquire, Trustees of the Estates of the late Earl of 
Dudley ;—and, Company of Proprietors of the Bir- 
mingham Canal Navigations ; praying that they may 
be heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
against certain parts of the Worcester and Wolver- 
hampton Railway Bill,—were presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


Charlton Kings 
and Marsworth 
Railway Bill. 


Petitions from Owners and Occupiers of estates 
and property on or near the line of the Railway 
hereinafter mentioned ; — and, Hester Rogers, of 
Dowdeswell, spinster; praying that they may be 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, against 
certain parts of the Charlton Kings and Marsworth 
Railway Bill,—were presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


Petitions from the Great North of England Rail- 
way Company ;—James Wilson, David Nesham and 
Francis James Crow ;—Robert Appleby, of Wolves- 
ton, Esquire ;—the Stockton and Darlington Railway 
Company ;—and, the Right Reverend Kdward Lord 
Bishop of Durham, and the Right Reverend John 
Banks Lord Bishop of Saint David’s, Dean of the 
Cathedral Church of Durham; praying that they 
may be heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
against certain parts of the Clarence (Durham) Rail- 
way Bill,—were presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


Clarence 
(Durham) 
Railway Bill. 


Mr. Shaw Lefevre reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That in the 
case of the Petition for the Merthyr Tydfil Magis- 
trates Bill, the application does not come within the 
Standing Orders of the House 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to provide for the more effectual execution of the 
office of a Justice of the Peace within the Parishes 
of Merthyr Tydfil, Gellygare and Aberdare, in the 
County of Glamorgan: And that Mr. Guest and 
Mr. Alderman Thompson do prepare, and bring 


Merthyr Tydfil 
Magistrates. 


it in. 
Barnsley Mr. Shaw Lefevre reported from the Select Com- 
Waterworks, mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the 


Standing Orders relative to Bills for supplying Cities 
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151 


or Towns with Water, had been complied with in 
an case of the Petition for the Barnsley Waterworks 
ill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to oo in a Bill 
for better supplying with Water the Town and 
Neighbourhood of Barnsley, in the Parish of Silk- 
stone, in the West Riding of the County of York: 
And that Sir George Strickland and Lord Viscount 
Morpeth do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Shaw Lefevre reported from the Select Com- Cotton Joint 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That in the SteckCompany. 


case of the Petition for the Cotton Joint Stock Com- 

any Bill, the application does not come within the 
Standing Orders of the House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Shaw Lefevre reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the 
Standing Orders relative to Bills for making Re- 
servoirs, had been complied with in the case of the 
Petition for the Glossop Reservoirs Bill. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Shaw Lefevre reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the 
Standing Orders relative to Bills for making Re- 
servoirs, had been complied with in the case of the 
Petition for the Holme Reservoirs Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for making and maintaining certain Reservoirs in 
the several Townships of Hoime, Cartworth, Auston- 
ley, Upperthong, Wooldale and Hepworth, in the 
several Parishes of Kirkburton and Almondbury, in 
the West Riding of the County of York: And that 
Sir George Strickland and Lord Viscount Morpeth 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


Glossop 
Reservoirs, 


Holme 
Reservoirs. 


Petitions from George Twynam, of Winchester, London and 


Gentleman ;—and, the Company of Proprietors of 
the Basingstoke Canal Navigation; praying that 
they may be heard, by themselves, their counsel or 
agents, against certain parts of the London and 
Southampton Railway Bill,—were presented, and 
read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


Petitions from the Royal Society of Edinburgh ; 
—and, William Henry Brown, of Ashley, in the 
county of Edinburgh; praying that the Edinburgh 
and ras Railway Bill may not pass into a law 
as it now stands,—were presented, and read ; and 
referred to the Committee on the Bill. 


The Mansergh, &amp;c. Inclosure Bill was read a 
second time; and committed to Lord Viscount 
Lowther and the Westmorland List. 


Southampton 


Railway Bill. 


Edinburgh 
and Glasgow 
Railway Bill. 


Mansergh, &amp;c. 
Inclosure Bill. 


Petitions from Merchants, Bankers, Ship-owners, Edinburgh 


Manufacturers and Inhabitants of Leith;— Dunbar; 
—Land-owners, Farmersand other Inhabitants inthe 
county of Haddington ;—Lord Provost, Magistrates 
and Council of Glasgow ;—and, Merchants, Bankers, 
Traders and Inhabitants of Haddington; praying 
that the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Bill may 
pass into a law,—were presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


and Glasgow 
Railway Bill. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Melford and Belper, Leeds and 
in the parish of Duffield, praying that the Leeds and py by Railway 


Derby Railway Bill may pass into a law,—were 
resented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
able. 


Mr. Owen Stanley reported from the Committee King’s Ferry 
on the King’s Ferry and Liverpool Road Petition; Res * saa a 


That the Standing Orders relative to Turnpike Bills, 
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Saddleworth 
Reservoirs 
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Bolton and 
Preston Rail- 
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Sheffield and 
Manchester 
Railway Bill, 


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152 


had been complied with; and that the Committee 
had examined the matter of the Petition. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill for 
making and maintaining a Turnpike Road between 
the Lower King’s Ferry, in the County of Flint, and 
Woodbank, in the County of Chester, to the Rock 
Ferry House, in the Parish of Bebbington, in the 
said County of Chester: And that Mr. Owen Stanley 
and Mr. Mostyn do prepare, and bring it in. 


A Petition of John Moore, of Bolton-le-Moors, 
surgeon, Thomas Mulliner, of the same place, ac- 
countant, and Joseph Ramsden, of Clifton, Gentle- 
man, the Trustees acting under the last will and 
testament of Ellis Fletcher, late of Clifton aforesaid, 
Esquire, deceased, praying that they may be heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, against cer- 
tain parts of the Saddleworth Reservoirs Bill, was 
presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, pe their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


Mr. Wilson Patten presented a Bill for making 
a Railway from Bolton-le-Moors to Preston, in the 
County Palatine of Zancaster: And the same was 


read the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


Petitions from the Earl of Stamford and Warring- 
ton ;—Company of Proprietors of the Canal Naviga- 
tion from Manchester to or near Ashton-under-Lyne 
and Oldham ;—Company of Proprietors of the Peak 
Forest Canal;—and, William Brocklehurst and John 
Brocklehurst, of Mansfield; praying that they may 
be heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
against certain parts of the Sheffield and Manchester 
Railway Bill,— were presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, ifthey think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


Petitions from Kirkgate, Leith ; — Portobello ;— 
Relief Church, Leith ;— Chigwell Row (Essex) ; — 
Mawdsley-street Chapel, Bolton-le-Moors ; — Llan- 
erchymedd ; — Winlaton ; — Haverhill ; — Bexley 
Heath; -— Hatfield Heath ;— Swansea ; — Colne ;— 
Hanley and Shelton (two Petitions) ;-—Fuairford ;— 
Heworth ; — Great Yarmouth (three Petitions) ;— 
Cheadle ;— Fenton ;— Burslem (two Petitions) ; — 
Longton (two Petitions) ;— Paisley ;— Haddington ; 
—-and, Chishill; praying for the abolition of Church 
Rates,-—were presented, and read ; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from Welsh Pool ;—Lingfieldand Crow- 
hurst ;— Epping ;— Croydon ;—Thirsk and other 
places ;-—Dedham ;— Hedon in Holderness ;— Seamer 
near Stokesley ;—Egton ;—— Marton in Cleveland ;— 
Nymet, Saint George ;— West Bradenham;—Ingleby ; 
— Greenhow;—Crathorne near Yarm;— Husthwaite ; 
—Glaisdale ;— Blakesley ; — ‘Towcester ; — Hilmar- 
ton ;—- Bromham ;— Hurst ;—Stifford ;— Sudbury ;— 
Woolpit ; — Great Whelnetham ; — Brampton-by- 
Dingley;— Pytchley ;— Dingley ;—Irthlingborough ; 
— Kettering ;— Frimley ; — East Clandon ; — Ash- 
tead ; — Mickleham ; — Corwen ; — Bywell Saint 
Peter’s ; —— Egham ; — Edmondbyers and Muggles- 
wick ; — Pontefract ; — Dolgelly ;— Whitchurch ;— 
Walsall;—Godmanchester ; —Mountsorrel ;— Scotter ; 
— Rawreth ;—and, Cowesby High Silton, and other 
places; praying that Church Rates may not be 


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A. 1837. 


measure relative to the regulation of Church Rates, 


—were presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


beagh ;--Kilcolman ;— Kilbegnet and Donamon ;— 
Cong ;—Aghada ;—Kilmacdonough ;—Emlafad and 
Kilmorgan ;—Kilgiven ;--Mullinabreena ;— Ballin- 
robe ;— Kilvine ;—and, Neale; praying that the 
Votes at Elections for Members to serve in Parlia- 
ment may be taken by Ballot,--were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Ballyhooly ;—Kilmorgan and Em- 
lafad ;— Mullinabreena ;-—- Neale ; — Kilvine ;—Lis- 
goold ;—Killeagh ;— Ardagh and Dangan ;—Trac- 
ton ;— Aghada ; — Duncormack, Killag and other 
places ;—.Burgy and Shielmaleer;—Kilmain ;— Kil- 
gaver ;—Cong ;—Kilbegnet and Donamon ;—Aglish 
and Castlebar ;— Ballinrobe ;—Killmeena ;— Kilcol- 
man ;--and, Kilcoleman and Castlemore; prayin 
that the Municipal Corporations (Jre/and) Bill may 
pass into a law,—were presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Cong ;— Kilbeagh ;--Kilcoleman 
and Castlemore ;~-Neale;—Kilbegnet and Donamon; 
Baronies of Bargy and Shielmaleer ;-- Gorey ;—— 
Mullinabreena ;-—Emlafad and Kilmorgan ;--Agh- 
ada ;-—Carne, Lady’s Island, and Saint Iberius ;-- 
Churchtown ;--Multifarnham, Laney, Lacken, and 
Portnashangan;-- Miden and Milltown ;—Bally- 
more and Killare;— Templeoran ; — Kilgurer ;— 
Kilcolman ; -— Ballinrobe ;-— Aglish ;--Saint Mary 
New Ross ;-—Duncormack, Killag, and other places ; 
Killeagh ;-— Ardagh and Dangan ;— Lisgoold ;--- 
Newmarket (Cork) ;-—Kilmeen ;--Kilmacdonough ;—— 
Mallow ;—Kilvine ;-- Kilworth ;— Midleton ;--Cas- 
tletownroche, and other places ;-—Kilmahon;——Cloyne 
and Killeskin;-—--Ballyhooly ;--Kildorrery and other 
places,—and, Charleville ; praying for the Abolition 
of Tithes in Ireland,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Melksham ;~- Bradford, Wilts ;— 
and, Leith; praying for the repeal of the Duty on 
Fire Insurances,—were presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


ers to serve in Parliament for counties in Scotland, 
and praying relief, was presented, and read; and 
referred to the Select Committee on Fictitious Votes 
(Scotland). 


the Patents for Inventions Bill, that one patent only 
shall be sufficient to cover the whole of the United 
Kingdom (provided specifications are duly lodged in 
Dublin, London, and Edinburgh); that the Stamp 
Duties be either totally abolished, or greatly re- 
duced ; and that the mode of granting Letters Pa- 
tent be so simplified, and the charges brought to 
such a reasonable rate as will put it in the power of 
inventors of every class to secure their inventions, 
without material sacrifice of either money or time, 


was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


a law, was presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 








abolished,—were also presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Huntingdon ;-- and, Buckden ; 
praying the House not to sanction the proposed 


Petitions from Kilcoleman and Castlemore ;—-Kil- Vote by Ballot. 


Municipal 
Corporations 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Tithes 


(Ireland. ) 


Fire Insurances. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Milngavie, com- Fictitious Votes 
— of the creation of Fictitious Votes for Mem-(Setlend.) 


A Petition of Timothy Burstall and John Burstall, Pateuts for_ 
Engineers, praying that provision may be made in Iventions Bill. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Dunkeld, praying Small Debts . 
that the Small Debts (Scotland) Bill may pass into (Scotland) Bill, 


Petitions from Trowbridge and Bradford ;—and, Foreign Wool, 


Idle; praying for the repeal of the Duties on Foreign 
Wool, Olive Oil, and Indigo,—were presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Petitions 


C. 


Privat 
Comm! 





Poor | 


Shi 


P: 


Cc, 





Private Bill 
Committees. 


Poor Law Act. 


Ship Biscuits. 


Reform of 
Parliament 


Act Amendment 


Bill. 
No. 105. 


Mochnaut 
Inclosure Bill, 


Mertoun 
Bridge. 


Roxburgh: 


Roads, 


7 Wit. IV. 


Petitions from Forres;—and Perth; setting 
forth, that the Petitioners consider the present sys- 
tem of carrying Private Bills through Parliament, 
from the enormous expense and great individual 
hardships by which it is attended, to be a great 
grievance, and that it appears to the Petitioners in 
a great measure attributable to the mode hitherto 
pursued of constituting Committees of the House 
on Private Bills ; and praying the House to remedy 
the grievance complained of—were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Guardians of the Poor in the 
Potterspury Union, in the counties of Northampton 
and Buckingham, complaining of charges having 
been preferred against them in their official capacity 
as guardians under the Poor Law Act, and praying 
the House to refer their Petition to the Select Com- 
mittee on the said Act, and instruct such Committee 
to inquire into the truth of the charges above referred 
to, and to give the Petitioners an opportunity of 
relieving themselves from the stigma cast upon them, 
was presented, and read; and referred to the Select 
Committee on the Poor Law Act. 


A Petition of Journeymen and Apprenticed Ship- 
bread Bakers of Liverpool, complaining of injury 
and loss of employment in consequence of the ex- 
portation of Foreign-made biscuit and flour in bond, 
ostensibly as merchandize, but in reality for the con- 
sumption of ships’ crews, and praying the House to 
adopt such measures for their relief and protection 
as may be deemed requisite, was presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Thomas Duncombe presented a Bill to re- 
peal so much of an Act of the second year of His 
present Majesty, to amend the Representation of 
the People in England and Wales, as makes the 
right to Registration in Cities and Boroughs con- 

8: 8 s 
ditional on the payment of Poors’ Rates and As- 
sessed Taxes: And the same was read the first 
time; and ordered to be read a second time upon 
Wednesday, the 10th day of May next; and to be 
printed. 


An ingrossed Bill for inclosing Lands in the seve- 
ral Parishes of Llanymynech, Llanrhaidr-yn Moch- 
nant, Llanarmon mynydd mawr, Llanarmon dyffryn 
Ceiriog, Lilansilin and Llancadwalader, in the 
County of Denbigh, was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Williams Wynn do carry the 
Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House was moved, That the Report in respect 
of the Petition for the Roxburgh Roads and Mertoun 
Bridge Bill, which upon the 3d day of this instant 
March was made from the Select Committee on Pe- 
titions for Private Bills, might be read; and the 
same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill for 
building a Bridge over the River Tweed, at or near 
to Mertoun Mill, in the County of Berwick, and for 
making Avenues and Approaches thereto: And that 
Sir George Clerk and Se Hugh Campbell do pre- 


pare, and bring it in. 


The House was moved, That the Petition for the 
Roxburgh Roads and Mertoun Bridge Bill, which 
was presented upon the 15th day of February last, 
might be read; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for more effectually repairing and maintaining cer- 
tain Roads in the County of Roxburgh, and other 
Roads connected therewith leading into the Coun- 
ties of Berwick, Northumberland and Durham: 
And that Sir George Clerk and Sir Hugh Campbell 


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153 


Mr. Charles Russell reported from the Committee Great Western 
on the Great Western Railway Bill (Trowbridge), Railway Bill 
and to whom several Petitions against the said Bill (Tw&gt;ridee-) 
were referred; That the Standing Orders relative to 

Railway Bills had been complied with ; and that 

they had considered the said Petitions ; and that the 
Committee had inquired into the several matters 

required by the Resolutions of the House of the 1st 

day of March, 1836, and had also examined the 
allegations of the Bill, and found the same to be 

true; and had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; 

and be printed. 


Ordered, That the Petition of Lord Howden, York ond ? 
which was presented upon Tuesday last, praying Sor ™Miclan 
that he mal be hen, be his pee apa — 
against certain parts of the York and North Mid- 

land Railway Bill be referred to the Committee on 

the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, by his coun- 

sel or agent, upon his Petition, if he think fit; 

and counsel heard, in favour of the Bill, against 

the said Petition. 


A Petition of Mary Armytage, of Heath, in the Ellend Bridge 
county of York, the Guardian of Sir George Army- = Dewsbury 
é : ; oad Bill. 
tage, of Kirklees, in the said om Baronet, an 
infant, praying that she may be heard, by her 
counsel or agent, against certain parts of the Elland 
Bridge and Dewsbury Road Bill, was presented, 
and read. 
Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by her counsel or agent, upon her Petition, if she 
think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the Bill, 
against the said Petition. 


Captain Alsager presented a Bill for amending West Cork 
and enlarging the provisions of an Act passed in the Mining Com- 
fourth year of the Reign of His present Majesty, P*Y Bill 
intituled, “ An Act to encourage the working of 

Mines and Quarries in Jreland, and to regulate a 

Joint Stock Company for that purpose, to be called 

‘The West Cork Mining Company :’” And the 

same was read the first time; and ordered to be 

read a second time. 


Petitions from Kingston-upon- Hull ;—and, Hud- Tobacco. 
dersfield, praying for the reduction of the Duty on 
Tobacco,—were presented, and read ; and ordered 

to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, an Hull Port. 
Account of the Number of Vessels, includin 
Steamers, and their Tonnage, which have cata 
the Port of Hull, from Foreign Ports and coast- 
wise, in the year 1836; distinguishing the Vessels 
with Cargoes, in Ballast, and those which had dis- 
charged a part of their Cargoes at other Ports 
previous to their arrival at the Port of Hull (exclu- 
sive of Creeks); Ships with Cargoes; Ships in Bal- 
last; Ships, &amp;c., previously touching at other Ports ; 
Ships, &amp;c., coastwise. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Sums paid to the Dock Company at 
Kingston-upon-Hull, by the Custom House, on ac- 
count of the double Dues to which Foreign Ton- 
nage is liable at the Port of Hull, since the first 
payment, to the end of the year 1836; distinguish- 
ing the Amount paid in each year. 


A Petition of Protestant Dissenters of Hanley, Marriages and 
raying for the amendment of the Acts of the last a, 
Session of Parliament relating to Marriages and ~ 
Registration of Births, &amp;c., was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Sir Andrew Leith Hay presented, pursuant to Or- Artillery. 
ders,—A Return of the Officers of the Royal Artil- 
of Royal Engi- 
iners, killed or 


lery, Royal Artillery Drivers, i 





do prepare, and bring it in. 
OL. 92. 





neers, and Royal Sappers and 
x 


wounded 





a 


Ordnance. 


London and 
Blackwall 
Commercial 
Railway Bill. 


Swansea 
Water Bill. 


Butterhouse 
Green and 
Gorton Road 
Bill. 


Soap. 


Severn 
Navigation 
Bill, 


Edinburgh 
and Glasgow 


Railway Bill. 


London and 
Brighton 
Railway Bill 
(Mills’s Line.) 


Lancaster and 
Preston Rail- 
way Bill. 


154 10° Martiz. 


wounded in action during the late War with France, 
from the year 1808 to 1815, inclusive, stating the 
Names of the Officers, and specifying the Actions. 

A Return of the Regimental Officers of the Ord- 
nance Corps employed on Colonial and Foreign 
Duty, as well as on Home Service, for December 
1836. 

Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of Owners, Occupiers of property, 
Wharfingers, Traders, Inhabitants of the eastern 
part of the Metropolis, and others interested in the 
commerce of the port of London, praying that they 
may be heard, by themselves, their counsel or 
agents, against certain parts of the London and 
Blackwall Commercial Railway Bill, was presented, 
and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


Mr. John Henry Vivian presented a Bill for better 
supplying with Water the Town and Borough of 
Swansea, in the County of Glamorgan: And the 
same was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time. 


Sir George Strickland presented a Bill for making 
and santana Tenn Road from Butterhouse 
Green, in the County of Chester, to Gorton Bar, 
in the County of Lancaster: And the same was 
read the first time; and ordered to be read a se- 
cond time. : 


Petitions from Worcester ;— James Fox, and 
others ;— and, John Smith, William Thomas, and 
others ; praying for the repeal of the Duty on Soap, 
were presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


Petitions from Merchants, Manufacturers, Traders 
and Inhabitants of -Tewkesbury ;—and, the Mayor, 
Aldermen and Councillors of Tewkesbury ; praymg 
that the Severn Navigation Bill may pass into a law, 
—were presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the Committee on the Edinburgh 
and Glasgow Railway Bill, have Power to send for 
persons, papers and records. 


Petitions from the Chairman and others of the 
Provisional Committee of a Company formed for 
the purpose of constructing a Railway (without a 
tunnel) from London to Brighton, through the 
valley of the Mole and the valley of the Adur ;— 
and, James Mills; praying the House to allow them 
to proceed with the London and Brighton Railway 
Bill (Mills’s Line), or to refer the Report back to 
the Standing Orders Committee, that they may 
report such restrictions as they may think requisite 
to impose upon the Petitioners in the preparation 
of the Bill, should the House be pleased to allow 
them to proceed therewith,—were presented, and 
read ; dad ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Theodore Woolmer Rathbone, of 
Liverpool, merchant, Deputy Chairman of the Board 
of Directors of the North nion Railway Company, 
Edward Cropper, of the same place, merchant, also 
a director of the said Company, and Thomas Part, 
of Wigan, Gentleman, Clerk to the said Company, 
praying that they may be heard, by themselves, 
their counsel or agents, against certain parts of the 
Lancaster and Preston Railway Bill, was presented, 
and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to 
the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counse or agents, upon 





A. 1837. 


their Petition, if they think fit ; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


Two Petitions of Nicholas Delacherois Cromelin, Bann (Lower) 
Esquire, complaining that the Standing Orders of N*vigetion. 
the House in respect to the application for the 
Bann (Lower) Navigation Bill had not been complied 
with, and praying that he may be heard, by his 
agent or witnesses, against the same, were presented, 
and read; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Petitions for Private Bills. 


Petitions from Landholders, Manufacturers and Wereth and 
Inhabitants of Crompton ;—and, Thomas Chadwick a 
and John Hammerton, Owners and Occupiers of land : 
in Crompton and Oldham ; praying that they may 
be heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
against certain parts of the Werneth and Little- 
borough Road Bill,—were presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


Petitions from Carrigadrohid and Balanagree ;— Tithes ; and, 
Kilgarvin; — Ballisakeery;—and, Killua and Kil- a 
lallon ; praying for the abolition of Tithes in Jrelaid, (Ireland) Bill 
and that the Municipal Corporations (Jreland) Bill 
may pass into a law,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Merchants, Manufacturers, Trades- Cotton. 
men and other Inhabitants of Congleton, praying 
for the repeal of the Duty upon Raw Cotton’ was pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Proprietors and Inhabitants of Small Debts 
Crieff, praying that that town may be included in (Scotland) Bill. 
the provisions of the Small Debts (Scotland) Bill, 
was — and read ; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of Lessees of the Dean and Chapter Church Rates 
of Durham, praying that in any measure on the Regulations. 
subject of Church Rates, touching the property of 
which the Petitioners are lessees, full protection 
may be permanently secured to their interests, was 


presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Foreign Foreign Letters 
Letters, which was presented yesterday, be printed. No. 106. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Prince Leo- Prince Leopold. 
pold, which was presented yesterday, be printed. No. 107. 


Ordered, That the Papers relative to the proposed Survey of Lands 
Survey of Lands under the Tithe Commutation (Tithe Comm 


Act, which were presented yesterday, be printed. oe 


Ordered, That the Reports and Schedules rela- Prisons. 
tive to Prisons, which were presented yesterday, No. 108. 
be printed. 

Ordered, That the Tables relative to Criminal] Criminal 
Offenders (Scotland), which were presented yester- pa 8 


\ land. 
day, be printed. Co, 100. 


Ordered, That an Abstract of the Accounts of Grand Jury 
Grand Jury Presentments (Jreland), which were apg 


Treland.) 
presented yesterday, be printed. . ‘No. 110. 


Ordered, That the Returns relative to Privy Council Privy Council 
Appeals, which were presented yesterday, be printed. —"; 11. 
A Motion was made, and the Question being ¢,, 1, 
proposed, That the Order of the day for the Com- ain 
mittee of Supply be now read, 
An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” to 
the end of the Question, in order to fdd the words 
“a Select Committee be appointed to inquire into 
“ the promotion of the Officers of the Royal Marines, 
“with a view of giving those Officers more rapid 
“ promotion; thereby rendermg them more effec- 
“ tive,” instead thereof : 


An 





Estimat 
referre 


NavyE 


Monies 
Exchec 


Seame’ 
Marin 


Suppli 
(1836 


Tr 


on Ly tow 





Estimates, &amp;c. 
referred : 
Navy Estimates. 


Monies in the 
Exchequer. 


Seumen and 
Marines. 


Supplies 
(18362) 


Post-O ffice 
Acts Repeal 
Bill. 


Post-Office 
Offences Bill. 


Post-Office 
Management 
Bill, 


Franking Bill. 


Church Rates 
Regulation, 


Municipal 
rations 


(Ireland) Bill. 


Mint Bill, 


7 Witt. IV. 


And the Question being proposed, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Question : 
—tThe said proposed Amendment was, with leave 
of the House, withdrawn. 

Ordered, That the Order of the day for the Com- 
mittee of Supply be now read ; and the same being 
read ; 

Ordered, That the Navy Estimates for the year 
1836-37 be referred to the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Account showing the Amount 
of Monies in the Exchequer, or remaining to be 
received on the 20th February 1837, to complete 
the Aids granted by Parliament for the Service of 
the years 1833, 1834, 1835, 1836 and 1837, which 
was presented upon the 22d day of February last, 
be referred to the Committee. 

Then the House resolved itself into the Com- 
mittee. 

(In the Committee.) 


Motion made, and Question proposed, That Thirty- 
three thousand and seven hundred men be employed 
for the Sea Service for Thirteen lunar Months, to 
the 31st day of March 1838, including Nine thou- 
sand Royal Marines and Two thousand Boys :— 
Motion, by leave, withdrawn. 

Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Two Mil- 
lions, be granted to His Majesty, to discharge the 
like amount of Supplies granted for the Service of 
the year 1836, or of any preceding year. 

Resolution to be reported. 





And the House having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Saturday morning ; 


Sabbati, 11° die Martii, 1837. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Reso- 
lution. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 

Mr. Bernal also acquainted the House, that he 
was directed to move that the Committee may have 
leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Post Office Acts repeal Bill was, according 
to Order, read a second time; and committed to 
a Committee of the whole House for Friday next. 


The Post Office Offences Bill was, according to 
Order, read a second time; ‘and committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Friday next. 


The Post Office Management Bill was, according 
to Order, read a second time; and committed to 
a, Committee of the whole House, for Friday next. 


The Franking Bill was, according to Order, read 
a second time; and committed to a Committee of 
the whole House, for Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the House 
to resolve itself into a oa ton to consider of the 
payment of Church Rates ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


‘The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Municipal Corporations (Ireland) 
Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee upon the Mint Bill; and, after 
some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the 
Chair; and Mr. Robert Steuart reported, That the 
Committee had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 

Vou. 92, 


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155 


The Order of the day being read,, for the Com+ Courtof Session 
mittee on the Court of Session (Scotland) Bill ; (Scotland) Bill, 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 

itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being'read, for the second Poor Relief 
reading of the Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill; (Ireland) Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the. day being read, for the second Sale vf Beer 
reading of the Sale of Beer Bull; Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Coms Small Debts — 
mittee on the Small Debts (Scotland) Bill; (Scotland) Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Common Law 
mittee on the Common Law Courts Bill : Courts Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed Manor Courts 

to inquire into the operation of the Small Debt (reland.) 
Jurisdiction of Manor Courts in Ireland, the abuses 
which may exist therein, and the remedies proper to 
be applied :—And a Committee was appointed of 
Mr. Morgan John O’ Connell, Mr. Attorney General 
for Ireland, Mr. Lynch, Mr. French, Mr. Emerson 
Tennent, Mr. Wyse, Mr. Jephson, Mr. Hamilton, 
Mr. Lucas, Mr. Villiers Stuart, Mr. Vesey, Sir Ed- 
mond Hayes, Mr. Mackinnon, Mr. Brady, and Mr. 
Bridgeman ; with Power to send for persons, papers 
and records. 

Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House,— Ecclesiastical 
Copies of the Answers given by Mr. Finlaison, Actu- L¢as¢* 
ary of the National Debt Office, to Questions on No. 104. 
the subject of Ecclesiastical Leases ; with a further 
Memorandum on the same subject; also, a Note 
on Ecclesiastical Leases by Mr. Drinkwater Be- 
thune. 

Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer accordingly 
presented the said Papers. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


Ordered, That the Committee on the Clarence Clarence (en 
(Durham) Railway Bill, have Power to send for ig Railway 
persons, papers and records. ; 


Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer presented, by Factories. 
His Majesty’s Command,—Reports of the Inspect- 
ors of Factories to His Majesty’s Principal Secre- 
tary of State for the Home Department, for the 
year ending 31st December 1836. 
Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. : 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour before two of the 
clock on Saturday morning, adjourned till 
this day. 





Sabbati, 11° die Martii ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi [Vt Regis, 1837. 
PRAYERS. 
ETITIONS from Timsbury ;—Crowcombe ;— Church Rates. 
Yeovil ;—Moorlinch, &amp;c. ;—Stoke-sub-Hamdon 
and Montacute ;— Wincanton ; — Kingsdon ; — 
Nempnett Thrubwell ; — Bath ;—Monkton Combe ; 
—Hochley ;—Rochford ;— Odcombe ;— — 5 
—Rowberrow, &amp;c.;—Butcombe;—North Petherton; 
—Witham Friary ;—Breane; —Abbas and Temple 








x2 Combe ;— 








156 


Combe ;— Wookey ;—East Coker, &amp;c.;—Hegworth ; 
—Theydon Bois ;—Wells, Somerset ;— West Bag- 
borough ;—Stoke Saint Mary ;—Ripon ;—Bocking ; 
— Redmarley d’ Abitot ;— Bewdley ;— Castlemorton ; 
—Leighand Bransford ;—Pedmore;— Upton Warren 
i and Grafton ;— Fladbury, &amp;c.;— and, Eldersfield ; 
i" praying that Church Rates may not be abolished,— 
were presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 
Petitions from Stalybridge ;— Evesham; —Broms- 
grove ;— Penzance ; —Aberhosan ;---Devonport and 
Stonehouse ; — Pastor and Deacons of Seagate 
Chapel, Dundee;— Maidenhead ;—and, Chumleigh ; 
; praying for the abolition of Church Rates,—were 
th also presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
1, the Table. 


Fire Insurances. Petitions from Boston ;—Diss;—Limerich;—and, 
Long Melford; praying for the repeal or reduction 
of the Duty on Fire Insurances,—were presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


r Factories Act. A Petition of Operative Spinners in the employ- 
ty ment of Mr. Pooley, of Manchester, praying the 
House to pass a law to protect all Factory workers 
from being worked more than ten hours a day for 
five days in the week, and eight on the Saturday, 
de was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of Residents in Sheffield, praying for 
a reduction of the Duty on Tobacco, was presented, 
q and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Tobacco. 


Richard 
dl M¢ Cormick. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Sheffield, praying the 
House to grant to Richard M¢Cormick a full and 
impartial inquiry to enable him,to substantiate the 
F, allegations contained in his Petition, presented to 
f the House upon Wednesday last, was presented, 
ft and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Warrington; ~ and, Hyde and 
Werneth ; praying for the repeal of the Duty on 
Cotton Wool,—were presented, and read ; and or- 


Cotton Wool, 


11° Marizi. 


A. 1837. 


1835 and 1836; specifying, in detail, the sources, 
whether legal or customary, from which such Total 
Income has been derived, and the Proceeds from 
each source, and exhibiting the increase or diminu- 
tion of Income which has resulted, or will probably 
hereafter result, from the operation of the Act of the 
6th and 7th Will. 4, c. 75, intituled, “ An Act to 
regulate the proceedings of the Civil Bill Courts in 
Ireland ;” also, stating, in detail, the Expenses inci- 
dental to each Office. 


Ordered, That the Petition of the Chairman and London and 
others of the Provisional Committee of a Company + onl 
formed for the purpose of constructing a roswree (Mill's Line.) 
(without a Tunnel) from London to Brighton, throug 
the valley of the Mole and the valley of the Adur ; 
which was presented yesterday, be taken into con- 
sideration upon Monday next. 


Ordered, That the Petition be printed. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Amy. 
a Return of the Number of Officers in the Army, of 
each Regimental Rank, on Full Pay, on the 25th 
of December 1836 ; distinguishing the Number in 
each class who held Brevet Rank in addition to 
their Regimental, and stating also what Brevet Rank ; 
together with an Abstract of the Total Amount of 
Pay of such Officers, for the year 1836 :—Of the 
Number of Officers in the Army, of each Regimental 
Rank, including unattached, upon Half Pay, and 
upon Retired Pay; distinguishing the Number of 
each class, and also the Number who held Brevet 
Rank in addition to their Regimental ; together with 
an Account of the Total Amount of the Pay of such 
Officers for 1836:—Of the Number of Officers in 
the Army who have been promoted by Brevet since 
Ist January 1837; stating the Number of each 
Rank, and how many from Full Pay, and from Half 
and Retired Pay; and the Amount of additional 
Pay and Allowances which the Officers of each 
Rank will receive in consequence of that Promotion ; 
the Amount of additional annual Expense of each 
Rank, and of the whole, by such Brevet Promotion: 





dered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Ship-owners and Merchants of 
Montrose, praying for the repeal or reduction of the 
Duty on Marine Insurances, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Marine 
Insurances. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Casétletownroche, 
ing that the Municipal Corporations (Zreland) 

ill may pass into a law, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Municipal 
ij Corporations 
(Treland) Bill. 


I 

i 

t Municipal A Petition of Inhabitants of Kilmichael, praying 

i Corporations that the Municipal Corporations (Jreland) Bill may 
( (Ireland) Bill; Hass into a law, and that Tithes in Jreland be abo- 
: and, Tithes. F - s . 
if ished, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 

1 upon the Table. 
| Elective A Petition of Inhabitants of Stourbridge, praying 

Franchises the House to adopt measures for securing to every 
elector a free, unbiassed and independent vote, was 

—- and read ; and ordered to lie upon the 
| able. 

Church Rates — A Petition of Inhabitants and Rate-payers of Saint 

: Regulation. _Dunstan-in-the-West, in the city of London, pray- 
i ing that all outstanding debts, interest and annuities 
ii charged on the Church Rates of the said parish may 
ii be defrayed out of the same fund as that intended 
ti to be appropriated for the future repairs of the 
1) Church, was presented, and read; and ordered to 
Bi lie upon the Table. 
| Sheriffs Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
. (lrelend.) a Return of the Total Amount of the Salary and 


' 

| Emoluments attached to the Office of High-Sheriff 
and Sub-Sheriff in each County, County of a City 
and County of a ‘Town in Jreland, so far as the same 





can be ascertained, for each of the Three years, 1834, | 
i 





—Of the Names of all Officers in the Army pro- 
moted by Brevet since the 1st January 1837; dis- 
tinguishing those on Full, from those on Half and 
on Retired Pay at the time of Promotion :— Copies 
of all Warrants by His Majesty, and of all General 
Orders issued by the Commander of the Forces re- 
specting Brevet Promotions in the Army since the 
General Order, N° 432, dated 25th April 1826. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Navy. 
a Return of the Total Number of Officers of the 
Royal Navy on the 1st January 1837, of each Rank, 
from Admiral to Lieutenant inclusive, and distin- 
guishing the Number of each Rank employed afloat 
from the Number of Officers on Half and on Retired 
Pay at that date. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return of the Total Number of Promotions in the 
Royal Navy made on the 10th January 1837, from 
the Rank of Midshipman to that of Admiral, in- 
clusive, stating the Number of each Rank promoted ; 
distinguishing the Number of each Rank employed 
and afloat, from those on Half and Retired Pay, and 
the Amount of additional Pay and Allowance which 
the Officers of each Rank will receive in consequence 
of that Promotion, the Amount of Pay to each class, 
and the Total Annual Amount of Expense to the 
Country by such Promotion. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- Navy. 
posed, That there be laid before this House, a Re- 
turn of the Names of all Midshipmen and Officers 
of the Royal Navy promoted since Ist January 1837; 
distinguishing those on Full Pay and employed, 
from those on Half Pay and Retired Pay, at the 


time of such Promotion; stating the Date of Entry 
of each into the Navy, when passed their examina- 
tion for Lieutenants, the several Ranks or ratings 

they 





Navy. 


Aide-de Camps. 





7 Witt. LV. 


they have held, the Dates thereof, the Names of the 
several Ships or Vessels wherein they so served, the 
time each has served on Full Pay in each Rank, 
and the Dates thereof, showing the aggregate time 
served, the time each Officer was on Half and on 
Retired Pay of each Rank, and the aggregate time 
on Half Pay or Retired Pay; also, the Age of each 
Officer at the last Promotion, as returned by himself: 
An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ all” to 
the end of the Question, in order to add the words 
“ Admirals, Vice-Admirals, Rear Admirals, Retired 
Rear Admirals, Retired Captains, Captains, Com- 
manders and Lieutenants in the Royal Navy, 
promoted on 10th January 1837; distinguishing 
those on Full Pay from those on Half Pay, at the 
time of their Promotion; stating the Date of 
Entry of each Officer into the Navy, and of the 
several Commissions which they have successively 
attained,” instead thereof. 
And the Question being put, That the words pro- 
posed to be left out stand part of the Question ; 
The House divided : 
The Yeas to the new Lobby; 
The Noes to the old Lobby. 
Tellers for the Yeas, 9 poo ae ; } 17. 
Tellers for the Noes, { = = : Smith : } 66. 
So it passed in the Negative. 
And the Question being put, That the words “ Ad- 
mirals, Vice-Admirals, Rear Admirals, Retired 
Rear Admirals, Retired Captains, Captains, Com- 
manders and Lieutenants in the Royal Navy, pro- 
moted on 10th January 1837; distinguishing those 
on Full Pay from those on Half Pay at the time 
of their Promotion; stating the Date of Entry of 
each Officer into the Navy, and of the several 
Commissions which they have successively at- 
tained,” be added instead thereof; it was resolved 
in the Affirmative. 
Then the main Question, so amended, being put; 
Ordered, That there be laid before this  * aed 
a Return of all Admirals, Vice-Admirals, Rear Ad- 
mirals, Retired Rear Admirals, Retired Captains, 
Captains, Commanders and Lieutenants in the Royal 
Navy, promoted on 10th January 1837; distin- 
guishing those on Full Pay from those on Half Pay, 
at the time of their Promotion ; stating the Date of 
Entry of each Officer into the Navy, and of the 
several Commissions which they have successively 
attained. 


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A Motion was made, and the Question being put, 
That there be laid before this House, a Return of 
the Total Number of Officers of the Navy, from the 
Rank of Lieutenant to Admiral, who, although senior 
to those promoted since 1st January 1837, have not 
been promoted, and the Names of those Officers of 
the respective Ranks not promoted who have served 
longer than those promoted since 1st January 1837; 
stating the Date of Entry of each into the Navy, 
when passed their examination for Lieutenants, the 
several Ranks or ratings they have held, the Dates 
thereof,and the Names of the several Ships or Vessels 
wherein they so served, the time each has served on 
Full Pay in each Rank, and the Dates thereof, and 
the aggregate time served; the time each was on 
Half Pay and on Retired Pay of each Rank, and 
the aggregate time on Half Pay and on Retired Pay; 
also the Age of each Officer when promoted in 
January 1837, so as to exhibit the aggregate Service 
on Full Pay, and on Half and Retired Pay, of each 
Officer since his Entry into the Service ; distinguish- 
ing those Officers who have served in any and what 
Battles, and who have received the thanks of Par- 
liament for such Services; it passed in the Ne- 
gative. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 


Return of the Names of the Naval and Military 
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11° Marti. 


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157 


Aide-de-Camps to His Majesty at this time, and 
the Dates of their Appointments ; stating the Paye 
and Allowances received as such by each; and, 
also, whether any and what additional Rank was 
conferred on their being appointed to such situa- 
tion ; stating, also, the Duties, if any, performed 
by them. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the greatest Number of Aide-de-Camps 
which his late Majesty King George the Third had 
in any and what year, with the annual Pay and 
Allowances each received, and also the Rank each 
obtained on his appointment as Aide-de-Camp. 





Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Army 


sariat Department on the 25th December 1836, 
on full Pay; distinguishing the Number of each 
Rank. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
similar Return of the Number on Half and on Re- 
tired Pay. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Number of Officers of the Commis- 
sariat Department promoted since 1st January 1837; 
distinguishing the Number of each Rank, and 
whether promoted from Full, Half or Retired Pay ; 
stating also the Date of Entry of each into the 
Service, the Dates of their several Promotions, the 
aggregate time each has served on Full Pay, and 
the aggregate time each has been on Half and Re- 
tired Pay since entering the Service ; likewise, the 
annual increase of Expense to the Country, in con- 
sequence of the Promotions since 1st July 1837. 


Return of the Number of Officers of the Commis- Commissariat 
Department. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Army Medical 
Return of the Number of Officers of the Medica] Department. 


Department of the Army, on the 25th December 
1836, on full Pay; distinguishing the Number of 
each Rank, 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
similar Return of the Number on Half and on Re- 
tired Pay. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Number of Officers of the Medical 
Department of the Army promoted since 1st January 
1837; distinguishing the Number of each Rank, 
and whether promoted from Full, Half or Retired 
Pay ; stating, also, the Date of Entry of each into 
the Service, the Dates of their several Promotions, 
the aggregate time each has served on Full Pay, 
and the aggregate time each has been on Half and 
Retired Pay, since entering the Service; likewise, 
the annual increase of Expense to the Country, in 
consequence of such Promotions. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Navy Medical 
Return of the Number of Officers of the Medica] Department. 


Department of the Navy, on 25th December 1836, 
on Full Pay; distinguishing the Number of each 
Rank. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
similar Return of the Number on Half and on Re- 
tired Pay. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Number of Officers of the Medical 
Department of the Navy promoted on the 10th of 
January 1837; distinguishing the Number of each 
Rank, and whether promoted from Full, Half or 
Retired Pay; stating also the Date of Entry of 
each into the Service, the Dates of their several 
Promotions, the aggregate time each has served on 
Full Pay, and the aggregate time each has been on 
Half and. Retired Pay since entering the Service ; 
likewise, the annual increase of Expense to the 
Country, in consequence of such Promotions. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being put, Army and 
That there be laid before this House, Copies of the Navy. 


Rules and Regulations under which honorary marks 
of distinction were conferred upon Officers of the 
Army and Navy for Services in action with the 
enemy during the late War; specifying the Names 
of the Officers, the Dates of the Grants, and the 




















x3 nature 








Army. 


Supply. 


Supplies 
(1836. ) 


Ways and 
Means. 


Mint Bill. 


Court of Session 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Canada. 


No. 96. 


Religious 
Instruction 


(Australia. ) 
No, 112. 


158 


nature of the Services performed; it passed in the 
egative. 

A Motion was made, and the Question being put, 
That there be laid before this House, a Return of 
the British Officers employed in the organization 
of the Portuguese Army during the late Peninsula 
War; specifying the Dates, the commencement of 
their respective Services with, and of their removal 
from, that Army, the causes of such removal; the 
steps of unattached British promotion each Officer 
obtained for such Services ; and distinguishing those 
who had had Pensions or Retired Allowances granted 
7 the Portuguese Government ; it passed in the 

e 


ative. 
x Motion was made, and the Question being 


put, That there be laid before this House, a Return | 


of the Names and Ranks of the Officers who had, 
since the conclusion of the Peninsula War, been 
removed into the Foot Guards ; specifying whether 
by payment of the difference, or otherwise, the 
length of time each remained in the Guards, and 
the Amount received by each on retiring therefrom ; 
also the length and nature of the Services performed 
by each as Regimental Officers previous to their 
removal to the en and the Ranks and Appoint- 
ments they now hold respectively ; it passed in the 
Negative. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
List of the Lieutenants from the Guards who had 
been promoted to Lieutenant Colonelcies and the 
command of Regiments of the Line, without ever 
having served as Regimental Captains or Majors ; 
specifying the length of Service of each previous 
to such Promotion. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Number of officers who availed them- 
selves of unattached Promotion by His Majesty’s 
Regulations, dated Horse Guards, 25th April 1826 ; 
stating those who have since then sold out; and 
also those who have returned to Full Pay; and the 
respective Ranks which the latter now hold in the 
Army. 


Mr. Bernal reported from the Committee of Sup- 
ply, a Resolution, which was read, as followeth : 

Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Two millions, 
be granted to His Majesty, to discharge the like 
amount of Supplies granted for the Service of the 
year 1836, or for any preceding year. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into a Committee to consider of 
Ways and Means for raising the Supply granted to 
His Majesty. 


Mr. Bernal reported the Mint Bill; and the 
Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time upon Wednesday 
next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Court of Session (Scotland) Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Copy of the Minutes of the Evidence taken before 
the Select Committee appointed in the year 1834, 
on the Affairs of Canada. 

Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer accordingly 
presented the said Minutes. 

Ordered, That the said Minutes do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed, 


Ordered, That the Papen relative to Religious 
Instruction (Australia), which were presented upon 
Wednesday last, be printed. 


11°—13° Marti. 


A. 1837. 


A Petition of John Walsh, of the city of Cork, Mathematica) 
praying the House to institute an inquiry into the !ventions. 
state of Mathematical Inventions, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


And then the House adjourned till Monday 
next. 








Luna, 13° die Martii ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi IV Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 
M®* Holford, from the Governors of Queen Queen Anne’s 
Anne’s Bounty was called in ; and at the bar Bounty. 


presented A Return to an Order dated the 16th 
ebruary last, for an Account of all Monies received 


and disbursed by the Governors of Queen Anne’s 


Bounty, since the Return made to Parliament dated 
29th Jume 1831; specifying all the Poor Livings 
augmented by the said ones since the said Re- 
turn ; showing also the Amount now standing to the 
Credit of the said Governors in any Public Stock, 
on Mortgage, or on any other private Security, and 
the Balance now in the hands of the Treasurer ; 
specifying also whether any and what portions of 
the Monies received have been applied to any other 
purposes than the Augmention of Poor Livings; 
together with the Dates when all such Monies were 
so applied, and the purposes for which such Pay- 
ments or Advances have been made :-—And then he 
withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Sir John Beckett presented a Bill for repairing Leeds ana 
and maintaining and improving the line of the Road Otley Road 
from Leeds to Otley, in the West Riding of the Bi 
county of York: And the same was read the first 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


The Leeds Waterworks Bill was read a second Leeds Water- 
time ; and committed to Sir John Beckett and the works Bill. 
York List. 


A Petition of George John Danvers Butler Dan- Loughborough 
vers, Esquire, Lord of the Wapentake of Goscote, Small Debts 
mania | called East and West Goscote, in the _ 
county of Leicester, praying that he may be heard, 
by his counsel or agent, against certain parts of the 
Loughborough Small Debts Bill, was presented, and 
read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, if he 
think fit ; and counsel heard, in favour of the Bill, 
against the said Petition. 


A Petition of George John Danvers Butler Dan- Leicester 
vers, Esquire, Lord of the Wapentake of Goscote, Small Debis 
commonly called East and West Goscote, in the ®*!- 
county of Leicester, praying that he may be heard, 
by his counsel or agent, against certain parts of the 
Leicester Small Debts Bill, was presented, and 
read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, if he 
think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the Bill, 
against the said Petition. 


The Stockport Improvement Bill was read a Stockport — 
second time ; and committed to Mr. Brotherton and — 
the Chester List. P 


The Darlaston and Shelton Road Bill was read Darlastox 
a second time ; and committed to Mr. Edward Bul- oa — 
ler and the Stafford List. 





Mr. 


Worme 
Draina: 


Mary: 
Court 
Requ 


Ram: 
and ] 
Cem 


Pollc 
Gov 


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Wormegay 
Drainage. 


Mary-le-bone 
Court of 
Requests. 


Ramsgate 
and Margate 
Cemetery. 


Polloc and 
Govan Railway. 


Belfast Gas. 


Dublin and 
Drogheda 


Railway, 


American 
Steam Nay i gae 
tion Company, 


7 Wit. IV. 


Mr. Evelyn Denison reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the 
Standing Orders relative to Drainage Bills, had been 
complied with in the case of the Petition for the 
Wormegay Drainage Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for more effectually draining of certain Fen Lands and 
Low Grounds in the Honor, Manor and Parish of 
Wormegay, in the County of Norfolk; and other 
Lands and Grounds which are now drained by means 
of or through a certain Drain called “ Polver Drain,” 
in the said County: And that Sir William Browne 
Folkes and Sir Jacob Astley do prepare, and bring 


it in. 


Mr. Evelyn Denison reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That in the 
case of the Petition for the Marylebone Court of 
Requests Bill, the application does not come within 
the Standing Orders of the House. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring‘ina Bill 
for the more easy and speedy Recovery of Small 
Debts within the Borough of Marylebone, in the 
county of Middlesex: And that Mr. Hume and Sir 


Samuel Whalley do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Evelyn Denison reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That in the 
case of the Petition for the Ramsgate and Margate 
Cemetery Bill, the application does not come within 
the Standing Orders relative to Bills for purchasing 
or enlarging any Burial Ground, it not being in- 
tended to defray any part of the expense by Rates 
or Duties to be levied on the subject. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Evelyn Denison reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the 
Standing Orders relative to Bills for making Rail- 
ways had been complied with in the case of the 
Petition for the Polloc and Govan Railway Bill. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Evelyn Denison reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Stand- 
ing Orders relative to Bills for lighting Cities or 
Towns with Gas had been complied with in the case 
of the Petition for the Belfast Gas Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
amend an Act for lighting with Gas the Town of 
Belfast, and the Suburbs thereof: And that Mr. 
Emerson Tennent and Mr. Dunbar do prepare, and 
bring it in. 


Mr. Evelyn Denison reported fromthe Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; and to whom 
the Petition of the Trustees of the Roads leading 
from the city of Dublin over Ballybough and Annes- 
ley Bridges, complaining of non-compliance with 
the Standing Orders, was referred ; That the Stand- 
ing Orders relative to Bills for making Railways 
had not been complied with in the case of the Peti- 
tion for the Dublin and Drogheda Railway Bill, 
inasmuch as no application was made to the Trus- 
tees of the Malahide Road in respect of the Howth 
Road, which is crossed by the Railway at Holly- 
brook ; that application was however made to the 
Commissioners for Public Works, who stated that 
the said Road was vested in them, and that they 
were the parties to whom the application should be 
made; subsequently,’ namely, on the 2d of Febru- 
ary, application was made to the Trustees by letter, 
a doubt having arisen whether the application to 
the Commissioners was sufficient. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Se- 
lect Committee on Standing Orders. 


Mr. Evelyn Denison reported from the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills; That in 
the case of the Petition for the American Steam 





13° Marti. 159 


Navigation Company Bill, the application does not * 
come within the Standing Orders of the House. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


case of the Petition for the Annan Fisheries Bill, 
the application does not come within the Standing 
Orders of the House. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for better regulating the Fisheries in the River 
Annan, in the County of Dumfries, and in the 
Rivers and Streams running into the same, in the 
Mouth or Entrance of the said River, and on the 
Shores or Sea Coast adjoining to the same: And 
that Mr. Hope Johnstone and“General Sharpe do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


case of the Petition for the Sligo Salmon Fisheries 
Bill, the application does not come within the Stand- 
ing Orders of the House. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to enable Joshua Edward Cooper, Esquire, to esta- 
blish and protect a Salmon Fishery upon the Lakes 
and Rivers of Owenmore and Arrow, and also within 
the Bay of Ballisodare, in the County of Sligo, in 
Ireland: And that Captain Jones and Colonel Per- 
ceval do prepare, and bring it in. 


mittee on Petitions for Private Bills ; That the Stand- 
ing Orders relative to Bills for lighting Cities or 
Towns with Gas had been complied with, in the 
case of the Petition for the Bath Gas Bill. 
Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for better supplying and lighting with Gas the City 
and Borough of Bath, in the County of Somerset : 
And that Mr. Roebuck and General Palmer do pre- 
pare, and bring it in. 


on Petitions for 
Orders relative to Bills for improving Cities or 
Towns had been complied with, in the case of the 
Petition for the Dublin Wide Streets Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in-a Bill 
to extend, alter and enlarge the powers of several 
Acts for enabling the Commissioners of Wide 
Streets in Dublin, to widen and improve certain 
Ways, Streets and Passages in the said City and 
County of Dublin, and for raising further Funds to 
enable the said Commissioners to carry the same 
into execution: And that Mr. Hamilton and Mr. 
Christopher Fitzsimon do prepare, and bring it in. 


on Petitions for 
the Petition for the Anti Dry-rot Company Bill, 
the application does not come within the Standing 
Orders of the House. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill for 
vesting in and securing to “ The Anti Dry-rot Com- 
pany” certain Profits and Emoluments for a limited 
time, and for incorporating the said Company, and 
other purposes: And that Mr. Hughes Hughes and 
Mr. David Barclay do prepare, and bring it in. 


on Petitions for 
of the Petition for Westhead’s Patent Bill, the 
application does not come within the Standing Or- 
ders of the House for prolonging the term of or 
confirming Letters Patent, inasmuch as it is only 
for the purpose of assigning the same. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
enable Joshua Proctor Westhead to assign to a Com- 
pany certain Letters Patent: And that Mr. Hughes 
Hughes and Sir Andrew Agnew do prepare, and 





VoL. 92. 


bring it in. 
x4 Mr. 


Mr. Evelyn Denison reported from the Select Com- Annan 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That in the Fisheries. 


Mr. Evelyn Denison reported from the Select Com- Sligo Salmon 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That in the Fisheries. 


Mr. Evelyn Denison reported from the Select Com- Bath Gas. 


Mr. Aglionby pngertes from the Select Committee Dublin Wide 
rivate Bills; That the Standing Stet 


Mr. Aglionby 5° Soa from the Select Committee Anti Dry-rot 
rivate Bills; That in the case of ©°™P™Y- 


Mr. Aglionby mes from the Select Committee Westhead’s 
rivate Bills; That in the case Patent. 





































































Caoutchouc * 
Company. 

























































Sievier’s Patent. 


Fisheries 
(Ireland) 
Company. 


Courteenhall 
and Great 
Wigston Rail- 


way. 


Oxford and 
Great Western 
Railway Bill. 


Brixham 
Harbour and 
Market Bill. 

















York and 

















Railway Bill. 





















































160 


North Midland from Barnsdale 


Mr. Aglionby reported from the Select Committee | 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That in the case of | 
the Petition for the Caoutchouc Company Bill, the 
application does not come within the Standing Or- 
ders of the House. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for the Regulation and Incorporation of the London 
Caoutchoue Company, and for enabling the said 
Company to purchase certain Letters Patent: And 
that Mr. Hughes Hughes and Sir Andrew Agnew do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Aglionby reported from the Select Committee 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That in the case of 
the Petition for Sievier’s Patent Bill, the application 
does not come within the Standing Orders of the 
House for prolonging the term of or confirming 
Letters Patent, inasmuch as it is only for the pur- 

ose of assigning the same. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
enable Robert William Sievier to assign to a Com- 
pany certain Letters Patent: And that Mr. Hughes 
Hughes and Sir Andrew Agnew do prepare, and 


bring it in. 


Mr. Evelyn Denison reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills ; That in the 
case of the Petition for the Fisheries (Jreland) Com- 

any Bill, the application does not come within 
the Standing Orders of the House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


The House was moved, That the Report in respect 
of the Petition for the Courteenhall and Great Wigston 
Railway Bill, which upon Monday last was made 
from the Select Committee on Standing Orders rela- 
tive to Private Bills, might be read; and the same 
being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for making a Railway from the London and Bir- 
mingham Railway, in the Parish of Courteenhall, in 
the County of Northampton, to the Midland Counties 
Railway, in the Parish of Great Wigston, in the 
County of Leicester, and passing through or near 
the Towns of Northampton and Market Harborough, 
to be called “ The South Midland Counties Rail- 
way :” And that Mr. Cartwright and Sir Charles 
Knightley do prepare, and bring it in. 


A Petition of George Richard Pechell, Esquire, 
a Captain in His Majesty’s Royal Navy ;--and, 
George Bowyer, of the Inner Temple, London, 
Esquire ; praying that they may be heard, by them- 
selves, their counsel or agents, against certain parts 
of the Oxford and Great Western Railway Bill,— 
were presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be re- 
ferred to the Committee on the Bill; and the Peti- 
tioners heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 


upon their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel 
heard, in favour of the Bill, against the said Pe- 


titions. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Brixham, praying 
‘hat the Brixham Harbour and Market Bill, may 
not pass into a law as it now stands, was presented, 
and read; and referred to the Committee on the 


Bill. 


A Petition of Trustees of the 


was presented, and read. 


Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by their counsel or agents, upon their Petition, if 
they think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 


Bill, against the said Petition. 


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Turnpike Road 
le to Leeds, praying that they may be 
heard, by their counsel or agents, against certain 


parts of ‘the York and North Midland Railway Bill, 


A. 1837. 


A Petition of Owners and Occupiers of land 
situate in the parishes of Kirby Wharfe and Church 
Fenton, in the county of York, taking notice of the 


said Bill; and setting forth, That the Petitioners 


have heard and believe that in various parts of the 
country great damage and destruction of lands and 
property have been caused by persons of loose and 
generally abandoned character, who are usually em- 
ployed on Railways, and that serious riots often take 
place, and burglaries are frequently committed in 
neighbourhoods wherein such works are carried on, 
to the great injury and alarm of previously undis- 
turbed districts; that the Petitioners are greatly 
apprehensive that they will be exposed to the like 
destruction, mischief and damage, unless the House 
shall provide a sufficient remedy and protection 
therefrom, and against all other damage, injury and 
detriment whatsoever; and praying that they may 
be heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
against certain parts of the said Bill, was also pre- 
sented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit ; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 

Ordered, That the Petition of the Trustees of the 
Doncaster and Tadcaster Road, which was presented 
upon Tuesday last, praying that the said Bill may 
not pass into a law, as it now stands, be referred to 
the Committee on the Bill. 


Mr. Barnard presented a Bill for making a Rail- Ashford and 
way from the South Eastern Railway, near Ashford, ew 
to Canterbury: And the same was read the first aac 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


Mr. Wason presented a Bill for further improving Ipswich 
and rendering more commodious the Port of Ips- ee 
wich, and constructing a Wet Dock there ; and for sees 
amending the several Acts for improving the Town 
of Ipswich: And the same was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time. 


Mr. “ang sak reported from Committee on the Hinckley 
Hinckley Small Debts Bill; That they had made Smal Debts 
re : f . &gt; ill. 
provision in the Bill pursuant to the instruction 
of the House of the 9th day of this instant March ; 
and had examined the allegations of the Bill, and 
found the same to be true; and had gone through 
the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto ; and the 

Amendments were read, and agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed. 


A Petition of the Edinburgh Water Company, Edinburgh 
praying that they may be heard, by themselves, Police Bill 
their counsel or agents, against certain parts of the 
Edinburgh Police Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 

Ordered, That the Committee have power to send 
for persons, papers and records. 











Mr. Wodehouse presented a Bill for dividing, al- Ashby and 
lotting and inclosing the open Fields and Field renee Bill 
lands, Commons and Waste Grounds, in the Pa- " 
rishes of Ashby and Hellington, in the County of 
Norfolk: And the same was read the first time; 
and ordered to be read a second time. 


Mr. Wodehouse presented a Bill to enable the Natioval 
National Endowment and Assurance Society to sue many oe 
and be sued in the Name of one of the Directors, or society Bill. 
Chairman, or Secretary of the Society: And the 
same was read the first time; and ordered to be 


read a second time. 











The 


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elfast Harbour 
No, 2.) 








7 Witt. IV. 


The House was moved, That the Report in respect 


Ballibay Rail- of the Petition for the Dundalk and Cavan Railway 


Bill, which upon Friday last was made from the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders relative to 
_— Bills, might be read ; and the same being 
read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for making and maintaining a Railway from the 
Town of Dundalk, in the County of Louth, to the 
Town of Ballibay, in the County of Monaghan: 
And that Mr. Sharman Crawford and Mr. Lucas do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


A Petition of Subscribers, Proprietors or Occu- 
piers of dwelling-houses and gardens situated on 
the South side of the High-street of the royal burgh 
of Linlithgow, praying that the Edinburgh and 
Glasgow Railway Bill may not pass into a law, was 
. and read ; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 


Mr. Hawes reported from the Committee on the 
Licensed Victuallers’ Assurance Company Bill; 
That they had examined the allegations of the Bill, 
and found the same to be true; and had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto ; 
and the Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed. 


Mr. Sturt reported from the Committee on the 
Winfrith and Wool Inclosure Bill; That the Stand- 
ing Orders relative to Bills of Inclosure had been 
complied with; and that they had examined the 
allegations of the Bill, and found the same to be 
true; and that the Parties concerned had given 
their consent to the Bill, to the satisfaction of the 
Committee ; and that the Committee had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto ; 
and the Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed. 


Mr. Hughes Hughes reported from the Committee 
on Berry and Paterson’s Patent Bill; That they 
had examined the allegations of the Bill, and found 
the same to be true; and had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto; and the 
Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


Petitions from Inhabitants of Banbury ;—and, 
Oxford; praying that the Ozford and Great Western 
Railway Bill may pass into a law,—were presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The House was moved, That the Report in respect 
of the Petition for the Belfast Waterworks Bill, 
which upon Friday last was made from the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders relative to Private 
Bills, might be read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for the better supplying with Water the Inhabitants 
of the Town and Borough of Belfast, in the Coun- 
ties of Antrim and Down, and the suburbs thereof : 
And that Mr. Emerson Tennent and Mr. Dunbar 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


The House was moved, That the Report in respect 
of the Petition for the Belfast Harbour Bill (No. 2.), 
which upon Friday last was made from the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders relative to Private 
Bills, might be read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for the formation of a Floating Dock, and for other- 
wise more effectually improving the Port and Har- 
bour of Belfast, in Ireland: And that Mr. Emerson 
Tennent and Mr. Dunbar do prepare, and bring 
it in. 


Vo. 92. 


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161 


A Petition of the Marquis of Donegal, and of the Lougk Swilly 

Earl of Belfast, complaining that the Standing "4 . - 
Orders of the House in respect of the application £°7* “"™"* 
for the Lough Swilly and Lough Foyle Canals, &amp;c., 
Bill, had not been complied with ; and praying that 
they may be heard, by their agents and witnesses, 
against the same, was presented, and read; and 
referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for 
Private Bills. 


Mr. Owen Stanley presented a Bill for making King’s Ferry 
and maintaining a Torn ike Road from the Turn- _ — 
pike Road between the , se King’s Ferry, in the “~~ 
County of Flint, and Woodbank, in the Count of 

Chester, to the Rock Ferry House, in the Parish of 
Bebbington, in the said County of Chester: And 

the same was read the first time; and ordered to 

be read a second time. 


Ordered, That the Petition of the Right honour- Sheffield and 
able John Savile, Earl of Scarborough, which was cg 
presented upon the 1st day of this instant March, ®#!w*y 5M 
praying that he may be heard, by his counsel or agent, 
against certain parts of the Sheffield and Manchester 
Railway Bill, be referred to the Committee on the 
Bill; and the Petitioner heard, by his counsel or 
agent, upon his Petition, if he think fit; and 
counsel heard, in favour of the Bill, against the 
said Petition. 


Mr. Wilson Patten presented a Bill to amend and Manchester, 
extend the Acts relating to the Manchester, Bolton ane 0 
es 2 'y Canal 
and Bury Canal Navigation and Railway, and for pin’ 
other purposes relating thereto: And the same was 
read the first time ; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


A Petition of Ann Taylor, of Todmorden Hall, Manchester 
in the county of Lancaster, widow, and James Taylor, 4 Leeds 
of the same place, Gentleman, praying that they "4 ~"" 
may be heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
against certain parts of the Manchester and Leeds 
Railway Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of the Governor and Company of the London and 
New River, brought from Chadwell and Amwell to Blackwall 
London, praying that they may be heard, by their  eenang A 
counsel or agent, against certain parts of the ee 
London and Blackwall Commercial Railway Bill, 
was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by their counsel or agent, upon their Petition, if 
they think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of the Mayor and Magistrates of Zam- Manchester 
worth, and of the Committee appointed for protecting #»4 Tamworth ; 
the interests of the inhabitants of Tamworth and ° a 
the neighbourhood, with reference to Railways in- Railway Bills. 
tended to pass through or near Tamworth, praying 
that Clauses may be inserted in all Bills which may 
come under the consideration of the House for 
making Railways through or near Tamworth, to 
enforce the companies applying for such Bills to 
establish and maintain, at their own expense, an 
efficient Police Force for the preservation of the 

eace, and the protection of the properties of the 
inhabitants of the said town and neighbourhood, 
was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of Thomas Harrison, Esquire, of Ber- Westminster 
ners-street, in the parish of Saint Mary-le-bone, in Bridge and 


the county of eee Gentleman, agent to Ps Railwoy Bill 
rule 





Church Rates, 


162 


Tryle, of Stonehouse, in the county of Devon, Es- 
quire, praying that he may be heard, by himself, 
his counsel or agent, against certain parts of the 
Westminster Bridge and Greenwich Railway Bill, 
was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to 
the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner 
heard, by himself, his counsel or agent, upon his 
Petition, if he think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


Petitions from Isham ;—Kingsthorpe;—Crundale; 
Hartlip ;—Rodmersham;—Murston ;— Rainham ;— 
Bobbing ;—Saint Paul-without-the- Walls, Canter- 
bury;— Saint Martin, Canterbury ;— Stratford- 
under-the-Castle ; — Sacombe ; — Sittingbourne ; — 
Newington (Kent) ; -— Challock ; — Bethersden ; — 
Pevensey ;—Ashburnham ;-—Cheshunt ;—Carlton-in- 
Lindrich; — All Saints, Hertford ; — Whicham ;— 
Bootle ;—- Beeston ;— Thornton-le-Fylde;— Whitbeck ; 
— Arlecdon ; — Bexhill; — Nuneaton ; -— Orton-on- 
the- Hill and Twycross;—Staines, Laleham and Ash- 
ford; — Kingston Deverill; — Maiden Bradley ; — 
Aller ; — Bradford, (Wilts); — Smisby; — Marl- 
borough ;— Swallowcliffe and Ansty ;-— Pewsey ;— 
Archdeacon and Clergy of the county of Nottingham; 
—Saint Mary, Nottingham ;—Radford ;—Lenton ; 
—Clifton-cum-Glapton ;—Lowdham ;— Bothamsall ; 
—Winterborne Earls, Winterborne Dauntsey, and 
Winterborne Gunner ;—- Winkfield;— Knaresborough ; 
—Billingshurstand Shipley ;—Walton-upon- Thames; 
— West Helton, &amp;c. ;—Heighington;—Kilmersdon ; 
— Muchelney ; — Bishops Waltham ;— Thorpe ;— 
Buchland ; — Grendon ; — Wallsend ;—Pleyden ;— 
East Guildeford ;—West Chiltington ; —Plympton 
Maurice ;—Donlishwake ;—Lopen ;— Wymering and 
Widley ;—Crewkherne and Misterton ;—Meniott ;— 
Shepton Beauchamp ;—Newport (Isle of 4 oe — 
Puddle Trenthgae ;— Wynford ;—Puddle Hinton ; 
—Stourpain and Steepleton Preston;—Portesham 
and Langton Herring ;— Glanvill’s Wootton; — 
Winsham ;— Blandford ;— Fordington ; —Corscombe ; 
— Partington ;— Blandford Saint Mary ;—Maiden 
Newton and Frome Vanchurch; — Stoke Wake; 
—Monksilver ;—Rose Ash ;— Storrington; — Sut- 
tington ; — Clyst Honiton;— Yatesbury and Hed- 
dington; — Brompton Ralph; — High Roding; — 
Enderby and Whetstone; —Rural Dean and Clergy 
of the Deanery of Marchia ;— Horwich ;—Exeter ; 
—Sharow ; — Wakefield; — Marlborough; — Ash- 
— ;— Paington ; — Marldon ;—Chapelwarden 
of Buckland Tout Saints;— Bovey Tracey ;—Mor- 
ley ;— Harberton ;— South Brent ;— Dodbrooke;— 
jt — South Milton: — Harpford and Ven 
Ottery ; — Thorlestone ; — Egg Buckland ; — Tren- 
tishoe ;-—_Dittisham ;— Dartington ;— Holbeton ; — 
South Poole ;—Lustleigh ;-- Moretonhampstead ;— 
Wolborough ;—Brixham ;—West Alvington ;—Exz- 
minster ;-— Blackawton ;-— Dawlish ;— Bampton ;— 
Seaton and Beer ;— Woodleigh;—Clist Saint George 
and Clist Saint Mary ;— Ashford ;— Uplyme ;— 
Forest Division of Lydford ;— Bitladon ;—Offwell ; 
Stokeinteignhead ; — Membury ; — Slapton ;—Sher- 
ford ;— Kingsbridge ;—Newton Ferrers ;—Shaugh ; 
—Churchstow ;—-Loddeswell ;— Stohenham;— South 
Huish ;—Iddesleigh ;—Ipplepen ;— Little Hempston; 
—Portlemouth ;—Berry Pomeroy ;—Yealmpton ;— 
Denbury ;— East Allington ;-— Plymouth ;--Saint 
Stephen’s-by-Saltash ; —Capel Saint Mary ;—Hig- 
ham ; — Hintlesham;— Great Wenham ;-— Holton 
Saint Mary ;— Stratford Saint Mary; — Saint 
Matthew, p Aare 3--Saint Mary Tower, Ipswich ; 
— Wenham Parva ;— Woodbridge ;—Sproughton ;— 
Barham ;— Crowfield, and other « a ;— Saint 
Lawrence, Ipswich ;—Saint Margaret, Ipswich ;— 
Saint Mary Stoke, Ipswich ;—Saint Stephen, Ips- 
wich ;— Freston; — Baylham ; — Saint Nicholas, 
EIpswich ; — Coddenham ; —Saxmundham ; — Saint 
Mary-at-the-Elms, Ipswich ; — Needham ; — Saint 
Dunstan’s-in-the-West, London ;-- Bradford Peverell ; 


*13° Marti. 








A. 1837. 


West Stafford; — Tintenhul ; — Shillingstone ; — 
Chipstalle; — Huntspill; — Handley ;— Tarrant 
Gunville ;—Milborne Saint Andrew’s and Dewlish; 
— Wollavington ;—Puriton;— Hempstead ;--Mount- 


field ;— Eling ;— Fareham ;—-Rockbourne ;— Broad 


Chalk and Bower Chalk ;—Slawston ;— Cranborne 
and other places ;—Wraxall ;— Tarrant Crawford ; 
— Bulwell;— Hinton Saint George and Dinnington ; 
—Greatham ;—Yarmouth, Isle of Wight ;—Saint 
Andrew ;— Renholdand Ravensden ;—Saint Michael, 
Derby ;—Glenfield ;— Willoughby and other places ; 
— Huggale ;---Sileby ;— Wallsend ;— Leigh ;—Crick- 
lade and other places;— Wotton ;— Castle Donington; 
—-Nailstonand Normanton-le- Heath ;— Beaksbourne ; 
—Scraptoft;— Shakerstone ;-— Saint John-the-Bap- 
tist, Gloucester ; — Saint Catherine, Gloucester ; — 
Chester-le-Street ; — Stockton-on-Tees ; — Hoveton 
Saint Peter and Hoveton Saint John ;—Saint John 
of Maddermarket ;-—Cressing ;—Great Cornard ;— 
Great Leighs ;—Calbourne, Isle of Wight ;—Tun- 
stall;—Saint Mary’s Chapel, Lambeth ;—Twade ; 
— Mareham-le-Fen;— Pebmarsh and Wickham Saint 
Paul’s ;—Scrivelsby-cum-Dalderby ;— Forthampton; 
—Saint Neots, Cambridge; — Willingham;—Peck- 
ham ;— Hemel Hempsted ;—Abbots Langley ;— Much 
Hadham ; — Aldenham ;— Shenley ;— Hitchin ; — 
Berkhamstead, Saint Peter ;— Cottenham ;—Shafton, 
otherwise Shaftesbury ; — Holybourn ; — Wasslong ; 
— Knaresborough ; — Barlings and Fiskerton; — 
Arkborough and other places ;—Kirton in Lindsey ; 
— Winterton ;— Wellington ;-— Cheddar ;— Westbury 
and Rodney Stoke;— Norton-sub-Hamdon ;—Stoke 
Poges and Wexham ;—Mold ;— Stamford and Saint 
Martin’s Stamford Baron ;— Windsor ;—Sandford ; 
— Segrave ;— Claxton, otherwise Long Clawson ;— 
Cole Orton ;—Scalford ;—Heighington ;— Tisbury ; 
— Washington ; — Elrick Hall ;— Balscott ;— Sad- 
berge ;—Wroxton ;—Hurworth-upon- Tees ;-— Lames- 
ley ; Long Newton; — Whitwick ; — Bucknell ; — 
—Melton Mowbray ;—Goadby Marwood ;—Fring- 
ford ; — Pickwell ;— Grindon ; — Aston and other 
places ;— Burrow-on-the-Hill and Somerby ;— Har- 
low ;— Litile Hallingbury ; — Easington; — South 
Shields ;—Snarestone;—Belgrave Tanfield ;—Swep- 
ston; — Alton; -— North Chapel; — Preston and 
Osmington ; — Cossington ;— Saint Andrew-by-the- 
Wardrobe and Saint Ann Blackfriars ;—Tedding- 
ton ;—Carne ;— Upway ;— Kirdford ;— Chivelstone; 
—Southleigh ;— Cadbury :—.Dalwood ;—Charleton ; 
— Bishopsteignton ; — East Teignmouth ; — Wid- 
decombe ; — Fremington ; — Filleigh ;—West Buck- 
land ;— Goodleigh ;— Bratton Fleming ; — Kentis- 
bury ;— Highbray ; — Combmartin ;—-Parraconbe ; 
— Garnscombe ; — Georgeham ; — Challacombe ; — 
East Down; — Martinhoe; — Newport Bishops 
Tawton ; — Pilton ; — High Bickington ; —Newton 
Tracy ;— Loxhore;— Brendon;— Morthoe;—-Instow ; 
— Tawstock ;—Countesbury ;—Stoke Rivers ;— Hor- 
wood ; — Huntshaw;— Heanton Punchardon ; — 
West Down ; —Arlington ; — Lynton ;— Swaffham ; 
— Hingham ; — Hockham ; — Great Ringstead ; — 
Burnham Thorpe ;— Sutton Branstead ;—Wereham ; 
—-Hempnall ;— Westwick ; — Dickleburgh ; — South 
Aikenham ;—Pastor and Witton;—Stalham and 
Ingham ;—Cockley Cley ;—Woolferton ;—Fring ;— 
Hunstanton ;— Happisburgh ;— Walcot ;— Burnham 
Westgate, &amp;c. deal ;— Denton ;—Mulbarton; 
—Bacton and Crostwight ;—Ashwelthorpe ;—.Deop- 
ham ;—Kirstead ;—Wreningham ; —Gemingham ;-- 
— Blackrod ;—Saint Michael Penkevil Merther, 
and Lamerran ;— Saint Feock ;— Ripon ;—Shaston 
Saint James ;— Winfrith, Newburgh and West Lul- 
worth;—Stanton Saint Bernard;—Upper Norwood ; 
— Burleston-cum-Athelhamston;—Preston-on-Stowe ; 
—Hasfield;—Brockthrop; — Marshfield ;—Doding- 
ton ;— Stanley Saint Leonard’s ;—Chipping Sodbury 
and Old Sodbury ; — Newland ; — Corfe Castle ;— 
Saint Giles, Camberwell ;— Stoke Abbott ;— Cold 
Waltham and Hardham; — Powerstock ; — Sher- 
rington; — Wisborough ; — Winterborne Abbas and 

Steepleton ;— 





Church Rates 
Regulation. 


Poor Law Act. 


7 Witt. IV. 


Steepleton;—and, Long Bredy and Little Bredy; 
praying that Church Rates may not be abolished, 
—vwere presented and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 

Petitions from Okehampton ;— Linton; Chaw- 
leigh ; Burghead ;—Arkesden ;— Brixham;—Dun- 
fermline ;—Awse, Blakeney and Lydney ;— Wotton- 
under-Edge; —Coleford ;—Upper Ward of Lanark- 
shire ;— Lilliesleaf ;—Urr ;— Bridge End Penicuik ; 
— Lochwinnoch; — Bristol ;— Sherborne ;— Castle- 
street, Exeter ;— Newtown (Roxburgh) ;— Sanday ; 
— Westray ;— Bulford ;-— Crickhowell ;—.Brampion ; 
—Chorley ;— Hoxton Academy Chapel ; — South- 
street; Exeter ;—-Dundee ;—Chalfont, Saint Peter’s; 
— Aldbrough, Boroughbridge and vicinity ;— Ogden ; 
—Keighley; — Blackley: — Kilmington ; — Harro- 
gate; — Tisbury; — Blackburn ; — Mount-street, 
Blackburn; — Newcastle-under-Lyme ; — and, Sid- 
mouth, Sidbury and Salcombe; praying for the 
abolition of Church Rates,—were also presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Lichfield ;—Rugeley ; — Gayton ; 
—Creaton ;— Brackley ;— Costock ;— Staunton and 
Hawborough ;—Gamston ;— Babworth ;—Rudding- 
ton ;—Coddington ; — Laxton ;— Elston ;—Shelton ; 
—WNorth Clifion;— ay ;—Shelford ; — Burton 
Joyce ; — Whatton ;—- Bilborough and Strelley ;— 
Over and Nether Worton;— Finningley ;— Saint 
Helen’s (Isle of Wight) ;—Ludlow ;— Bishopstrow ; 
—South Hackney ;—Saint Nicholas, Worcester ;— 
Brighstone ; — Heytesbury ; — Saint Peter, Wor- 
cester ;—Diddington ;-—Saint Benedict, Cambridge ; 
—-Saint Botolph, Cambridge;-— All Saints, Cam- 
bridge ;—Saint Edward, Cambridge;—Saint An- 
drew-the-Great, Cambridge; — Saint Sepulchre, 
Cambridge ;—Saint Giles and Saint Peter, Cam- 
bridge ;— Saint Mary-the-Less, Cambridge;— Saint 
Michael, Cambridge;—Holy Trinity, Cambridge ;— 
Saint Mary-the-Great, Cambridge;—Saint Clement, 
Cambridge ;—Eydon:—- Marston Saint Lawrence ; 
— Farthinghoe; — Spilsby ;-- Boddicott ;— Marn- 
ham ; —- Normanton-on-Trent ; — Fledborough ; — 
Clergy of the Deaneries of Ripon and Borobridge ; 
—and, Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the 
University of Oxford; praying that the proposed 
measure for the regulation of Church Rates may 
not receive the sanction of the House,—were pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the President and Secretary of the 
Medical and Surgical Society of Neweastle-upon- 
Tyne, praying the House to institute an inquiry into 
the system of entering into contracts by competition 
for medical attendance on the sick poor, under the 
sanction of the Poor Law Commissioners, was pre- 
sented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on the Poor Law Act. 

A Petition of the Clerk of the Board of Guardians 
of the Wantage Union, in the county of Berks, pray- 
ing the House neither to repeal nor alter the essential 
provisions of the Poor Law Act, was also presented, 
and read; and referred to the said Select Com- 
mittee. 

A Petition of Inhabitants of Rastrick, praying for 
the repeal of the said Act, was also presented, and 
read; and referred to the said Select Committee. 

A Petition of the Chairman of a Meeting of In- 
habitants of Bradford (York);—and, Inhabitants 
of Keighley; praying for the amendment of the said 
Act,—were also presented, and read ; and referred 
to the said Select Committee. 

A Petition of Parochial Clergymen resident in the 
county of Hertford and Union of Ware, praying the 
House to devise some measure by which it may be 
rendered imperative on Boards of Guardians of Poor 
Law Unions to assign sufficient salaries to duly 
appointed chaplains to workhouses, was also pre- 
sented, and read; and referred to the said Select 
Committee. 

Vor. 92. 


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163 


A Petition of Merchants, Ship-owners and others pfarine 
interested in the trade and port of Dundee, praying Insurances. 
the House to repeal or reduce the Duty on Main 
Insurances, was presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Directors of the Bristol Union In- Fire Insurances. 
surance Company ;—and, Inhabitants of Clifton 
Dartmouth Hardness; praying for the repeal of the 
Duty on Fire Insurances,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Zuke Alen, Esquire, Companion of Benefices 
the most honourable Order of the Bath, and Lieu- (teland.) 
tenant-Colonel in His Majesty’s Army, complaining 
of the inaccuracy of the Return, presented to the 
House in 1835, of the number of parishes in Jreland 
containing less than 50 members of the Established 
Church, and praying that the same may be sent back 
to Dublin for correction, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Electors and Inhabitants of Tain, Window Taxi 
praying for the repeal of the Window Tax, was 


presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of the Provost, Magistrates and Coun- Private Bill 
cillors of Wick, praying for an alteration of the Committees. 
— system of carrying Private Bills through 

arliament, and of the mode of constituting Com- 
mittees upon them, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Consumers of Soap in Easingwold, Soap. 
praying for the repeal of the Duty on Soap, was pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Dunlavan, Donoughmore and Do- Municipal 
nard ; — Kilbeagh ; — Rathdrum; — and, Arklow ; Corporations 
raying that the Municipal Corporations (Ireland) ——— 
ill may pass into a law,— were presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
A Petition of Inhabitants of the borough of Wick- 
low, praying that the corporation of that borough 
may not be abolished by the said Bill, was also pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
A Petition of Inhabitants of the parish of Saint 
Anne, Dublin, praying that the said Bill may not 
pass into a law, was also presented, and read ; and 








ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Trim ;—and, Maheracloone ; pray~ Municipal 
ing that the Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Bill Corporations 
may pass into a law; that Tithes in Jreland be _— _ 
abolished, and Vote by Ballot adopted,—were pre- ~ 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Resident Electors and Non-Electors Fictitious Votes 
of the county of Haddington, complaining of the (Scotland.) 
creation of Fictitious Votes for Members to serve 
in Parliament for counties in Scotland, and praying 
relief, was presented, and read ; and referred to the 
Select Committee on Fictitious Votes (Scotland.) 


Petitions from Rathdrum ;—and, Dunlavan, Do- Vote by Rattot. 
noughmore and Donard ; praying for the adoption 
of Vote by Ballot in the election of Members to 
serve in Parliament,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Arklow;— Dunlavan, Donough- Tithes 
more and Donard;—and, Rathdrum; praying for (Ireland.) 
the abolition of Tithes in Jreland,—were presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of John Kerby, of Ballyhige, in the Join Kerby. 
county of Kerry, complaining of having hoon arrested 
in the county of Limerick, on an unfounded charge 
of horse-stealing, and praying relief, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
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164 


hon - The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 

ae mittee of Ways and Means ; ' 
——. Ordered, That the Account, showing the Amount 
Monies in the Of Monies in the Exchequer or remaining to be re- 
Fxchequer. ceived on the 20th February 1837, to complete the 
Aids granted by Parliament for the Service of the 
years 1833, 1834, 1835, 1836 and 1837, which was 
presented upon the 22d day of February last, be 

referred to the Committee. 

Then the House resolved itself into the Committee. 

(In the Committee.) 
Transfer of Resolved, That, towards making good the Supply 


Aids. granted to His Majesty, the sum of Two Millions, 
a part of the sums now remaining in the Exchequer 
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire- 
land, or remaining to be received on the 20th day of 
February 1837, to complete the Aids granted by 
Parliament for the Service of the ~ 1836, and of 
antecedent years, be applied to the Service of the 
year 1837. 

Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Re- 
solution. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 

Mr. Bernal also acquainted the House, That he 
was directed to move, That the Committee may have 
leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Penitentiary (Milbank) Bill ; 

Resolved, That this hae will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Penitentiar 
(Milbank) Bill. 


Church Rates 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
Regulation. 


into a Committee, to consider further of the payment 
of Church Rates. 


(In the Committee.) 


Question again proposed, That, for the Repair and 
Maintenance of Parochial Churches and Chapels in 
England and Wales, and the due celebration of 
Divine Worship therein, a permanent and adequate 
provision be made out of an increased value given to 
Church Lands, by the introduction of a new system 
of Management, and by the application of the 

roceeds of Pew Rents; the collection of Church 

Rates ceasing altogether, from a day to be determined 
by law; and that, in order to facilitate and give 
early effect to this Resolution, the Commissioners 
of His Majesty’s Treasury be authorized to make 
advances on the security, and repayable out of the 
produce of such Church Lands. 

To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 





And the House having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Tuesday morning ; 


Martis, 14° die Martti, 1837: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had made further Pro- 
gress in the matters to them referred ; and that he 
was directed to move, That the Committee may have 
leave to sit again. 

Resolved, Phat this House will, this day, again 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 

Municipal 


na 2 The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
(Ireland) Bill, ™Mittee on the Municipal Corporations ( Zreland) Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 

next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Shire Halls Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday, 
the 5th day of April next, resolve itself into the said 
Committee. 


Shire Halls Bill. 


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A, 1837. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Judges’ 


mittee on the Judges’ Opinions Bill ; Opinions Bill, 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday, 
the 5th day of April next, resolve itself into the said 
Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Imprisonment 
further consideration the Report on the Imprison- fr Debt Bill, 
ment for Debt Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Registration of 
mittee on the Registration of Voters Bill; Voters Rill, 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Court of 
reading of the Court of Exchequer (Scotland) Bill ; pre ™ 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time “°**"™ Bil. 
this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Supply. 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Poor Relief 
reading of the Poor Relief (Jreland) Bill; (freland) Bill 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Monday, the 3d day of April next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Sa 
reading of the Sale of Beer Bill; = 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 

To-morrow. 


le of Beer 
Il. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Court of Session 
mittee on the Court of Session (Scotland) Bill; _(Seotland) Bill 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 


next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Archbishops’, 

to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased &amp;¢-, Revenue, 
, J F A -_ First Fruits, 

to give directions, that there be laid before this 314 Tenths 
House, a Return of the clear Annual Revenue of 
every Archbishoprick, Bishoprick, Archdeaconry, 
Deanery and Prebend, according to the Report of 
the Commissioners, appointed by the King to in- 
quire into the Ecclesiastical Revenues of England 
and Wales, on an average of Three years, ending 
31st December 1831; with a Return of the Sums 
paid yearly during each of those Three years, as 
the Tenths of such Income, of every Archbishop- 
rick, Bishoprick, Archdeaconry, Deanery and Pre- 
bend; and a Return of the Sums paid as First 
Fruits on the induction of each of the Archbishops, 
Bishops, Archdeacons, Deans and Prebendaries, 
into the First Fruits and Tenths Offices, to be ap- 
plied to the Funds usually called “ Queen Anne’s 
Bounty, for the augmentation of the maintenance 
of the poor Clergy,” as provided by an Act passed 
in the second year of the reign of Queen Anne. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Ordered, That the Wishaw and Coltness Railway Wishaw and 
Bill be read a second time this day. _— Rail- 
way ul, 
Lord Viscount Ebrington presented a Bill for mak- Exeter and 
ing a Railway from Ezeter to the Town and Port of ee 
Falmouth : And the same was read the first time; 
and ordered to be read a second time. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Churches. 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
to givedirections, that there be laid before this House, 
a Return of the Number of Applications made to 
the Bishops of England and Wales, since the year 
1800, 





Pau) 
(Mi 


Clar 
Incl 


Pen 


C 


— 





Pauper Lunatics 


(Middlesex.) 


Clapton 


Inclosure Bill. 


Penitentiary 
(Milbank.) 


Cardiff Gas. 


Cardiff 


Improvement, 


Kingsworth 
a West ‘ 
onckton 
Railway Bill, 








7 Wit. [V. 


1800, by Corporations or Parishes, or Individuals, 
to build at their own expense Churches or Chapels 
of Ease for the performance of Divine Service ac- 
cording to the Rites of the Established Church ; 
distinguishing those which have been granted from 
those which have been refused, and specifying the 
terms and conditions, as to the right of Presenta- 
tion, which have been insisted upon by the Bishop 
in each case. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, an 
Alphabetical List of the Names of the 260 Paupers 
who have been discharged cured from the Pauper 
Lunatic Asylum for the County of Middlesex, from 
15th May 1831 to 31st December 1836, with the 
Parish to which every such Pauper belonged, the 
Date of the Admission, and the Date of the Dis- 
charge of every such Pauper; if any cases of Re- 
lapse have occurred, and the Pauper has been re- 
admitted into the Institution, the duplicate Name 
to be distinguished by an Asterisk. 


Mr. William Miles presented a Bill for inclosing 
Lands in the Parish of Clapton, in the County of 
Somerset: And the same was read the first time; 
and ordered to be read a second time. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour after twelve of the 
clock on Tuesday morning, adjourned till 
this day. 





Martis, 14° die Martii ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi [Vt Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 
R. Maye, Secretary to the Superintending 
Committee of the General Penitentiary at 
Milbank, was called in; and at the bar presented, 
pursuant to the directions of an Act of Parliament, 
—Report of the Superintending Committee of the 
General Penitentiary at Milbank, for the reception 
of Convicts ; specifying the state of the Building, 
the Conduct of the Oficers, the Treatment and 
Condition of the Prisoners, the Amount of their 
Earnings, and the Expenses of the Establishment 
during the year 1836 :— And then he withdrew. 
Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Robert Palmer reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the 
Standing Orders relative to Bills for lighting Cities 
or Towns with Gas, had been rate with in the 
case of the Petition for the Cardiff Gas Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for better lighting with Gas the Town of Cardiff, in 
the County of Glamorgan: And that Dr. Nicholl 
and Mr. Dillwyn do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Robert Palmer reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the 
Standing Orders relative to Bills for improving 
Cities or Towns, had been complied with in the 
_ of the Petition for the Cardiff Improvement 
Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for better paving, cleansing, lighting and otherwise 
improving the Town of Cardiff, in the County of 
Glamorgan: And that Dr. Nicholl and Mr. Dillwyn 
do prepare, and bring it in. | 


A Petition of William Woodcock, steward to the 
Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery and others, 
being Owners and Occupiers of estates and property 
on the line of Railway hereinafter mentioned, 


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165 


praying that they may be heard, by themselves, 
their counsel or agents, against certain parts of the 
Kingsworthy and West Monckton Railway Bill, was 
presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 





Mr. Cartwright presented a Bill for making a Courteenhall 
Railway from the London and Birmingham Railway, = oy 
in the Parish of Courteenhall, in the County of -_ Bill. 
Northampton, to the Midland Counties Railway, 

in the Parish of Great Wigston, in the County of 

Leicester, and passing through or near the Towns 

of Northampton and Market Harborough, to be 

called “The South Midland Counties Railway :” 

And the same was read the first time; and ordered 

to be read a second time. 


Mr. Cartwright presented a Bill for amending Hartlepool 
an Act of the second year of the reign of His pre- Pier Bill. 
sent Majesty, and for granting further Rates and 
Powers for improving the Port of Hartlepool, in the 
County of Durham: And the same was read the 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Petition of M. Troughton, and others, Owners Deptford 
and Occupiers of lands and premises through or in ——, 
the vicinity of which the Railway hereinafter men-~" ""™* 
tioned is proposed to be carried, taking notice of . 
the application for leave to bring in the Deptford 
and Dover Railway Bill, and praying that such 
Bill may not pass into a law, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from the Corporation of Boston ;—and, Manchester 
Merchants, Traders and other Inhabitants of Boston; a 
praying that the Manchester and Tamworth Railway a 

ill may pass into a law,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Major General Sir George Scovell, Manchester 
a trustee under the will of the late Samuel Cheetham ——. 
Hilton, Esquire, deceased ;—Henry Taylor, of Pon- Citas 
tefract, in the county of York, Esquire ;— and, | 
Trustees for maintainmg the Road from Wakefield 
to Austerlands, in the west riding of the said county ; } 
praying that they may be heard, by themselves, | 
their counsel or agents, against certain parts of the 
Manchester and Leeds Railway Bill,—were pre- 
sented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit ; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


A Petition of the Directors of the Westminster Westminster 
Bridge, Deptford and Greenwich Railway Com- Bridee ond 
: : ; : reenwich 
pany, denying the allegations contained in the Rojjway Bill 
Petitions of Thomas G'reen, presented upon Tuesday 
last, and of Benjamin Wheeler Poulton, presented 
upon Thursday last, (complaining of certain persons 
having been solicited and allowed to sign the Par- 
liamentary deeds relating to the Westminster Bridge 
and Greenwich Railway, without being shareholders, 
and of having been paid for so doing ;) and praying 
that the said Petitions may be dismissed by the 
House, and that the Company may not be sub- 
jected ‘to a protracted, vexatious, expensive and 
useless inquiry, was presented, and read; and or- 
dered to lie upon the Table. 
Ordered, That the Petition be printed. 





Petitions from the Provost, Magistrates and Glasgow, 
Town Council of Port Glasgow ;—and, Merchants, Faisley, and 
Bankers, Traders and Inhabitants of the united p,; 





VoL. 92. 





| 

é Railway Bill. 

towns of Port Glasgow and Newark, praying that | 
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166 


resented, and read ; 


—" pass into a law,—were 
an able. 


ordered to lie upon the 


ype, oe and 


, Petitions from Merchants, Manufacturers, Pro- 
yr 
Bill. 


ailway prietors, Farmers and other Inhabitants of Rie- 
carton ;—Merchants, Manufacturers and other In- 
habitants of Kilmarnock ;—Inhabitants of Fenwick ; 
—Incorporation of Weavers of Kilmarnock ;—In- 
corporation of Bonnet-makers of Kilmarnock ;— 
Incorporation of Skinners and Glovers of Kilmar- 
nock ;— Incorporation of Tailors of Kilmarnock ;— 
and, Incorporation of Shoemakers of Kilmarnock ; 
praying that the Glasgow and Ayr Railway Bill 
may not pass into a law as it now stands,—were 
presented, and read ; and referred to the Committee 
on the Bill. 


Leith and 
Newhaven 
Harbours, &amp;c.. 


A Petition of Owners and Occupiers of land and 
heritages in the parish of North Leith, complaining 
that the Standing Orders of the House in respect 
to the application for the Leith and Newhaven ee 
bours, &amp;c. Bill, had not been complied with, and 
praying that they may be heard, by themselves, their 
agents and witnesses, against the same, was pre- 
sented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


Petitions from the Cheltenham and Great Western 
Union Railway Company ;--and, Walter Lawrence 
Lawrence, of Sandywell Park, in the county of 
Gloucester, Esquire, praying that they may be 
heard, by themselves or their counsel, against certain 
= of the Charlton Kings and Marsworth Railway 

ill, were presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves or their counsel, upon their 
Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


Charlton Kings 
and Marsworth 
Railway Bill. 


Gorbals Police. |The House was moved, That the Report in respect 
of the Petition for the Gorbals Police Bill, which 
upon Thursday last was made from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills, might be 
read; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to continue for a limited term of years the Police 
Act for the Barony of Gorbals, and for other pur- 
poses therein mentioned: And that Mr. Oswald 
and Lord William Bentinck do prepare, and bring 
it in. 

Stirling Canal, = The House was moved, That the Report in respect 
of the Petition for the Stirling Canal Bill, which 
= Wednesday last was made from the Select 
ommittee on Standing Orders relative to Private 
Bills, might be read; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 

to make and maintain a Canal from the Town of 
Stirling to the Forth and Clyde Canal, near to 
Loanhead, with certain branches therefrom: And 
that Mr. Walter Campbell and Mr. Oswald do pre- 
pare, and bring it in. 
Campsie Canal, The House was moved, That the Report in respect 
ot the Petition for the Campsie Canal Bill, which 
upon Thursday last was made from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills, might be 
read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 


14° Martiz. 


the Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway Bill | 


Company,” and to enable the said 








to make and maintain a Canal from the Forth and 
Clyde Canal, in the County of Lanark, to Campsie | 


Alum Works, in the County of Stirling: And that | 
Mr. Forbes and Mr. Oswald do prepare, and bring | 


it in. 


Slamannan 
Railway. 


The House was moved, That the Report in respect 
of the Petition for the Slamannan Railway Bill, 
which upon Thursday last was made from the Se- 





A. 1837. 


lect Committee on Petitions for Private Bills, might 
be read; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to alter, amend and enlarge the powers of an Act 
for making the Slamannan Railway, passed in the 
sixth year of His present Majesty, and to enable 
the Slamannan Railway Company to make and 
maintain a Branch to Bath Gate, m the County of 
Linlithgow: And that Mr. Forbes and Mr. Oswald 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That all the Members serving for the Manchester 
several Counties, and for the Boroughs therein, ~ erg 
through which Counties the Manchester and Tam- ies 
worth Railway is intended to pass, be Members of 
the Committee on the Bill. 


An ingrossed Bill for forming and oe a Berry and 
Company to be called “ The Patent D as Meter omg 
a ill, 

ompany to 
purchase certain Letters Patent, was read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Hughes Hughes do carry the 


Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- Kingsworthy 
posed, That the Kingsworthy and West Monckton ~~ shad 
Railway Bill be now read a second time ; Railway Bil 

The Amendments following were proposed to be 
made to the Question ; viz. To leave out the word 
““ now,” and at the end of the Question to add the 
words “ upon this day six months.” 

And the Question being put, That the word 
“ now” stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 


Tellers for the Yeas, | Cavinin Beldoro , 


} 59. 
. Sir Robert Inglis, 

Tellers for the Noes, { Mr. Warburt 3 . } 83. 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being proposed, That the words 
“ upon this day six months” be added at the end 
of the Question ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
said proposed Amendment, by leaving out the words 
“ six months” and adding the word “ seven-night,” 
instead thereof; 

And the Question being put, That the words 
“six months” stand part of the said proposed 
Amendment ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 


Mr. Warburton, 
Tellers for the Yeas, { Sir John Wrottesley:J sen 


Tellers for the Noes, { eg tg: asd } 82. 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
“ seven-night”’ be added instead thereof: it was 
resolved in the Affirmative. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
“ upon this day seven-night” be added to the 
original Question : it was resolved in the Affirma- 
tive. 

Then the main Question, so amended, being put ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon this day seven-night. 


The Wishaw and Coltness Railway Bili, was, ac- Wishaw and 
cording to Order, read a second time ; and com- om Rail- 
mitted to Mr. Cayley apd the West Scotland List. “*Y “" 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Reading, praying Oxford and 
that the Oxford and Great Western Railway Bill Great Worl 
may pass into a law, was presented, and read ; and P 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The 





London 
(Greenw! 
Railway 


Dublin ' 
Kilkenn 
Railway 


Sheffiel 
Manche 
Railway 


Winfri 
Wool - 
Bill, 


Oxfor 
Great 
Railw 


Edinb 
and G 
Railw 


Poor 


Poo! 


So 











7 Wit. IV. 


London and The London and Greenwich Railway Bill was 
Greawid read a second time; and committed to Mr. Dottin 
Railway “and the Kent List. 


Dublin and The Dublin and Kilkenny Railway Bill was read 
ae Bil a second time ; and committed to Mr. O’ Connell 
my” and the Leinster List. 


Shefiield and A Petition of Henry Weech Burgess, of Ardwick, 
Ralway Bill near Manchester, Esquire, praying that he may be 
' heard, by himself, his counsel or agent, against 
certain parts of the Sheffield and Manchester Rail- 

way Bill, was presented, and read. 
Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by himself, his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, 
if he think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 

Bill, against the said Petition. 


Winfrith and An ingrossed Bill for inclosing Lands in the 
= Inclosure Parishes of Winfrith, Newburgh and Wool, in the 
™ County of Dorset, was read the third time; and 
Amendments were made to the Bill. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That Mr. Sturt do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Oxford and Ordered, That the Committee on the Oxford and 
Raivey Bil Great Western Railway Bill, have Power to send 
for persons, papers and records. 


Edinburgh A Petition of the Provost, Magistrates and Town 
and Glasgow = Council of Stirling, praying that the Edinburgh and 
Railway Bill. ° ne : 
Glasgow Railway Bill may pass into a law, was 
presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the 


Table. 


Poor Law Act. Ordered, That the Select Committee on the Poor 
Law Act have Power to report the Minutes of the 
Evidence taken before them, from time to time to 
the House. 


Poor Law Act. A Petition of the Chairman of the Board of 
Guardians of the Poor of the Malling Union, in 
the county of Kent, praying that in any measures 
which may be suggested for alteration in the Poor 
Laws, the House will not depart from the spirit and 
principle of the Poor Law Act, the operation of 
which the Petitioners conceive has been so generally 
beneficial, was presented, and read ; and referred to 
the Select Committee on the Poor Law Act. 


Southwark and = A Petition of William Jones, of North End, in 

Rien noe the parish of Fulham, in the county of Middlesex, 

’ Esquire, praying that he may be heard, by himself, 

his counsel or agent, against certain parts of the 

Southwark and Hammersmith Railway Bill, was 
presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to 
the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner 
heard, by himself, his counsel or agent, upon his 
Petition, if he think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


each A Petition of Bankers, Merchants, Owners of 

Nd Stattor , &gt;. } 

Railway piy, Property and Inhabitants of Liverpool, praying that 

o ie Manchester and Stafford Railway Bill may 
pass into a law, was — and read; and or- 
dered to lie upon the Table. 


Suddleworth A Petition of Inhabitants of Staley, Staley Bridge, 
“ewvoirs Bille Dukinfield and Ashton-under-Lyne, some of whom 
are Owners of property lying up to or near the 
River Tame, and other Inhabitants residing up to 


or near the said River, praying that they may be 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
against certain parts of the Saddleworth Reservoirs 
Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to 
the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 


14° Martie. 167 


heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petition, if they think fit ; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


The House was moved, That the Report in respect Glossop 
of the Petition for the Glossop Reservoirs Bill, Reservoirs. 
which upon Friday last was made from the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills, might be 

read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 

for making and maintaining Reservoirs upon the 
Tributary Became of the River Etherow, otherwise 

the Mersey, in the Parish of Glossop, in the County 

of Derby, for more effectually and regularly supply- 

ing with Water the mills, manufactories and works 

on the said Tributary Streams and River: And that 

Mr. Gisborne and Mr. George Cavendish do pre- 

pare, and bring it in. 


Petitions from Clergy and Laity of the Deanery Church Rates. 
of Fairford ;—Inhabitants of Salisbury ;—Rede ;— 
Saint Mary Magdalen, Bridgnorth ;— Rudby ;— 
Framlingham ; — Stutton;— Appleton ;— Denning- 
ton ;— Blashall ; — Badingham ; — Chiselhurst ; — 
East Peckham ;— Saint Leonard, Bridgnorth ;— 
Paul's Cray ;— Cranbrook ;—Saint Thomas, Bristol; 
— Bexley ; — Kennington ;—Monchton Farleigh ;— 
Axbridge;— Whitton Gilbert ; — Brancepeth; — 
Clifton, Bedford; — Henlow; — Wrestlingworth ;— 
Old Warden;—Fulbourn;—Denmark Hill, Surrey ; 
— White Notley ;—Little Dunmow ;—Stebbing ;— 
Barnston ;—Broxted ;—Riverhall ;—Rev. Benedict 
Chapman ;—Shalford ;—Hatfield Peveril ;— Great 
Easton; — Bulmer; — Halsted; — Finchinfield ; — 
Wetherden;— Bassingbourne ;—Parhamand Haches- 
ton ;—Loddington ;—Alexton ;— Barnwood ;—Fug- 
glestone Saint Peter ;—Cranfield ;—Biggleswade ;— 
Lacock ;—Carlisle Chapel, Lambeth ;—Saint Mat- 
thew, Brixton ;—Long Sutton ;—Aldershot ;— Thor- 
ley; — Rudford;— Minsterworth;—- Iden;— Erch- 
font ;—Longbridge Deverill ;— North Ockendon ;— 
Orcheston Saint Mary;— Enford ;— Alveston ;— 
Barcheston; —Barford ;— Brailes ;— Combroke and 
Compton Verney ;— Cherington and Burmington ;— 
Charlecote;—Eatington;—Long Compton ;— Hamp- 
ton Lucy ;—Honington ;—Halford:—Ilmington ;— 
Kineton ;—Morton Morrell ;—Newbold Pacey ;— 
Stratford-on-Avon ; — Shipston-on-Stour ; — Tysoe 
and Compton Winyates ;— Tidmington ;— Wasperton; 
— Wellesbourne ;— Whitchurch ;—Oxhill and What- 
cote ;— Wolford ;— Tanworth ;— Saint Thomas, Win- 
chester; — and Stockport; praying that Church 
Rates may not be abolished,—were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from Queensferry;—Staithes and Hin- 
derwell ;— Woolwich ;—Mold ; — Elgin ;— Beccles ; 
—Northampton ;— New Windsor; —and, Staple- 
hurst; praying for the abolition of Church Rates,— 
were also presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


Petitions from Warminster; — Wolsingham, Church Rates 

(Chairman of a Meeting) ;— Castle Camps ;— Bristol; Regulation. 
—Framlingham; — Whitstones, Worcester; — Saint 
Swithen, Worcester; — Arnold ;— Saint Martin's, 
Worcester ; — Wardington; — Cropredy; — Great 
Baddow ;— Thenford ;—Sulgrave ;— King’s Sutton; 
— Mallington ;— Pellerton Hersey, &amp;c. ;— mee 
and Croughton; — Fritwell ;—and, Whippingham ; 
praying that the proposed measure for the regulation 
of Church Rates may not receive the sanction of the 
House,—were presented, and read ; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of the Provost, Baillies and Council of 
Paisley, praying that the proposed measure for the 
regulation of Church Rates may receive the sanction 
of the House, was also presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of Inhabitants of the parish of Saint 
Dunstan-in-the-West, in the city of London, pray- 





VoL. 92. 


ing the House to apply the principle of the measure 
y4 respecting 











cena cnsen Gena eRERRNA ERE SNES 


Cotton. 


Fire Insurances. 


Private Bill 
Committees. 


Municipal 
Corporations 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Salmon 
Fisheries 


(Scotland) Bill. 


East India 
Company’s 
Officers. 


Astrology. 


Benefices 
requiring 
Augmentation, 


Marines. 


168 
respecting Church Rates to liquidate the debts con- 
tracted on the securities of Church Rates, was also 


gg and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
able. 


Petitions from Blackburn ;—and, Glossop ; pray- 
ing for the repeal of the Duty on Cotton,—were 
a and read; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Stirling, praying for 
the repeal of the Duty on Fire Insurances, was 
resented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 


able. 


A Petition of the Provost, Magistrates and 
Council of Dunfermline, praying for an alteration 
of the present system of carrying Private Bills 
through Parliament, and of the mode of consti- 
tuting Committees upon them, was presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Provost, Magistrates and Town 
Council of Stirling, praying that the Municipal 
Corporations (Jreland) Bill may pass into a law, was 
= and read ; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 


A Petition of the Provost, Magistrates and Town 
Council of Stirling, praying that the Salmon Fishe- 
ries (Scotland) Bill may not pass into a law as it now 
stands, was presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of John Sercombe, late a Second Officer 
in the Honourable the East India Company’s Mari- 
time Service, complaining of being excluded from 
compensation under the rules ee by the Court 
of Directors; and praying the House to appoint a 
Committee to investigate, and fully inquire into his 
case, was presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table 


A Petition of William Parker, Stationer and 
Practitioner in Nativity Astrology, of Cambridge 
Road, Bethnal Green, praying the House to cause 
inquiry to be. made as tu the merits of the ancient 
and interesting science of Nativity Astrology, and 
so amend the existing law that professors may pursue 
their avocations as freely as other studious and 
scientific professors, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Statement, in detail, of the 1533 Benefices 
in Public Patronage, stated in the Report of the 
Ecclesiastical Commissioners to require augmenta- 
tion according to the scale proposed by them ; spe- 
cifying in whose Patronage such Benefice is, the 
Population of the Parish according to the Census 
of 1831, and the whole Amount of Annual Income 
according to the last Return:—And, a similar State- 
ment of the Number of Benefices in Public Patron- 
age which do not require augmentation, according 
to the proposed Scale ; also, specifying in whose 
Patronage such Benefice is, and the whole Amount 
of Income received. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
Elis Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Mr. Charles Wood presented, pursuant to Orders, 
—A Return of the Number of Officers of each 
Rank of the Royal Marines embarked, and on 
Shore on the Ist of December 1836. 

Mr. Charles Wood also presented,— Return to an 
Order, dated the 17th day of February last, for A 
Return of the Officers of the Royal Marines killed or 
wounded in Action during the late War with France, 
from the year 1808 to 1815, inclusive ; stating the 
Names of the Officers, and specifying the Actions. 

Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table. 


14°—15° Martie. 


Ordered, That the Papers relative to the Har- Liverpool, 








A. 1837. 


Cor 


Holyhead, and ss 
ort Dynllaen } 


bours of Liverpool, Holyhead and Port Dynllaen, 
which were presented upon the 1st day of this in- Harbours, 
stant March, be printed. No. 113. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Queen Queen Anne’s 
Anne's Bounty, which was presented yesterday, be Bounty, 
printed. No. 114, 


Sir Richard Vyvyan reported from the Select Public 
Committee on Public Petitions; That they had Petitions. 
examined the Petitions presented on the 3d and 
6th days of this instant March; and had directed 
him to make a Report thereof to the House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


The Order for the House to resolve itself into a Canada. 
Committee, To-morrow, to consider of the State of 
the Province of Lower Canada, was read, and dis- 
charged. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself into Church Rates 
a Committee to consider further of the payment of Regulation, 
Church Rates. 


(In the Committee.) 


Question again proposed, That for the repair and 
maintenance of Parochial Churches and Chapels in 
England and Wales, and the due celebration of 
Divine Worship therein, a permanent and adequate 
provision be made out of an increased value given to 
Church lands, by the introduction of a new system 
of management, and by the application of the pro- 
ceeds of pew rents ; the collection of Church Rates 
ceasing altogether from a day to be determined by 
law; and that in order to facilitate, and give early 
effect to this Resolution, the Commissioners of His 
Majesty’s Treasury be authorized to make advances 
on the security, and re-payable out of the produce 
of such Church lands. 

To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 


~*~ het 





And the House having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Wednesday morning ; 


Mercurii, 15° die Martii, 1837: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had made further 
Progress in the matters to them referred ; and that 
he was directed to move, That the Committee may 
have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, again 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Mr. Bernal reported from the Committee of Ways and 
Ways and Means, a Resolution which was read as Me 
followeth ; 

Resolved, That, towards making good the Supply Transfer of 
granted to His Majesty, the Sum of Two Millions, 4 
a part of the Sums now remaining in the Exchequer 
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire- 
land, or remaining to be received on the 20th day 
of February 1837, to complete the Aids granted by 
Parliament for the Service of the year 1836, and of 
antecedent years, be applied to the Service of the 
year 1837. 

The said Rtsolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. ; 

Ordered, That a Bill be brought in upon the said Transfer of Aids 
Resolution: And that Mr. Bernal, Mr. Chancellor Bi. 
of the Exchequer, and Mr. Baring do prepare, and 


bring it in. 





The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Small Debts (Scotland) Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


Small Debts _ 
(Scotland) Bill. 





The 








is 








Common Law 
Courts Bill. 


No.115. Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker | jurisdiction of each Court extends, and the greatest 


7 Witt. IV. 14°—15° 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee upon the Common Law Courts 


resumed the Chair; and Mr. Pryme reported, That 


Martiz. 169 


Manor Courts now existing in the several counties 
in Ireland; specifying the places over which the 


distance of any place within such jurisdiction from 


the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made | the ordinary place or places of holding such Court, 


Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Pryme reported the Bill accordingly; and 
the Report was ordered to be taken into further 
consideration upon Tuesday next ; and the Bill, as 
amended, to be printed. 


Court of The Order of the day being read, for the second 
Exchequer reading of the Court of Exchequer (Scotland) Bill; 


poet) Se. Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Friday next. 
Municipal A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 


—, posed, That leave be given to bring in a Bill for the 
(Seotland.) better regulation of Municipal Corporations in 
Scotland ; 
And a Motion being made, and the Question being 
put, That this House do now adjourn ; 
The House divided ; 
The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 
The Noes to the old Lobby. 
Sir George Clerk, 


might be read ; and the same being read ; 
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 


Mr. Robert Palmer reported from the Select Kilmarnock 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the ond Teen 
Standing Orders relative to Bills for making Rail- “" "™” 
ways had been complied with in the case of the Peti- 

tion for the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 

to enable the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway Com- 

pany to raise a further Sum of Money, to alter and 

amend the Line of the said Railway, and for other 
purposes relating thereto: And that Lord William 
Bentinck and Lord James Stuart do prepare, and 

bring it in. 

Mr. Robert Palmer reported from the Committee Belfast and 
on the Petition for the Belfast and Lisburn Road Lisburn Road. 
Bill ; That the Standing Orders relative to Turnpike 

Bills had been complied with; and that the Com- 

mittee had examined the matter of the Petition. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 





1 
Tellers for the Yeas, { Sir William Rae: Jf 27. 
Tellers for the Noes, = pe yo coma | 43. 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being again proposed, That 
leave be given to bring in a Bill for the better regu- 
lation of Municipal Corporations in Scotland :—And 
a Debate arising thereupon ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till this 
day. 


Record Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Commission. @ Copy of Observations upon the Report from the 
Select Committee of the House of Commons ap- 
pointed to inquire into the Management and Affairs 
of the Record Commission, and the present state of 
the Records of the United Kingdom, transmitted 
to the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty’s Trea- 
sury by His Majesty’s Commissioners on the Public 
Records, in compliance with their Lordships’ invi- 
tation. 


0 Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
“m""" to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 

House, Copies of any Correspondence or Commu- 

nications between Mr. Protheroe, Sir Harris Nicolas, 

and any other persons, with the Lords of the Trea- 

sury and the Secretary of State for the Home 
Department, respecting the Observations transmitted 

by the Commissioners of Public Records, on the 


Report of the Select Committee of the House of 


Commons on the Record Commission. 


Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as 
are of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy 


Council. 


pansferof Aids Mr. Baring presented a Bill to apply a Sum of 
P Money to the Service of the year One thousand 
eight hundred and thirty-seven: And the same was 

read the first time; and ordered to be read a second 

time this day. 


Ecclesiastical Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Coungesion, COPpies of any Memorials from any Bishop, or from 


any Chapter of “~~ Cathedral Church, addressed to 
His Majesty’s Commissioners of Ecclesiastical 
Inquiry. 


Manor Courts 
(Ireland. ) 


The House was moved, That the Order made upon 
the 13th day of February last, that there be laid 
before this i 


ouse, a Return of the Number of 


for repairing and amending a Turnpike Road from 
Belfast to Lisburn, by the Falls, and two Turnpike 
Roads leading from the Falls Roads by Dundrod 
and Cuntielen respectively, to Crumlin, in the 
County of Antrim: And that Mr. Kirk and Mr. 
Dunbar do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Robert Palmer reported from the Select Com- London 

mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That in the National 

case of the Petition for the London National Ceme- Goma 
A ‘hart pany. 

tery Company Bill, the application does not come 

within the Standing Orders relative to Burying 

Grounds, inasmuch as it is not intended to eidliies 

or enlarge any Burying Ground by Rates or Duties 

to be levied on the subject. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Robert Palmer reported from the Committee Antrim and 
on the Petition for the Antrim and Coleraine Road Coleraine Road. 
Bill ; That the Standing Orders, relative to Turnpike 
Bills, had been complied with; and that the a 
mittee had examined the matter of the Petition. 
Ordered, That leave be given to bring ina Bill 
for repairing, maintaining and amending the Turnpike 
Roads from the Town of Antrim, in the County of 
Antrim, to Coleraine, in the County of Londonderry : 
And that Mr. Kirk and Mr. Dunbar do prepare, 
and bring it in. 
And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour before one of the 
clock on Wednesday morning, adjourned till 
this day. 





Mercurii, 15° die Martii ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi [Vi Regis, 1837. 





PRAYERS. 

M R. Chancellor of the Exchequer reported to Answer to 
the House, That their several Addresses of A¢4resses. 

the 2d, 3d, 9th, 13th and 14th days of this instant 

March (that His Majesty would be graciously pleased 

to give directions that the Papers therein mentioned 

might be laid before this House), had been presented 

to His Majesty; and that His Majesty had com- 

manded him to acquaint this House, that He will 

give directions accordingly. 


Mr. Crafer, from the Treasury, was called in ; Foreign Letters. 
and at the bar presented, pursuant to Orders,—A Re- 
turn of the Number of Letters for Foreign Countries 
remaining at the Dead Letter Office, in consequence 





Vox. 92. 


of the Outward Postage not being paid, made up 
Z week 





| 
| 





Newspapers 
(English and 
Foreign.) 


Protestant 
Dissenting 
Ministers, 


St. Asaph 
and Bangor 
Dioceses. 


Factories. 


Public Debt. 


Prisons 
(Ireland.) 


Manchester 
and Leeds 


Railway Bill. 


Trinity (North 
Leith) Harbour 
and Docks 


Bill. 


London and 
Brighton 
Railway Bill 
(Gibbs’s Line.) 


170 


week by week, to the 31st January 1837, from the 
time of giving effect to the last Post Office Treaty 
with France; and a similar Return, for a similar 
period, previous to that Treaty :—And, a Return of 
the Number of Letters registered, week by week, for 
Foreign Countries, to 31st January 1837, since the 
time of giving effect to the last Post Office Treaty 
with France, and of the extra Charge for registration 
to those Countries. 

A Return of the Number of English Newspapers 
sent to the Continent of Europe, week by week, r sam 
the time of giving effect to the last Treaty with 
France, made up to the 31st January last; and a 
similar Return for a similar period previous to that 
Treaty :—And, a Return of the Number of Foreign 
Newspapers received from the Continent of Europe, 
week by week, from the time of giving effect to the 
last Post Office Treaty with France, made up to the 
31st January last; and a similar Return for a similar 
period, previous to that Treaty. 

Mr. Cvafer also presented, pursuant to several 
Addresses to His Majesty,—A Return of the Names 
of the Committee by whom the Parliamentary Grants 
to Protestant Dissenting Ministers have been dis- 
tributed, and the mode in which they are appor- 
tioned. 

Further Return to an Address to His Majesty, 
dated the 3d day of February last, for a Return of 
remonstrances made to the Church Commissioners 
respecting the union of the Sees of Saint Asaph and 
Bangor, and the abstraction of Welch Tithes from 
those Dioceses, showing from what Bodies or from 
what Parishes such remonstrances have emanated. 

A Return of the Number of Mills and Factories 
within the District of each Inspector of Factories ; 
and also of the Number visited by the Inspectors or 
their Superintendents between Ist August 1836 and 
ist February 1837 :—Of the Informations received 
by the Inspectors during the same period, respecting 
any alleged violations of the Factory Act :—And, 
a Return, stating the measures taken by the In- 
spectors in consequence of such Information. 

Mr. Crafer also presented, pursuant to the direc- 
tions of several Acts of Parliament,—An Account 
of all Additions which have been made to the Annual 
Charge of the Public Debt by the Interest of any 
Loan that hath been made, or Annuities created in 
the last Ten years, in pursuance of an Act 27 Geo. 3, 
ce. 13, s. 72; and also showing how the Charge in- 
curred in respect of the same has been provided for. 

Fifteenth Report of the Inspectors-General on 
the general State of the Prisons in Jreland, with 
an Appendix :—~And then he withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Petitions from John Eastwood, of Eastwood, in 
Stansfield, in the parish of Halifax, and west riding 
of the county of York, Gentleman ;—and, Thomas 
Sladen, of Lower Mearclough Bottom Mills, in the 
township of Norland, in the said parish and county, 
corn merchant; praying that they may be heard, by 
themselves, their counsel or agents, against certain 
parts of the Manchester and Leeds Railway Bill,— 
were presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


Mr. Wallace presented a Bill for constructing a 
Harbour, Dock or Docks, Piers and other Works 
at Trinity, in the Parish of North Leith, and County 
of Edinburgh: And the same was read the first 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Horsham, and adjoin- 
ing parishes, praying that the London and Brighton 
Railway Bill (Gibds’s Line) may pass into a law, 


15° Marti. 








A. 1837. 


was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition, complaining of non-compliance with London and 
the Standing Orders in the case of the Petition for Brighton 
the London and Brighton Railway Bill (Stephenson’s Gable 
Line), was offered to be presented :—But the Bill Line.) 
having been read a second time, the Petition was 


not received. 


A Petition of Owners and Occupiers of land and London and 
other property in Ditchelling, Keymer and Clayton, — , 
: ° . -7] Railway Bill 
praying that the London and Brighton Railway Bill (Rennie’s 
(Rennie’s Line) may pass into a law, was presented, Line.) 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the Report in respect of the Pe-Londor and 
tition for the London and Brighton Railway Bill me 
(Mills’s Line), which, upon the 3d day of this instant (Mills’S Line) 
March, was made from the Select Committee on 


Petitions for Private Bills, be printed. 


Petitions from Edmund Hall, and others, being Charlton Kings 
Owners and Occupiers of estates and property on #14 Marsworth 
the line of the proposed Railway hereinafter men-*™'™*Y Bill. 

a oo y 

tioned ;—and, Joseph Pitt, and others, being Owners 
and Occupiers of houses and other property situate 
in High-street, in the town of Cheltenham; praying 
that they may be heard, by themselves, their counsel 
or agents, against certain parts of the Charlton 
Kings and Marsworth Railway Bill,—were pre- 
sented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


An ingrossed Bill for the more easy and speedy Hinckley 
recovering Small Debts within the Parish of Hinck- — ae 
ley, and other places therein mentioned, in the ~ 
Counties of Leicester and Warwick, was read the 
third time; and Amendments were made to the 
Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Halford do carry the Bill to 


the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Leicester and Swannington Railway Bill was Leicester and 
read a second time ; and committed to Mr. Halford are 
and the Leicester List. —— 

Ordered, That all the Members serving for the 
several Counties, and for the Boroughs therein, 
through which Counties the said Railway is intended 
to pass, be Members of the said Committee. 


| ee hepheph=-! 


Sir Oswald Mosley presented a Bill for making a Stourbridge 
Canal from the Stourbridge Navigation, near Brock- ©"! Bi 
moor, in the parish of Kingswinford, in the Count 
of Stafford, to the Oak Farm Colliery, with a Branc 
to the Standhills, both in the said Barish of Kings- 
winford and County of Stafford: And the same was 
read the first time ; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


ws St et 


Sir Oswald Mosley presented a Bill for reviving Fourdriuier’s 
and prolonging the term of certain Letters Patent Patent Bill. 
assigned to Henry Fourdrinier and Sealy Four- 
drinier, for the invention of making Paper by means 
of Machinery: And the same was read the first 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


Maryport 
and Carlisle 


Sir Oswald a presented a Bill for making a 
Railway Bill. 


Railway from the Town and Port of Maryport to 
the Borough of Carlisle, to be called “ The Mary- 
port and Carlisle Railway:” And the same was 
read the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


Sir Oswald Mosley presented a Bill for making a Bath and 
uth, communicating 
ailway at Bath, with 
Branches 


i Weymouth 
Railway from Bath to We om Pill. 


with the Great Western 








7 Wit. IV. 


Branches therefrom, to be called “ The Bath and 
Weymouth Great Western Union Railway:” And 
the same was read the first time; and ordered to 
be read a second time. 
Worcesterand A Petition of Merchants, Traders and Inhabitants 
Wolverhampton of Dudley, praying that the Worcester and Wolver- 
Railway Ble Lampton Railway Bill into al . 
pton Railway Bill may pass into a law, was pre 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Glasgow and Petitions from the Right honourable David Boyle, 

Ayr Railway of Shewalton, Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland ;— 

=. Mrs. Elizabeth Montgomerie, life-renter, and William 
Montgomerie, Esquire, fiar of the property of An- 
wick Lodge, in the county of Ayr ;—Guardians of 
Charles Lord Blantyre, a minor ;—and, William 
M‘Dowall, Esquire, of Garthland ; praying that 
they may be heard, by themselves, their counsel or 
agents, against certain parts of the Glasgow and 
Ayr Railway Bill,—were presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit ; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 

A Petition of George Crawford, Esquire, Clerk of 
the Trades House of Glasgow, praying that the said 
Bill may be delayed until the Glasgow and Greenock 
Railway Bill may also be put in Committee, was 
also presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 


the Table. 
Birmingham A Petition of the Corporation of Tewkesbury, 
ee” praying that the Birmingham and Gloucester Rail- 
way Bill, : ; 
way Bill may pass into a law, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
Severn A Petition of Fishermen on the River Severn, 
ee praying that the Severn Navigation Bill may not 
: pass into a law, was presented, and read ; and or- 
dered to lie upon the Table. 
Thine. Resee- Sir George Strickland presented a Bill for making 
volrs Dill, 


and maintaining certain Reservoirs in the several 
Townships of Holme, Cartworth, Austonley, Upper- 
thong, Wooldale and Hepworth, in the several Pa- 
rishes of Kirkburton and Almondbury, in the West 
Riding of the County of York: And the same was 
read the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


Butterhouse 
Green and 


The Butterhouse Green and Gorton Road Bil! was 
read a second time; and committed to Lord Francis 


Go 

Bil. sa Egerton and the Lancaster List. 

ren A Petition of Richard Spencer, of N° 27, Baldwin- 

Greenwich street, City Road, in the county of Middlesex, Gen- 

Railway. tleman, stating that he was induced to sign the 
Subscription Deeds for the Westminster Bridge and 
Greenwich Railway Bill, for a pecuniary considera- 
tion, without being a shareholder; and praying the 
House to refer his Petition to a Select Committee 
to inquire into the allegations, with a view to declare 
the Petitioner discharged from his liability, was 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 

Wesninster The House was moved, That the Petition of Ben- 

Green jamin Wheeler Poulton, of Canonbury, in the county 

ilway 


of Middlesex, Gentleman, respecting the Signatures 
to the Subscription Deed for the Westminster Bridge 
and Greenwich Railway, which was presented upon 
Thursday last, might be read; and the same being 
tread ; 

Ordered, That it be an Instruction to the Select 
Committee on the Deptford and Dover Railway 
Subscription List, that they do investigate the alle- 
gations of the said Petition. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to 
the said Select Committee. 

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171 


Mr, Greene reported from the Select Committee Lowestoft 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Standing H@rbour. 
Orders relative to Bills for making Harbours, h 
been complied with; and that the Titedes Orders 
relative to Bills for making Docks, had not been 
complied with in the case of the Petition for the 
Lowestoft Harbour and Docks Bill; but it was 
stated to the Committee, both by the Parliamenta 
agent and by the solicitor for the Bill, that so muc 
of the application as related to Docks had been 
abandoned, and that the application is confined to 
the Harbour only. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders. 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee Ardrossan and 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Standin ae mag 
Orders relative to Bills for making yay ha a 
not been complied with in the case of the Petition 
for the Ardrossan and Johnstone Railway Bill, in- 
asmuch as no Subscription List had been deposited 
in the Private Bill Office; but it appeared to the 
Committee that an undertaking, signed by James 
Moffat, Clerk to the Ardrossan and Johnstone Rail- 
way Company, to defray the expense of the works 
mentioned in the Estimate, by money to be raised 
by the said Company and shareholders thereof had 
been deposited in the Private Bill Office. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders. 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee Birmingham 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Standing 4s ¢No. 2) 
Orders relative to Bills for lighting Cities or Towns 
with Gas, had not been complied with in the case of 
the Petition for the Birmingham Gas (No. 2.) Bill ; 
but it was stated to the Committee that the object of 
the said Company was only to increase their capital, 
and to regulate their internal affairs, to explain the 
meaning of the words “town of Birmingham,” men- 
tioned in the said Act, and to define the limits 
thereof for the purposes of the Act. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders. 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee Bristol 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That in the case of Cemetery: 
the Petition for the Bristol Cemetery Bill, the appli- 
cation does not come within the Standing Orders 
of the House relating to Burying Grounds, inas- 
much as it is not intended to purchase or enlarge 
any Burying Ground by rates or duties to be levied 
on the subject. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for establishing a General Cemetery for the interment 
of the Dead in or near the City of Bristol: And 
that Sir Richard Vyvyan and Mr. Philip John Miles 


do prepare, and bring it in. 


A Petition of the Edinburgh Radical Association, Edinburgh 
and other Inhabitants of that city, praying that the Police Bill. 
Edinburgh Police Bill may not pass into a law as it 
now stands, was presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Granville Harcourt presented a Bill for re- Galley Hill 
pairing the Road from the bottom of Galley Hill to sn4 Cranfield 
the Cross in Clanfield, in the County of Oxford: : 
And the same was read the first time; and ordered 
to be read a second time. 


Lord William Bentinck presented a Bill to enable Kilmarnock 
the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway Company to #4700. 
raise a further Sum of Money, to alter and amend ssaiial 
the line of the said Railway, and for other purposes 
relating thereto: And the same was read the first 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


come Clarence and 
Hartlepool 
Railway Bill. 


A Petition of Featy Burrell and others, 
plaining that the Standing Orders of the House in 
respect to the application for the Clarence and 

z2 Hartlepool 





s 


Granton Pier 
and Road Bill. 


Edinburgh 
and Glasgow 
Railway Bill. 


Standing 
Orders ; 


Dublin and 
Drogheda 
Railway. 


Birmingham 
and Gloucester 
Railway Bill. 


London and 
Birmingham 
Railway Bill. 


Tamworth 
and Rugby 
Railway Bill. 


172 
Hartlepool Railway Bill, had not been — 


with, and praying that they may be heard, by them- 
selves, their agents and witnesses, against the same, 


was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


Petitions from Merchants, Manufacturers and 
Inhabitants of Paisley;—and, Glasgow; praying 
that the Granton Pier and Road Bill may pass into 
a law,—were presented, and read ; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of James Walker, Esquire, of Dalry, 
near Edinburgh, praying that he may be heard, by 
himself, his counsel or agent, against certain parts 
of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Bill, was 

resented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to 
the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner 
heard, by himself, his counsel or agent, upon his 
Petition, if he think fit; and counsel heard, in fa- 
vour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


Sir John Wrottesley reported from the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders relative to Private 
Bills, a Resolution, which was read, as followeth : 

Resolved, That in the case of the Petition for the 
Dublin and Drogheda Railway Bill, the Parties be 
permitted to proceed with their Bill. 

The said Resolution being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 


A Petition of Owners and Occupiers of lands and 
property, and Inhabitants of King’s Norton, praying 
that they may be heard, by themselves, their counsel 
or agents, against certain parts of the Birmingham 
and Gloucester Railway Bill, was presented, and 
read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to 
the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


Mr. Dugdale presented a Bill to amend the Acts 
relating to the London and Birmingham Railway : 
And the same was read the first time ; and ordered 
to be read a second time. 


A Petition of the Chairman and other Directors 
of the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway 
Company, and of the Solicitor conducting the Bill, 
hereinafter mentioned, was presented, and read ; 
setting forth; That a Petition was lately presented to 
the House, by the Birmingham and Derby Junction 
Railway Company for leave to bring in a Bill to alter, 
amend and extend the line of the said Birmingham 
and Derby Junction Railway, and to amend the 
Act relating thereto; that such Petition was re- 
ferred to the Select Committee upon Petitions for 
Private Bills, who reported that the Standing Or- 
ders of the House had not been complied with in 
various particulars ; that such Report was referred 
to the Select Committee of the Standing Orders of 
the House, who have reported that the Standing 
Orders ought not to be dispensed with ; that the act 
of non-compliance, which was most dwelt upon, and, 
as the Petitioners conceive, the principal ground of 
objection to their proceedings, is, that an additional 
plan of a certain barn belonging to Sir George Chet- 
wynd, Baronet, situate in an outlying field within 
one hundred yards of the line of the projected Rail- 
way, but which is not specified in the Book of Re- 
ference thereto, is not put upon an enlarged scale 
on the plan of the said Railway, under the new 
Standing Order of the House, which directs that 
where the Railway is intended to pass through any 
buildings, yards, court-yards or land within the 
curtilage of any building, an additional plan shall 


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A. 1837. 


be laid down upon an enlarged scale; that, in the 
Act passed in the last Session of Parliament for 
making the Birmingham and Derby Junction Rail- 
way, is a clause similar to that in all Railway Acts, 
directing that nothing therein contained shall autho- 
rize the Company, or any other person, to take, 
injure or damage, for the purposes of the Act, an 
house or other building other than and except | 
as are specified in the Schedule to the Act annexed, 
without the previous consent in writing of the owner 
and occupier respectively, unless it shall be proved 
to the satisfaction of two Justices that the omission 
in the Schedule proceeded from mistake ; that it is 
the object of the present Bill to apply the powers 
and provisions of the said Act to the construction 
by the Company of the projected Branch Railway 
from Tamworth to Rugby; that as tie Schedule to 
the Act cannot specify any building which is not 
also specified in the Book of Reference, and as it 
appeared therefore that the barn in question not 
being specified in the Book of Reference, could not 
be taken, injured or damaged for the purposes of 
the projected Branch Railway,.the Petitioners did 
not apprehend that, by omitting to enlarge the plan 
of the barn, a breach would be committed of the 
new Standing Order, requiring an enlarged plan of 
buildings through which a Railway is intended to 
pass ; that this is the first year of the operation of 
the new Standing Orders, and the Petitioners are 
informed that the practice which has been adopted 
in this case of not enlarging buildings which are not 
required and not specified in the Book of Refer- 
ence, although they are within one hundred yards 
of the line, has been the practice commonly adopted 
in the plans now before Parliament ; that an expense 
of several thousand pounds has been incurred by 
the promoters of the Bill, in endeavouring to comply 
with the Standing Orders of the House, and it is 
believed that every exertion has been made to attain 
the object; that the Petitioners would humbly sub- 
mit to the House, that the breach which has been 
committed of the Standing Order before alluded to 
has been in ignorance of the proper construction of 
that Order, and without any intention to deceive, or 
to withhold information from any party, and that 
the plan upon the present scale affords perfect in- 
formation as to the course of the Railway in refer- 
ence to the barn in question, the same being a small 
isolated building of very trifling value ; that the Pe- 
titioners would further humbly submit, that if the 
House were to exercise the power which it possesses 
of allowing the Bill to proceed in order that its 
merits may be considered, no party will be injured ; 
and praying that the House will be pleased to allow 
the parties promoting the said Bill to proceed there- 
with, or will afford such other relief in the premises 
as to the House may seem meet. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be taken into con- 
sideration upon Friday next. 

Ordered, That the Petition be printed. 


Montreal, in the county of Kent, praying that he B 
may be heard, by his counsel or agent, against a 
certain parts of the London and Brighton Railway 
Bill (Gibbs’s Line) was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, if he 
think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the Bill, 
against the said Petition. 


Bushley ; — Walton Cardiffe ; — Stourbridge and 
Old Swinford ;— Brixton (Devon) ; — Linton; — 
Burwell ;— Plympton, &amp;c.;— Woodland ;— Abbots 
Kerswell ; — Churston Ferrers ; — Halwell ;— Ta- 


merton Foliott ;— Cornworthy ;— Pinhoe ; —Revel- 
stohe;— Henham;— Carshalton (two Petitions) ;— 
Gillingham ;—-Eton ;— Wingrave-with- Rowsham ;— 











Cheesham ;— 





A Petition of William Pitt, Earl Amherst, of London and 


(Gibbs's Line.) 


Petitions from Bellbroughton ; — Chaceley ; — Church Rates. 


Poor Law Act. 


Fire Insurances. 


Workmen’s 
Wages, 


Members 
acting as 
Parliamentary 
Agents, 





15°—16° 


7 Witt. LV. 


Chesham ; — All Saints, Southampton ; — Durham ; 
—Arundel; —Egglingham ;— Ramsden ;—Felstead ; 
— Tolleshunt Darcy ;— Dean Prior ;— Saxby ;— 
Stapleford ;—South Lambeth ;— Sweffling ;—Saz- 
stead ;—Cretingham ;—Bedfield ;— East Bergholt ; 
— Farnham (Suffolk) ;— Boddington ;— Whitchurch 
(Middlesex) ; — Buckingham ; —Chawleigh ;—Bath 
Easton ;— Great Witcomb ;— Stower Provost, &amp;c.; 
— Beaminster ;— South Perrott ;— Sturminster New- 
ton Castle ;— Binstead ;—Baughurst ;— Broughton- 
with-Bossington;— Earls Colne ;— Halesworth ;— 
Melton ; — Chattesham ; — Daventry ;— and, Am- 
berley; praying, that Church Rates may not be 
abolished,— were presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from Llanelly ;— Newnham and Brains- 
green ; — Oxenden-street, Haymarket, London ; — 
Straford-on-Avon ;-- Green Hammerton and Green 
Ouseburn ;— Saint Mary Cray;— Saint George, 
Gloucestershire ; — pat a ;— and, Liskeard; 
praying for the abolition of Church Rates,—were 
also presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 

Petitions from Worcester (five Petitions) ;— Clay- 
don ;— Hatch Beauchamp ;— Saint Peter's, Notting- 
ham ; — Earlscham ;— Leckhamsted ;— Turweston, 
&amp;e. ;—Brighton ; — Bartlow ; — Kidderminster ;-— 
Carlton-upon- Trent ;—Saint Nicholas, Nottingham ; 
—North Wheatley ;— Marston Trussell and Lub- 
benham; — Saundby ; — South Muskham ;— and, 
Upton Scudamore; praying that the ae sae mea- 
sure for the regulation of Church Rates may not 
receive the sanction of the House,—were also pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 

A Petition of Inhabitants of Edgeware, praying 
that the proposed measure for the regulation of 





Church Rates may receive the sanction of the House, 
was also —— and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Hayton, in the 
county of Cumberland, praying for the amendment 
of the Poor Law Act, was presented, and read ; and 
referred to the Select Committee on the Poor Law 
Act. 

A Petition of William Rose, and other Medical 
Practitioners of High Wycombe, praying the House 
to take into consideration the system of entering 
into contracts by tender for medical attendance on 
the sick Poor, was also presented, and read ; and re- 
ferred to the said Select Committee. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Castle Hedingham, 
praying for a reduction of the duty on Fire Insu- 
rances, was presented, and read ; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Owners of lands, tenements and 
hereditaments, Tradesmen, Mechanics, Artificers 
and Labourers of Trevethin, in the county of Mon- 
mouth, reciting the Act 1 and 2 Will. 4, to prohibit 
the payment in certain trades of wages in goods, or 
otherwise than in the current coin of the realm ; and 
stating that the said enactment is rendered inefficient 
by the evasion practised by several masters in the 
above parish, by their keeping shops in other parties’ 
names, and paying their men in those shops in 
cash, to avoid the penalties of the Statute; and 
praying the House to amend the said Act, was pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


Lord George Lennox informed the House, that he 
was instructed by the Committee on the London 
and Brighton Railway Bills, to call the attention 
of the House to the Resolution of the House of the 
26th February 1830, with reference to the fact of 
an Agent, who appeared before that Committee on 
behalf of a Petitioner, being in partnership with 
a Member of this House. 

Vox. 92, 





Marti. 173 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
ay That the said Resolution of the House he 
read. 

And Mr. Freshfield, being in his place, stated, 
That immediately upon his being returned a Member 
of this House, he withdrew himself from all parti- 
cipation in the transaction of Parliamentary business, 
and the profits arising from it; that such business 
was exclusively carried on by his son on his own 
account, and in his own individual name, and that 
during the whole time he had been a Member of 
this House he had studiously avoided any inter- 
ference in business before this House under the 
management of his son :—And then he withdrew. 

And the said Resolution was read, as followeth : 

“ Resolved, Nemine Contradicente, That it is con- 
trary to the law and usage of Parliament that any 
Member of this House should be permitted to 
engage, either by himself or any partner, in the 
management of Private Bills, before this or the 
other House of Parliament, for pecuniary reward.” 





Sir Andrew Leith Hay presented, pursuant to Artillery. 


Order,——A Return of the Dates of the first Com- 
missions of all the Field Officers (not being General 
Officers), and of the 20 Senior Captains, and the 
40 Senior First Lieutenants serving on the Full 
Pay of the Royal Regiment of Artillery and Corps 
of Royal Engineers on the 1st February 1837, with 
the Date of their Promotion to the Rank in which 
they were respectively serving on that day. 

- — That the said Return do lie upon the 

able. 


Ordered, That the Report of the Superintending Penitentiary 
Committee of the General Penitentiary, (Milbank,) (Milbank.) 


which was presented yesterday, be printed. No. 116, 
The Order of the day being read, for the second County Rates 


reading of the County Rates Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday, the 12th day of April next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Church Rates 


intoa Committee, to consider further of the payment 
of Church Rates. 
(In the Committee.) 


Question put, That for the repair and mainte- 
nance of Parochial Churches and Chapels in England 
and Wales, and the due celebration of Divine Worship 
therein, a permanent and adequate provision be made 
out of an increased value given to Church Lands, by 
the introduction of a new system of management, 
and by the application of the proceeds of Pew-rents ; 
the collection of Church Rates ceasing altogether 
from a day to be determined by Law; and that in 
order to facilitate and give early effect to this Reso- 
lution, the Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasury 
be authorized to make advances on the security, 
and repayable out of the produce of such Church 
Lands. 

The Committee divided : 

Tellers for the { Mr. Edward John a 273 


Yeas, a Robert Steuart : 
Tellers for the f Sir George Clerk, 
Noes, { Mr. Ross : } 250. 


Resolution to be reported. 





And the House, having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Thursday morning ; 


Jovis, 16° die Martii, 1837: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Reso- 
lution. 

Ordered, That the Report be received. upon Wed- 
nesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Public me Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 





upon Wednesday, the 12th day of April next. 
z3 


The 


egulation. 


Public Recor ds 
Bill. 











174. 


Recovery of The Order of the day being read, for the second 
Tenements Bill. reading of the Recovery of Tenements Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


Election The Order of the day being read, for the second 
Expenses Bill. reading of the Election Expenses Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time To- 
morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Public Walks and Institutions Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Wednesday next. 


Public Walks 
and Public 
Institutions Bill. 


Law of Libel The Order of the day being read, for the second 
Bill. reading of the Law of Libel Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Wednesday, the 5th day of April next. 


Freemen’s 


poinien Bil. The Order of the day being read, for the second 


reading of the Freemen’s Admission Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Monday next. 
Railroads and == The Order of the day being read, for the second 
pple Works yeading of the Railroads and Public Works Bill; 
i Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Wednesday, the 26th day of April next. 


Sheriffs’ Courts 


om The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 


mittee on the Sheriffs’ Courts Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Recorders’ 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
Courts Bill. 


further consideration the Report on the Recorders’ 
Courts Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Wednesday, the 12th day of 
April next. 

Salmon The Order of the day being read, for the second 
(Sootland) pil, Feading of the Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Bill ; 
* Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Monday next. 
Mint Bill. The ingrossed Bill to amend several Acts relating 
to the Royal Mint, was, according to Order, read 
the third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 


the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Ways and 
Means. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Ways and Means; 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 
Supply. The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


Sale of Beer 


Bill The Order of the day being read, for the second 
ill. 


reading of the Sale of Beer Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Monday next. 


Small Debts The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
(Scotland) Bill. mittee on the Small Debts (Scotland) Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 
Municipai The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
(Seaiand) Bill. the adjourned Debate upon the Question proposed 
yesterday, That leave be given to bring in a Bill for 
the better regulation of Municipal Corporations in 
Scotland ; 
Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till this day. 


15°—16° Marti. 


A. 1837. 


read a second time; and committed to a Committee Bl! 


of the whole House, for this day. 


Ordered, That a Committee be appointed to in- Expiring Laws, 
quire what temporary Laws of a Public and general 
nature made by the Parliaments of England or 
Great Britain or Ireland, or of the United King- 
dom, are now in force, and what Laws of the like 
nature, passed by the English, British, Irish or 
united Parliaments have expired between the first 
day of the last Session of Parliament and the first 
day of the present Session; and also, what Laws 
of the like nature are about to expire in the course 
or at the end of the present Session, or‘on or before 
the 1st day of August 1838, or in the course or at 
the end of any Session which may commence during 
that period, or in consequence of any contingent 
public event; and to report the same, with their 
observations thereupon, to the House :—And a 
Committee was appointed of Mr. Baring, Mr. At- 
torney General, Mr. Solicitor General, The Lord 
Advocate, Sir George Clerk, Sir Thomas Fremantle, 
Mr. Edward John Stanley, Mr. John Parker, Sir 
Henry Hardinge, Mr. Charles Wood, Mr. Hume, 
Mr. Jervis, Sir John Wrottesley, Mr. Ewart, Mr. 
Benett, Mr. Guest, Mr. Bernal and Mr. More 
O’ Ferrall, with Power to send for persons, papers 
and records. 

Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 

Ordered, That it be an Instruction to the Com- 
mittee, That they do report their opinion from time 
to time to the House which of the said Laws are 
fit to be revived, continued or made perpetual. 

Ordered, That the Committee have leave to sit, 
notwithstanding any adjournment of the House. 

Ordered, That the Report which, upon the 15th 
day of February, in the last Session of Parliament, 
was made from the Committee on Temporary Laws 
of a Public and general nature, be referred to the 
Committee. 


Mr. TZooke presented a Bill for better regulating Sheriffs’ Fee 
the Fees payable to Sheriffs, Under-Sheriffs and 2" 
Bailiffs, upon the execution of Civil Process: And No. 117. 
the same was read the first time; and ordered to 
be read a second time upon Wednesday next ; and 
to be printed. : 


Mr. Emerson Tennent presented a Bill for the Belfast Water 
better supplying with Water the Inhabitants of the 7. 
Town and Borough of Belfast, in the Counties of 
Antrim and Down, and the Suburbs thereof: And 
the same was read the first time ; and ordered to 
be read a second time. 


Ordered, That the Petition of the Chairman and Londen and 
others of the Provisional Committee of a Company a 
formed for the purpose of constructing a Railway (Mills’s Line.) 
without a tunnel from London to Brighton, Pmt 4 
the valley of the Mole and the valley of the Adur, 
which was presented upon Friday last, praying the 
House to allow them either to proceed with the 
London and Brighton Railway Bill (Mills’s Line), 
or to refer the Report back to the Select Committee 
on Standing Orders, be taken into consideration 
this day. 

And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour after three of the 


clock on Thursday morning, adjourned till 
this day. 





The Transfer of Aids Bill was, nn pa to Order, Transfer of Aids 





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Inc 


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7 Wit. IV. 


Jovis, 16° die Martii ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi [Vt Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


M R. George Cavendish reported from the Com- 
mittee on the Newbold Inclosure Bill; That 
the Standing Orders relative to Inclosure Bills, had 
been complied with; and that they had examined 
the allegations of the Bill, and found the same to 
be true; and that the Parties concerned had given 
their consent to the Bill, to the satisfaction of the 
Committee ; and that the Committee had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto; 
and the Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed. 


Newbold 
Inclosure Bill. 


General Arbuthnott reported from the Committee 


Dee (South) 

Road Bille = on the Dee (South) Road Bill ; That they had exa- 
mined the allegations of the Bill, and found the 
same to be true; and had gone through the Bill, 
and made Amendments thereunto ; and the Amend- 
ments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed. 

doen Fisheries Mr. Hope Johnstone presented a Bill for better 

Ube 


regulating the Fisheries in the River Annan, in the 
County of Dumfries, and in the Rivers and Streams 
running into the same, in the mouth or entrance of 
the said River, and on the Shores or Sea Coast ad- 
joining to the same: And the same was read the 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


Mertoun Bridge 


Me Mr. Hope Johnstone presented a Bill for building 


a Bridge over the River Tweed, at or near to Mertoun 
Mill, in the County of Berwick, and for making 
Avenues and Approaches thereto: And the same 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time. 


A Petition of Thomas Reeve Thornton, of Brock- 
hall, in the County of Northampton, Esquire, pray- 
ing that he may be heard, by his counsel or agent, 
against certain parts of the Courteenhall and Great 
Wigston Railway Bill was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Courteenhall 

and Great Wigs- 
ton Railway 
Bill. 


Birmingham A Petition of the Cheltenham and Great Western 
naga Union Railway Company, praying that they may 
my" be heard, by their counsel or agents, against certain 
parts of the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway 

Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 

Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 

by their counsel or agents, upon their Petition, if 

they think fit ; and counsel heard, in favour of the 

Bill, against the said Petition. 

London and The House, according to Order, proceeded to take 
Taifeny Bil into consideration the Petition of the Chairman and 
(Mill's Line.) Others of the Provisional Committee of a Company 
formed for the purpose of constructing a Railway 

without a tunnel from London to Brighton, through 

the valley of the Mole and the valley of the Adur ; 

which was presented upon Friday last, praying the 

House to allow them to proceed with the London 

and Brighton Railway Bill (Miils’s Line), or to refer 

the Report back to the Select Committee on Standing 

Orders. 

A Motion was made, and the Question being 

roposed, That the said Petition be referred to the 

lect Committee on Standing Orders ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 

Question, by leaving out from the words “ That the” 

to the end of the Question, in order to add the words 

“ parties be allowed to proceed with their Bill,” in- 

stead thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That the words 


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175 


roposed to be left out stand part of the Question :-— 
he said proposed Amendment and Motion were 


severally, with leave of the House, withdrawn. 


A 


otion was made, and the Question being 


put, That in the case of the London and Brighton 


Railway Bill (Mills’s Line), the parties be permitted 

roceed with their Bill ; 

he House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 

Tellers for the { Sir George Strickland, 
Yeas, Mr. Herbert Curteis : 

Tellers for the f Sir John Wrottesley, 
Noes, Mr. Shaw Lefevre: 

So it passed in the Negative. 


22. 


} 
} 83. 


Dr. Nicholl presented a Bill for better paving, Cardi 
cleansing, lighting and otherwise improving the Improvement 


Town of Cardiff, in the County of Glamorgan : And ® 


the same was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time. 


Dr. Nicholl presented a Bill for better lighting Cardi 
with Gas the Town of Cardiff, in the County of Gas Bill. 
Glamorgan: And the same was read the first time ; 

and ordered to be read a second time. 


Mr. Wilks presented a Bill for more effectually Wormegay _ 
draining of certain Fen Lands and Low Grounds in Drainage Bill 
the Honor, Manor and Parish of Wormegay, in the 

County of Norfolk, and other Lands and Grounds 

which are now drained by means of or through a 

certain Drain, called “ Polver Drain,” in the said 

County: And the same was read the first time ; and 

ordered to be read a second time. 


Mr. Wilks presented a Bill for providing a Mar- Dowlais 
ket-place and Market at the Village of Dowlais, in Market Bill. 
the Parish of Merthyr Tydfil, in the county of Gla- 

morgan: And the same was read the first time ; and 

ordered to be read a second time. 


The House was moved, That the Report in respect London 
of the Petition for the London National Cenietery National 
Company Bill, which, upon Tuesday last, was made Gamvany 
from the Select Committee on Petitions for Private 
Bills, might be read ; and the same being read ; 
Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for incorporating a Company, to be called “ The 
London Teenpaile and National Cemetery Com- 
pany;” for enabling such Company to establish 
Cemeteries for the interment of the Dead in the 
vicinity of the Metropolis, and the Suburbs thereof: 
And that Sir John Bechett and Mr. Thomas Attwood 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


ompanrye 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Tewkesbury, praying Birmingham 
that the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Bill and Gloucester 
may pass into a law, was presented, and read; and Béilway Bill. 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Elphinstone reported from the Committee on London and 
the London and Dover Railway Bill; and to whom Paver Railway 
two Petitions against the said Bill were referred; * 
That the Standing Orders relative to Bills for making 
Railways, had been complied with; and that the 
Committee had considered the said Petitions, and 
had inquired into the several matters required by 
the Resolutions of the House of the 1st day of 
March 1836; and had examined the allegations of 
the Bill, and found the same to be true; and had 
gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Petitions from Directors of the Bodmin and Wade- Severn Naviga- 
bridge Railway ;—Bankers, Merchants, Manufac- tion Bill. 
turers, Traders and Inhabitants of Padstow ;—-Wade- 





Vou. 92. 





z4 


bridge ;— 





Loughborough 
Small Debts 
Bill. 


St. George’s 
(Southwark) 
Market Bill, 


Granton Pier 


and Road Bill. 


London and 
Southampton 
Railway Bill. 


Glasgow and 
Ayr Railway 
Bill. 


Fdinburgh 
and Glasgow 
Railway Bill. 


Southwark and 
Hammersmith 
Railway Bill, 


176 16° Martz. 


bridge ;— and, Bodmin; praying that the Severn 
Navigation Bill may pass into a law,—were pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


Lord Charles Manners reported from the Com- 
mittee on the Loughborough Small Debts Bill ; and 
to whom the Petition of George John Danvers Butler 
Danvers, Esquire, was referred; That no person ap- 
peared in support of the said Petition ; and that the 
Committee had examined the allegations of the Bill ; 
and found the same to be true ; and had gone through 
the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto; and the 
Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed. 


Mr. Tooke presented a Bill for altering, amending 
and enlarging the Powers of an Act passed in the 
fourth year of the reign of William the Fourth, in- 
tituled, “ An Act for erecting, establishing and main- 
taining a Market in the Parish of Saint George-the- 
Martyr, in the Borough of Southwark and County 
of Surrey: And the same was read the first time ; 


and ordered to be read a second time. 


Mr. Tooke reported from the Committee on the 
Granton Pier and Road Bill; That they had exa- 
mined the allegations of the Bill, and found the 
same to be true; and had gone through the Bill, 
and made Amendments thereunto ; and the Amend- 
ments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed. 


A Petition of William Portal, of Laverstoke, in 
the county of Southampton, Esquire,and John Portal, 
of Freefolk Priors,in the same county, being Owners 
and Occupiers of lands proposed to be taken in 
making the Railway hereinafter mentioned, praying 
that they may be heard, by themselves, their counsel 
or agents, against certain parts of the London and 
Southampton Railway Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel ely in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of the Company of Proprietors of the 
Glasgow, Paisley and Ardrossan Canal, praying 
that they may be heard, by themselves, their counsel 
or agents, against certain parts of the Glasgow and 
Ayr Railway Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of the Board of Trustees for Arts and 
Manufactures in Scotland, the Royal Society of 
Edinburgh, the Royal Institution for the Fine Arts, 
the Society of Scottish Antiquaries, and Proprietors 
and Inhabitants of Princes- street, west of the Rede 
Mound, praying that they may be heard, by them- 
selves, their counsel or agents, against certain parts 
cf the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Bill, was 
presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


Petitions from Charles Pott, Arthur Pott and 
William Pott, of Bridge-street, Southwark, vinegar 
makers ;—and, William Gilbert, of Nightingale-lane, 


A. 1837. 


tain parts of the Southwark and Hammersmith Rail- 
way Bill,—were presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


A Petition of the Commissioners of Westminster Westminster 
Bridge, praying that they may be heard, by their ae = 
counsel or agents, against certain parts of the West- Raiway Bill 
minster Bridge and Greenwich Railway Bill, was — 
presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
/Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by their counsel or agents, upon their Petition, if 
they think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


Mr. Wilson Patten reported from the Committee Rochdale 
on the Rochdale and Burnley Road Bill; That the #4 Bumley 
Standing Orders relative to Turnpike Bills, had been “°° 
complied with; and that they had examined the 
allegations of the Bill, and found the same to be 
true; and had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

And the Amendments, as far as Clause (E.), were 
read a second time, and agreed to. 

Crauss (E.), the next Amendment, being read a 
second time ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question being 
put, That this House doth agree with the Com- 
mittee in the said Amendment; it passed in the 
Negative. 

hen the subsequent Amendments being read a 
second time were agreed to; and a Clause was added 
to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


Ordered, That the Committee on the Charlion Charlton Kings 
Kings and Marsworth Railway Bill have Power to and Marwont 
send for persons, papers and records. ali lini 


Ordered, That the Petition of George Crawford, Glasgow and 
Esquire, which was presented yesterday, praying Ayr Railway 
that the Glasgow and Ayr Railway Bill may be de- 2" 
layed until the Glasgow and Greenock Railway Bill 
may also be put in Committee, be referred to the 
Committee on the Glasgow and Ayr Railway Bill. 


A Petition of Owners and Occupiers of wharfs, Ashford and 
warehouses and vessels, and Merchants and others Canterbury 
‘ ° : ° Railway Bill. 
interested in property in Faversham, praying that 
the Ashford and Canterbury mye ill may not 
pass into a law, was presented, and read; and or- 
dered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Bristol Chamber of Commerce, Severn Naviga- 
Trade and Manufactures, praying that the Severn tion Bill 
Navigation Bill may not pass into a law, was pre- 


sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of Richard Lill, of Vauxhall, Grocer, Southwark ont 
complaining of certain persons having signed the ae. 
Contract Deed for the Southwark and Hammersmith . 
Railway Bill for sums far beyond their means of 
paying, and of others having been paid small sums 
for their signatures to the said Deed ; and praying 
that the said Biil may not be allowed to pass into a 





law, as it now stands, and that the matters afore- 
'said may be referred to a Select Committee to be 
| appointed, with all proper powers, for the investiga- 
| tion thereof, or that the Committee to whom the 
|said Bill stands referred may be instructed, without 
| delay, to investigate the same as a Ss in- 
'quiry, and with a view to save the Petitioner and 


Clapham, Esquire ; praying that they may be heard, | other parties the expense of previously appearing 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, against cer-| before the said Committee on other grounds of op- 
| position 








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Che 


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7 Witt. IV. 


position to the said Bill; and that the Petitioner 
may be heard, by himself, his counsel or agent, 
upon the matters aforesaid, and such parts and 
Clauses of the said Bill as are against his interest ; 
and that the House will take such other measures 
for the protection and relief of the Petitioner as to 
them may seem meet, was presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 
Ordered, That the Petition be printed. 


Dundalk and Mr. Anthony Lefro da Bill for renewi 
Duuleet Road y Lefroy presente 1 renewing 


Bill. 


and extending the term of the Acts for amending the 
Road from Dundalk to Dunleer, in the County of 
Louth: And the same was read the first time ; and 
ordered to be read a second time. 


Belfast Gas Mr. Emerson Tennent presented a Bill to amend 
Bill an Act for lighting with Gas the Town of Belfast, 


and the Suburbs thereof: And the same was read 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


Ecclesiastical The House was moved, That the Order made 


Inquiry Com- ypon Tuesday last, that there be laid before this 
mission. os 


ouse, Copies of any Memorials from any Bishop, 
or from any Chapter of any Cathedral Church, ad- 
dressed to His Majesty’s Commissioners of Eccle- 
siastical Inquiry, might be read; and the same 
being read ; 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 


Church Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 


Commissions. 


to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Copies of all Communications addressed to 
His Majesty’s Commissioners appointed to consider 
the state of the Established Church in England and 
Wales, with reference to Ecclesiastical Duties and 
Revenues; and to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners 
for England, relating to the union of the Bishop- 
rick of Sodor and Man with that of Carlisle :—And 
also, Copies of all Communications made to the same 
Commissioners from Cathedrals and Collegiate 
Churches in England and Wales, and from their 
several Chapters, Dignitaries, Members and Officers. 
Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Manchester Petitions from the Corporation of Lincoln ;—and, 
oa Bankers, Corn Merchants, Traders and Inhabitants 
mye of Lincoln; praying that the Manchester and Leeds 
Railway Bill, may pass into a law,—were pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 

Table. 

A Petition of Richard Sutcliffe, of Hebden Bridge, 
in the parish of Halifax, praying that he may be 
heard, by himself, his counsel or agent, against cer- 
tain parts of the said Bill, was also presented, and 
read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by himself, his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, 
if he think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


Sheriff Clerks’ The Lord Advocate presented,— A Return to an 
Fees(Scotland.) Order, dated the 2d day of this instant March, for 
No.119. a Return of the Report of the Committee of the 
Judges of the Court of Session on the Fees of the 
Sheriffs’ Clerks in Scotland, dated 17th December 
1835. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 

Table ; and be printed. 


Church Rates. A Petition of Householders, Land-owners and 
others, Inhabitants of Horne, in the county of 
Surrey, praying that Church Rates may not be 
abolished, was presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 

Vou. 92. 





16° Martii. 177 


Ordered, That the Returns relative to Foreign Foreign Letters. 


Letters, which were presented yesterday, be printed. No. 120. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Newspapers, ot + gee 
(English and Foreign) which was presented yesterday, ("8 — 
be printed. No. 120. 

Ordered, That the Return relative to Saint Asaph St. Asaph 


; : _. and Bangor 
and Bangor Dioceses, which was presented yester abit 


day, be printed. No. 121. 
Ordered, That the Return relative to Factories, Factories. 
which was presented yesterday, be printed. No. 122. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Public Public Debt. 
Debt, which was presented yesterday, be printed. No. 125. 


Ordered,That the Report of the Inspectors General Prisons 
of Prisons in Jreland, which was presented yesterday, paaeeD 
be printed. No. 123. 
Ordered, That the Returns relative to the Artil- Artillery. 
lery, which were presented upon Friday last, and No. 129. 
yesterday, be printed. 


’ Ordered, That the Return relative to the Ord- Ordnance. 
nance, which was presented upon Friday last, be No. 129. 
printed. é‘ 

Ordered, That the several Returns relative to the Marines. 

Marines, which were presented upon Tuesday last, No.124. 
be printed. 


Petitions from Liverpool;—Leicester ;—Forfar ; Corn Laws. 
—Kirriemuir ;-—-Members of the Carpenters’ and 
Joiners’ Literary Association in Rahere-street, Gos- 
well-road ; — Barton-upon-Humber ;— Members of 
the Edinburgh Radical Association ;--Renfrew ;— 
Oadley ;— Douglas ;—Letham ;—Members of the 
Dundee Radical Reform Association ;— Dunning 
and new town of Pitcairns ;—Loughborough ;—In- 
verbervie ;—and, Francis Place, and others ; pray- 
ing for the repeal of the Corn Laws,—were presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from Barton-upon-Humber ; — Horn- 
castle ;—Market Rasen;—and, Isle of Axholme ; 
praying that the present Corn Laws may not be re- 
pealed,—were also presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- Corn Laws. 
posed, That this House will, immediately, resolve 
itself into a Committee to consider of the propriety 
of permitting Corn, Grain, Meal and Flour, the 
growth, produce and manufacture of any Foreign 
Country, to be imported into the United Kingdom 
for consumption, on the payment of fixed Duties, 
instead of Duties regulated from time to time ac- 
cording to the average price of British Corn 





A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Cross and Message from 
Sir Giffin Wilson : the Lords. 
Mr. Speaker, 
The Lords have agreed to the several Bills follow- 
ing, without Amendment ; viz. 
A Bill, intituled, An Act for amending an Act of Sedition 


his late Majesty, for restricting the Punishment of (S¢otlan¢) Bill. 


Leasing making, Sedition and Blasphemy in Scotland: 
A Bill, intituled, An Act for maintaining the Hayle Cause- 


Causeway and Turnpike Road from wer, by Quay, **Y Road Bill. 


in the Parish of Uny Lelant, over Hayle River and 
Sands, and through Hayle Foundery, in the County 
of Cornwall, and for extending the said Turnpike 
Road from the Western End of the said Causeway 
towards Penzance : 

A Bill, intituled, An Act for inclosing, and exo- Cranfield 
nerating from Tithes, Lands in the Parish of Cran- Ielsure Bill. 
field, in the County of Bedford: And also, ; 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Runcorn Gas 
Act for lighting with Gas the Town of Runcorn, ll. 
otherwise called Higher Runcorn and Lower Run- 
corn, and also the Township or Chapelry of Haiton, 
both in the Parish of Runcorn, in the County of 
Chester, with Amendments ; to which Amendments 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House :— 

And then the Messengers withdrew. 
AA And 








178 16°—17° Marti. 


Corn Laws. And the Question being put, That this House 
will, immediately, resolve itself into a Committee 
to consider of the propriety of permitting Corn, 
Grain, Meal and Flour, the growth, produce and 
manufacture of any Foreign Country, to be imported 
into the United Kingdom for consumption, on the 
ayment of fixed Duties, instead of Duties regu- 
fated from time to time, according to the average 
price of British Corn ; 
The House divided : 
The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 
The Noes to the old Lobby. 
Tellers for the (Mr. Clay, eo 
Yeas, \ Mr. Villiers: } , 
Tellers for the The Marquis of Chandos, } _— 
Noes, | The Earl of Darlington : vi 
So it passed in the Negative. 


And the House, having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Friday morning ; 


Veneris, 17° die Martii, 1837. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, an 
Accounts of all Sums paid into the Stamp Office 
for Duty by each Insurance Office in Great Britain 
and Ireland on Insurance from Fire and Life, from 
the quarters ended 25th March, 24th June, 29th 
September and 25th December 1836 ; distinguishing 
the Amount of Allowance made to each Office for 
collecting the same in the Country, London, Edin- 
burgh and Dublin respectively, with the Dates of 
such payments for one year from the 25th De- 
cember 1835 :—and, of the Duty paid into the 
Stamp Office on Marine Insurance for the same 
period respectively. 


Fire Insurances, 
&amp;e. 


Metropolis Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
Improvements 


Bill to effect Improvements in the Cities of London and 
' Westminster, Borough of Southwark, and the Coun- 
ties of Middlesex and Surrey; and for the purchase 
of the Interest of the Proprietors of the Waterloo 
and Southwark Bridges, that they may be open for 
the use of the Public, free from toll: And that 
Mr. Alderman Wood and Mr. Angerstein do pre- 
pare, and bring it in. 


Bankrupts’ Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 

lend) Ba for regulating the Sequestration of Estates of Bank- 
rupts in Scotland: And that the Lord Advocate and 
Mr. Attorney General do prepare, and bring it in. 

Bankruptcy Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 


ne to amend the Law of Scotland in matters relating 
- to Bankruptcy, Personal Diligence, Arrestments, 
Poinding of Goods, Inhibitions, Adjudications, Ju- 
dicial Sales and Poindings of the Ground: And 
that the Lord Advocate and Mr. Attorney General 
do prepare, and bring it in. 
Sheriff and Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
ioe wa) Bill to regulate the constitution, jurisdiction and forms 
nets * of Process of Sheriff and Burgh Courts in Scotland ; 
And that the Lord Advocate and Mr. Attorney 
General do prepare, and bring it in. 


Law Offices 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
(Scotland.) 


to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return of the Total Number and the 
Names of all and each of the Officers, Clerks and 
other persons composing the several Establishments 
and Offices after mentioned in Scotland, including 
all who are employed in, or are deriving benefit 
from, the performance of the duties thereof, viz. : 
the Keeper of the Privy Seal and Writer to the 
Seal; the a of His Majesty’s Signet, and his 
Deputies ; the Lord Clerk Register, and his several 
Deputies and Clerks; the Director of Chancery 
and his Deputies and Clerks; the Clerk to the 
Admission of Notaries; the Keeper of the General 


A. 1837. 


Register of Sasines, &amp;c., and his several Deputies 
and Clerks; the Keeper of the Record of Entajls 
and his Deputies and Clerks ; the several Keepers 
of the Registers of Hornings, Inhibitions, Abbre- 
viates of Adjudication, Deeds and Inventories cum 
beneficio ; the Lyon Court, including the Lord Lyon 
and his Deputies and Clerks; showing, in separate 
columns, how appointed, the Amount of Salaries, 
and of the Fees and Emoluments drawn by each 
in the years 1833, 1834 and 1835, from what source 
and by what authority, with the application thereof ; 
the Days of the year they are on duty, with the 
Hours of attendance ; the nature and extent of the 
Duties they perform, and whether performed in 
person, or in whole or in part by Deputy; also, 


*| whether they hold any other Office or Offices ; the 


description and nature thereof, and the Fees, Salaries 
and Emoluments belonging or attached thereto ; 
also, the Amount of any Reductions made in any 
of the said Offices since the accession of his late 
Majesty King George 4; distinguishing, also, in 











separate columns, the Savings which have actually 
accrued, and those which are prospective and per- 
manent. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed King’s Printer’s 


to inquire into the nature and extent of the King’s 054 (Bcot- 
Printer’s Patent in Scotland, and to report their "*) 


opinion as to the propriety of any future Grant of 
that Patent. 


Ordered, That the Committee be nominated this 
day. 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be spgeneet Survey of 


to consider the best mode of effecting the 


the Act for the Commutation of Tithes in England 
and Wales :—And a Committee was appointed of 
Mr. Poulett Thomson, Sir Edward Knatchbull, Mr. 
Warburton, Captain Boldero, Lord Viscount Ebring- 
ton, Mr. Miles, Mr. Shaw Lefevre, Mr. Robert Clive, 
Mr. Wrightson, Sir Robert Ferguson, Mr. Hawes, 
Sir James Graham, Sir Robert Price, Mr. Alston, 
and Mr. Edward John Stanley, with Power to send 
for persons, papers and records. 
Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 











to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this House, 
| Copies of a Report of the Select Committee of the 
| House of Assembly of Lower Canada respecting 
Mr. Whitcher, Sheriff of Saint Francois; and of 
a Correspondence between the Earl of Gosford and 
Lord Glenelg, on the subject of the Charges pre- 
ferred against Mr. Whitcher :—Of a Report of the 
Select Committee of the House of Assembly of 
Lower Canada, respecting Mr. Thompson, Judge of 
the Inferior District of Gaspé; and of any Cor- 
respondence between the Earl of Gosford and Lord 
Glenelg, on the subject of the Charges preferred 
against Mr. Thompson :—Of a Report of a Select 
Committee of the House of Assembly of Lower 
Canada respecting Judge Fletcher ; and of any Cor- 
respondence between the Earl of Gosford and Lord 
Glenelg, on the subject of the Charges preferred 
against that Judge :—Of a Report of a Select Com- 
mittee of the House of Assembly of Zower Canada 
respecting Mr. Chisholme, Clerk of the Peace for 
Three Rivers ; and any Correspondence between the 
Earl of Gosford and Lord Glenelg, on the subject 
of the Charges preferred against Mr. Chisholme :— 
Of two Reports of a Select Committee of the House 
of Assembly of Lower Canada respecting Mr. Felton, 
together with any further Correspondence (in con- 
tinuation of that presented on the 26th July 1836), 
| on the subject of the complaint against Mr. F "re, : 





: wpa ce 
of Parishes for the purpose of carrying into effect 4¢4.) 


arishes (Tithe 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Canada. 





Tran 
Bill. 


Ben 
Plur 


Atte 
Soli 


Imy 
fi 


or 


Mi 
(S 





Transfer of Aids 
Bill. 


Benefices 
Plurality Bill. 


Attornies and 
Solicitors Bill. 


Imprisonment 
for Debt Bill. 


Municipal 
Corporations 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Education 
(Scotland.) 


Assize 
Calendars, &amp;c. 
(Ireland.) 





7 Wiut. IV. 


—Of two Reports of a Select Committee of the 
House of Assembly of Lower Canada respecting 
Mr. Gusy, Sheriff of Montreal; and of any Cor- 
respondence between the Earl of Gosford and Lord 
Glenelg, on the subject of the Charges preferred 
against Mr. Gusy:—Of any information received 
from the Earl of Gosford respecting the Debt due 
by Sir J. Caldwell to the Province of Lower Canada ; 
together with a Copy of the Report of a Select 
Committee of the House of Assembly of that Pro- 
vince on the same subject:—and, Copy of the 
Agreement concluded between His Majesty’s Go- 
vernment and the British American Land Company 
in the year 1833, with an Account of the “ad 
paid by the Company under that Agreement. 
Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee upon the Transfer of Aids Bill ; 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. Robert Steuart reported, 
That the Committee had gone through the Bill, and 
made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Benefices Plurality Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Attornies and Solicitors Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
further consideration the Report on the Imprison- 
ment for Debt Bill; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Monday next. | 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate upon the Question proposed 
upon Tuesday last, That leave be given to bring in 
a Bill to provide for the better regulation of Muni- 
cipal Corporations in Scotland:—The House re- 
sumed the said adjourned Debate. 

And the Question being put ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in the Bill: 
And that Mr. Robert Steuart and the Lord Advocate 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Returns of the Applications made from Scotland for 
Se in the Grants of £.10,000 voted in the 

stimates of the years 1835 and 1836, in aid of 
Education in that country ; specifying the Date of 
each Application, the place from whence it came, 
the Parties by whom it was made, and the Date 
and purport of the answer. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Returns of the several Calendars laid before the 
several Judges at the Spring Assizes 1837; also 
a Return of the several Calendars for the Spring 
and Summer Assizes in the years 1835 and 1836 
respectively :—Of the Calendars laid before the 
Assistant Barristers at the January Sessions in the 
year 1837, and at the several ‘Tecan Sessions 
during the years 1835 and 1836:—Of the Criminal 
Proceedings at the several Petty Sessions in Ireland, 
during the said years 1835, 1836 and 1837 :—Of 
the Crown Panel for the trial of Prisoners at the 
Longford Spring and Summer Assizes in the years 
1835 and 1836, and at the Spring Assizes in the 
year 1837 :—Of the Panel returned at said Spring 
Assizes 1837 for the trial of John Ruddeham, or 
from which the Jury for the said Trial was called, 
with the Names of such of the Jurors on said Panel 


16°—17° Marti. 


179 


as were challenged by the Prisoner :—Of the form 
of the detailed monthly Report of Outrages re- 
quired to be made by the several Chief Constables 
in Ireland to the Sub-Inspectors, and to be trans- 
mitted by them to the Inspector-General prior to 
July 1836 :—and, of an fons which may have 
been substituted in lieu thereof, in or subsequent to 
the month of July 1836, together with the causes 
of such change. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Army. 
Return of the Number of Officers on Full and Half, 
and Retired Pay, on 1st January 1814, 1st July 
1831, and ist January 1837, classed as follows: 
Combatants, Line, Foreign Corps, Non-Combatants, 
such as Medical Staff, Paymasters-General, Com- 
missariat Department, liable to service with the 
Army ; adding to the same Return, Ordnance Mili- 
tary Corps, viz. Artillery, Engineers, and Sappers 
and Miners ; Non-Combatants, in the same order, 
including Field Train, Commissaries of Stores, Con- 
ductors of Stores, Military Draftsmen and Warrant 
Officers liable to Field Service entitled to Half Pay 
or Pension ; to comprise, and in continuation of, the 
Return of 13th October 1831. 


The Order for the House to resolve itself into @ Post Office’ 
Committee, this day, upon the Post Office Acts Acts Repeal 
Repeal Bill, was read, and discharged. — 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order for the House to resolve itself into a Post Office 
Committee, this day, upon the Post Office Offences Offences Bill, 
Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order for the House to resolve itself into a Post Office 
Committee, this day, upon the Post Office Manage- Management 
ment Bill, was read, and discharged. am. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order for the House to resolve itself into a Franking Bill. 
Committee, this day, upon the Franking Bill, was 
read, and discharged. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order for reading a second time upon Mon- Freemen’s 
day next the Freemen’s Admission Bill, was read, Admission Bill. 
and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday, the 12th day of April next. 


The Order for reading a second time upon Wed- Public Walks 
nesday next, the Public Walks and Public Institu- and Public 
tions Bill, was read, and discharged. — 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon =~ 
Wednesday, the 12th day of April next. 


The Order for reading a second time this day the pection 
Election Expenses Bill, was read, and discharged. Expenses Bill, 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday, the 12th day of April next. 


Mr. Robert Steuart presented a Bill to provide for yfunicipai 
the better Regulation of Municipal Corporations in Corporations 
Scotland: And the same was read the first time ; (Scotland) Bill. 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Wednes- No. 126, 
day, the 26th day of April next ; and to be printed. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour before one of the 
clock on Friday morning; adjourned till 
this day. 





Vo, 92. 






] 
4 
| 
| 


ee 


Newbold 
Inclosure Bill. 


Lough Swilly 
and Lough 
Foyle Canals, 
&amp;e. 


Durham Junc- 
tion Railway. 


Saint Pancras 
Paving Bill. 


Clarence 
(Durham) 
Railway Bill. 


Commercial 
Steam Packet 
Company. 


180 


17° Martze. 


A. 1837. 


, Zs " Company Bill, the application does not come within 
Veneris, 17° die Martii; | Mody: Seren 


Anno 7° Willielmi [Vt Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


A‘ ingrossed Bill for inclosing Lands in the 
Manor of Newbold, in the Parish of Chester- 
field, in the County of Derby, was read the third 
time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do _ 
Ordered, That Mr. George Cavendish do carry the 


Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee 
on Petitions for Private Bills; and to whom the 
Petition of the Marquis of Donegall and the Earl 
of Belfast, complaining of non-compliance with the 
Standing Orders, was referred ; That the Standing 
Orders relative to Canal Bills, had not been com- 
plied with in the case of the Petition for the —_ 
Swilly and Lough Foyle Canal and Drainage Bill ; 
but the parties stated that they intended to abandon 
that part of their application, and to limit their 
Bill to draining and embanking ; that the Standing 
Orders relative to Drainage Bills, had not been 
complied with, inasmuch as no parole evidence nor | 
an affidavit sworn before a Judge was produced, of 
notices having been affixed on the church-doors of 


the Standing Orders of the House. 

| Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to enable the Commercial Steam Packet Company 
to sue and be sued in the Name of the Chairman, 
Deputy Chairman, Secretary, or of any one of the 
Directors of the said Company, and for other pur- 
poses: And that Captain Alsager and Mr. Alderman 
Thompson do prepare, and bring it in. 





| Mr. Evelyn Denison reported from the Select Com- 
| mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; and to whom 
| the Petition of several Owners and Occupiers of land 
and heritages in Worth Leith, complaining of non- 
| compliance with the Standing Orders, was referred ; 
That the Standing Orders relative to Bills for making 
Harbours, had not been complied with in the case 
of the Petition for the Leith and Newhaven Harbours 
Bill; but it was stated to the Committee that it was 
the intention of the promoters of the Bill to abandon 
every portion of the Bill, except so much as relates 
to the renewal of the Ale and Beer Duties, to which 
no Standing Orders apply. 

Ordered, That the om be referred to the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders. 


Mr. Evelyn Denison reported from the Select Com- 





Faughanvale and Upper Moville. 


mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Stand- 


|ing Orders relative to Bills for improving Cities or 


Ordered, That the eport be referred to the Select Towns, had been complied with in the case of the 


Committee on Standing Orders. 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That the Standing 
Orders relative to Bills for making Railways, had 
been complied with in the case of the Petition for 
the Durham Junction Railway Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to authorize the Durham Junction Railway Com- 
pany to make two Branch Railways from the Dur- 
ham Junction Railway, to be called “ The Durham 
and Houghton-le-Spring Branches,” and for other 
purposes connected with their Undertaking: And 
that Sir Hedworth HWilliamson and Mr. Lambton do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Greene presented a Bill for repealing the 
several Acts for paving, lighting, watering and cleans- 
ing certain parts of the Parish of Saint Pancras, 
in the County of Middlesex, and for granting further, 
better and more effectual powers in lieu thereof: 
And the same was read the first time ; and ordered 
to be read a second time. 


Mr. Bowes reported from the Committee on the 
Clarence (Durham) Railway Bill; and to whom 
several Petitions against the said Bill, were referred ; 
That they had considered several of the said Petitions, 
and had heard counsel im support of one of them ; 
and that, inasmuch as the Bill is merely to enlarge 
und amend the powers and provisions of a former Act, 
and does not contain any authority to take land or 
other property, and inasmuch as no variation is 
proposed to be made in the present line, the Com- 
mittee are of opinion that none of the matters re- 
quired by the Standing Orders to be inquired into 
by Committees on Railway Bills,apply to the present 
Bill; that it appeared to the Committee from evi- 
dence that the capital of the Company, which has 


Petition for the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Improvement 
Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for a and improving the Borough of Mew- 
castle-upon-Tyne: And that Mr. Ord and Mr. Hodg- 


son Hinde do prepare, and bring it in. 


The West Cork Mining Company Bill was read 
a second time ; and committed to Mr. Ruthven and 
the Munster List. 


Bill, which, upon Friday last, was made from the 
Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills, 
might be read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring ina Bill 
to promote and encourage the more extensive manu- 
facture of Cotton for spinning Cotton Twist and 
Yarn, the manufacture of Power-loom Shirtings and 
Calicoes, and for the general manufacture of Cotton 
in all its branches in the Southern and other Counties 
of England and in Ireland, and to enable certain 
Persons to form a Joint Stock Company for those 
purposes: And that Mr. Ruthven and Mr. Bridgeman 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


Parish of Wigg, to the Slug Turnpike Road, in the 
Parish of Banchory Ternan, all in the County of 
Kincardine, and for other purposes, was read the 
third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act for making and maintaining a 
Turnpike Road along the South side of the River 
Dee, in the County of Kincardine. 





been all paid up, is £.235,000; that the loan 
already received by the Company is £.140,000 ; 
that the further sum proposed ‘to be raised is | 
£.60,000; and that the Committee had examined the | 
allegations of the Bill, and found the same to be 
true; and had gone through the Bill, and made | 
Amendments thereunto. | 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; | 
and be printed. 


Mr. Evelyn Denison reported from the Select Com- | 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That in the | 
case of the Petition for the Commercial Steam Packet | 


| 


Ordered, That General Arbuthnott do carry the 
Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


A Petition of Directors of the Southwark and Southwark and 


Leith and 
Newhaven 
arbours. 


Newcastle- 
upon-Tyne 
Improvement, 


West Cork 
Mining Com- 
pany Bill. 


The House was moved, That the Report in respect Cotton Joint 
of the Petition for the Cotton Joint Stock Company Steck Company. 


An ingrossed Bill for making and maintaining a Dee (South) 
Turnpike Road from the old Bridge of Dee, in the Road Bill. 


Hammersmith Railway Company, denying the alle- ——— 
gations of the Petition of Richard Lill (presented aay a 


yesterday, complaining of certain persons having 
signed the Contract Deed for the Southwark and 
Hammersmith Railway Bill, for sums beyond their 
means of paying, and of others having been paid 
small sums for their signatures to the said Deed), 
and praying that the allegations contained in the 
said Petition may be inquired into by the Committee 


on 








Londor 
Bright 
Railwa 
(Renni 


Wella 
Drain 


Over 
and J 
Bill. 


Mane 
and | 
Rails 


Man 
and 


Rail 


Bir 


—_ 2 








London and 
Brighton 
Railway Bill 


7 Wit. IV. 


on the said Bill, or by any other Committee deemed 
expedient by the House ; and that such Committee 
be directed to report on the truth or falsehood of the 





17° Martie. 181 


| against certain parts of the Manchester and Stafford 


Railway Bill,—were presented, and read. 
And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 


same, was presented, and read; and ordered to lie | to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 


upon the Table. 
Ordered, That the Petition be printed. 


Petitions from Jedediah Stephens Tucker, of Pump- 
court, Temple, London ;—and, Owners or Occupiers 


(Rennie’s Line.) of estates and property upon or near the line of the 


Welland Outfall 


Drainage Bill, 


Railway hereinafter mentioned ; praying that they 
may be heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 


heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


Sir John Beckett reported from the Committee Leeds and 
Bill. 


several Petitions against the said Bill were referred ; 
That the Standing Orders relative to Railway Bills, 





against certain partS of the London and Brighton 
Railway Bill (Rennie’s Line),—were presented, and | 
read. 


had been complied with ; and that they had consi- 
dered the said Petitions, and had heard counsel in 
support of several of them; and had also heard 


And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred | counsel in favour of the Bill; and that the Committee 


to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


Sir Charles Burrell presented a Bill to increase 
the Tonnage Rates and Duties granted by an Act 
assed in the fifth year of the reign of his late Ma- 


_ jJesty King George the Fourth, for improving the 
Outfall of the River Welland, in the County of;a second time; and committed to Mr. Wodehouse Hellington 


Over Inclosure 
and Drainage 
Bill. 


Manchester 
and Leeds 
Railway Bill. 


Manchester 
and Tamworth 
Railway Bill. 


Birkenhead 
and Chester 
Railway Bill. 


Manchester 
and Tamworth 
Railway Bill. 


Manchester 
and Stafford 
Railway Bill. 





Lincoln, and to alter and enlarge the powers of the 
said Act: And the same was read the first time; and 
ordered to be read a second time. 


Mr. Townley presented a Bill for draining, in- 
closing, dividing and allotting certain Lands in the 
Parish of Over, in the County of Cambridge: And 
the same was read the first time; and ordered to be 


had inquired into the several matters required b 
| the Resolutions of the House of the 1st day of March 
| 1836; and had also examined the allegations of the 
, Bill, and found the same to be true; and had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


The Ashby and Hellington Inclosure Bill was read Ashby and 
and the Norfolk List. ee. 

Ordered, That the time for presenting the Dept- Deptford and 
day, the 17th day of April next. 


An ingrossed Bill for repairing, maintaining and Rochdale and 
improving the Road from the Town of Rochdale to Burnley Roads 





read a second time. 


Ordered, That the Committee on the Manchester 
and Leeds Railway Bill have leave to sit this day, 
till five of the clock during the sitting of the House. 


Petitions from Bankers, Merchants, Manufac- 
turers, Traders and Inhabitants of Kendal ;—and, 
Ironmasters, Manufacturers, Merchants and Inha- 
bitants of Wolverhampton ; praying that the Man- 
chester and Tamworth Railway Bill may pass into 
a law,— were presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


The Birkenhead and Chester Railway Bill was 
read a second time; and committed to Mr. George 
Wilbraham and the Chester List. 

Ordered, That all the Members serving for the 
several Counties, and for the Boroughs therein, 
through which Counties the said Railway is intended 
to pass, be Members of the said Committee. 


Petitions from Joseph Stanier, of Odd Rode, in 
the county of Chester, brick-maker and land-owner ; 
— Thomas Chaddock, of Congleton, wine-merchant ;— 
Elizabeth Pointon, of Odd Rode, widow ;—Samuel 
Sherratt, of Odd Rode, farmer and land-owner ;— 
Elizabeth Bayley, of Odd Rode, widow ; —James 
Stanier, of Odd Rode, brick-maker ;— Thomas Gray, 
of Odd Rode, farmer ;— and, George Whieldon, of 
Wilton-place, in the county of Northampton, Esquire ; 
praying that they may be heard, by themselves, their 
counsel or agents, against certain parts of the Man- 
chester and Tamworth Railway Bill,—were presented, 
and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


Petitions from Merchants, Manufacturers, Silk 
Throwsters, Traders and Inhabitants of Congleton ; 
—and, George Whieldon, of Wilton-place, in the 
county of Northampton, Esquire ; praying that they 
may be heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
Vor. 92. 





the Town of Burnley, and other Roads communi- P#- 
cating therewith, and for making and maintaining 
other Roads also to communicate therewith, all in 

the County Palatine of Lancaster, was read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act for repairing, maintaining and im- 
proving the Road from the Town of Rochdale to near 
Hand Bridge, near the Town of Burnley, and other 
Roads communicating therewith, and for making 
and maintaining other Roads also to communicate 
therewith, all inthe County Palatine of Lancaster. 

Ordered, That Mr. Wilson Patten do carry the 
Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Ordered, That the time for presenting the Leith Leith ana 
Thursday next. 


The Sheffield and Halifax Road Bill was read a sheffela 
second time ; and committed to Sir George Strick- and Halifax 
land and the York List. Road Bil. 

A Petition of William Ibbotson, of Sheffield, 
merchant, praying that he may be heard, by him- 
self, his counsel or agent, agaist certain parts of 
the said Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to 
the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner 
heard, by himself, his counsel or agent, upon his 
Petition, if he think fit; and counsel heard, in favour 
of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


Sir George Strickland presented a Bill for better Wakefield 
supplying with Water the Town of Wakefield, and the Waterworks 
neighbourhood thereof, in the West Riding of the ~'" 
County of York: And the same was read the first 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time. , 


Petitions from Trustees for the Trades House Glasgow and 
and Incorporations of Glasgow ; —Colin Dunlop Ayr Railway 
Donald, clerk to the Trustees of the Glasgow and ®""- 
Three-mile House, half way to Paisley Road ;—and, 

William Graham, merchant in Glasgow; praying 
that they may be heard, by themselves, their coun- 
sel or agents, against certain parts of the Glasgow 
and Ayr Railway Bill, were presented, and read. 
AA 3 And 





on the Leeds and Derby Railway Bill; and to whom Derby Railway 


ford and Dover Railway Bill be enlarged till Mon- —" Railway 


and Newhaven Harbours, &amp;c., Bill be enlarged till Newhaven Har- 
bours, &amp;c., Bill. 

















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REDE ELBE NB A ak a Oe OE 








| 
| 


/ 
| 


ae en a 


Standing 
Orders ; 


Lowestoft 
Harbour. 


Ardrossan and 
Johnston 
Railway. 


Birmingham 


Gas (No. 2.) 


Tamworth and 
Rugby Rail- 
way Bill. 


Manchester 
and Stafford 
Railway Bill. 


Drogheda 
and Kells 
Railway. 


Dublin 
(St. Michan’s) 
Improvement, 


Warkworth 
Harbour. 


Stirlingshire 
Roads and 
Bridge. 


Sevenoaks 


182 


And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit ; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


Sir John Wrottesley reported from the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders relative to Private 
Bills, several Resolutions, which were read, as 
follow : 

1. Resolved, That in the case of the Petition for 
the Lowestoft Harbour and Docks Bill, the Parties 
be permitted to proceed with their Bill, on abandon- 
ing such parts thereof as relate to Docks ; and that 
the Committee on the Bill do examine how far such 
Order has been complied with ; and do report the 
same to the House on the Report of the Bill. 

2. Resolved, That in the case of the Petition for 
the Ardrossan and Johnston Railway Bill, the Parties 
be permitted to proceed with their Bill. 

3. Resolved, That in the case of the Petition for 
the Birmingham Gas (No. 2.) Bill, the Standing 
Orders ought not to be dispensed with. 

The two first Resolutions, being read a second 
time, were agreed to. 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Sir George Chetwynd, of Grendon 
Hall, in the county of Warwick, Baronet, praying 
that the promoters of the Tamworth and Rugby 
Railway Bill, may not be allowed to proceed with 
the said Bill, was presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Clergy, Bankers, Merchants, Tra- 
ders and Inhabitants of Walsall ;—and, Inhabitants 
of Ludlow; praying that the Manchester and Stafford 
Railway Bill may pass into a law,—were presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Robert Palmer reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the 
Standing Orders relative to Bills for making Rail- 
ways had been complied with, in the case of the 
Petition for the Drogheda and Kells Railway Bill. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Robert Palmer reported from the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills ; That the 
Standing Orders relative to Bills for improving 
Cities or Towns had been complied with, in the case 
of the Petition for the Dublin (St. Michan’s) Im- 
provement Bill. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Robert Palmer reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; and to whom 
the Petition of the Duke of Northumberland, com- 
plaining of non-compliance with the Standing Orders, 
was referred; That the Standing Orders relative 
to Navigation Bills, and to Bills for making Har- 
bours, had been complied with, in the case of the 
Petition for the Warkworth Harbour Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for forming a Harbour in the Parish of Warkworth, 
in the County of Northumberland, by improving 
the Navigation of the River Coquet, and for ren- 
derng the same safe and* commodious, and easy 
of access: And that Lord Viscount Howick and 
Lord Ossulston do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Robert Palmer reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That the 
Standing Orders relative to Turnpike Bills, and to 
Bills for building Bridges, had been complied with, 
in the case of the Petition for the Stirlingshire 
Roads and Bridge Bill. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


The House was moved, That the Report in respect 


wud Woodsgate of the Petition for the Sevenoaks and Woodsgate 


Roads Bill. 


Roads Bill, which, upon the 22d day of February 


17° Martiz. 





A. 1837. 


last, was made from the Select Committee on Stand- 
ing Orders relative to Private Bills, might be read ; 
and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for amending an Act of His present Majesty, for 
repairing the Roads from Sevenoaks Common to 
Woodsgate, Tonbridge Wells, and Kipping’s Cross, 
and from Tonbridge Wells to Woodsgate, in the 
County of Kent: And that Mr. Law Hodges and 
Sir William Geary do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Chalmers presented a Bill to alter and amend Dundee 

an Act of the sixth Year of the Reign of his late ee 
Majesty, for opening certain Streets in the Burgh of  ~ 
Dundee: And the same was read the first time; and 

ordered to be read a second time. 


Sir Edward Knatchbull presented a Bill for Sevenvaks ana 
amending an Act of His present Majesty, for re- Wovdsgate 
pairing the Roads from Sevenoaks Common to ®4s Bill 
Woodsgate, Tonbridge Wells, and Kipping’s Cross, 

and from Tonbridge Wells to Woodsgate, in the 

County of Kent: And the same was read the first 

time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


The Durham and Sunderland Railwa 
read a second time ; and committed to 
Trevor and the Durham List. 

Ordered, That all the Members serving for the 
several Counties, and for the Boroughs therein 
through which Counties the said Railway is intended 
to pass, be Members of the said Committee. ( 


Bill was Durham and 


r. Ar Sunderland 
thur Railway Bill, 


Mr. Oswald presented a Bill to alter, amend and Slamannan 
enlarge the Powers of an Act for making the Sla-®*lway Bill 
mannan Railway, passed in the sixth Year of His 
present Majesty, and to enable the Slamannan Rail- 
way Company to make and maintain a Branch 
to Bathgate, in the County of Linlithgow: And the 
same was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time. 


Mr. Oswald presented a Bill to make and main- Campsie Canal 
tain a Canal from the Forth and Clyde Canal, in Bill. 
the County of Lanark, to Campsie Alum Works, in 
the County of Stirling: And the same was read the 
first time; and ordered to be read a second time. 


Mr. Oswald presented a Bill to continue for a Gorbals Police 
limited term of Years the Police Act for the Barony 8ill. 
of Gorbals, in the County of Lanark, and for other 
purposes therein mentioned: And the same was 
read the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


Mr. Oswald presented a Bill to make and main- Stirling Canal 
tain a Canal from the Town of Stirling to the Forth ®*" 
and Clyde Canal, near to Loanhead, with certain 
Branches therefrom: And the same was read the 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


Mr. Oswald presented a Bill to make and main- Blochairn 
tain a Canal in the County of Lanark, from the 4"! Bill 
Monkland Canal to the Lands of Dunchattan, on 
the North Side of Duke-street, of Glasgow: And 
the same was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time. 


Petitions from Owners of houses and gardens in Edinburgh 
Linlithgow ;—and, Occupiers of houses and gardens hatin, 
in Linlithgow ; praying that the Edinburgh and“ ’ 
Glasgow Railway Bill may not pass into a law,— 
were presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 

Petitions from John Miller, tenant of the Estate 
of Glenfuir, in the parish of Falkirk;—Peter Tay- 
lor, tenant of the estate of Vetherwood, in the parish 
of Cumbernauld ;—and Thomas Burns, Esquire, of 
Longcroft; praying that the said Bill may not pass 
into a law, as it now stands,—were also presented, 
and read; and referred to the Committee on the 
Bill. 





Petitions 





Glasgow Police 
Bill. 


Lough Swilly 
and Lough 
Foyle Canals, 
&amp;e. 


Ardrossan 
and Johnston 
Railway. 


King’s Ferry 
aud Liverpool 
Road Bill. 


Norwich Yarn 
Compan ye 








7 Wit. IV. 


Petitions from William Henry Brown, of Ashley, 
Esquire ;— Robert Downie, of Appin, Esquire ;— 
Chairmanof the Edinburghand Glasgow Union Canal 
Company ;—James Maitland Hogg, of Newleston;-— 
the Honourable Charles Hope and James Hope, 
Esquire, Commissioners for the Earl of Hopetoun, 
presently residing in Italy (two Petitions); — 
Warren Hastings Sands, Commissioner for William 
Blair, Esquire, now residing in Corfu;—James 
Hope, Esquire, Commissioner for William Ramsay 
Watson, Esquire, presently in France, and his guar- 
dians ;—Alexander Berwick, Esquire, of Norton ;— 
Alexander Monypenny, Commissioner for Alexander 
Dundas Ross BM Wisheart Baillie, Esquire, 
a minor ;—Dunbar James, Earl of Selkirk ;—John 
Shank More, of the city of Edinburgh, advocate, and 
William Ellis, of the same city, solicitor ;—the Edin- 
burgh and Glasgow Union Canal Company ;—John 
Livingston Learmouth, of Parkhall, Esquire, Com- 
missioner of Thomas Learmouth, Esquire, of Lear- 
mouth Park, his brother, presently abroad ;—and, 
the Edinburgh Water Company ; praying that they 
may be heard, by themselves, their counsel or 
agents, against certain parts of the said Bill,—were 
also presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


Petitions from Charles B. Ford;—and, Proprie- 
tors or Rentors and Possessors of shops, warehouses 
and other buildings within the royalty of Glasgow ; 
praying that they may be heard, by themselves, 
their counsel or agents, against certain parts of the 
Glasgow Police Bill,—were presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be re- 
ferred to the Committee on the Bill; and the Peti- 
tioners heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
upon their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel 
heard, in favour of the Bill, against the said Pe- 
titions. 


Ordered, That the time for presenting the Lough 
Swilly and Lough Foyle Canals, &amp;c., Bill be en- 
larged till Thursday next. 


The House was moved, That the Report in respect 
of the Petition for the Ardrossan and Johnston 
Railway Bill, which was this day made from the 
Select Committee on Standing Orders relative to 
Private Bills, might be read ; and the same being 
read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill for 
improving the Ardrossan and Johnston Railway, for 
separating the management thereof from the ma- 
nagement uf the Glasgow, Paisley and Johnston 
Canal, and for other purposes relating thereto: 
And that Lord James Stuart and Mr. Houstoun do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


The King’s Ferry and Liverpool Road Bill was 
read a second time ; and committed to Mr. Mostyn 
and the Wales List. 


The House was moved, That the Report in respect 
of the Petition for the Norwich Yarn Company 
Bill, which upon-the 1st day of this instant March 
was made from the Select Committee on Petitions 
for Private Bills, might be read; and the same 
being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
enable The Norwich Yarn Company to sue in the 
Name of the Secretary, or Managing Secretary, or 
the Chairman, or any one of the Directors, and to 
be sued in the Name of the Chairman, or any one 
of the Directors, and for other purposes: And that 
Mr. Scarlett and Lord Viscount Stormont do pre- 
pare, and bring it in. 

Vot. 92, 


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183 


The House was moved, That the Report in re- Castle Eden 
spect of the Petition for the Castle Eden and Mer-°"¢ (Charente 
rington (Clarence and Hartlepool Junction) Rail- and Hartlepool 
way Bill, which upon the 27th day of February Junction) Rail- 
last, was made from the Select Committee on Pe- 
titions for Private Bills, might be read; and the 
same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill for 
making and maintaining a Railway to connect the 
great North of England, Clarence and Hartlepool 
Railways, in the County of Durham: And that 
Mr. Pease and Mr. Harland do prepare, and bring 


it in. 


Sir Richard Vyvyan presented a Bill for granting Bristol Court of 
more effectual Powers for the Regulation of the Comscience Bill. 
Court of Conscience within the Gity of Bristol: 

And the same was read the first time ; and ordered 
to he read a second time. 


Sir Richard Vyvyan presented a Bill for establish- Bristol 
ing a general Cemetery for the Interment of the Cemetery Bill. 
Dead in or near the City of Bristol: And the same 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time. 


Sir Richard Vyvyan presented a Bill for removing Bristol 
and preventing Encroachments within the City and a 
County of Bristol, and for better regulating the ° 
Shipping, Rivers, Wharfs, Banks and Quays, and 
the Markets within the same, and for other pur- 
poses: And the same was read the first time ; and 
ordered to be read a second time. 


The House was moved, That the Order made on Bristol Small 
the 2d day of this instant March, That leave be Tenements. 
given to bring in a Bill for better assessing and 
collecting certain Parochial and other Rates on 
small Tenements within the City and County of 
Bristol, might be read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Bristol 
for the better assessing and collecting certain Paro- Parochial 
chial and other Rates within the City and County of _ 
Bristol: And that Sir Richard Vyvyan and Mr. 

Philip John Miles do prepare, and bring it in. 


An ingrossed Bill to enable the Duke of Buccleuch Granton Pier 
and Queensberry to make and maintain a Pier at and Road Bill. 
Granton, in the Parish of Cramond, and a Road 
therefrom to join the Road leading from Leith to 
Queensferry, in the County of Edinburgh, was read 
the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Sir George Clerk do carry the Bill 
to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to Tamworth | 
take into consideration the Petition of the Chair- 24 Rugby 
man and Directors of the Birmingham and Derby ®*"*5 
Junction Railway Company, and the Solicitor con- 
ducting the Bill thereinafter mentioned, praying that 
the Tamworth and Rugby Railway Bill may be 
allowed to proceed: And the same was again read. 

Anda Motion being made, and the Question being 
proposed, That in the case of the Tamworth and 
Rugby Railway the Parties be permitted to proceed 
with their Bill 


A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Cross and Sir Message from 

Giffin Wilson : the Lords, 
Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords have agreed to the several Bills fol- 
lowing, without Amendment ; viz. 

A Bill, intituled, An Act to enable the Corpora- Leicester 
tion of Leicester to app the proceeds of their Rea] Corporation 
Estates in payment of Money borrowed for the pur- eens 
chase and enlargement of the Gaol and House of 
Correction for the Borough of Leicester: 

A Bill, intituled, An Act for inclosing Lands in Mochnant _ 
the several Parishes of Llanymynech, Llanrhaidr-yn- 1closure Bill. 

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Mochnant, Llanarmon, Mynydd-mawr, Llanarmon- 
dyffryn, Ceiriog, Llansilin, and Llancadwalader, in 
the County of Denbigh: And also, 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
to dissolve the Marriage of Charles Gardiner, Es- 
quire, with Harriet Maria Elizabeth, his now Wife, 
and to enable him to marry again, and for other 
purposes; to which the Lords desire the concurrence 
of this House: And also, 

The Lords request that this House will be pleased 
to communicate to their Lordships, A Copy of a 
Report made from the Select Committee appointed 
by this House in Session 1834, on the Affairs of 

er Canada; together with the Minutes of Evi- 
deuce taken before the Committee :—And then the 
Messengers withdrew. 

Resolved, That this House will send an Answer to 
the last part of the said Message by Messengers of 
their own. 

And the Messengers were again called in; and 
Mr. Speaker acquainted them therewith :—And then 
they again withdrew. 


And the Question being again proposed, That in 
the case of the Tamworth and Rugby Railway, the 
Parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the words “ a 
“ the” to the end of the Question, in order to add 
the words “ Report of the Standing Orders Com- 
“ mittee be confirmed,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words pro- 
posed to be left out stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 


Tellers for the ¢ Mr. Tancred, &gt; ie 
Yeas, Mr. Poulter : wet 

Tellers for the f Mr. Wason, 90 
Noes, Lord Viscount Ebrington: J ~~" 


So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
“ Report of the Standing Orders Committee be con- 
“ firmed,” be added instead thereof :—It was re- 
solved in the Affirmative. 

Then the main Question,{so amended, being put ; 

Resolved, That in the case of the Tamworth and 
Rugby Railway, the Report of the Standing Orders 
Committee be confirmed. 


A Petition of the Provost and Magistrates of 
Leith, praying that the Glasgow, Paisley and Green- 
ock Railway Bill, may pass into a law, was pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Bernal reported the Transfer of Aids Bill ; 
and the Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed ; and read the third time To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being fead, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 

Ordered, That the several Estimates of Effective 
and Non-effective Army Services, from 1st April 
1837 to 31st March 1838, be referred to the Com- 
mittee. 

Anda Motion being made, and the Question being 
proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “That” to 
the end of the Question, in order to add the words, 
“ an humble Address be presented to His Majesty, 
“‘ that He will be graciously pleased to give direc- 
“ tions, that there be laid before this House, a Copy 


“ of all Correspondence between the Government of 


“ this Country and the Governments of Russia and 
“ of Turkey, together with a Copy of all Correspond- 
“ ence between the two last-mentioned Governments 
“ communicated to our own, relating to the Treaty 
“ of Adrianople, as well as to all transactions or 
“‘ negociations connected with the occupation of the 


A. 1837 


“ ports and territories on the shores of the Black 
“ Sea by Russia since the above-named Treaty of 
“« Adrianople,” instead thereof. 
And the Question being put, That the words pro- 
posed to be left out stand part of the Question ; it 
was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair :—The House accordingly resolved itself into 
the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 


thirteen lunar months, to the 31st day of March 
1838, including Nine thousand Royal Marines and 
Two thousand Boys. 


million and fifty-one thousand nine hundred and 
sixteen pounds, be granted to His Majesty, to defray 
the charge of Wages to Seamen and Marines, and 
to the Ordinary and Yard Craft, which will come in 
course of payment during the year ending on the 
31st day of March 1838. 


3. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Four victuals for a 


hundred and fifty-two thousand eight hundred and 
ninety-eight pounds, be granted to His Majesty, to 
defray the charge of Victuals for Seamen and Ma- 
rines in His Majesty’s Fleet, and for the Ordinary 
and Yard Craft, to the 31st day of March 1838. 


five pounds, be granted to His Majesty, to pay the # 
Wages of Artificers, Labourers and others employed 
in His Majesty’s Naval Establishments at Home, to 
the 31st day of March 1838. 


four thousand three hundred and thirty-five pounds, 
be granted to His Majesty, to pay the Wages of 
Artificers, Labourers and others employed in His 
Majesty’s Naval Establishments Abroad, to the 31st 
day of March 1838. 


6. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Three Naval Stores. 


hundred thousand pounds, on account, be granted to 
His Majesty, to defray the expense of Naval Stores, 
for the building and repair of Ships and Vessels, 
purchase of Steam Machinery, and for other pur- 
poses connected therewith, to the 31st day of March 
1838. 


exceeding Eighty-one thousand three hundred and 
eleven Men, being part of an Establishment of 
Eighty-nine thousand three hundred and forty-seven 
Men (exclusive of the Men belonging to the Regi- 
ments employed in the Territorial Possessions of the 
East India Company), Commissioned and Non-com- 
missioned Officers included, be maintained for the 
Service of His Majesty in the United Kingdom of 
Great Britain and Ireland, and on Foreign Stations, 
for the year, from the 1st day of April 1837 to the 
31st day of March 1838. 
Resolutions to be reported. 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Saturday morning ; 


Sabbati, 18° die Martii, 1837: 

Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had come to several 
Resolutions. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 

Mr. Bernal also acquainted the House, that he 
was directed to move, That the Committee may have 
leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 





The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Court of Session 
(Scotland) Bill. 


mittee on the Court of Session (Scotland) Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday, 
the 12th day of April next, resolve itself into the said 








Committee. 
The 


1. Resolved, That Thirty-three thousand and seven Seamen and 
hundred Men be employed for the Sea Service for Marines. 


2. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One Wagesto - 4°, 


4. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Four wages of 
hundred and eight thousand five hundred and thirty- Artificers at 


5. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Twenty- D° - Abroad. 


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7. Resolved, That a number of Land Forces, not Land Forces. 








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Court of The Court of Exchequer (Scotland) Bill was, ac- 
—_—— Bill cording to Order, read a second time; and com- 
(Scotland) Bill. | tted to a Committee of the whole House, for 
Monday, the 10th day of April next. 
Ways and The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Means. mittee of Ways and Means ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
Small Debts The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 


(Scotland) Bill. mittee on the Small Debts (Scotland) Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday, 
the 12th day of April next, resolve itselfinto the said 
Committee. 


King’s Printers’ 


The Order of the day being read, for nominating 
(Scotland. ) 


the Select Committee to inquire into the nature and 
extent of the King’s Printers’ Patent in Scotland, 
and to report their — as to the propriety of any 
future grant of that Patent ; 

A Committee was nominated of the Lord Ad- 
vocate, Mr. Goulburn, Mr. Hume, Sir William Rae, 
Mr. Robert Ferguson, Sir Robert Harry Inglis, Mr. 
Ord, Mr. Chalmers, Mr. Daniel Gaskell, Mr. Villiers, 
Mr. Robert Steuart, Mr. Gally Knight, Mr. Wallace, 
Sir George Sinclair, and Mr. Wilks; with Power to 
send for persons, papers and records. 

Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 

Ordered, That the Report which, upon the 20th 
day of June 1810, was made from the Select Com- 
mittee on Public Expenditure: Also, the Report 
which, upon the 30th day of July 1822, was made 
from the Select Committee on Printing and Station- 
ery: Also, the Minutes of Evidence taken before 
the Select Committee on King’s Printers’ Patents in 
Session 1830-31: and, also,the Report which, upon 
the 8th day of August 1832, was made from the Se- 
lect Committee on King’s Printers’ Patents, together 
with the Minutes of the Evidence taken before the 
said Committee, be referred to the Committee. 


Judicial Factors © Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
and Curators. regulate the proceedings of Judicial “Factors and 
(Scotland) Bill. Corators appointed by the Court of Session, and to 
rovide for the administration of Money consigned 
in the hands of that Court, and of other Courts in 
Scotland: And that Sir William Rae and Sir George 

Clerk do prepare, and bring it in. 


Post Office. Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Copies of two Circular Letters headed “ London 
Shipping and Commercial List, published under the 
Authority of His Majesty’s Postmaster General,” 
and dated “ General Post Office, February 1837 ;” 
also, Copies of any other Circular Letters respecting 
the said London Shipping and Commercial List, and 
emanating from the General Post Office, in the 
_— 1835 and 1836; also, the Days and average 

umber of each publication of the above Shipping 
List, and the total Numbers published in 1835 and 
1836 ; with the Names of the Proprietors, Publish- 
ers, Editors and Parties who have been in these 
years, or now are, concerned in it; the Yearly 
Allowance or Profit paid to each, the Names of the 
Offices they hold in the General Post Office, and the 
Time devoted daily, by each, in preparation for and 
publication of the aforesaid List; also, stating, if 
the above Shipping List is sent to the country 
Postage free, and if the Circulars and Letters with 
intelligence for it, are sent and received free of 
Postage, stating the Number of each kind in each 
year, and the Sum the Postages would have amount- 
ed to in 1835 and 1836; also, the Names of the 
Hand Distributors or other Distributors of the Ship- 
ping List, in Zondon and around it, and their 
avocations in the Post Office, if any; also, whether 
the Shipping and Commercial List is stamped or 
unstamped. 

Vou. 92. 


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185 


The House was moved, That the Act 10 Geo. 2, Theatres 
c. 28, to explain and amend so much of an Act Regulation 
made in the twelfth year of the reign of Queen Anne, ~* 
intituled, ‘‘ An Act for reducing the Laws relating to 
Rogues, Vagabonds, sturdy Beggars and Vagrants 

into one Act of Parliament, and for the more effec- 

tual punishing such Rogues, Vagabonds, sturdy 
Beggars and Vagrants, and sending them whither 

they ought to be sent,” as relates to common players 

of Interludes, might be read ; and the same being 

read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
amend so much of the said Act as relates to the 
closing of Theatres within the Lord Chamberlain’s 
jurisdiction, except upon certain days: And that 

Mr. Thomas Duncombe and Mr. Hail do prepare, 


and bring it in. 


The House was moved, That the Act 6 and 7 Dublin Police 
Will. 4, c. 29, for improving the Police in the Dis- Bill. 
trict of Dublin Metropolis, might be read ; and the 
same being read ; 
Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
amend the said Act: And that Lord Viscount Mor- 
peth and Mr. Attorney General for Zreland do pre- 
pare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Assay Offices. 
a Return showing the Places in the United King- 

dom at which Offices are established for assaying 

Gold and Silver Plate, with the Amount of Duty 

_ by each of such Offices respectively, in the 

ast three years ended 5th January 1837. 


Gardiner’s Divorce Bill was read the first time ; Gardiner's 
and ordered to be read a second time. Divorce Bill. 


Lord Viscount Morpeth presented a Bill for Dublin Police 
amending the Act relating to the Police in the dis- Bill. 

trict of Dublin Metropolis: And the same was read No. 128. 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second time 

upon Wednesday next ; and to be printed. 


Sir George Grey presented, pursuant to an Address Emigration 
to His Mejeetx, Cpe of the Annual Report from (Canada.) 
the Agent for Emigration in Canada for 1836. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 

Table. 


Mr. John Parker presented, pursuant to an Ad- Education 
dress to His Majesty, dated the 9th day of July (Scotland. 
1834,—Abstract Returns from the several Pres- 
byteries in Scotland, showing the Name of each 
Parish in each Presbytery, with the Population as 
ascertained in the year 1831; whether the Parish is 
entirely Landward or entirely a Burgh, or part of 
any Burgh or large Town, or whether it is partly 
Landward, and partly a Burgh or Town, or in any 
Burgh or large Town :—Showing how many Children 
of each Sex in such Parish, under Five years of age, 
have been taught to read or are now learning to 
read ; how many Children of each Sex between Five 
and Fifteen years of age have been taught to read 
or are now learning to read, and how many of such 
Children have been taught to write, or are now 
learning to write :—Showing the Number of Paro- 
chial Schools, and what Number of Instructors in 
those Schools; the Amount of Salary, of School 
Fees, and of any other Emoluments ; the least Num- 
ber of Scholars and the greatest Number of Scholars 
of each Sex who attended such Parochial Schools 
in any part of the half year ending Michaelmas 
1833, and the like of the half year ending Lady 
Day 1834; what Branches of Education are directed 
to be taught in these Parochial Schools which are 
usually taught, and whether any other Branches of 
Education might be conveniently therein taught :— 
and, showing the Number of Schools not Parochial 
(including Boarding Schools), and the Number of 
Instructors in such Schools; the least Number - 

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Dublin Wide 
Streets Bill. 


Chapter House 
Records. 


Protestant 
Dissenting 
Ministers, 


No. 127. 


Royal Assent 
to Bills, 


Post Office ° 
Contracts Bill, 


Charities 
Commission 


Bill. 


Sedition 


Leicester 
Corporation 
Estates Bill. 


Hayle Cause- 
way Road Bill. 


(Scotland) Bill. for restricting the punishment of Leasing ma 


186 


the greatest Number of Scholars of each Sex who 
were under instruction in such Schools in any part 
of the half year ending Michaelmas 1833, and the 
like of the half year ending Lady Day 1834; and 
what Branches of Education are taught in the 
Schools which may have been included in the class 
of Schools not Parochial. 

Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Hamilton presented a Bill to extend, alter 
and enlarge the powers of several Acts for enabling 
the Commissioners of Wide Streets in Dublin to 
widen and improve certain Ways, Streets and Pas- 
sages in the said City and County of Dublin, and 
for raising further Funds to enable the said Com- 
missioners to carry the same into execution: And 
the same was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Copy of the Report of Sir Francis Palgrave to the 
Treasury upon the state of the Record Office, at 
the Chapter House, dated 21st January 1837. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Protestant 
Dissenting Ministers, which was presented upon 
Wedesday last, be printed. 

And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour before one of the 
clock on Saturday morning, adjourned till 
this day. 


Sabbati 18° die Martii ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi [V® Regis, 1837. 





PRAYERS. 

A MESSAGE, by Sir Augustus Clifford, Gentle- 
man Usher of the Black Rod: 
Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords, authorized by virtue of His Majesty’s 
Commission, for declaring His Royal Assent to seve- 
ral Acts, agreed upon by both Houses, do desire the 
immediate attendance of this Honourable House in 
the House of Peers, to hear the Commission read. 

Accordingly Mr. Speaker, with the House, went 
up to the House of Peers :—And being returned ; 

Mr. Speaker reported, That the House, at the desire 
of the Lords, authorized by virtue of His Majesty’s 
Commission, had been at the House of Peers, where 
a Commission under the Great Seal was read, giving, 
declaring and we the Royal Assent to the 
several Public and Private Bills therein mentioned ; 
and that the Lords thereby authorized, had declared 
the Royal Assent to the said Bills :—Which Bills 
are as follow: 

An Act for transferring to the Commissioners of 
the Admiralty all Contracts, Bonds and other Secu- 
rities eek into with the Postmaster General, in 
relation to the Packet Service : 

An Act to continue until the first day of July, 
One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, the 
powers of the Commissioners for inquiring concern- 
ing Charities in England and Wales : 

An Act for amending an Act of his late M ajesty 

cing, 
Sedition and Blasphemy in Scotland : P 

An Act to enable the Corporation of Leicester to 
apply the proceeds of their real Estates in payment 
of Money borrowed for the purchase and enlarge- 
ment of the Gaol and House of Correction, for the 
Borough of Leicester : 

An Act for maintaining the Causeway and Turn- 
= Road from Grigg’s Quay, in the Parish of 

ny Lelant, over Hayle River and Sands, and 
through Hayle Foundery, in the County of Cornwall, 
and for extending the said Turnpike Road from the 
Western end of the said Causeway towards Pen- 
zance ; 


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A. 1837. 


An Act for inclosing Lands in the Township of Carlton ana 
Lofthouse-cum-Carlton, in the Parish of Bothwell, om : 
in the West Riding of the County of York: —_ 
An Act for inclosing and exonerating from Tithes, Cranfield 
Lands in the Parish of Cranfield, in the County of Ielosure Bill, 
Bedford : 

An Act for inclosing Lands in the several Parishes Mochnant 
of Llanymynech, Llanrhaidr-yn-Mochnant, Llan-***losure Bill, 
armon, Mynydd-mawr, Llanarmon-dyffryn, Ceiriog, 
Llansilin and Llancadwalader, in the County of 
Denbigh: 

An Act for naturalizing Martin Alepson and Mat- Alepsons’ 


thew Alepson: Nat. Bill. 
An Act for naturalizing Michael Castelli : ag 
An Act for naturalizing Frank Castelli: Ls 7.’ 
An Act for naturalizing Abraham Victor Salamé. Salamé's 


Nat. Bill, 
Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had garioy County 


received a Letter from Nicholas Aylward Vigors, Election, 
Esquire, who is returned a Knight to serve in this 
9 Parliament for the County of Carlow; that 

e the said Nicholas Aylward Vigors did not intend 
to defend his Return for the said County ; and the 
said Letter was read, as followeth: 


To the Right Honourable The Speaker of the 
House of Commons. 
Sir, 


Petitions having been presented by Walter Newton, 
Esquire, and others, against my Return at the last 
Election for the County of Carlow, I, as Sitting 
Member, beg to inform you, and I do hereby de- 
clare, that it is not my intention to defend my 
Election or Return. 
I have the honour to be, Sir, 
Your most obedient Servant, 
House of Commons, N. A. Vigors. 
March 17, 1837. 


The House was moved, That the eleventh, twelfth 
and thirteenth sections of the Act 9 Geo. 4, c. 22, 
to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to the 
Trial of Controverted Elections, or Returns of Mem- 
bers to serve in Parliament, might be read; and the 
same were read. 

The House was also moved, That the several 
Orders made upon the 6th and 9th days of this 
instant March, for taking into consideration, upon 
Tuesday, the 18th day of April next, the Petitions 
of Walter Newton and others, Freeholders, com- 
plaining of an undue Election and Return for the 
County of Carlow, might be read; and the same 
being read ; 

Ordered, That the said Orders be discharged. 

Ordered, That the said Petitions be taken into 
consideration upon Tuesday, the 25th day of April 
next, at three of the clock in the afternoon. 


The ingrossed Bill to apply a Sum of Money to Transfer of Aids 
the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred ®" 
and thirty-seven, was, according to Order, read the 
third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act to apply the Sum of Two Millions 
to the Service of the Year One thousand eight hun- 
dred and thirty-seven. 
Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Mr. Bernal reported from the Committee of Sup- Supply; 
ply, several Resolutions, which were read, as follow: 

1. Resolved, That Thirty-three thousand and seven Seamen and 
hundred Men be employed for the Sea Service for a 
thirteen Lunar Months, to the 31st day of March 
1838, including Nine thousand Royal Marines and 
Two thousand Boys. ; 

2. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One Wages'o- ¢. 
million and fifty-one thousand nine hundred and six- 
teen pounds, be granted to His Majesty to defray 
the Charge of Wages to Seamen and Marines, and 











to the Ordinary and Yard Craft, which will come in 
course 














Victuals for 
Seamen and 
Marines. 


Wages of 
Artificers at 
Home, 


D° - Abroad. 


Naval Stores. 


Land Forces, 


Mutiny Bill. 


Marine Mutiny 
Bill. 


Expiring Laws, 
No. 130. 


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course of payment during the year ending on the 
31st day of March 1838. 

3. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Four hun- 
dred and fifty-two thousand eight hundred and 
ninety-eight pounds, be granted to His Majesty to 
defray the Charge of Victuals for Seamen and 
Marines in His Majesty’s Fleet, and for the Ordi- 
nary and Yard Craft, to the thirty-first day of March 
1838. 

4, Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Four 
hundred and eight thousand five hundred and thirty- 
five pounds, be granted to His Majesty to pay the 
Wages of Artificers, Labourers and others employed 
in His Majesty’s Naval Establishments at Home, to 
the thirty-first day of March 1838. 

5. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Twenty- 
four thousand three hundred and thirty-five pounds, 
be granted to His Majesty to pay the Wages of 
Artificers, Labourers and others employed in His 
Majesty’s Naval Establishments Abroad, to the 31st 
day of March 1838. 

6. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Three 
hundred thousand pounds, on account, be granted 
to His Majesty to defray the expense of Naval 
Stores for the building and repair of Ships and 
Vessels, purchase of Steam Machinery, and for 
other purposes connected therewith, to the 31st day 
of March 1838. 

7. Resolved, That a number of Land Forces, not 
exceeding Eighty-one thousand three hundred and 
eleven Men, being part of an Establishment of 
Eighty-nine thousand three hundred and forty- 
seven Men, (exclusive of the Men belonging to 
the Regiments employed in the territorial posses- 
sions of the East India Company), commissioned 
and non-commissioned Officers included, be main- 
tained for the Service of His Majesty in the United 
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and on 
Foreign Stations, for the year from the 1st day of 
April 1837, to the 31st day of March 1838. 

The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for the punishment of Mutiny and Desertion, and for 
the better payment of the Army and their Quarters : 
And that Lord Viscount Howick, Mr. Chancellor of 
the Exchequer, and Mr. Cutlar Fergusson, do pre- 
pare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for the regulation of His Majesty’s Royal Ma- 
rine Forces while on Shore: And that Mr. Charles 
Wood and Sir Charles Adam do prepare, and bring 


it in. 


Mr. Bernal reported from the Select Committee 
appointed to inquire what temporary Laws of a 
Public and General nature, made by the Parliaments 
of England, or Great Britain or Ireland, or of the 
United Kingdom, are now in force, and what Laws 
of the like nature, passed by the English, British, 
Irish or united Parliaments, have expired, between 
the first day of the last Session of Fockanent and 
the first day of the present Session ; and also what 
Laws of the like nature are about to expire in the 
course or at the end of the present Session, or on or 
before the 1st day of August 1838, or in the course 
or at the end of any Session which may commence 
during that period, or in consequence of any con- 
tingent public event; and who were instructed to 
report the same, with their observations thereupon, 
to the House; and who were instructed to report 
their opinion from time to time to the House, which 
of the said Laws are fit to be revived, continued 
or made perpetual; That they had examined the 
matters referred to them, and had directed him to 
make a Report thereof to the House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 

VoL. 92. 





The House was moved, That the Order made upon Cacutchoue 
Monday last, That leave be given to bring in a Bill C°™P®Y- 
for the Regulation and Incorporation of the London 
Caoutchouc Company, and for enabling the said 
Company to purchase certain Letters Patent, might 
be read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for forming and regulating the London Caoutchouc 
Company, and to enable the said Company to pur- 
chase certain Letters Patent: And that Mr. Hughes 
Hughes and Sir Andrew Agnew do prepare, and 
bring it in. 

The House was moved, That the Order made upon Anti Dry-rot 
Monday last, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Company 
for vesting in and securing to “ The Anti Me 
Company” certain Profits and Emoluments for a 
limited time, and for incorporating the said Company, 
and other purposes, might be read; and the same 
being read ; 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for vesting in and securing to “ The Anti Dry-rot 
Company ” certain Profits and Emoluments for a 
limited time: And that Mr. Hughes Hughes and 
Mr. David Barclay do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Hughes Hughes presented a Bill for forming Caoutchouc - 
and regulating The London Caoutchouc Company, Conpeny 5. 
and to enable the said Company to purchase certain 
Letters Patent: And the same was read the first 
time; and ordered to be read a second time. 


Mr. Hughes Hughes presented a Bill for vesting in Anti Dry-rot 
and securing to “ The Anti Dry-rot Company” cer- Company Bill. 
tain Profits and Emoluments for a limited time: 

And the same was read the first time; and ordered 

to be read a second time. 


A Petition of Thomas Thornhill, of Fixby Hall, Manchester 
in the county of York, Esquire, praying that he may nd Leeds | 
be heard, by himself, his counsel or agent, against 
certain parts of the Manchester and Leeds Railway 
Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by himself, his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, 
if he think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of Merchants, Manufacturers and In- Glasgow and 
habitants of Kilmaurs, praying that the Glasgow Ayr Railway 
and Ayr Railway Bill may not pass into a law, as 
it now stands, was presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of John Kennedy, agent and mandatory 
for Charles Snodgrass Buchanan, Esquire, of Cuning- 
hamhead, praying that he may be heard, by his 
counsel or agent, against certain parts of the said 
Bill, was also presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, if he think 
fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the Bill, against 
the said Petition. 


Petitions from Proprietors of coal works on or Glasgow Police 
near the line of the Monkland Canal, and upon the Bill. 
north side of the River Clyde to the eastward of the 
city of Glasgow ;—and, Company of Proprietors of 
the Monkland Canal Navigation, praying that the 
Glasgow Police Bill may not pass into a law as it 
now stands,—were presented, and read; and referred 
to the Committee on the Bill. 

A Petition of James Martin, merchant, in Glas- 
gow, praying that he may be heard, by himself, his 
counsel or agent, against certain parts of the said 
Bill, was also presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 

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Barnsley 
Waterworks, 


Hurworth and 
York Railway 
Bill. 


Lowestoft 
Harbour. 


Roxburgh 
Roads. 


Caithness 
Roads Bill. 


Roxburgh 
Roads Bill. 


York and 
North Midland 
Railway Bill, 


Derby Small 
Debts. 


188 18° Martiz. A. 1837. 


by himself, his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, 
if he think fit ; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


The House was moved, That the Order made upon 
the 10th day of this instant March, That leave be 
iven to bring in a Bill for better supplying with 
Water the Town and Neighbourhood of Barnsley, 
in the Parish of Silkstone, in the West Riding of 
the County of York, might be read; and the same 
being read ; 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for better supplying with Water the Town and Neigh- 
bourhood of Barnsley, in the West Riding of the 
County of York: And that Sir George Strickland 
and Lord Viscount Morpeth do prepare, and bring 
it in. 

A Petition of Inhabitants of the city of York, 
praying that the Hurworth and York Railway Bill 
may pass into a law, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants, Merchants, Traders, 
Ship-owners, Pilots and Mariners of Lowestoft, taking 
notice of the application for leave to bring in the 
Lowestoft Harbour Bill, and praying that such Bill 
may pass into a law, was presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The House was moved, That the Order made upon 
the 10th day of this instant March, That leave be 
given to bring in a Bill for more effectually repairing 
and maintaining certain Roads in the County of 
Roxburgh, and other Roads connected therewith 
leading into the Counties of Berwick, Northumber- 
land and Durham, might be read; and the same 
being read ; 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for further and more effectually repairing, amending 
and maintaining certain Roads in the County of Roz- 
burgh, and other Roads connected therewith leading 
into the Counties of Berwick, Northumberland and 
Durham: And that Sir George Sinclair and Lord 
John Scott do prepare, and bring it in. 


Sir George Sinclair presented a Bill for more 
effectually making, a widening and keeping 
in repair certain Roads and Bridges in the County 
of Caithness; and for better regulating and render- 
ing more effectual the Statute Labour in the said 
County, and Conversion Money in lieu thereof: And 
the same was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time. 


Sir George Sinclair presented a Bill for further 
and more effectually repairing, amending and main- 
taining certain Roads in the County of Roxburgh, 
and other Roads connected therewith leading into 
the Counties of Berwick, Northumberland and Dur- 
ham: And the same was read the first time ; and 
ordered to be read a second time. 


A Petition of Owners and Occupiers of land in 
Ulleshelf, praying that the York and North Midland 
Railway Bill may not pass into a law, as it now 
stands, was presented, and read; and referred to the 
Committee on the Bill. 


Mr. Bowes reported from the Select Committee 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That in the case of the 
Petition for the Derby Small Debts Bill, the appli- 
cation does not come within the Standing Orders of 
the House. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for granting more effectual powers for the Recovery 
of Small Debts within the Rating of Derby, and 
several Townships adjoining thereto: And that Mr. 
Strutt and Mr. George Ponsonby do prepare, and 
bring it in. 





A Petition of Inhabitants of Kilmarnock, praying Poor Laws 
for the introduction of Poor Laws into Ireland, was (Ieland.) 
es and read ; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 


Petitions from Dumbarton ;—the burgh of Ren- Municipal 
frew;—and, Saint Mary, Youghal; praying that the —- 
Municipal Corporations (Zreland) Bill may pass into “"""") Bill. 
a law,—were presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Provost, Magistrates and Town Fire Insurances, 
Council of the Burgh of Renfrew, praying for the 
repeal of the Duty on Fire Insurances, was pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Saint Ninian’s ;—Lennoxtown ;— Church Rates, 
Kilsyth ;— Maes-y-berllan ;— Dover ;—Pitlessie and 
Cults;—and, Largowood, Kilconquhar,&amp;c.; praying 
for the abolition of Church Rates,—were presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. Su 
Petitions from Wormley ;—Pichwell ;— Pointing- 
ton ;—Llandder fel, and aa places ;—Fringford ;— 
South Hetton ;— Tanfield ;—Saint John, Hertford ; 
—Chediston ;—Darsham ;—Carlton Colville ;— Kel- 
sale and Carlton ;—Wherstead ;— Easton ;—.Brand- 
eston ;—Rondham;— Yozxford;— Holy Rhood, South- 
ampton ;—Marcham ;—Brimpsfield and Cranham ; 
~—- Upchurch ;—Bredgar ;— Great Thurlow ;— Stand- 
fordand Stowting ;— Saint Andrew and Saint Mary - 
Bredman, Canterbury ;— High Halden ;— Ashington ; : 
—Chilham ;— Bishop Auckland;— Fivehead ;— West 
Pennard ;—Saint John-the-Baptist and Saint Bene- 
dict, in Glastonbury ;—Pilton;—East Harptree ;— 
Llanyblodwell ;—and, Tong ; praying that Church 
Rates may not be abolished,—were also presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Wiston ; —Shiffnal ;— Whitchurch Church Rates 
(Salop) ;— Easington ;— Kettleburgh ;— Abingdon ; Regulation. 
Enmore ;—and, Clergy and Deanery of Pool and 
Caereinion; praying the House not to sanction the 
oa measure regulating the payment of Church 

ates,—were presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of Magistrates, Councillors, Merchants, 
Traders and Inhabitants of Kidderminster, praying 
that the said proposed measure be adopted, was 
also presented and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of Consumers of Soap in Beverley, sonp. 
praying for the repeal of the Duty on Soap, was 
_— and read; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 


A Petition of Edmund Fisher, Vicar of Linton, Pour Law Act. 
praying that efficient Chaplains may be appointed 
toWorkhouses, was presented, and read ; and referred 
to the Select Committee on the Poor Law Act. 

A Petition of the Vice-Chairman and Board of 
Guardians of the Abingdon Union, praying that the 
House will not consent to the repeal of the Poor 
Law Act, was also presented, and read ; and referred 
to the said Select Committee. 

Petitions from Shipley ;—and, Dalston ; praying 
for the amendment of the said Act,—were also pre- 
sented, and read; and referred to the said Select 
Committee. 

A Petition of Medical Practitioners of Bedford, 
praying for an alteration of the system of providing 
medical attendance on the ak poor under the 
direction of the Poor Law Commissioners, was also 
presented, and read; and referred to the said Select 
Committee. 





A Petition of Ralph Thomas Brockman, of Folke- Hythe 7 
stone, one of the assessors of the Borough of Hythe, Cyst’ 
stating that many of the allegations and explana- 
tions contained and attempted to be made in the 
Petition of Richard Hart, Esquire, Mayor of Hythe, 

an 








Sugar. 


Lieut.-Colonel 
Bradley. 


Highway Rates. 


Thomas Reeves. 


Foreign Wool, 
Olive Oil, &amp;c. 


Com Laws. 


Cotton. 


Runcorn G 
piace 


7 Witt. IV. 18°—20° Marti. 189 


and Mr. James Robertson, one of the assessors at 
the last Municipal Election for that Borough (pre- 
sented on the 8th day of this instant March), com- 
plaining of the unfounded allegations brought against 
them in their official capacities in a Petition from 
certain Burgesses of Hythe (presented on the 15th 
day of February last), are to the knowledge of the 
Petitioner at variance with the real facts of the 
case; and praying the House to take the facts stated 
in his Petition into consideration, and to make such 
an alteration in the Municipal Law, so far as regards 
the revision of the Burgess Lists of Boroughs as 
may secure for the future a more 29 gem and 
effective performance of that duty which the Peti- 
tioner submits never can be accomplished by parties 
unacquainted with the law, or mixed up in local 
politics, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 
Ordered, That the Petition be printed. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, an 
Account of the Quantities of Sugar imported into 
the United Kingdom from the West Indies and the 
Mauritius, and of the parts of those Quantities re- 
entered for exportation, between 5th January 1836 
and 5th January 1837; distinguishing the propor- 
tions received from each Colony respectively ; and 
the like of other West Indian produce. 


A Petition of Thomas Bradley, Esquire, late 
Lieutenant-Colonel 2d West India Regiment, stating 
That Colonel Arthur is now in England, and praying 
the House to appoint a Committee to inquire into 
and report upon the illegal and criminal Acts with 
which the said Colonel Arthur stands charged by the 
Petitioner, as set forth in his Petition presented to 
the House on the 17th day of February last, was pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Ordered, That the Petition of Thomas Bradley, 
Esquire, which was presented upon the 17th day of 
February last, be printed. 


A Petition of Trustees for executing the Act for 
repairing several Roads in and near the town of 
Bruton, in the counties of Somerset and Wilts, pray- 
ing the House to pass an Act enabling Justices of 
the Peace to apportion the Highway Rate between 
turnpike trusts and parishes, similar to the power 
which existed with respect to statute labour, or for 
enabling turnpike trusts to derive from the parishes 
through which their roads run, a due proportion of 
assistance towards the repair thereof, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the Petition of Thomas Reeves, 
complaining of being placed upon the Retired List 
of Surveyors of Assessed Taxes for West Somerset, 
which was presented upon the 9th day of this instant 
March, be printed. 


Petitions from Carverley-with-Farsley ;— Morley- 
cum-Churwell ;—-Pudsey ;—and, Guiseley; praying 
for the repeal of the Import Duties on Foreign 
Sheeps’ Wool and Olive Oil, and the Export Duty 
on Manufactured Woollens,—were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


_ Petitions from Stockport ;—and, Balmerino; pray- 
ing for the repeal of the Corn Laws,—were presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Compstall Bridge ;— Stalybridge ; 
and, Keighley and Bingley; praying for the repeal 
of the stot | on Cotton,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, in- 
tituled, An Act for lighting with Gas the Town of 


Runcorn, otherwise Higher Runcorn and Lower 
Vo, 92. 





Runcorn, and also the Township or Chapeiry of 
Halton, both in the Parish of Runcorn, in the County 
of Chester ; and the same were read, as follow: 

Pr. 17. 1. 15, Leave out “ security,” and insert 
“ securities.” 

Pr. 17. 1. 24. Leave out “ security,” and insert 
“ securities.” 

Pr. 17. 1. 30. After “ thereof” insert “ for the 
“ payment of the said purchase or compensation 
“money, and the stocks, funds or securities on 
“‘ which the same may be invested out of Court.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Edward John Stanley do 
carry the Bill to the Lords, and acquaint them that 
this House hath agreed to the Amendments made 
by their Lordships. 


And then the House adjourned till Monday 
next. 








Lune 20° die Martii ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi IV“ Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


M*® Fry, from the Court of Chancery, was Court of 
called in; and at the Bar presented, pursuant Chancery. 
to Order,—A Return of the Number of Cases which 
have been heard before the Master of the Rolls and 
the Vice-Chancellor, upon exceptions taken to the 
Master’s Report between the 31st December 1831, 
and the 31st December 1836; distinguishing the 
Number of Cases in which such exceptions have 
been wholly overruled, and the Number of Cases in 
which such exceptions have been allowed wholly or 
in part, or in which it has been referred back to the 
Master to review his Report :—And then he with- , 
drew. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Campbell, from the Court of Directors of the East India 
East India Company, was called in; and at the bar ©™P#*5- 
—— pursuant to the directions of an Act of 

arliament,—List, N° 65, specifying the Particulars 
of the Compensation proposed to be granted to cer- 
tain persons reduced from the East India Company’s 
Service in England, under an arrangement sanctioned 
by the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of 
India, and laid before The honourable the House of 
Commons on the 20th March 1834 :—And then he 
withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Greene reported from the Committee on the Lancaster and 
Lancaster and Preston Railway Bill; and to whom Freston Rail- 
several Petitions against the said Bill were re-"” ~'" 
ferred; That the Standing Orders relative to Bills 
for making Railways had been complied with ; and 
that the Committee had considered several of the 
said Petitions, and had heard Counsel in support 
of several of them; and had also heard Counsel in 
favour of the Bill; and that the Committee had 
inquired into the several matters required by the 
Resolutions of the House of the 1st day of March 
1836 ; and had also examined the allegations of the 
Bill, and found the same to be true; and had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Mr. Greene presented a Bill for making and Streatley and 
maintaining a Bridge over the River Thames, from Gore Bridge 
Streatley, in the County of Berks, to the opposite ‘ 
Shore, in the Parish of Goring, in the County of 
Oxford, with proper approaches thereto: And the 
same was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time. 

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Whitby 
Improvement 
Bill. 

Preston and 
Wyre Railway 
Bill. 


Westminster 


Market Bill. 


Standing 
Orders. 


Southwark and 
Hammersmith 


Railway Bill. 


‘and, Joseph Dandridge, of Wood-street, hair-dresser ; 


Lowestoft 
Harbour. 


Dublin and 
Drogheda 
Railway. 


Lowestoft 
Harbour Bill. 


Loughborough 
Small Debts 
Bill. 


190 


Mr. Aaron Chapman reported from the Com- 
mittee on the Whitby Improvement Bill ; That they 
had examined the allegations of the Bill, and found 
the same to be true; and had gone through the Bill, 
and made Amendments thereunto; and the Amend- 
ments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed. 


Mr. Hesketh Fleetwood reported from the Com- 
mittee on the Preston and Wyre Railway Bill ; That 
the Standing Orders relative to Bills for making 
Railways had been complied with; and that the 
Committee had inquired into the several matters 
required by the Resolutions of the House of the 1st 
day of March 1836, and into the Special Resolution 
of the House of the 24th day of February last; and 
had also examined the allegations of the Bill, and 
found the same to be true; and had gone through 
the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Mr. Byng presented a Bill for providing a 
Market and Market-place at or near a place called 
Strutton Ground, in the united Parishes of Saint 
Margaret and Saint John the Evangelist, in the City 
of Westminster: And the same was read the first 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on Standing 
Orders relative to Private Bills, have leave to sit 
this day till five of the clock, during the sitting of 
the House. 


Petitions from the Directors of the Southwark 
and Hammersmith Railway Company ; — William 
Robinson Chamberlain, of N° 21, Surrey Grove, Old 
Kent Road, and William Algernon Lens Piercy, of 
N° 16, Elder-street, Norton Folgate, Gentleman ;— 


denying the allegations contained in the Petition of 
Richard Lill, presented on the 16th day of this 
instant March, relative to the signatures to the 
Deed of Contract for the Southwark and Ham- 
mersmith Railway ; and praying for inquiry,—were 
presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


The House was moved, That the Report in respect 
of the Petition for the Lowestoft ont ill, 
which, upon Friday last, was made from the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders, relative to Private 
Bills, might be read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for making and maintaining a Harbour of Refuge, 
and other works, in the Parish of Lowestoft, in the 
County of Suffolk: And that Lord Henniker, Sir 
Charles Broke Vere, and Mr. Mackinnon do prepare, 
and bring it in. 


The House was moved, That the Report in respect 
of the Petition for the Dublin and Drogheda Rail- 
way Bill, which, upon Wednesday last, was made 
from the Select Committee on Standing Orders 
relative to Private Bills, might be read; and the 
same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
alter the Line of the Dubiin and Drogheda Railway, 
and to amend the Act relating thereto: And that 
Mr. George Evans and Mr. O’ Connell do prepare, 
and bring it in. 


Lord Henniker presented a Bill for making and 
maintaining a Harbour of Refuge, and other Works, 
in the Parish of Lowestoft, in the County of Suffolk : 
And the same was read the first time ; and ordered 
to be read a second time. 


An ingrossed Bill for the more easy and speedy 
preree of Small Debts within the Town of jammed 
boroug 


, and other places therein mentioned, in the 


20° Marti. 


A. 1837. 


Counties of Leicester and Nottingham, was read the 
third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Lord Henniker do carry the Bill 
to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Mr. Ord presented a Bill for regulating and im- Newcastle. 
proving the Borough of Newcastle-upon-Tyne: And — 
the same was read the first time; and ordered to be Ri) 


read a second time, 


Mr. Ord presented a Bill for forming a Harbour Warkworth 
in the Parish of Warkworth, in the County of North- Harbour Bill 
umberland, by improving the Navigation of the River 

Coquet, and for rendering the same safe and com- 

modious, and easy of access: And the same was 

read the first time ; and ordered to be read a second 

time. 


Mr. Lambton presented a Bill to authorize the Durham June. 
Durham Junction Railway Comaner to make two fn Railway 
Branch Railways from the Durham Junction Rail-""* 

way, to be called “The Durham and Houghton-le- 

Spring Branches,” and for other ‘ong. connected 

with their Undertaking: And the same was read 

the first time; and ordered to be read a second 

time. 


The House was moved, That the Report in respect American — 
of the Petition for the American Steam Navigation a Naviga- 
Company Bill, which, upon Monday last, was made aa 
from the Select Committee on Petitions for Private 

Bills, might be read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 

to remove Doubts as to the construction of certain 

Acts relating to the American and Colonial Steam 
Navigation Company: And that Mr. Hamilton and 

Mr. Vesey do prepare, and bring it in. 


A Petition of the Company of Undertakers of the Dublin and 
Grand Canal, praying that the Dublin and Kilkenny en 
Railway Bill may not pass into a law, was presented,“ "*) ~"" 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Mackinnon presented a Bill for more effec- Merthyr Tydfil 
tually repairing the Merthyr Tydfil, Abernant, and Roads Bill. 
Riyd-y-Blew Turnpike Roads, in the Counties 

of Glamorgan, Brecon and Monmouth, and for con- 

solidating the Trusts thereof, and for making and 
maintainmg a new line of Road communicating 
therewith: And the same was read the first time ; 

and ordered to be read a second time. 


Mr. Mackinnon presented a Bill for incorporating London 
a Company, to be called “ The London Necropolis Natioual _ 
and National Cemetery Company,” for enabling ©emte'y - 
such Company to establish Cemeteries for the Inter- 
ment of the Dead in the vicinity of the Metropolis, 
and the Suburbs thereof: And the same was read the 
first time; and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Petition of the Churchwardens, Overseers and Southwark and 
Board for the repair of the Highways in the parish eg 
of Christchurch, in the county of Surrey, complaining “""” 
of an alteration having been made in the Title of the 
Southwark and Hammersmith Railway Bill; and 
praying that the said Bill may not pass into a law, 
was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


Captain Alsager presented a Bill to enable “ The Commercial 
Commercial Steam Packet Company” to sue and be ng 
sued in the Name of the Chairman, Deputy Chair- on 
man, Secretary, or of any one of the Directors of 

the said Company, and for other purposes: And 

the same was read the first time; and ordered to be 

read a second time. 


Captain Alsager presented a Bill for making Wet Collier Docks 
Docks and other Works on the South Side of the = 4 
River Thames, at or near Rotherhithe and Deptford, — 
in the Counties of Surrey and Kent, to be called 








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read the first time ; and ordered to be read a second 


time. 
Becker's Becher’s Naturalization Bill was read a second 
Nat. Bill. time; and committed to Mr. Wilks and the Middle- 
sex List. 


Henry Anthony  Lenry Anthony Metté’s Naturalization Bill was 
Metté’s Nat. read a second time; and committed to Mr. Wilks 


= and the Middlesea List. 
er Bernard Metté’s Naturalization Bill was read a 
a .“*" second time ; and committed to Mr. Wilks and the 


Middlesex List. 


Derby Small Mr. Strutt presented a Bill for granting more 

Debts Bill, effectual Powers for the recovery of Small Debts 
within the Borough of Derby and several Townships 
adjoining thereto: And the same was read the first 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 

Glossop Mr. Strutt presented a Bill for making and main- 

_ taining Reservoirs upon the tributary Streams of 

; the River Etherow, otherwise the Mersey, in the 

Parish of Glossop, in the County of Derby, for 
more effectually and regularly supplying with Water 
the Mills, Manufactories and Works on the said 
tributary Streams and River: And the same was 
read the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 

Roborough Sir Edward Codrington presented a Bill for the 

(Devos) Small recovery of Small Debts within the Southern Divi- 

Debts Bill. | sion of the Hundred of Roborough, in the County of 
Devon: And the same was read the first time; and 
ordered to be read a second time. 

Dundalk Mr. Sharman Crawford presented a Bill for mak- 

and Ballibay 


. » ing and maintaining a Railway from the Town of 
ie Dundalk, in the enue of haas, to the Town of 
Ballibay, in the County of Monaghan: And the 
same was read the first time; and ordered to be 

read a second time. 


Waterford Mr. Villiers Stuart presented a Bill for the uniform 
County Rates Valuation of Lands and Tenements in the County of 


- Waterford, in Ireland, for the purpose of levying the 
County Rates therein: And the same was read the 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 

Droghedaand = The House was moved, That the Report in respect 


Kells Railway. of the Petition for the Drogheda and Kells Railway 
Bill, which, upon Friday last, was made from the 
Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills, 
might be read; and the same being read ; 
Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for making a Railway or Tramroad from Drogheda 
to Kells: And that Mr. Plunkett and Mr. Hamilton 


do prepare, and bring it in. 


St. Pancras A Petition of Commissioners acting under, and 
Paving Billk © Rate-payers and Mortgagees of the Rates collected 
under, several Acts for pavingand lighting the Streets 
in the parish of Saint Pancras, in the county of 
Middlesex, complaining that the Standing Orders 
of the House in respect of the application for the 
Saint Pancras Paving Bill had not been complied 
with; and praying that said Bill may be withdrawn, 
or that the Petitioners may have such other relief 
in the premises as to the House may seem meet, was 
— and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
able. 


Liverpool Mr. Tooke presented a Bill to enable the Mayor, 

Bit ~=Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Liver- 
pool to open and widen certain Streets and Places 
in the Town of Liverpool, and otherwise to improve 
the same, and to enable the said Mayor, Aldermen, 
and Burgesses to appropriate Lands, Tenements, 
and Hereditaments, for public purposes, and also to 
erect Public Buildings: And the same was read the 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 

Von. 92. 





20° Marti. 191 


“ The Grand Collier Dock:” And the same was |_ 


Mr. Tooke presented a Bill for altering, amend- Liverpool 
ing, improving and enlarging the provisions of cer- a 
tain Acts of Parliament ma Pe to the Town of san 
Liverpool, in the County Palatine of Zancaster, and 

for extending the same to the whole of the Borough 

of Liverpool; and for the regulation of the times 

and places of payment of Wages of Mechanics, 
Labourers and others, in the said Borough ; for the 
mitigation by Justices of Penalties under Bye-laws 

of the said Borough ; for the summary recovery of 

the possession of Shops and Stands in Fairs and 

Markets of the said Borough; for the summary 

recovery of the Tolls, Stallage Dues, Town’s Cus- 

toms, and other Revenue of the Mayor, Aldermen 

and Burgesses of the said Borough; and for the pay- 

ment of the Clerks to the Justices of the said 

Borough by Salaries in lieu of Fees: And the same 

was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 

second time. 


Sir Henry Parnell presented a Bill for supplying Dundee 
the Royal Burgh of Dundee, and Suburbs thereof, Waterworks 
with Water: And the same was read the first time ; — 
and ordered to be read a second time. 


Mr. Mansel Talbot reported from the Committee Merthyr Tidfil 
on the Merthyr Tidfil and Cardiff Railway Bill ; 2n¢ Carct 
and to whom several Petitions against the said Bill eee 
were referred; That the Standing Orders relative 
to Railway Bills, had been complied with; and 
that they had heard counsel in support of the said 
Petitions ; and had also heard counsel in favour of 
the Bill; and that the Committee had inquired into 
the several matters required by the Resolutions of 
the House of the 1st day of March 1836 ; and had 
also examined the allegations of the Bill, and found 
the same to be true; and had gone through the Bill, 
and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Mr. Mansel Talbot presented a Bill to provide for Merthyr Tydvil 
the more effectual execution of the office of a Justice gat 
of the Peace within the Parishes of Merthyr Tidvil, 
Gellygare and Aberdare, in the County of Glamor- 
gan: And the same was read the first time; and 


ordered to be read a second time. 


A Petition of the Agricultural Association of Glasgow and 
Carrick, in the county of Ayr, praying that the = Railway 
Glasgow and Ayr Railway Bill may pass into a law, ~ 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 


the Table. 


Mr. Ruthven presented a Bill to promote and en- Cotton Joint 
courage the more extensive manufacture of Cotton, - Company 
for spinning Cotton Twist and Yarn, the manufacture 
of Power-loom Shirtings and Calicoes, and for the 
general manufacture of Cotton in all its branches, in 
the Southern and other Counties of England, and in 
Treland, and to enable certain persons to form a 
Joint Stock Company for those purposes: And the 
same was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time. 


Mr. Kirk presented a Bill for maintaining, repair- Belfast and 
ing and —s a Turnpike Road from Be'fast to — Roads 
Lisburn-by-the-Falls, and two Turnpike Roads lead- * 
ing from the Falls Road, by Dundrod and Castle- 
robin respectively, to Crumlin, in the County of 
Antrim: And the same was read the first time ; and 


ordered to be read a second time. 


Mr. Kirk presented a Bill for maintaining, meer Antrim and 
ing and amending Turnpike Roads from the Town ger l 
of Antrim, in the County of Antrim, to Coleraine, ee 
in the County of Londonderry: And the same was 
read the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 

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Stratford-upou- Mr, Kirk presented a Bill to consolidate and ex- 
Avon Canal tond the powers and provisions of the several Acts 


—_ relating to the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal Naviga- 
tion: And the same was read the first time; and 
ordered to be read the second time. 

Manchester Mr. Mark Philips reported from the Committee 

and Leeds 


Railway Bill, 00 the Manchester and Leeds Railway Bill; and to 
whom several Petitions against the said Bill were 
referred ; That the Standing Orders relative to Bills 
for making Railways, had been complied with ; and 
that they had considered several of the said Peti- 
tions, and had heard counsel in support of two of 
them; and had also heard counsel in favour of the 
Bill ; and that the Committee had inquired into the 
several matters required by the Resolutions of the 
House of the 1st day of March 1836 ; and had also 
examined the allegations of the Bill, and found the 
same to be true; and had gone through the Bill, 
and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Sheffield and Mr. Mark Philips reported from the Committee 
— on the Sheffield and Manchester Railway Bill; and 
my“ to whom several Petitions against the said Bill were 
referred ; That the Standing Orders relative to Bills 
for making Railways, had been complied with ; and 
that the Committee had considered several of the 
said Petitions, and had heard counsel in sopport of 
one of them ; and that no persons appeared in support 
of several of them ; and that the Committee had also 
heard counsel in favour of the Bill ; and had inquired 
into the several matters required by the Resolu- 
tions of the House of the 1st day of March 1836; 
and had also examined the allegations of the Bill, 
and found the same to be true ; and had gone through 

the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 

and be printed. 


Manchester The Manchester (Victoria Park) Improvement 

— Park) Bill was read a second time, and committed to Mr. 

Bi Mark Philips and the Lancaster List. 

Werneth and Mr. Hindley reported from the Committee on the 

Littleborough Werneth and Littleborough Roads Bill; and to whom 

Roads Bill, several Petitions against the said Bill were referred ; 
That the Standing Orders relative to Turnpike Bills, 
had been complied with; and that the Committee had 
considered two of the said Petitions; and that no 
person appeared in support of the other Petition ; 
and that the Committee had examined the allega- 
tions of the Bill, and found the same to be true; 
and had gone through the Bill, and made Amend- 
ments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Barnsley Mr. Hindley presented a Bill for better supplying 

— with Water the Town and Neighbourhood of Barns- 
the same was read the first time ; and ordered to be 
read a second time. 


Glasgow, Petitions from Bankers, Merchants, Manufac- 
Paisley, and ~~ turers and Inhabitants of Glasgow :-—Greenock ;— 
Greenock Feuars and Inhabitants of Innerkip ;—Proprietors 
Railway Bill, Feuars and Inhabitants of Jnnerkip ;—Proprietors, 


Feuurs and Inhabitants of Gourock ;—Chamber of 


Commerce and Manufactures of Greenock;—Pro- | 


prietors, Occupiers and others interested in the line 
of the intended Railway betwixt Glasgow, Paisley 
and Greenock, residenters in Paisley;—Lord Provost, 
Magistrates and Town Council of Edinburgh ;— 
Merchants, Manufacturers and Inhabitants of Gor- 
bals;—Preses and Managers of the Feuars and 
Heritors of Gorbals ;— Magistrates and Councillors 
of Gorbals ;—Provost, Magistrates, Treasurer and 
Councillors of Greenock ;—Trustees and Commis- 
sioners for improving the Harbours of Greenock ;— 
and, Trustees and Commissioners for paving, light- 
ing, cleansing and watching the town of Greenock ; 
praying that the Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock 


ley, inthe West Riding of the County of York: And | 





A. 1837. 


Railway Bill may pass into a law, were presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Chalmers presented a Bill for improving the Montrose 
Harbour of the Burgh of Montrose, in the County tbour Bill 
of Forfar: And the same was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time. 


The Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway Bill ae iy 
was read a second time; and committed to Mr. ga 


Patrick Stewart and the West Scotland List. Railway Bill, 


An ingrossed Bill for more effectually repairing, iawon Roads 
improving and maintaining certain Roads leading ~ * 
to and from the Town of Llanrwst, in the County of 
Denbigh, was read the third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That Mr. Wilson Jones do carry the Bill 
to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Mr. Robert Clive presented a Bill for inclosing Clun Forest 
Lands in the Honor or Lordship and Forest of Clun, !¢losure Bill. 
in the County of Salop: And the same was read the 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


Mr. Pease presented a Bill for making and main- Castle Edenand 
taining a Railway to connect the Great North of a i 
England, Clarence and Hartlepool Railways, in the (7lsrence and 

poo: 
County of Durham: And the same was read the Junction) 


first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. _—Railway Bill. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Middlesborough, pray- Hurworth and 
ing that the Hurworth and York Railway Bill may York Railway 
pass into a law, was presented, and read; and ordered ~* “ 
to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Proprietors, Burgesses, House- Edinburgh 
holders and Inhabitants of Kilmarnock ;—Lord Pro- eens 
vost, Magistrates and Town Council of Edinburgh; ""” 
—Preses and Clerk of the Feuars of Falkirk ;—and, 
Inhabitants of Linlithgow ; praying that the Edin- 
burgh and Glasgow Railway Bill may pass into a 
law,—were presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


Captain Jones presented a Bill to enable Joshua Sligo Salmon 
Edward Cooper, Esquire, to establish and protect Fisheries Bill 
a Salmon Fishery upon the Lakes and Rivers of 
Owenmore and Arrow, and also within the Ba 
of Ballisodare, in the County of Sligo in Ireland: 

And the same was read the first time; and ordered 
to be read a second time. 


Mr. Oswald presented a Bill for making and Glesgow Road 
maintaining a Road from the Road leading from “ 
Glasgow to Carntyne, called Duke-street, to the 
East end of Blackfriars-street or Regent-street, in 
the said City of Glasgow: And the same was read 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


The House was moved, That the Report in respect Loanhead and 
of the Petition for the Loanhead and Stirling Canal Stitling Canal. 
Bill, which upon the 8th day of this instant March 
was made from the Select Committee on Standing 
Orders relative to Private Bills, might be read; and 
the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for making and maintaining a Cut or Canal from 
Loanhead to Denny, in continuation of the Forth 
and Clyde Navigation, with Branches from the same 
to the said Navigation at Bonnybridge, and to or 
near Stirling: And that Mr. Oswald and Mr. Forbes 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


A Petition of Sir Henry ne, of Wistow Hall, Courteenhall 


: ° - s d Great 
in the county of Leicester, Baronet, complaining Wigston Rail- 


that the names of many persons who appear upon way Bill. 

the Subscription Contract for the Courteenhall and 

Great Wigston Railway, with their places of abode 

attached, cannot now be found, and that others who 

have signed are in indigent circumstances; and 

praying that the matters aforesaid may be — 
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to a Select Committee to be appointed with all 
proper powers for the investigation thereof; and that 
the Petitioner may be heard, by himself, his counsel, 
agents and witnesses upon the matters aforesaid, 
was presented, and read ; and referred to the Select 
Committee on the Deptford and Dover Railway Sub- 
scription List. 

A Petition of Richard Spencer, of Baldwin-street, 
City Road, labourer, and John Spear, of Clerkenwell 
Green, merchants’ clerk, stating that they were 
induced to sign the Parliamentary Contracts and 
Subscription List for the said Railway for pecuniary 
consideration ; and praying the House to refer their 
Petition to a Select Committee to inquire into the 
allegations contained therein, that they may prove 
the fraud committed on the Legislature, the bond 
fide shareholders of the said Company, and the 
public in general, was also presented, and read ; and 
referred to the said Select Committee. 


Mr. Oswald presented a Bill for making and 


Loanhead and Mr. U 
Stirling Canal maintaining a Cut or Canal from Loanhead to Denny, 


Bil. in continuation of the Forth and Clyde Navigation, 


with Branches from the same to the said Navigation 
at Bonnybridge, and to or near Stirling: And the 
same was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time. 





Kingsworthy The Order, for reading a second time To-morrow, 
and West the Kingsworthy and West Monckton Railway Bill, 


k J 
Tuilway Bill was read, and discharged. 


Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


(20° Martii. 193 


Mr. Hamilton presented a Bill to remove doubts American Stean. 
as to the construction of certain Acts relating to a at 
the American and Colonial Steam Navigation Com- “°"?**Y “™ 
pany: And the same was read the first time; and 
ordered to be read a second time. 


Mr. Hamilton presented a Bill for making a Rail- Drogheda and 
way or Tramroad from Drogheda to Kells: And Kells Railway 
the same was read the first time; and ordered to - 
be read a second time. 


Mr. Bagshaw presented a Bill to make a Railway Devizes and 
from Devizes to join the Branch of the Great Melksham 
Western Railway leading to the Town of Bradford, ®*'ss Bil- 
at or near Melksham, in the County of Wilts: And 
the same was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time. 


The Swansea Waterworks Bill was read a second Swansea 
time ; and committed to Mr. John Henry Vivian oe 
and the Wales List. - 


The House was moved, That the Report in respect Polloc and 
of the Petition for the Polloc and Govan Railway Govan Railway. 
Bill, which, upon Monday last, was made from the 
Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills, 
might be read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to continue for certain purposes the powers of two 
Acts for making and maintaining the Polloc and 
Govan Railway ; and to provide means of shipping 
and unshipping commodities conveyed by Railways 
to and from the Harbour of Glasgow: And that 





Norwich Yam Mr. Scarlett presented a Bill to enable “ The 

Company Bill. Norwich Yarn Company” to sue in the name of 
the Secretary, or and Secretary, or the 
Chairman, or any one of the Directors, and to be 
sued in the name of the Chairman, or any one of 
the Directors, and for other purposes: And the 
same was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time. 


Birmingham Lord Granville Somerset reported from the Com- 
and Gloucester mittee on the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway 
Railway Bill. 


Bill; and to whom two Petitions against the said 
Bill were referred ; That the Standing Orders rela- 
tive to Bills for making Railways had been complied 
with ; and that the Committee had considered one 
of the said Petitions, and that no person appeared 
in support of the other; and that they had inquired 
into the several matters required by the Resolutions 
of the House of the 1st day of March 1836; and 
had also examined the allegations of the Bill, and 
found the same to be true; and had gone through 
the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 
Ordered, 'Yhat the Report do lie upon the Table ; 


and be printed. 
Bristol Sir Richard Vyvyan presented a Bill for the better 
— assessing and collecting certain Parochial and other 
mese™* Rates within the City and County of Bristol: And 
the same was read the first time ; and ordered to be 
read a second time. 
Ardrossan Lord James Stuart presented a Bill for improving 
Reheston the Ardrossan and Johnston Railway ; for separating 
Hi ay Bill, 9 o 
the management thereof from the management of 
the Glasgow, Paisley and Johnston Canal ; and for 
other purposes relating thereto: And the same was 
read the first time ; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 
ae The Cardiff Improvement Bill was read a second 
zi ™*™* time ; and committed to Lord James Stuart and the 
Wales List. 
al The Cardiff Gas Bill was read a second time ; 
aig and committed to Lord James Stuart and the Wales 
List. 
Vot. 92. 





Mr. John Maxwell and Mr. Oswald do prepare, and 

bring it in. 

Mr. Emerson Tennent presented a Bill for the Belfast Harbour 
formation of a Floating Dock, and for otherwise (N® 2.) Bill 
more effectually improving the Port and Harbour of 

Belfast in Ireland: And the same was read the first 

time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


Mr. Oswald presented a Bill to continue for cer- Polloc and 
tain purposes the powers of two Acts for making — Railway 
and maintaining the Polloc and Govan Railway,*"* 
and to | ene means of shipping and unshipping 
commodities conveyed by Railways to and from the 
Harbour of Glasgow: And the same was read the 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


Mr. Roebuck presented a Bill for better supplying Bath Gas Bill, 
and lighting with Gas the City and Borough of 
Bath, in the County of Somerset: And the same 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House that John Dungarvan 
Matthew Galwey, Esquire, who petitioned this House Election. 
upon the 3d day of this instant March, complaining 
of an undue Election and Return for the Borough 
of Dungarvan, had not entered into a recognizance 
in respect of such Petitions, according to the direc- 
tions of an Act made in the ninth year of the reign 
of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, inti- 
tuled, An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws 
relating to the Trial of Controverted Elections or 
Returns of Members to serve in Parliament. 

Ordered, That the Orders made upon the 3d day 
of this instant March for taking the said Petitions 
into consideration upon Thursday, the 13th day of 
April next, be discharged. 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant Warwick Writ. 
to the Clerk of the Crown to make out a new Writ 
for the electing of a Burgess to serve in this present 
Parliament for the Borough of Warwick, in the 
room of the Honourable Charles John Canning, now 
Viscount Canning, called up to the House of Peers. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- Southwark and 
posed, That the Petition of Richard Lill, which ———— 
was presented upon Thursday last relative to the“? ©" 

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North Metropo-_ Sir Samuel Whalley presented a Bill for establish- 


litan Cemetery 
Bill. 


Dundee Police 
Bill. 


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signatures to the Deed of Contract for the Southwark 
and Hammersmith Railway, be referred to the Select 
Committee on the Deptford and Dover Railway 
Subscription List ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the words “ referred 
“to the” to the end of the Question, in order to 
add the words “ Committee on the Southwark and 
“ Hammersmith Railway Bill,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That the words 
roposed to be left out stand part of the Question :— 

he said proposed Amendment was, with leave of 
the House, withdrawn. 

Ordered, That the Petition be referred to the 
Select Committee on the Deptford and Dover Rail- 
way Subscription List. 

Ordered, That the Petition of William Robinson 
Chamberlain, and William Algernon Lens Piercy, 
denying the allegations contained in the Petition of 
Richard Lill, which was presented this day, be 
referred to the said Select Committee. 


ing a Cemetery for the Interment of the Dead, 
northward of the Metropolis, to be called “ The 
Portland Cemetery :” And the same was read the 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


Sir Henry Parnell presented a Bill for the better 


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A. 1837. 


state of the Province of Lower Canada, was read, 
and discharged. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednes- 
day, the 5th day of April next, resolve itself into 
the said Committee. 


herecoolmo 
Carberry ;— Rosenallis ;—James Scarlett ;— Derry- 
loran ;-—Kilbrony ;—Kilscoran and other places ;— 
Ballylaneen i iientoen ;—Drumshallon and Bally- 
makenny ; — Louth ; — Kilfyn ; —W. Kertland ; — 
Maglass and other places ;—Gowran ;—Richards- 
town ;— Faughart ;— Cashel; —Ardree ; —Dromis- 
hin ;—Haggerstown ;—and, Clogher ; praying that 
the Municipal Corporations (Jre/and) Bill may pass 
into a law,—were presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from Dublin;—and, Saint Peter’s, 
Dublin; praying that the said Bill may not pass 
into a law,—were also presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 
Petitions from Bangor ;—and, Cavan; praying 
that the Inhabitants of those places may be allowed 
to participate in the benefits of the said Bill,— 
were also presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


- Petitions from Dungiven ;—Inver ;—Belturbet;— Municipat 
Innisheel ;—Ballymacarrett ;—Mountmelich ;—Ma- Corporations 
ney and Drumkeeran; — Dunforth and (land) Bil 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Kilmannan, preying Municipal 
that the Municipal Corporations (Zreland) Bill may poe sate 
pass into a law, that Tithes in Ireland be abolished, . °°" ha 
and Vote by Ballot adopted, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


paving, lighting, watching and cleansing the Burgh 
of Dundee, and for maintaining and regulating the 
Police of the same, and Places adjacent, and other 
purposes relating thereto: And the same was read 
the first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 









Dablin and Mr. George Evans presented a Bill to alter the Petitions from Clondalkin ;—and, Desertmore and Municipal 
Drogheda | Line of the Dublin and Drogheda Railway, and to| Ovens; praying that the Municipal Corporations Corporations 
Railway Bill. 2 y» : ’ . ° (Ireland) Bill, 
amend the Act relating thereto: And the same was | (Jreland) Bill may ej into a law, and that Tithes gna Tithes. 
read the first time; and ordered to be read a second | in Ireland be abolished,—were presented, and read; 
time. and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
Poor Law Act. Mr. Fazakerley reported from the Select Com-| A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- Municipal 
No. 131, mittee appointed to inquire into the administration 


Lower Canada. 


of the Relief of the Poor under the orders and re- 
gulations issued by the Commissioners appointed 
under the provisions of the Poor Law Amendment 
Act, and i were empowered to report the Minutes 
of the Evidence taken before them from time to 
time to the House; That they had made Progress 
in the matters to them referred ; and had directed 
him to report the Minutes of the Evidence taken 
before them. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
that part of the Message of the Lords of Friday 
last, wherein their Lordships request that this House 
will be pleased to communicate to their Lordships 
a Copy of a Report made from the Select Committee 
appointed by this House in Session 1834, on the 
Affairs of Lower Canada, together with the Minutes 
of Evidence taken before the Committee. 

Resolved, That a printed Copy of the Minutes of 
Evidence be communicated to the Lords, as desired 
by their Lordships: And that Mr. Bernal do deliver 
the same. 


posed, That the Order of the day for the Committee 
on the Municipal Corporations (Jreland) Bill, be 
now read ; 
An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” to 
the end of the Question, in order to add the words, 
“ there be laid before this House, a Return, show- 
ing the date of the Assizes at which a Bill of 
Indictment was found at Monaghan for Murder, 
against M:Carron and others; the Number of 
times M:Carron was tried; the date of the Assizes 
respectively at which each such Trial took place; 
the manner in which each Trial terminated ; the 
Name and Rank of the Judge who presided at 
each Trial; the Number of Jurors set aside by 
the Crown at each Trial respectively; and the 
Name of His Majesty’s Attorney General for 
Ireland at the time of each Trial,” instead thereof. 
And the Question being proposed, That the words 
proposed to be left out, stand part of the Question : 
—The said proposed Amendment was, with leave of 
the House, withdrawn. 

Ordered, That the Order of the day for the Com- 
mittee on the said Bill, be now read ; and the same 
being read ; 


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Glasgow and A. Petition of William Dixon, Esquire, of Govan| The House resolved itself into the Committee. 
Avr Railw: } ; ¢ i&lt; 9 &gt;: ™ ° 
Age Taliveg Colliery, in the parish of Govan, Lanarkshire, pray (In the Committee.) 
ing that he may be heard, by himself, his counsel - 
or agent, against certain parts of the Glasgow and| Bill read 1°; to be read 2°, paragraph by para- 
Ayr Railway Bill, was presented, and read. graph. 
Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the| | Preamble postponed. 
a — the — and the Petitioner heard,} Cuavsgs, N* 1 to N° 9, agreed to. 
by himself, his counsel or agent, upon his Petition,| Cyauses. N° 10 to N° 15, amended, and agreed 
if he think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the | ¢, : , ' P 
Bill . . . . ad = 
ill, against the said Petition. Cravse, N° 16, agreed to. 
Canada. The Order, for the House to resolve itself intoa| CLAusE, N° 17, postponed. 


Committee, To-morrow, to consider further of the 


Causes, N° 18 to N° 73, agreed to. 








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(Ireland) Bill. 





7 Wixt. LV. 


Ciavusss, N° 74 and N° 75, amended, and agreed 
to. 
Cuiavsss, N° 76 to N° 95, agreed to. 


Cuiavsez, N° 96, (In Cities and Towns which are 
Counties, Sheriff to be appointed) ——read. 

Amendment proposed: P. 54. 1.2. To leave out 
all the words from the word “ Galway” to the word 
“ every” in |. 29. and insert “The Council shall, 
“ on the first day of November in every year, ap- 
“ point a fit person to execute the office of Sheriff, 
“* with the like duties and powers as the Sheriffs or 
the persons filling the office of Sheriff in the said 
counties respectively would have had, if this Act 
“« had not passed, who shall continue in his office 
“* for one whole year; and in case a vacancy shall 
“ be occasioned in the office of Sheriff of such 
“ Borough during such period, by reason of the 
** person who shall have been elected to such office 
“ not accepting the same, or by reason of his dying 
“* or ceasing to hold the said office, the Council of 
“ the said Borough shall, within two days after such 
vacancy, elect another fit person to be the Sheriff, 
instead of the person so declining, dying or ceas- 
“* ing to hold office.” 

Question put, That the words proposed to be left 
out stand part of the Clause ; 

The Committee divided : 

Tellers for the f Mr. Edward John Stanley, 65 

Yeas, LMr. More O’ Ferrall: - 
Tellers forthe { Mr. Sharman Crawford, . 
Noes, \ Colonel Butler: = 

Cuause, N° 96, agreed to. 

Cuause, N° 97, amended, and agreed to. 

Crausss, N° 98 to N° 107, agreed to. 

Criause, N° 108 (Sessions of the Peace to be held 
for the Borough)——read. 

Question, That the Clause stand part of the Bill 
—---put, and negatived. 

Cravuse, N° 109 (Presentments to be made in 
Court of King’s Bench) read. 

Question, That the Clause stand part of the Bill 
put, and negatived. 
Cuiausss, N° 110 to N° 123, agreed to. 
Cuiauses, N° 124 to N° 132, amended, and agreed 





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Cravszs, N° 133 to 147, agreed to, 

ScuEepu-es (A.) and (B.), agreed to. 

Scuepute (C.), Section 1, agreed to. 

Section 2. Amendment proposed: To insert “the 

“ Borough of Wicklow ”——put, and negatived. 
Another Amendment proposed: To insert “the 

“ Borough of Bangor’’——put, and negatived. 


ScuEeDutes (D.), (E.) and (F.) added. 
Preamble read, and agreed to. 
Bill, as amended, to be reported. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon Wed- 
nesday next. 





And the House having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Tuesday morning ; 


Martis, 21° die Martii, 1837: 


Penitentiary The Order of the day being read, for the Commit- 
(Milbank) Bill. tee on the Penitentiary (Milbank) Bill; + 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday, 

the 3d day of April next, resolve itself into the said 
Committee. 


Registration of | The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Voters’ Bill. mittee on the Registration of Voters Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday, 

the 3d day of April next, resolve itself into the said 
Committee. 


20°—21° Martiz. 195 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Recovery of 
reading of the Recovery of Tenements Bill ; Tenements Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Salmon 
reading of the Salmon Fudan (Scotland) Bill ; +e ee _ 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon Gamat) oe, 
Wednesday, the 12th day of April next. 


The Order of the da being read, for the second Sale of Beer 
reading of the Sale of Beer Bill; Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time To- 

morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Benefices _ 
reading of the Benefices Plurality Bill ; Plurality Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 

Monday, the 3d day of April next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Imprisonment 
further consideration the Report on the Imprison- r Debt Bill. 
ment for Debt Bill; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Post Office Acts 
mittee on the Post Office Acts repeal Bill ; Repeal Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday, the 

7th day of April next, resolve itself into the said 
Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Post Office 
mittee on the Post Office Offences Bill; Offences Bill! 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday, the 

7th day of April next, resolve itself into the said 
Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Post Office 
mittee on the Post Office Management Bill ; Management 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday, the =. 
7th day of April next, resolve itself into the said 
Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Franking Bill. 
mittee on the Franking Bill ; 

Resolved, That jthis House will, upon Friday, the 
7th day of April next, resolve itself into the said 
Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- supply. 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Ways and 
mittee of Ways and Means ; Means. 
Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order, for reading a second time upon Wed- Lay of Libel 
nesday, the 5th day of April next, the Law of Libel Bill. 
Bill, was read, and discharged ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday, the 12th day of April next. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro-¢ . 
osed, That an humble Address be presented to His aici 
Saute, that He will be graciously pleased to give 
directions, that there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Amount of Church Rates paid during 
the last Three years ending December 31st, 1836, 
in the several Counties and Dioceses of England and 
Wales :—And the said Motion was, with leave of the 
House, withdrawn. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Church Rates. 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return, showing the Amount of Monies 
received and expended by the Churchwardens and 








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LT LR SP DILLON NSE GPO OO Te SE Ue’. 


RIT IAT 


Queen Anne's 
Bounty, 


Factories. 


Calendars of 
Prisoners 


(Ireland.) 


Factories 
( Lancaster and 
York.) 


Railway 
Communication 


(Ireland.) 


196 20°—21° Martitz. 


Chapelwardens in every Parish in England and 
Wales, in each of the Three years, from Easter 1833 
to Easter 1836; distinguishing the Amount of 
Monies received from Church Rates or Chapel Rates ; 
from Estates or other Parish Funds; from Poor 
Rates ; from Mortuary or Burial Fees; from Pew 
Rents and Sittings; from Loans, and from any other 
source, in aid of such Church and Chapel Rates ; 
and distinguishing in the Amount of Monies ex- 
pended, for building and repairs of Churches or 
Chapels; for Furniture and Ornaments therein ; for 
Organs; for Bells; for Books; for Wine; for Visita- 
tion Fees and Travelling Expenses attendant thereon ; 
for Salaries to Clerks, Sextons, Organists and other 
officers; and for any other purposes; stating also, 
the Names of the Parishes in which Church Rates 
have been refused or adjourned, and in what years 
the Rates have been refused or delayed; and in what 
manner the Repairs of the Churches and Chapels, 
and their attendant Expenses, have been defrayed 
in those years in which no Rates have been granted. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return of the Names, Titles and Descrip- 
tions of the several Governors of “ Queen Anzne’s 
Bounty,” who have been summoned by the Secretary 
of that Corporation to attend each Court of Governors 
in every year, from the year 1827 to the present time; 
showing how many Courts of Governors have been 
held in each year; by whom each Court has been 
attended; by whose direction the Governors were 
summoned; and, if any of the Governors were omitted 
to be summoned, for what reason, and by whose 
authority such omission took place. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Resolved, That en humble Address be presented 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of Directions to Factory Inspectors 
relating to the execution of the Act for the regulation 
of Factories, issued in June and October 1836, and 
March 1837. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His ag ed by such Members of this House as are 


of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return of the several Calendars laid before the 
Judges of Assize in Ireland, at the several Assizes 
held in the'years 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833, 1834, 1835, 
1836 and 1837; setting forth the verdict which was 
found, and the Rule or Sentence of the Court in 
each case ; and also the dates of the commission 
of the alleged Offences. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return of the Names and Situations of all 
the Mills in the Counties of Lancaster and York, in 
which, since the 6th July 1836, the system of relays 
of Children, or of working by double sets, has been 
continuously observed :—and, Copy of a Memorial 
from the Short-time Committee of Manchester, ad- 
dressed to His Majesty’s Secretary of State for the 
Home Department. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Lord John Russell presented, by His Majesty’s 
command,—First Report of the Commissioners ap- 
pointed to inquire into the manner in which Railway 





A. 1837. 


Communications can be most advantageously pro- 
moted in Ireland. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Monaghan 
a Return, showing the Date of the Assizes at which Assizes 
a Bill of Indictment was found at Monaghan for nae 
Murder against McCarron and others; the Number ~ 
of times Me Carron was tried; the Date of the Assizes 
respectively at which each such Trial took place ; 
the manner in which each Trial paseo | ; the 
Name and Rank of the Judge who presided at each 
Trial; the Number of Jurors set aside by the Crown 
at each Trial respectively ; and the Name of His 
Majesty’s Attorney General for Jreland at the time 
of each Trial. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Municipal 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased bor qos 
to give directions, that there be laid before this Sent” 
House, a Copy of the Correspondence between Mr. 

Hogg and the Secretary of State for the Home De- 
partment, relative to the Report of Mr. Hogg as a 
—— Commissioner. 

rdered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this Sin as are 
of His Majesty's most honourable Privy Council. 


The House was moved, That the Order made upon Bankruptcy 


the 13th day of February last, That there be laid Court and Fiats. 


before this House, Returns of all Meetings under 
all Commissivns and Fiats in Bankruptcy, from 1st 
January to 31st December 1836; specifying the 
respective Commissioners before whom each Meet- 
ing was held, the object and purpose of such Meet- 
ings, and the Day and Hour appointed for holding 
such Meetings:—From each Official Assignee of 
the Court of Bankruptcy, of every Commission and 
Fiat of Bankruptcy under which any dividend has 
been paid by him, on and since 1st May 1833 to 
Ist January 1837 inclusive, with the Date of the 
Commissioners’ Order for making the same, and the 
Amount thereof, and the Amount of the Allowance 
made to each Official Assignee ia each of such 
Bankruptcies :—and, an Account from each Official 
Assignee of the Court of Bankruptcy, of the Amount 
of all Sums of Money at his order or disposition, or 
in his hands, under every Commission and Fiat of 
Bankruptcy, bearing date on or subsequent to 16th 
July 1833, to 1st February 1837 inclusive, not paid 
into the Bank of England tv the credit of the Ac- 
countant in Bankruptcy, with the Date when the 
several Sums respectively were paid into his hands, 
might be read; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That Returns to the said Orders be laid 
before this House forthwith. 


Lord Viscount Castlereagh presented a Bill for Belfast and 
making a Railway from Belfast to Hollywood, and Hollywoo!., 
for other purposes: And the same was read the R#¥*’ on 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, crown Lands. 
Abstracts of the Twelfth Report of the Commis- 
sioners appointed to inquire into the state and con- 
dition of the Woods, Sonate and Land Revenues 
of the Crown, 25th May 1792; and, of the Four 
Reports of the Surveyor General of His Majesty’s 
Land Revenues under the provisions of the Act 
34 Geo. 3, ¢.75, 1797-1809. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a St. Clement 
Return of the Name and Residence of all Persons Danes Over- 
elected to the office of Overseer of the Parish of *™ 
Saint Clement Danes, in the City of Westminster ; 
the Amount of all Fines and Fees taken of the said 
Persons to be excused serving the said office, and 
the appropriation thereof: also, by what Authority 
the Fines and Fees are levied, from 1st January 1830 
to 16th March 1837 inclusive. 


Ordered, 











Police 
Magistrates 
(Dublin.) 


Belfast 
Harbour. 


British 
Museum, 





7 Wut. IV. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return by the Magistrates of the Head Office of 
Police, Dublin, of the Sums annually received 
during the last Seven years, and up to the 5th 
January 1837, for Licenses for Public Cars, &amp;c., and 
for Figure-money; the Amount charged for each 
separately; the Amount received for Licenses and 
Figure-money during said period from the Citizens 
of Dublin for private Carts, Drays, Floats, &amp;c., not 
used as Vehicles for the accommodation of the 
Public, but for their own private use; the Autho- 
rity, if any, under which such Sums are levied, and 
the purposes to which the Money is appropriated. 


Mr. Fox Maule presented,—Further Returns to 
an Order, dated the 2d day of February last, for 
Accounts of the Rates levied by the Corporation for 
preserving and improving the Port and Harbour of 
Belfast, since the 23d August 1831, under an Act 
passed in that year, intituled, “ An Act for the fur- 
ther Improvement of the Port and Harbour of Bel- 
fast, in Ireland, and other purposes,” specifying 
separately the Sums received in each year for Pilot- 
age, Ballast, Quayage and Tonnage Dues ; also for 
Licenses; and distinguishing the Rates levied off 
Coasters from those levied off Vessels employed in 
the Foreign Trade, and also distinguishing the Rates 
paid by Steamers from those paid by other Vessels : 
—Of the Sum expended by the same Corporation 
for the same period, and the Memes of Expenditure :— 
A separate and detailed Account of the Money paid 
by the Corporation for Salaries or other Payments to 
Surveyors, Engineers, Parliamentary Agents, Soli- 
citors, and travelling Expenses of Members of the 
Corporation for the last Ten years :—Accounts of 
the Money expended in actual Work and purchase 
of Land for carrying into effect the Harbour Im- 
provement authorized by 1 and 2 Will. 4, c. 55 :— 
Of the Number of Persons who voted at the several 
Elections of Members of the Corporation under the 
Act 1 and 2 Will. 4, c.55:—Of the Lands and He- 
reditaments, the property of the Corporation, specify- 
ing the tenure by which they are held, and the 
Income derived from them :—Of the Suits pending 
to which the Corporation is a Party, and the nature 
thereof :—Of the Salaries paid by the Corporation, 
to whom, and for what Services, for the last Five 
years :—An Annual Account of the Vessels trading 
to and from the Port of Belfast for the last Five 
years, —s the Tonnage, and separating 
Steamers and Colliers from other Vessels :—And, 
an Account of the Vessels now registered in the 
Port of Belfast, with the Names of their Owners 
and Tonnage. 

Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table. 


And then the House, having continued to sit till 
half an hour after twelve of the clock on 
Tuesday morning, adjourned till this day. 








Martis, 21° die Martii; 
Anno 7° Willielmi IV" Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


RDERED, That there be laid before this 
House, an Account of the Income and Expen- 
diture of the British Museum for the year 1836, of 
the Estimated Charges and Expenses for the year 
ending 25th March 1838, and of the Sums necessary 
to discharge the same; and also an account of the 
Number of Persons admitted to view the Museum 
from Christmas 1830 to Christmas 1836. 

Mr. Cowtan from the British Museum was called 
in; and at the bar presented the said Account :— 
And then he withdrew. 

‘ ees That the said Account do lie upon the 
able. 






20°—21° Martie. 197 


Mr. Ruddle from the Audit Office, was called in ; Accountants 
and at the bar presented, pursuant to the directions Public, 
of several Acts of Parliament,—List of Officers and 
Departments whose Accounts are audited by the 
Commissioners for auditing the Public Accounts. 
An Account of the Arrears and Balances due to 
and from all Public Accountants on the 5th of 
January 1837, which have been stated or declared, 
completed to the 5th of January 1837. 

List of the Accounts depending in the Office of 
the Commissioners for auditing the Public Accounts, 
appointed under the authority of 46 Geo. 3, c. 141, 
and 1 and 2 Geo. 4, c. 121, which have not been 
audited, stated or declared, completed to the 28th 
February 1837 :—And then he withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Lists and Account do lie 
upon the Table. 


Mr. Wainewright, from the Trustees of the Liver- Liverpool Port. 

pool Docks, was called in ; and at the bar presented, 

pursuant to the directions of an Act of Parliament, 

—An Account of the Receipt and Disbursement of 

Dock and Light Duties at the Port of Liverpool, 

from the 25th June 1835 to the 24th June 1836 :— 

And then he withdrew, 

Ordered, That the said Account do lie upon the 

Table. 


A Petition of Rubert Bennett, of Gorton, in the Butterhoase 
parish of Manchester, praying that he may be heard, Green and 
by his counsel or agent, against certain parts of the Gar" ¥o*4 
utterhouse Green and Gorton Road Bill, was pre- 
sented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, if he 
think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the Bill, 
against the said Petition. 


The Wormegay Drainage Bill was read a second Wormegay 
time ; and committed to Sir William Browne Folkes Drainage Bill. 
and the Norfolk List. 


Ordered, That the Committee on the Dublin and Dublin and 
Kilkenny Railway Bill have Power to send for per- ene 
ailway Bill. 
sons, papers and records. 


The Dundalk and Dunleer Road Bill was read pundalk 
a second time; and committed to Mr. Emerson and Dunleer 
Tennent and the Ulster List. Road Bill. 


Petitions from Commissioners for paving, &amp;c. St. Pancras 
a portion of the parish of Saint Pancras, commonly Paving Bill. 
called The Doughty Estate ;—the Somers Town 
Estate ;—the Skinner’s Estate ;— Owners of pro- 
perty, Inhabitants and Rate-payers of that part of 
the parish of Saint Pancras called “ The South 
Western District” ;—and, Proprietors or Occupiers 
of houses on the estate of his Grace the Duke of 
Bedford, in the parish of Saint Pancras; praying 
that the Saint Pancras Paving Bill may not pass 
into a law,—were presented, and read ; and ordered 


~| to lie upon the Table. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- gt. Pancras 
posed, That the Saint Pancras Paving Bill be now Paving Bill. 
read a second time ; 

The Amendments following were proposed to be 
made to the Question; viz. To leave out the word 
“now” and at the end of the Question, to add the 
words “ upon this day six months.” 

And the Question being put, That the word 
“ now” stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 


Tellers for the { Sir Samuel Whalley, } 33 
Yeas, Mr. Henry Bulwer : : 

Tellers for theJ Mr. Tooke, } 51 
Noes, Mr: William Gladstone : : 


So it passed in the Negative. 





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Birmingham 
and Derby 
Railway. 


Exeter and 
Falmouth 
Railway Bill. 


Westminster 
Bridge and 
Greenwich 


Railway Bill. 


Ipswich 
Improvement 
and Docks Bill. 


Manchester 
and Staffurd 
Railway Bill. 


Manchester 


(Victoria Park) 


Improvement 


Bill. 


Bolton and 
Preston 
Railway Bill, 


198 


And the Question being put, That the words 
“upon this day six months” be added at the end 
of the Question :—It was resolved in the Affir- 
mative. 

Then the main Question, so amended, being 

ut ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
this day six months. 


A Petition of the Birmingham and Derby Junc- 
tion Railway Company, for leave to present a Petition 
for leave to bring in a Bill to alter, amend and ex- 
tend the line of the said Railway, and to amend the 
Act relating thereto, was presented, and read; and 
referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for Pri- 
vate Bills. 

Petitions from Owners and Occupiers of land on 
the line of the Birmingham and Derby Railway ;— 
Theophilus Levett, of Wichnor Park, in the county 
of Stafford, Esquire ;—The honourable Fulk Gre- 
ville Howard, of Elford Park, in the county of 
Stafford ;—and, Owners and Occupiers of lands 
upon the proposed new line of the Birmingham and 
Derby Railway ; praying that the promoters of the 
said Bill may not be allowed to proceed with their 
Bill,—were presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


The Exeter and Falmouth Railway Bill was read 
a second time; and committed to Lord Viscount 
Ebrington and the Devon List. 

Ordered, That all the Members serving for the se- 
veral Counties and for the Boroughs therein, through 
which Counties the said Railway is intended to pass, 
be Members of the said Committee. 

A Petition of Shareholders in the said Railway, 
praying that the said Bill may not pass into a law 
as it now stands, was presented, and read ; and re- 
ferred to the Committee on the Bill. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Newington Place, 
Kennington, praying that the Westminster Bridge 
and Greenwich Railway Bill may not pass into a 
law, was — and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


The Jpswich Improvement and Docks Bill was 
read a second time ; and committed to Mr. Wason 
and the Suffolk List. 


Petitions from Proprietors of land, iron works and 
mines, Traders and Inhabitants of Shiffnall, [ron- 
bridge, Madeley, and Colebrookdale ;—and, Inha- 
bitants of Shrewsbury ; praying that the Manchester 
and Stafford Railway Bill may pass into a law,— 
were presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 


the Table. 


A Petition of William Froggott, of Manchester, 
praying that he may be heard, by his counsel or 
agent, against certain parts of the Manchester (Vic- 
toria Park) Improvement Bill, was presented, and 
read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, if he 
think fit ; and counsel heard, in favour of the Bill, 
against the said Petition. 


A Petition of the Right honourable the Earl of 
Balcarres, William Hulton, of Hulton Park, in the 
county of Lancaster, Esquire, Alexander Hamilton, 
of Whitley-within- Wigan, inthe said county, Esquire, 
John Fowden Hodgson, of Heskin Hail, in the said 
county, Esquire, Thomas Hawkeshead, of Heskin 
aforesaid, Esquire, ment Thicknesse, of Beech Hill 
within-Wigan aforesaid, Esquire, praying that the 
Bolton and Preston Railway Bill may not pass into 
a law, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


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A. 1837. 


A Petition of Charles Throckmorton and others, Birmingham 
Trustees for repairmg the Road from Spernal Ash, and Gloucester 
in the county of Warwick, through Studley to Bir- ®silway Bill, 
mingham, praying that the Birmingham and Glou- 
cester Railway Bill may not pass into a law as it 
now stands, was presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


The Bolton and Preston Railway Bill was read Bolton and 
a second time; and committed to Mr. Ainsworth — 
and the Lancaster List. iil: 
Ordered, That all the Members serving for the 

several Counties, and for the Boroughs therein, 

through which Counties the said Railway is intended 

to pass, be Members of the said Committee. 


A Petition of Owners and Occupiers*of Estates Elland Bridge 
and Inhabitants of Elland-cum-Greetland, praying = Dewsbury 
that they may be heard, by their counsel or agents, onion 
against certain parts of the Elland Bridge and 
Dewsbury Road Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 1 
by their counsel or agents, upon their Petition, if 
they think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


The Dundee Improvement Bill was read a second Dundee | 
time ; and committed to Sir Henry Parnell and the —— 
East Scotland List. - 


A Petition of Magistrates and Town Council of Edinburgh 
the royal burgh of Dundee, praying that the Edin- ae Nn = 
burgh and Glasgow Railway Bill may pass into — 
a law, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of the Ward of Aldgate, London and 
in the city of London, praying that they may be seme 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, against Railway Bill. 
certain parts of the London and Blackwall Com- 
mercial Railway Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the joe Petition be referred to 
the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counselor agents, upon 
their Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of Shareholders in the South Midland Courteenball 
Counties Railway, praying that they may be heard, #4 Ore) 
by their counsel or agents, against certain parts of way Bill 
the Courteenhall and Great Wigston Railway Bill, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 


the Table. 


A Petition of William Logan White, Esquire, of Edinburgh 
Killerstain, in the county of Edinburgh, praying 24 Giessen 
that he may be heard, by himself, his counsel or ee 
agent, against certain parts of the Edinburgh and 
Glasgow Railway Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by himself, his counsel or agent, upon his Peti- 
tition, if he think fit; and counsel heard, in favour 
of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of Richard Lill, of Vauxhall, Grocer, Southwark and 
was presented, and read; setting forth, That the een 
Petitioner has been informed, that a Petition was pre- soir oa 
sented to the House on the 16th day of this instant 
March, in the name of the Petitioner, complaining 
of certain persons therem named, and charging 
them as therein mentioned; that the Petitioner was 
induced to sign said Petition on the representation 
made to him, that it was to accompany a general 
Petition, emanating from a number of — 
on the line, who were opposed to the Railway 
going through their lands ; but the Petitioner never 
intended that he was alone to present a private or 





individual 





7 Wit. IV. 


individual Petition; that the Petitioner is unac- 
quainted with the persons or circumstances of the 
individuals mentioned in said Petition of the 16th 
instant, and never intended to bring charges, or 
wound the feelings of any persons, much less of 
those persons named in the said Petition, whom the 
Petitioner does not know; that counsel attending 
on the Committee of the Southwark and Hammer- 
smith Railway Bill, and in opposition thereto, stated 
that he appeared as counsel for the Petitioner, and 
obtained two adjournments of the proceedings before 
the Committee, until the merits of the Petitioner’s 
Petition had been gone into before the House; that 
the Petitioner has never instructed any person to 
employ counsel on his behalf to prosecute the 
said Petition; nor is it his wish or desire that 
such Petition should be proceeded with; and pray- 
ing that he may be permitted to withdraw his 
said Petition. 

Ordered, That the said Petition do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


Message from 


A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Wingfield 


the Lords. and Mr. Farrer: 
Mr. Speaker, 
The Lords have agreed to the several Bills follow- 
ing, without Amendment; viz. 
Sancti of Site A Bill, intituled, An Act to apply the Sum of 


Two Millions to the Service of the year One thou- 
sand eight hundred and thirty-seven : 


Rochdale and A Bill, intituled, An Act for repairin 
Bumley Roads ing 
Bill. 


g, maintain- 
and improving the Road from the Town of 
Rochdale, to near Hand Bridge, near the Town of 
Burnley, and other Roads communicating there- 
with, and for making and maintaining other Roads 
also to communicate therewith, all in the County 
Palatine of Lancaster : 


Dee (South) A Bill, intituled, An Act for making and main- 


Road Bill. — taining a Turnpike Road along the South Side of 
the River Dee, in the County of Kincardine: 
Worcester A Bill, intituled, An Act to amend and enlarge 


— Hall the Powers of an Act passed in the First and Second 
= years of His present Majesty, for erecting a County 
Hall and Courts of Justice, and also for providing 
Accommodation for His Majesty’s Justices of Assize 

in and for the County of Worcester : 


Winfrith and A Bill, intituled, An Act for inclosing Lands in 

ba Inclosure the Parishes of Winfrith, Newburgh and Wool, in 
; the County of Dorset: And also, 

Newbold The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 


Tnclosure Bill. A ct for inclosing Lands in the Manor of Newbold, in 
the Parish of Chesterfield, in the County of Derby, 
with an Amendment; to which Amendment the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House: And 
also, 


Wills Bill. The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
for the Amendment of the Law with respect to 
Wills ; to which the Lords desire the concurrence 
of this House:—And then the Messengers with- 
drew. 

Wills Bill. The Wills Bill was read the first time ; and or- 
No. 141.. dered to be read a second time upon Monday, the 
3d day of April next; and to be printed. 

Sevenoaks The Sevenoaks and Woodsgate Road Bill was 
ao read a second time; and committed to Sir Edward 

“""" Knatchbull and the Kent List. 
Newbold The House proceeded to take into consideration 


lnclosure Bill. the Amendment made by the Lords to the Bill, 
intituled, An Act for inclosing Lands in the Manor 
of Newbold, in the Parish of Chesterfield, in the 
County of Derby; and the same was read, as 
followeth : 
Pr. 47. 1, 16. Leave out from “ being” to “ sav- 
“ ing,” in Pr, 48. 1. 14. 
e said Amendment, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 


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199 


Ordered, That Mr. George Cavendish do carry the 
Bill to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this 
House hath agreed to the Amendment made by their 
Lordships. 


A Petition of Elizabeth Slaney, of Fisher-lane, Greenwich 
Greenwich, praying that she may be heard, by her- Pier Bill 
self, her counsel or agent, against certain parts of 

the Greenwich Pier Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 

by herself, her counsel or agent, upon her Petition, 

if she think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of 

the Bill, against the said Petition. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Whitby and 
the Report which, upon the 8th day of this instant Pickering | 
March, was made from the Committee on the Whitby Relive Bi. 
and Pickering Railway Bill, printed Copies of the 

Bill having been delivered at the door upon Fri- 

day last; and the Amendments were read, and 

agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 

be ingrossed. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Liverpool and 
the Report which, upon the 8th day of this instant Piarchestr 
March, was made from the Committee on the Liver- “""*Y “"" 
pool and Manchester Railway Bill, printed Copies 

of the Bill having been ‘delivered at the door upon 

Friday last; and the Amendments were read, and 

agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 


ingrossed. 


A Petition of Henry Kemshead, of Paddington, Great Western 
in the county of Middlesex, Esquire, praying that pe mu 
the Great Western Railway Bill (Paddington), may ‘ ngs 
be re-committed, and that he may be heard, by 

himself, his counsel or agent, against certain parts 

thereof, was presented, and read; and ordered to 

lie upon the Table. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Great Western 
the Report which, upon the 6th day of this instant Railway Bill 
March, was made from the Committee on the Great ey 
Western Railway Bill (Paddington), printed Copies 
of the Bill having been delivered at the door upon 
Friday, the 10th day of this instant March; and the 
the Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 
posed, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be in- 
grossed ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ Bill” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words, “ be re-committed for the purpose of ascer- 

“ taining the terms upon which the Bishop of 
“ London has agreed to dispose of certain Church 
“ Lands in the parish of Paddington, to the Great 
“ Western Railway Company,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Question : 
—It was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Great Western 
the Report which upon the 10th day of this instant Railway Bill 
March was made from the Commitiee on the Great (Tw&gt;ridge.) 
Western Railway Bill ( Trowbridge), printed Copies 
of the Bill having been delivered at the door upon 
Friday last ; and the Amendments were read, and 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 


ingrossed. 


A Petition of Sir John Scott Lillie, of North End, Southwark ana 
Fulham, Knight and Companion of the most honour- Hammersmith 
able Order of the Bath, praying that he may be ““ "7 ©" 





Vot. 92. 














cc4 heard, 











Glasgow and 
Ayr Railway 
Bill. 


British 
Museum. 


Mutiny Bill. 


Marine Mutiny 
Bill. 


Emigration 
(Canada. ) 
Ho. 132. 
Education 
(Scotland.) 
No. 133. 
Ccnrt of 
Chancery. 


No. 143. 


Crown Lands. 


Corn Laws. 


200 21° Martiz. 


heard, by himself, his counsel or agent, against 
certain parts of the Southwark and Hammersmith 
Railway Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by himself, his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, 
if he think fit ; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of Mrs. Margaret Harvey, of Castle- 
semple, and Colonel James Harvey, of Castlesemple, 
her husband, praying that they may be heard, by 
themselves, their counsel or agents, against certain 
parts of the Glasgow and Ayr Railway Bill, was 
presented, and read, 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of the Trustees of the British Museum 
being offered to be presented ; 

Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, by His Ma- 
jesty’s command, acquainted the House, that His 
Majesty, having been informed of the contents of 
the said Petition, recommends it to the consideration 
of the House. 

Then the said Petition was read; setting forth, 
That the only funds belonging to the Petitioners, for 
the support of the British Museum, consist of 
30,000/. 3 per cent. Reduced Bank Annuities, the 
annual dividends whereof amount to 900/., and also 
of a bequest of the late Earl of Bridgewater, the 
annual proceeds of which amount to about 4151. ; 
that the Establishment is necessarily attended with 
an expense far beyond the annual produce of the 
above-mentioned sums, and the Trust cannot, with 
benefit to the Public, be carried on without the aid 
of Parliament ; and praying the House to grant 
them such further support towards enabling them 
to carry on the execution of the trust reposed in 
them by Parliament for the general benefit of learn- 
ing and useful knowledge as to the House shall 
seem meet. 

Ordered, That the said Petition do lie upon the 
Table. 


Lord Viscount Howick presented a Bill for punish- 
ing Mutiny and Desertion, and for the better pay- 
ment. of the Army and their Quarters: And the 
same was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time To-morrow. 


Mr. Charles Wood presented a Bill for the regu- 
lation of His Majesty’s Royal Marine Forces while 
on shore: And the same was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time To-morrow. 


Ordered, That the annual Report on the subject 
of Emigration (Canada), which was presented upon 
Friday last, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Return relative to Education 
(Scotland), which was presented upon Friday last, 
be printed. 

Ordered, That the Return relative to the Court 
of Chancery, which was presented yesterday, be 
printed. 





Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer presented, pur- 
suant to Order,—Abstract of the Twelfth Report of 
the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the 
state and condition of the Woods, Forests and Land 
Revenues of the Crown :~ 25 May 1792. 

Abstract of the Four Reports of the Surveyor- | 
General of His Majesty’s Land Revenues under the | 
provisions of the Act 34 Geo. 3, c. 75 :—1797-1809. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 





A. 1837. 


the Corn Laws, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Bakers of Waterford ;—Coopers of Foreign Grain, 


Waterford ;—Millers, and others, of Waterford ;— 
Merchants and Ship-owners of Waterford ;—Clon- 
mel, Caher and Clogheen ;—Dublin ;—Plymouth ;— 
and, Bristol ; praying that a Bill may be passed for 
allowing Foreign Grain in bond to be ground for 
the purpose of exportation,—were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- Foreign Grain, 


posed, That the Laws which prohibit the manufacture 
of Foreign Grain, Flour and Meal in bond, for ex- 
portation, are injurious to the interests of British 
Commerce and Navigation, and unjust in restraining 
the free employment of capital and labour in the 
United Kingdom, whilst they afford direct en- 
couragement and undue advantage to the Foreigner 
in a valuable branch of Trade, not only with other 
States but with our own Colonies, and that it is 
expedient to alter and amend the same, 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” to 
the end of the Question, in order to add the words 
“this House do resolve itself into a Committee, 
“for the purpose of considering the Laws which 
“ regulate the importation of Foreign Grain, with a 
“* view to allow the manufacture of the same in bond 
“ for exportation,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Question : 
—The said proposed Amendment and Motion were 
severally, with leave of the House, withdrawn. 

A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 
posed, That this House do resolve itself into a Com- 
mittee, for the purpose of considering the Laws 
which regulate the importation of Foreign Grain, 
with a view to allow the manufacture of the same 
in bond for exportation:—And a Debate arising 
thereupon ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question being 
put, That the Debate be adjourned till Tuesday, the 
11th day of April next. 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the old Lobby; 

The Noes to the new Lobby. 

Tellers for the ¢ Mr. Pease, 39 

Yeas, \ Sir Thomas Troubridge : } si 

Tellers for the { Mr. Robinson, 

Noes, \ Mr. Warburton: 28. 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- Church Lands. 


posed, ‘That there be laid before this House, Copies 
of all the Parliamentary Surveys of Church Lands, 
preserved in the Library of Manuscripts at Lambeth, 
and which were made under an Ordinance of Par- 
liament in 1646 :—And the said Motion was, with 
leave of the House, withdrawn. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being put, Men-of-War 
That there be laid before this House, a Return of the 't ** °° 


Number of Men-of-war that have been run on shore 
or lost at Sea since 1820, with the Names of their 
Commanders or Captains, the Dates when these 
Commanding Officers entered the Naval Service, the 
Number of years they served as Midshipmen, Lieu- 
tenants and Commanders, their Age at the time of 
promotion as Lieutenant, Commander and Captain ; 
also the expense incurred in repairing the Vessels 
run on Shore, and the value of those lost at Sea ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 


Tellers for the Yeas, { iy aes : 





A Petition of Members of the National Radical | 
Association of Scotland, praying for the repeal of 





} 13 
Tellers forthe Noes, Sir Charles Adam, } 45. 


Lord Dalmeny : 


So it passed in the Negative. 
Ordered, 





7 Wut. IV. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Names of the Commanders posted in 
the Flag Promotion of 10th January last ; the Date 
of entry into the Service, and of their Commission 
as Midshipmen, Lieutenants and Commanders ; 
. also, the length of Service of each since their pro- 
motion as Commanders. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being put, 
That there be laid before this House, a Return of 
those Admirals, Captains and Commanders, who 
have been more than once employed since 1825, 
and the length of such employment :-—It passed in 
the Negative. 


Ordered, That Mr. Loch be discharged from any 
further attendance on the Select Committee on the 
Poor Law Act. 

Ordered, That Mr. Freshfield be added to the 
Committee. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return of the Number of Executions 
which took place for London and Middiesex in three 
years ending 31st December 1830, in three years 
ending 31st December 1833, and in three years 
ending 31st December 1836; together with the 
Number of Commitments in each of those periods 
respectively, for Offences that were capital, on 1st 
January 1830. 

Ordered, That the said Address be F emsacety to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


The House was moved, That the Report which, 
upon the 26th day of July 1832, was made from the 
Select Committee on Turnpike Roads (Jreland), 
might be read ; and the same being read ; 

Resolved, That this House will, immediately, re- 
solve itself“into a Committee to consider of the ex- 

diency of consolidating the Trusts of the several 
Turnpike Roads leading from the City of Dublin, 
and to substitute a Local Assessment in lieu of the 
Tolls levied on such Roads within the immediate 
vicinity of Dublin. 

The House, accordingly, resolved itself into the 
Committee. 

(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That it is expedient to consolidate the 
Trusts of the several Turnpike Roads leading from 
the City of Dublin, and to substitute a local assess- 
ment in lieu of the Tolls levied on such Roads 
within the immediate vicinity of Dublin. 

Resolution to be reported. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Tancred 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Re- 
solution. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 


Petitions from Sheffield ;—President and Secre- 
tary of the Bristol Chamber of Commerce ;—and, 
Manchester; praying that the Imprisonment for 
Debt Bill, may not pass into a law,—were pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 





The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
further consideration the Report on the Imprison- 
ment for Debt Bill :—The Bill was re-committed to 
a Committee of the whole House :—And the House 
immediately resolved itself into the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 


Bill read 1°; to be read 2°, paragraph by para- 
graph. 

Preamble postponed. 

Cravse, N° 1, agreed to. 

Cravuse, N° 2, amended, and agreed to. 

Cravses, N° 3 to N° 11, agreed to. 

Criausg, N° 12 (Defendant to deliver a Schedule 
of his Effects)——read. 

Vot. 92. 


21°—22° Marti. 





201 


Amendment proposed: P. 7. 1. 17. To leave out 
from the word “ Westminster” to the word “and” 
in 1, 20. 

Question, That the words proposed to be left out 
stand part of the Clause. 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
Chairman do report Progress; and ask leave to sit 
again. 

Motion, by leave, withdrawn. 

Question put, That the words proposed to be left 
out stand part of the Clause. 

The Committee divided : 


Tellers for the ¢ Mr. Solicitor General, a 
Ayes, Mr. John Parker: J nie 
Tellers for the ( Mr. Richards, 39 
Noes, Mr. Wason: ‘m7 
Amendment 


proposed : P. 8. 1. 38. After the 
word “answer” to insert the words “ or shall 
“ knowingly and wilfully answer falsely ” put, 
and agreed to. 

To report Progress ; 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill; and that he was directed to move, That 
the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 





and ask leave to sit again. 





And the House having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Wednesday morning ; 


Mercurii, 22° die Martti, 1837: 


Law Courts Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Wednesday, the 12th day of 
April next. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Summary 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased Convictions. 


to give directions that there be laid before this 
House, a Return from the Clerks of the Peace in 
England and Wales, of the Number of Summary 
Convictions filed with them in the year ending 
Michaelmas 1835. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House, as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented First Fruits and 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased Tenths’ Office, 
to give directions, that there be laid before this ** 


House, a Return of the Names, Salaries, Fees and 
Emoluments of every Patentee or Officer of the fol- 
lowing Offices; namely, the First Fruits Office, 
Tenths Office, and Queen Anne’s Bounty Office ; 
also, the Amount of all Office contingencies ; also, 
the gross Amount of the Sums received at the First 
Fruits and Tenths Office, in each year from 1832 to 
1836 inclusive. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this hares as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Mr. Baring reported from the Select Committee standing 
on Standing Orders relative to Private Bills, several Orders; 


Resolutions, which were read, as follow: 


1. Resolved, That in the case of the Petition for Lou 


the Lough Swilly and Lough Foyle Canal and 
Drainage Bill, the Parties be permitted to proceed 
with such parts of their Bill as relate to Drainage 
within the district connected with Lough Swilly, on 
abandoning so much of their Bill as slbted to Navi- 
gation; and that the Parties have further leave to 

roceed with such parts of their Bill as relate to 
Eaedings within the district connected with Lough 
Foyle, with the exception of the Parish of Upper 
Moville, upon producing to the Committee on the 
Bill an affidavit sworn before a Judge in Ireland, 





DD of 





The Order of the day being read, for taking into Common Law 
further consideration the Report on the Common ©"s Bill. 





Leith ard 
Newhaven 
Harbours, &amp;c. 


Edinburgh Ale 
and Beer 
Duties. 


Bankrupts’ 
Estates 
(Scotland) Bill. 


No. 135. 


Bankruptcy 
(Scotland) Bill. 


No, 136. 


Sberiff and 
Burgh Courts 
(Scotland) Bill, 


No, 137. 


Church Rates. 


Church Rates 


Gorbals Poli¢e 
Bill. 


202 


of the necessary notices having been affixed on the 
Church door of the Parish of Faughanvale. 

2. Resolved, That in the case of the Petition for 
the Leith and Newhaven Harbours, &amp;c. Bill,the Parties 
be permitted to proceed with their Bill, on abandon- 
ing every portion thereof, except so much as relates 
to the renewal of the Ale and Beer Duty; and that 
the Committees on this and the preceding Bill, do 
examine how far such Orders have been complied 
with; and do report the same to the House on the 
Report of the Bill. 

he said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 


The House was moved, That the Report in respect 
of the Petition for the Leith and Newhaven Harbours, 
&amp;c., Bill, which was this day made from the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders relative to Private 
Bills, might be read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for continuing the vey | of Two Pennies Scots upon 
every Pint of Ale and Beer sold within the Bound- 
aries of the City of Edinburgh and the Town of 
Leith: And that the Lord Advocate and Mr. 
Attorney General do prepare, and bring it in. 


The Lord Advocate presented a Bill for regulating 
the Sequestration of the Estates of Bankrupts in 
Scotland: And the same was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Wednes- 
day, the 5th day of April next ; and to be printed. 


The Lord Advocate presented a Bill to amend the 
Law of Scotland in matters relating to Bankruptcy, 
Personal Diligence, Arrestments, Poinding of Goods, 
Inhibitions, Adjudications, Judicial Sales, Powers 
of Sale and Poindings of the Ground: And the same 
was read the first time ; and ordered to be read a 
second time upon Wednesday, the 5th day of April 
next ; and to be printed. 


The Lord Advocate presented a Bill to regulate 
the Constitution, Jurisdiction and Forms of Process 
of Sheriff and Burgh Courts in Scotland: And the 
same was read the first time ; and ordered to be read 
a second time upon Wednesday, the 5th day of April 
next; and to be printed. 


The House was moved, That the Order made upon 
the 8th day of February last, for presenting to His 
Majesty an humble Address, that He will be gra- 
ciously pleased to give directions, that there be laid 
before this House, an Account of the Sums now 
due and owing which have been borrowed on the 
credit of the Church Rates in the several Parishes 
of England and Wales; stating how secured, whether 
by Mortgage, Annuity, or otherwise, and the Names 
of the Parties to whom such Sums are due and 
owing, might be read; and the same being read ; 


Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return of the Parishes in England and 
Wales where there are Debts contracted on the credit 
of the Church Rates; stating the Name of each 
Parish, the Amount of the existing Debt, and the 
Authority under which the same was contracted ; 
the Dates and nature of the engagements, and 
whether secured upon Church Rates or Poor Rates, 
or upon any other and what Property or Income. 

Ordered, That the said Address 4 presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
&gt;f His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Ordered, That the Gorbals Police Bill be read 


a second time this day. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
tilla quarter of an hour after twelve of the 
clock on Wednesday morning, adjourned till 
this day. 





Q1°—29° Martii. 





A. 1837. 


Mercurii, 22° die Martii; 
Anno 7° Willielmi IV‘i Regis, 18 37. 


PRAYERS. 
Ms’ Greene reported from the Committee on Mansergh, &amp;c,, 
the Mansergh, &amp;c., Inclosure Bill ; That the Iclosure Bill, 
Standing Orders relative to Bills of Inclosure, had 
been complied with; and that they had examined 
the allegations of the Bill, and found the same to be 
true; and that the parties concerned had given their 
consent to the Bill, to the satisfaction of the Com- 
mittee ; and that the Committee had gone through 
the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto; and the 
Amendments were read, and agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


An ingrossed Bill for enabling the Liverpool and Liverpool and 
Manchester Railway Company to raise more Money, ema 
and for amending and enlarging the Powers and *“!™*y Bill. 
Provisions of the several Acts relating to the said 
Railway, was read the third time ; and an ingrossed 
Clause was added to the Bill, by way of rider. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Greene do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Mertoun Bridge Bill was read a second time ; Mertoun_ 
and committed to Sir Hugh Campbell and the East Bridge Bill. 
Scotland List. 


A Message, by Sir Augustus Clifford, Gentleman Royal Assent 

Usher of the Black Rod : to Bills. 
Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords, authorized by virtue of His Majesty’s 
Commission for declaring fis Royal Assent to seve- 
ral Acts agreed upon by both Houses, do desire the 
immediate attendance of this Honourable House in 
the House of Peers, to hear the Commission read. 

Accordingly Mr. Speaker, with the House, went 
up to the House of Peers :—And being returned ; 

Mr. Speaker reported, That the House, at the desire 
of the Lords, authorized by virtue of His Majesty’s 
Commission, had been at the House of Peers, where 
a Commission under the Great Seal was read, giving, 
declaring and notifying the Royal Assent to the 
several Public and Private Bills therein mentioned ; 
and that the Lords thereby authorized, had declared 
the Royal Assent to the said Bills :—Which Bills 
are as follow: 

An Act to apply the Sum of Two Millions to the Transfer of 
Service of the year One thousand eight hundred and “4s Bill. 
thirty-seven : 

An Act to amend and enlarge the Powers of an Worcester 
Act passed in the first and second years of His pre- — Hall 

. . il. 
sent Majesty, for erecting a County Hall and Courts 
of Justice, and also for providing accommodation 
for His Majesty’s' Justices of Assize in and for the 
County of Worcester : 

An Act for lighting with Gas the Town of Run- Runcorn Gas 
corn, otherwise called Higher Runcorn and Lower Bill. 
Runcorn, and also the Township or Chapelry of 
Halton, both in the Parish of Runcorn, in the 
County of Chester : 

An Act for making and maintaining a Turnpike Dee (South) 
Road along the South side of the River Dee, in the Ro#4 Bill 
County of Kincardine: 

An Act for repairing, maintaining and improving Rochdale and 
the Road from the Town of Rochdale to near Hand — — 
Bridge, near the Town of Burnley, and other Roads ~ 
communicating therewith, and for making and main- 
taining other Snr also to communicate therewith, 


all in the County Palatine of Lancaster : 

An Act for inclosing Lands in the Parishes of Winfrith and 
Winfrith, Newburgh and Wool, in the County —— Inclosure 
Dorset : 

An Act for inclosing Lands in the Manor of New- Newbold In- 
bold, in the Parish of Chesterfield, in the County ¢losre Bill 
of Derby : 


Mr. 





Answer to 
Addresses. 


Highland Roads 


and Bridges. 


Public Income 
and Expendi- 
ture. 


Consolidated 
Fond, 


National Debt, 


Funded Debt. 





7 Witt. IV. 


Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer reported to the 
House, That their several Addresses of the 16th, 
20th and 21st days of this instant March (that His 
ent would be graciously pleased to give direc- 
tions, that the Papers therein mentioned might be 
laid before this House), had been presented to His 
Majesty, and that His Majesty had commanded him 
to acquaint this House, that He will give directions 
accordingly. 


Mr. Loch presented, pursuant to the directions 
of an Act of Parliament,—The Twenty-third Re- 
— of the Commissioners of Highland Roads and 

ridges. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the Table. 


Mr, Crafer, from the Treasury, was called in ; and 
at the bar presented, pursuant to the directions of 
several Acts of Parliament,—An Account of the 
Ordinary Revenues and Extraordinary Resources 
constituting the Public Income of the United King- 
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, for the year 
ending 5th January 1837. 

An Account of the Ordinary Revenues and Extra- 
ordinary Resources constituting the Public Income 
of Great Britain, for the year ending 5th January 
1837. 

An Account of the Ordinary Revenues and Extra- 
ordinary Resources constituting the Public Income 
of Ireland, for the year ending 5th January 1837. 

An Account of the Total Income of the Revenue 
of Great Britain and Ireland in the year ended 
5th January 1837, after deducting the Re-payments, 
Allowances, Discounts, Drawbacks and Bounties of 
the nature of Drawbacks ; together with an Account 
of the Public Expenditure of the United Kingdom, 
exclusive of the Sums applied to the reduction of 
the National Debt within the same period. 

An Account of the Net Public Income of the 
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in 
the year ended 5th January 1837, after abating the 
Expenditure thereout defrayed by the several Re- 
venue Departments; and of the actual Issues or 
Payments within the same period, exclusive of the 
Sums applied to the redemption of Funded or pay- 
ing off Unfunded Debt; and of the Advances and 
Re-payments for Local Works, &amp;c.;—Account of 
the Balances of Public Money remaining in the 
Exchequer on the 5th January 1836 ; the Amount 
of Money raised by the additions to the Funded or 
Unfunded Debt in the year ended 5th January 1837; 
the Money applied towards the Redemption of the 
Funded or paying off Unfunded Debt; the Total 
Amount of Advances and Re-payments on account 
of Local Works, &amp;c., with the Difference accruing 
thereon, and the Balances in the Exchequer on 5th 
January 1837. 

An Account of the Income of the Consolidated 
Fund arising in the United Kingdom, in the year 
ended 5th January 1837; and also of the actual 
Payments, on account of the Consolidated Fund, 
within the same period. 

An Account of the Money applicable to the pay- 
ment of the Consolidated Fund of the United King- 
dom, in the year ended 5th January 1837, and of 
the several Charges which have become due thereon 
in the same year; including the Amount of Ex- 
chequer Bills charged upon the said Fund, at the 
commencement and at the termination of the said 
year ; with Appendices. 

An Account of the actual Receipt and Expen- 
diture of the Sums placed in the hands of the Com- 
missioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, 
year ended 5th January 1837. 

An Account of the Total Amount of the Unre- 
deemed Funded Debt, and the Charge thereof, at 
the 5th January 1836; of the Debt, and Charge 
thereof, createdin the year ended 5th January 1837; 
of the Debt, and Charge thereof, reduced in the 
course of that year; and of the Total Amount of the 
Vo. 92. 


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203 


Unredeemed Debt, and Charge, as it stood on the 
5th January 1837. 

An Account of the state of the Public Funded 
Debt of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Charge 
thereupon, at the 5th January 1837. 


An Account of the Unfunded Debt of Great Bri- U: 
tain and Ireland, and of the Demands outstanding, P 


on the 5th January 1837, distinguishing Exchequer 
Bills; Sums remaining unpaid, charged upon the 
Aids granted by Parliament; Advances out of the 
Consolidated Fund in Jreland, towards the Supplies, 
and Exchequer Bills to be issued on the Consoli- 
dated Fund; and distinguishing also such part of 
the Unfunded Debt and Demands as have been pro- 
vided for by Parliament; together with an Account 
of the Ways and Means remaining in the Exche- 
&gt; or to be received, on the 5th January 1837, to 
efray such part of the Unfunded Debt, and De- 
mands outstanding, as have been provided for ; with 
Appendices. 

n Account, showing 
the Service of the United Kingdom of Great Britain 
and Ireland, for the year 1836, have been disposed 
of, distinguished ote their several heads, to the 
5th January 1837. 





nfunded 
ebt. 


how the Monies given for Disposition of 
Grants. 


Customs; Out-Ports, England, Scotland, Ireland ; Arrears and 


—Account of the Total Amount of Current Balances 
in the hands of the respective Collectors, and 
Arrears of Balances of late Collectors, on the 5th 
January 1837. 

An f Hors of the Total Amount of the Arrears 
and Current Balances due, on the 5th January 1837, 
from the Officers of Excise in England, from 5th 
January 1774, as far as the same can be made up. 

An Account of the Total Amount of the Arrears 
and Current Balances due, on the 5th January 1857, 
from the Officers of Excise in Scotland, from 5th 
January 1774, as far as the same can be made up. 

Excise, Jreland :—An Account of the Arrears and 
Current Balances due on 5th January 1837, from 
the Officers of Excise in Ireland, from 5th January 
1774. 


Balances. 


An Account of the Total Amount of Arrears due, Stamps 


on 5th January 1837, from Distributors of Stamps (Great Britaio 


in Great Britain, who have died or gone out of office 
since 5th January 1800, so far as the same can be 
made up. 

An Account of the Net Balances in the hands of 
the Distributors of Stamps in Great Britain, on the 
10th October 1836 and 5th January 1837 respec- 
tively. 

~ Ireland:—An Account of Arrears and 
Balances due from former and present Distributors, 
&amp;c., of the Stamps Department in Ireland, on the 
5th January 1837. 


An Account of the Total Amount of the Arrears Taxes 


and Current Balances due, on the 5th January 1837, (Great Britain.) 


from the Receiving Officers of the Land and Assessed 
Taxes in Great Britain, from 5th January 1790, so 
far as the same can be made up. 

Taxes, Ireland:—An Account of deceased and 
dismissed Tax Collectors’ Balances on 5th January 
1837. 

Taxes, Ireland:—An Account of a Balance due, 
by a deceased Revenue Collector, on account of 
Taxes, on the 5th January 1837. 

An Account of Arrears due, from late Postmasters 
in England, on 5th January 1837 ; and, an Account 
of Irrecoverable Debts due, from late Postmasters 
in Scotland, on 5th January 1837 :—Also, an Ac- 
count of Recoverable Debts due, from late Post- 
masters in Scotland, on 5th January 1837. 

An Account of Balances and Arrears due from 
Deputy Postmasters and Agents in Great Britain 
a the Colonies; also, of Balances in the hands 
of the Receiver-General, in the years 1835 and 
1836. 

An Account of Arrears due by deceased, dismissed 
and resigned Deputy Postmasters and Letter-carriers 
in Lreland, on the 5th January 1837. 


DD2 Ap 








Increase and 
Diminution of 
Salaries. 


Superanuua- 
tions, 


Committa!s 


(Ireland.) 


Beerhouses. 


Hull Port. 


Bonded Goods. 


Fees in Public 
Departments. 


Prisoners. 


Law Offices 
(Scotland. ) 


204 


An Account of Balances and Arrears due, from 
Deputy Postmasters and others in the General Post 
Office, Ireland, in the years 1835 and 1836. 

Auditors of the Land Revenue :—An Account of 
the Total Amount of the Balances due, on the 5th 
January 1837, from the several Persons employed 
in receiving or collecting the Land Revenues of the 
Crown in England and Wales, Alderney, and the 
Isle of Man. 

An Account of every Increase and Diminution 
which has taken place within the year 1836, in the 
Number of Persons employed, or in the Salaries, 
Emoluments, Allowances and Expenses in all Public 
Offices or Departments. 

An Account of all Allowances or Compensations 
granted, as Retired Allowances or Superannuations, 
in all Public Offices or Departments, which remained 
payable on the ist January 1836; the Annual 
Amount which was granted in the course of the year 
1836; the Annual Amount which ceased in the 
course of the year 1836 ; and the Total Amount re- 
maining payable on the 31st of December 1836. 

Returns from the Clerks of the Crown and Clerks 
of the Peace of the several Counties, &amp;c., in Jreland, 
of the Number of Persons committed to the different 
Gaols thereof for Trial in the year 1836. 

Mr. Crafer also presented, pursuant to Orders,— 
A Return of the Number of Houses licensed to sell 
Beer and Cider by retail in England and Wales 
during the year 1836; distinguishing those in which 
it is permitted to be consumed on the premises, and 
those in which it is not. 

Return to an Order, dated the 10th day of this 
instant March, for an Account of the Number of 
Vessels, including Steamers, :and their Tonnage, 
which have entered the Port of Hu// from Foreign 
Ports and Coastwise, in the year 1836; distinguish- 
ing the Vessels with Cargoes, in Ballast, and those 
which had discharged a part of their Cargoes at 
other Ports previous to their arrival at the ‘Port of 
Hull (exclusive of Creeks) and Ships Coastwise : 
And, a Return of the Sums paid to the Dock Com- 
pany at Kingston-upon-Hull, by the Custom House, 
on account of the double Dues to which Foreign 
Tonnage is liable at the Port of Hull, since the first 
Payment to the end of the year 1836 ; distinguishing 
the Amount paid in each year. 

A Return of Places having the Privilege of bond- 
ing Foreign Goods in Great Britain and Ireland, 
stating to what Ports they belong. 

First Report of the Committee appointed by the 
Lords Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasury, 
to inquire into the Fees, Gratuities, Perquisites and 
Emoluments of Public Offices. 

Mr. Crafer also presented, pursuant to several 
Addresses to His Majesty,—Return of the Number 
of Prisoners removed from one Prison to another 
for the purpose of Trial in the year ending 31st Ja- 
nuary 1837. 

Returns of the Total Number and the Names of 
all and each of the Officers, Clerks and other Per- 
sons composing the several Establishments and 
Offices after mentioned in Scotland, including all 
who are employed in, or are deriving benefit from, 
the performance of the Duties thereof; viz.: the 
Keeper of the Privy Seal and Writer to the Seal; 
the hen of His Majesty’s Signet, and his De- 
scan the Lord Clerk Register, and his several 

eputies and Clerks; the Director of Chancery and 
his Deputies and Clerks; the Clerk to the Admis- 

sion of Notaries; the Keeper of the General Register 
of Sasines &amp;c., and his several Deputies and Clerks ; 
the Keeper of the Record of Entails, and his Depu- 
ties and Clerks; the several Keepers of the Registers 
of Hornings, Inhibitions, Abbreviates of Adjudica- 
tion, Deeds and Inventories cum beneficio; the Lyon 
Court, including the Lord Lyon, and his Deputies 
and Clerks; showing, in separate Columns, how 
appointed, the Amount of Salaries, and of the Fees 
and Emoluments drawn by each, in the years 1833, 


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A. 1837. 


1834 and 1835, from what source, and by what 
authority, with the application thereof; the days of 
the year they are on Duty, with the hours of at- 
tendance; the Nature and Extent of the Duties 
they perform, and whether performed in Person, or 
in whole or in part by Deputy; also, whether they 
hold any other Office or Offices; the Description 
and Nature thereof, and the Fees, Salaries and Emo- 
luments belonging or attached thereto; also, the 
Amount of any reductions made in any of the said 
Offices since the accession of his late Majesty King 
George 4; distinguishing, also, in separate Columns, 
the Savings which have actually accrued, and those 
which are prospective and permanent :—And then 
he withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 





An ingrossed Bill to enable the Great Western Great Westem 

Railway Company to extend the Line of such Rail- Railway Bill 
; ( Paddington.) 

way, and for other purposes relating thereto, was 

read the third time ; and Amendments were made 

to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Charles Russell do carry the 


Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. Cont 
_ 
A Petition of Elizabeth Chatfield, of Balcombe, London and a 


widow, praying that she may be heard, by herself, Rellray Bll 


her counsel or agent, against certain parts of the (Gibbs's Line.) 
London and Brighton Railway Bill (Gibds’s Line), 
was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by herself, her counsel or agent, upon her Petition, 
if. she think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


Petitions from Licensed Pilots and Fishermen of Trinity (North 
the Frith of Forth, resident at Newhaven ;— and, a oy 
Merchants, Traders and Electors of Edinburgh ; eeseeniaiae 
praying that the Trinity (orth Leith) Harbour and 

ocks Bill may pass into a law,—were presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Gardiner’s Divorce Bill was read a second time ; Gardiner’s 
and committed to a Committee of the whole House, Divorce Bill. 
for Monday, the 3d day of April next. 

Ordered, That it be an Instruction to the Com- 
mittee, that they do hear counsel and examine Wit- 
nesses for the Bill, and also that they do hear counsel 
and examine Witnesses against the Bill, if the 
parties concerned think fit to be heard by counsel 
or produce Witnesses. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Cumnock, praying Glasgow and 
that the Glasgow and Ayr Railway Bill may not Ayr Railway 
pass into a law, as it now stands, was presented, _ 
= read; and referred to the Committee on the 

ill. 

Petitions from Moses Steven, Esquire, of Bella- 
honston ;—the Incorporation of Cordiners in Glas- 
gow ;—the Incorporation of Skinners in Glasgow ;— 
and, the Deacon, Collector, Masters and other 
Members of the Corporation of Tailors in Glasgow ; 
praying that they may be heard, by their counsel or 
agents, against certain parts of the said Bill,—were 
also presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by their counsel or agents, upon their Peti- 
tions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in favour 
of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 

















A Petition of Inhabitants of Lutterworth, pray- Courteeuhall 
ing that the Courteenhall and Great Wigston Rail- and Great, 
: . Wigston Rail 
i | Bill may not pass into a law, was presented, ,,y Bill, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
Petitions from Inhabitants of Market Harborough ; 












—Sir Justinian Isham, of Lamport Hall, in the 
county 








Courteenhall 
and Great 
Wigston Raile 
way Bill. 


Whitby 
Improvement 
Bill, 


Preston and 


yre Dock 
Bill, 


Bridgewater 
and Taunton 
Canal Bill, 


7 Wit. IV. 


county of Northampton, Baronet ;—Bankers, Mer- 
chants, Tradesmen and Inhabitants of Leicester ;— 
Company of Proprietors of the Leicestershire and 
Northamptonshire Union Canal ;—and, Owners and 
Occupiers of mansions, houses and lands situate 
and lying between Courteenhall and Leicester ; pray- 
ing that they may be heard, by their counsel or 
agents, against the said Bill,—were also presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of Trustees of the Turnpike Roads 
from Northampton to Market Harborough, and to 
Welford Bridge, in the county of Northampton, 
praying that they may be heard, by their counsel or 
agents, against certain parts of the said Bill, was 
also — and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 

Petitions from the Corporation of Northampton ; 
—Henry Bullivant, and others, Owners and Occu- 
res of land on the line of the said Railway ;—In- 

abitants of Market Harborough ;—Shareholders 

in the South Midland Railway Company ;—and, 
Inhabitants of Northampton ; praying that the said 
Bill may pass into a law,—were also presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 
= That the Courteenhall and Great Wigston 

ailway Bill be now read a second time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the words “That the ” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the words 
“ second reading of the Bill be postponed until the 
“ Report be received from the Select Committee to 
“ whom the Petitions of Sir Henry Halford; and 
“ John Spencer and Richard Spencer, were referred 
“ on the 20th instant,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words pro- 
posed to be left out stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 


Tellers for the { Mr. Finch, } 16 


Yeas, Mr. Ross : 
Tellers for the ( Mr. Thomas Gladstone: } 63 
Noes, Mr. Hume, : 


So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
“second reading of the Bill be postponed until the 
Report be received from the Select Committee to 
whom the Petitions of Sir Henry Halford; and, 
John Spencer and Richard Spencer, were referred 
on the 20th instant,” be added instead thereof :—It 
was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Then the main Question, so amended, being put ; 

Ordered, That the second reading of the Bill be 
postponed until the Report be received from the 
Select Committee to whom the Petitions of Sir 
Henry Halford; and, John Spencer and Richard 
Spencer, were referred on the 20th instant. 


An ingrossed Bill for better paving, cleansing, 
lighting, watching and improving the Town of 
Whitby, in the North Riding of the County of York, 
was read the third time; and Amendments were 
made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Aaron Chapman do carry the 
Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Mr. Hesketh Fleetwood reported from the Com- 
mittee on the Preston and Wyre Dock Bill; That 
the Standing Orders relative to Bills for making 
Docks had been complied with, and that they had 
examined the allegations of the Bill, and found the 
same to be true; and had gone through the Bill, 
and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Hesketh Fleetwood reported from the Com- 
mittee on the Bridgewater and Taunton Canal Bill ; 
That the Standing Orders relative to Navigation Bills 

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205 


had been complied with, and that they had examined 
the allegations of the Bill, and found the same to 
be true; and had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Freeholders, Land-owners and Oc- Fishguard 
cupiers, Merchants, Traders, Ship-owners and Master Harbour Bill. 
Mariners of Fishguard, otherwise Abergwain, pray- 
ing that the Fishguard Harbour Bill may pass into 
a law, was presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Stockport Gas-Light Company, Stockport 
praying that they may be heard, by themselves, their —_— 
counsel or agents, against certain parts of the Stoch- ~ 
port Improvement Bill, was ener, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to 
the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of Francis Philips, and others, Trustees Manchester 
for repairing and improving the roads from Hurdlow Pe Namamag 
House, in the county of Derby, to Manchester, — 
praying that they may be heard, by their counsel or 
agents, against certain parts of the Manchester and 
Stafford Railway Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by their counsel or agents, upon their Petition, if 
they think fit ; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of Francis Philips, and others, Trustees Manchester 

for repairing and improving the Roads from Hurdlow em 
: y Bill. 

House, in the county of Derby, to Manchester, 
praying that they may be heard, by their counsel or 
agents, against certain parts of the Manchester and 

amworth Railway Bill, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The Anti Dry-Rot Company Bill was read a se- Anti Dry-rot 
cond time; and committed to Mr. Hughes Hughes Company Bill. 
and the Middlesex List. 


The Caoutchouc Company Bill was read a second Caoutchouc 
time; and committed to Mr. Hughes Hughes and Company Bill. 
the Middlesex List. 


a Cork and Pas- 
sage Railway 
Bill. 


The Cork and Passage Railway Bill was read 
second time ; and committed to Mr. Callaghan and 
the Munster List. 


A Petition of Samuel Stubbs, and others, Owners Butterhouse 

and Occupiers of lands, tenements, and other rate- ¢ree" .~ 
A 4 . orton Road 

able property in Gorton and Reddish, praying that pin), 
they may be heard, by themselves, their counsel or 
agents, against certain parts of the Butterhouse Green 
and Gorton Road Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


The Order for the second reading of the National National 
Endowment and Assurance Society’s Bill, was read, aris 
and discharged. Society Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to enable the National Endowment and Assurance 
Society to sue and be sued in the Name of any one 
of the Directors, or of the Chairman or Secretary 
of the said Society: And that Mr. Pease and Mr. 

Grote do prepare, and bring it in. 


A Petition of certain Shareholders and Subscribers Bath and 
to the Bath and Weymouth Railway, was _pre- kana A 
sented, and read ; setting forth, That the Petitioners 
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206 


heve seen by the Votes of the House that a Bill 
has been brought in, intituled, “ A Bill for 
making a Railway from Bath to Weymouth, com- 
municating with the Great Western Railway at 
Bath, with Branches therefrom, to be called “ The 
Bath and Weymouth Great Western Union Rail- 
way ;” that the Petitioners have subscribed to the 
above scheme and have signed the Parliamentary 
Contract in respect of their respective shares; that 
they know and are ready to som to the House that 
other persons who have taken shares, instead of 
signing such contract themselves have paid a person 
for signing the same, whereby they have shifted their 
own responsibility of paying up the calls to mere 
men of straw, and that if the Bill should pass into 
a law, the inability of such fictitious subscribers to 
pay calls will operate most severely and ruinously 
upon the bond fide subscribers; and praying the 

ouse to take their case into consideration. 

Ordered, That the said Petition do lie upon the 
Table ; and to be printed. 


Lough Swilly 
and Lough 
Foyle Drainage 
Bill. 


The House was moved, That the Report in respect 
of the Petition for the Lough Swilly and Lough 
Foyle Canals, &amp;c., Bill, which was yesterday made 
from the Select Committee on Standing Orders rela- 
tive to Private Bills, might be read; and the same 
being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for the Drainage of Waste Lands in Lough Swilly 
and Lough Foyle, in the Counties of Donegal and 
Londonderry: And that Captain Jones and Sir 
Robert Bateson do prepare, and bring it in. 


Dublin and 
Kilkenny 
Railway Bill. 


A Petition of the Barrow Navigation Company, 
praying that they may be heard, by themselves, 
their counsel or agents, against certain parts of the 
Dublin and Kilkenny Railway Bill, was presented, 
and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


St. Pancras 


Q A Petition of James Dougan, of Symond’s Inn, in 
Paving Bill. 


the county of Middlesex, solicitor, praying that the 
Saint Pancras Paving Bill may not pass into a law, 
was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


Edinburgh Ale 
and Beer Duties 
Bill. 


Mr. Chisholm presented a Bill for continuing the 
Duty of Two Pennies Scots upon every Pint of Ale 
and Beer sold within the Boundaries of the City of 
Edinburgh, and the Town of Leith: And the same 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time. 

Edinburgh 


and Glasgow 
Railway Bill. 


Petitions from Tenants of lands and Occupiers of 
grounds, houses and other properties on the estates 
of the Earl of Hopetoun ;— and, James Nimmo, 
tenant, Sight Hill, George Comb, tenant, Redheughs, 
Mrs. Christian Chapman, tenant, Broomhouse, and 
John Dickson, tenant, Saughtonmains, all upon the 
estate of Saughton, lying in the county of Edinburgh, 
and belonging to William Ramsay Watson, Esquire ; 
te ing that the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway 

ill may not pass into a law, as it now stands,— 
were presented, and read ; and referred to the Com- 
mittee on the Bill. 


Glasgow and 
Ayr Railway 
Bill, 


Petitions from Merchants, Manufacturers, Traders, 
Owners and Occupiers of land in Beith ;—and, Free- 
holders and Electors of Stirling ; praying that the 
Glasgow and Ayr Railway Bill may pass into a law, 
—were presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


’ A Petition of the Directors of the Chamber of 
rene te Commerce and Manufactures of Glasgow, pray- 
Railway Bill. Ing that the Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway 


Glasgow, 


22° Martit. 


A. 1837. 


Bill may pass into a law, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The Gorbals Police Bill was, according to Order, Gorbals Police 
read a second time; and committed to Mr. Hastie Bi". 
and the West Scotland List. 


An ingrossed Bill to enlarge and amend the Whitby ana 
Powers and Provisions of an Act relating to the ot 
Whitby and Pickering Railway, in the North Riding **"*y Bil. 
of the County of York, was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass.: 

Ordered, That Mr. William Duncombe do carry 
the Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Mr. Granville Harcourt reported from the Com- Oxford and 
mittee on the Ozford and Great Western Railway ay 
Bill; and to whom several Petitions against the — 
said Bill were referred ; That the Standing Orders 
relative to Bills for making Railways, had been com- 
plied with; and that the Saami had considered 
some of the said Petitions, and had heard counsel 
on behalf of one Petition; and that they had in- 
quired into the several matters required by the Re- 
solutions of the House of the 1st day of March 1836 ; 
and had also examined the allegations of the Bill,and 
found the same to be true; and had gone through 
the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


A Petition of Charles Clarke, and others, Owners Birmingham 
and Occupiers of land authorized to be taken for — 
the purpose of the Birmingham and Derby Railway, “6 
praying that the Birmingham and Derby Railway 
Company may not be allowed to alter any portion 
of their original line of Railway, and that they may 
not be allowed to have any greater or other powers 
than were granted to them by the Act of last Session, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Ballymoney, praying Antrim and 
that the Antrim and Coleraine Road Bill may not Coleraine Road 
pass into a law, was presented, and read; and ordered ~'* 
to lie upon the Table. 


An ingrossed Bill to alter the Line of the Great Great Wester 
Western Railway, and to amend the Acts relating a see) 
thereto, was read the third time. iia 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Charles Russell do carry the 
Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Mr. Fazakerley reported from the Select Com- Second Report 
mittee appointed to inquire into the administration °° Po Lav 
of the Relief of the Poor under the orders and re-~ |” 138 
gulations issued by the Commissioners appointed me 
under the provisions of the Poor Law Amendment 
Act; and who were empowered to report the Minutes 
of the Evidence taken before them from time to time 
to the House ; That they had made further Progress 
in the matters to them referred; and had directed 
him to report the Minutes of the Evidence taken 
before them, with an Appendix. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Captain Jones presented a Bill for the Drainage Lough — 
of Waste Lands in Lough Swilly and Lough Foyle, ag - 
' ; oyle Drainag! 
in the Counties of Donegal and Londonderry : Bill. 
the same was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time. 


A Petition of Magistrates and Town Council Stirling Cans! 
of Paisley, praying that the Stirling Canal Bill may Bill. 
pass into a law, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


and Town Council Campsie Canal 


A Petition of Magistrates Bill. 


of Paisley, praying that the Campsie Canal Bill may 
pass into a law, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 





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Message from 
the Lords. 


Hinckley 
Small Debts 
Bill. 


Aberdeen 
Roads Bill. 


Granton Pier 
and Road Bill. 


Church Rates 
Regulation. 


Church Rates, 


7 Wit. IV. 


A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Wingfield 

and Mr. Farrer : 
Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords have agreed to the several Bills follow- 
ing, without Amendment ; viz. 

A Bill, intituled, An Act for more easy and speedy 
recovering Small Debts within the Parish of Hinckley, 
and other places therein mentioned, in the Counties 
of Leicester and Warwick: 

A Bill, intituled, An Act for making and main- 
taining certain Roads in the County of Aberdeen: 
And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
Act to enable the Duke of Buccleuch and Queens- 
berry to make and maintain a Pier at Granton, in 
the Parish of Cramond, and a Road therefrom to 
join the Road leading from Leith to Queensferry, in 
the County of Edinburgh, with Amendments ; to 
which Amendments the Lords desire the concurrence 
of this House :—And then the Messengers with- 
drew. 


Petitions from Liverpool ;—Lessees and Occupiers 
of house property held under the diocese of Win- 
chester ;—Gentry and others of East Bradenham ;— 
Saint John Hackney ;— Cowley ;— Honourable and 
Reverend George Pellew ;— Watton ;—Stow-Bidon; 
— Leigh, Stafford ;—Carbroke;— Coulsdon ;— Ashill; 
—Little Cressingham;—Saham Toney ;— Chaddesley 
Corbett ;—Hereford (Clergy of the Deanery and 
Archdeaconry) ; — Whitsbuery — Houghton; — 
Tingrith;—Dean and President of the Chapter of 
Saint Andrew, Wells ;—Newbottle ; —Culworth ;— 
Bloxham ;— Hornton ;— Horley, Oxford ;—. Ded- 
dington ;— Wickhen ;—Broughton ;—South Brent ;— 
Dean and Chapter of Saint Peter Westminster ;— 
Bramley ;— Dunchurch ; — Clifton on Dunsmore ;— 
Governors of Saint Margaret’s Hospital, West- 
minster ; Governors of the Grey Coat Hospital, 
Westminster ;— Llandrinio ;— Swanton Morley and 
Worthing, Norfolk ; — Rugby ; — Newbold-upon- 
Avon ; — Stretton-upon-Dunsmore ; — Hillmorton; 
— Churchover ;— je a Magna; — Heming- 
ford Grey ;—East Leake ;—Brampton ;— Middleton 
Cheney; —Shenington and Alkeston ;—Sandford ;— 
Adderbury ;—Steeple Aston ;—Hemingford Abbots ; 
— Thorpe Mandeville ; — Poynings; — Llansant- 
Lffraid-ym-Mechan ;— Winchelsea; —Aberystwith; — 
Helmsley ;—and, Church Lawford; praying that the 
proposed measure for the regulation of Church Rates 
may not receive the sanction of the House,—were 
ia and read ; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 

Petitions from ZLlanwenog and Llandyssil (Pro- 
testant Dissenters) ;—Chelmsford (Chairman of a 
Meeting) ;—Chard;—South Chard ;— Corsham ;— 
and, Northallerton; praying that the said measure 
may receive the sanction of the House,—were also 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 

Petitions from All Saints, Chichester ; — Saint 
Pancras, Chichester ;— Saint Bartholomew, Chi- 
chester ;— Saint Paul, Chichester ;— Saint Peter, 
Chichester; — Saint Andrew, Chichester ; — Saint 
Olave, Chichester ;—Saint Martin, Chichester ;— 
Blithfield ;— Stone ;— Darrington ;— Bishop Mid- 
dleham ; — Brancaster ; — Breewood ; — Baltons- 
borough ;— Butleigh ;—Goldhanger and Little Tot- 
ham; — Clent; —.Upton; — Snodsbury, and other 
places; — Newland; — Fechkenham; — Rushoch ;— 
Welland (Worcester) ; — Ravenstone ;— Keyham ;— 
Rattey; — Kibworth Beauchamp ; — Waltham ;— 
Misterton;— Frowlesworth;—Stocherston;—Stogur- 
$y —- Orford; — Porchester ; — Christchurch 
(Hants); — Great Cranfield; — Westfield; — 
Chester; — Southoe and Hail Weston; — Great 
Catworth ; — Llandysilio ;—Albury ;—South Hink- 
sey; — Wootton (Berks) ; — Tusmore and Hethe ;— 
Cumnor ; —Saint Mary, Newington;—Grays Thur- 


te — Satat John, Hampstead ;— Sternfield ; — 
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207 


Eversholt ; — Edgware ; — Frisby-super-Wreak ; — 
Croscombe and. Dinder;—Shering ; — Bodington ;— 
Rickinghall, Superior and Inferior; — Great and 
Little Weldon; — Seavington, Saint Michael ;— 
Nettlecombe;— Meifod ;— Wootton Courtney ;—Saint 
John, Bedford ;—Great Stanmore a i— 
Woollavington ;—Hundred of Wirrall, Chester ;— 
North Barrow ;— Elm ;— South Barrow ;—Little 
Washbourne ;—Llanfaircaereinion ; — Lakenham ;— 
Greasley;—Distington ;— Kirkby Ravensworth;— 
Frylingdales near Whitby; — Stainton; — Askam, 
Richard ;— and, Levisham, and Rosedale; praying 
that Church Rates may not be abolished, — were 
ama and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
able. 

Petitions from Wheatley ;—Chairman and Clerk 
of the United Associate Congregation of Campbell- 
street, Glasgow ;—Alloa igs ;— Great Wigston; 
— Barrhead ; — Ledbury ;— Cannon-street Chapel, 
Preston ; — Ellesmere ; — Bagley ; — Johnstone ; — 
Braintree ;— Dolgelley ;—Limehilns ;— Chelmsford ; 
— Dundee ; — Brunswick Chapel, Mile End; — 
Llanegryn ; —Rochford ; — Stock and Wickford ;— 
and, Poole; praying for the abolition of Church 
Rates,—were also presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


—and Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Ather- 
stone and Nuneaton Unions; praying for the Amend- 
ment of the Poor Law Act,—were presented ; and re- 
ferred to the Select Committee on the Poor Law Act. 

Petitions from Bradford ;— Bucks ;— Romsey ;— 
Banbury ;—and, Ely; complaining of the system 
adopted by the Poor Law Cecenininns for pro- 
viding medical relief to the sick poor; and praying 
the House to take the subject into consideration, 
and enact such remedies as may seem fit,—were also 
presented, and read ; and referred to the said Select 
Committee. 

A Petition of Guardians of the Maldon Union, 
praying that in any alteration the House may make 
in the said Act they will not injure the efficiency of 
a law which the Petitioners iam will ultimately 
prove a comfort to the poor, and a great national 
benefit, was also presented, and read ; and referred 
to the said Select Committee. 

Petitions from Alfreton;—and, Saint Giles, Ox- 
ford; complaining of the operation of the said Act, 
as affecting those parishes, and praying for an altera- 
tion thereof,—were also presented, and read; and 
referred to the said Select Committee. 


Petitions from Saddleworth; — Trustees of the Foreign Wool 
White Cloth Hall in Leeds ;— Cleckheaton;— Wort- 24 Olive Oil. 


ley; — Armley ; — Bramley; — and, Leeds ; praying 
for the repeal of the Duties on Foreign Wool an 
Olive Oil,—were presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Belper ;—Derby ;— Glasgow (four Cotton Wool. 


Petitions) ;— Port Glasgow ;—and, Crompton; pray- 
ing for the repeal of the a | on Cotton Wool,— 
were presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Edinburgh, praying Fire Insurances. 


for the repeal of the Duty on Fire Insurances, was 
—— and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
able. 


Petitions from Wakefield ;— Warrington ;— Glas- Soap. 


gow ;— Derby ;— Belper ;— Barnsley ;— Kilmarnock; 
— Renfrew ;—and, Ross; praying for the repeal of 
the Duty on Soap,—were presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Irvine ;—Kilsyth (two Petitions) ; Fictitious Votes 
— Kincardine ;—Dalkeith; —Balfron ; — Saltcoats (Scotland.) 


and other places ;—Ayr (two Petitions) ;— Duase ; 





—Mid Lothian ;—Pennycuick ;—Kirkintillock and 
pDD4 other 


Petitions from Salford ;— Horbury ;— Headington ; Poor Law Act, 


208 


other places (two Petitions) ;— Glasgow ; — and, 
Campsie; complaining of the creation of Fictitious 
Votes for Members to serve in Parliament for coun- 
ties in Scotland, and praying relief,—were presented, 
and read; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Fictitious Votes (Scotland). P 


A Petition of the Dean and Chapter of the 
Collegiate Church of Saint Peter, Westminster ; 
conkgliialen of the recommendation in the Fourth 
Report of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for re- 
ducing the twelve Prebendaries established there by 
Queen Elizabeth, to four, with which number the 
Petitioners allege the Divine Service cannot be per- 
formed either with reasonable convenience to the 
officiators, or with spiritual benefit to the public; 
and praying that their Establishment, according to 
the original charter, may be preserved, or if that 
cannot be granted, that at least six Prebendaries, the 
two Prebendal Rectors included, may be continued 
for the requisite service of their Church, was pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Mountain, praying 
for the adoption of Vote by Ballot, in the election of 
Members to serve in Parliament, was presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Ansty ;—and, Anderston ; praying 
for the repeal of the Corn laws,—were presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of Tenantry residing in East Suffolk, 
praying that the House will not so alter the present 
Corn Law as to diminish its protective effect to the 
landed interest, was presented, and read; and or- 
dered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Glasgow ;—and, Barnsley ; pray- 
ing for the repeal of the Duty on Tobacco,—were 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 


Table. 


Petitions from Freeholders and Copyholders of 
Middlesex ;—and, William Gouldar, of the city of 
Gloucester ; praying the House to amend the law 
relating to Ejectment, by investing magistrates with 
power to summon before them such parties as are 
withholding the payment of rent, and occupying 
premises in defiance of the law, and to order pos- 
session to be given in such reasonable time as they 
may deem sutficient,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Saint Mawes ;—Falmouth ;—and, 
Lowestoft; complaining of the heavy charges im- 
posed upon the Proprietors of the Shipping Gazette 
for postage of Letters containing shipping and com- 
mercial intelligence only, and praying relief,—were 


presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
rable. 


A Petition of Licensed Victuallers of Brighton, 
praying that they may be relieved from the respon- 
sibility which they are at present under to make 
restitution for charters, money, securities for money, 
books of accounts, jewels, watches, trinkets and 
other portable articles of value which guests may 
bring to their Inns, and may easily retain in their 
personal care, was presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Corporation of Richmond, in 
the county of York, praying that the County Rates 
Bill may pass into a law, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Hammersmith, com- 
pening of the provisions in various modern Acts of 
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A. 1837. 


a Plurality of Votes, and praying for the repeal of 
the said Enactments, was presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of William Pickin, of Lane End, in Sale of Bee, 
the county of Stafford, cordwainer, praying the 4. 
House to amend the Sale of Beer Act, so as to 
restore it to its former state, by removing the 
5 np iene of Ten ages rental, and by extending 
the hours for the sale of beer, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Philip Abraham Barnes, of Bland- Municipal 


ord Forum, woolstapler, and one of the Aldermen Cerporations 
P ll. 


of the said borough, praying that provision may be “ 
made in the Municipal Corporations Bill for equal- 
izing the rate levied on the mhabitants of that town, 
for the maintenance of a Police Force, was pre- 


sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of Directors of the Chamber of Com- Bonding 
merce and Manufacturers of Glasgow, praying the Warehouses. 
House to pass an Act for the regulation of Ware- 
houses, to the effect that all Bonding Stores, and 
none else, should be licensed, which shall be cer- 
tified by proper officers to be of perfect and 
undoubted security in disregard to all other dis- 
tinctions, and that duties on goods be declared to be 
exigible only on the quantities delivered from the 
warehouse for consumption, and not on loss or 
waste while under bond, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Kirk Session of Paisley High Lord's Day. 
Parish, praying for the adoption of measures for the 
better observance of the Lord’s Day, was presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Edward Evans and others, being Imprisonment 
legally qualified Medical Practitioners, praying for f* Debt Bill 
provision in the Imprisonment for Debt Bill em- 
powering them to attach Wages and other monies 
afterwards becoming due or receivable for medical 
aid and assistance from Mechanics and others pos- 
sessed of no tangible property, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Procurators and Practitioners in the Sheriffs Clerks’ 
Sheriff Court of Fife, residing in Cupar Fife, pray- Fees (Scot- 
ing that the Act of Sederunt by which Sheriff Clerks’ 
Fees in Scotland are fixed, and to appoint a Select 
Committee to inquire and report what Fees should 
hereafter be exacted by the Clerks in the Sheriff 
and Stewart Courts of Scotland, be suspended, was 


presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Speen, praying, That Rating of 
in the case of cottages of a rental under Ten pounds, Tere™e" 
the rate be made on the landlord, and where the 
rate shall have been paid by the occupier in con- 
sequence of the landlord’s non-residence or other- 
wise, the receipt of the Overseer shall be considered 
a discharge for so much of his rent as shall be 
equivalent to such receipt, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Common Law 


A Petition of Charles Calvert Browning, Esquire, ; 
Courts Bill. 


Sir William Eden, Baronet, and Sir Edward Mostyn, 
Baronet, praying that a Clause may be inserted in 
the Common Law Courts Bill, securing to them 
compensation for the abolition of their office of 
Custos Brevium, and their right of nominating to the 
offices of Prothonotary, Secondary and Clerk of the 
Juries, was presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


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A Petition of Inhabitants of Buttevant, praying = 


that the Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Bill may (Ireland) Bill 
pass into a law, was presented, and read; and or- 


Sir 


dered to lie upon the Table. 


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Burghs of Sir Andrew Leith Hay presented a Bill to provide 
Barony... for the Appointment and Election of Magistrates 
(Scotian) and Councillors in certain Burghs of Regality and 
No.140. 22d Councillors in certain Burghs of Regality an 
Barony, and unincorporated Towns in Scotland: 
eer And the same was read the first time; and ordered 
to be read a second time upon Wednesday, the 26th 
day of April next ; and to be printed. 


Stipendiary Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 

rig et ) Returns of the Names and Stations of all Persons 

s “ appointed Stipendiary Magistrates under an Act, 

intituled, “the Jrish Constabulary Bill,” passed in 

the seventh and eighth years of the Reign of His 
ons Majesty William the Fourth; stating whether the 


persons appointed were or were not in the Police 
before the passing of said Act, and if they were, 
stating the term of their Service, and in what situ- 
ations :—Of the Names and Stations of all Persons 
appointed under said Act to the offices of Sub- 
Inspector and Paymaster of Police ; stating whether 
or not they were in the Police before the passing of 
. said Act, and if they were, stating the time of their 
Service :—And, of the Names and Stations of all 
Chief Constables; stating the Dates of their original 
Appointments to the Police Force, and whether 
— had served therein before the passing of said 
ct. 


Ecclesiastical 
Commission. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Copies of the Resolutions transmitted to the several 
Beneficed Clergymen in England aud Wales by the 
Commissioners of Ecclesiastical Revenue, and of all 
the Answers received by them from the Diocese of 


Chester. 


Metropolis 


i The House was moved, That the Order made 
mprovement. 


upon Thursday last, that leave be given to bring in 
a Bill to effect Improvements in the Cities of Zondon 
nt and Westminster, Borough of Southwark, and the 
- Counties of Middlesex and Surrey, and for the pur- 
chase of the Interest of the Proprietors of the Water- 
loo and Southwark Bridges, that they may be open 
for the use of the Public free from Toll, might be 
read ; and the same being read ; 
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 
Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for improving the Public Ways in and near the Me- 
rks" tropolis: And that Mr. Alderman Wood and Mr. 
Angerstein do prepare, and bring it in. 


a Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 

(Cinque Ports.) A Return of the Names and Description of all Per- 
sons acting as Commissioners of Salvage in the 
Cinque Ports; the Number of cases of Salvage re- 
ferred to them between the 15th of September 
1836 and the 15th March 1837; specifying the 
Name of the Vessei, Master, Tonnage, Voyage, and 
Description of Cargo, nature of the claim for Sal- 
vage, Amount of Claim and Sum awarded; the 
Fees paid to Commissioners and the Registrar ; 
Sums paid for the use of Room, and other Charges ; 
also, the Names of the Commissioners who have 
decided each claim. 


Metropolis Mr. Alderman Wood presented a Bill for improv- 
i," ing the Public Ways in and near the Metropolis: 
" No.142, And the same was read the first time ; und ordered 
"to be read a second time upon Wednesday, the 12th 
day of April next ; and to be printed. 
_. Ordered, That the Account relative to the Bri- 
No. 139, —— which was presented yesterday, be 
rinted. 
Crown Lands. Ordered, That the Papers relative to Crown Lands, 
No. 134, which were presented yesterday, be printed. 
Matiny Bill. The Mutiny Bill was, according to Order, read 
il a second time; and committed to a Committee of 
the whole House, for Monday, the 3d day of April 
next. 
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209 


The Marine Mutiny Bill was, according to Order, Marine Mutiny 
read a second time ; and committed to a Committee °"" 
of the whole House, for Monday, the 3d day of 
April next. 
The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Sheriffs’ Courts 
mittee on the Sheriffs Courts Bill ; Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday, 
the 12th day of April next, resolve itself into the said 
Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second East India 
reading of the East India Maritime Officers Bill; — (laritime 

A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- ~ 
posed, That the Bill be now read a second time ; 


And Notice being taken that Forty Members 
were not present, the House was told by Mr. 
Speaker ; and Forty Members not being present ; 
and it being then after four of the clock :—The 
House was adjourned by Mr. Speaker, without a 
Question first put, till To-morrow. 








Jovis, 23° die Martii ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi IV“ Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 
A N ingrossed Bill for inclosing Lands within the Mansergh, &amp;c. 
Townships or Divisions of Mansergh, Lupton, lvclosure Bill. 
Old Hution, and Holme Scales and New Hutton, in 
the Parishes of Kirkby Lonsdale, Burton-in- Kendal, 
and Kirkby-in-Kendal, in the County of Westmor- 
land, was read the third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That Mr. Greene do carry the Bill to 


the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The London and Birmingham Railway Bill was London ané 
read a second time ; and committed to Mr. Dugdale arom god 
and the Warwick List. besiiesiiei 


Ordered, That the Petition of Francis Philips and Manchester 
others, Trustees for repairing and improving the oe tng 
Roads from Hurdlow House, in the county of Derby oo 
to Manchester, which was presented yesterday, pray- 
ing that they may be heard, by their counsel or 
agents, against certain parts of the Manchester and 
Tamworth Railway Bill, be referred to the Committee 
on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, by their coun- 
sel or agents, upon their Petition, if they think fit ; 
and counsel heard, in favour of the Bill, against the 
said Petition. 


A Petition of Sir Thomas Stanley Massey Stanley, King’s Ferry 
Baronet, praying that he may be heard, by himself, _ — 
his counsel or agent, against certain parts of the . 
King’s Ferry and Liverpool Road Bill, was pre- 
sented, and read. 

Ordcred, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by himself, his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, 
if he think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of Widows and Orphans of Ship- Fishguard 
wrecked Mariners residing in and near Fishguard, #*"ow Bil 
praying that the Fishguard Harbour Bill may pass 
into a law, was presented, and read ; and ordered to 
Jie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the Petition of certain Shareholders Bath and 
and Subscribers to the Bath and Weymouth Rail- Rainey Bil. 
way, respecting the Signatures to the Subscription 
Contract, which was presented yesterday, be referred 
to the Select Committee on the Deptford aud Dover 
Railway Subscription List. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Turnpike Trusts 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased (Sead) 
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210 


to give directions, that there be laid before this House 
a Return of Debts on the Turnpike Trusts in the 
Counties of Lanark, Ayr and Renfrew; distin- 
guishing those cases in which the Trustees are, from 
those in which they are not, personally responsible ; 
together with the Rates of Interest chargeable upon 
each respectively, for the year ending Whitsunday 
1836. 

Ordered, That the said Address be * anos to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


The Maryport and Carlisle Railway Bill was 
read a second time; and committed to Sir James 
Graham and the Cumberland List. 


Maryport and 
Carlisle Rail- 
way Bill. 


Edinburgh 
and Glasgow 
Railway Bill. 


A Petition of the Provost, Magistrates and Coun- 
cillors of Bathgate, praying that the Edinburgh and 
Glasgow Railway Bill may not pass into a law, was 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 


Table. 


Stourbridge 


The Stourbridge Canal Bill was read a second 
Canal Bill. 


time ; and committed to Sir Oswald Mosley and the 
Stafford List. 

A Petition of the Company of Proprietors of the 
Stourbridge Navigation, praying that the said Bill 
may pass into a law, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Glasgow and 
Ayr Railway 
Bill. 


A Petition of Bankers, Merchants, Manufac- 
turers, and other Inhabitants of Ayr, Newton and 
Wallacetown, praying that the Glasgow and Ayr 
Railway Bill may pass into a law, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Belfast 
Waterworks 
Bill. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 
posed, That the Belfast Waterworks Bill be now 
read a second time ; 

The Amendments following were proposed to be 
made to the Question ; viz. To leave out the word 
“ now,” and at the end of the Question to add the 
words “ upon this day six months.” 

And the Question being put, That the word “ now” 
stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 

Tellers for the ( Mr. Emerson Tennent, } o4 

Yeas, Sir George Sinclair : wi 

Tellers for the { The Earl of Belfast, \ 39 

Noes, Captain Pechell : or 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
‘upon this day six months”’ be added at the end 
of the Question ; it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Then the main Question, so amended, being put ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon this day six months. 


Trinity (North 
Leith} Harbour 
and Docks Bill. 


The Trinity (orth Leith) Harbour and Docks 
Bill was read a second time; and committed to 
Sir Andrew Leith Hay and the East Scotland List. 


National 
Endowment 
and Assurance 


Mr. Pease presented a Bill to enable the National 
Endowment and Assurance Society to sue and be 


Society (No.2) sued in the Name of any one of the Directors, or of 


Bill. the Chairman or Secretary of the said Society: And 
the same was read the first time ; and ordered to be 
read a second time. 

Bath and Petitions from Inhabitants of Bradford ;—Fresh- 

Weymouth —_ ford, Charterhouse Hinton and Beckington ;— Henst- 


Railway Bill, 


‘ridge ;—Poole, Wimborne Minster and Blandford ; 
— Radstock ; —Bath ;—Sherborne ;—Cerne Abbas ; 
— Stroud ;— Midsomer Norton;-- Westbury ;— Trow- 
bridge ; —Cheltenham ; —Weymouth and Melcombe 
Regis ; — Shufteshury ; — Frome ; — Cirencester ;— 
Stalbridge and Milborne Port ;—and, Warminster ; 
praying that the Bath and Weymouth Railway Bill 





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A. 1837, 


may pass into a law,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from the Company of Proprietors of the 
Somersetshire Coal Canal Navigation ;—and, Owners 
and Occupiers of land and property in the counties 
of Somerset and Wilts; praying that the said Bill 
may not pass into a law,—were also presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Bath, praying that Manchester 
the Manchester and Tamworth Railway Bill may 2nd Tamworth 
pass into a law, was presented, and read; and ordered Railway Bil. 
to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Occupiers and Owners of property Southwark and 
situate in the parish of Christchurch, in the county Hammersmith 
of Surrey, complaining of the title of the Southwark ®*!y Bil. 
and Hammersmith Railway Bill being at variance 
with the notice served by the agents on the several 
parties affected by its provisions; and praying that 
the House will take immediate proceedings, with 
the view of vindicating and enforcing the rules and 
orders of the House, and of enabling the Petitioners 
to have the same remedies as they would have had 
if the title of the Bill had not been altered, and if 
they had been aware when the second reading of 
the said Bill would have occurred, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Ordered, That the Petition be printed. 


Petitions from Shareholders and Subscribers to Bath and 
the Bath and Weymouth Railway, residing in Bath ; Weymouth 
—and, Shareholders and Subscribers to the Bath a 
and Weymouth Railway, residing in Bristol; com- 
plaining of fictitious and fraudulent signatures to 
the Parliamentary Contract for the Bath and Wey- 
mouth Railway Bill; and praying that the said Bill 
—_~ not pass into a law,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- Bath and 
posed, That the Bath and Weymouth Railwa Bill were. 
read a second time upon Tuesday, the 11th day of — 
April next ; 
An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the words “ Tuesday, the 
“ 11th day of April next,” in order to add the words 
“ this day six months,” instead thereof. 
And the Question being proposed, That the words 
roposed to be left out aun part of the Question :— 
he said proposed Amendment was, with leave of 
the House, withdrawn. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday, the 11th day of April next. 





The Kilmarnock and Troon Railway Bill was read Kilmarnock 
a second time; and committed to Lord William hag 
Bentinck and the West Scotland List. J 


The Holme Reservoirs Bill was read a second Holme | 
time ; and committed to Lord Viscount Morpeth and Reservors 

; . Bill. 
the York List. 


A Petition of Trustees for repairing and improving Manchester 
the Road from Wilmslow Bridge to Church Lawton, _ to 
and Creditors on the Tolls of the said Road, pray-| eo 
ing that they may be heard, by themselves, their 
counsel or agents, against certain parts of the Man- 
chester and Tamworth Railway Bill, was presented, 
and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


Ordered, That the Petitions of Owners and Occu- Birmingham 
iers of land on the line of the Birmingham and Derby oe = 
Railway; Theophilus Levett, of Wichnor Park, in the “”"* 
county of Stafford, Esquire; The honourable Fulk 





Greville 








Granton Pier 
and Road Bill. 


Leicester 
Small Debts 
Bill. 


Bath and 
Weymouth 
Railway Bill 


Manchester 
and Stafford 
Railway Bill, 


Bolton and 
Preston Raile 
way Bill. 


7 Wit. IV. 


Greville Howard, of Elford Park, in the county of 
Stafford; and Owners and Occupiers of lands upon 
the proposed new line of the Birmingham and Derby 
Railway, which were presented upon Tuesday last ; 
and also the Petition of Charles Clarke and others, 
which was — yesterday ; praying that the 
Petitioners for the Birmingham and Derby Railway 
may not be allowed to proceed with their Bill, be 
referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for 
Private Bills. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 
intituled, An Act to enable the Duke of Buccleuch 
and Queensberry to make and maintain a Pier at 
Granton, in the Parish of Cramond, and a Road 
therefrom to join the Road leading from Leith to 
Queensferry, in the County of Edinburgh; and the 
same were read, as follow: 

Pr. 4. 1. 21. Leave out “ first,” and insert “ se- 
“ cond.” 

Pr. 5. 1.25. Leave out “ tenth,” and insert 
“ nineteenth.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Ewart do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


Mr. Thomas Gladstone reported from the Com- 
mittee on the Leicester Small Debts Bill; and to 
whom the Petition of George John Danvers Butler 
Danvers, Esquire, was referred; That no person 
appeared in support of the said Petition; and that 
the Committee had examined the allegations of the 
Bill, and found the same to be true; and had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto ; 
and the Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed. 


A Petition of the Chairman and Solicitors of the 
Bath and Weymouth Railway Company, denying 
the allegations of the Petition of Shareholders and 
Subscribers to the Bath and Weymouth Railway 
presented yesterday, (complaining of certain indi- 
gent persons having been paid to sign the Subscrip- 
tion Contract for the said Railway); and praying 
that the second reading of the Bill may not be post- 
poned, but that the said Petition may be referred to 
the Committee to which the Bill will be referred, 
with leave to the Petitioners to appear before such 
Committee, and, if possible, support the allegations 
of their Petition, was presented, and read ; and re- 
ferred to the Select Committee on the Deptford and 
Dover Railway Subscription List. 


A Petition of Proprietors of Tithes in several 
parishes upon the line of the proposed Manchester 
and Stafford Railway, praying that the Manchester 
and Stafford Railway Bill may not pass into a law 
as it now stands, was presented, and read ; and re- 
ferred to the Committee on the Bill. 

A Petition of Trustees for repairing and improv- 
ing the Road from Wilmslow Bridge to Church 
Lawton, and Creditors on the Tolls of the said 
Road, praying that they may be heard by them- 
selves, their counsel or agents, against certain parts 
of the said Bill, was also presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in fa- 
vour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of James Earl of Balcarres and Baron 
Wigan, praying that he may be heard, by his counsel 
or agent, against certain parts of the Bolton and 


Preston Railway Bill, was presented, and read. 
Vou. 92. 


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211 


Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by himself, his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, 
if he think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


Ordered, That the Committee on the Glasgow and Glasgow and 
Ayr Railway Bill, have Power to send for persons, Ast Railway 


papers and records. 


Mr. Shaw Lefevre reported from the Committee London and 
Southampton 
Railway Bill. 


on the London and Southampton Railway Bill ; and 
to whom several Petitions against the said Bill were 
referred ; That the Standing Orders relative to Bills 
for making Railways, had been complied with; and 
that the Committee had considered one of the said Pe- 
titions ; and that they had inquired into the several 
matters required by the Resolutions of the House, of 
the 1st day of March 1836 ; and had also examined 
the allegations of the Bill, and found the same to 
be true; and had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


A Petition of Trustees and Creditors of the Rad- Highway Act. 


norshire Turnpike Trust, praying the House to pass 
an Act enabling Magistrates in Petty Sessions to 
apportion the Highway Rates leviable underthe High- 
way Act between the Turnpike Roads and the com- 
mon or parish Highways, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Robert Meck and others, praying $°P-. 


for the repeal of the Duty on Soap, was presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Churchwardens, Overseers of the Poor Law Act, 


Poor and Select Vestry of Ashton-under-Lyne ;— 
and, Inhabitants of Dolgelly; praying that those 
places may be exempted from the operation of the 
Poor Law Act,—were presented, and read; and re- 
ferred to the Select Committee on the Poor Law 
Act. 

A Petition of the Rector, Rate-payers and Inha- 
bitants of Paulerspury, praying that that parish 
may be separated in the Potterspury and Stoney 
Stratford Union, and included in and added to that 
of Towcester,—was also presented, and read; and 
referred to the said Select Committee. 

A Petition of Inhabitants of Tiverton, praying the 
House to amend the said Act, was also presented, 
and read; and referred to the said Select Com- 
mittee. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Musselburgh, pray- Small Debts | 
ing that the Small Debts (Scotland) Bill, may pass (Scotland) Bill. 


into a law, was presented, and read ; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Musselburgh ;—and, Exeter ; pray- Fire Insurances. 


ing for the repeal of the Duty on Fire Insurances,— 
were presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 


the Table. 


Petitions from Brigham ;— Yeovilton ;—Shaftes- Clurch Rates. 


bury ; — Cheddington ; — Northiam;—and, Hurst- 
bourne Tarrant and Vernhams Dean; praying that 
Church Rates may not be abolished,—were presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
Petitions from Alfred-street, Stepney ;— Melton 
Mowbray ;—Moelfre ;—Little Wild-street, Lincoln’s 
Inn Fields ;— Botley ; — Fetter-lane, Holborn ;— 
Martham ;—Dundee ;—and, Fordingbridge; pray- 
ing for the abolition of Church Rates,—were also 
ag and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
able. 


Petitions from Penmark ;—Mawgan and Saint Church Rates 


Martin’s ; — Helleston ; — Sothney ; — Germoe ;— 
Chicheley ;—Grand Jury of the county of Carmar- 
then;— Saint Alham’s ;— Cardiff;—Longburton, &amp;c. ; 

EE2 — Cottesmore 


Regulation, 


ane geen ern nO 
































































Chelsea 
(St. Luke’s) 
New Church. 


Spirit uous 
Liquors, 


912 


— Cottesmore and Barrow ;—and, Gileston; praying 
that the proposed measure for the regulation of 
Church Rates may not receive the sanction of the 
House,—were presented, and read ; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from Romsey ;— Brockenhurst ;—and, 


Bridport ; praying that the said proposed measure | 


may receive the sanction of the House,—were also 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return by the Trustees appointed under the Act 59 
Geo. 3, intituled, “ An Act for building a new Church 
in the Parish of Saint Luke, Chelsea,’ and under 
another Act passed in the 6th year of Geo. 4, being 
an Act for altering and amending the said former 
Act, of all and every Sum and Sums of Money 
raised, borrowed or received by them as such Trus- 
tees, from the year 1819 to the present time, either 
by way of mortgage, annuity, assignment or other- 
wise, specifying the Name or Names of the Parties 
from aa. and the particular Amount or Amounts 
borrowed or meatal from each individual respec- 
tively, and the particular times when, and at what 
rate of Interest borrowed; an Account of what 
portion, if any, of the same a “otonia hath been 
paid off or discharged, and the Name or Names of 
the Person or Persons to whom the Amounts, and 
the Dates when the same respectively were paid ; 
an Account of all Burial Fees from time to time 
received during the same period by the Church- 
wardens of the said Parish of Saint Luke, Chelsea, 
and accounted for to the said Trustees, or received 
by the said Trustees, themselves, or by their agents, 
under the provisions of the said recited Acts, spe- 
cifying the Dates and particulars of such Receipts 
respectively ; likewise an Account of all Rents or 
Monies received by the said Trustees or their Agents 
during the same period, for the use and occupation 
of any Pews or Seats in the Parish Church of the 
Parish of Saint Luke, Chelsea, and of the Parish 
Chapel of the said Parish, specifying the Names of 
the Persons from whom, for what particular Pews 
or Seats, and the Dates when such Rents or Monies 
respectively were received, and of all and every Sum 


and Sums of Money received by them the said 


95° Martiz. 


A. 1837. 


| tracted for spirituous liquors sold to a less amount 

‘than twenty shillings at one time, was presented, 

/and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

| A Petition of the Collector, Supervisors and Offi- Excise Officers’ 
| cers of Excise in the Whitby collection, praying the Widows. 
| House to pass an Act making it imperative upon all 
persons employed in the office of the Revenue of 

the Excise, to contribute annually a certain per 
centage from their salaries towards the raising and 
establishing a permanent fund to afford annual 

relief to their Widows and Orphans, was presented, 

and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Freeholders and Inhabitants of the Coroners. 
county of Gloucester ;—and, Joseph Mountain, one 
of the coroners for the said county ; praying for the 
amendment of the law relating to County Coroners, 
—-were presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 
Estimates, 

presented: 


Miscellaneous 
Services, 


Mr. Baring presented, by His Majesty’s com- 
mand,——Statement of the Estimates for- Miscel- 
laneous Services for 1837-8; compared with the 
Estimates for the like Services for 1835-6 and No. 145. 
1836-7. Comparative 

Statement. 


robable Amount that will Public 
Buildings. 


An Estimate of the 
be required for the Repairs, &amp;c., of Public Buildings ; 
for Furniture, &amp;c., for various Public Departments ; 
for certain Charges for Lighting, Watching, and for 
Rates and Taxes; also for the Maintenance and 
Repairs of Royal Palaces, Works in the Royal Gar- 
dens, formerly charged upon the Civil List; for one 
year, from 1st April 1837 to 81st March 1838, 

An Estimate of the Amount required to be voted Kingstown 


for Works and Repairs to Kingstown Harbour, from Harbour. 
1st April 1837 to 81st March 1838. 


An Estimate of the Sum which will be required Holyhead 
during the year from Ist April 1837 to 31st March and Liverpoo! 
1838, by the Commissioners for the Improvement of “”*°" ~* 
the Holyhead and Liverpool Roads, Holyhead and 
Howth Harbours, &amp;e. 


An Estimate of the Sum that may probably be British 


required to defray the Charge of the New Buildings Museum. 
at the British Museum, between 1st April 1837 and 








Trustees, or their Agents, during the same period, 
for the sale and disposition of any Vaults, Cata-, 
combs or Arches, under or in pursuance of the said | 
recited Acts, or either of them; the Person or| 
Persons respectively from whom the _ particular 
Amount or Amounts, and the Date or Dates when | 
received ; an Account of all Sum and Sums of} 
Money received by the said Trustees, or the Col-' 
lectors or Agents appointed by them, from any Rate 
or Assessment, Rates or Assessments, from time to 
time made by the said Trustees during the said 
period, under and by virtue of the said Acts, or; 
either of them, specifying the Amounts received in} 
each particular year; and an Account of all other 
Sums of Money whatever received by them during | 
the same period, under and by virtue of the said | 
Acts; and in like manner that the said Trustees do | 
furnish an Account of all Sum or Sums of Money 
laid out or expended, and invested by them during | 
the same period, specifying the Dates when, the’ 
Person or | 


Amount or Amounts paid and invested, together 
with all Specifications and Minutes of Contracts 


made or entered into by the said Trustees or their | 


Agents, by or with any Surveyors, Architects, Arti- 
ficers or Workmen employed in any Works executed 
by virtue of the said Acts, or either of them, or any 
matter or thing relating thereto. 


A Petition of James Baker, of Dorchester-place, 
Hoxton, praying the House to pass an Act for 
enabling Licensed Victuallers to recover debts con- 


ersons to and with whom, for what pur- | 
poses, or on what consideration, and the particular | 


| 31st March 1838. 


An Estimate of the Amount required to defray National 
the probable Expense of additional Palisading, &amp;c., Gallery, &amp;. 


| to inclose Ground in front of each of the Wings 


of Building, to form a proper line for the Public 
Street, and levelling, inclosing and ornamenting the 
area of Trafalgar Square, to accord in character 
with the structure containing the National Gallery 
and Royal Academy. 

An Estimate of the amount that will be required 
for providing the temporary Accommodation for the 
Houses of Parliament, Committee-rooms, Offices 
and temporary Official Residences for the Speaker 
of the House of Commons, and other Officers of that 
House. 

An Estimate of the Sum which will be required to Albany 
defray the Expense of converting certain Buildings ee sit.) 
attached to Albany Barracks, Isle of Wight, — 
a Prison for the reception of Juvenile Offenders. 


Hauses of 
Parliament. 


An Estimate of the Sum that will be required to Custom House 
be voted in the year 1837, for building a New Cus- (Glasgow-) 
_tom House at Glasgow, including the Purchase of 

Ground. 

Il. 

No. 146. 


omparative 
Statement. 


| Statement of the Estimates for Miscellaneous Ser- 
vices for 1837-8, compared with the Estimates for ¢ 


| the like Services for 1835-6 and 1836-7. 


| An Estimate of the Sum required to be voted in Sslaries, &amp;c., 


of Officers of 
Lords and 
Commons. 


_ the year 1837 to defray the Charge for Salaries and 
' Expenses of the two Houses of Parliament, and of 
Allowances to Retired Officers of the two Houses, 

‘for the year ending 31st March 1838. : 
An 











7 Witt. IV. 


Salaries, &amp;C., 


An Estimate of the Sum that may be wanted in 


(Treas) the year from 1st April 1837 to 31st March 1838, 
to pay the Salaries, Contingent and other Expenses 
of the Department of His Majesty’s Treasury. | 

De - (Home An Estimate of the Sum that may be wanted in | 

ams” othe year from Ist April 1837 to 31st March 1838, 


to pay the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of 
His Majesty’s Secretary of State for the Home De- 
partment. 


pe-of Oficers An Estimate of the Sum which may be wanted to 


(Foreign pay the Salaries and other Expenses in the Depart- 
- °* ment of His Majesty’s Secretary of State for Foreign 


Affairs; also of the Foreign Messengers attached 
to the Department, for the year ending 31st March 
1838. 

An Estimate of the Sum which may be required 
to pay the Salaries and other Expenses in the De- 


D° - (Colonial 
Secretary of 


me partment of His Majesty’s Secretary of State for the 
Colonies, for the year ended 31st March 1838. 
De - (Privy An Estimate of the Sum that may be required, in 


Council Office.) the year from 1st April 1837 to 31st March 1838, 
to pay the Salaries and Expenses in the Department 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council, 
and Committee of Privy Council for Trade. 

Penn An Estimate of the Sum required to defray the 

General’s Office. Charge of the Office of His Majesty’s Paymaster 
General, established pursuant to the Act 5 and 6 
Will. 4, c. 35, from 1st April 1837 to 31st March 
1838. 


93° Martiz. 


‘into execution the Act 4 &amp; 5 Will. 4. c. 76, for the 


913 


Amendment and better Administration of the Laws 
relating to the Poor in England and Wales. 

An Estimate of the Sum which may be wanted Slave Trade, 
for one year, from the 1st April 1837 to the 31st 
March 1838, to pay Salaries and Incidental Ex- 
penses for the Commissions appointed on the part 
of His Majesty, under the Treaties with Foreign 
Powers, for preventing the illegal Traffic im 
Slaves, and in pursuance of the several Acts of 
the Legislature for carrying the said Treaties into 
effect. 

An Estimate of the Sum that will be required to Consuls. 
be granted for the year ending 31st March 1838, to 
detray the Charge of the Salaries of His Majesty’s 
Consuls General, Consuls and Vice-Consuls, and 
of the Superintendents of Trade at Canton ; also 
of the Contingent Expenses connected with the 
Public Duties of such Consuls General, Consuls 
and Vice-Consuls, and Superintendents of Trade 
at Canton. 


An Estimate of the Sum that will be required in Inspectors of 
the year ending 31st March 1838, to defray the tres 
Charge of the Salaries, &amp;c., of the Inspectors and 
Superintendents of Factories, appointed under the 
Authority of the Act 3 &amp; 4 Will. 4, intituled, “ An 
Act to regulate the Labour of Children and Young 
Persons in the Mills and Factories of the United 


Kingdom.” 





Comptroller 
General of 
Exchequer, &amp;c. 


An Estimate of the Sum that will be required, in 
the year from 1st April 1837 to 31st March 1838, | 
to pay the Salaries and Contingent Expenses in the | 
Departments of the Comptroller General of the Ex- | 
chequer, and the Paymaster of Civil Services. 

An Estimate of the Sum that may be required, in | 
the year from ist April 1837 to 31st March 1838, 
to defray the Charge of the Salaries and Allowances 
granted to certain Professors in the Universities of | 
Oxford and Cambridge. | 

An Estimate of the Sum which may be required | 
to defray the Charge of the Salaries of the Com- | 
missioners of the Insolvent Debtors Court, of their 
Cierks, and the Contingent Expenses of the Court 
and Office, for one year, from 1st April 1837 to 
31st March 1838; and also of the Expenses attend- 
ant upon the Circuit. 

An Estimate of the Sum required for the probable 
Expense of the General Penitentiary, for the year 
from 1st April 1837 to 31st March 1838. 


An Estimate of the Sum that will be required to 
defray the Charge for one year, from 1st April 1837 


Professors 
(Oxford and 
Cambridge.) 


Tnsolvent 
Debtors Court. 


Penitentiary 
(Milbank.) 


State Paper 
Office, &amp;c. 


| 31st March 1838, to defray the Salaries and Ex- 


An Estimate of Sums required in the year ending —— of 
risons, 

penses of the Inspectors of Prisons, appointed under 
the Act 5&amp; 6 Will. 4, c. 38. 

An Estimate of the Amount required to defray Mint. 
the Expenditure for the several Branches of the 
Mint, for the year ending 3ist March 1838. 

Ill. 

Statement of the Estimates for Miscellaneous Ser- No 147. 
vices for 1837-8, compared with the Estimates for Comparative 
the like Services for 1835-6 and 1836-7. amen 


An Estimate of the Sum that may be wanted to Superannua- 
defray the Charge of the Allowances or Compen- “"s 
sations granted as Superannuation or Retired Al- 
lowances to Persons formerly employed in the 
Public Offices or Departments, or in the Public 
Service according to the provisions of the Acts 50 
Geo. 3, c. 117; 3 Geo. 4, c. 113; 4 &amp; 5 Will. 4, 

c. 24, &amp;e. 

An Estimate of the Sum that may be wanted in Toulonese, &amp;c. 

the year from 1st April 1837 to 31st March 1838, to Emigrants. 





to 8ist March 1838, of the Salaries and other 
Expenses of the State Paper Office, the Office for 
the Custody of Records in the Tower, and the 
Office for the Custody of Records in the Chapter- 
House, Westminster. 

Estimate of the probable Sum which will be re- 
quired to defray the Expenses of the Commission 
“for digesting the several Statutes relating to 
Criminal and other Law.” 


An Estimate of the Sum which will probably be 


Criminal 
Statutes. 


Charities 
Commission, 


for inquiring into Public Charities, to its termi- 
nation. 


a ae Estimate of the probable Sum which will be re- 
(Scotland) quired to defray the Expenses of the Commission 
ommission. @ppointed to imquire into the Opportunities of 


Religious Worship and Means of Religious Instruc- 
tion, and the Pastoral Superintendence afforded to 
the People of Scotland. 


An Estimate of the Sum which will probably be 
required during the year commencing 1st April 1837, 
to pay Salaries and Expenses incurred by the Ec- 
clesiastical Commissioners for England, under the 
Act 6 and 7 Will. 4, ¢. 77. 

An Estimate of the Sum required to be voted in 
the year 1837, to defray the Charge of Salaries and 
Expenses of the Commissioners appointed to carry 

Von. 92, 


Ecclesiastical 
Commissioners. 


Poor Law 
vmmnissioners, 


required to defray the Expenses of the Commission | 


enable His Majesty to grant Relief to Toulonese and 
| Corsican Emigrants, Dutch Naval Officers, Saint 
| Domingo Sufierers, American Loyalists and others, 
| who have heretofore received Allowances from His 
| Majesty, and who, for Services performed or Losses 
| sustained in the British Service, have special Claims 
_on His Majesty’s justice and liberality. 
|~ An Estimate of the Sum required to defray the Vaccine 
| Expense of the National Vaccine Establishment, for Renae 
| the year 1837. 
| An Estimate of the Sum required in aid of the Refuge for the 
Institution called The Refuge for the Destitute, for Pestitute. 
the year 1837. 
An Estimate of the probable Expense of Confining Criminal 
and Maintaining Criminal Lunatics in the Buildings b8™4¥¢s- 
attached to Bethlem Hospital, for the year 1837, 
ending 31st March 1838. 
An Estimate of the Amount that may be wanted Protestant 
in the year from 1st April 1837 to 31st March 1838, Minoan’ hee. 
to pay the usual Allowances to the Protestant Dis- 
senting Ministers in England, Poor French Refugee 
Clergy, Poor French Refugee Laity, and sundry 
small Charitable and other Allowances to the Poor 
of Saint Martin’s-in-the- Fields, and others. 
IV. 
Statement of the Estimates for Miscellaneous Ser- No. 148¢ 
vices for 1837-8, compared with the Estimates for a 
the like Services for 1835-6 and 1836-7." es 
EES An 





Secret Services. 


Stationery, &amp;c. 


Law Charges. 


Conviets. 


De - (New 
South Wales, 
&amp;c.) 


Captured 
Negroes. 


Sir A. B. King. 


Education 


(Eugland.) 


Education 
(Scotland.) 


Revising 
Barristers. 


Sheriffs’ 
Expenses, &amp;c, 


County Rates. 


Distressed 
Poles. 


New Holland. 


British 
Museum. 


214 


An Estimate of the Sum that may be required in 
the year from ist April 1837 to 31st March 1838, 
to defray the charge of His Majesty’s Foreign and 
other Secret Services. 


An Estimate of the Expense of providing Station- 
ery, Printing and Binding for the several Depart- 
ments of Government in England, Ireland and Scot- 
land, and in the Colonies; and for providing 
Stationery, Binding, Printing Paper, and Printing 
for the two Houses of Parliament, including the 
Expense of the Establishment of the Stationery 
Office; from the 1st of April 1837 to the 31st of 
March 1838. 


An Estimate of the Sum that will be required to 
defray the Expenses of Law Charges, in the year 
from ist April 1837, to 31st March 1838. 


An Estimate of the probable Expense of provid- 
ing for the Convict Hulk Establishment at Home 
and at Bermuda, for the year 1837, ending 31st 
March 1838. 


An Estimate of the Sum that may be required in 
the year ending 31st March 1838, to defray the 
Charge of maintaining Convicts at Vew South Wales 
and Van Diemen’s Land. 


An Estimate of the Sum that may be required in 
the year ending 31st March 1838, to defray Ex- 
— for the Support of Captured Negroes and 

iberated Africans; under the Acts for the Aboli- 
tion of the Slave Trade. 


An Estimate of the Sum required to pay the An- 
nual Compensation awarded to Sir Abraham Bradley 
King, Bart., late King’s Stationer in Jreland, for 
Losses sustained by him by reason of the Revoca- 
tion of his Patent. 


An Estimate of the Sum required to enable His 
Majesty to issue Money for the erection of School 
Houses, in aid of Private Subscriptions for that pur- 
pose, for the Education of the Children of the 
Poorer Classes in England, in the year ending 31st 
March 1838. 


An Estimate of the Sum that will be required to 
be voted in the year 1837, to enable His Majesty to 
issue Money for the erection of School Houses, in 
aid of Private Subscriptions for that purpose, for 
the Education of the Children of the Poorer Classes 
in certain great Towns in Scotland; and for the 
erection of Model Schools in Scotland. 

An Estimate of the Sum that will be required 
in the year from 1st April 1837 to 31st March 
1838, to pay the Allowances and Expenses of the 
Barristers employed in revising Lists of Voters, &amp;c., 
under the Act 2 Will. 4, c. 45. 


An Estimate of the Sum that will be required in 
the year from 1st April 1837 to 31st March 1838, 
to defray the Expenses incurred by Sheriffs, formerly 
paid from Civil Contingencies : Also, of the Amount 
required to make good the Deficiency of the Fees 
in the Office of the King’s Remembrancer in the 
Exchequer, in consequence of the Diminution of 
Fees in that Department; and to pay the Salaries 
and Ancient Allowances of certain Officers of the 
Court of Exchequer. 

An Estimate of the Sum required to be voted in 
the vear 1837, to defray certain Charges heretofore 
paid out of the County Rates. 


An Estimate of the Sum required to enable His 
Majesty to grant Relief to the distressed Poles now 
in this Country. 


An Estimate of the Sum required to be voted to 
defray a part of the Charge of an Expedition to be 
despatched for the purpose of exploring the North- 
west part of New Holland. 

An Estimate of the Sum required to enable the 
Trustees of the British Museum to purchase for that 


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Institution the Collection of Shells belonging to 
Mr. Broderip. 


; ; V. 
Statement of the Estimates for Miscellaneous Ser- No, 149. 
vices for 1837-8, compared with the Estimates for Comparative 
the like Services for 1835-6 and 1836-7. Statement, 


Estimate of the Charge of defraying the Civil Bahamas. 
Establishment of the Bahama Islands, and the inci- 
dental Charges attending the same, from the 1st day 
of April 1837 to the 31st day of March 1838. 


Estimate of the Charge of defraying the Civil Bermudas. 
Establishment of the Bermudas, in America, fromm 
the 1st day of April 1837 to the 31st day of March 
1838. 


Estimate of the Charge of defraying the Civil PrinceEdwara’s 
Establishment of Prince Edward’s Island, in Ame- '5!*"4. 
rica, from the 1st day of April 1837 to the 31st day 
of March 1838. 


Estimate of the Sum which will be required to Western Cast 
meet the Charges of the Civil Establishments on the of Africa. 
Western Coast of Africa, from the 1st day of April 
1837 to the 31st day of March 1838. 


Estimate of the Charge of defraying the Expenses Ecclesiastical 
of the Ecclesiastical Establishment of the British on 
North American Provinces, from the 1st day of April | ronne 
1837 to the 31st day of March 1838. 


Estimate of the Charge of defraying the Expense Western 
of the Settlement of Western Australia, from the 1st Austlia. 
April 1837 to the 31st March 1838. 


Estimate of the probable Expenditure of the Indian 
Indian Departinent in Lower and Upper Canada, for oa 
its Establishment and Pensions, from 1st of April ‘ . 
1837 to 31st of March 1838. 


An Estimate of the Amount that will be required Governors, &amp;c., 
from the 1st of April 1837 to the 31st of March of West India 











: Colonies. 
1838, to defray the Charge of the Salaries of the ~° 
Governors, Lieutenant-Governors and others in His 
Majesty’s West India Colonies. 


Estimate of the Sum which will be required to Heligoland. 
defray the Expense of the Civil Establishment of 
Heligoland, for the period from the 1st day of April 
1837 to the 31st day of March 1838. 


An Estimate of the Sum which will be required Special Justices. 
from the 1st of April 1837 to the 31st of March 
1838, to defray the Charge of Salaries and Allow- 
ances to the Special Justices appointed in pursuance 
and by virtue of an Act of Parliament made and 
passed in the 3d and 4th year of His present Ma- 
jesty, intituled, “ An Act for the Abolition of 
Slavery throughout the British Colonies ; for pro- 
moting the Industry of the manumitted Slaves; and 
for compensating the Persons hitherto entitled to 
the Services of such Slaves.” 

An Estimate of the Sum required to be voted in Negro. 
the year 1837, to enable His Majesty to defray such 244s" 
Expenses as He may incur in aiding the local Legis- 
lature in providing for the Religious and Moral In- 
struction of the Emancipated Negro Population. 

An Estimate cf the Expense of defraying the Emigration. 
Salaries of the Agents for Raiagilen from the 1st 
of April 1837 to the 31st of March 1838. 

Estimate of the Sum that will be required in the St. Helena. 
year ending 31st March 1838, to defray the Charge 
of the Civil Establishment at Saint Helena, and of 
Pensions and Allowances to the Civil and Military 
Officers and Soldiers of the East India Company’s 
late Establishments in that Island. 

Estimate of the Amount required in aid of the Neva Scotia. 
Expenses of the Civil Government of ova Scotia, 
from the 1st day of April 1837 to the 31st day of 
March 1838 ; also for the erection of Lighthouses 
there. 

An Estimate of the Amount required to be voted Canals in 
in 1837, to defray the Charge of the _— and Canada. 
Maintenance of the Rideau and Ottawa Canals in 
Canada. 

A Statement 











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7 Wit. IV. 


a A Statement of the Jrish Miscellaneous Estimates 


Services , . 
(Ireland.) for the year ending 31st March 1838, compared with 
No.150- the Grants for the like Services for the years 1835-6 

Comparative and 1836-7. 

Statement. 

Education. An Estimate of the Sums required to enable the 
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to issue Money for the 
advancement of Education, from 1st April 1837 to 
31st March 1838. 

Foundling An Estimate of the Expense of the Foundling 

Hospital Hospital in Dublin, for one year, from 1st April 1837 

aed to 31st March 1838. 

House of Estimate of the Expense of supporting the House 

Industry, &amp;c. of Industry in Dublin, the Lunatic Department, and 
the four General Hospitals attached, for one year, 
from the 1st day of April 1837 to the 31st day of 
March 1838, both days inclusive. 

Hibernian An Estimate of the probable Charge of the Hiber- 


Marine Societys miqy Marine Society in Dublin, for one year, com- 
mencing the 1st day of April 1837 and ending the 
31st day of March 1838. 

Estimate of the Expense of the Female Orphan 

House, Circular Road, Dublin, for one year, from 
the 1st April 1837 to the 31st March 1838, for 160 
Children. 
Westmorland Estimate of the probable Expense of supporting 
Lock Hospital. the Westmorland Lock Hospital, for one year, com- 
mencing ist April 1837 and ending 31st March 
1838. 

Estimate for the Lying-in Hospital, Dublin, for 
the year commencing ist April 1837. 

Estimate of the probable Expense of Dr. Steevens’ 
Hospital, Dublin, dans 1st April 1837 to 31st March 
1838, inclusive. 

Estimate of the probable Expense of the Fever 
Hospital and House of Recovery, Cork-street, Dub- 
lin, for one year, commencing 1st April 1837 and 
ending 31st March 1838. 

An Estimate for defraying the Expenses of the 
Hospital for Incurables (86 persons), for one FF aa 
from the 1st of April 1837 to the 31st of March 
1838. 

An Estimate of the Charge of the Roman Ca- 


Female Orphen 
House. 


Lying-in 
Hospital. 


Dr. Steevens’ 
Hospital. 


Fever Hospital, 
Cork Street. 


Hospital fur 
Incurables. 


Roman Catholic 


College. tholic College, for the Financial year ending 31st 
March 1838. 

Royal Irish Estimate of the probable Expenditure, Income 

Academy. 


and Sum required for the Royal Jrish Academy, from 
1st April 1837 to 31st March 1838. 


Royal Estimate of the probable Expenditure and In- 


— come of the Royal Hibernian Academy in Ireland, 

_— for the year commencing ist April 1837 to 31st 
March 1838. 

Charitable An Estimate of the Sum necessary for defraying 


a and the Salary and Expenses of the Commissioners of 

—— Charitable Donations and Bequests in Jreland, from 
the 1st day of April 1837 to the 31st day of March 
1838. 

Estimate of the Expense of the Royal Belfast 
Academical Institution, for the year commencing Ist 
April 1837, so far as it is proposed that the same 
shall be provided for by Parliament. 


An Estimate of the probable Expense of repair- 
ing and maintaining the several Public Buildings in 
the Department of the Commissioners of Public 
Works in Ireland, comprehending the Apartments 
of His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant and _ his 
Household, the Civil Offices, Council and Treasury 
Chambers, the whole of the Courts of Law, and 
keeping in repair the Drains, Grounds, Boundary 
Walls, Fences, &amp;c., in the Demesnes in the Phenix 
Park, including the Vice-Regal Lodge, and other 
official Residences, for the year 1837. 

An Estimate of the Sum that will be required to 
pay the Salaries and Expenses of the Chief Secre- 
tary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in Dublin 
and London, and the Privy Council Office in Ireland; 
also, the estimated Amount of the King’s Printers’ 
Bill for Printing for the Public Offices in Ireland, 
for the year ending 31st March 1838. 

Vox. 92. 


Royal Belfast 
Academical 
Institution. 


Public Works. 


Chief Secretary 
‘o Lord Lieu- 
tenant, &amp;e, 


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215 


An Estimate of the Sum required to defray the Household of 


Charge of Salaries for the Officers and Attendants of — 
the Household of the Lord Lieutenant of Jreland, ‘ 
and certain other Officers and Services, formerly 

charged on the Civil List in Ireland, for the year 

ending 31st March 1838. 

An Estimate of the Sum that will be required to Vice-Treasurer 
defray the Charge of the Establishments of the Vice- = = a ll 
Treasurer and Teller of the Exchequer in Ireland, °° ““°"°!"™ 
for the year ending 31st March 1838. 

Estimate, King’s Printers (Ireland), for the year King’s Printers 
ending 31st March 1838. 

Estimate of the Sum that will be necessary to de- Non-conform- 
fray the Expense of Non-conforming, Seceding and ings &amp;c. 
Protestant Dissenting Ministers in Jreland, for the oo 
year ending 31st March 1838. 

Estimate of the Sum that will be required to de- Criminal Prose- 
fray the Charge of Criminial Prosecutions and other cutens. 

Law Charges in Ireland, for the year ending 31st 
March 1838. 

An Estimate of the Sum that will be required to Police(Dublin.) 
be voted in aid of the Funds for the Maintenance of 
the Police Establishment of the District of Dublin 
Metropolis, for the year ending 31st March 1838, 

An Fstimate of the Sum that will be required to Public Works. 
defray the Expense of Public Works in Ireland, for 
the year, from the 1st of April 1837 to the 31st of 
March 1838. 

An Estimate of the Sum that will be required in Townland 
the year, from ist April 1837 to 31st March 1838, S¥'vey- 
to defray the Expense of the Townland Survey of 
Ireland. 

Estimate of the probable Expense of the Com- Railways 
mission appointed to report upon the best System of Commission. 
Railways in Ireland. 

An Estimate of the Amount that will probably Miscellaneous 
be required to defray Law Expenses, Grants to (Seotien a) 
Scottish Universities, and other Charges, formerly N 151 
defrayed from the Hereditary Revenues, and not a 
provided for on His Majesty’s Civil List, nor on the 
Consolidated Fund ; from the 1st April 1837 to 31st 
March 1838. 


Estimate of Sums required for the Pay of the Commissariat, 
Commissariat Department at Home and Abroad, No. 152. 
and for the supply of Forage, Coals, Candles and 
Straw, for the Troops in Jreland, for the year end- 
ing 31st March 1838; with a Statement of the 
Amount required for similar Services in the year 
ending 31st March 1837. 

Estimate of Sums required for the Half Pay of 
Commissariat Officers, and for Retired Full Pay, 
Compensation and Superannuation Allowances ; 
also, for the Pensions of Widows of Commissariat 
Officers ; and for Compassionate Allowances to their 
Children ; for one year, from 1st April 1837 to 
31st March 1838. : 

An Account of the Sum expended under the head Civil Contin- 
of Civil Contingencies in the year 1836, ~~ ‘ 

An Estimate of the Amount that will probably be “® a 
required to defray the Expense under the head of 
Civil Contingencies for one year, ending 31st March 
1838. 

Ordered, That the said Estimates do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


A Petition of the Chairman of a meeting of His Sheriffs Clerks 

Majesty’s Justices of Peace for the county of Fife, Fees(Scotland.) 
in Quarter Sessions assembled, praying the House 
to suspend the Act of Sederunt, by which the tables 
of fees for the Sheriff and Stewart Clerks of the 
different counties of Scotland, under the Act 6 Geo. 4, 
c. 23, are fixed, and to appoint a Select Committee 
to inquire and report what fees should hereafter be 
exacted by the said Sheriff and Stewart Clerks, was 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Kanturhk, praying for Tithes 
the abolition of Tithes in Jreland, was presented, (ireland) 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

EE4 


A Petition 


Vote by Ballot. 


Municipal 
Corporations 


(Ireland) Bill. 


Shipping 
Gazette. 


Bristol Court of 


Conscience. 


Fisheries 


(Ireland.) 


Dublin 
University. 


Severn 
Navigation. 


Factories Act. 


Caffres, 


Chelsea 
(St. Luke’s) 
Church, 


St. Andrews 
University. 


216 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Aanturk, praying 
that the Votes at Elections of Members to serve in 
Parliament be taken by Ballot, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Kanturk, praying 
that the Municipal Corporations (Jreland) Bill may 
pass into a law, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Merchants, Ship-owners, Mariners 
and others residing at or trading to the Port of Z/- 
fracombe, praying the House to relieve the proprietors 
of the London Shipping Gazette from the postage 
of letters containing shipping and commercial in- 
telligence only, was presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Suitors in the Court of Conscience, 
in the city of Bristol, praying that the rules and 
regulations of that court may be amended and altered, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


Lord_Viscount Morpeth presented, by His Ma- 
jesty’s 7command,— First Report of the Commis- 
sioners of Inquiry into the state of the Zrish Fisheries, 
with the Minutes of Evidence and Appendix. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of Graduates and Under-graduates of 
the University of Dublin, praying the House to 
confer the right of voting for Members of Parliament 
to represent the said University on those who have 
hitherto obtained or may in future obtain moderator- 
ships therein, was presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Directors of the Bristol Dock Com- 
pany, praying that the Severn Navigation Bill may 
not pass into a law, was presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of Members of the River Ouse Navi- 
gation Committee, and Conservators of the said 
river, praying that they may be heard, by themselves, 
their counsel or agents, against certain parts of the 
said Bill, was also presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Operative Cotton Spinners in the 
employment of Mr. Moore, of Manchester, praying 
the House to pass a Jaw to protect all factory workers 
from being worked more than ten hours for five 
days of the week, and eight on the Saturday, and 
entirely to prohibit all Factories from working at 
night, was presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


A Petition of William Bruce, of Figtree-court, 
Temple, London, complaining of the destruction of 
his farm-house at Graham’s Town, Albany, South 
Africa, by an irruption of the Caffre Tribes, and 
praying relief, was presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Rate-payers of the parish of Saint 
Luke, Chelsea, praying the House to order the Ac- 
coints of the Trustees for building a new Church 
in that parish, to be laid before them, and fully to 
examine into the conduct and management of the 
Funds collected by the said Trustees, and to adopt 
such other measures as may appear fit and proper 
for the purpose of relieving the Petitioners from any 
misappropriation of their funds, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Students and other Members of the 
University of Saint Andrews, praying the House to 
grant immediate freedom from the restraints of the 


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A. 1837. 


limited to existing members of the said University, 
was — and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of the Corporation of Bristol, praying steam Comms. 
the House to adopt measures for establishing a re- nication with 
gular, expeditious and frequent Steam Communi- India. 
cation by way of the Red Sea, between the principal 
Ports of India and England, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Chairman of a meeting of Inha- Reform of 
bitants of Clerkenwell; praying that the Reform of Parliament 
Parliament Act Amendment Bill may pass into a law, —* Act 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon iii, — 


the Table. 


Mr. Oswald reported from the Select Committee Public 
on Public Petitions; That they had examined the Petitions. 
Petitions presented from the 7th to the 10th days 
of this instant March, both inclusive; and had 
directed him to make a Report thereof to the 
House. 

Ordered, That the said Report do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


Ordered, That the Accounts relative to Public Public Income 
Income and Expenditure, which were presented me ayn 
yesterday, be printed. No. 155. 


Ordered, That an Abstract of the Accounts rela- Pubtic Ofices, 
tive to the Increase and Diminution in the Salaries, No. 156, 
&amp;c., in Public Offices, which were presented yester- 
day, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Accounts relative to Super- Superannua- 
annuations, which were presented yesterday, be 
printed. No. 157. 

Ordered, That the Return relative to Committals Committals 
(Zreland), which was presented yesterday, be Ireland.) 
printed. No. 158. 

Ordered, That the Return relative to Beerhouses, Beerhouses. 
which was presented yesterday, be printed. No. 160. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Bonded Bonded Goods. 
Goods, which was presented yesterday, be printed. No. 161. 

Ordered, That the Report of the Commissioners Fees in Public 
on Fees in Public Departments, which was presented Departments. 
yesterday, be printed. No. 162. 

Ordered, That the Return relative to Prisoners, Prisoners. 
which was presented yesterday, be printed. No. 163. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Law Law Offices 
Offices (Scotland), which was presented yesterday, (8°!4): 
be printed. No. 164. 

Ordered, That the Twenty-third Report of the Highland Roads 
Commissioners of Highland Roads and Bridges, *"4 Bridges. 
which was presented yesterday, be printed. No. 159. 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant Ross and 
to the Clerk of the Crown to make out a new Writ Cromarty We 
for the electing of a Commissioner to serve in this 
present Parliament for the Shires of Ross and Cro- 
marty, in the room of James Alexander Stewart Mac- 
henzie, Esquire, who, since his election for the said 
Shires, hath accepted the Office of Governor of the 
Island of Ceylon. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Dublin E'ection 

a Return of the Particulars and Amounts of all Pete" 
Fees and Gratuities received, claimed or demanded 

by the Officers or Servants of this House respec- 

tively, in relation to the trial of the last Dublin 

Election Petition, against the Returns of Daniel 

O’ Connell, Esquire, and Edward Southwell Ruthven, 

Esquire; distinguishing by whom, and from whom 

the same have been received, or claimed and de- 

manded, 


time upon Mon- Poor _, 
Poor Relief (Ire- (Ireland) Bui. 


The Order for reading a second 
day, the 3d day of April next, the 
land) Bill, was read and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 


Monday, the 17th day of April next. 
Resolved, 








Adjournment. 


mm. Criminal 
ith Offenders. 


) Act 
nt 


Criminal Law. 


Juvenile 
Offenders. 


ome . 
‘. Factories. 
res, 


Executions. 


No. 165. 


ds. ‘ 
- Factories. 


lic 


ads 


rit. 


East India 
Officers Bill, 


ion Hackney 


Carriages 


(Metropolis) 
ill. 


Controverted 


Elections Bill, 


Church Rates 
gulation. 


Sheriffs Fees 
Bill, 





7 Wiut. IV. 


Resolved, That this House will, at the rising of 
the House this day, adjourned till Monday, the 3d 
day of April next. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Tables, showing the Number of Criminal 
Offenders committed for Trial, or Bailed for appear- 
ance at the Assizes and Sessions in each County in 
the year 1836, prepared by Order of the Secretary 
of State, from the Criminal Registers kept in the 
Home Department. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as 
are of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Lord John Russell presented, by His Majesty’s 
command,—Copy of Correspondence between His 
Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Home 
Department, and the Commissioners appointed to 
inguire into the state of the Criminal Law. 

Copy of Reports to the Secretary of State for the 
Home Department, relating to Plans for a Prison 
for Juvenile Offenders. 

Lord John Russell also presented, pursuant to 
several Addresses to His Majesty,—Copy of Direc- 
tions to Factory Inspectors relative to the Act for 
the regulation of Factories in June and October 
1836. 

A Return of the Number of Executions which 
took place for London and Middlesex in Three years 
ending 31st December 1830, in Three years ending 
3ist December 1833, and in Three years ending 
31st December 1836; together with the Number 
of Commitments in each of those periods, respec- 
tively, for Offences that were Capital, on 1st January 
1830. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table ; and that the Return relative to Executions, 
be printed. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
to give directions that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of any Order, Letter, Regulation 
or other Document, issued by any Inspector or 
Inspectors of Factories, in consequence of directions 
relating to the execution of the Act for the regu- 
lation of Factories issued by the Secretary of State 
for the Home Department in March 1837 :—And, 
a Return of the Number of Surgeons appointed 
by the four Inspectors of Factories in their respec- 
tive Districts; specifying the Number of Certifi- 
cates, with the rates of Charge granted by each of 
the said Surgeons, from 1st April 1835 to the present 
time. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty's most honourable Privy Council. 


Ordered, That the East India Officers Bill be 
read a second time upon Wednesday, the 19th day 
of April next. 


Ordered, That the Hackney Carriages (Metropolis) 
Bill be read a second time upon Wednesday, the 
5th day of April next. 


Ordered, That the Controverted Elections Bill be 
read a second time upon Wednesday, the 26th day 
of April next. 


Ordered, That the Report from the Committee to 
whom it was referred, to consider of the payment of 
Church Rates, be received upon Friday the 21st day 
of April next. ‘ 


Ordered, That the Sheriffs’ Fees Bill be read a 
second time upon Wednesday, the 5th day of April 
next. 


Vor. 92. 


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Q17 


Ordered, That the Attornies and Solicitors Bill be Attornies and 
read a second time upon Wednesday, the 5th day Slicitors Bill 
of April next. 


Ordered, That the Recovery of Tenements Bill be Recovery of 
read a second time upon Wednesday, the 5th day Tenements Bill. 
of April next. 


Ordered, That the Sale of Beer Bill be read a Sale of Beer 
second time upon Wednesday, the 5th day of April Bill. 
next. 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday the supply. 
3d day of April next, resolve itself into the Com- 
mittee of Supply. 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday the Ways and 
3d day of April next, resolve itself into the Com- Means. 
mittee of Ways and Means. 


Ordered, That the Report from the Committee to Dublin Roads. 

whom it was referred to consider cf the expediency 
of consolidating the Trusts of the several Turnpike 
Roads leading from the City of Dublin, and to sub- 
stitute a Local Assessment in lieu of the Tolls levied 
on such Roads within the immediate vicinity of 
Dublin, be received upon Tuesday, the 4th day of 
April next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Imprisonment 
mittee on the Imprisonment for Debt Bill ; for Debt Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday the 
3d day of April next, resolve itself into the said 
Committee. 


The Order for reading a second time upon Wed- Public Records 
nesday, the 12th day of April next, the Public Bill. 
Records Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday, the 3d day of May next. 


The Order for the House to resolve itself into a Mutiny Bill. 
Committee upon the Mutiny Bill, upon Monday the . 
3d day of April next, was read, and discharged. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday the 
7th day of April next, resolve itself into the said 
Committee. 


The Order for the House to resolve itself into a Marine Mutiny 
Committee upon the Marine Mutiny Bill, upon Bil. 
Monday the 3d day of April next, was read, and 
discharged. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday the 
7th day of April next, resolve itself into the said 
Committee. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bili to Forgery Biil. 
abolish the punishment of Death in cases of Forgery: 
And that Lord John Russell, Mr. Attorney General 
and Mr. Solicitor General do prepare, and bring 
it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Punishment of 
abolish the punishment of Death in certain cases : Death Bill. 
And that Lord John Russell, Mr. Attorney General 
and Mr. Solicitor General do prepare, and bring 
it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Offencesagainst 
to amend the Laws relating to Offences against the the Person Bili. 
Person: And that Lord John Russell, Mr. Attorney 
General and Mr. Solicitor General do prepare, and 
bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Robbery, and 
amend the Laws relative to Robbery and Stealing sig bey 
from the Person: And that Lord John Russell, Mr. ‘* *“"°""'" 
Attorney General and Mr. Solicitor General do 
prepare, and bring it in. 

FF Ordered, 





Burglary, and 
Stealing in a 
Dwelling-house 
Bill. 


Piracy Bill. 


Burning or 
destroying 
Buildings or 
Ships Bill. 


Dorchester 
Labourers, 


Factory 
Inspectors, 


Municipal 
Corporations 


(Ireland) Bill. 
No. 144. 


Dublin Police 
Bill. 


218 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to | 
amend the Laws relative to Burglary and stealing 
in a Dwelling House: And that Lord John Russell, | 
Mr. Attorney General and Mr. Solicitor General do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
amend certain Acts relating to the crime of Piracy : 
And that Lord John Russell, Mr. Attorney General 
and Mr. Solicitor General do prepare, and bring 
it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
amend the Laws relative to the Burning or Destroy- 
ing Buildings or Ships: And that Lord John 
Russell, Mr. Attorney General and Mr. Solicitor 
General do prepare, and bring it in. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented to 
His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased to 
give directions that there be laid before this House, 
a Copy of all Correspondence between the Colonial 
Office and the Governor of Australia, touching the 
Free Pardon, and the Order for the Return of the 
Dorchester Labourers. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this Hount as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented to 
His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased to 
give directions that there be laid before this House, 
a Copy of any Letter, Order, Regulation or other 
Document, issued by any Faetory Inspector or 
Inspectors, in consequence of directions relating to 
the execution of the Act for the Regulation of 
Factories, received from the Home Office in March 
1837. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Ordered, That the Report from the Committee 
on the Municipal Corporations (Jreland) Bill be now 
received. 

Mr. Baring accordingly reported the Bill; and 
the Bill was re-committed to a Committee of the 
whole House :—The House immediately resolved 
itself into the said Committee ; and after some time 
spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and 
Mr. More O’ Ferrall reported, That the Committee 
had gone through the Bill; and made Amendments 
thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. More O’ Ferrall reported the Bill accordingly ; 
and the Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time upon Monday 
the 10th day of April next. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Dublin Police Bill be now read 
a second time:—The Bill was accordingly read a 
second time; and committed toa Committee of the 
whole House for Thursday, the 6th day of April 
next. 


Notice being taken that Forty Members were not 
present, the House was told by Mr. Speaker ; and 
Forty Members not being present, and it being then 
after four of the clock :—The House was adjourned 
by Mr. Speaker, without a Question first put, till 
Monday, the 3d day of April next. 


23° Martii.—3°—4° Aprils: 





A. 1837. 
Lune, 3° die Aprilis ; 


ro 


Anno 7° Willielmi IV Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


+e House met; and being counted by Mr. Adjournment, 
Speaker, it appeared that Forty Members were ‘ 
not present; yet it being four of the clock, Mr. 

Speaker took the Chair, and again counted the 

Gauw: and ys Members not being present :— 

The House was adjourned by Mr. Speaker, without 

a Question first put, till To-morrow. 








Martis, 4° die Aprilis ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi [V Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


R. Adams, from the Commissioners of the Shrewsbury 
Shrewsbury and Holyhead Road, was called 2"4 Holyhead 

in; and at the bar presented, pursuant to the direc- — 
tions of several Acts of Parliament,—General State- 
ment of the Income and Expenditure of the Shrews- 
bury and Holyhead Road, between 1st February 
1836 and ist February 1837; and Report of Mr. 
John Provis thereon :—And then he withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Bousfield, from the Court of Bankruptcy, Bankrupte 
was called in; and at the bar presented,—Returns Court and Fiats, 
to several Orders, dated the 13th day of February 
last, for Returns of all Meetings under all Com- 
missions and Fiats in Bankruptcy, from 1st January 
to 31st December 1836 ; specifying the respective 
Commissioners before whom each Meeting was held, 
the object and purpose of such Meetings, and the 
day and hour appointed for holding such Meetings : 
—From each Official Assignee of the Court of 
Bankruptcy of every Commission and Fiat of Bank- 
ruptcy under which any Dividend has been paid by 
him, on and since 1st May 1833 to 1st January 1837 
inclusive, with the date of the Commissioner’s Order 
for making the same, and the Amount thereof, and 
the Amount of the Allowance made to each Official 
Assignee in each of such Bankruptcies :—and, an 
Account from each Official Assignee of the Court 
of Bankruptcy of the Amount of all Sums of Money 
at his order or disposition, or in his hands, under 
every Commission and Fiat of Bankruptcy, bearing 
date on or subsequent to 16th July 1833, to 1st 
February 1837 inclusive, not paid into the Bank of 
England to the credit of the Accountant in Bank- 
ruptcy, with the date when the several Sums respec- 
tively were paid into his hands:—And then he 
withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of Incumbents of parishes within the west London 
Metropolis and its neighbourhood, praying that they and Westmin- 
may be heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, Be ssatatia 
against certain parts of the West London and West- * 
minster Cemetery Bill, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Company of Merchants Adven- Hurworth and 
turers of the city of York, praying that the Hurworth York Railway 
and York Railway Bill may not pass into a law as it~" 
now stands, was presented, and read ; and referred 
to the Committee on the Bill. 


Mr. Dottin reported from the Committee on the London and 
London and Greenwich Railway Bill; That inasmuch wenn 
as the application is solely for the purpose of enabling J 
the Company to raise a further sum of money, the 
Committee is of opinion that none of the matters re- 
quired by the Standing Orders to be inquired into 
by the Resolutions of the House of the 1st of March 

1836, 








ent, 


ats, 





Trinity (North 
Leith) Harbour 
and Docks Bill. 


Edinburgh 
and Glasgow 
Railway Bill. 


Birkenhead 
and Chester 
Railway Bill. 


Chester and 
Birkenhead 
Railway Bill. 


King’s Ferry 
aud Liverpool 
Road Bill, 





7 Witt. IV. 


1836, apply to the present Bill; and that the Com- 
mittee had examined the allegations of the Bill, and 
found the same to be true; and had gone through 
the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Petitions from the Lord Provost, Magistrates and 
Council of the city of Edinburgh ;— Robert Viscount 
Melville and others, Trustees for the Creditors of the 
city of Edinburgh ;—and, Directors and Shareholders 
of the Trinity Chain Pier Company; praying that 
they may be heard, by themselves, their counsel or 
agents, against certain parts of the Trinity (JVorth 
Leith) Harbour and Docks Bill,—were presented, 
and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be re- 
ferred to the Committee on the Bill; and the Peti- 
tioners heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
upon their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel 
heard, in favour of the Bill, against the said Pe- 
titions. 


A Petition of the Provost, Magistrates and Town 
Council of Leith, praying that the Edinburgh and 
Glasgow Railway Bill may pass into a law, was 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 


Table. 


Petitions from Roger H. Barnston, and others, 
Trustees of the Chester, Neston and Woodside Ferry 
District of Roads ;—and, Thomas Walshman, and 
others, Creditors on the Tolls of the said Roads; 
praying that they may be heard, by themselves, 
their counsel or agents, against certain parts of the 
Birkenhead and Chester Railway Bill,—were pre- 
sented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be re- 
ferred to the Committee on the Bill; and the Peti- 
tioners heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
upon their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel 
heard, in favour of the Bull, against the said Pe- 
titions. 


Petitions from Roger H. Barnston, and others, 
Trustees of the Chester, Neston and Woodside Ferry 
District of Roads;—and, Thomas Walshman, and 
others, Creditors on the Tolls of the said Roads; 
praying that they may be heard, by themselves, 
their counsel or agents, against certain parts of the 
Chester and Birkenhead Railway Bill,—were pre- 
sented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be re- 
ferred to the Committee on the Bill; and the Peti- 
tioners heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
upon their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel 
heard in favour of the Bill, against the said Pe- 
titions. 


Petitions from Thomas Walshman, and others, 
Creditors of the Chester, Neston and Woodside 
Ferry District of Roads;—and, Land-owners and 
Occupiers of land in Woodbank, and other places 
in the county of Chester; praying that they may be 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, against 
certain parts of the King’s Ferry and Liverpool Road 
Bill,—were presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be re- 
ferred to the Committee on the Bill; and the Peti- 
tioners heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
upon their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel 
heard in favour of the Bill, against the said Pe- 
titions. 

A Petition of Trustees for executing the Act for 
improving certain Roads within the county palatine 
of Chester, called the Chester, Neston and Woodside 
Ferry District of Roads; complaining that the 
Standing Orders of the House in respect of the appli- 
cation for the said Bill had not been complied with; 
and praying that they may be heard, by themselves, 


Vou. 92, 


4° Aprilis. 





219 


their counsel or agents, with regard to the same, and 
also against the said Bill, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


_ An ingrossed Bill to extend the Powers and Pro- Leicester 
visions of an Act passed in the last Session of Par- _— ou 
liament for the more easy and speedy recovery of ~ 
Small Debts within the mentale of Leicester, to 
several other Towns, Parishes and Places, in the 
County of Leicester, was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That Mr. Tooke do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


A Petition of the Corporation of Oxford, praying Charlton King 
that the Charlton Kings and Marsworth Railway Bill n¢ Mareworth 
may not pass into ry as it now stands, was pre-e 
sented, and read ; and referred to the Committee on 
the Bill. 


The Polloc and Govan Railway Bill was read a Polloc and 
second time ; and committed to Lord William Ben- — Railway 
tinck and the West Scotland List. be 


Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken Trinity (North 
before the Committee on the Trinity (orth Leith) —_ oe 
Harbour and Docks Bill in Session 1835; andalso™” 
the Report which upon the 6th day of July 1835 
was made from the Select Committee appointed to 
inquire into the present State of the Harbours of 
Leith and Newhaven, together with the Minutes of 
Evidence taken before the said Committee, be re- 
ferred to the Committee on the Trinity North Leith 
Harbour and Docks Bill. 


Petitions from Francis Thomas Bircham, of Lin- Southwark and 
coln’s-Inn-Fields, Solicitor, and Clement Francis, of een 
Lincoln’ s-Inn-Fields aforesaid, Gentleman; — and, stasis 
the London and Southampton Railway Company; 
praying the House to institute an inquiry into the 
allegations of the Petitions of Richard Lill, with 
respect to the signatures to the Subscription List for 
the Southwark and Hammersmith Railway, and that 
the Petitioners may be heard, by their counsel or 
agents, in relation to the said Petitions,—were pre- 
sented, and read ; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on the Deptford and Dover Railway Sub- 
scription List. 


A Petition of Sir John Ramsden, of Byram, in Holme Reser- 
the county of York, Baronet, praying that he may vis Bill. 
be heard, by himself, his counsel or agent, against 
certain parts of the Holme Reservoirs Bill, was pre- 
sented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by himself, his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, 
if he think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of William Bishop, of Shelton Hall, in Manchester 
the township of Shelton, in the parish of Stoke-upon- 94 Stafiord, 
Trent, in the county of Stafford, Esquire, praying sie nina 
that he may be heard, by himself, his counsel or 
agent, against certain parts of the Manchester and 
Stafford Railway Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by himself, his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, 
if he think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


The Streatley and Goring Bridge and Road Bill Streatley and 
was read a second time; and committed to Mr. ee 
Robert Palmer and the Berks List. : 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Mauchline, praying Glasgew aud 
that the Glasgow and Ayr Railway Bill may not }s" Railway 
| naa and read; and~ 


The 


pass into a law, was 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


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en ee a tee Se 














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Slamannan 


Railway Bill. 


Gardiner’s 
Divorce Bill. 


Glasgow, 
Paisley, and 
Greenock 
Railway Bill. 


Glasgow Police 
Bill. 


Greenwich 
Pier Bill. 


Victuallers 
Assurance 


Company Bill. 


Antrim and 
Coleraine Road 
Bill. 


Belfast and 
Lisburn Road 
Bill, 


Manchester, 
Bolton, and 
Bury Canal 
Bill. 


Preston and 
Wyre Dock 
Vill. 


220 


The Slamannan Railway Bill was read a second 
time ; and committed to Lord William Bentinck and 
the West Scotland List. 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into a Committee upon Gardiner’s 
Divorce Bill. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Johnston and Bridge 
of Weir, praying that the Glasgow, Paisley and 
Greenock Railway Bill may pass into a law, was 
gm and read; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 

Petitions from the Guardians of Lord Blantyre; 
— Archibald Lord Douglas, of Douglas ;—- and, 
William Macdowall, Esquire, of Garthland, one of 
the Trustees for maintaining the Turnpike Road 
leading from Renfrew to Greenock; praying that 
they may be heard, by themselves, their counsel or 
agents, against certain parts of the said Bill,—were 
also presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be re- 
ferred to the Committee on the Bill; and the Peti- 
tioners heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
upon their Petitions, if they think fit ; and counsel 
heard, in favour of the Bill, against the said Pe- 
titions. 


A Petition of Proprietors of coal works on or near 
the line of the Monkland Canal, and upon the north 
side of the river Clyde to the eastward of the city 
of Glasgow ;—and, Company of Proprietors of the 
Monkland Canal Navigation; praying that they may 
be heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
against certain parts of the Glasgow Police Bill,— 
were presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be re- 
ferred to the Committee on the Bill; and the Peti- 
tioners heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
upon their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel 
heard, in favour of the Bill, against the said Peti- 
tions. 


A Petition of Ann Slaney, of Fisher-lane, Green- 
wich, praying that she may be heard, by herself, her 
counsel or agent, against certain | pte of the Green- 
wich Pier Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by herself, her counsel or agent, upon her Petition, 
if she think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


An ingrossed Bill to enable the Licensed Vic- 
tuallers and General Fire and Life Assurance Com- 
pany to sue and he sued in the Name of the Chair- 
man, Deputy Chairman, or of any one of the Directors 
of the said Company, and for other purposes, was 
read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Hawes do carry the Bill to 


the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Antrim and Coleraine Road Bill was read a 
second time; and committed to Mr. Brotherton and 


the Ulster List. 


The Belfast and Lisburn Road Bill was read a 
second time ; and committed to the Earl of Belfast 
and the Ulster List. 


The Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal Bill was 
read a second time; and committed to Mr. Wilson 
Patten and the Lancaster List. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Report which, upon the 22d day of March last, 
was made from the Committee on the Preston and 
Wyre Dock Bill, printed Copies of the Bill having 


4° Aprilis. 





A. 1837. 


been delivered at the door upon Thursday last; and 
the Amendments were read ; and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


The Saint George’s (Southwark) Market Bill was st. George's 
read a second time; and committed to Mr. Hutt (Southwark) 
and the Surrey List. Market Bill, 


A Petition of the Town Council of the borough of Severn Navi. 
the city of Bristol, and county of the same city, St" Bil. 
praying that they may be heard, by themselves, their 
counsel or agents, against certain parts of the Severn 
Navigation Bill, was presented, and read ; and or- 
dered to lie upon the Mable. 


A Petition of John Boyd, clerk of the peace of the Edinburgh 
county of Linlithgow, praying that the Edinburgh m¢ Glasgow 
and Glasgow Railway Bill may not pass intoa law as“ "” - 
it now stands, was presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Electors of the city of Edinburgh, Trinity (North 
praying that the Trinity (orth Leith) Harbour and — _— 

ocks Bill may pass into a law, was presented, and “"° ~°° + Bill 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Provost, Magistrates and Town Sheriffs’ Fees 
Council of the royal burgh of Cupar, in the county (S-tland.) 
of Fife, praying that the Act of Sederunt by which 
Sheriff Clerks’ Fees in Scotland are fixed, may be 
suspended, was presented, and read ; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 

Ordered, That the Petition be printed. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Cupar, in Fife, pray- Post Office 
ing the House to give directions for the conveyance eo i 
of a Mail direct through Fife, either by the present 6") 
stage coaches, or in such way as Sir Edward Lees, 
the Secretary to the Post Office in Scotland, may 
consider best, was presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 

Ordered, That the Petition be printed. 


Petitions from Tynemouth ;—Saint Ives, Cornwall; Shipping 

—Truro ;—Fowey ;— Aldeburgh ; — Southwold ;— Gazette. 
Boston ;—-Bridlington ; — Great Grimsby ;—South 
Shields ;-- Maryport ; —- Deal ; — Newcastle-upon- 
Tyne ;— and, Leith; complaining of the hardship 
imposed upon the proprietors of the Shipping Gazette 
daily evening Newspaper, published in London, in 
being subjected to heavy charges for postage of 
letters containing shipping and commercial intelli- 
gence only, while an exemption from such charges 
has been long enjoyed, and continues still to be 
enjoyed by the proprietors of the London Shipping 
and Commercial List, who are paid servants of the 
public in the Post Office Department; and praying 
that the proprietors of the Shipping Gazette may be 
relieved from the hardship of which the Petitioners 
complain,—were presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Master Bakers of Greenock ;—and, Foreign Biscuit 
Journeymen and Apprenticed Bakers in Greenock ; "4 F!™ 
complaining that considerable quantities of Foreign 

made Biscuit and Flour are annually imported into 

the said Port from Hamburgh, Dantzic and other 

places, and that a great part of these articles is 
exported in bond ostensibly as merchandize, but in 

reality for the consumption of the crews of the 
“ae on board of which it is laden, by which 

means the demand for British made Biscuit and 

Flour is considerably diminished, and the Revenue 
defrauded, and praying for protection,—were pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Hunningham ;—Southam ;—Nap- —— 
ton;— Ufton ;—Wolfehampcote ;—Priors Hardwick; 8" ee 
— Leumington Hastings ; — Stockton; — Grand- 





borough ;— 











ll. 


vi- 


iw 


ll. 


rth 
our 


Bill. 





Church Rates. 


Poor Law Act. 


7 Witt. IV. 


borough ;—Birdingbury ;— Lower Shuckburgh ;— 
Priors Marston ;—Harbury ;—Ladbrooke ;—Long 
Ltchington ;— Farnborough ;—Bishops Itchington ; 
—Fenny Compton ;— Shildon ;—Studley and Ald- 
field; — Saint George-the-Martyr, Canterbury ;— 
Saint Mary Magdalen, Canterbury ;— Dean and 
Chapter of Canterbury ; — Cleobury Mortimer ; — 
Hopton Wafers ;— Diddlebury ;—- Llanverras ; — 
Wokingham ; —Bazxford ;—Saint Andrew’s, Hert- 
ford ;—Kirkby Malzeard ;—Middlesmoor ;— Bing- 
ley ;—and, Northwick; praying the House not to 
sanction the proposed measure regulating the pay- 
ment of Church Rates,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from Bridgnorth; —Breewood;—Ounile; 
— Lichfield ;—and, Isle Abbotts ; praying the House 
to sanction the said proposed measure,—were also 
— and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


Petitions from Tonbridge ;— Terling and Great 
Wigborough ;— Hounslow ; — Lutterworth ;— Wal- 
cote ; — Crieff’; — Dudlistone ; — Mallwyd ; — and, 
North College-street, Edinburgh; praying for the 
abolition of Church Rates,—were presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from Elworthy ; — Abbotsley ; — Saint 
Martin’s (Salop) ;—Bishop Thornton and Mark- 
ington ;— Waltham Holy Cross;—and, Newtown 
Linford; praying that Church Rates may not be 
abolished, — were also presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of Timothy Trangott Triebner, of 
Holbeck, in the borough ot Leeds, merchant, prayin 
that any ae sige arising from funds in lieu of Church 
Rates may e appropriated to the purposes of edu- 
cation and the building of churches, was also pre- 
= and read; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. | 


Petitions from Inhabitants of Radford ;—and, 
Eye; praying for the amendment of the Poor Law 
Act,—were presented, and read; and referred to 
the Select Committee on thePoor Law Act. 

A Petition of Guardians of the Windsor Union, 
in the counties of Berks and Surrey, praying the 
House to resist every attempt which may S made 
to impair the efficiency or mar the utility of the said 
Act, was also presented, and read; and referred to 
the said Select Committee. 

A Petition of Medical Practitioners residing in 
Wakefield, praying the House to institute an inquiry 
into the means that have been provided for the 
medical treatment of the sick Poor in Parochial 
Unions, was also presented, and read ; and referred 
to the said Select Committee. 

A Petition of Rate-payers of Ossett-cum-Gaw- 
thorpe, praying that that township may not be an- 
nexed to the Dewsbury Union, but that they may 
be at liberty to make, coHect and apply their own 
Poor-rates as they have hitherto been accustomed 
to do under the direction and control of their own 
select vestry and responsible officers, was also pre- 
sented, and read; and referred to the said Select 
Committee. 

A Petition of Clergy, Gentry, Manufacturers and 
Operatives residing within the Wigan Union ; pray- 
ing for the repeal of the said Act, was also presented, 
and read; and referred to the said Select Com- 
mittee. 

A Petition of the Minister, Churchwardens, Over- 
seers and Inhabitants, Rate-payers of the parish of 
Saint Catherine Cree Church, otherwise Christ 
Church, in the city of London, praying that that 
parish, and the other parishes in the city of London, 
may be exempted from the control of the Poor Law 
Commissioners, or from being united with each 
other, or with any other parishes in the proposed 
city of London Union, or any other Union for the 

Vox. 92, 


4° Aprils. 








221 


relief of the Poor, was also presented, and read ; and 
referred to the said Select Committee. 


Petitions from Ashton-under-Lyne ;—and, Mon- Tobacco. 
mouth ; praying for the repeal of the Duty on To- 
bacco,—were presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Robert Field, and others ;—Joseph Soap. 
Allbut ;— Tynemouth ;— Sutton ;— Ashton-in-Mack- 
erfield ;—and, South Shields; praying for the repeal 
of the Duty on Soap,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Chairman of a Meeting of the Highway Act. 
Trustees of the Alston Turnpike Roads, praying that 
Justices of the Peace may be empowered to ad- 
judicate a portion of the General Highway Rate 
levied on each township to be expended in the repairs 
of the turnpike roads therein, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Beer-house keepers of Nottingham, Public-houses 
praying that the Public-houses &lt;a Bill may Regulation Bill. 
not pass into a law, was presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Crofters, Cottagers and Labourers Collonsay 
in the island of Collonsay, Argyllshire, complaining 1*!"4- 
of the distress of the inhabitants of that island, and 
praying for the means of emigrating, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, Education 
chairman of a meeting of the clergy of those dioceses, (Ireland.) 
praying that a Select Committee may be appointed 
to inquire into the circumstances connected with the 
operation of the existing Board of National Educa- 
tion in Ireland, was presented, and read; and or- 
dered to lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That Walter Carlow County 
Newton, Esquire, and others, freeholders, who peti- Election. 
tioned this * ted upon the 9th day of March last, 
complaining of an undue Election and Return for 
the County of Carlow, had not entered into a recog- 
nizance in respect of such Petition, according to the 
directions of an Act made in the ninth year of the 
reign of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, 
intituled, “‘ An Act to consolidate and amend the 
Laws relating to the Trial of Controverted Elections 
or Returns of Members to serve in Parliament.” 

Ordered, That the Order made upon the 18th day 
of March last, for taking the said Petition into con- 
sideration upon Tuesday, the 25th day of April next, 
be discharged. 


The House was moved, That the Order made upon Pauper Lunatics 
the 13th day of March last, that there be laid before (Miadlesex.) 
this House, an Alphabetical List of the Names of 
the 260 Paupers who have been discharged cured 
from the Pauper Lunatic Asylum for the County of 
Middlesex, from 15th May 1831 to 31st December 
1836, with the Parish to which every such Pauper 
belonged, the Date of the Admission and the Date 
of the Discharge of every such Pauper ; if any cases 
of relapse have occurred, and the Pauper has been 
re-admitted into the Institution, the Duplicate Name 
to be distinguished by an Asterisk, might be read ; 
and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That a Return to the said Order be laid 
before this House forthwith. 


The Roborough Hundred (Devon) Small Debts Roborough 
Bill was read a second time ; and committed to Sir Hundred 
Edward Codrington and the Devon List. a 

A Petition of Directors of the Southwark and Southwark and 
Hammersmith Railway, complaining of vexatious Hammersmith 

“oh ° ; ailway Bill. 
opposition to the Southwark and Hammersmith Rail- 
FF3 way 











Corn Laws. 


Richard 
M¢ Cormick. 


Church Lands 
(Durham.) 


Marine 


Insurances. 


Imprisonment 
for Debt Bill. 


Small Debts 
(Scotland) Bill. 


County Rates 
Bill, 


222 


way Bill; denying the allegations of the Petitions 
complaining of fraudulent signatures to the Sub- 
scription List, and — for inquiry, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Bradford (Wilts) ;—and, Fenton ; 
praying for the repeal of the Corn Laws,—were pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Kingston-upon-Hull, 
praying the House to institute an inquiry into the 
case of Richard M:Cormich, late a private in the 17th 
Lancers ; and also into certain abuses which the 
Petitioners allege at present exist in the Army, 


was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of Owners of Lands in the parish and 
manor of Lanchester, in the county of Durham, which 
were allotted and inclosed by virtue of an Act passed 
in the 13 Geo. 3. (1775); stating that the Petitioners 
are the owners of the soil of certain allotment lands 
situate in the said parish and manor, and that the 
mines and minerals under the same belong or did 
lately belong to the See and bishoprick of Durham ; 
and the bishop and his lessees are empowered 
by the said Act to make pits, shafts, &amp;c., and to do 
every other Act necessary for the purpose of winning 
and working the said mines, and carrying away the 
minerals without paying the Petitioners any da- 
mages, or making them any satisfaction for so 
doing; that the bishop and his lessees have not only 
exercised to the full extent all the powers given them 
by the Act, but, according to the opinion of an 
eminent counsel whom the Petitioners have con- 
sulted, have greatly exceeded those powers by 
granting permission to the Stanhope and Tyne Com- 
pany to carry their Railway over the Petitioners’ 
allotments without their consent, and by erecting 
thereon dwelling-houses for their workmen and 
depots for the sale of manufactured mineral pro- 
duce not gotten within any of the manors belonging 
to the see or bishoprick of Durham; and praying 
the House to take their case into consideration ; and 
if any Bill should be brought before Parliament 
relative to the See and bishoprick of Durham, that 
clauses may be inserted therein for the relief of the 
Petitioners, was presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Shipowners and others interested in 
the prosperity of the Shipping interest of the Port of 
Newcastle, resident in the borough of Tynemouth, 
praying for the repeal of the Duty on Marine Insur- 
ances, was presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


» 


A Petition of Charles Thomas Lewis, Robert Ward, 
and Edmund Collett, three of the Tipstaffs of His 
Majesty’s Court of King’s Bench, taking notice of 
the Imprisonment for Debt Bill, and praying that 
they may be compensated for their loss of office, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of Merchants, Traders and others in 
Aberfeldy, praying that that town may be included 
in the Small Debts (Scotland) Bill, as one of the 
places for holding the Circuit Courts, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of Inhabitants of Coupar Angus, praying 
that the said Bill may pass into a law, was also 
presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of the Corporation of Kingston-upon- 
Hull, praying that the County Rates Bill may not 
pass into a law, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 





4° Aprils. 


A Petition of William Roberts, stating that the Anatomy, 











A, 1837. 


resent course pursued in dissecting human bodies 
is attended with unnecessary loss of life and health 
of the Students, and that he has at great cost pro- 
duced an antiseptic process by which the science of 
anatomy will be more effectually acquired, by arrest- 
ing the progress of putrefaction for the period bodies 
are subjected to anatomical examination ; and that 
anatomical teachers, from the control placed over 
them by the Anatomy Act, refuse to adopt his pro- 
cess, unless it is made a general measure; and 
praying the House to make these means attainable, 
by enabling him to grant to all anatomical schools 
in the United Kingdom, free use of his invention, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


ment of the Law relating to the Rating of Small 
Tenements, by rendering the overseer’s receipts for 
rates a legal tender to the landlord in payment of 
rent,—were presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


Derby Railway Bill, printed Copies of the Bill 
having been Rilo at the door upon Tuesday, the 
21st day of March last; and the Amendments were 
read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


pier of land and premises in the 
—John Mundy, an Occupier of land in the said 
parish ;-—Inhabitants and Occupiers of lands in the 
said parish ;—and, George Bowyer, of the Inner 
Temple, London, Esquire ; praying that the Oxford 
and Great Western ed Bill may not pass into 
a law,—were presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


Great Western Railway Bill, printed Copies of the 
Bill having been delivered at the door upon Friday 
last ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Amendments made by the 
Committee to the Bill, be now read a second time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the words “ That the ” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the words 
“ Report be taken into further consideration upon 
“* this day six months” instead thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Question : 
—the said proposed Amendment was, with the leave 
of the House, withdrawn. 

And the Question being again proposed, That 
the Amendments made by the Committee to the 
Bill, be now read a second time ; 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made to 
the Question, by leaving out from the words “ That 
“ the” to the end of the Question, in order to add 
the words “ Bill be recommitted ” instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words pro- 
posed to be left out stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby; 





The Noes to the old Lobby. 

Tellers for the ( Mr. Granville Harcourt, | 
Yeas, Mr. Hughes Hughes : 

Tellers for the { Lord Granville Somerset, \ 
Noes, \ Mr. Robert Palmer : j 


58. 


50. 


So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 





Ordered, 


Petitions from Shaw ;—and, Guardians of the Rating of Small 
Westbourne Union (Sussex) ; praying for the amend- Tenements. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Leeds and 
the Report which upon the 17th day of March last, av Railway 
was made from the Committee on the Leeds and * 


Petitions from Jonathan Peel, Esquire, an Occu- Oxford and 


: } - Great Western 
arish of Culham ; Railway Bil. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Oxford and 
the Report which upon the 22d day of March last, Great — 
was made from the Committee on the Ozford and B#!*+y 





all 








Merthyr Tydfil 
and Cardiff 
Railway Bill. 


London and 
Dover Railway 
Bill. 


Lancaster 
and Preston 
Railway Bill. 


Birmingham 
and Gloucester 
Railway Bill, 


Manchester 
and Leeds 
Railway Bill. 


London and 
Southampton 
Railway Bill, 


Sheffield and 
Manchester 
Railway Bill, 


on and 
yre Railwa 
Bill, . 


7 Witt. IV. 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the 
Committee to the Bill, be now read a second time : 
—The said Amendments were accordingly read a 
second time, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 





The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Report which upon the 20th day of March 
last was made from the Committee on the Merthyr 
Tydfil and Cardiff Railway Bill, printed Copies of 
the Bill having been delivered at the door upon 
Saturday, the 25th day of March last; and the 
Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Report which upon the 16th day of March last 
was made from the Committee on the London and 
Dover Railway Bill, printed Copies of the Bill 
having been delivered at the door upon Tuesday the 
21st day of March last ; and the Amendments were 
read, and agreed to; and a Clause was added to 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Report which upon the 20th day of March last 
was made from the Committee on the Lancaster 
and Preston Railway Bill, printed Copies of the 
Bill having been delivered at the door upon Friday 
last; and the Amendments were read, and agreed 


to. 
Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Report which upon the 20th day of March last, 
was made from the Committee on the Birmingham 
and Gloucester Railway Bill, printed Copies of the 
Bill having been delivered at the door upon Thurs- 
day last; and the Amendments were read, and 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Report which upon the 20th day of March last 
was made from the Committee on the Manchester 
and Leeds Railway Bill, printed Copies of the Bill 
having been delivered at the door upon Thursday 
last ; and the Amendments were read, and agreed 
to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Report which upon the 23d day of March last, 
was made from the Committee on the London and 
Southampton Railway Bill, printed Copies of the 
Bill having been delivered at the door upon Fri- 
day last; and the Amendments were read, and 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Report which upon the 20th day of March last 
was made from the Committee on the Sheffield 
and Manchester Railway Bill, printed Copies of the 
Bill having been delivered at the door upon Thurs- 
day last; and the Amendments were read, and 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Report which upon the 20th day of March last 
was made from the Committee on the Preston and 

Vor. 92. 


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223 


Wyre Railway Bill, printed Copies of the Bill havy- 
ing been delivered at the door upon Thursday last ; 
and the Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed. 


_Lord Viscount Howick presented, pursuant to the Army. 

directions of several Acts of Parliament,—A Return 
of Military Officers upon Half Pay who have been 
allowed to receive their Half Pay since the 1st 
April 1836, under the provisions of the Acts 2 and 
3 Will. 4, c. 126, s. 23 and 24, and 3 and 4 Will. 4, 
c. 96, s. 22 and 23. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


The Order for the House to resolve itself into a Canada. 
Committee, To-morrow, to consider further of the 
State of the Province of Zower Canada, was read, 
and discharged. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday, 
the 14th day of this instant April, resolve itself into 
the said Committee. 


Ordered, That the Bribery at Elections Bill be Bribery at 
read a second time upon Wednesday, the 19th day Elections Bill. 
of this instant April. 


Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- Penitentiar 
solve itself into a Committee upon the Penitentiary (Milbank) Bill. 
(Milbank) Bill. 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday Registration of 
next, resolve itself into a Committee upon the Re- Voters Bill. 
gistration of Voters Bill. 


Ordered, That the Benefices Plurality Bill be Benefices _ 
read a second time upon Friday next. Plurality Bill. 


Ordered, That the Wills Bill be read a second wills Bill. 
time upon Friday next. 


Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- Supply. 
solve itself into the Committee of Supply. 


Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- Ways and 
solve itself into the Committee of Ways and Means. Means. 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday Imprisonment 
next, resolve itself into a Committee upon the Im- for Debt Bill, 
prisonment for Debt Bill. 


Mr. Oswald reported from the Select Committee Public 
on Public Petitions; That they had examined the Petitions. 
Petitions presented from the 11th to the 23d days 
of March last, both inclusive; and had directed him 
to make a Report thereof to the House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; 
and be printed. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being put, Landed 
That leave be given to bring in a Bill providing PrPe'y- 
that (in cases of intestacy, and in the absence of =| 
settlement to the contrary), landed property shall, 
like personal property, be equally divided among 
the children or next of kin of the deceased, and 
pass through the executor or administrator, as per- 
sonal property now passes ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 


M . t, 
Tellers for the Yeas,{ Mr. Roebuck : 


Yan 


‘ : Mr. Attorney General,) 
Pellers for the Noes,4 Mr. Solicitor General : f + 
So it passed in the Negative. 


Petitions from Ripon;— Warrington; — John Soap. 
Jackson and others ;— William Taylor and Company ; 
— Oswestry ;—Ulverstone;—Leicester ;— Ellesmere ; 
— Trowbridge and Bradford ;— Nottingham; — 
FF4 Whitehaven ;— 








Soap. 


Game 
(Scotland) Bill. 


East India 
Maritime 
Officers, 


Education 
(Treland.) 


Queen Anne’s 
Bounty, 


224 


Whitehaven ; --- Egremont ; — Wigton ;—and, Lon- 


don ; praying for the repeal of the Duty on Soap, | to inquire into the state of the Prerogative and 
—were presented, and read; and ordered to lie | Ecclesiastical Courts in Jreland, and to consider the 


upon the Table. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to re- 
peal the Duties on Soap :—And the said Motion 
was, with leave of the House, withdrawn. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring ina Bill 
to secure to Tenants of Farms in Scotland Compen- 
sation for Damage done to their Farms by Game: 
And that Mr. Fox Maule and Sir Charles Adam do 


prepare, and bring it in. 


A Petition of Captains David Rae Newall, Thomas 
William Barrow, and Richard Glasspoole, stating 
that the Petitioners are Commanders of the late 
Maritime Service of the East India Company, and 
for several years served in the regular ships chartered 
by the Company on freight; that they have lost the 
opportunity of pursuing their profession by the ope- 
ration of the Act abolishing the Company’s Indian 
Trade, at a time of life when it is impossible to enter 
upon a new pursuit; their profession has been taken 
from them, and, by an exception enforced in their 
case alone, compensation has been withheld from 
them, on the ground that they were Commanders of 
the Company’s own ships, and not of —_ char- 
tered by the Company; and praying the House to 
take their case into consideration, and that the East 
India Company may be enabled to grant the Peti- 
tioners the compensation, which on the faith of its 
being already given, had led them to enter into 
pecuniary engagements to an equal amount, and to 
which they conceive themselves justly entitled for 
the serious injury they have sustained by the annihi- 
lation of their profession for the public good, but 
under the solemn pledges of indemnity given by 
their former honourable Masters, guaranteed by 
His Majesty’s Government, and provided for by Act 
of Purliament, was presented, and read. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the said Petition be referred to the 
consideration of a Select Committee ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 

a ~~ Frederick 
Yeas —— 

' | Mr. Praed : 

Tellers for the f Mr. Vernon Smith, 

Noes, (Mr. Bagshaw : 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative :—And a 
Committee was appointed of Mr. George Frederick 
Young, Lord Granville Somerset, Mr. Bagshaw, 
Mr. Robinson, Mr. Hastie, Mr. George Palmer, 
Mr. Cutlar Fergusson, Mr. Praed, Mr. Labouchere, 
Mr. Alderman Thompson, Mr. Marjoribanks, Sir 
John Rae Reid, Mr. Ewart, and Mr. Lynch ; with 
Power to send for persons, papers and records. 

Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 


Ordered, That there be laid before’ this House, a 
Return of the Number of Schools to which Grants 
have been made by the Board of Education in Jre- 
land; specifying the Sums allotted to each, and 
such as are of Protestant or Roman Catholic foun- 
dation. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Copy of the several Charters which were granted by 
her late Majesty Queen Anne to the Governors of 
Queen Anne's Bounty, and of the several Letters 
Patent and Rules and Orders under the Royal Sign 
Manual of any of the Kings and Queens of the 
Realm relating to Queen Anne’s Bounty, or the 
manner in which the Funds granted to the Governors, 
or any part thereof, were or are to be applied or 
disposed of. 





4° Aprilis. 





A. 1837. 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed Ecclesiasticat 
ourts 


(Ireland, ) 


| Reports of the Commissioners appointed to inquire 
into the state of these Courts in the years 1826 and 
1830 :—And a Committee was appointed of Mr. 
Winston Barron, Mr. Attorney General for [reland, 
Mr. Serjeant Jackson, Dr. Lushington, Mr. Lefroy, 
Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Serjeant Ball, Mr. West, Mr. 
Lynch, Mr. Fitzstephen Dread, Mr. Hamilton, Lord 
Viscount Clements, Mr. Villiers Stuart, Mr. John 
Young, and Mr. Lucas, with Power to send for per- 
sons, papers and records. 
Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 


Petitions from Bristol;—and, Towns in the Pot- Tobacco, 
teries (Stafford); praying for the repeal or reduc- 
tion of the Duty on Tobacco,—were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being put, Tobacco. 
That leave be given to bring in a Bill for reducing 
the Duty on Tobacco from Three Shillings to One 
Shilling per Pound ; it passed in the Negative. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- Hand-loom 
posed, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to give &gt; 
yee to the Prices of Weaving by Hand-loom 

abour :—And the said Motion was, with leave of 
the House, withdrawn. 


Mr. Fox Maule presented, pursuant to Orders,— Belfast _ 

Returns of the Names of all Subscribers to the — 
Royal Belfast Academical Institution, with the 
Amount and Date of their respective Subscriptions : 
—Of the Names of all Persons (Ministers excepted) 
who have been acknowledged as Successors to the 
original Subscribers, with a Statement of the Law 
by which they have been so acknowledged :--Of 
the Names of all Ministers who have been acknow- 
ledged as Proprietors in virtue of Money subscribed 
by their Predecessors or Congregations, with a 
Statement of the Law by which they have been so 
acknowledged :--Of the Names of all Persons, if 
any, who have applied to be recognized as successors 
to Subscribers, and whose claims have been rejected, 
with the Reasons of such rejection :—Of the Names 
of all Professors receiving Salaries from Govern- 
ment, the Number of Lectures and Examinations 
annually held by each Professor, with the Amount 
of Salary allotted to each :--Of the Number of 
Students in the Class of each endowed Professor, 
during the last three years; distinguishing those 
considered as Candidates for the Ministry, and the 
Religious Bodies to which they respectively belong : 
—Of the Names of all Professors who hold plurality 
of Professorships, with the reason of such appoint- 
ment :—Of the Names of all Professors not endowed 
by Government, with the Number of their Students, 
and, so far as may be ascertained, the Religious 
Bodies to which they belong :-—and, Copies of all 
Bye-laws enacted since the year 1810. 

Return of the Names of Barristers appointed by Barristers 
the Crown to the Office of Recorder since the aed 
passing of the Act 6 Will. 4, c. 76; stating the“ 
year in which every such Barrister was called to 
the Bar; the City, Borough or Town in which the 
Appointment has been made; the Annual Payment 
agreed to be made to each Recorder, and the resig- 
nations of Persons so appointed. 

Mr. Fox Maule also presented, pursuant to an 
Address to His Majesty,—A Return of the Names, 
Titles and Descriptions of the several Governors of 
“ Queen Anne’s Bounty,” who have been summoned 
by the Secretary of that Corporation to attend each 
Court of Governors in every year, from the year 
1827 to the present time ; showimg how many Courts 
of Governors have been held ineach year; by whom 
each Court has been attended; by whose direction 

the Governors were summoned ; and, if any of the 
Governors 


Bounty. 





Queen’Anne's 


7 Wit. [V. 


Governors were omitted to be summoned, for what 

reason, and by whose authority such omission took 
lace. 

. Mr. Fox Maule also presented, by His Majesty’s 

command,— The Third Report from the Commis- 

sioners on Criminal Law (Juvenile Offenders.) 

‘ — That the said Papers do lie upon the 
able. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 


Criminal Law. 





Mercurti, 5° die Aprilis ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi IV“ Regis, 1837. 
PRAYERS. 


Edinburgh | ae S from the honourable Colonel George 
fullvay Bil Carnegie, residing at Craigton ;—Captain Charles 


Grant, of Green Park, in the county of Linlithgow ; 
— William Hill, Esquire, of Hillwood, in the county 
of Edinburgh, residing at Saughton Hall, in the 
said county ;—and, Alexander Cuningham, residing 
in Edinburgh, Interim Secretary to the promoters of 
a line of Railway between Edinburgh and Glasgow ; 
praying that they may be heard, by themselves, 
their counsel or agents, against certain parts of the 
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Bill, were pre- 
sented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit ; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


Preston and 
Wyre Railway 
Bill. 


An ingrossed Bill to alter the Line of the Preston 
and Wyre Railway, and to amend the Act relating 
thereto, was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Hesketh Fleetwood do carry 
the Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Preston and An ingrossed Bill for making and maintaining a 


ny Peeks Dock or Docks at Wyre, in the County Palatine of 
on Lancaster, was read the third time; and Amend- 
ments were made to the Bill. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That Mr. Hesketh Fleetwood do carry 
the Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 
Manchester Ordered, That the Committee on the Manchester 
Rae a, and Stafford Railway Bill have power to send for 


persons, papers and records. 


Leeds and An ingrossed Bill to enable the North Midland 
= Railway Railway Company to alter the Line of the said 
Railway ; and also to make two Branches to com- 
municate with the same, was read the third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That Sir John Beckett do carry the Bill 


to the Lords, and desire their concurrence, 


Birmingham Ordered, That the Committee on the Birmingham 
BiL’\”?? Gas (No. 1.) Bill, have power to send for persons, 


papers and records. 


— The Roxburgh Roads Bill was read a second 
"time ; and committed to Sir George Sinclair and the 
East Scotland List. 

en ev A Petition of Merchants in Glasgow, Owners of 
*) Bill. Steam Vessels, and otherwise interested in the trade 
of Belfast, praying that the Belfast Harbour (No. 2.) 
Bill may not pass into a law, was presented, and 

read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
eaten and —_ A Petition of Owners and Occupiers of Property 
Railway Bill in Brunswich-square and Brunswick-terrace, in the 
{Stephenson's parish of Hove, in the county of Sussex, which parish 


is situate at the western extremity of the town of 
Vou. 92 


4°—5° Aprilis. 





225 


Brighton, praying that they may be heard, by them- 
selves, their counsel or agents, against certain parts 
of the London and Brighton Railway Bill (Stephen- 
son’s Line), was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of theBill, against the said Petition. 


An ingrossed Bill to alter and extend the Line of London and 
the South Eastern Railway, and to amend the Act — Railway 
relating thereto, was read the third time. is 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Elphinstone do carry the Bill 
to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Liverpool Improvement Bill was read a Liverpool 
second time; and committed to Mr. Ewart and the _———— 
Lancaster List. 


The Liverpool Improvement Acts Amendment Liverpool 
Bill was read a second time; and committed to Improvement 


‘ Acts Amend- 
Mr. Ewart and the Zancaster List. aa Bill. 


An ingrossed Bill for making a Railway from Sheffield and 
Sheffield, in the West Riding of the County of ae i 
York, to Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, _— 
was read the third time; and an ingrossed Clause 
was added to the Bill, by way of Rider. 

Another ingrossed Clause was offered to be added 

to the Bill by way of Rider, for compelling the 
Company to a ply reaks to Locomotive Carriages : 
And the said Clause was brought up, and twice read 
with a blank; and committed to a Committee of 
the whole House :—The House accordingly resolved 
itself into the Committee; and after some time spent 
therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. 
Hesketh Fleetwood reported, That the Committee 
had gone through the Clause, and made an Amend- 
ment thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Fleetwood accordingly reported the Clause ; 
and the Amendment was read, and agreed to; and 
the said Clause was read the third time, and agreed 
to, to be made part of the Bill by way of Rider. 

Then Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. John Parker do carry the Bill 
to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


An ingrossed Bill for enabling the Manchester Manchester 
and Leeds Railway Company to vary the Line of = Leste 
, A : ailway Bill. 
such Railway, and for amending and enlarging the 
powers and provisions of the Act relating thereto, 
was read the third time; and ingrossed Clauses 
were added by way of Riders ; and Amendments 
were made to the Bill. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That Lord Stanley do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being Oxford and 
roposed, That the ingrossed Bill for making a Great Western 
| from Ozford to join the Great Western Bllvay Bill. 
Railway near Didcot, with a Branch therefrom to 
Abingdon, to be called “The Ozford and Great 
Western Union Railway,” be now read the third 
time ; 
The Amendments following were proposed to be 
made to the Question; viz. to leave out the word 
“ now,” and at the end of the Question to add the 
words “ upon this day six months.” 
And the Question being put, That the word “now” 
stand part of the Question :—It was resolved in the 
Affirmative. 
And the Question being put, That the Bill be now 
read the third time ; 


GG The 














Bridgewater 
and Taunton 
Canal Bill. 


Dublin and 
Drogheda 
Railway Bill. 


King’s Ferry 
and Liverpool 
Road Bill. 


Antrim and 


226 5° Aprilis. A. 1837. 


The House divided : 
The Yeas to the old Lobby ; 
The Noes to the new Lobby. 
Tellers for the ( Mr. Granville Harcourt, 55 
Yeas, Lord Norreys: } ; 
Teliers for os | Captain Pechell, } 25 
Noes, Mr. Goring: i 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 
The Bill was accordingly read the third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That Mr. Granville Harcourt do carry 
the Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 
A Petition of the Corporation of Oxford, praying 
that the said Bill may not pass into a law as it now 
stands, was cto and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Report which upon the 22d day of March last 
was made from the Committee on the Bridgewater 
and Taunton Canal Bill, printed Copies of the Bill 
having been delivered at the door upon Thursday 
last ; and the Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 


be ingrossed. 


The Dublin and Drogheda Railway Bill was read 
a second time; and committed to Mr. Lynch and 
the Leinster List. 


The House was moved, That the Petition of 
Trustees for executing the Act for improving certain 
Roads within the County Palatine of Chester, 
called the Chester, Neston and Woodside Ferry Dis- 
trict of Roads, which was presented yesterday, 
complaining that the Standing Orders of the House 
in the case of the King’s Ferry and Liverpool 
Road Bill, had not been complied with, might be 
read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That the said Petition be withdrawn ; 
the Bill having been read a second time. 


A Petition of the Right honourable Charles Henry 


Coleraine Road Saint John, Earl O’ Neill, of Shanes Castle, near 


Bill. 


Birmingham 
and Gloucester 
Railway Bill. 


Merthyr Tydfil 
and Cardiff 
Railway Bill. 


Blochairn 
Canal, 


London and 
Southampton 
Railway Bill. 


Antrim, praying that he may be heard, by his 
counsel or agent, against the Antrim and Coleraine 
Road Bill, was presented, and read ; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


An ingrossed Bill to amend an Act passed in the 
last Session of Parliament, for making a Railway 
from Birmingham to Gloucester; to extend the Line 
of the said Railway, and to make Branches there- 
from to the City of Worcester and the Town of 
Tewkesbury, was read the third time; and Amend- 
ments were made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Lord Granville Somerset do carry 
the Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


An ingrossed Bill to enable the Taff Vale Railway 
Company to alter the Line of the said Railway and 
the Act relating thereto, and to make additional 
Branches, was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Robert Clive do carry the 
Eill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


A Petition of James Mackenzie, Esquire, of Craig 
Park, praying that he may be heard, by his counsel 
or agent, against the Blochairn Canal Bill, was 
sora and read; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 


An ingrossed Bill to alter the Line of the Zondon 
and Southampton Railway, and to amend the Act 
relating thereto, was read the third time; and Amend- 
ments were made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Shaw Lefevre do carry the Bill 
to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 





A Petition of John Buchanan, and others, being Slamannan 
Trustees of the Glasgow and Stirling Roads at or Railway Bill 
near to the west of Cumbernauld, praying that the 
Slamannan Railway Bill may not pass into a law as 
it now stands, was presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Werneth and 
the Report which, upon the 20th day of March last, _ 
was made from the Committee on the Werneth and 
Littleborough Road Bill; and the Amendments were 
read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


A Petition of Howard Moore, of Carlow, in the Carlow County 
county of Carlow, Esquire, Thomas Haughton, of Election. 
Kelvin Grove, in the county of Carlow, Esquire, and 
the Reverend James Maher, of Braganza House, in 
said county, clerk, freeholders or electors of the said 
county of Carlow, and who claim to have had a right 
of voting for a Member to serve in this present Par- 
liament for the said County at the last Election for 
such County, and who did vote at the said Election, 
was delivered in, and read ; setting forth, That the 
Petitioners were electors for the said County of 
Carlow at the last Election of a Member to serve 
in this present Parliament for the said County, in 
the room of Thomas Kavanagh, Esquire, deceased, 
and still are electors for the said County, and voted 
at the said Election for Nicholas Aylward Vigors, 
Esquire, one of the Candidates at that Election, to 
represent the said County in Parliament; that the 
said Nicholas Aylward Vigors, Esquire, was at the 
said Election duly elected and returned to serve in 
this present Parliament for the said County; that 
the Petitioners find that a certain Petition, com- 
plaining of the said Election and Return of the said 
Nicholas Aylward Vigors to serve in this present 
Parliament for the said County, that is to say, a 
certain Petition, purporting to be a Petition of Wai- 
ter Newton, William Fitz William Burton, Robert 
Clayton Browne and William Fishbourne, therein 
described as Freeholders of the said County, was 
presented to the House on the sixth day of March, 
and that the said Nicholas Aylward Vigors being 
at the time the sitting Member for the said County, 
did on the eighteenth day of March in the present 
year, inform the House by a declaration in writing 
subscribed by him, and delivered in at the Table of 
the House, within fourteen days after the presenta- 
tion of the said Petition, that it was not his intention 
to defend his Election and Return; that the Peti- 
tioners are desirous that they may be admitted as 
parties in the room of the said Nicholas Aylward 
Vigors in opposition to the said Petition, and in 
defence of the said Election and Return ; the Peti- 
tioners therefore humbly pray, That they may be 
admitted as parties in the room of the said Nicholas 
Aylward Vigors, according to the form of the Statute 
in such case made and provided. 

Ordered, That the said Petitioners be admitted 
parties in the room of the said Nicholas Aylward 


Vigors, Esquire, according to the prayer of the said 
Petition. 


Petitions from Carluke ;—Stapleford ;— Watton ; tora’s Day. 
—Lanark, Moderator of the Presbytery ;—Muchel- 
ney ;—Abernethy ;—Delgany be Weston, Notts; 
praying that a general Bill for the better observance 
of the Lord’s Day may be permitted to go into a 
Committee of the whole House,—were presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Operative Cotton-Spinners in the Factories Act. 
employment of Mr. Bellhouse, of Manchester, praying 
the House to pass a law to protect all factory workers 
from being worked more than ten hours for five 
days of the week, and eight on the Saturday, and 
entirely to prohibit all Factories from working at 
night, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 44 
A Petition 











Church of 
7 Scotland. 
ill, 


Fictitious Votes 
(Scotland.) 


nd 
gh 


Poor Law Act, 


uty. 


Land Tax 
(Deptford.) 


Church Rates 
Regulation. 


Church Rates, 


ct. 





7 Witt. IV. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Strathaven and Avon- 
dale, praying the House to refuse all further endow- 
ments to the Church of Scotland, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Whitburn, complain- 
ing of the creation of Fictitious Votes for Members 
to serve in Parliament for Counties in Scotland, and 
praying relief, was presented, and read; and referred 
to the Select Committee on Fictitious Votes (Scot- 
land). 


A Petition of Inhabitants of the parishes of Nether 
Denton and Upper Denton, in the county of Cumber- 
land ; stating that the Petitioners fear they shall be 
subjected to considerable expense and inconvenience 
if they are joined in any union whatever under the 
Poor Law Act; that the poor are managed in their 
parishes in a very economical way, and that there is 
a workhouse capable of accommodating 40 or 50 
paupers, recently built at a considerable expense, and 
that their parishes are very small, only containing 
387 inhabitants; that the Petitioners are aware of the 
inconvenience and expense to which they will be put 
if they are compelled to contribute to the erection of 
a general danhanes for the Brampton Union, and 
likewise the loss they must sustain if = are driven 
to the dire necessity of selling their workhouse ; and 
praying that the House will be pleased to direct 
their attention to the evils and increased expenses to 
which the Petitioners will be subjected if they are 
compelled to enter the Brampton Union, was pre- 
sented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on the Poor Law Act. 

Petitions from Glamorgan;--Hoghton;—Irthing- 
ton ;—and, Preston Union ; praying for the repeal of 
the said Act,-—-were also presented, and read; and 
referred to the said Select Committee. 

Petitions from the Guardians of the Guildford 
Union ;--and, the Hertford Union; praying that no 
alterations may be made in the said Act which may 
in any way have a tendency to impair its present 
efficiency,-—-were also presented, and read ; and re- 
ferred to the said Select Committee. 

A Petition of Medical Practitioners residing in 
Corsham and Chippenham, praying that an inquiry 
may be made into the system adopted by the Poor 
Law Commissioners, of providing medical relief for 
the sick poor, was also presented, and read; and 
referred to the said Select Committee. 


A Petition of Land Tax Payers of Deptford, 
complaining of the hardship they sustain in having 
to pay Land Tax for land occupied for the purposes 
of the King’s Dock and Victualling Yards at Dept- 
ford, and praying relief, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Barnes;— Kirkby Lonsdale ;— 
Whitmore ;-— York City ;—Skelton ;—Hutton-in-the- 
Forest ;— West Camel;— Areley Kings; —and, 
University of Cambridge; praying the House not 
to sanction the proposed measure regulating the 
payment of Church Rates,—were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from East and West Teignmouth ;— 
Saint Nicholas (Devon) ;— Totnes ;— Deptford ;— 
and, Warberth (Meeting of Independent Ministers) ; 
praying the House to sanction the said proposed 
measure,—were, also presented, and read; and or- 
dered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Strathaven and Avondale ;—Mor- 
leigh ;—Stoke Goldington ;— Market Harborough ; 
—and, Epping ; praying for the abolition of Church 
Rates,—were presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from Barkstone ;— Houghton-on-the- 
Hill ;—Iichester, Limington and Northover;—Blew- 
bury ;—Porlock ;— Chipstead ;—and, Saint George- 
the-Martyr, Southwark ; praying that Church Rates 


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may not be abolished,—were also presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Churchwardens, Overseers and In- Land Tax. 
habitants of Saint Mary-le-Bow, in the city of 
London, praying for a legislative enactment effecting 

an equalization of the unredeemed Land Tax in 
England and Wales, was presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of John Weir, Chairman of the Glas- Vote by Ballot, 
gow and West of Scotland Power-loom Tenters’ &amp;«- 
Association, praying for a law limiting the duration 

of Parliaments to one year, and securing to the 

electors by the Ballot the uncontrolled discharge of 

their electoral duties, was presented, and read; and 

ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Edward Harley, President of the post-ofice 
Bristol Chamber of Commerce, Trade and Manu- Management 
factures, praying for the introduction of a Clause 3#!!. 

in the Post Office Management Bill, fixing the rate 

of postage according to the distance by the most 

direct route, was presented, and read ; and ordered 

to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Army, Army. 
which was presented yesterday, be printed. No. 153. 


Ordered, That the Annual Report of the Com- Shrewsbury 
missioners of the Shrewsbury and Holyhead Road, and Holyhead 
which was presented yesterday, be printed. .— 169 


The Order of the day being read, for the Come Shire Halls Bill. 
mittee on the Shire Halls Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday, 

the 17th day of this instant April, resolve itself into 

the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Judges’ 
into a Committee upon the Judges’ Opinions Bill ; Opinions Bill. 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker No. 166. 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal reported, That 
the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Bernal reported the Bill accordingly ; and 
the Report was ordered to be taken into further con- 
sideration upon Monday, the 17th day of this in- 
stant April, and the Bill, as amended, to be printed. 


The Bankrupts’ Estates (Scotland) Bill was, ac- Bankrupts’ 
cording to Order, read a second time; and com- se 4) Bul 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, —— 
Wednesday, the 19th day of this instant April. 


The Bankruptcy (Scotland) Bill was, according Bankruptcy 
to order, read a second time; and committed to a (Scvtland) Bill. 
Committee of the whole House, for Wednesday, the 
19th day of this instant April. 


The Sheriff and Burgh Courts (Scotland) Bill was, sheriff and 
according to Order, read a second time; and com- Burgh Courts 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House for (Scotland) Bill. 
Wednesday the 19th day of this instant April. 


The Sheriffs’ Fees Bill was, according to Order, Sheriffs Fees 
read a second time ; and committed to a Committee Bill. 
of the whole House, for Wednesday next. 


The Attornies and Solicitors Bill was, according Attornies and 
to Order, read a second time ; and committed to a Solicitors Bill. 
Committee of the whole House, for Wednesday next. 


The Recovery of Tenements Bill was, according Recovery of | 
to Order, read’ a second time ; and committed to a Tenements Bille 
Committee of the whole House, for Wednesday, the 
19th day of this instant April. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Sale of Beer 
reading of the Sale of Beer Bill : Bill. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 





Vou. 92. 





time ; 
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Fo &gt; OETA He nah 











Penitentiar 
(Milbank) Bill. 


Supply ; 


Land Forces, 


228 


The Amendments i were proposed to be 
made to the Question ; viz. To leave out the word 
“‘ now,” and at the end of the Question to add the 
words “ upon this day six months.” 

And the Question being put, That the word 
“now” stand part of the ie :—It passed in 
the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
“‘ upon this day six months” be added at the end 
of the Question :—It was resolved in the Affirma- 
tive. 

Then the main Question, so amended, being put ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon this day six months. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee upon the Penitentiary (Milbank) 
Bill ; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair ; and the Lord Advocate reported, 
That the Committee had gone through the Bill, and 
made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon Friday 
next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into the Committee of Supply. 


(In the Committee.) 


Motion made, and Question proposed, That a 
sum, not exceeding Three Millions one hundred and 
eleven thousand six hundred and fifty-two pounds 
one shilling and ten-pence, be granted to His Ma- 
jesty, for defraying the charge of His Majesty’s 
Land Forces, for service in the United Kingdom of 
Great Britain and Ireland, and on Stations abroad 
(excepting the Regiments employed in the Territorial 
Possessions of the East India Company), for the 
year, from the ist day of April 1837 to the 31st day 
of March 1838, both days inclusive. 

Whereupon a Motion was made, and the Question 
proposed, That the Chairman do report Progress, 
and ask leave to sit again :—Motion, by leave, with- 
drawn. 

Motion made, and Question again proposed, That 
a sum, not exceeding Three Millions one hundred and 
eleven thousand six hundred and fifty-two pounds, 
one shilling and ten-pence, be granted to His Ma- 
jesty, for defraying the charge of His Majesty’s 
Land Forces, for service in the United Kingdom of 
Great Britain and Ireland, and on Stations Abroad 
(excepting the Regiments employed in the Territorial 
Possessions of the East India Company), for the 
year, from the 1st day of April 1837 to the 31st day 
of March 1838, both days inclusive. 

Whereupon a Motion was made, and the Question 

ut, That a sum, not exceeding Two Millions six 
te ae and eleven thousand six hundred and fifty- 
two pounds, one shilling and ten-pence, be granted to 
His Majesty, for defraying the charge of His Ma- 
jesty’s Land Forces, for service in the United King- 
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, and or. Stations 
Abroad (excepting the Regiments employed in the 
Territorial Possessions of the East India Company), 
for the year, from the 1st day of April 1837 to the 
3ist day of March 1838, both days inclusive. 

The Committee divided : 

Tellers for thes Mr. Hume, 11 

Yeas, Mr. William Williams : } 7 

“ellers for the{ Mr. Edward John Stanley, \ 4. 

Noes, \ Mr. Robert Gordon : } 7 


1. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Three 
Millions one hundred and eleven thousand six hun- 
dred and fifty-two pounds, one shilling and ten-pence, 
be wap to His Majesty, for defraying the charge 
of His 


Majesty’s Land Forces, for service in the 
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and 
on Stations Abroad (excepting the Regiments em- 
Le sae in the Territorial Possessions of the East 

ndia Company), for the year, from the 1st day of 
April 1837 to the 31st day of March 1838, both 
days inclusive. 


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A. 1837. 


2. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One General Star 
hundred and fifty-four thousand one hundred and Officers. 
ninety-six pounds, nineteen shillings and three-pence, 
be granted to His Majesty, for defraying the charge 
of General Staff Officers, and Officers of the Hos- 
pitals, serving with His Majesty’s Forces in the 
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and 
on Foreign Stations (excepting India), and of His 
Majesty’s Garrison of the Tower of London, for the 
year, from the 1st day of April 1837 to the 31st day 
of March 1838, both days inclusive. 

3. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Fifty- Pablic Military 
six thousand nine hundred and seventeen pounds PéP*ttments. 
four shillings and four-pence, be granted to His 
Majesty, for defraying the charge of the Allowances 
to the Principal Officers of the several Public Mili- 
tary Departments in Great Britain, their Deputies, 

Clerks, and Contingent Expenses, for the year, from 
the ist day of April 1837 to the 31st day of March 
1838, both days inclusive. 

4. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Sixteen Royal Military 
thousand one hundred and twenty-three pounds and “¥'™™ 
ten shillings, be granted to His Majesty, for defray- 


ing the charge of the Royal Military Asylum, and 
of the Hibernian Military School, for the year, from 
1838, both days inclusive. 

5. Motion made, and Question put, That a sum, Volunteer 
not exceeding One hundred and five thousand four ©*P* 
hundred and seven pounds six shillings and eight- 
charge of Volunteer Corps in Great Britain, for the 
year, from the 1st day of April 1837 to the 31st day 
of March 1838, both days inclusive. 

The Committee divided : 

Yeas, L Mr. Robert Gordon: } #3. 

Tellers for the f Mr. Hume, 16 

Noes, L Mr. Thomas Duncombe: } , 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 
thousand four hundred and thirty-two pounds, nine Military 
shillings and seven-pence, be granted to His Ma- Services. 
jesty, for defraying the charge of Rewards for dis- 
tinguished Military Services; and also, of Allow- 
their appointments as rewards for Military Service in 
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 
and on Foreign Stations, for the year, from the 1st 
day of April 1837 to the 31st day of March 1838, 

7. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One Pay of General 
hundred and thirteen thousand pounds, be granted Officers. 
to His Majesty, for defraying the charge of the Pay 
of General Officers in His Majesty’s Forces, not 
the 1st day of April 1837 to the 31st day of March 
1838, both days inclusive. 

8. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Sixty- Full Puy, 
six thousand and five hundred pounds, be granted Reduced aud 
to His Majesty, for defraying the charge of Full officers. 
Pay for Reduced and Retired Officers of His Ma- 
jesty’s Forces, for the year, from the Ist day of 
April 1837 to the 31st day of March 1838, both days 

9. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Five Half Pay — 
hundred and forty-nine thousand pounds, be granted rece 
to His Majesty, for defraying the charge of Ha 
Pay and Military Allowances to Reduced and Re- 
year, from the Ist day of April 1837 to the 31st day 
of March 1838, both days inclusive. 

10. Resolved, That a sum, not ne Seventy- ety Half 
one thousand and eight hundred pounds, be granted **5* ““ 
and Reduced Allowances to Officers of disbanded 
Foreign Corps, of Pensions to wounded Foreign 
Officers, and of Allowances to the Widows and Chil- 
dren of deceased Foreign Officers, for the year, from 





the 1st day of April 1837 to the 31st day of March 
pence, be granted to His Majesty, for defraying the 

Tellers for the f Sir Thomas Troubridge, 

6. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Sixteen Rewards for 
ances to Officers of His Majesty’s Garrisons, holding 
both days inclusive. 
being Colonels of Regiments, for the year, from 

Retired 
inclusive. 
tired Officers of His Majesty’s Land Forces, for the 
to His Majesty, for defraying the charge of Half Pay 
the 











7 Wit. IV. 


the Ist day of April 1837 to the 31st day of March 
1838, both days inclusive. 

11. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One 
hundred and forty-eight thousand seven hundred 
and twenty-eight pounds, be granted to His Ma- 
jesty, for defraymg the charge of Pensions to 
be paid to the Walows of Officers of the Land 
Forces, for the year, from the Ist day of April 
1837 to the 31st day of March 1838, both days in- 
clusive. 

Compassionate 12, Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One 

List. hundred and forty-six thousand and five hundred 
pounds, be granted to His Majesty, for defraying 
the charge of Allowances on the Compassionate 
List; of Allowances as of His Majesty’s Royal 
Bounty; and of Pensions, Gratuities and Allow- 
ances to Officers for Wounds, for the year, from the 
Ist day of April 1837 to the 31st day of March 
1838, both days inclusive. 


Pensions to 
Widows. 


Chelsea and 13. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One 
— million three hundred and twenty-six thousand two 


hundred and forty-three pounds thirteen shillings 
and eight-pence, be granted to His Majesty, for 
defraying the charge of Chelsea and Kilmainham 
Hospitals; of the In-Pensioners of those Esta- 
blishments ; of the Out-Pensioners of Chelsea Hos- 
a and of Pensions granted to discharged Negro 

oldiers; for the year, from the 1st ae of April 
1837 to the 31st day of March 1838, both days in- 
clusive. 

14. Resolved, That a sum, not pa, ah 
seven thousand pounds, be granted to His Majesty, 
for defraying the charge of Allowances, Compensa- 
tions, and Emoluments in the nature of Superannua- 
tion or Retired Allowances, to persons formerly 
belonging to the several Public Military Depart- 
ments in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and 
Ireland, for the year, from the 1st day of April 1837 
to the 31st day of March 1838, both days inclusive. 
Cape of Good 15. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Forty 
Hope. thousand pounds, be granted to His Majesty, for 
defraying the charge which will probably be incurred 
for the Maintenance, Clothing and other Expenses 
of three Companies of Mounted Riflemen, of two 
Provisional Battalions of Infantry, and of other 
Provisional Corps, which have been raised for the 
temporary service of His Majesty at the Cape of 
Good Hope, for the year, from the 1st day of Apnil 
1837 to the 31st day of March 1838, both days in- 
clusive. 


Resolutions to be reported. 


Soperannuation 
Allowances. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had come to several 
Resolutions. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To- 
morrow. 

Mr. Bernal also acquainted the House, That he 
was directed to move, That the Committee may have 
leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, 
again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Ways and The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
as mittee of Ways and Means ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 
Hackney The Order of the day being read, for the second 
(Metropelis) reading of the Hackney Carriages (Metropolis) Bill ; 
Bill, And a Motion being made, and the Question 


being put, That the Bill be now read a second time; 
The House divided: 
The Yeas to the old Lobby ; 
The Noes to the new Lobby. 
Tellers for thef Mr. Alderman Wood, 
Yeas, Colonel Sibthorp : 


1 2, 


8. 


Tellers for thef Mr. Warburton, } 
Noes, Mr. Chalmers : 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 
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229 


The Bill was accordingly read a second time ; 
and committed to a Committee of the whole House 
for Wednesday next. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Ecclesiastical 
Return of the net Annual Revenue of each of the seve- Benefices- 
ral Archbishopricks, Bishopricks, Deaneries, Canon- 

ries, Prebendaries, Rectories, Vicarages and other 
Ecclesiastical Benefices in England and Wales, on an 
average of Three years, ending 31st December 1831, 

of the clear Annual Income of £.250 and upwards, 

as returned in the Report of the Commissioners 
appointed by His Majesty to inquire into the Eccle- 
siastical Revenues of England and Wales; together 

with the Amount of the Sums paid for First Fruits 

and Tenths by each existing Possessor of such Sees, 
Preferments and Livings respectively, during the 

said Three years, and in each year from that time to 

the present. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Westminster 
a Copy of the Table of Fees charged by the Dean Abbey. 
and Chapter of Westminster Abbey for Burial Fees; 
distinguishing the rate of Burial within and without 

the Abbey, and stating the Date when the present 

rate and scale of Fees were made, and by what 
authority made:—And, a List of the Number of 
Applications made to the Dean and Chaper of Wes¢- 
minster Abbey for permission to Bury, for permis- 

tion to erect Monuments or Monumental Tablets in 

the Abbey in each of the last Ten years; stating the 
Names of all the Persons for whom Application 

was made ; distinguishing the Applications complied 

with, and those rejected, with the Reasons for re- 
jection ; and stating the Amount of Fees received 

on each case where the application was complied 
with, and the appropriation of such Fees. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Westminster 
Returns of the Annual Amount of Money taken at =, hae 
the doors of Westminster Abbey and Saint Paul’s“""*™™ 
for Admission during the last Ten years; distin- 
guishing each year, and of the appropriation of such 
Money; with a Return of the Sum or Sums charged 
at present for admitting individuals to see the Public 
Monuments in Westminster Abbey and Saint Paul’s: 

—-And, of the Regulations under which Artists or 
others are admittted to Study or Draw from the 
Monuments. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Benefices 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased (England and 
to give directions, that there be laid before this —— 
House, a Copy or Abstract of the Returns made to 
His Majesty in Council by each Bishop in England 
and Wales on the 25th of March 1837, as directed 
by the 23d Section of the 57 Geo. 3, c. 99; distin- 
guishing the Number of Benefices in classes under 
£.150, the Number between £.150 and £.200, 
between £.200 and £.300, and the Number above 
£.300 respectively, on which Incumbents have been 
non-resident. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Curates 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased (England and 
to give directions, that there be laid before this "* ~? 
House, an Abstract of the Number of Resident and 
Licensed Curates in England and Wales, with the 
Amount of the Salaries of Curacies, according to the 
Diocesan Returns for 1836. 
Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this ens as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Printing. 
Returns of the Amount paid for Printing for the 
Public Offices in Ireland, in each of the Three past 

ears, to Messrs. Griersons, the King’s Printers, 
and to Mr. Thom, and any other Contractor ; stat- 

















GG3 ing 


Supplies. 


Army. 


Navy. 


Ordnance. 


230 


ing the increase of Charge paid to each of them 
above the Charges for similar work done for the 
Public in England, under the Stationery Office in 
London, and the Total increased Charge for the Print- 
ing for the Public, by having the Printing done in 
Ireland instead of England :—Of the Price at which 
Acts of Parliament are sold to the community b 

the King’s Printers in England, Scotland and Ireland 
per sheet, of each kind, octavo, quarto and folio :— 
And, of the Number of Acts of Parliament, and of 
Sheets supplied by the King’s Printers to the 
Government for distribution, and to the Public 
Offices in Great Britain and in Ireland, and the rate 
of Charge, per sheet, made to the public in Great 
Britain and in Ireland; showing the increase of 
Price paid in Jreland, in each year, more than in 
England, for each sheet of the Acts, and for the 
whole quantity vi ay 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
an Account of the Amount of Supplies voted annu- 
ally for the United Kingdom, from 5th January 
1832 to 31st March 1836 ; distinguishing each year, 
and separating the Accounts of the Army, Navy, 
Ordnance and Miscellaneous Charges from each 
other; together with the Number of Men voted 
annually for each Service, as far as the same can be 
made up. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Returns of the manner in which £. 94,443, voted 
in the Army Estimates of 1836-37, for Pensions, 
Gratuities and Allowances to Officers who have lost 
an eye or limb, or sustained other serious and per- 
manent injury on Service, was applied ; stating the 
Names of the Officers who received Pensions for the 
loss of limbs or wounds, specifying the Ranks they 
held at the time they were wounded, and to what 
Corps they belonged, their present Rank, the nature 
of their cases, the Places ies and the Year when 
wounded, the Amount of their Pensions, and the 
Dates from which they commenced :—And, of the 
manner in which £.28,037, voted in the Army Esti- 
mates of 1836-37, for Allowances, as of His Majesty’s 
Bounty, to the relatives of Officers who have been 
killed in Action, has been applied; stating the Name 
of each Person receiving, the Annual Amount of 
Allowance received by each, the Date when such 
Allowances were first granted, and on what account 
granted, and in what relation they stand to the 
deceased Officer. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return of the manner in which the Sum of 
£. 11,206, voted in the Navy Estimates of 1836-37, 
for Widows and Relatives of Officers slain, &amp;c., was 
applied ; stating the Name of each Person receiving, 
and the Annual Amount of Allowance received by 
each, the Date when such Allowance was first 
granted, and in what relation they stand to the de- 
ceased Officer :—A similar Return of the manner in 
which £.147,150, voted in the Navy Estimates of 
1836-37, for Pensions to Widows of Flag Officers, 
Captains, Commanders, &amp;c., was applied :—A similar 
Return of the manner in which £.11,502, voted in 
the Navy Estimates of 1836-37, for Pensions to the 
Widows of Marine Officers was applied:—And, a 
Return of the manner in which £.91,408, voted in 
the Navy Estimates for 1836-37, for Pensions to 
Coimissioned and Warrant Officers, &amp;c., was ap- 
plied ; specifying the Names and Rank of the 
Commissioned Officers, the Nature of their cases, the 
Amount of their Pensions, and the Dates of the 
Orders for granting the Pensions. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Returns, in detail, of the manner in which the Sum 
of £.96,678, voted for the Charge of the Ordnance 
Superannuations, Pensions, &amp;c., in the Ordnance 
Estimates of 1836-37 was expended ; showing the 
Number of Half-pay Officers in classes, and the 
Amount of their Half-pay, the Names and Rank of 


the superannuated Officers, and the Amount paid 
to each, and the Dates on which they were respec- 


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A. 1837, 


tively placed upon the superannuation List; the 
Names of the retired General Officers, the Amount 
paid to each, and the Dates from which they were 

laced upon the retired List :—The Names of the 

ersons receiving Pensions for good Services ; stat- 
ing the Amount paid to each, the Date from which 
paid, and the Service for which the Pension was 
ponies :—The Names of Persons receiving Pensions 
or Inventions ; stating the Amount paid to each, 
the Date from and the Nature of the Invention :— 
The Names of Officers receiving Pensions for 
wounds and loss of limbs; stating the Rank of each 
when the wound was received, their present Rank, 
the Time when, and Place where the wound was 
received, the Nature of the wound, the Amount of 
Pension received, and the Date from which it com- 
menced :—The Amount of Pensions to Widows and 
Children, in classes, and the Amount paid to each 
class :—Showing, also, the Number of retired Officers 
in Ireland, in classes; the Amount paid to each class, 
and the Date from which they were placed upon 
the retired List. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Haileybury 
to authorize the Commissioners for the Affairs of “lege Bill 
India to suspend the subsisting Enactments con- 
cerning the fourfold system of nomination of Can- 
didates for the East India Company’s College at 
Haileybury, and for providing, during such suspen- 
sion, for the examination of Candidates for the said 
College: And that Sir John Hobhouse and Mr. 

Vernon Smith do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill East India 


to repeal the prohibition of the payment of Salaries Officers’ Salaries 


and Allowances of the East India Company’s Officers 
during their absence from their respective Stations 
in India: And that Sir John Hobhouse and Mr. 
Vernon Smith do prepare, and bring it in. 


Sir George Grey presented, pursuant to an Address Dorchester 
to His Majesty,—Copy ofall Correspondence between /#bourers. 
the Colonial Office and the Governor of Australia, 
touching the free Pardon, and the order for the return 
of the Dorchester Labourers. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Factories. 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of the Answer made by Mr. Horner 
to the Petition from certain Persons in Manchester 
addressed to the Secretary of State. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Houses of 
Return of the Number of Houses of Industry in 745 ) 
Ireland, with particulars of their Expenditure ; speci- ‘ 
fying the Number of Individuals linia, the Quan- 
tity and Quality of Food, and the Cost per Individual, 
with the Cost of the Establishment, during the last 


Three years ending January 1836. 


Sir John Hobhouse presented a Bill to authorize Haileyoe 
the Commissioners for the Affairs of India to suspend College . 
the subsisting Enactments concerning the fourfold No. 167. 
system of nomination of Candidates for the East 
India Company’s College at Haileybury, and for 
providing, during such suspension, for the examina- 
tion of Candidates for the said College: And the 
same was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time upon Monday next; and to be 
printed. 


Sir John Hobhouse presented a Bill to repeal the East India 


Officers’ Salaries 


prohibition of the payment of the Salaries and Allow- 53), 
ances of the East India Company’s Officers — No. 168. 
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7 Wit. IV. 


their absence from their respective Stations in India: 
And the same was read the first time; and ordered 
to be read a second time upon Monday next; and 
to be printed. 


ini Mr. Philip Howard presented, pursuant to Order,— 
ied Copies of the Shacuar aahe which the Trinity House 
of Hull collects Primage, Buoyage, Beaconage, Fines 
upon Aliens, Elders Turns, and all other Dues, Fines 

and Charges whatever. 


Stannaries Mr. Fox Maule also presented, pursuant to the | 
Courts directions of an Act of Parliament, — Rules and | 
(Comwall.) Orders applying to the Common Law side of the | 
Stannary Court of Cornwall. 
Municipal Mr. Fox Maule also presented, pursuant to an 
Corporations Address to His Majesty,—A Copy of the Correspond- 
ae ence between Mr. Hogg and the Secretary of State 
ai for the Home Department, relative to the Report of 
Mr. Hogg as a Corporation Commissioner. 
Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 











Jovis, 6 die Aprilis ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi [Vt Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


R. Bell, from the Office of one of the Official | 
Assignees in Bankruptcy, was called in ; and | 
at the bar presented,—Further Returns to an Order | 
dated the 13th day of February last, for Returns | 
relating to the Courts of Bankruptcy and Fiats :— 
And then he withdrew. 
Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 

Table. 


Pauper Mr. Ellis, fromthe Middlesex Pauper Lunatic Asy- 
oo. ) lum, wascalled in; andat the bar presented, pursuant 
(Miadlesex-) to Order,—An Alphabetical List of the Names of the 
260 Paupers who have been discharged cured from 
the Pauper Lunatic Asylum for the County of Mid- 
dlesex, from 15th May 1831 to 31st December 
1836, with the Parish to which every such Pauper 
belonged, the Date of the Admission and the Date 
of the Discharge of every such Pauper :—And then 
he withdrew. 
Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 








Bankruptcy 
Court and Fiats. 


Dublin Election Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a Re- 

Petition, turn of the Particulars and Amounts of all Fees 
and Gratuities received, claimed or demanded by 
the Officers or Servants of this House respectively, 
in relation to the Trial of the last Dublin Election 
Petition, against the Returns of Daniel O’ Connell, 
Esquire, and Edward Southwell Ruthven, Esquire ; 
distinguishing by whom, and from whom the same 
have been received, or claimed and demanded, was 
upon the Table. 


Glasgow and 


Petitions from the Company of Proprietors of the 


on of lands and heritages in the county of Renfrew, 


5°—6° Aprilis. 231 


by themselves, their counsel or agents, against cer- 
tain parts of the Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock 
Railway Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


Mr. Finch reported from the Committee on the Stamford 
Stamford Waterworks Bill; That the Standing on 
Orders relative to Bills for supplying Cities or Towns ° 
with Water had been complied with; and that they 
had examined the allegations of the Bill, {and found 
the same to be true; and had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Thomas Varley, of Huddersfield, Holme Reser- 

in the county of York;—Mrs. Elizabeth Horsfall,“°°””* 
Joseph Scott, Esquire, and Mrs. Frances Scott, his 
wife, and Charles Horsfall Bill, Esquire, as pro- 
prietors of a water corn-mill called Mytholm Bridge, 
m the West Riding of the said county ; -= and, 
Joseph Green Armytage, of Thickhollins, in the 
parish of Almondbury, in the said county Esquire; 
praying that they may be heard, by themselves, 
their counsel or agents, against certain parts of 
the Holme Reservoirs Bill,— were presented, and 
read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


A Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen, Burgesses Chester and 
and Inhabitants of Denbigh, praying that the Chester Railwey Bill 
and Birkenhead Railway Bill may pass into a law, 

was a and read; and ordered to lie upon 

the Table. 


A Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen, Burgesses Chester and 
and Inhabitants of Denbigh, praying that the Chester _ aiid 
and Crewe Railway Bill may pass into a law, was 

—- and read ; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Bridgnorth, raying Manchester 
that the Manchester and Stafford Railway Bill may a 
pass into a law, was _— and read; and or- ee 
dered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of William Wise, complaining of non- Cok an¢, 
‘ &gt; : : assage Rail- 

compliance with the Standing Orders in the case way Bill. 

of the Cork and Passage Railway Bill, was offered 

to be presented :— But the Bill having been read a 

second time, the Petition was not received. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Gardiner’s 
into a Committee upon Gardiner’s Divorce Bill ; Divorce Bill 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. Tooke reported, That 
they had heard counsel and examined witnesses for 


Ayr Railway Glasgow, Paisleyand Ardrossan Canal ;—and, Owners the Bill, and that no counsel or party appeared before 


the Committee to oppose the Bill, and that the 


and Trustees of the Renfrewshire Roads; praying Committee had gone through the Bill, and directed 
that they may be heard, by themselves, their counsel him to report the same, without Amendment. 


or agents, against certain parts of the Glasgow and 
Ayr Railway Bill,—were presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be re- 
ferred to the Committee on the Bill; and the Peti- 
tioners heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
upon their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel 


heard, in favour of the Bill, against the said 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Richmond, in the Hurworth and 
county of York, praying that the Hurworth and bn Rallway 
York Railway Bill may pass into a law, was pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


Petitions. A Petition of Henry Luard, of Austin Friars, in Southwark and 
2 ; the city of London, merchant, complaining that the eee oy 
Glasgow, A Petition of Ownets of lands and heritages in| Southwark and Hammersmith Railway Bill isnot 


Eisley, and ~~ the county ot Renfrew, and Trustees of the Ren-| intended to fulfil the objects which induced him to 


reenock 


Railway Bil, jfrewshire Roads, praying that they may be heard,| become a subscriber; and praying that the further 


Vot. 92. 

















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London and 
Greenwich 
Railway. 
(No. 2.) 


Manchester 
and Stafford 
Railway Bill. 


Southwerk and 
Hammersmith 
Railway Bill. 


Manchester 
and Stafford 
Railway Bill. 


Bridgewater 
and ‘Taunton 


Canal Bill. 


Laucaster and 
Preston Rauil- 
way Bill, 


232 


6° Aprilis. 


rogress of the said Bill may be stayed until the | 
Petitioner shall have received back his deposit ; that | 


A. 1837. 


Petitions from Land-owners, Lessees and Occu- 
iers of land, Merchants, Traders and other Inha- 


the Bill may not pass into a law, and that he may | bitants of Crediton;—North Tawton;—and, Bow, 
be heard, by himself, his counsel or agent, against | otherwise Vymet Tracey; praying that the Exeter 


the same, and the preamble thereof, and upon all 
such inquiries relating to the same measure as shall 
be involved in the consideration of the 1st, 2d, 3d, | 
4th, 5th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th Resolu- | 
tions as to Railway Bills, agreed to by the House | 


and Falmouth Railway Bill may pass into a law, 
--were presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upen the Table. 


An ingrosssd Bill for improving and maintaining 


Exeter and 
Falmouth 


Railway Bill. 


Werneth and 


on the 1st day of March 1836, was presented, and | the Road from Dryclough through Shaw, New Hey een 


read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the London and Greenwich Railway 
Company for leave to present a Petition for leave to 
bring in a Bill to authorize them to allow persons, 
horses and carriages to pass over a bridge to be 
erected by them across the River Ravensbourne for 
the purpose of the said Railway, on the payment of 
a toll, was presented, and read ; and referred to the 
Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


Petitions from Owners and Occupiers of land in 
Stohe-upon- Trent, Wolstanton, Newcastle-under - 
Lyme and Burslem ;—Stoke-upon-Trent, Newcastle- 
under-Lyme, Wolstanton and Burslem ;— Stone, Saint 
Mary, Stafford, and Eccleshall ;—and, Stone, Bar- 
laston and Trentham; praying that they may be 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, against 
certain parts of the Manchester and Stafford Rail- 
way Bill,—were presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit ; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


Ordered, That the Petition of Henry Luard, which 
was presented this day; and also, the Petition of 
Occupiers and Owners of property situate in the 
parish of Christchurch, in the county of Surrey, 
which was presented upon the 23d day of March 
last, relating to the Southwark and Hammersmith 
Railway Bill, be referred to the Select Committee 
on Petitions for Private Bills, to examine the matter 
thereof, and to report their observations thereupon 
to the House. 


Ordered, That the Petition of Owners and Occu- 
piers of property in Madeley, which was presented 
upon the 6th day of March last, be referred to the 


Committee on the Manchester and Stafford Railway 
Bill. 


An ingrossed Bill to enable the Company of Pro- 

sear of the Bridgewater and Taunton Canal 
Yavigation to continue the Line of the Canal below 

the Townof Bridgewater, and for varying the powers 
of the several Acts relative to the said Canal, was 
read the third time; and ingrossed Clauses were 
added by way of Riders, and Amendments were made 
to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Ayshford Sanford do carry 
the Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


A Motion being made, That the ingrossed Bill 
for making and maintaining a Railway from the 
Town of Lancaster to the Town of Preston, in the 
County Palatine of Lancaster, be now read the third 
time ; 

Mr. Labouchere, by His Majesty's command, ac- 
quainted the House, That His Majesty, having been 
informed of the purport of the Bill, gives His con- 
sent as far as His Majesty’s interest is concerned, 
that the House may do therein as they shall think 
fit. 

Then the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Lord Stanley do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


and Milnrow to Rochdale, and other Roads in the 
County of Lancaster, was read the third time ; and 
Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Hindley do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Petitions from Brewers, Glass Manufacturers, 
Distillers, Merchants and others of Alloa;—Inha- 
bitants of Borrowstownness ;—and, Francis Orr, 
John Henderson, and others, Owners, Lessees and 
Occupiers of lands and buildings on the line of the 
proposed Railway hereinafter mentioned ; praying 
that the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Bill may 
pass into a law,—were presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of Henry Glen, of Claddens, in the 
parish of Cadder and shire of Lanark, praying that 
the said Bill may not pass into a law, was also 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. é; 

A Petition of Archibald Stirling, Esquire, of Calder, 
praying that he may be heard, by his counsel or 
agent, against certain parts of the said Bill, was 


also presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. ' 


Sir Andrew Leith Hay reported from the Committee 
on the Edinburgh Police Bill; and to whom the 
Petition of the Edinburgh Water Company, against 
the said Bill, was referred; That they had heard 
counsel in support of the said Petition, and had also 
heard counsel in favour of the Bill; and that the 
Committee had examined the allegations of the Bill, 
and found the same to be true; and had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto ; 
and the Amendments, as far as Clause (A.), were 
read a second time, and agreed to. 

Clause (A.), the next Amendment, being read a 
second time ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question being 
put, That this House doth agree with the Committee 
in the said Amendment; it passed in the Negative. 

Clause (B.), the next Amendment, being read a 
second time ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question being 
put, That this House doth agree with the Committee 
in the said Amendment; it passed in the Negative. 

Then the subsequent Amendments, being read a 
second time, were agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 


ingrossed. 


A Petition of Sir George Chetwynd, of Grendon 
Hall, in the county of Warwick, Baronet, praying 
that he may be heard, by himself, his counsel or 
agent, against certain parts of the Manchester and 
Tamworth Railway Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by himself, his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, 
if he think fit ; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


gow, writer, agent for Messrs. Charles 


Higginbotham, John Miller, and others, Owners of 
public works in Hutchesontown, of Glasgow, praying 
that he may be heard, by himself, his counsel or 
agent, against certain Fc of the Gorbals Police 


Bill, was presented, and read. 














Ordered, 


Road Bill. 


Edinburgh 
and Glasgow 


Railway Bill. 


Edinburgh 
Police Bill. 


Manchester 


and Tamworth 


Railway Bill. 


A Petition of Robert Lamond, of the city of Glas- Gorbals Police 
Todd and Bill. 








Foe 


Court of 
Chancery. 
No. 170. 


Barristers 
appointed 
Recorders. 


No.171. 


Members 
acting as 
Parliamentary 
Agents. 


Members’ 
Qualification 
Bill. 


Sale of Beer 
(No. 2.) Bili, 


Post Letters 
Receiving 
Boxes, 


Sapply ; 


Land Forces, 





7 Witt. IV. 


Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by himself, his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, 
if he think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Court of 
Chancery, which was presented upon the 7th day of 
March last, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Return relative to Barristers 
appointed Recorders, which was presented upon 
Tuesday last, be printed. 


The House was moved, That the Resolution of 
the House of the 26th day of February 1830, relative 
to Members practising as Parliamentary Agents, 
might be read; and the same was read, as followeth : 

“ Resolved, Nemine Contradicente, That it is con- 
trary to the law and usage of Parliament that any 
Member of this House should be permitted to engage, 
either by himself or any partner, in the management 
of Private Bills, before this or the other House of 
Parliament, for pecuniary reward.” 

A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 
osed, That it is contrary to the law and usage of 
arliament, that any Member of this House should 

be permitted to engage, either by himself or any 
partner, in the management of Private Bills before 
this or the other House of Parliament, for pecuniary 
reward, to be received by such Member, or by any 
person standing in any relation of partnership with 
him :—And a Debate arising thereupon ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till Wed- 
nesday, the 26th day of this instant April. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
repeal an Act passed in the reign of Queen Anne, 
intituled, “ An Act for securing the freedom of Par 
liament, by further qualifymg Members to sit in the 
House of Commons ;’” to repeal an Enactment con- 
tained in the Act for the Union of Great Britain 
and Jreland, providing for the Qualification, in re- 
spect of Property, of the Members elected on the 
part of Zreland, to sit in the House of Commons of 
the United Kingdom, and to make other provisions 
for the Qualifications in respect of Property of Mem- 
bers elected to sit in the House of Commons, in 
place of those. repealed: And that Mr. Warburton 
and Mr. Wallace do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to amend the Laws relating to the Sale of Beer: 
And that Mr. Warburton and Mr. Hawes do prepare, 
and bring it in. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That it is the opinion of this House, that the 
General Post Letter Receiving Boxes, at the Branch 
Offices throughout this Metropolis, should be kept 
open for Letters being put therein at any time con- 
venient for the People, between seven o'clock Pp. m., 
and twelve at night, as is the case at the General 
Post Office in Saint Martin’s-le-Grand, and every 


Post Office in the Kingdom; and especially that 


the receiving bags for General Post Letters in the 


Houses of Lords and Commons be also kept open 
until twelve at night, thus making the time of the 
franking privilege all over London the same as at 
Saint Martin’ s-le-Grand, and in all other towns :— 
And the said Motion was, with leave of the House, 


withdrawn. 


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233 


in the Territorial Possessions of the East India 
Company), for the year, from the 1st day of April 
1837 to the 31st day of March 1838, both days 
inclusive. 
2. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One hun- General 
dred and fifty-four thousand one hundred and ninety- St Officers. 
six pounds, nineteen shillings and three-pence, be 
granted to His Majesty, for defraying the Charge 
of General Staff Officers, and Officers of the Hos- 
oe serving with His Majesty’s Forces in the 

nited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and 
on Foreign Stations (excepting India), and of His 
Majesty’s Garrison of the Tower of London, for the 
year, from the 1st day of April 1837 to the 31st day 
of March 1838, both days inclusive. 
3. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Fifty-six Public Military 
thousand nine hundred and seventeen pounds, four Departments. 
shillings and four-pence, be granted to His Majesty, 
for defraying the waa of the Allowances to the 
Principal Officers of the several Public Military De- 
partments in Great Britain, their Deputies, Clerks 
and Contingent Expenses, for the year, from the 1st 
day of April 1837 to the 31st day of March 1838, 
both days inclusive. 
4. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Sixteen Royal Military 
thousand one hundred and twenty-three pounds and A*y!um, &amp;c. 
ten shillings, be granted to His Majesty, for defray- 
ing the Charge of the Royal Military Asylum, and 
of the Hibernian Military School, for the year, from 
the 1st day of April 1837 to the 31st day of March 
1838, both days inclusive. 
5. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One hun- Volunteer 
dred and five thousand four hundred and seven ©?’ 
a six shillings and eight-pence, be granted to 

is Majesty, for defraying the Charge of Volunteer 
Corps in Great Britain, for the year, from the 1st 
day of April 1837 to the 31st day of March 1838, 
hoth days inclusive. 

6. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Sixteen Rewards for 
thousand four hundred and thirty-two pounds, nine Military Ser- 
shillings and seven-pence, be granted to His Ma-*" 
jesty, for defraying the Charge of Rewards for dis- 
tinguished Military Services; and also of Allowances 

to Officers of His Majesty’s Garrisons, holding their 
Appointments as Rewards for Military Service in 

the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 

and on Foreign Stations, for the year, from the 1st 

day of April 1837 to the 31st day of March 1838, 

both days inclusive. 

7. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One hun- Pay of General 
dred and thirteen thousand pounds, be granted to Oftcers. 
His Majesty, for defraying the Charge’ of the Pay 
of General Officers in His Majesty’s Forces, not 
being Colonels of Regiments, for the year, from the 
1st day of April 1837 to the 31st day of March 1838, 
both days inclusive. 

8. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Sixty-six Full Pay for 
thousand and five hundred pounds, be granted to Reduced and 
His Majesty, for defraying the Charge of Full Pay 
for Reduced and Retired Officers of His Majesty’s 
Forces, for the year, from the 1st day of April 1837 
to the 31st day of March 1838, both days inclusive. 


hundred and forty-nine thousand pounds, be granted 
to His Majesty for defrayng the Charge of Half 
Pay and Military Allowances to reduced and re- 
tired Officers of His Majesty’s Land Forces, for the 
year from the 1st day of April 1837 to the 31st day 
of March 1838, both days inclusive. 
10. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Seventy- Half Pay to 
one thousand and eight hundred pounds, be 


Mr. Bernal reported from the Committee of Supply | to His Majesty for defraying the Charge of Half 


several Resolutions, which were read, as follow: 


Pay and Reduced Allowances to Officers of dis- 


1. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Three mil-; banded Foreign Corps, of Pensions to wounded 
lions one hundred and eleven thousand six hundred | Foreign Officers, and of Allowances to the Widows 
and fifty-two pounds, one shilling and ten-pence, be | and Children of deceased Foreign Officers, for the 


ey to His Majesty, for defraying the 


harge of | year from the Ist day of April 1837 to the 31st day 


is Majesty’s Land Forces, for Service in the United | of March 1838, both days inclusive. 


Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and on 


11. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One Widows’ 


Stations Abroad (excepting the Regiments employed | hundred and forty-eight thousand seven hundred Pensions. 





Vor. 92. 








ll H and 


Retired Officers. 


9. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Five Half Pay to De. 


nted Foreign Officers, 








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Compassionate 
List, 


Chelsea and 
Kilmainham 
Hospitals. 


Superannuation 
Allowances, 


Troops at the 
Cape of Good 
Hope. 





234, 


and twenty-eight pounds, be granted to His Majesty 
for defraying the Gharge of Pensions to be paid to 
the Widows of Officers of the Land Forces, for the 
year from the 1st day of April 1837 to the 31st day 
of Marcn 1838, both days inclusive. 

12. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One 
hundred and forty-six thousand and five hundred 
pounds, be granted to His Majesty for defraying 
the Charge of Allowances on the Compassionate 
List, of Allowances as of His Majesty’s Royal 
Bounty ; and of Pensions, Gratuities and Allow- 
ances to Officers for Wounds, for the year from the 
1st day of April 1837 to the 31st day of March 1838, 
both days inclusive. 

13. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One 
million three hundred and twenty-six thousand two 
hundred and forty-three pounds, thirteen shillings 
and eight-pence, be granted to His Majesty for 
defraying the Charge of Chelsea and Kilmainham 
Hopitals, of the In-Pensioners of those Establish- 
ments, of the Out-Pensioners of Chelsea Hospital, and 
of Pensions granted to re Negro Soldiers, 
for the year from the 1st day of April 1837 to the 
31st day of March 1838, both days inclusive. 

14. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Forty- 
seven thousand pounds, be granted to His Majesty 
for defraying the Charge of Allowances, Compensa- 
tions and Emoluments in the nature of Superannua- 
tion or retired Allowances, to persons formerly 
belonging to the several Public Military Depart- 
ments in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and 
Ireland, for the year from the 1st day of April 1837 
to the 31st day of March 1838, both days inclusive. 

15. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Forty 
thousand pounds, be granted to His Majesty for 
defraying the Charge which will probably be in- 
curred for the Maintenance, Clothing and other 
Expenses of Three Companies of Moun‘-d Riflemen, 
of Two Provisional Battalions of Infantry, and of 
other Provisional Corps which have been raised for 
the temporary Service of His Majesty at the Cape 
of Good Hope, for the year from the 1st day of 

pril 1837 to the 31st day of March 1838, both 
days inclusive. 

The first Resolution being read a second time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made there- 

unto, by leaving out the words “ Three millions one 
“ hundred and eleven thousand six hundred and 
“ fifty-two pounds, one shilling and ten-pence,” and 
inserting the words “ Two millions six hundred and 
“ eleven thousand six hundred and fifty-two pounds 
one shilling and ten-pence,” instead thereof. 
And the Question being put, That the words 
Three millions one hundred and eleven thousand 
six hundred and fifty-two pounds, one shilling and 
ten-pence,” stand part of the Resolution :—It was 
resolved in the Affirmative. 

And the said Resolution was agreed to by the 
House. 

The second Resolution being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 

The third Resolution being read a second time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made there- 
unto, by leaving out the words “ Fifty-six thousand 
“ nine hundred and seventeen pounds, four shillings 
and four-pence,” and inserting the words “ Fifty 
thousand seven hundred and seventeen pounds, 
four shillings and four-pence,” instead thereof. 
And the Question being put, That the words 
Fifty-six thousand nine hundred and seventeen 
“ pounds, four shillings and four-pence, stand part 
of the Resolution ; 

The House divided ; 

The Yeas to the old Lobby ; 

The Noes to the new Lobby. 

Tellers for the { Mr. Charles Wood, 

Yeas, { Mr. More O’ Ferrall: 

Tellers for the) Mr. Hume, 

Noes, Mr. Ewart : 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 


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And the said Resolution was agreed to by the 
House. 

Then the subsequent Resolutions, being read a 
second time, were agreed to. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Imprisonment 
into a Committee upon the Imprisonment for Debt for Debt Bilj, 


Bill. 
(In the Committee.) 


Criause, N° 12 (Defendant to deliver a Schedule 
of his Effects)——read. 
Several Amendments made. 
Question pat, That the Clause, as amended, stand 
part of the Bill. 
The Committee divided : 
Tellers for the f Mr. Solicitor General, 
Yeas, Mr. Fox Maule: 
Tellers forthef Sir Frederick Pollock, 
Noes, Mr. Alderman Copeland: J 


Criavuse, N° 13 (Commissioners of Court of Bank- 
ruptcy to be Commissioners of Courts of Record, and 
to make Rules, to be approved of by the Lord 
Chancellor) —— read. 

Motion made, and@Question put, That the Chair- 
man do report Progress ; and ask leave to sit again. 

The Committee divided : 

Vas 


71. 


33. 


Tellers for the f Mr. John Richards, 


Yeas, Mr. Serjeant. Goulburn : 
Tellers for the ¢ Mr. Attorney General, } 37 
Noes, { Mr. Hawes : / 


Cuavuse, N° 13, again read. 

Whereupon another Motion was made, That the 
Chairman do report Progress ; and ask leave to sit 
again put, and agreed to. 








And the House, having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Friday morning ; 


Veneris, 7° die Aprilis, 1837: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had made further 
Progress in the Bill; and that he was directed to 
move, That the Committee may have leave to sit 
again. : 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, again 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself _— Police 
into a Committee upon the Dublin Police Bill; and, “"* . 
after some time spent therein, Mr, Speaker resumed No. 172. 


the Chair; and Mr. Bernal reported, That the 
Committee had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Bernal reported the Bili accordingly ; and 
the Report was ordered to be taken into further 
consideration upon Tuesday next ; and the Bill, as 
amended, to be printed. 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant Rochdale Writ. 


to the Clerk of the Crown to make out a new Writ 
for the electing of a Burgess to serve in this present 
Parliament for the Borough of Rochdale, in the 
room of John Entwisle, Esquire, deceased. 


Mr. Alderman Copeland 
Order dated the 20th day of 


to the office of Overseer of the Parish of Saint 
Clement Danes, in the City of Westminster; the 
Amount of all Fines and Fees taken of the said 
Persons to be excused serving the said Office, and 
the appropriation thereof; also, by what Authority 
the Fines and Fees are levied, from 1st January 1830 
to 16th March 1837 inclusive. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till near one of the clock on Friday morn- 
ing, adjourned till this day. 





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resented,—Return to St. Clement 
arch last, for a Return — om 
of the Name and Residence of all Persons elected ‘ 








ent 
ill, (Public Works, 
&amp;c.) 


Exchequer Bills 
(Public Works.) 


Record 
Commission. 


Chapter House 
Records, 


Record 
Commission. 


Cork and 
Passage 
Railway Bill. 


Dublin and 
Kilkenny 
Railway Bill. 


Montrose 
Harbour Bill, 





Exchequer Bills 


7 Wit. [V. 


Veneris, 7° die Aprilis ; 
Anno 7 Willielmi [Vt Regis, 1837. 
PRAYERS. 


R. Crafer, from the Treasury, was called in ; 

and at the bar presented, pursuant to Orders, 
—A Return of the Names of the Commissioners ap- 
pointed and now officiating for the issue of Exche- 
quer Bills, &amp;c., for Public Works in England, Wales 
and Scotland :—Accounts of the yearly Expenses of 
the Board of Commissioners for the issue of Exche- 
quer Bills for Public Works, &amp;c., for the year, in 
continuation of the Return, dated 7th March 1836: 
—Amounts allotted to the Commissioners for the 
issue of Exchequer Bills, for Public Works, &amp;c., 
for distribution under the several Acts of Parliament 
passed for that purpose; and the Amount remain- 
ing unappropriated :—And, Amounts advanced to 
Borrowers, and contracted to be advanced; the 
dates of such Advances, and how to be repaid ; the 
objects thereof; Rates of Interest; Amounts of 
Interest paid, of Principal repaid, and of Principal 
remaining unpaid. 

Abstract, showing the Total of Principal and 
Interest received by the Commissioners for the issue 
of certain Exchequer Bills for Public Works, &amp;c., 
on account of Loans advanced, and the Amount 
returned by them into the account of His Majesty’s 
Exchequer. 

Copy of Observations upon the Report from the 
Select Committee of the House of Commons ap- 
pointed to inquire into the management and affairs 
of the Record Commission, and the present state 
of the Records of the United Kingdom, transmitted 
to the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty’s Trea- 
sury by His Majesty’s Commissioners on the Public 
Records, in compliance with their Lordships’ in- 
vitation. 

Copy of the Report of Sir Francis Palgrave to 
the Treasury, upon the state of the Record Office at 
the Chapter House, dated 21st January 1837. 

Copies of any Correspondence or Communica- 
tions between Mr. Protheroe, Sir Harris Nicolas, 
and any other persons, with the Lords of the Trea- 
sury and the Secretary of State for the Home De- 
partment, respecting the observations transmitted 
by the Commissioners of Public Records, on the 
Report of the Select Committee of the House of 
Commons on the Record Commission :—And then 
he withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Petitions from Inhabitants of the city and county 
of Cork ;—John Scott, and other persons interested 
in an undertaking for connecting the city of Cork 
with the town and harbour of Cove ;—and, William 
Wise, of Cork, Esquire; praying that they may be 
heard, by their counsel or agents, against certain 
parts of the Cork and Passage Railway Bill, —were 
presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by their counsel or agents, upon their Peti- 
tions, if they think fit ; and counsel heard, in favour 
of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


A Petition of the Barrow Navigation Company in 
Ireland, praying that they may be heard, by their 
counsel or agents, against certain parts of the Dublin 
and Kilkenny Railway Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by their counsel or agents, upon their Petition, if 
they think fit ; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


The Montrose Harbour Bill was read a second 
time ; and committed to Mr. Chalmers and the East 
Scotland List. 

Vou. 92. 


7° Aprilis. 





235 


A Petition of the Incorporation of Traffickers or Loanhead and 
Merchant Company of Leith, praying that the Stitling Canal 
Loanhead and Stirling Canal Bill may not pass ~ 
into a law, was presented, and read ; and ordered 


to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Incor 
or Merchant Company of 
Trinity (North Leith) 
not pass a law, was 
dered to lie upon the 


ration of Traffickers ey (North 
eith, praying that the *“" arbour 
arbour and Docks Bill may and Docks Bill, 


Cong and read; and or- 
able. 


The Glasgow Road Bill was read a second time ; Glasgow 
and committed to Lord James Stuart and the West 4 Bill. 
Scotland List. 


The Ardrossan and Johnston Railway Bill was Ardrossan 
read a second time; and committed to Lord James ig 
Stuart and the West Scotland List. vinaiaaaa 


Ordered, That the Petition of the Churchwardens, Southwark and 
Overseers and Inhabitants of Christ Church, Surrey, ne _ 
which was presented upon the 20th day of March ““'"*” ©" 
last, complaining of an alteration having been made 
in the Title of the Southwark and Hammersmith 
Railway Bill; and praying, That the said Bill may 
not pass into a law, be referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Belfast, praying Belfast Harbour 
that the Belfast Harbour (No. 1) Bill may pass into (N% +) Bill. 
a law, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 


upon the Table. 


A Petition of Merchants of London, praying that Belfast Harbour 
the Belfast Harbour (No. 2) Bill may not pass into (Ne?) Bill 
a law, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


Petitions from Inhabitants of Alstonefield ; — Manchester 
Bankers, Merchants and Inhabitants of Southamp- and Tamworth 
ton;—and, Owners and Occupiers of estates and Railway Bill. 
property in the county of Stafford, on the line of 
the proposed Railway hereinafter mentioned ; pray- 
ing that the Manchester and Tamworth Railway 
Bill may pass into a law,—were presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The Campsie Canal Bill was read a second time ; Campsie Canal 
and committed to Mr. Forbes and the West Scot- Bil 
land List. 


Petitions from Owners and Occupiers of lands Stirling Canal 
and houses on the line of the proposed Canal herein- Bi! 
after mentioned ;— Members of the Gargunnock 
Farmers’ Club ;—Owners and Occupiers of lands 
and houses, Manufacturers, Farmers, Distillers, 
Merchants and others of Saint Ninians ;— Proprie- 
tors, Farmers, Feuars and Possessors of land and 
others, of Stirling ;—Proprietors of lands and houses, 
Farmers and others, of Logie, Stirling and Lecropt; 
—and, Owners and Occupiers of lands and houses, 
Farmers, Maltsters and others of Gargunnock; 
praying that the Stirling Canal Bill may pass into a 
law,—were presented, and read ; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Owners, Lessees and Occupiers of Manchester 
property situate upon and near to that part of the 74 Tamworth 
line of the proposed Manchester and Tamworth =e 
Railway which is intended to pass through or into 
the county of Lancaster ;—and, Bankers, Merchants 
and Inhabitants of Coventry; praying that the Man- 
chester and Tamworth Railway Bill _ not pass 
into a law,—were presented, and read; and or- 
dered to lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from Edward Plant, of Stafford, Yeo 
man ;—Ralph Adderley, of Burlaston Hall, Staf- 
ford, Esquire ;— Thomas Plant, of Walton, Esquire ; 
-—Thomas Marsh, of Morton Farms, Stafford, 








HH 2 Gentleman ; 






































Manchester 
and Stafford 
Railway Bill. 

















Leeds Water- 
works Bill. 




































































(No. 2.) Bill. 



















































































Belfast Harbour 


236 


Gentleman ;— William Moore, of Wychdon Lodge, 
Stafford, Esquire ;—Charles Boreham, of Field- 
place, in the parish of Stone, Gentleman ;— Samuel 
Woolaston, of Stone, Shoe manufacturer ;— Ellen 
Webb, of Stone, Widow ;—John Robinson, of Hemis, 
Gentleman ;—John Woolrich, of Romer, Yeoman ; 
—and, William Smith, of Stoke, Joiner; praying 
that they may be heard, by their counsel or agents, 
against certain parts of the said Bill,—were also pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from the Earl of Harrowby, an Owner of 
land on the line of the said proposed Railway ;— 
Thomas Barton, Jonathan Thompson, and Joseph 
Thompson, of Manchester, Owners of land and pro- 
perty situate upon the line of the said proposed 

ailway ;— Thomas Blood, an Owner of estates and 
Property on the line of the said proposed Railway ; 
—William Smith and others ;— William Dyott, Tho- 
mas Oldacres and others ;—Owners and Occupiers 
of land on the line of the said proposed Railway ;— 
and, the London and Birmingham Railway Com- 
pany ; praying that they may be heard, by them- 
selves, their counsel or agents, against certain parts 
of the said Bill,—were also presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit ; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


Petitions from Wilbraham Egerton, of Tatton 
Park, Chester, Esquire ;—Owners and Occupiers of 
estates and premises in the county of Chester, upon 
or near to the line of the proposed Railway here- 
inafter mentioned ;—and, Thomas Fernley, of Stock- 
port, paca amg and manufacturer ; -praying that 
they may be heard, by themselves, their counsel or 
agents, against certain parts of the Manchester and 
Stafford Railway Bill,—were presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 

A Petition of Owners and Occupiers of land, and 
Inhabitants of Madeley, praying that the said Bill 
may pass into a law, was also presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of George Lane Fox, of Bramham 
Park, in the county of York, Esquire, and others, 
praying that they may be heard, by their counsel or 
agents, against certain parts of the lad Waterworks 
Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by their counsel or agents, upon their Petition, if 
they think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


7° Aprilis. 





A. 1837. 


Mr. Robinson reported from the Committee on Worcester 
the Worcester Cattle Market Bill; That they had Pattle Market 
examined the allegations of the Bill, and found the ~~ 
same to be true; and had gone through the Bill, 
and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to the 
former Committee. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Falmouth, praying Exeter and 
that the Exeter and Falmouth Railway Bill may Fart 
pass into a law, was presented, and read; and or- sisi 
dered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Land-owners, Farmers, Bankers, Edinburgh 
Merchants and Inhabitants of Bathgate, Torpichen, i. 
Whitburn, Livingston and Uphall, praying that the ness 
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Bill may not pass 
into a law as it now stands, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of Trustees on the road between Edin- 
burgh and Glasgow by Bathgate and Airdrie, and 
Creditors of the said Trust, praying that they may 
be heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
against certain parts of the said Bill, was also pre- 
sented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to 
the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


Petitions from Inhabitants of Brompton and Os- eg 
motherley ;—and, Northallerton; praying that the py 
Hurworth snd York Railway Bill may pass into a 
law,—were presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 


upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants and Owners and Occu- Maryport and 
piers of land in Wigton, praying that the Maryport — 
and Carlisle Railway Bill may pass into a Jaw, was ~~ 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of Philip Humberston, of the city of Chester and 
Chester, Gentleman, praying that he may be heard, ——t 
by himself, his counsel or agent, against certain — 
parts of the Chester and Birkenhead Railway Bill, 
was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by himself, his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, 
if he think fit ; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of Trustees of the Turnpike and Glasgow and 
Statute Labour Roads, Proprietors and Occupiers 331 atte 
of land, and Heritors and Feuars of Lochwinnoch, ~ 
praying that they may be heard, by themselves, 
their counsel or agents, against certain parts of the 
Glasgow and Ayr Railway Bill, was presented, and 





A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 
posed, That the Belfast Harbour (No. 2.) Bill be 
now read a second time ; 

The Amendments following were proposed to be 
made to the Question; viz. To leave out the word 
“ now,’ and at the end of the question to add the 
words “ upon this day six months.” 

And the Question being put, That the word “ now” 
stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 


Tellers for the f Mr. Emerson Tennent, - 
Yeas, \ Mr. Dunbar : } ae 
Tellers for the { The Earl of Belfast, 43 
Noes, | Captain Pechell: 


So it was resolved in the Affirmative ,—The Bill 
was accordingly read a second time ; and committed 
to Mr. Emerson Tennent and the Ulster List. 


read, 
Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
| Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
| by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
| Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
| favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 
| A Petition of Subscribers and Shareholders for Chariton Kings 
| making the Railway hereinafter mentioned, praying lege 
| that they may be heard, by themselves, their counsel . 
or agents, against the Charlton Kings and Mars- 
worth Railway Bill, was presented, and read ; and 
| ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Bridgwater ;— Blackburn ;—and, Poor Law Act. 
| Bolton-le-Moors ; praying for inquiry into the mode 

in which medical relief is provided for the sick Poor 

by the Poor Law Commissioners,—were presented, 

and read; and referred to the Select Committee on 

the Poor Law Act. 





A Petition 


Shi 


Shipping 
Gazette. 


Church Rates 
Regulation. 


Church Rates, 








7 Witt. IV. 7° Aprils. 237 


A Petition of the Board of Guardians of the 
West Ward Union, in the county of Westmorland, 
praying for the repeal of the Bastardy Clauses in 
the said Act, was also presented, and read; and 
referred to the said Select Committee. 

A Petition of the Chairman, Vice-Chairman and 
Guardians of the Bridport Union, praying that the 
House will not sanction any change which will 
affect the principle of the said Act, so as to weaken 
its efficiency, was also presented, and read; and 
referred to the said Select Committee. 

A Petition of Clergy, Gentry, Churchwardens, 
Rate-payers and inhalttante of Heap, praying for 
the repeal of the said Act, was also presented, and 
read ; and referred to the said Select Committee. 


Petitions from the Port of Newhaven ;— Fal- 
mouth ;— Great Yarmouth ;— Harwich ;—and, Car- 
lisle ; praying the House to relieve the proprietors 
of the Shipping Gazette from the postage of letters 
containing shipping and commercial intelligence 
only,—were presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Hope-under-.Dinmore ;— Holm 
Lacy ; — Ross ; — Bodenham ; — Walford ; — Saint 
Peter, Hereford ;—Byford and Bridge Sollers ;— 
Goodrich; — Canon Froome ; — Lugwardine ;— 
Vowchurch ; — Sutton; — Tretire, with Michael- 
church ; — Dewsall and Callow ; — —— — 
Saint Nicholas, Hereford ;— Credenhill;-—Pencombe ; 
—Pipe ;— Withington, with Preston Wynne ;.— 
Stanton-upon-Arrow ;—Ashperton ; — Burghill ;— 
Lyonshall ;— Saint Weonard’s ;— Kingston and 
Thruxton ;—Brimfield, with Ashford Bowdler ;— 
Sarum ;— Mansell Gamadge ;— Archdeacon and 
Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Oxford ;—Astley ;— 
—Elsfield ;— Saint Mary-de-Lode and the Holy 
Trinity, Gloucester; — Marnhull ; — Hasketon ;— 
— Wye; — Waltham ; — Ickham ; — Villa Wood, 
otherwise Acol, in the Isle of Thanet ;—Goodnestone 
next Wingham;— New Romney; — Ramsgate ;— 
Minster in Thanet ;—Pluchley;——Market Overton ; 
— Saint Nicholas, Alwade, and Tarre ;—Bridge ;— 
Canterbury ;— Petham ;---Herne ;— Birchington ;— 
Monkton ;— Liverpool ;—Saint Decumans ;—Little 
Hadham ; — Ashwell; — Bushey; — Cuddesdon ;— 
Ravensthorpe ;— Coton and Teeton;—Chapel Aller- 
ton and Potter Newton ;—Saint Peter-le-Bailey, 
Oxford ;— Kirkby Overblow ;—Ospringe ;— Lower 
Heyford ;—Eastling ;—and, Berrow ; praying that 
the proposed measure regulating the payment of 
Church Rates may not receive the sanction of the 
House,— were presented, and read ; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from Littleham and Exmouth ;— Withy- 
combe, and other places ;— Watchett ;—Ardwick ;— 
Boston ; — Lympstone ;— Manchester (three Peti- 
tions) ;— Eccles (two Petitions) ;-—Astley ;— Risley ; 
—Saffron Walden;—and, Lymington; praying that 
the said proposed measure may receive the sanction 
of the House,—were also presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Burford ;—Liddington-cum-Cal- 
decot ; — Owthorne ;— Kennerleigh ;— Saint Mar- 
garet’s-at-Cliffe ;— King’s Langley ;— Bispham-in- 
the-Fylde ;— Plemstall ;— Giggleswick ;—Bapchild ; 
Saint Swithin, London Stone, and Saint Mary 
Bothaw, at Dowgate, in the City of London ;— 
Stanton Harcourt ;—South Leigh ;— Ensham ;— 
Allhallows Staining, Mark Lane, City of London ; — 
Rushall; —Saint Clement’s, Ipswich ;—Kessingland; 
—Offton, Little Bricett and Somersham;— Linstead 
Parva ; — Bramfield ;— Thorington ;— Wissett ;.— 
Badlesmere ; — Littlebourne ;— Layston ;— Thun- 
dridge;—Aspeden ;— Widdial;—_Baldock;— Throck- 
ing;—and, Puttenham; praying that Church Rates 
may not be abolished,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from Drymen ;—Bourton-on-the- Water ; 


_—Newmilns ;—and, Carlisle; praying for the abo- 


lition of Church Rates, were also presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Mackinnon presented a Bill to amend the Turnpike 
Laws regarding the Trusts of Turnpike Roads in Trusts Bill. 
that part of Great Britain called England: And No. 173. 
the same was read the first time ; and ordered to be 
read a second time upon Wednesday next ; and to 
be printed. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Sternfield, in the Lord’s Day. 
county of Suffolk, praying that a general Bill for 
the better observance of the Lords’ Day may be 
a to go into a Committee of the whole 
ouse, was presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


A Petition of Samuel Bamford, newspaper re- Vote by Ballot. 
porter, residing at Middleton, in the county of Lan- 

caster, praying that the votes at elections for Members 

to serve in Parliament be taken by Ballot, was 

gaa and read ; and ordered to lie upon the 

Table. 


A Petition of Overlookers, Spinners, Mechanics, Factories Act. 
Weavers, and others, of Colne, and its vicinity, in 

the county of Lancaster, praying for the amendment 

of the Factories Act, and in favour of a Ten Hours 

Bill, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 

upon the Table. 


Petitions from the Bishop and Clergy of the Education 
Diocese of Elphin;—and, Inhabitants of the parishes (Ireland.) 
of Billy, Ballinhoy and Dunseverickh, in the county of 
Antrim; praying that the present system of Educa- 
tion in Jreland may no longer be persisted in,— 
were presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of Merchants and Manufacturers of Cotton, 
Middleton, and its neighbourhood, praying for the 
immediate and total repeal of the Duty on Cotton, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of Innkeepers and Publicans, Licensed Innkeepers. 
Victuallers resident in the counties of Cambridge, 
Essex, York and Lancaster, praying for a revision 
of the laws relating to Innkeepers, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Tobacco. 
Accounts of the Number of Pounds Weight of 
Leaf Tobacco, Manufactured Tobacco, Segars and 
Snuff, paid Duty upon quarterly, for the year 1836, 
ending 5th January 1837; also the Rate of Duty 
and Total Amount of the same ; distinguishing Eng- 
land, Scotland and Jreland, also the Number of 
Pounds Weight of each, and Amount of Duty col- 
lected at the respective Ports of Importation, within 
the same period, and the Total of each quarter and 
year :—Of the Number of Pounds an of Unma- 
nufactured Tobacco, Manufactured Tobacco, called 
Negrohead, Segars and Snuff, imported into England, 
Scotland and Ireland, from the United States of 
America and all other parts, in the year 1836, ending 
5th January 1837; distinguishing the Quantities o 
each denomination imported into the respective 
Ports of the United Kingdom, and from whence it 
came, describing the Quantity of Unmanufactured 
Tobacco, Manufactured Tobacco, called Negrohead, 
Manufactured Segars and Snuff, and Total Amount 
of the same :—Of the Number of Pounds Weight of 
Cut, Shag and Roll Tobacco, Segars, Rappee, Scotch 
and Brown Scotch Snuff respectively, sent out by 
Permit or Certificate, by the ~+ setter {Prone in the 
United Kingdom, in the year ending 5th January 
1837; distinguishing the Quantities under each de- 


nomination for England, Scotland and Ireland: —And 
of the Number of Pounds Weight of Leaf Tobacco, 
Tobacco Stalks, Returns of Tobacco, Cut, Shag and 
Roll Tobacco, Segars, Stalk Flour, Rappee, Scotch 





Vo-. 92, 


and Brown Scotch Snuff, and Snuff Work respec- 
HH? tively, 





238 


tively, in the Stock of Manufacturers in the United 
Kingdom, on the 5th Jannary 1837, showing what 
part of each was in Stock, and what in operation ; 
distinguishing the Quantities under each denomina- 
tion for England, Scotland and Ireland. 


A Petition of Merchants, Manufacturers, Ship- 
owners and Underwriters of South Shields, praying 
for the repeal of the Duty on Marine Insurances, 


was — and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of Merchants, Manufacturers and other 
Inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood of Derby, 
praying for the repeal or reduction of the Duty on 

ire Insurances, was presented, and read ; and or- 
dered to lie upon the f able. 


A Petition of Master Bakers of Glasgow, and 
suburbs, complaining of the exportation of Foreign 
made Biscuit and Flour in bond as merchandize, 
but in reality for the consumption of ships’ crews, 
and praying relief, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return of the Number of Payers of Grand Jury 
Cess at the Spring Assizes, 1835, in each Barony, 
Half Barony and District, in each County, City and 
Town in Ireland, and dividing the Number of Payers 
into ten equal Classes, and showing the average 
Amount of Cess (omitting Pence and Fractions) paid 
by each Payer in each Class. 

Mr. Fox Maule accordingly presented the said 
Return. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 

Mr. Fox Maule also presented, pursuant to Order, 
—A Return of the Number of Houses of Industry 
in Ireland, with particulars of their Expenditure ; 
specifying the Number of Individuals relieved, the 
Quantity and Quality of Food, and the Cost per 
Individual, with the Cost of the Establishment, 
during the last Three years ending January 1836. 

Mr. Fox Maule also presented, pursuant to the 
directions of an Act of Parliament,—Interim Act of 
Sederunt of the Court of Session (Scotland), appor- 
tioning the Business among the Clerks of Court. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Dublin 
City Election Petition, which was presented yester- 
day, be printed. 


Marine 
Insurances. 


Fire Insurances, 


Foreign Biscuit 
aud Flour, 


Grand Jury Cess 
(Ireland. ) 


Houses of 
Industry 
(Ireland.) 


Act of Sederunt 
(Scotland.) 


Dublin Election 
Petition. 


No. 174. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Post Office Acts Repeal Bill ; 


Post-Office 
Acts Repeal 


Bill Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 
Post-Office The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 


Offences Bill. mittee on the Post Office Offences Bill ; 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, 
resolve itself into the said Comunittee. 


Post Office The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
— mittee on the Post Office Management Bill ; 
is Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 
Frauking Bill, The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Franking Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 
Message from A Message from the Lords, by Sir Giffin Wilson 
men. and Mr. Farrer : 
Mr. Speaker, 
Vagrants The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
(Scotland and Act to alter, amend and make perpetual an Act for 
tte pi, Tepealing certain Acts relating to the removal of 


Poor Persons born in Scotland and Jreland, and 
chargeable to Parishes in England, and to make 
other provisions in lieu thereof, with Amendments ; 





7° Aprilis. 








A. 1837. 


to which Amendments the Lords desire the con- 
currence of this House :-~-And then the Messengers 
withdrew. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Mutiny Bill; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That ” to 
the end of the Question, in order to add the words 
“ a Select Committee be appointed to inquire into 
“and report on the question of Military Punish- 
ments,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words pro- 
posed to be left out stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the old Lobby ; 

The Noes to the new Lobby. ? 

Mr. Robert Steuart, |... 

Tellers for the Yeas,{ Mr. Charles Wood: S 167. 
Major Fancourt, ay q 
Captain Boldero : J 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair: 
—The House accordingly resolved itself into the 
Committee ; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal re- 
ported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon Mon- 
day next. 


Matiny Bill, 


“ 


Tellers for the Noes, 


Ny 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Marine Mutiny 
into a Committee upon the Marine Mutiny Bill ; Bi. 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker re- 
sumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal reported, That 
the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon Mon- 
day next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Supply ; 
into the Committee of Supply. 


(In the Committee.) 

1. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One Admiralty 
hundred and nine thousand one hundred and ninety- Office. 
five pounds, be granted to His Majesty to defray 
the Salaries of the Officers, and the Contingent 
Expenses of the Admiralty Office, to the 31st day 
of March 1838. 

2. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Two Registry of 
thousand three hundred and sixty-five pounds, be — 
granted to His Majesty to defray the Salaries of “°"" 
the Officers, and the Incidental Expenses of the 
Office for the Registry of Merchant Seamen, to the 
31st day of March 1838. 

3. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Thirty- Scientific 
three thousand two hundred and seventy pounds, ai few. 
be granted to His Majesty to defray the Salaries of 
the Officers, and the Contingent Expenses of the 
several Scientific Departments of the Navy, to the 
31st day of March 1838. 

4. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One Naval, 
hundred and eighteen thousand five hundred and — 
six pounds, be granted to His Majesty to defray the “°°” 
Salaries of the Officers, and the Contingent Ex- 
eres of His Majesty’s Naval Establishments at 

lome, to the 31st day of March 1838. 

5. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Nineteen D° - Abroad. 
thousand six hundred and fifty-four pounds, be 
granted to His Majesty to defray the Salaries of the 
Officers, and the Contingent Expenses of His Ma- 
jesty’s Naval Establishments Abroad, to the 31st 
day of March 1838. L ; 

6. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Fifty- Naval Stores. 
nine thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven 
pounds, be granted to His hay to complete the 
sum necessary to defray the Expense of Naval 
‘ Stores 





y 





7 Wit. LV. r— 


Stores for the building and repair of Ships and Ves- 
sels, purchase of Steam Machinery, and for other 
oe connected therewith, to the 31st day of 

arch 1838. 

7. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One 
hundred and eight thousand and forty-eight pounds, 
be granted to His Majesty to defray the Charge of 
New Works, and Improvements and Repairs in the 
Yards, to the 31st day of March’1838. 

i 8. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Eighteen 
Medical Stores thousand one hundred and sixty pounds, be granted 
to His Majesty to defray the Charge of Medicines 
and Medical Stores, to the 31st day of March 1838. 

9. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Twenty- 
nine thousand three hundred and sixty-six pounds, 
be granted to His Majesty to defray the Charge 
of divers Naval Miscellaneous Services, to the 31st 
day of March 1838. 

10. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Eight 
hundred and ten thousand seven hundred and 
seventy-one pounds, be granted to His Majesty to 
defray the Charge of Half Pay to Officers of the 
Navy and Royal Marines, which will come in course 
of payment during the year ending on the 31st day 
of March 1838. 

11. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Five 
hundred and twenty-eight thousand six hundred 
and forty-nine pounds, be granted to His Majesty to 
defray the Charge of Military Pensions and Allow- 
ances which will come in course of payment during 
the year ending on the 31st day of March 1838. 

12. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Two 
hundred and eight thousand seven hundred and 
sixty-five pounds, be granted to His Majesty to de- 
fray the Charge of Civil Pensions and Allowances 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1838. 

13. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One 
hundred and thirty-nine thousand and fifty-three 
pounds, be granted to His Majesty to defray the 
Charge of Transports on Monthly Pay, and to de- 
fray the other Charges for the Conveyance and 
Victualling of Troops, and for the Freight of Stores, 
on account of the Army and Ordnance Departments, 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1838. 

14, Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Ninety- 
Wales.) eicht thousand one hundred and cglay-sicke 
pounds, be granted to His Majesty to defray the 
expense of conveying Convicts to) Vew South Wales, 
which will come in course of payment during the 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1838. 


Resolutions to be reported. 


Dock Yards. 


Medicines and 


Naval Miscel- 
laneous Ser- 
vices. 


Half Pay. 


Military 
Pensions and 
Allowances, 


Civil - d°, 


Transports. 


Convicts (New 
South 





And the House having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Saturday morning ; 


Sabbati, 8° die Aprilis, 1837: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had come to several 
Resolutions. 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon Mon- 
next. 

Ir. Bernal also acquainted the House, that he 
was directed to move, That the Committee may have 
leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


da 


Benefices 


Ploraliy Bill The Order of the day being read, for the second 


reading of the Benefices Plurality Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Wills Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Monday next. 


Penitentiary Mr. Bari d the Peni . . 
(Milbank) Bill, &lt;2": Baring reported the Penitentiary (Milbank) 
ae “— and the Amendments were read, and agreed to. 
OL. 92, 


Wills Bill, 


8°—10° Aprilis. 





239 


_ Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time upon Monday 
next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- ways and 
mittee of Ways and Means ; Means, 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Imprisonment 
mittee on the Imprisonment for Debt Bill ; for Debt Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed Transportation. 
to inquire into the system of Transportation, its 
efficacy as a punishment, its influence on the moral ” 
state of society in the penal Colonies, and how far it 
is susceptible of improvement :—And a Committee 
was appointed of Sir William Molesworth, Lord 
John Russell, Sir George Grey, Mr. Leader, Mr. 
Ward, Mr. Hawes, Mr. William Ord, Lord Viscount 
Howich, Mr. Fowell Buxton, Sir Thomas Fremantle, 
Mr. Francis Baring, Sir Robert Peel, Mr. Lennard, 
Mr. Ridley Colborne, and Mr. Charles Buller ; with 
Power to send for persons, papers and records. 

Ordered, That Five be the ia 


Resolved, That this House will, at the rising of Adjournment, 
the House this day, adjourn till Monday next. 


Ordered, That the Committee on the Glasgow and ee 
Greenock Railway Bill have leave to sit To-morrow, Railway Bill, 


notwithstanding the adjournment of the House. 


Lord Viscount Palmerston presented, by His Slave Trade. 
Majesty’s command,— Additional Article to the 
Treaty concluded at the Hague, May 4th, 1818, 
between Great Britain and the Netherlands, for 
the prevention of the Traffic in Slaves. 
Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the a, 
Lords to the Vagrants (Scotland and Ireland) Re- (reiand) - 
moval Bill, be taken into consideration upon Monday Removal Bill. 
next. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till after one of the clock on Saturday morn- 
ing, adjourned till Monday next. 








Luna, 10° die Aprilis ; 
Anno 7 Willielmi [Vt Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


OQRDE RED, That the Committee on the Edinburgh 
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Bill have tenes, &lt;4 
leave to sit this day till five of the clock, during the thi 
sitting of the House, 
Ordered, That the Committee on the Glasgow Glasgow and 
and Ayr Railway Bill, have leave to sit this day till = ated 
five of the clock during the sitting of the House. 


Petitions from James Wilkinson, of Stockport, Manchester 

Cotton-spinner and Manufacturer ;—Electors of the a 
. y ul. 

county of Warwick ;—Clergy, Bankers, Merchants 

and Inhabitants of Coventry ;—Inhabitants of Vew- 

port, Salop ;—and, Wellington, Salop; praying that 

the Manchester and Stafford Railway Bill may pass 

into a law,—were presented, and read; and ordered 

to lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Arthur Trevor reported from the Committee Durham and 
on the Durham and Sunderland Railway Bill ; ae 
That the Standing Orders relative to Railway Bills, edhe 
had been complied with; and that the Committee 
had inquired into the several matters required by the 
Resolutions of the House, of the 1st day of March 
1836; and had also examined the allegations of the 
Bill, and found the same to be true; and had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments there- 
unto. 

Ordered, 


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240 10° Aprils. 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table, 
and be printed. 


Leeds and The Leeds and Otley Road Bill was read a second 
Otley Road time; and committed to Sir John Beckett and the 
_ York List. 

Wakefield The Wakefield Waterworks Bill was read a second 


Waterworks time; and committed to Sir George Strickland and 
= the York List. 


Hurworth and Petitions from Inhabitants of Stockton-upon- Tees ; 
bag Railwey and, Thirsk; praying that the Hurworth and 
: York Railway Bill may pass into a law,—were pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Westminster A Petition of Robert Bloxam, of Newport, in the 

— and Isle of Wight, Surgeon, and Ann his Wife, and, 

eenwich 2% i Ss , 

Railway Bill. -Elizabeth Chariton, of Rochester, in the county of 
Kent, Spinster ; praying that they may be heard, by 
their counsel or agents, against certain parts of the 
Westminster Bridge and Greenwich Railway Bill, 
was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by their counsel or agents, upon their Petition, if 
they think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


bs a ~_ A Petition of the Right honourable George Ed- 
reece ward Tuchet, Baron Audley, praying that he may 


be heard by his counsel or agent, against certain 
parts of the West Cork Mining Company Bill, was 
presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, if he 
think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the Bill, 
against the said Petition. 


Glossop Reser- The Glossop Reservoirs Bill was read a second 


vols Bil, time; and committed to Mr. Gisborne and the 
Derby List. 

Blochairn The Blochairn Canal Bill was read a second time; 

Canal Bill. and committed to Mr. Oswald and the West Scot- 
land List. 


Manchester, Petitions from Jonathan Dorning, of Swinton and 

ag Se Kearsley ;—and, the Reverend Richard Buck, of 

Bill” Agecroft Hall, within Pendlebury, in the parish of 
Eccles, Clerk, and Elizabeth Hull, of Chorley, 
Spinster ; praying that they may be heard, by them- 
selves, their counsel or agents, against certain parts 
of the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal Bill,— 
were presented, and read. 

And-the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit ; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 

Manchester 


cl Ordered, That the Petition of Thomas Kinnersley, 
Railway Bill. Esquire, which was presented upon the 20th day of 
February last; and also, the Petition of Thomas 
Fernley, which was presented upon the 24th day of 
February last, be referred to the Committee on the 
Manchester and Tamworth Railway Bill; and the 
Petitioners heard, by their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit ; and counsel heard, 
in fevour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


Lough Swilly A Petition of Magistrates, Land-owners, Bankers, 
and ‘Lough &gt; 


Foyle Drainage Merchants, Farmers and Inhabitants of the counties 
Bill. of Londonderry and Donegal, praying that the Lough 
Swilly and Lough Foyle Drainage Bill may pass 
into a law, was presented, and read; and ordered 


to lie upon the Table. 


Manchester sas ~ ae , . 
and Stafford Petitions from John Shaw, of the city of Lon 


Railway Bill, 0, Esquire, and Thomas Hunt, of Stockport, 
Cotton-spinner ;—Owners and Occupiers of estates 
and premises in the county of Lancaster ;— and, 





Joseph Heaward, Owner and Occupier of a mill and | words “ upon this day six months.” 





A. 1837. 


premises in Heaton Norris; praying that they may 
be heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
against certain parts of the Manchester and Stafford 
Railway Bill,—were presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be re- 
ferred to the Committee on the Bill; and the Peti- 
tioners heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
upon their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel 
heard, in favour of the Bill, against the said Peti- 
tions. 


Petitions from Bradley Clay, of Huddersfield, sole Holme Reser. 
acting executor of Thomas Radcliffe Atkinson, late ‘o's Bill. 
of Huddersfield aforesaid, deceased ;—and, John 
North, of Huddersfield, corn miller; praying that 
they may be heard, by themselves, their counsel or 
agents, against certain parts of the Holme Reservoirs 
Bill,—were presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be re- 
ferred to the Committee on the Bill; and the Peti- 
tioners heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
upon their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel 
heard, in favour of the Bull, against the said Peti- 
tions. 


Petitions from Merchants, Ivonmasters, Coal- Severn Navi- 
masters, and others, of Birmingham, Wolverhampton, §*'™ Bill. 
Dudley, Wednesbury and Bilston ;—the Company 
of Proprietors of the Worcester and Birmingham 
Canal Navigation ;—the Company of Proprietors of 
the Monmouthshire Canal Navigation ;— and, the 
Dock Company of Newport, Monmouth; praying 
that the Severn Navigation Bill may not pass into 
a law,—were presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


Sir Eardley Wilmot reported from the Committee London and 
on the London and Birmingham Railway Bill; That, Birmingham 
inasmuch as the application is solely for the pur- ®*!"*y Bil. 

PP ery Pp 
pose of raising an additional sum of money, and of 
regulating the internal affairs of the Company, the 
Committee are of opinion, that none of the matters 
required by the Standing Orders to be inquired 
into by Committees on Railway Bills apply to the 
present Bill; and that the Committee had also exa- 
mined the allegations of the Bill, and found the same 
to be true; and gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Birmingham, praying Birmingham 
that the Birmingham Gas (No. 1.) Bill may pass Gas (No) 
into a law, was presented, and read; and ordered” 
to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Commissioners for paving, lighting, London and 
watching and otherwise improving Brunswich-square, Prighon 
Brunswich-terrace, and certain other public places (Seaphenean’s 
in the parish of Hove, in the county of Sussex, pray- Line.) 
ing that they may be heard, by themselves, their 
counsel or agents, against certain parts of the Lon- 
don and Brighton Railway Bill (Stephenson’s Line), 
was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


Petitions from Inhabitants of Leicester ;— and, Leicester 
Surveyors of the Highways in Leicester; praying °° ® - 
that the Leicester Gas Bill may pass into a law,— 
were presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- Leicester 
posed, That the Leicester Gas Bill be now read a Gas Bill. 
second time ; 

The Amendments following were proposed to be 
made to the Question; viz. To leave out the word 
“ now,” and at the end of the Question to add the 


An 








er. 








7 Wit. IV. 


And the Question being put, That the word “ now” 
stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 


Tellers for the f Mr. Serjeant Goulburn, 29 
Yeas, \ Mr. Thomas Gladstone, } ’ 
Tellers for the } Mr. Brotherton, 42 
Noes, Mr. Pease : } mn 


So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the words “ upon 
this day six months” be added at the end of the 
Question ; it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Then the main Question, so amended, being put ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon this day six months. 


AmericanSteam A Petition of Owners or Freighters of Steam 
eer. Packets and other Vessels trading to and from the 
Company ©" Port of Stockton, and Merchants and Traders in the 
said town, praying that the American Steam Navi- 
gation Company Bill may not pass into a law, was 
resented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 


A Petition of Owners or Freighters of Steam 
Packets and other Vessels trading to and from the 
Port of Stockton, and Merchants and Traders in the 
said town, praying that the Commercial Steam Packet 
Company Bill may not pass into a law, was pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of William Murray, Esquire, of Touch- 


Commercial 
Steam Packet 
Company Bill. 


Loanhead and 


rg te adam, Alexander Wilson, Esquire, of Braehead, and 

Canal Bills. Admiral the Honourable Charles Fleming, of Cum- 
bernauld, Proprietors of landed estates within the 
county of Stirling, praying that the Loanhead and 
Stirling Canal; and, Stirling Canal Billsmay not pass 
into Jaw, was presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 

Glasgow and A Petition of Trustees of the Turnpike Road from 


Ayr Railway G'Jasgow to Three Mile-house, half way to Paisley, 

Bill. J y ey 
praying that they may be heard, by themselves, 
their counsel or agents, against certain parts of the 
Glasgow and Ayr Railway Bill, was presented, and 
read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to 
the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, ti vir counsel or agents, upon 
their Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


Polloc and A Petition of Trustees on the Turnpike Road lead- 
— Railway ing from Glasgow to Three Mile-house, half way to 
‘ Paisley, praying that they may be heard, by them- 
selves, their counsel or agents, against certain parts 
of the Polloc and Govan Railway Bill, was presented, 
and read. 
Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 
on nee . Ordered, That the Committee on the Manchester 
Railway Bill and Tamworth Railway Bill have Power to send for 
persons, papers and records. 
Petitions from Owners and Occupiers of estates 
and property in the county of Lancaster ;—and, 
Bankers, Merchants, Traders and Inhabitants of the 
city of Chester; praying that the said Bill may pass 
into a law,—were presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


Chester and Petitions from Land-owners and Occupiers of 
— Railway Jand in the county of Chester ;—Inhabitants of 
Nantwich ;—and, Chester ; praying that the Chester 
and Crewe Railway Bill may pass into a law,—were 
— and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
able. 
Vot. 92. 


10° Aprilis. 


241 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Tamworth, praying Manchester : 
that the Manchester and Tamworth Railway Bill Railway Bill 
— not pass into a law, was presented, and read ; 

an 


ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Grand Jury assembled at the Railway Bills. 
Spring Assizes for the county of Chester, praying 
that before any Railway Bills are allowed to pass 
into a law, the House will require the promoters of 
each measure to insert proper and effectual Clauses 
in their Bill compelling them to make all viaducts 
or bridges over or across any public highway or 
road, of the same width as the road was before any 
such viaduct or bridge was made, and not in an 
degree contract the avenue or approach to any suc 
viaduct or bridge, but to form the same of the like 
width for all purposes of travel as the ancient road 
was before the erection of any such viaduct or bridge, 
and that the descent or ascent of every road under 
or over any such viaducts or bridges, shall not be 
greater than one foot in thirty feet, was presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Sir Andrew Leith Hay reported from the Com- Trinity orth 
mittee on the Trinity (Vorth Leith) Harbour and Leith) con 
Docks Bill; and to whom several Petitions against pata icin 
the said Bill were referred; That they had con- 

sidered two of the said Petitions, and had heard 

counsel in support of one of them; and had also 

heard counsel in favour of the Bill; and that the 

Committee had examined the allegations of the 

Bill, and found the same to be true; and had gone 

through the Bill, and made Amendments there- 

unto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Shaw Lefevre reported from the Select Com- Birmingham 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; and to whom se 
the Petition of the Birmingham and Derby Junc-*""*™' 
tion Railway Company, praying for leave to present 
a Petition for leave to bring in a Bill, and to whom 
several other Petitions, praying that the parties 
should not be allowed to proceed with the said Bill, 
were referred ; That they had considered the said 
Petitions, and it appeared to the Committee that the 
Bill now sought to be brought in formed part of the 
Bill, intituled, the Zamworth and Rugby Railwa 
Bill; that a Petition for leave to bring in the said Bill 
under thetitle of the Birmingham and Derby Railway, 
was presented to the House on the 6thday of February 
last, and referred tothe Select Committee on Petitions 
for Private Bills, who decided that the Standing Orders 
had not been complied with in several particulars ; 
that upon a reference to the Standing Orders Com- 
mittee, they decided that the Standing Orders could 
not be dispensed with; that on the 6th day of March 
last, a motion was made in the House “ That the 
Petition of the Chairman and Directors of the Bir- 
mingham and Derby Junction Railway (presented 
28th February), together with the Report of the 
Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills, on 
the Petition for the Tamworth and Rugby Railway 
Bill, be referred to the Select Committee on Stand- 
ing Orders, to inquire into tne matters contained in 
the said Petition and Report, and to report their 
opinion thereupon to the House,” which was, after 
some discussion, by leave, withdrawn ; that subse- 
quently, cu the 17th day of March, another Motion 
was made, by which the Report of the Standing 
Orders Committee was confirmed ; that it was per- 
fectly competent to the Standing Orders Committee 
in the first instance to allow the parties now desirous 
of presenting their Petition to proceed with that 
portion of their original Bill now sought to be intro- 
duced as a new measure, but that they had not done 
so; and moreover, that the House had not only 
refused to refer back to the Standing Orders Com- 
mittee the consideration of the original Petition, 
but had subsequently confirmed by an express vote, 
the Report of that Committee ; it appeared there- 





II fore 








London and 
Greenwich 
Railway 
(No. 2.) 


Birkenhead 
and Chester 
Railway Bill. 


Dublin Wide 
Streets Bill. 


London and 
Brighton 
Railway Bill 
(Stephenson’s 


Line.) 


Q42 10° Aprils. 


the House to adopt to allow the Petitioners to pre- | 


sent another Petition referring to matters which had 


already been under the consideration of the Standing | 
Orders Committee, and upon which that Committee | 
had formally decided ; the Committee however are | 


bound to state, in justice to the Petitioners, that one 
of the objects sought to be obtained by the Bill 
which they are now desirous to introduce, is the 
correction of a verbal inaccuracy which has acci- 
dentally occurred in the Act of last Session, and to 
which the attention of the Committee on Standing 
Orders had not been drawn, but the Committee have 
satisfied themselves by evidence that the statement 
is correct: if application had been made to the 
House during the last Session of Parliament, the 
parties would have been allowed to correct their 
mistake at any period of the Session; and the Com- 
mittee are not aware that any inconvenient precedent 
would be established if the parties were allowed to 
present a Petition solely for the purpose of making 
this verbal Amendment. 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Shaw Lefevre reported from the Se.ect Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That in the 
case of the Petition for leave to present a Petition for 
the London and Greenwich Railway (No. 2.) Bill, it 
is the opinion of the Committee, that the Petitioners 
should be allowed to present a Petition for a Bill, 
according to the prayer of their Petition. 

Ordered, That leave be given to present a Peti- 
tion as desired. 

A Petition of the Zondon and Greenwich Rail- 
way Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to autho- 
rize them to allow persons, horses, cattle or carriages 
to pass over a bridge to be erected by them across 
the River Ravensbourne, for.the purposes of the said 
Railway, on __ of a toll, was accordingly 
presented, and read; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of the Vice Dean of the Cathedral 
Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary, in 
Chester, praying that he may be heard, by himself, his 
counsel or agent, against certain parts of the Bir- 
henhead and Chester Railway Bill, was presented, 
and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by himself, his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, 
if he think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of 
the Bill, against the said Petition. 


The Dublin Wide Streets Bill was read a second 
time: and committed to Mr. Hamilton and the 
Leinster List. 


A Petition of James Mills was presented, and 
read ; setting forth, That the Petitioner, at the di- 
rection of a numerous class of subscribers, desirous 
to ascertain the practicability of the formation of 
a Railway between London and Brighton without a 
Tunnel, caused complete surveys, plans and sections 
to be made of the same, and that, in the pursuit of 
this object during the last and present Session of 
Parliament, the said subscribers have expended 
upwards of Ten thousand pounds to bring the same 
before a Committee of the House, and as the Peti- 
tioner believed, after an experience of thirty years, 





|contained in his Petition, and that he re be 
they were made in strict conformity to the rules of | 





A. 1837. 


fore to the Committee, that under these circum-| ing of the Sub-Committee for inquiry respecting the 
stances, it would be a most inconvenient course for| Petitioner’s line, a Petition was presented to the 


House by a person describing himself as clerk to 
Stephenson’s Brighton Railway Company, complain- 
ing that the plans and sections made of the line 
under direction of the Petitioner, were not in com- 
pliance with the new Standing Orders, and thatupon 
reference to the Standing Order Committee, the 
Chairman reported that the Standing Orders ought 
not to be dispensed with; that the persons on 
Stephenson’s Line, who were examined upon the 
plans and sections of the Petitioner’s Line, had been 
previously examined before a Sub-Committee, of 
which the Member for North Hampshire was the 
Chairman, as to the correctness of their plans and 
sections ; and that the Chairman strictly and mi- 
nutely inquired, in the words of each Standing Order, 
seriatim, whether they had duly complied therewith, 
and that the answer given in every instance was in 
the affirmative ; that the Petitioner is prepared dis- 
tinctly to prove, that the answers so given by the 
agents for Stephenson’s Line to the Committee in 
regard to every allegation made against the plans 
and sections of the Petitioner’s Line, were wilfully 
untrue, because the parties so giving evidence must 
have known that the plans and sections of Stephen- 
son’s Line contain very numerous and precisely simi- 
lar omissions to those complained of, and referred 
to in the Petitioner’s Line by the Sub-Committee; 
that by thus having recourse to intentional mis- 
representation, the parties of Stephenson’s Line have 
deceived the Committee, and have prevailed upon 
the Member for North Hants erroneously to report 
to the House, that they had complied with the 
Standing Orders, and have thereby succeeded in 
going before a Committee on the merits of their 
line, whilst they have fraudulently excluded the line 
of the Petitioner from fair competition; that a bare 
inspection of the plans and sections by the Chair- 
man, Member for North Hants, who reported upon 
Stephenson’s Line, and the Chairman, Member for 
Berkshire, who reported upon the Petitioner’s Line, 
will in an instant enable those Members to report the 
facts to the House; that the Petititioner entreats 
the House to believe, that his literal construction of 
the new Standing Order (No. 4.), requiring the 
enlargement of buildings, &amp;c., through which the 
railroad was intended to pass, only to such buildings, 
&amp;c., and his not extending the enlargements to all 
buildings on each side of the road, within one hun- 
dred yards of the line, did not arise from any con- 
tumelious neglect, but solely from his narrowness of 
comprehension, and from the circumstance of the 
House never having placed the more extended con- 
struction upon the said Order until the present Ses- 
sion; and he trusts the House will the more readily 
extend their indulgence upon this omission, seeing 
that no landowner can possibly be injured thereby, 
and that no one has complained thereof; and more- 
over the Petitioner believes, that three out of seven 
of the Members composing the Standing Orders 
Committee, considered the construction of the Peti- 
tioner correct, according to the present ambiguous 
wording of the said Order, which evidently was 
designed by the House for the protection of the 
landowner, whose rights could not be affected by the 
non-enlargement of the plan, as they were most 
sacredly preserved in every instance from non-in- 
sertion in the Schedule ; and praying the House to 
cause due inquiry to be made into the allegations 


allowed to prove the same before a Select Com- 


the House; that there are five competing lines of | mittee; and he most confidently relies upon the 
Railway to Brighton, four of which are now in Com-} House, in vindication of its high privileges, of the 


mittees of the House, all of which were reported to | 


unsullied honour of its Committee, and of that even 


the House by the Chairmen of the Sub-Committees | handed justice which sheds the brightest lustre upon 
of Inquiry to have complied with the Standing |the British Parliament, that it will not permit a 
Orders, there being no Petition presented against | numerous class of its fellow-subjects, after so large 


either, they were not referred to the Committee upon 
Standing Orders ; that the evening before the meet- 


|an expenditure of money, in full expectation of a fair 
/and just competition, and of ultimate success, to be 


defeated 


Loug! 
and L 
Foyle 
Bill. 


Dunc 
Bill. 


Edin 
Polic 


Hart 
Pier 


Gla: 
Pai: 
Gre 
Rail 


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and 
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7 Wi. IV. 


defeated in their legitimate object by an unworthy 
artifice, designed to insult the dignity, to impugn the 
justice, and to degrade the character of the House. 

Ordered, That the said Petition do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


Lough Swilly The Lough Swilly and Lough Foyle Drainage Bill 
and Lough —s was read a second time; and committed to Captain 
Foyle Drainage Jones and the Ulster List. 


ag Petitions from the Wardens and Commonalty of 
the mystery of Fishmongers, of the city of London ; 
—and, the Wardens and Commonalty of the mystery 
of Grocers, of the city of London; praying that 
they may be heard, by themselves, their counsel or 
agents, against certain parts of the said Bill, were 
presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit ; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


Dundee Police 


je The Dundee Police Bilf was read a second time ; 


and committed to Sir Henry Parnell and the East 
Scotland List. 


come An ingrossed Bill for continuing, altering and 
Police Bil. amending certain Acts for regulating the Police of 
the City of Edinburgh, and the adjoining Districts, 
and for other purposes relating thereto, was read 
the third time ; and Amendments were made to the 
Bill. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That Mr. Attorney General do carry the 
Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 
Hartlepool The Hartlepool Pier Bill was read a second time; 
Peer Bill. and committed to Sir Hedworth Williamson and the 
Durham List. 
— ‘ Petitions from Inhabitants of Helensburgh ;--Ro- 
sn dg thesay ;-—--Dunoon and Kilmun ;—and, Directors of 
Railway Bill, the Shaws Water Joint Stock Company; praying 
that the Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway 
Bill may pass mto a law,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
a a A Petition of Colonel John Ferrier Hamilton, of 
Railway Bill. Westport and Cathlaw, in the county of Linlithgow, 
praying that he may be heard, by himself, his 
counsel or agent, against certain parts of the Edin- 
burgh and G'lasgow Railway Bill, was presented, and 
read. 
Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by himself, his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, 
if he think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 
all A Petition of Robert Cunningham Bontine, Esquire, 
— of Ardoch, praying that he may be heard, by himself, 
Railway Bill, his counsel or agent, against certain parts of the 


Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway Bill, was 
presented, and read. 

Ordered, 'That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by himself, his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, 
if he think fit ; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


West London = Mr. Harvey reported from the Committee on the 


d Westnin. = ‘ 
Soames West London and Westminster Cemetery Bill; That 
Bill, they had examined the allegations of the Bill, and 


found the same to be true; and had gone through 
the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto; and the 
Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

_ Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


Von. 92. 


10° Aprilis. 





943 


A Message from the Lords, by Sir Giffin Wilson Message from 

and Mr. Cross: sacesemee 
Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Loughborough 
Act for the more easy and speedy Recovery of Small Small Debts 
Debts within the Town of Loughborough, and other’ * 
Places therein mentioned, in the Counties of Leices- 

- and Nottingham, without Amendrhent: And 
also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Mint Bill. 
Act to amend several Acts relating to the Royal 
Mint, with Amendments; to which Amendments the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House :—And 
then the Messengers withdrew. 


A Petition of small Owners and poor Inhabitants Ashby and 
of estates in Ashby and Hellington, praying that the Hellington 
Ashby and Hellington Inclosure Bill may not pass ore Bill. 
into a law, was presented, and read , and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Land-owners, Lessees and Occupiers Exeter and 
of land, Merchants, Traders and other Household In- Falmouth 
habitants of Colebrooke, praying that the Exeter and Ballway Bil 
Falmouth Railway Bill may pass into a law, was pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Charles Wood presented, pursuant to Orders, Navy. 
—A Return of the Number of Officers of the Medical 
Department of the Navy, on 25th December 1836, 
on Full Pay; distinguishing the Number of each 
Rank. 

A similar Return of the Number on Half and on 
Retired Pay. 

A Return of the Number of Officers of the Medical 
Department of the Navy promoted on the 10th of 
January 1837; distinguishing the Number of each 
Rank, and whether promoted from Full, Half or Re- 
tired Pay; stating also the Date of entry of each 
into the Service, the Dates of their several Pro- 
motions, the aggregate time each has been on Half 
Pay and Retired Pay since entering the Service ; 
likewise, the annual Increase of Expense to the 
Country, in consequence of such Promotions. 

A Return of the Total Number of Officers of the Navy. 
Royal Navy on the Ist January 1837, of each Rank, 
from Admiral to Lieutenant inclusive, and distin- 
guishing the Number of each Rank employed afloat 
from the Number of Officers on Half Pay and on 
Retired Pay at that Date :—A Return of the Total 
Number of Promotions in the Royal Navy made on 
the 10th January 1837, from the Rank of Midship- 
man to that of Admiral inclusive, stating the Num- 
ber of each Rank promoted; distinguishing the 
Number of each Rank employed and afloat, from 
those on Half and Retired Pay, and the Amount of 
additional Pay and Allowance which the Officers of 
each Rank will receive in consequence of that Pro- 
motion, the Amount of Pay to each Class, and the 
Total Annual Amount of Expense to the Country 
by such Promotion. 

A Return of the Names of all Admirals, Vice- Navy. 
Admirals, Rear Admirals, Retired Rear Admirals, Re- 
tired Captains, Captains, Commanders, and Lieu- 
tenants in the Royal Navy, promoted on 10th January 
1837; distinguishing those on Full Pay from those 
on Half Pay, at the time of their Promotion; stating 
the Date of Entry of each Officer into the Navy, and 
of the several Commissions which they have succes- 
sively attained. 

Returns of the Names of the Naval and Military Aide-de-Camps. 
Aide-de-Camps to His Majesty at this time, and the 
Dates of their Appointments ; stating the Pay and 
Allowances received as such by each; and also, 
whether any and what additional Rank was conferred 
on their being appointed to such Situation; stating 
also, the Duties, ifany, performed by them (as far as 
regards the Royal Navy and Marines) :—And, of the 
greatest Number of Aide-de-Camps which his late 
Majesty King George the Third had in any and what 

112 year, 





24.4, 


year, with the Annual Pay and Allowances each re- | 
ceived, and also the Rank each obtained on his  &amp; 

ointment as Aide-de-Camp (as far as regards the 
Royal Navy and Marines.) 

A Return of the Names of the Commanders posted 
in the Flag Promotion of 10th January last; the 
Date of Entry into the Service, and of their Com- 
mission as Midshipmen, Lieutenants and Command- 
ers; also, the length of Service of each since their 
promotion as Commanders. 

Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Queen Anne’s 


Commanders 
of the Navy. 


Queen Anne’: 


Bounty. ata i which was presented upon Tuesday last, be 
No, 175. printe A 
Exchequer Bills _ Ordered, That the Returns relative to Exchequer 


(Pablic Works.) Bills (Public Works), which were presented upon 


No.176. Friday last, be printed. 
— Ordered, That the Copy of the Observations on 
Commission. the Report of the Committee on the Record Com- 
No.177. mission, which was presented upon Friday last, be 
printed. . —_ “&lt; 
Ordered, That the Copy of the Report of Sir 
—” Francis Palgrave on the y roth Weems Records, 
No.177. which was presented upon ere last, be printed. 
— Ordered, That the Coad of the Correspondence 
Commission. relating to the Record Commission, which was pre- 
No.177. sented upon Friday last, be printed. 
Belfast Ordered, That the Return relative to the Belfast 
Academical Academical Institution, which was presented upon 
gg Tuesday last, be printed. 
0. ° 


A Petition of Householders, Land-holders and In- 
habitants of Islip, praying that Church Rates may 
not be abolished, was presented, and read ; and or- 
dered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Saint John-the- 
Baptist, in the county of Hereford, praying the 
House not to sanction the proposed measure regu- 
lating the payment of Church Rates, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Church Rates. 


Church Rates 
Regulation. 


ymprisonment 


A Petition of Thomas Pain, Registrar of the Cinque 
for Debt Bill. ] 


Ports and Clerk of Dover Castle, praying that a 
Clause may be inserted in the Imprisonment for Debt 
Bill authorizing the Lords of the Treasury to allow 
him compensation for the loss he will sustain by the 
passing of the said Bill, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Ballinamore ; — and, Kiltubride ; 
praying that the Votes at all Elections for Mem- 
ers to serve in Parliament be taken by Ballot,— 
were presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


Vote by Ballot. 


Tithes Petitions from Ballinamore ;-——Kiltubride; and, 

(Ireland.) Clone; praying for the abolition of Tithes in Ireland, 
—were presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 

Municipal A Petition of Inhabitants of the united parishes 


Corporations 
(ireland) Bill; 
Tithes; and, 
Ballot. 


of Castle Town Delvin and Killulagh, in the county 
of Westmeath, praying that the Municipal Corpora- 
tions (Ireland) Bill may pass into a law, that Tithes 
in Ireland be abolished, and Vote by Ballot adopted, 
was — and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


Petitions from Glasgow ;—Carne, &amp;c.;— Howth ; 
—Ballinamore ;— Kiltubride ;— Boyle ;— Croghan ; 
— Templeoran ; — Ballybay ; — Clontibret ; — East 
Aughnamullin ; — Oranmore ; — Balianne, &amp;2. ; — 
Multifarnham, &amp;c. ;— Clone ;— Gorey ;—and, Liver- 
pool; praying that the Municipal Corporations (Jre- 
land) Bill may pass into a law,—were presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Municipal 
Corporations 
(Ireland) Bill, 


The Order of the day being read, for the third 


Municipal ; . ‘ 
reading of the ingrossed Bill for the regulation of 


Corporations 
(Ireland) Bill. 


10°—11° Aprils. 





A. 1837. 





And a Motion being made, and the Question being Vag 
proposed, That the Bill be now read the third time : ye 
—And a Debate arising thereupon ; Oe 

And the House having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Tuesday morning ; 

Martis, 11° die Aprilis, 1837: 

A Motion was made, and the Question being put, 
That the Debate be adjourned till this day ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the old Lobby ; 

The Noes to the new Lobby. 

Tellers for the f Mr. Robert Steuart, } 286 

Yeas, Mr. Edward John Stanley: J) ~~ * 

Tellers for the J Sir George Clerk, 939 

Noes, Sir Thomas Fremantle : : 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Ways and 
mittee of Ways and Means ; Means. 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 

The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Court of 
mittee on the Court of Exchequer (Scotland) Bill; Exchequer — 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve (Scotland) Bill, 
itself into the said Committee. 

The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Registration of , 
mittee on the Registration of Voters Bill; Voters Bill, ( 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Haileybury 
reading of the Haileybury College Bill; Cog Oe. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Wednesday, the 19th day of this instant April. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second East India 
reading of the East India Officers Salaries Bill ; re ae 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Wednesday, the 19th day of this instant April. 


Mr. Bernal reported the Mutiny Bill; and the Mutiny Bill 
Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time this day. 


Mr. Bernal reported the Marine Mutiny Bill; and Marine Mutiny 
the Amendments were read, and agreed to. Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for receiving Supply. 
the Report from the Committee of Supply ; 
Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- supply. 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, Vat this House will, To-morrow, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


the second Benefices 


The Order of the day being read, for Beni Bil 


reading of the Benefices Plurality Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday, the 21st day of this instant April. 






The Order of the day being read, for the second Wills Bill. 
reading of the Wills Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday, the 21st day of this instant April. 









Penitentiary 


The Order of the day being read, for the third tatboak) Bill 


reading of the Penitentiary (Milbank) Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time this 
day. 
The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Imprisonment for Debt Bill ; 








Imprisonment 
for Debt Bill 








Municipal Corporations and Borough Towns in 
Ireland ; 











Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
| next, resolve itself into the said Committee. om 
e 













7 Wixt. IV. 


Vagrants The House proceeded to take into consideration | 


(Scotland the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 
and Te intituled, An Act to alter, amend and make per- 


petual an Act for repealing certain Acts relating to 
the removal of Poor Persons born in Scotland and 
Ireland, and chargeable to Parishes in England, 
and to make other Provisions in lieu thereof; and 
the same were read, as follow: 

Pr. 1. 1. 2. After “in” insert “ the Session of 
“ Parliament held in.” ; 

Pr. 1. 1.17. Leave out “ made 
insert “ continued and renewed as 
“ vided.” 

Pr. 1. 1. ult. Leave out “ made perpetual,” and 
insert “ continued and renewed to the First day of 
“« May One thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine 
“ and the end of the then next Session of Parlia- 
“« ment.” 

In the title to the Bill : 

L. 1. Leave out from “ and” to “ an” in 1.2, 
and insert “ continue for a certain period.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Robert Palmer do carry the 
Bill to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this 


eared and 
ereinafter pro- 


10°—11° Aprils. 





House hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


Apprentices 
(Jamaica.) 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased to 
give directions that there be laid before this House, 
a Return of the Number and Nature of Complaints 
made to each Special Magistrate against Appren- 
tices, and of the consequent Number of Convic- 
tions and Punishments in each Parish in the Island 
of Jamaica, from 1st August 1835 to the latest pe- 
riod to which the same can be made up; specifying 
the Number of Corporal Punishments, and the ag- 
gregate Number of Lashes; the Number of Com- 
mitments to the Houses of Correction ; distinguish- 
ing Males from Females, and the actual Number of 
Apprentices sentenced to repay Time to Estates, for 
deficiency of Labour or otherwise, showing the en- 
tire Number of Days so taken in each month. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this ans as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Pillory 
Punishment 
Abolition Bill. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
abolish the Punishment of the Pillory: And that 
Lord John Russell, Mr. Attorney General, and Mr, 


Solicitor General, do prepare, and bring it in. 


Transportation 


‘p Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for Life Bill. 


to amend the Law relative to Offences punishable 
by Transportation for Life: And that Lord John 
Russell, Mr. Attorney General, and Mr. Solicito 
General, do prepare, and bring it in. 


Lord John Russell presented a Bill to abolish the 
Punishment of Death in cases of Forgery: And 
the same was read the first time ; and ordered to be 
read a second time upon Monday, the 24th day of 
this instant April ; and to be printed. 


Offences against Lord John Russell presented a Bill to amend 
the Person Bill. the Laws relating to Offences against the Person: 


Forgery Bill. 
No. 179. 


No. 180, And the same was read the first time; and or- 
dered to be read a second time upon Monday, the 
24th day of this instant April ; and to be printed. 

Robbery and Lord John Russell presented a Bill to amend the 


Stealing from 


the Pesson Bill, L2WS relating to Robbery and Stealing from the 


Person: And the same was read the first time; and 


No.181. ordered to be read a second time upon Monday, the 
24th day of this instant April; and to be printed. 

Burglary and ~=—-_ Lord John Russell presented a Bill to amend the 

Deellite house Laws relating to Burglary and Stealing in a Dwel- 

Bill, ing House : And the same was read the first time ; 

No. 182, and ordered to be read a second time upon Monday, 


245 


the 24th day of this instant April; and to be 
printed. 


Lord John Russell presented a Bill to amend Piracy Bill, 
certain Acts relating to the Crime of Piracy: And No, 183. 
the same was read the first time ; and ordered to be 

read a second time upon Monday, the 24th day of 

this instant April; and to be printed. 


Lord John Russell presented a Bill to amend the Burning or 
Laws relating to burning or destroying Buildings destroying . 
and Ships: And the same was read the first time ; Ships Bal. 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Monday, y, 494 
the 24th day of this instant April; and to be ~" 


printed. 


Lord John Russell presented a Bill for abolishing Punishment of 
the Punishment of Death in certain cases: And the Death Bill. 
same was read the first time; an@ ordered to be No.185. 
read a second time upon Monday, the 24th day of 

this instant April ; and to be printed. 


Lord John Russell presented a Bill to amend the Transportation 
Law relative to Offences punishable by Transporta- for Life Bill. 
tion for Life: And the same was read the first time; No. 186. 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Mon- 

day, the 24th day of this instant April; and to be 

printed. 


Lord John Russell presented a Bill to abolish Pitory 

the Punishment of the Pillory: And the same was Punishment 

read the first time ; and ordered to be read a second Abelition Bill. 
time upon Monday, the 24th day of this instant No. 187. 
April; and to be printed. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till near one of the clock on Tuesday morn- 
ing, adjourned till this day. 











Martis, 11° die Aprilis ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi IV‘ Regis, 1837. 
PRAYERS. 
as E hour appointed for taking into considera- Longford 
tion the Petition of Charles Fox, of Rutland- County 

square, in the city of Dublin, Esquire ; and also, ao” 
the Petition of Lovell Edgeworth, of Edgeworths- considered. 
town, in the county of Longford, Barry Fox, of 
Annamore, in the King’s County, Samuel W. Blachall, 
of Colamber, in said county of Longford, and Wil- 
liam Shirley Ball, of Harcourt-street, in the city 
of Dublin, | Rome freeholders of said county, as 
well on behalf of themselves, as of several other 
freeholders of said county who claimed to vote, 
were entitled to vote and did vote at the last Elec- 
tion in and for the said county of Longford, com- 
plaining of an undue Election and Return for the 
said county, being come ; 

And Patrick Costello, and others, voters, having by 
an Order of the House of the 27th day of February 
last, been admitted parties in the room of Luke 
White, Esquire ; 

Mr. Speaker took the Chair. 

The Serjeant at Arms was sent, with the Mace, 
to the places adjacent, to require the attendance of 
the Members on the business of the House: And 
being returned ; 

The House was counted by Mr. Speaker, and Two 
hundred and seventy-six Members being present ; 

The several Parties, counsel and agents, were 
called in ; 


And the door being locked ; 

The Order of the day for taking the said Petitions 
into consideration, was read. 

And the names of the Members were drawn and 
read, in the usual manner. 

And the whole number of Thirty-three names 





Vot. 92. 





was completed :—And Lists of the said names were 
113 delivered 








































































































































































ap ea een a ree al 






a 












National Debt, 


Queen Anne’s 
Bounty. 


Manchester 
and Stafford 
Railway Bill. 


Southwark and 
Hammersmith 


Railway Bill. 





246 11° Aprils. A. 1837. 


delivered to the Clerk appointed to attend the said| That the Committee find that the Petition for 
Committee ; and then the door was opened, and the | leave to bring in the Bill is styled “ City of London 
Parties, their counsel and agents, withdrew. Railway.” 
That, in the Votes of the third of February, the 
Mr. Peck, from the Office of the Commissioners | Order of the House, referring that Petition to the 
for the Reduction of the National Debt, was called | Select Committee, is entered as the “‘ London Rail- 
in ; and at the bar presented, pursuant to the direc- | way.” 
tions of several Acts of Parliament,—An Account| That, in the Votes of the thirteenth of February, 
of the Gross Amount of all Bank Annuities and|the Report of the Committee on that Petition is 
Long Annuities, and any other Annuities for Terms | entered “ Southwark and Hammersmith Railway,” 
of Years, transferred, and of all Sums of Money | under which denomination it continued in the sub- 
paid to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the | sequent entries in the Votes. 
National Debt, and the Gross Amount of Annuities; The Committee called before them Mr. Johnson, 
for Lives, and for Terms of Years, which have been | the Principal Clerk in the Private Bill Office, and 
granted for the same within the year ending on 5th | Mr. Gudge, the Clerk of the Journals, to account 
January 1837. ; for the discrepancy between the title given by the 
An Account of the Gross Amount of all Sums re- | promoters of the Bill, and the entries in the Votes. 
ceived and paid by the Commissioners for the Re-| Mr. Johnson stated that, in the Private Bill Gffice, 
duction of the National Debt on account of Banks they are frequently in the habit of putting on the 
for Savings (including Friendly Societies) in Great | Registry more than one name, and that they had 
Britain and Ireland, from their commencement at adopted the title of the Southwark and Hammersmith 
6th August 1817 to the 20th November 1836 inclu-| Railway from the Votes. 
sive :—and, An Account of all expenses incurred by| Mr. Gudge was then called to assign the reason 
the said Commissioners for Salaries of Clerks or why it was so entered in the Votes, and stated as 
other Incidental Charges during the preceding year: | follows : “ That, on the third of February, when the 
—And then he withdrew. . Petition was presented, the clerk in the Journal 
Ordered, That the said Accounts do lie upon the | Office, who compiled the Votes, called it the ‘ Lon- 
Table. don Railway.’ The next morning another clerk in 
' __,| the office, whose duty it is to abstract the Petitions 
PRs Sr for record on the J nei said ‘ This is not called 
; y, Was ¢é : eae aig 
presented,—Return to an Order dated the 4th day of ay ee ee, See ee 


“Sag 7 ; and they ask leave to bring in a Bill for making 
this instant April, for a Copy of the several Charters | , Railway from Southwark to Hammersmith.’ That 
which were granted by her late Majesty Queen Anne 


: : ; .| he therefore felt it his duty, as far as the Journal 
to the Governors of Queen Anne’s Bounty, and of was concerned, to call it the Southwark and Ham- 
the several Letters Patent and Rules and Orders mersmith Railway ; he could not call it the City of 
under the Royal Sign Manual of any of the Kings Lenton end Biclesend Relwar, bese bs Goel 
and Queens of the Realm relating to Queen Anne’s not be borne out by the Rite eunl thet eich is the 
Bounty, or the manner in which the Funds granted cactins of Gs Othe” m 
to the Governors, or any part thereof, were or are P Tis Mase we er ee 
to be applied or disposed of:—And then he with- promoters of a Railway often bring their measare 





drew. | : a 
; , orward under some general title, it is usual to de- 
Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the | ji onote it in the Velen by a oamia corresponding 
Table. th 


with the powers actually sought by the Bill. 

A Petition of Inhabitant Householders of the| It is obvious that such practice is calculated to 
borough of Stafford, praying that the Manchester mislead the public, and from the evidence adduced 
and Stafford Railway Bill may pass into a law, by the Petitioners, actually did mislead certain in- 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon dividuals who were interested in opposing this mea- 
the Table. sure. The Committee feel it right to direct the serious 
attention of the House to this matter, with a view 

Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee |to their adoption of measures which may prevent 
on Petitions for Private Bills; and to whom the | such an evil in a future Session. 

Petitions of several Owners and Occupiers of pro-| It is but justice to the promoters of the Bill for 
perty in the parish of Christ Church, in the county | the Committee to state, that it entirely acquits them 
of Surrey; of the Churchwardens and Overseers | of being parties in any way to the alteration in the 
of the Poor of the parish of Christ Church, in the | present instance; indeed the agent for the Petitioners 
county of Surrey; and of Henry Luard, merchant, | disclaimed all intention of imputing fraud to them ; 
in the case of the Southwark and Hammersmith and it should further be observed that when the 
Railway were respectively referred ; that no person | plans were lodged in the Private Bill Office, the 
appeared in support of the two last-mentioned Peti- | Chief Clerk noticed to the agent that the title was 
tions ; and that they had heard evidence in support | inapplicable to the Bill, and that the agent assigned, 
of the first-mentioned Petition, and find that the | as a reason for retaining it, that the notices had 
facts of the case are as follow :— | been given under that name, and they therefore 

That the said Petitioners were served with a printed | felt bound to retain it; and further, that after the 
notice, signed by Francis Beetham, solicitor, of | alteration had first appeared in the Votes, they in- 
Chatham-place, stating the intention of the pro-| quired the reason why it was done. 
moters of a certain Railway, therein styled the City| The promoters of the Bill also caused advertise- 
of London and Richmond Railway, to apply to} ments to be inserted in the newspapers under the 
Parliement to take portions of their land for that | title of “ The City of London Railway Company,” 
purpose. | notifying on February 6th that they did not intend 

That the Petitioners watched the proceedings of , to extend the Railway to Richmond; on February 
the House of Commons, but found no entry relative | 14th that the Select Committee had reported that 
to any Bill under such title. the Standing Orders were duly complied with ; and 

That they have since discovered that the Bill has|on the 25th, that the Bill for incorporating the 
been read twice and referred to a Committee, under | Company had been read a second time in the House 
the designation in the Votes of the Southwark and | of Commons. 
Hammersmith Railway Bill. The Committee, in the absence of any specific 

That, by such change of title, they have been | instruction in the order of reference to them, have 
debarred of the opportunity of seeking to effect the | felt it their duty to confine themselves to report the 
rejection of the Bill on the second reading. facts of the case alone, leaving it to the wisdom bo! 

PY the 











Brix 
Hark 
Mar! 


Che 
Bir! 





Brixbam 
Harbour and 
Market Bill. 


Chester and 
Birkenhead 
Railway Bill, 


Chester and 
Birkenhead ; 
and, Chester 
and Crewe 
Railway Bills, 


Birkenhead 
and Chester 
Railway Bill. 


Bolton and 
Preston Rail 
way Bill, 


Charlton Kings 
aud Marsworth 


Railway Bill, 


Chester and 


Crewe Railway 


Bill. 


Manchester 
and Stafford 
Railway Bill, 





7 Wit. IV. 


the House to decide what relief can be afforded to 
the Petitioners. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Petitions from Edward Prior, .of Brixham, in the 
county of Devon, merchant ;—Frederick Baddeley, 
of Brixham ;—and, Stephen Lakeman, of Brixham ; 
praying that the Brixham Harbour and Market 
Bill may not pass into a law as it now stands, 
—were presented, and read; and referred to the 
Committee on the Bill. 


Petitions from Richard Watson Barton, of Spring- 
wood, in the county of Lancaster, and of Caldy, in 
the county of Chester ;— William Hetherington, of 
Birkenhead, in the county of Chester ;— Inhabitants 
of Tranmere ;—Samuel Brittain, of Crabwall Hall, 
in the county of Chester, Gentleman,—and, George 
John Chamberlaine, of the city of Chester, Esquire ; 
praying that they may be heard, by their counsel or 
agents, against certain parts of the Chester and 
Birkenhead Railway Bill,—were presented, and 
read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by their counsel or agents, upon their Peti- 
tions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in favour 
of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


A Petition of Clergy, Gentry and other Inha- 
bitants of Saint Oswald, Plemondstall, Thornton 
and Ince, in the county of Chester, and of the city 
of Chester, praying that they may be heard, by their 
counsel or agents against the Chester and Birken- 
head ; and, the Chester and Crewe Railway Bills, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to he upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of Richard Watson Barton, of Spring- 
wood, in the county of Lancaster, and of Caldy, in 
the county of Chester, Esquire, praying that he may 
be heard, by himself, his counsel or agent, against 
certain parts of the Birkenhead and Chester Railway 
Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by himself, his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, 
if he think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of 
the Bill, against the said Petition. 


Petitions from William Hulton, of Hulton Park, 
in the county of Lancaster, Esquire ;—and, Sir 
Henry Bold Hoghton, of Hoghton Tower, in the 
said county, Baronet; praying that they may be 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, against 
certain parts of the Bolton and Preston Railway 
Bill,—were presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


Petitions from Inhabitants of Tetbury, in the 
county of Gloucester ;—and, Worcester; praying 
that the Charlton Kings and Marsworth Railway 
Bill may not pass into a law,—were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Sandbach, praying 
that the Chester and Crewe Railway Bill may pass 
into a law, was presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the Petition of Thomas Kinnersly, 
Esquire, which was presented upon the 1st day of 
March last, be referred to the Committee on the 
Manchester and Stafford Railway Bill; and the 
Petitioner heard, by his counsel or agent, upon his 
VoL. 92. 


11° Aprilis. 














Q47 


Petition, if he think fit ; and counsel heard, in favour 
of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of the Right honourable Charles Henry Antrim and 
Saint John, Earl O’ Neil, praying that he may be — Rout 
heard, by his counsel or agent, against certain parts ai 
of the y hres and Coleraine Road Bill, was pre- 
sented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, if he 
think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the Bill, 
against the said Petition. 


Petitions from Inhabitants of Wincanton ;— Wey- Bath and 
mouth and Melcombe Regis ;—Dorchester ;—Island ae 
of Portland ;—Chippenham ;—Cerne Abbas ;—and, "°°" 
Corporation of Weymouth; praying that the Bath 
and Weymouth Railway Bill may pass into a law,— 
were presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of Marianne Kebble, of Greenlaw, Glasgow, 
praying that she may be heard, by herself, her Paisley, and 
counsel or agent, against certain parts of the Gilas- Railway Bill. 
gow, Paisley and Greenock Railway Bill, was pre- 
sented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by herself, her counsel or agent, upon her Petition, 
if she think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of Marianne Kebble, of Greenlaw, Glasgow and 
praying that she may be heard, by herself, her Ayr Railway 
counsel or agent, against certain parts of the Glas- B"" 
gow and Ayr Railway Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by herself, her counsel or agent, upon her Petition, 
if she think fit ; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of John Hart, of Kilderry, in the Lough Swilly 
county of Donegal, praying that the Lough Swilly and Lough 
and Lough; Foyle Drainage Bill may not pass into — ney 
a law, was presented, and read; and ordered to lie ” 
upon the Table. 


A Petition of Richard Monkhouse Tillstone, of Brighton, 
Moulscombe, Esquire, praying that he may be heard, — “ 
by his counsel or agent, against certain parts of the Railway Bill. 
Brighton, Lewés and Newhaven Railway Bill, was 
presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, if he 
think fit ; and counsel heard, in favour of the Bill, 
against the said Petition. 


A Petition of Owners and Occupiers of land London and 

and hereditaments on the line of Railway herein- Brighton 
: ; Railway Bill 

after mentioned, praying that they may be heard, (Rennie’sLine.) 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, against cer- 
tain parts of the London and Brighton Railway 
Bill ( Rennie’s Line), was presented, and read. ' 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


Ordered, That the time for presenting the Dept- Deptford and 
ford and Dover Railway Bill be further enlarged Dover Railway 
till Monday, the 8th day of May next. ais 


Ordered, That the Petitions from Owners and Birmingham 
Occupiers of houses within or Inhabitants of Dere- oa (No. 1.) 
tend and Bordesley, and of Duddeston and Nechells, ~"* 
in the parish of Aston-juxta-Birmingham ; and, In- 

114 habitants 














Church Rates. 


Church Rates 
Regulation, 


Poor Law Act. 


Salmon 
Fisheries 
(Scotland) Bill, 


248 11° Aprilis. 


habitants of Birmingham, which were presented 
upon the ist day of March last, be referred to the 

ommittee on the Birmingham Gas (No. 1.) Bill ; 
and the Petitioners heard, by themselves, their 
counsel or agents, upon their Petitions, if they think 
fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the Bill, against 
the said Petitions. 


Petitions from Blackdown ;—Broad Winsor ;— 
Westbury ; — Ilford ;— Leyton ; —Walthamstow ;— 
Wanstead; —Ching ford ; — Woodford; — Barking ; 
—Witham;—and, Gosport; praying for the abo- 
lition of Church Rates,—were presented, and read; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from Witton Gilbert ;— Metheringham ; 
— Kelloe ;-—Shirley ;—Stibbard ;—Stafford ;— Baw- 
drip ;— Newcastle-under-Lyme ;—Weston Favell ;— 
Farthingstone ; — Nether — ; —Dallington ;— 
Hellidon ; — Felsham Saint Peter ;—Charwelton ;— 
Stowe Nine Churches ;— Pudsey ;— Barton Stacey ;— 
Lowestoft ;—Gorleston;— Stradbroke ;— Bungay ;— 
Owslebury ; — and, Gowring ; praying that Church 
Rates may not be abolished,—were also presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Leeds (Chairman of a Meeting) ;— 
Greenock Voluntary Church Society (Chairman of a 
Meeting) ;— Egham ;— Leeds, Belgrave Chapel ;— 
Colerne ; — Bisley ; — Eastcombs ;— Chalford ; — 
Bridgewater ;—G olcar ;— Beaconsfield ;— Allhallows 
Staining, London ;— Pole Moor, Huddersfield ;— 
Newport, Monmouth (two Petitions) ;— Bramley ;— 
Great Wakering ; — Settle; — Pudsey; — Denby-in- 
the-West ;—Truro ;—Saffron Walden ;— Debden ;-— 
and, Salendine Nook, Huddersfield; praying that 
the proposed measure relative to Chureh Rates 
may receive the sanction of the House, — were 
— and read; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 

Petitions from Fobbing and Corringham ;—Wil- 
lingale Doe; — Moderator of the Presbytery of 
Auchterarder;— Shellow Bowels ;—~ Little Baddow ; 
— Eastnor ; — Chalcombe ; — Chipping Warden ; —- 
Brundish ;— Newbury and Speen ;—Twickenham ;— 
Great Marlow ; — Boxford ; — Tannington ; — Hal- 
ton ; — Great Waldingfield ; —Cattistock ;— Shipley ; 
— Bullington ; — Beaumaris ; —Cransford ;— Cook: 
ham ;— Bray ;— Bisham ;— Loughton ;— Prescot ;— 
Tyldesley ;—Dalston ; — Deal ; — Shermanbury ; — 
Breadsall ;—— and, Colwich; praying that the said 
proposed measure may not receive the sanction of 
the House,—were also presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Halstead ;—A bergavenny ;—Hud- 
dersfield ; — Stroud ; — Winchester ;— Guildford ;— 
and, Halifax; praying that an inquiry may be made 








A. 1837. 


praying that the Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Bill 
may not pass into a law, was presented, and read; 
me ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Nathaniel Hamer, Tipstaff to His Imprisonment 
Majesty’s Court of Exchequer at Westminster, pray- f* Debt Bill 


ing the House to grant him compensation for any 
loss he may sustain under the Imprisonment for 
Debt Bill, was presented, and read ; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Merchants, Bankers, Traders and Smithfela 
others of the city of London, and the Suburbs Market. 


thereof, praying that the market of Smithfield may 
no longer be permitted to exist, but that the same 
may be forthwith altogether abolished, was pre- 


sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


The counsel and agents before mentioned, being Longford 
returned to the bar, the Clerk appointed to attend County 


Election, 


the said Committee, delivered in to the House a 
reduced List; and the same was called over, as 
follows : 

Lord Charles Russell, Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin, 
Edward Horsman, Esquire, Benjamin Hall, Esquire, 
George Rushout Bowles, Esquire, Lord Viscount 
Clive, Rowland Alston, Esquire, Thomas Hawkes, 
Esquire, George Houstoun, Esquire, Andrew Lawson, 
Esquire, and Sir John Cam Hobhouse, Baronet. 

And the said eleven Members, being the Select 
Committee for trying and determining the merits of 
the Petition of Charles Fox, Esquire, complaining 
of an undue Election and Return for the county of 
Longford ; and also the Petition of Lovell Edgeworth, 
and others, Freeholders of the said county, a com- 
plaining of the said Election and Return, and to 
defend which Patrick Costello and others had, by 
order of the House, been admitted as Parties instead 
of Luke White, Esquire, were sworn by the Clerk at 
the Table, in the usual manner :—And thereupon 
the counsel and agents withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Committee do meet forth- 
with in one of the Committee Chambers appointed 
for hearing the Trials of Controverted Elections. 


A Petition of Inhabitant Householders within the Land Tax. 
\liberty of the Rolls, in the county of Middlesex, 


praying the House to take into consideration the 
great grievance of the unequal assessment of the 
Land Tax generally, and more particularly upon the 
Petitioners, who pay three shillings and nine-pence 
in the pound, while other parishes pay variously, and 
as low as one penny farthing, one farthing, and one- 
fourteenth of a farthing, in the pound only; and 
that the House will give the Petitioners relief by 


'some legislative enactment which will effectually re- 
into the system of providing medical relief for the | 


move the unjust and inequitable burthen upon them, 


sick Poor by the Poor Law Commissioners,—were | and at the same time accomplish an equalization of 


presented, and read ; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on the Poor Law Act. 

Petitions from Bridgend and Cowbridge Union ; 
— Wetheral ;-— Burgh by Sands ;— Norton Fitz- 
warren ;—and, William Paxman; praying for the 


amendment of the said Act,—were also presented, | 


and read; and referred to the said Select Com- 
raittee. 

A Petition of Inhabitants of Stapleton, praying 
for the repeal of the said Act, was also presented, 
and read; and referred to the said Select Com- 
mittee. 

Petitions from the Rochford Union ;--and, the 
Wangford Union; praying the House not to repeal 
or make any material alteration in the provisions of 
the said Act,—were also presented, and read ; and 
referred to the said Select Committee. 


A Petition of William Gordon and others, being 
Trustees appointed under a Trust Disposition exe- 
cuted by Alexander Duke of Gordon, deceased, 





the unredeemed Land Tax in England and Wales, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of the parish of Sainé Dublin Police 
Peter, in the city of Dublin, praying the House to Bi! 


cause such amendments to be introduced into the 
Dublin Police Bill as will provide for defraying at 
least one moiety of the expenses of the Police out 
of the Consolidated Fund, similar to the provisions 
in the Constabulary Acts, and limit the maximum 
of assessment to four-pence in the pound on the full 
value of houses, lands and tenements, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Merchants, Mariners and others Shipping 


residing at the Port of Banff, praying the House to . 
relieve the proprietors of the Ship ing Gazette from 
the postage of letters containing shipping and com- 
mercial intelligence only, was resented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Petitions 





Vi 


C 


Burghs of 
Barony ; 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Household 
Suffrage. 


Tithes 
(Ireland.) 


Municipai 
Corporations 


(Ireland) Bill. 


Municipal 
Corporations 
(Ireland) Bill ; 
and, Tithes. 


Vote by Ballot. 


Letting of 


7 Wit. IV. 11° Aprilis. Q49 


Petitions from Dalmellington;— and, Mazxwell- 
town; praying that the Daghs of Barony (Scotland) 
Bill may pass into a law,—were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Provost, Baillies, Treasurer and 
Councillors of the town of Paisley, praying the House 
to confer upon all householders not subject to any 
legal incapacity the right and privilege of voting for 
Magistrates and Town Councillors and Members of 
Parliament, was presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Mountmelick ; — Castleterra ; — 
Drumachose and Belteagh ;—Saint George, Dublin; 
—-Innisheel ;— Saint John, Kilkenny ;—Bovevagh ; 
— Inver ;— Ardclinus ; — Dungiven ; — Rosenallis ; 
—Layd;— Carberry and Dunforth;— Old Town 
and Palmerstown ;-—Ahoghill ;—- Kilflyn ;--Killgar- 
van ;-— Maglas and other places ;— Murhur and 
Knockanure;—and, Barnacoola; praying for the abo- 
lition of Tithes in Jreland,--were presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Old Town and Palmerstown ; — 
Kirkenriola;—Saint John’s, Kilkenny ;—Castleterra; 
—Drumachose and Belteagh;—Armagh;—Murhur 
and Knockanure;——Killgarvan ;--and, Barnacoola ; 
praying that the Municipal Corporations (Zreland) 
Bill may pass into a law,—were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Tickmairavan ;—— and, Tamlaght 
O’Crilly, and other places; praying that the Muni- 
cipal Corporations (Jreland) Bill may pass into a 
law, and that Tithes in Jreland be abolished,—were 
presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


Petitions from Dungiven ;—Drumachose and Bel- 
teagh ;—Kirkenriola ;-—Old Town and Palmerstown ; 
—- Castleterra ; — Enniskillen ; — Mountmelich ; — 
Saint John’s, Kilkenny ;—Carberry and Dunforth ; 
—Rosenallis ;—Inniskeel ;—Clondalkin ;---Killgar- 
van ;—Kilflyn ;— Maglas, and other places ;—-and, 
Barnacoola; praying for the adoption of Vote by 
Ballot in the Election of Members to serve in Par- 
liament,—were presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Patrick O'Flaherty, of Croom, in 


lands(Ireland.) the county of Limerick, Gentleman, setting forth 


Richard 
Crawford, 


William Elliott. 


Municipal 
Corporations 
(Ireland) Bill, 


that the system of letting lands in Ireland at rack- 
rents has been one of the most oppressive sources 
of misfortune attendant on the agriculture of that 
part of the United Kingdom, and praying the House 
to take the subject into consideration, and adopt 
such steps as to them may seem meet, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Richard Crawford, of Capel-street, 
in the city of Dublin, complaining of having been 
removed from his situation of clerk to the Secretary 
of Customs in Ireland, and praying relief, was pre- 


sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of William Elliott, of Weymouth, master 
mariner, part owner of the Sloop “ ton” of Wey- 
mouth, complaining that, on applying to the Custom 
House, Weymouth, to register the said vessel, he was 
obliged to take out a special license, restricting him 
to trade only in the United Kingdom, Spain and 
Portugal, notwithstanding the existence of an ex- 
ception which precluded the necessity of such license 
being taken out where the bowsprit was within two- 
thirds the length of the vessel, which was the case 
with the “ Jane,” and praying relief, was presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of William Frederick Bentley, Deputy 
me the city of Dublin, praying the House 
OL. 92. 





to provide means of compensating him for the ruinous 
loss he would sustain by the Municipal Corporations 
(Zreland) Bill becoming a law, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Householders and Inhabitants of Cor Laws. 
the — of Shoreditch, praying for the repeal of 

the Corn Laws, was presented, and read; and or- 

dered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Incumbent, Churchwardens and Lord’s Day. 
other Inhabitants of Shirley, praying that a general 
Bill for the better observance of the Lord’s Day 
may be permitted to go into a Committee of the 
whole House, was presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Ciareuce (Dur- 
the Report which, upon the 17th day of March last, ham) Railway 
was made from the Committee on the Clarence (Dur- a 
ham) Railway Bill, printed Copies of the Bill having 
been delivered at the door upon Tuesday, the 21st 
day of March last; and the Amendments, as far as 
Clause (B.), being read a second time, were agreed to. 

Clause (B.), the next Amendment, being read a 
second time ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question being 
put, That this House doth agree with the Committee 
in the said Amendment; it passed in the Negative. 

Then the subsequent Amendments, being read a 
second time, were agreed to; and Clauses were 
added to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Mint Bilt. 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, in- 
tituled, An Act to amend several Acts relating to the 
Royal Mint; and the same were read, as follow : 

Pr. 1. 1. 7. After “ the ” insert “ Session holden 
in the.” 

Pr. 1. 1.9. Leave out “ late,” and insert “ pre- 
“ sent,” and in the same line leave out “ George,” 
and insert “ William.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Labouchere do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on Fictitious Fictitious Votes 
Votes (Scotland) have Power to report their obser- (Scotland. 7 
vations thereupon, together with the Minutes of the 
Evidence taken before them from time to time to 
the House. 


A Petition of Owners or Occupiers of estates York and 
through which the Railway hereinafter mentioned is North Midland 
proposed to be carried, praying that they may be Pil*ay Bill. 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, against 
certain parts of the York and North Midland Rail- 
way Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of Subscribers and Shareholders to the Bath and 
Bath and Weymouth Railway, praying that the Weymouth 
Bath and Weymouth Railway Bill may not pass enay Se 
into a law, was presented, and read ; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 

A any 29 e pater Occupiers of _ moet 

roperty in the county of Dorset, praying that the 
aie “4 heard, by Aeadian sane thee ssa 
agents, against certain parts of the said Bill, was 
also presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 

K K A Petition 





Leith) Harbour Council of Leith, 





250 


A Petition of the Provost, Magistrates and Town 
praying that the Trinity (JVorth 
Leith) Harbour and Docks Bill, may not pass into 
a law, was presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Bath and Weymouth Railway Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time To- 


morrow. 


A Petition of Residents of Newcastle, in the 
county of Stafford, praying the House to reduce the 
duty on Tobacco to a very low rate, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Magistrates, Gentry, Manufacturers 
and others of Leek, praying for a reduction of the 
duty on Fire Insurances, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. . 


A Petition of Magistrates, Town Council and 
other Inhabitants of Arbroath, praying for the repeal 
of the duty on Soap, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Cockermouth, praying 
for a Reform of the House of Lords, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Oswald reported from the Select Committee 
on Public Petitions ; That they had examined the 
Petitions presented on the 4th and 5th days of this 
instant April; and had directed him to make a 
Report thereof to the House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


A Petition ofthe Committee for paving, cleansing 
and lighting the parishes of Saint Giles-in-the- 
Fields and Saint George, Bloomsbury, praying that 
a new street may be constructed from Oxford-street 
to Plumtree-street, Saint Giles’s, and one from 
Gower-street to Waterloo Bridge, was presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


An ingrossed Bill for punishing Mutiny and De- 
sertion, and for the better payment of the Army and 
their quarters, was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


An ingrossed Bill for the regulation of His Ma- 
jesty’s Royal Marine Forceswhile onShore, was read 
the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned debate upon the Question proposed 
yesterday, That the ingrossed Bill for the Regulation 
of Municipal Corporations in Jreland be now read 
the third time ; 

And the Question being again proposed:—The 
House resumed the said adjourned Debate. 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Wednesday morning ; 


Mercurii 12° die Aprilis, 1837: 
And the Question being put ; 
The House divided : 
The Yeas to the old Lobby; 
The Noes to the new Lobby. 
Tellers for the { Mr. Charles Wood, Asoo 
Yeas, Mr. Edward John Stanley:J~ ~~ 


Tellers for the { Sir George Clerk, }a 47 
Noes, Sir Thomas Fremantle : 


11°—12° Aprilis. 





A. 1837. 


So it was resolved in the Affirmative :—The Bill 
was accordingly read the third time ; and Amend- 
ments were made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Lord John Russell do carry the 
Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed First Fruits, 
to inquire into the constitution of the Boards con- &amp;« 
nected with the receipt of the First Fruits and Tenths, 
and administration of Queen Anne’s Bounty :—And 
a Committee was appointed of Mr. Gally Knight, 
Lord Viscount Sandon, Mr. Thomas Duncombe, Sir Ro- 
bert Inglis, Mr. Baines, Mr. Robert Clive, Sir Charles 
Lemon, Mr. William Gladstone, Mr. Cayley, Mr. 
Stuart Wortley, Mr. George Wilbraham, Mr. Greene, 
Mr. George Philips, Lord Dudley Stuart, and 
Sir Harry Verney ; with Power to send for persons, 
papers and records. 

Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 


The House was moved, That the Act 3 &amp; 4 Will. Uniformity of 
4, c. 67, to amend an Act of the second year of His Process Bill. 
present Majesty for the Uniformity of Process in 
Personal Actions in His Majesty’s Courts of Law at 
Westminster, might be read; and the same being 
read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to extend the provisions of the said Act to certain 
cases: And that Mr. Elphinstone and Mr. Marjori- 
banks do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That Mr. Goulburn, Mr. Williams Wynn, Plan of Educa- 
and Mr. Fowell Buxton, be discharged .from any ‘i (Ireland. 
further attendance on the Select Committee on the 
Plan of Education (Jreland.) 

Ordered, That Mr. Serjeant Jackson, Mr. An- 
thony Lefroy, and Mr. Serjeant Ball, be added to 
the Committee. * 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Foreign Grain. 
the adjourned Debate upon the Question proposed 
upon the 21st day of March last, That this House 
do resolve itself into a Committee, for the pur- 
pose of considering the Laws which regulate the 
importation of Foreign Grain, with a view to 
allow the manufacture of the same in bond for ex- 
portation ; 
Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Wednesday, the 3d day of May next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Dublin Police 
further consideration the Report on the Dublin i! 
Police Bill; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Court of 
mittee on the Court of Exchequer (Scotland) Bill; (Seotiead) Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for receiving the Supply. 
Report from the Committee of Supply ; 
Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 


The ingrossed Bill to amend the Acts for regu- Penitentiary 
lating the General Penitentiary at Milbank, was, (saben) SS. 
according to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. For Maule do carry the Bill 
to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Mr. Elphinstone presented a Bill for extending Uniformity of 
the Provisions of the Uniformity of Process Act to Prec “ne 
certain cases: And the same was read the first No. 10° 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time upon 
Wednesday, the 26th day of this instant April ; and 
to be printed. 


Sir 


ah | 


7 Wi. IV. 


Judicial Factor Sir William Rae presented a Bill for the better 
(Scotland) Bill. reculation of the Office of Judicial Factor in Scot- 
No.189. Jand: And the same was read the first time; and 
ordered to be read a second time upon Tuesday 

next; and to be printed. 


East India 
Maritime 
Officers. 


Ordered, That a Message be sent to the Lords to 
request that their Lordships will give leave to Lord 
Ellenborough and Lord Glenelg to attend, in order 
to their being examined as witnesses before the 
Select Committee appointed by this House on the 
Petition of Captains Newell, Barrow and Glass- 
poole, complaining that the compensation to which 
they are entitled as Officers of the late East India 
Company has been withheld from them by the 
Board of Control; and that Mr. George Frederick 
Young do carry the said Message. 


Gorbals Police 


on A Petition of the Sun Fire Insurance Company, 
Mle 


and of the Scottish Union Fire and Life Insurance 
Corporation, and of the Secretaries to the said Com- 
panies, praying that they may be heard, by their 
counsel or agents, against certain parts of the Gorbals 
Police Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by their counsel or agents, upon their Petition, if 
they think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill,.against the said Petition. 


Glasgow Police 


A Petition of the Sun Fire Insurance Company, 
Lhe 


and of the Scottish Union Fire and Life Insurance 
Corporation, and of the Secretaries of the said Com- 
panies, praying that they may be heard, by their 
counsel or agents, against certain parts of the Glas- 
gow Police Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by their counsel or agents, upgn their Petition, if 
they think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


West London 
and Westmin- 
ster Cemetery 
Bill, 


A Petition of Charles Chesterton and William 
Hawkes, Churchwardens of the parish church of Saint 
Mary Abbotts, Kensington, and Henry Wilkinson 
and Robert Baxter, Churchwardens of the District 
Church of the Holy Trinity, Brompton, in the same 
parish, praying that the West London and West- 
minster Cemetery Bill may be re-committed, and 
that they may be heard, by themselves, their counsel 
or agents, against certain parts thereof, was pre- 


sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour before one of the 
clock on Wednesday morning, adjourned till 
this day. 








Mercurii, 12° die Aprilis ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi [Vt Regis, 1837. 
PRAyYERs. 


ETITIONS from the Corporation of Wor- 

cester;—Mayor and Town Council of Droit- 
wich ;—Members of the Chamber of Commerce in 
the Stafforshire Potteries and others, being manu- 
facturers of china and earthenware ;—Owners of 
vessels and Watermen engaged in working vessels 
upon the River Severn between Stourport and Glou- 
cester, and the canals connected therewith ;—Iron- 
masters of the counties of Worcester and Stafford; 
— Shareholders of the Droitwich Canal ;—Proprie- 
tors of the Monmouthshire Canal ;—the Worcester 
and Birmingham Canal ;—Proprietors and Renters 
of stone quarries and others in the forest of Dean; 
—Gentlemen and Traders of Bromyard ;—Mer- 
chants, Traders and others connected with the Coal 


trade of Cardiff ;—Merchants and Traders engaged 
Vot. 92. 


Severn Naviga- 
tion Bill. 


11°—12° Aprilis. 





251 


in the South Wales Iron trade ;—Merchants, Traders 
and others of the county of Cornwall ;—Merchants, 
Manufacturers, Traders and Inhabitants of Bewd- 
ley ;—Stourport ;—Merchants, Ship-owners, Manu- 
facturers, Traders and Inhabitants of Devonport ;— 
Exeter ;— Tavistock ; — Plymouth ;— Tiverton ;— 
Totnes ;— Taunton ;— Wells, Glastonbury, Langport 
and other places ;—Dartmouth ;— Bankers, Mer- 
chants, Traders and Inhabitants of Worcester ;— 
Bankers, Merchants, Manufacturers and Inhabitants 
of Dudley ;—Bankers, Merchants and Traders of 
Leominster ; —Inhabitants of Warwick ; — Bankers, 
Merchants, Manufacturers, Traders and Inhabitants 
of Kidderminster ; — Kington ;— Bilston and Wed- 
nesbury ;—Leeds ;— Walsall ;— Carmarthen ;—.Brad- 
ford, Wilts ;—Bridgnorth ;—Pershore ;—Swansea ; 
—Stourbridge ;— Tenbury ;— Bridgewater ;— Droit- 
wich ;— Wolverhampton ;—Alcester ;—.Birmingham; 
— Stratford-on-Avon ; — Coventry ;— Barnsley ;— 
Haverfordwest ;-— Evesham and Bengeworth ; — 
Bromsgrove ; — Proprietors of Tewkesbury and Te- 
nants of lands on the Avon ;—Inhabitants of Red- 
ditch ;—Fechenham and Astwood ;— Hereford ;— 
Truro ;—and, Saint Agnes ; praying that the Severn - 
Navigation Bill may pass into a law,—were pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 

Petitions from Inhabitants of Madeley, Broseley, 
and other places ;—Bargeowners, and others, em- 
ployed on the River Severn ;—Owners and Occupiers 
of land adjacent to the River Avon, and other per- 
sons interested in and near Evesham;—Proprietors 
and Occupiers of lead works or mines in Shelve, 
Westbury, and other places ;— Bargeowners, and 
others, in Madeley, Broseley, and other places ;— 
Bridgnorth ;—Owners and Occupiers of land and 
proprietors of fisheries in the county of Gloucester ; 
—Inhabitants of Montgomery ;—-lron and Coal- 
masters in Madeley, Broseley, and other places ;— 
Severn Carriers, Wharfingers, and others, Inha- 
bitants of Stourport ;—Inhabitants of Welshpool ;— 
‘The Gloucester and Berkeley Canal Company ;—Cor- 
poration of Gloucester ;—Trustees of the Gloucester, 
Hereford and Worcester roads ;—Inhabitants and 
Freemen of the city of Gloucester ;—and, John Ed- 
mund Dowdeswell, Esquire; praying that the said 
Bill may not pass into a law,—were also presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Sir William Geary reported from the Committee Sevenoaks and 
on the Sevenoaks and Woodsgate Road Bill; That ae 
the Standing Orders relative to Turnpike Bills had — 
been complied with, pursuant to the leave granted 
by the House on the 22d day of February last; and 
that the Committee had examined the allegations of 
the Bill, and found the same to be true; and had 
gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto; and the Amendments were read, and 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed. 


Petitions from Inhabitants of Mewcastle-under- Chester and 
Lyme ;—and, Congleton ; praying that the Chester Crewe Railway 
and Crewe Railway Bill may pass into a law,—~""* 
were presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of Rowland Burdon, and other Com- Bridlington 
missioners of the Pier and Port of Hartlepool ; Harbour Bill. 
praying that they may be heard, by their counsel or 
agents, against certain parts of the Bridlington 
Mathews Bill, was presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Rowland Burdon, and other Com- Scarborough 
missioners of the Pier and Port of Hartlepool, Harbour Bill. 
praying that they may be heard, by their counsel or 
agents against certain parts of the Scarborough 
Harbour Bill, was presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


KK2 A Petition 





252 


York and A Petition of Roger Bate, of Boston (York), 

North Midland praying that the York and North Midland Railway 

— Bill may not pass into a law as it now stands, was pre- 
sented, and read; and referred to the Committee on 
the Bill. 

A Petition of the Reverend Archibald Galland, 
of East Drayton, and John Brook, of York, trustees 
of the will of John Shilleto, Esquire, deceased, 
praying that they may be heard, by themselves, 
their counsel or agents, against certain parts of the 
said Bill, was also presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


King’s Ferry A Petition of William Blount, agent to the Right 
and Liver! honourable John, Earl of Shrewsbury, praying that 
oad Bill. te in Genel ter i 1 t “ae 
e may be heard, by his counsel or agent, agains 
certain parts of the King’s Ferry and Liverpool 

Road Bill, was presented, and read. 
Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, if he 
think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the Bill, 

against the said Petition. 
Manchester Petitions from the Corporation of Macclesfield ;— 
hema Owners and Occupiers of estates and premises in 
way il. 


the counties of Lancaster and Chester ;—and, Cor- 
— of Stockport; praying that they may be 

eard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, against 
certain parts of the Manchester and Stafford Rail- 
way Bill, were presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 
posed, That the Severn Navigation Bill be now read 
a second time ; 

The Amendments following were proposed to be 
made to the Question, viz. To leave out the word 
“‘ now,” and at the end of the Question to add the 
words “ upon this day six months.” 

And the Question being put, That the word 
“ now” stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the old Lobby ; 

The Noes to the new Lobby. 


Severn Naviga- 
tion Bill, 


Tellers for the ¢ Mr. Winnington, _ 
Yeas, { Mr. Robinson : f aoe. 

Tellers for the { Captain Berkeley, } 151 
Noes, Sir George Strickland : _ 


So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
“ upon this day six months” be ‘added at the end 
of the Question :—It was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Then the main Question, so amended, being put ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon this day six months. 


Lobley Hill Mr. Lambton reported from the Committee on the 

Road Bill. = Lobley Hill Road Bill; That the Standing Orders 
relatie to Turnpike Bills had been complied with ; 
and that the Committee had examined the allega- 
tions of the Bill, and found the same to be true; 
and had gone through the Bill, and made Amend- 
ments thereunto ; and the Amendments were read, 
and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 

ingrossed. 

Brighton, Petitions from Inhabitants of East Grinstead ;— 

oe and Edenbridge ;— Oxted ;— and, Westerham; praying 

Newhaven . &gt; _ 

Railway Bill, that the Brighton, Lewes and Newhaven Railway 


Bill may pass into a law,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 





12° Aprilis. 








A. 1837. 


A Petition of Bankers, Merchants, Manufacturers, Manchester 
Owners of Property, and Inhabitants of Bolton, and Stafford 


praying that the Manchester and Stafford Railway Psy Bil. 
ill may pass into a law, was presented, and read ; 


and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Right Reverend Andrew Scott, Glasgow, 
Roman Catholic Bishop residing in Greenock, pray- (8°¥»2nd 
ing that he may be heard, by his counsel or agent, Railway Bill. 
against certain parts of the Glasgow, Paisley and 
Greenock Railway Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill, in so far as relates to his in- 
terest therein in respect of compensation for damages ; 
and the Petitioner heard, by his counsel or agent 
upon his Petition, if he think fit ; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of Sir Thomas Stanley Massey Stanley, Chester and 

Baronet, praying that he may be heard, by his Birtenbesd 
: ° way Bill, 

counsel or agent, against certain parts of the Chester 
—— Railway Bill, was presented, and 
read, 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, b 
his counsel or agent upon his Petition, if he thin 
fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the Bill, against 
the said Petition. 


A Petition of Shareholders in the Bath and Wey- Bath and 
mouth Railway Company; praying that the Bath Weymouth 
and Weymouth Railway Bill may pass into a law, ®#!vsy Bil 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 

Petitions from Shareholders and Subscribers to the 
Bath and Weymouth Railway ;— Shareholders and 
Subscribers to the said Railway, residing in the city 
of Bristol ;—and, Inhabitants of Bath ; praying that 
the said Bill may,not pass into a law,—were also 
— and read; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Bath and 
reading of the Bath and Weymouth Railway Bill ; he ong 
And a Motion being made, and the Question being peeeiaei 
proposed, That the Bill be now read a second time ; 
he Amendments following were proposed to be 
made to the Question ; viz. to leave out the word 
“ now,” and, at the end of the Question, to add the 
words “ upon Wednesday, the 26th day of this in- 
“ stant April.” 
And the Question being put, That the word 
“ now” stand part of the Question :—It passed in 
the Negative. 
And the Question being put, That the words, 
“ upon Wednesday, the 26th day of this instant 
“ April,” be added at the end of the Question :— 
It was resolved in the Affirmative. 
Then the main Question, so amended, being put ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time, 
upon Wednesday the 26th day of this instant April. 


A Petition of the there-undersigned Directors, Bath and 
Solicitors and Secretary of the Bath and Weymouth bw | — 
. . allway ul. 
Railway Company, denying the charge of there 
being fictitious and fraudulent signatures to the Par- 
liamentary Contract for the said Railway, and pray- 
ing that the House will permit the Bill for the form- 
ation of the said Railway to be read a second time, 
and pass into Committee, and that all the Petitions 
presented against the said Bill may be referred to 
such Committee, with leave to the Petitioners to 
appear before such Committee, and if possible sup- 
port the allegations of their Petitions, was presented, 
and read ; and referred to a Select Committee. 
Ordered, That the Committee be nominated To- 
morrow. 


Mr. Wodehouse reported from the Committee on Ashby and 
the Ashby and Hellington Inclosure Bill; That flelueton, 
the Standing Orders relative to Bills of Inclosure had 





been 


Bir 


and 


Birmingham 
and Derby 
Railway Bill. 


American Steam 
Navigation 
Company Bill. 


London and 
Blackwall 
Commercial 


Railway Bill. 


Loanhead and 
Stirling Canal 
Bill, 


Edinburgh 
and Glasgow 
Railway Bill. 


Glasgow and 
Ayr Railway 
Bill, 


7 Witt. IV. 


been complied with; and that the Committee had 
examined the allegations of the Bill, and found the 
same to be true; and that the parties concerned had 
given their consent to the Bill, to the satisfaction of 
the Committee ; and that the Committee had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto; 
and that it appeared to the Committee that there was 
a Common near to that proposed to be inclosed, and 
that such being sufficient for amd adapted to the 
purposes of recreation, the Committee did not con- 
sider it to be necessary to allot any portion of the 
common lands proposed to be inclosed under the 
Bill for that purpose, considering also that ten acres 
had been assigned by the Bill for the benefit of the 
poor; and the Amendments were read, and agreed 
to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


The House was moved, That the Report in respect 
of the Petition for leave to present a Petition for the 
Birmingham and Derby Railway Bill, which upon 
Monday last was made from the Select Committee 
on Petitions for Private Bills, might be read ; and the 
same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to present a Petition, 
as desired. 

A Petition of the Birmingham and Derby Junction 
Railway Company, for leave to bring in a Bill to 
alter, amend and extend the line of the said Rail- 
way, and to amend the Act relating thereto, was 
accordingly presented, and read; and a Bill was 
ordered to be brought in accordingly by Sir Eardley 
Wilmot and Mr. Edward Buller. 


A Petition of Directors of the Great Western 
Steam Ship Company, praying that they may be 
heard, by Gentian their counsel or agents, against 
certain parts of the American Steam Navigation 
Company Bill, was presented, and read; and or- 
dered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Owners and Occupiers of Houses, 
Warehouses and other buildings, lands and premises 
over ornear which the line of the Railway hereinafter 
mentioned is intended to pass, praying that they may 
be heard, by their counsel or agents, against certain 

arts of the London and Blackwall Commercial 
ailway Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to 
the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by their counsel or agents, upon their Pe- 
tition, if they think fit ; and counsel heard, in favour 
of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


Petitions from the Chamber of Commerce and 
Manufactures of Edinburgh ;—Company of Mer- 
chants of Edinburgh ;—and, Road Trustees, Heri- 
tors and others of Kirkinzilloch ; praying that the 
Loanhead and Stirling Canal Bill may not pass into 
a law as it now stands,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Sir James Gardiner Baird, of 
Saughton Hall, Baronet, and Sir James Gibson 
Craig, of Riccarton, Baronet, praying that they 
may be heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
against certain parts of the Edinburgh and Glasgow 
Railway Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of Feuars and Proprietors of Houses 
in Tradeston of Glasgow, praying that the Glasgow 
and Ayr Railway Bill may not pass into a law as it 
now stands, was presented, and read, and referred to 
the Committee on the Bill. 

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253 


Petitions from Freeholders in the Lower Division Chester and 
of the Hundred of Wirrall, in the county of Chester ; eg 
—Commissioners for improving the Township of — 
Birkenhead ;—Inhabitants of Chester ;—Landowners 
and Occupiers of Land in the county of Chester ;— 
and, Market Gardeners residing in Chester ; praying 
that the Chester and Birkenhead Railway Bill may 
pass into a law,—were presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Sir Henry Parnell reported from the Committee Dundee 
on the Dundee Improvement Bill; That they had Improvement 
examined the allegations of the Bill, and found the ~” 
same to be true; and had gone through the Bill, 
and made Amendments thereunto ; and the Amend- 
ments were read, and agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


A Petition of Directors and Shareholders in the West Cork 
West Cork Mining Company, praying that they may a 
be heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, "9°" 
against the West Cork Mining Company Bill, was 
- and read; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 


Mr. Pease reported from the Committee on the Hurworth and 
Hurworth and York Railway Bill; and to whom the Yerk Railway 
Petition of the Company of Merchant Adventurers ~" ’ 
of York against the said Bill, was referred ; That 
the Standing Orders relative to Railway Bills had 
been complied with, and that no person appeared on 
behalf of the said Petition ; and that the Committee 
had inquired into the several matters required by the 
Resolutions of the House of the 1st day of March 
1836; and had also examined the allegations of the 
Bill, and found the same to be true; and had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Petitions from Inhabitants of Ludlow ; — and, Manchester 
Owners and Occupiers of Estates in the county of and Tamworth 
Chester and Lancaster; praying that the Manchester ®#wy Bill. 
and Tamworth Railway Bill may E aoe into a law, 
were presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 


the Table. 


Petitions from Inhabitants of West Teignmouth ;— Exeter and 
Budleigh ;—Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of Falmouth | 
Penryn;—and, Inhabitants of Torquay ; praying — 
the Exeter and Falmouth Railway Bill may pass 
into a law,—were presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Jacobina Mary Ann Maria Curran, London and 

of Chelsea, praying that she may be heard, by her- — , 
. . ailway Bill 

self, her counsel or agent, against certain parts of (Rennie’s Line.) 
the London and Brighton Railway Bill, (Rennie’s 
Line), was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by herself, her counsel or agent, upon her Petition, 
if she think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of the Chamber of Commerce and Merchant 
Manufacturers of Edinburgh, praying for the adop- S*ippirs- 
tion of measures which will secure the greatest 
degree of safety to the life and ey of the Mer- 
cantile Navy, was presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Provost, Magistrates and Town Church Rates 
Council of the city of Saint Andrews, praying that Regulation. 
the proposed measure relative to Church Rates, mo 
receive the sanction of the House, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of Inhabitants and Rate-payers of 
Preston Capes, praying that the said proposed 

KK3 measure 





Church Rates, 


Edinburgh 
Police Bill. 


Dorchester 
Labourers. 


No. 191. 


National Debt. 
No. 190. 


Patents for 
Inventions Bill. 


Merchant 
Shipping Bill. 


Merchant 
Shipping 
Regulation Bill. 


County Rates 
Bill. 


County Rates 
Bill. 


254 


A Petition of Members of the Independent Con- 
gregation assembling at Stockbridge, in the county 
of Hants, praying for the abolition of Church Rates, 
was —-« and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of the Convener and Commissioners 
of the eight Southern Districts of the city of Edin- 
burgh, praying that a Clause may be inserted in the 
Edinburgh Police Bill, providing and directing that 
soldiers shall and may be billeted on all the inha- 
bitants, without any exemption in favour of the inha- 
bitants of the ancient or extended royalty of the city 
of Edinburgh, was presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the Return relative tothe Dorchester 
Labourers, which was presented upon the 5th day 
of this instant April, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Accounts from the Commis- 
sioners of the National Debt, which were presented 
yesterday, be printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Patents for Inventions Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday, the 17th day of May next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Merchant Shipping Bill ; 

And notice being taken that the Bill was not 
properly prepared ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for the establishment of a Marine Board, and for the 
better regulation of the Merchant Shipping of the 
United Kingdom: And that Mr. Buckingham and 
Sir Edward Codrington do prepare, and bring it in. 


Petitions from Saint Martin-in-the-Fields, West- 
minster ;—and, the Corporation of Gateshead ; pray- 
ing that the County Rates Bill may pass into a law, 
—were presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 

A Petition of Justices of the Peace for the county 
of Chester, praying that the said Bill may not pass 
into a law, was also presented, and read; and or- 
dered to lie upon the Mable. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the County Rates Bill; 
And a Motion being made, and the Question being 
re That the Bill be now read a second time; 
he Amendments following were proposed to be 
made to the Question; viz. To leave out the word 
* now,” and at the end of the Question to add the 
words “ upon this day six months.” 
And the Question being proposed, That the word 
“now” stand part of the Question ; 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Thursday morning ; 
Jovis, 13° die Aprilis, 1837: 
And the Question being put ; 
The House divided. 
The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 
The Noes to the old Lobby. 
«forthe Yeas, J Mr. Villiers, 1 
Tellers for the Yeas, b Bit Mines J 
{ Mr. Alston, _ } ‘ 
’ USir Eardley Wilmot: 
So it passed in the Negative. 
And the Question being put, That the words “ upon | 


84. 


Tellers for the Noes 


77 


12°—13° Aprilis. 


measure may not receive the sanction of the House, 
was also presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


A. 1837. 


Then the main Question, so amended, being put ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
this day six months. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Recorders’ 
further consideration the Report on the Recorders’ ots Bill. 
Courts Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Freemen’s 
reading of the Freemen’s Admission Bill ; Admission Bil. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday, the 26th day of this instant April. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Public Walks 
reading of the Public Walks and Public Institutions _—- ae 
Bill : ill, utions 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second a at 
reading of the Expenses at Elections Bill ; a 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Wednesday, the 26th day of this instant April. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself into Court of Session 
a Committee upon the Court of Session (Scotland) (Scotland) Bill, 
Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal reported, That 
the Committee had made Progress in the Bill; and 
that he was directed to move, That the Committee 
may have leave to sit again. 
Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, again 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Small Debts 
mittee on the Small Debts (Scotland) Bill ; (Scotland) Bill 
Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Salmon 
reading of the Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Bill ; _—, m 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon ‘ —n 
Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Law of Libel 
reading of the Law of Libel Bill ; Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Wednesday, the 3d day of May next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Common Law 
further consideration the Report on the Common ©"s Bil. 
Law Courts Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Metropolis 
reading of the Metropolis Improvement Bill ; —_— 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon” ~ 
Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Sheriffs’ Courts 
mittee on the Sheriffs’ Courts Bill ; Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
the 26th day of this instant April, resolve itself into 
the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Sheriff’ Fees 
mittee on the Sheriffs’ Fees Bill; = 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday, 
the 26th day of this instant April, resolve itself into 
the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Atomics _ 
mittee on the Attornies and Solicitors Bill ; sane 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday, 


this day six months” be added at the end of the | the 26th day of this instant April, resolve itself into 


Question :—It was resolved in the Affirmative. 





the said Committee. 


The 





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7 Witt. IV. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Hackney Carriages (Metropolis) Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday, 
the 3d day of May next, resolve itself into the said 
Committee. 


Hackney 
Carrieges | 
(Metropolis 
Bill. 


Turnpike Trusts 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
Bill. 


reading of the Turnpike Trusts Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 


Ways and 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself into 
Means. 


the Committee of Ways and Means. 


(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That, towards making good the Supply 
granted to His Majesty for the Service of the year 
1837, the sum of Eight Millions be granted out of 
the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of 
Great Britain and Ireland. 

Resolution to be reported. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Reso- 
lution. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 

Mr. Bernal also acquainted the House, That he 
was directed to move, That the Committee may have 
leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, again 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Consolidated 
Fund. 





Supply. The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 
Court of The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
(Seotlend) Bill, Mittee on the Court of Exchequer (Scotland) Bill ; 
' Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, resolve 

itself into the said Committee. 


Supply. The Order of the day being read, for receiving 
the Report from the Committee of Supply; 
Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 
ee Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Stamps an 


Returns of the Number of Stamps issued monthly 
to each of the London Newspapers, from 1st Janu- 
ary to ist April 1837, both days inclusive :—Of the 
Number of Advertisements published in each News- 
yee for the same period :—And, of the Amount of 

uty on Advertisements paid by each Newspaper 
for the same period. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Copies of any Letter from Commodore Lord John 
Hay, containing an account of the Co-operation 
afforded by the Seamen and Marines under his com- 
mand to the Troops of the Queen of Spain, on the 
15th and 16th March 1837 :--And, of any Report 
received by the Master General of the iia, 
Inspector General of Fortifications, or Command- 
ing Officer of Artillery at Woolwich, as to whether 
any Casualties have occurred in the Detachments of 
Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers and Royal Sap- 
pers and Miners now employed on the North Coast 
of Spain, and under the Orders of Lord John Hay, 
having reference to the above-mentioned Actions on 
the 15th and 16th ultimo. 


Advertisements. 


Spain (Lord 
John Hay.) 


Stipendiary 
Magistrates, 
&amp;e, (Ireland.) 


The House was moved, That the Order made 
upon the 22d. day of March last, That there be laid 
before this House, Returns of the Names and 
Stations of all Persons appointed Stipendiary Ma- 
gistrates under an Act, intituled, the “ Zrish Con- 
stabulary Bill,” passed inthe seventh and eighth years 
of the reign of His Majesty King William the 
Fourth; stating whether the Persons appointed were 
or were not in the Police before the passing of said 
Act, and if they were, stating the term of their 

Vox. 92. 


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255 


service, and in what situations :—Of the Names and 
Stations of all Persons appointed under said Act to 
the Offices of Sub-Inspector and Paymaster of Police; 
stating whether or not they were in the Police before 
the passing of said Act, and if they were, stating 
the time of their service :—And, of the Names and 
Stations of all Chief Constables; stating the dates 
of their original Appointments to the Police Force, 
and whether they had served therein before the pass- 
—— said Act, might be read ; and the same being 
read ; 

Ordered, That a Return to the said Order be laid 
before this House forthwith. 


Inclosure Bill be read Clapton 
Inclosure Bill. 


Ordered, That the Clapton 
a second time this day. 


Two Petitions of Proprietors of cotton mills, Gorbals Police 
power-loom weaving factories, and other public Bill. 
works situated within the barony of Gorbals; pray- 
ing that they may be heard, by themselves, their 
counsel or agents, against certain parts of the Gor- 
bals Police Bill,—were presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


Mr. Fox Maule presented, pursuant to Orders, Convicts 
—a Return of the Names of all Convicts discharged (Heland.) 
from the several Gaols in Jreland, before the expira- 
tion of their respective Sentences, since the 1st May 
1835; distinguishing the Offences of which they 
were respectively convicted, the Sentences pro- 
nounced upon them, the Date of Discharge, and 
the Authority under which they were discharged, 
whether oral or written; distinguishing also, the 
cases in which such Convicts were under Rule of 
Bail, and stating whether any, and what, Bail was 
given before the Discharge of such Convicts respec 
tively. 

Returns of all Criminal Cases submitted for the Criminal Cases 
decision of the Lord Lieutenant, on Memorial cr !reland.) 
Recommendation, from 12th May 1835; distinguish- 
ing those decided unfavourably, without reference 
to Judge or Assistant Barrister; those decided fa- 
vourably without such reference; those decided un- 
favourably after, and favourably after, similar refer- 
ence ; of those decided favourably, without reference 
to Judge or Assistant Barrister; distinguishing how 
many were referred to Magistrates or others, for 
Local Information; how many to Gaol Authorities 
for Report of Conduct ; how many were discharged 
on Medical Report, and how many on Recom- 
mendation of Character:—and of how many of 
those discharged before the expiration of their Sen- 
tence, since May 1835, have since been re-com- 
mitted. 


Returns of the Names of all Convicts under Sen- Convicts 
tence or Rule of Transportation who have been dis- (Iteland.) 
charged from the Hulks or Transports in any of the 
Ports of Ireland, since 1st May 1835; distinguish- 
ing the Offences of which they have been respec- 
tively convicted, the Place of Trial, the Sentences 
pronounced or recorded upon them, and whether 
any and what Commutation or Remission of the ori- 
ginal Sentence, or any part thereof, had previously 
been granted; stating, also, the Date of the Dis- 
charge, and the Nature of the Authority under 
which such Convicts were respectively discharged, 
with the Date or Time thereof :—And, ofthe Names 
of all Convicts under Sentence or Rule of Trans- 
portation whose Sentences were commuted to Im- 
prisonment, since 1st May 1835; distinguishing 
the Offences of which they had been convicted re- 
spectively, the Place of Trial, the Sentence pro- 
nounced upon them, and the Period of Imprison- 
ment substituted for Transportation, and whether 

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Police 
Magistrates 
« Dublin.) 


Church ‘ 
Comm ’ssion. 


Prisons 
(Scotland. ) 


Cominercial 
Steam Packet 
Company Bill. 


Worcester and 


Wolverhampton of Bishop Auckland, in the county of 


Railway Bill. 


Longford 
County Eiec- 
tion. 


256 12°—13° 


such substituted Sentence was remitted, or in any 
and what manner modified. 

A Return by the Magistrates of the Head Office 
of Police, Dublin, of the Sums annually received 
during the last Seven years, and up to the 5th Janu- 
ary 1837, for Licenses for Public Cars, &amp;c., and 
for Figure-money; the Amount — for each 
separately ; the Amount received for Licenses and 
Figure-money during said Period from the Citizens 
of Dublin for private Carts, Drays, Floats, &amp;c., not 
used as Vehicles for the accommodation of the 
Public, but for their own private use; the Autho- 
rity, if any, under which such Sums are levied, and 
the purposes to which the Money is appropriated. 

r. Fox Maule also presented,— Return to an Ad- 
dress to His Majesty, dated the 16th day of March 
last, for Copies of all Communications addressed 
to His Majesty’s Commissioners appointed to con- 
sider the state of the Established Church in Eng- 
land and Wales, with reference to Ecclesiastical 
Duties and Revenues; and to the Ecclesiastical 
Commissioners for England relating to the union 
of the Bishoprick of Sodor and Man with that of 
Carlisle:—And also, Copies of all Communications 
made to the same Commissioners from Cathedral 
and Collegiate Churches in England and Wales, and 
from their several Chapters, Dignitaries, Members 
and Officers. 

Mr. Fox Maule also presented, pursuant to the di- 
rections of an Act of Parliament,—Second Report of 
Inspectors of Prisons (Scotland). 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Owners or Freighters of Steam 
Packets and Vessels from the port of Liverpool, and 
Merchants and Traders of Liverpool, praying that 
the Commercial Steam Packet Company Bill may 
not pass into a law, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Robert Archibald Douglas Gresley, 
urham, Es- 
quire, praying that he may be heard, by his counsel 
or agent, agamst certain parts of the Worcester and 
Wolverhampton Railway Bill, was presented,and read. 
Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, if he 
think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the Bill, 
against the said Petition. 
And then the House, having continued to sit till 
a quarter of an hour after one of the clock on 
Thursday morning, adjourned till this day. 





Jovis, 13° die Aprilis ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi [V Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


ORD Viscount Clive, from the Select Com- 
mittee appointed to try and determine the 
merits of the Petition of Charles Fox, of Rutland- 
square, in the city of Dublin, Esquire ; and also, the 
Petition of Lovell Edgeworth, and others, freeholders 
of the county of Longford, severally complaining of 
an undue Election and Return for the said county, 
informed the House, That the Committee met this 
morning, pursuant to their adjournment of yester- 
day, when they received a letter informing the Com- 
mittee that Edward Horsman, Esquire (one of the 
Members of the said Committee) was, in consequence 


of illness, prevented from attending, and that the | 


S 


said Committee then adjourned till To-morrow 
morning, at eleven o’clock. 

And the House being informed, that Dr. James 
Johnson attended at the door, who could give the 
House information respecting the state of Mr. Hors- 
man’s health; he was called in, and at the bar 
examined upon oath in relation thereto :—And then 
he withdrew. 





Aprilis. A. 1887. 


Ordered, That Mr. Horsman be excused for not 
attending the Committee this day, and have leave 
to absent himself from any further attendance on 


‘the Committee. 


Mr. Abbott, from the Court of Bankruptcy, was Bankruptcy 
called in; and at the bar presented,—Further Re- Court and fats. 
turn to an Order, dated the 13th day of February 

last, for Returns relating to the Court of Bankruptcy 

and Fiats :—And then * withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 

Table. 


Mr. Smith, from the Court of Chancery, was Court of 
called in; and at the bar presented,—Further Re- Chancery. 
turn to an Order, dated the 22d day of February 

last, for Returns relating to the Court of Chancery : 
—And then he withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


The bce pp Inclosure Bill was, according to Clapton 
Order, read a second time ; and committed to Mr, Inclosure Bill 
William Miles and the Somerset List. 


A Petition of the Corporation of Scarborough, Scarboroug): 
praying that they may be ane by their counsel or Harbour Bil. 
agents, against certain parts of the Scarborough 

Harbour Bill, was presented, and read ; and ordered 

to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Tenants of the Earl of Ferrers, Manchester 
residing in Chartley, Amerton and other places haa 
through which the Railway hereinafter mentioned” "”* ~" 
is proposed to be carried, praying that the Manchester 
and TYamworth Railway Bill may pass into a law, 
was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


An ingrossed Bill for amending an Act of His Sevenoaks and 
present Majesty, for repairing the Roads from Seven- ig 
oaks Common to Woodsgate, Tonbridge Wells and 
Kipping’s Cross, and from Tonbridge Wells to 
Woodsgate, in the County of Kent, was read the 
third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act for amending an Act of His present 
Majesty, for repairing the Roads from Sevenoaks 
Common to Woodsgate, Tonbridge Wells and Kip- 
ping’s Cross, and from Tonbridge Wells to Woods- 
gate, in the County of Kent. 

Ordered, That Sir William Geary do carry the 
Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


An ingrossed Bill for more effectually repairing Lobley Hill 
the Road from the Turnpike Road between Gates- Road Bill. 
head and Hexham, near Lobley Hill, in the County 
of Durham, toBurtryford, in the Parish of Stanhope, 
in the same County ; together with several Branches 
therefrom, was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Lambton do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


A Petition of Residents of the town and neigh- Chester and 
bourhood of Wrexham, praying that the Chester —— 
and Birkenhead Railway Bill may pass into a law, — 
was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of Sir George Musgrave, of Eden Hall, Durham Juve- 
in the county of Cumberland, Baronet, praying that = Railway 
he may be heard, by his counsel or agent, against ~'" 
certain parts of the Durham Junction Railway Bill, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


Petitions from Charles Grant, of Green Park, in Edinburgh 
the county of Linlithgow ;— William Wilson, Es- Saiiwey Bil 
quire, of Dunlatur ;—and, Matthew Montgomerie, 








writer 





Gla 
Pais 
Gre 


Bar 
Bill 


Glasgow, 
Paisley, and 
Greenock 


Railway Bill. 


Edinburgh 
and Glasgow 
Railway Bill. 


Brighton, 
Lewes, and 
Newhaven 


Railway Bill. 


Chester and 
Birkenhead 
Railway Bill. 


Barnsley 
Waterworks 
Bill. 


Brighton, 
Lewes, and 
Newhaven 
Railway Bill. 


London and 
Brighton 
Railway Bill 
(Stephenson’s 
Line.) 


Leeds Water- 
works Bill, 


7 Wit. LV. 


writer in Glasgow, trustee under the deed of settle- 
ment of the late John Bell, merchant in Glasgow ; 
praying that they may be heard, by themselves, 
their counsel or agents, against certain parts of the 
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Bill,—were pre- 
sented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


A Petition of William Mills, Lord Provost of the 
city of Glasgow, praying that he may be heard, by 
himself, his counsel or agent, against certain parts 
of the Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway 
Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by himself, his counsel or agent, upon his Peti- 
tion, if he think fit; and counsel heard, in favour 
of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


Ordered, That leave be given to print the Evidence 
taken before the Committee on the Edinburgh and 
Glasgow Railway Bill, at the expense of the parties, 
from the Committee Clerk’s Copy, if they think fit. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Folkestone and 
Hythe, praying that the Brighton, Lewes and New- 
haven Railway Bill may pass into a law, was pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of George Orred, Esquire, Lord of the 
Manor of Tranmere, in the county of Chester, pray- 
ing that he may be heard, by himself, his counsel 
or agent, against certain parts of the Chester and 
Birkenhead Railway Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by himself, his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, 
if, he think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of 
the Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of the Company of Proprietors of the 
navigation of the River Dun, complaining that the 
Standing Orders of the House, in relation to the 
application for the Barnsley Waterworks Bill, had 
not been complied with; and praying that they 
may be heard, by their agents and witnesses, against 
the same, was presented, and read ; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Owners or Occupiers of estates 
and property upon or near the line of the Railway 
heremafter mentioned, praying that they may be 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, against 
certain parts of the Brighton, Lewes and Newhaven 
Railway Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to 
the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of Owners or Occupiers of estates and 
property upon or near the line and in the immediate 
neighbourhood of the Railway hereinafter men- 
tioned, praying that they may be heard, by them- 
selves, their counsel or agents, against certain parts 
of the London and Brighton Railway Bill (Ste- 
phenson’s Line), was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to 
the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of the Right honourable Robert, Earl 
of Cardigan, the Right honourable John, Earl of 


Mexborough, and Owners and Occupiers of mills, 
Vor. 92, 


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257 


lands and tenements situate on or near to the becks, 
rivulets or streams of water called Addle Beck, 
Bentley Bech, Sheepscar Beck and Lady Beck, in 
the townships of Addle, Headingley, Chapel Allerton, 
Potter Newton and Leeds, praying that they may 
be heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
against certain parts of the Leeds Waterworks Bill, 
was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to 
the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


Mr. Wilks reported from the Committee on the Becker's 
Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act for Natu- N+: Bill. 
ralizing John Becker ; That they had examined the 
allegations of the Bill, and found the same to be 
true; and had gone through the Bill, and had 
directed him to report the same, without Amend- 
ment : —And the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Wilks do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


Mr. Wilks reported from the Committee on the Henry Anthony 
Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act for Natural- Pistte’s Nat. 
izing Henry Anthony Metté; That they had ex- ~ 
amined the allegations of the Bill, and found the 
same to be true ; and had gone through the Bill, 
and had directed him to report the same without 
Amendment :—And the Bill was read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Wilks do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


Mr. Wilks reported from the Committee on the Bernard Metté’s 
Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act for Naturaliz- N**. Bill. 
ing Bernard Metté; That they had examined the 
allegations of the Bill, and found the same to be 
true; and had gone through the Bill, and had di- 
rected him to report the same without Amendment : 

—And the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Wilks do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


A Petition of the Chairman and others of the London and 

Provisional Committee of a Company formed for a Bill 
. . v . y Di 

the purpose of constructing a Railway (without a (Stephenson’ 
Tunnel) from London to Brighton, complaining that Line.) 
the answers given by the agents for the London and 
Brighton Railway Bill (Stephenson’s Line) before 
the Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills, 
were untrue, and praying that the facts may be 
inquired into by a Committee of the House ; and 
that the Petitioners may be heard, by themselves, 
their counsel, agents and witnesses, mm support of 
the allegations contained in their Petition, was \ 
Ren , and read; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 

Ordered, That the Petition be printed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition of James London and 
Mills, which was presented upon Monday last, —, " 
Pah ailway Bill 
complaining that the answers given by the agents (stephenson's 
for Stephenson’s Line of the London and Brighton ee) 
Railway Bill before the Select Committee on Pe- 
titions for Private Bills, were untrue, and praying 
for inquiry, might be read; and the same being 
read ; 
A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That the said Petition be referred to a Select 
Committee to examine the matter thereof, and report 
the same to the House :—And the said Motion was, 
with the leave of the House, withdrawn. 
LL A Motion 








258 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 
posed, That a Select Committee be appointed to 
examine whether any false evidence has been know- 
ingly and wilfully given before the Sub-Committee 
on Petitions for Private Bills, in respect of Stephen- 
son’s Line of Brighton Railway, and to report the 
same to the House; 

And a Debate arising thereupon ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question being 
put, That the Debate be adjourned till Monday next. 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the old Lobby ; 

The Noes to the new Lobby. 

Tellers for the 5 Mr. Greene, }as 

Yeas, Mr. Pease : ’ 

Tellers for the f Mr. Thomas Duncombe, } 53 

Noes, LSir George Strickland: ie 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 


London and 
Brighton 
Railway Bill 
(Stephenson’s 
Line.) 


Ashby and 
Hellington 
Inclosure Bill. 


An ingrossed Bill for dividing, prea sy | and in- 
closing the open Fields and Field-lands, Commons 
and Waste Grounds in the Parishes of Ashby and 
Hellington, in the County of Norfolk, was read the 
third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Wodehouse do carry the Bill 
to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Manchester 
and Stafford 
Railway Bill. 


Petitions from Inhabitants of Drayton ;— and, 
Bankers, Merchants, Manufacturers, Owners of Pro- 
perty and Inhabitants of Wigan; praying that the 
Manchester and Stafford Railway Bill may pass into 
a law,—were presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


Manchester 
and Tamworth 
Railway Bill. 


A Petition of the Midland Counties Railway 
Company, praying that they may be heard, by their 
counsel or agents, against certain parts of the Man- 
chester and Tamworth Railway Bill, was presented, 
and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to 
the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by their counsel or agents, upon their Pe- 
tition, if they think fit ; and counsel heard, in favour 
of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


Exeter and 
Falmouth 


Railway Bill. 


Petitions from Inhabitants of Penryn ;— Dawlish ; 
— Exmouth ;— Sidmouth and Paignton; praying 
that the Exeter and Falmouth Railway Bill may 
pass into a law,—were presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Bath and Wey- 
mouth Railway 
Subscription 
List, 


The Order of the day being read, for nominating 
the Select Committee upon the Petition of the Di- 
rectors, Solicitors and Secretary of the Bath and 
Weymouth Railway Company, which was presented 
yesterday, denying the charge of there las fic- 
titious and fraudulent Signatures to the Parlia- 
mentary Contract, and praying that the Bill may be 
read a second time, and committed; and that all 
Petitions against the Bill may be referred to such 
Committee ; 

A Committee was nominated of Mr. Roebuck, 
Mr. Robert Gordon, Mr. Andrew Johnston, Mr. 
Addams Williams, Mr. Tooke, Sir Hedworth Wil- 
liamson, Mr. Long, Mr. Hawes, Mr. Chapman, 
Mr. Hindley, Mr. George Evans and Mr. Henry 
Grattan; with Power to send for persons, papers 
and records. 


Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 


Bath and Wey- 

mouth Railway 

Subscription 
ist. 


The Order made upon the 23d day of March last 
for referring to the Select Committee on the Deptford 
and Dover Railway Subscription List, the Petition 
of certain Shareholders and Subscribers to the Bath 
and Weymouth Railway Bill respecting the Sig- 
natures to the Subscription Contract for the said last- 
mentioned Railway, which was presented upon the 
22d day of March last, and also the Order made 
upon the same day for referring to the said Select 


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A. 1837. 


Committee the Petition of the Chairman and Soli- 
citors of the Bath and Weymouth Railway Company, 
denying the allegations of the above Petition, were 
read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the said Petitions, together with 
the Petitions from Shareholders and Subscribers to 
the Bath and Weymouth Railway, residing in Bath ; 
Shareholders and Subscribers residing in Bristol, 
which were presented upon the 23d day of March 
last; Subscribers and eciddilies to the Bath 
and Weymouth Railway, which was presented upon 
Tuesday last; and Shareholders in the Bath and 
Weymouth Railway Company, which was presented 
yesterday, be referred to the Select Committee on 
the Bath and Weymouth Railway Subscription List. 


Petitions from persons residing and trading, and Roborough 
possessing property within the Southern Division of een Small 
the hundred of East, in the county of Cornwall ;— Debts Bill. 
and, the hundred of Plympton, in the county of 
Devon; praying that provision may be made in the 
Roborough hundred vei: Small Debts Bill, add- 
ing the parishes, townships and places within the 
said hundreds of East and Plympton to the places 
mentioned in the said Bill,—were presented, and 
read; and referred to the Select Committee on Pe- 
titions for Private Bills. 


Mr. Charles Wood presented,— Returns to several spain (Lord 
Orders, dated the 12th day of this instant April, for John Hay.) 
Copies of any Letter from Commodore Lord John No.192, 
Hay, containing an account of the Co-operation 
afforded by the Seamen and Marines under his com- 
mand to the Troops of the Queen of Spain, on the 
15th and 16th March 1837:—and, of any Report 
received by the Master General of the Ordnance, 
Inspector General of Fortifications, or Commanding 
Officer of Artillery at Woolwich, as to whether any 
Casualties have occurred in the Detachments of Royal 
Artillery, Royal Engineers and Royal Sappers and 
Miners, now employed on the North Coast of Spain, 
and under the orders of Lord John Hay, having re- 
ference to the above-mentioned Actions on the 15th 
and 16th ultimo. 

Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


Mr. Buckingham presented a Bill for the esta- Merchant 
blishment of a Marine Board, and for the better Shipping _ 
regulation of the Merchant Shipping of the United Results Bil. 
Kingdom: And the same was read the first time ; No- 193. 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Wednes- 
day next; and to be printed. 


A Petition of Alexander M‘Gregor, and others, Soap. 
praying for the repeal of the Duty on Soap, was pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Magistrates and Town Council of Fire Insurances. 
Dunfermline, praying for the repeal of the Duty on 
Fire Insurances, was presented, and read; and or- 
dered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Trustees of the Turnpike Road nighway Act. 

from Barnsdale to Leeds, and the Branch from and 
out of the same to Aberford, all in the West Riding 
of the county of York, praying the House to make 
such alterations in the Richens Act that the town- 
ships through which the said Rene pass may con- 
tinue to contribute towards the repair and main- 
tenance of the said Turnpike Roads, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Outrages 
Return of Outrages reported to the Constabulary (Ie!4.) 
Office, Dublin, as having occurred during the five 
months, commencing September 1836. 

Lord Viscount Morpeth accordingly presented the 
said Return. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 


Table. 
Ordered, 





7 Witt. IV. 


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259 


Convicts Ordered, That the Return relative to Convicts | Newspapers, or the sale of Unstamped Papers :— 
(Ireland.) discharged from Gaols in Freland before the expira-| Of the Number of Persons who may have been 
No. 194. tion of their Sentences, which was presented yester- | committed, since the reduction of the Stamp Duty 


day, be printed. 


on Newspapers, for the violation of the Stamp Laws, 


Cini Cases “Ordered, That the Return relative to Criminal | by printing, publishing or selling Unstamped News- 
ngs he Cases in Ireland, which was presented yesterday, be mR acwecr  Y of the Number of Prisoners now in 
No. 195. rinted. custody charged with such Offences. 
Convicts Ordered, That the Return of the Number of Con- 
nage le victs under Sentence of Transportation discharged | A Motion being made, and the Question being Naval Officers. 
0. 196. 


from the Hulks or Transports, in any Ports in Jre- 
land, which was presented yesterday, be printed. 


put, That there be laid before this House, a Return, 
stating the period at which the Names of Com- 


mander Edward Edwards, Lieutenant B: , Lieu- 

Message from A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Wingfield and | tenant Rowland Milner, Lieutenant John Bee, Doctor 
the Lords. = Mr, Senior : Thomas Williams, and Surgeon William Boyce, 
Mr. Speaker, were removed from the List of the Navy, and de- 

acon The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An | prived of their Half Pay, and the reasons for such 


Act for inclosing Lands within the Townships or 
Divisions of Mansergh, Lupton, Old Hution and 
Holme Scales and New Hutton, in the Parishes of 
Kirkby Lonsdale, Burton in Kendal and Kirkby in 
Kendal, in the County of Westmorland, without 
Amendment: And also, 


deprivation ; 
The House divided : 
The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 
The Noes to the old Lobby. 
Tellers for thef Sir Edward Codrington, 
Yeas, Mr. Aglionby : 


} 46. 


Whitby The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An| Tellers for the) Sir Charles Adam, 153 
mpeveme™* Act for better paving, cleansing, lighting, watching Noes, Sir Thomas Troubridge: } ; 
and improving the Town of Whitby, in the North} So it passed in the Negative. 
Riding of the County of York, with Amendments ; 
to which Amendments the Lords desire the concur-| Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Custom House 
rence of this House: And also, Detailed Account of the application of the Sum of (Dublin) 
wv The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An | £.68,000, voted in the Session of 1835, to the relief 


Company Bill. 


Act to enable the Licensed Victuallers and General 
Fire and Life Assurance Company to sue and be sued 
in the Name of the Chairman, Deputy Chairman, 
or of any one of the Directors of the said Company, 
and for other purposes, with Amendments; to which 
‘Amendments the Lords desire the concurrence of 
this House: And also, 


of those Merchants whose goods were consumed by 
fire in the Custom House of Dublin; specifying the 
Sums, to whom paid, on account of what goods, and 
the Quantities thereof :—and, Copy of any Minute 
of the Treasury by which an arrangement was en- 
tered into to try an action for Pe ae against 
the Officer of Excise or Customs by whose fault the 


em and The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An | Fire was alleged to have —* and any other 
— Bi. Act for forming and regulating a Company, to be | Papers connected with this subject. 
called “ The Patent Dry Gas Meter Company,” and 
to enable the said Company to purchase certain} A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- Church Lands. 
Letters Patent, with Amendments; to which Amend- | posed, That there be laid before this House, Copies 
ments the Lords desire the concurrence of this House: | of all the Parliamentary Surveys of Church Lands, 
—And then the Messengers withdrew. made in 1646, and deposited by Parliament in the 
nubian ; ; : Library of Manuscripts at Lambeth Palace :——And 
joan Duty. A Motion was made, and the Question being pro-| a Debate arising thereupon ; 


posed, That this House do resolve itself into a Com- 
mittee, to consider of the propriety of repealing the 
Stamp Duty on Newspapers ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” to 
the end of the Question, in order to add the words 
“ there be laid before this House, Accounts expla- 
“ natory of the effect produced upon the Revenue 
“ by the reduction of the Stamp Duty on News- 
“ papers,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Question; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby; 


Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till To- 


morrow. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was 
posed, That a Select Committee be appointe 
inquire into the operation of the Act 4 and 5 Will. 4, 
c. 24, as regards Superannuation Allowances to Per- 
sons having filled Civil Offices :—And the said Motion 
was, with leave of the House, withdrawn. 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Friday morning ; 


Veneris, 14° die Aprilis, 1837: 


TO- Superannuation 
to Allowances. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Prisons | 
to improve Prisons and Prison Discipline in Scotland ; (Scotland) Bill. \ 
And that Mr. Fox Maule, the Lord Advocate, and 
Lord John Russell do prepare, and bring it in. 


The Noes to the old Lobby. 
Tellers for the f Mr. Roebuck, 
Yeas, Mr. Wakley : 
Tellers for the { Mr. Edward John Stanley, } 81 
Noes, Mr. Fox Maule : : 
So it passed in the Negative. 


Veo, 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Charitable 
Returns of the Sums of Money now in the hands of Bequests 


Newspapers 
Stamp Duty. 


And the Question being put, That the words 
“ there be laid before this House, Accounts expla- 
“ natory of the effect produced upon the Revenue 
“ by the reduction of the Stamp Duty on News- 
“ papers,” be added instead thereof; it was resolved 
in the Affirmative. 

Then the main Question, so amended, being put ; 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Accounts explanatory of the effect produced upon the 
Revenue by the reduction of the Stamp Duty on 
Newspapers. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Returns of any Informations or other Legal Proceed- 


ings instituted in respect to the Stamp Duty on 
OL. 92. 





the Board of Charitable Bequests in Ireland ; spe- (Ireland.) 


cifying the exact Amount invested in the different 
Stocks or otherwise, and the Amount deducted as 
Treasurer’s Commission from the Interest and Divi- - 
dends upon each particular Stock or other Invest- 
ment, and by what authority such deductions were 
made: —-Of the Annual Amount of Rents (distin- 
guishing from what source they respectively proceed), 
Annuities, Rentcharges and other Annual Receipts 
not embraced by the previous Return, and the Amount 
of Commission deducted therefrom as Treasurer’s 
Commission :—Of all fixed Deductions made from 
Charity Property, Principal or Income, by virtue of 
any Order of the Board of Charitable Bequests, or 

LL2 otherwise 





Spirits, 


Post Office. 


Imprisonment 
fur Debt Bille 





260 


otherwise sanctioned by the Board :—Of all Orders | 


made by the Board of Charitable Bequests since its 
pare desea with the Date when each Order passed : 
—Stating when the Orders, calling for Returns of 
Charitable Bequests, and requesting Statements of 
any withheld, concealed or eo Charitable 
Donations and Bequests to be forwarded to the 
Board, were first issued, and how, and at what 

riods, the forms of Return are circulated by the 
Teed :—Of the Number of forms of “ Return of 
Charitable Donations and Bequests,” which have 
been issued by the Board of Charitable Bequests ; 
the Number of such Returns which have been per- 
fected and forwarded to the Board; stating the Gross 
Amount of the Principal and Interest of the Charity 
Funds in each Parish or Union in Jreland, from 
which such Returns have been made; with the 
Rental or Income from Land or other Property not 
consisting of Money, specified in such Returns :— 
and, of the present state of Proceedings, and when 
Proceedings commenced, in each Case instituted b 
the,said Board, for the recovery of any Sums appli- 
cable to the Poor or to Charitable Institutions. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Accounts of the total Gallons of Proof Spirits dis- 
tilled in England, Scotland and Ireland, respec- 
tively ; distinguishing the Quantities produced from 
Malt and from a mixture of Malt and Unmalted 
Grain, or from any other ingredient; showing also, 
the total Quantity of each sort in the United King- 
dom, for the year ending 5th January 1837 :—Of 
the Number of Gallons of Proof Spirits (distin- 
cg the sorts), on which Duty was paid for 
ome consumption in each of the three Kingdoms, 
with the rate per Gallon, and Amount of such Duty; 
also, the Total of Gallons and Duty in the United 
Kingdom, for the year ending 5th y tna 1837 :— 
Showing, under separate Heads, the wh of 
Proof Gallons of Spirits (distinguishing the mate- 
rials from which made), imported into each King- 
dom from each of the others respectively, and in- 
cluding in the cases of England and Scotland those 
conveyed either by Land or Sea; stating also, the 
rate of Duty per Gallon, and the Total Amount 
thereof in each case, and what portion of such Duty 
was paid on removal of the Spirits from Bond, and 
what after their arrival at the Place of Destination, 
for the year ending 5th January 1837 :—Of the total 
Number of Gallons of Proof Spirits permitted out 
from Distillers’ Stocks in England, and total Num- 
ber of Proof Gallons of British Brandy and Spirits 
of Wine permitted out from Rectifiers’ Stocks in 
England, for the year ending 5th January 1837; 
also, the Stocks remaining in the hands of English 
Distillers on 5th January 1837:—And, of the total 
Number of Proof Gallons of Rum, Brandy, Geneva 
and all other Foreign Spirits that paid Duty in each 
Kingdom from 5th January 1836 to 5th January 
1837 ; rate of Duty per Gallon, and Amount thereof; 
total Number of Gallons of each kind, and total 
Duty thereon; total Number of Gallons of all kinds, 
and total Duty thereon for the United Kingdom; 
showing the total Number of Proof Gallons of all 
kinds that paid Duty, and total Amount thereof in 
each Kingdom, and total Number of Gallons, and 
total Duty thereon, in the whole United Kingdom, 
from 5th January 1836 to 5th January 1837. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Copy of the = between the Lords Com- 
missioners of His Majesty’s Treasury and the Post- 
master General, on the subject of the detention in 
London of Letters from the Country on the Lord’s 
Day; and also, with reference to any proposals 
for passing Letters through London on the Lord’s 
Day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Imprisonment for Debt Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 





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A. 1837. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Dublin Police 
further consideration the Report on the Dublin Bill. 
Police Bill; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration this day. 


Mr. Baring reported from the Committee of Ways Ways and 
and Means, a Riedidiien which was read, as fol- Means. 
loweth ; 

Resolved, That, towards making good the Supply 
granted to His Majesty for the Service of the year 
1837, the Sum of Eight Millions be granted out of 
the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of 
Great Britain and Ireland. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 

Ordered, That a Bill be brought in upon the said Consolidated 
Resolution: And that Mr. Baring and Mr. Chan- Fund Bill. 
cellor of the Exchequer do prepare, and bring it in. 


The Order of the day being read, for receiving Supply. 
the Report from the Committee of Supply ; 
Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 


A Motion being made, That this House will, this Court of 
day, resolve itself into a Committee, to consider of Exchequer _ 
making Compensation out of the Consolidated Fund Sommers om. 
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire- i, Officers] “ 
land to certain Officers of the Court of Exchequer 
in Scotland in the event of their Offices being abo- 
lished under the provisions of any Act to be passed 
in the present Session to regulate certain Offices in 
the Court of Exchequer in Scotland ; 

Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, by His Ma- 
jesty’s command, acquainted the House, That His 
Majesty, having been informed of the subject-matter 
of this Motion, recommends it to the consideration 
of the House. 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of the town and manor Dungannon 
of Dungannon, praying that no alteration or restric- Manor Cour 
‘ na ee Pipa - (Ireland.) 
tion may be made in the jurisdiction, powers or pri- 
vileges of the Manor Court of Dungannon (Ireland), 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 

the Table. 


Mr. Fox Maule presented a Bill to improve Prisons 
Prisons and Prison Discipline in Scotland: And (Scotland) Bill 
the same was read the first time; and ordered to be No- 197. 
read a second time upon Thursday, the 25th day of 
May next; and to be printed. 


And then the House, havin 
one of the clock on 
journed till this day. 


continued to sit till 
riday morning, ad- 








Veneris, 14° die Aprilis ; 
Anuo 7° Willielmi IV" Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 
P ETITIONS from Residents of Holywell ;— Chester and 
Wrexham ;— and, Mold; praying that the Crewe Railway 
Chester and Crewe Railway Bil may pass into a ” 
law,—were presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


Petitions from the Corporation of Macclesfield ;— Manchester 

and, Henry Stakes, Chairman of the Committee 24 Tamvor 

: ‘ . Railway Bill. 
appointed for watching over and protecting the 
interests of the inhabitants of Tamworth, and the 
neighbourhood, with reference to Railways intended 


to pass through or near Tamworth; praying that 
the Manchester and Tamworth Railway Bill may 


pass into a law,—were presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The 











— o*!, 


— &amp; 








Stamford 
Waterworks 
Bill, 


Waterford 
County Rates 
Bill. 


Stourbridge 
Canal Bill. 


Manchester 
and Stafford 
Railway Bill, 


Fishguard 
Harbour Bill, 


Chester and 
Crewe Railway 
Bill. 


Birkenhead 
and Chester 
Railway Bill. 








7 Witt. [V. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Report which upon the 6th day of this instant 
April was made from the Committee on the Stam- 
ford Waterworks Bill, printed Copies of the Bill 
having been delivered at the door upon Monday 
last; and the Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed. 


The Waterford County Rates Bill was read a 
second time ; and committed to Mr. Villiers Stuart 
and the Munster List. 


Sir Oswald Mosley reported from the Committee 
on the Stourbridge Canal Bill; That the Standing 
Orders relative to Navigation Bills had been com- 
plied with; and that they had examined the allega- 
tions of the Bill, and found the same to be true ; 
and had gone through the Bill, and made Amend- 
ments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Owners and Occupiers of land 
and premises in Stoke-upon-Trent ;—and, James 
Fildes, of Manchester, grocer, and William Tebbutt, 
of Manchester, merchant, and Maria Archer, of 
Manchester ; praying that they may be heard, by 
themselves, their counsel or agents, against certain 
parts of the Manchester and Stafford Railway Bill, 
—were presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit ; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 

A Petition of Gentry, Tradesmen and Inhabitants 
of the city of Chester, praying that the said Bill 
may pass into a law, was also presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The Fishguard Harbour Bill was read a second 
time; and committed to Mr. Scourfield and the 
Wales List. 

Petitions from Freeholders, Land-owners and 
Occupiers, Merchants, Traders, Ship-owners and 
Master Mariners of Milford Haven and Haverford- 
west ;—and, Saint David’s, Solva, Mathry, Trevine 
and Abercastle; praying that the said Bill may pass 
into a law,—were presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Jervis reported from the Committee on the 
Chester and Crewe Railway Bill ; That the Standing 
Orders relative to Bills for making Railways had 
been complied with; and that they had inquired 
into the several matters required we Fa Resolutions 
of the House of the 1st day of March 1836, and 
had also examined the allegations of the Bill, and 
found the same to be true; and had gone through 
the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


A Petition of Subscribers te a Parliamentary 
Contract filed in the Private Bill Office of the House 
by the promoters of the Birkenhead and Chester 
Railway Bill, setting forth, That the Petitioners un- 
derstand that for the purpose of such Bill the pro- 
moters have filed a subscription contract executed 
by the Petitioners, and being a contract for another 
purpose, namely, for a Railway to commence in 
Cheshire opposite the town of Liverpool, and to run 
to some point on the Grand Junction Railway be- 
tween Warrington and Birmingham, and that instead 
of a Bill being brought in in conformity to the said 
contract, a Bill has been introduced having reference 
simply, as the preamble shows, to a line from Bir- 
henhead to the city of Chester, communicating with 
the lower ferries, and utterly omitting the line of 
Chester to join the Grand Junction, which junction 


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261 


was intended to be made at or near Crewe; and 
raying that the promoters of the said Bill may not 
€ permitted to proceed therewith, or to apply to 
the purposes of the said undertaking a subscription 
contract which was not intended for any such pur- 
pose, and cannot be legitimately applied thereto ; 
and that the Petitioners may be relieved from future 
responsibility in respect of the said contract, was pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
A Petition of Henry and Charles Potis, both of 
the city of Chester, Esquires, praying that they may 
be heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
against certain parts of the said Bill, was also pre- 
sented, and od 
Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


The Barnsley Waterworks Bill was read a second Barnsley 
time; and committed to Sir George Strickland and }vier"o" 
the York List. . 


Leeds Water- 


Petitions from the Earl of Cardigan ;—and, George meaty 


Lane Fox, of Bramham Park, in the county of 
York, Esquire, praying that they may be heard, by 
their counsel or agents, against certain parts of the 
Leeds Waterworks Bill,—were presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by their counsel or agents, upon their Peti- 
tions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in favour 
of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


Petitions from George Gartside, of Holmfirth, Holme Reser- 
dyer and mill-owner ;—and, Thomas Greenwood, of ¥°*S Bill. 
psley, dyer; praying that they may be heard, by 
themselves, their counsel or agents, against certain 
parts of the Holme Reservoirs Bill, were presented, 
and read. 
And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


A Petition of Trustees of the roads leading from Dublin and 
the city of Dublin, over Ballybough and Annesley Drogheda | 
Bridges, praying that the Dublin and Drogheda a 
Railway Bill may not pass into a law as it now 
stands, was presented, and read ; and referred to the 
Committee on the Bill. 


A Petition of Thomas Green, of William-street, Westminster 
New North Road, inthe county of Middlesex, com- Bridge and 
plaining of unjust charges made against him by the Q™rn"i"} 
directors of the Westminster Bridge and G'reenwich sine 
Railway Company, and praying for inquiry, was 
presented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on the Deptford and Dover Railway Sub- 
scription List. 


Ordered, That the Petition of Richard Lill, relative Southwark and 
to the Contract Deed for the Southwark and Ham- Hammersmith 
mersmith Railway, which was presented upon the 21st **!™*y Bill. 
day of March last, be referred to the Select Committee 
onthe Deptfordand Dover Railway Subscription List. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Victuallers’ 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, Assurance 
intituled, An Act to enable the Licensed Victuallers ©°™P*"9 Bi 
and General Fire and Life Assurance Company to 

sue and be sued in the Name of the Chairman, 

Deputy Chairman, or of any one of the Directors 

of the said Company, and for other purposes; and 

the same were read, as follow : 

Pr. 2. 1. 37. Leave out “ or,” and in the same 

line, after “ director” insert “ or officer.” 

Pr. 4. 1. 9. Leave out “ action,” and insert 

“ actions.” 


’ 





Vot. 92. 





LL3 Pr. 14, 








Glasgow, 
Paisley, and 
Greenock 
Railway Bill. 


London and 
Brighton 
Railway Bill 
(Stephenson’s 
Line-) 


Church Rates 
Regulation, 





262 


Pr. 14. 1. 21. Leave out “ or,’ and in the same 
line, after “ director” insert “ or officer.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, | 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Hawes do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and acquaint them that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lordships. 





A Petition of Owners of land and houses in | 
Hutchisontown, Laurieston, Tradeston and Gorbals ; | 
—and, Inhabitants of Largs and Fairley ; praying | 
that the Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway | 
Bill may pass into a law,—were presented, and | 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Members of the Provisional Com- 
mittee for promoting a Railway from London to 
Brighton on the line laid down by Messrs. Ste- 


14° Aprilis. 


A. 1837. 


pole Saint Peter ;—North Wootton;—Castle Rising ; 
—Roydon ; — Great and Little Tew ;— Chilton 
Foliat ; —Coulston; —Stoke and Winsley ; — At- 
worth ;--East Stoke (Wilts); —Compton Rat 
Chudleigh;—Over Kellet ; — Gressingham ;—King- 
ston-upon-Hull; — North Grimston ; — Sherston 
Magna, Sherston Pinkney and Alderton ;— and, 
New Brentford ; praying that the proposed measure 
relative to Church Rates may not receive the 
sanction of the House,-—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from Gedney ;—Tydd Saint Giles, in 
the Isle of Ely;—Fleet ; Long Sutton ; —Bud- 
leigh Salterton;— Armeliffe and other places; — 
Helston ;—Portsea;— Holyhead ;— Taunton ;-- Bury 
Saint Edmund’s (two Petitions) ;— Beith ;—— Bishop 
Auckland ;—Tintwistle ; — Dukinfield ;— Stockport ; 
— Overton, Flintshire; — All Saints, Canterbury 





= denying the allegations contained in the 
etition of the Chairman, and others of the Pro- 
visional Committee of a company formed for the 
purpose of constructing a Railway (without a tunnel) 
from London to Brighton which was presented yes- 
terday, and praying for inquiry, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Ordered, That the Petition be printed. 


Petitions from Burslem ;—Alfold ;— Saint An- 
drew, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ;—Saint Nicholas, New- 
castle-upon-Tyne ;—Thorpe Malsor ;—W hittington ; 


-—Saint John, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; — Grendon | 


Bishop ;—Collington ; — Thornbury ; — Horton ; — 
Bolton;—Turton and Bradshaw ;—Little Lever ;— 
Breightmet and Harwood ;— Farnworth and Kears- 
ley ; — Ainsworth ; — Sharples ;— Ringley and Out- 
wood ;—Stoke Doyle ;—Clipston ;—King’s Cliffe ;— 
Arthingworth ; — Great Oxendon ; — Benefield; — 
Easton-on-the- Hill; —Little Ousburn ;—Clergy of 
the Deanery of Elham ;— Dover ;— Rothley ;— 
Word alias Worth; —Nonington ; —Clergy of the 
Deanery of Westbere ;— London Society for promot- 
ing Christianity among the Jews ;— Tudbury ;— 
Geddington ;—Cranseley ; —Nassington ;— Yarwell ; 
— Woodnewton ;— Broughton ; — Oundle; — Pole- 
brook ;—Ashton ;— Tansor ; —Cottingham-cum-Mid- 
dleton ;— Thorpe Achurch ;— Eastwood ;— Borden ;— 
Upper Hardres and Stelling ;—Saint Peter, Canter- 
bury ;— Holy Cross, Westgate, Canterbury ;—_Blank- 
ney ;— Brotherton ;— Foleshill ;— Ansty ;—Shilton;— 
Lea Marston ;— Burton Dassett, and other places ; 
——Cottesbatch ; — Bilton;— Dean and Chapter of 
Peterborough ; — Finedon ; — Lutterworth ; — Colly 
Weston ;—Calthorpe ;— Rothwell, with the Chapelry 
of Orton ;—Apethorpe ;— Dallowgill ;— Brearton ;— 
Pannal ;— Bilton with Harrogate ;— Boddington ;— 
Bramley ;— Bradwell near the Sea;—Saint Margaret 
Pattens and Saint Gabriel Fenchurch, London ;— 
Saint Stephen, Coleman-street, London ;—Kendal ;— 
Doveridge and Somershall ;— Leominster ;—Pudles- 
ton; -—— Newport Pagnel; — Newton Longville ; — 
Hanslope;— Ludgershall;—Wazvendon ;—Upton-cum- 
Chalvey ; —Cublington; —Aston Abbots ;-- Preston 
Bissett ;—Olney ;—Langley Marish; —Twyford ;-- 
Hartley Wespall ;— Woughton ; —Ashendon ;—Dor- 
ton ;— Simpson ; — Kingsey ;—Clifton Reynes ;-- 
Bletchley and Waier Eaton ;— Walton ;—Chalfont 
Saint Peters ;—Whitchurch;— Hardmead ; Newton 
Flossomville;—Great I ainford ;—Embeyton;—Wing ; 
-— Whaddon ;—— Kingsclere ;—.Bradenham ; — Aving- 
ton ;— Edmonton ;— Kingwesion, West Lydford, and 
East Lydford ;—W est Cranmore ;— East Cranmore ; 
—Whaitley ;—Yarlington and other places ;-—Week 
Saint Lawrence ;—Selworthy;—Burnham( Somerset) ; 
—East Brent ;—Chard, Combe Saint Nicholas and 
Buckland Saint Mary ;-——Bedminster (Archdeacon 
and Clergy of the Archdeaconry) ;—Isleworth, Hes- 
ton and Hounslow ;--Winterslow ;-—Saint Marylebone 
(Vestrymen) ; — Veryan ;-— Manaccan, Meneage; — 


Saint Anthony, Meneage ;-- Saint Austell; — Holmp- 


(Chairman of a Vestry Meeting);—-Cranbrook ;— 
| Kirbythure ;— Shepton Mallet ;— Lichfield ;—Saint 
| Ives, Huntingdon ;—Saint Neot’s (two Petitions) ; 
_--Bradford ;— Leeds (three Petitions) ;—Meltham ; 
—Evxeter (two Petitions) ; —Stowmarket ;— Man- 
chester ;—Macclesfield ;--Presbyterian Ministers of 
the county of Chester ;—East Budleigh and Bud- 
leigh Salterton ; — Gorton (two Petitions) ; — Castle 
Combe; — Harleston; — Kingsland ;— Mile End ;— 
Charlestown with Pendleton; — and, Manchester ; 
praying that the said proposed measure may receive 
the sanction of the House,—were also presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Devizes ;— Nuneaton Union ;— Poor Law Act, 
Scaleby ;— Lanercost ;— Horton ;— Sculcoates ;— 
Mildenhall Union ; — Ryarsh ;— and, Tunbridge ; 
praying for the repeal or amendment of the Poor 

aw Act,—were presented, and read; and referred 
to the Select Committee on the Poor Law Act. 

Petitions from East Ward Union, Westmorland; 
— Woburn Union ; — Sevenoaks ; — and, Mildenhall 
Union ; praying that the said Act may not be re- 
pealed,—were also presented, and read; and referred 
to the said Select Committee. 


Petitions from Devizes ;—Chard Union ;—Great Rating of 
Ouseburn Union ;—and, Guiltcross Union ; praying Tenements. 
the House to pass a law for rating to Parochial 
Rates the Owners instead of the Occupiers of small 
tenements,—were presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from the port of Hayle ;— Bangor ;— shipping 
and, Wisbeach; praying the House to relieve the Gazette. 
proprietors of the London Shipping Gazette from 
the postage of letters containing shipping and com- 
mercial intelligence only,—were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Walteen ;—Maherecoolmooney and Tithes | 
Drumkeeran ; — Islandmagee ; — and, Derryloran ; (leel#4.) 
praying for the abolition of Tithes in Zreland,—were 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


Petitions from James Surrey;— M. and A. Kieran; Bonded Cora. 
—and, Proprietors of mills and freeholders in 
Greenock ; praying that Foreign Corn in Bond may 
be allowed to be ground for exportation under proper 
restrictions,—were presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of James Usher, of Barn Place, Old Commercialand 
Ford Lane, Bow, praying that the Commercial and ©*s** Bones. 
Essex Roads, with the cross Roads connecting them, 
may be placed under the control of the Metropolis 
Roads Commissioners, was presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition cf Twopenny Post Letter-carriers, 
complaining of the painful situation in which they 1** 








Twopenny Post 
ter Carriers. 


ton ;— Norton ;—Wharram Piercy ;-—Seterington ;— | are placed in consequence of the inadequate remu- 
Birdsalt ;—Thuring ; — Wharram-le-street ;— Wal-' neration received by them when compared with the 





very 


Lord’s Daye 


Fire Insurances. 


Household 
Suffrage. 


Education 
(Ireland.) 


Sale of Spirits, 
&amp;c. (Ireland. 


Tithe Commu- 
tation Survey. 


Soap. 


Municipal 
Corporations 
(Ireland) Bill, 


Cotton. 


Foreign Wool 
and Olive Oil, 


7 Wit. IV. 


very arduous and fatiguing duty performed, and the 
responsibility incurred by them ; and praying relief, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 

Ordered, That the Petition be printed. 


Petitions from Standish ;—— Upholland ; — Liddi- 
ard Millicent ;— Wigan;— Haigh and Aspull ; — 
Rothwell;—and, Cricklade Saint Mary; praying 
that a general Bill for the bett¢r Observance of the 
Lord’s Day may be permitted to go into a Committee 
of the whole House,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Mewcastle-upon- Tyne, 
praying for the repeal of the Duty on Fire Insu- 
rances, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Northampton, praying 
that all householders may have the right of voting 
at Elections for Members to serve in Parliament, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


Petitions from the Bishop and Clergy of the 
diocese of Down and Connor ;—Clergy of Water- 
ford and Lismore ;—Cashell;—and, Derry and 
Raphoe; praying that the present system of National 
Education in Ireland may not be persisted ,—were 
presented, and read; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Plan of Education (Jreland). 


A Petition of Churchwardens and Overseers of 
the parish of Saint Peter, Dublin, praying for a Law 
entirely to prevent the sale of Spirits, Wine or Beer, 
by all grocers and publicans in Jreland on the 
Lord’s Day, and for the amendment of the Acts 
3 and 4 Will. 4, c. 68, and 6 and 7 Will. 4, c. 38, 
relating thereto, was presented, and read; and or- 
dered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Martindale; — and, Henbury; 
praying the House to refuse its assent or counte- 
nance to surveys or plans being made under the 
superintendence of the Tithe Commissioners in all 
the parishes in England and Wales, for the comple- 
tion of voluntary agreements under the Tithe Act, 
but leave it to the parties themselves to have plans 
already in existence made use of according to the 
intent of the 34th and 35th sections of the Tithe 
Act, without inflicting on the Petitioners, and others 
similarly cireumstanced a most grievous expense, by 
no means required for any useful purpose,—were 
presented, and read ; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Tithe Commutation Survey. 


Petitions from Totnes; — Bridgetown and the 
vicinity ;—and, Modbury ; praying for the repeal of 
the Duty on Soap,—were presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lic upon the Table. 


A Petition of William Ellis, of the city of 
Londonderry, Writing Clerk, praying that if the 
Municipal Corporations (Zreland) Bill passes into a 
law, compensation may be granted to him for the 
loss of his emoluments, and the fees arising from 
his present office of Clerk of the Court of Conscience 
in that city, was presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Gentlemen, Tradesmen and other 
Inhabitants of Mold, praying for the repeal of the 
Duty on Cotton, was presented, and read; and or- 
dered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Woollen Manufacturers, Mill- 
owners and others engaged in the manufacture of 
woollen cloth in the township of Batley, praying for 
the repeal of the Duties on foreign wool and olive 
oil, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 

Vox. 92. 


14° Aprils. 





263 


A Petition of Benjamin Mills, late Surveyor of Benjamin Mills. 
Assessed and Land Taxes for the division of Saint 
Pancras, in the county of Middlesex, complaining 
of the inadequate retired allowance afforded him; 
and praying the House to appoint a Committee to 
investigate his case, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Queen Anne’s 
Copies of the several Charters which were granted Bounty. 
by her late Majesty Queen Anne to the Governors 
of Queen Anne’s Bounty, and of the several Rules 
and Orders under the Sign Manual, relating to 
Queen Anne’s Bounty. 


The House was moved, That the Order made upon Birmingham 
Wednesday last, That leave be given to bring in a snd Derby. 
Bill, pursuant to the prayer of the Petition of the ®*!*y Bill. 
Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway Com- 
pany, might be read; and the same being read ; 

A Motion was made, and the Question being put, 

That the said Order be discharged ; it passed in the 
Negative. 

Sir Eardley Wilmot presented a Bill to rectify a Birmingham 
Mistake in an Act of the last Session of Parliament, Railway Bill 
for making a Railway from the London and Bir- 
mingham Railway, near Birmingham, to Derby, to 
be called “ The Birmingham and Derby Junction 
Railway, with a Branch:” And the same was read 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


Belfast Harbour 


A Petition of Merchants, Ship-owners and others, 
(No. 2.) Bill. 


of Carrickfergus, praying that the Belfast Har- 
bour (No. 2.) Bill may not pass into a law, was 


presented, and read and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


Petitions from Proprietors, Merchants, Manufac- Glasgow and 
turers, Householders and Inhabitants of Stewarton ; Ayt Railway 
—and, Magistrates, Council and Inhabitants of ~"” 
Galston; praying that the Glasgow and Ayr Rail- 
way Bill may not pass into a law,—were presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Trustees of the Turnpike Road lead- Glasgow, 
ing from Glasgow to Three Mile-house, half way to Paisley, and 
Paisley, praying that they may be heard, by them- Railway Bill. 
selves, their counsel or agents, against certain parts 
of the Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway Bill, 
was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of Directors and Members of the Ge- Glasgow and 
neral Agricultural Association, and Proprietors of -_ Railway 
land of the county of Ayr, praying that the Glasgow" * 
and Ayr Railway Bill may pass into a law, was 
— and read; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 


An ingrossed Bill to alter, amend, explain and Clarence 
enlarge the Powers of the several Acts for making (Durham) | 
and maintaining the Clarence Railway, was read the 8*'"*Y ¥"!- 
third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Hodgson Hinde do carry the 
Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


A Petition of Trustees of the Chester, Neston and King’s Ferry 
Woodside Ferry District of Roads, praying that they 2"4 Liverpool 
may be heard, by themselves, their Lancione 1) Poe —_— 
against certain parts of the King’s Ferry and Liver- 
pool Road Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 

LL4 by 








Belfast and 
Hollywood 
Railway Bill. 


Edinburgh 
and Glasgow 
Railway Pill. 


Post Office 
Acts Repeal 
Bill. 


No. 209. 


Post Office 
Management 
Bill. 


No. 207. 


Postage Duties 
Bill. 


No. 208. 


Franking Bill. 
No. 210. 


Post Office 
Offences Bill. 


No. 211. 


264 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
e 


tition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, -in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of Narcissus Batt, of Purdysburn, 
Esquire, praying that he may be heard, by himself, 
his counsel or agent, against certain parts of the 
— and Hollywood Railway Bill, was presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Governor and Company of the 
Bank of Scotland, praying that they may be heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, against cer- 
tain parts of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway 
Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee upon the Post Office Acts Repeal 
Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal reported, That 
the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Bernal reported the Bill accordingly; and 
the Report was ordered to be taken into further 
consideration upon Friday next; and the Bill, as 
amended, to be printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Post Office Management Bill; 

Ordered, That it be an Instruction to the Com- 
mittee, That they have Power to divide the Bill into 
two Bills. 

Then the House resolved itself into the Committee ; 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker re- 
sumed the Chair; and Mr. Edward John Stanley re- 
ported, That the Committee had divided the said Bill 
into two Bills; and had gone through one of the 
said Bills, for the Management and Regulation of 
the Post Office, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Stanley reported the Bill accordingly; and 
the Report was ordered to be taken into further 
consideration upon Friday next; and the Bill, as 
amended, to be printed. 


Mr. Stanley also reported, That the Committee 
had gone through the other of the said Bills, for 
the Regulation of the Duties of Postage, and-made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Stanley reported the Bill accordingly ; and 
the Report was ordered to be taken into further 
consideration upon Friday next; and the Bill, as 
amended, to be printed. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself into 
a Committee upon the Franking Bill; and, after 
some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the 
Chair; and Mr. Bernal reported, That the Com- 
mittee had gone through the Bill, and made Amend- 
men's thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Bernal reported the Bill accordingly; and 
the Report was ordered to be taken into further 
consideration upon Friday next; and the Bill, as 
amended, to be printed. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself into 
a Committee upon the Post Office Offences Bill ; 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker re- 
sumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal reported, That 
the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 





14° Aprilis. 





A. 1837. 


Mr. Bernal reported the Bill accordingly ; and 
the Report was ordered to be taken into further 
consideration upon Friday next; and the Bill, as 
amended, to be printed. 


A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Adam and Message from 

Mr. Senior : the Lords, 
Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Rapallo’s 
for naturalizing Ernesto Domenico Damiano Rapallo ; N- Bill. 
to which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House ; And also, 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Solari’s 
for naturalizing Angelo Antonio Solari; to which N*- Bill. 
~ Lords desire the concurrence of this House: And 
also, 

The Lords do give leave to Lord Ellenborough and East India 
Lord Glenelg to come to the Select Committee ap- — 
pointed by this House “to whom the Petition of 
Captains Newall, Barrow and Glasspoole, Com- 
manders in the late Maritime Service of the East 
India Company, complaining that the Compensation 
to which they are entitled has been withheld from 
them by the Board of Control, was referred” (pur- 
suant to Message of this House of yesterday), in order 
to their being examined as Witnesses before the said 
Select Committee, if their Lordships think fit :—And 
then the Messengers withdrew. 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant Lewes Writ. 

to the Clerk of the Crown to make out a new Writ 
for the electing of a Burgess to serve in this present 
Parliament for the Borough of‘ Lewes, in the room 
of Thomas Read Kemp, Esquire, who since his elec- 
tion for the said Borough hath accepted the office 
of Steward or Bailiff of His Majesty’s three Chiltern 
Hundreds of Stoke, Desborough and Bonenham, in 
the County of Buckingham. 


Resolved, That this House will, at the rising of Adjournment. 
the House this day, adjourn till Monday next. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to the Eccle- Ecclesiastical 
siastical Commission, which was presented on the Commission. 
10th day of February last, be printed. No. 198. 

Ordered, That the Account relative to the Russian Russian Dutch 
Dutch Loan, which was presented upon the 13th Lean. 
day of February last, be printed. No. 199. 

Ordered, That the Account relative to the Greek Greek Loan. 
Loan, which was presented upon the 13th day of No. 200, 
February last, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Account relative to Pilotage, Pilotage. 
which was presented upon the 7th day of March No.201. 
last, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Returns relative to the Court Bankruptcy 


of Bankruptcy and Fiats, which were presented Court and Fiats. 


upon the 4th, 6th and 13th days of this instant No. 202. 
April, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Paper relative to Municipal ovtinss 
Corporations (Mr. Hogg’s Report), which was pre-, 4 ey 
sented upon the 5th day of this instant April, be Report.) 


printed. No. 203. 
Ordered, That the Paper relative to the Church Church | 
Commission, which was presented upon Wednesday Caen. 
last, be printed. No. 204. 
Ordered, That the Returns relative to the Court Court of 
of Chancery, which were presented yesterday, be yo 
printed. 0. 205. 

Ordered, That the Return relative to the Post Post Office 
Office Revenue, which was presented upon the ath Reve: 
day of March, in the last Session of Pariiament, be No. 206. 
printed. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Canada. 
into a Committee to consider further of the state of 
the Province of Lower Canada. 


(In the Committee.) 


Motion made, and Question proposed, That while 
it is expedient to improve the composition of the 
Executive 


op 


oa 


s 


7 Witt. IV. 


Executive Council in Zower Canada, it is unad- 
visable to subject it to the responsibility demanded 
by the House of Assembly of that Province. 

Amendment proposed: To leave out all the words 
after the word “ That,” and add the words “ it is 
“ expedient to abolish the Legislative Council of 
“ the Province of Lower Canada.” 

Question put, That the words proposed to be left 
out stand part of the Question; - 

The Committee divided : 

Tellers for the f Mr. Edward John Stanley, \, 


Yeas, Lord George Lennox: J _ 
Tellers for the f Mr. Roebuck, } 46 
Noes, Mr. Leader : ; 


Main Question put, and agreed to. 

Motion made, and Question put, That the Chair- 
man do report Progress, and ask leave to sit again 
agreed to. 





And the House having ¢ontinued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Saturday morning ; 


Sabbati, 15° die Aprilis, 1837. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had made further 
Progress in the matter to them referred; and that 
he was directed to move, that the Committee may 
have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Recorders 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
Courts Bill. 


further consideration the Report on the Recorders 
Courts Bill; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Monday next. 


Court of Session The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
(Scotland) Bill. mittee on the Court of Session (Scotland) Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday | 

next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Small Debts The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
(Scotland) Bill. mittee on the Small Debts (Scotland) Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Ways and 
Means. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Ways and Means; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
Supply. The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Court of 
Exchequer 


(Scotland) Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Court of Exchequer (Scotland) Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 

next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
Church Lands. The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate upon the Question proposed 
yesterday, That there be laid before this seme 
Copies of all the Parliamentary Surveys of Church 
Lands made in 1646, and deposited by Parliament 
in the Library of Manuscripts at Lambeth Palace ; 

The House was moved, That the entry in the 
Journal of the House of the 13th day of May 1662, 
in relation to the said Papers, might be read, and 
the same was réad, as followeth ; 

“Whereas Mr. Crouch, one of the Members of 
this House, did acquaint this House, That in pur- 
suance of their Order they had received from Mr. 
WVye divers Presentations, Books of Institutions and 
other Records and Writings concerning Ecclesiastical 
Livings, and now desired the directions of this House 
how he should dispose thereof. 

Vou. 92. 


Ecclesiastical 
Records, 


14°—15° Aprils. 





265 


“ Ordered, That Mr. Crouch do deliver all the 
Presentations, Books of Institutions, and other Re- 
cords and Writings concerning Ecclesiastical Livgs, 
which by order of this House he received from Mr. 
ye, into the hands of the Most Reverend Father 
in God the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, who is 
desired to take care that the same may be preserved 
in: perpetuity for public use. 

“ Ordered, That Mr. Michael Mallett and Mr. 
William Ayloffe do deliver all such Surveys and 
other Records and Writings concerning the Arch- 
bishopricks, Bishopricks and Deans and Chapters 
which are in their hands, unto the Most Reverend 
Father in God the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, 
who is desired to take care for the preservation 
thereof; and to dispose of the same to the respective 
Bishops, Deans and Chapters who are therein con- 
pas if he shall think fit. 

“‘ Ordered, That these Votes be printed and pub- 
lished, that all persons concerned may take notice 
thereof.” 

Then the House resumed the said adjourned 
Debate. 

And the Question being put ; 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Copies of all the Parliamentary Surveys of Church 
Lands, made in 1646, and deposited by Parliament 
in the Library of Manuscripts at Lambeth Palace. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Dublin Police 
further consideration the Report on the Dublin Bill. 
Police Bill :—The Bill was re-committed to a Com- 
mittee of the whole House :—And the House im- 
mediately resolved itself into the Committee ; and, 
after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed 
the Chair, and Mr. Bernal reported, That the Com- 
mittee had gone through the Bil, and made Amend- 
ments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon Mon- 
day next. 


The Order of the day being read, for receiving supply. 
the Report from the Committee of Supply ; 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon Mon- 
day next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Court of 
mittee to whom it was referred to consider of makin tern a 
Compensation out of the Consolidated Fund of the se 
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to to Oftcers.] 
certain Officers of the Court of Exchequer in Sco¢- 
land in the event of their Offices being abolished 
under the provisions of any Act to be passed in the 
present Session to regulate certain Offices in the 
Court of Exchequer in Scotland ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed Metropolis 
to inquire into the provisions of the Act 3 and 4 Police Offices. 
Will. 4, c. 19, “ for the more effectual Administration 
of Justice in the Office of aJustice of the Peace in the 
several Police Offices established in the Metropolis, 
and for the more effectual preventicn of Depreda- 
tions on the River Thames and its vicinity, for Three 
years,” with a view to the further improvement of the 
same :—And a Committee was appointed of Mr. 

Hawes, Mr. Fox Maule, Sir Robert Peel, Mr. Hume, 

Mr. Ross, Lord Hotham, Mr. Roebuck, Mr. Est- 

court, Mr. Howard Elphinstone, Mr. Poulett Scrope, 

Mr. Clay, Mr. Marshall, Lord Viscount Howick, 

Mr. Robert Clive, and Mr. Alderman Wood; with 

Power to send for persons, papers and records. 
Ordered, That Five be the _ Mab 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, runatic 
Returns of the Expense of each District Lunatic Asylums 
Asylum in Ireland, for the Year ending 31st March (#4) 
1837; showing the total Expense, the average 
Expense of each Patient, the Number of Patients 
from each County, and the Sum charged to each 

MM County 





266 
County in that Year:—Also, of the Number of 
Patients in each on the 1st April 1836, the Number 
admitted,and the Number Sinkenged: distinguishing 
those discharged as cured, as relieved, and as harm- 
less and incurable ; the Number who have died, and 
the Total discharged and died ; the Number to 
whom Admission was refused, and the average Num- 
ber in the Asylum, during the Year ending 31st 
March 1837:—Also, of the Total Expenditure; the 
Total Cost per head per annum; the Expenditure 
in Furniture, Bedding and Linen; the Expenditure 
in Fixtures, Additions, Alterations, Workmen’s Bills, 
&amp;c. ; the Expenditure in Clothing ; the Expenditure 
per head per annum in Clothing; the Expenditure 
in Salaries and Servants’ Wages; the Expenditure 
4 head per annum in Salaries and Servants’ 

ages ; the Expenditure in Food only; the Cost 
per head per annum in Food only; the Cost per 
head per week in Food only; all calculated from 
the average Number of Patients, and for the Year 
ending 31st March 1837:—And also, of the Par- 
ticulars and Amount of Salaries and Servants’ 
Wages, for the Year ending 31st March 1837. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the rate of Travelling of each Mail Coach 
in Ireland ; stating the Hours of Arrival and Depar- 
ture at each extremity of the Line, the Distance 
travelled in English Miles, and the Time occupied 
up and down, with the rate paid per double Mile : 
distinguishing whether the Contract be to find 
Coaches and Horses, and to pay Turnpikes, or 
either ; whether the Contracts regulate the Number 
of Passengers to be carried (inside and out), and the 
Amount of Turnpikes paid by the Post Office. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of each of the Lunatic Paupers, who, by the 
Return presented to the House of Commons on 6th 
April, appear to have been discharged cured from 
the Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell, and who, subse- 
quently to the Date returned as that of their cure, 
have been, or now are, Inmates of that Asylum ; 
distinguishing those who have died there, and those 
who have been dismissed uncured. 


Mail Coaches 
(Treland.) 


Pauper 
Lunatics 
(Middlesex. ) 


Ordered, That the Committee on the Glasgow, 
Paisley and Greenock Railway Bill have leave to 
sit this day, notwithstanding the Adjournment of 
the House. 


Glasgow, 
Paisley, and 
Greenock 
Railway Bill. 


Rapallo’s 


~_ Rapallo’s Naturalization Bill was read the first 
Nat. Bill. 


time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


Solari’s Naturalization Bill was read the first 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


Solari’s 


Nat. Bill. 


Belfast and 
Hollywood 
Railway Bill. 


Ordered, That the Belfast and Hollywood Railway 
Bill be read a second time upon Monday next. 


Patents for The Order for reading a second time upon Wed- 
Inventions Bill. nesday, the 17th day of May next, the Patents for 
Inventions Bill, was read, and discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday, the 24th day of May next. 


Public-houses_ The Order for reading a second time upon Wed- 
Regulation Bill. nesday next, the Public Houses Regulation Bill, 
was read, and discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Wednesday, the 26th day of this instant April. 


Manor Courts 


Ordered, That the Petition of Inhabitants of 
(Ireland. ) 


Dungannon, which was presented yesterday, be 
referred to the Select Committee on Manor Courts 


(Ireland.) 


And then the House, having continued to sit | 
till near one of the clock on Saturday morn- 
ing, adjourned till Monday next. 


14°—15°—17° Aprilis. 





A. 1837. 


Lune, 17° die Aprilis ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi IV“ Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


r I ‘HE Castle Eden and Merrington (Clarence and — Eden 
Hartlepool Junction) Railway Bill was read (Cleretnsion 
a second time ; and committed to Mr. Harland and Hartlepool 


the Durham List. Junction) Rail. 
way Bill, 


A Petition of Householders of Liverpool, praying Liverpool 
that the Liverpool Improvement Bill may not pass Improvement 
into a law as it now stands, was presented, and 
read ; and referred to the Committee on the Bill. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Whitby 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, m- Improvement 
tituled, An Act for better paving, cleansing, light- ?! 
ing, watching and improving the Town of Whitby, in 
the North Riding of the County of York; and the 
same were read, as follow: Z 

Pr. 13. 1. 29. Leave out “ Thomas Galilee.” 
Pr. 76. 1. 30. After “ distance” insert “ in which 
case the same shall be laid at the greatest practi- 
“ cable distance therefrom.” 
Pr. 111. 1. 35. After “ other,” insert “ like.” 
Pr. 134, 1.18. Leave out from “ mark” to 

the” in 1. 19. 

Pr. 218. 1. 28. Leave out from “ person” to 

being,” in 1. 32, and insert “ or to the several 

persons whose lands shall immediately adjoin the 

lands so proposed to be sold, such persons.” 

Pr. 286. 1. 37. After “ And” insert “every such 
summons, demand, or notice or other document, 

and also all other notices, orders, proceedings or 

other documents which by this Act are required to 

be in writing.” 

In the Schedule to the Bill : 

Pr. 292. lines 33, 34 and 35. After 
Sandgate | Whitby | George Katherine 

| | Cholmeley. Bolton. 


“ 


James 
Cowart.” 


“* Messuage 
and Shop. 


insert 


** House - | Sandgate | Whitby JohnSimpson,} John 


and Mary his | Simpson.’ 
wife. 


George 
Cholmeley, 


Pr. 299. lines 21 and 22. In the 6th column leave 
out “ Joseph Robinson,” and insert “ John Willi- 
“* son.” 

Pr. 299. lines 26 and 27. In the 6th column, 
leave out “ John Willison,” and insert “ Joseph 
“* Robinson.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Aaron Chapman do carry the 
Bill to the Lords; and acquaint them that this -* re 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


Mr. Robert Palmer reported from the Committee Streatley and 
on the Streatley and Goring Bridge and Road Bill ; Gerive Brit 
That the Standing Orders relative to Turnpike Bills, 
had been complied with ; and that the Committee 
had examined the allegations of the Bill, and found 
the same to be true; and had gone through the Bill, 
and made Amendments thereunto; and the Amend- 
ments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 


ingrossed. 


A Petition of Merchants, Shipowners and Traders Belfast Harbour 
of Belfast, praying that the Belfast Harbour(No. 2.) (Ne 2) Bil 
Bill may not pass into a law, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from Inhabitants of Belfast (two Peti- 
tions);—and, Proprietors of a paper mill in Belfast; 
praying that the said Bill may not pass into a law 
as it now stands,—were also presented, and read ; 
and referred to the Committee on the Bill. 

A Petition of Landed Proprietors, Merchants, 
Ship-owners and Traders of Belfast, praying that 
they may be heard, by themselves, their counsel or 

agents, 





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—_ wt PO 


ion 


ail~ 


Commercial 
Steam Packet 
Company Bill. 


American Steam 
Navigation 
Company Bill. 


| 


Birmingham 
Gas (No. 1.) 
Bill. 


Stamford 
Waterworks 
Bill. 


Manchester 
and Tamworth 
Railway Bill. 


Edinburgh 
and Glasgow 
Railway Bill. 


7 Wit. LV. 17° Aprilis. 267 


agents, against certain parts of the said Bill, was 
also presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


Petitions from Owners or Freighters of Steam 
and other Vessels, and Merchants and Traders of 
Belfast ;—and, Port Glasgow; praying that the 
Commercial Steam Packet Company Bill may not 
pass into a law,—were presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Owners or Freighters of Steam and 
other Vessels, and Merchants and Traders of Bel- 
ast;—-and, Shipowners, Merchants, Traders and 
other Inhabitants of Glasgow and Newark; praying 
that the American Steam Navigation Company Bill 
may not pass into a law,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Inhabitants of Birmingham;—and, 
Freeholders, Leaseholders and Occupiers of houses 
in Edgbaston, near Birmingham; praying that the 
Birmingham Gas (No. 1.) Bill may pass into a law, 





—were presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 

A Petition of James Thornton, Charles Williams, 
and other Commissioners appointed by an Act of 
Parliament passed in the Thirty-first year of the reign 
of his Majesty King George the Third, for cleansing 
and lighting the Hamlets of Deritend and Bordesley, 
in the county of Warwick, praying that they may be 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, against 
certain parts of the said Bill, was also presented, 
and read. 

Ordered, That the said Pétition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill ; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


An ingrossed Bill for better supplying with Water 





the Town and Borough of Stamford, and Places 
adjacent thereto, in the Counties of Northampton 
and Lincoln, was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Finch do carry the Bill to the 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Petitions from Thomas Kinnersley, of Clough Hall, 
in the county of Stafford, Esquire ;—and, the Com- 
pany of Proprietors of the Coventry Canal Naviga- 
tion ; praying that they may be heard, by them- 
selves, their counsel or agents, against certain parts 
of the Manchester and Tamworth Railway Bill,— 
were presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, ifthey think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


Petitions from Landowners, Farmers, Feuars and 
others, resident in the neighbourhood of Wilsontown 
iron-works in the parish of Carnwath;— Torpichen; 
—Proprietors of land and houses, and Tenants of 
land and houses of Whitburn ;-—Proprietors of land | 
and houses, Merchants, Farmers and Householders of | 
Mid Calder ;—Merchants, Manufacturers and In- 
habitants of Airdrie;—Proprietors of land and tene- 
ments, Feuars and Householders of Uphall and 
Livingstone ;—and, Shotts and Cambusnethan; pray- 
ing that the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Bill 
may not pass into a law,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of the Edinburgh Friendly Insurance 
Society against losses by Fire, praying that the said 





VoL. 92. 


Bill may not pass into a law as it now stands, was also 
presented, and read ; and referred to the Committee 
on the Bill. 

A Petition of Helen Dunbar or Warden, relict 
of Robert Warden, Esquire, of Parkhill, the Ho- 
nourable John Hay Forbes, of Medwyn, one of the 
Senators of the College of Justice, and William 
Innes, Writer to the Signet, being a majority and 
quorum of the accepting and natn Trustees of the 
said deceased Robert Warden, Esquire ; praying 
that they may be heard, by themselves, their counsel 
or agents, against certain parts of the said Bill, 
was also presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of Owners and Occupiers of Dwelling- Holme Reser- 
houses, Buildings and Property in Kirkburton, and vo" Bill. 
other places, praying that the Holme Reservoirs 
Bill may not pass into a law as it now stands, was 
presented, and read ; and referred to the Committee 
on the Bill. 

Petitions from Edward Jonathan Priestley, of 
Ballinrobe, in the county of Mayo, Esquire ; — 
Joseph Haigh, of Hall Ing, in Horsley, in the parish 
of Almondbury, in the county of York, woollen cloth 
manufacturer ;—and, George Augustus Dawson, of 
Groton, in the county of Suffolk, clerk, and Thomas 
Haigh, of Bradley, in the county of York, cotton- 
manufacturer ; praying that they may be heard, by 
themselves, their counsel or agents, against certain 
parts of the said Bill,—were also presented, and 
read, — 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill ; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


Mr. Ruthven reported from the Committee on the West Cork 
West Cork Mining Company Bill; and to whom a 
the Petition of Lord Audley against the said Bill?" °™ 
was referred ; That they had heard counsel on be- 
half of the said Petition, and had also heard counsel 
in favour of the Bill; and that the Committee had 
examined the allegations of the Bill, and found the 
same to be true; and had gone through the Bill, 
and made Amendments thereunto; and the Amend- 
ments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed. 


A Petition of Merchants, Shipowners and others Bridlington 
of Stockton, praying that they may be heard, by Harbour Bill, 
themselves, their counsel or agents, against certam 
parts of the Bridlington Harbour Bill, was _pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 


Table. 


A Petition of Merchants, Shipowners and others gearborough 
of Stockton, praying that they may be heard, by Harbour Bii, 
themselves, their counsel or agents, against certain 
parts of the Scarborough Harbour Bill, was pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Hartlepool, and. Hartlepool 
Owners of Property in the same town, praying that Pier Bill. 
they may be heard, by themselves, their counsel 
or agents, against certain parts of the Hartlepool 
Pier Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit ; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 

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Castle Eden 
and Merrington 
Clarence and 

artlepool 
Junction) Rail- 
way Bill. 


London and 
Brighton 
Railway Bill 
(Stephenson’s 
Line.) 


London and 
Brighton 
Railway Bill 
(Stephenson’s 
Line.) 


Blochairn 


Canal Bill, 


268 


A Petition of the Tees Navigation Company, pray- 
ing that they may be heard, by themselves, their 
counsel or agents, against certain parts of the Castle 
Eden and Merrington (Clarence and Hartlepool 
Junction) Railway Bill, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Members of the Provisional Com- 
mittee for promoting a Railway from London to 
Brighton, on the line laid down by Messieurs Ste- 
phenson, was presented, and read ; setting forth, That 
the Petitioners, in the most especial terms, beg leave 
to deny that they ever in any manner, directly or in- 
directly, by themselves or their agents, entered into 
any agreement or arrangement that no objection 
should be taken to any defect in any plan or section, 
or book of reference, directed to be deposited by the 
Standing Orders of the House, nor did they ever enter 
into any discussion on such a subject, and, to the 
best of their knowledge and belief, no Engineer or 
other agent employed by the Petitioners ever entered 
into any such agreement or arrangement, or discus- 
sion regarding the same ; that the Petitioners submit 
that the fact of their having, by the papers appended 
to their plan, section and book of reference, and 
which were appended before their deposit in the 
Private Bill Office, pointed out certain variations 
between the two sets of plans and sections, is a proof 
that no wilful concealment was intended by them, 
as they thereby gave express notice of all the vari- 
ations which they were aware of, and which might 
have been otherwise overlooked; that the Peti- 
tioners have not the least objection to an inquiry 
into the conduct of themselves, their agents and 
witnesses, except for the expense which must attend 
such inquiry, and except that it must engage the 
attention of those whose whole time is now required 
upon the proceedings on the Bill now in Committee ; 
the Petitioners submit to the House whether this 
— against them is not a new attempt, after 
the failure of several others, to obtain relief contra 
to all the rules of proceeding established by the 
House, and they will most cheerfully submit to any 
order the House may think best calculated to protect 
the privileges of the House, and to do justice to all 
parties interested. 

Ordered, That the said Petition do lie upon the 
Table. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned debate upon the Question proposed 
upon Thursday last, That a Select Committee be 
appointed to examine whether any false Evidence 
has been knowingly and wilfully given before the 
Sub-Committee on Petitions for Private Bills, in 
ee of Stephenson’s Line of Brighton Railway, 
and to report the same to the House. 

And the Question being again proposed :—The 
House resumed the second adjourned Tahate. 

And the Question being put:—It passed in the 
Negative. 


A Petition of William Stewart, of Haghill, in the 
bardny parish of Glasgow, heritable Proprietor of 
the lands and estates of Kennyhill and of Bumbank, 
subject to the burden of the subaltern rights confer- 
red on his vassals or subordinates, Proprietors of part 
of these properties, and Walter Stewart and Robert 
Stewart, Distillers at Kennyhill, and Peter Stewart 
and Thomas Stewart, residing at Haghill, heritable 
Proprietors qua feuars or vassals therein, of certain 

arts and portions of the lands and estate at 
Kennyhill, which have long been occupied and used 
as the site of the Kennyhill Distillery, the said 
several Petitioners being likewise Proprietors of the 
private road leading from the turnpike road between 
Glasgow and Cumbernauld to the said distillery, 
praying that they may be heard, by their counsel or 
agents, against certain parts of the Blochairn Canal 
Bill, was presented, and read. 


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A. 1837. 


Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by their counsel or agents, upon their Petition, if 
they think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


Petitions from the Deacon, Collector and other Glasgow and 
Members of the Incorporation of Coopers of Gilas- 3¥t Railway 


gow ;—and, Ludovic Houston, Esquire, of Johnstone; 
praying that they may be heard, by themselves, their 
counsel or agents, against certain parts of the Glas- 
gow and Ayr Railway Bill,—were presented, and 
read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


A Petition of Carters and other Persons interested 
in Cartings of the city of Glasgow and its suburbs, 
praying that they may be heard, by their counsel, 
against certain parts of the Glasgow Police Bill, was 
presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by their counsel, upon their Petition, if they think 
fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the Bill, against 
the said Petition. 


The Newcastle-upon-Tyne Improvement Bill was 
read a second time; and committed to Mr. Ord 
and the Northumberland List. 


A Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen and Bur- 
gesses of the borough of Mewcastle-upon-Tyne, 
praying that they may be heard, by their counsel or 
agents, against certain parts of the Warkworth Har- 
bour Bill, was presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. . 


Mr. Mark Philips reported from the Committee 


"Y|on the Manchester (Victoria Park) Improvement 


Bill; and to whom the Petition of William Froggott, 
of Manchester, against the said Bill, was referred ; 
That they had considered the said Petitions, and 
had examined the allegations of the Bill, and found 
the same to be true; and had gone through the Bill, 
and made Amendments thereunto; and the Amend- 
ments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 


ingrossed. 


Petitions from Samuel Johnson and other Persons 
whose names are subscribed to a Parliamentary 
Contract filed in the Private Bill Office of the 
House, by the Promoters of a Bill for making a 
Railwa yes Birkenhead to Chester, communicat- 
ing with the lower Ferries, situate on the Western 
Bank of the River Mersey, opposite the Town of 
Liverpool ;—and, Birkenhead Gilegg, of Backford 
Hail, Backford, in the county of Chester, Esquire ; 
praying that they may be heard, by themselves, 
their counsel or agents, against certain parts of the 
Birkenhead and Chester Railway Bill,—were pre- 
sented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit ; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


A Petition of the Company of Proprietors of the 
Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal Navigation and 
Railway, praying that the Bolton and Preston Rail- 
way Bill may pass into a law, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from the Incorporated Company of Pro- 
prietors of the North Union Railway ;—and, Sir 
Henry Bold Hoghton, Baronet, William Farrington, 
Esquire, and others; praying that they may be 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, against 


Glasgow Police 
ill, 


Newcastle- 
upon-Tyne 
Improvement 
Bill. 


Warkworth 
Harbour Bill. 


Manchester 


(Victoria Park) 


Improvement 
Bill. 


Birkenhead 
and Chester 
Railway Bill. 


Bolton and 
Preston Rail- 


way Bill. 


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al 





Manchester 
and Stafford 
Railway Bill. 


Maryport and 
Carlisle Rail- 
way Bill. 


Edinburgh 
and Glasgow 
Railway Bill. 


Berry and 
Paterson’s 
Patent Bill. 


Cardiff G 
Bill, 


7 Witt: IV. 


certain parts of the said Bill,—were also presented, 
and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


A Petition of Thomas Kinnersly, of Clough Hall, 
in the county of Stafford, Esquire, praying that he 
may be heard, by himself, his counsel or agent, 
against certain parts of the Manchester and Stafford 
Railway Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by himself, his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, 
if he think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


Petitions from Inhabitants of Carlisle ;—and, In- 
habitants of Wigton, and Owners and Occupiers of 
land in the vicinity thereof; praying that the Mary- 
port and Carlisle Railway Bill may pass into a law, 
—were presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of Bankers, Merchants, Manufacturers, 
Traders and Inhabitants of Dundee, praying that the 
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Bill may pass into 
a law, was presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 
intituled, An Act for forming and regulating a Com- 
pany, to be called “ The Patent Dry Gas Meter 
Company,” and to enable the said Company to pur- 
chase certain Letters Patent; and the same were 
read, as follow: 

Pr. 2. 1. 36. Leave out from “ performed ” to 
“ and” in Pr. 4. 1. 31. 

Pr. 5. 1.2. Leave out from “ said ” to “ is” in 
1. 14. 

Pr. 5. 1. 25. Leave out from “ aforesaid ” to 
“ and ” in Pr. 6. 1. 7; and in Pr. 6. 1. 7. leave out 
from “ Berry” to “ desirous” in 1. 8. and insert 
*m 

Pr. 6. 1. 9. Leave out “ their,” and insert “ his,”’ 
and in the same line leave out “ respective.” 

Pr. 6. 1. 10. Leave out “ are,” and insert “ is.” 

Pr. 6. 1. 36. Leave out from “ Berry” to “and” 
in 1. 37, 

Pr. 8. 1. 32. Leave out from “ Berry” to“ and” 
in 1. 34; and in 1. 34. leave out “ their respective ” 
and insert “ is.” 

Pr. 8. 1. penult. Leave out from “ to ” to “as” 
in |, ult. and insert “ him.” 

Pr. 9. 1. 3. Leave out from “ Berry” to “there- 
in” in I. 5. 

Pr. 11. 1. 7. After “ thereof” insert “ by any 
writing or writings under the hands and seals of 
three of the Directors for the time being of the 
said Company.” 


“ 


Pr. 59. 1. 21. Leave out “ may,” and insert 
“ shall.” 
Pr. 59. 1, 22. After “ and ” insert “ may be.” 


Pr. 75. 1. 22. After “ continue ” insert “ Pro- 
“« vided such deed or deeds shall have been executed 
by proprietors of the said Company possessed of 
the major part of the shares for the time being in 
“ the capital of the said Company.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Brotherton do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


Mr. Nicholl reported from the Committee on the 
Cardiff Gas Bill; That they had examined the alle- 
one of the Bill, and found the same to be true ; 

OL. $2. 


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269 


and had gone through the Bill, and made Amend- 
ments thereunto; and the Amendments were read, 
and agreed to. 

_ Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


Mr. Nicholl reported from the Committee on the Cardiff 
Cardiff Improvement Bill; That they had examined Improvement 
the allegations of the Bill, and found the same to 
be true; and had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to the 
former Committee ; and that they have leave to sit 
and proceed, and to report To-morrow. 


Petitions from Inhabitants of Brixham ;—Dart- Exeter and 

mouth ; — Starcross ; — Landowners, Lessees and sg 
Occupiers of land, Merchants, Traders and other peihund 
Household Inhabitants of Clannaborough ;— and, 
Owners and Occupiers of land and Inhabitants of 
Mabe; praying that the Exeter and Falmouth Rail- 
way Bill may pass into a law,—were presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Directors of the Dundee and Leith bee ¢ oa 
Steam Packet Company, praying that the Trinity *\"} 00, Bil, 
(North Leith) Harbour and Docks Bill may not a 
pass into a law as it now stands, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Mr. John Henry Lowther reported from the Com- York and 
mittee on the York and North Midland Railway Bill; nm — 
and to whom several Petitions against the said Bill ““"*Y “"" 
were referred ; That the Standing Orders relative to 
Bills for making Railways, had been complied with; 
and that the Committee had considered the said 
Petitions, and had heard counsel in support of several 
of them, and had also heard counsel in favour of the 
Bill; and that they had inquired into the several 
matters required by the Resolutions of the House 
of the 1st day of March 1836; and had examined 
the allegations of the Bill, and found the same to 
be true; and had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


A Petition of Trustees of the Turnpike Road lead- Campsie Canal 
ing from the Inchbelly Road, at or near to the fifth i". 
mile-stone from Glasgow through Campsie and Fintry 
to the town of Kippen, called the first District of 
Western Stirlingshire Roads, praying that they may 
be heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
against certain parts of the Campsie Canal Bill, was 
presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 


| Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 


by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Outrages Outrayes 
(Ireland), which was presented upon Thursday last, Ireland.) 
be printed. No, 212. 


Mr. Fazakerley reported from the Select Com- Poor Law Act. 
mittee appointed to inquire into the administration 
of the Relief of the Poor under the Orders and Re- 
gulations issued by the Commissioners appointed 
under the provisions of the Poor Law Amendment 
Act; That having proceeded in the investigation com- 
mitted to them, they have thought it necessary to 
make the following ae Report to the House : 

That parts of the Evidence which have been taken 
by the Committee, and of documents which have 
been presented to the Committee, and which have 
not been reported to the House, have appeared in 
the True Sun Newspaper of Friday and Saturday 
last. 

The said two Newspapers, intituled, “ The True 
Sun,” and dated respectively “ London, Friday Even- 

MM 3 ing, 








270 


ing, April 14, 1837,” and “ London, Saturday Evening, 
April 15, 1837,” were delivered in. 

Ordered, That the said Report be taken into 
further consideration To-morrow. 


Ordered, That the Report be printed. 


Misunderstand- 
ing between 
two Members. 


Notice being taken of a report of a Debate of this 
House in the Morning Post Newspaper, in which 
certain words were attributed to Sir Sunt Graham 
respecting Sir Edward Codrington; and Sir Edward 
Codrington having called upon Sir James Graham 
to state whether he had made use of the words, Sir 
James Graham declined to make such statement, 
considering that such a practice would be contrary 
to the freedom of Debate, and the privilege of the 
House; and Sir Edward Codrington having intimated 
an intention of taking notice of the words out of the 
House, he was called upon by Mr. Speaker to assure 
the House that he would not pursue that course ; 
and having declined to give the House such as- 
surance ; 

A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That Sir Edward Codrington be taken into 
the custody of the Serjeant at Arms attending this 
House ; 

And Mr. Speaker having stated, that Sir James 
Graham ought not to be called upon to state whether 
a report in a Newspaper of certain expressions made 
use of by him in this House was or was not correct, 
Sir Edward Codrington submitted himself to the 
House, and assured them that he would not pursue 
the matter any further; whereupon Sir James Graham 
stated, that he had now no objection to state that he 
had not made use of the words attributed to him :— 
And the said Motion was, with leave of the House, 
withdrawn. 

Supply. The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Estimates of the Office of 
Ordnance for the year 1837-38, be referred to the 
Committee ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” to 
the end of the Question, in order to add the words 
Spain. ‘* an humble Address be presented to His Majesty, 

“ praying that His Majesty will be graciously 
“ pleased not to renew the Order in Council of the 
“ 10th June 1835, granting His Majesty’s Royal 
“ License to British Subjects to enlist into the 
“ Service of the Queen of Spain, which Order in 
“ Council will expire on the 10th June next ; and 
“ praying also, that His Majesty will be graciously 
“ pleased to give directions that the Marine Forces 
“ of His Majesty shall not be employed in the civil 
contest now prevailing in Spain, otherwise than 
in that Naval co-operation which His Majesty 
has engaged to afford, if necessary, under the 
stipulations of Treaty,” instead thereof. 
And the Question being proposed, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Question : 
—And a Debate arising thereupon ; 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Tuesday morning ; 
Martis, 18° die Aprilis, 1837: 


Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till this 
day. 


Poor Relief The Order of the day being read, for the second 
(Ireland) Bill. reading of the Poor Relief (Jreland) Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Monday next. 


Shire Halls Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Shire Halls Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 





17°—18° Aprilis. 








A. 1837. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Judges’ 
further consideration the Report on the Judges’ Opinions Bill 
Opinions Bill; the Bill was re-committed toa Com- No. 213, 
mittee of the whole House: —The House imme- 
diately resolved itself into the Committee; and, after 
some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the 
Chair; and Mr. Labouchere reported, That the Com- 
mittee had gone through the Bill, and made Amend- 
ments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Labouchere reported the Bill accordingly : 
and the Report was ordered to be taken into further 
consideration upon Monday next, and the Bill, as 
amended, to be printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Registration of 
mittee on the Registration of Voters Bill; Voters Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Recorders’ 
further consideration the Report on the Recorders’ ©otts Bill. 
Courts Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Courtof Session 
mittee on the Court of Session (Scotland) Bill ; (Scotland) Bill, 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Small Debts 
mittee on the Small Debts (Scotland) Bill ; (Scotland) Bill 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Ways and 
mittee of Ways and Means ; Means. 
Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Court of 
mittee on the Court of Exchequer (Scotland) Bill; ae ’ 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve irene, 
itself into the said Committee. 


Lord Viscount Morpeth reported the Dublin Police Dublin Police 
Bill; and the Amendments were read, and agreed to. Bills 
Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed ; and read the third time this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for receiving Supply. 
the Report from the Committee of Supply ; 
Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Court of 
mittee to whom it was referred to consider of making Exchequer 
Compensation out of the Consolidated Fund of the ere 
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to to Ofticers.] 
certain Officers of the Court of Exchequer in Scot- 
land in the event of their Offices being abolished 
under the provisions of any Act to be passed in the 
present Session to regulate certain Offices in the 
Court of Exchequer in Scotland ; 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Port Patrick 
Return showing the detail and the Total Amount 1" 
of the Sum expended in erecting a Lighthouse at 
Port Patrick ; also a House and Storehouse for the 
Lighthouse Keeper :—Also, Copies of all Minutes, 
Reports and other Communications, which have 
passed between the Commissioners for the Harbour 
\of Port Patrick, or others, and the Commissioners 
for Northern Lights respecting the Lighthouse at 
Port Patrick:—and also, Reports made by the 
Commissioners for the Harbour of Port Patrick, 
the Commissioners of Northern Lights, or their 





Engineer, and the Commanders of the Post Office 
Steam Packets on that station, as to the sufficiency 
| of the foresaid Lighthouse for the purpose intended. 
| Mr. 


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Theatres 
Regulation 
Bill. 


No. 214. 


Consolidated 
Fund Bill. 


Canada. 


Queen Anne’s 
Bounty. 


Rapallo’s 
Nat. Bill. 


Solari’s 


Nat. Bill. 


Manchester 
and Stafford 


Railway Bill. 


Drogheda 
and Kells 


Railway Bill. 


Glasgow, 
Paisley, and 
Greenock 


Railway Bill. 


American 


Steam Naviga- 
tion Compan 
Bill. sles! 


7 Wit. IV. 17°—18° 


Mr. Thomas Duncombe presented a Bill to amend 
an Act made in the tenth year of the reign of his 
late Majesty King George the Second, intituled, 
“ An Act to explain and amend so much of an Act 
made in the Twelfth year of the reign of Queen 
Anne, intituled, ‘An Act for reducing the Laws 
relating to Rogues, Vagabonds, Sturdy Beggars 
end Vagrants into one Act of Parliament, and for 
the more effectual punishing such Rogues, Vaga~ 
bonds, Sturdy Beggars and Vagrants, and sending 
them whither they ought to be sent :’” And the same 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time upon Wednesday, the 26th day of this 
instant April; and to be printed. 


Mr. Baring presented a Bill to apply a Sum of 
Money out of the Consolidated Fund to the service 
of the year One thousand eight hundred and thirty- 
seven: And the same was read the first time ; and 
ordered to be read a second time this day. 


The Order for the House to resolve itself into a 
Committee this day to consider further of the state 
of the Province of Lower Canada, was read, and 
discharged. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


And then the House having continued to sit till 
half an hour after twelve of the clock on 
Tuesday morning, adjourned till this day. 





Martis, 18° die Aprilis ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi IV“ Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 
M R. Holford, from the Office of the Governors 
of Queen Anne’s Bounty, was called in; and 
at the bar presented, pursuant to Order,—Copies of 
the several Charters which were granted by her late 
Majesty Queen Anne to the Governors of Queen 
Anne’s Bounty, and of the several Rules and Orders 
under the Sign Manual, relating to Queen Anne’s 
Bounty :—And then he withdrew. 
Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Rapallo’s Naturalization Bill was read a second 
time ; and committed to Mr. Thomas Duncombe and 
the Middlesex List. 


Solari’s Naturalization Bill was read a second 
time ; and committed to Mr. Thomas Duncombe and 
the Middlesex List. 


Petitions from Bankers, Merchants, Traders and 
Inhabitants of Lancaster ;— and, Clergy, Gentry, 
Landowners, Manufacturers, Traders and Inha- 
bitants of Wilmslow ; praying that the Manchester 
and Stafford Railway Bill may pass into a law,— 
were presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


The Drogheda and Kells Railway Bill was read 
a second time; and committed to Mr. Lowther 
Chapman and the Leinster List. 


A Petition of the Lord Provost, Magistrates and 


Common Council of the city of Glasgow, praying 
that they may be heard, by their counsel or agents, 


against certam parts of the Glasgow, Paisley and 
Greenock Railway Bill, was presented, and read. 


Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by their counsel or agents, upon their Petition, if 


they think fit ; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of Owners or Freighters of Steam 
Packets and other vessels trading to and from the 
Port of Kingston-upon-Hull, and of Merchants and 





271 


Traders of the said town, praying that the American 
Steam Navigation Company Bill may not pass into 
a law as it now stands, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Aprilis. 


A Petition of Owners or Freighters of Steam Commercial 
Packets and other vessels trading to and from the — — 
Port of Kingston-upon-Huil, and of Merchants and °™P*"'Y °* 
Traders in the said town, praying that the Com- 

mercial Steam Packet Company Bill may not pass 

into a law as it now stands, was presented, and read; 

and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of John Chiesman, hotel-keeper and Leeds Water- 
rate-payer, of Leeds, praying that he may be heard, works Bill. 
by his counsel or agent, against the Leeds Water- 

works Bill, was presented, and read; and ordered to 

lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from W. LZ. Carruthers and Francis 
Broderip ;—and, John Chiesman, hotel-keeper and 
rate-payer, of Leeds; praying that they may be heard, 

by their counsel or agents, against certain parts of 

the said Bill,—were also presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 

to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 

heard, by their counsel or agents, upon their Peti- 

tions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in favour 

of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


Petitions from the Corporation of Derby ;—and, Manchester 
Magistrates, Merchants, Traders and Inhabitants of and hong 
Plymouth ; praying that the Manchester and Tam- ®*"¥*9 ®™- 
worth Railway ‘Bill may pass into a law,—were 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 

Table. 


A Petition of Charles Keene, of Goldsmith-street, Caoutchouc _ 
Cheapside, and others, praying that they may be Company Bill. 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, against 

certain parts of the Caoutchouc Company Bill, was 

presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 

by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 

Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 

favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Trinity (North 
the Report which, upon the 10th day of this instant Leith’ Harbour 
April, was made from the Committee on the Trinity "© ~°°* """ 
(North Leith) Harbour and Docks Bill; printed 

Copies of the Bill having been delivered at the door 

upon Friday last; and the Amendments were read, 

and agreed to; and a Clause was added, and Amend- 

ments were made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 

ingrossed. 


Petitions from Stephen Blair, of Mill Hill, Little Manchester, 
Bolton, Bleacher ;—the Earl of Wilton, and others, Bolton, and u 
Owners, Lessees and Tenants of coal mines and cities 
stone upon the lines of the Railway hereinafter men- 
tioned ;— and, John Moore, Thomas Mulliner and 
Joseph Ramsden, Trustees under the will of Ellis 
Fletcher, late of Clifton, Esquire, deceased; praying 
that they may be heard, by themselves, their counsel 
or agents, against certain parts of the Manchester, 

Bolton and Bury Canal Baill,—were presented, and 
read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


Petitions from Inhabitants of poet | ;—Sir Robert Bolton and 
Holt Leigh, Baronet, of Hindley Hall, in the county Preston Rail- 


way Bill. 


of Lancaster ;—Inhabitants of Lancaster ;— Chorley ; 
— Stockport ;— Rochdale ;— Bolton ;—and, Preston; 
praying that the Bolton and Preston Railway Bill 
en pass into a law,—were presented, and read ; 


an 











Vot. 92. 


ordered to lie upon the Table. 
MM 4 


Petitions 








Holme 


Reservoirs Bill. 


Loanhead and 
Stirling Canal 
Bill, 


Scarborough 
Harbour Bill. 


East Thickley 
and Frosterley 
Railway. 


Roborough 
Hundred 
(Devon) Small 
Debts Bill. 


Stockport 
Improvement 
Bill. 


Church Rates 
Regulation. 


072 18° Aprils. 


Petitions from Owners and Occupiers of mills, 
factories and other premises, and others, Inhabitants 
of Holmfirth ;~—and, Inhabitants of Huddersfield ; 
praying that the Holme Reservoirs Bill may pass 
into a law,—were presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Merchants in Stonehaven, and Agri- 
culturists in the neighbourhood ; praying that the 
Loanhead and Stirling Canal Bill may not pass into 
a law, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 


upon the Table. 


A Petition of Ship-owners and Merchants of the 
Port of Sunderland, praying that they may be heard, 
by their counsel or agents, against certain parts of 
the Scarborough Harbour Bill, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Shaw Lefevre reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That, in the 
case of the Petition for the East Thickley and Froster- 
ley Railway Bill, the Standing Orders relative to 
Bills for making Railways are not applicable, inas- 
much as it is not intended to take any land. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Shaw Lefevre reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That, in the 
case of the Petitions for additional provision in the 
Roborough Hundred (Devon) Small Debts Bill, the 
Committee are of opinion that leave should be given 
to make provision in the Bill, pursuant to the prayer 
of the said Petitions. 

Ordered, That it be an Instruction to the Com- 
mittee on the said Bill, That they have Power to 
make provision therein, pursuant to the prayer of 
the said Petitions. 


A Petition of Mill-owners and others, Rate-payers 
within the borough of Stockport, praying that they 
may be heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
against certain parts of the Stockport Improvement 
Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


Petitions from Welsh Newton;—Marstow ;—- Titley ; 
— Weston Beggard ;—Aymestry and Lucton ;—Llan- 
rothal ; — Wellington, Moreton-on-Lugg and Din- 
more ;—Tiberton and Blakemere ; —How-Caple and 
Sollershope ;— Little Marcle ;— Kington ; —Ledbury ; 
—WStretion Grandison ;—Much Cowarne ;—Kimbol- 
ton ; — Madley ; — Middleton-on-the-Hill ; — Little 
Birch ; — Colwall ; — Ganarew ; — Whitchurch ; — 
Much Dewchurch ;—Langarren ;--Garway and Or- 
cop ; — Keighley ; — Northallerton ; — Yafforth ; — 
South Otterington ;— Brafferton ; — Eskdaleside ;— 
Danby Wiske ;—Welbury ;—Stockton ;—Nun Monck- 
ton ;— Rokeby ;—Sneaton ;— Lenton-upon-Ouse ; — 
East Harlsley ;—Croft ;—Askam Bryan ;—Tintin- 
hull, Chilthorn, and Thorn Coffin ;— Nether Popple- 
ton;— Kirby Fleetham ;— Leeke ;—Kirby Sigston;— 
Usgglebarnby ;— Burghfield;—Archdeaconand Clergy 
of the Archdeaconry of Berks ;— Leeds ;— Man- 
sergh ;—Montgomery ;— Abdotts Ann ;— East Meon; 
— Enfield ;— Newnham ;—Caxton ;— Sheldwich ; — 
Little Castetton; — Ravenstone ; — Barrowden ; — 
Weston Underwood ;— Tixover ; —Tinwell ;— Milton 
Keynes ;— Mariock ;—Cross Canonby ;—Corton and 
Hopton;— Measham ;— Hartshorne ;— Breastonin ;— 
Risley ;—Southease ;— Capel ;— Heene ;— Durring- 
ton ;—West Tarring ;—Thornthwaite ; —Pickhill ;— 
Rowley Regis ; — Saint Werburgh, Derby ; — Tyne- 
mouth ; — Saint Mary-at-Hill and Saint Andrew 
Hubbard, London ; — Frome Selwood ;— West Wit- 
tering ;—Kirkby-in-Ashfield ;— Adel ;— Hexham ;— 





A. 1837. 


Saint Stephen, Norwich ;— Heigham ;— Chulmleigh ; 
— Farnham (Surrey) ;—Welton ;—Dean and Chapter 
of Saint Peter, Exeter ;—Pitminster ;— Hilderstone ; 
— Cainham ; — Byfield ; — Cranley ;— Fitcham ; — 
Banstead ; — Cobham; — Little Bookham ;— Mers- 
tham ; — Wonersh and Bramley ; —Ash; — Richards 
Castle; — Baswich ; — Sandon; and, Ovingdean; 
praying that the proposed measure relative to 
Church Rates, may not receive the sanction of the 
House,—were presented, and read, and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from Dacre ;— Wandsworth ;— Farnham 
(Surrey) ; — Reigate; — Walton (Suffolk) ;— Bury 
Saint Edmuna’s (three Petitions) ; — Falmouth ; — 
Penryn ;— Boxford ; — Grundisburgh ;— Neath ;— 
Kingsbury Episcopt ;— Yeovil ;—Tattenhall ;—Chat- 
teris ;— Darlington ;— Benenden ; — Gravesend ;— 
Bolton-le- Moors ;— Ulverston ;—Quina Brook, Wem ; 
— Brougham ; — Burnley ; — Addingham ; — Queen- 
street Chapel, Leeds ; — iy (York) ;— Bury- 
street Chapel, Saint Mary Axe, London ; — Bel- 
grave; — South Ockendon ;—Foulmire ;—- Ridgwell ; 
— Solihull; — New Deer; — Ludlow ; — Lydiate ; 
~~ Eccleshill ;— Midmar ; — Woolston ; — Daventry 
Circuit ;— Tredegar Ironworks, Monmouth ;—Saffron 

Walden ; -—Devonport ; —-Harberton ;— and, Cross- 
street Chapel, Munchester; praying that the said 
proposed measure may receive the sanction of the 
House,— were also presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Trustees of the Cardigan Turnpike Tumpike Trusts 
Road, praying that the Turnpike Trusts Bill may Bill. 


not pass into a law, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Operatives in the employ of Messrs. Factories Act. 


Ogden and Co., Manchester ;— Mr. Edwards, Man- 
chester ; —Cabinet Makers of Manchester and Sal- 
ford ; — Fustian Cutters of Manchester ; — Inhabi- 
tants of Hulme ;—Labourers in the employ of Wil- 
liam and Cephas Howard, of Stockport ; — Hugh 
Birley and Co.;— Charles Axon, Heaton Norris ; 
— Messrs. Stirling and Beckton, Manchester ; — 
Mr. James Fernley, Manchester; — Mr. Houlds- 
worth, Manchester ; — Mr. Carruthers, Manchester ; 
— Thomas Houldsworth, Esquire, Manchester ; — 
Mr. Kraw, Knott Mill, Manchester ;—Mr. Thomas 
Houldsworth, Manchester ;—Messrs. Birley and Co., 
Manchester;—Mr. Allen, Manchester ;—Mr. Charles 
Pooley, Manchester (two Petitions) ;—James Mar- 
shall and Sons, Portwood, Stockport ;—Mr. Binns, 
Manchester ; — Joseph Higson, Lancashire Hill, 
Stockport; — Mr. John Beever, Manchester; — 
Shoemakers of Manchester ;—Operative Spinners of 
Manchester ;—and, Operative Dyers of Manchester; 
praying the House to pass a law to protect all Fac- 
tory workers from being worked more than ten 
hours for five days of the week, and eight on the 
Saturday, and entirely to prohibit all factories from 
working in the night,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Medical Practitioners of Godal- poor Law Act 


ming ;— Farnham ; — Ludlow ;— President of the 
Liverpool Medical Society ;—Dr. Kidd Heaviland, 
and other Physicians ;—Society of Apothecaries of 
the city of London ;—Inhabitants of Husthwaite ;— 
Rate-payers of Godalming ;—Alstonefield and other 
places ;—Guardians of the Basingstoke Union ;— 
and, Chairman of the Preston Union; praying for 
the repeal or amendment of the Poor fas Act,— 
were presented, and read ; and referred to the Select 
Committee on the Poor Law Act. 

A Petition of Guardians of the Poor of the Hun- 
gerford Union, praying that the said Act may not 
be repealed, was also presented, and read ; and re- 
ferred to the said Select Committee. 


Petitions from New Shoreham ;—and, Plymouth ; Shipping 
praying the House to relieve the Proprietors of the &amp;#tte- 


Shipping 





C 


i ee tee 


Vote by Ballot. 


Salmon 
Fisheries 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Cotton Wool. 


Lord’s Day. 


Septennial Act, 
&amp;e. 


Fire Insurances. 


Burghs of 
Barony 


(Scotland) Biil. 


Municipal 
Corporations 


(Ireland) Bill. 


Municipal 
orporations 


(Scotland) Bill. 


Hand-loom 
bour, 


Tithe Commnu- 
tation Surve Je 


7 Wit. IV. 


Shipping Gazette from the postage of letters con- 
taining shipping and commercial intelligence only,— 
were presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Dunsford, praying 
the House to pass an Act for taking by Ballot the 
votes at all Elections of Members to serve in Parlia- 
ment, was presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


Petitions from Proprietors, Tacksmen and others 
interested in the Salmon Fishings of the River Don; 
—and, the River Dee; praying that the Salmon 
Fisheries (Scotland) Bill may pass into a law,—were 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


Petitions from Cotton Spinners and others in- 
terested in the cotton manufactures of Aberdeen ;~— 
Provost and Magistrates of Aberdeen;—and, Per- 
sons employed in the cotton factory at Annan; pray- 
ing for the repeal of the Duty on Cotton Wool,— 
were presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


Petitions from Auchterardar (Moderator of the 
Presbytery) ;-- Tingley ;— Mirfield; — Redgrave ;— 
Towcester ;— Stonehouse, Lanark ;— Dewsbury ;— 
Lea Marston ;— Barningham ;— Cotton;—Bresing- 
ham ;—— Botesdale ; — North Lopham;—- Kenning- 
hall ;—— Diss; — Bramley ; — Farnley ; -— Pudsey ;-- 
Pemberton; — Bangor; -— and, Stanningley ; pray- 
ing that a general Bill for the better Observ- 
ance of the Lord’s Day may be permitted to 
go into a Committee of the whole House,—were 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 


Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Mirfield, praying 
for the repeal of the Septennial Act, the adoption of 
Vote by Ballot, and the abolition of the Property 
Qualification of Members of Parliament, was pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


Petitions from Farnham ;--Hitchin (two Peti- 
tions);—and, Directors of the ewcastle and North 
of England Insurance Company; praying for the 
repeal of the Duty on Fire Insurances,—-were pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Strathaven, praying 
that the Burghs of Barony (Scotland) Bill may pass 


into a law, was presented, and read ; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Croagh ;-—-Cloneagh ;--Rathheale ; 
——Ardeagh ;—Croom and Banogue ;--Kilcoleman ; 
—and, Coolcappagh; praying that the Municipal 
Corporations ({reland) Bill may pass into law,— 
were presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of John Irving, Writer to the Signet, 
Agent for the Royal Burghs of Scotland, praying 
that provision may be made in the Municipal Cor- 
porations (Scotland) Bill for compensation for the 
loss he will sustain by the passing thereof, was 
age and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


Petitions from Preston (Chairman of a Meeting); 
—and, Carlisle; praying the House to pass some 
legislative enactment for giving publicity to the price 
of hand-loom labour,—were presented, and read; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Grand Jury of the county of 


Salop, at the Lent Assizes 1837, praying that the 
Vou. 92. 


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273 


proposed survey of lands by the Tithe Commissioners 
— be made at the public expense, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of Inhabitants of South Shields, pray- Household 
ing the House to extend the right of voting for Suffrage. 
Members of Parliament to every male Householder 


in the United Kingdom, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Archbishop and Clergy of the Education 
diocese of Armagh, praying that a plan of educa- (Ireland.) 
tion compatible with the principles of the National 
Church may be established in Jreland in place of 
the system now adopted, was presented, and read; 
and referred to the Select Committee on the Plan of 
Education (Zreland). 


A Petition of John Holmes, Chief Bailiff of the Imprisonment 
borough of Southwark, praying the House to grant for Debt Bull, 
him compensation for the losses he will sustam by 
the passing of the Imprisonment for Debt Bill, was 


—- and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
‘able. 


A Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen and Coun- Exeter and 
cillors constituting the Council of the borough of een 
Falmouth, praying that the Exeter and Falmouth ®*'v*y Bi. 
Railway Bill may pass into a law, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Nichole reported from the Committee on the Cardiff 
(re-committed) Cardiff Improvement Bill; That Improvement 
they had made other Amendments thereunto; and ~"* 
the Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


An ingrossed Bill for better lighting with Gas the Cardiff Gas 
Town of Cardiff, in the County of Glamorgan, was Bill. 
read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Nicholl do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


A Petition of the Central Committee of the city Window Tax. 
of Westminster appointed by the several parishes 
within the said city, for the purpose of promoting 
the repeal of the Window Tax, praying that the said 
Tax may be forthwith repealed, was presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Fox Maule reported from the Select Com- Fictitious Votes 
mittee appointed to inquire how far the intentions of (Scotland.) 
the Reform Bill are defeated by the creating and No. 215. 
registering of fictitious and improper votes in the 
counties of Scotland; That they had made Progress 
in the matters to them referred ; and had directed 
him to make a Report thereof to the House, together 
with the Minutes of the Evidence taken before 
them. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


A Petition of Subscribers and Shareholders for Charlton Kings 
making the Charlton Kings and Marsworth Railway, and Marsworth 
complaining that the Bill is not calculated to fulfil Balwsy Bill. 
the objects which induced them to subscribe to the 
Undertaking ; and praying that they may be heard, 
by their counsel or agents, against the Preamble 
thereof, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, ‘That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by their counsel or agents, upon their Petition, if 
they think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


Mr. Fox Maule presented, pursuant to several Hackney 
Addresses to His Majesty,—Return of the several a 
. Leon : onvictions. 
Informations and Convictions; as also Penalties 
NN levied 





Br a hn 


[alien Seassea camp tnaonncduaeeeeeentare ate 





Q74 


levied in each case on Drivers and Proprietors of 
Hackney Coaches or Chariots, Cabriolets, Omni- 
buses and other public Stages duly licensed within 
the Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough 
of Southwark, from March 1835 to March 1837 
inclusive. 


Copy of any Order, Letter or Regulation, or other 
Document issued by any Inspector or Inspectors of 
Factories, in consequence of directions relating to 
the execution of the Act for the Regulation of Fac- 
tories, issued by the Secretary of State for the Home 
Department in March 1837; and, a Return of the 
Number of Surgeons appointed by the Four Inspec- 
tors of Factories in their respective Districts ; spe- 
cifying the Number of Certificates, with the Rates 
of Charge granted by each of the said Surgeons from 
1st April 1835 to the present time. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Factories, 


Salmon 
Fisheries 
(Scotland) Bill, 


A Petition of Proprietors of Fishings and Fishers 
of Salmon belonging to Airth and Dunmore, situated 
on the south side of the Firth of Forth, and_ below 
the Pier and Shore of Alloa, praying that the Salmon 
Fisheries (Scot/and) Bill may not pass into a law, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the t able. 

Tobacco, A Petition of Residents in Bolton, praying for 
a reduction of the Duty on Tobacco, was _ pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 


Table. 


A Petition of the President, Vice-President and 
Directors of the Chamber of Commerce and Manu- 
factures of Manchester, praying that Foreign Corn 
in Bond may be forthwith permitted to be manufac- 
tured into flour and meal for exportation, was pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 


Bonded Corn. 


Table. 
Comber Church A Petition of Parishioners of the parish of Comber, 
(Down.) in the county of Down, complaining of the ruinous 


and dilapidated state of their parish church, and 
praying that power may be given to the Ecclesiastical 
Commissioners for Jreland to rebuild the same im- 
mediately, was presented, and read ; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


General A Petition of Edward Hamilton O’ Grady, Esquire, 
Association —_ praying the House to appoint a Committee to inquire 
(Ireland.) Into the transactions of the General Association in 


Ireland, was presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Dowdeswell 


Message from 


the Lords = and Mr. Cross: 
Mr. Speaker, 
The Lords have agreed to the several Bills fol- 
lowing, without Amendment ; viz. 
Leicester A Bill, intituled, An Act to extend the powers 
ny Debts and provisions of an Act passed in the last Session 
i. 


of Parliament, for the more easy and speedy Re- 
covery of Small Debts within the Borough of Lei- 
cester to several other Towns, Parishes and Places 
ir. the County of Leicester : 

A Bill, intituled, An Act to enable the Company 
of Proprietors of the Bridgewater and Taunton Canal 
Navigation to continue the Line of the Canal below 
the Town of Bridgewater, and for varying the Powers 
of the several Acts relating to the said Canal: And 
also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
Act for improving and maintaining the Road from 
Dryclough through Shaw, New Hey and Milnrow to 
Rochdale, and other Roads in the county of Lancas- 
ter, with an Amendment; to which Amendment the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House :—And 
then the Messengers withdrew. 


Bridgewater 
and Taunton 


Canal Bill. 


Werneth and 
Littleborough 
Road Bill, 





18° Aprilis. 





A. 1837. 


Notice being taken, that the Report which was York ana 
yesterday made from the Committee on the York — Midland 
and North Midland Railway Bili, had been made ®#!vay Bill, 
without notice having been given in the Private Bill 
Office ; 

Ordered, That the Order made the same day, for 
printing the said Report, be discharged. 

Ordered, That the Report be withdrawn. 


Ordered, That the Committee on the Lough Swilly Lough Swill 
and Lough Foyle Drainage Bill, have Power to send fy), Deine 
for persons, papers and records. Bill. ° 


The House proceeded to take into consideration London ang 
the Report which, upon the 4th day of this instant Greenwich 
April, was made from the Committee on the London B+lway Bill 
and Greenwich Railway Bill, printed Copies of the 
Bill having been delivered at the door upon Wed- 
nesday, the 5th day of this instant April; and the 
Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Darham and 
the Report which, upon the 10th day of this instant ag 
April, was made from the Committee on the Durham \"'"*Y Pils 
and Sunderland Railway Bill, printed Copies of the 
Bill having been delivered at the door upon Friday 
last; and the Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 


ingrossed. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration London and 
the Report which, upon the 10th day of this instant sams gl 
April, was made from the Committee on the London — 
and Birmingham Railway Bill, printed Copies of 
the Bill having been delivered at the door upon 
Friday last; and the Amendments were read, and 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Poor Law Act 
further consideration the Special Report from the 
Select Committee on the Poor Law Act; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Thursday next. 


A Petition of Merchants, Manufacturers and other Bolton 
Inhabitants of Wigan, praying that the Bolton and ree —. 
Preston Railway Bill may not pass into a law, was ™*y Bil 
presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bil] Summary 
to alter and amend the Law of Larceny relating to pane ag 
Offenders under a certain Age: And that Sir Eardley Osienders) Bill. 
Wilmot and Mr. Alderman Wood do prepare, and 


bring it in. 


Sir Richard Vyvyan reported from the Select Public 
Committee on Public Petitions; That they had exa- Petitions. 
mined the Petitions presented from the 7th to the 
13th days of this instant April, both inclusive ; and 
had directed him to make a report thereof to the 
House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Supply. 
the adjourned Debate upon the Amendment which 
was yesterday proposed to be made to the Question, 
That the Estimates of the Office of Ordnance for 
the year 1837-38 be referred to the Committee of 
Supply, and which Amendment was to leave out _ 
from the word “ That” to the end of the Question, SP*!"» 
in order to add the words “ an humble Address be 
“ presented to His Majesty, praying that His Ma- 
“ jesty will be graciously pleased not to renew the 
“ Order in Council of the 10th June 1835, granting 





“ His Majesty’s Royal License to British Subjects 
“ to enlist into the Service of the Queen of Spain, 
“ which 


CO ee eet OS 





nd 


Public Works 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Judicial Factor 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Imprisonment 
for Debt Bill. 


Court of 
Exchequer 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Dublin Police 
Bill. 


Supply. 


Court of 
Exchequer 
(Scotland) 
[Compensation 
to Officers. ] 


Consolidated 
Fund Bill, 


Canada. 


7 Wit. IV. 


“ which Order in Council will expire on the 10th 


June next ; and praying also, that His Majesty 
will be graciously pleased to give directions that 
“ the Marine Forces of His Majesty shall not be 
“ employed in the civil contest now prevailing in 
“ Spain, otherwise than in that Naval co-operation 
“ which His Majesty has engaged to afford, if 
“ necessary, under the stipulations of Treaty,” in- 
stead thereof. 

And the Question being again proposed, That the 
words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Question :—The House resumed the said adjourned 
Debate. 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Wednesday morning ; 


Mercurii, 19° die Aprilis, 1837: 


Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till this day. 


“ 
“ 


18°—19° Aprils. 





The House was moved, That the several Acts 
relating to Public Works in Ireland, might be read ; | 
and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to amend the said Acts, and to provide additional | 
Funds for carrying on the same: And that Mr. 
Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lord Viscount 
Morpeth do prepare, and bring it in. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Judicial Factor (Scotland) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Imprisonment for Debt Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Court of Reshenves (Scotland) Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the third 
reading of the Dublin Police Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for receiving 
the Report from the Committee of Supply ; 
Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee to whom it was i Poe to consider of making 
Compensation out of the Consolidated Fund of the 
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to 
certain Officers of the Court of Exchequer in Scot- 
land in the event of their Offices being abolished 
under the provisions of any Act to be passed in the 
present Session to regulate certain Offices in the 
Court of Exchequer in Scotland ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Consolidated Fund Bill was, according to 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for this day. 


Sir George Grey presented, pursuant to an Ad- 
dress to His Majesty,—Copies of a Report of the 
Select Committee of the House of Assembly of 
Lower Canada respecting Mr. Whitcher, Sheriff of 





Saint Francois; and of a Correspondence between 
the Earl of Gosford and Lord Glenelg, on the sub- 
ject of the Charges preferred against Mr. Whitcher : 
—Copies of a Report of the Select Committee of 
the House of Assembly of Lower Canada, respect- 
ing Mr. Thompson, Judge of the Inferior District of 
Gaspe; and of any Correspondence between the 
~~ of Gosford and Lord Glenelg, on the subject 
OL. 92, 











275 


of the Charges preferred against Mr. Thompson :-— 
Copies of two earn of a Select Committee of 
the House of Assembly of Zower Canada respecting 
Mr. Felton, together with any further Correspond- 
ence (in continuation of that presented on the 26th 
July 1836), on the subject of the complaint against 
Mr. Felton:—and, Copy of the Agreement con- 
cluded between His Majesty’s Government and the 
British American Land Company in the year 1833, 
with an Account of the Sums paid by the Company 
under that Agreement. 

Sir George Grey also presented, pursuant to the 
directions of an Act of Parliament,—A Return of 
all Persons holding Offices in the Colonies who 
have been appointed thereto subsequent to the 
passing of an Act of Parliament of the 54th year 
of his late Majesty King George the Third, c. 61, 
and who are not at present in the execution of the 
Duties of their respective Offices, as far as regards 
the Department of the Secretary of State for the 
Colonies. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Sir John Hobhouse presented, pursuant to a Re- 
solution of the Select Committee on Houses of Par- 
liament Plans, dated the 9th day of May 1836,— 
Report of the Commissioners of His Majesty’s 
Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works and Build- 
ings on Mr. Barry’s Plans, and Estimates for 
building the proposed new Houses of Parliament. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till half an hour after twelve of the clock on 
Wednesday morning, adjourned till this day. 








Mercurii, 19° die Aprilis ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi IV“ Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


R. Gell, Receiver to the Dean and Chapter of 
Westminster, was called in; and at the bar 
presented,-—Return to an Order, dated the 5th day 
of this instant April, for a Copy of the Table of Fees 
charged by the Dean and Chapter of Westminster 
Abbey, for Burial Fees; distinguishing the Rate of 
Burial within and without the Abbey, and stating 
the Date when the present Rate and Scale of Fees 
were made, and by what Authority made: Anda List 
of the Number of Applications made to the Dean and 
Chapter of Westminster Abbey, for permission to bury, 
for permission to erect Monuments or Monumental 
Tablets in the Abbey, in each of the last Ten years ; 
stating the Names of all the Persons for whom appli- 
cation was made; distinguishing the applications 
complied with, and those rejected, with the reasons 
for rejection ; and stating the Amount of Fees re- 
ceived on each case where the application was com- 
plied with, and the appropriation of such Fees. 
Return to an Order, dated the 5th day of this in- 
stant April, for Returns of the Annual Amount of 
Money taken at the doors of Westminster Abbey and 
Saint Paul's, for Admission during the last Ten years ; 
distinguishing each year ; and of the appropriation 
of such Money; with a Return of the Sum or Sums 
charged at present for admitting Individuals to see 
the Public Monuments in Westminster Abbey and 
Saint Paul’s:—And, of the Regulations under 
which Artists or others are admitted to study or 
draw from the Monuments, (so far as relates to 
Westminster Abbey:)—And then he withdrew. 
Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of Manufacturers and Traders in the 
Staffordshire Potteries, praying that they may be 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, against 

NN 2 certain 


Offices in the 
Colonies. 


Houses of Pare 
liament Plans. 


No. 216. 


Westminster 
bbey. 


Westminster 
Abbey and 
Saint Paul’s, 


Liverpool 
Mersey Cone 
servancy Bill. 








London and 
Brightou 
Railway Bill 


(Gibbs's Line.) 


Gardiner's 
Divorce Bill. 


Edinburgh 
and Glasgow 


Railway Bill. 


Durham 
Junction 


Railway Bill, 


London and 
Greenwich 
Railway Bill. 


Loncon and 
Birmingham 


Railway Bill. 


Loanhead and 
Stirling Canal 
Bill, 


Worcester 
Cattle Market 
Bill. 


Manchester 


(Victoria Park) 
Company Bill. 


Brixham 
Hurbour and 
Market Bul, 


276 


certain parts of the Liverpool Mersey Conservancy 
Bill, was — and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


A Petition of Newman Smith, of Birdhurst Lodge, 
in the county of Surrey, Esquire, praying that he 
may be heard, by his counsel or agent, against cer- 
tain parts of the London and Brighton Railway 
Bill (Gibds’s Line), was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, if he 
think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the Bill, 
against the said Petition. 


Ordered, That Gardiner’s Divorce Bill be read 
the third time To-morrow. 


Petitions from Inhabitants of Kirkintilloch ;— 
and, Provost, Magistrates and Town Council of 
Greenock; praying that the Edinburgh and Glasgow 
Railway Bill may pass into a law,—were presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The Durham Junction Railway Bill was read a 
second time; and committed to Mr. Lambton and 
the Durham List. 

Ordered, That all the Members serving for the 
several Counties, and for the Boroughs therein 
through which Counties the said Railway is intended 
to pass, be Members of the said Committee. 


An ingrossed Bill to enlarge the Powers of an 
Act passed in the Third year of the reign of His 
Ye Majesty, intituled, “ An Act for making a 

ailway from London to Greenwich,” was read the 
third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Dottin do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


An ingrossed Bill to amend the Acts relating to 
the London and Birmingham Railway, was read the 
third time; and ingrossed Clauses were added by 
way of Riders; and Amendments were made to the 
Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Sir Eardley Wilmot do carry the 
Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Petitions from Merchants in Arbroath, and Agri- 
culturists in the neighbourhood ;— Montrose ;—and, 
Brechin; praying that the Loanhead and Stirling 
Canal Bill may not pass into a law,—were pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Robinson reported from the Committee on the 
(re-committed) Worcester Cattle Market Bill; That 
they had made other Amendments thereunto; and 
the Amendments were read, and agreed to; anda 
Clause was added to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed. 


An ingrossed Bill for establishing a Company for 
the purpose of laying out and maintaining an Orna- 
mental Park, in the Townships of Rusholme and 
Moss-side, in the County of Lancaster, was read the 
third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act for establishing a Company for the 
purpose of laying out and maintaining an Orna- 
mental Park within the Townships of Rusholme, 
Chorlton-upon-Medlock and Moss-side, in the County 
of Lancaster. 

Ordered, That Mr. Mark Philips do carry the 
Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


A Petition of Landowners, Merchants, Ship- 
owners, Tradesmen, Fishermen and Inhabitants of 


19° Aprils. 


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A. 1837. 


Brirham Torbay, praying that the Brixham Har- 

bour and Market Bill may pass into a law, was 
resented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
able. 


Petitions from the District of Ormskirk ;—Wot- 
ton Underedge ; — Horton ; — Whitworth; — Iron 
Acton ; —Didmarton-cum- Oldbury ; — Yate ;-- Al- 
derley ; —Wapley ;— Tytherington ;-—Siston ;— Tor- 
marton; — Acton Turville ;— Wick and Abson ; — 
Puchlechurch ; — Westerleigh ; — Hawkesbury (two 
Petitions) ; — Boxwell-cum-Leighterton ; — Tremer- 
chion ; — West Littleton; — Chipping Sodbury ;— 
Old Sodbury ;—Hanley and Shelton ;— Church Gres- 
ley ;—Hooe ;—Ashbourn ;—Llanarmon Yn Yale ;— 
Llangyniew ;—Llanidloes ;--Llangadfan ; —Llaner- 
Syl ;-= Penkull Boothen and Fenton ;— Woodnes- 
borough ;-—Saint Mary, Warwick ;—Lambourn ;— 
Patcham ; —-Burpham ; — Marston ;-— West Thur- 
rock ;—Southwick;—Findon;— East Chiltington ;— 
East Tilbury ;—Stanford le Hope;—Whittington ;— 
Westmeston ; — Margaretting ; -— Lillington ;— Ret- 
tendon ;—Southminster ;--Gateshead ;— Stoke Tal- 
mage, Wheatfield, Tetfield and Adwell ;-—Sherburn 
near Malton ; — Sigglesthorne ; — Nuneham Court- 
enay ; -— Hallow ; -— Cubbington ; — Barton-on-the- 
Heath ;— Saint Peter’s, Isle of Thanet ;—Market 
Weighton-cum-Shipton; — Macclesfield ; — Range- 
worthy ;—North Mymms ;— Tattenhall ;—Rainovw ; 
—Rostherne; — Holywell; — Byer’s Green, Saint 
Andrew’s Auckland; — March Baldon and Toot 
Baldon ; — Elmstone ; —Hernhill ; — Rochester ; --- 
Hoath ;—Reculver ;—Lympne (Clergy of the Dean- 
ery) ; — Wouldham ; — Sittingbourne (Clergy of the 
Deanery) ; — Milton next Sittingbourne ; — Saint 
Lawrence, Isle of Thanet ;—Snodland ;— Birling ;— 
Laudevalle ;— Ash; -- Louth ;—Preston next Wing- 
ham; —Stourmouth ;— Holyhead ; —-Thurnham;— 
Gathberbio ; — Hawarden ; —Nacton ; -—Levington ; 
— Herringfleet and Somerleyton;— Bramford and 
Burstal ; — Lound; — Dodington ;— Coleshill ; — 
Hope ;—Bosbyand North Rode ;—Allesley;—Stoke 
near Coventry ;—Sowe;—English Bicknor ;—and, 
Neignis; praying that the proposed measure rela- 
tive to Church Rates may not receive the sanction 
of the House,—were presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from Stourbridge (Members of the 
Church of England, Church of Rome, and Protestant 
Dissenters) ;—Feckenham (Baptists) ;— Wenlock ;— 
Broseley ;— Ottery Saint Mary (Protestant Dis- 
senters) ;—-Saint Peter, Derby;-—Cupar Fife, (Uni- 
ted Associate Congregation ;)— Boston (Protestant 
Dissenters) ;—Glamford Briggs ;— Probus ;—Saint 
Werburgh, Derby ;—Ulceby and adjoining villages 
(Protestant Dissenters) ;—George-street Chapel, Isle 
of Wight ;—Louth ;— Cadney-cum- Howsham (Protes- 
tant Dissenters) ;— Barham ;—Halshaw Moor, near 
Bolton-le-Moors;— Kirkaldy (United Associate Pres- 
bytery);— Colyton (Independent Ministers);— Atch 
Leuch ;— Wingham ; — Bethersden ; — Littlebourne ; 
— Strickland Ketel and Strickland Roger ;— Wick- 
ham ;--Brighouse, Bethel Chapel ;--Saint Gregory, 
Canterbury ;—Ash;--—Woodnesborough ;— Chislett ; 
— Lyswen ;—Great Chart ;—Elmstone ; — Eastry ; 
—Herne ; —Old Hutton and New Hutton;—Long 
Sleddale; — Scalthwaiterigg, Hay and Hutton-le- 
Hay ; — Egremont; — Staveley, Kentmere and 
Hugill ;— Whitwell, Selside and other places ;— 
Crook ; — Whitehaven ;— Kendal ; — Underbarrow 
and Bradley Field; — Claxby and Normanby ;— 
North Kelsey ;—Haborough ; and, Glamford Briggs 
(Minister and Deacons of the Independent Chapel); 
praying that the said proposed measure may receive 
the sanction of the House,—were also presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of William Burton and Thomas Wilson, 
Inhabitants of Barton - upon - Humber, resident 
within that part of the town of Barton, desig- 

nated 





Church Rates 
Regulation, 


Church Rates. 


7 Wit. IV. 


Poor Law Act. 


Summary 
Convictions 
(Juvenile 
Offenders) Bill. 


No. 224. 


Factories Act. 


Nationa} 
Education, 


Longitude at 
Sea, 


Corn Laws. 


Metropolis 
Improvement 
Bill, 


Education 
(Ireland.) 


nated Saint Mary’s parish, and late two of the 
churchwardens of the said parish, praying that in 
the Bill regulating the payment of Church Rates, 
provision may be made for insuring to them the re- 
payment of the monies advanced by them for the 
repairs of the church of the said parish of Saint 
Mary, was also presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Lincoln Uniow ;— Chiswick;—and, 
Saffron Walden Union; praying for the repeal or 
amendment of the Poor oe Act,—were presented, 
and read ; and referred to the Select Committee on 
the Poor Law Act. 

A Petition of Guardians of the Poor of the Thame 
Union, praying that the said Act may not be repealed, 
was also presented, and read ; and referred to the 
said Select Committee. 

Petitions from Guardians of the Poor of the City 
of Chichester ;—and, Inhabitants of the said city ; 
praying the House not to give any power to the 

oor Law Commissioners by giving them jurisdic- 
tion in those places, from which, by local Acts, they 
are at present excluded,—were also presented, and 
read; and referred to the said Select Committee. 


Sir Eardley Wilmot presented a Bill to alter and 
amend the Law of Larceny relating to Offenders 
under a certain Age: And the same was read the 
first time; and ordered to be read a second time 
upon Friday, the 5th day of May next; and to be 
printed. 


Petitions from Labourers and others in the employ 
of Mr. Lord, of Manchester ;—Mr. Fernley, of Stock- 
port ;~-Mr. Scholfield, of Manchester ;—Mr. Gray, 
of Manchester ;— Mr. Guest, of Manchester ;— Mr. 
Morris, of Manchester ;—Mr. Olleranshall, of Man- 
chester ; — Mr. Allen, of Salford; — Mr. William 
Douglas, of Manchester:—Messrs. R. and T. Ogden, 
of Manchester ;—Mr. Parkinson, of Manchester ;— 
Messrs. Bowmaa and Co.,of Manchester ;-Mr. Ralph 
Orrell, of Stockport ;—Mr. Craws ; — Mr. Lockett ; 
— and, Operative Cabinet Makers; praying the 
House to pass a law to protect all Factory workers 
from being worked more than ten hours for five days 
of the week, and eight on the Saturday, and entirely 
to restrict all Factories from working at night,— 
were presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of Members of the Poplar Institution 
for Mutual Instruction, and the promotion of Lite- 
rature, &amp;c., praying for the establishment of a system 
of National Education, such as will not exclude any 
class of the community but comprise all who desire 
to partake of the benefits which it would necessarily 
produce, was presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Henry Harrison, mariner, praying 
the House to institute an inquiry into the merits of 
his discovery of a method for determining the Longi- 
tude at Sea, was presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Chairman of the Glasgow and 
West of Scotland Power-loom Tenters’ Association, 
praying for the repeal of the Corn Laws, was pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 


Table. 


A Petition of Peers and other Lessors and Lessees 
of coal mines in the counties of Durham and Nor- 
thumberland, praying that the Metropolis Improve- 
ment Bill may not pass into a law, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Bishop and Clergy of the diocese 
of Clogher, praying that the present system of Na- 
tional Education in Jreland may not be persisted in, 
was presented, and read ; and referred to the Select 
a on the Plan of Education (Ireland). 

OL. 92. 


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277 


A Petition of Freeholders and Inhabitants of the St. Asaph 
county of Montgomery, praying that the grounds on 2" Bangor 


which the union of the Sees of Bangor and Saint 
Asaph were originally recommended may be adhered 
to, and that so much of the Act of the last Session 
for carrying into effect the Reports of the Commis- 
sioners appointed to consider the state of the Esta- 
blished Church in England and Wales, with reference 
to Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues, so far as they 
relate to Episcopal Dioceses, Revenues and Pa- 
tronage, as empowers a different appropriation, be 
repealed ; but that the surplus revenue of the North 
Wales Sees may be applied to the augmentation of 
such existing Benefices, or the endowment of such 
new Chapelries as the wants of the united Dioceses 
may be found upon examination to require, was 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


Dioceses. 


Petitions from the Grand Jury of the county of Highway Act. 


Salop ;—Magistrates of the said county ;--R.C. Hill, 
and others, being Trustees of the Road from Whit- 
church to Ternhill, n the county of Salop;—Trustees 
of the Burlton and Llanymynech Turnpike Road ;— 
Magistrates of the county of msn ng! —and, 
Trustees of the Third Montgomeryshire District of 
Roads; praying that until enlarged measures for 
the government of Turnpike Roads shall receive the 
sanction of the House, the means of repairing such 
Roads may be preserved to: the respective Trustees 
by a short Act of Parliament, declaring that they 
shall be entitled to such a proportion as may appear 
equitable of the rate to be levied by each parish 
under the new Highway Act,—were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Members of the Warwickshire Bonded Corn. 


Association for the protection of Agriculture, and 
others, Owners and Occupiers of land within the 
said county, praying that no alteration may take 
ow in the law which regulates the importation of 

oreign Corn into the United Kingdom, so as to 
enable the holders of such Corn now in bond to 
convert it into flour in this country, and in that 
shape to export the same, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Werneth and 
the Amendment made by the Lords to the Bill, in- Littleborough 


tituled, An Act for improving and maintaining the 
Road from Dryclough through Shaw, New Hey and 
Milnrow to Rochdale, and other Roads in the County 
of Lancaster; and the same was read, as followeth: 

Pr, 2. 1.20. After “repealed ” insert Clause (A.) 

Crause (A.) “ Provided always, and be it further 
Enacted, That the repeal by this Act of the said 
recited Act of the eleventh year of the reign of his 
late Majesty King George the Fourth, shall not 
extend to revive an Act passed in the seventh and 
eighth years of the reign of his said late Majesty 
intituled, ‘ An Act for making and maintaining 
a Road from Hollinwood to Littleborough, and 
other Roads communicating therewith, in the 
County of Lancaster, the term whereof is yet 
unexpired, and which was repealed by the said 
first-mentioned Act, but the said Act of the seventh 
and eighth years of the reign of his said late 
Majesty shall remain and be and is hereby de- 
clared to be repealed.” 
The said Amendment, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Hindley do carry the Bill to 

the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendment made by their Lordships. 


Road Bill. 


An ingrossed Bill for better paving, cleansing, Cardif 
lighting and otherwise improving the Town of Car- jinprovement 
diff, in the County of Glamorgan, was read the third ~~ 


time ; and Amendments were made to the Bill. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That Mr. Dillwyn do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


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278 


Petitions from Secretaries of Irish Fire Insurance 
Companies ;—and, the Corporation of Derby ; pray- 
ing for the reduction of the Duty on Fire Insurances, 
—were presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 


the Table. 


Fire Insurances. 


West London 
and Westmin- 
ster Cemetery 
Bill. 


An ingrossed Bill for establishing a Cemetery for 
the interment of the Dead westward of the Metro- 
polis, by a Company to be called “ The West of 
London and Westminster Cemetery Company,” was 
read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act for establishing a Cemetery for the 
Interment of the Dead Westward of the Metropolis, 
by a Company to be called “ The West of London 
and Westminster Cemetery Company.” 

Ordered, That Mr. Harvey do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Freemen’s 


, A Petition of Freemen of the city of York, pray- 
Admission Bill. 


ing that the Freemen’s Admission Bill may pass 
into a law, was presented, and read ; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


Exeter and 
Falmouth 
Railway Bill. 


Petitions from Inhabitants of Perranarworthal ; 
—Owners and Occupiers of lands and tenements of 
Saint Gluvias ;—Land-owners, Lessees and Occu- 
= of land, Merchants, Traders and other House- 

old Inhabitants of Roach and Withiel ;—Luzul- 
lian ;—and, Suint Columb Major; praying that the 
Exeter and Falmouth Railway Bill may pass into 
a law,—were presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 
Sale of Beer.! A Petition of Gentlemen, Tradesmen and Inha- 
bitants of Stourport, praying the House to limit 
the number of the retailers of Beer in each parish, 
according to the population, and especially prevent 
them under any circumstances from allowing it to 
be consumed upon their premises, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Statute Labour 


A Petition of Heritors, Farmers, Feuars and 
(Scotland.) 


Payers of road money in Stonehouse, in the county 
of Lanark, praying the House to pass a new Statute 
Labour Act for Scotland, based upon the Report of 
the Select Committee of last Session, qualifying 501. 


19° Aprils. 





A. 1837. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Sheriff ana 
mittee on the Sheriff and Burgh Courts (Scotland) Bergh Courts 





Bill - (Scotland) Bill, 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 

next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Recovery of 

mittee on the Recovery of Tenements Bill ; Tenements Bill, S 


Resolved, That is Means will, upon Wednesday, 
the 3d day of May next, resolve itself into the said 
Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Haileybury 
reading of the Haileybury College Bill ; College Bill 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time . 
upon Wednesday, the 3d day of May next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second East India 
reading of the East India Officers’ Salaries Bill ; A m Bill 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time ws 
upon Wednesday, the 3d day of May next. 


Public Walks 
and Public In- 
stitutions Bill, 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Public Walks and Public Institu- 
tions Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Wednesday, the 3d day of May next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Salmon 
reading of the Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Bill ; (Seuthend) Bill 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time , 
upon Wednesday, the 3d day of May next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Common Law 
further consideration the Report on the Common Courts Bill. 
Law Courts Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Metropolis 
reading of the Metropolis Improvement Bill ; _— 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time” * 
upon Wednesday, the 3d day of May next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Turnpike Trusts 
reading of the Turnpike Trusts Bill ; Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 





of yearly property for a commissioner of supply, and 
their eldest son, empowering their mandatories to 
act in their absence, and prohibiting the offices of 
collector, treasurer, clerk and manager from being 
held by one person, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


County Bridges The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 


Bill. mitttee on the County Bridges Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday, 
the 10th day of May next, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 

East India The Order of the day being read, for the second 
Maritime ; 


reading of the East India Maritime Officers Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday, the 10th day of May next. 


Officers Bill. 


Bribery at 


: The Order of the day being read, for the second 
Elections Bill. : : 


reading of the Bribery at Elections Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday, the 3d day of May next. 


Bankrupts’ The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Ba mittee on the Bankrupts’ Estates (Scotland) Bill ; 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Bankruptcy 


(Scotland) Bill. mittee on the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Bill ; 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 


next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 


upon Wednesday, the 10th day of May next. 


Merchant 
Shipping 
Regulation Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Merchant Shipping Regulation Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday, the 3d day of May next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Registration of 
mittee on the Registration of Voters’ Bill ; Voters Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Ways and 
mittee of Ways and Means; Means. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Judicial Factor 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Tcutland) Bill: 


reading of the Judicial Factor (Scotland) Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday next. 






The Order of the day being read, for receiving Supply. 
the Report from the Committee of Supply ; 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon Fri- 
day next. 








onsolidated 
und Bill. 





The House, according to Order, resolved itself : 
into a Committee upon the Consolidated Fund Bill; 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. Baring reported, That 
the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received ter 

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Supply. 


Spain. 


7 Wirt. IV. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming the 
adjourned Debate upon the Amendment which, upon 
Monday last, was proposed to be made to the Ques- 
tion “ That the Estimates of the Office of Ordnance 
for 1837-38, be referred to the Committee of Supply,” 
and which Amendment was to leave out from the 
word “That” to the end of the Question, in order to 
add the words “an humble Address be presented to 
“ His Majesty, praying that His Majesty will be 
‘ graciously pleased not to renew the Order in Coun- 
“ cil of the 10th June 1835, granting His Majesty’s 
“ Royal License to British Subjects to enlist into 
the Service of the Queen of Spain, which Order in 
Council will expire on the 10th June next; and 
praying also, that His Majesty will be graciously 
pleased to give directions that the Marine Forces 
of His Majesty shall not be employed in the civil 
contest now prevailing in Spain, otherwise than in 
that Naval co-operation which His Majesty has 
engaged to afford, if necessary, under the stipula- 
tions of Treaty,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being again proposed, That 
the words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Question :—The House resumed the said adjourned 


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Majesty, having been informed of the subject-matter 
of this Section, gives His consent, as far as His Ma- 
jesty’s interest is concerned, that the House may 
do therein as they shall think fit. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
discharge the Newark Estate, in the County of Wot- 
tingham, from any Costs of rebuilding or repair- 
ing the Trent and Markham Bridges, and to charge 
the same on the other Hereditary Revenues of the 
Crown: And that Mr. Edward John Stanley and 
Mr. Baring do prepare, and bring it in. 


The House was moved, That the Act 6 and Registration 
7 Will.4, c. 86, for registering Births, Deaths and = Marriages 


Marriages in England, might be read ; and the same 
was read. 

The House was also moved, That the Act 6 and 
7 Will.4, c. 85, for Marriages in England, might be 
read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to amend and explain the said Acts: And that Mr. 
Fox Maule, Lord John Russell and Mr. Chancellor 
of the Exchequer do prepare, and bring it in. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being Religious 


proposed, That an humble Address be presented to at sd 


His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased to (scotland.) 


Debate. 
And the House having continued to sit till after 


Supply. 
Adjournment, 


Committees. 


Poor Law Act. 


Dublin Police 
Bill. 


Deptford and 
Dover Railway 
Subscription 
List, 


Newark 
Estate Bill. 


twelve of the clock on Thursday morning ; 
Jovis, 20° die Aprilis, 1837. 

And the Question being put ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the old lobby ; 

The Noes to the new lobby. 

Tellers for the Mr. Charles Wood, 278 

Yeas, | Mr. Edward John Stanley J ; 

Tellers for the f Sir George Clerk, } 249 

Noes, (Sir Thomas Fremantle: ry 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That the Estimates of the Office of 
Ordnance for 1837-38, be referred to the Committee 
of Supply. 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the Committee of Supply. 


Resolved, That this House will, at the rising of 
the House this day, adjourn till To-morrow. 


Ordered, That all Committees have leave to sit 
this day, notwithstanding the adjournment of the 
House. 


The Order for taking into further consideration, 
To-morrow, the Special Report from the Select 
Committee on the Poor Law Act, was read, and 
discharged. 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the third 
reading of the Dublin Police Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 


To-morrow. 


The Order made upon the 1st day of March last, 
That Five be the Quorum of the Select Committee 
on the Deptford and Dover Railway Subscription 
List, was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That Three be the Quorum of the said 
Committee. 

Ordered, That the Committee have Power to re- 
port their opinion upon the matters to them referred, 
together with the Minutes of the Evidence taken 
before them from time to time to the House. 


A Motion being made, That leave be given to 
bring in a Bill to discharge the Newark Estate, in 
the County of Nottingham, from any Costs of re- 
building or repairing Trent and Markham Bridges, 
and to charge the same on the other Hereditary 
Revenues of the Crown ; 

Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, by His Ma- 
jesty’s command, acquainted the House, That His 

Vox. 92. 











give directions that there be laid before this House, 
a Copy of any Correspondence between the Com- 
missioners for Religious Instruction in Scotland and 
the Reverend ‘Mie. Bann, of Libberton, respecting the 
unauthorized Publication of the Reverend Dr. Lee’s 
Evidence before the said Commissioners ; 


And Notice being taken that Forty Members were 
not present, the House was told by Mr. Speaker ; 
and Forty Members not being present ; and it — 
then a quarter of an hour before four of the cloc 
on Thursday morning :—The House was adjourned 
by Mr. Speaker, without a Question first put, till 
To-morrow. 


Veneris, 21° die Aprilis ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi [Vt Regis, 1837. 
PRAYERS. 


R. Du Bois, from the Metropolitan Commis- Lunacy. 


sioners in Lunacy, was called in; and at the 
bar presented, pursuant to the directions of an Act 
of Parliament,—An Account of Monies received for 
Licenses by the Clerk of the Metropolitan Commis- 
sioners in Lunacy, and of all Monies received and 
paid out of the Consolidated Fund to the said Clerk 
from the 1st August 1834 to the 1st August 1835; 
specifying the several heads of Expenditure. 

An Account of Monies received for Licenses by 
the Clerk of the Metropolitan Commissioners in 
Lunacy, and of all Monies received and paid out of 
the Consolidated Fund to the said Clerk from the 
1st August 1835 to the 1st August 1836; specifying 
the several heads of Expenditure :--And then he 
withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Accounts do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Bulley, from the Comptroller General’s Office, Public 


Exchequer, was called in; and at the bar presented, 
pursuant to the directions of an Act of Parliament, 
—An Account, showing the Amount of all Monies 
received during the year ended 5th April 1837, to 
the Account of His Majesty’s Exchequer, under the 
several and respective Heads of Public Revenue, 
the Amount of all Royal Orders and Treasury War- 
rants received by the Comanniiiee General of the Ex- 
chequer, the Issues made from the Bank of England 
on credits given pursuant thereto, and the Balance 
of Monies remaining to the Account of the Exche- 
quer on 5th April 1837 :—And then he withdrew. 
Ordered, That the said Account do lie upon the 
Table. 
NN4 Mr. 








280 

Glass. 
at the bar presented, pursuant to Orders,—A Return 

of the Amount of Duty charged on Glass ; distin- 

5 ereanagy the Amount charged on Flint, Plate, Broad, 

Srown, Bottle and German Sheet Glass in the year 

1836; together with the Amount of Drawback on 


21° Aprilis. 


Mr. Crafer, from the Treasury, was called in; and | 


| 
{ 
| 





A. 1837. 


| Copy of Warrant awarding Compensation to the 
‘Hon. R. H. F itzgibbon, Usher of the Court of 
| Chancery in Ireland, for Losses sustained by reason 
‘of the provisions of the Act 6 and 7 Will. 4, ¢.74.: 
| —And then he withdrew. 


Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 


each description of Glass ; the produce of the Duties | Table. 


in England, Scotland and Ireland, stated separately. | 


Fire Insurance. Returns to several Orders, dated the 16th day of 
March last, for Accounts of all Sums paid into the 
Stamp Office for Duty by each Insurance Office in 
Great Britain and Ireland on Insurance from Fire 
and Life, from the quarters ended 25th March, 24th 
June, 29th September and 25th December 1836 ; 
distinguishing the Amount of Allowance made to 
each Office for collecting the same in the Country, 
London, Edinburgh and Dublin respectively, with 
the Dates of such Payments for one year from the 
25th December 1835 :—and, of the Duty paid into 
the Stamp Office on Marine Insurance for the same 
period respectively. 


Returns to an Order, dated the 17th day of March 
last, for a Return, showing the Places in the United 
Kingdom at which Offices are established for assay- 
ing Gold and Silver Plate, with the Amount of Duty 
paid by each of such Offices respectively, in the last 

hree years ended 5th January 1837. 


Assay Offices. 


Post Office. Copies of Two circular Letters headed “ London 
Shipping and Commercial List, published under the 
authority of His Majesty’s Postmaster General,” 
and dated “ General Post Office, February 1837 ;” 
also Copies of any other circular Letters respecting 
the said London Shipping and Commercial List, and 
emanating from the General Post Office, in the years 
1835 and 1836; also, the Days and average Number 
of each Publication of the above Shipping List, and 
the Total Numbers published in 1835 and 1836; 
with the Names of the Proprietors, Publishers, 
Editors and Parties who have been in these years, 
or now are, concerned in it; the yearly Allowance 
or Profit paid to each, the Names of the Offices 
they hold in the General Post Office, and the time 
devoted daily by each, in preparation for and pub- 
lication of the aforesaid List; also stating, if the 
above Shipping List is sent to the Country Postage 
free, and if the Circulars and Letters with intelligence 
for it, are sent and received free of Postage, stating 
the Number of each kind in each year, and the Sum 
the Postages would have amounted to in 1835 and 
1836; also the Names of the hand Distributors, or 
other Distributors of the Shipping List, in London 
and around it, and their Avocations in the Post 
Office, if any ; also, whether the Shipping and Com- 
mercial List is stamped or unstamped. 

An Account of the Amount of Supplies voted 
annually for the United Kingdom, from 1st January 
1831 to 81st March 1837; distinguishing each year, 
and separating the Amounts of the Army, Navy, 
Ordnance and Miscellaneous Charges from each 
other; together with the Number of Men voted 
annually for each Service, as far as the same can be 
made up. 

Newspaper Returns to several Orders, dated the 12th day of 

Stamps and this instant April, for Returns of the Number of 

coeiemeemees Stamps issued monthly to each of the London News- 
papers, from 1st January 1837 to 1st April, both 
days inclusive :—Of the Number of Advertisements 
published in each Newspaper for the same period : 
—and, of the Amount of Duty on Advertisements 
paid by each Newspaper for the same period. 


Supplies, 


Court of Copy of Warrant granting Compensation to acting 

Chancery. Cursitors of the Court of Chancery for Losses sus- 
tained in consequence of the operation of the Act 
5 and 6 Will. 4. c. 82. 

Court of Copy of Warrant granting Compensation to Offi- 

Cirelend’) cers of the Court of Chancery in Jreland, for Losses 


sustained by the operation of the Act 4and 5 Will. 4, 
c. 74. 





| Mr. Alderman Wood presented a Return to an Order, Pauper 
dated the 14th day of this instant April, fora Return Lunatics 
of each of the Lunatic Paupers who, by the Return “4#dlesex.) 
| presented to the House of Commons on 6th April, 
appear to have been discharged cured from the Lu- 
natic Asylum at Hanwell, and who subsequently to 
the date returned as that of their cure, have been, 
or now are, inmates of that Asylum ; distinguishing 
those who have died there, and those who have been 
dismissed uncured. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of Owners and Occupiers of property Manchester 
at Hollinwood, praying that the Manchester and iné Dida 
Oldham Roads Bill may not pass into a law as it *°*s Bil 
now stands, was presented, and read; and referred 
to the Committee on the Bill. 


_ Ordered, That the Committee on the Antrim and a and 
Coleraine Road Bill have Power to send for persons, poag Bill. 


papers and records. 


Ordered, That the Committee on the Belfast and Belfast and 
Lisburn Road Bill have Power to send for persons, — Read 


papers and records. 


Mr. John Henry Lowther reported from the Com- York and 
mittee on the York and North Midland Railway eg 
: im : y Bill. 
Bill; and to whom several Petitions against the 
said Bill, were referred; That the Standing Orders 
relative to Bills for making Railways, had been 
complied with; and that the Committee had consi- 
dered the said Petitions, and had heard counsel in 
support of several of them, and had also heard 
counsel in favour of the Bill; and that they had 
inquired into the several matters required by the 
Resolutions of the House of the Ist day of March 
1836 ; and had examined the allegations of the Biil, 
and found the same to be true; and had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments there- 
unto. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; 
and be printed. 


A Petition of Ship-owners and Merchants of the Bridlington 
Port of Sunderland, praying that they may be heard, Harbour a 
by their counsel or agents, against the Bridlington 
Harbour Bill, was presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


An ingrossed Bill to enable the Durham and Sun- Durham and 
derland Railway Company to alter a part of the ae 
main Line of their Railway, to abandon another , 
part thereof, to make other Branches therefrom, and 
to amend and enlarge the Powers of the Act for 
incorporating the said Company, was read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Alderman Thompson do carry 
the Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


A Petition of Ship-owners and Inhabitants of Scarborough 
Scarborough, praying that the Scarborough Harbour #" wis 
Bill may pass into a law, was presented, and read; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from Ship-owners, Merchants and Traders 
of Tynemouth ;—and, Ship-owners of South Shields ; 
praying that the said Bill may not pass into a law 
as it now stands,—were also presented, and read ; 


; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
| 


| A Petition of Ship-owners of the Port of London, Scarborough 
praying that the Scarborough Harbour, the Brid- — eas 
| dington Harbour, and the Lowestoft Harbour Bills ~~ 

| may 





Me 
the 


Mu 


Ri 





Message from 
the Lords. 


Matiny Bill. 


Marine 
Mutiny Bill. 


Scarborough 
Harbour Bill, 


Royal Assent 
to Bills. 


Mint Bill, 


Mutiny Bill. 


Marine Mutiny 
Bill. 


Vagrants 
(Scotland 

and Ireland) 
Removal Bill. 


Leicester 
Small Debts 
Bill. 


Hinckley 
Small Debts 
Bill. 


Loughborougi: 
Smail Debts 
Bill. 


Whitby 
Improvement 
Bill. 


Bridgewater 
and Taunton 


Canal Bill. 


7 Witt. IV. 


may not pass into law as they now stand, was pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Dowdeswell 

and Mr. Cross: 
Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords have agreed to the several Bills follow- 
ing, without Amendment ; viz. 

A Bill, intituled, An Act for punishing Mutiny 
and Desertion, and for the better payment of the 
Army and their Quarters : 

A Bill, intituled, An Act for the Regulation of 
His Majesty’s Royal Marine Forces while on Shore: 
—And then the Messengers withdrew. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 
posed, That the Scarborough Harbour Bill be now 
read a second time ; 

The Amendments following were proposed to be 
made to the Question; viz. To leave out the word 
“ now,” and at the end of the Question to add the 
words “ upon this day six months.” 

And the Question being proposed, That the word 
“ now” stand part of the Question :—And a Debate 
arising thereupon 





A Message by Sir Augustus Clifford, Gentleman 

Usher of the Black Rod: 
Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords, authorized by virtue of His Majesty’s 
Commission, for declaring His Royal Assent to seve- 
ral Acts, agreed upon by both Houses, do desire the 
immediate attendance of this Honourable House in 
the House of Peers, to hear the Commission read. 

Accordingly Mr. Speaker, with the House, went 
up to the House of Peers :—And being returned ; 

Mr. Speaker reported, ‘That the House, at the de- 
sire of the Lords, authorized by virtue of His Ma- 
jesty’s Commission, had been at the House of Peers, 
where a Commission under the Great Seal was read, 
giving, declaring and notifying the Royal Assent to 
the several Public and Private Bills therein men- 
tioned ; and that the Lords, thereby authorized, had 
declared the Royal Assent to the said Bills: —Which 
Bills are as follow : 

An Act to amend several Acts relating to the Royal 
Mint: 

An Act for punishing ov way | and Desertion, and 
for the better payment of the Army and their Quar- 
ters : 

An Act for the regulation of His Majesty’s Royal 
Marine Forces while on Shore : 

An Act to alter, amend and continue for a certain 
period, an Act for repealing certain Acts relating to 
the Removal of Poor Persons born in Scotland and 
Ireland, and chargeable to Parishes in England, and 
to make other Provisions in lieu thereof: 

An Act to extend the Powers and Provisions of 
an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament for 
the more easy and speedy recovery of Small Debts 
within the Borough of Leicester, to several other 
Towns, Parishes and Places in the County of 
Leicester : 

An Act for more easy and speedy recovering 
Small Debts within the Parish of Hinckley and 
other Places therein mentioned, in the Counties of 
Leicester and Warwick: 

An Act for the more easy and speedy recovery of 
Small Debts within the Town of Loughborough, and 
other Places therein mentioned, in the Counties of 
Leicester and Nottingham : 

An Act for better paving, cleansing, lighting, 
watching and improving the Town of Whitby, in the 
North Riding of the County of York : 

An Act to enable the Company of Proprietors of 
the Bridgewater and Taunton Canal Navigation to 
continue the Line of the Canal below the Town of 
Bridgewater,and for varying the Powers of the seve- 
ral Acts relating to the said Canal : 

Vox. 92. 


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281 


An Act to enable the Licensed Victuallers and Victuallers’ 
General Fire and Life Assurance Company to sue a 
and be sued in the Name of the Chairman, Deputy °"?" ©" 
Chairman, or of any one of the Directors of the said 
Company, and for other purposes : 

An Act for forming and regulating a Company to Berry and 
be called The Patent Dry Gas Meter Company, and a. 
to enable the said Company to purchase certain Let-* aii 
ters Patent : 

An Act for making and maintaining certain Roads Aberdeen 
in the County of Aberdeen : Roads Bill. 

An Act to enable the Duke of Buccleuch and Granton Pier 
Queensberry to make and maintain a Pier at Gran- "4 Road Bill. 
ton, in the Parish of Cramond, and a Road there- 
from, to join the Road leading from Leith to Queens- 
ferry, in the County of Edinburgh : 

An Act for more effectually repairing the Road Lobley Hill 
from the Turnpike Road between Gateshead and ®4 Bill. 
Hexham, near Lobley Hill, in the County of Dur- 
ham, to Burtryford, in the Parish of Stanhope, in 
the same County, together with several Branches 
therefrom: 

An Act for amending an Act of His present Ma- Sevenoaks 
jesty, for repairing the Roads from Sevenoaks Com- oath aga 
mon to Woodsgate, Tunbridge Wells, and Kipping’s : 
Cross, and from Tunbridge Wells to Woodsgate, in 
the County of Kent: 

An Act for inclosing Lands within the Townships Mansergh, &amp;c., 
or Divisions of Mansergh, Lupton, Old Hutton and {elosure Bill. 
Holme Scales, and New Hutton, in the Parishes of 
Kirkby Lonsdale, Burton-in-Kendal, and Kirkby- 
in-Kendal, in the County of Westmorland : 


An Act for naturalizing Bernard Metté : a 
An Act for naturalizing Henry Anthony Metté : gu 
An Act for naturalizing John Becker. mag 
Then the House resumed the said Debate. Scarborough 


And the Question being put, That the word “ now” Harbour Bill. 


stand part of the Question ; 
The House divided : 
The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 
The Noes to the old Lobby. 


Tellers for the f Sir John Johnstone, Ls6 
Yeas, Sir Frederick Trench: Jj ° 
Tellers for the Mr. Pease, | 
N Mr. George Frederick 90. 
oes, Y. * J 
oung : 


So it passed in the Negative. 
And the Question being put, That the words 
“ upon this day six months” be added at the end of 
the Question;” it was resolved in the Affirmative. 
Then the main Question, so amended, being put; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
this day six months. 


The Clun Forest Inclosure Bill was read a second Clun Forest 
time; and committed to Mr. Robert Clive and the !»closure Bill. 
Salop List. 


The Belfast and Hollywood Railway Bill was Belfast and 
read a second time; and committed to Lord Vis- ae 
count Castlereagh and the Ulster List. allway Bilt. 


a Harbour, Trinity (North 
Leith) Harbour 
aud Docks Bill, 


An ingrossed Bill for constructing 
Dock, or Docks, Piers and other Works at Trinity, 
in the Parish of North Leith, and County of Edin- 
burgh, was read the third time ; and Amendments 
were made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Sir Andrew Leith Hay do carry the 
Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


An ingrossed Bill for making and maintaining a Streatley and 
Bridge over the River Thames, from Streatley, in ae —~ 
the Soce of Berks, to the opposite Shore, in the “"" “8 ©™ 
Parish of Goring in the County of Oxford, with 
proper Approaches thereto, was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act for building a Bridge over the 

00 River 








London and 
Greenwich 
Railway 
(No. 2.) 


Gardiner’s 
Divorce Bille 


Slamannan 
Railway Bill. 


Swansea 
Waterworks 
Bill, 


Wakefield 
Waterworks 
Bill. 


Barnsley 
Waterworks 


Bill. 


Dublin and 
Drogheda 


Railway Bill. 


982 


River Thames, from Streatley, in the County of 
Berks, to the opposite Shore, in the Parish of Goring, 
in the County of Ozford, and for making conve- 
nient Approaches thereto. 

Ordered, That Mr. Robert Palmer do carry the 
Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Mr. Robert Palmer reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That in the 
case of the Petition for the London and Greenwich 
Railway (No. 2.) Bill, the Standing Orders relative 
to Railway Bills had not been complied with, inas- 
much as no notice of the application had been in- 
serted in the newspapers ; but the Committee con- 
sider it right to report specially, that the object of 
this Bill appears to be to enable the present Railroad 
Company to carry into effect a private arrangement 
with the Deptford Creek Bridge Company with 
respect to tolls, by which the public would a. 
be benefited; but the Committee are of opinion 
that they must consider it strictly a Bill requiring 
notices in the newspapers, inasmuch as it is proposed 
to authorize the Sravinteh Railway Company to 
construct a Bridge by the side of the present Rail- 
way, and. to take a toll upon all persons, horses, 
cattle or carriages passing thereon ; and it also ap- 
peared to the Committee, that no additional land 
was intended to be taken in the construction of the 
Bridge. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Se- 
lect Committee on Standing Orders. 


Ordered, That Gardiner’s Divorce Bill be read 
the third time upon Monday next. 


Mr. Forbes reported from the Committee on the 
Slamannan Railway Bill; That the Standing Orders 
relative to Bills for making Railways had been 
complied with ; and that the Committee had inquired 
into the several matters required by the Resolutions 
of the House of the 1st day of March 1836, and 
had examined the allegations of the Bill, and found 
the same to be true; and had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; 
and be printed. 


Mr. John Henry Vivian reported from the Com- 
mittee on the Swansea Waterworks Bill; That the 
Standing Orders relative to Bills for supplying Cities 
or Towns with Water had been complied with ; and 
that they had examined the allegations of the Bill, 
and found the same to be true; and had gone through 
the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Sir George Strickland reported from the Com- 
mittee on the Wakefield Waterworks Bill; That 
the Standing Orders relative to Bills for supplying 
Cities or Towns with Water, had been complied 
with ; and that they had examined the allegations 
of the Bill, and found the same to be true; and 
had gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from the Company of Proprietors of the 
Barnsley Canal Navigation ;— and, Thomas Went- 
worth Beaumont, of Bretton Hall, in the county of 

York, Esquire, praying that they may be heard, by 
themselves, their counsel or agents, against certain 
parts of the Barnsley Waterworks Bill, were pre- 
sented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit ; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


A Petition of James Sullivan, Esquire, praying 
that he may be heard, by his counsel or agent, 





21° Aprils. 








A. 1837. 


against certain parts of the Dublin and Drogheda 
Railway Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to 
the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner 
heard, by his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, 
if he think fit ; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to Queen Anne’s Queen Anne's 
Bounty, which was presented upon Tuesday last, be Bounty. 
ouleted. No. 217, 

Ordered, That the Return relative to Hackney Hackney 
Carriages Convictions, which was presented upon Cériages 


: Comite 
Tuesday last, be printed. ‘No. 218, 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to Factory In- Factory 
spectors, which was presented upon Tuesday last, Mspectors. 
be printed. No. 219, 

Ordered, That the Papers relative to Canada, Canada. 
which were presented upon Tuesday last, be printed. —_ No. 220. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to take Poor Law Act, 
into further consideration the special Report from 
the Select Committee on the Poor Law Act; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That according to the undoubted 
privileges of this House, and for the due protection 
of the public interest, the Evidence taken by any 
Select Committee of this House and Documents 
presented to such Committee, and which have not 
been reported to the House, ought not to be pub- 
lished by any Member of such Committee, or by 
any other person ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” to 
the end of the Question, in order to add the words 
“ the Select Committee appointed to inquire into 
“ the administration of the Relief of the Poor under 
the orders and regulations appointed under the 

rovisions of the Poor Law Amendment Act, be 

instructed to report the Evidence taken before 
“ them from day to day to the House,” instead 
thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Question : 
—And a Debate arising thereupon ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the Debate be adjourned till this 
day six months ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new lobby ; 

The Noes to the old lobby. 

Tellers for the ¢ Mr. Thomas Duncombe, 


“ 
“ 
“ 


is, 


Yeas, Mr. Roebuck : 
Tellers for the { Mr. Robert Steuart, } 131 
Noes, Mr. For Maule: ; 


So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being again proposed, That the 
words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Question : — The said proposed Amendment was, 
with leave of the House, withdrawn. 

Resolved, That according to the undoubted pri- 
vileges of this House, and for the due protection of 
the public interest, the Evidence taken by any Select 
Committee of this House, and Documents presented 
to such Committee, and which have not been reported 
to the House, ought not to be published by any 
Member of such Committee, or by any other person. 


A Petition of Members of the Working Men’s Canada. 
Association, and others, praying the House to 
yield to the wishes of the Canadians, and allow them 
to elect the Legislative Council, place the revenues 


|of their country at their disposal, and allow their 
judges to be made responsible to their own Legis- 
‘lature instead of to the King of England, was pre- 


sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Canada. 
mittee to whom it was referred to consider further 
of the state of the Province of Lower Canada; 


And 


Adjournment. 


Dublin Police 
Bill. 


Church Rates 
egulation, 


7 Wit. IV. 


And a Motion being made, and the Question 
rw 3 proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 

hair ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Questiva, by leaving out from the word “ That” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words “ this House will, upon this day six months, 
resolve itself into the said Committee,” instead 
thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words pro- 
posed to be left out stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new lobby ; 

The Noes to the old lobby. 


Tellers for the Yeas, Lacd Delsey ’ \ 182. 
Tellers for the Noes, i —— . } 29. 


So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair :—The House accordingly resolved itself into 
the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 


Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
legal title of the North American Land Company 
to the Land holden by the said Company by virtue 
of a Grant from His Majesty, under the Public 
Seal of the said Province, and to the privileges 
conferred on the said Company by the Act for that 
purpose made in the fourth year of His Majesty’s 
reign, ought to be maintained inviolate. 

Amendment proposed : To leave out all the words 
after the word “ That,” and insert the words “ it 
“ is the opinion of this Committee, That no Reso- 
“« lution should be come to by the Committee re- 
“ specting the Land Company, until a full inquiry 
“ be made into the circumstances under which the 
“ lands now held by that corporation were ob- 
“ tained.” 

Question put, That the words proposed to be left 
out stand part of the Question. 

The Committee divided : 

Teller for the Yeas, Mr. Robert Steuart - 

Teller for the Noes, Mr. Roebuck - - - 

Main Question put, and agreed to. 

To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 


166. 
6. 





And the House having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Saturday morning ; 


Sabbati, 22° die Aprilis, 1837: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had made further 
Progress in the matters to them referred; and that 
he was directed to move, That the Committee may 
have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Resolved, That this House will, at the rising of 
the House this day, adjourn till Monday next. 


The ingrossed Bill for amending the Act relating 
to the Police in the District of the Dublin Metro- 
polis, was, according to Order, read the third time; 
and Amendments were made to the Bill. 

An ingrossed Clause was offered to be added to 
the Bill, by way of Rider, to place the Police of 
the City of Dublin on the same footing as the Ge- 
neral Constabulary Force of Ireland :—And the said 
Clause was, with leave of the House, withdrawn. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for receiving the 
Report from the Committee to whom it was referred 
to consider of the payment of Church Rates ; 
Ordered, That the Report be received upon Friday 
next. 

Vor. 92. 


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283 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Benefices _ 
reading of the Benefices Plurality Bill ; Plurality Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Wills Bill. 
reading of the Wills Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Post Office 
further consideration the Report on the Post Office Management 
Management Bill ; _ 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Monday, the 1st day of May 
next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Postage 
further consideration the Report on the Postage Duties Bill. 
Duties Bill; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Monday, the 1st day of May 
next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Post Office 
further consideration the Report on the Post Office so Repeal 
Acts Repeal Bill ; . 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further con- 
sideration upon Monday, the 1st day of May next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Franking Bill. 
further consideration the Report on the Franking 
Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further con- 
sideration upon Monday, the 1st day of May next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Post Office 
further consideration the Report on the Post Office Ofences Bill. 
Offences Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further con- 
sideration upon Monday, the 1st day of May next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Courtof Session 
mittee on the Court of Session (Scotland) Bill; (Scotland) Bill, 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Small Debts _ 
mittee on the Small Debts (Scotland) Bill ; (Scotland) Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Bankrupts’ 
mittee on the Bankrupts’ Estates (Scotland) Bill; Estates , 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednes-‘S°t!n¢) Bill. 
day next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Bankruptcy 
mittee on the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Bill ; (Scotland) Bill. 
Resolved, That this : Ate will, upon Wednes- 
day next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Sheriff and 
mittee on the Sheriff and Burgh Courts (Scotland) Burgh Courts 
Bill ; (Scotland) Bill. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Ways and 
mittee of Ways and Means; Means. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Judicial Factor 
reading of the Judicial Factor (Scotland) Bill ; (Scotland) Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for receiving the Supply. 
Report from the Committee of Supply ; 

Bedined That the Report be received upon Mon- 
day next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Supply. 
mittee of Supply 3 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 

next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
002 Ordered, 














Turnpike Acts 
Continuance 


Bill. 


Deptford and 
Dover Railway 
Subscription 
List, 


Debtors 
(Scotland.) 


Churches 
(Jreland.) 


Churches and 
Chapels, 


Consolidated 
Fund Bill, 


Tenants for Life 


(Ireland) Bill. 


Waste Lands 
([reland) Bill. 


Leases and 
Exchanges 
(Ireland) Bill. 


284. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill for 
continuing, for a limited time, the several Acts for 
regulating the Turnpike Roads in Great Britain 
which will expire with the present or with the next 
Session of Parliament: And that Mr. For Maule 
and Lord John Russell do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That Mr. Dugdale, Sir Eardley Wilmot, 
Mr. John Young, and Mr. George Evans, be dis- 
charged from any further attendance on the Select 
Committee on the Deptford and Dover Railway 
Subscription List. 

Ordered, That Mr. Chalmers be added to the 
Committee. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return of the Number of Persons im- 

risoned in Scotland for Civil Debts for the first 
rhree months; viz., from 1st January to 1st April, 
of the years 1833, 1834, 1835, 1836 and 1837; dis- 
tinguishing whether the Persons were imprisoned 
for Debts not exceeding £.8. 6s. 8d. sterling, or for 
Debts exceeding that sum. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this * amen as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return of the Sums of Money which in the years 
1834, 1835, 1836 and 1837, have been appropriated 
by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to the repair, 
enlargement and rebuilding of Churches in Ireland ; 
distinguishing the Sums appropriated to the repair 
from those appropriated to the enlargement or re- 
building of py 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, an 
Account respecting the Thirty-four Parishes alluded 
to in the Second Report of the Church Commis- 
sioners, as containing a Population of 1,137,000, 
with Church-room only for 101,682; setting forth 
the Name of each Parish, its Population by the last 
Census, the Number of Parochial Churches and 
Chapels, and Proprietary Chapels, the Number of 
Sittings, distinguishing the Free Sittings, and the 
Number of officiating Clergy employed therein :— 
And a similar Account with respect to the Thirty-eight 
Parishes and Districts in Lancashire, the Twenty 
Parishes or. Districts in the Diocese of York, and 
the Sixteen Parishes in the Diocese of Lichfield and 
Coventry, alluded to in the same Report. 


Ordered, That the Report from the Committee 
on the Consolidated Fund Bill be now received. 

Mr. Robert Steuart accordingly reported the Bill; 
and the Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed ; and read the third time upon Mon- 
day next. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to enable Tenants for Life of Estates in [reland to 
make Improvements in their Estates, and to charge 
the Inheritance with the Monies expended in such 


Improvements: And that Mr. Lynch and Mr. Wyse 
d&gt; prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to promote the Reclamation and Improvement of 
Waste and Uncultivated Lands in /reland: And 
that Mr. Lynch, Mr. Wyse and Mr. Morgan John 
O’ Connell, do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to enable Tenants for Life and Mortgagors in Pos- 
session of Lands in Ireland to grant Leases, and to 
enable Tenants for Life of Lands in Jreland to 
make Exchange and Partition, and in all cases to 
provide a summary remedy for Purtition of Lands 


219°—99° Aprilis. 














|/next; and to be printed. 


A. 1837. 


‘in Ireland: And that Mr. Lynch and Mr. Wyse do 


prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Copy of any Correspondence between the Board of 
Treasury and the Merchants and others of Dundee, 
on the subject of the Missing Whale Ships, not 
already laid before the House. 

Mr. Robert Steuart accordingly presented the 
said Paper. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of a Despatch from Sir F. B. Head, 
in answer to charges preferred against him by Dr. 
C. Duncombe, in a Petition presented to the House 
of Commons on the 19th August 1836; together 
with a Copy of Lord Glenelg’s reply thereto. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty, by such Members of this House as 
are of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Whale Ships, 


Canada (Sir 
F. B. Head.) 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, @ Constabulary 


Return in compliance with 
containing a Statement of the Amount of Constabu- 
lary and Police Force employed in each County, 
County of a City, and County of a Town in Lreland 
on the Ist of January 1837, distinguishing the 
Number of Persons in each Class or Rank of the 
Constabulary Force so employed, with the Salaries 
and Allowance actually enjoyed by each Class ; 
together with an Account of the whole Expenditure 
upon the Police and Constabulary in each County, 
County of a City, and County of a Town; also a 
Summary of the Total Amount of Force employed, 
and of the Total Expenditure upon the Police and 
Constabulary Force for the whole of Ireland, show- 
ing the Proportion of such Total Expense borne on 
the Consolidated Fund, and the Amount borne by 
the Counties, Cities and Towns of Jreland. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Returns of all Affrays which have been reported to 
the Irish Government to have occurred since 1st 
January 1831, in consequence of attempts to collect 
Tithes in Ireland, stating the Number of the killed 
and wounded upon each occasion, with the Names 
of the Places at which such Affrays occurred, and 
the Dates of the Occurrences :—Of the Total Num- 
ber of Persons who have been committed to Prison 
since the 1st January 1831, in consequence of any 
Proceedings connected with the Recovery of Tithes : 
--Of the Total Number of Writs or other Processes 
which have issued out of the Superior Courts of Law 
in Ireland since 1st January 1831, in Proceedings 
for the Recovery of Tithes, classifying under distinct 
heads the stages at which such Proceedings have 
arrived, and their final result:—and, Of the Total 
Number of Decrees which have been obtained in the 
Assistant Barristers’ Courts in each County in Jre- 
land since 1st January 1831, in Proceedings for the 
Recovery of Tithes ; with a General Summary for the 
whole of Ireland 


Lord Viscount Morpeth presented, by His Ma- 
jesty’s command,—Second Report of the Commis- 
sioners of Inquiry into the state of the Trish Fishe- 
ries, with the Minutes of the Evidence. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Edward John Stanley presented a Bill to 
discharge the Mewark Estate, in the County of Not- 
tingham, from any Costs of rebuilding or repairing 
Trent and Markham Bridges, and to charge the 
same on the other Hereditary Revenues of the 
Crown: And the same was read the first time ; and 
ordered to be read a second time upon Monday 


Mr. 


3 : s, 5'7, and Police 
6 Will. 4, c. 13. Ss. 57, Ireland.) 


Tithes 
(Treland.) 


Fisheries 
(Ireland.) 


Newark 
Estate Bill. 


No. 221. 





Registration 
and Marriages 
Bill. 


No. 222. 


Exeter and 
Falmouth 
Railway Bill. 


Exeter and 
Falmouth 
Railway Bill. 


Brixham 
Harbour and 
Marke: Bill. 


Turnpike Acts 
Continuance 


Bill. 
No. 223. 


Fire Insurances. 


Church Rates 
Regulation, 


Tithes 
(Ureland.) 


7 Witt. IV. 


Mr. Foa Maule presented a Bill to explain and 
amend two Acts passed in the last Session of Par- 
liament for Marriages, and for registering Births, 
Deaths and Marriages in England: And the same 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time upon Friday next; and to be printed. 


Petitions from Inhabitants of the county of Devon; 
—Landowners, Occupiers of land, Tradersand House- 
holders, Inhabitants of Lifton ;—Inhabitants of New- 
ton Saint Cyres;—Saint David, in the city of Exeter; 
—Landowners, Lessees,and Occupiers of land, Mer- 
chants, Traders and other Household Inhabitants 
of Lanivet ;—Cardinham ; —- Bodmin ;— Ashwater ; 
— Halwill ;—Lanhydrock ;— Blisland; — Topsham; 
—Lympstone; — Shaldon ; — Babicombe ;— Kings- 
bridge ;— Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of Brad- 
ninch ;— Inhabitants of East Teignmouth ;—Land- 
owners, Occupiers of land, Traders and Householders, 
Inhabitants of Morthlew;— Sampford Courtenay; 
—Beaworthy ;— Exbourne and Jacobstowe ;—and, 
Inwardleigh ; praying that the Exeter and Falmouth 
Railway Bill may pass into a law,—were presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of Henry Smith, of Manchester, Printer, 
praying that he may be heard, by his counsel or 
agent, against certain parts of the said Bill, was 
also presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, if he 
think fit ; and counsel heard, in favour of the Bill, 
against the said Petition. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That the Committee on the Exeter and Fat. 
mouth Railway Bill have leave to sit this day, not- 
withstanding the adjournment of the House :-— 


And the said Motion was, with leave of the House, | presented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 


withdrawn. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That the Committee on the Brixham Harbour 
and Market Bill have leave to sit this day, notwith- 
standing the adjournment of the House :—And the 
said Motion was, with leave of the House, with- 
drawn. 


Mr. Fox Maule presented a Bill for continuing, 
for a limited time, the several Acts for regulating the 
Turnpike Roads in Great Britain which will expire 
with the present or with the next Session of Parlia- 
ment: And the same was read the first time ; and 
ordered to be read a second time upon Wednesday 
next; and to be printed. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Norwich and county | 


of Norfolk, praying for a reduction of the Duty on 
Fire Insurances, was presented, and read ; and or- 
dered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Shrewsbury ;—Ingham ;— Chair- 
man of the Radical Association of Scotland ;—Croy- 
don;— Great Warford;— Clavering ; — Llanfihangel 
Ystrad and. Dihewid;—and, Llanwnen and Lam- 
peter Pontstephen; praying that the proposed mea- 
sure relative to Church Rates may receive the 
sanction of the House,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to le upon the Table. 

Petitions from Maidford and Adstone ;—Mana- 
fon;—and, Hirnant ; praying that the said proposed 
measure may not receive the sanction of the House, 


—were also presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Mevagh and Clonda- 
horky, praying for the abolition of Tithes in Jreland, 


was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


Vor. 92. 


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235 


A Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen, Burgesses 
and Inhabitants of Richmond, in the county of 
York, praying the House not to suffer this Session 
to elapse without passing a Bill for the permanent 
commutation of Tithes in Ireland upon the same 
principles, and with the same beneficial provision 
for the appropriation of the surplus as the Bill which 
was last Session submitted by His Majesty’s Mi- 
nisters to the consideration and deliberation of the 
House, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Reverend Thomas Peter Gur- 
ney, of Kenwyn, in the county of Cornwall, complain- 
ing of the refusal of the Bishop of Exeter to prefer 
him to the vicarage of Saint Allen, of which the 
Petitioner had been officiating Minister upwards of 
thirty-eight years ; and of distress and want of em- 
ployment in consequence; and praying the House 
so to act in the matter as shall be deemed most 
conducive to the interests of the Church, and the 
welfare of the Country, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Wesleyan Methodists of East Stone- 
house, praying that a general Bill for the better ob- 
servance of the Lord’s Day may be permitted to go 
into a Committee of the whole House, was pre- 


sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of Lieutenant Richard James Morri- 
son, of the Royal Navy, praying that the Duty on 
Marine Insurance Policies may be considerably in- 
creased, was presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


Rev. Thomas 
Peter Gurney. 


Lord's Day. 


Marine 
Insurances. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Groombridge, pray- Poor Law Act. 


ing for the amendment of the Poor Law Act, was 


mittee on the Poor Law Act. 

Petitions from Guardians of the Cricklade and 
Wootton Bassett Union ;—and, the Blean Union; 
praying that the said Act may not be repealed,— 
were also presented, and read ; and referred to the 
said Select Committee. 


A Petition of Henry Dixon, of Astle Hail, in 


Manchester 


the county of Chester, Esquire, praying that he may 2% Stafford 


be heard, by himself, his counsel or agent, against 
certain parts of the Manchester and Stafford Rail- 
way Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to 
the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner 
heard, by himself, his counsel or agent, upon his 
Petition, if he think fit; and counsel heard, in favour 
of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


Petitions from the Society of the Governor and 
Assistants, London, of the new Plantation in Ul- 
ster ;—the Warden and Commonalty of the mystery 
of Grocers of the city of London ;—John Scott, of 
Ballymacran, in the county of Londonderry, and 
several Tenants of Robert Ogilby, Esquire, of Pel- 
ligar House, in the said county;—and, Robert 
Ogilby, of Pelligar House aforesaid, Esquire ; pray- 
ing that they may be heard, by themselves, their 
counsel or agents, against certain parts of the Lough 
Swilly and Lough Foyle Drainage Bill,—were pre- 
sented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour after one of the 
clock on Saturday morning, adjourned till 
Monday next. 


003 


Railway biil. 


Lough Swilly 
and Lough 
Foyle Drainege 
Bill. 





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2x53 


Ferree eens 


286 24° Aprilis. 


Lune, 24° die Aprilis ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi IV Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 
HE House being informed that the Sheriffs of 
the city of London, attended at the door, they 
were called in; and at the bar presented,—A Peti- 
tion of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Commons of 
the city of London, in Common Council assembled : 
—And then they withdrew. 
And the said Petition, praying that a fair and just 
equalization of the Land Tax may be effected, was 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Westminster 
Abbey and 
St. Paul’s. 


Mr. Hodgson, Chapter Clerk of Saint Paul's, was 
called in; and at the bar presented,—Further Re- 
turn to several Orders, dated the 5th day of this 
instant April, for Returns of the annual Amount of 
Money taken at the doors of Westminster Abbey and 
Saint Paul’s for admission during the last Ten years; 
distinguishing each year, and of the appropriation 
of such Money; with a Return of the Sum or Sums 
charged at present for admitting individuals to see 
the Public Monuments in Westminster Abbey and 
Saint Paul’s :—and, of the Regulations under which 
Artists or others are admitted to study or draw from 
the Monunents (so far as relates to Saint Paul's): 
—And then he withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Glasgow, Ordered, That the Committee on the Glasgow, 

—— Paisley and Greenock Railway Bill have leave to 

Railway Bill. Sit this day till five of the clock during the sitting 
of the House. 


London and A Petition of Richard Till, Secretary to the Pro- 


se asa visional Committee for forming a Railway from 
(Rennie’s Line.) London to Brighton, by way of Shoreham, on the 


line called Stephenson’s Line, complaining of ficti- 
tious signatures to the Subscription List and Deed 
of Contract for the London and Brighton Railway 
(Rennie’s Line); and praying the House to cause 
this gross fraud upon and violation of their privileges 
to be inquired into, and grant such relief in the 
premises as they shall think proper, was presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from Henry Cooke, now a prisoner in 
White Cross-street Prison, late of Grove Place, Hol- 
loway, stock jobber ;—and, Benjamin Wheeler Poul- 
ton, of Belinda-street, Canonbury-square, Gentleman ; 
stating that they signed the Parliamentary Deed for 
the said Railway for prea considerations ; and 
praying the protection of the louse in proving and 
disclosing the facts and circumstances,—were also 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 

Ordered, That the said Petitions be printed. 


Lough Swilly A Petition of Wreakers or Proprietors of Sea Weed 
and Lough of All Saints and county of Donegal, praying that 
— the Lough Swilly and Lough Foyle Drainage Bill 
” may not pass into a law as it now stands, was 
presented, and read ; and referred to the Committee 

on the Bill. 

Petitions from the Marquis of Donegaél and the 
Ear of Belfast ;—and, Occupiers of lands in Myroe ; 
pray’ng that they may be heard, by themselves, their 
counsel or agents, against certain parts of the said 
Bill,—were also presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be re- 
ferred to the Committee on the Bill; and the Peti- 
tioners heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
upon their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel 
heard, in favour of the Bill, against the said Peti- 
tions. 


Petitions from the Right honourable Thomas Earl 
of Wilton, and Lawrence Wright, of Mottram Saint 
Andrew, in the county of Chester, and of Upper 


Manchester, 
Bolton, and 
Bury Canal 
Bill. 





A. 1837. 


Cadogan Place, Chelsea, in the county of Middlesex, 
and William Hutton, of Hutton Park, in the county 
palatine of Lancaster, Esquires, being respectively 
Owners of certain estates in the townships of Sharples 
Longworth and Little Bolton, in the county palatine 
of Lancaster ;— and, Le Gendre Nicholas Starkie, 
Esquire, the Committee of the Estate of Ze Gendre 
Pierce Starkie, of Huntroyde, in the said county 
palatine, Esquire, a lunatic ; praying that they may 
be heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
against certain parts of the Manchester, Bolton and 
Bury Canat Bill,—were presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be re- 
ferred to the Committee on the Bill; and the Peti- 
tioners heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
upon their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel 
heard, in favour of the Bill, against the said Peti- 
tions. 


Petitions from Inhabitants of Shoreham ;—and, London and 
Worthing; praying that the London and Brighton — ' 

: , 2 ts ? : ailway Bill 
Railway Bill (Stephenson’s Line) may pass into &amp; (Stephenson’s 
law,—were presented, and read ; and ordered to lie Line.) 


upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Grand Junction Railway Com- Chester and 
pany, praying that they may be heard, by them- eg 
selves, their counsel or agents, against certain parts 
of the Chester and Birkenhead Railway Bill, was 
presented, and read. " 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of the Grand Junction Railway Com- Birmingham 
pany, praying that they may be heard, by them- (No, 1.) 
selves, their counsel or agents, against certain parts a 
of the Birmingham Gas (No. 1.) Bill, was presented, 
and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


Sir George Strickland reported from the Com- Sheffield and 
mittee on the Sheffield and Halifax Road Bill; and — Road 
to whom the Petition of William Ibbotson against ~' ’ 
the said Bill, was referred; That the Standing Orders 
relative to Turnpike Bills, had been complied with ; 
and that no person appeared on behalf of the said 
Petition; and that the Committee had examined the 
allegations of the Bill, and found the same to be 
true; and had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto; and the Amendments were 
read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed. 


Petitions from Thomas Wilson, of Banks Hall, in Barmsley 
the county of York, Gentleman, and others ;—the Waterworks 
Company of Proprietors of the Navigation of the ®"" 
River Dun ;—and, Inhabitants of Barnsley; praying 
that they may be heard, by themselves, their counsel 
or agents, against certain parts of the Barnsley 
Waterworks Bill,—were presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be re- 
ferred to the Committee on the Bill; and the Peti- 
tioners heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
upon their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel 
heard, in favour of the Bill, against the said Peti- 
tions. 


A Petition of the Mayor of the borough of Stock- Stockport 
port, Chairman of a Meeting of Inhabitants of the — 
said Borough, praying that the Stockport Improve- ~~ 
ment Bill may pass into a law, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. ~ 

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Gardiner’s 
Divorce Bill. 


Wormegay 
Drainage Bill. 


Castle Eden 


and Merrington 


(Clarence and 
Hartlepool 
Junction) 
Railway Bill. 


East Thickley 
and Frosterley 
Railway Bill. 


Exeter and 
Falmouth 
Railway Bill, 


7 Wit. IV. 


The Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act to 
dissolve the Marriage of Charles Gardiner, Esquire, 
with Harriet Maria Elizabeth, his now Wife, and 
to enable him to marry again, and for other purposes, 
was, according to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Tooke do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


Sir Jacob Astley reporied from the Committee 
on the Wormegay Drainage Bill; That the Stand- 
ing Orders relative to Bills for draining Lands, 
had been complied with; and that they had exa- 
mined the allegations of the Bill, and found the 
same to be true; and that the parties concerned had 
given their consent to the Bill, to the satisfaction of 
the Committee ; and that the Committee had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto ; 
and the Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed. 


Petitions from the Clarence Railway Company ; 
— Henry Blanshard, of Great Ormond-street, in the 
county of Middlesex, Gentleman ;—the Tees Navi- 
ae Company ;—and, Trustees of the Catterichk 

ridge and Durham Roads; praying that they may 
be heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
against certain parts of the Castle Eden and Mer- 
rington (Clarence and Hartlepool Junction) Railway 
Bill,—were presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be re- 
ferred to the Committee on the Bill; and the Peti- 
tioners heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
upon their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel 
heard, in favour of the Bill, against the said Peti- 
tions. 


The House was moved, That the Report in respect 
of the Petition for the East Thickley and Frosterley 
Railway Bill, which, upon Tuesday last, was made 
from the Select Committee on Petitions for Private 
Bills, might be read ; and the same being read ; 

A Petition of the there-undersigned, who, with 
others, are Petitioners for the said Bill, setting forth 
that, in deference to the objections of some of the 
owners and occupiers of lands and premises through 
or over which part of the said Railway, and one of 
the proposed branches, were intended to be made, 
it has been found expedient to abandon a portion of 
the said Railway, and one of the proposed branches; 
that, during the Easter recess, it has been ascertained 
that the remainder of the objects of the said Peti- 
tion may be effected without any compulsory powers 
for the infringement upon private property or rights ; 
and the Petitioners and others are willing and de- 
sirous of effecting the same, upon being incorporated 
for those purposes; and praying that leave may now 
be given to bring in a Bill for effecting the objects 
aforesaid, notwithstanding the time limited by the 
House for the first reading of Private Bills has 
elapsed, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for incorporating certain Persons for the making 
and maintaining a Railway from the Stockton and 
Darlington Railway, in the Parish of Saint Andrew 
Auckland, to or near to Witton Park Colliery, with 
a Branch therefrom, all in the County of Durham, 
to be called “ The Bishop Auckland and Weardale 
Railway :” And that Mr. Pease and Mr. Bowes do 
prepare, and bring it in; and that leave be given 
to present the said Bill on or before the 1st day of 
May next. 


Two Petitions of Shareholders in a projected line 
of Railway called The London, Salisbury, Exeter, 
Plymouth and Falmouth Railway, praying that the 
Exeter and Falmouth Railway Bill may not pass 
into a law,-—were presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 

Vou. 92. 


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287 

Mr. Villiers reported from the Committee on Birmingham 
the Birmingham Plate and Crown Glass Company Fiste and 
Bill; That they had examined the allegations of emmeng Oe 
the Bill, and found the same to be true; and had 
gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto; and the Amendments were read, and 
agreed to. 
_ Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


Mr. Hindley reported from the Committee on the Butterhouse 
Butterhouse Green and Gorton Road Bill; and to Green and 
whom two Petitions against the said Bill wete re- Gorter Road 
ferred ; That no person appeared on behalf ofthe ~ 
said Petitions; and that the Committee had exa- 
mined the allegations of the Bill, and found the 
same to be true; and had gone through the Bill, 
and made Amendments thereunto; and the Amend- 
ments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


A Petition of William Wilkie, Esquire, of Mag- Edinburgh 
dalens, in the county of Linlithgow, praying that he and Glasgow 
may be heard, by himself, his counsel or agent, Ratineg BU. 
against certain parts of the Edinburgh and Glasgow 
Railway Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by himself, his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, 
if he think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 

A Petition of Trustees upon the Turnpike Road Glasgow, 
leading from Glasgow to Renfrew Bridge, in the Glyn 
county of Lanark, praying that they may be heard, Railway Bill. 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, against cer- 
tain parts of the Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock 
Railway Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of Trustees of the Turnpike Road lead- Glasgow aud 
ing from Glasgow to Renfrew Bridge, in the county Ayr Railway 
of Lanark, praying that they may be heard, by them- ®""- 
selves, their counsel or agents, against certain parts 
of the Glasgow and Ayr Railway Bill, was pre- 
sented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of John Duff Dingwall, of Bruckhlaw, London and 
in the county of Aberdeen, and ot Croydon, in the ee —_ 
county of Surrey, Esquire, praying that he may be (Rennie’s ied 
heard, by himself, his counsel or agent, against 
certain parts of the London and Brighton Railway 
Bill, (Rennie’s Line) was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by himself, his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, 
if he think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of 
the Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of Owners or Freighters of Steam Commercial 
Packets and other vessels trading to and from the ected 
port of Inverness, and Merchants and Traders in siitieaane 
the said town; praying that the Commercial Steam 
Packet Company Bill may not pass into a law, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


Petitions from Owners or Freighters of Steam American 
Packets and other vessels trading to and from the Steam Naviga- 
port of Inverness, and Merchants and Traders in the poy "P'S 

004 said 





Leicester and 
Swannington 


Railway Bill. 


Dundalk and 
Ballibay 
Railway Bill. 


Liverpool 
Improvement 
Bill. 


Loanhead and 
Stirling Canal 
Bill. 


Brixham 
Harbour and 
Markct Bill, 


Exeter and 
Falmouth 
Railway Bill. 


Agricultural 
and Commercial 
Bank (Ireland.) 


Clapion 
Inclosure Bill. 


288 


said town ;—and, the Chamber of Commerce and 
Manufactures of Glasgow ; praying that the Ame- 
rican Steam Navigation Company Bill may not pass 
into a law,—were presented, and read ; and ordered 


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A. 1837. 


open spaces of ground in and about the village of 
Clapton, which are now uninclosed; that under 
these circumstances the Committee did not think it 
necessary to allot any portion of the lands proposed 


to lie upon the Table. to be inclosed under the Bill, for the purposes of 

recreation ; and the Amendments were read, and 
Mr. Packe reported from the Committee on the | agreed to. oo 

Leicester and Swannington Railway Bill; That the | _ Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 

application being solely for the purpose of enabling | ingrossed. 

a Company to raise a further sum of Money, the | The Birmingham and Derby Railway Bill was Birmingham 
ommittee were of opinion that none of the matters aiid 6 Gassndl ten « ell ccemitel tm Ge Beatin 
required by the Standing Orders to be inquired into 754 and the Warwick List Y Railway Bill, 
by Committees on Railway Bills, apply to the si Ordered, That all the Members serving for the 
sent Bill; and that the Committee had examined | «6 ral Counties, and for the Boroughs therein, 


= a ee be the — — py gp pee = \through which Counties the Railway is intended to 
Se) Se Se eee a ae a, ae “ pass, be members of the said Committee. 


Amendments thereunto. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; | 
and be printed. 





Sir Hugh Campbell reported from the Committee Mertoun Bridge 
‘on the Mertoun Bridge Bill; That they had exa- Bill. 


The Dundalk and Ballibay Railway Bill was | mined the allegations of the Bill, and found the 


; /same to be true; and had gone through the Bill, 
read a second time ; and committed to Mr. Sharman land made Amendments thereunto; and the Amend- 
Crawford and the Ulster List. 


| ments were read, and agreed to. 
A Petition of Householders of Liverpool, praying | Pg SRE i ay Oe ee Rieeeuats, Ne 
that they may be heard, by their counsel or agents,| © ; 
against certain parts of the Liverpool Improvement! Sir Hugh Campbell reported from the Committee Roxburgh 
Bill, was presented, and read. on the Roxburgh Roads Bill; That the Standing Roads Bill. 
Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to | Orders relative to Turnpike Bills had been complied 
the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners with; and that they had examined the allegations 
heard, by their counsel or agents, upon their Petition, of the Bill, and found the same to be true; and 
if they think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of | had gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
the Bill, against the said Petition. thereunto; and the Amendments were read, and 
agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


Petitions from the Chairman and Directors of 
the Leith, Hamburgh and Rotterdam Shipping 
Company ;—the Provost, Magistrates and ‘lown 
Council of Montrose;—the Honourable Charles 





A Petition of Land-owners, Farmers, Freeholders Fdinburgh 
Fleming and others, Trustees of the Glasgow and |and others in the county of Edinburgh, praying that Railay Bil 
Redburn Bridge Road ;—and, Road Trustees, He- | the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Bill may pass 
ritors and Inhabitants of Cumbernauld; praying | into a law, was presented, and read ; and ordered to 
that the Loanhead and Stirling Canal Bill may not) lie upon the Table. 
pass into a law,—were presented, and read ; and | 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 
| mittee, Solicitors and Secretary of a Company formed 
Ordered, That the Committee on the Brixham ' for promoting a Railway from London to Brighton, 
Harbour and Market Bill be revived; and that, with branches to Shoreham, Lewes and Newhaven, 
they have leave to sit and proceed To-morrow. called “ The direct London and Brighton Railway,” 
| denying the allegations of the Petition of Richard 
Ordered, That the Committee on the Eveter and | Till, Secretary to the Provisional Committee for form- 
Falmouth Railway Bill be revived ; and that they ing a Railway from London to Brighton by way of 
have leave to sit and proceed To-morrow. Shoreham, on the line called Stephenson’s Line 
(presented this day); and praying, that if the House 
A Petition of Proprietors of Stock in the Agricul- | be not satisfied of the utter falsity of the allegations 
tural and Commercial Bank of Ireland, for leave to | against the Petitioners, they will specially instruct 
present a Petition for leave to bring in a Bill for | the Committee to which the Brighton Railway Bills 
investing in Trustees to be named, the whole pro- | are referred, to examine into the circumstances, and 
perty and effects of the said Company, for the pur- | report to the House, was presented, and read; and 
pose of having the same realized, the creditors of | ordered to lie upon the Table. 
the Bank fully paid, and the surplus distributed | Ordered, That the Petition be printed. 
amongst the proprietors, was presented, and read | 
and referred to the Select Committee on Petitions | 
for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Members of a Provisional Com- London and 


Brighton 
Railway Bill 
(Rennie’s Line.) 


Ordered, That the Dundee Improvement Bill be Dundee 
Timprovement 
Bill. 

Mr. William Miles reported from the Committee, A Petition of Inhabitants of Maryport, and Maryport 
01 the Clapton Inclosure Bill ; That the Standing Owners and Occupiers of land in the vicinity there- aon 
Orders relative to Bills of Inclosure had been com-| of, praying that the Maryport and Carlisle Railway 
plied with ; and that they had examined the alle-| Bill may pass into a law, was presented, and read ; 
gations of the Bill, and found the same to be true ; | and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
and that the parties concerned had given their con- , 
sent to the Bill, to the satisfaction of the Committee; A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- Loanhead and 
and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, posed, That the Loanhead and Stirling Canal Bill gi —_ 
and made Amendments thereunto; and that it! be now read a second time; so 
appeared to the Committee that there are not more, The Amendments following were proposed to be 
than from 160 to 170 inhabitants in the parish of, made to the Question: viz. To leave out the word 
Clapton, and that the whole of the waste lands in- |“ now,” and at the end of the Question to add the 
tended to be inclosed consist of a moor which is| words “ upon this day six months.” 
not only very wet and unfit for the purpose of re-; And the Question being put, That the word 
creation, but is situate at a considerable distance |“ now” stand part of the Question :—It passed in 
from the village, and that there are various other| the Negative. 


} 


| read the third time To-morrow. 


And 





Mary port 
and Carlisle 
Railway Bill. 


Worcester 
Cattle Market 
Bill. 


tourbridge 
Canal Bill. 


Brighton, 
Lewes, und 
Newhaven 


Railway Bill. 


Third Report 
on Poor Law 
Act. 


No. 225. 


Deptford and 
Dover Railway 
Subscription 
List. 


No. 226, 


Exeter and 
Falmouth 
Railway Bill. 


Cork and Pas- 


Sage Railway 
ill. 


7 Witt. IV. 


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And the Question being put, That the words| Mr. Labouchere presented, by His Majesty’s com- Post Office. 


289 


“ upon this day six months” be added at theend of mand,—The Eighth Report of the Commissioners 


the Question :—It was resolved in the Affirmative. 


appointed to inquire into the management of the 


Then the main Question, so amended, being put ; | Post Office Department. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
this day six months. 


Sir James Graham reported from the Committee 
on the Maryport and Carlisle Railway Bill; That 
the Standing Orders relative to Bills for making 


Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 





worth ; —Ipswich ; —Aldborough (Suffolk) ; —Stoke 


Railways had been complied with; and that the | As) ;— Otley ; — Framsden ; — Llanon;— Hermon 
Committee had inquired into the several matters | (two Petitions) ;—Pen-y-graig ;— Llangan ;—Llan- 


required by the Resolutions of the House of the 


| debye and Llanvihangel ;— Aberbythick :—Narberth ; 


1st day of March 1836; and had examined the | —Conwil Elvet ;—Kilmaenllwyd and Llanglydwen ; 


allegations of the Bill, and found the same to be 
true; and had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


An ingrossed Bill for removing the Markets held 
in the City of Worcester, in the County of Worcester, 
for the sale of Cattle, Horses, Sheep and Pigs, and 
for providing another Market Place in lieu thereof; 
and for providing for the better and more effectual 
draining the said City, was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Villiers do carry the Bill to 


the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Report which upon the 14th day of this instant 
April was made from the Committee on the Stour- 
bridge Canal Bill, printed Copies of the Bill having 
been delivered at the door upon Thursday last ; and 
the Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Eastbourne, praying 
that the Brighton, Lewes and Newhaven Railway 
Bill may pass into a law, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Fazakerley reported from the Select Com- 
mittee appointed to inquire into the administration 
of the relief of the Poor under the orders and regu- 
lations issued by the Commissioners appointed under 
the provisions of the Poor Law Amendment Act; 
and who were empowered to report the Evidence 
taken before them from time to time to the House ; 
that they had made further Progress in the matters 
to them referred; and had directed him to report 
the Minutes of the Evidence taken before them. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Mr. Warburton reported from the Select Com- 
mittee to whom several Petitions relative to the 
Signatures to the Subscription List for the Deptford 
and Dover Railway were referred; and to whom 
certain other Petitions relative to the Subscription 
Lists for several other Railways were also referred ; 
and who were empowered to report their observations 
thereupon, together with the Minutes of the Evidence 
taken before them from time to time, to the House; 


That they had examined the matters to them referred, | 


so far as regards the Deptford and Dover Railway, 
and had directed him to make a report thereof to 
the House, together with the Minutes of the Evidence 
taken before them, and an Appendix. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Exeter, praying that 
the Exeter and Falmouth Railway Bill may pass 
into a law, was presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Inhabitants of Cork ;—and, Pas- 
sage; praying that the Cork and Passage Railway 
Bil may pass into a law,—were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Vo. 92, 


— Abergorlech ; — Llanfynydd ; — Llanboidy and 
Llanwinio ; —Ffynon Henry and Rhydygau'au ;— 
Llandilovawr;— Bethlehem, Porthyryd .—- Llansa wel; 
—Carmel (two Petitions) ;— Crygybar ;— Brych- 
goed ;—Capel Isaac ;—Blanycoed ;— Bwlchnewydd ; 
— Tabor ;— Pont-y-berem ;--T'ynewydd ;—J erusalem, 
Pembrey ; —Rehobeth ; —Horeb ; —Sardis ; — Capel 
Sul;— Kidwelly and Ferryside ;—Trelech-ar- Bettws ; 
— Haldybrenin; — Talley ; — Gwynfair ; — Conwil 
Caio (two Petitions) ; — Cwmdu;— Henllan and 
Llanfallteg ;— Pant-tég ;— Peniel ;—Langadock ;— 
Llanfihangel Abercowin ; — Treleacharbettws and 
Kilrhedin ;—Saint Clears, &amp;c. ;—Debenham ;— Ux- 
bridge ; —Earls Colne ; — Brentford ; — Ironbridge 
and Madeley ;— Leicester ;-—-Cardiff ;—Greenford ; 
—Rev. Humphrey Price ;— Perth (Moderator of the 
Relief Presbytery) ; —Pentonville ;—Crowfield ;— 
Friar Lane, Leicester ; — Harrow ; — Denbigh; — 
Bungay ;— Billesdon ;—Shrewsbury ;— Blackley ;— 
Bushey ;— Watford ; —Grafton-street, Soho, West- 
minster ;— Wortley ;—Southgate and Winchmorehill; 
— Hoxton ;— South Parade, Leeds;— Kentish Town ; 
—Linthwait ;— Barking ;— Bermondsey ;— Hackney; 
— Kilmarnock ; — Dovor ; — Dumbarton ;—Great 
Staughtorx ;— Saint Alban, Wood-street (Church- 
wardensand Vestry Clerk) ;—Ieckenham;--Chairman 
of a Meeting of Pastors, Deacons and Members of the 
Independent Churches connected with the Dorset 
County Association ;— New Cross, Deptford;—London- 
street, Greenwich ;—- Ruthin(two Petitions) ;— Beamin- 
ster ;~ Bovey Tracey ;— Kinross ;— Kingsteignton; — 
Lang field ;— Erringden ;— Leicester (Unitarians) ;— 
Clapham ;—Cumberworth ;— Salford ;— Langtree ;— 
Great Torrington ;—Bampton ;— Hartland ;—- Ken- 
tisbeer ; --Uffculm;—Ashwater ;— Shipham ;—Har- 
vey-lane, Leicester ;—Saint Andrew’s;— Kingsbridge 
‘and Dodbrook (two Petitions) ;— Honiton ;—Hawk- 
hurst ;—Ilminster ;— Rodborough ;— Woodchester ;— 
Pitchcomb ; — Stonehouse ; — Eastington; — King 
Stanley ;— Ebley;—Ruscombe ;—Stroud (two Peti- 
tions) ;— Painswick (two Petitions) ;— Pitchcombe ; 
— Redruth ;-— Winscombe ;— Blandford-street, Mary- 
le-bone, London ;— Milburn ;— Rhuddlan ;— Newton 
Abbot ;— Boutnewydd ;— Holywell ;— Llandidno ;— 
Wickham Market; — Wattisfield;— and, Boston ; 
praying that the proposed measure relative to 
Church Rates, may receive the sanction of the 
House,—were presented, and read ; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from Folkingham;— Ruskington ;— Hel- 
pringham;—Hale Magna ;— Martin ;—Lessingham; 
— Dorrington ;—Evedon;—Rauceby ;— Rowston ;-- 
Cranwell ;—Quarrington ;— Ashby-de-la-Laund ;— 
Aswarby ; — Scopwick ; — Brauncewell ;— Silk Wil- 
loughby ; — Digby; —- Bloxholm; — Anwick ; — 
Scredington ; — Osbournby ; — Meltham ; — Kirk- 
heaton and Dalton ;— Bradford, York (two Pe- 
titions) ; —Kirkburton ; —Thurstonland ; — Lepton 
and Upper Whitley ;— Horton ;—South Crosland ;— 
Shepley ; —Golcar ; — Holmfirth ; — Huddersfield ;— 
Eccleshill; — Wilsden; — Saint Marhk’s, Leeds ; — 
Stonesby ;—Aberdeen (Moderator of the Synod) ;— 
Grappenhall ;— Hose ;— Breedon ;—Croft ;— Sul- 
hampstead ;— Perth ;—Brimpton ;—Scottish Presby- 
tery in London ;—Ashby-de-la-Zouch ;—Culcheth ;— 
Knipton; — Quorndon ; —Farnworth ; — Kincardine 

PP O' Neil ; 








Petitions from Bildeston;— Sutton (Suffolk) ;— Church Rate. 
Tunstall ;— Horham ; — Chelmondiston ; —- Hales- ®egu'ation. 





































































































































































































































































































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Tithes 
(Treland.) 


Vote by Ballot, 


Municipal 
Corporations 


(Ireland) Bill. 


Poor Law Act. 


Lord’s Day. 


Regium 
Donum. 


Shipping 
Gazette. 


Public 
Revenue 


No. 227. 


Glass. 
No. 228. 


Fire and Life 
Insurances. 


No. 229. 
Post Office. 
No, 230. 


Supplies. 


No. 231. 


290 


O'Neil; (Moderator of the Presbytery) ;—Thrus- 
sington ; — Hungerton, &amp;c.;— Barkstone ; — Kirby 
Bellars ;— Botiesford ;— Plungar ; —- Redmile ; ~ 
Barkby; — Croxton Kerrial; — Saint Margaret, 
Leicester ; — Knighton ;— Nether Denton ;— Don- 
caster ;— Garforth ;— Ledsham ; — Aberford, and 
Aberford-with-Lotherton; — Barwick-in- Elmet ; 
— Birstall ; — Saxton ; — Kippax; — Yoxhall; — 
Swineshead ;—Fishtoft ;—Deeping Saint James ;— 
New Sleaford; — Carlisle ;— Bishop’s Frome ; — 
Berkswell ; —Lydlinch, &amp;c. ; —Barston ;—Checkley 
and Crorden; — Boston ; — Coningsby ; — Stoney 
Stanton ;— Higham ;— Birking ;— Wistow, &amp;c. ;—- 
Shawell;— Narborough ;—Great Wigston ;—Sprat- 
ton ;—Leintwardine ;—Brignal; —County of Nor- 
thampton ;—Edgcott ;—East Haddon ;— Helendon ; 
— Dunbar ;—City of York ;—Saint Olave Jury, 
London ;—and, Kingswinford ; praying that the said 
proposed measure may not receive the sanction of 
the House,—were also presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Kilglass ;—-Muckno and Upper 
Clonlebut ;— Killashee;—Lavey ;-—and, Roscommon; 
praying for the abolition of Tithes in Jreland,— 
were presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 


the Table. 


Petitions from Killashee ;—and, Kilglass ; pray- 
ing for the adoption of Vote by Ballot at elections 
of Members to serve in Parliament,—were pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Roscommon ; — Killashee ; — and, 
Kilglass; praying that the Municipal Corporations 
(Ireland) Bill may pass into a law,—were pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Guardians of the Poor of the East- 
bourne Union, in the county of Sussex, praying that 
the House will not sanction any material change in 
the principle or provisions of the Poor Law Act, was 
presented, and read; and referred to the Select 
Committee on the Poor Law Act. 


Petitions from Mousehole;—Saint Just, Corn- 
wall;—and, Carnarvon ; praying that a general Bill 
for the better observance of the Lord’s Day may be 
— to go into a Committee of the whole 

ouse,—were presented, and read ; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Stroud, praying the 
House to withhold the Regium Donum, and all 
other Grants of Public Money from every religious 
denomination, was presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Merchants, Ship-owners, Under- 
writers, Master Mariners and others connected with 
the Shipping interest of Dundee, praying the House 
to relieve the proprietors of the Shipping Gazette 
from the postage of letters containing shipping and 
commercial intelligence only, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the Account relative to the Public 
Revenue, which was presented upon Friday last, be 
printed. 

Ordered, That the Return relative to Glass, which 
was presented upon Friday last, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Returns relative to Fire and 
Life Insurances, which were presented upon Friday 
last, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Paper relative to the Post 
Office, which was presented upon Friday last, be 
printed. 

Ordered, That the Account relative to Supplies, 
which was presented upon Friday last, be printed. 


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A. 1837. 


Ordered, That the Returns relative to Newspaper Newspaper 
Stamps and Advertisements, which were presented Stamps and 


upon Friday last, be printed. a 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to the missing Whale Ships, 
Whale Ships, which was presented upon Friday last, No. 233, 
be printed. 


A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Farrer and Message from 
Sir Giffin Wilson: the Lords, 


Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords have agreed to the several Bills follow- 
ing, without Amendment ; viz: 

A Bill, intituled, An Act to enlarge and amend Whitby and 
the Powers and Provisions of an Act relating to the ew, 
Whitby and Pickering Railway, in the North Riding ““""*Y 
of the County of York: 


A Bill, intituled, An Act for enabling the Liver- Liverpool and 
pool and Manchester Railway Company to raise mag 
more Money, and for amending and enlarging the“ "*) ~"" 
Powers and Provisions of the several Acts relating 
to the said Railway : 

A Bill, intituled, An Act for amending an Act of Sevenoaks and 
His present Majesty, for repairing the Roads from bse, 
Sevenoaks Common to Woodsgate, Tunbridge Wells, ' 
and Kipping’s Cross, and from Tunbridge Wells to 
Woodsgate, in the County of Kent : 

A Bill, intituled, An Act for more effectually re- Lobley Hill 
pairing the Road from the Turnpike Road be- Rd Bill. 
tween Gateshead and Hexham, near Lobley Hill, 
in the County of Durham, to Burtryford, in the 
Parish of Stanhope, in the same County, together 
with several Branches therefrom: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Lancaster and 
Act for making and maintaining a Railway from - — 
the Town of Lancaster to the Town of Preston, in“ ~'* 
the County Palatine of Lancaster, with an Amend- 
ment ; to which Amendment the Lords desire the 
concurrence of this House: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Birmingham 
Act to amend an Act passed in the last Session of hen 
Parliament, for making a Railway from Birming- — 
ham to Gloucester ; to extend the Line of the said 
Railway, and to make Branches therefrom to the 
City of Worcester and the Town of Tewkesbury, 
with an Amendment; to which Amendment the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House: And 
also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Sheffield and 
Act for making a Railway from Sheffield, in the wnat A 
West Riding of the County of York, to Manchester, = 
in the County of Lancaster, with an Amendment ; 
to which Amendment the Lords desire the concur- 
rence of this House: And also, 

The Lords request that this House will give leave Privileges. 

to Sir Patrick Bellew, a Member of this House, to 
attend their Lordships, in order to his being exa- 
mined before the Committee for Privileges, to whom 
the Petition of the Right honourable Arthur James, 
Earl of Fingall, claiming a right to vote at the 
election of Peers for Zreland to sit in the Parliament 
of the United Kingdom, stands referred :— And 
then the Messengers withdrew. 

The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the last part of the said Message: And Sir Patrick 
Bellew, being present, in his place, declared that he 
was willing, with leave of the House, to go to the 
House of Lords, as desired by their Lordships. 

Resolved, That Sir Patrick Bellew have leave to 
go to the House of Lords, as desired by their Lord- 
ships, if he think fit. 

And the Messengers were again called in, and Mr. 

Speaker acquainted them therewith:—And then 
they again withdrew. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Canade. 
into a Committee to consider further of the state 
of the Province of Lower Canada. 

Motion 


ts, 


7 Wit. IV. 


(In the Committee.) 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That it is 
expedient, that so soon as provision shall have been 
made by Law to be passed by the Legislature of the 
said Province of Lower Canada, for the discharge of 
Lands therein from Feudal Dues and Services, and 
for removing any doubts as to the incidents of the 
tenure of land in free and common soccage in the 
said Province, a certain Act made and passed in 
the sixth year of the reign of his late Majesty King 
George the Fourth, commonly called “ The Canada 
Tenures Act ;” and so much of another Act passed 
in the third year of his said late Majesty’s reign, com- 
monly called “ The Canada Trade Act,” as relates 
to the tenures of land in the said Province, should 
be repealed, saving nevertheless to all persons all 
rights in them vested under or by virtue of the said 
recited Acts.” 

Amendment proposed: To leave out from the 
word “ expedient” to the end of the Question, in 
order to add the words, “at once to repeal a certain 
“ Act made and passed in the sixth year of the 
reign of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, 
commonly called ‘The Canada Tenures Act,’ 
and so much of another Act passed in the third 

ear of his said Majesty, commonly called ‘ The 
Canada Trade Act,’ as relates to the tenures of 
land in the said Province, saving nevertheless to 
all persons all rights in them vested under it by 
“ virtue of the said recited Acts,” instead thereof. 
Question put, That the words proposed to be 
left out stand part of the Question. 
The Committee divided : 


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Tellers for the ¢ Mr. Edward John Stanley, \ 73 
Yeas, Sir Andrew Leith Hay: J ‘” 
Tellers for the { Mr. Roebuck, \ 14 
Noes, Mr. Hume: ; 


Main Question put, and agreed to. 


Motion made, and Question proposed, That for 
defraying the arrears due on account of the esta- 
blished and customary charges of the Administration 
of Justice, and of the Civil Government of the said 
Province, it is expedient that, after applying for that 
purpose such balance as, on the said tenth day of 
April one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, 
was in the hands of the Receiver General of the said 
Province, arising from His Majesty’s Hereditary, 
Territorial and Casual Revenue, the Governor of 
the said Province be empowered to issue from and 
out of any other part of His Majesty’s Revenues in 
the hands of the Receiver General of the said Pro- 
vince such further sums as shall be necessary to 
effect the payment of the before-mentioned sum of 
£.142,160. 14s. 6d. 

Amendment proposed: To leave out all the words 
after the word “ That,” in order to add the words, 
“ the House of Assembly in Lower Canada, by 
“ withholding the supplies necessary for carrying 
“ on the Government, have adopted the only con- 
stitutional means of obtaining a remedy for their 
complaints, the reasonableness of which this House 
has recognized, by affirming the fourth and fifth 
Resolutions; and it is therefore expedient to await 
the result of the plan about to be proposed by 
His Majesty’s Government, for soleiaaes the 
grievances complained of by the Canadian Par- 
liament,” instead thereof. 

Question put, That the words proposed to be left 
out stand part of the Question. ° 
The Committee divided. 
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Tellers for the Yeas, Mr. Charles Wood: f 116. 
"Mr. Hume, 71 
Tellers for the Noes, Me. Recheck: if 32. 


Main Question put, and agreed to. 


Motion made, and Question proposed, That it 
is expedient that His Majesty be authorized to 
place at the disposal of the Legislature of the said 
oe net proceeds of His Majesty’s Heredi- 

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| tary, Territorial and Casual Revenue arising within 
the same, in case the said Legislature shall see fit to 
grant to His Majesty a Civil List for defraying the 
necessary charges of the Administration of Justice, 
and for the maintenance and unavoidable expenses 
of certain of the principal Offices of the Civil Go- 
vernment of the said Province. 

Amendment proposed: To leave out all the words 
after the word “That,” in order to add the words “ Lord 
“ Dorchester having formally and solemnly given 
“ up the Casual and Territorial Revenues to the 
“ House of Assembly, that it is expedient no longer 
“ to delay the fulfilment of the promise thus made 
“ by the Imperial Government,” instead thereof. 

Question, That the words proposed to be left 
out stand part of the Question, put, and agreed 
to. 

Main Question put and agreed to. 


Motion made, and Question proposed, That great 
inconvenience has been sustained by His Majesty’s 
subjects inhabiting the Provinces of Lower Canada 
and Upper Canada, from the want of some adequate 
means for regulating and adjusting questions respect- 
ing the Trade and Commerce of the said Provinces, 
and divers other questions wherein the said Provinces 
have a common interest; and it is expedient that the 
Legislatures of the said Provinces respectively be 
authorized to make provision for the joint regulation 
and adjustment of such their common interests 
put, and agreed to. 

Resolutions to be reported. 











Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had come to several 
Resolutions. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 


The Forgery Bill was, according to Order, read a Forgery Bill. 
second time; and committed to a Committee of the 
whole House, for Friday, the 19th day of May next. 


The Offences against the Person Bill was, accord- Offences against 
ing to Order, read a second time; and committed the Person Bill. 
to a Committee of the whole House, for Friday, the 
19th day of May next. 


The Robbery and Stealing from the Person Bill Robbery, and 
was, according to Order, read a second time; and ae — 
committed to a Committee of the whole House, for “°°” 
Friday, the 19th day of May next. 


The Burglary and Stealing in a Dwelling-house Burglary and 
Bill was, according to Order, read a second time ; Stealing ina 
and committed to a Committee of the whole House, a 
for Friday, the 19th day of May next. 


The Piracy Bill was, according to Order, read Piracy Bill. 
a second time; and committed to a Committee of 
the whole House, for Friday, the 19th day of May 
next. 


The Burning or Destroying Buildings and Ships Burning or 
Bill was, according to Order, read a second time ; destroying 
and committed to a Committee of the whcle House, ae and 
for Friday, the 19th day of May next. or 


The Punishment of Death Bill was, according to Punishment of 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a Death Bill. 
Committee of the whole House, for Friday, the 19th 
day of May next. 


The Transportation for Life Bill was, according to Transportation 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a ‘r Life Bill. 
Committee of the whole House, for Friday, the 19th 
day of May next. 


The Pillory Punishment Abolition Bill was, ac Pillory Punish- 
cording to Order, read a second time; and com- ment Abolition 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for 2# 
Friday, the 19th day of May next. 

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292 


Poor Relief The Order of the day being read, for the second 
(Ireland) Bill. reading of the Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Friday next. 
Shire Halls Bill. The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Shire Halls Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next 


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resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Judges’ 


Opinions Bill. to further consideration the Report on the Judges’ 


Opinions Bill; and the Amendments were read, and 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time To-morrow. 


Recorders’ 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
Courts Bill. 


further consideration the Report on the Recorders’ 
Courts Bill :—The Bill was re-committed to a Com- 
mittee of the whole House :— And the House imme- 
diately resolved itself into the Committee; «nd, 
after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed 
the Chair; and Mr. Bernal reported, That the Com- 
mittee had gone through the Bill, and made Amend- 
ments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 


Imprisonment 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
for Debt Bill. 


mittee on the Imprisonment for Debt Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself inte the said Committee. 


Court of 
Exchequer 
(Scotland) Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Court of Exchequer (Scotland) Bill ; 

Resolved; That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


Court of 
Exchequer 
(Scotland) 
[Compensation 
to Officers.] 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee, to whom it was referred to consider of making 
Compensation out of the Consolidated Fund of the 
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to 
certain Officers of the Court of Exchequer in Scot- 
land in the event of their Offices being abolished 
under the provisions of any Act to be passed in the 
present Session to regulate certain Offices in the 
Court of Exchequer in Scotland ; 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Registration of Voters Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, wpon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Registration of 
Voters Bill, 


Wills Bill, The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Wills Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 


Friday next. 


Court of Session The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
(Scotland) Bill. into a Committee upon the Court of Session (Scot- 
No. 234. land) Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal re- 
sorted, That the Committee had gone through the 

Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, ‘That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Bernal reported the Bill accordingly; and 
the Report was ordered to be taken into further 
consideration upon Friday next; and the Bill, as 
amended, to be printed. 


Small Debts The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
(Scotland) Bill. mittee on the Small Debts (Scotland) Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 
Sheriff and 
Burgh Courts 
(Scouand) Bill. 


_ The Order of the day, for the Committee on the 
Sheriff and Burgh Courts (Scotland) Bill, was read, 
and discharged. 


24° Aprilis. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to take | 


A. 1837. 


Ordered, That the Bill be committed to the Lord 
Advocate, Sir William Rae, Mr. Dunlop, Mr. Cumming 
Bruce, Sir Charles Adam, Sir George Clerk, Mr. 
Cutlar Fergusson, Mr. Wallace, Mr. Loch, Mr. 
Chalmers, Sir George Strickland, Mr. Hume, Dr. 
Bowring, Mr. Hope Johnstone, and Mr. Pringle. 

Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 





| The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Ways ana 


| mittee of Ways and Means; Means, 
Resolved, ‘That this House will, upon Wednesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Judicial Factor 
reading of the Judicial Factor (Scotland) Bill ; (Scotland) Bill, 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for receiving Supply. 
the Report from the Committee of Supply ; 
Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Supply. 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Consolidated 


The ingrossed Bill to apply a Sum, out of the 
; Fund Bill. 


Consolidated Fund, to the Service of the year One 
thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, was, ac- 
cording to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act to apply the Sum of Eight Millions, 
out of the Consolidated Fund, to the Service of the 
year One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 


the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Newark Estate Bill was, according to Order, Newark 

read a second time; and committed to Mr. Edward =**¢ Bil 
John Stanley, the Earl of Lincoln, Mr. Gally Knight, 
Mr. Evelyn Denison, Mr. William Gladstone, Mr. 
Serjeant Wilde, Mr. Robert Steuart, Mr. Arthur 
Duncombe, Sir Ronald Ferguson, Sir John Hobhouse, 
and Mr. More O’ Ferrall. 

Ordered, That Three be the Quorum. 


Ordered, That Mr. Fowell Buxton be discharged Transportation. 
from any further attendance on the Select Committee 
on Transportation. 

Ordered, That Mr. Hutt be added to the Com- 
mittee. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Canada. 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Copies of the Report of the Committee of 
the House of Assembly of Upper Canada, to whom 
was referred the Letter from Mr. Speaker Papineau 
to Mr. Speaker Bidwell, inclosing Copies of certain 
Resolutions adopted by the House of Assembly of 
Lower Canada during their Session of 1835-6 ; and 
also, a Copy of the Address of the Assembly of 
Upper Canada to His Majesty, adopting this Report: 
—Of the Address to His Majesty from the Legis- 
lative Council and Assembly of Upper Canada, pray- 
ing that steps may be taken for procuring the co- 
operation of the Legislature of Lower Canada in the 
| improvement of the navigation of the Saint Lawrence: 
—And, of the Address to His Majesty from the 
House of Assembly of Upper Canada, praying for 
the annexation of Montreal to that Province. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
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Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Religions 
Instruction 
(Scotland.) 


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‘to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
' House, a Copy of any Correspondence between the 
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7 Wit. IV. 


Commissioners for Religious Instruction in Scotland 
and the Reverend Mr. Begg, of Libberton, respect- 
ing the unauthorized publication of the Reverend 
Dr. Lee’s Evidence before the said Commissioners. 
Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Waste Lands Mr. Lynch presented a Bill to promote the Re- 
(Ireland) Bill. G)amation and {mprovement of uncultivated Lands 
No. 235. in Jreland: And the same was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Wednes- 

day the 10th day of May next ; and to be printed. 


Tenants for Life 


Mr. Lynch presented a Bill to enable Tenants for 


(Ireland) Bill. 7 if, and Mortgagors in possession of Lands in Jre- 
No. 237. Jand, to grant Leases, and to enable Tenants for 
Life of Lands in Jreland to make exchange, and for 
giving a summary remedy for Partition in all cases 
as to Lands in Zrefand: And the same was read the 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time 
upon Wednesday the 10th day of May next; and 
to be printed. 
Leases and Mr. Lynch presented a Bill to enable Tenants for 
(ireland) Bill Life of Estates in Ireland, to make Improvements in 
No. 236 their Estates, and to charge the Inheritance with 
‘“~* the Monies expended in such Improvements: And 
the same was read the first time ; and ordered to be 
read a second time upon Wednesday the 10th day 
of May next ; and to be printed. 
Prisons 


The Order for reading a second time, upon Thurs- 
y the 25th day of May next, the Prisons (Scot- 
land) Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Friday, the 26th day of May next. 


(Scotland) Bill, da: 


Upper Canada. Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of all Orders in Council and Instruc- 
tions sent to Upper Canada by His Majesty’s Secre- 
tary of State for the Colonies, for the regulation of 
the Sale or Grant of Lands in that Province :— 
Copy of all the Orders of the Lieutenant-Governor 
in Council, and of the Lieutenant-Governor in Upper 
Canada, for the regulation of the Location or Grant 
of Lands in that Province in force on the 1st Jan- 
uary 1835, and Copies of every Order in Council in 
that Province respecting the same, up to the Ist of 
August 1836:—Return of all the Patents for Grants 
of Lands from the Crown in Upper Canada, between 
1st April and 1st August 1836; stating the Names 
of the Persons to whom granted, the quantity of 
Lands, and the Township and County in which such 
Land is situated, the Date of the petition or other 
application for such Land, and the Date of Loca- 
tion, with the Terms and Conditions of the same; 
also, the Dates of the Patents issued for such Lands; 
stating also the several Payments made in Money, 
or by Note or other Security, distinguishing what 
part has been paid in Money or otherwise ; and also 
the Amount of Fees paid for the same:—Copy of 
the Instructions or Orders in Council from His 
Majesty’s Secretary of State sent to Upper Canada, 
under which the Surrender by the Jndians of their 
Lands were made to His Majesty ; the Number of 
Acres of Land surrendered since 1820; stating the 
Date of each Surrender, and the Terms or Conditions 
of each Surrender:—And, Copy of the Orders in 
Council of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, or 
Orders by the Lieutenant-Governor, for the Accept- 
ance of such Surrender from the Jndians, and for 
the subsequent Sale or Grant of the same ; stating 
also the Number of Grants, and the Quantity of 
Land so granted; the Number of Sales, and the 
Quantity of Land so sold; together with the Amount 
of Money received for the same, and the Amvunt of 
the Purchase-Money remaining due and unpaid, and 
the Nature of the Security for the sume. 
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293 


Ordered, That the said Address be ne to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Orange Lodges 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased (Canada.) 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Copies of the Orders sent out to the Cana- 
das respecting Orange Lodges there, the Date of 
the Dispatch, and of Arrival of those Orders there, 
and the Answers received from the Governors of 
Upper and Lower Canada as to the Proceedings 
adopted thereunder :—And, of the Address of the 
House of Assembly of Upper Canada to the 
Governor, respecting Orange Lodges, and his An- 
swer thereto. 

Ordered, That the said Address be P snoop to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a pana Tax 
Return of all Assessments of the Land Tax for the (Middlesex), 
several Divisions in the County of Middlesex, **- 
the City of London, and the City and Liberty of 
Westminster, since 1821, inclusive ; with the Amount 
collected in each Year, and the quotas for each 
Division paid to the Receiver-General, including the 
Amount of the Surplus Receipts from former years 
received by the Commissioners from the Collectors, 
and the Amount of the remaining Surplus, stating 
where it is at present deposited ; likewise, an Ac- 
count of that part of the Surplus which has been 
alienated, stating the Items on which it has been 
expended, and the Authority for such appropriation. 


Ordered, That Mr. Cutlar Fergusson, Mr. La- Fast India 
bouchere, and Mr. Ewart, be discharged from any Maritime 
further attendance on the Select Committee on Oficers 
East India Maritime Officers. 

Ordered, That Mr. Alderman Wood, Captain 
Alsager and Mr. William Williams, be added to the 
Committee. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Justices of 

Return of all such Appointments as are in the dis- the Peace 
posal of the Justices of the Peace for the County of (Middlesex.) 
Middlesex, either when assembled in Quarter, 
General or Petty Sessions, or in any Committee of 
such Justices ; the Name and Residence of every 
Person who has received, and now holds, his or her 
Appointment from the said Justices ; the Return to 
exhibit the Nature of the Office, the Date of the 
Appointment, and the Annual Amount of Remune- 
ration, whether arising from Wages, Salary or 
Fees; the various Appointments to be classified 
according to the Departments to which they relate. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, @ Chancery 
Copy of the Treasury Minute for the Regulations (Scotland.) 
made for the Office of the Director of Chancery in 
Scotland ; stating the Nature of the Duties, and the 
Salary and Emoluments to be received by Mr. Roger 
Aytoun appointed to that office. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon Wed- Railroads and 
nesday next, the Railroads and Public Works Bill, Public Works 
was read, and discharged. Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Wednesday, the 10th day of May next. 


Lord John Russell presented, by His Majesty’s Municipal 
command,—Report of the Commissioners appointed Corporations, 
to report and advise upon the Boundaries and 
Wards of certain Boroughs and Corporate Towns in 
England and Wales. 

Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire 
into the existing state of Municipal Corporations in 
England and Wales, on the City of London. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 

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Answer to 
Addresses. 


Archbishops’, 
&amp;c., Revenue, 
First Fruits, 
and Tenths, 


Factories. 


Factories. 


Carlow County 
Election— 
Petition 
considered. 


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Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer reported to the 
House, That their several Addresses of the 5th, 10th 
and 21st days of this instant April, (that His Majesty 
would be graciously pleased to give directions that the 
Papers therein mentioned might be laid before this 
House), had been presented to His Majesty; and that 
His Majesty had commanded him to — this 
House, that He will give directions accordingly. 


Mr. Fox Maule presented, pursuant to several 
Addresses to His Majesty,—Return of the clear 
Annual Revenue of every Archbishoprick, Bishop- 
rick, Archdeaconry, Deanery and Prebend, accord- 
ing to the Report of the Commissioners appointed 
by the King to inquire into the Ecclesiastical Reve- 
nues of England and Wales, on an average of Three 
years, ending 31st December 1831; with a Return 
of the Sums paid yearly during each of those Three 
years, as the Tenths of such Income of every Arch- 
bishoprick, Bishoprick, Archdeaconry, Deanery and 
Prebend ; and a Return of the Sums paid as First 
Fruits on the Induction of each of the Archbishops, 
Bishops, Archdeacons, Deans and Prebendaries, into 
the First Fruits and Tenths Offices, to be — to 
the Fund usually called “ Queen Anne’s Bounty, 
for the augmentation of the Maintenance of the poor 
Clergy, as provided by an Act passed in the second 
year of the Reign of Queen Anne.” 

Copy of a Memorial from the Short-time Com- 
mittee of Manchester, addressed to His Majesty’s 
Secretary of State for the Home Department. 

Copy of the Answer made by Mr. Horner to 
the Petition from certain persons in Manchester, ad- 
dressed to the Secretary of State. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 








Martis, 25° die Aprilis ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi IV‘ Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


HE hour appointed for taking into considera- 

tion the Petition of Walter Newton, of Dunleck- 
ney, William Fitz William Burton, of Burton Hall, 
Robert Clayton Browne, of View Mount, and William 
Fishbourne, of the town of Carlow, all in the county 
of Carlow, Esquires, Freeholders and Electors of the 
said county of Carlow, on behalf of themselves and 
others, claiming to have had and having a right to 
vote at the last Election for a Member to serve in 
Parliament for the said County, being come ; 

And Howard Moore, and others, Freeholders and 
Electors of the said County, having, by an Order of 
the House of the 5th day of this instant April, been 
admitted parties in the room of Nicholas Aylward 
Vigors, Esquire ; 

Mr. Speaker took the Chair. 

The Serjeant-at-Arms was sent, with the Mace, 
to the places adjacent, to require the attendance of 
the Members on the business of the House: And 
being returned ; 

A Member was sworn. 

Then the House was counted by Mr. Speaker, and 
Two hundred and fifty-two Members being present; 

The several parties, counsel and agents were 
called in. 

And the door being locked ; 

The said counsel being asked by Mr. Speaker 
for whom they respectively appeared, one of them 
informed the House, that he appeared at the bar on 
the part of George Rous Keough, Esquire, Sheriff 
of the County of Carlow, and Returning Officer 
for the said County at the last Election, to whom 
a notice from Mr. Speaker, and an Order of the 
House had been sent, to appear by himself, his 











Aprilis. A. 1837. 
counsel or agents, when the Petition before mén- 
tioned was ordered to be taken into consideration ; 
and the said counsel submitted to the House, that 
he considered that the present was a case in which 
the Returning Officer ought to be admitted to ap- 
pear as a separate party, and to be allowed to strike 
the List as a party, on account of the serious charges 
preferred against him in the Petition. 

And the counsel for the Petitioners having been 
heard ; and the counsel for the Returning Officer 
having been heard in reply ; 

The counsel and agents were directed to withdraw 
some way from the bar. 

The House was moved, That the Act 9 Geo. 4, 
c. 22, s.36, might be read ; and the same being read; 

A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 
posed, That George Rous Keough, Esquire, Sheriff 
of the County of Carlow, and Returning Officer for 
the said County, be permitted to appear as a separate 
party before the said Committee :—And a Debate 
arising thereupon, and a doubt having been ex- 
pressed by several Members, whether under the pro- 
vision of the said Act the House could entertain that 
Question, there not being more Petitions than one 
on distinct interests or complaining upon different 
grounds, and an appeal having been made to the 
Chair thereupon, Mr. Speaker stated it to be his 
opinion, that the power of deciding upon that Ques- 
tion was not taken away from the House by the 
said Act. 

The House was moved, That the entry in the 
Journal of the House of the 2d day of March 1830, 
with relation to the proceedings of the House in the 
case of the Wexford Election, might be read; and 
the same was read. 

And the House being informed by a Member that 
Sir Watkin Williams Wynn was taken unwell, and 
desired to be allowed to retire ; 

Mr. Speaker directed the Serjeant-at-Arms to 
open the door, and allow Sir Watkin Williams Wynn 
to retire. 

And the Question being again proposed, That 
George Rous Keough, Esquire, Sheritf of the County 
of Carlow, and eteaning Uihoes for the said County, 
be permitted to appear as a separate party before 
the said Committee ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” to 
the end of the Question, in order to add the words 
“ it appears to this House that in this case there 
are not more than one Petition presented on 
distinct interests, or complaining of the Re- 
turn and Election on different grounds,” instead 
thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words pro- 
posed to be left out stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the Right ; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the { Mr. Edward John aia 128 


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Yeas, Mr. Robert Steuart : 
Tellers for the f Sir George Clerk, 118 
Noes, Sir Thomas Fremantle : } ‘ 


So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Then the main Question being put, That George 
Rous Keough, Esquire, Sheriff of the County of 
Carlow, and Returning Officer for the said County, 
be permitted to appear as a separate party before the 
said Committee ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the Right; 

The Noes to the Left. 

Tellers for the { Mr. Edward John Stanley, 


Yeas, L Mr. Robert Steuart : aaa. 
Tellers for the { Sir George Clerk, ha 31 
Noes, Sir Thomas Fremantle : ‘ 


So it passed in the Negative. ‘ 
And the counsel and agents being again called 
to the bar, Mr. Speaker acquainted them there- 
with. 
Then 


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Then the Order of the day for taking the said 
Petition into consideration was read ; 

And the names of the Members were drawn and 
read, in the usual manner ; 

And the whole number of thirty-three names was 
completed. 


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Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to 
the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


And Lists of the thirty-three names being delivered 
to the Clerk appointed to attend the said Committee, 
the door was opened, and the parties, their counsel 
and agents withdrew. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- Birmingham 
posed, That the Birmingham Plate and Crown Glass Plate and 
Company Bill be now read the third time ; pas a. 

The Amendments following were proposed to be ompany Bill. 





ie , made to tl stion; viz. To | . 

West Cork Six Petitions of Shareholders in the West Cork| « cncth &gt; sie e nage of Phen Phase Rgediy oP a 
Bil ™ Mining Company; praying that the West Cork! y org, ’« upon this day six months.” 

Mining Company Bill may pass into a law,—were| nd the Question being proposed, That the word 

— and read; and ordered to lie upon the] « ow » stand part of dhe Question —~Aad 0 Be- 

able. bate arising thereupon ; 

West Cork An ingrossed Bill for amending and enlarging 
—- the provisions of an Act passed in the fourth year| The Counsel and Agents before mentioned being Garow County 
ee of the reign of His present Majesty, intituled, “ An| returned to the Bar, the Clerk appointed to attend Election. 


Act to encourage the working of Mines and Quarries 
in Ireland, and to regulate a Joint Stock Company 
for that purpose, to be called ‘The West Cork 
Mining Company,’ ” was read the third time. 


the said Committee, delivered in to the House a 
reduced List; and the same was called over as 
follows : 

Thomas Thornely, Esquire, the honourable Pierce 


Resolved, That the Bill do pass. Butler, Richard Walker, Esquire, Henry Wilson, 

Ordered, That Mr. Ruthven do carry the Bill to | Esquire, Thomas Balfour, Esquire, Francis Thorn- 

the Lords, and desire their concurrence. hill Baring, Esquire, Thomas Martin, Esquire, 

Glasgow Lord William Bentinck reported from the Com- Henry George Boldero, Es uire, the honourable 
Road Bill mittee on the Glasgow te 4 Bill; That they had Richard Bootle Wilbraham, Philip Henry Howard, 


Esquire, and Sir Charles Adam. 

And the said eleven Members, being the Select 
Committee for trying and determining the merits of 
the Petition of Walter Newton, Esquire, and others, 
Freeholders, complaining of an ies Election and 
Return for the County of Carlow, and to defend 
which Howard Moore, Esquire, and others, had, by 
Order of the House, been admitted Parties instead 
of Nicholas Aylward Vigors, Esquire, were sworn 
by the Clerk at the Table, in the usual manner :— 
And thereupon the counsel and agents withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Committee do meet forth- 
with in one of the Committee Chambers appointed 
for hearing the Trials of Controverted Elections. 


examined the allegations of the Bill, and found the 
same to be true; and had gone through the Bill, 
and made Amendments thereunto; and the Amend- 
ments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed. 


Lord William Bentinck reported from the Com- 
mittee on the Gorbals Police Bill; and to whom 
several Petitions against the said Bill were referred ; 
That no person appeared in support of the said 
Petitions ; and that the Committee had examined 
the allegations of the Bill, and found the same to 
be true ; and had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto; and the Amendments were 
read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed. 


A Petition of Thomas Corrie, Alexander Wood, 
and Andrew Rutherfurd, Trustees acting under the | « 


Gorbals Police 
Bill, 


Then the House resumed the Debate ; 
And the Question being put, That the word “now” Birmingham 


stand part of the Question :—It passed in the Nega- act, 
tive. 


; : Company Bill. 
And the Question being put, That the words 
upon this day six months” be added at the end 


Edinburgh 
and Glasgow 
Railway Bill. 


Glasgow and 
ill, 


Glossop 


trust disposition, and settlement of the deceased 
Sir William Fettes, Baronet, praying that they may 
be heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
against certain parts of the Edinburgh and Glasgow 
Railway Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to 
the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 

A Petition of Owners and Occupiers of houses 
and shops in Princes-street, Edinburgh, praying that 
the said Bill may pass into a law, was also presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from James Lumsden, Esquire, Member 


Ayr Railway of the Town Council of the city of Glasgow ;—and, 


Sir John Maxwell, of Polloc, Baronet; praying that 
they may be heard, by themselves, their counsel or 
agents, against certain parts of the Glasgow and 
Ayr Railway Bill,—were presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit ; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


A Petition of Peter Edward Marsland and Jesse 


Reservoirs Bill. Howard, praying that they may be heard, by them- 


of the Question ; it was resolved in the Affirm- 
ative. 
Then the main Question, so amended, being put ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon this day six months. 


The House was moved, That the Standing Order Railway Bills. 


of the House of the 19th day of August, in the last 
Session of Parliament, “ That, in order to afford 
time for the proper discussion of the Reports on 
Railway Bills, this House will, upon every Tuesday, 
— in the first place to the consideration of 

eports of such Bills; provided, however, that three 
or more such Bills have been reported, and stand 
for further Consideration of Report,” might be read, 
and the same being read ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the said Standing Order be sus- 
pended ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the old Lobby ; 

The Noes to the new Lobby. 


Tellers for the f Mr. Jervis, 1 
Yeas, Mr. Pease: J os 

Tellers for the | Lord Granville Somerset, ) 19 
Noes, JS Mr. Poulett Thomson: Jf °~' 


So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 


selves, their counsel or agents, against certain parts 
of the Glossop Reservoirs Bill, was presented, and 
read. 

Vox. 92. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Chester and 
the Report, which upon the 14th day of this instant Crewe Railway 
April was made from the Committee on the Chester Bill. 
| pPp4 and 








rere ag 


~~ - 


ea see ae 


Hurworth and 
York Railway 
Bill. 


Hurworth and 
York Railway 
Bill. 


Manchester, 
Bolton, and 
Bury Canal 
Bill, 


Lancaster 
and Preston 


Railway Bill. 


Birmingham 
and Gloucester 
Railway Bill. 


296 25° Aprilis. 


and Crewe Railway Bill, printed Copies of the Bill | 
having been delivered at the door upon Thursday 
last ; and the Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed. 


Ordered, That the Report on the Hurworth and 
York Railway Bill be taken into further considera- 
tion upon Tuesday next. 


A Petition of Sir William Chaytor, of Witton 
Castle, in the county of Durham, Baronet, praying 
that he may be heard, by himself, his counsel or 
agent, against certain parts of the Hurworth and 

ork, Railway Bill, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of John Fitzgerald, of Portland Place, 
Esquire, being Owner and Lessee of coal mines upon 
the lines of the Canal and Railway hereinafter men- 
tioned, praying that he may be heard, by himself, 
his counsel or agent, against certain parts of the 
Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal Bill, was pre- 
sented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by himself, his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, 
if he think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendment made by the Lords to the Bill, in- 
tituled, An Act for making and maintaining a Rail- 
way from the Town of Lancaster to the Town of 
Preston, in the County Palatine of Lancaster; and 
the same was read, as followeth: 

Pr. 19. 1.15. Leave out “ sixteen,’ 
* 

The said Amendment, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Greene do carry the Bill to 
the Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendment made by their Lordships. 


, 


and insert 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendment made by the Lords to the Bill, in- 
tituled, An Act to amend an Act passed in the last 
Session of Parliament, for making a Railway from 
Birminghar: to Gloucester ; to extend the Line of 
the said Railway, and to make Branches therefrom. 
to the City of Worcester and the Town of Tewkes- 
bury; and the same was read, as followeth : 

Pr. 51. 1. 11. After “ continue ” insert Clause (A.) 
Cuiause (A.) “ And whereas by the said first 
recited Act it is enacted, that the person or cor- 
oration for the time being in the possession or 
in the receipt of the rents and profits of any lands 
should, for the purposes of the said first recited 
Act, be enabled to contract for, sell and convey 
the same to the said Company, and to agree for 
the amount of any compensation for any damage, 
loss or inconvenience to be sustained by reason 
of the execution of the said first recited Act; and 
that every contract, sale, conveyance or agree- 
ment, whether thereafter made with or to the said 
Company by any such person or corporation, 
should be valid and effectual ; and that in every 
case in which the amount of the price of any 
lands, or of any compensation, ‘should be paid 
into the Bank of pe ae in the name and with 
the privity of the Accountant-General of the Court 
of Exchequer, to be placed to his account to the 
credit of the parties mterested in the said lands, 
in manner provided by the said first recited Act, 
such payment, and every contract or agreement 
in pursuance whereof it was made, should be good 
to all intents and purposes; and the said Company 
should not be bound to see to the application 
thereof, provided that such agreement be made 
“ bona fide, and without any fraud or collusion 








A. 1837. 


between the said Company and the party con- 
tracting: Be it Enacted, That the said recited 
provision shall be and the same is hereby repealed, 
and the said first recited Act shall be deemed, 
construed and taken, and all contracts, sales, 
conveyances and agreements, and payments of 
purchase and compensation-money under and by 
virtue of the said first recited Act, shall have suc 
and the same effect as.if the said recited provision 
had not formed part of or been inserted in the 
said Act.” 

The said Amendment, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 

Ordered, That Lord Granville Somerset do carry 
the Bill to the Lords ; and acquaint them, that this 
House hath agreed to the Amendment made by their 
Lordships. 


“ 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Sheffield and 
the Amendment made by the Lords to the Bill, in- Manchester 
tituled, An Act for making a Railway from Sheffield, ®*!"¥ Bill 
in the West Riding of the County of York, to Man- 
chester, in the County of Lancaster; and the same 
was read, as followeth: 

Pr. 128. 1. 19. Leave out from “ same ” to “ Pro- 
“ vided” in Pr. 129. 1. 20. 

The said Amendment, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. John Parker do carry the Bill 
to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendment made by their Lord- 
ships. 


Dr. Bowring reported from the Select Committee Public 
on Public Petitions; That they had examined the Petitions. 
Petitions presented on the 14th and 18th days of 
this instant April, and had directed him to make 
a Report thereof to the House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to Westminster Westminster 
Abbey, which was presented upon Wednesday last, Abbey. 
be printed. No, 242. 
Ordered, That the Returns relative to Westminster Westminster 
Abbey and Saint Paul’s, which were presented upon Abbey and 
Wednesday last and yesterday, be printed. on 
Ordered, That the Report of the Commissioners “ithgs 


appointed to report and advise upon the Boundaries + a 


‘and Wards of certain Boroughs, which was presented No. 238. 


yesterday, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Report of the Commissioners Municipal 
of Municipal Corporations on the City of London, Corporations. 
which was presented yesterday, be printed. No. 239. 

Ordered, That the Return relative to Archbishops’ Atehbishops’, 
&amp;c., Revenue, First Fruits and Tenths, which was — 
presented yesterday, be printed. and Tenths. 

No, 240. 

Ordered, That the Copy of the Memorial from Factories. 
the Short-time Committee of Manchester, to the Se- No. 241. 
cretary of State, which was presented yesterday, be 
printed. 

Ordered, That the Copy of the Answer made by Factories. 
Mr, Horner to the Petition of certain Persons in No. 241. 
Manchester to the Secretary of State, which was 
presented yesterday, be printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for receiving Canada. 
the Report from the Committee to whom it was re- 
ferred to consider of the state of the Province of 
Lower Canada; 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Custody of 


Bill. 
to empower the Lord Chancellor and the Judges to a 


make Orders relating to the Custody of Infant 
Children of tender Age, in cages where the Parents 
are living apart, upon the application of either of 
such Parents, or on the return to Writs of Habeas 


Corpus 





Colonial 
Accounts. 


Merchant 
Seamen’s Fund. 


Lord John Hay 
(Spain.) 


Roborough 
Hundred 
(Devon) Small 
Debts Bill, 


Manchester 
and Oldham 
Road Bill, 


7 Witt. lV. 


Corpus issued at the instance of the Father: And 
that Mr. Serjeant Talfourd and Major Beauclerk do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 
posed, That a Select Committee be appointed to 
examine into the Accounts of Colonial Receipt and 
Expenditure laid on the Table of this House, and to 
report to the House as to the mode in which it ma 
be desirable to frame the same for the future, wit 
a view to introduce uniformity, regularity, complete- 
ness and correctness ; 


And Notice being taken that Forty Members were 
not present; the House was told by Mr. Speaker ; 
and Forty Members not being present, and it being 
then after fo. of the clock :—The House was ad- 
journed by Mr. Speaker, without a Question first 
put, till To-morrow. 





Mercurit, 26° die Aprilis ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi IV Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


R. Watson, from the Corporation for Relief of 
Seamen in the Merchant Service, was called 
in; and at the bar presented, pursuant to the direc- 
tions of an Act of Parliament,— An Account of the 
Income and Expenditure of the President and Go- 
vernors of the Corporation for Relief of Seamen in 
the Merchant Service, their Widows and Children, 
at the Port of London, and at the various Out-ports 
under their management, from 1st January to 31st 
December 1836, inclusive. 

An Account of the Income and Expenditure of 
the Trustees for the Relief of Seamen in the Mer- 
chant Service, their Widows and Children, appointed 
by the. therein-mentioned Out-ports of the United 
Gigion, from 1st January to 31st December 1836: 
—And then he withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Accounts do lie upon the 
Table. 


Sir Andrew Leith Hay presented,—Return to an 
Order, dated the 12th day of this instant April, for 
Copies of any Report received by the Master- 
General of the Ordnance, Inspector-General of Forti- 
fications, or Commanding Officer of Artillery at 
Woolwich, as to whether any Casualties have oc- 
curred in the Detachments of Royal Artillery, Royal 
Engineers and Royal Sappers and Miners now em- 
ployed on the North Coast of Spain, and under the 
Orders of Lord John Hay, having reference to the 
Actions of the 15th and 16th ultimo. 

. a That the said Return do lie upon the 
able. 


Sir Edward Codrington reported from the Com- 
mittee on the Roborough Hundred (Devon) Small! 
Debts Bill; That they had examined the allega- 
tions of the Bill, and found the same to be true; 
and that the Committee had made provision in the 
Bill, according to the instruction of the House, of 
the 18th day of this instant April; and had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto; 
and the Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


Mr. Lees reported from the Committee on the 
Manchester and Oldham Road Bill; and to whom 
a Petition against the said Bill was referred ; That 
the Standing Orders relative to Turnpike Bills, had 
been complied with; and that no person appeared 
on behalf of the said Petition; and that the Com- 
mittee had examined the allegations of the Bill, and 
found the same to be true; and had gone through 
the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto; and 


the Amendments were read, and agreed to. 
Vou, 92. 


25°—26° Aprils. 





297 


_ Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


Sir George Crewe reported from the Committee Ashborne 
on the Ashborne and Leek Road Bill; That the and Leek 
Standing Orders relative to Turnpike Bills, had been ®¢*4 Bil 
par with ; and that they had. examined the alle- 
gations of the Bill, and found the same to be true ; 
and had gone through the Bill, and made Amend- 
ments thereunto; and the Amendments were read, 
and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


General Zygon reported from the Committee on Worcester and 


the Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway Bill ; Wolverhampton 


? ¢ . 
and to whom several Petitions against the said Bill a 


were referred ; That the Standing Orders relative to 
Bills for making Railways, had been complied with ; 


-| and that the Committee had considered the said Pe- 


titions, and had heard counsel in support of several 
of them; and had also heard counsel in favour of 
the Bill; and that they had inquired into the several 
matters required by the Resolutions of the House, 
of the 1st day of March 1836, and had examined 
the allegations of the Bill, and found the same to 
be true ; and had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


A Petition of Commissioners for paving, lighting, Ipswich 
&amp;c., the town of Ipswich, praying that the Jpswich Improvement 
Improvement an Docks B 
Jaw as it now stands, was presented, and read ; and 
referred to the Committee on the Bill. 

Petitions from Rate-payers of Ipswich ;—and, 
James White; praying that they may be heard, b 
their counsel, against certain parts of the said Bill, 
—were also presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by their counsel, upon their Petitions, if they 
think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the Bill, 
aguinst the said Petitions. 


Sir George Strickland reported from the Com- Holme 


mittee on the Holme Reservoirs Bill; and to whom Reservoirs Bill. 


several Petitions against the said Bill were referred ; 
That the Standing Orders relative to Bills for mak- 
ing Reservoirs, had been complied with ; and that 
they had heard counsel on behalf of several of the 
said Petitions; and that no person appeared on 
behalf of the other Petitions; and that they had 
heard counsel in favour of the Bill; and that the 
Committee had examined the allegations of the Bill, 
and found the same to be true; and had gone through 
the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


An ingrossed Bill for widening and improving Sheffield 
the Road from Halifax to Sheffield, in the West id Halifax 
Riding of the County of York, so far as relates to - 
the third District of the said Road, and for divert- 
ing the said District of Road,and making a Branch 
therefrom, was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act for widening and improving the 
Road from Halifax to Sheffield, in the West Ridin 
of the County of York, so far as relates to the third 
District of the said Road, and for diverting the said 
District of Road, and making a new line of Road 
therefrom. : 

Ordered, That Sir George Strickland do carry 
the Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


A Petition of John Douglas, praying that he Ardrossan 
may be heard, by himself, his counsel or agent, 4 Jounsten 
against certain parts of the Ardrossan and Johnston sieieid 
Railway Bill, was presented, and read. 

QQ Ordered, 


ill, may not pass into a and Docks Bill, 





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298 26° Aprilis. 


Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by himself, his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, 
if he think fit; and counsel heard, im favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of John Boyle Gray, Writer, in Glas- 
Bill, qous praying that he may be heard, by himself, 

is counsel or agent, against certain parts of the 
Glasgow and Ayr Railway Bill, was presented, and 
read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, by 
himself, his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, if he 
think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the Bill, 
against the said Petition. 


Glasgow and 
Ayr Railway 


Belfast Harbour Petitions from George Tomb, one of the Proprietors 

(No. 2.) Bill. of certain quays in the town of Belfast ;—and, Mer- 
chants, Ship-owners, Proprietors of quays, &amp;c., in 
the said town; praying that the Belfast Harbour 
(No. 2) Bill, may not pass into a law as it now 
stands,—were presented, and read; and referred to 
the Committee on the Bill. 

A Petition of the Right honourable Thomas, Earl 
of Ranfurly, praying that he may be heard, by his 
counsel or agent, against certain parts of the said 
Bill, was also presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to 
the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner 
heard, by his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, if 
he think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


Saddleworth Petitions from the Company of Proprietors of 

Reservoirs Bill. the Canal Navigation from Manchester to or near 
Ashton-under-Lyne, and Oldham; — Mill-owners 
and Occupiers of mills in the parish of Saddleworth ; 
—and, Owners and Occupiers of mills, factories 
and other buildings, &amp;c., on the banks of the River 
Tame ; praying that they may be heard, by them- 
selves, their counsel or agents, against certain parts 
of the Saddleworth Reservoirs Bill,—were presented, 
and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be refer- 
red to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petition- 
ersheard, by themselves, their counseloragents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel heard 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


Pitan and A Petition of Merchants, Manufacturers and 

Preston Rail- other Inhabitants of Preston, praying that the 

way Bill. Bolton and Preston Railway Bill may not pass into 
a law, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


London and A Motion was made, and the Question being put, 
— py bat the Petition of Richard Till, complaining of 
(Rennis’sLine,) fictitious signatures to the Subscription List and 
“ Deed of Contract, in the case of the application for 
the London and Brighton Railway Bill, (Rennie’s 
Line), which was presented upon Monday last, be 
referred to the Select Committee on the Deptford 
and Dover Railway Subscription List ; 
The House divided : 
The Yeas to the old Lobby ; 
The Noes to the new Lobby. 
Tellers for the { Lord George Lennox, } 88 
Yeas, Lord Arthur Lennox : . 
Tellers for the f Mr. Herbert Curteis, } 98 
Noes, L Mr. Thomas Duncombe: : 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 
Ordered, That the Petitions of Henry Cooke; Ben- 
jamin Wheeler Poulton; and, Members of a Pro- 
visional Committee, Solicitors and Secretary of a 
Company formed for promoting a Railway from 
London to Brighton, with Branches to Shoreham, 
Lewes and Newhaven, called “ The Direct London 
and Brighton Railway,” upon the subject of the said 
Subscription List and Deed of Contract, which were 
presented upon Monday last, be referred to the 
said Select Committee. 


A. 1837. 


An ingrossed Bill for inclosing Lands in the Clapton 
parish of Clapton, in the county of Somerset, was Inclosure Bil, 
read the &lt;hird time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. William Miles do carry the 
Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Bath and 
reading of the Bath and Weymouth Railway Bill; Me ag 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time ”*Y Bul 
upon Monday next. 


A Petition of James Slatford Vale, of the Stock London ana 
Exchange, London, Stock Broker, denying the alle- on 
gations of the Petition of Benjamin Wheeler Poulton, jm Aen 
(presented upon Monday last, stating that he signed *) 
the Parliamentary deed for the London and Brigh- 
ton, Railway (Rennie’s line) for a pecuniary con- 
sideration) ; and praying for inquiry, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Ordered, That the Petition be printed. 


A Petition of Adam and John Dawson, Distillers Edinburgh 
of Linlithgow, praying that the Edinburgh and Glas- _ Glasgow 
: 2 3 ailway Bill, 
gow Railway Bill may not pass into a law, was pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


An ingrossed Bill for making a Railway from the Chester end 
City of Chester to join the Grand Junction Railway — Railway 
near Crewe Hall, in the County of Chester, to be’ 
called “ The Chester and Crewe Railway,” was read 
the third time; and Amendments were made to the 
Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Jervis do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


A Petition of the London and Birmingham Rail- Birmingham 
way Company, praying that they may be heard, by Gas (No. 1.) 
their counsel or agents, against certain parts of the ¥# 
Birmingham Gas (No. 1.) Bill, was presented, and 
read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by their counsel or agents, upon their Petition, if 
they think fit ; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee to whom Bath and 
several Petitions relative to the Subscription List for Weymouth 
the Bath and Weymouth Railway were referred 3 subscription 
have power to report their opinion thereupon, toge- List. 
ther with the Minutes of the Evidence taken before No, 243, 
them. 

Mr. Robert Gordon reported from the said Select 
Committee ; That they had considered the matters 
to them referred ; and had come to several Resolu- 
tions which they had directed him to report, 
together with the Minutes of the Evidence taken 
| before them ; and the Resolutions of the Committee 
are as follow ; 

Resolved, That so much of the allegations con- 
tained in the two Petitions of certain Shareholders 
and Subscribers of the Bath and Weymouth Great 
Western Railway Company, as state “ that other 
persons who have taken shares, instead of signing 





‘the Contract themselves, have paid a person for 
| signing the same, whereby they have shifted their 
/own responsibility of paying up the calls to mere 
|men of straw” and that, in particular, one indivi- 
dual “ has admitted that he has signed the contract 
for 90 shares, amounting to a capital of 9,000/., and 
for signing which he received a sum of 11. 5s., and 
15s.,” has been proved before Your Committee, 
except that the Parliamentary Contract appears to 
have been signed for 85 shares instead of 90 shares, 
by the party alluded to. 

Resolved That George Stone, a clerk in the office 
of Messrs Mant and Bruce, the solicitors for the 
Company, in conjunction with another clerk in the 
same office, of the name of Davis, did procure, by 





payment of one sovereign, John Plaisted, clerk to a 


builder 





l. 


ine,) 


Welland 
Outfall 
Drainage Bill. 


Bath Gas Bill. 


Bath Gas Bill. 


Glasgow Police 
Bill 


Liverpool 
Improvement 
Acts Amend- 
ment Bill, 


7 Wit. IV. 


builder at Bath, to sign for 50 of the shares origi- 
nally allotted to George Lawrence ; for which service 
he received from the said George Lawrence 51.; 
and that John Plaisted did so sign the Parliament- 
ary Contract in the presence of Mr. Mant. 

Resolved, That these two clerks acted without the 
knowledge of Messrs. Mant and Bruce; and no 
proof has been adduced that the Provisional Com- 
mittee, the solicitors or other agents promoting the 
Bill, were implicated in these very improper trans- 
actions. 

Resolved, That the Parliamentary Contract was 
signed by 333 persons for 5,186 shares, and that 22 
of those persons, taking 578 shares, were parties 
signing for shares not originally allotted to them. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie on the Table ; 
and be printed. 


The Welland Outfall Drainage Bill was read a 
second time; and committed to Mr. Heathcote and 
the Lincoln List. 


Petitions from Inhabitants of Walcot ;—Saint 
James, Bath ;—Saint Michael, Bath ;—Saint Peter 
and Saint Paul, Bath;—Bathwick;—and Lyn- 
combe and Wydcombe,—praying that the Bath Gas 
Bill may pass into a law,—-were presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 
posed, That the Bath Gas Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

The Amendments following were proposed to be 
made to the Question; viz. To leave out the word 
“ now,” and at the end of the Question, to add the 
words “ upon this day six months.” 

And the Question being put, That the word 
“ now” stand part of the Ritalin 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the old Lobby ; 

The Noes to the new Lobby. 


Tellers for the Yeas, = _— }as. 
{ Mr. Estcourt, 
Tellers for the Noes, Sir Robert Inglis : } 56. 


So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read the second 
time :—The Bill was accordingly read a second 
time ; and committed to Mr. Roebuck and the Somer- 
set List. 

A Petition of Proprietors of houses and lands, 
and Residents in Bath, praying That the said Bill 
may not pass into a law as it now stands, was pre- 
sented, and read; and referred to the Committee 
on the Bill. 

A Petition of the Bath Gas Light and Coke 
Company, praying that they may be heard, by them- 
selves, their counsel or agents, against certain parts 
of the said Bill, was also presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


Mr. Robert Steuart reported from the Committee 
on the Glasgow Police Bill; and to whom several 
Petitions against the said Bill were referred ; That 
they had considered the said Petitions; and had 
examined the allegations of the Bill, and found the 
same to be true; and had gone through the Bill, 
and made Amendments thereunto; and the Amend- 
ments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


Petitions from the Liverpool New Gas and Coke 
Company ;—and, Commissioners for the better paving 
and sewerage of the town of Liverpool; praying that 
they may be heard, by themselves, their counsel or 
— _ certain parts of the Liverpool In- 

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provement Acts Amendment Bill,—were presented, 
and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


Ordered, That the Sligo Salmon Fisheries Bill be Sligo Salmon 
read a second time upon Friday next. Fisheries Bill. 


A a from the Lords, by Mr. Farrer and Message from 
Sir Giffin Wilson : the Lords. 
Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords have agreed to the several Bills follow- 
ing, without Amendment; viz. 

A Bill, intituled; An Act for dividing, allotting Ashby and 
and inclosing the Open Fields and Field Lands, ng 
Commons and Waste Grounds in the Parishes of 
Ashby and Hellington, in the County of Norfolk : 

A Bill, intituled, An Act for more effectually re- Llanrwst 
pairing, improving and maintaining certain Roads ®@ds Bill. 
eading to and from the Town of Llanrwst, in the 
County of Denbigh: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Preston and 
Act for making and maintaining a Dock or Docks ho a oo 
at Wyre, in the County Palatine of Lancaster, with i 
Amendments; to which Amendments the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Manchester 
Act for enabling the Manchester and Leeds Railway se amg 
Company to vary the Line of such Railway, and for ie 
amending and enlarging the powers and provisions 
of the Act relating thereto, with Amendments ; to 
which Amendments the Lords desire the concurrence 
of this House: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Leeds and 
Act to enable the North Midland Railway Company _ uineg 
to alter the Line of the said Railway; and alsoto ~ 
make two Branches to communicate with the same, 
with Amendments; to which Amendments the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House: And also, 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Jury Trial 
to explain and amend two Acts relating to Trial by (Scotland) Bill. 
Jury in Scotland; to which the Lords desire the 
concurrence of this House: And also, 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Sun Life 
to enable the Managers of the Sun Life Assurance Assurance 
Society to appropriate any part of the Profits thereof — 
for the benefit of any Persons who have already 
effected, or may hereafter effect, Policies of Assurance 
with the said Society; to which the Lords desire the 
concurrence of this House: And also, 

The Lords request that this House will be pleased Poor Law Act. 
to communicate to their Lordships, a Copy of the 
First Report made from the Select Committee ap- 
pointed by this House to inquire into the Adminis- 
tration of the Relief of the Poor, under the Orders 
and Regulations issued by the Commissioners ap- 
pointed under the Provisions of the Poor Law 
Amendment Act; together with the Minutes of 
Evidence taken before the Committee :—And then 
the Messengers withdrew. 

Resolved, That this House will send an Answer 
to the last part of the said Message by Messengers 
of their own. 

And the Messengers were again called in; and 
Mr. Speaker acquainted them therewith:—And then 
they again withdrew. 


Ordered, That leave be given to print the Minutes Manchester 
of the Evidence taken before the Ccmsnithie on the and Stafford 
Manchester and Stafford Railway Bill, at the ex- ®#!way Bill. 
pense of the parties, from the Committee Clerk’s 

copy, if they think fit. 


Ordered, That leave be given to print the Minutes Manchester 
of the Evidence taken before the Committee on the and Tamworth 
Manchester and Tamworth Railway Bill, at the ex- ®#!w*y Bill 
pense of the parties, from the Committee Clerk’s 
copy, if they think fit. 


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300 


A Petition of Owners of houses and other pro- 
perty in the district of the Staffordshire potteries, 
praying that they may be heard, by themselves, 
their counsel or agents, against certain o of the 
Manchester and Stafford Railway Bill, was pre- 
sented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


Manchester 
and Stafford 
Railway Bill. 


Municipal Petitions from the Town Council of Edinburgh ;— 
(Seutand) Bill, Old Aberdeen (Provost) Pena aa (Provost) ;— 
and, Aberdeen; praying that the Municipal Corpora- 
tions (Scotland) Bill may pass into a law,—were pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
Petitions from Saint Cuthbert’s, Edinburgh ; — 
Incorporation of Hammermen of Edinburgh ;—In- 
habitants of the eight southern districts of Edin- 
burgh ;—and, General Convention of the royal burghs 
of Scotland (two Petitions); praying that the said 
Bill may not pass into a law as it now stands,—were 
also presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


Petitions from the Lord Provost, Magistrates and 
Town Council of Edinburgh ;—and, Members of the 
Bristo-street United Secession Congregation, Edin- 
burgh; praying that the proposed measure relative 
to Church Rates may receive the sanction of the 
House,—were presented, and read ; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


Church Rates 
Regulation. 


Sheriff and A Petition of the Merchants’ House of Glasgow, 
Bargh Courts 


(Scotland) Bill. raying that the Sheriff and Burgh Courts (Scotland) 
ill may not pass into a law, unless provision be 
therein made for preserving entire the office and 
jurisdiction of the Dean of Guild and Dean of Guild 
Court of Glasgow, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Municipsi The Municipal Corporations (Scotland) Bill was, 
(Seutand) Bill according to Order, read a second time; and com- 
“mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for 

Monday next. ; 


Adjournment. — Resolved, That this House will, at the rising of 
the House this day, adjourn till Friday next. 

Committees. Ordered, That all Committees have leave to sit 
To-morrow, notwithstanding the adjournment of the 
House. 

Borghs Petitions from Castle Douglas ;— Tarbolton ; — 

yt -_ Kilmaws ; —Cumnock ;— Lochgilphead ;—and, Ar- 

soemenidenes drissaig ; praying that the Burghs of Barony (Scot- 
land) Bill may pass into a law,—were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table... 

Burghs The Burghs of Barony (Scotland) Bill was, ac- 

of Barony on cording to Order, read a second time; and committed 

(Scotland) Bill. +, 4 Committee of the whole House, for Monday 
next. 

Controverted 


: &lt; A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 
Elections Bill. Hosed, That the Order of the day, for the second 
reading of the Controverted Elections Bill, be now 
read ; 
An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” to 
the end of the Question, in order to add the words 
“ the principal evil of the present Election Law 
‘ arises from its uncertainty, whereby decisions upon 
“ either side of the most important questions may 
“ be given under the sanction of numerous pre- 
* cedents. 
“ That the establishment of a new tribunal for the 
administration of so uncertain a law must inevi- 
tably be attended with the following results :— 
“ 1. The public will be subjected to enormous 
“ expense in order to ascertain, not what is 


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A. 1837. 


the law, but what such new tribunal may 

“ fancy ought to be the law. 

“ 2. Any tribunal called upon to administer an 

“ uncertain law, must be always suspected of 
improper motives, and of all judge-made law 
that which involves political considerations 
is the most odious, and most liable to just 
suspicion. 

“‘ That these considerations render it most inex- 
“ pedient to appoint a new tribunal for the adminis- 
“ tration of this‘uncertain law, unless that law shall 
“ be rendered certain by the Legislature,” instead 
thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That the words 
— to be left out stand part of the Questiun : 
—tThe said proposed Amendment was, with leave of 
the House, withdrawn. 

Ordered, That the Order of the day for the second 
reading of the said Bill be now read; and the same 
being read ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read a second 
time :—The Bill was accordingly read a second time ; 
and committed to a Committee of the whole House, 
for Wednesday, the 17th day of May next. 


“ 


“ 
“ 
‘ 


. 


“ 


The Order of the day being read, for receiving the Canada. 
Report from the Committee, to whom it was referred 
to consider of the state of the Province of Lower 
Canada ; 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon Friday 
next. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Members 
the adjourned Debate upon the Question proposed Puiens 
upon the 6th day of this instant April, “That it is i ” 
contrary to the law and usage of Parliament, that 
any Member of this House should be permitted to 
engage, either by himself or any partner, in the 
management of Private Bills before this or the other 
House of Parliament, for pecuniary reward, to be 
received by such Member, or by any person standing 
in any relation of partnership with him ;” 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Wednesday next. 


A Petition of Freemen and Inhabitants of Co-Freemen's — 
ventry, praying that the Freemen’s Admission Bill 44™ission Bill. 
may pass into a law, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Freemen’s _ 
reading of the Freemen’s Admission Bill ; Admission Bill. 
And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the Bill be now read a second time ; 
The House divided : 
The Yeas to the old Lobby ; 
The Noes to the new Lobby. 
Tellers for the ( Mr. William Williams, } ‘ 
Yeas, \ Mr. Jervis: ™ 
Tellers for the ( Mr. Benet, 21 
Noes, Mr. Thornely : } oa 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative :—The Bill 
was accordingly read a second time, and committed 
to a Committee of the whole House for Wednesday, 
the 10th day of May next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Election Ex- 
reading of the Election Expenses Bill ; a 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Wednesday next. 


_ The House, according to Order, resolved itself Sheriffs’ Coutts 
into a Committee upon the Sheriffs’ Courts Bill. Bi! 


(In the Committee.) oe 
Bill read 1°; To be read 2°, paragraph by para- 
graph. 
reamble postponed. ‘ 
Ciause, N°1 (Extending provisions of 3 and 4 
Will. 4, c.17, to sums and demands not exceeding 
£. 50) read, and amended. 





Question, 








re Th 





Sheriffs’ Fees 
Bill, 


Attornies and 
Sulicitors Bill. 


Public-houses 
Regulation Bill. 


Theatres 
Regulation 
Bill. 


Bankrupts’ 
Estates 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Bankruptcy 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Turnpike Acts 
Bill, 


Ways and 
Means. 


Supply. 


Uniformity of 
Process Bill, 


Common Law 
Courts Bill, 


Judges’ 
Opinions Bill, 


7 Wit. IV. 


Question, That the said Clause, as amended, stand 
part of the Bill ; 

The Committee divided : 

Tellers for the Yeas, { Me Wines” 
Mr. Arthur Trevor, 


Tellers for the Noes, { Cited Pinal: 


Cravses, Nos 2, 3 and 4, severally read. 

Question, That the said Clauses stand part of the 
Bill——put, and Negatived. 

Preamble read, and agreed to. 

Bill, as amended, to be reported. 


55. 


12. 








Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Pryme 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Pryme reported the Bill accordingly; and 
the Report was ordered to be taken into further 
consideration upon Wednesday next, and the Bill, 
as amended, to be printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Sheriffs’ Fees Bull; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Attornies and Solicitors Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Public Houses Regulation Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 


The Theatres Regulation Bill was, according to 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Wednesday, 
the 10th day of May next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Bankrupts’ Estates (Scotland) Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday, 
the 10th day of May next, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
the 10th day of May next, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 


The Turnpike Acts Continuance Bill was, ac- 


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ee cording to Order, read a second time; and com- 


mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for 
Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Ways and Means ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Uniformity of Process Bill was, according 
to Order, read a second time; and committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Wednesday 
next. 


Ordered, That the Report from the Committee 
on the Common Law Courts Bill be taken into fur- 
ther consideration upon Friday next. 


Ordered, That the Judges’ Opinions Bill be read 
the third time upon Friday next. 
Vor. 92, 


26° Aprilis. 


|resolve itself into a Committee upon the Court of 
of Exchequer (Scotland) Bill. 





301 


Ordered, That the Report from the Committee Recorders’ 
on the Recorders’ Courts Bill be received upon Courts Bill. 
Friday next. 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, Court of 
Exchequer 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, Court of 
resolve itself into a Committee to consider of making (Seatlend) 
Compensation out of the Consolidated Fund of the [Compensation 
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to to Offers. 
certain Officers of the Court of Exchequer in Scot- 
land in the event of their Offices being abolished 
under the provisions of any Act to be passed in the 
present Session to regulate certain Offices in the 
Court of Exchequer in Scotland. 


Ordered, That the Report from the Committee Supply. 
of Supply be received upon Friday next. 


The House was moved, That the Act 13 Geo. 3, Common Fields 
c. 81, for the better cultivation, improvement and 2. 
regulation of the Common Arable Fields, Wastes 
and Commons of Pasture in this Kingdom, might 
be read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to amend the said Act: And that Lord Worsley 
and Mr. Pendarves do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Edinburgh 
Copy of any Correspondence between the Trustees — 
for Manufactures in Scotland, the Commissioners of ™ 
the Treasury, and the Promoters of the Edinburgh 
and Glasgow Railway, on the subject of the Tunnel 
projected through the Mound in Edinburgh; and 
a Copy of any Report from Messrs. Walker and 
Cubitt, engineers, on that subject. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Police Offices 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased (London.) 
to give directions, that there be laid before this House, 

a Return of the Number and Nature of all Charges 

brought before the Magistrates of each Police Office 

in London, including the Mansion House, Guildhall 

and the Town Hall, for the last Twelve months, and 

the manner in which each Charge has been dis- 
osed of. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this fam as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Registration 
for the Registration of Births, Deaths and Mar- of Bitths, &amp;e., 
riages in Scotland: And that Mr. Robert Steuart Sorsnd) Bil 
and the Lord Advocate do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Clandestine 
to alter and amend the Laws relating to Clandestine Marriages 
Marriages in Scotland, and to provide for the better Scot!#n4) Bill. 
Registration of Marriages in that Country: And 
that Mr. Robert Steuart and the Lord Advocate do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


Lord Worsley presented a Bill to amend an Act of Common Fields 
the thirteenth year of the Reign of King George the Bill. 
Third, for the better Cultivation, Improvement and No. 248. 
Regulation of the Common Arable Fields, Wastes 
and Commons of Pasture, in this Kingdom: And 
the same was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time upon Wednesday, the 10th day 
of May next ; and to be printed. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Commissaries* 
Abstracts of the Commissaries’ Accounts of the re- Accounts. 
ceipts into, and payments from, the several Militar 
Chests; with summary Statements of the Expendi- 
ture Abroad on account of the Extraordinaries of 
the Army, during the period from 1st April 1835 to 
31st March 1836, 

QQ3s Mr, 





302 26°—28° 


Mr. Baring accordingly presented the said Ab- 
stracts. 
Ordered, That the said Abstracts do lie upon the 
Table. 
Registration Mr. Robert Steuart presented a Bill for register- 
(Scotland) Bil ing Births, Deaths and Marriages in Scotland: 
“And the same was read the first time; and ordered 


No. 244. +5 be read a second time upon Wednesday, the 17th 
day of May next; and to be printed. 
Clandestine Mr. Robert Steuart presented a Bill to explain and 
Marriages 


(Scotland) Bill, @mend the Laws concerning Clandestine Marriages 
No. 245. in Scotland, and to provide for the Registration of 
Marriages there: And the same was read the first 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time upon 
Wednesday, the 17th day of May next; and to be 

printed. 


Jury Trial = = The Jury Trial (Scotland) Bill was read the first 
(Scotland) Bill. time; and ordered to be read a second time upon 
No. 246. Monday next. 
Ordered, That the Bill be printed. 


Patents for The Order for reading a second time upon Wed- 
Inventions Bill. nesday, the 24th day of May next, the Patents for 
Inventions Bill, was read, and discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Wednesday, the 31st day of May next. 


Westminster Ordered, That the Petition of Thomas Green, 
Bridge and ~~ which was presented upon the 7th day of March 


Railway last; also, the Petition of the Westminster Bridge 

Subscription and Greenwich Railway Company, which was pre- 

List, sented upon the 14th day of March last; and also, 
the Petition of Richard Spencer, which was pre- 
sented upon the 15th day of March last, relative to 
the Subscription List for the Westminster Bridge and 
Greenwich bey be referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on the Deptford and Dover Railway Sub- 
scription List. 


Ordered, That the Petition of Fishermen and 
others resident in and near Hartlepool, which was 
presented upon the 17th day of February last, be 
referred to the Committee on the Hartlepool Pier 
Bill ; and the Petitioners heard, by themselves, their 
counsel or agents, upon their Petition, if they think 
fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the Bill, against 
the said Petition. 


Sheriff and Ordered, That Mr. Attorney General and Mr. Soli- 
ee —— citor General be added to the Select Committee on 
(Scotland) Bill. +6 Sheriff and Burgh Courts (Scotland) Bill. 


Hartlepool 
Pier Bill, 


Assay Offices. 
No, 249. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Assay 
Offices, which was presented upon Friday last, be 
printed. 


Stipendiary 
Magistrates 
(Ireland.) 


Mr. Fox Maule presented, pursuant to Order,— 
A Return of the Names and Stations of all Persons 
appointed Stipendiary Magistrates under an Act, 
intituled, “ the Jrish Constabulary Bill,” passed in 
the seventh and eighth years of the reign of His 
Majesty William the Fourth; stating whether the 
Persons appointed were or were not in the Police 
before the passing of the said Act, and if they were, 
stating the term of their service, and in what situa- 
tions :—Of the Names and Stations of all Persons 
appointed under said Act to the offices of Sub- 
Inspector and Paymaster of Police ; stating whether 
or not they were in the Police before the passing of 
the said Act, and if they were, stating the time of 
their service:—And, of the Names and Stations 
of all Chief Constables ; stating the Dates of their 
original — to the Police Force, and 
whether they had served therein before the passing 
of the said Act. 

Mr. Fox Maule also presented, pursuant to an 
Address to His Majesty,—Tables showing the Num- 
ber of Criminal Offenders committed for Trial, or 


Criminal 
Offenders. 








Aprilis. A. 1837. 
bailed for appearance at the Assizes and Sessions in 
each County, in the year 1836, prepared by Order 
of the spe | of State from the Criminal Re- 
gisters kept in the Home Department. 

Mr. Fox Maule also presented, by His Majesty’s Excise Inquiry, 
command,—Nineteenth Report of the Commis- 
sioners of Inquiry into the Excise Establishment, 
and into the management and collection of the Ex- 
cise Revenue throughout the United Kingdom :— 
(Excise Licenses.) 

Digest of the Reports of the Commissioners 
Inquiry into the Excise Establishment, and into the 
management and collection of the Excise Revenue 
throughout the United Kingdom. 

. — That the said Papers do lie upon the 
able. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of the city of York, Lord’s Day, 

being chiefly persons connected with the congrega- 
tion of Wesleyan Methodists of New-street Chapel, 
in the said city, praying that a general Bill for the 
better observance of the Lord’s Day, may be per- 
mitted to go into a Committee of the aw | House, 
was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


Ordered, That the Petition of Henry Luard, Southwark and 
which was presented upon the 6th day of this in- me 
stant April, be referred to the Committee on the — 
Southwark and Hammersmith Railway Bill; and 
the Petitioner heard, by himself, his counsel or agent, 
upon his Petition, if he think fit ; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


And then the House adjourned till Friday 
next. 





Veneris, 28° die Aprilis ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi [V* Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


M*® Crafer, from the Treasury, was called in, goap. 
and at the bar presented, pursuant to Orders, 
—-Accounts of all Soap made in each town in Great 
Britain; distinguishing Hard from Soft, from 5th 
January 1836 to 5th January 1837 :-—Of Soa 
exported, specifying the Port from whence ty © ‘ 
and the Amount of Drawback paid thereon, from 
5th January 1836 to 5th January 1837 :--Of the 
Quantity of Soap, distinguishing Hard from Soft, 
and the Amount of all Allowances and Drawbacks 
made to the Manufacturers of Woollens, Linens, 
Silks, and others, from 5th January 1836 to 5th 
January 1837 :—Of all Soap exported to Ireland, 
Hard and Soft, the Port from whence shipped, and 
the Amount of Drawback paid thereon, from 5th 
January 1836 to 5th January 1837 :—Of all Soap 
imported into Great Britain, Hard and Soft, the 
Port at which it was imported, the Amount of Duty 
paid thereon, from 5th January 1836 to 5th January 
1837 :--and, Of the Names of all persons convicted 
of defrauding the Revenue arising from Soap; the 
Dates of Conviction; the Amount of the several 
Penalties; whether the Person so convicted has 
been previously convicted or fined, or had Penal- 
ties compromised ; the Amount paid to the seizing 
Officers for each Conviction ; and the Names, Dates, 
Amount of Penalties paid on all cases which have 
been compromised, from 5th January 1836 to 5th 
January 1837. 

Return of the Names and Description of all Per- Salvage | 
sons acting as Commissioners of Salvage in the Commspntl 
Cinque Ports; the Number of Cases of Salvage 
referred to them between the 15th of September 
1836 and the 15th March 1837; specifying the 
Name of the Vessel, Master, Tonnage, Voyage and 
description of Cargo, nature of the Claim for Sal- 
vage, Amount, Claim and Sum awarded; the Fees 
paid to Commissioners and the Registrar; Sums 


paid 





(Cinque Ports.) 





Chancery 
(Scotland.) 


Edinburgh 
and Glasgow 
Railway. 


Charity 
Trustees. 


Benefices 
(England and 
Wales.) 


Curates 
(England and 
Wales.) 


Manchester 
and Oldham 
Roads Bill. 


London and 
Brighton 
Railway Bills, 


7 Wit. IV. 


paid for the use of Room, and othet Charges ; also, 
the Names of Commissioners who have decided 
each Claim. 

Copy of Treasury Minute, dated 18th April 
1837, regulating the Offices of Director and Clerk 
in Chancery in Scotland. 

Copy of any Correspondence between the Trustees 
for Manufactures in Scotland, the Commissioners of 
the Treasury, and the promoters of the Edinburgh 
and Glasgow Railway, on the subject of the Tunnel 
projected through the Mound in Edinburgh; and a 
Copy of any Report from Messrs. Walker and Cubitt, 
Engineers, on that subject :—And then he withdrew. 
. Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 

able. 


Mr. Haines, from the Court of Chancery, was 
called in, and at the bar presented, pursuant to 
Order,—a Return of the Cities and Boroughs in 
England and Wales, in which the appointment of 
Charity Trustees has devolved, by order of the Lord 
Chancellor, on the Masters in Chancery, giving the 
Names of the Masters who heard them, and of the 
Trustees appointed :—-And then he withdrew. 

. Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
able. 


Mr. Fox Maule presented, pursuant to several 
Addresses to His Majesty,—Abstract of the Num- 
ber and Classes of Non-resident Incumbents, and 
the Number of Resident Incumbents, according 
to the Diocesan Returns from England and Wales, 
for the year 1835; together with a Table contain- 
ing the Numbers of Benefices on which Incumbents 
have been Non-resident, arranged in Classes accord- 
ing to their value. 

Abstract showing the Number of Curates serving 
Benefices on which the Incumbents are Non-Resi- 
dent in each Diocese in England and Wales, accord- 
ing to the Returns made by the Archbishops and 
Bishops to His Majesty in Council for the year 
1835; distinguishing the Number Resident in the 
Parsonage House, and the Number Resident in the 
Parish; likewise the Number of those who are 
licensed, and the Amount of Stipends arranged in 
Classes of 102. and under 201., to 3307. and under 
340/.; also the Number of Benefices held by Non- 
resident Incumbents which are of the gross value 
of 3007. and upwards per annum, and under 3001. 
per annum. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


An ingrossed Bill to amend an Act passed in the 
sixth year of the reign of King George the Fourth, 
for more effectually improving the Roads from Man- 
chester, inthe County Palatine of Lancaster, through 
Oldham, to Austerlands, in the Parish of Saddle- 
worth, in the County of York, and from Oldham to 
Ashton-under-Lyne, and from Oldham to Rochdale, 
in the said County Palatine of Lancaster, was read 
third time ; and Amendments were made to the 

ill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act for more effectually amending the 
Roads from Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, 
through Oldham, to Austerlands, in the County of 
York, and from Oldham to Ashton-under-Lyne, and 
from Oldham to Rochdale, and other Roads, and 
for making and maintaining new Lines to commu- 
nicate therewith, all in the said County of Lan- 
caster. 

Ordered, That Mr. Lees do carry the Bill to the 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That it be an Instruction to the Committee 
on the London and Brightor Railway Bills, to pro- 
ceed to ascertain their opinion on all the Lines ori- 
ginally submitted to them, by taking the Votes on 
all the Lines simultaneously :—And the said Motion 
was, with leave of the House, withdrawn. 

VoL, 92. 


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303 


An ingrossed Bill for amending two several Acts Ashborne 
of the seventh and tenth years of his late Majesty ue. 
King George the Fourth, for repairing the Road 
from Ashborne, in the County of Dots, to Leek, in 
the County of Stafford, and from Ryecroft Gate, 
upon Rushton Common, to Congleton, in the County 
of Chester, was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Sir Oswald Mosley do carry the 
Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


An ingrossed Bill for making a Canal from the Stourbridge 
Stourbridge Navigation, near Brockmoor, in the Pa- ©" Bill. 
rish of Kingswinford, in the County of Stafford, to 
the Oak Farm Colliery, with a Branch to the Stand- 
hills, both in the said Parish of Kingswinford, and 
County of Stafford, was read the third time. 

An ingrossed Clause was offered to be added to 
the Bill by way of Rider: (Company to keep a sepa- 
rate Account of Ratesand Tolls received by them). 
And the said Clause was brought up, and twice 
read, with a blank ; and committed to a Committee 
of the whole House :—The House accordingly re- 
solved itself into the Committee ; and, after some 
time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; 
and Mr. Greene reported, That the Committee had 
gone through the Sivan, and made an Amendment 
thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Greene accordingly reported the Clause ; and 
the Amendment was read, and agreed to; and the 
said Clause was read the third time, and agreed to, 
to be made part of the Bill, by way of Rider. 

Then Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Sir Oswald Mosley do carry the 
Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Ordered, That it be an Instruction to the Com- Ipswich 
mittee on the Jpswich Improvement and Docks Bill, ta Docks Bill 
that they have Power to divide the Bill into two ™ 7 
Bills. 


Petition from Thomas Tomlinson, of the Jnner Bolton and 
Temple, London, and of Great George-street, in the Sead Bill 
county of Middlesex, Esquire ;—and, Inhabitants of _— 
Manchester ; praying that the Bolton and Preston 
Railway Bill may pass into a law,—were presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Leeds and 
the Amendments made by the Lords, to the Bill, in- gl Railway 
tituled, An Act to enable the North Midland Rail- ~~ 
way Company to alter the Line of the said Railway; 
and also to make two Branches to communicate 
with the same; and the same were read, as follow: 

Pr. 6. 1. 17. Leave out “are,” and insert “were.” 

Pr. 16. 1.8. Leave out “shall, and insert “should.” 

Pr. 19. 1. 20. After “ other” insert “ than.” 

Pr. 21. 1. ult. Leave out from “ expedient” 
to “and,” in Pr. 23. 1. 3. 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. ; 

Ordered, That Sir John Beckett do corey the 
Bill to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


Sir John Bechett reported from the Committee on Leeds and 
the Leeds and Otley Road Bill; That the Standing Otley Road 
Orders relative to Turnpike Bills, had been conolial a 
with; and that they had examined the allegations 
of the Bill, and found the same to be true; and 
had gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto; and the Amendments were read, and 
agreed to; and a Clause was added to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


The House proceeded to take into consideratior. Preston and 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, in- —_ Docks 
tituled, An Act for making and maintaining a Dock ~"” 

QQ4 or 


in a nmr 





Over Iuclosure 
and Drainage 


Bill. 


Over Inclosure 
and Drainage 
Bill. 


Poor Law Act. 


Huddersfield 
Writ. 


304. 


or Docks at Wyre, in the County Palatine of Lan- 
caster ; and the same were read, as follow: 

Pr. 155. 1. penult. After “ the” insert “ Admi- 
“ ralty.” 

Pr. 156. 1. 1. After “ Office” insert “ or any 
“ other department of His Majesty’s Service.” 

Pr. 243. 1. 21. After “ passed” insert Clause 
(A.) 

Cuiause (A.) “ And whereas the conservation 
of the several ports, harbours, creeks, estuaries 
and navigable rivers of the United Kingdom is by 
law vested in the Lord High Admiral, and the 
Commissioners for executing the office of Lord 
High Admiral of the said United Kingdom for 
the time being; BE it Enacted and Provided, 
That nothing in this Act contained shall extend, 
or be construed to extend to authorize the mak- 
ing, constructing or erecting any Work below the 
ordinary high water mark at spring tides without 
the assent of the said Lord High Admiral, or of 
the Commissioners for the time being for execut- 
ing the office of Lord High Admiral aforesaid, 
having been first obtained for that ae a such 
assent to be signified in writing under the hand of 
the Secretary of the Admiralty.” 
The said Amendments, being read a second time, 

were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Hesketh Fleetwood do carry 
the Bill to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this 
House hath agreed to the Amendments made by 
their Lordships. 


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A Petition of Proprietors of land within the parish 
of Over, and Owners of rights of common in and 
upon the open fields and commons within the same 
parish, praying that the Over Inclosure and Drain- 
age Bill may not pass into a law as it now stands, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 
osed, That the Over Inclosure and Drainage Bill 
* now read a second time ; 

The Amendments following were proposed to be 
made to the Question; viz., To leave out the word 
“ now” and at the end of the Question, to add the 
words “ upon this day six months.” 

And the Question being put, That the word “ now” 
stand part of the Question; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the old Lobby ; 

The Noes to the new Lobby. 

Tellers for the Yeas, { a pg } 183. 

| 

Tellers for the Noes, { * gaan } 51. 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read a second 
time:—The Bill was accordingly read a second 
time ; and committed to Mr. Townley and the Cam- 


bridge List. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
that part of the Message from the Lords of Wednes- 
day last, wherein their Lordships request that this 
House will be pleased to communicate to their Lord- 
ships a Copy of the First Report made from the Select 
Conmittee appointed by this House, to inquire into 
the Administration of the Relief of the Poor under 
the Orders and Regulations issued by the Commis- 
sioners appointed under the provisions of the Pocr 
Law Amendment Act, together with the Minutes of 
Evidence taken before the Committee. 

Resolved, That a printed Copy of the said Report 
be communicated to the Lords, as desired by their 
Lordships: And that Mr. Bernal do deliver the 


same. 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant 
to the Clerk of the Crown, to make out a new Writ 
for the electing of a Burgess to serve in this present 


28° Aprilis. 

















A. 1837. 


Parliament for the Borough of Huddersfield, in the 


room of John Blackburne, Esquire, deceased. = 


Bi 
A Petition of Ship-owners, Merchants, Free- Warkworth 

holders and others interested in the trade of Blyth, Harbour Bill, 

praying that the Warkworth Harbour Bill may not 

pass into a law as it now stands, was presented, 

and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The Ouse Banks Drainage Bill was read a second Ouse Banks 
time; and committed to Sir William Browne Folkes Drainage Bill, 
and the WVorfolk List. 


An ingrossed Bill for more effectually draining of Wormegay 
certain Fen Lands and Low Grounds in the Honor, Drainage Bill. 
Manor and Parish of Wormegay, in the County of 
Norfolk, and other Lands and Grounds, which are 
now drained by means of or through a certain Drain, 
called “ Polver Drain,” in the said County, was 
read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Sir William fell Folkes do. carry 
the Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


An ingrossed Bill for making and maintaining a Butterhouse 
Turnpike Road from Butterhouse Green, in the — = 
County of Chester, to Gorton Bar, in the County pa” ™ 
of Lancaster, was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act for making and maintaining a Turn- 
pike Road from Butterhouse Green, in the County of 
Chester, to Thorneley-lane-end, in the County of 
Lancaster. 

Ordered, That Mr. Hindley do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


~~ bee beet et 


Ordered, That the Petition of James Slatford Vale, London and 
relative to the signatures to the subscription list for Brighton 
the London and Brighton Railway (Rennie’s Line), (iteuni's Line) 
which was presented upon Wednesday last, be re- ~~ 
ferred to the Select Committee on the Deptford and 
Dover Railway Subscription List. 


A Petition of Lessees and Occupiers of lands and Durham 
premises in the county of Durham, praying that Junction - 
they may be heard, by their counsel or agents, against ®*!'*y Bi. 
certain parts of the Durham Junction Railway Bill, 
was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by their counsel or agents, upon their Petition, if 
they think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


_ The —_ Salmon Fisheries Bill was read a second Sligo Salmon 
time ; and committed to Captain Jones and the Con- Fisheries Bill. 
naught List. 


A Petition of Shareholders on a projected line of Exeter and 
Railway, called the London, Salisbury, Exeter, Ply- Falmouth - 
mouth and Falmouth Railway, praying that they may ®*!s9 BY 
be heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
against the Exeter and Falmouth Railway Bill, was 


7 ge and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
able. 


The Sun Life Assurance Society Bill was read the sun Life 
first time, and ordered to be read a second time. — Assurance 
Society Bill. 
An ingrossed Bill to continue for a limited term Gorbals Police 
of years the Police Act for the Barony of Gorbals, Bill. 
in the County of Lanark, and for other purposes 
therein mentioned, was read the third time; and 
Amendments were made to the Bill. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act to continue for a limited term of 
years the Police Act for the Barony of Gorbals, in 
the County of Lanark, and for other purposes re- 
lating thereto. 
Ordered, That Lord William Bentinck do carry 
the Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 




















7 Wit. IV. 


Glasgow Road An ingrossed Bill for making and maintaining 
Bill. a Road from the Road leading from Glasgow to 
Carntyne, called Duke-street, to the East end of 
Blackfriars-street or Regent-street, in the said City 
of Glasgow, was read the third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That Lord William Bentinck do carry,the 
Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Saddleworth 


— A Petition of the Lord Archbishop of York, the 
Reservoirs Bill, E 


arl of Devon and James Loch, Esquire, devisees 
under the will of the late Duke of Bridgewater, and 
Lord Francis Egerton, the person beneficially inter- 
ested in the canal and estates late of the said Duke, 
praying that they may be heard, by their counsel, 
against certain parts of the Saddleworth Reservoirs 
Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by their counsel, upon their Petition, if they think 
fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the Bill, against 
the said Petition. 


London and A Petition of Daniel Edward Stephens, of Ching- 


— - ford, in the county of Essex, Gentleman, complain- 
uwa &gt; . . eats 
(Ret mnie’s Line.) ing of persons in needy circumstances having signed 


the subscription contract for the London and Brighton 
Railway (Rennie’s Line), for large sums, and prey. 
ing for inquiry, was presented, and read ; and referred 
to the Select Committee on the Deptford and Dover 
Railway Subscription List. 

A Petition of Samuel Carr, of No. 27 Half Moon 
Crescent, Pentonville, Gentleman, stating that he 
received remuneration for signing the subscription 
contract for the said Railway, was also presented, 
and read; and referred to the said Select Com- 
mittee. 


Manchester A Petition of Richard Clarke Hill, of Stallington 
amg Hall, in the parish of Stone, in the county of Staf- 
uwey ford, Esquire, praying that he may be heard, by his 
counsel or agent, against certain parts of the Man- 
chester and Stafford Railway Bill, was presented, 
and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, if he 
think fit ; and counsel heard, in favour of the Bill, 

against the said Petition. 


Message fron A Message from the Lords by Sir Giffin Wilson 
the Lords. and Mr. Roupell : 
Mr. Speaker, 
Edinburgh The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Act 
Police Fill. for continuing, altering and amending certain Acts 
for regulating the Police of the City of Edinburgh 
and the adjoining districts, and for other purposes 
relating thereto, without Amendment: And also, 
Preston and The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
Wyre Railway Act to alter the Line of the Preston and Wyre Rail- 
- way, and to amend the Act relating thereto, with an 
Amendment ; to which Amendment the Lords desire 
the concurrence of this House:—And then the 
Messengers withdrew. 


Eiinburgh A Petition of the Edinburgh Water Company for 

sige Com- Jeave to present a Petition for leave to bring in a 
Bill for amending the several Acts for more effec- 
tually supplying the city of Edinburgh, and places 
adjacent, with water, was presented, and read ; and 
referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for 
Private Bills. 


Fishguard Mr. Scourfield reported from the Committee on 
Harbour Bill. the Fishguard Harbour Bill; That they had exa- 
mined the allegations of the Bill, and found the 
same to be true; and had gone through the Bill, 
and made Amendments thereunto ; and the Amend- 
ments were read, and agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
——= 
OL, 92. 





28° Aprilis. 305 


Mr. Fazakerley reported from the Select Com- Fourth Report 
mittee appointed to inquire into the administration (°,°°° 4” 
of the relief of the Poor under the orders and regu- N 250. 
lations issued by the Commissioners appointed under oe 
the provisions of the Poor Law Amendment Act ; 
That they had made further Progress in the matters 
to them referred ; and had directed him to report 
the Minutes of the Evidence taken before them. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Ordered, That the Returns of the Number of Navy. 
Officers of the Medical Department of the Navy, No. 251. 
on 25th December 1836 on Full Pay, and of the 

Number promoted on 10th January 1837, which was 
SS upon the 10th day of this instant April, 

printed. 

Ordered, That the Return relative to Aide~de- Aide-de- 
Camps, which was presented upon the 10th day of Camps. 
this instant April, be printed. No. 251. 

Ordered, That the Return of the Number of Navy. 
Officers of the Royal Navy on ist January 1837, No. 51. 
and of Promotions on 10th January 1837, which 
was presented upon the 10th day of this instant 
April, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Return of Admirals, Vice- Navy. 
Admirals and others, promoted on 10th January No,.251. 
1837, which was presented upon the 10th day of 
this instant April, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Return relative to Commanders Commanders of 
of the Navy, which was presented upon the 10th the Navy. 
day of this instant April, be printed. No. 251. 

Ordered, That the Accounts relative to Merchant Merchant 
Seamen, which were presented upon Wednesday 5a. 
last, be printed. No. 252, 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to Lord John Lord John Hay ° 


Hay (Spain), which was presented upon Wednesday (Spain. 
ra ie nae. . &lt; Y "No. 253, 
Ordered, That the Return relative to Stipendiary Stipendiary 
Magistrates, (Ireland) which was presented upon (nena) 
Wednesday last, be printed. No. 254. 
Ordered, That the Abstracts of the Commissaries’ Commissaries’ 
Accounts, which were presented upon Wednesday Accounts. 
last, be printed. No, 255. 


Resolved, That, from the 15th day of June to Business of the 
the 1st day of July next, Orders of the Day take Howse. 
precedence of Notices of Motions, on Tuesdays and 
Thursdays. 


Mr. Bernal reported from the Committee, to whom Canada. 
it was referred to consider of the state of the Pro- 
vince of Lower Canada, several Resolutions, which 
were read, as follow: 

1. Resolved, That, since the 31st day of October, 
in the year 1832, no provision has been made by the 
Legislature of the Province of Lower Canada, for 
defraying the charges of the administration of justice, 
and for the support of the Civil Government within 
the said Province, and that there will, on the 10th 
day of April now next ensuing, be required for de- 
fraying in full the charges aforesaid to that day, the 
sum of £.142,160. 14s. 6d. 

2. Resolved, That at a Session of the Legislature of 
Lower Canada, holden at the City of Quebec, in the 
said Province, in the months of September and Oc- 
tober 1836, the Governor of the said Province, in 
compliance with His Majesty’s commands, recom- 
mended to the attention of the House of Assembly 
thereof the Estimates for the current year, and also 
the Accounts, showing the arrears due in respect of 
the Civil Government, and signified to the said House 
His Majesty’s confidence that they would accede to 
the application which He had been commanded to 
renew for payment of the arrears due on account of 
the Public Service, and for the funds necessary to 
carry on the Civil Government of the Province. 

3. Resolved, That the said House of Assembly, on 
the 3d day of October 1836, by an Address to the 
Governor of the said Province, declined to vote a 





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306 28° Aprilis. 


Supply for the purposes aforesaid, and by the said 
Address, after referring to a former Address of the 
said House to the Governor of the said Province, 
declared that the said House persisted, amongst 
other things, in the demand of an Elective Legisla- 
tive Council, and in demanding the repeal of a certain 
Act passed by the Parliament of the United King- 
dom in favour of the Worth American Land Com- 
pany ; and by the said Address the said House of 
Assembly further adverted to the demand made by 
that House of the free exercise of its control over all 
the branches of the Executive Government; and b 
the said Address the said House of Assembly further | 
declared, that it was incumbent on them in the 
present conjuncture to adjourn their deliberations 
until His Majesty’s Government should by its acts, 
especially by rendering the second branch of the 
Legislature conformable to the wishes and wants of 
the people, have commenced the great work of justice 
and reform, and created a confidence which alone 
could crown it with success. 

4. Resolved, That, in the existing state of Lower 
Canada, it is unadvisable to make the Legislative 
Council of that Province an elective body; but that 
it is expedient that measures be adopted for securing 
to that branch of the Legislature a greater degree of 
public confidence. 

5. Resolved, That, while it is expedient to improve 
the composition of the Executive Council in Laie 











Canada, it is unadvisable to subject it to the respon- | ‘ 


sibility demanded by the House of Assembly of that 
Province. 

6. Resolved, That the legal title of the North Ame- 
rican Land Company to the land holden by the said 
Company, by virtue of a grant from His Majesty, 
under the public seal of the said Province, and to the 
privileges conferred on the said Company by the Act 
for that purpose made in the fourth year of His 
Majesty’s reign, ought to be maintained inviolate. 

7. Resolved, That it is expedient that so soon as 
provision shall have been made by law to be passed 
by the Legislature of the said Province of Lower 
Canada for the discharge of lands therein from feudal | 


dues and services, and for removing any doubts as | ‘ 


to the incidents of the tenure of land in free and 
common soccage in the said Province, a certain Act 
made and passed in the sixth year of the reign of 
his late Majesty King George the Fourth, commonly 
called “ The yr, a Tenures Act ;” and so oak 
of another Act passed in the third year of his said 
late Majesty’s reign, commonly called “ The Canada | 
Trade Act,” as relates to the tenures of land in the 
said Province, should be repealed, saving neverthe- 
less to all persons all rights in them vested under or 
by virtue of the said recited Acts. 

8, Resolved, That, for defraying the arrears due on 
account of the established and customary charges 
of the Administration of Justice and of the Civil 
‘Government of the said Province, it is expedient 
that, after applying for that purpose such balance 
as, on the said 10th day of April 1837, was in the 








A. 1837. 


10. Resolved, That great inconvenience has been 
sustained by His Majesty’s subjects inhabiting the 
Provinces of Lower Canada and Upper Canada, from 
the want of some adequate means for regulating and 
adjusting ane respecting the trade and com- 

the 


merce 0 said Provinces, and divers other ques- 
tiogs wherein the said Provinces have a common 
interest ; and it is expedient that the Legislatures 
of the said Provinces respectively be authorized to 
make provision for the joint regulation and adjust- 
ment of such their common interests. 

The first Resolution, being read a second time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made there- 
unto, by leaving out from the word “ That” to the 
words “ and that,” in order to add the words, 
“1. Many grievous disputes have for some years 
past arisen between the Executive Government 
and the House of Assembly of Lower Canada, in 
consequence of constant efforts made on the part 
of the House of Assembly to render the public 
servants responsible to the representatives of the 
people, and of efforts no less constant on the part 
of those servants to avoid and ward off this 
threatened responsibility. 
“2. That these disputes, and all their attendant 
evils, have been continued by means of the faulty 
structure of the present political constitution of 
Lower Canada; which, as it contains a Legisla- 
tive Council responsible to no one for its conduct, 
has enabled interested parties to resist the just 
demands of the people of the Province, without 
the fear of any evil consequences to themselves. 
“ 3. That the House of Assembly in their attempts 
to redress the grievances of the public, have 
thought fit to employ the constitutional power of 
stopping the supplies (which power was conferred 
“ on them by an Act of the Imperial Parliament) ; 
and in so doing, have proved their confidence in 
the doctrines put forth and maintained by this 
House respecting the privileges and wholesome 
control to be exercised and enjoyed by the popular 
portion of the English Constitution. 
“4, That the experience of the past working of 
the Canadian Constitution having shown the ne- 
cessity of an immediate revision of the Statute 
31 Geo. 3, c. 31, in so far as respects those por- 
tions which relate to the Legislative Council, it is 
expedient that immediate measures be taken to 
remove this irresponsible body, in order to create 
one which may attain and deserve the confidence 
and respect of the people. 
“ 5. That it is expedient at once and without sub- 
terfuge to place the whole revenues of the Province 
under the control of the House of Assembly. 
“ 6, That all interference on the part of the Im- 
perial Parliament in the internal affairs of this 
Colony, are impolitic and contrary to the solemn 
(and often reiterated) declarations of the Imperial 
Government ; it is, therefore, expedient at once 
to repeal all Acts passed in contravention of these 
solemn assertions, and thus to calm the just fears, 


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hands of the Receiver-General of the said Province, 
arising from His Majesty’s Hereditary, Territorial | 
and casual Revenue, the Governor of the said | 
Province be empowered to issue from and out of | 
any other part of His Majesty’s Revenues in the | 
hands of the Receiver-General of the said Pro- | 
vince such further sums as shall be necessary to | 
effect the payment of the before-mentioned sum of | 
£.142,160. 14s. 6d. ° | 

9. Resolved, That it is expedient that His Majesty 
be authorized to place at the disposal of the Legis- 
lature of the said Province the net proceeds of His 
Majesty’s Hereditary, Territorial and casual Revenue 
arising within the same, in case the said Legislature | 
shall see fit to grant to His Majesty a Civil List for 
defraying the necessary charges of the Administra- 
tion of Justice, and for the maintenance and unavoid- 
able expenses of certain of the principal Offices of 
the Civil Government of the said Province. 








and allay the discontents arising from the long- 
continued misgovernment of the Province of Lower 
Canada,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Resolution: 
—It was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Then the said Resolution was amended, by leaving 
out the words “ there will ;” and by leaving out the 
words “ now next ensuing, be,” and inserting the 
words “ 1837, there was,” instead thereof. 

And the said Resolution, so amended, was agreed 
to, as followeth : 

Resolved, That, since the 31st day of October, in 
the year 1832, no provision has been made by the 
Legislature of the Province of Lower Canada, for 
defraying the charges of the administration of justice, 
and for the support of the Civil Government within 
the said Province, and that on the 10th day of 
April 1837 there was required for —— - 
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7 Wit. IV. 


full the charges aforesaid to that day, the sum of 
£.142,160. 14s. 6d. 

Then the subsequent Resolutions, being read a 
second time, were agreed to. 

Ordered, That the said Resolutions be communi- 
cated to the Lords at a Conference, and their con- 
currence desired thereto, 

Ordered, That a Conference be desired with the 
Lords upon a matter of high importance relating to 
the government of the Province of Lower Canada. 

Ordered, That Lord John Russell do go to the 
Lords, and desire the said Conference. 


Court of Session The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
(scotland) Bill. forther consideration the Report on the Court of 
Session (Scotland) Bill :—The Bill was re-committed 
to a Committee of the whole House:—And the 
House immediately resolved itself into the Com- 
mittee ; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 
Speaker resumed the Chair, and Mr. Bernal re- 
ported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 
Ordered, That the Report be received upon Mon- 
day next. 


Small Debts The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
(Scotland) Bill. into a Committee upon the Small Debts (Scotland) 
Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal reported, That 
the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 
Ordered, That the Report be received upon Mon- 
day next. 


Poor Relief 


A Petition of Land-owners and Land-holders of 
({reland) Bill. 


the county of Roscommon, praying that the Poor 
Relief (Jreland) Bill may not pass into a law as it 
now stands, was presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of Residents of the city and county 
of Limerick, praying that the said Bill may pass 
into a law, was also presented, and read ; and or- 
dered to lie upon the Table. 


Poor Relief 


(Ireland) Bill The Order of the day being read, for the second 


Reading of the Poor Relief (Zreland) Bill; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question being 
proposed, That the Bill be now read a second time : 
—And a Debate arising thereupon ; 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Saturday morning ; 


Sabbati, 29° die Aprilis, 1837: 


Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till Mon- 
day next. 
Adjournment. Resolved, That this House will, at the rising of 
the House this day, adjourn till Monday next. 


Publication of 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on the pub- 
Printed Papers, 


lication of Printed Papers have leave to sit this day, 
notwithstanding the adjournment of the House. 


Deptford and Ordered, That the Select Committee on the Dept- 


ahaa ford and Dover Railway Subscription List have 
List, leave to sit this day, notwithstanding the adjourn- 


ment of the House. 


Church Rates The Order of the day being read, for receiving 


‘gulation. the Report from the Committee to whom it was 
referred to consider of the payment of Church 
Rates ; 
Ordered, That the Report be received upon Mon- 
day, the 22d day of May next. 
rm 7 The Order of the day being read, for the second 


reading of the Benefices Plurality Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Friday, the 12th day of May next. 

Vou, 92. 


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307 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Registration 
reading of the Registration and Marriages Bill; 34 Marriages 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time ~ 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Shire Halls Bill. 
mittee on the Shire Halls Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second witls Bill. 
reading of the Wills Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Judicial Factor 
reading of the Judicial Factor (Scotland) Bill ; (Scotland) Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Wednesday, the 31st day of May next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Turnpike Acts 
mittee on the Turnpike Acts Continuance Bill ; cea 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday~’’ 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Ways and 
mittee of Ways and Means; Means. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Supply. 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Common Law 
further consideration the Report on the Common ©"s Bill. 
Law Courts Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Wednesday next. 


The ingrossed Bill to authorize Courts of Sessions Judges’ _ 
of the Peace to reserve Points of Law in Criminal Opiions Bil. 
Cases, was, according to Order, read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Solicitor General do carry the 
Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Mr. Wortley reported the Recorders Courts Bill ; Recorders 
and the Amendments were read, and agreed to. Courts Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time upon Monday 
next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Court of 
mittee on the Court of Exchequer (Scotland) Bill; Exchequer ‘on 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday ees 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


ae 

The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Court ot 
mittee to whom it was referred to consider of making yaar 
Compensation out of the Consolidated Fund of the etal 
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to to Oficers.] 
certain Officers of the Court of Exchequer in Scot- 
land in the event of their Offices being abolished 
under the provisions of any Act to be passed in the 
present Session to regulate certain Offices in the 
Court of Exchequer in Scotland ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for receiving Supply. 
the Report from the Committee of Supply ; 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon Mon- 
day next. 


The House was moved, That the Order made upon Public Works 

the 18th day of this instant April, That leave be (Ireland) Bill. 
iven to bring in a Bill to amend the Acts respecting 
Public Works in Ireland, and to provide additional 


RR2 Funds 





Public Works 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Registration o 
Births, &amp;c., 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Clandestine 
Marriages 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Foreign and 
Colonial Grain. 


Colonial 
Receipt and 
Expenditure. 


Public Works 
(Treland) Bill. 


No. 256. 


Manchester 
and Leeds 
Railway Bill. 


308 


Funds for carrying on the same, might be read ; and 
the same being read ; 
Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 


The House was moved, That the several Acts for 
the extension and promotion of Public Works in 
Ireland, might be read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
amend the sail Acts: And that Mr. ha a of 
the Exchequ:r and Lord Viscount Morpeth do pre- 
pare, and bring it in. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon Wed- 
nesday the 17th day of May next, the Registration 
of Births, '&amp;c., (Scotland) Bill, was read, and dis- 
charged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday, the 31st day of May next. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon Wed- 
nesday the 17th day of May next, the Clandestine 
Marriages (Scotland) Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday, the 31st day of May next. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, an 
Account, showing the Total Quantity of each sort of 
Foreign and Colonial Grain admitted to Home Con- 
sumption in the United Kingdom during each of the 
Three years ended 5th January 1837, and also the 
proportion thereof on which allowances were made 
on the eer of damage ; together with a State- 
ment of the Amount of Duty actually retained on 
the Quantity admitted to consumption, compared 
with the Amount which would have been received if 
there had been no allowances of the description 
above mentioned. 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed 
to examine into the Accounts of Colonial Receipt 
and Expenditure laid on the Table of this House, 
and to report to the House as to the mode in which 
it may be desirable to frame the same for the future, 
in order to introduce uniformity, regularity, correct- 
ness and completeness:—And a Committee was 
y -areaayy of Dr. Bowring, Sir George Grey, Mr. 

aring, Sir James Graham, Sir Henry Parnell, 
Mr. p Fig Mr. Henry Marsland, Sir Thomas Fre- 
mantle, Mr. Hawes, Mr. William Giladstone, Mr. 
Callaghan, Mr. Rundle, Sir George Clerk, Mr. 
William Crawford, and Mr. Mark Philips. 

Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 


Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer presented a Bill 
to amend the Acts for the extension and promotion 
of Public Works in Jreland: And the same was 
read the first time ; and ordered to be read a second 
time upon Monday next; and to be printed. 


The Hbuse proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 
intituled, An Act for enabling the Manchester and 
Leeds Railway Company to vary the Line of such 
Railway, and for amending and enlarging the powers 
and provisions of the Acts relating thereto: And 
the same were read, as follow: 

Pr. 87. 1. 31. Leave out “ Twenty-one,’ 
sert “ Sixty.” 

Pr. 88. 1. 25. Leave out from “ for” to “ And,” 
in 1. 86, and insert Clause (A.) 

Crause (A.) “ And whereas by the said re- 
cited Act of the sixth year of the reign of His 
resent Majesty, it is Enacted and Declared, 
hat the person or corporation for the time being 
in the possession or receipt of the rents and pro- 
fits of any lands should for the purposes of that 

Act be enabled to contract for, sell, and convey 

the same to the said Company, and to agree for 
* the amount of any compensation for any damage, 

loss or inconvenience to be sustained by reason of 


and in- 


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A. 1837. 


“ the execution of that Act, and that every contract, 
sale, conveyance or agreement whether theretofore 
or thereafter made with and to the said Com- 
pany by any such person or corporation, should 

valid and effectual; and that in every case in 
which the amount of the price of any lands, or 
of any compensation should be paid into the Bank 
of England in the name and with the privity of 
the Accountant General of the Court of Exche- 

—, to be placed to his account to the credit of 

the parties interested in the said lands, in manner 

provided by that Act, such payment, and every 
contract or agreement in pursuance whereof it 
should be made, should be good to all intents 
and purposes ; and that the said Company should 
not be bound to see to the application thereof, 
provided that such agreement should be made 
bond fide, and without any fraud or collusion be- 
tween the said Company and the party contract- 
‘ing; Be it Enacted, That the said recited pro- 
vision shall be and the same is hereby repealed, 
and the said recited Act shall be deemed, con- 
strued and taken, and all contracts, sales, convey- 
ances, and agreements and payments of purchase 
and compensation-money under and by virtue of 
the said recited Act shall have such and the same 
effect as if the said recited provision had not 
formed part of or been inserted in the said re- 
cited Act.” 
The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Lord Viscount Morpeth do carry 
the Bill to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this 
House hath agreed to the Amendments made by 
their Lordships. 


Mr. Hindley reported from the Committee on the 
Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act for naturalizing 
Angelo Antonio Solari; That they had examined 
the allegations of the Bill, and found the same to be 
true; and had gone through the Bill, and directed 
him to report the same, without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Hindley reported from the Committee on the 
Bill from tie Lote. intituled, An Act for naturaliz- 
ing Ernesto Domenico Damiano Rapallo ; That they 
had examined the allegations of the Bill, and found 
the same to be true; and had gone through the Bill, 
and directed him to report the same, without Amend- 
ment :—And the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Hindley do carry the Bill to 
the Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


Ordered, That the Petition of Narcissus Butt, 
Esquire, which was presented upon the 14th day of 
this instant April, be referred to the Committee on 
the Belfast and Hollywood Railway Bill; and that 
the Petitioner be heard, by his counsel or agent, 
upon his Petition, if he think fit; and counsel 
heard, in favour of the Bill, against the said Pe- 
tition. 


Solari’s 
Nat. Bill. 


Rapallo’s 
Nat. Bill. 


Belfast and 
Hollywood 
Railway Bill. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon Wed- Pablic Walks 


nesday next, the Public Walks and Public Institu- 
tions Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday, the 7th day of June next. 


and Public __ 
Institutions Bill 


The Order for reading a second time, upon Wed- Merchant 


nesday next, the Merchant Shipping Regulation Bill, 
was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday, the 7th day of June next. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till half an hour after twelve of the clock on 
Saturday morning, adjourned till Monday 
next. 


Shipping 
Regulation Bill. 





ww at ee 


Lowestoft 
Harbour Bill. 


Preston and 
Wyre Railway 
Bill. 


Belfast and 
Lisburn Road 
Bill. 


Wakefield 
Waterworks 
Bill. 


Bath and 
Weymouth 
Railway Bill. 


Leeds and 
Otley Road 
Bill, 





7 Wit. IV. 


Luna, 1° die Maii; 
Anno 7° Willielmi IV“ Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 

Ab ETITION of Ship-owners and Master Mari- 
ners of the port of Southwold, and Inha- 

bitants of the borough of Southwold, praying that 

they may be heard, by themselves, their counsel or 

agents, against certain parts of the Lowestoft Har- 

bour Bill, was presented, and read ; and ordered to 

lie upon the Table. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendment made by the Lords, to the Bill, in- 
tituled, An Act to alter the Line of the Preston 
and Wyre Railway, and to amend the Act relating 
thereto: And the same was read, as followeth: 

Pr. 19. 1.11. Leave out from “ aforesaid”’ to 
“ And,” in Pr. 20. 1. 14. 

The said Amendment, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Hesketh Fleetwood do carry 
the Bill to the Lords ; and acquaint them, that this 
House hath agreed to the Amendment made by their 
Lordships. 


A Petition of Land-owners and Inhabitants of or 
adjacent to the falls in the parish of Belfast, other- 
wise Skankhill, in the county of Antrim, praying 
that they may be heard, by their counsel or agents, 
against certain parts of the Belfast and Lisburn 
Road Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by their counsel or agents, upon their Petition, if 
they think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Report which upon the 21st day of April last 
was made from the Committee on the Wakefield 
Waterworks Bill, printed Copies of the Bill having 
been delivered at the door upon Wednesday last; 
and the Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 


ingrossed. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Bath and Weymouth Railway Bill ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

The Amendments following were proposed to be 
made to the Question; viz. To leave out the word 
“ now,” and at the end of the Question to add the 
words “ upon this day six months.” 

And the Question being put, That the word “now” 
stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 

Tellers for the Y Mr. William Miles, 

€aS+ Mr. Benett : 


Tellers for the Noes, { Mr. Hope Anglis, 


} 42, 


} 64, 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
“ upon this day six months” be added at the end 
of the Question ; it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Then the main Question, so amended, being put ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon this day six months. 


An ingrossed Bill for repairing and maintaining 
and improving the Line of the Road from Leeds to 
Otley, in the West Riding of the County of York, 
was read the third time; and Amendments were 
made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
“= be, An Act for repairing, maintaining and im- 

OL. 92. 


1° Mazz. 


309 


proving the Line of the Road from Leeds to Otley, 
in the West Riding of the County of York. 
Ordered, That Sir John Beckett do carry the Bill 
to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


praying that they may be heard, by themselves or their 
counsel, against certain parts of the Edinburgh and 
Glasgow Railway Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves or their counsel, upon their Petition, if 
they think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


The House was moved, That the Petition of Henry 


and Sealy Fourdrinier, of Westminster, in the county 
of Middlesex, late wholesale stationers and paper 
mauufacturers, for leave to bring in a Bill to revive 
and extend the term of certain Letters Patent as- 
signed to them for the invention of making paper by 
means of machinery, which was presented upon the 
17th day of February last, might be read ; and the 
same being read ; 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to a 
Select Committee to examine the matter thereof, and 
to report their observations thereupon to the House: 
—And a Committee was appointed of Sir Oswald 
Mosley, Sir John Wrottesley, Lord Francis Egerton, 
Lord Viscount Sandon, Mr. Davenport, Mr. Wilson 
Patten, Mr. Pryme, Mr. Baines, Mr. Mark Philips, 
Mr. Bannerman, Mr. Alderman Copeland, Mr. Mac- 
hinnon, Mr. Lennard, Mr. Maclean, and Mr. Ed- 
ward Buller ; with Power to send for persons, pa- 
pers and records. 


Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 


that the London and Brighton Railway Bill( 


and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


y of Stockton, praying that they may be heard, 

y themselves, their counsel or pate. against cer- 
tain parts of the Bridlington Harbour Bill, was 
SS and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


Row, Stoke Newington Green;— George Walker, of 
Old Change, in the city of London ;—Robert Huch- 
vale, James Witten, and Edward Frith;—and, Joseph 
Thompson, of Old Change,in the city of London, 
Calico Printer; denying that — received any pecu- 
niary consideration for signing the Deed of Contract 
for the London and Brighton Railway (Rennie’s Line), 
—were presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


several Petitions against the said Bill were referred ; 
That the Standing Orders relative to Bills for mak- 
ing Railways, had been complied with ; and that 
the Committee had considered the said Petitions, 
and had heard counsel in support of several of 
them, and had also heard eles. | in favour of the 
Bill; and that they had inquired into the several 
matters required by the Resolutions of the House, 
of the 1st day of March 1836, and had examined 
the allegations of the Bill, and found the same to 
be true; and had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; 





and be printed. 
RR 3 Mr. 





A Petition of Trustees for making certain Roads Edinburgh 


in the counties of Lanark, Stirling and Dumbarton, #4 
Railway 


righton 


White’s Row, Mile End ;— William Coke, of Keppel (ReanitsLine. 


d Glasgow 


Fourdrinier’s 
Fourdrinier, of Burston, in the county of Stafford, Pte 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Worthing, prying London and 


ennie’s Brighton 
Li i 1 d d d: Railway Bill 
ine) may pass into a law, was presented, and read ; (Rennie’sLine. 


A Petition of Merchants, Ship-owners and others Bridlington 
interested in the trade of Middlesborough, in the ‘vou Bill. 


Petitions from Richard Blackmore, of Trafalgar London ana 
Place West, Hackney Road; — John Haley, of ® 


Mr. Callaghan reported from the Committee on Cork and Pas- 
the Cork and Passage Railway Bill; and to whom sage Railway 





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Elland and 
Dewsbur 
Road Bill. 


Wishaw and 
Coltness Rail- 
way Bill, 


Chester and 


310 


Mr. Stuart Wortley reported from the Committee 
on the Elland and Dewsbury Road Bill; and to 
whom several Petitions against the said Bill were 
referred ; That the Standing Orders relative to Turn- 
pike Bills, had been complied with; and that no 
person appeared on behalf of the said Petitions; 
and that the Committee had examined the allega- 
tions of the Bill, and found the same to be true ; 
and had gone through the Bill, and made Amend- 
ments thereunto; andtheAmendments were read,and 
agreed to ; and Amendments were made to the Bill, 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed, 


Mr. Forbes reported from the Committee on the 
Wishaw and Coltness Railway Bill; That the appli- 
cation being solely for enlarging the time for com- 
pleting the works, the Committee were of opinion 
that none of the matters required by the Standing 
Orders to be inquired into by Committees on Rail- 
way Bills, apply to the present Bill; and that the 
Committee had examined the allegations of the 
Bill, and found the same to be true ; and had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


A Petition of Bankers, Merchants, Traders and 


Crewe Railway other Inhabitants of Salford, praying that the Chester 


Bill. 


Exeter and 
Falmouth 
Railway Bill. 


Manchester 
and ‘Tamworth 


Railway Bill. 


Munchester 
and Stafford 
Railway Bill, 


Exeter and 
Falmouth 


Railway Bill, 


Exeter and 
Falmouth 


Railway Bill. 


and Crewe Railway Bill may pass into a law, 
was * ecg and read ; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A .Petition of Shareholders in a projected line of 
Railway, called The London, Salisbury, Exeter, 
Plymouth, and Falmouth Railway, praying that 
the Exeter and Falmouth Railway Bill may not pass 
into a law, was presented, and read ; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Elizabeth Shipplebotham ;—and, 
Ann Shipplebotham, both of Astbury, in the county of 
Chester, spinsters ; praying that they may be heard, 
by their counsel or agents, against certain parts of 
the Manchester and Tamworth Railway Bill,—were 
presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be re- 
ferred to the Committee on the Bill; and the Pe- 
titioners heard, by their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


A Petition of Occupiers of land on the line of the 
Railway hereinafter mentioned, praying that they 
may be heard, by their counsel or agents, against 
certain parts of the Manchester and Stafford Railway 
Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by their counsel or agents, upon their Petition, if 
they think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


Petitions from Inhabitants of Saint Enoder ;— 
Ladcoch ; — Kenwyn ; — Saint Allen ; — Truro ;— 
Saint Erme ;—and, Saint Clement, all in the county 
of Cornwall; praying that the Exeter and Falmouth 
Railway Bill may pass into a law,—were presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Lord Viscount Ebrington reported from the Com- 
mittee on the Exeter and Falmouth Railway Bill ; 
and to whom several Petitions against the said Bill 
were referred ; That the Standing Orders relative to 
Bills for making Railways, had been complied with ; 
and that the Committee had inquired into the several 
matters required by the Resolutions of the House 
of the Ist day of March 1836 ; and had examined 
the allegations of the Bill, and found the same to be 
true; and had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


1° Maiz. 


A. 1837. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Brixham, praying Torq 
that the Torquay Roads Bill may pass into a law, Roads Bill, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
ithe Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Cumnock, preying Edinburgh 

that the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Bill may 4 Glasgow 
‘ : ‘4 *) Railway Bill, 

pass into a law, was + gaan and read; and 

| ordered to lie upon the Table. 


| A Petition of the Right honourable William Earl Saddleworth 
\of Devon, and James Loch, Esquire, (the Devisees Reservoirs Bill, 
iin trust under the Will of the Most noble Francis 
Duke of Bridgewater, deceased), and the Right 
honourable Lord Francis Egerton, the person bene- 
ficially interested in the Canal and estates, late of 
the said Duke, praying that they may be heard, 
by their counsel, against certain parts of the Saddle- 
‘worth Reservoirs Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by their counsel, upon their Petition, if they think 
fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the Bill, against 
the said Petition. 





Mr. Pease presented a Bill for incorporating cer- East Thickley 
tain Persons for the making and maintaining a and Frosterley 
Railway from the Stockton and Darlington Railway, Reiley Bal. 
in the parish of Saint Andrew Auckland to or near 
to Witton Park Colliery, with a Branch therefrom, 
all in the County of Durham, to be called “The 
Bishop Auckland and Weardale Railway:” And the 
same was read the first time; and ordered to be read 
a second time. 





The House proceeded to take into consideration Swansea 
the Report which, upon the 21st day of April last, — 
was made from the Committee on the Swansea™'* 
Waterworks Bill, printed Copies of the Bill having 
been delivered at the door upon Wednesday last ; 
and the Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


Mr. Shaw Lefevre reported from the Select Com- Agricultural 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills ; That in the case and Commercial 
of the Petition for leave to present a Petition for the B*™* (Ireland) 
Agricultural and Commercial Bank (Ireland) Bill, 
it appeared to the Committee that there is no allega- 
tion stated in the Petition why the Petitioners did 
not present their Petition within the time limited by 
the House for receiving Petitions for Private Bills, 
which was admitted on the part of the agent for the 
Petitioners, and the Committee thereupon determined 
that they could not proceed further in the matter. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


An ingrossed Bill to alter and amend an Act of Dundee 
the sixth year of the reign of his late Majesty, for Improvement 
opening certain Streets in the Burgh of Dundee, was 
read the third time ; and an Amendment was made 
to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act to alter and amend an Act of the 
sixth year of the reign of his late Majesty, for 
opening certain Streets in the Burgh of Dundee, and 
for otherwise improving the said Burgh. 

Ordered, That Mr. Diaduite do carry the Bill to 


the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Petitions from Iscoyd;— Hereford ;— Ross ¢ Here- Lord's Day. 
ford) ;—Milford ; — Haverfordwest ;—St. Asaph ;— 
Bury St. Edmund’s ;— Reading ;—Risca ;—St. Co- 
lumb ;— Bedford ;— Ossett ;— Colby ;— Kirk Lonan ; 
—Castletown ;—St. Ann, Isle of Man ;— Ballasalla ; 
— Crosby ;— Newport ( Monmouth ) ;— Uttoxeter ;— 
Sabden Bridge;—Newborough, &amp;c. ;—St. Austle ;— 
Mevagissey ;—Fowey ;—Tywardreath ;—Plymouth ; 
—Ulverston ;— Burnley ; — Padiham ;—Aberffraw, 
&amp;e. ;—Bethlehem, Llanrhyddlad and Bethesda ;— 
Gaerwen ;—Maidstone ;—Congleton ;—Charlestown ; 
—St. Blazey (two Petitions) ;—Polgooth ;—Llan- 
dansant ; 
































Church Rates 
Regulation. 


7 Wit. IV. 


dansant ;— Bodedern ;— Llanerchymedd ;—Rushmere 
and Playford ;—Dane Bridge and Rushton ;—Car- 
marthen;— New rennet Ichmai;— Perth and 
Stirling (Moderator of the Synod) ;—Waterfall ;— 
Ca of York ;—Pickering ;—St. Stephen’ s-in- Bran- 
well ;—Sibsey ;—Leake ;— Boston ;—Easingwold ;— 
Sandbach ;— Bratton ;—Abergavenny and Blaena- 
von ;—Melksham ;— Pontypool, &amp;c. ;—Alstone ;— 
Staveley and Levens ;—Gomersal ;— Kendal ;— Bir- 
stal ;— Westgate Hill;—Longnor and Hollinsclough ; 
—Rendham ;— Dover ; — Buckland ;— Flash and 
Gradbach ;—Cheddleton and Wetley Rocks ;— Kid- 
derminster ;— Leek ;—Cheadle ;—Polesworth ;— Han- 
ley ; —Burslem ;— Kingsley ;—Alstonefield and Wet- 
ton;— Tunstall; —Greenwich ;— Bridgwater ;— Wort- 
ley ;— Armley ;—-Hazzleborough and Newstone ;— 
Endon and Gratton ; — Deptford ; — Churwell ;— 
Morley ;— Bourn ;— Frome ;—Kesgrave and Bright- 
well-cum-Foxrhall ; —- Goole ;—Swinefleet ;—Snaith ; 
—St. Ebbe’s, Oxford ;— Leigh ;—Cadishead ;— Ba- 
cup;—-Douglas;—- Aberdeen ;— Hartington and Hulme 
End ;—St. Mary’s, Scilly ;— Newlyn ;—Marazion ; 
— Penzance ;— Acomb ;— Swindon ;—and, Batley ; 
praying, That a general Bill for the better observance 
of the Lord’s Day may be permitted to go into a 
Commitiee of the whole House,—were presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Bourton ;— Devizes ;—Aberavon ; 
— Dartmouth ;— Maidstone (Baptists) ;—Week-street, 
Maidstone ; — Bridgwater ; —- Malling ; — Hemel 
Hempsted ;— Kelvedon ; — Maidstone ;— Loughton ; 
— Pimlico ; — Stow-on-the- Wold ;— Morley ; — 
Canterbury ;— Stratford ;— Tunbridge; — Graves- 
end and Milton; — Coseley ;— Llanerchymedd ; — 
Amlwch; — Holyhead; — Cappel Gwyn Ceir- 
chiog; — Anglesey (Independent Ministers); — 
Woodbridge Hasketon ;—Alderton ;—Kingston-upon- 
Hull ;-—Plymouth ;—Perth ;—North of Devon (In- 
dependent Ministers) ;— Brandeston; — All Souls, 
Marylebone ; — Shebbear Circuit ; — Llanrhiddlad, 
&amp;c. ;— Quarrington ; — Chester-le-Street ;— Birtly ; 
— Haswell ; — Embsay-cum-Eastby in Craven;— 
Great Ilford ;— Eldon-street, Finsbury ; — North- 
owram ;— Ringwood ;— Lewisham ;— Bourton-on-the- 
Water ;— Alfred Place, Old Kent Road ;—Chenies ; 
— Richmond ( York.) ;—Henley-upon-Thames ;—In- 
worth ;— Wickham Bishop’s ;—Great Totham;—Great 
Wigborough end Tolleshunt Knights ;—Hatfield Pe- 
verel;—Perth(Chairman of a Meeting of the Guildry 
Incorporation) ; —- Heptonstall ;— Epping ;— Llan- 
saint-ffraid Glyn-ceiriog ;—Salem Chapel, Leeds ;— 
Knaresborough;—Staintand ;—Perth (Deacon of the 
Hammermen Incorporation) ;— Cullompton ;— Reho- 
boath Chapel, Plymouth ;— Bury St. Edmund's (two 
Petitions) ;—Witton-le- Wear ;— Hamsterley ;—Skip- 
ton-in-Craven ;—Crook ;—Evenwood and Barony ; 
— Wigan ;—Leigh ;—Cadoxton near Neath ;—Glyn- 
nedd ;—All Saints, Derby ;—St. Michael, Derby ;— 
St. Alkmund, Derby ;— Neath Abbey ;-— Horton-lane, 
Bradford ( York ) ;— Little Horton;-— Cumbernauld; 
— Crewherne;— Bedlington ;— Blyth ;— Baltic-street, 
Montrose ;—Checkley ;— Barton-under- Needwood ;— 
Wike ;—Peterwell;—Sardis ;— Mothey ;— Mothvey ; 
— Langadock ;— Pentrelygwyn ;--Carmarthen; — Sa- 
lisbury ; — Launceston Circuit ;—Ickford ;—Saffron 
Walden ;— Chippenham ;— Allington ;-— Langley ;— 
Ludgershall ;— Bradford ( Wilts ) 3—Wooburn ;— 
Deputies of Congregations of Protestant Dissenters 
of the three denominations, Presbyterian, Indepen- 
dent and Baptist, within twelve miles of London ;— 
Daventry ;—Purton;— New Sarum;— Golcar ;— 
Llanfurnach and Eglwysfair Churig ;—City of York; 
— Wakefield ;— Rushall ;—-East Knowle and Temley ; 
— Pewsey ;— Edington ;—Avebury and Monkton ;— 
Berwick St. John ;—and, Talley; praying, That the 
proposed measure relative to Church Rates may 
receive the sanction of the House,—were presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from Llanwarne ;—Philleigh ;—Midso- 

Vox. 92, 


1° Marz. 


311 


mer Norton ;—Walton-in-Gordano ;— Ilminster ;— 
Members of the University of Cambridge ;—Luck- 
ington ;— Chippenham;—Hullavington ;— Yarcombe; 
— Matson ;— Winstone ;— Painswick ;—South Cer- 
ney ;—Leckhampton ; —Allington ; — Goudhurst ;— 
Tonbridge ;—Beckington and Standerwick ;—East 
Sutton ;—Marden ( Kent_);—Sutton ;—Sutton Va- 
lence ;— West Malling ;— Leybourn ;— Beckenham ; 
Orpington ;— Linton ; — Stoke (Kent) ;—Loose ;~— 
Hollingbourne ;—Althallows (Kent) ;-—Horsmonden ; 
— Hadlow ;— Borley ;— Halling ;—Lamberhurst ;— 
Cuxton ;— Ryarsh ;— Eynsford;—St. Nicholas, Dept- 
ford;— Hawkhurst ; — Luddesdown ;— Trotterscliffe ; 
~—Teston ;— Bearsted ;— Eltham ; —Otham ;—East 
Malling ;—Cobham ; -—Berwich-on-Tweed ;—Maid- 
stone ;— Sevenoaks ;—Kelham ;—Rochester Diocese 
(Archdeacon and Clergy) ;—West Wickham ;—Nur- 
sted and Ifield ;— Brenchley ; — Wateringbury ;— 
Rolvenden ;—Mereworth ;— St. Paul, Deptford ;— 
Foot’s Cray ;—-Perth and Stirling (Moderator of the 
Synod) ;—S¢. Mary’sCray;—Tudeley-cum-Capel ;— 
Brasted ;— East Farleigh ;— Northfleet :—St. Owen, 
Hereford ; — Brinsop ; — Aylton ;— Upper Bulling- 
ham ;— Bacton ;— Marden ( Hereford) ;—Mordiford; 
— Founhope ;—Almeley ;—Bosburey ;—Eardisland ; 
— Tarrington ; — Dormington ;— Stoke Edith with 
West Hide ;—Dynedor ;—Letion ;—Hampton Bi- 
shop ;— Berwick ;— Hampstead Norris ;—Dalkeith ; 
— Hereford ;—Cihelsfield and Farnborough ;—Staple- 
hurst ;— Grayrigg ; — Inkberrow ; — Lilbourne ;— 
Averham and Staythorpe ;— Nottingham ;—Aikton; 
— Haworth ;—Cotgrave Ratcliffe and Holme Pierre- 
pont ;— Hickling and Over ;-- Broughton ;—-P lumtree; 
—Alfriston;—Strensham;— Kempsey ;--Chigwell ;— 
Guilsborough ;— Dean and Chapter of Carlisle;— Yel- 
vertoft ; —Falmouth ;— West and East Heslerton ;— 
Preston ;—Deanery of Amounderness ;— Laughton- 
en-le-Morther ;— Dinnington ;—West Bridgford ;— 
St. John’s, York ;— Bleasby ;— Burton (Westmor- 
land) ; -- Granby-cum-Sutton ; — Colwick ; — Horn- 
church ;— Basford ;—Chart-next-Sutton Valence ;— 
Blundeston ;— Gonalston ;— Wigan ;—Sunderland ; 
— Leeds ;— Manchester ;— Ashton-under-Lyne ; — 
Weston ( Nottingham) ;—Gainsburgh;— Batley ;—Li- 
versedge ;— Thorner ;— Bedworth ;— Yarnton ;— Bir- 
stal ;—Guiseley ;—Sywardine ;—Sampford Brett ;— 
Kentisbeare and Blackborough ; — Shalden ; — Se- 
burgham ;—.Bowness ;—St. Peter Martin, Bedford; 
—Greenwich ;— Horley ;—Washington ;—Eaton Bi- 
shop ; — Alford ;— Holbeck ; — Mortlake ;— White 
Roothing ;— and, Manchester and Salford; praying 
that the said proposed measure may not receive the 
sanction of the House,—were also presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Chichester, setting forth, ‘That the Petitioners view 
with the deepest concern certain recommendations 
of His Majesty’s Ecclesiastical Commissioners 
affecting the Cathedral Institutions of the Church ; 
and praying that the progress of the measure ma 
be averted in time, that our ancient Cathedral 
Bodies may be preserved undiminished and un- 
harmed ; that the principle of suppression may be 
exchanged for that of annexation already sanctioned 
by the recommendation of His Majesty’s Commis- 
sioners; or finally, if such unhappily cannot be 
effected, that at least the present stalls and appoint- 
ments may, even after the division of their property, 
be preserved as honorary distinctions, attaching a 
certain number of the inferior Clergy to the Cathe- 
dral Church and City, and forming, as before, a 
council to watch over the elections to the See when 
vacant, and to stand by their Bishop in the exercise 
of those functions which by the temper of these 
days are rendered more than ever difficult and 
burthensome, was presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 











RR4 pression 


A Petition of Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Ecclesiastical 


A Petition of Clergy of the Archdeaconry of sodor ana 
Chichester, praying that any measure for the sup- Mann Diocese. 

















































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312 1° Maiz. 


pression of the Diocese of Sodor and Mann, may not 
meet with the sanction of the House, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Rating of A Petition of Guardians of the Poor of the Wells 

Tenements; ~~ Union, composed of parishes in the county of Somer- 
set, praying the House to pass a law for rating to 
the relief of the Poor the Proprietors of all cottages 
with or without gardens not exceeding one-eighth 
of an acre, under the yearly value of 8/., instead of 
the occupiers, was presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


Highway Act. + A Petition of the Earl of Egremont, a proprietor of 


Turnpike securities under an Act for more effectually 
repairmg and amending the Road leading from the 
High-street in the town of Arundel, to the Turn- 
pike Road leading from Petworth to Stopham, on 
Frittleworth Common, in the cowiz-v of Sussex, pray- 
ing the House so to amend the Highway Act, as 
to secure the Statute Duty, or the money in lieu 
thereof for the benefit of the persons who have ad- 
vanced money upon the security of the said Act, 
was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the 


Table. 


Fairs and A Petition of Clergymen, Parish Officers and 

Siarhate, Parishioners of Hadleigh, praying the House to 
pass an Act for transferring Pairs and Markets ap- 
pointed to be held on Saturdays and Mondays to 
some other days, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Shipping A Petition of Merchants, Underwriters, Mariners 

Gazette. and others, residing at and trading to the port of 
Middlesbrough-on- Tees, praying the House to re- 
lieve the Proprietors of the Shipping Gazette from 
the Postage of Letters containing Shipping and 
Commercial intelligence only, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Municipal A Petition of Inhabitants of Ematris, praying 
Cicend) Bill that the Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Bill may 
pass into a law, was presented, and read; and 


ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Municipal A Petition of Landholders and Inhabitants of 
Cirelend) Bill Ballyeaston, praying that the Municipal Corpora- 
and, Tithes. ’ tions (Jreland) Bill may pass into a law; and that 

Tithes in Ireland be abolished, was presented, and 


read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Vote by Ballot. A Petition of Inhabitants of Skryne and Rath- 
feigh, praying for the adoption of Vote by Ballot at 
Elections of Members to serve in Parliament, was 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 


Table. 
Standing Sir Edward Knatchbull reported from the Select 
Orders ; Committee on Standing Orders relative to Private 
Bills, a Resolution which was read as followeth ; 
London and Resolved, That in the case of the Petition for the 
Greenwich — London and Greenwich Railway (No. 2.) Bill, the 
Railway sila : d with their Bill 
(No. 2.) parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill upon 


giving notices in some newspaper published within 
the county of Kent, and in the London Gazette, for 
three successive weeks, of their application to take 
a Toll upon all persons, horses, cattle and carriages 
passing along the Bridge proposed to be con- 
structed; and that the Committee on the Bill do 
examine, in the first place, how far such Order has 
been complied with, and do report the same to the 
House on the report of the Bill. 

The said Resolution being read a second time was 
agreed to. 


Fifth Reporton Mr, Freshfield reported from the Select Commit- 
Poor Law Act. tee appointed to inquire into the administration of 
No. 257. the Relief of the Poor under the orders and regu- 
lations issued by the Commissioners appointed 

under the provisions of the Poor Law Amendment 





Act, and who were empowered to report the Minutes 


A. 1837. 


of the Evidence taken before them from time to 
time to the House; That they had made further 
Progress in the matters to them referred ; and had 
directed him to report the Minutes of the Evidence 
taken before them. bd 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


The House was moved, That the Report in respect London and 
of the Petition for the London and Greenwich Hail- a 
way Bill, which was this day made from the Select (No. ms 
Committee on Standing Orders relative to Private 

Bills might be read, and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to enable the London and Greenwich Railway Com- 
pany to take certain Tolls for Passengers, Cattle 
and Carriages crossing the River Ravensborne, in 
pursuance of an Agreement entered into with the 
Deptford Creek Bridge Company: And that Mr. 

Dottin and Mr. Angerstein do prepare, and bring 
it in. 

Petitions from Harrow ;—Saint Paul, Covent Land Tax. 
Garden ; — Hendon; — Little Stanmore ;— Saint 
Mary-le-Strand;— and, Willesden; praying the 
House to take immediate steps towards some legis- 
lative enactment, which will effect an equalization 
of the unredeemed Land Tax in England and 
Wales,—were_ presented, and read ; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitant Householders of Saint Window Tex. 
Paul, Covent Garden, praying for the repeal of the 
Window Tax, was presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the Accounts relative to Soap, Soap. 
which were presented upon Friday last, be printed. —_No. 258, 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to the Edin- Edinburgh 
burgh and Glasgow Railway, which was presented — 


upon Friday last, be printed. No. 259. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Benefices Benefices 
(England and Wales) which was presented upon on a ant 
Friday last, be printed. No. 260. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Curates Curates 


(England and Wales) which was presented upon ay a 
Friday last, be printed. No. 260. 


Ordered, That the Treasury Minute regulating Chancery 
the Offices of Director and Clerk of the Chancery (Sevtln4) 
in Scotland, which was presented upon Friday last, No. 261. 
be printed. 


Lord John Russell reported, That he had, accord- Canada. 
mg to their Order of Friday last, been with the 
Lords to desire a Conference; and that the Lords 
do agree to a Conference, and appoint the same im- 
mediately in the Committee Room, No. 5. 

Ordered, That a Committee be appointed to 
manage the said Conference :—And a Committee 
was appointed of Lord John Russell, Mr. Chan- 
cellor of the Exchequer, Lord Viscount Howick, 
Sir George Grey, Lord Viscount Morpeth, Mr. At- 
torney General, Sir Robert Peel, Lord Stanley, Sir 
James Graham, Mr. Labouchere, the Earl of Lin- 
coln, Mr. Williams Wynn, Sir Robert Inglis, Mr. 
Fox Maule, and Mr. (wot 

Then the Names of the Managers were called 
over ; and they went to the Conference, and being 
returned ; 

Lord John Russell reported, That the Managers 
had been at the Conference, which was managed on 
the part of the Lords by the Duke of Richmond ; 
and that they had communicated to their Lordships 
the Resolutions of this House, relative to the Affairs 
of Lower Canada, and had left the same with their 
Lordships. 

Petitions from Howth ;— Lusk ;—Dalkey ;— Naul ; (ireland:) 
— Hollywood; — East Lusk ; — Rathfarnham ; — 
Drumcree ;—Knochbreda ; — Ballybay ;— Croghan ; 
Limerick ;—Boyle ;— Kilbryan ;—East Aughnamul- 


lin ;— 








Tithes 
(Ireland) ; 
and, Vote by 
Ballot. 


Tithes 
(Ireland. ) 


Poor Relief 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Post- Office 
Janagement 
Bill, . 


7 Wu. IV. 


lin;— Clontibret ; — Ematris ;— and, Skryne and 
Rathfeigh ;—praying for the abolition of Tithes in 
Ireland,—were presented, and read ; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Donegore;— Kilbride;— Ballynure; 
— Ballylinney ;—Carnmoney ;—Ballymerton ;-—- Tem- 
plepatrick ;—Doagh and Nalteen ;—and, Stamullen ; 
praying for the abolition of Tithes in Jreland, and 
or the adoption of Vote by Ballot at Elections of 
Members to serve in Parliament,—were presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The House was moved, That so much of the 
Speech of the Lords Commissioners to both Houses 
of Parliament at the opening of the Session as 
relates to Tithes in Jreland, might be read; and 
the same was read, as followeth : 

“ His Majesty has more especially commanded us 
to bring under your notice the state of Jreland, and 
the wisdom of adopting all such measures as may 
improve the condition of that part of the United 
Kingdom. His Majesty recommends to your earl 
consideration the present constitution of the Muni- 
cipal Corporations of that country, the laws which 
regulate the collection of Tithes, and the difficult 
but pressing question of establishing some legal 
teenage for the Poor, guarded by prudent regu- 
ations, and by such precautions against abuse, as 
your experience and knowledge of the subject enable 

ou to suggest. His Majesty commits these great 
interests into your hands, in the confidence that 
you will be able to frame Laws in accordance with 
the wishes of His Majesty and the expectations of 
His people. His Majesty is persuaded, that should 
this hope be fulfilled, you will not only contribute 
to the welfare of Ireland, but strengthen the Law 
and Constitution of these Realms, by securing their 
benefits to all classes of His Majesty’s subjects.” 

Resolved, That this House will, immediately, resolve 
itself into a Committee to consider of the expediency 
of commuting Compositions for Tithes in Jreland, 
into a rent-charge payable by the owners of the first 
estate of inheritance, and to make further provisions 
for the better regulation of Ecclesiastical Duties and 


Revenues. 
The House, accordingly resolved itself mto the | 


Committee. 
(In the Committee.) 

Resolved, That it is —— to commute Com- 
positions for Tithes in J/reland mto a rent-char e 
payable by the owners of the first estate of inherit- 
ance, and to make further provisions for the better 
regulation of Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues. 


Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; ‘and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Reso- 


lution. ; 
Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming the 
adjourned Debate upon the Question proposed upon 
Friday last, That the Poor Relief (Zreland) Bill, be 
now read a second time ; 

And the Question being again proposed :—The 
House resumed the said adjourned Debate. 

And the House having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Tuesday morning ; 


Martis, 2° die Maiti, 1837: 


And the Question being put :—It was resolved in 
the Affirmative:—The Bill was accordingly read a 
second time ; and committed to a Committee of the 
whole House, for this day. 

The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
further consideration the Report on the Post Office 
Management Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Friday next. 

Vox. 92. 


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1°—2° Mari. 


313 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into postage 
further consideration the Report on the Postage Duties Bilt 
Duties Bill; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Post Office Acts 
further consideraticn the Report on the Post Office Repeal Bill. 
Acts Repeal Bill; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Franking Bill. 
further consideration the Report onthe Franking Bill; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Post-Office 
further consideration the Report on the Post Office Offences Bill. 
Offences Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Imprisonment 
mittee on the Imprisonment for Debt Bill ; for Debt Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Registration of 
mittee on the Registration of Voters Bill ; Voters Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Municipal 
mittee on the Municipal Corporations (Scotland) Bill ; Corporations: 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, a 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Burghs of 
mittee on the Burghs of Barony (Scotland) Bill; Barony 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, (suet? Sam. 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Jury Trial (Scotland) Bill was, according to Jury Trial 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a (Scotland) Bill. 
Committee of the whole House, for Friday next. 


Mr. Robert Steuart reported the Court of Session Court of Session 
(Scotland) Bill; and the Amendments were read, (Scotland) Bill. 
and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time upon Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for receiving Small Debis 
the Report on the Small Debts (Scotland) Bill; —_ (Scotland) Bill. 
Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Registration 
reading of the Registration and Marriages Bill ; ane Sannages 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Shire Hails Bill. 
mittee on the Shire Halls Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Wills Bitl. 
reading of the Wills Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Monday next. 


gx read, for the Com- Turnpike Acts 
Continuance 
Bill. 


The Order of the day bein 
mittee on the Turnpike Acts Continuance Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Ways and 
mittee of Ways and Means ; Means. 
Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 
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Supply. 


Recorders’ 
Courts Bill, 


Supply. 


Public Works 
(Treland) Bill. 


Public Works 
Treland.) 
Advance of 


oney.] 


Coroners’ 
Inquests’ 
Expenses Bill. 


Poor Law Act. 


Concealment 
of Births Bill. 


Lieut.-Colonel 
Bradley. 


Coroners’ 
Inquests’ 


Expenses Bill, 
No. 262. 


Concealment 
of Births Bill. 


No. 263. 


Leave of 
Absence. 


314 1°—2° Maii. A. 1887. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


The ingrossed Bill to empower the Recorder in Cor- 
porate Cities and Towns to divide his Court in certain 
cases, was, according to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act to empower the Recorder or other 
Person presiding in Quarter Sessions in Corporate 
Cities and Towns, and Justices of the Peace for 
Counties, Ridings or Divisions, to divide their re- 
spective Courts in certain cases. 

Ordered, That Mr. Stuart Wortley do carry the 
Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for receiving 
the Report from the Committee of Supply ; 
Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 


The Public Works (Jreland) Bill was, according 
to Order, read a second time; and committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for To-morrow. 


A Motion being made, That this House will, this 
day, resolve itself into a Committee, to consider of 
authorizing further Advances out of the Consolidated 
Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and 
Ireland, to be applied, with any Money already 
authorized to be issued, to the promotion and con- 
struction of Public Works in Jreland ; 

Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, by His Ma- 
jesty’s command, acquainted the House, That His 
Majesty, having been informed of the subject mat- 
ter of this Motion, recommends it to the considera- 
tion of the House. 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to provide for payment of the Expenses of holding 
Coroners’ Inquests: And that Mr. Solicitor General 
and Mr. Attorney General do prepare, and bring 
it in. 

Ordered, That Mr. Hume be discharged from any 
further attendance on the Select Committee on the 
Poor Law Act. 


Ordered, That Mr. Richard Walker be added to 
the Committee. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to provide for the Costs of Prosecutions for con- 
cealing the Birth of Children by secret burying or 
otherwise disposing of their dead bodies: And that 
Mr. Solicitor General and Mr. Attorney General do 
prepare, and bring it in, 


A Petition of George Arthur, a Colonel in His Ma- 
jesty’s Land Forces, praying for an inquiry into the 
Charges brought against him by Lieutenant-Colonel 
Bradley, was presented, and read ; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 

Ordered, That the Petition be printed. 


Mr. Solicitor General presented a Bill to provide 
for the Payment of the Redan of holding Coro- 
ners’ Inquests: And the same was read the first time; 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Mon- 
day next; and to be printed. 


Mr. Solicitor General presented a Bill to provide 
for the Costs of Prosecutions for concealing the 
Birth of Children by secret burying or otherwise 
disposing of their dead bodies: And the same was 
read the first time ; and ordered to be read a second 
time upon Monday next ; and to be printed. 


Ordered, That Sir Edward Scott have leave of 
absence till the 18th day of this instant May, on 
account of ill health. 




















Ordered, That’ the North Metropolitan Cemetery North Metropo. 


Bill, be read a second time this day. ny Nor 
i jita’ 
Ordered, That there be laid before this House,— Coals. Bil 


Accounts of the Quantities of Coals, Cinders and 
Culm shipped at the several Ports of England, Scot- 


land and Ireland coastways to other Ports of the - 
United Kingdom in the year 1836, distinguishing Ra 
the Quantity shipped at each of the said Ports, as (R 


compared with the year 1835:—Of the Quantities 
and declared Value of Coals, Cinders and Culm ex- 
ported from the several Ports of England, Scotland 
and Jreland to Foreign Countries and the British 
Settlements abroad, in the year 1836, distinguishi 
the Countries to which the same were sent, an 
comparing the same with the year 1835; also dis- 
tinguishing the Ports of the United Kingdom for 
which the same were shipped ;—Of the Quantities 
of Coal, Cinders and Culm exported from the 
United Kingdom in the year 1836, with the Rate and 
Amount of Duty thereon :—and, of the Quantities of 
Coal brought coastways and by Inland Navigation 
into the Port of London, during the year 1836, com- 
paring the same with the Quantities brought during 
the year 1835. 


we oO 


A Petition of Owners and Occupiers of lands on Birmingham 
the line of the Railway hereinafter mentioned, pray- sag 
ing that they may be heard, by their counsel or B#llvay Bill 
agents, against certain parts of the Birmingham and 
Derby Railway Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by their counsel or agents, upon their Petition, if the 
think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the Bill, 
against the said Petition. 


Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer reported to the Answer to 
House, That their several Addresses of the 24th and Addresses. 
26th days of April last (that His Majesty would be 
graciously pleased to give directions that the 
Papers therein mentioned might be laid before this 
House) had been presented to His Majesty; and 
that His Majesty had commanded him to acquaint 
the House, that He will give directions accordingly. 


he ot et 


Mr. Foa Maule presented, pursuant to Order,— Monaghan 
A Return, showing the date of the Assizes at which Assizes 
a Bill of Indictment was found at Monaghan for ial) 
murder against M‘Carron and others ; the Number 
of times M‘ Carron was tried ; the Date of the Assizes 
respectively at which each such Trial took place ; 
the manner in which each Trial terminated; the 
Name and Rank of the Judge who | agers at each 
Trial ; the Number of Jurors set aside by the Crown 
at each Trial respectively; and the Name of His 
Majesty’s Attorney General for Jreland at the time 
of each Trial. 

Mr. Fox Maule also presented, pursuant to an Religious 
Address to His Majesty,—A Copy of any Corre- fasticto, 
spondence between the Commissioners for Religious ‘ a 
Instruction in Scotland and the Reverend Mr. Begg 
of Libberton, respecting the unauthorized Publica- 
tion of the Reverend Dr. Lee’s Evidence before the 
said Commissioners. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


And then the House, having continued to sit till 
one of the clock on Tuesday morning, ad- 
journed till this day. 


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Martis, 2° die Maiti ; | 
Anno 7° Willelmi [V* Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


A PETITION of Rate-payers within the Ward Stockport 
of Edgeley, in the rand a of Stockport, pray- —_— 
ing that the Stockport Improvement Bill may not  ~ 
pass into a law, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. os 

e 


7 Witt. IV. 


NorthMetropo- The North Metropolitan Cemetery Bill was, ac- 
jitan Cemetery cording to Order, read a second time; and com- 


Bill. mitted to Sir Samuel Whalley and the Middlesex 
List. 

London and The House was moved, That the several Orders 

Brit Bill made upon the 26th day of April last, for referring 


&gt; Tine. to the Select Committee on the Deptford and 
opeiaaiii Dover Railway Subscription List, the Paitions of 
Richard Till; Henry Cooke; Benjamin Wheeler 
Poulton; and, Members of the Provisional Commit- 
tee, Solicitors and Secretary of the Direct London and 
Brighton Railway Company; and also the Orders 
made upon the 28th day of April last, for referring to 
the said Select Committee the Petitions of James Slat- 
ford Vale; Daniel Edward Stephens; and, Samuel 
Carr, might be read; and the same being read ; 

A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That the said Orders be discharged :—And 
oe said Motion was, with leave of the House, with- 

rawn, 


Charlton Kings Mr. Praed reported from the Committee on the 
chan Charlton Kings and Marsworth Railway Bill; and 
y*" to whom several Petitions against the said Bill were 
referred ; That the Committee had sat from time 
to time, and examined Evidence in support of the 
allegations of the Bill; That before the completion 
of the case in support of the Bill, the promoters 
thereof stated to the Committee their desire to 
withdraw it; That the Evidence adduced up to the 
period of the withdrawal of the Bill, was not sufli- 
cient to prove the allegations thereof, nor to enable 
the Committee to inform the House with respect to 
the various matters required by the Standing Orders 
to be inquired into. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Wakefield An ingrossed Bill for better supplying with Water 
pacerworks the Town of Wakefield, and the neighbourhood 
thereof, in the West Riding of the County of York, 
was read the third time; and Amendments were 
made to the Bill. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That Sir George Strickland do carry the 
Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 
London and A Petition of Owners and Occupiers of land and 
— .. Property situate in and near the town of Horsham, 
way Bill 


(Rennie’sLine,) Praying that the London and Brighton Railway Bill 
ennie’s line) may pass into a law, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Elland Bridge = An ingrossed Bill for repairing and maintaining 
a the Road leading from Elland Bridge, in the Parish 
' of Halifax, into the Dewsbury and Elland Turn- 
ike Road, near the Obelisk in the Parish of Dews- 
a all in the West Riding of the County of York, 
was read the third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That Mr. Stuart Wortley do carry the 
Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Bie Police An ingrossed Bill to continue, for a limited term 


of years, the Acts relating to the Police of the 
City of Glasgow ; to vest the Management of the 
Statute Labour Conversion Money of the said City 
in the Board of Police thereof; and for other pur- 
poses therein mentioned, was read the third time ; 
and Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That that the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Forbes do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Bill from the Lords, intituled, an Act for 
naturalizing Angelo Antonio Solari, was read the 
third time. 


Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That Mr. Thomas Duncombe do carry 
the Bill to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this 


House hath agreed to the same, without Amendment. 
Vot. 92. 


Solari’s 
Nat. Bill, 


2° Marz. 





315 


The Sun Life Assurance Society Bill was read a Sun Life 
second time; and committed to Mr. Law Hodges ae seg 
and the Middlesex List. peaiatess 


Liverpool 
Mersey Con- 
servancy Bill. 


The Order for the second reading of the Liverpool 
Mersey Conservancy Bill was read and discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The House was moved, That the Report in respect 
of the Petition for the Liverpool Mersey Conservancy 
Bill, which, upon the 2d day of March last, was made 
from the Select Committee on Petitions for Private 
Bills, might be read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for the better preserving and improving of the River 
Mersey, and for providing for the safe Navigation 
thereof: And that Mr. Ewart and Lord Viscount 
Sandon do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mersey 
Conservancy 
Bill. 


Petitions from George Tomb, Esquire, one of the Belfast Harbour 

Owners of certain Quays in the town of Belfast ;— (No %) Bill. 
and, Merchants, Ship-owners, Proprietors of Quays, 
Quayage and Wharfage in the said town ; praying 
that they may be heard, by their counsel or agents, 
against certain parts of the Belfast Harbour (No. 2.) 
Bill,—were presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by their counsel or agents, upon their Peti- 
tions, if they think fit ; and counsel heard, in favour 
of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


A Petition of Sir William Milliken Napier, of Glasgow and 
Napier and Milliken, Baronet, praying that he may fit “ated 
be heard, by his counsel or agent, against certain ~ 
parts of the Glasgow and Ayr Railway Bill, was 
presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, if he 
think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the Bill, 
against the said Petition. 


A Petition of Gabriel Hamilton Dundas, Esquire, Edinburgh 
of Duddingstone, praying that he may be heard, by #4 Clsow 
himself, his counsel or agent, against certain parts” ~"* 
of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Bill, was 
presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by himself, his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, 
if he think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, agaiust the said Petition. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Hurworth and 
further consideration the Report on the Hurworth York Railway 
and York Railway Bill; - 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to the 
former Committee ; and that they have leave to sit 
and proceed To-morrow, and to report upon Thurs- 
day next. 


Mr. Ewart presented a Bill for the better pre- Mersey 
serving and improving of the River Mersey, and for wy 
providing for the safe Navigation thereof: And the ~ 
same was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time. 


Ordered, That the Short-hand Writer who at- Orange Lodges 
tended the Select Committee on Orange Lodges (Ieland.) 
(Ireland), have leave to produce before the Court of 
King’s Bench in Dublin, the Evidence taken before 
that Committee in the year 1835, and to give Evi- 
dence on the Trial of a Cause wherein John Gore 
Jones is Plaintiff, and William Lenon Conyngham, 

Rowley Miller, and six others, Magistrates of the 
County of Derry, are Defendants, for Libel. 


Dr. Bowring reported from the Select Committee Public 
on Public Petitions; That they had examined the Fetitions. 
ss2 Petitions 








































































Re oe eee comes 


Lord’s Day. 


Church Rates 


316 2° Mai. 


| poor, with a fever hospital and infirmary in every 


Petitions presented from the 19th to the 28th days | 
of April last, both inclusive; and had directed him 
to make a Report thereof to the House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Petitions from Daw End ; — Willenhall ;— Short 
Heath ; — Stockport (two Petitions); —- Portobello; 
— Little London ;—Smithwick New Village ; —Wal- 
sall; — Aldridge ; — Canterbury; — Gloucester ; — 
Woodstock ; — Bangor ;—Saint Ives ;— Bradwell ;— 
New Mills and Hayfield ;—Watermen, Bridgemen 
and others, on the River Severn ;— Bath ;—-Shel- 
field; — Bloxwich; — Thornbury-—Norton and Twig- 
worth ;— Houghton-le- Spring ; — Bill Quay ;— Ras- 
kelf ; — West Bromwich ; — Pinxton ; -—and, Whit- 
church ; praying that a general Bill for the better 
Observance of the Lord’s Day, may be permitted to 
go into a Committee of the whole House,—were pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


: Petitions from Amersham ;— Leamington Priors; 
Regulation. = _ Chatteris ;— Chester-le-Street (two Petitions) ;— 
Sherburn Hill ;—New Thornley ;— Great Lumley ; 
— Warwick ;— Winlaton;— Norwood ;—Camberwell ; 
—Sudbury (two Petitions) ;—Coles-street Chapel, 
Saint Mary Newington;—York-street Chapel, Man- 
chester ;—Every-street Chapel, Manchester ;— Bre- 
therton ; — Saint Helen’s, Lancaster ; — Providence 
Chapel, Mile End, Middlesex ;—Chairman and Se- 
cretary of a Meeting of the Ministers and Messen- 
gers of Dissenting Churches of the Congregational 
order, in the county of Derby ;—Alcester;— Henley- 
in- Arden ; — East-street Chapel, South Shields ;— 
Todmorden (two Petitions) ;—A shton-under-Lyne;— 
Greenacres, Oldham ;— Warrington ;— Union Chapel, 
Horsieydown, Southwark ; — Ellesmere; — Aspinall 
Smithy, Gorton ;— Gorton ;—and, Bond-street Cha- 
pel, Leicester; praying that the proposed measure 
relative to Church Rates may receive the sanction of 
the House,—were presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. : 

Petitions from Rock and Rennington;— Great 
Stuughton ;—Combs; — Chesterfield ; — Duffield ;— 
Upton Gray ;—Somerford Keynes ;— Newdigate (two 
Petitions); — Barlow ; — Upham ; — Stirchley and 
Dawley ;—Alderbury ;— Wootton Rivers ;—Atcham; 
—Leatherhead ;— Romford ; — Stockport ; —Clergy 
of the Archdeaconry of Wilts and Diocese of Salis- 
bury ;— Salattyn ;— Ruyton ;-—Alnwick ;— Wrock- 
wardine ;—Meole Brace ;— Hyde ;-—Eaton Constan- 
tine ;—Archdeacon and Clergy of the Archdeaconry 
of Sulop ;—Dean and Chapter of Winchester ;—and, 
Archdeacon and Clergy of the Archdeaconry of 
Worcester ; praying that the said proposed measure 


A. 1837. 


parish, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


A Petition of Members of the Committee of Metropolis 
Governors of the British Lying-In Hospital for !provement, 
married women, situate in Browlow-street, near Long 

Acre, in the parish of Saint Giles-in-the-Fields, 

raying that the new Street in the Strand, opposite 

Waterloo Bridge, and leading into Long Acre, may 

be continued into Charlotte-street, Bedford-square, 

and Gower-street, was presented, and read; and 

ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Merchants, Ship-owners, Master Shipping 

Mariners and others resident at and trading to the Gate. 

port of Blyth, praying the House to relieve the Pro- 
rietors of the Shipping Gazette from the postage of 

law containing shippmg and commercial intelli- 

gence only, was presented, and read ; and ordered to 

lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of William Henry Black, of Clement’s Record — 
Inn, in the county of Middlesex, complaining of ae 
certain charges affecting him in the evidence taken °°” 
before the Select Committee on the Record Com- 
mission, in the last Session of Parliament; and 
praying the House to grant him such relief in the 
premises as they may think proper, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Ordered, That the Petition be printed. 


A Petition of Thomas Popham Luscombe, of Kil- Dublin and 
lester House, in the county of Dublin, Commissary oe ana 
General in His Majesty’s Service, praying that he ini 
may be heard, by his counsel or agent, against cer- 
tain parts of the Dublin and Drogheda Railway Bill, 
was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, if he 
think fit ; and counsel heal, in favour of the Bill, 
against the said Petition. 


A Petition of Owners or Occupiers of property in Recovery of 
Ashton-under-Lyne, praying that the Recovery of Tenements Bil. 
Tenements Bill may pass into a law, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Winster, in the county Lord’s Day. 
of Derby, praying for the introduction of a Clause 
into all Railway Bills, prohibiting all traffic on the 
Lord’s Day, and also for the passing of a general Bill 
for the better Observance of the Lord’s Day, was pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 





may not receive the sanction of the House,—were | 


also presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


Tobacco. A Petition of Residents in Oldham, praying for a 
reduction of the Duty on Tobacco, was presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Poor LawAct, Petitions from Heckmondwike ;—Marsh (Chair- 
man of a Meeting); — Clayton ;— Lindley-cum- 
Quarmby ;—Deigton and Fartown ;— Bradley ;— 
Holme ;-— Linthwaite ;— Shipley ;— Mirfield ;—Al- 
mondbury ;— Bury ;— Prestwich ;— Leigh;—Middle- 
ton ;— Tong ;— Failsworth ;— Radcliffe ;— Hyde ;— 
Norwich ;— Tref-Egluys ;—Earlsheaton;—Ashton- 
under-Lyne ;— Chollerton ;—and, county of Bucking- 
ham (Practitioners of Medicine and Surgery); pray- 
ing for the repeal or amendment of the Poor Law 
Act,— were presented, and read ; and referred to the 
Select Committee on the Poor Law Act. 


Poor Relief 
(Ireland) Bill, Castletownroche, praying that that part of the Poor 
Relief (Jreland) Bill which relates to the establish- 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Warwick and _ its Municipal 
Corporations 
(Ireland) Bill. 


| vicinity, praying that the Municipal Corporations 
| (Ireland) Bill may pass into a law, was presented, 
| and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
Petitions from Middleton ;—and, Oldham; praying T. Eastwood, 
| the House to address His Majesty for the enlargement *"! 
| of Thomas Eastwood, Sydney Re. and John Elson, 
| who were convicted at the Liverpool March Assizes 
1836, of highway robbery,—were presented, and 
| read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
| A Message from the Lords, by Sir Giffin Wilson Message from 
| and Mr. Brougham : the Lords 
Mr. Speaker, 
The Lords have agreed to the several Bills follow- 
ing, without Amendment ; viz. 
A Bill, intituled, An Act to apply the Sum of Consolidated 
Eight Millions out of the Consolidated Fund to the Fund Bill. 
Service of the year One thousand eight hundred and 


A Petition of Labourers, Heads of Families, of | thirty-seven : 


A Bill, intituled, An Act for better lighting with Gas Cardiff 
| the Town of Cardiff, in the County of Glamorgan: &amp;* Bil’ 


ment of workhouses, may not pass into a law, but; A Bill, intituled, An Act for better paving, cleans- Cardiff 
that cottages with suitable offices, and a small lot of | ing, lighting and otherwise improving the Town of — 


greund annexed to each may be provided for the 


t=] 


Cardiff, in the County of Glamorgan : “ 





A Bill 








Stamford 
Waterworks 
Bill. 


Manchester 


7 Wit. IV. 


A Bill, intituled, An Act for better supplying 
with Water the Town and Borough of Stamford, 
and Places adjacent thereto, in the Counties of 
Northampton and Lincoln: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 


(Victoria Park) Act for establishing a Company for the purpose of 


Company Bill. 


Banff Glebe 
Lands Bill. 


Maryport and 
Carlisle Rail- 
way Bill. 


York and 
North Midland 
Railway Bill. 


Leicester and 
Swannington 
Railway Bill, 


Slamannan 
Railway Bill. 


Swansea 
Waterworks 
Bill, 


Religious 
Instruction 
(Scotland.) 


No. 265. 


Convicts 
— Diemen’s 
nd.) 


port and Carlisle gee 


laying out and maintaining an Ornamental Park 
within the Townships of Rusholme, Chorlton-upon- 
Medloch and Moss-side, in the County of Lancaster, 
with Amendments; to which Amendments the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House: And also, 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
to enable the Minister of the Parish of Banff, in the 
County of Banff, to feu the Glebe Lands of the said 
Parish; to which the Lords desire the concurrence 
= this House:—And then the Messengers with- 

rew. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Report which upon the 24th day of April 
last, was made from the Committee on the Mary- 
Bill, printed Copies of 
the Bill having been delivered at the door upon 
Wednesday last; and the Amendments were read, 
and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Report which, upon the 21st day of April last, 
was made from the Committee on the York and 
North Midland Railway Bill, printed Copies of the 
Bill having been delivered at the door upon Friday 
last; and the Amendments were read, oan agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Report which, upon the 24th day of April last, 
was made from the Committee on the Leicester and 
Swannington Railway Bill, printed Copies of the 
Bill having been delivered at the door upon Friday 
last; and the Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Report which, upon the 21st day of April last, 
was made from the Committee on the Slamannan 
Railway Bill, printed Copies of the Bill having been 
delivered at the door upon Thursday last; and the 
Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 


ingrossed. 


Ordered, That the Swansea Waterworks Bill be 
read the third time To-morrow. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to Religious 
Instruction (Scotland), which was presented yester- 
day, be printed. 


Sir George Grey presented,—Return to an Ad- 
dress to His Majesty, dated the 30th day of March 
in the last Session of Parliament, for a Return of 
the Number of Persons charged with Criminal Of- 
fences, who were committed to the different Gaols 
in New South Wales and in Van Diemen’s Land, 
and the Dependencies thereof, for Trial at the Assizes 
or Sessions held for the several Counties or Circuits 
and Towns therein, during the last Seven years; dis- 
tinguishing the Number in each year, and showing 
the nature of the Crimes respectively of which they 
were convicted or acquitted, and with which those 
were charged against whom no bills were found, and 
who were not prosecuted, the Sentences of those 
convicted, and the Number of those executed who 
received Sentence of Death, distinguishing Males 
from Females (so far as relates to Van Diemen’s 
Land.) 

Vor. 92, 


2° Maiz. 





317 


Sir George Grey also presented, — to several Upper Canada, 
date 


Addresses to His Majesty, the 20th day of 
August, in the last Session of Parliament,—a Copy 
of all Orders in Council aud Instructions sent to 
Upper Canada by His Majesty’s Secretary of State 
for the Colonies, for the Regulation of the Sale or 
Grant of Lands in that Province :—a Copy of all the 
Orders of the Lieutenant-Governor in Equncil, and 
of the Lieutenant-Governor in Upper Canada, for 
the Regulation of the Location or Grant of Lands in 
that Province, in force on the 1st January 1835, and 
Copies of every Order in Council in that Province 
respecting the same, up to the 1st of August 1836: 
—a Return of all the Patents for Grants of Lands 
from the Crown in Upper Canada, between the 1st 
April and 1st August 1836; stating the Names of 
the Persons to whom granted, the quantity of Land, 
and the Township and County in which such Land 
is situated, the Date of the Petition or other appli- 
cation for such Land, and the Date of Location, with 
the Terms and Conditions of the same; also, the 
Dates of the Patents issued for such Lands; stating 
also, the several Payments made in Money, or by 
Note or other Security, distinguishing what part has 
been paid in Money or otherwise; and also the 
Amount of Fees paid for the same :—a Copy of the 
Instructions or Orders in Council from His Majesty’s 
Secretary of State sent to Upper Canada, under 
which the Surrender by the Jndians of their Lands 
was made to His Majesty; the Number of Acres 
of Land surrendered since 1820; stating the Date 
of each Surrender, and the Terms or Conditions of 
each Surrender :—a Copy of the Orders in Council 
of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, or Orders b 
the Lieutenant-Governor for the Acceptance of ok 
Surrender from the Indians, and for the subsequent 
Sale or Grant of the same; stating also, the Number 
of Grants, and the Quantity of Land so granted ; 
the Number of Sales, and the Quantity of Land so 
sold ; together with the Amount of Money received 
for the same, and the Amount of the Purchase 
Money remaining due and unpaid, and the nature 
of the Security for the same. 


Sir George Grey also presented, pursuant to several Lower Canada 


Addresses to His Majesty,—Copy of a Report of a 
Select Committee of the House of Assembly of Lower 
Canada respecting Judge Fletcher, and of any Cor- 
respondence between the Earl of Gosford and Lord 
Glenelg, on the subject of the Charges preferred 
against that Judge. 


Copy of a Report of a Select Committee of the 
House of Assembly of Lower Canada, respecting 
Mr. Chisholme, Clerk of the Peace for Three Rivers, 
and Correspondence between the Earl of Gosford 
and Lord Glenelg, on the subject of the Charges 
preferred against Mr. Chisholme. 


Copy of a Despatch from Sir F’, B. Head, in answer Canada 
Dr. C. Dun- (Sit F.B. Head.) 


to Charges preferred against him b 
combe, in a Petition presented to the House of Com- 
mons on the 19th August 1836 ; together with a 
Copy of Lord Glenelg’s rgd thereto. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being put, Convocation of 
That an humble Address be presented to His Ma- the Clergy. 


jesty, praying that His Majesty will be graciously 
pleased to afford to Parliament the advice and as- 
sistance, in matter Ecclesiastical, of the Clergy, in 
Convocation assembled, according to the ancient 
usage and constitution of the Realm ; 
he House divided ; 

The Yeas to the new Lobby; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 
Mr. Borthwick, lis 
Mr. Arthur Trevor: J °~* 
Sir George Grey, } - 
Dr. Lushington : 7 
So it passed in the Negative. 

ss3 


Tellers for the Yeas,{ 


Tellers for the Noes, 


The 











Poor Relief 
(Ireland) Bill. 


No, 264. 


East India 
Company. 


Westminster 
Writ. 


Saddleworth 


318 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee upon the Poor Relief (Jreland) Bill; 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. More O’ Ferrall re- 

rted, That the Committee had gone through the 

ill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. More O’ Ferrall reported the Bill accord- 
ngly ; and the Report was ordered to be taken into 
further consideration upon Monday next; and the 
Bill, as amended, to be printed. 


Notice being taken that Forty Members were not 
oe, the House was told by Mr. Speaker; and 


7orty Members not being present ; and it being then 


after four of the clock :—The House was adjourned 
" Mr. Speaker, without a Question first put, till 
o-morrow. 





Mercuri, 3° die Mai ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi IV" Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


R. Campbell, from the Court of Directors of 

the East India Company, was called in; and 
at the bar presented, pursuant to the directions of an 
Act of Parliament,—-Resolutions of the Court of 
Directors and General Court of the East India 
pret me being the Warrants or Instruments grant- 
ing any Pension. 

Resolutions of the Court of Directors of the East 
India Company, being the Warrants or Instruments 
granting any Salary or Gratuity:—And then he 
withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant 
to the Clerk of the Crown, to make out a new Writ 
for the electing of a Citizen to serve in this present 
Parliament for the City of Westminster, in the room 
of Sir Francis Burdett, Baronet, who, since his 
Election for the said City, hath accepted the Office 
of Steward or Bailiff of His Majesty’s three Chiltern 
Hundreds of Stoke, Desborough and Bonenham, in 
the County of Buckingham. 





Ordered, That the Committee on the Saddleworth 


Reservoirs Bill. Rogeryoirs Bill have leave to sit this day till five of 


Glasgow and 
Ayr Railway 
Bill. 


Dublin and 
Drogheda 
Railway Bill. 


Manchester 


(Victoria Park) 


Company Bill. 


the clock, during the sitting of the House. 


Ordered, That the Committee on the Glasgow 
and Ayr Railway Bill have leave to sit this day till 
five of the clock, during the sitting of the House. 


Mr. George Evans reported from the Committee 
on the Dublin and Drogheda Railway Bill; and to 
whom two Petitions against the said Bill were re- 
ferred ; That the Standing Orders relative to Bills 
for making Railways had been complied with ; and 
that the Committee had considered one of the said 
Petitions, and had heard counsel in support of the 
other ; and had also heard counsel in favour of the 
Bill; and that they had inquired into the several 
matters required by the Resolutions of the House 
of the 1st day of March 1836, and had examined 
the allegations of the Bill, and found the same to be 
true; and had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, in- 
tituled, An Act for establishing a Company for the 
purpose of laying out and maintaining an Orna- 
mental Park within the Townships of Rusholme, 
Chorlton-upon-Medlock and Moss-side, in the County 
of Lancaster ; and the same were read, as follow : 


9° 3° Maur: 


A. 1837. 


Pr. 3. 1.3. Leave out from “ have’’ to “agreed” 
in line 4. 

Pr. 38. 1.5. After “ Act” insert Clause (A.) 

Crause (A.) “ Provided always, and be it fur- 
“ ther Enacted, That it shall not be lawful for the 
said Company to exercise all or any of the powers 
“ conferred upon them by this Act, until the sum 
“ of Fifty thousand pounds at the least shall have 
“ been subscribed for by some of the proprietors of 
“the said Company, under a contract binding 
“ themselves, their a executors and adminis- 
trators for payment of the money by them respec- 
“ tively subscribed; and a certificate under the 
hand and seal of any one Justice of the Peace 
“ for the County Palatine of Lancaster, that the 
“ whole of the said sum of Fifty thousand pounds 
“ hath been subscribed for (and which certificate 
such Justice is hereby empowered to grant, on 
application made to him by the said Company ; 
“ and on production of the subscription contract 
“‘ and on due proof of the execution thereof), shall 
for all purposes whatsoever be conclusive evidence 
“ that the whole of the said sum of Fifty thousand 
“ pounds hath been subscribed.” 

Pr. 157. 1. 29. Leave out “ Froggatt,” and in- 
sert “ Froggott.” 

Pr. 157. 1. 35. Leave out “ Froggatt,” and in- 
sert “ Froggott.” 

Pr. 157. |. 40. Leave out “ Froggatt,” and in- 
sert “ Froggott.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Mark Philips do a the 
Bill to the Lords, and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


trading to and from the Lough of — and 
Merchants and Traders in the towns adjoining ;— 
and, Bankers, Merchants, Ship-owners, Steam Packet 
Owners, and others, of Greenock; praying that the 
American Steam Navigation Company Bill may not 
pass into a law,—were presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Railway, passed in the sixth year of his present 
Majesty, and to enable the P -weleton Railway 
Company to make and maintain a Branch to Bath- 
gate, in the County of Linlithgow, was read the 
third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Forbes do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Tunnel at Edinburgh, which was presented upon 4 


mittee on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway 
Bill. 


Orders relative to Bills of Inclosure had been 
complied with; and that they had examined the 
allegations of the Bill, and found the same to be 
true; and that the parties concerned had given their 
consent to the Bill, to the satisfaction of the Com- 
mittee ; and that the Committee had gone through 
the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto ; and the 
Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


Antrim and Coleraine Road Bill ; and to whom 
a Petition against the said Bill, was referred ; 





That 


Petitions from Merchants of Dundalk ;—Owners AmericanSteam 


or Freighters of steam packets and other vessels Navigation | 
Company Bill, 


An ingrossed Bill to alter, amend and enlarge Slamarnan 
the powers of an Act for making the Slamannan Bailway Bill. 


Ordered, That the Correspondence relating to the Edinburgh 


nd Glasgow 


the 26th day of April last, be referred to the Com- Raibuny. 


Mr. Robert Clive reported from the Committee on Clun Forest 
the Clun Forest Inclosure Bill ; That the Standing Inclosure Bill 


Mr. Kirk reported from the Committee on_the Antrim and 


Coleraine Road 


Charl 
and | 


Swat 
Wat 
Bill. 


Bel! 
Roa 


Rot 
Hu 
Del 


Chi 
Re 






































Charlton Kings 
and Marsworth 
Railway Bill. 


Swansea 
Waterworks 
Bill. 


Belfast 
and Lisburn 
Road Bill. 


Roborough 
Hundred 
(Devon) Small 
Debts Bill. 


Church Rates 
Regulation. 





7 Wut. IV. 


That they had heard counsel in support of the 
said Petition, and had examined the allegations 
of the Bill, and found the same to be true; and 
had gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto; and the Amendments were read, and 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


Ordered, That the Report which was yesterday 
made from the Committee on the Charlton Kings 
and Marsworth Railway Bill, be printed. 


An ingrossed Bill for better supplying with Water 
the Town and Borough of Swansea, in the County 
of Glamorgan, was, according to Order, read the 
third time; and an ingrossed Clause was added by 
_— of Rider, and Amendments were made to the 

ill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. John Henry Vivian do carry 
the Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Mr. Kirk reported from the Committee on the 
Belfast and Lisburn Road Bill; That they had 
examined the allegations of the Bill, and found the 
same to be true; and had gone through the Bill, 
and made Amendments thereunto; and the Amend- 
ments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


Ordered, That the Roborough Hundred (Devon) 
Small Debts Bill be read the third time To-morrow. 


Petitions from Kenton ;-—Wickhambreux ;— Kings- 
land ;—Saint Alkmund, Derby ;— Derby (Archdeacon 
and Clergy of the Archdeaconry) ;—Horsley ;— 
Stanton-by- Bridge ;— Repton ;— Faversham ;— Aston- 
upon-T rent ;— Swarkeston;— Ticknall;— Llanfihangel 
duiat&gt; Glyn; —Ticehurst ; —Llanilar ;— Llanich- 
aiarn ;— Llanfihangel Creiddyn ;-- Barnoldswick and 
Bracewell ;—— Walton-le- Dale ;—Tillingham ;— Hips- 
well ;—-Moor Monkton ;— Hessay ;-— Headingly-cum- 
Burley ;—Bramham ;— Hudswell ;— Raskelf ;— Kir- 
bymisperton ;—Richmond (York) ;—Selby ;—Chur- 
well ;— Epperstone ;—Cheltenham ;-—Stow (Clergy of 
the Deanery ;}—Walkeringham ;—and, Beckingham ; 
praying that the proposed measure relative to 
Church Rates may not receive the sanction of the 
House,—were presented, and read ; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from Lambeth ;— Bratton ;—Appledore ; 
— Brayford ;— Eccles ;— Blackbrook near Saint He- 
len’ s;—Spencer-place, Goswell-street Road ;— George- 
street Baptist Chapel, Manchester ;—Greengate Cha- 
pel, Salford ;—Jackson’s-lane Chapel, Hulme ;-— 
Buckhaven (United Associate Congregation) ;—— 
Clack and Goatacre ;—Hullavington and Stanton ;— 
Atford ;—Lea and Garsden ;—Seagry ;—Chippen- 
ham ;— Highworth ;—_Brinkworth ;— Hannington ;— 

Broad Town ;—Stratton Saint Margaret’s (Baptists) ; 
— Highgate (Baptists) ;— Glynn Trian ;— Denmark- 
place, Camberwell ; — Tealby ; — Devonshire-square 
Chapel, Bishopsgate ;—Saint John, Hampstead ;— 
Hammersmith ;—George-yard Chapel, Hammersmith ; 
—-Cutting’s-lane, Woodbridge ;—-Halesworth ;— Laven- 
ham ;-- Framlingham ;—Rendham;— Needham Mar- 
ket ;—Walpole ;—Tacket-street Meeting House, Ips- 
wich;— Bury-lane Meeting House, Ipswich ;--Great 
Cross Hall-street, Liverpool ;--Frome Selwood ;— 
Cheltenham ;— Earl Soham ;—Saint Martin-in-the- 
Fields, Westminster ;— Waldring field ;— Hadleigh ;— 
Ebenezer Chapel, Darwen ;— King’ s-street, Northamp- 
ton;—Saint Nicholas Chapel, Ipswich ;—Somersham ; 
— Saint Alban’s;—Mayor of Northampton ;—Smar- 
den ;—Lynn Regis ;— Wokingham ;— Kettering ;— 
Birchanger, Stansted, and vicinities ;— King’s Lynn ; 
— Pittington ;— Easington-lane, Durham ;—Maccles- 
= eas Birmingham ;— Eye ;— Newport ; 
OL. 92. 


3° Marz. 








319 


— Birmingham (Chairman of the Voluntary Church 
Society) ;—Smethwith ;— Easington ;—- Birmingham 
(Old Meeting House);—- Belstone ;-- Ward of Bishops- 
gate, London ;—and, Heanton Punchardon ; praying 
that the said proposed measure may receive the sanc- 
tion of the House,—were also presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


tham;— Ramsbury ;— York ;— Honiton ;— Aylesbury; 
— Methwold ;— Swadlincote and Wooden Box ;— 
Thetford ;— Truro ;—Scarborough ;— Melbourne ;— 
East and West Leke ;—Ticknall ;—Bath ;—Cole- 
Jord ;—King-Weston, East Lydford and Wheathill; 
— Downend ;—Shepton Mallet ;—Sandhurst, Cran- 
brook, Goudhurst and Hawkhurst ;—U, pwell;—Down- 
ham(Wesleyans);— Brixrworth ;—Wotton Underedge; 
—Frampton Cottrell ;—Warmley ;—Winterbourne ; 
—Eastington ;— Dursley ;— Llangefni ;— Northamp- 
ton;—Stanley Saint Leonard ;— Beaumaris ;—Holy- 
head ;—Amlwch ;— Nether and Upper Poppleton ;— 
Sheriff Hutton (two Petitions) ;— Davie-street, Edin- 
burgh (Original Seceders) ;— Rochford ;— Runcorn; 
— Huntington ;— Shelton ;— Bilton ;—Strensall and 
Harby ;— Helmsley;— Sidmouth ;— Farway ;—South 
Shields ; — Teignmouth ;—-Birdword ;— and, Hart- 
pury; praying that a general Bill for the better 
observance of the Lord’s Day may be permitted to 
go into a Committee of the whole House,—were 
os and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
able. 


—Chelmsford Union ;— Cheltenham ;— Haworth ;— 
and, Swansea; praying for the repeal or amendment 
of the Poor Law fe ncdaacn presented, and read ; 
and referred to the Select Committee on the Poor 
Law Act. 

A Petition of Members of the Board of Guardians 
of the Union of Thornbury, in the county of G'louces- 
ter, praying that no alteration whatever may be made 
in any of the provisions of the said Act, was also 
presented, and read ; and referred to the said Select 
Committee. 


and, Kettle; praying the House to give such direc- 

tions as may speedily ensure the establishment of 

a direct Mail through Fife, either by transmitting 

the mail bags by the stage coaches, or such other 

conveyance as may be thought advisable, — were 

— and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
able. 


tornies’ Certificates,—were presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


operation of the Act of Sederunt of the Lords of 
Session in Scotland, relative to the Table of Fees of 
the Sheriff and Stewart Clerks, or to remit it toa 
Select Committee to inquire into the whole matter, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the table. 


praying that the House will not so alter the present 
Corn Law as to diminish its protective effect to the 
landed interest, was presented, and read, and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


— Wangford Union (Chairman and Vice-Chairman) ; 
—Hollingbourn Union ;—and, West Ashford Union; 
praying that the Owners of small Tenements may be 
assessed to the rates for the relief of the poor instead 
of the occupiers,—were presented, and read; and re- 
ferred to the Select Committee on the Poor Law Act. 

ss4 Petitions 





Petitions from Great Grimsby ;—Laceby ;--Wal- Lord’s Day. 


Petitions from Nottingham ;—-Ripponden;—Leeds; Poor Law Act. 


Petitions from Newburgh ;—Fruchie ;— Ceres ;— Fife Mail. 


Petitions from Glasgow ; — Kirkcaldy ; — and, Attornies’ 
Stirling ; praying for the repeal of the Duty on At- Certificates. 


A Petition of Law Practitioners in Kirkcaldy, sheriff-Clerks’ 
praying the House to pass an Act suspending the Fees(Scotland.) 


A Petition of Tenantry residing in East Suffolk, Corn Laws. 


Petitions from Guardians of the Elham Union, Rating of 
Kent ;—Shepton Mallet Union ;— Bedminster Union ; T°" 











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; 
| 
} 


320 3° Marz. 


Window Tax. Petitions from Edinburgh ;— and, the parish of 
Saint James, within the liberty of Westminster ; 
praying for the repeal of the Window Tax,—were 
— and read; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 


FireInsurances. Petitions from Honiton ;—Leicester ;—and, Gos- 
port and Alverstohe; praying for a reduction of the 
Duty on Fire Insurances,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Land Tax. Petitions from Pinner ;—the parish of Saint James, 
Westminster ;—and, the united parishes of Saint 
Andrew, Holborn-above- Bars, and Saint George-the- 
Martyr, Middlesex ; praying the House to take im- 
mediate steps for effecting an equalization of the un- 
redeemed Land Tax in England and Wales,—were 
— and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
able. 


Education A Petition of John Fisher Murray, of Murray 

(isctend.) Terrace, in the county of Antrim, and of Lincoln’s 
Inn, in the county of Middlesex, complaining of 
having been dismissed from his situation of one of 
the inspectors of National Schools in Jreland, osten- 
sibly for the publication of a political pamphlet 
against the agitation of the Repeal Question; and 
praying for inquiry, was presented, and read; and 
referred to the Select Committee on Plan of Educa- 
tion (Jreland.) 


Municipal A Petition of Burgesses and Inhabitants of Falk- 

(Sectiond) Bill land, praying that the Municipal Corporations (Scot- 
land) Bill may pass into a law, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of the Convenery of the Fourteen In- 
corporated Trades of —es praying that the 
said Bill may not pass into a law as it now stands, 
was also eats, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 

A Petition of John Guthrie, of Edinburgh, officer 
to the Convention of Royal Burghs in Scotland, 
praying that provision may be made in the said Bill 
for compensating the Petitioner for the loss he will 
sustain by the passing thereof, was also presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Merchant A Petition of Seamen of North Shields, praying 

ae. that the Merchant Shipping Regulation Bill may 

Bill. pass into a law, was presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 

Factories. Petitions from Persons in the employ of Mr. B. 
Sandford, Manchester ;— Mr. Rhodes, Manchester ; 
-——Mr. Clark, Manchester ;—and, Operative Turned 
Chair Makers of Manchester ; praying the House to 
pass a law to protect all Factory workers from being 
worked more than Ten hours for five days of the 
week and eight on the Saturdays,—were presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Path Petitions from Neath ; —Bristol; — Cardiff ; — 


South Shields ;—and, Lerwick; praying the House 
to relieve the Proprietors of the Shipping Gazette 
from the postage of Letters containing shipping and 
commercial intelligence only,—were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Sixth Reporton Mr. Chichester reported from the Select Com- 
“— Law Act. mittee appointed to inquire into the administration 
No. 266. of the Relief of the Poor under the orders and re- 
gulations issued by the Commissioners appointed 
under the provisions of the Poor Law Amendment 
Act; and who were empowered to report the Minutes 
of the Evidence taken lakes them ons time to time 
to the House; That they had made further Progress 
in the matters to them referred; and had directed 
him to report the Minutes of the Evidence taken 
before them. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 

and be printed. 





A. 1837. 


A Petition of the there-undersigned Inhabitants of Newfoundland, 
Harbor Grace, in the district of Conception Bay, in 
the Island of Newfoundland, was presented, and 
read ; setting forth, That on the 13th September 
1836, Writs were issued by the Executive ordering 
the election of Representatives of the several dis- 
tricts of Newfoundland, under one of which, ad- 
dressed to Robert J. Pinsent, of Brigus, Esquire, 
Returning Officer for Conception Bay, a meeting of 
the Electors of that district was convened to take 
place at Harbor Grace, on the first day of November 
then immediately following, for the purpose of elect- 
ing four fit and proper persons tu represent the 
district in the House of —, that Robert 
Pack, Esquire, and James Power, Esquire, both of 
Carbonear, had, subsequently, publicly declared 
themselves Candidates for the representation, pro- 
fessing liberal principles; and as both of those 
gentleman had, during the entire period of the ex- 
istence of the first House of Assembly, honestly, 
zealously and fearlessly discharged their duty to 
their constituents as eeheventiliwes of the said 
district, the electors of the Bay determined to ratify 
their approval of their conduct by their re-election ; 
that in order to render the return of four liberal 
Candidates certain, and to prevent the accumulation 
of expenses, the Candidates had no committees; but 
in each town a “ General Election Committee ” was 
established by the electors, not to sustain the indi- 
vidual interests of any Candidate, but to maintain 
the interests of the electors of the entire district, 
by securing the return of faithful public servants ; 
that, in the morning of the first of November, the 
General Election Committee of Carbonear had made 
arrangements to accompany the candidates before 
mentioned in procession at the head of the electors 
of that town to the hustings, and accordingly re- 
quested those gentlemen to permit this exhibition 
of the respect and attachment of their supporters ; 
that Carbonear is three miles distant from Harbor 
Grace, and at that season the road is so very bad 
that people seldom pass that way on foot without 
the aid of a stick; and, therefore, on the morning 
in question, several of the electors of Carbonear, 
thus equipped, and on the way several others, who 
had not been originally so provided, found it neces- 
sary to supply * ara Ho as well as they could, in 
order to escape those places that were then really 
impassable; that, on approaching, they were met 
and joined by the Harbor Grace Committee and 
electors, and having arrived on the beach of Harbor 
Grace, they found a small party headed by Mr. 
Ridley, one of the opposition or Tory Candidates, 
moving round the hustings, who received them with 
a shout of defiance; and, having made a tour of 
the hustings, similar to that of the Ridley party, 
the principal and most influential electors of Car- 
bonear placed themselves between the two parties, 
lest, upon such an occasion of excitement, any mis- 
understanding should lead to a breach of the peace ; 
that, no sooner had they been thus disposed, than 
an attempt made by the Ridley party to attach their 
colours in triumph to the hustings, irritated some 
persons to rush through the crowd of Carbonear 
men upon the opposing flag, and in an instant the 
colour was torn in pieces, and some of the persons 
who surrounded it and resisted were struck, but in 
no single instance had any one been seriously hurt ; 
that, of the persons placed between, so suddenly 
did this entire affray pass over, that some stood still, 
unable to collect their thoughts, and one or two 
rushed after those who passed them, to prevent 
violence, but in no case did any of those parties 
participate in the attack; that after this sudden 
flash, peace was restored, and the election, which 
had not then commenced, proceeded, and after vainly 
contesting for two days, the Tory party retired from 
the struggle, and the four Whig Candidates were 
declared duly elected; that upon ye Page wen 
the Tory party used every artifice to exhibit their 


annoyance 
; 


7 Wii. IV. 


annoyance at their discomfiture, and Assistant Judge 
Brenton upon the mere dictum of that party in his 
charge to the Grand Jury on the opening of the 
adjourned Session of the Northern Circuit Court a 
few days after, represented the conduct of the peo- 
ple of Conception Bay in the most atrocions hight, 
and at the same time acquainted the Grand Jury 
that one case of assault was on the calendar; but 
when the jury retired to consider this case, they 
found that it was not a case connected with the 
elections, and further were much surprised to find 
the evidence adduced by the Solicitor-General on 
the part of the Crown quite insufficient to support 
the indictment, although it appeared to the jury that 
better evidence might have been laid before them ; 
that the Grand Jury, a majority of whom were Tory, 
in open court protested against the representations 
of the Judge, and that his conduct was generally 
regarded as having been dictated by a spirit of par- 
tisanship, and when subsequently he issued a bench 
warrant for the arrest of Roger Thomey, of Car- 
bonear for an alleged assault connected with the 
Election, although the latter, immediately upon the 
arrival of the Sub-Sheriff in Carbonear, voluntarily 
waited on him to surrender, yet did a large party of 
the people, contrary to his wishes, rescue him under 
a conviction produced by his charge, that impartial 
justice would not have been administered ; that on 
the opening of the Supreme Court in Saint John’s 
some days after, Roger Thomey, confident of his 
innocence, once more threw himself voluntarily into 
the arms of the ministers of justice, having come to 
Saint John’s for the purpose ; and a true bill having 
been returned against him by a packed Grand Jury, 
he was tried, and, influenced by the instruction of 
the honourable the Chief Justice, the jury brought 
in a verdict of “ Guilty of Assault,” but which 
verdict was accompanied by the explanation that 
they (the jury) had “ doubts of the credibility of 
the witnesses for the prosecution,” but not one of 
the three Judges having told the jury that the ac- 
cused had aright to the benefit of these doubts, 
the verdict of guilty was recorded, and Thomey in- 
stantly committed ; that by proclamation, published 
in the Royal Gazette of June 7th, 1836, five months’ 
notice was thought necessary to be given of the 
succeeding term of the Supreme Court, at a season 
when the communication with the out-ports being 
open, the intelligence may be easily diffused through- 
out the island, and in that proclamation the 10th 
day of December was stated to be the day of the 
termination of that Session; that during the term 
this packed Tory Grand Jury, consisting principally 
of two of the defeated Tory Candidates for the re- 
presentation of Saint John’s, and members of their 
committee, instructed by this honourable Chief Judge 
summoned before them by subpeena a large number 
of the inhabitants of Conception Bay to give evi- 
dence, “ touching and concerning certain inquisitions 
and misdemeanors,” without specifyimg in that 
summons any particular act, time, place or circum- 
stance, to be inquired into, for the purpose of search- 
ing for offences to bring to trial before that honour- 
able Judge ; but in this unconstitutional hunt for 
crime no offences were in this manner inquired after, 
save only those connected with the late Elections, 
and no criminals sought for but those of the Whig 
party ; that the Whig representatives and the Ca- 
tholic clergymen seemed particularly aimed at ; but 
although two Catholic clergymen, and no fewer 
than six of the representatives of the people were 
wantonly dragged before a partisan. Chiet Judge, not 
a shadow of criminality was attempted even by the 
witnesses for the Crown, to be imputed to any one 
of them, and an honourable acquittal was the result; 
that Robert Pack, Esquire, and James Power, Es- 
quire, before mentioned, had been amongst the per- 
sons subpeenaed befure the Grand Jury, and that 
James Power, Esquire, had been actually examined 


by that body upon the very facts which immediately 
Vou. 92. 


3° Maiz. 





321 
after were made the ground of a presentment, and 
an indictment against himself; and Robert Pack, 
Esquire, had only arrived in Saint John’s, in obedi-: 
ence to their summons to learn that he was included 
in the same charge ; that in the same charge were 
included six other inhabitants of Carbonear, viz., 
William Harding, John Meany, Roger Thomey, Ed- 
ward Hayden, William Saunders, and Andrew Quirk,. 
but owing to the time of the Court being unusually 
occupied through the activity and industry of the 
Grand Jury, who had only the Tuesday before the 
term, been irritated by the success and triumph 
of their opponents, the Governor issued a Procla- 
mation prolonging the term of the Court from the 
10th to the 22d December, which was published on 
Tuesday, December 6th, in the Royal Gazette, thus 
seeming to consider a notice of five days at a season 
when all communication with the out-ports was 
closed, to be equal to as many months when it was 
uninterrupted ; that so fruitful did this industrious 
Grand Jury make their labours, and so influential 
were they, and those who acted with them, that 
another “ Prolongation Proclamation” was the re- 
sult, extending the term further to the 31st Decem- 
ber; and that it was not until Friday the 30th, 
exactly twenty days beyond that originally pro- 
claimed to the entire Island for five months as the 
final day, and nine days beyond that appointed by 
the Proclamation of five days; that, on the occasion 
of this trial, the Crown departed from the course 
undeviatingly pursued during the former part of 
the Session ; that up to that day all the Election 
trials had been conducted with Petty Juries of 
Catholics and Protestants, Whigs and Tories pro- 
miscuously ; but upon this occasion the Crown de- 
manded a Special Jury, and struck off from the 
panel every gentleman, whether Catholic or Pro- 
testant, professing liberal principles; that in con- 
ducting the trial, although the principal charge was 
the rush mentioned above as having been made on 
the colours of Mr. Ridley’s friends, and which took 
place at the —— three or four minutes before 
the opening of the Election, and under the eye of 
the returning officer, yet did the Crown not adduce 
that gentleman as a witness; and although one of 
the principal witnesses of the Crown, the gaoler of 
Harbor deen, who professed himself a partisan, 
was permitted to describe the injuries sustained by a 
person who was stated to have been struck upon the 
occasion, the person himself, and the doctor who 
attended him were also kept back by the Crown ;. 
that all the allegations made against the defendants 
were unreasonably sociamnel, as might naturally 
have been expected, when the defeated party were 
the prosecutors, and the witnesses, and the Judges 
and the Jury, and the successful party, the ac~ 
cused. The Electors coming in together was con- 
strued as intended for intimidation; seme of them 
having sticks, was imputed as evidence of preme- 
ditated crime. The honourable Judge regarded 
Mr. Pack’s anxiety to preserve the peace as proof 
of atrocious criminality. The cheers of the Whigs 
were “ fiendish yells,” and the shouts of the Tories 
were “ cheers of welcome ;” that nevertheless the 
evidence on that occasion, which was permitted to 
go to the Jury, was, in the opinion of the Peti- 
tioners, insufficient to warrant a verdict of “ Guilty” 
against Mr. Harding, Thomey and Saunders, and 
that the requiriig of the expression used by Mr. 
Harding five hours subsequently to the time limited 
by order of the Court for the reception of evidence, 
was not warranted by the rules of evidence, and that 
the part taken by the honourable the Chief Justice, 
did not appear consistent with that impartiality 
which ought to distinguish a Judge; and that by 
his conduct in trying to induce the Jury to believe 
that a “ tumultuous assembly,” and an “ unlawful 
assembly,” were in law synonymous, he confirmed 
the public opinion, that he made his high office 
auxiliary to the gratification of his political feelings ; 
TT that, 





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that, at two of the clock on the morning of the 
thirty-first day of December, this memorable trial | 
terminated ; and although that was the last day of 
the Term, as notified by the last Proclamation pub- 
lished, the honourable the Chief Judge caused the 
Court to be adjourned to the Monday following (Ja- 
nuary 2nd) without even in Court giving the public 
the slightest intimation that he had been authorized 
so todo; and it was not until Tuesday the 3d Janu- 
ary 1837, that a third Prolongation Proclamation 
for the first time announced to the people of the en- 
tire Island of Newfoundland, that the Term was still 
further extended to January 6th; that on Thursday 
January 5th, William Harding, Roger T. homey, and 
William Saunders, were called up for judgment, and 
condemned to suffer twelve months’ imprisonment ; 
and that, as by the 5th section of the Local Act, 
4 William, Session 2, chap. 5, an Act brought 
before the Legislature by the Honourable Mr. Boul- 
ton, the Supreme Court may make rules for the 
treatment, dietary, &amp;c., of prisoners, the honour- 
able Chief Judge has now the power of visiting with 
every rigour these obnoxious characters; that since 
the imprisonment of these individuals, they have 
been visited with the severest restrictions ; and on 
the occasion of William Harding’s directing a Peti- 
tion to the Executive, praying for mercy, to be pre- 
pared for him, the High Sheriff, Benjamin Greer 
Garrett, Esquire, who is generally regarded as the 
tool of the Judge, prevented his signing it until he 
(the Sheriff) should have laid it before the honour- 
able Judge Boulton, and that thus not only was 
Harding deprived of the right of Petition, but the 
honourable Judge had had an opportunity of reading 
that Petition before it came judicially before him, 
and actually, if the High Sheriff be worthy of belief, 
expressed an opinion upon its contents upon that 
occasion; that the Petition of Harding for mercy, 
on being by the Executive again laid before the 
honourable Judge was unsuccessful, and immedi- 
ately a system of annoyance was opened upon Hard- 
ing, the consequence of which can hardly be con- 
templated without pain. The three prisoners are 


3° Maz. 





persons who had lived in comfortable circumstances, 
and Harding in independence, and he had been | 
long labouring under a general delicacy of constitu- | 
tion, and therefore his friends in visiting him sought | 
means of introducing food more nourishing than | 
had been laid down by the dietary rule of the Su- | 
preme Court; that the diet appointed by this rule | 
is one pound of brown biscuit, one pint of oatmeal 
burgoo, and two quarts of pure water per day, and 
one pint of salt per month; and on search made by 
the Sheriff in the cells, a half pint of ale was dis- 
covered which had been used to make the burgoo 
more palatable, and a bottle of milk also, and an 
investigation of several days’ continuance is now 
going on, the result of which will probably be to 
deter their friends from assisting them, and the sen- 
tence of imprisonment, it is feared, will prove a sen- 
tence of death at least to Mr. Harding; that | 
Thomey and Saunders had been for many weeks | 
confined to what is called the “ condemned cell,” a 
dark dungeon usually set apart for felons under 
sentence of death, although no men could be better 
conducted in gaol; and that notwithstanding this, 
notwithstanding the excellent character borne by all 
the parties during their whole lives before, are they 
not alone deprived of their liberty unlawfully, but sub- 
jected to the utmost cruelty that tyranny can invent; | 
for, not content with the legal allowance, as it is, it 
is rendered still worse by the fact that, although 
two quarts of pure water are, by the Rule of Court 
allowed each man, and although a spring of excel- 
lent and pure water, is not more than one hundred 
and fifty yards from the prison, yet are the prisoners | 
obliged to be content with the impure water raised 
from the pump in the gaol yard, which is within 
some half dozen yards of the public Cemetery, 
and which is so bad as to be unfit for use, ex- 








A. 1837. 


cept boiled, and even in that state has caused 
bowel complaints to those who are obliged to use it; 
that, while these parties are thus writhing under the 
infliction of an unmerited punishment, a circular 
to the Representatives lately returned from the 
Executive, acquainting them that they (the Exe- 
cutive) had issued illegal writs, and that therefore 
the Elections were void, and that another Election 
must take place ; that under these circumstances 
it would appear evident that the honourable Judge 
Boulton was all through acquainted with this cir- 
cumstance, and that all the coercion connected with 
the late Elections, and all the irritation, were in- 
tended in the first instance to produce offences, that 
the rancorous proceedings, the packing of juries, the 
partial charges, and the vindictive judgments, were 
all intended to intimidate the electors at the next 
Elections, and therefore the Petitioners pray that 
conduct so.enormous may not pass without its due 
punishment. If an experiment such as this, when 
the Executive have at all times the power of creating 
an informality in the Writs, in order that when the 
returns are not made to their liking they may use 
that informality to render the Election void ; if such 
an experiment be permitted in that Colony, other 
times may produce other men, who may dare to 
adopt it in Kngland, and plunge the country in civil 
war; they therefore pray the House to vindicate 
the representative principle, and forbid the Execu- 
tive or the Council to hold the people’s franchise 
thus in trammels; and that the people may be 
secured from the recurrence of an outrage so egre- 
gious, but above all things they earnestly and 
ardently implore the House to pray His Majesty 
either to cancel the judgment of the Supreme Court 
on the several prisoners condemned for election 
offences, but particularly William Harding, Roger 
Thomey and William Saunders, or graciously to ex- 
tend in their behalf the benign influence of the truly 
Royal Prerogative of mercy. 

Petition of the there-undersigned Representa- 
tives, in the House of Assembly of Vewfoundland, of 
the district of Saint John’s, the district of Placentia, 
and Saint Mary’s, and the district of Ferryland, 
was also presented, and read; setting forth, That on 
the 13th September 1836, Writs were tested for a 
General Election for Representatives to serve in the 
House of Assembly of Newfoundland, and at the 
elections consequent thereon, two-thirds of the re- 
presentation devolved upon individuals distinguished 
as supporters of Whig principles, notwithstanding 
that every unconstitutional means were adopted by 
the authorities, particularly in Conception Bay and 
Saint John’s, to influence, intimidate and even to 
coerce the electors; that all these means having 
failed to produce a majority opposed to the prin- 
ciples of constitutional reform, on Saturday, the 16th 
January last, a circular was addressed to the Peti- 
tioners from the secretaries’ office, acquainting them 
in the most succinct manner, that an objection having 
been raised to the validity of the Writs lately issued 
for the election of Members for the House of As- 
sembly, his Excellency lost not a moment in making 
this circumstance known to His Majesty’s Govern- 
ment, and he has been informed in reply by the 
Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, that 
the “ objection does not appear susceptible of any 
valid answer in point of law, and consequently fres 
Writs must be issued ;” and that the issue of a pro- 
clamation on the Tuesday following told the Peti- 
tioners that the “ objection ” referred to was the 
omission of the Executive to attach the Great Seal 
to the Writs, but that the Executive did not con- 
descend to lay before the representatives or the 
people any further explanation of a circumstance so 
extraordinary ; that the Petitioners beg to represent 
that they regard this flippant manner of getting rid 
of representatives, who, though strictly coinciding 
in political principles with His Majesty’s Govern- 
ment in England, are diametrically opposed to the 

principles 








7 Wi. IV. 


principles that guide the Government of Newfound- 
land, as a trick far beneath the dignity that ought 
to characterize the acts of the representative of our 
Gracious Sovereign, and highly discreditable to those 
entrusted withthe administration of that Government, 
as well as laying down a dangerous precedent in 
the infancy of the Legislature of Newfoundland ; 
the Petitioners beg most respectively to represent 
that it is not the seal which is in the hands of the 
Executive, and which, to suit the corrupt views of 
a partisan Chief Justice, or a weak Governor, in fact 
of every individual connected with the Government 
or the Council, may be attached to or withheld from 
the Writs at will, but the free unbiassed suffrages 
of a free people, that ought to constitute the validity 
of the returns; they beg to represent that it is un- 
constitutional that the Right honourable the Secre- 
tary of State for the Colonies should, not being a 
legally constituted Judge, nor seated on a tribunal 
of justice, take it upon himself to adjudicate upon 
and determine an abstract question of law affecting 
the highest constitutional rights of ninety thousand 
people, without permitting those whose interests were 
affected to be heard; that if the Secretary of State 
for the time being be allowed this privilege the re- 
presentative branch of the Legislature in all His Ma- 
jesty’s Colonies is but a name, and the elective 
franchise a dangerous instrument, in the virtuous 
use of which men may lead themselves into diffi- 
culties, while the representation was really centered 
in the whim or caprice, or prejudice or party feeling 
of one single individual ; that the Petitioners there- 
fore throw themselves, and in their person the repre- 
sentation of the Island of Newfoundland, under the 
protection of the House, and pray that an outrage 
so egregious be not permitted to pass unpunished, 
and that the representative principle be vindicated 
in such manner as to the House shall seem just and 
equitable. 

A Petition of Roger Thomey, now a prisoner in His 
Majesty’s gaol of Saint John’s, Newfoundland, was 
also presented, and read; setting forth, That the 
Petitioner, on the occasion of the late Election for 
representatives for the district of Conception Bay, 
was an active and constitutional supporter of the 
popular or Whig interest, and having been at that 
time, and for the sixteen or seventeen years pre- 
vious, and in fact since his boyhood, in the employ 
of Robert Pack, Esquire, he was peculiarly solici- 
tous, as a citizen, to support a gentleman who 
had, for a period of four years’ legislation, proved 
himself a zealous advocate of public rights, and as 
a servant, to secure the return of a kind, indulgent 
and considerate master; that some few days after 
the Election, and while the Northern Circuit Court 
was being held in Harbor Grace, the Petitioner 
having heard that some charge was made against 
him, and that the deputy Sheriff, Mr. Stabd, had 
_arrived in Carbonear for the purpose of arresting the 
Petitioner, that upon the instant the Petitioner 
waited on Mr. Stabb, and voluntarily surrendered ; 
but that on being taken to the other side of the 
town, a large body of people rescued the Peti- 
tioner, while the Petitioner strongly protested 
against their act; that, anxious to justify his con- 
duct, the Petitioner, unacquainted with the nature 
of the charge alleged against him, and not cog- 
nizant of having at any time injured any human 
being, on Saturday, December the third, took 
passage across the Bay and arrived that evening in 
Saint John’s, and on the Monday following once 
more voluntarily surrendered himself, and gave bail, 
and on Tuesday, December the twentieth, was tried 
in the Supreme Court on a charge of riot and as- 
sault; that on the occasion of the rescue of the 
Petitioner, before mentioned, the Tory press of 
Saint John’s, by their misrepresentations, prejudiced 
the public mind to such a degree, that the Jury by 
whom the Petitioner had been tried afterwards, and 
who remained within for a night, brought in a ver- 


Vou. 92, 








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323 


dict of “guilty of the assault” against the Peti- 
tioner, although, while returning their verdict, they 
stated to the Judges that they doubted of the cre- 
dibility of the witnesses for the prosecution ; and 
upon these doubts, in place of acquitting the Peti- 
tioner, contented themselves with recommending 
the Petitioner to the merciful consideration of the 
Court; that the Petitioner, upon having been res- 
cued, was aware that the people had been acted upon 
by a presentiment that justice would not have been 
accorded. Itis a libel upon the people of Carbon- 
ear to say that they are opposed to the operation of 
the process of the law. The Petitioner is a Carbon- 
ear man, and his conduct is a contradiction to the 
foul calumny ; and so cognizant were the honour- 
able the Chief Judge and the other authorities of 
Saint John’s, of the falsehood of that charge, 
although founded on the authority of a presentment 
of a Tory Grand Jury, that even with the example 
of the rescue of the Petitioner before their eyes, 
when a Bench Warrant was issued by the honour- 
able the Chief Judge during the last term of the 
Supreme Court, for the arrest of one of the Whig 
Representatives of the people, who is a resident in 
Carbonear, (James Power, Esquire), and five or six 
resident Electors, that the execution of that warrant 
was entrusted to one single constable, and this single 
constable brought his prisoners from the centre of 
the town into Saint John’s; nor would it be, in the 
Petitioner’s opinion, difficult to execute any law 
process in any part of Vewfoundland, provided there 
were but a distant expectation that any thing ap- 
proaching to justice would be administered ; that on 
the trial above alluded to, Currie swore the Peti- 
tioner struck a person of the name of Goss, “I saw 
Roger Thomey rise wp on the top of his right foot, 
and with all his might strike Thomas Goss on the 
head, when he fell prostrate to the ground, and he 
continued beating him whilst down;” and Stowe 
swore that he saw the Petitioner strike him “ when 
getting up;” and Currie further swore, that of 
twenty or thirty men who came up at the time, as 
many as could reach him struck him with sticks, 
and further swore, “ I saw another man take hold of 
the pickets of the fence, and with all his might leap 
down a-top of his body ;” and this Goss, notwith- 
standing this monstrous treatment, a weakly looking 
delicate middle sized man, thus barbarously beaten 
by the Petitioner, a large athletic man, immediately 
after walked home to Spaniards Bay, a distance of 
eight miles through the woods of Newfoundland, 
and upon the impossibility of such a thing were the 
doubts of the Jury founded ; that the Petitioner was, 
instantly on his conviction, even under these circum- 
stances, ordered into prison by the honourable Judge 
Boulton, who stated that imprisonment would form 
part of his punishment, although subsequently not 
one person convicted of assault was punished by 
imprisonment except in one case, where a portion of 
the fine was commuted for a month’s imprisonment ; 
and that with all the former prejudices against the 
Petitioner thus ratified by this ambiguous verdict of 
the first Jury, is another indictment found against the 
Petitioner, and on the 30th December he was tried 
with Messrs. Pack, Power, Harding, Saunders, &amp;e. ; 
that, on this trial, so far did the prejudices of the Jury 
carry them, for the Juries, both Grand and Special, 
beside the causes of prejudice above mentioned, were 
also moved to hostility to the Petitioner, by motives 
of political hatred, as the latter were exclusively, and 
the former almost exclusively, composed of the dis- 
appointed Tories ; so far did their prejudices carry 
the Special Jury, as to find the Petitioner “ guilty 
of riot and assault,” although there was not ad- 
duced, on the part of the Crown, a single partiele 
of evidence criminatory of the Petitioner; that the 
honourable Judge Boulton, who on the former 
trial showed his hostility to the Petitioner by not 
instructing the Jury to acquit him, when they 





doubted the credibility of the only witnesses for the 
TT? prosecution 





324. 3° Maz. 


prosecution who pretended to identify the Petitioner, 
as the Court were bound to do, on this occasion too 
manifested his undue prejudices against the Peti- 
tioner ; that this feeling manifested itself first on the 
examination of Mr. Jacob. This gentleman had 
just remarked, “I identified Roger Thomey while 
the Candidates were addressing the people,’ when 
the honourable Judge unwarrantably commented 
upon the observation, saying, as if prompting the 
witness, “ You identified Roger Thomey among the 
people armed with sticks,” but to this suggestion of 
falsehood Mr. Jacob replied “ No;” and that no 
part of the evidence admitted by the Court as legal 
reached to the Petitioner, except that part of Currie’s 
testimony where he mentions “ I saw Thomey, &amp;c., 
and they all had sticks when I noticed them first ; 
it was at the time of the rush they were in among 
them,” and the other nine witnesses pass without 
adverting to the Petitioner; that the Petitioner can- 
not imagine that there is here evidence sufficient to 
warrant a conviction of any charge, particularly a 
charge of riot and assault; and yet has the Peti- 
tioner been condemned to atone for this offence by 
a “twelve months’ imprisonment,” and for the 
former assault to pay a fine of twenty-five pounds to 
His Majesty; that the Petitioner has been for several 
weeks confined in a dark dungeon usually appropri- 
ated to felons condemned to death, and has been 
subjected to the dietary and discipline to which the 
most depraved wretches upon earth are entitled ; 
and, although the dietary rule of Court entitles the 
prisoners to two quarts of pure water per day, with 
their pound of bread, the Petitioner is obliged to use 
the water of the pump in the gaol yard, which is 
exceedingly ill-tasted, as it is within eight or ten 
yards of the public cemetery upon one side, and 
within four yards of the High Sheriff's family’s priv 

at another; and, to add to its deleterious properties, it 
is usually kept in tin vessels, and upon the reiterated 
complaints of the prisoners, it is now served to them 
warmed ; that the Petitioner begs most respectfully 
but strongly to represent to the House, that his 
first conviction was illegal, as he had an undoubted 
right to the advantage of the doubts of the Jury ; 
and since the trial, the Petitioner has learned that 
two persons in Carbonear, of excellent character, 
had voluntarily, and unsolicited, deposed by affidavit 
that the Petitioner was not at all present when Goss 
was struck ; that he begs also to represent that the 
second conviction was illegal; the trial, in the first 
place, not having taken th within the time pre- 
scribed by the Proclamation of June 1836, nor by 
any Saahention that ever appeared in the Royal 
Gazette; and, in the next place, the evidence having 
been insufficient to warrant a verdict of guilty; and, 
thirdly, the verdict of the Jury having been cor- 
rupted by the order of the honourable Judge Boulton, 
and not signed when the Record was corrected, and 
that the sentence having taken place also at a time 
not within that marked out by the original Pro- 
clamation, is also unwarranted im law; that the 
Petitioner humbly urges, that as Elections have been 
so little known in Vewfoundland, a bare conviction 
for a first offence ought to have been considered 
sufficient to satisfy the ends of justice ; but most 
particularly when the Electors had in this case, in 
the first instance, been improperly and illegally con- 
venec by the wrongous act of the Executive in 
issuing illegal Writs. The Petitioner urges, that if in 
consequence of the illegality of the Writs, the good 
effected by the Electors, in electing free and inde- 
pendent Representatives, be rendered null and void, 
the evil committed by humble Electors, and par- 
ticularly where innocent parties are charged there- 
with may be forgotten, and that while those intelligent 
persons, who are well paid for performing their duty 
correctly, who vitiated His Majesty’s Writs are 
permitted to pass without notice, humble and ig- 
norant men, like the Petitioner, may not with 
impunity be selected as victims; under these cir- 





A. 1837. 


cumstances the Petitioner prays the House to address 
His Majesty, in order that the judgment of the 
honourable Supreme Court upon him be reversed, or 
that he be made partaker of the benign Prerogative 
of mercy. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to lie upon 
the Table; and to be printed. 


A Petition of the Chamber of Commerce and Marine 
Manufactures of Greenock, praying for a reduction Insurances. 
of the Duty on Marine Insurances, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of the county of Angle- st. Asaph 
sey, praying the House to prevent the appropriation 2nd Bangor 
of the surplus revenues of the united Sees of Saint Pie 
Asaph and Bangor, to any other purposes than a 
provision for resident Incumbents in the respective 
districts where they accrue, and the augmentation 
of poor benefices within the dioceses, was presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitant householders of Holborn, Metropolis 
praying that the Metropolis Improvement Bill may — 
pass into a law, was presented, and read; and” 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of Charles Pitt, of Adam-street, Adel- 
phi, Surveyor, praying that provision may be made 
in the said Bill for making a footway communica- 
tion from the Adelphi Terrace to Westminster Bridge, 
was also presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Rector, Churchwardens, Over- Metropolis 
seers of the Poor, and Inhabitant Householders of Improvement. 
the parish of Saint Paul, Covent Garden, praying 
that the new street running from the Strand oppo- 
site Waterloo Bridge, may be continued to the 
neighbourhood of Russell, Tavistock, Woburn and 
Bloomsbury Squares, was presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Trustees of the First Montgomery- Highway Act. 

shire District of Roads ;—the Oswestry District of 
Roads ;—and, the Road from the Gateshead and 
Hexham Turnpike Road to Shotley Bridge ; praying 
the House to pass an Act, declaring that Trustees 
of Turnpike Roads shall be entitled to a proportion 
of the rates levied under the Highway Act in lieu 
of Statute labour,—were Ronson | and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Monkton Combe, west India 
praying the House to admit the productions of Produce. 
Antigua and the Leeward Islands into this country 
at the same rate of duties as those of the ceded 
Colonies and Bengal,—was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from the Bristol Chamber of Commerce, soap, 
Trade and Manufactures ;—and Crediton ;—pray- 
ing for the repeal of the duty on Soap ;—were pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of the Chairman of a meeting of the Septennial Act. 


Radical Association of Scotland, praying for the 
repeal of the Septennial Act, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of the Manor of Dun- Manor Coar:s 
manway, praying that no measures may be taken (Ireland.) 
regarding the Courts of that Manor, save such as 
may extend the jurisdiction of the Court Baron, 
was presented, and read; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Manor Courts (Jreland.) 


Petitions from Liverpool ;— Fenwick ;— Irvine ;— Household 
Fullarton and Halfway ;—and, Leicester ; praying Svtese- 


‘the House to pass a law granting to Inhabitant 


Householders 








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7 Wit. IV. 


Householders in general the right of voting for 
Members of Parliament,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Members of the Radical Asso- 
ciation of Edinburgh, praying the House to institute 
an inquiry into the merits of the several Pensions 
and Sinecures granted out of the public money, 


was —— and read ; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of Parish Clerks and Sextons of the 
parishes and districts of the Metropolis and its 
environs thereinafter mentioned and described, pray- 
ing that in the event of the West London and West- 
minster Cemetery Bill, or any other of a similar 
nature being passed into a law, the House will 
award to the Petitioners in like manner as in the case 
of the Incumbents, such compensation as may seem 
proportionate to the injury sustained, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Pension 1.ist. 


Metropolis 
Cemeteries 
Bills. 


A Petition of Sir William Robert Sidney, Knight, 
praying the House to revise the Table of Fees in 
matters relating to the trial of Controverted Elec- 
tion Petitions, was presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 

Ordered, That the Petition be printed. 


House of Com- 
mons Election 
Fees, 


George 


see A Petition of Matthew Henry Willock, late Pay- 
andells. 


master of the 22d Regiment of Foot, complaining 
of misrepresentation in the Petition of George 
Landells, late a Lieutenant in the said Regiment 
(presented to the House upon the 15th day of Fe- 
bruary last); and praying for inquiry, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Richard A Petition of Richard Gathorne Butt, praying the 

Gathorne Butt. House to recommend a review of the trial and pro- 
ceedings instituted against him in the Court of King’s 
Bench, in 1814, upon a charge of conspiring to 
raise the Funds by propagating false news, was 
presented and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


Reform of A Petition of Merchants, Bankers, Traders and 

poser a others, Inhabitants of Liverpool, praymg that the 

Bill. Reform of Parliament Act Amendment Bill may pass 
into a law, was presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 

Petitions to A Petition of Members of the Working Men’s 

Parliament. 


Association meeting at Upper North Place, Gray’s 
Inn Road, complaining of the limitation of time, 
and small degree of attention bestowed upon Peti- 
tions; and praying the House to remove the dis- 
abilities under which Members are laid, and to allow 
them at all times discretion and latitude when they 
have the prayers of the people to present, was pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of Bakers of Port Glasgow, complain- 
ing of distress and want of employment in conse- 
quence of the great exportation of foreign-made 
Biscuit and Flour in bond, ostensibly as merchan- 
dize, but in reality for the consumption of ships’ 
crews; and praying the House to adopt such mea- 
sures for their relief and protection as may be 
deemed requisite, was presented, and read ; and or- 
dered to lie upon, the Table. 


Foreign Biscuit 
and Flour, 


Darish Claims. A Petition of Claimants for losses sustained by 


the seizure of their ships and goods in Denmark 
and the Baltic nm 1807; and praying for investiga- 
tion, was Baie and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 

Ordered, That the Petition be printed. 


Church of 
Scotland, 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Gilmerton and its 
neighbourhood, praying the House to take iuto con- 


sideration the state of religious instruction in Scot- 
Vor. 92. 





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325 


land, and to grant suitable endowments to the new 
Churches whose Ministers are hitherto unprovided 
with an adequate and permanent stipend, was pre- 


sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of Members of the Edinburgh Radical Volunteer 
Association, praying the House to rescind their vote Co'P* 
of 105,407/., for payment of the Volunteer Corps, 
and to abolish that force, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Robert Gregory, of Barnstaple, Registration of 
stating his claim to vote under the Reform Act; Y°™ 
and complaining of his name having been expunged 
from the List of Voters, on the ground of occupying 
premises as joint tenant with his father ; and praying 
for relief, was presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitant Householders of Chel- Recovery of 
tenham, complaining of the defective state of the Tenement 
laws relating to the rights of Landlord and Tenant ; 
and praying’ the House to make such alterations in 
the law as may more fully protect landlords from the 
dishonesty of tenants, without withdrawing from te- 
nants the most ample protection against the aggres- 
sions of landlords, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of the city of Gloucester Criminal Laws. 
and its vicinity, praying the House to abolish the 
punishment of death for every crime but that of 
actual murder, was presented, and read ; and or- 
dered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Henry Pluckwell, late master of the Henry 
poor-house in the parish of Tottenham, Middlesex, Pluckwell. 
complaining of having been discharged from his 
situation in consequence of the parish being united 
with others under the Poor Law Act; and praying 
relief, was presented, and read; and referred to the 
Select Committee on the Poor Law Act. 


A Petition of the Company of Merchants of the Bankrupts? 
city of Edinburgh, praying that the Bankrupts Estates Estates 
(Scotland) Bill may not pass into a law as it now (Stand) Bill. 
stands, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


A Petition of Bankers, Merchants, Farmers, Postage Duties. 
Traders and others residing in and around the town 
of Dunbar, in the county of East Lothian, praying 
for a reduction of the Duties of Inland Postage, 
was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 
the table. 


Petitions from the Reverend the Presbytery of Fducation 
Dunbar ;— Inhabitants of Carrickfergus; — and, (Ireland.) 
Minister and Elders of the Synod of Ross, complain- 
ing of the present system of Education in Ireland ; 
and praying that it may not be persisted in, and 
that a grant may be appropriated for the endowment 
and support of Schools to be conducted on Pro- 
testant principles,—were presented, and read ; and 
referred to the Select Committee on Plan of Educa- 
tion (Ireland.) 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Buttevant, in the Tithes 
county of Cork, praying for the abolition of Tithes (Ireland.) 
in Jreland,-was presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Buttevant, in the Vote by Ballot. 
county of Cork, praying the House to pass an Act 
for taking by Ballot the Votes at all elections for 
Members to serve in Parliament, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Angerstein reported from the Committee on Greenwich 
the Greenwich Pier Bill; and to whom several Pe- Pier Bill. 
titions against the said Bill were referred; That they 

TT 3 had 





Mersey 
Conservancy 
Bill. 


Loanhead and 
Stirling Canal 


Bill. 


Commercial 
Steam Packet 
Company Bill. 


Cotton Joint 
Stock Company 
Bill. 


Charity 
Trustees. 


No. 267. 
Convicts 


(Van Diemen’s 
Land.) 


No. 268. 
Upper Canada. 
No. 269. 

Canada, 


No. 270. 


Canada (Sir F. 
B. Head.) 
No. 271. 
Tithes 
(Treland.) 


Public Records 


Bill. 


326 3° Maiz. 


had considered the said Petitions ; and had exa-| 
mined the allegations of the Bill, and found the 
same to be true; and had gone through the Bill, 
and made Amendments thereunto ; and the Amend- 
ments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed. 


A Petition of Merchants, Traders and other In- 
habitants of Runcorn, praying that the Mersey Con- 
servancy Bill may not pass mto a law as it now 
stands, was presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Lord Provost, Magistrates and 
Council of the city of Edinburgh, praying that they 
may be heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
against certain parts of the Loanhead and Stirling 
Canal Bill, was presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Owners or Freighters of Steam 
Packets and other vessels trading to and from the 
Lough of Strangford, and traders in the towns ad- 
joining ;—and, Bankers, Merchants, Ship-owners, 
Steam Packet-owners, Traders, and others, of 
Greenock, praying that the Commercial Steam 
Packet Company Bill may not pass into a law, 
were presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 


the Table. 


A Petition of Cotton Spinners and Manufacturers 
in Glasgow, praying that they may be heard, by 
themselves, their counsel or agents, against the 
Cotton Joint Stock Company Bill, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Charity 
Trustees, which was presented upon Friday last, be 
printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Convicts, 


(Van Diemen’s Land), which was presented yester- 
day, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to Upper Canada, 
which was presented yesterday, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Paper relative to Judge 
Fletcher and Mr. Chisholme, which was presented 
yesterday, be printed. 











Ordered, That the Paper relative to Sir F. B. Head, 
which was presented yesterday, be printed, | 


Mr. Bernal reported from the Committee, to 
whom it was referred to consider of the expediency | 
of commuting Compositions for Tithes in Ireland, | 
into a rent-charge payable by the owners of the first 
estate of inheritance, and to make further provisions 
for the better regulation of Ecclesiastical Duties 
and Revenues, a Resolution, which was read, as 
followeth : 

Regolved, That it is expedient to commute Com- 
positions for Tithes in Freland into a rent-charge 

ayable by the owners of the first estate of in- 
ies, and to make further provisions for the 
better regulation of Ecclesiastical Duties and Re- 
venues. 

A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 
posed, That the said Resolution be now read a second 
time :—And a Debate arising thereupon ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till Friday | 
next, 





A Motion was made, and the Question being pro-| 
posed, That the Order of the day for the second | 


reading of the Public Records Bill, be now read; | 


An Amendment was proposed to be made to the | 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” to | 
the end of the Question, in order to add the words | 
“on Wednesdays precedence be given to the pre-| 


' 


A. 1837. 


“sentation of public Petitions after Mr. Speaker 
“ shall have taken the Chair,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Question : 
—The said proposed Amendment was, with leave of 
the House, withdrawn. 


Ordered, That the Order of the day for the second 
reading of the Public Records Bill be now read, 
and the same being read:—The Bill was read a 
second time, and committed to a Committee of the 
whole House for Wednesday, the 31st day of May 


next. 


Petitions from Merchants, and others, engaged Bonded Corn. 


in and interested in the Newfoundland trade at 
Poole;—John Asser, corn and land agent ;— William 
Carpenter, of Greenwich, in the county of Kent, 
miller ;— Merchants, Ship-owners, and others, in 
Liverpool ;—James Surrey, of York House, in the 
parish of Battersea, in the county of Surrey, miller ; 
—and, Merchants in Greenock interested in the 
trade and fisheries of Newfoundland, praying the 
House to authorize the manufacture of Flour and 
Biscuit from Foreign Corn in bond in this country 
for exportation, —were presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Foreign Grain 


the adjourned Debate upon the Question proposed 
upon the 21st day of March last, That this House 
do resolve itself to a Committee for the purpose 
of considering the Laws which regulate the importa- 
tion of Foreign Grain, with a view to allow the 
manufacture of the same in bond for exportation. 

And the Question being again proposed :—The 
House resumed the said adjourned Debate. 

And the Question being put :—IJt was resolved in 
the Affirmative. 

Resolved, That this House will, immediately, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee :—The House 
accordingly resolved itself into the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 


Motion made, and Question proposed, That it is 
expedient to permit the manufacture of Foreign 
Grain for exportation only, without payment of 
Duty, under such provisions and regulations as ma 
effectually secure the Public Revenue from fraud, 
and the interests of British Agriculture from loss 
or injury. 

Question put ; 

The Committee divided : 


Tellers for the; Mr. Robinson, L 4s 
Yeas, (Mn, George Frederick Young:{ ~~" 
Tellers for thes Mr. Robert Steuart, 1 108 
Noes, UMr. Labouchere : J , 


o it passed in the Negative. 
The Chairman left the Chair. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Law of Libel 


reading of the Law of Libel Bill; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

The Amendments following were proposed to be 
made to the Question; viz. To leave out the word 
“ now,” and at the end of the Question, to add the 


words “ upon this day six months.” 


And the Question being put, That the word 
“ now” stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 

Tellers for the Yeas,{ —q — } 4 

Tellers for the Noes, s or ; } 


So it passed in the Negative. 





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(Met 
Bill. 


Hack 


Bribe 
Elect 


Reco 
Tene 


Haile 
Colle 


East 


Bill, 


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Fish 
(Sco 


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Inp 
Bill. 


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7 Wit. IV. 


And the Question being put, That the words 
“ upon this day six months” be added at the end 
of the Question :—It was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Then the main Question, so amended, being put ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon this day six months. 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Thursday morning ; 


Jovis, 4° die Mati, 1837: 


Hackney The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 

yr lis) mittee on the Hackney Cuecingt a Bill ; 

eo Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday, 
the 31st day of this instant May, resolve itself into 
the said Committee. 

Bribery at The Order of the day being read, for the second 


Elections Bills yeading of the Bribery at Elections Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday, the 17th day of this instant May. 


Recovery of 
Tenements Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Recovery of Tenements Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Haileybury The Haileybury College Bill was, according to 

College Bill. Order, read ‘a second time; and committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for Wednesday 
next. 

EastIndia = The East India Officers’ Salaries Bill was, ac- 

a Salaries cording to Order, read a second time ; and committed 

: to a Committee of the whole House, for Wednesday 

next. ; 

Salmon The Order of the day being read, for the second 

Fisheries ; 


(Scotland) Bil, eading of the Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Wednesday, the 17th day of this instant May. 


Metropolis The Order of the day being read, for the second 
_ reading of the reg Improvement Bill ; 
. Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Wednesday, the 31st day of this stant May. 


Members 
acting as 
Parliamentary 
Agents. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate upon the Question proposed 
upon the 6th day of April last, That it is contrary 
to the law and usage of Parliament, that any Member 
of this House should be permitted to engage, either 
by himself or any partner in the management of 
Private Bills before this or the other House of Par- 
liament for pecuniary reward, to be received by such 
Member, or by any person standing in any relation 
of partnership with Sie: 

Ordered, That the Debate be further adjourned 
till Wednesday, the 17th day of this instant May. 


Election 


ae eaee The Order of the ~_ being read, for the second 


reading of the Election Expenses Bill ; 
Ordered That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 


Sheriffs Courts 
Bill, 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
further consideration the Report on the Sheriffs 
Courts Bill; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Wednesday next. 
yaad Fees 


ill, 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Sheriffs’ Fees Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday, 
the 17th day of this instant May, resolve itself into 
the said Committee. 


Attornies and 
Solicitors Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Attornies and Solicitors Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday, 
the 17th day of this instant May, resolve itself into 
the said Committee. 
Vox. 92, 


3°—4° Mai. 





327 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Public-Houses 

reading of the Public-Houses Regulation Bill; Regulation 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time ®” 

upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Uniformity of 
mittee on the Uniformity of Process Bill ; Process Bill. 
Resolved, That this osies will, upon Wednesday, 

the 31st day of this instant May, resolve itself into 

the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Common Law 
further consideration the Report on the Common Coutts Bill. 
Law Courts Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Wednesday, the 24th day of 
this instant May. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Registration of 
mittee on the Registration of Voters Bill ; Voters Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Ways and 
mittee of Ways and Means; _ omens 
Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Supply. 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Public Works 
mittee on the Public Works (Jreland) Bill; (Ireland) Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, British 
Copies or Extracts of any Minutes made by the “"s"™ 
Trustees of the British Museum since the 20th of 
July 1836, with reference to the Resolutions passed 
by the Select Committee of this House during the 
last Session of Parliament, on the subject of the 
British Museum. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Barbadoes. 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of an Act passed in 1834, by the 
Legislature of Barbadoes, repealing the Four and 
Half per Cent. Duty; also, Copy of a Memorial of 
the Council and Assembly of Barbadoes to Mr. 
Secretary Stanley, praying him to recommend His 
Majesty to give His Assent to the said Act. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Justice of 
Peace Clerks 
(Scotland. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return (to amend and complete the Return 
by the Justice of Peace Clerks and their Depu- 
ties and Assistants, ordered 17th August 1836, 
and printed 14th February 1837,) for each of the 
Three years preceding 1st April 1837, or during the 
Incumbency of the present Officers, if less than 
Three years; showing the designations and whole 
employments of the depute Clerks in the Counties 
of Aberdeen, Argyll, Banff, Berwick, Bute, Caith- 
ness, Clackmannan, Dumbarton, Dumfries, Edin- 
burgh, Elgin, Fife, Forfar, Haddington, Kincardine, 
Kinross, Kirkcudbright, Lanark, Orkney, Perth, 
Renfrew, Roxburgh, Ross, Stirling and Sutherland ; 
also, any other Offices held, or occupations or busi- 
ness followed by the principal Justice of Peace 
Clerks of the Counties of Fife, Elgin, (Elgin Dis- 
trict), Lanark (Glasgow and Lanark Districts) and 
Sutherland ; also, distinguishing, where such Offices 





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328 3°—4° 
are held by ing em to what Sect they belong ;' 


where held by Merchants, whether they are Mer-| 
chants by Retail; where held by Schoolmasters, | 
whether they are Parochial Schoolmasters ; where | 
held by Factors or Land Stewards, whether their | 
Salaries or Emoluments as such are received from | 
any of the acting Justices, or for the management 
of Landed Properties within the jurisdiction of the 
Court ; and where held by Solicitors or Writers, or 
Attornies, whether by themselves or their Partners, 
they practise as such within the district of such 
Court. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty's most honourable Privy Council. 


Notice being taken that Forty Members were not 
ci the House was told by Mr. Speaker ; and 

orty Members not being present, and it being then 
half an hour after twelve of the clock on Thursday 
morning : — The House was adjourned by Mr. 
Speaker, without a Question first put, till this day. 


Jovis, 4 die Mai; 
Anno 7° Willielmi [V" Regis, 1837. 





PRAYERS. 


RDERED, That the Committee on the Glas- 

gow and Ayr Railway Bill, have leave to sit this 
day till five of the clock during the sitting of the 
House. 


Helfast Harbour Ordered, That the Committee on the Belfast Har- 
(No. 2.) Bill. bour (No. 2) Bill, have leave to sit this day till five 
of the clock during the sitting of the House. 


Glasgow and 
Ayr Railway 
Bill, 


York and An ingrossed Bill to alter the Line of the York 
North Midland and North Midland Railway, and to amend the Act 
Railway Bill. yelating thereto, was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. John Henry Lowther do carry 


the Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Deptford and Ordered, That the Select Committee on the Dept- 

Dover Railway ford and Dover Railway Subscription List, have 

— leave to sit this day till half an hour after five of the 
clock during the sitting of the House. 


Southwark and A Petition of Charles John Blunt, of Fleet-street, 
Hammersmith jn the city of London, civil engineer, complaining of 
Railway Bill. . ‘ . - the fund f Vv es 

; the misapplication of the funds of the Southwark 


Maiz. A. 1837. 


A Petition of Merchants, Traders and other Inha- Belfast Harbour 
bitants of Lisburn, praying that the Belfast Harbour ( 


(No. 2.) Bill may not pass into a law as it now stands, 
was presented, and read ; and referred to the Com- 
mittee oa the Bill. 

A Petition of the Right honourable Arthur Baron 
Templemore, a Peer of the United Kingdom, praying 
that he may be heard, by his counsel or agent, 
against certain parts of the said Bill, was also pre- 
sented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by himself, his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, 
if he think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


The Banff Glebe Lands Bill was read the first 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


A Petition of Farmers and others, Tenants of the 
Wardens and Commonalty of the mystery of Fish- 
mongers of the city of London, praying that they 
may be heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
against certain parts of the Lough Swilly and Lough 
Foyle Drainage Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


An ingrossed Bill for maintaining, repairing and 
amending a Turnpike Road from Belfast to Lisburn- 
by-the-Falls, and two Turnpike Roads leading from 
the Falls Road, by Dundrod and Castlerobin re- 
spectively, to Crumlin, in the County of Antrim, 
was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act for maintaining, repairing and 
amending a Turnpike Road from Belfast to Lisburn- 
by-Malone and by the Falls,and two Turnpike Roads 
leading from the Falls Road, by Dundrod and Castle- 
robin respectively, to Crumlin, in the County of 
Antrim. 

Ordered, That Mr. Kirk do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Petitions from Sir Charles Merrik Burrell, Ba- 
ronet, a land-owner on the line of Railway herein- 
after mentioned ;—and, Elizabeth Roe, of Weymouth- 
street, Portland-place, in the county of Middlesex, 
widow ; praying that they may be Bat by them- 








and Hammersmith Railway Company, and praying 
that his Petition may be referred to a Select Com- 
mittee to inquire into the truth of the same, and that 
he may be permitted to be heard, by himself, his 
cual or agent, before such Committee, was pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 
Ordered, That the Petition be printed. 





Hurworth and Mr. Pease reported from the Committee on the | 
York Railway (re-committed) Hurworth and York Railway Bill; 
_ That they had made other Amendments thereunto. 
Ordered, That the Report be taken into further | 

consideration upon Tuesday next; and be printed. 


Holme The House proceeded to take into consideration 
Reservoirs 


_ the Report which, upon the 26th day of April last, | 


was made from the Committee on the Holme Re- 
servoirs Bill; printed Copies of the Bill having been 
delivered at the door upon Saturday last ; and the | 
Amendments were read, and agreed to; and an 
Amendment was made to the Bill. 


ingrossed. 


selves, their counsel or agents, against certain parts 
of the London and Brighton Railway Bill (Rennie’s 
Line),—were presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be re- 
ferred to the Committee on the Bill; and the Peti- 
tioners heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
upon their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel 
heard, in favour of the Bill, against the said Peti- 
tions. 


A Petition of Owners of certain estates in the 


county of Norfolk, praying that they may be heard, 


| by themselves, their counsel or agents, against cer- 
_tain parts of the Ouse Banks Drainage Bill, was 
| presented, and read. 


Ordered, ‘That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 


\favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 
Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be | 


Ordered, That the National Endowment and As- 
surance Society (No. 2.) Bill be read a second time 


Barasley A Petition of Inhabitants of Barnsley, praying | To-morrow. 


a that the Barnsley Waterworks Bill may pass into | 


a law, was presented, and read; and ordered to lie | 
upon the Table. 


No. 2.) Bill, 


Banff Glebe 
Lands Bill, 


Lough Swilly 
and Lough 
Foyle Drainage 
Bill. 


Belfast and 
Lisburn Road 
ill. 


London and 
Brighton 
Railway Bill 
(Rennie’s Line.) 


Ouse Banks 


| parishes of Stow Bardolph, and Outwell, in the Drainage Bill 


National 
Endowment 
and Assurance 
Society (No.2-) 
Bill. 


Ordered, That the Clun Forest Inclosure Bill be Clun Forest 


‘read the third time To-morrow. 


| Lord. 


Inclosure 








eo ze 





Kilmarnock 
and Troon | 
Railway Bill. 


Ardrossan 
and Johnston 
Railway Bill. 


Antrim and 
Coleraine Road 
Bill. 


Exeter and 
Falmouth 
Railway Bill. 


Roborough 
Hundred 
(Devon) Small 
Debts Bill. 


Window Tax. 


Lord’s Day. 





7 Wit. IV. 


Lord William Bentinck reported from the Com- 
mittee on the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway Bill; 
That the Standing Orders relative to Bills for making 
Railways had been complied with ; and that they 
had inquired into the several matters required by 
the Resolutions of the House of the 1st day of March 
1836; and had examined the allegations of the Bill, 
and found the same to be true; and had gone through 
the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Lord William Bentinck reported from the Committee 
on the Ardrossan and Johnston Railway Bill; and 
to whom a Petition against the said Bill was referred ; 
That the Standing Orders relative to Bills for making 
Railways had been complied with; and that the 
Committee had considered the said Petition, and 
had inquired into the several matters required by 
the Resolutions of the House of the 1st day of Mare 
1836; and had examined the allegations of the Bill, 
and found the same to be true; and had gone through 
the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Ordered, That the Antrim and Coleraine Road 
Bill be read the third time To-morrow. 


A Petition of Shareholders in a projected line of 
Railway, called “The London, Salisbury, Exeter, 
Plymouth and Falmouth Railway,” praying that the 
Exeter and Falmouth Railway Bill may not pass 
into a law, was presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


An ingrossed Bill for the Recovery of Small Debts 
within the Southern Division of the Hundred of Ro- 
borough, in the County of Devon, was, according to 
Order, read the third time. ; 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act for the Recovery of Small Debts 
within the Southern Division of the Hundred of Ro- 
borough, and within the Hundred of Plympton, in 
the County of Devon, and within the Southern Di- 
vision of the Hundred of East,in the County of 
Cornwall. 

Ordered, That Sir Edward Codrington do carry 
the Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Petitions from the united parishes of Saint Mar- 
garet and Saint John-the-Evangelist, Westminster ; 
—and, Clifton; praying for the repeal of the Window 
Tax,--were presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upen the Table. 


Petitions from Hythe, Folkestone and Sandgate ;— 
Boughton ;—Saint Nicholas, Minster and Birching- 
ton ; — Doddington ;— Faversham ;— Sheerness ;— 
Margate (two Petitions) ;~Lyminge, Elham and 
Barham ;— Whitstable ;— Long Acre Episcopal Cha- 
pel ;— Great Queen-street Chapel, Lincoln’s Inn 
Fields ;— Bolsover ;— Llanwyddelan and Llanlligan; 
—Wrexham ;—Llanidloes ;—Grantham ;—Carnar- 
von ;— Middlewich ;— Frodsham ; — Northwich ;— 
Clayworth ; — Blyth ; — Tutbury ; — Burton-upon- 
Trent ;—Stamford Bridge;— Barnard Castle ;— 
Gainford ; — Hurworth-upon-Tees ; -- Barton ; — 
Sheldon ;— Darlington ;— Middleton ;— Newtown ;— 
Llanfaircaerinion ;—Scarcliff ;— Bosley ;—Rainow ; 
—FPocklington (two Petitions) ;—Hedon ;— Market 
Weighton ;—Preston (York) ;—Catton ;— Pattring- 
ton ; — Bollington ;— Knutsford ;—Gringley-on-the- 
Hill ;— Macclesfield (two Petitions) ;—Muncton ;— 
Shute ;— Coombrawleigh ;-- Oxford ;— Oakhill ;— 
Cardiff ;—Lincoln ;—- Bassingham ;—Park Chapel, 
Chelsea ;-—Saint Luke, Chelsea ;—Rose-place Cha- 
pel, Liverpool ;—Bedford-street Chapel, Liverpool ; 
—Pall Mall Chapel, Liverpool ;—Oil-street Chapel, 
Liverpool ;—Saint Andrew's, Dunfermline ;—West- 


bury ;—Mount Pleasant Chapel, Liverpool ;—Pitt- | 


street Chapel, Liverpool ;—Weymouth and Melcombe 
Vor. 92. 


4° Mair. 











329 


Regis ;— Kington ;— Evesham ;-—.Bridport ;—Bruns- 
wick Chapel, Liverpool ;— Leeds-street Chapel, Li- 
verpool ; — Geddington and Newton ; — Chester ;— 
Moderator of the Presbytery of Dunoon ;—Raw- 
reth ; — Tuxford ; — Knarbrough ; — Helston ; — 
Wheatley ;— Retford ;— Saint Keverne ;— Breage ; 
— Devizes ;— Tiverton ; — Crockerton ;— Worthing ; 
— Riddings;— Warminster ;— Buxton ;— Chapel-en- 
le-Frith ;— Brighton (two Petitions) ;—Brecon ;— 
Constantine ;— Kingston-upon- Hull ;— Yarborough ; 
—Covenham fle ;-— Willingham ;— Reston ; 
— Benniworth ;— Donington ; — Conisholme ;—Leg- 
bourn ;—Louth ;-— Caistor ;— North Cockerington ; 
— Fulstow ;-— North Somercotes; — Binbrook ; — 
Brigg ; — Marton ;— Gainsborough ; — Tealby ; — 
Horncastle ;— Bardney ;—Minting and Barkwith ;— 
Ferriby ;—Market Rasen ;—Scamblesby ;— Tetford 
and Fulletby;—Kirkby, Roughton, &amp;c.;— Misterton ; 
— Wintringham;— Barton-upon- Humber ;— Barrow- 
upon-Humber ; — Ulceby ; — Winterton; —- Marsh 
Chapel ;— Theddlethorpe;--Grainthorpe;—-Grimold- 
by ;-— Carlton ; — Leathley ; — Uppermill ;— Hems- 
worth and Brierley ;—Barnsley (two Petitions) ;— 
Darfield ; —Cudworth ; —Pateley Bridge ;—Dod- 
worth ; —Worsbro’ ; —Burley ; —Rigton ;—-Hawks- 
worth ;—Stainburn ;— Menston ;— Weeton ;— Pan- 
nal ;— Otley ;— Bechwithshaw ;— Eccleshill;— Kirby 
Lonsdale ;—Garsdale ;— Woodhouse Grove ;—Idle ; 
—Dent ;—Sedbergh ;—Flawes and Gayle ;—JIng- 
birchworth ;—Skelmanthorp ;—Denby Dale ;—Pe- 
nistone and Thurlstone ;—Cawthorne ;—Silkstone ; — 
Emley ;—Cowthorpe ;— Mythelmroyd ;—Shelf and 
Scholes ;— Kelfield ;— Hebden Bridge ;— Selby ;— 
Meltham and Nether Thong a ;—Cawood; 
— Cleckheaton ;— Brighouse ;— Todmorden ;—Cragg 
Valley ;— Doncaster ;— Hepworth and Thurstonland; 
—Heptonstall ;— Wetherby ;— Waltham-street Cha- 
pel, Kingston-upon-Hull ; —George-yard Chapel, 
Kinsisoanie Il ;— Wesley Chapel, Kingston- 
—s ;—Scott-street Chapel, Kingston-upon- 

ull ;— Tavistock Chapel, Drury-lane ;— Oundle, 
&amp;c. ;—Stamford;—Empingham and Exton ;— Castle 
Bytham and Langtoft ;— Woodbridge ;— Ely ;— Wis- 
bech Saint Peter’s ;— Soham ;—Littleport ;—Stret- 
ham and Haddenham ;—Sutton and Witcham ;— 
Sheffield ;—Cradley ;—- Dunmanway ;— Padstow ;— 
Matlock Bath ;—Pembroke;— Holsworthy ;—Strat- 
ton; —Fakenham;— Kirby Moorside ;—Kingsbridge; 
— Dorchester ;— Bodmin ;—Cottingham ;—Saltash ; 
—Kettering ;— Whitchurch (Salop) ;— Tunbridge 
Wells ;— Callington;—-Market Drayton ;— City-road 
Chapel, London ;—Rugby ;— Braunston ;—Daven- 
try ;—Oxford-road Chapel ;-- Chorlton on Medlock ; 
— Manchester ;-— Washford ; — Bideford ; — Man- 
chester (three Petitions) ;— Brunswick Chapel, New- 
castle-upon- Tyne ; — Westgate-street Chapel, New- 
castle-upon- Tyne ;—--Ancoats, Manchester ;--Liskeard; 
— Williton ;— Wylam ;—Newburn ; —Bell’s Close ; 
— Mason Dinnington and Ponteland ; — Paradise 
Chapel, Northumberland ;— Walbottle and Throck- 
ley ;—Saint Botolph Without, Aldersgate, London ; 
—Saint haliendg titel and Saint Ann 
Blackfriars, London; — Newcastle-upon-Tyne and 
Gateshead ;-- Middleton ;-— Swinton and Mexbro’; 
—-Fenny Stratford and Wavendon;-—Camborne ;—- 
Stithians ;-- Forest Gate; — Crelly ; — Troon ; — 
Porkellas ;—Tucking Mill ;— Newport Pagnell ;— 
Gateshead Fell;—Wreckenton;— Gateshead ;— War- 
haston ;— Howden ;-- Thorpe and Wentworth ;--Ro- 
therham ;—Glossop, &amp;c. ;— Dumfries ;— Bristol ;— 
Stratford Saint Andrew ;— Great Yarmouth;—Stow- 
on-the-Wold ;— King-street, Derby ; — Wath-upon- 
Dearne ; — Hoyland ; — Manningtree ; — Chipping 
Norton ; — Enstone ; —- Skipton ;— Burnopfield ; — 
Peasenhall ;—Kettlewell ;-—Thorncliffe Yonworks ; 
—Earlsoham ;— Maltby, &amp;c. ;—Lanchester ;— Bur- 
ton Joice oe ;—Cholmondeley ;— Malpas ;— 
Coddington ;—Virley and Salcott ;—Castle Pollard; 
— Grassington ;—Farndon ; —Innishannon ; — New 
and Old Shoreham ;—Ballast Hills ;—Wighill ;— 
Renton ; 


UU 





St. Asaph 
and Bangor 
Dioceses. 


Fire Insurances. 


Church Rates 
Regulation. 


Poor Law Act. 


330 4° Maiz. 


Renton ;— Tunstall ;—Doveridge ;—Honley ;—Ep- 
perston;— Saint Neot’s ;— Stourport (two Petitions); 
— Worcester ;— Warrington ;— Haddington ;— Saint 
Peter’s, Ipswigh ;— Saint Helen’s and Saint Clement’s, 
Ipswich iwePctitions) ;—Saint Stephen’s, Ipswich ; 
— Poplar ;— Romsey ;—Romford ;— Limehouse ;—— 
Saint George’s-in-the-East, Middlesex ;—Manafon 
and Tregynon ;~- Bewdley ;--Sandwich ;--Isle of Port- 
land fa, Ne ;—Peckham ; — Portsea ;— Exeter ; 
— Kerley ;—and, Colchester; praying that a general 
Bill for the better observance of the Lord’s Day may 
be permitted to go into a Committee of the whole 
House,—were presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Natives of the Principality of 
Wales, and others resident in Liverpool, praying 
that the surplus revenues of the Dioceses of Saint 
Asaph and Bangor, may not be alienated to the 
erection and support of a new Bishoprick at Man- 
chester, was presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Aberdeen ;—Soham ;—and, Gran- 
tham ; praying for a reduction of the Duty on Fire 
Insurances,—were presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Hampstead ;—WNatland and Hel- 
sington ;— Dillicar ;— Wheaton Aston ;—Saint Mil- 
dred, Canterbury ;—Townhead-street, Sheffield ;— 
Over ;—Saint Botolph, Bishopsgate, London ;—Ne- 
ther Chapel, Sheffield ;— Billingham ;.---Weymouth 
and Melcombe Regis ;— Island of Portland ;— Hert- 

ord ;— Preston Clacseuaan ;—Attercliffe-cum-Dar- 
nall ;— Whitehaven ;— Huddersfield ;— Faversham ; 
—-Kenchester ;— Abernethy ;— Calne ;-—- Baglan and 
Briton Ferry ;—Directors of the Glasgow Associa- 
tion for promoting religious Liberty ;-- Godalming ; 
—Cowbridge ;— Lantwit Major ;— Saint Bride’s 
Major and Wick ;—Langened ;—Crynant ;— Lango- 
noyd ;—Saint Bride’s Minor ;—Killebebill ;— Dunas 
Colliery and Yystradyfodog ;— Bridgend ;—Mary- 
port ;—- Holt ;— Warminster ;— Liskeard ;— Saint 
Margaret and Saint John, Westminster ;—Portsea 
(two Petitions) ;—Southsea ;—and, Mint-lane, Lin- 
coln ; praying that the proposed measure relative to 
Church Rates may receive the sanction of the House, 
—were presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 

Petitions from Little Gransden ; — Devizes ; — 
Claycoton ;—Upholland ;—.Fewston ;— Ely ;—-Steeple 
Morden ;— Horseheath ;— Full Sutton ;— Hayton- 
cum- Bielby ;—Abington Pigotts ;— Barton ;—Lead- 
enham and Fulbeck ;—Saint Andrew’s ;— Margate ; 
— Sandwich (Deanery) ;—West Winch ;— Middleton; 
—Ganton and Willerby ;—Leeds ;— Barnack, &amp;c. ; 
—Hazelbeech ;—Mears Ashby ;—Wadenhoe ;—Lit- 
tle Harrowden ;—Orlingbury ;—Dean and Chapter 
of Lincoln ;—Elkstone ;—Gretton ;—Peasmarsh ;— 
Abdon ;— Bolsover ;—Scarcliff ;— North Ferriby ;— 
Patrington ;— Ellerker ;— South Cave ; --- Welton- 
cwn-Melton ;— Burton Pidsea ;— Grantham (two 
Petitions) ;—Stainby, Gunby and Cottersworth ;— 
Londonthorpe ;—Stoke and Easton ;—Stroxton ;— 
Caythorpe-cum-Frieston ;—Hareston ;—Great Pon- 
ton ; — Long Bennington-cum-Foston ; — Carlton 
Scroop ;—Denton ;—Heydour-cum-Kelly ;— King’s 
Lynn ;—Barmston ;—Saint Mary, Walthamstow ;— 
Saint Lawrence and Saint John, Southampton ;— 
Rigsby-with-Ailby ;— and, Bangor; praying that 
the said proposed measure may not receive the 
sanction of the House,— were also presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Workington; — Newmarket ; — 
Neath Union ;—Ipswich;—and, Ross (Hereford); 
praying for the repeal or amendment of the Poor 
Law Act,—were presented, and read; and referred 
to the Select Committee on the Poor Law Act. 











A. 1837. 


Petitions from Eastry Union ;—and Basingstoke Rating of 
Union ; praying that the Owners of Small Tene- Tenements, 
ments may be assessed to the rates for the relief of 
the Poor, instead of the Occupiers, were presented, 
and read; and referred to the Select Committee on 
the Poor Law Act. 


Petitions from Inverary ;—Trades House of Glas- a and 
gow ;—Operatives of Glasgow ;—and, Provost, Ma- fection 
gistrates and Town Council of Dunbar ; praying 
that the Sheriff and Burgh Courts (Scotland) Bill 
may not pass into a law,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from the Merchants’ House of Glasgow ; Municipal 
—and, the Provost, Magistrates and Town Council pct ap 
of Dunbar; praying that the Municipal Corpora~ on 
tions (Scotland) Bill may not pass into a law,— 
were presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Soham, praying the small Debts, 
House to pass a Bill for the more speedy and effec- 
tual recovery of Small Debts, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Chairman of a meeting of Opera- Small Debts 
tives of Glasgow, praying that the Small Debts (Scotland) Bill, 
(Scotland) Bill may not pass into a law as it now 
stands, was presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of William Elliott, of Weymouth, William Eliott, 
master mariner, part owner of the sloop Jane, of 
Weymouth, complaining that, on applying to the 
Custom House, Weymouth, to register the said 
vessel, he was obliged to take out a special license, 
restricting him to trade only in the United King- 
dom, Spain and Portugal, notwithstanding the ex- 
istence of an exception which precluded the neces- 
sity of such license being taken out where the bow- 
sprit was within two-thirds the length of the vessel, 
which was the case with the Jane, and praying re- 
lief, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Minister and Churchwardens Kilshery 
of Kilshery, in the diocese of Clogher, setting forth, Church. 
That the Parish Church is too small to contain the 
Protestants ; and that the Ecclesiastical Commis- 
sioners, in reply to an application made to them, state 
they have no funds to enlarge or to build Churches, 
wal praying that the House will devise some measure 
by which adequate Church accommodation may be 
provided for those professing the established Reli- 
gion, was or agate and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


A Petition of Persons interested in the Herring gatmon 
Fishery, residing in Jnverary, praying that the Fisheries ” 
Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Bill, may not pass into (Scotland) Bill 
a law as it now stands, was presented, and read; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Merchants and Traders of, and Bonding 
Importers to, the Port of Gloucester, praying that Warehouses. 
all the distinctions of ordinary, extra and special 
security bonded warehouses, be removed, and one 
uniform system established throughout the United 
Kingdom, was presented, and read ; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Charles Wye Williams, Esquire, steam Vessels 
one of the Directors of the City of Dublin Steam Pilotage. 
Packet Company, praying that Steam Vessels may 
be exempted from the necessity of taking Pilots, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitant householders of the Land Tax. 
united parishes of Saint Andrew, Holborn-above- 
the-Bars, and Saint George the Martyr, praying 
‘the House to take immediate steps towards some 
Legislative 





Fact 


Do 
Lal 


for 





Factories. 


Dorchester 
Labourers, 


Imprisonment 
for Debt Bill. 


Municipal 
Corporations 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Tithes 
(Ireland. ) 


County Rates 
Bill. 


Highway Act. 


Kendal 
Borough. 


7 Wi. IV. 


Legislative Enactment which will effect an equali- 
zation of the unredeemed Land Tax in England and 
Wales, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


Petitions from Manchester ;—Chorlton-upon-Med- 
lock;—Operatives in the employ of Mr. Binley, 
Manchester ;— Mr. Whitaker, Manchester ;-- Ap- 
pelles Howard, Stockport ;—Mr. Shackwell, Man- 
chester;—and, Mr. Carr, Stockport; praying the’ 
House to pass a law to protect all Factory Workers 
from being worked more than ten hours for five 
days of the week, and eight on the Saturday,—were 


— and read ; and ordered to lie upon the 
able. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Eastbourne, Jeving- 
ton and Wellingdon, praying the House to adopt 
measures for insuring to the agricultural labourers 
who were sentenced to transportation at Dorchester, 
in February 1834, a speedy return to their native 
country, was presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of John Gilbert Meymott, the senior 
Chief Clerk of the Court of Requests for the town 
and borough of Southwark, and the Eastern half of 
the Hundred of Brixton, in the county of Surrey, 
praying that a just, fair and adequate compensation 
may be made to him for the loss he will sustain by 
the passing of the Imprisonment for Debt Bill, was 


presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


Petitions from Dumbarton ;— Barnstaple ;-——Land- 
key ;—and, Creeve and Clooncraff West; praying 
that the Municipal Corporations (reland) Bill may 
pass into a law,—were presented, and read ; and or- 
dered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of the united parishes 
of Creeve and Clooncraff West, praying for the abo- 
lition of Tithes in Ireland, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Richmond, in the 
county of York, praying that the County Rates Bill 
may pass into a law, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Trustees of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch 
and Tutbury Road ;—and, the Lincoln Turnpike 
Roads; praying the House to pass an Act declaring 
that Trustees of Turnpike hese shall be entitled to 
a proportion of the Rates levied under the Highway 
Act, in lieu of Statute Duty,—were presented, and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Electors of the borough of Kendal, 
being a Committee appointed at a Public Meeting 
to conduct the election of a Member of Parliament 
for the said Borough; setting forth, That at the last 
General Election John Barham, Esquire, was re- 
turned Member of Parliament for the Borough of 
Kendal; that on the seventeenth day of March last 
Mr. Barham was, by a commission De Lunatico In- 
quirendo, declared to have been of insane mind since 
the twenty-first day of April one thousand eight hun- 
dred and thirty-six ; that as that Borough only re- 
turns one Member to Parliament, the Petitioners 
and the other Electors of Kendal have felt serious 
inconvenience from being unrepresented during the 
above period; and praying that the House will take 
into its serious consideration the state of the repre- 
sentation of the Borough of Kendal, and that they will 
adopt such measures as will insure the speedy issuing 
of a new Writ for that Borough, whereby the interests 
and opinions of the Petitioners may, without delay, be 
once more represented in Parliament, was presented, 


and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
Vou. 92. 





4° Matt. 


331 


Petitions from Pill (Port of Bristol);—and, Port shipping 
of Penzance ; praying the House to relieve the Pro- Gazette. 
prietors of the Shipping Gazette from the postage 
of letters containing shipping and commercial in- 
telligence only,—were presented, and read ; and or- 
dered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of John Taylor, formerly of Belvedere French Claims, 
Place, but now of Temple-street, Southwark, com- 
plaining of his demand upon the fund provided by 
France for the liquidation of the claims of British 
subjects upon that Country having been rejected 
by the Commissioners ; and praying relief, was 


presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of the Archdeacon and Clergy of the Ecclesiastical 
archdeaconry of Oxford, praying that the a Commissioners. 
of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England 
may not be extended so as to enable them to ca 
into effect the recommendations of His Majesty’s 
Commissioners affecting Cathedral Churches with- 
out consultation with, and consent of, the several 
Chapters of the Country, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from the parishes of Saint Giles-in-the- Metropolis 
Fields and Saint George, Bloomsbury ;—and, Saint Improvement 
Andrew, Holborn-above-the-Bars,and Saint George- _ 
the-Martyr ; praying that the Metropolis Improve- 
ment Bill may pass into a law,—were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Cotton Spinners, and Manufac- Cotton. 
turers and other Gentlemen of Oldham and the 
neighbourhood, connected with the Cotton Trade, 
praying for the repeal of the Duty on the importa- 
tion of Raw Cotton, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Bradford, in the Household 
county of York, praying the House to extend the Suffrage. 
Electoral Suffrage to all Householders, was pre- 


sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of the Society of Procurators prac- Attornies’ 
tising before the Courts of Law in Perthshire, pray- Certificates. 
ing for the repeal of the Duty on Attornies’ Certi- 
ficates, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


Petitions from ewton ;—and, Oldham; praying Recovery of | 
that the Recovery of Tenements Bill may pass into Tenements Bill, 
a law,—were presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Thomas Powell Swanwich, of Har- Turnpike 
row Road, Paddington Green, and Hester Catherine, T's Bill. 
his wife, praying that the provisions of the Turnpike 
Trusts Bill may be extended to Wales, was pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


Petitions from Barton ;—Grimsby ;—and, Glou- Soap. 
cester ; praying for the repeal of the Duty on Soap, 
—were presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


A Petition of Sir John Maxwell, of Pollok, Baronet, Ardrossan and 
praying that the Ardrossan and Tradeston Canal aye 
Act may be repealed, was presented, and read ; and ; 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Bankers, Merchants, Tradesmen Local Courts. 
and others of Grantham, Little Gonerby and Spitile- 
ate, praying the House to pass a Bill for the esta- 
lishment of Local Courts for the recovery of Small 
Debts, was presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 








uv2 A Petition 





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oo ERS TS ae TS 


i 
4 
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Tithes Commu- 


tation Act, 


Soap, Sugar, 
c. 


Law of Property 


(Scotland). 


Dundee 
Improvement 
Bill. 


St. Pancras 
Expenditure, 


Salvage 


332 4° Marz. 


A Petition of Edward Duncombe, Clerk, praying 

for the repeal of the Tithes Commutation Act, was 

resented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
able. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of the town of Hertford, 

praying for the repeal of the Duties on Soap, Sugar, 

obacco, Glass and Bricks, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Irvine, praying the 
House to abolish the present system of heritable 
rights in Scotland, or to alter them by establishing a 
short, plain and simple mode of transferring pro- 
perty, was presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Preses and Secretary of the 
Standing Committee of the Society of Writers in 
Dundee, praying that the Dundee Improvement 
Bill may not pass into a law as it now stands, was 

resented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 


The House was moved, That the Order made 
upon the 7th day of March last, that there be laid 
hefore this House, a Return of all Monies expended 
or liabilities incurred, by the Vestrymen and Direc- 
tors of the Poor of the Parish of Saint Pancras, 
Middlesex, or by either of those Bodies, during the 
— 1833, 1834, 1835 and 1836, on account of 

xpenses of Parliamentary Proceedings; distin- 
guishing the Sums paid or liebilities incurred in re- 
spect of applications to Parliament for repealing 
Acts for paving the said Parish, and to whom paid 
or due :—Also, an Account of all Monies expended 
or due for Printing and Advertisements, or other- 
wise, in respect of such applications, and when and 
to whom paid or due:—Also, an Account of all 
Monies paid or due for Costs in all Actions, Prose- 
cutions, or other Legal Proceedings commenced or 
prosecuted by or against such Vestrymen or Direc- 
tors ; distinguishing any Costs paid or due: for de- 
fending any Action, Prosecution or other Legal Pro- 
ceedings commenced by or against them, or any of 
them, or any other Person or Persons :—Also, an 
Account of all Damages paid by them in respect of 
any such Action, Prosecution or other Legal Pro- 
ceedings, and when and to whom paid, and the 
Name or Names of the Vestryman or Vestrymen, or 
other Person or Persons by or against fo any 
such Action, Prosecution or other Legal Proceed- 
ings, was or were commenced, might be read ; and 
the same being read ; 

Ordered, That a Return to the said Order be laid 
before this House forthwith. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Salvage 


Commissioners Commissioners (Cinque Ports), which was presented 


(Cinque Ports.) 


No. 275. 


Window Duty. 


Longford 
County 
Election. 


upon Friday last, be printed. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being put, 
That it is the opinion of this House, that the Duty 
on Windows should be repealed ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 


ah " Sir Samuel Whalley, \ 
Tellers for the Yeas, Captain Pechell : i 48. 
. Mr. Baring, — 
Tellers for the Noes, | \1, John Parker: 2% 


So it passed in the Negative. 


Lord Viscount Clive, from the Select Committee 
appointed to try and determine the merits of the 
Petition of Charles Fox, of Rutland Square, in the 
City of Dublin, Esquire, complaining of an undue 
election and na the County of Longford; and 


also the Petition of Lovel Edgeworth, of Edgeworths-| 890| Matthew Flood - 
town, in the said county of Longford, Esquire, and| °!4 | Michael Kiernan 





A. 1837. 


the several Persons whose names are thereunto sub- 
scribed, electors of the said County of Longford, on 
behalf of themselves and of several other Free- 
holders of the same County, complaining of an 
undue Election and Return for the said County, and 
to defend which Patrick Costello and others had, by 
an Order of the House been admitted as Parties in- 
stead of Luke White, Esquire, informed the House 
that the Committee had determined, 

That Luke White, Esquire, is not duly elected a 
Knight to serve in this present Parliament for the 
said County of Longford : 

That Charles Fox, Esquire, is duly elected, and 
ought to have been returned a Knight to serve in 
this present Parliament for the said County : 

That the Petition of the said Lovel Edgeworth 
and others did not appear to the said Committee to 
be frivolous or vexatious : 

That the Petition of the said Charles Fox did not 
appear to the said Committee to be frivolous or 
vexatious : 

That the opposition to the said Petitions did not 
appear to the said Committee to be frivolous or 
vexatious. 

That the said Committee have also to inform the 
House, That they have altered the Poll taken at the 
said Election, by striking off—- 














No. | 

ag Name of Voter. | Townland. Barony. Date ba 
gister. | Registry. 
| | | 

nd | | Henry Lynch Clooning + | Granard - _ 
on €-! (James Sheridan | Dunnard - | Longford - | _ 
gister. | 

| 


1503 | Michael Reynolds | Tenalough - | Abbyshrule | 6 April 1835 
981 | Hugh Quane - | Ballyclonghan' Moydow - 22 Oct. 1832 
1076 | James M¢Cormick| Streamstown | Abbyshrule | - Oct. 1832 
934 | John Ledwith - | Ballyclonghan| Moydow - | — Oct. 1832 




















1473 | James Doherty - | Kilkurry - | Abbyshrule | 6 April 1835 
1017 | Mark O’ Rourke | Cornakelly Longford - | - Oct. 1832 
1290 | John Cody - - | Killenbore - | Abbyshrule _- Nov. 1832 
1054 | Michael Simmons | Rathmore - —_ — 

1502 , Patrich Newman | Ballyglasson |} - - - | 6 April 1835 
1496 | Lawrence Murtagh) Ballyglasson|- - + | 6 April 1835 

543 | Brian Mannion Keelbawn - | - - - | — Oct. 1832 

899 | Brian Karney - Tenelich -|- - -+/|-—Oct. 1832 

896 | Bryan Jordan - | Lislum -|- - -|=-Ocet. 1832 
1062 | John Farrell - | Lislum -|- - -=|-Nov. 1832 
1207 | Thomas Farrell - | Crievaghmore| - - ~- | — Nov. 1832 

231 | John Clancy - | Clonwheelen | Ardagh - | -— Oct. 1832 

232 ; Michael Carney Cartronawar|- - &lt;=} — Oct. 1832 
1215 | Patrick Donagher| Grillagh - - -|-Nov. 1832 
312 | Thomas Farrell- | Loughhall-|- - +] —Oct. 1832 
900 | John Karney - | Cartronawar|- - +] —Oct. 18382 
548 | John Montgomery _ — —_ 

555 | David Mathews Fortmills  - -_ — 

571 | Patrick M¢Grath | Lisfarrell - _ _ 

957 | James M°¢Cormick| Ballygar -|- - -|-—Noy. 1832 

959 | Owen M‘Manicle | Grillagh - — * 

690 | Bernard Newman | Cartronawar|- - -*| = Oct. 1832 
1114 | Francis Whelan | Lisfarrell -|\|- - +-|-—Nov. 1832 
1578 | Peter Early - - | Kilfinton -|}- - +-{|—June 1835 

248 | Daniel Cunning- | Blenavoher Ratheline = | — Oct. 1832 

ham 
1470 | Thomas Chapman | St. Alban’s- |-  -  ~- | — April 1835 
1598 | John Chapman - | - - -| +  -  -| 4 April 1836 
1608 | Peter Clarke - | Fort William|- -  ~- | — April 1836 

1091 | Bryan Dowd - | Aughnacross|- - -)|—Nov. 1832 
1247 | John Dowd - - | - - -|- - -{|-Nov. 1832 
1475 | Thomas Daly - | Carrawshawly} - - + | — April 1835 

366 John Farrell -| Turren -|-+ - -{|—Oct. 1832 

879 | Thomas Flanagan| Fosslongford _ — 

1480 | Cornelius Farrell | Lahery- -|- -  - | — April 1835 
1600 , Patrick Farrell - | Li nus}- - -j|-—April 1836 

404 John Gavigorn - | Turreen -|}- - -|—Oct. 1832 
1483 | Henry Green - | Elfed - -|+ + + | —April 1835 
1484 | Thomas Green - | _ — — 

923 | Charles Kennady , Aughnacross|- - - | —Oct. 1832 
1603 | Dominick Keegan | Carrerow -|- = - | — April 1836 
1605 | Peter Martin - | Blenavoher - — —_ 

1072 | Charles Walker - | Balanahinch _ _ 

1029 Michael Sweeney | Drumming Moydow - | - Oct. 1832 

646 | Thomas M¢Cor- | Garrycan - _ om 

| mick | 

1173 | Patrick Dolan - | Corboy - - Longford - | - Nov. 1832 
1206 William Donohoe | Drumard - — _ 

1221 | Michael Dowd - | Drimnacooly| Ardagh - | — Nov. 1832 
1409 | William Farrell - | Crieve - - Longford — June 1833 

893 Patrick Heslin - | - - -|- - -+{|—Oct. 1832 

166 | Patrick Brady - | Killeen - -| Ardagh - = 
176 | Thomas Brady - | Aughanoran | Granard - 
164 James Beglan ~- | Princoola - _— ine 

1189 | Cormack Dowd - Ballymore -|- - &lt;-| —Nov. 1832 
1203 | Hugh Donohoe - | Farmullough _ 93 

875 | Terrence Flood - | Rathbrackin|- - -~|-Oct. 1832 

Ballymore -|- - - Oct. 1832 
| Cloonagh - — si 
| 





1208 








Clerk of the 


Crown to amend 


Return, 


Longford 
County 
Election. 


Universities. 


First Fruits 
end Tenths, 


7 Wit. IV. 











No.on | : Date of 
Ry | Name of Voter. Townland. Barony. Registry. 
1208 | Thomas Kiernan | Ballyduffy-|- - -|-Nov. 1832 
1537 | Patrick Kelly -| Aughagrea-|- - + | 7 April 1835 

963 Matthew Lee -| Lisla - -|+ + -|- Nov. 1832 

951 | Matthew M¢Gurk| Friskill- -|-  - + | - Oct. 1832 

990 | BernardM*Gennis| Coolaherty |- + - | -Nov. 1832 

984 Patrick M©Cor- | Longhill - _ _ 

mick, 

989 | Henry M¢°Givney | Friskill - _ tea 

948 James M°Cabe - | Aughanoran| + - -|~=Oct. 1832 

950 | Patrick M*¢Cabe ~- _ _ 

949 | Thomas M¢Ga- | - - -|- - -|]-Oct, 1832 

| heran 

1032 | Bryan Tracy - | Ballymore - _ — 

1014 | Patrick Reilly +} Carrickduff _ ei 

1031 | John Tuite - -| Cloonagh - — _ 

387 | James Glancy - | Friskill- - _ _ 

1108 | Bryan Sherrdan | Robinstown |} - - -| —Nov. 1832 
1043 | James Reilly - | Ballymore -|- - -|-—Nov. 1832 
1596 | Edward O’Neill | Clooneen -|-+ - -| 5 Jan. 1836 

979 | Hugh O'Neill -| Manypool -|- - -|-—Oct. 1832 

988 | Myles Reilly -| Trumroe -|- - «© 15 Nov. 1832 
1007 | Edward Reilly - | Muckerstaff,|- - + j- Nov. 1832 

or Willsbrook. 

977 | Patrick Nannery | Ballymore -|- - -©|=Oct, 1832 
1098 | Daniel Kiernan - | Cloonagh -|- - -*|-Nov. 1832 
1020 | John Reynolds - | Upperand |- - - Oct. 1832 

Lower Kill- 
esona. 

982 | Peter Reilly - - | Killana - — — 

1617 | Denis Sherrdan Cloonagh -|}- - -{|-— April 1836 

1238 | Thomas Fagan - | Springtown |- - -| Nov. 1832 
1567 | James Reynolds - | Robinstown |- - - | — April 1835 
1331 | Philip Brady - | Loughill -|- - -|-Jan. 1833 

904 | John Kiernan -j| Trumroe -+|- - -|-—Oct. 1832 
1010 | John Kiernan - | Cloonagh -|- - -*{|-Nov. 1832 
1009 | John Reilly - -| Trumroe - _ _ 














as not having a right to vote at the said Election. 


And the said Determinations were ordered to be 
entered in the Journals of this House. 


Ordered, That the Clerk of the Crown do attend 
this House To-morrow with the last Return for the 
County of Longford, and amend the same by rasing 
out the name of Luke White, Esquire, and inserting 
the name of Charles Fox, Esquire, instead thereof. 

Lord Viscount Clive also reported, That the said 
Select Committee had agreed to the following Re- 
port. 
~ Your Committee further specially report, that it 
seems to them highly desirable that some declaratory 
Act should be passed, in order to ensure uniformity 
of practice and decision respecting the true mean- 
ing and intent of certain Clauses of the Act to 
amend the representation of the People in [redand. 

Your Committee suggest that Parliament should 
decide, by some distinct enactment, whether the 
admission of Voters to the Registry by the Assistant 
Barrister ought to be deemed conclusive of their 
right to vote, or whether such registry ought to be 
opened, either partially or entire e by an inquiry 
into such voters’ right before a Committee of the 
House of Commons. 

Your Committee also suggest, that the nature and 
amount of the Elective Franchise in Irish Counties 
should be defined so clearly, that the right to vote 
may no longer depend upon the varying decisions 
either of Assistant Barristers or of Committees of 
the House of Commons. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That an humble Address be presented to His 
Majesty, praying that He will be graciously pleased 
to direct a Commission to be issued, to inquire into 
the state of the Universities of Oxford and Cam- 
bridge, and the respective Colleges therein :—And 
the said Motion was, with leave of the House, with- 
drawn. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being put, 
That a Select Committee be appointed to inquire 
whether the full amount of the First Fruits and 
Tenths has been paid by the several persons who 
now are Archbishops and Bishops, Deans, Canons, 
Prebendaries, Rectors and Vicars in England and 

Vor. 92. 





4°__5° 





Maiz. 333 


Wales, in respect of their several Archbishopricks, 
Bishopricks, Deaneries, Canonries, Prebends, Rec- 
tories and Vicarages, or how much less than the 
actual and full amount of such First Fruits and 
Tenths have been paid by them; and whether any 
ard what proceedings should be taken to obtain the 
oo of the full value of the First Fruits and 
enths which shall hereafter become due, in respect 
of such Archbishopricks, Bishopricks, Deaneries, 
Canonries, Prebends, Rectories and Vicarages, or 
any of them ; 
The House divided : 
The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 
The Noes to the old Lobby. 
Tellers for the ( Mr. Baines, 
Yeas, Mr. Aglionby : 
Tellers for the f Mr. Robert Steuart, 
Noes, Mr. Vernon Smith: 
So it passed in the Negative. 


Jes, 
fin. 





A Motion was made, and the Question being put, Lord’s Day Bill. 


That leave be given to bring in a Bill to promote the 
Observance of the Lord’s Day ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas tothe old Lobby ; 

The Noes to the new Lobby. 


Tellers for the Yeas, {itr “Hardy Agnew, } 199. 
Tellers for the Noes, - — } 53. 


So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 


And the House, having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Friday morning ; 


Veneris, 5° die Maii, 1837. 


Ordered, That Sir Andrew Agnew and Mr. Plump- 
tre do prepare, and bring in the Bill. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being PYoO- Fairs and 
posed, That leave be given to bring in a Bill for Markets. 


enabling local authorities, under certain restrictions, 
to remove Saturday and Monday Fairs and Markets 
to other days ; 

A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That this House do now adjourn: —And 
the said Motion was, with leave of the House, with- 
drawn. 

And the Question being again proposed, That 
leave be given to bring in a Bill for enabling local 
authorities, under certain restrictions, to remove 
Saturday and Monday Fairs and Markets to other 
days :—And a Debate arising thereupon ; 

A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That the Debate be adjourned till this day 
month :—And the said Motion was, with leave of 
the House, withdrawn. 

And the Question being again proposed, That 
leave be given to bring in a Bill for enabling local 
authorities, under certain restrictions, to remove 
Saturday and Monday Fairs and Markets to other 
days:—The said Motion was, with leave of the 
House, withdrawn. 


Mr. Serjeant Talfourd presented a Bill to em- Custody of 
power the Lord Chancellor and the Judges to make Infants Bill. 


orders relating to the Custody of Children of tender 
age, in cases where the Parents are living apart, 
upon the application of either of such Parents, or on 
the return to Writs of Habeas Corpus issued at the 
instance of the Father: And the same was read 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time upon Wednesday, the 24th day of this instant 
May ; and to be printed. 


No. 273. 


Sir Andrew Agnew presented a Bill to — Lord’s Day Bill. 
t 


the Observance of the Lord’s Day: And the same 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time upon Friday, the 19th day of this in- 
stant May; and to be printed. 

uU3 Ordered, 


No. 274. 


PR ee 


: 
1 
i 
j 
t} 
. 





334 4°—5° Maii. A. 1837. 


Exchequer Ordered, That there be laid before this House, an | for the electing of a Burgess to serve in this present 


Bills. Account of Exchequer Bills outstanding on the | Parliament, for the Borough of Bridgewater, in the 
No. 272. 5th January 1836, the Amounts subsequently issued | room of John Temple Leader, Esquire, who, since 
and cancelled, and the Amount outstanding on the| his Election for the said Borough, hath accepted 
22d April 1837; together with the Amount of Sup-|the office of Steward or Bailiff of His Majesty’s 
ply Services unissued on the 5th January 1837 ;) three Chiltern Hundreds of Stoke, Desborough and 

and the Ways and Means in the Exchequer, or to Bonenham, in the County of Buckingham. 
be raised for defraying the same. 


Mr. Baring accordingly presented thesaid Account.| An ingrossed Bill for maintaining, repairing and Antrim and 


Ordered, That the said Account do lie upon the| amending Turnpike Roads, from the Town of An- 
Table ; and be printed. trim, in the County of Antrim, to Coleraine, in the 
: County of Londonderry, was, according to Order, 
. . Ordered, That there be laid before this House, | read the third time. : 

ae ees a Copy of the Second and final Report of the Com- _Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
mittee appointed by the Lords of the Treasury for Title be, An Act for maintaming, repairing and 
inquiring into the Fees, Gratuities, Perquisites and | amending Turnpike Roads from the Town of Antrim, 
Emoluments of Public Offices. in the County of Antrim, towards Coleraine, in the 

Mr. Baring accordingly presented the said Paper. County of Londonderry. . ; 
Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the| Ordered, That Mr. Kirk do carry the Bill to the 


Table. Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Edinburgh A Petition of Proprietors and Inhabitants of 
aud a Princes-street, West of the Earthen Mound, Edin- 
Railway Bill. burgh, praying that th be heard, by them- : 
Bye, eg SS ey ey SS eee Te they may be heard, by themselves, their counsel 
selves, their counsel or — against certain parts | oy agents, against certain parts of the Manchester 
of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Bill, was| ang Stafford Railway Bill, was presented, and read. 
presented, and read. aa Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the) Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their) Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 

Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in! fayour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 

favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 





Coleraine 
Roads Bill. 


A Petition of Owners of Lands, Houses, Works, Manchester 


33° ¢ : . H and Stafford 
Buildings and Rents in Manchester, praying that Railway Bill 


Small Debts Ordered, That the Report from the Committee Ordered, That the Committee on the Glasgow Glasgow and 


(Scotland) Bill. on the Small Debts (Scotland) Bill be received upon | and Ayr Railway Bill have leave to sit this day till A 


Monday next. five of the clock, during the sitting of the House. 


Tumpike Acts Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
Continuance —_jtself into a Committee upon the Turnpike Acts Con- 
Bil. tinuance Bill. 








Swannington Railway Company to raise a further 
sum of Money, was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Packe do carry the Bill to the 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Supply. Ordered, That the Report from the Committee of | 
Supply be received this day. 


Public Works Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 


yr Railway 
Bill. 


An ingrossed Bill to enable the Leicester and Leicester and 
Swannington 
Railway Bill. 


. ee A Petition of Neal M°Cullough, Proprietor and gelfast Harbour 
(Ireland) itself into a Committee to consider of authorizing Lees of tis Cle x See 4 ’ Se a ce 
Kieney} of further Advances out of the Consolidated Fund of . g ra anymacarret, praying (No. .) 5 

on y . 


é : “ge that he may be heard, by his counsel or agent, 

the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, | a oainst certain parts of the Belfast Harbour (No. 2.) 
to be applied, with any Money already authorized Bill, was presented, and read. 
to be issued, to the promotion and construction of Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Public Works in Ireland. Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
— . : is | by his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, if he 
Indemnity Bill. Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill)’. ‘ sent, . gsr yp oe * 

to indemnify such persons in the United Kingdom think ap ape oe ae heard, in favour of the Bill, 

as have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices REAMSS Che SRE EF CUUON. 

and Employments, and for extending the time limited 


for those purposes respectively ; to permit such A Petition of William Crawshay and Adam Gor- Brighton, 
persons in Great Britain as have omitted to make don, Members of a Provisional Committee for Lewes, and 





and file Affidavits of the execution of Indentures of, making a Railroad from London to Brighton, on 
Clerks to Attornies and Solicitors to make and file| the line called Stephenson’s Line, cones 
the same; and to allow persons to make and file| certain persons having signed the Subscription ist 
such Affidavits, although the persons whom they | for the Brighton, Lewes and Newhaven Railway, 
served shall have neglected to take out their annual Who, the Petitioners assert, are unworthy of thecredit 
Certificates : And that Mr. Baring and Mr. Chan- | of the House, for the sums forwhichthey havesigned ; 
cellor of the Exchequer do prepare, and bring it in. and praying the House to cause these frauds upon 


, .,|and violation of their privileges to be inquired into, 

= on oe ——— - poet /and grant such relief in the premises as they shall 

nena 4 tilt his di 84 y ©? think proper, was presented, and read ; and ordered 
adjourned till this day. _to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the Petition be printed. 





| 
} 
Veneris, 5° die Maii; | 


| Addresses to His Maj A N 
ne Wiliielet 1We ge yesty,—A Return of the Names 
Anno 7° Willielmi IV" Regis, 1837. | of all Parishes, and the Counties in which the same 











PRAYERS. are situated, that have been united under the powers 

Longford H E Clerk of the Crown attending, according | and provisions granted by the 5th and 6th Will. 4, 

County Return, to Order, amended the Return for the County | c 50, for the purpose of having one sufficient person 

of Longford. to be District Surveyor of the Highways within such 

united Parishes; together with the Names of the 

Bridgewater Ordered, That Mr. Speaker doissue his Warrant! Unions formed under the 4th and 5th of Will. 4, 
Writ, to the Clerk of the Crown to make out a new Writ 


c. 76, to which such Parishes respectively belong. 
| A Return 


Newhaven 
Railway Bill. 


Mr. Fox Maule presented, pursuant to several Highways. 





Summé 
Convit 


First I 
and T 
Office, 


Lunat 
Asylu 
(Irela 


E 


al 


us tok ee. Got bo 





7 Wit. IV. 


A Return from the Clerks of the Peace in England 
and Wales, of the Number of Summary Convictions 
filed with them in the year ending Michaelmas 1835. 

A Return of the Names, Salaries, Fees and Emo- 
luments of every Patentee or Officer of the follow- 
ing Offices, namely, the First Fruits Office, Tenths 
Office and Queen Anne’s Bounty Office; also the 
Amount of all Office Contingencies ; also the gross 
Amount of the Sums received at the First Fruits 
and Tenths Office, in each year from 1832 to 1836, 
inclusive. 

__ A Return of the Expense of each District Lunatic 
Asylum in Ireland, for the year ending 31st March 
1837; showing the Total Expense, the Average 
Expense of each Patient, the Number of Patients 
from each County, and the Sum charged to each 
County in that year:—Also, of the Number of 
Patients in each on the 1st April 1836, the Number 
admitted, the Number discharged; distinguishing 
those discharged as cured, as relieved, and as 
harmless and incurable; the Number who have died, 
and the Total discharged and died; the Number to 
whom Admission was refused, and the average 
Number in the Asylum during the 5 rt ending 31st 
March 1837:—Also, of the Total Expenditure ; the 
Total Cost per head per annum; the Expenditure in 
Furniture, Bedding and Linen; the Expenditure in 
Fixtures, Additions, Alterations, Workmen’s Bills, 
&amp;c.; the Expenditure in Clothing ; the Expenditure 
per head per annum in Clothing ; the Expenditure 
in Salaries and Servants’ Wages ; the Expenditure 
=f head per annum in Salaries and Servants’ 
ages; the Expenditure in Food only; the Cost 
er head per annum in Food only; the Cost per 
led per week in Food only; all calculated from 
the average Number of Patients, and for the year 
ending 31st March 1837 :—And, also, of the par- 
ticulars and Amount of Salaries and Servants’ Wages 
for the year ending 31st March 1837. 

Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 

Table. 


Summary 
Convictions. 


First Fruits 
and Teuths 
Office, &amp;c. 


Lunatic 
Asylums 
(Ireland.) 


A Petition of Proprietors of the Glasgow, Paisley 
and Androssan Canal, praying that they may be 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
against certain parts of the Glasgow, Paisley and 
Greenock Railway Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to 
the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


Glasgow, 
Paisley and 
Greenock 
Railway Bill. 


A Petition of Landowners, Farmers, Freeholders 
and others, in the county of Linlithgow, praying that 
the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Bill may pass 
into a law, was presented, and read ; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of Trustees of the Glasgow and Red- 
burn Bridge Road, and Alexander Campbell, their 
clerk, praying that they may be heard, by them- 
selves or their counsel, against certain parts of the 
said Bill, was also presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to 
the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, or their counsel, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


Edinburgh 
and Glasgow 
Railway Bill, 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the National Endowment and Assurance 
Society (No. 2.) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
this day six months. 


National 

Endowment 

and Assurance 

i (No. 2.) 
ili, 


North 
Metropolitan 
Cemetery Bill, 


A Petition of the Corporation of the Zondon 
Cemetery Company, praying that they may be 
heard, by themselves or their counsel, against cer- 
tain parts of the North Metropolitan Cemetery Bill, 
was presented, and read. 

Vot, 92. 





5° Mazz. 











335 


Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to ne 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petiticners heard, 
by themselves or their counsel, upon their Petition, 
if they think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


Ordered, That the Petition of Charles John Blunt, southwark and 
complaining of the misapplication of the Funds of Hammersmith 
the Southwark and Hammersmith Railway Company, ®*!*y Bill 
which was presented yesterday, be referred to the 
Select Committee on the Deptford and Dover Rail- 
way Subscription List. 


Ordered, That the Committee on the Ipswich Ipswich 
Improvement and Docks Bill, have Power to send a 
for persons, papers and records. il aan 


An ingrossed Bill for making and maintaining Holme Reser- 
certain Reservoirs in the several Townships of Holme, Vis Bill. 
Cartworth, Austonley, Upperthong, Wooldale and 
Hepworth, in the several Parishes of Kirkburton 
and Almondbury, in the West Riding of the County 
of York, was read the third time; and Amendments 
were made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Sir George Strickland do carry 
the Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


A Petition of Sir Harry Every, Baronet, complajn- Birmingham 
ing that the Standing Orders of the House in the case 24 i 
of the Petition for the Birmingham and Derby saiite inane 
Railway Bill had not been complied with, was 
offered to be presented :—But the Bill having been 
read a second time, the Petition was not received. 


Ordered, That the Report, together with the Mi- London and 
nutes of the Evidence taken before the Committee on Blackwall 
the London and Blackwall Railway Bill in the last ee &lt;4 
Session of Parliament, be referred to the Committe icin 
on the London and Blackwall Commercial Railway 
Bill of the present Session. 


Mr. Evelyn Denison reported from the Select Edinburgh 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills ; That in Water 
the case of the Petition for leave to present a Peti- Comp2"y- 
tion for the Edinburgh Water Company Bill, the 
Committee recommend that leave be granted to 
present a Petition for a Bill. 

Ordered, That leave be given to present a Peti- 
tion, as desired. 


An ingrossed Bill for inclosing Lands in the Gjun forest 
Honor or Lordship and Forest of Clun, in the County Inclosure Bill. 
of Salop, was, according to Order, read the third time. 

An ingrossed Clause was offered to be added to 
the Bill by way of Rider (Allowance to Surveyor) : 
And the said Clause was brought up, and twice read 
with a blank; and committed te a Committee of 
the whole House :—The House accordingly resolved 
itself into the Committee; and after some time spent 
therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Sir 
Edward Knatchbull reported, That the Committee 
had gone through the Clause, and made an Amend- 
ment thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Sir Edward Knatchbull accordingly reported the 
Clause ; and the Amendment was read, and agreed 
to; and the said Clause was read the third time, 
and agreed to, to be made part of the Bill, by way 
of Rider. 

Then Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Robert Clive do carry the Bill 
to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Petitions from Owners and Occupiers of lands in Lough swilly 
or near Lough Foyle, that is to say, the townlands and Lough 
of Muff, Ardmore, Drumscalion, Ture, Aught, Three- Foy le Drainage 
trees, Trinity, Carrowkeel and Cabray ;—and, Ard- = 
more, Drumscalion, Ture, Aught, Threetrees, Trinity, 
Carrowheel, Cabray, Crehenan, Rooskey, Drung, 
uu4 Ballyargus, 





Se 


SE Se SE 


Tena aegiamemenrr se ces 


ene 


PRO AE ECOSPORT RE ose 





Antrim and 
Coleraine 


Roads Bill. 


Durham 
Junction 
Railway Bill. 


London and 
Brighton 
Railway Bills, 


Manchester 
and Stafford 
Railway Bill. 


Belfast and 
Hollywood 
Railway Bill, 


Dundee Water- 
works Bill, 


Sheriff and 
Burgh Courts 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Church Rates 
Regulation. 


336 5° Marz. 


Petitions from “a, “salle Baldoyle, and other Government of 


Ballyargus, Coolanean, Carickmaquigly, Tulegaley, 
Tulnavin, Clare, Ballyratten, Tandrum, or the eleven 
Ballyboes; praying that they may be heard, by 
their counsel or agents, against certain parts of the 
Lough Swilly and Lough Foyle Drainage Bill,—were 
presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by their counsel or agents, upon their Peti- 
tions, if they think fit ; and counsel heard, in favour 
of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


A Petition of Merchants, Traders and Shopkeepers 
of Ballymoney, praying that the Antrim and Cole- 
raine Roads Bill may not pass into a law, was pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the Petition of Sir George Musgrave, 
Baronet, which was presented upon the 13th day 
of April last, be referred to the Trocniaiattin on the 
phe wad Junction Railway Bill; and the Petitioner 
heard, by his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, 
if he think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


Petitions from Owners or Occupiers of land on 
Rennie’s Line of Railroad ;—and, on the Lines of 
Railroad hereinafter referred to; praying the House 
tosinstruct the Committee to whom the London and 
Brighton Railway Bills have been referred, to make 
a ers report on the engineering particulars of 
each of the four competing Lines, to enable the 
House to determine which of such Bills shall be sent 
back to the said Committee, for the purpose of hear- 
ing the Petitioners, and other Owners and Occupiers 
of land liable to be affected by such Railways, some 
or one of them, and against the preamble of, and 
the clauses in, such Bill, as may affect their interests, 
—were presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 


the Table. 


A Petition of Clergy, Gentry, Bankers, Merchants 
and other Inhabitants of Oxford, praying that the 
Manchester and Stafford Railway Bill may pass into 
a law, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


A Petition of David Ker, of Portavo, in the 
county of Down, Esquire, praying that he may be 
heard, by himself, his counsel or agent, against cer- 
tain parts of the Belfast and Hollywood Railway 
Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by himself, his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, 
if he think fit ; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of the Deacon of the Baker Incorpora- 
tion of Dundee, praying that the Dundee Waterworks 
Bill may not pass into a law as it now stands, was 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 

‘able. 


A Petition of the Royal Burghs of Scotland, in 
convention assembled, praying that the Sheriff and 
Burgh Courts (Scotland) Bill may not pass into a 
law as it now stands, was presented, and read ; and 
orcered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Earls Colne;—Hook Norton ; 
— Burnham ;— Castlegate Meeting-house, Not- 
tingham ;— Bracknell ;— Bluntisham ;— Chatham ;— 
Lochee;—Auchtergaven ;—and, Lyme Regis; praying 
that the proposed measure relative to Church Rates 
may receive the sanction of the House,—were pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from Reigate ; — Wakefield ; —Ports- 
mouth;—and, Wortley (Episcopal Chapel) ; praying 
that the said proposed measure may not receive the 
sanction of the House,—were also presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 








A. 1837. 


sc ; praying the House to support His Majesty’s !reland. 
Ministers in their government of Ireland,—were pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Oakham, and other places ; — Lord’s Day Bill 
Exton; —Lyme Regis ; — Ramsey ; —Harwich ; — 
Saint Ives ;-—and, Falmouth ; praying the House to 
go into a Committee upon the Lord’s Day Bill,— 
were presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


Petitions from Guardians of the Poor of the Bil- Poor Law Act, 
lesden Union ;—and, Medical Practitioners in Wor- 
cester ; praying for the amendment of the Poor Law 
Act,-—were presented, and read; and referred to the 
Select Committee on the Poor Law Act. 

A Petition of Inhabitants of Liversedge, praying 
for the repeal of the said Act, was also presented, 
and read ; and referred to the said Select Committee. 


A Petition of Clergy of Leeds, praying that so Registration 
much of the Registration and Marriages Acts as and Marriages 
relates to registering may be repealed, and that the Ac 
Petitioners may be left as before to the undisturbed 
registration of their own ecclesiastical transactions, 
was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Rochdale, praying Universal 
for the adoption of Universal Suffrage and Vote by Suffrage, &amp;c. 
Ballot in the election of Members to serve in Par- 
liament, was presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Richard Bulfield, of Lancaster, at- {mprisonment 
torney-at-law, praying that the Imprisonment for for Debt Bill, 
Debt Bill may pass into a law, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Message, by Mr. Pulman, Yeoman Usher of Royal Assent 

the Black Rod: to Bills. 
Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords, authorized by virtue of His Majesty’s 
Commission for declaring His Royal Assent to seve- 
ral Acts agreed upon by both Houses, do desire the 
immediate attendance of this Honourable House in 
the House of Peers, to hear the Commission read. 

Accordingly Mr. Speaker, with the House, went 
up to the House of Peers :—And being returned ; 

Mr. Speaker reported, That the House, at the desire 
of the Lords, authorized by virtue of His Majesty’s 
Commission, had been at the House of Peers, where 
a Commission under the Great Seal was read, giving, 
declaring and notifying the Royal Assent to the 
several Public and Private Bills therein mentioned ; 
and that the Lords, thereby authorized, had declared 
the Royal Assent to the said Bills :—Which Bills 
are as follow : 

An Act to apply the Sum of Eight Millions, out Consolidated 
of the Consolidated Fund, to the Service of the year fu4 Bill. 
One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven : 

An Act for making and maintaining a Railway Lancaster 
from the Town of Lancaster to the Town of Preston, ™4 view 
in the County Palatine of Lancaster : — 

An Act for making a Railway from Sheffield, in Sheffield and 
the West Riding of the County of York, to Man- Manchester 

; 3 “ Railway Bill. 
chester, in the County of Lancaster : 

An Act to enable the North Midland Railway Leeds and 
Company to alter the Line of the said Railway, and ae ai 
also to make two Branches to communicate with ~* 
the same : 

An Act for enabling the Manchester and Leeds Manchester 
Railway Company to vary the Line of such Railway, Railway Bill 
and for amending and enlarging the Powers and 
Provisions of the Act relating thereto : 

An Act for enabling the Liverpool and Manchester Liverpool and 
Railway Company to raise more Money, and for cer Bill 
amending and enlarging the Powers and Provisions 


of the several Acts relating to the said Railway : 
An Act 





Whitby and 
Pickering 
Railway Bill. 


Birmingham 
and Gloucester 
Railway Bill. 


Preston and 
Wyre Railway 
Bill. 

Preston and 
Wyre Docks 
Bill. 


Edinburgh 
Police Bill. 


Cardiff Gas 
Bill. 


Cardiff 
Improvement 
Bill. 


Stamford 
Waterworks 
Bill. 


Streatley and 
Goring Bridge 
and Roads Bill. 


Manchester 
(Victoria Park) 
Improvement 
Bill. 


Werneth and 
Littleborough 
Road Bill. 


Llanrwst 
Road Bill. 


Sheffield and 
Halifax Road 
Bill. 


Gardiner’s 
Divorce Bill. 


Ashby and 
Hellington 
Inclosure Bill. 


Rapallo’s 
Nat, Bill. 
Solari’s 

Nat. Bill, 
County Rates 
Bill, 


Foreign Wool 
ard Olive Oil, 


Welsh Bishops, 


St. Asa ph 
and Bangor 
Dioceses, 





7 Wit. IV. 


An Act to enlarge and amend the Powers and 
Provisions of an Act relating to the Whitby and 
Pickering Railway, in the North Riding of the 
County of York: 

An Act to amend an Act passed in the last Ses- 
sion of Parliament for making a Railway from Bir- 
mingham to Gloucester, to extend the Line of the 
said Railway, and to make Branches therefrom to 
the City of Worcester, and the Town of Tewkesbury: 

An Act to alter the Line of the Preston and Wyre 
Railway, and to amend the Act relating thereto : 


An Act for making and maintaining a Dock or 
Docks at Wyre, in the County Palatine of Lan- 
caster: 

An Act for continuing, altering and amending 
certain Acts for regulating the Police of the City of 
Edinburgh, and the adjoining Districts, and for other 

urposes relating thereto : 

An Act for better lighting with Gas the Town of 
Cardiff, in the County of Glamorgan : 

An Act for better paving, cleansing, lighting and 
otherwise improving the Town of Cardiff, in the 
County of Glamorgan : 

An Act for better supplying with Water the Town 
and Borough of Stamford, and places adjacent there- 
to, in the Counties of Vorthampton and Lincoln: 

An Act for building a Bridge over the River 
Thames from Streatley, in the County of Berks, to 
the opposite Shore, in the Parish of Goring, in the 
County of Oxford, and for making convenient Ap- 
proaches thereto : 

An Act for establishing a Company for the pur- 
— of laying out and maintaining an Ornamental 

ark within the Townships of Rusholme, Chorlton- 
upon-Medlock and Moss-side, in the County of Lan- 
caster : 

An Act for improving and maintaining the Road 
from Dryclough, through Shaw, New Hey and Miln- 
row to Rochdale, and other Roads in the County of 
Lancaster : 

An Act for more effectually repairing, improving 
and maintaining certain Roads leading to and from 
the Town of Llanrwst, in the County of Denbigh: 

An Act for widening and improving the Road 
from Halifax to Sheffield, in the West Riding of 
the County of York, so far as relates to the third 
District of the said Road, and for diverting the said 
District of Road, and making a new Line of Road 
therefrom : : 

An Act to dissolve the Marriage of Charles Gar- 
diner, Esquire, with Harriet Maria Elizabeth, his 
now Wife, and to enable him to marry again, and 
for other purposes : 

An Act for dividing, allotting and inclosing the 


5° Mazz. 


337 


Saint Asaph and Bangor, the income arising from 
minerals belonging to those Sees be annually set 
apart for the formation of a fund successively, to 
establish the archdeaconries in the principality of 
Wales (whether now held by annexation to the Sees, 
or otherwise) upon the same footing and principle as 
those of England, the Bishops having power given 
to nominate such clergymen as will gratuitously 
perform the office, until such a provision shall be 
made; that the archdeaconries be preserved separate 
and distinct from every other dignity, and that those 
who shall be appointed to them be fully conversant 
in the Welsh language, as well as distinguished for 
their professional talent and assiduity, so as to en- 
sure such an efficient and uninterrupted performance 
of the duties of an Archdeacon as shall effectually 
assist the Bishop in preserving a salutary discipline 
in the different parts of his diocese, and at the same 
time manifest to the inhabitants of Wales the great 
spiritual benefits to be derived from a wise and well 
regulated ecclesiastical establishment, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Preses of a Meeting of Com- Prisons 
missioners of Supply of Wairnshire, praying that the (Scotland) Bill, 
Prisons (Scotland) Bin may pass into a law, was pre- 
sented, and read; and ec to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Portadown, praying General 
for the suppression of the General Association in (indeed) 
Ireland, was presented, and read ; and ordered to or 
lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Operative Dressers of Manchester ; Factories. 
Tormorden ; — Bradford ; — Glossop ; — Shaw ; — 
Hyde ;—Persons in the employ of Messrs. M¢ Con- 
nell’s, Sedgwick Mill ;—and, Oldham ; praying the 
House to pass a law to protect all factory workeer 
from being worked more than ten hours for five days 
in the week, and eight on the Saturday,—were pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Chichester reported from the Select Com- Eighth Report 
mittee appointed to inquire into the administration — —— 
of the relief of the Poor under the orders and regu- N 276 
lations issued by the Commissioners appointed under “*°* “/7" 
the provisions of the Poor Law Amendment Act; 
and who were empowered to report the Evidence 
taken before them from time to time to the House ; 

That they had made further Progress in the matters 
to them referred ; and had directed him to report 
the Minutes of the Evidence taken before them. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Resolved, That this House will, at the rising of Adjournment. 





open Fields and Field Lands, Commons and Waste 
Grounds in the Parishes of Ashby and Hellington, 
in the County of Norfolk : 

An Act for naturalizing Ernesto Domenico Da- 
miano Rapallo : 

An Act for naturalizing Angelo Antonio Solari. 


A Petition of the Mayor, Alderman, Burgesses 
and Inhabitants of Lyme Regis, praying that the 
County Rates Bill may pass into a law, was pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Manufacturers, and others con- 
nected with the woollen trade in Lyme Regis, pray- 
ing for the repeal of the Duty on the importation 
of Foreign Sheep’s Wool and Olive Oil, and the 
Export Duty on Manufactured Woollens, was pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Denbigh, praying 
that no individual who is unacquainted with the 
language of the Welsh people may be henceforward 
instituted to a Bishoprick in Wales, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of the Clergy of the county of An- 
glesey, praying that after the union of the Sees of 

Vo. 92, 


the House this day, adjourn till Monday next. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on the Dept- Deptford and 
ford and Dover Railway Subscription List, have rare a wad 
leave to sit To-morrow, notwithstanding the adjourn- List. 


ment of the House. 


Ordered, That the Second and final Report of Fees in Public 
the Commissioners on Fees in Public Offices, which Oftices. 
was presented yesterday, be printed. No. 277. 


Sir Andrew Leith Hay presented, pursuant to Ordnance. - 
Order,—A Return in detail, of the manner in which 
the Sum of £.96,678 voted for the Charge of the 
Ordnance Superannuations, Pensions, &amp;c., in the 
Ordnance Estimates of 1836-37 was expended ; 
showing the Number of Half-pay Officers in classes, 
and the Amount of their Half-pay, the Names and 
Rank of the Superannuated Officers, and the Amount 
paid to each, and the Dates on which they were 
respectively placed upon the Superannuation List ; 
the Names of the Retired General Officers, the 
Amount paid to each, and the Dates from which 
they were placed upon the Retired List:—-The Names 
of the Persons receiving Pensions for good services ; 
stating the Amount paid to each, the Date from 
which paid, and the Service for which the Pension 

xX was 












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ae 


i 
i 


Message from 
the Lords. 


Sheffield 
and Halifax 
Road Bill. 


Streatley and 
Goring Bridge 
and Roads Bill, 


Wigan Rectory 
Estate Bill. 


Supply ; 


338 5°—6° Maz. A. 1837. 


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‘ 
‘ 


was granted :—The Names of Persons a 
Pensions for Inventions ; stating the Amount pai 
to each, the Date from and the nature of the Inven- 
tion :—The Names of Officers receiving Pensions 
for Wounds and loss of Limbs; stating the Rank 
of each when the Wound was received, their present 
Rank, the time when, and place where, the Wound 
was received, the nature of the Wound, the Amount 
of Pension received, and the Date from which it 
commenced :—The Amount of Pensions to Widows 
and Children, in Classes, and the Amount paid to 
each Class :—Showing, also, the Number of Retired 
Officers in Jreland, in Classes; the Amount paid to 
each Class, and the Date from which they were 
placed upon the Retired List. 

. — That the said Return do lie upon the 

able. 


A Message from the Lords, by Sir Giffin Wilson 

and Mr. Cross: 
Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords have agreed to the several Bills fol- 
lowing, without Amendment ; viz. 

A Bill, intituled, An Act for widening and im- 
roving the Road from Halifax to Sheffield, in the 

est Ridin of the County of York, so far as re- 
lates to the Phird District of the said Road, and for 
diverting the said District of Road, and making 
a new line of Road therefrom : 

A Bill, intituled, An Act for building a Bridge 
over the River Thames from Streatley, in the County 
of Berks, to the opposite Shore, in the Parish of 
Goring, in the County of Oxford, and for making 
convenient Approaches thereto: And also, 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
to enable the Rector of the Parish of Wigan, in the 
County Palatine of Lancaster, to grant Leases of 
the Mines and Buildings, Leases and Conveyances 
in Fee, subject to Ground Rents, of the Glebe Lands 
belonging to the said Rectory, and for other pur- 
poses, to which the Lords desire the concurrence of 
this House :—And then the Messengers withdrew. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 
posed, That the Order of the day for the Committee 
of Supply be now read ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” to 
the end of the Question, in order to add the words 
“ an Address having been presented to the King 
“ by the House of Commons, humbly praying, 
“ «That His Majesty would be graciously pleased to 
“ appoint a Commission to inquire into the oppor- 
“ tunities of Religious Worship, and means of Re- 
“ ligious Instruction and Pastoral Superintendence, 
“ afforded to the people of Scotland, and how far 
“ these are of avail for the religious and moral im- 
“ provement of the Poor, and of the Working 
“ Classes, and with this view, to obtain information 
“ respecting their stated attendance in places of 
“ Public Worship, and their actual connection with 
“ any religious denomination, to inquire what Funds 
“ are now or may hereafter be available for the 
“ purpose of the Established Church of Scotland, 
“ and to report from time to time, in order that such 
“ remedies may be = to = existing evils, as 
“ Parliament may think fit, His Majesty was 
“ pleased, on the 20th day of July 1835, to issue 
* such. Commission. 

“That the Commissioners so appointed made a 
“ first Report on the matters referred to them as 
“ applicable to those Parishes in the Presbytery of 
“ Edinburgh, where the want of the means of re- 
“ ligious instruction was alleged to exist, which 
“ Report was laid before the House of Commons 
“ on the 7th of February 1837. 

“ That it appears from this Report that the popu- 
“ Jation in the City of Edinburgh, and its suburbs, 
“ amounts to 162,292, of whom, after deducting 
“* persons belonging to religious denominations other 
“ than the Established Church, there remain 91,021; 





i 


and that the total number of Sittings in the 
Churches belonging to the Establishment amounts 
to 36,001; it further appears from the Report, 
that the number of persons capable of attending 
religious worship, who habitually absent them- 
selves from such worship, ‘ cannot be less than 
“ from 40,000 to 50,000.’ 

“ That the said Report sets forth, ‘ as the result 
of the whole Evidence, that from whatever cause 
it proceeds, whether connected with their extent 
or nature, the opportunities of public religious 
worship, and the means of religious instruction 
and pastoral superintendence at present existin 
and in operation, are not adequate to the maa 
of the evils complained of.’ 

“That it is the opinion of this House, that the 
said Report should be taken into immediate con- 
sideration, with the view of remedying the evils 
acknowledged to exist within the districts to which 
it refers, by extending the means of religious in- 
struction and pastoral superintendence furnished 
“ by the Established Church of Scotland, and ren- 
dering them available to all classes of the com- 
munity,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That tie words pro- 
posed to be left out stand part of the Question ; 
The House divided : 

The Yeas to the old Lobby ; 

The Noes to the new Lobby. 


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Tellers for the ( Mr. Edward John Stanley, 

Yeas, { Mr. Robert Steuart : aria 
Tellers for the ¢ Sir George Clerk, 

Noes, { Mr. Cumming Bruce : _ 


So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Saturday morning ; 


Sabbati, 6° die Maii, 1837. 


Ordered, That the Order of the day for the Com- 
— of Supply be now read, and the same being 
read ; 

Ordered, That the Account of the Sum expended Accounts, 
under the head of Civil Contingencies in the year ‘ferred: 
1836; and the Estimate of the Amount that’ will Civil Contin 
probably be required for one year, ending 31st _— 
March 1838, be referred to the Committee. 

Ordered, That the Account of Exchequer Bills Exchequer 
outstanding on the 5th January 1836, the Amounts 8#!s- 
subsequently issued and cancelled, and the Amount 
outstanding on the 22d April 1837; together with 
the Amount of Supply Services unissued on the 5th 
January 1837 ; and the Ways and Means in the Ex- 
chequer, or to be raised for defraying the same, which 
was presented yesterday, bereferred to the Committee. 

Then the House resolved itself into the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Twenty-four Exchequer 
millions, six hundred and twenty-three thousand, 
three hundred pounds, be granted to His Majesty, 
to pay off oe discharge any Exchequer Bills 
charged on the Aids or Supplies of the years 1836 
or 1837, now remaining unpaid and unprovided for. 

Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Bernal 
tag That the Committee had come to a Reso- 
ution. 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon Mon- 
day next. 

Mr. Bernal also acquainted the House, that he 
was directed to move, That the Committee may have 
leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming the Tithes 
adjourned Debate upon the Question proposed upon (Ireland.) 
Wednesday last, That the Resolution which upon 
the same day was reported from the Committee to 
whom it was referred to consider of the ane 

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Summary 
Convictions 
(Juvenile 
Offenders) Bill. 


Post-Office 
Acts Repeal 
Bill. 


Post-Office 
Management 
Bill, 


7 Witt. IV. 5°—6° 


of commuting Compositions for Tithes in Jreland, 
into a rent-charge payable by the owners of the 
first estate of inheritance, and to make further pro- 
visions for the better regulation of Ecclesiastical 
Duties and Revenues, be now read a second time. 

And the Question being again proposed, That the 
said Resolution be now read a second time :—The 
House resumed the said adjourned Debate. 

A Motion was made, and the Question being put, 
That this House do now adjourn ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 

Mr. Ruthven, } 

Tellers forthe Yeas, ¢ y1." in day: 12. 

Tellers for the Noes, } ay ee } 128. 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the said Reso- 
lution be now read a second time :—It was resolved 
in the Affirmative. 

The said Resolution was accordingly read a 
second time, as followeth ; 

Resolved, That it is expedient to commute Com- 
positions for Tithes in Ireland, into a rent-charge pay- 
able by the owners of the first estate of inheritance, 
and to make further provisions for the better regu- 
lation of Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question being | 
put, That this House doth agree with the Com-| 
mittee in the said Resolution ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the old Lobby ; 

The Noes to the new Lobby. 

Tellers for the ( Lord Seymour, 





Yeas, { Mr Baring : 1s.) 0 
Tellers for the ¢ Mr. Sharman Crawford, \ 7 
Noes, { Mr. Ruthven: . 





So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That a Bill be brought in upon the said | 
Resolution: And that Lord Viscount Morpeth, Lord 
John Russell and Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, | 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Summary Convictions (Juvenile Offen- 
ders) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
further consideration the Report on the Post Office 
Acts Repeal Bill :—The Bill was re-committed to a 
Committee of the whole House:—And the House 
immediately resolved itself into the Committee ; 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair, and Mr. Bernal reported, That 
the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon Mon- 
day next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
further consideration the Report on the Post Office 
Management Bill:—The Bill was re-committed to 
a Committee of the whole House:—And the House 
immediately resolved itself into the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 


Several Amendments made. 

Clause (Letters not to be delivered on the Lord’s 
Day) —— brought up, and read a first time. 

Clause, by leave, withdrawn. 

Bill, as amended, to be reported. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair, and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon Mon- 





' day next. 





Vor. 92, 





Maii. 339 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Postage Duties | 


further consideration the Report on the Postage 
Duties Bill :—The Bill was re-committed to a Com- 
mittee of the whole House :—And the House im- 
mediately resolved itself into the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 
Several Amendments made. 


Cravsz, N° 30, (Conditions to be observed in 
sending printed papers by Postage)——read. 

Amendment proposed: P. 16. 1. 18. After the 
word “sent” to insert the following words, “ And 
“ any line down the Margins made solely and bond 
“ fide for the purpose of directing attention to any 
“ particular part.’ 

Question put, That those words be there i : 

The Gaines divided : — 


Mr. Aglionby, 7 


Tellers for the Yeas,{ Mr. Wallace: j 12. 
Tellers for the Noes 4 4 ty nm } 28. 


Cravse, N° 30, agreed to. 

Ciause, N° 42, (Charitable Institutions in Jre- 
land) read. ’ 

Amendment proposed: To leave out the said 
Clause—agreed to. 

Clause offered (Letters not to be sent or delivered 


on the Lord’s Day)——brought up, and read a first 
time. 


Clause, by leave, withdrawn. 
Bill, as amended, to be reported. 








Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair, and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had gone through the 
ill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon Mon- 
day next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Frauking Bill. 


further consideration the Report on the Frankin 
Bill:—The Bill was re-committed to a rps 
of the whole House :—And the House immediately 
resolved itself into the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 


Several Amendments made. 
Clause offered (No Franking on the Lord’s Day.) 


Clause, by leave, withdrawn. 
Bill, as amended, to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair, and Mr. Baring 
reported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon Mon- 
day next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Post-Ofiice 
further consideration the Report on the Post Office fences Bill. 


Offences Bill:—The Bill was re-committed to a 
Committee of the whole House :—And the House 
immediately resolved itself into the Committee; and, 
after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed 
the Chair, and Mr. Bernal reported, That the 
Committee had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon Mon- 
day next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Imprisonment for Debt Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. ‘ 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
— on the Municipal Corporations (Scotland) 

ill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


xx2 The 


Imprisonment 


for Debt Bill. 


Municipal 
Corporations 


(Scotland) Bill. 








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340 5°—6°—8° Mairi. 


Burghs The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 

of Barony _— mittee on the Burghs of Barony (Scotland) Bill ; 

(Scotland) Bill. Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Jury Trial The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
(Scotland) Bill. mittee on the Jury Trial (Scotland) Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 





Courtof Session The Order of the day being read, for the third 
(Scotland) Bill. reading of the Court of Session (Scotland) Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time upon 
Monday next. 


Registration The Order of the day being read, for the second 

~ Marriages reading of the Registration and Marriages Bill ; 

” Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Monday next. 


Registration of | The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Voters Bill. mittee on the Registration of Voters Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Ways and The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Means. mittee of Ways and Means ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Public Works The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
(Ireland) Bill. mittee on the Public Works (Ireland) Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Turnpike Acts The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
Continuance nto a Committee upon the Turnpike Acts Contimu- 
~. ance Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal re- 
orted, That the Committee had gone through the 

ill, and made Amendments thereunto. 
Ordered, That the Report be received upon Mon- 

day next. 


Supply The Order of the day being read, for receiving the 
(7th April.) Report from the Committee of Supply ; 
Ordered, That the Report be received upon Mon- 
day next. 


Public Works ee P i eee 
(Ireland) The Order of the day being read, for the Com 


[Advance of mittee to whom it was referred, to consider of 
Money.] authorizing further Advances out of the Consolidated 
Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and 
Treland, to be applied, with any Money already 
authorized to be issued, to the promotion and con- 
struction of Public Works in Jreland ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Lord’sDay Bill, The Order for reading a second time upon Fri- 
day, the 19th day of this instant May, the Lord’s 
Day Bill, was read, and discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday, the 7th day of June next. 


Indemnity Bill. Mr, Chancellor of the Exchequer presented a Bill 
to indemnify such Persons in the United Kingdom 
as have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices and 
Employments, and for extending the Time limited 
fo: those purposes respectively; to permit such 
Persons in Great Britain as have omitted to make 
and file Affidavits of the execution of Indentures of 
Clerks to Attornies and Solicitors, to make and file 
the same; and to allow Persons to make and file such 
Affidavits, although the Persons whom they served 
shall have neglected to take out their Annual Cer- 
tificates: And the same was read the first time; and 
ordered to be read a second time upon Monday next. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till half an hour after two of the clock on 
Saturday morning, adjourned till Monday 
next, 











A. 1837. 


Lune, 8° die Maii ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi IV% Regis, 1837. 
PRAYERS. 


M* Crafer, from the Treasury, was called in ; Lead. 
and at the bar presented, pursuant to Orders, 
—Accounts of the Quantity of Lead and Lead Ore 
imported into the United Kingdom; distinguishing 
the Countries from which imported, and the amount 
of Duty received thereon :—And, of the Quantity of 
all Lead and Lead Ore, distinguishing Pig and 
Rolled Lead, Shot, Litharge and Lead Paint, ex- 
ported from the United Kingdom in the year endin 
5th January 1837; stating the Countries to whick 
the same have been exported. 

Accounts of all Copper imported into the United Copper. 
Kingdom in the year ended 5th January 1837 ; dis- 
tinguishing each sort of Copper, from what Country, 
and into what Ports imported :—Of the Quantities 
of Copper exported from the United Kingdom in 
the year ending 5th January 1837; distinguishing 
each sort, from what Port sent, and to what Country 
exported :—Of the Quantities of Copper exported 
from the Port of London, in the year ending 5th 
January 1837; distinguishing each sort, and to 
what Country exported:—Of the Quantities of 
Copper exported from the Port of Liverpool, in the 
year ending 5th January 1837; distinguishing each 
sort, and to what Country exported :—And, of all 
Copper Ore that has been imported into the United 
Kingdom, without payment of Duty, for the pur- 
pose of Exportation, in the year ending 5th January 
1837. 

An Account of all Tin imported into the United Tin. 
Kingdom, in the year ending 5th January 1837; 
distinguishing from what Countries imported :— 
Also, an Account of all Tin exported from the 
United Kingdom in the year ending 5th January 
1837; distinguishing to what Countries exported. 

Return of all the Commissions that have been Commissions. 
issued or appointed under Act of Parliament, from 
November 1830, and not included in the Return 
— by order of this House in the last Session of 

arliament, No. 528; the Number and Names of 
the Commissioners, Assistant Commissioners, Secre- 
taries, Clerks and other Persons attached to each, 
and if employed individually in more than one Com- 
mission, and in what Number so employed, the 
Places and Periods of Official Duties and Sittings, 
the Number of Days of each Sitting since the com- 
mencement of Duty, the Period and Dates at which 
each Commission was issued, and Duty of each 
commenced, and the Period at which each closed 
or reported, the Salaries and Allowances of each 
Officer or Person, the total Expenses incurred, 
Amount actually paid and due, and for what cause 
withheld in each Cosmin ; made up to the latest 
Period in which the same can be made out. 

Return of the Applications made from Scotland Education 
for participation in the Grants of £.10,000, voted (Scotland.) 
in the Estimates of the years 1834 and 1836, in 
aid of Education in that Country; specifying the 
Date of each Application, the Place from whence 
it came, the Parties by whom it was made, and the 
Date and Purport of the Answer. 

An Account explanatory of the effect produced Newspaper 








/upon the Revenue by the reduction of the Stamp S™P* 


Duty on Newspapers. 

Returns of any Informations or other Legal Pro- 
ceedings instituted in respect to the Stamp Duty on 
Newspapers, or the Sale of unstamped Papers :— 
Of the Number of Persons who may have been 
committed, since the reduction of the Stamp Duty 
on Newspapers, for the violation of the Stamp Laws, 
by printing, publishing or selling unstamped News- 
papers :—And, of the Number of Prisoners now in 
custody charged with such Offences. 

A Detailed Account of the application of the Sum Custom House 





of £.68,000, voted in the Session of 1835, to the relief (Dublin.) 
of 





Ma 
(Ire 


Poi 
Ha 


St 


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Mail Coaches 
(Ireland. ) 


Port Patrick 
Harbour. 


St. Pancras 
Expenditure. 


Waterford 
County Rates 
Bill. 





7 Witt. IV. 


of those Merchants whose Goods were consumed | 
by fire in the Custom House of Dublin; specifying | 
the Sums, to whom paid, on account of what Goods, 
and the Quantities thereof:—And, Copy of any 
Minute of the Treasury by which an arrangement 
was entered into to try an Action for Haglionnce 
against the Officer of Excise or Customs by whose 
fault the fire was alleged to have happened ; and 
any other Papers connected with this subject. 


A Return of the rate of Travelling of each Mail 
Coach in Ireland; stating the Hours of Arrival and 
Departure at each extremity of the Line, the dis- 
tance travelled in English Miles, and the time occu- 
pied up and down, with the rate per annum per 
double Mile ; distinguishing whether the Contract be 
to find Coaches and Horses, and to pay Turnpikes, 
or either ; whether the Contracts regulate the Num- 
ber of Passengers to be carried Inside and Out, 
and the Amount of Turnpikes paid by the Post 
Office. 

A Return showing the Detail, and the Total 
Amount, of the Sum expended in erecting a Light- 
house at Port Patrick; also a House and Store- 
house for the Lighthouse-keeper :—Also, Copies of 
all Minutes, Reports and other Communications, 
which have passed between the Commissioners for 
the Harbour of Port Patrick, or others, and the 
Commissioners for Northern Lights respecting the 
Lighthouse at Port Patrick :—Also, Reports made 
by the Commissioners for the Harbour of Port 
Patrick, the Commissioners of Northern Lights, or 
their Engineer, and the Commanders of the Post 
Office Steam Packets on that Station, as to the 
sufficiency of the foresaid Lighthouse for the pur- 
pose intended :—And then he withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. M¢Gahey, Vestry Clerk of Saint Pancras, 
was called in; and at the bar presented, pur- 
suant to Order,—a Return of all Monies expended, 
or liabilities incurred by the Vestrymen and Direc- 
tors of the Poor of the Parish of Saint Pancras, 
Middlesex, or by either of those Bodies, during the 
a 1833, 1834, 1835, and 1836, on account of 

xpenses of Parliamentary Proceedings ; distinguish- 
ing the Sums paid or liabilities incurred in respect of 
Applications to Parliament for repealing Acts for 
paving the said Parish, and to whom paid or due; 
also, an Account of all Monies expended or due for 
Printing and Advertisements, or otherwise, in re- 
spect of such _— and when and to whom 
paid or due :—Also, an Account of all Monies paid 
or due for Costs in all Actions, Prosecutions or 
other Legal Proceedings commenced or prosecuted 
by or against such Vestrymen or Directors ; distin- 
guishing any Costs paid or due for defending any 
Action, Prosecution or other Legal Proceedings 
commenced by or against them, or any of them, or 
any other Person or Persons :—Also, an Account 
of all Damages paid by them in respect of any such 
Action, Prosecution or other Legal Proceedings, 
and when and to whom paid, and the Name or 
Names of the Vestryman or Vestrymen, or other 
Person or Persons by or against whom any such 
Action, Prosecution or other Legal Proceedings, 
was or were commenced: —And then he with- 
drew. 


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341 


A Petition of David Gaussen and Sons, of Bally- Belfast Harbour 
ronan, in the county of Londonderry, Distillers, (N% 2-) Bill 
Brewers and General Merchants, praying that the 
Belfast Harbour (No. 2.) Bill may not pass into a 
law, as it now stands, was presented, and read; and 
referred to the Committee on the Bill. 


Ordered, That the Petition of William Crawshay Brighton, 
and Adam Gordon, relating to the Signatures to sal a 
the Subscription List for the Brighton, Lewes and Railway Bill 
Newhaven Railway Bill, which was presented upon 
Friday last, be referred to the Select Committee 
the Deptford and Dover Railway Subscription 

ist. 


Six Petitions of Shareholders of the Bank called Agricultural _ 
The Agricultural and Commercial Bank of Jreland, _~ — 
for leave to present a Petition for leave to bring in a (No. 2.) 
Bill for vesting the Property of the said Company 

in Trustees, with Powers to dissolve the said Com- 

pany, and wind up the Affairs thereof, and for dis- 

charging all the Liabilities of the Company, and 

for distributing the surplus Assets amongst the Pro- 
prietors,—were presented, and read ; and referred to 

the Select Committee on Petitions for Private 

Bills. 


Ipswich 
Improvement 
and Docks Bill, 


Petitions from Land-owners and Occupiers in Zps- 
wich ;—and, Ship-owners and Masters of vessels of 
the port of Ipswich; praying that they may be heard, 
by their counsel, against the Jpswich Improvement 
and Docks Bill,—were presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Owners and Masters of vessels, and 
others interested in the shipping of the Port of 
Ipswich, praying that the said Bill may not pass 
into a lawas it now stands, was also presented, 
and read; and referred to the Committee on the 
Bill. 

A Petition of Commissioners for paving and light- 
ing the Town of Ipswich, praying that they may be 
heard, by their counsel, against certain parts of the 
said Bill, was also presented, and read. 


Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by their counsel, upon their Petition, if they think fit ; 
and counsel heard, in favour of the Bill, against the 
said Petition. 


A Petition of Owners and Occupiers of lands on Birmingham 
the line of the Railway hereinafter mentioned, pray- Talwar Bul 
ing that they may be heard, by their counsel or vias 
agents, against certain parts of the Birmingham 

and Derby Railway Bill, was presented, and read. 


Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by their counsel or agents, upon their Petition, if 
a think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, 


against the said Petition. 

A Petition of Richard Monkhouse Tilstone, of London and 
Moulscombe, in the county of Sussex, praying that Reswey Bill 
he may be heard, by his counsel or agent, against (Rennie’sLine.) 
certain parts of the London and Brighton Railway 


Bill (Rennie’s Line), was presented, and read. 
Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 





Ordered, That.the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Sir Richard Musgrave reported from the Com- 
mittee on the Waterford County Rates Bill; That 
they had examined the allegations of the Bill, and 
found the same to be true ; and had gone through 
the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto ; and the 
Amendments were read ; and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
mgrossed. 


Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, if he 
think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the Bill, 
against the said Petition. 


The Wigan Rectory Estate Bill was read the first Wigan Rectory 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time. Estate Bill, 


Banff Glebe 


The Banff Glebe Lands Bill was read a second -paerdie= 


time ; and committed to Sir Andrew Leith Hay 





Vo. 92. 





and the East Scotland List. 
xx 3 Mr. 





Wl Gina ow and 
vn t Railway 
Hit Bil. 


Bridlington 
Harbour Bill. 


Bridlington 
Harbour Bill, 


Over Iuclosure 
and Drainage 
Bill. 


Birkenhead 
Railway Bill. 


i 
| Chester and 





342 


Mr. Dunlop reported from the Committee on the 
Glasgow and Ayr Railway Bill; and to whom seve- 
ral Petitions against the said Bill were referred ; 
That the Standing Orders relative to Bills for mak- 
ing Railways, had been complied with ; and that the 
eeasline be considered the said Petitions, and had 
heard counsel in support of several of them, and had 
also heard counsel in favour of the Bill; and that 
they had inquired into the several matters required 
by the few all of the House, of the 1st day of 

arch 1836 ; and had examined the allegations of 
the Bill, and found the same to be true; and had 
gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Petitions from Ship-owners, Merchants, Masters 
of vessels, Pilots and Fishermen resident at Brid- 
lington ;—and, Captains and Masters of vessels 
lying in Bridlington Bay and Harbour, praying that 
the Bridlington Harbour Bill may pass into a law,— 
were presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


Petitions from Ship-owners of South Shields ;— 
and, Ship-owners, Sesthanta and Traders of the 
port of Newcastle, resident at Tynemouth ; praying 
that the said Bill may not pass into a law as it now 
stands,—were also presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 
posed, That the Bridlington Harbour Bill be now 
read a second time ; 

The Amendments following were proposed to be 
made to the Question ; viz. To leave out the word 
* now,” and at the end of the Question, to add 
the words “ upon this day six months.” 

And the Question being put, That the word 
now ” stand part of the Question ; 
The House divided : 
The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 
The Noes to the old Lobby. 


“ 


Tellers for the f Mr. Bethell, 7 187 
Yeas, Sir George Strickland: Jf°°" 
Tellers for the f Mr. Pease, 1 86 
Noes, Mr. Alderman Thompson: if . 


So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 


Ordered, That the Bill be now read a second 
time:—The Bill was accordingly read a second 
time ; and committed to Mr. Bethell and the York 
List. 


A Petition of Proprietors of land within the parish 
of Over, and Owners of rights of common in and 
upon the open fields and commons within the same 
parish, praying that they may be heard, by their 
counsel or agents, against certain parts of the Over 
Inclosure and Drainage Bill, was presented, and 
read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to 
the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by their counsel or agents, upon their Pe- 
tition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in fa- 
vour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


Mr. George Wilbraham reported from the Com- 
mittee on the Chester and Birkenhead Railway 
Bill; and to whom several Petitions against the 
said Bill were referred; That the Standing Orders 
relative to Bills for making Railways had been 
complied with; and that the Committee had con- 
sidered the said Petitions, and had heard counsel 
in support of several of them; and had also heard 
counsel in favour of the Bill; and that the Com- 
mittee had inquired into the several matters re- 
b seager by the Resolutions of the House, of the 1st 

ay of March 1836 ; and had examined the allega- 


8° Marz. 


A. 1837. 


tions of the Bill, and found the same to be true ; and 
had gone through the Bill; and made Amendments 
thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; 
and be printed. 


A Petition of Justices of the Peace of the county Mersey 
of Chester, praying that the Mersey Conservancy eny 
Bill may not pass into a law, was presented, and * 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Owners or Proprietors and Occu- London and 
piers of land, and Merchants, Traders and Inhabit- — ; 
ants of Horsham, praying that the London and (ltaph eons 
Brighton Railway Bill (Stephenson’s line) may pass Line.) 
into a law, was presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the table. 


A Petition of Subscribers to a Railway from Zon- Exeter and 
don to Falmouth, complaining of several needy and Falmouth 
rigged ‘ : - _ Railway Bill. 
indigent persons having signed the Subscription 
List of the Exeter and Falmouth ee and 
praying that the Bill for making the said Railway 
may not pass into a law, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Shareholders in a projected line of 
Railway, called the London, Salisbury, Exeter, Ply- 
mouth and Falmouth Railway, praying that the said 
Bill may not pass into a law, was also presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the Mertoun Bridge Bill be read Mertoun 
the third time To-morrow. Bridge Bilt. 


A Petition of the Edinburgh Water Company for Edinburgh 
leave to bring ina Bill to amend the several Acts aed 
for more effectually supplying the city of Edinburgh, °°" "** 
and places adjacent with Water, was presented, and 
read ; and referred to the Select Committee on Pe- 
titions for Private Bills. 

A Petition of the Lord Provost, Magistrates and 
Council of the city of Edinburgh, taking notice of 
the application for leave to bring in the said Bill, 
and praying that such Bill may not pass into a law, 
was also presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


to try and determine the merits of the Petition of Election. 
Walter Newton, of Dunleckney, and others, whose 
names are thereunto subscribed, Freeholders and 
Electors of the county of Carlow, on behalf of them- 
selves and others, claiming to have had, and having 
a right to vote at the Sas Mbcsliies for a Member to 
serve in Parliament for the said county; complain- 
ing of an undue Election and Return for the said 
county, and to defend which Howard Moore and 
others had, by Order of the House, been admitted 
as Parties instead of Nicholas Aylward Vigors, Es- 
quire ; informed the House, That the Committee 
have determined ; 


That Nicholas Aylward Vigors, Esquire, is duly 
elected a Knight of the Shire to serve in this present 
Parliament for the County of Carlow : 


That the Petition of Walter Newton and others, 
did not appear to the said Committee to be frivo- 
lous or vexatious : 


That the opposition of Howard Moore and others, 
| Electors of the said county, who have been admitted 
|to defend the Return of Nicholas Aylward Vigors, 
Esquire, did not appear to the said Committee to 


} 
! 


| be frivolous or vexatious : 

That the said Petition of Walter Newton and 
others, as regarded the Sheriff, did not appear to 
the said Committee to be frivolous or vexatious : 

That the opposition of the said Sheriff to the said 
Petition, did not appear to the said Committee to 
be frivolous or vexatious: 








That 


Mr. Baring, from the Select Committee appointed Carlow County 





7 Wit. IV. 


That the Committee have altered the poll taken 
at the said Election by striking off: 


8° Mazz. 











sane Elector’s Name. Place of Abode. Barony. 
298 | John Coady - - | Femore - - | Forth and West. 

31 | Michael Croak ~- | Hillof Old Leigh- — 

lin, 

12 | Patrick Connolly - | Old Leighlin - _ 

13 | Patrick Clear + | Banagagole - _ 
269 | Peter Curran - | Tomard - - — 
270 | James Curran - Ditto - - —_ 
268 | John Foley - - | Parknakile - _ 

11 | Edward Horahan Ballinabrana + | Idrone West. 
276 | John Mara - - | Parknakile - —_ 

3 | Denis Mooney - | Old Leighlin - | Forthand West. 
296 | John O’ Neill - | Parknakile - _ 
263 | Patrick Prendergast| Tomard - - _ 

24 | Patrick Whelan «| Crawne - - _ 
275 | Patrick M*Evoy - | Grangeford - | Carlow. 
305 William Brennan - | Augharue - - | Idrone West. 

14 Michael Brenna - | Tomard - - —_ 

1 Michael Mooney - | Banagagole - _— 

2 | John Mooney - | Monduff - - _ 
306 | John Nolan - - | Augharue - - _— 

25 | Denis Whelan -| Tomard - - | Idrone West. 
275 | Michael Walsh ~- | John Duffs Wood _ 
316 Thomas Bulmer - | Paulville \- - 

290 | Patrick Byrne -| Roscat - - 
256 | Edward Cosgrave Knockballystine 
231 | Patrick Drumgoold | Williamstown - 
288 | Patrick Donohoe - | Mountwolsley - 
299 | Patrick Holden -j| Tullow ~- - 
289 | John Marshall +} Roscat -&lt; - 
327 | John Reilly - +} Ouragh - - 
292 | John Kelly - - | Roscat - - 
291 | Matthew Kelly -+| Roscat - - 
184 | James Kelly - - | Roscat - - 
334 | Patrick Kelly - | Roscat - - 
823 | Patrick Kelly - | Williamstown ~- 











And, That the Committee have likewise struck 
off the poll the vote of Patrick Ryan, of Tullow, 
Rathvilly, No. 294 on the poll, who having been 
registered, voted at the said Election, but who, sub- 
sequent to the said Registration, and before the 
time of Election, had become disqualified, by reason 
his having been discharged under the Insolvent 

cts. 

And the said determinations were ordered to be 
entered in the Journals of this House. 


Eighth Report 
on Poor Law 
Act. 


No. 278, 


Mr. Chichester reported from the Select Com- 
mittee —€ to inquire into the Administration 
of the Relief of the Poor under the orders and re- 
gulations issued by the Commissioners appointed 
under the provisions of the Poor Law Amendment 
Act; and whowhere empowered to report the Minutes 
of the Evidence taken before them from time to 
time to the House; That they had made further 
Progress in the matters to them referred ; and had 
directed him to report the Minutes of the Evidence 
taken before them. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Maryport and 
Carlisle Rail- 
way Bill. 


An ingrossed Bill for making a Railway from the 
Town and Port of Maryport to the Borough of 
Carlisle, to be called “ The Maryport and Carlisle 
Railway,” was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Sir James Graham do carry the 
Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Belfast and 
Holl ywood 
Railway Bill. 


A Petition of the Right honourable Arthur 
Chichester, Baron Templemore, a Peer of Parlia- 
ment, praying that he may be heard, by his counsel 
or agent, against certain parts of the Belfast and 
Hollywood Railway Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, if he 
think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the Bill, 
against the said Petition. 


farth Metropo- A Petition of the Churchwardens, Overseers and 
Bil, "other Inhabitants, Vestrymen of Paddington, pray- 


/~— may be heard, by their counsel or 


343 


agents, against certain parts of the North Metropo- 
litan Cemetery Bill, was presented, and read. 
Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by their counsel or agents, upon their Petition, if 
4 think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
ill, 


against the said Petition. 
Ordered, That the Return relative to the First First Fruits 
Fruits and Tenths Office, &amp;c., which was presented = Tenths 


upon Friday last, be printed. om ‘a 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Lunatic Lunatic 


Aylums (Zreland), which was presented upon Fri- Asylums 
day last, be printed. ag 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Ord- Ordnance. 
nance, which was presented upon Friday last, be No.281. 
printed. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- supply 
posed, That the Order of the day for receiving the (sth May.) 
— from the Committee of Supply, be now read; 

n Amendment was propsed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That ” to 
the end of the Question, in order to add the words 
“ leave be given to bring in a Bill to repeal an Act 
“ passed in the first year of the Reign of King 
“ George the First, ‘for enlarging the time of con- 
tinuance of Parliaments appointed by an Act made 
in the sixth year of in Wiclen of King William 
“ and Queen Mary, intituled, An Act for the fre- 
“ quent meeting and calling of Parliament,’” instead 
thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words pro- 
posed to be left out stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the old rr: 

y- 


n 


‘é 
“ 


The Noes to the new Lob 
Tellers for the say Seymour, } 96 
Yeas, Mr. French: ‘ 
Tellers for the) Mr. D’ Eyncourt, a7 
Noes, Mr. William Williams : } , 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That the Order of the day for receiving 
the Report from the Committee of Supply, be now 
read ; and the same being read ; 

Lord Seymour reported from the Committee, a 
Resolution, which was read, as followeth : 

Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Twenty-four Exchequer 
millions six hundred and twenty-three thousand and Bills. 
three hundred pounds, be granted to His Majesty 
to pay off and discharge any Exchequer Bills 
charged on the Aids or Supplies of the years 1836 or 
1837, now remaining unpaid and unprovided for. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Poor Relief 
further consideration the Report on the Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill. 
(Ireland) Bill :—The Bill was re-committed to a 
Committee of the whole House :—And the House 
immediately resolved itself into the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 

Bill read 1°; to be read 2°, paragraph by par- 
agraph. 

Preamble postponed. 

Crause, N° 1, (Power to examine Witnesses, and 
to call for Papers, &amp;c., upon Oath)——read. 

Amendment proposed: P.1. 1. 9. To leave out 
all the words after the word “ that,” and insert 
the following words, “Three Commissioners be ap- 
“ pointed to carry this Act into execution.” 

Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Cxiavse, N° 1, agreed to. 

Crause, N° 2, agreed to. 

Cuavuse, N° 3, (Administration of Relief to the 
Poor to be under the control of the Commissioners) 
read. 

To report Progress; and ask leave to sit again. 











xx4 And 








Shire Halls Bill. 
No. 282. 


Wills Bill. 


Coroners’ 
Inquests’ 
Expenses Bill. 


Concealment 
of Births Bill. 


Small Debts 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Supply. 


Post-Office 
Acts Repeal 
Bill. 


Post Office 
Management 
Bill. 


Postage Duties 
Bill. 


Franking Bill. 


Post Office 
Offences Bill. 


Imprisonment 
for Debt Bill, 


344, 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Tuesday morning ; 


Martis, 9° die Maiti, 1837: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress 
in the Bill; and that he was directed to move, That 
the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, again 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself into 
a Committee upon the Shire Halls Bill; and, after 
some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the 
Chair; and Mr. Bernal reported, That the Com- 
mittee had gone through the Bill, and made Amend- 
ments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Bernal reported the Bill accordingly ; and 
the Report was ordered to be taken into further 
consideration upon Friday next; and the Bill, as 
amended, to be printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Wills Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday next. 


The Coroners’ Inquests’ Expenses Bill was, ac- 
cording to Order, read a second time; and com- 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House for 
Friday next. 


The Concealment of Births Bill was, according to 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a 
Committee of the whole House for Friday next. 


The Lord Advocate reported the Small Debts 
(Scotland) Bill; and the Amendments were read, 
and agreed to; and an Amendment was made to 
the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


Mr. Bernal reported the Post Office Acts Repeal 
Bill; and the Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed; and read the third time upon Friday 
next. 


Mr. Bernal reported the Post Office Management 
Bill; and the Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed ; and read the third time upon Friday 
next. 


Mr. Bernal reported the Postage Duties Bill; 
and the Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed ; and read the third time upon Friday 
next. 


Mr. Bernal reported the Franking Bill; and the 
Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed ; and read the third time upon Friday 
next. 


Mr. Bernal reported the Post Office Offences Bill ; 
and the Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That. the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed; and read the third time upon Friday 
next, 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 


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mittee on the Imprisonment for Debt Bill ; 
_ Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve | 
itself into the said Committee. 


| 


A. 1837. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Municipal 
mittee on the Municipal Corporations (Scotland) Corporations 
Bill ; (Scotland) Bill, 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Barghs 
mittee on the Burghs of Barony (Scotland) Bill; Barony 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- SU@"4) Bill 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Jury ‘rial 
into a Committee upon the Jury Trial (Scotland) (Scotland) Bill, 
Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 

Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal re- 

orted, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill, and had directed him to report the same with- 
out Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
To-morrow. 


The ingrossed Bill to make certain alterations in Court of Session 
the Duties of the Lords Ordinary, and in the esta- (Scotland) Bil 
blishment of Clerks and Officers of the Court of 
Session and Court of Commission for Teinds in Scot- 
land, and to reduce the Fees payable in those Courts, 
was, according to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Lord Advocate do carry the 
Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Registration 
reading of the Registration and Marriages Bill; and Marriages 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time To- Bi 
morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Ways and 
mittee of Ways and Means; Means. 
Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- pablic Works 
mittee on the Public Works (Jreland) Bill; (Ireland) Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


Mr. Bernal reported the Turnpike Acts Con- Turmpike Acts 
tinuance Bill; and the Amendments were read, and Continuance 
agreed to. = 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time To-morrow. 


Supply 


The Order of the day being read, for receiving the (rit April. 


Report from the Committee of Supply ; 
Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Public Works 
into a Committee, to consider of authorizing further (1"e!a4) 
Advances out of the Consolidated Fund of the United 
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to be ap- 
plied, with any Money already authorized to be 
issued, to the promotion and construction of Public 
Works in Ireland. 


(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That the Lords Commissioners of His 
Majesty’s Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great 
Britain and Ireland, be authorized to direct Ad- 
vances to be made, out of the Consolidated Fund 
of the said United Kingdom, to an amount not ex- 
ceeding Fifty thousand pounds, to be applied, to- 
gether with any Money authorized to be issued by 
any former Act, to the promotion and construction 
of Public Works in Jreland. 


Resolution to be reported. 


oney.] 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal 
i. a ag That the Committee had come to a Re- 
solution. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this as 

e 


ill, 


mn 


Indemnity Bill. 


Tithes : 
(Ireland) Bill. 


No. 283. 


Transportation. 


American 
Loans. 


Newark 
Estate Bill. 


No. 284, 


Schools 
(England and 
Seotland.) 


Pensions. 


7 Wit. IV. 


The Indemnity Bill was, according to Order, read 
a second time ; and committed to a Committee of 
the whole House, for To-morrow. 


Lord Viscount Morpeth presented a Bill for the 
better Regulation of Ecclesiastical Revenues, and 
the promotion of Religious and Moral Instruction 
in Ireland: And the same was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Friday, 
the 9th day of June next ; and to be printed. 


Ordered, That Mr. Henry Lytton Bulwer be added 
to the Select Committee on Transportation. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Copies of any Correspondence, since the 1st of 
January 1834, received by the Foreign Office, between 
British Authorities and the Governments of America 
on the subject of Loans contracted in this Country 
for account of the said Governments. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this Suen as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Mr. Edward John Stanley reported from the Se- 
lect Committee on the Vewark Estate Bill; That 
they had examined the allegations of the Bill, and 
found the same to be true; and had gone through 
the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration To-morrow. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, an 
Account of all Sums of Money granted in pursuance 
of an Act of last Session, in aid of the erection of 
Schools in England and Scotland; stating the Places 
in which the Schools are situated, the description 
of the School, and the respective Amounts contri- 
buted. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Number of Persons whose Pensions 
on His Majesty’s Civil List have ceased since 20th 
April 1835, stating the Names and Amount of each; 
also, the Number of Persons to whom Pensions 
have been granted on the said List since 20th April 
1835, stating the Names and Amount of each Pen- 
sion; also, the Total Amount of Pensions now 
payable on the same List :—And, of the Number of 





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Pensions on the Civil List by Act 2 and 3 Will. 4, 
c. 116, payable from the Consolidated Fund, stating 
the Amount of each Pension, and the Name of the 
Person who received the same, which have ceased 
on or since 20th June 1835; also, the Total Amount 


of Pensions now payable from the Consolidated 
Fund. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Poor Law 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased Comwissioners, 


to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of a Letter to the Secretary of State 
for the Home Department from the Poor Law Com- 
missioners, relating to the Petition recently pre- 
sented to the House of Commons from Bury in 
Lancashire. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty's most honourable Privy Council. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee appointed Survey of 
to consider the best mode of effecting the Surveys Parishes 


of Parishes, for the purpose of carrying into effect 
the Act for the Commutation of Tithes in England 
and Wales, have Power to report their Observations 
thereupon to the House, together with the Minutes 
of the Evidence taken before them. 

Mr. Shaw Lefevre reported from the said Select 
Committee, That they had considered the matters 
to them referred ; and had. directed him to make 
a Report thereof to the House, together with the 
Minutes of the Evidence taken before them. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; 
and be printed. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee appointed Publication of 


to examine precedents with respect to the Circulation 


and Publication of Reports and Papers printed by No. 286. 


order of this House, and to ascertain the law and 
practice of Parliament, prior to and since the order 
for the sale of such Papers ; and who were empowered 
to report their Proceedings and Opinion from time 
to time, have Power to report their Observations 
thereupon to the House. 

Lord Viscount Howick reported from the said 
Select Committee; and to whom the Petition of 
Messrs. Hansard was referred ; That they had exa- 
mined the matters to them referred, and had directed 
him to make a Report thereof to the House, to- 
gether with the Minutes of the Evidence taken before 
them, and an Appendix; and the Report of the 
Committee was read, as followeth ; 


1. Your Committee having been appointed for the purposes above mentioned, in 


consequence of the recent proceedings at Nisi Prius, in the case of Stockdalev. Hansard Appendix, 
and others, and of the direction of the Lord Chief Justice of the King’s Bench to Ne 1, P- 65. 
the jury, “ That the fact of the House of Commons having directed Messrs. Hansard [These Appen- 
to publish all their Parliamentary Reports is no justification for them, or for any book- — a 
seller who publishes a Parliamentary Report containing a Libel against any man,” posts ge 
are strongly impressed with the conviction that the duty imposed upon them is vitally Report as origi- 
penis with the Independence of Parliament, and with the maintenance of that ally printed. 
2 &lt; A ° * : £ e Sess. Paper, 
power by which alone it can retain the means of wise and satisfactory Legislation, No, 296.) 
and they have endeavoured to present to the House, in the most aaa orm, the 
information they have collected upon the matter submitted to them; and with that 
view have directed their attention to the following subjects : 


2. First—The date of the earliest Orders for Printing given by this House, and 
its practice on this subject. 

3. Secondly.—The degree of publicity which has at different periods been given to 
Papers printed by Order of this and the other House of Parliament. 

4. Thirdly—The Manner in which the recent Order of this House, for the Printing 
and Circulation of its Reports and Papers, has been carried into effect. 

5. Fourthly.—Whether Papers printed for the House have been held to afford 
grounds for legal proceedings prior to the case of Stockdale v. Hansard, and what 
would be the effect of the principles laid down in that case :—And, 

6. Lastly.—Your Committee have stated to the House what appears to them to be 
the Law and Practice of Parliament, in regard to the matter of Privilege, to the 
elucidation of which their inquiries have been directed. 


esos 





7. The imperfect manner in which the Journals of the Houses of Parliament were for- 
merly kept, many important transactions being wholly omitted, and others so briefly 


entered 
Vor. 92. YY 





346 


Sources of 
Information. 


PRINTING. 


_— 


Commencement 
of Journals, 


2 Com. Journ. 
p» 230. 


Appx. (A.) 
No. 1, p. 19, 
and Appx. 
No. 3, p. 71+ 


App. (A.) 
No. 2, p. 21, 
par. 36. 


PUBLICA- 
TION. 


2 Com. Journ. 
p. 290. 604, 


Ib. p. 609. 616. 


1 Blackstone’s 
Com, p. 185. 


Appx. (A.) 
Mo. 1, pe 19. 
g Com. Journ. 
p: 604. 609. 
616. 


App.(A.)No,2. 


9 Com, Journ, 
649, and S. G. 


(Speaker’s Gal- 
lery) Collection, 


vol. 76. 


Par. His'. 4 vol, 


p- 1306, 





8°— 9 Marz. A. 1837. 


entered as not to furnish the means of appreciating their effect, and the destruction of the 
Records and Documents by the late fire of the two Houses of Parliament, have compelled 
Your Committee to resort for information to widely-dispersed materials, to which there 
are no convenient means of reference. 

8. The sources from which Your Committee have obtained the greater part of the facts 
detailed in their Report, are 1st, the Journals of the two Houses of Parliament; 2dly, the 
Collection of Tracts and Parliamentary Papers in the Library of this House, ‘nihalliing a 
volumeof Votes and Proceedings of the year 1680 and 1681, presented by the Right Honour- 
able C. W. Williams Wynn, m.p.; and, 3dly, the Collection of Tracts in the British 
Museum, which consists in part of Original Papers printed by the Houses of Parliament, 
but these being bound up with miscellaneous matter, it is difficult to collect from them 
materials applicable to any particular subject. 





9. The Journals of this House commence in 1547, and continue down to the present 
time ; but the course of entering the Proceedings has varied from time to time, both in 
regularity and form; the entries being much more specific and detailed Fy some periods 
than at others. The earliest entry contained in them, relating to the Printing of any 
Parliamentary Papers, is on the 30th July 1641; when the House adopted certain Reso- 
lutions, and ordered that they should be printed. 


10. From 1641 to 1680, there are various Resolutions for the printing of specific Votes 
and Papers. 


11. In 1680-1, a General Resolution was adopted for printing the Votes and Proceedings 
of the House ; and from that year such general Order has been renewed every Session, and 
a Printer appointed for the purpose by The Speaker, an occasional prohibition being added 
against all other persons printing the same; Reports and Miscellaneous Parliamentary 
Papers have also been from time to time printed under distinct Orders of the House. The 
practice thus detailed has been continued up to the present time. 

12, The only exception to the continuance of this practice was in the year 1702, when 
the General Order for printing the Votes and Proceedings was for a very short period sus- 
pended ; but even during this interruption of the printing of the Votes, there were several 
instances of special Orders for printing other Papers. The circumstances accompanying 
this temporary discontinuance are stated in the Appendix. 





13. The next and most important point of inquiry is, whether the Papers printed by order 
of the House were so for the exclusive use of its Members or for general Publication ? 

14. No doubt can exist that it was with a view to the latter object, that the practice of 
Printing was introduced. This is shown by the subsequent Proceedings of the House with 
regard to the Order for Printing of 1641 above referred to, and by the appointment of a 
Committee in the subsequent year to consider, among other things, ‘the best way of 
divulging, a publishing the Orders and Votes, and also the Declarations of the 
House, through the kingdom, and of the well and true printing of them.” 

15. This Committee presented on the 6th June an Order for dispersing and divulging the 
Orders and Declarations of the House through the Sheriffs, Under-Sheriffs, Constables, 
Headboroughs and Tithingmen of the several Counties, with directions for the speedy 
Publication to the Inhabitants ; and on the 9th of June the Committee made Reports, 
whereupon it was resolved that certain Examinations, Remonstrances, Orders, Votes and 
Declarations should be printed and published, and an Order was made for the payment of 
the expense. 

16. Your Committee think it right to remark, that the mode of Publication through the 
Sheriffs and other local officers may probably have been adopted from usage of an earlier 
date. Although no entry on the Journals or other Record has been found respecting the 
Publication of the Proceedings of Parliament prior to 1640, yet it scarcely admits a doubt, 
that from a much earlier period, Parliament must occasionally have found it necessary or 
expedient that particular Proceedings should be made public, although the means by which 
it was done cannot be traced ; but as Acts of Parliament were anciently published at the 
county courts and other local tribunals, it is not improbable that the same channel of 
communication was used ; and that hence might be derived the course adopted in regard to 
the first Order for Printing in 1641, which, it will be observed, was accompanied b 
directions that the Papers ordered to be printed should be sent to the Sheriffs, Under-Sheriffs, 
Constables, Headboroughs and Tithingmen, and who were required to publish the same to 
the inhabitants in the respective districts. It is easy to imagine that the increased facilities 
afforded by Printing would be substituted for the ancient and less convenient mode. 


17. After the Restoration, the practice of publishing Papers printed for the House con- 
tinued. The Debate in 1680-1, upon the Motion to print the Votes and Proceedings, was 
published contemporaneously ; it is to be found in Mr. C. Williams Wynn’s volume, and is 
copied into the Parliamentary History. The declared object of the Motion was the 
Publication of the Proceedings, and the professional members then in the House urged no 
objection upon any legal ground ; the opposition was confined to Mr. Secretary Jenkins, 
himself an eminent lawyer and politician, who resisted it on the ground that it was an 
appeal to the people, unsuited to the gravity of the House. The whole debate is so 
applicable and full of interest, that Your Committee, unwilling to abbreviate it, have given 
it entire in the note below.* 

1s. In 





* Dezate on Printinc THE Vores, March 24, 1680-1. 

Sir John Hotham.—What I am about to move concerns us all, The last Parliament, when you were moved to print your 
Votes, it was for the security of the nation, and you found it so; it prevented ill representations of us to the world by false copies 
of our Votes, and none doubted your honour in the care of it; and I am confident that this House will be no more ashamed of their 

actions 





7 Witt. IV. 8°—9° Maiz. 


18. In Mr. C. Williams Wynn’s volume, No. 7, December 9th, 1680, is contained the 
Resolution of the House, ordering Dangerfield’s Narrative (relative to the Meal-tub Plot) 
to be printed and published, and that Dangerfield should have the benefit of the Printing, 
which shows an extensive sale to have been anticipated. 

19. From 1641 till past the middle of the last century, many of the Papers printed by 
order of the House purport, upon the face of them, to be printed and published “by Order,” 
with the name of the Clerk of the House attached, and they usually had the appointment 
and prohibition of the Speaker with regard to Printing set out at the back of the Te 
sometimes with the note at the foot of the paper, “that the same was sold at, &amp;c.” the 
establishment of the Printer appointed. These Papers being printed for and by the Order of 
the House, must have been constantly under its view, and the sale notorious, though no 
express order for it is to be found in the Journals. 

20. The Sale of the Votes and Proceedings of the House by the Printer appears to have 
continued without interruption from its first commencement. At first the whole expense of 
Printing was thus defrayed, and a profit was derived from it, which was accounted for to the 
Speaker. Subsequently, the expense of Printing having become more than the whole 
receipts from the sale, the account was transferred to the Treasury. Credit was given by 
the Printer for the sums received in payment for copies of the Votes sold by him, and the 
balance due to him, after deducting the amount, was paid by the public. 

21. With respect to Reports and Miscellaneous Papers printed for the House, the case 
was different ; the sale to the public by the Printer, appears from the imprint on the Papers 
to have continued beyond the middle of the last century, and to have then ceased, though 
Your Committee have not been able to ascertain at what precise period. The number of 
copies of each a4 which were printed continued always, however, to exceed the number of 
Members of the House, and varied according to the interest which, from the nature of the 
subject, the public might be supposed to take in the publication. The manner in which the 
distribution of these extra copies was effected in the interval between the cessation of the 
original practice of sale, and its resumption by the recent Order of August 1835, is detailed 
in the Reports of the several Committees which have had the subject of the printed Papers 
under their deliberation. 


22. Your Committee find from those Reports, and from other Evidence, that the Mis- 
cellaneous Papers printed for the House were, during the period now adverted to, made 
accessible to the public, partly by the sale of a certain number of copies, to which Officers 
of the House were entitled as perquisites, partly by gratuitous distribution under Orders 
from the Speaker, generally obtained by application to individual Members of the House. 


23. The obvious intention of the House that its Printed Papers should be in general 
accessible to the public as well as to its own Members, is further evinced by the fact that 
the Orders of the House for Printing have been in two distinct forms, the one directing the 
Printing in general terms, the other for the use of Members. Sometimes the general Print- 
ing has been negatived, and the limited Resolution adopted ; and there are remarkable cases 
in which certain Papers having been directed in the first instance to be printed for the use 
of Members, second Orders were made, after a short interval, for printing the same Papers 
without any such restriction ; thus clearly showing that the Publication of Papers ordered 
to be Printed was contemplated, unless special directions to the contrary were given. 

24. Your Committee find also that from the year 1691 the printed Votes of this House 
have always been treated by the House of Lords as documents published by the authority 
of this House, and they are always referred to by their Lordships as the means of nee 

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actions than the last was. Printing our Votes will be for the honour of the King and safety of the nation. I am confident, if it 
had been necessary, you would have had Petitions from the parts I come from, that your actions might be made public. As I came 
hither, everybody, almost, that I met upon the road cried, “ God bless you.” I move, therefore, “ that your Votes may be ordered 
to be printed with the rest of your Proceedings.” And I shall only add, that yourself has done so well in taking that care upon 
you the last Parliament, that the House will desire you to continue them in the same method. 

Sir William Cowper.—That which put me upon moving the printing your Votes the last Parliament, was false papers that went 
about in former Parliaments of the Votes and Transactions of the House. Let men think what they please, the weight of England 
is the people; and the world will find that they will sink Popery at last. Therefore I second the Motion. 

Mr. Sec. Jenkins.—I beg pardon, if I consent not to the Motion. Consider the gravity of this assembly. 
assembly in Christendom that does it. It is against the gravity of this assembly, and it is a sort of appeal to the people. 
against your gravity, and I am against it. 

Mr. Boscawen.—If you had been a Privy Council, then it were fit what you do should be kept secret; but your Journal Books 
are open, and copies of your Votes in every coffee-house, and if you print them not, half votes will be dispersed to your prejudice. 
This printing is like plain Englishmen, who are not ashamed of what they do, and the people you represent will have a true 
account of what youdo. You may prevent publishing what parts of your transactions you will, and print the rest. 

Mr. L. Gower.—I find that those who write our Votes and Transactions, and send them all England over, are favoured; and 
Thelieve that no gentleman in the House will be against printing them but Jenkins. I hope you will not be ashamed of what you 
do ; therefore I am for printing your Votes. 

Colonel Mildmay.—By experience we have found, that when former Parliaments have been prorogued or dissolved, they have 
been sent away with a declaration against them. If our actions be naught, let the world judge of them; if they be good, let them 
have their virtue. It is fit that all Christendom should have notice of what you do, and posterity of what you have done, and 
I hope they will do as you do; therefore I am for printing the Votes. 

Sir Francis Winnington.—Because what has been said by Jenkins is a single opinion; for he says “ Printing is an appeal to 
the people,” I hope the House will take notice that printing our Votes is not contrary to law. But pray who sent us hither ? 
The Privy Council is constituted by the King, but the House of Commons is by the choice of the people. I think it not natural 
nor rational, that the people who sent us hither should not be informed of our actions. In the Long Parliament it was a trade 
amongst clerks to write Votes, and it was then said by a learned gentleman, “ that it was no offence to inform the people of Votes 
of Parliament, &amp;c., and they ought to have notice of them.” The Long Parliament were wise in their generation to conceal many 
things they did from the people; and the clerk who dispersed the Votes was sent away, and nothing done to him. The Popish 
party dread nothing more than printing what you do ; and I dread that a man in Jenkins’s post (and such an accusation upon him 
as is in the last Parliament) should hold such a position, “ that printing your Votes was an appeal to the people.” 

Resolved, That the Votes and Proceedings of this House be printed. 

Mr. Harbord.—Now you have passed this Vote, I would graft something upon it. I move “ that the care of printing the 
Votes may be committed to The Speaker,” who so well acquitted himself in it the last Parliament. Which was ordered.— 

Parliamentary History, vol. 4, p. 1306. 

* The Committee have inserted in the Appendix, an important Report upon a question of Privilege, the title-page of which 
they have caused to be reprinted in fac-simile.—Appendix (B. ) . 


Von. 92. 


There is no great 
It is 


Y x2 


347 


Appx, No. 3, 
P- 73. 


Appx. (B.) 
Appx. No. 3, 
p- 71 to 78. 


Appx. No. 3, 
p- 73 to 75» and 
Appx. No. 4, 
p- 85, 86, 89, 
go. 92. 


Appx. (A.) 
par. 52. 
Appx. No. 3, 
p- 71. 79. 81 
to 84. 


Appx. No. 4, 
p- 85, Extracts 

from Rep, in 
1822 (607, 
1825 _ 
1828 (520. 
1831/2(713. 
1833 (717. 
(648.) 
1835 (392-) 
(606.) 


Appx. No. 4. 
p. 85, and Appx. 
No, 3, p- 84. 


Appx. (A.) 
No. 2, para- 
gtaphs 44 to 50. 


Appx. No. 9, 
p. 76. 


Votes of this 
House treated 
by the House 
of Lords as 
authorized 
publications. 








8°9° Maiti. A. 1837. 


of any of the Proceedings of this House of which it is deemed necessary to take notice. 
No instance has been found in which the Lords have adverted to the Journals ; and although 
this House does not allow any reference to be made in Petitions to what passes in debate, 
or may be entered in the Journals, yet, consistently with the rules of the House, matter stated 
in the printed Votes may be made the subject of petition and discussion. 


25. The earliest instance upon record of the House of Lords treating the printed Votes 
and Proceedings of this House as Publications put forth by authority, occurs in 1691, upon 
a Debate concerning the Regulations of the East India Company, when, on the 30th 
December, it was resolved, that the printed Vote (of this House) then read was sufficient 
ground for that House (the Lords) to take notice of it to the House of Commons. 


26. The publicity of printed Parliamentary Papers has not only been thus separately 
recognized by both Houses of Parliament, but has further received what amounts to the 
express sanction of the whole Legislature, by the exemption of such Papers from postage. 
The title of the statute of the 42 Geo. 3, c. 63, is, “ An Act to authorize the sending and 
receiving of letters and packets, Votes and Proceedings in Parliament, apd printed news- 

apers, by the rag a the duty of Postage, by the Members of the two Houses of 

arliament of the United Kingdom, and by certain public officers therein named, and for 
reducing the Postage on such Votes, Proceedings and newspapers when sent by any other 

ersons.” 
4 27. With regard to the Publication of Papers by the House of Lords, Your Committee 
have inserted in the Appendix to this Report several examples, taken from the period im- 
mediately after the Revolution, of express Orders made by that House for printing and 
publishing various Resolutions and other Documents. These examples sufficiently prove 
that the House of Lords has, equally with this House, exercised the power of ordering the 
general Publication cf Papers printed by its directions. 

28. Your Committee fin to state the practice of this House in the circulation of its 
Reports and Papers since the recent Order, first remarking, that of late years the demand 
for Parliamentary Papers has greatly increased ; the age for them to Members, and 
the obtaining the Speaker’s authority, that the Member should be supplied with them, 
necessarily occasioned trouble, delay and difficulty. Many persons interested in their con- 
tents were unknown to Members ; and in populous ~—_ more persons desired to obtain 
copies than were able to procure them; and although copies might always have been ob- 
tained by purchase at the Vote Office, yet that circumstance was not universally known, and 
— — could not be purchased, complete sets for the whole Session being alone dis- 

osed of. 

29. The inadequacy of the system of Publication, before described, attracted the atten- 
tion of this House and led to the appointment of a Committee, which presented its Report 
on the 16th day of July 1835, recommending that the Sessional Papers of this House 
should be printed and sold by appointed persons, at the lowest tt under arrangements 
calculated to secure a speedy and economical distribution of the Parliamentary Proceedings. 
In pursuance of that Report, the House, on the 13th August 1835, resolved “ That the 
Parliamentary Papers and Reports printed for the use of the House should be rendered 
accessible to the public at the lowest price they can be furnished, and that a sufficient number 
of extra copies should be printed for that purpose.’ 

30. In March 1836 a Sensnitien was appointed, consisting of the Speaker and eight 
Members, “ To assist him in all matters relating to the Printing executed by the Order of 
the House.” At the commencement of the present Session a similar Committee was ap- 
pointed, which has made various reguiations respecting the printing and sale of the Votes 
and Proceedings, and fixed the price to be charged. Certain establishments have been 
appointed for the sale, under the superintendence of Messrs. Hansard, and a price is affixed, 
at one-third less than the cost at which the Reports or Papers can be produced ; and by 
these arrangements, public economy and convenience have been greatly promoted. It ought 
here to be remarked, that the proceeds of the Sale are placed to the Public Account in 
diminution of the Expenses of the Printing. 





31. The public circulation of Papers printed by order of this House having thus been 
shown to have continued without interruption for nearly two centuries, your Committee con- 
ceive it to be most material to remark, in the next place, that it appears to have been the 
generally received opinion, during the whole of that period, that legal proceedings could not 
be instituted for any thing contained in Papers so printed. 

32. Your Committee have been led to the conclusion that such must have been the case 
by the fact that the prosecutions arising out of the publication of Dangerfield’s Narrative, 
in 1684, are the only instances which your Committee have been able to discover, before Mr. 
Stockdale’s action, of any legal proceeding upon account of any Publication under the authority 
of the House. The particulars of the prosecution of Sir William Williams in this case, to 
which your Committee will again have occasion to advert, are stated in the Appendix, and 
are very important. ; ; 

33. The absence of any other example of proceedings having been taken in a Court of 
Law upon Papers printed by order of House, is the more important on adverting to 
the character of many of these Papers, and the severity with which at a former period the 
offences of the Press were habitually treated. While the Publication of Parliamentary 
Papers has prevailed, there have been contained among them Resolutions, Reports and 
Petitions, imputing misconduct to and reflecting in a high degree upon individuals in every 
rank of society. ‘The inquiries prosecuted by the House, from the Revolution to the present 
time, have been occasionally severe and searching, and full particulars of such proceedings 
have been published. Some of the Papers published by the House of Lords have also 
strongly inculpated individuals. Upon some occasions of controversy between the two 
Houses, Publications have been made by each severely reflecting upon the other. 


34. In 





7 Witt. IV. 8°— 9° Mair. 


34. In the Appendix will be found a List of Reports printed for this House, which will 
exclude any possible doubt that numerous prosecutions, civil and criminal, would have fol- 
lowed those publications, and necessarily have put a stop to them, unless an impression had 
universally prevailed that parties engaged in the publication were clothed with a Parlia- 
mentary protection. There will likewise be found some instances, of an early date, of 
Resolutions published by the Lords of a character to have challenged exception, unless 
protected by Parliamentary Privilege. 





35. Your Committee, having thus detailed the facts relating to the Publication of the 
Reports and Proceedings of Parliament, and having shown the uniform practice of nearly 
two centuries, which seems to Your Committee to prove that injurious reflections contained 
in any publications ordered by Parliament have never, up to the time of the recent trial of 
Stockdale v. Hansard, been regarded as affording ground for proceedings in a Court of Law, 
beg leave now to call the attention of the House to the results which will follow if a different 
principle is for the future to be established. 


36. It will be observed, on reference to the extracts Your Committee have made from the 
proceedings in the case of Stockdale and Hansard, that the Lord Chief Justice has drawn 
a distinction between Papers merely written and printed for the use of the Members of the 
House and those which are published, admitting the protection of Parliamentary meg 
to extend to the former, though he has so decidedly declared it to be inapplicable to the 
latter. It might possibly be inferred, from the expressions made use of in the charge of the 
noble and 5 Judge, that he meant to draw a further distinction between a Publication 
by Sale or otherwise ; Dat as in this instance the defendants were proved to have no interest 
whatever in the Sale, so that no improper motive or malice could be inferred from it, Your 
Committee apprehend that such could not have been his Lordship’s view, since they believe 
it to be a well-ascertained principle in the Law of Libel, that it is the publication and the 
motive of the publisher (in general evidenced by the tendency of the publication) which 
constitute the offence, and that the manner in which such publication takes place is no 
otherwise material than as it may, in some cases, tend to establish the malicious intent of 
the party, or to increase the amount of damage. Apart from these considerations, they 
believe it has been repeatedly held that the gratuitous distribution of libels, or even the fact 
of putting into the post a letter containing libellous matter, is as much a publication as one 
which is effected by sale. 

37. It must therefore be assumed, that the real effect of the recent decision of the Lord 
Chief Justice would be to confine the protection of Parliamentary Privilege to Papers printed 
strictly for the use of Members, and to render any party publishing them, even though with 
the direct sanction of the House, liable to answer in a Court of Law for whatever they might 
contain of a libellous character; in which, if the proceedings were of a criminal nature, even 
the truth of the matter published would furnish no defence. 

38. Your Committee have already shown that, previous to the resumption of the Sale of 
Parliamentary Papers, in conformity with the Resolution of August 1835, the Publication 
was very extensive. If, therefore, the principle laid down by the Lord Chief Justice be 
correct, it would not be sufficient to rescind this Resolution, the Publication must be 
altogether abandoned ; since the Speaker, by directing the distribution of Papers of this 
description according to the former practice, and Members, by communicating them to their 
constituents, would become subject to actions on the part of every person who considered 
himself reflected upon by any thing they might happen to contain. Such being the case, 
Your Committee are of opinion that the establishment of this as a rule of law would be fatal 
to the proper exercise of its functions by the House. The very groundwork of all sound 
legislation is ample and correct information with regard to all abuses and defects of the 
existing laws and institutions of the country; but this information it would be absolutely 
impossible to obtain if the House were debarred from communicating, except to its own 
Members, the Papers which it is from time to time necessary to print, whenever they con- 
tained any thing which in law would constitute a Libel. Your Committee need scarcely call 
the attention of the House to the fact that, if it were necessary to exclude all matter which 
might be held to be of a libellous character, these Papers would, in numberless instances, 
be altogether useless for the purposes for which they are intended. For example; the 
Committee appointed in the year 1832 to investigate the condition of the Slave oye 
in the British Colonies, was under the absolute necessity, in order to perform the duty 
assigned to them, of receiving a large mass of evidence as to cases of alleged cruelty com- 
mitted towards Slaves; this evidence, there can be no doubt, would have been regarded, if 
published in an unauthorized form, as affording good grounds for actions or prosecutions 
for libel to the parties to whom cruelty was imputed ; yet, if its circulation had been con- 
fined to Members of the House, or if, in printing it, the names of those accused had been 
omitted, the object in view would not have been obtained. This object was to throw light 
on the effects of the institution of slavery, and to elicit from the conflicting statements of 
persons of opposite views and opinions the real facts which were to guide the judgment 
of the House, and the only mode by which this could be accomplished, and by which an 
security could be obtained for the correctness of that information upon which, in the fol. 
lowing year, a most important Act of the Legislature was to be founded, was the Publication 
of the evidence, in order that it might be — to the scrutiny of those who, if it were 
false, would be interested in disproving it. Yet, according to the rule which has now been 
laid down, the Publication of this evidence being sufficient to justify legal proceedings by 
the very numerous persons whom it inculpated, all the important national advantages to be 
pa from such Publication must necessarily have been abandoned. 

39. Many similar examples might be brought forward ; the Reports of the Committees 
of this House, and of the Commissioners who inquired into the state of the Municipal Cor- 
porations of England and of Ireland, those of the Charity Commissioners, and of the Com- 


missioners 
Vo. 92. yy 3 


349 


Appx. No.5, 
P- 97- 


Appx. No. 1, 
p- 68. 


2 Starkie Evi- 
dence, Tit. 
Libel, Publica- 
tion, pp. 455-7- 


SS 


ESET TS 











350 


LAW AND 
PRIVILEGE 
OF PARLIA- 
MENT. 


8 T. R. p. 293. 


Ib. p. 296. 


Ib. p. 298. 


House of Com- 
mons, in matters 
of Privilege, 
represent the 
whole Parlia- 
ment. 


State Trials, 
vol. 13, p. 1380. 
14 East, 136-7. 





8°_9° Maii. A. 1837. 


missioners for inquiring into the operation of the Poor Laws, in exposing the abuses which 
it was the object of the Legislature to correct, must unavoidably have contained a multitude 
of statements which, in unauthorized publications, would have been considered libellous ; 
indeed, it is not too much to assert that yee the greater part of the pene and Papers 


printed by the House would be found, if subjected to a nice and critical examination, to 
contain matter of a defamatory character; nay, in some cases, the same might be said of 
printed copies of Bills brought into the House, and which have ultimately passed into 
Acts of Parliament, as, for instance, the Bills for the Disfranchisement of Grampound and 
East Retford. 

40. Your Committee hold it to be altogether needless to dwell further upon the utter 
impossibility of legislating with advantage which would result from depriving this House 
of the unrestricted power of communicating with the people whom it represents, and of 
collecting and diffusing information upon the various subjects which are brought under its 
consideration ; but they think it right further to observe, that this is by no means the only 
difficulty which would arise from the recognition of the — now contended for with regard 
to the Publication of Parliamentary Papers. This House is, in Parliamentary language, 
termed the Grand Inquest of the fNesion ; in this capacity, it is its duty to inquire into all 
wrongs and grievances of which either the people at large, or any individuals may have 
reason to complain, and it has cognizance of all cases in which power has been abused by 
those to whom it has been by law entrusted. These important functions, it is obvious, 
could not be exercised if the ane had no power to protect the Publication as well of 
Petitions addressed to it, alleging criminality against any parties, as of the Proceedings 
adopted with reference to such Petitions; without this power, it would have no means of 
investigating the truth of complaints brought before it, or of obtaining such redress as the 
several cases may require. 


41. The great and public benefit thus demonstrated to arise from the possession of this 
power by Parliament, and the great and public injury which would arise from the absence 
of such power, would in themselves go tar to prove the legality of the Publication. But 
the subject under consideration is of such importance, that Your Committee deem it neces- 
sary to offer some further observations upon the legal questions which it involves. 


42. The first legal point for consideration is, how far the affirmance by Parliament of the 
Privilege which has been denounced will afford protection to those who may, under the 
sanction of this House, conduct the Sale of such Publications as may be ordered, and to 
whom the truth of the matter so published will furnish no defence against a criminal pro- 
secution ; or, in other words, whether this House has the exclusive jurisdiction to decide 
upon the existence and extent of its own Privileges. But before entering upon the 
consideration of that subject, the Committee beg to refer to the case of The King v. Wright, 
showing what has been, by high judicial authority, considered the legal character of the 
Publication of Proceedings in Parliament reflecting upon individuals, even without authority 
or sanction. 

43. Mr. Horne Tooke moved for a criminal information against the defendant for the re- 
publication of a Report made by a Committee of Secresy, which had been ordered to be 
printed for the use of the Members, imputing treasonable intentions to him, in reference to 
political conduct, for which he had been tried and acquitted. Lord Kenyon stated that it was 
impossible for the Court to admit that the Proceeding of either House of Parliament was a 
Libel; that the Report having been adopted by the House at large, was a Proceeding of 
those who by the constitution were the guardians of the liberty of the subject, and that 
it could not be said that any part of that Proceeding was a Libel. Mr. Justice LawrREncE 
said it was of advantage to the public, and even to the legislative bodies, that true accounts 
of their Proceedings should be generally circulated, and they would be deprived of that 
advantage if no person could publish their Proceedings without being in danger of being 
punished as a libeller; though, therefore, the defendant was not authorized by the House of 
Commons, yet as he only published a true copy of it, the rule (praying for the criminal 
information) ought to be discharged. 


44. The importance of that branch of the lex terre, which embraces the Law and Privi- 
lege of Parliament, is commensurate with the constitutional value of Parliament itself, as 
its independence, and the judicious and effective use of that independence, must arise out of 
the Privileges it possesses, and it becomes important here to note that these Privileges are 
not the attributes of either House individually, but of the whole Parliament, and that how- 
ever the jurisdiction of the High Court of Parliament may be exercised by one or the other 
of its different branches, in the name, and by the authority, of the whole, yet that this 
House forms a constituent part of, and is presumed to be present’ in, that Supreme Court, 
the highest judicature known to the nation,* and cannot, in the essence of its authority and 
privilege, be separated from it. The judicial authority of that Supreme Court, it is true, 
is administered by the House of Lords; but it is nevertheless by the High Court of Parlia- 
ment, and in its name, and under its sanction that the judgment is pronounced.+ 


45. The constitution of Parliament, previously to the separation of the Two Houses, and 
the jurisdiction and authority that devolved upon each at that time, has been the subject of 
so much learned argument, and has so long been taken to be a matter beyond dispute, 
that Your Committee only deem it necessary to refer to Sir Robert Atkyn’s argument in the 
the case of Sir Willian: Williams, and the authorities therein cited, and Lord Ellenborough’s 
judgment in Burdett v. Abbot, as conclusive in showing that the Privilege of each House 
respectively includes the collective Privilege of Parliament. ' 

46. in 





* Sir Maithew Hale’s Treatise upon the Jurisdiction of the House of Lords will be found to contain the whole learning upon 
the subject. 
For the form of the judgment upon a Writ of Error in Parliament, vide Tidd’s App. p. 630. 





7 Witt. IV. 8°—9° Mairi. 


46. In 34 Hen. 8. (1543), the Commons complained to the King and the Lords, of a 
Breach of Privilege, by {arresting one Ferrers, a Member; and upon that occasion the King 
expressed himself to the following purport: “ And further, we be informed by our Judges, 
that we at no time stand so highly in our Estate Royal, as in the time of Parliament ; 
wherein we as Head, and you as Members, are conjoined and knit together into one body 

olitic; so as whatsoever offence or injury (during that time) is offered to the meanest 
Member of the House, is to be judged as done against our Person and the whole Court of 
Parliament ; which Prerogative of the Court is so great (as our learned counsel informeth 
us) as all acts and processes coming out of any other inferior courts, must for the time cease 
and give place to the highest.” 

47. As the Privilege of each House respectively is derived from and identified with the 
collective Privilege of Parliament, it becomes essential to bear in mind the basis upon which 
it rests; that basis Your Committee hold to be the protection of the public interests as con- 
nected with the discharge of the duties and the maintenance of the authority with which 
Parliament is for public purposes invested. The precise limits of Parliamentary Privilege 
cannot be defined, because the emergencies which may call for its exercise cannot be fore- 
seen. In the same manner a Court of Law does not &amp; priori define a contempt. The con- 
stitutional limit of Parliamentary Privilege is determined by the principle that that only is 
a legitimate Privilege which has for its object either the upholding of the authority essential 
to the due exercise of Parliamentary functions, or to the effective discharge, for the common 
good, of the duties which those functions involve. Neither the = safety nor the public 
service recognizes any claim of Privilege beyond the limit of this principle. And Your 
Committee consider that no Privilege of Parliament can, in its exercise, be more beneficial 
than that under which it gives to the people the result of its public inquiries, connected with 
the conduct of public men, and the management, good or bad, of public institutions. 
The numerous Commissions and Inquiries which have been prosecuted hove been directed 
to this end. 


48. The above considerations would seem sufficient to establish the existence of the 
Privilege adverted to, but they derive additional weight from the existence of the long 
Parliamentary usage, which has been shown from 1641 to the present time without objection 
or complaint, not exercised sub silentio, but, on the contrary, under circumstances calculated 
to excite resistance if that right had been doubted. The case of The King v. Williams is 
the only exception. The time of its decision,and the manner in which it was conducted, 
have caused it to be considered as of no authority, and it is only worthy of reference 
because it led to proceedings which Your Committee think bear decisively upon the present 

uestion.* 

49. In that case an attempt was made to establish the doctrine laid down in Stockdale v. 
Hansard, viz. that the Officers of this House were amenable for the contents of Publications 
issued by its order; and attention was then called to the subject in a remarkable manner ; 
the judgment pronounced by the Court of King’s Bench on that occasion was condemned 
in a distinct Resolution of this House as illegal and against the freedom of Parliament,+ 
and it was also in effect denounced in the Bill of Rights as subversive of the laws and 
liberties of the kingdom: these circumstances and the subsequent undisturbed continuance 
of Publication, in conformity with the Privilege asserted, appear to Your Committee to 
furnish decisive evidence in maintenance of the right of Parliament to issue, at its discre- 
tion, Publications respecting matters coming before it connected with the public interest. 
Nothing has since occurred, that Your Committee can discover, to justify any doubt as to 
the legitimate existence and extent of that right. 


50. The Committee cannot forbear to recur to the extraordinary periods of our history 
through which the precedents prevail, and to remark, that the abuse of the Privilege during 
the Long Parliament could noi fail to have arrested attention when the constitutional powers 
of the State were restored, and that the undeviating adherence to the Privilege, through the 
reign of Charles II. proves that the restored Government regarded it as inseparable from 
the Parliamentary trust. And further, that the strong complaint urged by this House, 
immediately after the Revolution, of the attempt made to destroy it in the prosecution of 
Sir William Williams, and the distinct re-assertion of it, accompanied by a correspondent 
usage of nearly a century and a half, affirm it by evidence too conclusive to admit any 
reasonable ground of contest. 


51. Although each House is separately vested with all the Privileges that belong to the 
Parliament as a body, it yet remains to be considered whether Parliament possesses 
exclusive authority to determine upon the extent of these Privileges, or whether the Courts 
of Law have a jurisdiction enabling them to review and control the decisions of Parliament 
upon the subject. 


52. In 





* The particulars of this Case, with the observations of your Committee, will be found in the Appendix. Upon being cited to 
the Court of King’s Bench, in Rex v. Wright, 8 Term Rep., Lord Kenyon remarked, “ It was a case that had happened in the 
worst of times ;” and Mr. J. Grose observed that this case ‘“ had been said by a great authority to be a disgrace to the country.” 


+ The judgment was pronounced in the year 1686; and in the year 1689, the Commons passed the following Resolution : 
“ That the judgment given in the Court of King’s Bench, against W. Williams, Esq., Speaker of the House of Commons, for 
matters done by Order of the House of Commons, and as Speaker thereof, was an illegal judgment, and against the freedom of 
Parliament ;” and it was further resolved, “ that a Bill be brought in to reverse the said judgment.” A Bill was accordingly 
brought in in the year 1689; its object was to reverse the judgment, and to procure to Sir W. Williams a restoration of the 
damages which had been recovered from him. It proceeded through certain stages, but did not pass. Two Bills were subsequently 
brought in for the same purpose in 1690 and 1695, which passed the Commons, and were read twice in the House of Lords; but 
what ultimately became of them, cannot be traced, 

The reasons why these Bills did not pass, do not appear upon any authority ; but their failure is supposed to have been occasioned 
by the difficulty of determining upon whom the charge of reimbursing the Speaker should be fixed. By the Bills it was proposed 
that the Attorney-General, who instituted the prosecution, should repay the money, and he was heard at the Bar by his Counsel 
against the Bill; but it seems clear that the desire of Parliament to procure a reimbursement, was the cause why the Bills to reverse 
the judgment did not pass. 


VoL. 92. yy 4 





351 


Appx. (B.) 
P- 49- 
1 Hatsell, p. 57. 


Appx. (A.) and 
Appx. No. 3. 


Appx. (B.) 


Rep. 1771, 
Appx. (B.) 


Exclusive 
jurisdiction in 
matter of 
Privilege. 


See Appx. (B.) 
PP. 54 to 56. 





352 


Appx. (A.) 
No. 3. 











8°—-9° Maiz. A. 1837. 


52. In considering the relative jurisdiction of Parliament and of the Courtsof Law, it will 
be material to keep in remembrance the earlier course of Parliament, when the King as 
Head and the three Estates of the Realm as Members of the Parliament, sat together to 
discuss the affairs of the Nation, to make Laws, and to review the decisions of inferior 
courts, and to this High Court of Parliament those tribunals resorted for advice in cases 
involving more than ordinary difficulty. We may readily assume that this Highest Court 
of the Nation would not permit its decisions, in respect of its own jurisdiction, to be ques- 
tioned or reviewed by J dee subordinate in station, over whom they were in the course of 
exercising a supreme control, and who, being created by, and holding their offices at the 
pleasure of the Crown, might be swayed by an adverse influence. 

53. If the Courts at Westminster have authority to determine upon the Privileges of 
Parliament, the same power is incident to the County Court and courts of inferior jurisdic- 
tion. If the Court of King’s Bench were competent to have decided against the power of 
this House, in the action of trespass in the case of Burdett v. Abbot, the County Court of 
Middlesex would have possessed equal authority had the damages been laid under 40s., 
and the formal words “ with force and arms” been omitted ; in both Courts the question 
would have been the same, whether the Speaker’s warrant justified the alleged trespass and 
imprisonment? When the comparative importance and authority of the High Court of 
Parliament, and the Sheriff’s Tourn and County Court be considered, and the decisive and 
summary manner in which Parliament had been accustomed to vindicate its authority 
against those who impugned it, is adverted to, the House will judge whether any reasonable 
doubt can be entertained as to the ancient state of the law. 

54. It would be easy to adduce ample proof from history that the Privileges of Par- 
liament have formed a strong, and in many instances, the only barrier against the encroach- 
ments of Royal Power; but Your Committee are of opinion that the constitutional free- 
dom of the subject could not have been so defended, had those Privileges been subject 
to be overruled by Judges holding their situation, as they then did, at the pleasure of the 
Crown, and having therefore the strongest personal interest in keeping in favour with the 
Court. A very cursory acquaintance with the legal history of the country, and with the 
decisions of the Courts of Law on questions involving the power and interests of the Crown, 
will be sufficient to show how very slight a vestige, either of parliamentary independence, 
or of popular liberty, would have survived to the present day, if those Courts had possessed 
and exercised such paramount jurisdiction. 

55. If, as is the Opinion of Your Committee, the Privileges of Parliament are held in 
trust for the benefit of the people, it becomes most important to ascertain where the sacred 
duty of protecting and maintaining them is constitutionally deposited. 

56. If deposited, as your Committee think this duty cannot but be, in Parliament, it 
must have arisen from the constitutional attributes of that assembly, representing, and, in 
contemplation of law, including, the whole body of the people, which consideration appears 
to furnish the most valid guarantee for the due exercise of the privileges of Parliament, and 
the best security against their perversion. Under such circumstances a surrender of its 
authority would be a dereliction of trust, and practically surrendered it would be if a Court 
of Law were suffered to control its jurisdiction, and by controlling to defeat it. 

57. The instant these Privileges are subject to any other jurisdiction than that of Parlia- 
ment, all security for their existence is at an end; a new element of power is introduced into 
the State, and the Legislative Assembly of the Nation is no longer supreme. 


58. The exclusive jurisdiction of Parliament to decide upon matters of Privilege, was re- 
cognized by the Common Law Tribunals at a very early period, and all power repudiated by 
those Courts to review or examine into the legality of the decisions of Parliament in that 
respect, when the question of Privilege should come directly into decision; but it has been 
said that when the question of Privilege arises incidentally, the Courts, of necessity, must 
decide upon it. The decisions repudiating the direct jurisdiction are of early date, numerous 
and consistent, while those which treat of the power of the Courts to decide incidentally 
upon Privilege, fail in developing any principle by which the supposed extent of that power 
can be ascertained. Your Committee have, in the Appendix, referred to the leading autho- 
rities upon the subject ; and they are fully sufficient to show that the claim of jurisdiction 
by the Courts is limited to this extent. 


59. Your Committee have not been able to discover any satisfactory rule or test by 
which to ascertain in all cases whether the question of Privilege would be deemed to 
arise directly or incidentally ; there are many cases which might be decisively placed in the 
one class or the other, but there may be also very many which cannot be so assigned. 


60. Your Committee are of opinion that the Courts have no jurisdiction to decide upon 
Privilege, either directly or incidentally, in any sense inconsistent with the independence 
and exclusive jurisdiction of Parliament. If such a jurisdiction did exist of deciding inci- 
dentally upon Priisdane, uncontrolled by Parliament, it would lead to proceedings as incon- 
gruous and as effectually destructive of the independence of Parliament as if the direct 
jurisdiction existed ; a consequence which, together with the extreme uncertainty of the extent 
of the rule, makes it indispensably necessary that it should be investigated. 


61. The decision in Messrs. Hansard’s case, which has created the necessity for this 
inquiry, shows the peril in which Privilege would be placed under even this incidental 
jurisdiction. It was held in Burdett v. Abbot, that the defence being founded upon the 
Order of the House to do the act complained of, raised the question of Privilege directly, 
and that the Court could not investigate the legality of that Order; the defence of Messrs. 
Hansard was also founded upon the Order of the ens. Your Committee are unable to 


distinguish in principle between the two cases; but it being admitted law in all Courts, that 
there is no direct jurisdiction over Privilege out of Parliament, it must be supposed that the 
Privilege was deemed in this case to arise incidentally; and if that view be correct, it will 
follow that persons acting under the Orders of the House might be subjected to large 

damages, 





7 Wit. LV. 8°—9° Mair. 


damages, or indeed to imprisonment, by a sentence in a criminal prosecution under this 
incidental jurisdiction. 

62. The nature and consequence of the jurisdiction thus claimed, will be best appreciated 
by examining some of the consequences to which it may lead. Applications to be dis- 
parse from commitments by Parliament, and actions brought b — imprisoned under 
warrants granted by the Speaker of this House, are proceedings held to raise the question 
of Privilege directly, and, therefore, not examinable by Courts of Law, who can afford no 
relief in such cases, even supposing the case of a commitment by the House of Lords for a 
fine, however large, or that of an imprisonment, by either House. But it is said that the 
Privileges of Parliament may be brought incidentally into judgment in those Courts, and 
that then they may be overruled. But if the party be committed by Parliament for so 
bringing its Pindieen under the consideration of the inferior tribunal, though it should 
appear upon the face of the warrant that the commitment was founded solely upon that 
ground, the Court nevertheless could give no relief, nor could those who enforced the im- 
cera be in any manner venteatll amenable. Suppose the commitment to be by the 

ouse of Lords, and the Privilege brought into question incidentally, and overruled, and 
a writ of error then brought into Parliament, by that course the question of Privilege would 
come back to the same jurisdiction which had originally decided upon it; and had the com- 
mitment been made by this House, the effect would be that its Privileges, and consequently 
its independence, would become subject to the decision of the other House of Parliament ; 
thus all the evils consequent on a direct jurisdiction would equally result from incidental 
decisions. The case of The Queen v. Patey is strikingly illustrative of the present subject. 
It arose out of the decision in the case of Ashby v. White, which was an action against the 
returning officer of the borough of Aylesbury, for —— the plaintiff’s vote at an election. 
The defendant insisted that the right to vote was matter for the decision of this House alone, 
and that the Courts of Law could not entertain the question; and, therefore, that no action 
could be maintained. Three of the Judges of the Court of King’s Bench held the action not 
to be maintainable ; Lord Chief Justice Holt held the contrary. Judgment was of course 
entered for the defendant, upon which a writ of error was ew, in Parliament. The 
Judges were there called upon for their opinion ; three Judges agreed with Lord Holt for the 
plaintiff, two concurred with the three Judges of the King’s Bench in favour of the defendant. 
Upon this the House of Lords, on a division of 50 against 16, reversed the judgment of the 
Court of King’s Bench, and by this reversal asserted and in effect exercised a jurisdiction 
over the rights of voting for Maine of this House, which had (pending the Proceedings) 
resolved, That the decision of the right to Vote at an Election fora Member of this House 
by any other tribunal, was a Breach of its Privileges. 


63. After the decision of the House of Lords, Patey and several other persons brought 
similar actions, upon which they were summoned to the Bar of this House, and committed 
for the Breach of Privilege in bringing such actions, the warrants upon the face of them 
stating the whole cause of commitment. Writs of Habeas Corpus were obtained from the 
King’s Bench, and the case was argued before the twelve Judges ; eleven of them held that 
the Court had no power to examine the question of Privilege, as the House had decided it, 
and that the parties could not be discharged. Lord Holt was of a contrary opinion. A very 
unusual expedient was in this case adopted to draw the Privilege of this House still further 
under the consideration of the Lords. The Queen was prayed to grant a writ of error, in 
order to bring the decision of the Judges under the review of the Lords. Against this the 
Commons protested, and the Lords, who were to decide upon that writ of error, did not wait 
until it should come judicially before them, but addressed the Queen, praying for the imme- 
diate issuing of the writ of error, and very severely animadverted on this House, and ordered 
the Address to be published. This House indicated an intention to vindicate its Privileges, 
when a course was taken similar to that which has been pursued on other occasions ma 
the House has been called upon to maintain its Privilege, namely, a dissolution of Parlia- 
ment; which dissolution had the effect of discharging the parties who had been committed, 
and the discussion was not revived. 


64. The decision in Burdett v. Abbot is in conformity with the opinion of the eleven 
Judges in Patey’s case, who held the Order of this House conclusive. 

65. The present case, in which the Privilege of the House to make its Proceedings public 
has been denied, and Ashby v. White, in which the House of Lords exercised the power of 
determining on the right of voting, will sufficiently illustrate the effect of this alleged inci- 
dental jurisdiction upon the independence and authority of the House, according to the view 
which has been taken of it. But Your Committee are impressed with the opinion that the 
effect of this incidental jurisdiction has been the subject of some ———- and that 


it will not be found to exist to an extent incompatible with the independence and paramount 
authority of Parliament. 


66. There are many subjects over which particular courts have an exclusive jurisdiction, 
and the judgments of which are therefore conclusive even upon the superior courts, whilst 
the paramount authority of Parliament over the Courts of Law must never be forgotten. 
Where a cause.is depending which incidentally involves a matter subject to an exclusive juris- 
diction which has not pronounced upon it, the Court where the cause is so depending is com- 
pelled to decide the incidental question in order to determine such cause ; but in so deciding, 
the Court does not overrule the authority or judgment of the exclusive jurisdiction. Yet in 
cases of Privilege it seems to be assumed by some that the question arising incidentally 
would give authority to overrule the judgment of Parliament, which is admitted to be a 
Court having a so and exclusive jurisdiction; but except in the case of Benyon 
v. Evelyn, it is nowhere stated that a Resolution of Parliament would not be conclusive 
upon a question of Privilege, whether such question arose directly or incidentally ; and 

our Committee apprehend that such a Resolution must be so treated to be consistent either 
with the principles applied to other exclusive jurisdictions, or the doctrines applied by the 


Courts 
Vor. 92. ZZ 


353 


Appx. (A.) 
par. 88, 


Hatsell, vol. 3, 
p- 247. 


Appx. (A.) 
p. 27. par. 101, 





sic IES TOE 


354 


49 Com. Jour. 
B 504. 

arl, Hist. 
vol. 31, p. 287. 


Appx. (B.) 

P- 54 

go Com. Jour. 
P&gt; 544, aud 
Appx. No. 4, 
p- 96. 


Reports of the 
H. C, 1810, 
(354+) vol. 2, 
P- 315+ 
Hatsell, vol. 1, 
p. 281. 





8°9° Mair. A. 1837. 


Courts to Parliament itself. The duty of Courts to decide all questions which arise inci- 
dentally is quite consistent with the judgments of Courts of competent and exclusive juris- 
diction, being, when proved, conclusive upon the matter expressly decided. 


67. This House has constantly asserted and frequently exercised its highest powers in 
maintaining an exclusive jurisdiction ; of this the case of The Queen v. Patey furnishes a 
striking example ; and it might have been expected that the judgment of the eleven Judges, 
and its subsequent confirmation by every succeeding Judge, that the adjudication of the 
House was conclusive, would have put an end to the question. 


68. Your Committee beg to refer to the x of the Commiftee appointed to report 
upon the causes of the duration of the Trial of Warren Hastings. 





69. Your Committee, having considered the subject of Parliamentary Privilege, and the 
Jurisdiction of this House to determine the extent of its own Privileges, submit, as their 
opinion, that by the Law and Usage of Parliament, the House of Commons does possess 
an exclusive Jurisdiction, and that it is a breach of its Privileges to bring them into discussion 
for decision before any other tribunal directly or incidentally, and that such breach of Privi- 
lege subjects the parties to punishment by this House. 

70. Your Committee are of opinion, That the long usage which has prevailed, and the 
distinct Resolution of this House in The King v. Williams, and the public proceedings which 
afterwards followed in that case, and the recent Orders of the House for Printing its Pro- 
ceedings, sufficiently establish and notify the Privilege in question; and that the action 
gg by Mr. Stockdale against Messrs. Hansard was a breach of the Privileges of this 

ouse. 

71. It would add unnecessarily to the length of this Report to detail all the authorities 
upon which this opinion is formed. The First Report presented in the year 1810 by the 
Select Committee on the Proceedings relative to i. Francis Burdett, furnishes all that is 
material on the subject, and the conclusion which that Committee came to was, that the 
actions brought against The a pron and the Serjeant for acts done in obedience to the Orders 
of the House were in Breach of its Privileges. Your Committee beg leave also to refer to 
the Second Report made by that Committee, in which numerous authorities are brought 
together on the same subject. 

72. Attending to the law laid down in the action against Messrs. Hansard, it becomes 
most material to consider, whether to permit the decision to pass unnoticed would not be in 
effect to recognise it, and virtually to suffer one of the most important functions of this House, 
that of inquiring into public abuses, to be defeated, and the right of the public to informa- 
tion as to the result of such inquiries to be put an end to; and above all, whether, if the 
assumption of the jurisdiction to decide upon the existence and extent of Privilege were 
acquiesced in, the Supremacy and Independence of Parliament would not be thereby 
superseded. 

"3. It does not appear to Your Committee that any further proceedings should take place 
in the cause of Stockdale v. Hansard. The action was brought by the plaintiff in forma 
pauperis. He has obtained a verdict against the defendant upon the issue of not guilty, 
which, in effect, negatived the existence of the Privilege, but the defendant has obtained a 
verdict upon the second issue, under which the publication was justified upon the ground 
that it was true, which latter issue furnishes a full defence to the action ; the plaintiff has, 
consequently, no interest in proceeding further, and the House is not therefore called upon 
to take any step for the future protection of Messrs. Hansard in relation to the cause ; the 
plaintiff having sued in forma pauperis, the defendant will not recover his costs; so that 
neither party has any interest in taking any further step. In ordinary cases, the misdirec- 
tion of the Judge affords ground for an application for a new trial. In the present case, 
the defendant having succeeded, no reason existed for any such application, except for the 
mere purpose of bringing the law laid down at Nisi Prius under the review of the Court; 
but Your Committee are of opinion, that any such application to the Court, under the 
sanction of this House, would have been inconsistent with its dignity and subversive of 
its authority. 

74. It appears to Your Committee essential that all doubt on the question of Privilege, in 
the present case, should be set at rest, it being still competent to Mr. Stockdale to prefer 
an indictment against the Messrs. Hansard for the same Publication, in which the truth 
would furnish the latter with no defence ; and equally open to every individual who may 
conceive himself directly or incidentally implicated in any Report which may have been pub- 
lished under the Authority of this House, to prosecute civilly or criminally either Messrs. 
Hansard or any other Officer (including The Speaker) of the andl who may have ordered 
or may otherwise have been concerned in causing such Publication, and in the event of cri- 
minal proceedings being resorted to, the truth of the matter would, as already observed, 
furnish no defence. 

75. It seems most important that the Proceedings of Parliament upon the subject of 
Privilege should be uniform ; submission to the Courts of Law upon some occasions, and 
resistance upon others, begets an impression in the public mind that Parliament itself wavers, 
and has no settled conviction on the subject of its Privileges; an impression which is not 
justified, and ought not to prevail. 

76. With regard to the Petition of James Hansard and Luke G. Hansard, referred to 
your Committee, they find that those persons have acted in strict obedience to the Orders of 
the House in selling the Report in question, and became subject to the proceeding which 
has been instituted against them solely in consequence thereof, and have thereby been sub- 
jected to considerable expense, for which they ought to be reimbursed. Your Committee 
feel it proper to add, that the direction of the Lord Chief Justice to the jury was pronounced 
under circumstances which preclude all supposition of an intentional violation of the Pri- 
vileges of the House. 





77. Upon 





Answer to 
_ Addresses, 


Canada, 


7 Wit. IV. 





8°—9° Mair. 


77. Upon the whole matter referred to your Committee, they report as their opinion, That 
the power of publishing such of its Reports, Votes and Proceedings as it shall deem neces- 
oy conducive to the public interests, is an essential incident to the constitutional functions 
of Parliament, more especially of this House, as the representative portion of it. 


78. That by the Law and Privilege of Parliament, this House has the sole and exclusive 
jurisdiction to determine upon the existence and extent of its Privileges, and that the insti- 
tution or prosecution of any action, suit or other proceeding for the purpose of bringing them 
into discussion or decision before any court or tribunal elsewhere ye in Parliament, is 
a high breach of such Privilege, and renders all parties concerned therein amenable to its 
just displeasure, and to the punishment consequent thereon. 


_ 79. That for any court or tribunal to assume to decide upon matters of Privilege incon- 
sistent with the determination of either House of Parliament thereon, is contrary to the law 
of Parliament, and is a breach and contempt of the Privileges of Parliament. 





80. In concluding their Report, your Committee feel it incumbent upon them to observe 
that, although they have feat | a decided opinion that it is absolutely essential to the 
effective discharge of the most important functions of the House of Commons, that the 
Privilege of Publication should exist without restriction, and that the authority to determine 
the extent of that Privilege and the occasion for exercising it should rest exclusively with 
Parliament, they are not insensible to the evil which may arise from an incautious — 
of Parliamentary Documents, in cases wherein the character of individuals is involved, an 
wherein no public necessity calls for Publication, or no ee is afforded to the party 
affected to give an immediate answer to the inculpation. Your Committee are aware that, 
without the previous sanction of this House, no Publication of its Proceedings can be 
privileged ; and that all presumption, therefore, of malicious motives is excluded ; neither 
have they the slightest doubt that if the attention of Parliament were directed to each in- 
dividual case, ample precautions would be taken against the infliction of unnecessary pain, 
and still more against the possible case that the Privilege of Parliament ms be abused for 
the mere gratification of resentments connected with personal or party differences. But, 
amidst the pressure of the important and multifarious business which occupy its attention, it 
is impossible to exercise, on all occasions, that precautionary vigilance which might effectually 
guard against the evil to which we have thus adverted. Much, therefore, must depend upon 
the discretion, and sense of justice of individual Members respecting the presentation and 
printing of Petitions, and of the Chairmen and Members of Committees of Inquiry, in 
respect to the prosecution of their inquiries, and particularly in respect to the printing of 
the evidence which may affect private character, until the opportunity be given of rebuttin 
it. To prescribe any positive rule upon such a subject, is manifestly impossible. The in- 
variable adherence to such a rule might protect public delinquents from a disclosure of their 
misconduct, or prevent the notoriety of facts important to the ends for which inquiry was 
instituted. It appears, however, to your Committee (and they think that the practical ex- 
perience of Members will support the conclusion to which they have come) that it would 
not be difficult, on a mature consideration of each case wherein the exercise of a discretion 
may be called for, so to apply it, in the great majority of instances, as completely to reconcile 
all proper regard for the character and feelings of individuals with the faithful and effectual 
discharge of public functions. The more essential the Privilege the more urgent the neces- 
sity for an exclusive and unfettered authority in deciding upon the exercise and the limits 
of it, the more important and the more becoming is it to take as much precaution as possible 
against the infliction of individual injury or unnecessary pain to private feelings. 








355 


































Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer reported to the 
House, That their several Addresses of the 3d day of 
this instant May, (that His Majesty would be gra- 
ciously pleased to give directions that the Papers 
therein mentioned might be laid before this House,) 
had been presented to His Majesty, and that His 
Majesty had commanded him to acquaint this House, 
that He will give directions accordingly. 


Sir George Grey presented, pursuant to several 
Addresses to His Majesty,—Copies of the Report 
of the House of Assembly of Upper Canada, to 
whom was referred the Letter from Mr. Speaker 
Papineau to Mr. Speaker Bidwell, inclosing Copies 
of certain Resolutions adopted by the House of 
Assembly of Lower Canada, during their Session of 
1835-6 ; and also,a Copy of the Address of the 
Assembly of Upper Canada to His Majesty, adopting 
this Report :—Of the Address to His Majesty from 
the Legislative Council and Assembly of Upper Ca- 
nada, praying that steps may be taken for procuring 
the co-operation of the Legislature of Lower Canada 
in the improvement of the navigation of the Saint 
Lawrence :--And, of the Address to His Majesty 
7 “" House of Assembly of Upper Canada, 

OL. 92, 








praying for the annexation of Montreal to that 
rovince. 


Copy of an Act passed in 1834, by the Legislature Barbadoes. 


of Barbadoes, repealing the Four-and-Half per Cent. 
Duty; also, Copy of a Memorial of the Council and 
prea of Barbadoes to Mr. Secretary Stanley, 
praying him to recommend His Majesty to give His 
Assent to the said Act. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till one of the clock on Tuesday morning, 
adjourned till this day. 








Martis, 9° die Maiti; 
Anno 7° Willielmi IV“ Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


R. Robertson, from the Metropolis Roads Metropolis 
re- Roads. 


Office, was called in; and at the bar 
sented, pursuant to the directions of an Act of Par- 
liament,—The Eleventh Report of the Commission- 
ers of the Metropolis Turnpike Roads North of the 
Thames :—And then he withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 


Table. 
Ordered 


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London and 

Brighton 

Railway Bill 
Rennie’s 
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London and 
Brighton 
Railway Bills, 


Edinburgh 
Water Com- 
pany (No. 2.) 


Brighton, 
Lewes, and 
Newhaven 
Railway Bill. 


London and 
Brighton 
Railway Bills. 


356 9° Mai. 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue out his War- 
rant to the Clerk of the Crown, to make out a new 
Writ for the electing of a Baron to serve in this 
present Parliament for the Town and Port of Hythe, 
in the room of Stewart Marjoribanks, yee who 
since his Election for the said Town and Port hath 
accepted the Office of Steward or Bailiff of His Ma- 
jesty’s Three Chiltern Hundreds of Stoke, Desbo- 
— and Bonenham, in the county of Bucking- 

am. 


Petitions from William Gorringe, of Kingston- 
by-Sea, in the county of Sussex, Esquire ;—and, 
Owners and Occupiers of lands and premises in the 
counties of Surrey and Sussex, on the line of the 
proposed Railway hereinafter mentioned ; praying 
that they may be Bevery by themselves, their counsel 
or agents, against certain parts of the London and 
Brighton Railway Bill, (Rennie’s line),—were pre- 
sented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


A Petition of Owners or Occupiers of lands in- 
tended to be passed through by some or one of the 
London and Brighton Railways, praying the House 
to instruct the Committee to whom the Bills for 
making the said Railways have been referred, to 
make a special Report on the engineering particu- 
lars of each of the four competing lines, to enable 
the House to determine which of such Bills be sent 
back to the said Committee for the purpose of hear- 
ing the Petitioners, and other Owners and Occu- 
piers of land liable to be affected by such Railways, 
some or one of them; and against the preamble of 
and the clauses in such Bill as may affect their 
interests, was presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Chairman of the General Com- 
missioners of Police for the city of Edinburgh, 
taking notice of the application for leave to bring 
in the Edinburgh Water Company (No. 2.) Bill, 
and praying that such Bill may not pass into a law, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of Provisional Directors of the 
Brighton, Lewes and Newhaven Railway, denying 
the allegations of the Petition of William Crawshay 
and Adam Gordon, (presented upon Friday last,) 
and praying that inquiry may be instituted touching 
the said allegations ; and that the Petitioners may 
be at liberty to be heard before the Committee, to 
whom the said Petition is referred, by themselves, 
their counsel, agents and witnesses, in support of the 
ailegations of their Petition, was presented, and 
read ; and referred to the Select Committee on the 
Deptford and Dover Railway Subscription List. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being put, 
That it be an Instruction to the Committee to 
whom the several Brighton Railway Bills have been 
referred, to make a Special Report of the engineer- 
ing particulars of ual of the four competing lines, 
to eneble the House to determine which to send 
back, for‘the purpose of having the landholders 
heard and Clauses settled ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the old Lobby; 

The Noes to the new Lobby. 

Sir Charles Burrell, 


ame hoe 4 OS 
Tellers for the Yeas, Colonel Wood : if 7a 
Tellers for the Noes, Sir Samach Whclley ; } 72, 


So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 








A. 1837. 


A Petition of George Carr, of Newcastle-upon- Newcastle. 
Tyne, Gentleman, praying that he may be heard, by yPon-Tyne 
his counsel or agent, against certain parts of the — 
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Improvement Bill, was pre- 
sented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, if he 
think fit ; and counsel heard, in favour of the Bill, 
against the said Petition. 


Two Petitions of Shareholders in a projected line Exeter and 
of Railway, called “ The London, Salisbury, Exeter, =~ 
Plymouth and Falmouth Railway ;” praying that the on 
Exeter and Falmouth Railway Bill may not pass 
into a law,—were presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of Land-owners, Traders and Inha- 
bitants of Bridgend, praying that the said Bill may 
pass into a law, was also presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Harland reported from the Committee on the Castle Eden 
Castle Eden and Merrington, (Clarence and Hart- Penne 
lepool Junction) Railway Bill ; and to whom several tent 
Petitions against the said Bill were referred ; That Junction) 
the Standing Orders relative to Bills for making Railway. 
Railways had been complied with; and that the 
Committee had considered the said Petitions, and 
had heard counsel in support of several of them, 
and had also heard counsel in favour of the Bill; 
and that they had inquired into the several matters 
required by the Resolutions of the House of the 1st 
day of March 1836, and had examined the allega- 
tions of the Bill, and found the same to be true ; and 
had gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Sir John Beckett, reported from the Committee on Leeds Water- 
the Leeds Water Works Bill: and to whom several “°* Bill. 
Petitions against the said Bill were referred ; That 
the Standing Orders relative to Bills for supplying 
Cities or Towns with Water, had been complied 
with ; and that the Committee had heard counsel 
on behalf of some of the said Petitions ; and that 
no person appeared on behalf of one other of the 
said Petitions ; and that they had heard also coun- 
sel in favour of the Bill; and that the Committee 
had examined the allegations of the Bill, and found 
the same to be true ; and had gone through the Bill, 
and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Joseph Harris, of King William- Agricultoral 
street, in the city of London, taking notice of the ee eek 
application for leave to bring in the Kesicaliceal and (No. 2.) 
Commercial Bank, Zreland, (No. 2.) Bill ; and pray- 
ing that such Bill may not pass into a law, was pre- 
sented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Shareholders in the Agricultural i I 
and Commercial Bank of Jreland, Subscribers to the #'4y (Ireland.) 
Stock thereof at the Branch open at Enniscorthy, 
praying the House to extend support and protection 
to the Agricultural and Commercial Bank of Ireland, 
was presented, and read ; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Joint Stock Banks. 


Petitions from Inhabitants, Ley-payers of Brin- Stockport 
nington ;—Cheadle Bulkeley and Cheadle Moseley ; —_— 
—and, Heaton Norris; praying that the Stockport” ~ 
Improvement Bill may pass into a Jaw,—were pre- 

EN and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
able. 


A Petition of Incumbents of Churches of parishes eS 
within the Metropolis, and its neighbourhood, pray- Bill. 
ing that they may be heard, by themselves, their 
counsel or agents, against certain parts of the North 


Metropolitan 














We 


en at 











7 Wit. IV. 


of Metropolitan Cemetery Bill, was presented, and 
read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


East sd The East Thickley and Frosterley Railway Bill 
Ce was read a second time; and committed to Mr. 


Pease and the Durham List. 


Ouse Banks A Petition of Commissioners of Drainage, for 
Drainage Bill. carrying into execution the Acts for improving the 
Drainage of the Middle and South Level, part of 
the Great Level of the Fens, called Bedford Level, 
praying that they may be heard, by themselves, their 
counsel or agents, against certain parts of the Ouse 
Banks Drainage Bill, was presented, and read. 
Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 





Mertoun 


An ingrossed Bill for building a Bridge over the 
Bridge Bill. 


River Tweed, at or near to Mertoun Mill, in the 
County of Berwick, and for making avenues and 
approaches thereto, was, according to Order, read 
the third time ; and Amendments were made to the 
Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Sir George Clerk do carry the 
Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 
Worcester and 


Wolverhampton 
Railway Bill, 


A Petition of Owners, Lessees and Occupiers of 
property on the line of the Railway hereinafter men- 
tioned, praying that the Worcester and Wolver- 
hampton Railway Bill may pass into a law, was 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to take 
into further consideration the Report which upon the 
4th day of this instant May was made from the 
Committee on the Hurworth and York Railway Bill ; 
printed Copies of the Bill having been delivered at 
the door upon Friday last; and the Amendments 
were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed. 


Hurworth 
and York 
Railway Bill. 


Cork and Pass = The House proceeded to take into furtherconsidera- 
Bi Railway tion the Report which upon the first day of this in- 
stant May was made from the Committee on the 
Corkand Passage Railway Bill, printed Copies of the 

Bill having been delivered at the door upon Friday 

last; and the Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 

be ingrossed. 


Wishaw and The House proceeded to take into further con- 
oo Rail- sideration the Report. which upon the 1st day of this 
way Bill. = ; 
instant May was made from the Committee on the 
Wishaw and Coltness Railway Bill; printed Copies 
of the Bill having been delivered at the door upon 
Thursday last; and the Amendments were read, and 
agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed. 
Baeter and Ordered, That the Report on the Exeter and 
Railway Bil, mouth Railway Bill be taken into further con- 


sideration upon this day six months. 


The House 
on sideration the k 


Worcester and 
Wolverhampt 
Railway Bill 


upon Friday last. 


And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Amendments made by the 


Committee to the Bill be now read a second time; 


9° Maiz. 


taining the Road leading from Elland Bridge, 


roceeded to take into further con- 
eport which upon the 26th day of 
April last was made from the Committee on the 

orcester and Wolverhampton Railway Bill; printed 
Copies of the Bill having been delivered at the door 


357 


An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 


Question, by leaving out from the words “That the” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words “ Report be taken into further consideration 


“ 


upon this day six months,” instead thereof. 
And the Question being proposed, That the words 


proposed to be left out stand part of the Question: 
—And a Debate arising thereupon 





A Message from the Lords, by Sir Giffin Wilson Message from 
the Lords. 


and Mr. Roupell : 


Mr. Speaker, 
The Lords have agreed to the several Bills follow- 


ing, without Amendment ; viz. 


A Bill, intituled, An Act for repairing and main- Elland Bridge 
in the 22d Dewsbury 


Parish of Halifax, into the Dewsbury and Elland *°** ®" 


Turnpike Road, near the Obelisk, in the Parish of 

Dewsbury, in the West Riding of the County of York: 

A Bill, intituled, An Act for repairing, maintaining Leeds and 

and improving the line of the Road from Leeds to Otley Road 

Otley, im the West Riding of the County of York: ~~ 

A Bill, intituled, An Act for more effectually Manchester 

amending the Roads from Manchester, in the County aig ag 

of Lancaster, through Oldham, to Austerlands, in“°**~'* 

the County of York, and from Oldham to Ashton- 

under-Lyne, and from Oldham to Rochdale, and 

other Roads, and for making and maintaining new 

Lines to communicate therewith, all in the said 

County of Lancaster : 

A Bill, intituled, An Act for amending two several Ashborne 

Acts of the seventh and tenth years of his late Ma- — i 

Jesty King George the Fourth, for repairing the 
oad from Ashborne, in the County of Derby, to 

Leek, in the County of Stafford, and from Ryecroft 

Gate, upon Rushton Common, to Congleton, in the 

County of Chester: 

A Bill, intituled, An Act for more effectually Wormegay | 

draining of certain Fen Lands and Low Grounds in Drainage Bill. 

the Honor, Manor and Parish of Wormegay, in the 

County of Norfolk, and other Lands and Grounds 

which are now drained by means of or through a 

certain Drain, called Polver Drain, in the said 

County: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Clapton 

Act for inclosing Lands in the parish of Clapton, in Inclosure Bill, 

the County of Somerset, with Amendments ; to which 

Amendments the Lords desire the concurrence of 

this House :—And then the Messengers withdrew. 


Then the House resumed the said Debate. 

And the Question being put, That the words pro- Worcester and 
posed to be left out stand part of the Question ; Wolverhampton 
The House divided : Sy ae 
The Yeas to the old Lobby ; 
The Noes to the new Lobby. 


Tellers for the Yeas,{ General Lygon, 


Mr. Holland: } 8s. 
Tellers for the Noes,{ 


Mr. Barneby, 
Mr. antes: } aes 
So it passed in the Negative. 
And the Question being put, That the words 
“ Report be taken into further consideration upon 
this day six months” be added at the end of the 
Question :—It was resolved in the Affirmative. 
Then the main Question, so amended, being put ; 
Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon this day six months. 


Ordered, That the Collier Dock and Surrey Canal Collier Dock 
Bill be read a second time To-morrow. and Surrey 
Canal Bill, 
Ordered, That the Waterford County Rates Bill Waterford 


be read the third time To-morrow. -—* Rates 


A Petition of Francis Finch, a subscriber to the Exeter and 
Exeter and Falmouth Railway Company, complain- 
ing of the names of certain needy and indigent 

rsons having been inserted in the Subscription 
Fist for the said Railway, and praying that no further 


Falmouth 
Railway Bill. 





Vot., 92. 





Z23 


proceedings 











ee! 


Pee ane 


Se 


o&gt; St IRA eNEe htienpat sin BC 


_ —— 3 
Ye 


a a ne 
&gt; 


Lead. 
No. 287. 
Copper. 


No. 288. 


Tin. 


No. 288. 


Commissions. 


No. 290. 
Newspaper 
Stamps. 

No, 291. 
Canada. 

No. 292. 


Barbadoes. 


No. 289. 


Longford 
County 
Election. 


Longford 
County 
Election. 


Post Office. 


358 9°—10° Mai. 


proceedings on the Bill for making the said Railway 
may take place, that the said Bill may not —_ into 
a law until the Petition has been inquired into by 
the House, and that the Petitioner may be heard, 
by himself, his counsel or agent, against the said 
Bill, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 
Ordered, That the Petition be printed. 


Ordered, That the Account relative to Lead, 
which was presented yesterday, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Account relative to Copper, 
which was presented yesterday, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Account relative to Tin, which | Ch 


was presented yesterday, be printed. 
Ordered, That the Return relative to Commissions, 
which was presented yesterday, be printed. 
Ordered, That the Return relative to Newspaper 
Stamps, which was presented yesterday, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to Canada, 
which was presented yesterday, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to Barbadoes, 
which was presented yesterday, be printed. 


The House was moved, That the Report which, 
upon the 4th day of this instant May, was, made 
from the Select Committee appointed to try and 
determine the merits of the Petitions of Charles 
Fox, Esquire ;—and, Lovell Edgeworth, and others, 
freeholders, complaining of an undue Election and 
Return for the County of Longford, might be read, 
and the same being read ; 

A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 
That Mr. Speaker be directed to issue his 

arrant to the Clerk of the Peace of the County 
of Longford, to strike off the Register of Electors 
of the said County the names of the ninety-two 
Electors of the said County who were reported by 
the Committee appointed to try the merits of the 
last Election for that County, as being upon the 
Register, but as not being entitled to vote at that 
Election ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” to 
the end of the Question, in order to add the words 
“the Speaker of the House of Commons has no 
“ authority by law to issue his Warrant to the 
“ Clerk of the Peace of any County, City or Town 
“in Ireland, directing him to strike off from the 
“ Register the name of any Elector,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That the words 

roposed to be left out stand part of the Question : — 
he said proposed Amendment and Motion were 
severally, with the leave of the House, withdrawn. 


A Petition of Ten pound Freeholders of the county 
of Longford, complaining of certain proceedings of 
the Select Committee on the Longford County Elec- 
tion Petitions, and praying the House to suspend its 
judgment upon the Report of the said Committee, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 

A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 
posed, That a Select Committee be appointed to 
inquire and report what alterations and reductions 
may be made on the present rates and under the 
present mode of charging Postage, or by the adop- 
tion of the principle and mode proposed in a pamphlet 
by Mr. Rowland Hill, keeping in view the main- 
tenance of the present net revenue, subject, however, 
to any reduction on Postage the Chancellor of the 
Exchequer may recommend when he brings out the 
Budget ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” to 
the end of the Question, in order to add the words 
“ the Order of the day for the Committee on the 

Poor Relief (Jreland) Bill, be now read,” instead 
thereof. 


A. 1837. 


And the Question being put, That the words pro- 
posed to be left out stand part of the Question :— 
It passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
“the Order of the day for the Committee on the 
Poor Relief (Zreland) Bill, be now read,” be added 
instead thereof:—It was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Then the main Question, so amended, being put ; 


Ordered, That the Order of the day for the Com- Poor Relief 
mittee on the Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill be now (Ireland) Bil, 


read ; and the same being read ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
alr ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” to 
the end of the Question, in order to add the words 
“ the practice of any Deliberative Assembly deciding 
“ by proxy upon the rejection or adoption of Legis- 
“lative Enactments, is so incompatible with every 
“ principle of justice and reason, that its continuance 
“is daily becoming a source of serious and well- 
“ founded complaint among all classes of his Ma- 
“ jesty’s subjects; and that this Resolution be com- 
“‘ municated to the Lords,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words pro- 
posed to be left out stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the old Lobby ; 

The Noes to the new Lobby. 

Tellers for the ¢ Mr. Robert Steuart, } 199 

Yeas, \ Lord Seymour : el 

Tellers for the { Mr. Thomas Duncombe, \ 91 

Noes, Mr. Wakley : &gt; 5 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair :—The House accordingly resolved itself into 
the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 
Crauszs, N° 3 to N° 9, agreed to. 
Crausg, N° 10 amended, and agreed to. 
Crauses, N° 11 to N° 13, agreed to. 
Ciausz, N° 14 amended, and agreed to. 
To report Progress ; and ask leave to sit again. 





And the House, having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Wednesday morning ; 


Mercurii, 10° die Mati, 1837: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had made further Pro- 
gress in the matters to them referred ; and that he 
was directed to move, That the Committee may have 
leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, again 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Resolved, That the Order of the day for the Com- Poor Relief 
mittee on the Poor Relief (Zreland) Bill do take (Ireland) Bil. 


precedence of Notices of Motions To-morrow. 


The House was moved, That the Act 5 and 6 Highway Rates 
Will. 4, c. 50, to consolidate and amend the Laws Bil. 


relating to Highways in that | ge of Great Britain 
called England, might be read ; and the same being 
read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to authorize the application of Highway Rates to 
Turnpike Roads in certain cases: And that Mr. Shaw 
Lefevre and Mr. Fox Maule do prepare, and bring 


it in. 


Petitions from Trustees of the Offham and Witch Highway Ac‘- 


Cross and other Roads in the county of Sussex ;— 
Creditors of the Tunbridge Wells and a Turn- 
pike Road ;—and, Creditors of the Hodges and 


Cuckfield Turnpike Road; praying the House to 
make such alterations in the Highway Act that the 
townships through which the said Roads pass may 





continue 





County 
(Irelan 


Longfo 
Count) 


Bonde 
Manuf 


Bel 
We 
(N 














County Boards 
(Ireland) Bill. 


' Longford 
County 
Election. 


Bonded Corn 
Manufacture. 


Collier Dock 
and Surrey 
Canal Bill. 


Waterford 
County Rates 
Bill, 


Belfast 
Waterworks 
(No, 2) 


London and 
Brighton 
Railway Bill 
(Stephenson’s 
Line.) 


Greenwich 


Pier Bill, 





7 Witt. IV. 


continue to contribute towards the repair and main- 
tenance of the said Turnpike Roads,—were presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to establish County Boards in Jreland: And that 
Sir Richard Musgrave and Mr. Wyse do prepare, 
and bring it in. 


Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken 
before the Select Committee on the Longford County 
Election Petitions be laid before this House. 


The House was moved, That the several Acts 
relating to the Importation of Corn might be read ; 
and the same being read ; 

Resolved, That this House will, immediately, re- 
solve itself into a Committee to consider of the 
Manufacture of Foreign Bonded Corn under the 
King’s Lock for exportation :—The House accord- 
ingly resolved itself into the Committee ; and after 
some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the 
Chair ; and Mr. Warburton reported, That he was 
directed by the Committee to make a Motion. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Warburton accordingly reported, That he was 
directed by the Committee to move the House, That 
leave be given to bring ina Bill to permit the Manu- 
facture of Foreign Bonded Grain under the King’s 
Lock for exportation :—And he moved the House 
accordingly ; 

And Notice being taken that Forty Members were 
not present, the " was told by Mr. Speaker ; 
and Forty Members not being present, and it being 
then a quarter of an hour before one of the clock 
on ‘Gaede morning :—The House was ad- 
journed by Mr. Speaker, without a Question first 
put, till this day. 





Mercurii, 10° die Mai; 
Anno 7° Willielmi [V Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 
T HE Collier Dock and Surrey Canal Bill was, 
according to Order, read a second time; and 
committed to Captain Alsager and the Surrey List. 


An ingrossed Bill for the uniform valuation of 
Lands and Tenements in the County of Waterford, 
in Ireland, for the purpose of levying the County 
Rates therein, was, according to Order, read the 
third time ; and an ingrossed Clause was added to 
the Bill by way of Rider. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Sir Richard Musgrave do carry 
the Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


A Petition of the President and Assistants of the 
Belfast Charitable Society, for leave to present a 
Petition for leave to bring in a Bill for better 
supplying with Water the town of Belfast, was 
presented, and read; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Owners and Proprietors of Land, 
and Merchants, Traders and Inhabitants of Warn- 
ham, Rusper, Nuthurst and other places, praying 
that the London and Brighton Railway Bill (Ste- 
phenson’s Line) may pass into a law, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


An ingrossed Bill to alter and amend an Act of 
the last Session of Parliament, intituled, ‘‘ An Act 
for making and maintaining a Pier, Wharf and other 
Works at Greenwich, in the County of Kent,” and 
to extend the powers of the said Act, was read the 
third time; and ingrossed Clauses were added by wa 
of Riders; and Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Barnard do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 

Vor. 92. 


9°— 10° Marz. 















359 


Ordered, That it be an Instruction to the Com- Manchester 
mittees on the Manchester and Tamworth; and, the = _ 
Manchester and Stafford Railway Bills, that they ter and Stafford 
do alter and make both the said Bilis into one Bill. Railway Bills. P 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Salford, praying Mersey 
that the Mersey Conservancy Bill may not pass into ia 
a law, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


A Petition of Charles Foote Gower, of Ipswich, Ipswich 
merchant, praying that he may be heard, by his 'pmvemett 
counsel or agent, against certain parts of the Ipswich ououinnheie 
a and Docks Bill, was presented, and 
read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, if he 
think fit ; and counsel le in favour of the Bill, 
against the said Petition. 


A Petition of Owners of Property in and Inhabit- Ouse Banks 
ants of Downham Market, praying that they may Prinage Bill. 
be heard, by their counsel or agents, against certain 
parts of the Ouse Banks Drainage Bill, was pre- 
sented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by their counsel or agents, upon their Petition, if 
they think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


Ordered, That the Clerk of the Journals, and the Todmorden 
Clerk who attended the Committee on the Zod- Inclosure Bill 
morden Inclosure Bill in Session 1836, have leave ‘*”3”" 
to attend the Court of Common Pleas on a Trial, 
Eastwood, versus Sutcliffe, and others, and to pro- 
duce Papers respecting the said Bill. 


A Petition of John Wallace, of Belfast, taking Belfast 
notice of the application for leave to bring in the Waterworks 
Belfast Water (No. 2.) Bill, and praying that such * *) 
Bill may not pass into a law, was presented, and 
read ; and referred to the Select Committee on Peti- 
tions for Private Bills. 


Mr. Shaw Lefevre reported from the Select Com- Agricultural 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That in the case 2»d Commercial 
of the Petitions for leave to present a Petition for Honk (ireland) 
leave to bring in the Agricultural and Commercial ‘"* *? 
Bank (Ireland) (No. 2.) Bill, and to whom the 
Petition of Joseph Harris against such applica- 
tion was referred; The Committee recommend that 
leave be granted to present the Petition for the 
Bill, pursuant to the prayer of the first-mentioned 
Petitions. 

Ordered, That leave be given to present a Petition, 
as desired. 


Three Petitions from Shareholders of the Agricul- Agricultural 
tural and Commercial Bank of Zreland, for leave to #24 Commercial 
bring in a Bill for vesting the property of the said x~ 
Company in trustees, with powers to dissolve the ~ " 
said Company, and wind up the affairs thereof, and 
for discharging all the liabilities of the Company, 
and for distributing the surplus assets amongst the 
proprietors,—were presented, and read; and re- 
ferred to the Select Committee on Petitions for 
Private Bills. 


A Motion being made, That the ingrossed Bill Cork and Pas- 
for making a Railway from Cork to Passage, be now %g¢ Railway 
read the third time ; ae 

Mr. Poulett Thomson, by His Majesty’s com- 
mand, acquainted the House, That His Majesty, ' 
having been informed of the purport of the Bill, gives 
His consent as far as His Majesty’s interest is | 
concerned, that the House may do therein as they 
shall think fit. 

Z2Z4 Then 






































































Longford 
County 
Election. 


Edinburgh 
and Glasgow 
Railway Bill, 


Brixham 
Harbour and 
Market Bill. 


Church Rates 
Regulation. 


Poor Law Act. 


ford Abbots;—Stourton ;—and, Morley ; 


360 10° Mazz. 


Then the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Vesey do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Mr. Chalmers, one of the Clerks attending Com- 
mittees of this House, presented, pursuant to Order, 
—The Minutes of Evidence taken before the Select 
Committee on the Longford County Election Pe- 
titions. 

Ordered, That the said Minutes of Evidence do 
lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Landowners, Farmers and others, 
in the Counties of Linlithgow and Stirling, praying 
that the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Bill may 
pass into a law, was = and read; and or- 
dered to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the Report from the Committee on 
the Brixham Harbour and Market Bill, be received 
To-morrow. 


Petitions from Attenborough-cum-Bramcote ; — 
Saint Paul, Leeds ;—Newtimber ;—Bengeworth ;— 
Meriden; —Besford and Defford ; —Shustoke ;— 
Elmdon ; --- Coventry (Archdeacon and Clergy of 
the Archdeaconry) ;—Charlton Kings ;—Lydney ;— 
Willoughby-in-the- Wolds ;— Oxford ; —Neenton ;— 
Stewkley, Mursley and Drayton Parslow ;— Broad- 
water ; —Grantley ; —Calne ; —Everleigh ; --Ames- 
bury ;—Bulford;--Manningford Bruce ;—Manning- 
raying 
that the proposed measure relative to Church Rates 
may not receive the sanction of the House,—were 
— and read; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 

Petitions from Sidmouth, Sidbury and Salcombe ; 
— Holywell-cum-Needingworth ;— Margate ;— Ged- 
ney Holl ;— Sutton Saint James ;— Monmouth;— 
Seaton and Beer ;—Henrietta-street, Saint Pancras ; 
— Plaistow ; —Sleaford ;— Devonshire Square Cha- 
pel, London ;—Unsworth ;— New Winsor, Lancaster ; 
—Little Chapel-street, Soho; — Higham ;— Saint 
George’s Road, Manchester ;— Tyldsley-cum-Specher- 
ley ;—Chowbent ;—Jewin-street Chapel, London (In- 
dependents) ;— Padiham (Unitarians) ; — Padiham 
(Wesleyans) ; — Brent-street, Hendon ; — Little 
Wild-street Chapel, London ;— Woodbridge ;—Sand- 
wich ;—Mill Hill, Hendon ;—Nelson-street, Deal; 
—Sturry ;—Sway ;—Ash ; —Asley ;— Lymington ; 
— Wingham (Pastor and Deacon);— Zion Chapel, 
Mitcham ; — Lower-street Chapel, Deal ;— Blean 
near Canterbury ;— Boughton ;—Saint Bride, Fleet- 
street ;—Graham-street, Birmingham ;—Great Lei- 
cester-street, Birmingham ;— King’s Norton; —Alve- 
church ;—Worton ;—Marston and Poulshot;—Lay- 
cock ; — Withall Heath ;— Cannon-street, Birming- 
ham ;—Urchfont ; —Melksham ;—Sandy Lane and 
Chittoe;— Melksham (Baptists) ;— Burton Lattimer; 
— Clipstone ;— Farndon ;— Market Harborough (In- 
dependents) ;—Market Harborough (Wesleyans) ;— 
Theddingworth ;— Saddington and Fleckney ; — 
Great Bowden ;— Kibworthy ;— Husbands Bos- 
worth ;— Chippenham ;—Chiverell;— Wootton Bas- 
sett ;— Stratton Saint Margaret (Primitive Method- 
ists) ; — Stratton Saint Margaret (Baptists) ; — 
Hilcot ;—Tithing of Stert ;—Lechdale ;— Bideford ; 
-— Westdown ;—- Biggleswade ;— Perth ;— Beccles ;— 
Brandon ; — Bury (Presbyterians) ; — and, Saint 
James, Clerkenwell; praying that the said proposed 
measure may receive the sanction of the ion 
were also presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


Petitions from Hinckley Union (Chairman and 
Vice-Chairman) ; — Aikton; — Kirklinton; — and, 
Blackburn Union ; praying for the repeal or amend- 
ment of the Poor =. Act,—were presented, and 
read ; and referred to the Select Committee on the 
Poor Law Act. 





A. 1837. 


Petitions from the Board of Guardians of the West 
Ward Union, in the county of Westmorland ;—and, 
Chairman, Vice-Chairman and Board of Guardians 
of the Bromsgrove Union, in the counties of Worces- 
ter, Warwick, Stafford and Salop; praying the House 
not to sanction any measure which would interrupt 
or impede the working of the Poor Law Act,—were 
also presented, and read ; and referred to the said 
Select Committee. 


Petitions from Mildenhall;—Fylingdales ;—Lyth ; Lord’sDay Bil, 
— Whitby ;— Danby ;— Holywell Colliery ;—Blyth ; 
—Carlisle;— Chepstone ;— North Shields ;— Hartley 
and Seaton Sluice ;- ~Howdon ;— Wilberfoss ;— Glas- 
bury ;—Haye; — Builth ;— Killinghall ;—Topcliffe ; 
—Ripon ; — Lincoln ; — Martin ;-— Broughton ; -- 
Metheringham;—Spalding ;— Sleaford ;—Holbeach ; 
— Billinghay ;— Gosberton ;—and, Navenby; praying 
that the Lord’s Day Bill may be permitted to go 
into a Committee of the whole House,—were pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Boyle ;---Swords ;--and, Aughrim ; Government of 
praying the House to support His Majesty’s Minis- !**!*¢. 
ters in their Government of Jreland,—were presented, 

and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Owners and Occupiers of land at Currency. 
Crowland, praying for the repeal or modification of 
the Currency Act passed in 1819, commonly called 
“« Peel’s Bill,” was presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Crowland, praying Capital 

for the continuance of Capital Punishment in all a 
cases of conviction of the crime of Incendiarism, was ("°°") 
oo. and read; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 


Petitions from Exeter; — and, Newport (Mon- Shipping 
mouth); praying that the proprietors of the Shipping Gazette. 
Gazette may be relieved from the postage of Letters 
containing shipping and commercial intelligence 
only,—were presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 

upon the Table. 


A Petition of Magistrates, Bankers, Merchants, Summary 
Traders and Inhabitants of Gloucester, praying that — 
the Summary Convictions (Juvenile Offenders) Bill area Bill, 
may pass into a law, was presented, and read ; an 


ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from — ;—and, the united parishes Land Tax. 
of Christ Church, Newgate-street and Saint Leonard, 
Foster-lane, in the city of London; praying for an 
equalization of the unredeemed Land Tax,—were 
—* and read; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 


Petitions from Creditors of the Tolls on the Highway Act. 
Ditcheling and Clayton Branch Road ;— Horley, 
Balcombe and Cuckfield Road (two Petitions) ;— 
New Chappel, Lindfield and Brighton Road ; — 
Horsham and Steyning Road ;—Horsham and Stor- 
rington Road ;— Worthing Road ; — Steyning and 
Stopham Bridge Road ;—Storrington and Balls Hut 
Road ; — Handcross and Steyning Road ; — New 
Chappel, Lindfield and Brighton Road, and Ditchel- 
ing and Clayton Branch Teel Gloucestershire 
Division of the Crickley Hill Turnpike Trusts ; — 
Stow Division of the Burford and Banbury Turnpike 
Trusts ; — Milford and Stopham Bridge Road ;— 
Five Oaks, Guildford and Horsham Road ;— Leeds 
and Whitehall Road ;—Wakefield and Halifax 
Road ;-—and, Owners and Occupiers of lands, and 
others, in Worth Devon; praying the House to make 
such alterations in the Highway Act, that the town- 
ships through which the said roads pass may con- 
tinue to contribute towards the repair and main- 
tenance of such roads,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Richard Oastler, Esquire, of Fixby, eee 
late a Candidate for the representation of the Borough ™ 





of 









Bill, 
Standing 
Orders. 

of 

i) 
County Boards 
(Ireland) Bill. 

No. 302, 
ll. 


Protestant 
Establishment 
(Ireland. ) 





7 Wit. IV. 


of Huddersfield in Parliament, was presented, and 
read; setting forth, That the Petitioner wasa candidate 
as aforesaid, and that during the taking of the poll 
on Saturday, the 6th day of May 1837, a large body 
of soldiers from the barracks at Leeds arrived within 
the precincts of the borough of Huddersfield, and 
remained there until the final close of the poll, in 
contravention of the rule laid down by the House 
on the 22d December 1741; that the Petitioner, 
before the declaration of the poll was made by the 
returning officer, protested against the election being 
legal, for the reasons before stated ; and the Peti- 
tioner humbly implores the House will make such 
inquiries as to the said election and declaration, as 
they may deem fit, in order to secure freedom of 
election, for which every Briton ought to be ready 
to suffer any thing. 

Ordered, That the said Petition do lie upon the 
Table. | 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed 
to consider the Standing Orders on Private Bills :— 
And a Committee was appointed of Mr. Poulett 
Thomson, Mr. Shaw Lefevre, Mr. Robert Palmer, 
Mr. Evelyn Denison, Mr. Greene, Sir John Wrottes- 
ley, Sir James Graham, Mr. Wilson Patten, Lord 
Granville Somerset, Lord Stanley, Mr. Loch, Mr. 
Villiers Stuart, Lord Viscount Sandon, and Mr. 
Chalmers, with Power to send for persons, papers 
and records. 

Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 

Ordered, That the Committee have Power to re- 
port from time to time, and have leave to sit notwith- 
standing any adjournment of the House. 

Ordered, That it be an Instruction to the Com- 
mittee, that they do in the first place take into their 
consideration the Standing Order relative to the 
Section of Railways, and report to the House whether 
any and what measures may be proper to enforce 
the observance of the same. 


Sir Richard Musgrave presented a Bill for the 
administration of certain Civil Affairs of a Local 
nature by County Boards in Jreland: And the same 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time upon Wednesday, the 31st day of this 
instant May; and to be printed. 


A Petition of the there-undersigned Protestants, 
was presented, and read ; setting forth, That the 
Petitioners, the undersigned Protestants of Ireland, 
seriously alarmed for their dearest and most sacred 
rights and interests, respectfully address the House, 
and earnestly implore their protection. The dangers 
which threaten them are extreme, and are of a cha- 
racter to which the history of their country affords 
no parallel, unless it be found in the disastrous reign 
of James the Second. The establishment of the Pro- 
testant religion is assailed; the settlement of property 
within the Realm is menaced, and the parties who are 
conspiring the overthrow of both, have acquired the 
power to do them harm, by solemnly abjuring any 
intent to subvert the one, and by swearing that, “ to 
the utmost of their power, they would defend the 
other.” Hostility, thus unprincipled, would cause 
alarm, if it sought the attainment of its ends by 
such means only as our free Constitution allows ; 
but the enemies of the National Establishments have 
greatly augmented the danger by adopting means 
conformable indeed to the spirit of their designs, but 
repugnant alike to justice and humanity. They have 
persecuted, even unto death, several faithful Ministers 
of the Church; they have habituated a large por- 
tion of the people to practices of dishonesty and 
fraud; they have taught them how legal rights may 
be successfully withheld, and how justice may be 
effectually evaded and frustrated; they have con- 
vulsed the Country by a most pernicious agitation, 
and they have organized a system of resistance to 
the laws which is daily becoming more extended 
and more formidable. The Petitioners grieve to say 
Von. 92. 


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that the Government has not punished or opposed 
the authors of these cruel and audacious proceedings ; 
but, on the contrary, has given them effectual aid 
and encouragement. A lawless and seditious asso- 
ciation is permitted and encouraged to hold its daily 
sittings in the Metropolis, withdrawing the attention 
of the industrious and operative classes from their 
lawful pursuits and occupations ; scattering the most 
mischievous and inflammatory addresses throughout 
the Country, and receiving in return large contribu- 
tions of money to be applied in advancing the poli- 
tical designs of the leading agitators and demagogues, 
whilst it appears to exercise an unbounded influence 
over the measures of the Government, and to furnish 
the most successful candidates for employment in 
the public service. Hence it is that the powers en- 
trusted to the Executive, that it may reward merit, 
and punish evil doers, and mitigate the rigour of 
severe justice, have been all abused. Patronage has 
been employed in the placing partisans in offices 
for which, from the nature of the services they had 
rendered to their party, as well as from their avowed 
principles and predilections, they had become mo- 
rally, if not legally, disqualified. The prerogative of 
mercy has been so injuriously exercised as to bring, ~ 
if that were possible, our incorruptible judges into 
disrespect, and to deprive the laws of their salutary 
sanctions, while the Prerogative of the Crown to 
conduct prosecutions has been in many cases so 
mischievously asserted, that it has converted trial 
by jury into a form in which an offender may con- 
fidently hope that he shall be tried not merely by 
his peers, but by his accomplices. The results of 
this unnatural confederacy between legitimate power 
and a faction which makes lawlessness its practice 
and its boast, are unhappily notorious ; the friends, 
and advisers, and patrons of His Majesty’s Govern- 
ment in Ireland are those who recommend, and who 
have page and successfully declared resistance to 
the laws which that Government has been appointed 
to administer. For loyal subjects throughout the 
greater part of the country there is not political free- 
dom—there is not personal security—they dare not 
give free suffrages at elections; in some places they 
have not been safe from insult and outrage, even 
whilst in their places of worship; they dare not seek 
redress for individual wrong, and they can scarcely 
venture to make known their apprehensions of na- 
tional danger; and thus all confidence is interrupted 
between the Government and the best friends of 
British connexion, at a moment when a most for- 
midable and wide-spread conspiracy for the dismem- 
berment of the empire seems rapidly approaching 
maturity. Such is the present calamitous condition 
of that part of the empire, rendered still more perilous 
as respects the future by reason of the permanent 
establishment of a system of national education, 
which has not only failed to produce tnat united 
instructicn for which it was experimentally adopted, 
but has in effect become exclusively Roman Catholic, 
save in a very small portion of the Country; and, 
whilst public aid has been withdrawn from institu- 
tions which had for their object the promotion of 
Scriptural education and Protestant principles, Par- 
liamentary grants to an enormous amount have been 
applied in support of a system, which not only renders 
it impracticable for the Roman Catholic youth who 
desire to have access to the Scriptures of truth, the 
only sure foundation of morality and religion, but 
also facilitates and promotes their instruction in 
principles and habits hostile alike to the assertion 
of true liberty, civil or religious, amongst themselves, 
or the free enjoyment thereof of the Petitioners. 
The Petitioners earnestly implore of the House, that 
they will take this state of things into their most 
serious consideration ; that they will be graciously 
pleased to require that the securities provided by 
law shall be rendered available to the maintenance 
of the Constitution in Church and State ; that they 
will cause the lovers of sedition and treason to know 








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362 


that crime cannot always insure impunity, and that 
they will extend to His Majesty’s dutiful subjects 
in Zreland the protection to which their steadfast 
allegiance through temptations and disappointments 
and sore trials have justly entitled them. 

Ordered, That the said Petition do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 





































Turnpike Trusts 


A Petition of Trustees of the Turnpike Road 
Bill, 


leading from Dovor to Barham Downs, praying 
that the Turnpike Trusts Bill may not pass into a 
law, was presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 





Barbadoes A Petition of Proprietors and persons interested 

(Four and-a- in the Island of Barbadoes, praying the House to 

half per Cent, . . : 5 

Duties.) address His Majesty, praying that He may be 
graciously pleased to confirm by an Order in Coun- 
cil the Act of the Legislature of Barbadoes, repeal- 
ing the Four and a half per cent. duties in that 
Island, was presented, and read and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 

Rating of A Petition of the Guardians of the Union of 


Tewmentss — Bosmere and Claydon, in the county of Sussez, 


praying the House to pass an Act for rating the 
owners instead of the occupiers of Small Tenements 
to the Parochial Assessments, was presented, and 
read ; and referred to the Select Committee on the 
Poor Law Act. 


Houses of A Petition of Lewis Nockalls Cottingham, of Lam- 
— beth, in the county of Surrey, architect, stating that 


the Petitioner’s design for the new Houses of Parlia- 
ment, was not selected by the Commissioners for a 
premium, but that the first premium was given to Mr. 
Barry for a design which did not comply with the 
particulars issued by the Office of Woods and 
Works; that the general arrangement of Mr. Barry’s 
design was greatly deficient in light, air and con- 
venience ; that to obviate these objections to his 
plan, recourse was had to that of the Petitioner ; 
that the Petitioner by this unacknowledged appro- 
priation of the essential and peculiar arrangements 
of his plan without compensation, has suffered a 
wrong which he feels confident the House will not 
allow to go without remedy ; and praying the House 
to institute an inquiry into the truth of the allega- 
tions of his Petition, and to grant him relief, was 
presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the 


Table. 



























Highway Rates 
Bill. 
No, 293. 


Mr. Shaw Lefevre presented a Bill to authorize 
the application of istinnecs Rates to Turnpike 
Roads in certain cases: And the same was read the 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next ; and to be printed. 


























Criminal Law. = A Petition of the Lord Provost, Magistrates and 
Council of the city of Glasgow, in Council as- 
sembled, praying the House to pass a Bill for the 
abolition of Capital Punishment in all cases, except 
in that of Wilful Murder, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 



































Municipal 
Corporations 


(Scotland) Bill. 





A Petition of the — 
Glasgow, praying that the 

















sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 

Petitions from Non-Freemen Fleshers of Glasgow ; 
—and Non-Freemen Bakers of Glasgow ; praying 
that the said Bill may pass into a law,—were also 


























Table. 














Manor Courts 
([reland. ) 




















the jurisdiction, powers 





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oration of Masons in 
{unicipal Corporations 
(Scotland) Bill may not pass into a law, was pre- 


presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 


_ A Petition of Nobiemen, Clergymen, Gentlemen, 
Shopkeepers and Farmers of Altham (Cork), pray- 
ing that no alteration or restriction may be made in 


A. 1837. 


Court of Altham, was presented, and read; and 
referred to the Select Committee on Manor Courts 
(Lreland.) 

A Petition of Clergy of the Diocese of Limerick, Education 
praying that the present system of Education in (teland.) 
Ireland may not be persisted in, but that a Sum of 

Money be appropriated out of the National Fund 

for the endowment and support of Schools, to be 
conducted solely on Protestant principles, was pre- 

sented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 

mittee on Plan of Education (Zreland.) 


A Petition of Protestants of Saffron Walden, Maynooth 
praying for the discontinuance in future of any grant College. 
of public Money to the College of Maynooth, was 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 

Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Pwllheli, praying Welsh 
that no individual who is unacquainted with the Bishops. 
language of the Welsh People, may be instituted to 

a Bishoprick in Wales, was presented, and read ; 

and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from persons in the employ of Messrs. Factories. 
Marsland;—Mr. Crook and others, of Bolton-le- 
Moors ;—Messrs. Birley and Co. ;—Messrs. Joseph 
Lane and Sons, Stogkport ;—Mr. John A. Beaver, 
Manchester ; —and, Mr. Norris; praying the House 
to pass a law to protect all Factory Workers from 
being worked more than ten hours a day for five days 
of the week, and eight on Saturday,—were pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from the Grand Jury of the county of County Bridges 
Salop;—Trustees of the Burlton and Llanymynech Bil. 
Turnpike Road ;—and, Commissioners for improving 

the Vill and Parish of the Cliffe, near Lewes; praying 

that the County Bridges Bill may not pass into a 
law,—were presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 

upon the Table. 


A Petition of Merchants and Shipowners of Scar- Marine 
borough, praying for the repeal of the duty on Marine [surances. 
Insurances, was presented, and read ; and ordered 

to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Consumers of Soap in Mewpore Soap. 
(Monmouth), praying for the repeal of the duty on 
Soap, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 





Petitions from Bolton (Lancaster) ;--and, Bury ; Recovery of 
praying that the Recovery of Tenements Bill may Tenements Bill. 
pass into a law,—were presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Cotton Merchants, Spinners and Cotton Wool. 
Manufacturers of Bolton-le- Moors, praying the House 
immediately and entirely to repeal the tax on Cotton 
Wool, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Armagh, praying for Tithes 
the abolition of Tithes in Ireland, was presented, (Iele4.) 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the President and Council of the Rogeesin 
British Medical Association, praying for the Amend- on 
ment of the Registration of Births, &amp;c., Act, was 


presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Summary Summary 
Convictions, which was presented upon Friday last, gp taginsen 
be printed. No. 294. 


ursuant to Orders, — Stage Coaches 


Mr. Fox Maule presented 
j Police in Ireland (#4) 


Copies of Orders issued to the 


since 1st December 1836, directing them to enforce 








or privileges of the Manor 


the 














7 Wives. IV. 


the provisions of the 50th Geo. 3, c. 32, regulating 
the conveyance of Passengers and Luggage in Stage 
Coaches in Ireland, with the Date of such Order or 
Orders :—Of any Summonses issued in pursuance of 
such Orders by the Police in any County in Jreland, 
and the Dates of such Summonses :—Of any Order 
directing that the Police should not enforce the 
provisions of the said Act 50 Geo. 3, c. 32, and the 
Date of such Order :—And, of any Order that the 
Summonses issued in pursuance of the said Order of 
December 1836, should not be proceeded upon, but 
that the proceedings should be stayed. 


Churches A Return of the Sums of Money which in the 

(Ireland.) years 1834, 1835, 1836 and 1837, have been ap- 
propriated by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for 
freland, to the repair, enlargement and rebuilding 
of Churches in J/reland; distinguishing the Sums 
appropriated to the repair from those appropriated 
to the enlargement or rebuilding of Churches. 

Poor Law Mr. Fox Maule also presented, pursuant to an 

pee Address to His Majesty,—Copy of a Letter to the 

0. e 


Secretary of State for the Home Department from 
the Poor Law Commissioners, relating to the Peti- 
tion recently presented to the House of Commons 
from Bury, in Lancashire. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table; and that the last be printed. 


A Message from the Lords by Mr. Farrar and 
Mr. Roupell : 

Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
to enable David Rankine, of Dudhope, to feu 
certain portions of the Lands and Estates of Dud- 
hope, in the County of Forfar, to which the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House :—-And then 
the Messengers withdrew. 


Message from 
the Lords. 


Rankine’s 
Estate Bill. 


Ninth Report 
on Poor Law 
Act. 


No. 296. 


Sir James Graham reported from the Select Com- 
mittee appointed to inquire into the Administration 
of the Relief of the Poor under the orders and regu- 
lations issued by the Commissioners appointed under 
the provisions of the Poor Law Amendment Act, 
and who were empowered to report the Minutes of 
the Evidence taken before them from time to time to 
the House ; that they had made further Progress in 
the matters to them referred ; and had directed him 
: report the Minutes of the Evidence taken before 
them. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Reform of The Order of the day being read, for the second 
Seaenent Act reading of the Reform of Parliament Act Amend- 
mendment - 
Bill. ment Bill ; 
And a Motion being made, and the Question being 


proposed, That the Bill be now read a second time; 


The Amendments following were proposed to be 
made to the Question; viz. To leave out the word 
“ now,” and at the end of the Question, to add the 
words “ upon this day six months.” 

And the Question being put, That the word 
“now” stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided: 

The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 

Tellers for thef Mr. Thomas Duncombe, 73 

Yeas, \ Mr. D’ Eyncourt : } i 

Tellers for thef Mr. Baring, hi 66 

Noes, L Mr. Vernon Smith: = 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
“upon this day six months” be added at the end of 
the Question :—It was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Then the main Question, so amended, being put ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon this day six months, 


County Bridges The House, according to Order, resolved itself 

pa into a Committee upon the County Bridges Bill; 

* and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
Vot. 92, 


No. 297 





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363 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. Freshfield reported, 
That the Committee had gone through the Bill, and 
made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Freshfield reported the Bill accordingly ; and 
the Report was ordered to be taken into further 
consideration upon Wednesday, the 14th day of 
June next ; and the Bill, as amended, to be printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second East India 
reading of the East India Maritime Officers Bill ; satan 

And a Motion being made, and the Question being nial 
press That the Bill be now read a second time ; 

he Amendments following were proposed to be 
made to the Question ; viz. To leave out the word 
“now,” and at the end of the Question to add the 
words “ upon this day six months.” 

And the Question being put, That the word “ now” 
stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided ; 

The Yeas to the old Lobby ; 

The Noes to the new Lobby. 

Tellers for thef Mr. Robinson, } a7 

Yeas, Mr. Praed : , 

Tellers for the f Mr. Robert Steuart, } 31 

Noes, _ Mr. Foa Maule: ; 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read a second time: 
—The Bill was accordingly read a second time ; 
and committed to a Committee of the whole House, 
for Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Turnpike Trusts 
reading of the Turnpike Trusts Bill ; Bill. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time ; d 

The Amendments following were proposed to be 
made to the Question ; viz. To leave out the word 
“now,” and at the end of the Question, to add the 
words “ upon this day six months.” 

And the Question being proposed, That the word 
“now” stand part of the Question :—The said pro- 
posed Amendment and Motion, were severally, with 
leave of the House, withdrawn. 


Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


The Waste Lands (Jreland) Bill was, according Waste Lands 
to Order, read a second time ; and committed to a (Ireland) Bill. 
Committee of the whole House for Wednesday, the 
24th day of this instant May. 


The Tenants for Life (Ireland) Bill was, according Tenants for Life 
to Order, read a second time ; and committed to a (teland) Bill. 
Committee of the whole for Wednesday, the 24th 
day of this instant May. 


The Leases and Exchanges (Zreland) Bill was, Leases and 
according to Order, read a second time; and com- a oe : 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House for ‘ aes oa 
Wednesday, the 24th day of this stant May. 


being read, for the second Railroads and 


The Order of the da 
4 Public Works 
Bill. 


reading of the Railroads and Pubiic Works Bill ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

The Amendments following were proposed to be 
made to the Question; viz. To leave out the word 
“now,” and at the end of the Question, to add the 
words “ upon this day six months.” 

And the Question being put, That the word 
“now” stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the old Lobby; 

The Noes to the new Lobby. 

Tellers for the { Mr. Dugdale, 

Yeas, L Mr. Arthur Trevor: 

Tellers for the f Mr. Philip Howard, 


} 66. 
} 36. 





Noes, L Mr. Hume : 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 
3A 2 Ordered, 








Freemen’s 
Admission Bill, 


Theatres 
Regulation 
Bill. 


Bankrupts’ 
Estates Bill. 


Bankruptcy 
(Scotland) Buil. 


Common Fields 
Biil, 
an 


Haileybury 
College Bill. 


364 


Ordered, That the Bill be now read a second time: 
—The Bill was accordingly read a second time ; and 
committed to a Committee of the whole House for 
Wednesday, the 24th day of this instant May. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Commit- 
tee on the Freemen’s Admission Bill ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” to 
the end of the Question, in order to add the words 
“ leave be given to bring in a Bill to regulate the 
“ times of payment of Rates and Taxes by Parlia- 
“ mentary Electors, and to abolish the Stamp Duty 
“ on the Admission of Freemen,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That the words 
roposed to be left out stand part of the Question :— 
he said proposed Amendment was, with leave of 

the House, withdrawn. 

And the Question being again proposed, That Mr. 
Speaker do now leave the Chair ; 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made to 
the Question, by leaving out from the word “That” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words “ this House will, upon Wednesday the 21st 
day of June next, resolve itself into the said Com- 
mittee,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That the words 
proposed to be left out, stand part of the Question; 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Thursday morning ; 


Jovis, 11° die Maiti, 1837: 


And the Question being put ; 
The House divided : 
The Yeas to the new Lobby; 
The Noes to the old Lobby. 
Tellers for the { Mr. William Williams, } 45 
Yeas, L Mr. Arthur Trevor : - 
Tellers forthe { Mr. John Parker, 1 ae 
Noes, \ Sir Andrew Leith Hay: _ 
So it passed in the Negative. 
And the Question being put, That the words 
“ this House will, upon Wednesday the 21st day of 
“ June next, resolve itself into the said Committee,” 
be added instead thereof:—It was resolved in the 
Affirmative. 
Then the main Question, so amended, being put; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday, 
the 21st day of June next, resolve itself into the said 
Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into aCommittee upon the Theatres Regulation Bill; 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr, Speaker re- 
sumed the Chair; and Mr. Hail reported, That the 
Committee had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Bankrupts’ Estates Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
next. resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Common Fields Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Wednesday, the 31st day of this instant May. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee upon the Haileybury College Bill; 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker re- 
sumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal reported, That 


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A. 1837. 


the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 
Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself East India 
into a Committee upon the East India Officers’ Sala- ow 
ries Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. ee 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal re- 
ported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Election 
reading of the Election Expenses Bill ; Expenses Bill, 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time this 
day. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Sheriffs Courts 
further consideration the Report on the Sheriffs’ Bill. 
Courts Bill; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Registration of 
mittee on the Registration of Voters Bill ; Voters Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednes- 
day next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The ingrossed Bill for the more effectual recovery Small Debts 


of Small Debts in the Sheriff Courts, and for esta- (Scotland) Bill. 


blishing Circuit Courts for the Trial of Small Debt 
Causes by the Sheriffs in Scotland, was, according 
to Order, read the third time ; and ingrossed Clauses 
were added, by way of Riders; and Amendments 
were made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Lord Advocate do carry the 
Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- supply. 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


‘The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Municipal 
mittee on the Municipal Corporations (Scotland) Corporations 
Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Burghs 
mittee on the Burghs of Barony (Scotland) Bill ; (Scotland) Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. “ 
The Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act to ex- Jury Trial 
plain and amend two Acts relating to Trial by Jury (Seotln¢) on 
in Scotland, was, according to Order, read the third 
time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That the Lord Advocate do carry the 
Bill to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this 
House hath agreed to the same without Amendment. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Registration 
reading of the Registration and Marriages Bill ; ~ Marriages 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time this ~" 
day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Ways and 
mittee of Ways and Means; ame. 
Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


Mr. Bernal reported from the Committee, to Public Works 
whom it was referred to consider of authorizing fur- ¢ ried 
ther Advances out of the Consolidated Fund of the Krouey.] 
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to 
be applied, with any Money already authorized to 
be issued, to the promotion and construction of 

Public 


(Scotland) Bill. 


Publi 
(Irel 


Turn 
Cont 


&gt; a od 











Public Works 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Turnpike Acts 
Continuance 
Bill. 


Supply 
(7th April.) 


Indemnity Bill. 


Newark 
Estate Bill. 


Recovery of 
Tenements Bill. 


Tmprisonment 
for Debt Bill. 


Count 
Election Polls 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Carlow County 
Election, 


Turnpike Acts 
Continuance 
(Ireland) Bill. 


7 Wit. IV. 


Public Works in Ireland, a Resolution, which was 
read, as followeth: 

Resolved, That the Lords Commissioners of His 
Majesty’s Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great 
Britain and Ireland be authorized to direct advances 
to be made out of the Consolidated Fund of the 
said United Kingdom, to an amount not exceeding 
Fifty thousand pounds, to be applied, together with 
any Money authorized to be issued by any former 
Act, to the promotion and construction of Public 
Works in Ireland. 

The said Resoiution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 

Ordered, That it be an Instruction to the Com- 
mittee on the Public Works (Jreland) Bill, That 
they have Power to make provision therein, pursuant 
to the said Resolution. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Public Works (Jreland) Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


An ingrossed Bill for continuing for a limited 
time the several Acts for regulating the Turnpike 
Roads in Great Britain, which will expire with the 
present or with the next Session of Parliament, was, 
according to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act for continuing until the first day of 
June, One thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, 
and to the end of the then Session of Parliament, 
the several Acts for regulating the Turnpike Roads 
in Great Britain, which will expire with the present 
or with the next Session of Parliament. 

Ordered, That Mr. Fox Maule do carry the Bill 
to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for receiving 
the Report from the Committee of Supply 
Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee upon the Indemnity Bill; and, 
after some time spent therein, Mr. ecules resumed 
the Chair; and Mr. Robert Steuart reported, That 
the Committee had gone through the Bull, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 


Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
further consideration the Report on the Newark 
Estate Bill; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Recovery of Tenements Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday, 
the 24th day of this instant May, resolve itself into 
the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Imprisonment for Debt Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for rendering more easy the taking the Polls at 
County Elections in Ireland: And that Mr. French 
and Mr. Jephson do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken 
before the Select Committee on the Carlow County 
Election Petitions, be laid before this House. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for continuing for a limited time the several Acts 
for regulating the Turnpike Roads in Jreland, which 
ag with the present or with the next Session 

OL. 92. 


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365 


of Parliament: And that Lord Viscount Morpeth 
and Mr. More O’Ferrall do prepare, and bring 


it in. 


Ordered, That the Keeper of the Whitecross- Deptford 
street Prison do bring Henry Cooke in safe custody _ eee 
this day, to the Select Committee on the Deptford Subscription 
and Dover Railway Subscription List, in order to List. 
his being examined as a witness, and so from time 
to time, as often as his attendance shall be thought 
necessary; and that Mr. Speaker do issue om 
Warrants accordingly. 


Mr. Fox Maule presented a Bill forthe reparation Game 
of injury done by Gains in Scotland: And the same (Scotland) Bill. 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a No. 298. 
second time upon Wednesday, the 31st day of this 
instant May; and to be printed. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring ina Bill Billsof __ 
to exempt certain Bills of Exchange and Promissory Exchange Bill. 
Notes from the operation of the Laws relating to 
Usury: And that Mr. Warburton and Mr. Chancellor 
of the Exchequer do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. French presented a Bill for rendering more County Polls 
easy the taking the Polls at County Elections in (Ireland) Bill. 
Ireland: And the same was read the first time; No. 299. 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Wed- 
nesday, the 24th day of this instant May; and to 
be printed. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Excise 
Copy of the Report of a Committee of the Board Eonbiiimnent, 
of Missies appointed to report to the Board upon 
the several observations and recommendations of 
the Commissioners of Excise Inquiry comprised in 
their Twentieth Report, with an Appendix. 

Mr. Baring accordingly presented the said Paper. 

. — That the said Paper do lie upon the 
able. 


The House was moved, That the Order made upon Ecelesiastical 
the 22d day of March last, that there be laid before Revenue 
this House, Copies of the Resolutions transmitted Com™™'ssior- 
to the several Beneficed Clergymen in England and 
Wales by the Commissioners of Ecclesiastical Re- 
venue, and of all the Answers received by them 
from the diocese of Chester, might be read ; and 
the same being read ; 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 

Copies of the Questions transmitted to the several 
Beneficed Clergymen in England and Wales by the 
Commissioners of Ecclesiastical Revenue, and of 
such portions of the Answers thereto from the 
Clergy of the diocese of Chester as relate to popu- 
lation and income. 


Lord Viscount Morpeth presented, by His Ma- Municipal 


jesty’s command,—Copy of Instructions given by —— 
His Excellency, the Lord Lieutenant of Jreland, (Ireland.)- 


with reference to the Boundaries and division into yo, 391 
Wards of the several Cities, Boroughs and Towns sia tit 
Corporate in Ireland; likewise, Copy of any Letter 
or Report received in answer to such Instructions. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


Mr. Warburton presented a Bill to exempt certain pitis of 
Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes from the Exchange Bill. 
operation of the Laws relating to Usury: And the No. 300. 
same was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time upon Wednesday, the 24th day 
of this instant. May ; and to be printed. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour after one of the 
clock on Thursday morning, adjourned till 
this day. 


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Jovis, 11° die Mai; 
Anno 7° Willielmi [IV Regis, 1837. 
PRAYERS. 


Glasgow, RDERED, That the Committee on the Glas- 

a gow, Paisley and Greenock Railway Bill, have 

Railway pill, eave to sit this day till five of the clock during the 
sitting of the House. 

Belfast Harbour 


i Ordered, That the Committee on the Belfast 
(No. 2.) Bill. Harbour (No. 2) Bill, have leave to sit this day till 
five of the clock during the sitting of the House. 


London and A Petition of Sir John Hall, praying that the 
eso London and Blackwall Commercial Railway Bill 
Railway Bill, May not pass into a law as it now stands, was pre- 
sented, and read ; and referred to the Committee on 
the Bill. 
A Petition of the City of London Gas Light and 
Coke Company, praying that they may be heard, 
by their counsel or agents, against certain parts of 
the said Bill, was also presented, and read. 
Ordered, That the said Petition be referrred to 
the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by their counsel or agents,upon their Petition, 
if they think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of 
the Bill, against the said Petition. 
Birmingham Sir Eardley Wilmot reported from the Committee 
Railway” on the Birmingham and Derby Railway (No. 2) Bill, 


(No. 2) Bill. and to whom several Petitions against the said Bill 
were referred ; That,inasmuch as the application was 
solely for the purpose of rectifying a mistake in an 
Act of the last Session of Parliament for making a 
Railway from the London and Birmingham Railway 
near Birmingham to Derby, to be called “ The 
Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway, with a 
Branch,” the Committee are of opinion that none 
of the twenty Resolutions, as to matters required 
to be inquired into by Committees on Railway Bills 
apply to the present Bill; and that the Committee 
had examined the allegations of the Bill, and found 
the same to be true ; and had gone through the Bill, 
and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Glasgow, A Petition of the Provost, Magistrates and Town 

Paisley, and 4 a mat” 

Sunceah Council of the royal burgh of Renfrew, praying that 

Railway Rill. they may be heard, by their counsel or agents, 
against certain parts of the Glasgow, Paisley and 
Greenock Railway Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 

Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by their counsel or agents, upon their Petition, if 
they think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 

Brisham Mr. Montagu Parker reported from the Com- 

Harboor ay mittee on the Brizham Harbour and Market Bill ; 

arket Dill. 


and to whom several Petitions against the said Bill 
were referred ; That no person appeared in support 
of the said Petitions ; and that they had examined 
the allegations of the Bill, and found the same to be 
true; and had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

And the House being informed that other Amend- 
ments are necessary to be made to the Bill:—The 
Bill was re-committed to the former Committee. 

Ordered, That the Committee have leave to sit 
and proceed To-morrow. 

North Metropo- 


litan Cemetery 
Bill, 


Petitions from Vestrymen of Saint Mary-le-bone; 
. ? . . . 

—and, Trustees for building a new Parish Church, 
and a Parochial Chapel in the parish of Saint Pan- 
cras; praying that they may be heard, by their 
counsel or agents, against certain parts of the North 
Metropolitan Cemetery Bill,—were presented, and 
read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 


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A. 1837. 


to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by their counsel or agents, upon their Peti- 
tions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in favour 
of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


A Petition of Carriers by water navigating the Saddlewortn 
Canals of the late Duke of Bridgewater, and the Reservoirs 
Rochdale and other Canals connected therewith, ®# 
and of the Owners or Occupiers of cotton or other 
mills adjacent to such Canals or otherwise, praying 
that they may be heard, by their counsel or agents, 
against certain parts of the Saddleworth Reservoirs 
Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by their counsel or agents, upon their Petition, if 
they think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


An ingrossed Bill to enable “ The Great North of Hurworth aa 
England Railway Company” to extend the Line of ny Railway 
their Railway, and to make two Branches there- ~* 
from, and for other purposes relating thereto, was 
read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Pease do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Mr. Baines reported from the Committee on the Barnsley 
Barnsley Waterworks Bill; and to whom several Waterworks 
Petitions against the said Bill were referred ; That Pi" 
the Standing Orders relative to Bills for supplying 
any City or Town with Water, had been complied 
with; and that they had heard counsel in behalf of 
the said Petitions ; and had also heard counsel in 
favour of the Bill; and that the Committee had 
examined the allegations of the Bill, and found the 
same to be true ; and had gone through the Bill, and 
made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being put, London and 
That the Resolution respecting the Brighton Rail- Brighton 
ways of the 9th day of this instant May, which was B+ Bils. 
carried by a majority of five, be entered on the Jour- 
nals as negatived, in consequence of the following six 
Members having voted for it, who have subscribed the 
Parliamentary Contract for Stephenson’s Line; viz. 
Matthias Attwood, Esquire, 4,0001.; Archibald 
Hastie, Esquire, 2,0001.; Joseph Pease, Esquire, 
20,0001.; Joshua Scholefield, Esquire, 8,0001.; 
William Tooke, Esquire, 1,000/.; and Sir Andrew 
Leith Hay, 5,0001., who has subscribed the Parlia- 
mentary Contract for Gibbs’s Line :—It passed in 
the Negative. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Clapton _ 
the Amendment made by the Lords to the Bill, Inclosure Bill, 
intituled, An Act for inclosing Lands in the Parish 
of Clapton, in the County of Somerset; and the 
same was read, as followeth: 

Pr. 1. 1.7. After “is” insert “ or claims to be.” 

The said Amendment, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. William Miles do carry the 
Bill to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this 
House hath agreed to the Amendment made by their 
Lordships. 


Mr. Chalmers, one of the Clerks attending Com- Carlow County 
mittees of this House; presented, pursuant to Order, ection. 
—The Minutes of Evidence taken before the Select No. 307. 
Committee on the Carlow County Election Petiticns. 

Ordered, That the said Minutes of Evidence do 
lie upon the Table ; and be printed. 


A Petition of Major General William Keith Edinburgh 
Elphinstone, as Commissioner for his Excellency a 
the Right honourable John Lord Elphinstone, Go-***% 
vernor of Madras, praying that he may be —_ 

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7 Witt. IV. 


by his counsel or agent, against certain parts of | 
the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Bill, was pre- 
sented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, if he 
think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the Bill, 
against the said Petition. 


Petitions from Banbury ;—Mapledurham;— Pock- 
lington ;—Standlake ;—and, Bridekirk ; praying the 
House not to sanction the proposed measure relative 
to Church Rates,—were presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from Eyke;—Mylor and Flushing ;- 
Clovelly ;—Llandovery ;— Stand LaneChapel, Prest- 
wich; —New Jerusalem Chapel, Stand ;—Unitarian 
Chapel, Stand ;—VelinVole, Llanelly;—Lowe House 
Chapel, Saint Helen’s ;--Monton ;— Eccles ;—Uns- 
worth; — Princes Risborough ;— Wilton ;—Patri- 
croft ;—New Meeting House, Birmingham ;—Shrus- 
ton ;—Stronsay ;—and, Shapinshay ; praying that 
the said proposed measure may receive the sanction 
of the House,—were also presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Church Rates 
Regulatiun. 


Lord’sDay Bill. Petitionsfrom Thorganby-with-West-Cottingwith; 
— Gosport ; —- Salisbury; — Dollar ; — Penryn ;— 
Keyingham ;— Richmond, Surrey ;--and, Gittisham ; 
praying that the Lord’s Day Bill may be permitted 
to go into a Committee of the whole House,—were 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of Physicians, Surgeons and Apothe- 
caries practising in Stockport, complaining of the 
system of providing medical relief to the Sick Poor 
adopted by the Poor Law Commissioners; and 
praying the House to take the subject into consi- 
deration, and enact such remedies as to them may 
seem fit, was presented, and read; and referred to 
the Select Committee on the Poor Law Act. 


Petitions from Shetland ;—Lerwick and Scallo- 
way ;—and, Arthur Anderson ; complaining of the 
distressed state of the Shetland Islands, caused by 
the failure of the two last harvests ; and praying for 
relief by the repeal or suspension of the existing 
Corn Laws,—were presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Members of the Benefit Society 
held at the Rose and Crown, Tonks-street, Birming- 
ham, praying for the repeal of the existing laws 
relating to Benefit Societies, and for the substitu- 
tion, in their stead, of one short law by which such 
Societies may be authorized to frame their own laws 
and regulations, was presented, and read ; and or- 
dered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Henry Dundas Perrott, late a 
Lieutenant and acting Captain in His Majesty’s 
Royal Navy, complaining of having been deprived 
of his rank; stating the particulars of his case ; 
and praying the House to refer the same to the con- 
sideration of a Select Committee, was presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Chairman of the Wick and 
Pulteney Town Chamber of Commerce, praying that 
the Shipping Gazette may be put on an equality 
with the Commercial and Shipping Lists, so far 
as to be allowed to-receive all commercial and ship- 
ping intelligence free of postage, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Magistrates, Bankers, Solicitors, 
Shopkeepers and Householders of Tain, praying for 
the repeal of the Duty on Fire Insurances, was pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Poor Law Act. 


Corn Laws. 


Friendly 
Societies. 


Henry Dundas 
Perrott. 


Shipping 
Gazette, 


Fire Insurances, 


Factories Act. 


Petitions from Factory Labourers in the employ 
of George Talbot Knowles, of Stockport ;—Hugh 


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367 


ter ;—and, Mr. James Fernley, of Manchester ; pray- 
ing the House to pass a Bill restricting those em- 
ployed in mills and factories from working more 
than ten hours a day for five days in the week, 
and eight on the Saturday,—were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Schools and 
Education 
(Jamaica. ) 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented to 
His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased to 
give directions that there be laid before this House, 
a Copy of an Abstract of Returns made by the 
Receiver General and Clerks of Vestries of the se- 
veral Parishes of Jamaica to the House of Assembly 
of the Island on the 22d February, in pursuance of 
an Order of that House, dated the 9th November 
1836 ; showing the Amount raised in the Island, 
and applied by the Assembly, and the Parochial 
Vestries for the Church Establishment, and for the 
support of Schools and Education in Jamaica for 
five years, ending the 30th September 1836 ; and also 
any Public Information or Extracts from any Dis- 
patches, showing any Grants subsequently made for 
either of those purposes. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Ordered, That the Petition of Richard Oastler, Huddersfield 
Esquire, relating to the Huddersfield Election, which Election. 
was presented yesterday, be printed. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- Poor Relief 
posed, That the Order of the day for the Committee (Ireland) Bill. 
on the Poor Relief (Jreland) Bill be now read :— 

And the said Motion was, with leave of the House, 
withdrawn. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Canterbury, praying Cracow. 

the House to recommend to His Majesty’s Govern- 
ment the appointment and immediate mission to 
Cracow of a Diplomatic Agent, to protest against any 
further violation of the independence of that republic, 
and to insist upom the preservation, in all their in- 
tegrity, of the rights and privileges guaranteed by 
the Allied Powers to that free, independent and 
neutral state, was presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Trustees of the Arundel and Pet- Highway Rates 
worth Road, praying that the Highway Rates Bill il. 
may pass into a law, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Education Education 
(Scotland), which was presented upon Monday next, (Svtland). 
be printed. No. 304. 

Ordered, That the Eleventh Report of the Com- Metropolis 
missioners of the Metropolis Roads, which was pre- ®e#4s. 
sented upon Tuesday last, be printed. No. 305. 

Ordered, That the Return relative to Churches Churches 
(Ireland), which was presented yesterday, be printed. (/reland.) 

No. 306. 

The House, according to Order, resolved itself Poor Relief 
into a Committee upon the Poor Relief (Zreland) (eland) Bill. 
Bill. 

(In the Committee.) 

Cuavusz, N° 15, amended, and agreed to. 

Ciause, N° 16, amended, and agreed to. 

Cravuse, N° 17, (Election of Guardians)——read. 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 
said Clause be postponed ; 

Motion, by leave, withdrawn. 

Crausez, N° 17, agreed to. 

Ciause, N° 18, amended, and agreed to. 

CrauseE, N° 19, (Dividing Unions into electoral 
Districts)——read. 

Amendment proposed: P. 6. 1. 39. To insert, at 
the end of the Clause, “ Provided that no Electoral 
“* Division shall contain a population of more than 





Birley, of Manchester ;—Mr. Barton, of Manches- 
Vo. 92, 





“ Six thousand persons, according to the census of 
344 “ the 








368 


“ the population taken in the year One thousand 


“ eight hundred and thirty-one.” 
Question, That those words be there added 
put, and Negatived. 





Another Amendment proposed: At the end of the | 
Clause to insert “in such manner nevertheless as | 
that no townland comprised with any union shall 


“ 
“c 


be divided, but that the whole of each separate 
townland shail be included within the same Elec- 
toral Division.” 

Question put, That those words be there inserted ; 
The Committee divided. 

Teller for the Yeas, Mr. Lefroy - - - 47. 
Teller for the Noes, Mr. Vernon Smith - 69. 
Another Amendment proposed: After the word 
alter” to insert “ with the consent of the majority 
of the Guardians”’ put, and agreed to. 

Ciause, N° 19, as amended, agreed to. 


Cuause, N° 20, (Number of Guardians for Union) 
read. 

Amendment proposed: P. 6. 1. 41. After the word 
alter” to insert “ with the majority of the owners 
“ of property and rate-payers in any Electoral 
“ Division.” 

Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 


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Another Amendment proposed; P. 7. 1. 2. After | 
the word “ therein ” to insert “ so that nevertheless | 


“ for every Three thousand inhabitants of such 
“ Union there shall be at least one Guardian.” 


Question put, That those words be there inserted ; 
The Committee divided. 


Tellers for the { Mr. Sharman Crawford, | 11 
| ioe 


Yeas, Mr. O’ Brien: 
Tellers for the f Mr. Vernon Smith, 1 _ 
Noes, Mr. Robert Steuart : ia 


Crause, N° 20, amended, and agreed to. 
To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 





And the House having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Friday morning ; 


Veneris, 12° die Maiti, 1837: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had made further Pro-| _ 
| Wednesday next. 


gress in the Bill; and that he was directed to move, 
That the Committee may have leave to sit again. 


Resolved, That this House will, this day, again | fu 


resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Resolved, That all Railway Bills, the Reports on 


which might, according to the Standing Orders of | 


this House, stand for further consideration on Tues- 
day next, in case the House were then sitting, shall, 
in consequence of the adjournment to Wednesday, 
stand for consideration on that day. 

Resolved, That all Reports on Railway Bills which 
might, according to the Standing Orders, be brought 
up on Monday next, if the House were then sitting, 
and which shall be brought up on Wednesday next, 
may be taken into further consideration on the Tues- 
day following, provided that amended prints have 
been deposited, and notice given according to the 
Standing Orders. 


The House was moved, That the Report which, 
upon Tuesday last, was made from the Committee, 
to whom it was referred to consider of the Manufac- 
ture of Foreign Bonded Corn under the King’s Lock 
for Exportation, might be read ; and the same being 
read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 


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| Electors, and to abolish the Stamp Duty on the 

















A. 1837. 


admission of Freemen ; 
The House divided : ( 
The Yeas to the old Lobby ; 
The Noes to the new Lobby. 
, f Mr. Vernon Smith 
Tellers for the Yeas, | Mr. Baring : . 
“ Sir James Graham, 
r aeate for the Noes, ge weal 9. 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative :—And that 
Lord John Russell, Mr. Attorney General and Mr. 
Vernon Smith do prepare, and bring it in. 


bor. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Poor 
to promote the Employment of the Poor in Ireland : ane 
And that Mr. Lynch and Mr. Wyse do prepare, and dan 
bring it in. 
The Order of the day being read, for the second Registration 
reading of the Registration and Marriages Bill; i, “ieee 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time — 
this day. 


Mr. Thomas Duncombe reported the Theatres Re- Theatres 
gulation Bill; and the Amendments were read, and _ 
agreed to. 

_ Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time upon Wednesday, 
the 24th day of this instant May. 


Mr. Vernon Smith reported the Haileybury Col- Haileybury 
lege Bill; and the Amendments were read, and ©l'ese Bill 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed ; and read the third time upon Wed- 
nesday next. 


_ Mr. Vernon Smith reported the East India Officers East India 
Salaries Bill; and the Amendments were read, and ¢. jc. Bil, 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed ; and read the third time upon Wed- 
nesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Election 
reading of the Election Expenses Bill ; sa sania 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Sheriffs Courts 
rther consideration the Report on the Sheriffs Bi 


| Courts Bill; 


Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for receiving Supply _ 
the Report from the Committee of Supply ; (7th April ) 
Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 


Mr. Baring reported the Indemnity Bill ; and the Indemnity Bill 
Amendments were read, and agreed to. 
_ Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time this day. 









The Order of the day being read, for taking into Newark 
further consideration the Report on the Newark Estate Bill 
Estate Bill :—The Bill was re-committed to a Com- 
mittee of the whole House :—And the House imme- 
diately resolved itself into the Committee ; and, after 
some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the 
Chair; and Mr. Robert Gordon reported, That the 
Committee had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 












Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Criminal Law. 








admit Foreign Corn to be ground in Mills under the | to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
Lock of the Crown, and manufactured therein for | to give directions, that there be laid before this 
exportation only: And that Mr. Robinson and Mr. | House, Statements on the Criminal Law, prepared 
Warburton do prepare, and bring it in. | by direction of the Secretary of State for the Home 
Department. 
A Motion was made, and the Question being put, | Ordered, That the said Address be — to 
That leave be given to bring in a Bill to regulate | His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
the payment of Rates and Taxes by Parliamentary ia His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Ordered, 















East India 
Maritime 
Officers. 


Bonded Corn 
Manufacture 
Bill. 


No. 303. 


Post-Office 
Acts Repeal 
Bill. 


Post-Office 
Management 
Bill. 


Postage Duties 
Bill. 


Franking Bill, 


Post Office 
Offences Bill. 


Collection of 
Taxes, 


Wool, and 
Woollen 
Manufactures. 


Spirits, 





7 Wixt. [V. 11°— 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Copy of any Correspondence that may have taken 
place between the President of the Board of Com- 
missioners for the Affairs of India in February and 
March 1835, and those Officers of the East India 
Company’s late Maritime Service, whose Claims to 
Compensation have not been admitted. 


Mr. Robinson presented a Bill to admit Foreign 
Corn to be ground in Mills under the Lock of the 
Crown, and manufactured therein for exportation 
only : And the same was read the first time; and 
ordered to be read a second time upon Wednesday, 
the 24th day of this instant May; and to be printed. 


The Order for reading the third time this day the 
Post Office Acts Repeal Bill, was read, and dis- 
charged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Friday, the 19th day of this mstant May. 


The Order for reading the third time this day the 
Post Office Management Bill, was read, and dis- 
charged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time upon 
Friday, the 19th day of this instant May. 


The Order for reading the third time this day the 
Postage Duties Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time upon 
Friday, the 19th day of this instant May. 


The Order for reading the third time this day the 
Franking Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time upon 
Friday, the 19th day of this instant May. 


The Order for reading the third time this day the 
Post Office Offences Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time upon 
Friday, the 19th day of this instant May. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till half an hour after twelve of the clock on 
Friday morning, adjourned till this day. 








Veneris, 12° die Maiti ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi [Vt Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 
M*. Crafer, from the Treasury, was called in; 
and at the bar presented, pursuant to Orders, 
—Returns of the Amounts not paid into the Exche- 
quer, but deducted for Costs of Collection and all 
other purposes, from the Gross Amounts received by 
the Customs, Excise, Stamps, Taxes, Post Office, 
and every other Department of Revenue, for the 
year ending the 5th January 1837:—and, of the 
Amounts received by the Army, Navy, Ordnance, 
Civil, and all other Departments of Ex enditure, 
from all sources, except Parliamentary Grants, or 
issues from the Exchequer, for the year ending the 
5th January 1837. 


Accounts of the Quantity of Sheep and Lambs’ 
Wool imported into the United Kingdom in the year 
1836; specifying the Countries from which it came, 
the Quantity that paid a Duty of One Penny per 
Pound ; and the Quantity that paid a Duty of One 
Halfpenny per Pound ; of the Guntity of Foreign 
Wool re-exported during the same period, and the 
Countries to which it was sent; and of the Quantity 
remaining warehoused under Bond on 5th January 
last: —Of the Quantities of British Sheep and 
Lambs’ Wool and Woollen Yarn exported from the 
United Kingdom in the year 1836 ; specifying the 
Countries to which they were sent :—and, of British 
Woollen Manufactures exported from the United 
Kingdom in the year 1836. 

Accounts of the Total Gallons of Proof Spirits 
distilled in England, Scotland and Ireland respec- 
“— ; distinguishing the Quantities produced from 

OL, 92, 





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369 


Malt and from a mixture of Malt and unmalted 

Grain, or from any other ingredient ; showing also, 

the Total Quantity of each sort in the United King- 

dom, for the year ending 5th January 1837:—Of 
the Number of Gallons of Proof Spirits (distin- 
guishing the sorts), on which Duty was paid for 
home consumption in each of the three Kingdoms, 
with the rate per Gallon, and Amount of such Duty ; 
also, the Total of Gallons and Duty in the United 

Kingdom, for the year ending 5th January 1837 :— 

Showing, under separate heads, the Number of 
Proof Gallons of Spirits (distinguishing the materials 
from which made) imported into each Kingdom from 

each of the others respectively, and including in the 

cases of England and Scotland those conveyed 
either by Land or Sea; stating, also, the rate of 
Duty per Gallon, and the Total Amount thereof in 
each case, and what portion of such duty was paid 
on removal of the Spirits from Bond, and what after 
their arrival at the place of destination, for the year 
ending 5th January 1837:—Of the Total Number 
of Gallons of Proof Spirits permitted out from 
Distillers’ Stocks in England, and Total Number of 
Proof Gallons of British Brandy and Spirits of 
Wine permitted out from Rectifiers’ Stocks in Eng- 
land, tor the year ending 5th January 1837 ; also, 
the Stocks remaining in the hands of English Dis- 
tillers on 5th January 1837:—and, of the Total 
Number of Proof Gallons of Rum, Brandy, Geneva, 
and all other Foreign Spirits that paid Duty in 
England, Scotland and Ireland respectively, trom 
5th January 1836 to 5th January 1837; rate of 
Duty per Gallon, and Amount thereof; Total Num- 
ber of Gallons of each kind, and Total Duty thereon ; 
Total Number of Gallons of all kinds, and Total 
Duty thereon for the United Kingdom; showing 
the Total Number of Proof Gallons of all kinds 
that paid Duty, and total Amount thereof in each 
Ksgiiehis, and Total Number of Gallons, and Total 
Duty thereon, in the whole United Kingdom, from 
5th Hearst 1836 to 5th January 1837. 


missioners of His Majesty’s Treasury and the Post- 
master General, on the subject of the detention in 
London of Letters from the Country on the Lord’s 
Day; and also, with reference to any proposals 
for passing Letters through Zondon on the Lord’s 
Day :—And then he withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Navigation from the Trent to the Mersey, praying 
that they may be heard, by themselves, their counsel 
or agents, against certain parts of the Ellesmere and 
Chester Canal Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel ek in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


Mr. William Crawford reported from the Com- 
mittee on the Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act 
to enable the Managers of the Sun Life Assurance 
Society to appropriate any part of the profits thereof 
for the benefit of any persons who have already 
eftected, or may hereafter effect Policies of Assurance 
with the said Society ; That they had examined the 
allegations of the Bil, and found the same to be 
true ; and had gone through the Bill, and directed 
him to report the same, without ‘Amendment: And 
the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. William Crawford do carry the 
Bill tothe Lords, and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Tamlaught Finlagan 
and Zamlaught Ard, in the county of Londonderry, 





Drainage 


Copy ot Correspondence between the Lords Com- Post Office. 


A Petition of the Company of Proprietors of the Ellesmere and 


Chester Canal 
Bill. 


Sun Life 
Assurance 


Society Bill. 


Lough Swilly 


and Lough 
praying that the Lough Swilly and Lough Foyle Sate Drainag 
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370 


Drainage Bill may pass into a law, was presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Dottin presented a Bill to enable the London 
and Greenwich Railway Company to take certain 
Tolls for passengers, cattle and carriages crossing 
the River Ravensborne, in pursuance of an agree- 
ment entered into with the Deptford Creek Bridge 
Company: And the same was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time. 





Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee 
on Petitions for Private Bills ; That in the case of 
the Petition for leave to present a Petition for the 
Belfast Waterworks (No. 2.) Bill ; and to whom the 
Petition of John Wallace,against such application was 
referred ; That inasmuch as the Petition prayed for 
leave to present a Petition for a Bill for purposes simi- 
lar to one rejected by the House in the present session 
the Committee felt themselves bound to inquire into 
what proceedings had taken place with reference to 
such Bill. In the Votes of the 18th March there is 
the following entry ; ‘‘ That in the case of the Belfast 
Poor and Waterworks Petition, the parties be per- 
mitted to proceed with their Bill on abandoning that 
part thereof which relates to the relief of the Poor ; 
and that the Committee on the Bill do examine how 
far such order has been complied with, and do re- 

rt the same to the House on the Report of the 

ill;” and it further a ages to the Committee, that 
in compliance with such order, a Bill was brought 
in under the following title ; “ A Bill for the better 
supplying with Water the Inhabitants of the Town 
of Belfast, in the Counties of Antrim and Down, 
and the Suburbs thereof,’ which was rejected by 
the House on the second reading on the 23d of 
March last ; that it appeared to the Committee that 
the present Petition seeks for powers so similar to 
many of those contained in the Bill rejected on its 
second reading, that they cannot recommend to the 
House to grant the leave sought by the prayer of 
the Petition. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Captain Jones reported from the Committee on 
the Sligo Salmon Fisheries Bill; That they had 
examined the allegations of the Bill, and found the 
same to be true; and had gone through the Bill, 
and made Amendments thereunto ; and the Amend- 
ments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


The Bristol Court of Conscience Bill was read 
a second time; and committed to Sir Richard 
Vyvyan and the Somerset List. 


The Bristol Parochial Rates Bill was read a se- 
cond time ; and committed to Sir Richard Vyvyan 
and the Somerset List. 


The Bristol Encroachments Bill was read a se- 
cond time; and committed to Sir Richard Vyvyan 
and the Somerset List. 

A Petition of Members of the Society of Friends, 
commonly called Quakers, residing in or near the 
city of Bristol, praying that the said Bill may not 
pass into a law as it now stands, was presented, 
and read; and referred to the Committee on the Bill. 


The Wigan Rectory Estate Bill was read a second 
time; and committed to Mr. Brotherton and the 
Lancaster List. 


The Zondon National Cemetery Bill was read a 
second time ; and committed to Mr. Tooke and the 
Middlesex List. 


A Petition of James Banks, of Valentine Terrace, 
Blackheath Road, in the county of Kent, Gentleman, 
praying that he may be heard, by himself, his counsel | 
or agent, against certain parts of the Collier Dock 
and Surrey Canal Bill, was presented, and read. 





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Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
3 himself, his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, 
if he think fit ; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


Petitions from Merchants, Bankers, Manufac- Edinburgh 
turers, and others, Inhabitants of the Royal Burgh ae 
of Dunfermline;—Inhabitants of the town of Queen’s "9 Bil 
Ferry ;— Merchants, Manufacturers, Traders and 
others, Inhabitants of the Royal Burgh of Kirkaldy, 
and its vicinity ;—Inhabitants of the town of pm 
line, in the county of Ayr ;—and, Bankers, Mer- 
chants, Manufacturers, elon. and other Inha- 
bitants of the Burgh of Cupar; praying that the 
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Bill may pass 
into a law,—were presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


Sir Robert Inglis reported from the Select Com- Public 
mittee on Public Petitions ; That they had examined Petitions. 
the Petitions presented on the 1st and 2d days of 
this instant May, and had directed him to make 
a Report thereof to the House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


The Warkworth Harbour Bill was read a second Warkworth 
time ; and committed to Lord Ossulston and the Harbour Bill. 
Northumberland List. 

A Petition of the Most noble Hugh, Duke and 
Earl of Northumberland, praying that he may be 
heard, by himself, his counsel or agent, against 
= parts of the said Bill, was presented, and 
read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by himself, his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, 
if he think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


Petitions from Birmingham (three Petitions) ;— Summary 
Kirkby in Kendal ;—and, Sutton Coldfield ; Y a ing y sane a 
° . ° uvenie 
that the Summary Convictions (Juvenile Offenders) Offenders) Bill 
Bill, may pass into a law,—were presented, and 


read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Rayleigh; — Wilburton ; — Soho Church Rates 
Chapel, Oxford-street, London ;— Ellesmere ;—Had- Regulation. 
denham ;—Tunstall and Brownhills ;—New Park- 
street Chapel, Southwark ;—Beaufort Iron Works 
and Ebw Fali.-Sivee ;— Tewkesbury (two Peti- 
tions) ;— Hanley and Shelton ;— Westbury (Baptists) ; 
— King’s Weigh House Meeting, Fish-street Hill, 
London ;—Welchampton near Ellesmere ;— Thetford ; 
—Rishworth (Baptists) ;— Elland ; — Halifax (Sion 
Chapel) ;— Halifax (Square Chapel) ;—Ovenden (two 
Petitions) ;— Haley Hill, Northowram ;—Pellonhane 
Chapel, Halifax ;— Halifax (Unitarians);— Ovenden 
(Providence Chapel) ;—Steep Lane, Sowerby ;—Midg- 
ley ;— Halifax Road Chapel, Halifax ;— Rochester, 
Chatham, Stroud,and Brompton (two Petitions) ;— 
Bradenham;— West Wycombe ;—Southwold ;--South- 
ampton;—Saint Olave, Silver-street, London ;—Much 
Marcle; — Prescot ; — Llangarren ; — Pembridge ; 
—Paisley ; — Dufton ; — and, Holmer; praying 
that the proposed measure relative to Church Rates 
may receive the sanction of the House, — were 
— and read; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 

Petitions from Saint Bartholomew Hyde ;—All 
Saints, Derby ;—Kirkby-la- Thorpe ;—Mosterton ;— 
Saint Peter, Derby ;— Lytchet Matravers ;—Asgarby ; 
—Kinson ;—Martley ;— Harlington Fi ot 
Huish Episcopi; — Congresbury ; — Rushock ; — 
Cottingham ;—Lund ; —Coventry ;— Netherbury ;— 
Skidby ;—Yardley ;—and, South Stainley; praying 
that the said proposed measure may not receive the 
sanction of the ieak eile also presented, and 


read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. a 
Petitions 


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7 Witt. IV. 


Petitions from Londonderry ;—Glanerough and 
other places ;—Ballyheigh, Rattoo and Killury ;— 
and, Kells; praying the House to support His Ma- 
jesty’s Ministers in their government of Ireland,— 
were presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


Government 
of Ireland. 


Agricultural Petitions from Shareholders in the Agricultural 
and Commercial and Commercial Bank of Jreland, and others resi- 
Bank, Ireland. dent in the town of Killarney ;— Thomastown ;— 
and, Dublin; praying the House to extend support 
and protection to the Agricultural and Commercial 
Bank of Jreland,—were presented, and read ; and re- 
ferred to the Select Committee on Joint Stock Banks. 


Agricultural A Petition of Proprietors of Stock in the Agri- 
and Commercial cyltural and Commercial Bank of Jreland, taking 
— notice of the application for leave to bring in the 
; Agricultural and Conseil Bank, Ireland (No. 2.) 
Bill; and praying that such Bill may pass into a 
law, was presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 
A Petition of Directors and Shareholders of the 
Agricultural and Commercial Bank of Ireland, 
taking notice of the application for leave to bring in 
the said Bill, and praying that they may be heard 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, against such 
Bill, was also presented, and read; and referred to 
the Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 
Factories. Petitions from Operative Spinners in the employ of 
Mr. Crewdson, Manchester ;—Mr. Charles Poolley ;— 
Messrs. M‘Connells, Long Mill;—Mesrs. Hyde 
and Co. ;—Iron Founders, Manchester ;—and, Ope- 
rative Cotton Spinners, Manchester; praying the 
House to pass a law to protect all Factory-workers 
from being worked more than ten hours for five 
days of the week, and eight on the Saturday,—were 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 
Poor Law Act. Petitions from Shelley; — Brentford ;— Surrey 
Radical Association ;—Kirkburton;—Sutton-in-Ash- 
field ;—Kendall ; — Littlebourn ; — Bermondsey — 
Raureth; — Wickford; — Newtown, Montgo- 
mery ;— Skelmanthorpe ;— Hereford Union ;—He- 
worth ;— Peldon ;—and, Derby; praying for the 
repeal or amendment of the Poor Law Act,—were 
presented, and read; and referred to the Select 
Committee on the Poor Law Act. 

A Petition of the late Overseer, Constable and 
Governor of the late Workhouse of Wortham, pray- 
ing for such inquiry as may exempt them from the 
charge of cruelty towards four aged men at Wortham, 
was also presented, and read; and referred to the 
said Select Committee. 


Sheriff and 
Burgh Courts 
(Scotland) Bill. 


A Petition of Commissioners of Supply, Heritors, 
and other Inhabitants of the county of Selkirk, 
raying that the Sheriff and Burgh Courts (Scotland) 
ill may not pass into a law, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
Lord’sDay Bill, Petitions from Atherstone ;— Hilton and Murton ; 
— Appleby and Dufton ;—Radstock;—Paulton;— 
Midsomer Norton ;— Clutton ;— Timsbury ;— Bishop 
Auckland ;—Longmarton, and other places ;—Kirk- 
by Stephen and Salby;— Deal;— Brough and 
Warcop ; — Exeter ;—- Maidenhead ;— Childrey ;— 
Wantage; — and, Birkenhead; praying that the 
Lord’s Day Bill may be permitted to go nto a Com- 
mittee of the whole House,—were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Manor Courts 


Petitions from Carrigaline;—Bridge Town ;— 
(Ireland.) 


Fleetwood ;—and Macroom; praying the House to 
adopt measures for rendering Manor Courts in Jre- 
land more useful,—were presented, and read; and 
referred to the Select Committee on Manor Courts 
(Lreland.) 

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371 


A Petition of Members of the Metropolitan Com- Sale of Beer. 
mittee of the National Association of Licensed Vic- 
tuallers of England appointed to watch over the 
interests of the trade, praying the House not to 
make any alterations in the laws affecting the trade 
of the Petitioners, without calling for a full inquiry 
into the operations of the Beer Bill of 1828, were 
ae and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
able. 


Petitions from the Deacon of the Baker Incor- Municipal 
poration of Dundee ;— Preses of a Meeting of the Com- ag eene l 
missioners of Police for the Burgh and Suburbs of on 
Paisley ;— and, Magistrates, Town Council and Bur- 
gesses of Lauder; praying that the Municipal Cor- 
porations (Scotland) Bill may not pass into a law 
as it now stands,—were presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Planters of Hops in the counties of Hops. 
Hereford and Worcester, praying the House to re- 
duce the Duty on Hops one penny per pound, was 
— and read; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Shefford, praying Elective 
that the right of Representation enjoyed i Ten Franchise. 
Pound Householders in Boroughs, may be extended 

to Householders of the like amount in counties, 

was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 

the Table. 


Petitions from Killarney ;—-Union of Glenavy ;— gaucation 
Ahoghill ;—and, Bishop and Clergy of the united (Ireland.) 
Dioceses of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin; praying 
that the present system of National Education in 
Ireland, may not be persisted in, were presented, 
and read ; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Plan of Education (Jreland.) 


Richard 


A Petition of Inhabitants of London, praying the ae 


House to institute an inquiry into the allegations 
contained in the Petitions of Richard M‘Cormick, 
late a Private in the 17th Lancers, relating to 
alleged abuses in the Army, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That a Message be sent to the Lords, to Fictitious Votes 
request that their Lordships will give leave to the (Ireland.) 
Earl of Glengall to attend, in order to his being 
examined as a witness before the Select Committee 
appointed by this House to inquire how far the in- 
tentions of the Reform Bill are defeated by creating 
and registering Fictitious Votes in Ireland: And that 
Lord Granville Somerset do carry the said Message. 


A Petition of licensed Victuallers resident in the Innkeepers. 
counties of Worcester, Gloucester and Oxford, pray- 
ing for a revision of the Acts of Parliament regu- 
lating their trade, and for the gradual abolition of 
Beer-houses, was presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. : 


A Petition of Inhabitants of the Burgh of Falk- Burgis of 
land, in the county of Fife, praying that the Burghs 
of Barony (Scotland) Bill, may not pass into a law, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 

A Petition of Merchants, Ship-owners, Traders 
and other Inhabitants of the town of Borrowstoun- 
ness, Linlithgowshire, praying that the said Bill 
mav pass into a law, was also presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Barony 
(Scotland) Bill 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Stockport, praying Sale of Beer. 
that Retailers of beer may be placed on the same 
footing as licensed Victuallers, was presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Liverpool, vraying Window Tax. 
for the repeal of the Window Tax, was presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
3 B2 Petitions 








Tithes 
(Ireland.) 


Agricultural 


and Commercial 


Bank, Ireland 
(No. 2.) 


Fictitious Votes 
(Ireland.) 


Duke of 
Marlborough’s 
Pension. 





372 


Petitions from Croagh;—Cloneagh ;—Coolcap- | 


pah; — Rathkeale; — Ratoath; — Kilcoleman; — 

Croom and Ballinabanouge;— and, Ardagh; pray- 

ing for the abolition of Tithes in [reland,—were 

— and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
able. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 

sed,—That, in the case of the Petition for the 
Agricultural and Commercial Bank Jreland, (No. 
2.) Bill, the Standing Order, requirmg that there 
be fourteen clear days between the day on which 
any Petition for any Private Bill relating to Ireland 
shall be presented, and the day on which the Com- 
mittee shall sit thereupon, be dispensed with :—And 
the said Motion was, with leave of the House, 
withdrawn. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on Fictitious 
Votes (Ireland), have Power to report the Minutes 
of the Evidence taken before them from time to 
time to the House. 


A Petition of George Spencer Churchill, Duke of 
Marlborough, being offered to be presented ; 

Mr.Chancellor of the Exchequer, by His Majesty’s 
command, acquainted the House, that His Majesty, 
having been informed of the contents of the said 
Petition, recommends it to the consideration of the 
House. 

Then the said Petition was brought up, and read; 
setting forth, That the Petitioner 1s the great great 
grandson and heir of John Duke of Marlborough ; 
that by an Act of Parliament passed in the fifth year 
of the reign of Queen Anne (c. 4.), a pension of 
5,0001, per annum was settled upon John Duke of 
Marlborough, and his posterity, for the more honour- 
able support of their dignities, in like manner as his 
honours and dignities, and the honor and manor of 
Woodstock and House of Blenheim were already 


12° Mazz. 


A. 1837. 


of 5,0001. originally settled by the Act of Queen 
Anne, and which 1,0001. could not be lawfully de- 
ducted therefrom in that year, even under the sup- 
posed right to subject this annuity to the pension 
duty of four shillings in the pound, because the an- 
nual Act to authorize the levy of that duty was not 
during that year revived within the limited period ; 
that if this further reduction can be permitted b 

the House, the annuity for the current year will 
be diminished to little more than one-half of the 
amount entailed upon the descendants of John 
Duke of Marlborough by the Parliament of Queen 
Anne; that the Petitioner respectfully submits, that 
as the duty for the past year was confessedly not 
leviable under any existing statute, it cannot be 
fairly exacted by any enactment operating upon him 
in the nature of an ex post facto law, and thus con- 
fiscating a sum of which he had become legally 
possessed; and he looks therefore with confidence 
to the House for relief from a grievance which has 
this peculiar aggravation of the general injustice 
of applying the new statute to this annuity; but 
that the Petitioner is the less solicitous to dwell 
upon the additional hardships to which he is per- 
sonally subjected, in respect of the threatened re- 
sumption of this portion of the annuity, because he 
cannot allow himself to entertain a doubt of the 
success of that more comprehensive and far more 
important claim which he now submits to the con- 
sideration of the House, a claim that this annuity 
so specifically settled on the heirs of his illus- 
trious ancestor, by Act of Parliament, in the reign 
of Queen Anne, shall be exempted from the 
operation of the Act of last Session, or of any other 
Act, by which that annuity may be permanently 
reduced, and the recorded intentions of that Parlia- 
ment permanently defeated ; that he feels bound to 
prefer this claim, not merely in justice to himself 
and to his immediate heir, but in justice to all future 
successors to the Dukedom of Marlborough, and in 





limited and settled; that this grant has been taxed 
to the amount of twenty-seven and a half per cent., 
for three several duties of four shillings, sixpence and 
one shilling in the pound on pensions, to which it 
has been held liable; that by an Act passed near 
the close of the last Session, for perpetuating the first 
and heaviest of those duties previously levied under 
an annual Act, the pension so settled by the Par- 
liament of Queen Axnze will be permanently curtailed 
of no less than one-fifth of its specified amount, while 
by the sixpence and one shilling duties a sum of 
375/. in addition to that of the 1,0001. is deducted 
from the pension, which will henceforth be for ever 
converted from an annuity of 5,0001, as fixed by 
the original grant, under the supposed security of 
an Act of Parliament, into an annuity of 3,6251, 
unless the Petitioner be permitted to prove, to the 
satisfaction of the House, that such a permanent 
commutation cannot be made without manifest 
injustice to the present and all future descendants 
of John Duke of Marlborough, and a direct viola- 


tion of the good faith and honour of Parliament ; 


that on the second reading of the late Bill before 
the House, the Petitioner tendered a Petition, 
praying that he might be heard by his counsel at 
th» bar of the House, against the application of such 
Bi!l to his case ; but to the reception of this Petition 
it was objected that he could not be so heard 
against the imposition of any tax during the Session 
of its enactment; that the Petitioner was not only 
precluded from thus establishing his claim to an 
exemption for himself and his descendants from the 
general operation of that Bill, but also from one of 
its provisions, from the peculiar pressure of which 


he submits that he ought, beyond all question, to 
be relieved, a provision for enabling the Treasury 
to deduct from the annuity of the present year the 
additional sum of 1,0001. over and above the sum 
of 1,375, which sum of 1,000/. in the preceding 
year he had lawfully received as part of the annuity 





justice, he must be permitted to add, to the honour 
of Parliament and of the country ; that the impolicy 
and the injustice of subjecting for ever a grant of 
this nature to any such taxes as those declared per- 
manent by the late Act, can be clearly demonstrated 
without reference to any question as to the period 
when these taxes may have been first considered 
applicable to this grant; that this will be obvious, 
if it be considered that both honesty and _ policy 
alike require that the intentions of the Parliament 
which conferred this grant should be carried fairly 
into effect, and that it is clearly impossible that that 
Parliament could have intended that in place of that 
annuity, which they so solemnly entailed on the 
posterity of the Duke of Marlborough, a far less 
annuity should ever be permanently substituted ; 
that the question now to be decided, is not whether 
that Parliament suffered, either by negligence or 
design, this grant to be affected by some temporary 
tax, but whether that Parliament could possibly 
have contemplated the permanent reduction of such 
a grant, or could have intended that the heirs of the 
Duke of Marlborough should be for ever deprived 
of a large portion of the annuity which was then so 
specifically settled upon them; that any presumption 
to this effect is almost as unequivocally negatived 
by the circumstances under which that grant was 
made, and by the reasons assigned for making it, 
as if the mutilation of it now proposed had been 
then prohibited in express terms ; that among other 
proofs of the soundness of this conclusion, the Peti- 
tioner begs to refer to the whole tenor of the Act by 
which this annuity was originally established and 
| perpetuated, and to the very emphatic language m 
which it expresses the high sense entertained by the 

| House of Commons of that day of the magnitude of 
| those services to reward which that annuity was 
created, and also of the importance of making the 
remuneration ample and liberal, not merely in justice 
to the individual on whom it was conferred, but with 
a view 








7 Wit. IV. 


a view to the best interests of the nation; that in 
the Act itself, 5 Anne, c. 4, after referring to certain 
other Acts and to certain Letters Patents, and after 
reciting the Duke’s services, as well by his prudent 
negociations as by his valour and good conduct in 
the command of the confederate armies, are these 
words: “ And whereas we, your Majesty’s most 
dutiful and loyal Commons, taking into our consi- 
deration the many eminent services of the said Duke 
of Marlborough, whereby the glory of your Majesty’s 
Government, the honour and safety of your King- 
doms, and the interest of the common cause have 
been so highly advanced, did, with all submission, 
address pr ae to your Majesty’s most sacred 
person, humbly to desire that as your Majesty is, 
at your expense, graciously pleased to erect the 
House of Blenheim as a monument of his glorious 
actions, and the House of Peers, by your Ma- 
jesty’s permission, have given rise to the said 
Act passed in this present Sessions, for continuing 
his honours to his posterity, we, your Majesty’s 
most obedient Commons, might be permitted to 
express our sense of so distinguished a merit 
and our ready disposition to enable your Majesty 
to make some provision for the more honourable 
support of his Sivsiiva in his posterity, in such 
manner as should be most agreeable to your Ma- 
jesty, whereby the gratitude of this whole kingdom 
might remain upon record to after ages, and encou- 
rage others to follow his great example. We, the 
Commons of England, in Parliament assembled, 
think ourselves obliged to transmit to all succeeding 
times, the memory of so many glorious actions, to- 
gether with the just sense of the kingdom, after what 
manner such transcendent merit ought to be re- 
warded, and thereupon do most humbly beseech 
me Majesty, that it may be enacted, and Be it 


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373 


asum very far below that which they themselves 
assigned as a just remuneration for the vast benefits 
conferred upon the country by those services; that 
that House of Commons intended by “ the said 
annuity of 5,0001.,” to make such “ provision for 
the more honourable support of the Duke’s dignities 
in his posterity,” as should place “ upon record to 
after ages the gratitude of this whole kingdom ;” 
that with this object in view, the Parliament 
may well have considered that even if that sum 
could possibly be thought by any one too much for 
the Duke of Marlborough and his posterity to re- 
ceive, it was clearly not too much for this country 
to bestow; but that they were obtaining credit under 
false pretences for gratitude and liberality, if while 
the ostensible measure thereof was the grant thus 
publicly conferred and thus solemnly recorded, they 
could really have intended that it should be liable to 
any permanent reductions of serious magnitude ; that 
another prominent reason for conferring this noble 
reward, was the desire that it should “encourage 
others to follow his great example,” and it was 
doubtless held that in a large and liberal encourage- 
ment to the limitation of services so rare and so 
valuable, is to be truly found “ the cheap defence 
of nations ;” but that any defence would be too 
dearly bought if purchased by dishonour, and it is 
manifestly dishonourable to hold forth as a stimulus 
to emulation one measure of reward if another and 
inferior measure be in reality intended ; that that 
House of Commons intended that “ the said annuity 
of 5,000 7. should be continued to his posterity for 
the more honourable support of their dignities, in 
like manner as his honours, and the Honour and 
Manor of Woodstock and the House of Blenheim, 
were aready limited and settled ;”’ that that House 
of Commons intended that “ the said annuity of 


nacted, that in lieu of the said annuity or yearly | 5,000/.” should be a grant of such magnitude as 

pension of 5,0001. by the said Letters Patents, bear-| would manifest to all future generations that the 

ing date the 22d day of December, in the first year |Commons of England were not less zealous duly to 

of your oon ae reign, granted to the said Duke | appreciate and adequately to reward the services of 
’ 


of ageing 


and the heirs male of his body, | the Duke of Marlborough than the House of Peers, 


during your Majesty’s life as aforesaid, which said | who had “ given rise to an Act for continuing his 
pension is from henceforth to cease and determine, | honours to his posterity,” and that they also intended 


one annuity or yearly pension of 5,000/. shall be 
issuing and payable out of the revenues of the post 
office to the said Duke of Marlborough, for and 
during his natural life, and from and after his decease 
to Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, wife of the said 
Duke, for and during the term of her natural life, 
and from and after her decease, to the heirs male 
of the body of the said Duke of Marlborough be- 
gotten ; and for default of such issue, to all and 
every the daughters of the said Duke of Marlborough, 
and the heirs male of their respective bodies issuing, 
and to all others severally and succesively, in such 
manner as the said titles, honours and dignities afore- 
said, are by the said Act made in this present Session 
of Parliament, expressed and limited to go and be 
enjoyed ;” the Petitioner submits, that from these 
and other equally plain words in this Act, it is 
manifest, that the House of Commons, with whom 
it originated, intended that “ the said annuity or 
yearly pension of 5,000/.,” which they then settled 
on the Duke of Marlborough and his posterity, 
should be a fit reward for “ the many eminent ser- 
vices ” which they therein describe as having highly 
advanced not oe “ the glory” but “ the honour 
and safety of these kmgdoms ;” that that House of 
Commons intended by “ the said annuity of 5,000 7.” 
to “ express their sense of so distinguishing a merit,” 
and “ to transmit to all succeeding times, the 
memory of so many glorious actions, together with 
the just sense of the kingdom, after what manner 
such transcendent merit ought to be rewarded ;” 
that for services which they themselves describe as 
of a nature so exalted and so enduring, it is not 
conceivable that they could have intended to appor- 
tion a reward liable to be frittered away by frequent 
taxes, and to be at length permanently reduced to 
Vor. 92. 





that this grant should be in some sort commensurate 
with the munificence of the Queen, who had been 
“ sraciously pleased to erect at herexpense the House 
of Blenheim, as a monument of his glorious actions ;”’ 
that these imtentions of that House of Commons 
would, by the reduction of “ the said annuity,” be 
signally defeated, while the titles and honours still 
continue to descend precisely in the manner sug- 
gested by the House of Peers, and while the mag- 
nificent mansion of Blenheim remains as a splendid 
record of the liberal gratitude of the Queen ; that it 
is as literally impossible to deduce from any thing 
in that Act (5 Anne, c. 4.) contained, any intention 
on the part of the House of Commons that this their 
grant should be liable to be pared down in the man- 
ner and to the extent now proposed, as it is to infer 
therefrom, or from the Acts therein recited, that the 
House of Peers could have intended to leave un- 
settled the course in which they directed that the 
Duke’s titles and honours should descend to his 
posterity, or that the Queen could have intended 
that a large portion of the House of Blenheim itself 
should be liable to be demolished by the order of 
some succeeding Parliament; and that it would be 
less inconsistent and not more unjust to divert into 
some other channel than that indicated by the 
House of Peers, the honours settled at their special 
instance upon the Duke’s posterity, and actually to 
take down a considerable part of the noble mansion 
of Blenheim, erected by her Majesty, and likewise 
settled upon his posterity, than thus to curtail of its 
fair proportion the annuity in like manner expressly 
settled at the instance of the House of Commons upon 
that posterity for the more honourable support of 
those very dignities to which the Honour and Manor 
of Woodstock and House of Blenheim had been previ- 

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374 


ously annexed; that that Parliament being well 
aware how very small an income was derivable from 
the lands then granted, as they scarcely exceed 
2,300 acres, and are almost all included within the 
actual boundary of the park, and aware, too, that 
to entail such exalted rank, and such a princely re- 
sidence, without the provision of any adequate means 
of sustaining them, would be to impose a burthen 
where they meant to confer a benefit, resolved to 
make such provision by permanently attaching to 
the title this annuity of 5,000 i. that this their 
resolution, as expressed in the Act, is inscribed 
upon the marble column erected in the park of 

oodstock, by Sarah, the first Duchess of Mari- 
borough, in order to record more fully the great and 
vlorious services rendered to the nation by the 
Duke, and the national gratitude therefor; that 
while that record remains true and just in respect 
of those services, it will be found to be a false 
record in respect of the national gratitude, if the 
Act of the last Session can be allowed to affect 
the annuity therein declared to have been settled for 
ever by the Parliament of Anne, and the inscription 
must be in that part obliterated, or a tablet must be 
appended, setting forth that the sum of 3,625/. must 
henceforth be read in lieu of the “ annuity of 
5,000/.” above inscribed; that this modification of 
the sum originally stated could never be con- 
templated by any foreigner of liberal mind without 
astonishment and regret, nor by any Englishman 
alive to the honour of his country, without a sense 
of the deepest humiliation ; that the Petitioner is 
unable to discover the slightest pretext for this 
direct contravention of the proclaimed objects of the 
Legislature which enacted this grant, except only 
that it is supposed to have been originally assessed, 
or liable to be assessed to the land tax of four shil- 
lings in the pound, which was then applicable to 
every kind of property, and that at all events this 
grant has been long subjected to the payment not 
only of that tax, but also of the two other taxes 
above named, of sixpence and one shilling in the 
pound ; but the Petitioner submits, that no justi- 
fication whatever can under any circumstances be 
thence derived for the permanent reduction of this 
grant, for each of these taxes was enacted for a 
temporary purpose, and neither of them was either 
intended or expected to survive the exigencies of the 
occasion when. s produced it; that if, therefore, it 
could be proved that this grant was with the know- 
ledge of Parliament assessed at its very origin to 
the four shilling tax, (a tax which every one then 
supposed would very shortly expire), that fact could 
furnish no argument of the intention of the Legisla- 
ture that the grant should be permanently reduced 
_ to four-fifths of its specified amount; that if the 
Legislature which enacted the grant not only knew 
of its liability to this temporary tax, but also ex- 

cted the tax to be made permanent, they were 
Sound, in common honesty, either to have protected 
it therefrom in express words, or to have truly de- 
scribed the grant as of an annuity of 4,000/., and 
not 5,000/.; that if such had been the understand- 
ing at that time, it cannot be doubted but that the 
Duke himself would have been solicitous to have 
the description of the grant made to correspond 
with the fact, in order that it might not appear to 
be so much larger than it either was, or was in- 
tended to be; that in proof of his conviction to 
the contrary, he provides by his will, in order that 
this annuity of 5,000 J. should devolve at once upon 
his successor in the title, that 5,000. per annum 
shall be secured to the Duchess for her life, by a rent- 
charge “ in lieu and stead of the said 5,000/. pen- 
sion per annum, if she shall think fit to accept the 
same in lieu as aforesaid ;” and he then allows her two 
years to make her election between these two annuities 
of 5,000/., an election which it cannot be conceived 
that the Duke would have offered if he could have 
imagined that one of these annuities was liable to a 


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A. 1837. 


permanent deduction of one-fifth of its amount; that 

in proof of the Duchess’s conviction that the annuit 

conferred by Parliament was not liable to any suc 
permanent deduction, her Grace decided to take 
that annuity in preference to the other which was 
expressly free of all deductions whatsoever ; that it 
can hardly be imagined that her Grace could have 
been induced, by any notion of the credit to be de- 
rived from the receipt of this Parliamentary pen- 
sion, to sacrifice 1,000/. a year for all the rest of 
her life, although she might have been content to 
submit to such deduction if expected to cease 
within a year or two, more especially as she must 
have been aware that the grant would have con- 
ferred equal lustre upon the memory of the great 
Duke if suffered to pass immediately to his heir, in 
accordance with his own desire; that from all these 
facts it is manifest that neither the Legislature 
which conferred this grant, nor the Duke who first 
received it, and who treated it in his will as equiva- 
lent to 5,0001. a year, nor the Duchess, who pre- 
ferred it to a clear rent-charge of 5,000/. a year, 
could have imagined that it would ever be subjected 
to a permanent reduction of one-fifth of that amount; 
that in the Act (5 Anne, c. 4, s. 2.) are the following 
words: “ And be it further Enacted, That the said 
annuity, or yearly waren hereby enacted to be 
‘one as aforesaid, shall be paid by the immediate 
ands of all and every the Commissioners, Post- 
masters, &amp;c., without any fees or charges to be de- 
manded or taken for paying the same, or any part 
thereof; and the payment of the said annuity, or 
yearly pension of 5,000/. hereby enacted to be 
paid as aforesaid, shall not at any time hereafter 
be stopped or delayed by any order or direction 
whatsoever ;” that this prohibition of the demand 
of -_ fees for the payment of this annuity, or any 
part thereof, raises a strong presumption that Par- 
liament intended it should pass entire and undi- 
minished into the hands of the Duke and his poste- 
rity, and at all events free from any pernianent 
impost, however small in amount, for upon no other 
— could the Commissioners of the Post-office 
nave been mulcted of those customary fees and 
charges to which they would have been entitled, but 
for this special exemption ; that as against the abun- 
dant evidence that such was the clear intention of 
the Parliament, no fair argument can be raised from 
the fact that this annual tax of four shillings in the 
pound has been so long and so unexpectedly renewed, 
so none can be derived from any supposed univer- 
sality of its application, seeing that it was, in fact, 
scarcely ever made available with respect to per- 
sonal property, as to which it was formally repealed 
about three or four years ago, and that, so far from 
its having been uniformly levied upon all pensions 
indiscriminately, every pension at all approaching 
to the character of this pension, upon which it is 
now proposed to entail this tax for ever, has been 
specially exempted from it, and from all other taxes 
whatsoever for the last sixty years; that so general 
was the belief that this pension must have been free 
from any such charges, that this supposed immunity 
was expressly cited as an authority in the House 
of Commons so long ago as the year 1778, on the 
—— for settling a similar pension upon the 
eirs of the great Earl of Chatham ; that among the 
pensions conferred for great and meritorious service 
to the country during the last half century, it may 
suffice to allude to those granted to the Earl Welson 
and to the Duke of Wellington, as more especially 
analogous to the pension settled upon John Duke 
of Marlborough ; and it cannot be deemed invidious 
to observe, that both of those pensions are for ever 
exempted from all those taxes to which it is now 
proposed this pension shall be for ever subjected ; 
that if pensions be only granted in reward of such 
service, the country will never find reason to com- 
plain of their number or amount; that Parliament 
might well distinguish such annuities in this respect 
as 





7 Witt. IV. 


as in all others from the common mass of pensions, 
of which some are conferred for no services, and 
some for worse than none; and from all of which 
these annuities differ as widely as a just payment 
can differ from a mere gratuitous largess; that the 
passive submission of the last Duke of Marlborough, 
during the application of these taxes to this pension, 
cannot in justice be permitted to prejudice the 
rights of his descendants, upon whom, as strictly 
as upon him, this pension was entailed, and on 
whose behoof he ought rather to have protected it 
from any such encroachments, however indifferent 
he might have been to them on his own account, 
whether that indifference arose from his expectation 
that every ensuing year might be the last of a tax 
granted originally dor a year only, and never re- 
newed for more than a year, or whether it arose 
from the large amount of that private fortune which 
he possessed independently of the Parliamentary 
grant, of which fortune a large portion was left to a 
younger son, and another large portion in trust, partly 
to pay off certain heavy incumbrances, and partly 
for various uses wholly unconnected with the descent 
of the Dukedom; but the Petitioner submits, that 
no omission of any kind on the part of the late 
Duke can possibly affect the right of his successors 
to receive this grant im all its integrity, according 
to the indisputable intention of the Legislature 
which entailed it upon them for ever: As to the 
application of the two minor duties, the Petitioner 
submits, that in addition to the objections above 
urged against the applicability of the land tax to 
this annuity, there are others peculiar to those 
duties; that they could not have been within the 
contemplation of the Parliament which made this 
grant, even in the only possible way in which the 
four shillings duty could have been contemplated by 
that Parliament, viz. as a temporary tax for a tem- 
porary purpose, because they had no existence even 
as such till long afterwards, the first in 1720, the 
second in 1758; that to the tax of sixpence in the 
pound imposed in 1720 upon “ salaries, wages, 
pensions or other payments from the Crown,” this 
grant was plainly not liable, inasmuch as it was not 
a payment from the Crown ; and although the word- 
ing of the Act of 1758, imposing an additional duty 
of one Shilling, was much more large and compre- 
hensive, this grant was as plainly beyond its reach, 
because all annuities granted in fee tail were pro- 
tected by a clause introduced in the following wl 
sion ; and yet in the year 1809, after this grant had 
remained 80 years untouched by the first of these 
taxes, and 50 years untouched by the second, an 
Act which was passed solely with reference to those 
former Acts, and which could have no proper appli- 
cation to any pensions not affected by them, was 
through inadvertence so expressed as to seem to 
affect this Grant ; that it is impossible that it could 
have been the deliberate purpose of that Parliament 
so to affect this Grant, because for thirty years pre- 
vious to that period all grants for the remuneration 
of great public services had been exempted from all 
taxes whatsoever; and the Petitioner begs to sub- 
mit, that after thirty years more, during which simi- 
lar immunities have been uniformly extended to all 
similar grants, it is peculiarly hard and unjust to le- 
gislate in a different spirit,and on a different principle 
towards the posterity of John Duke of Marlborough ; 
that this hardship must appear yet greater if regard 
be had to the vast depreciation of money since the 
date of this grant, which could not have been 
deemed excessive even at that time if it be looked 
at with reference to the services which it was in- 
tended to remunerate, and especially with reference 
to the estimation in which those “ unparallelled 
services” were then held by the Commons of Eng- 
land which apportioned the remuneration, and by 
the Legislature which confirmed it ; that in order to 
put a just and equitable construction upon that 


Act of Parliament, it is only necessary to consider 
Vox. 92. 





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375 


what must have been the real bond fide tention 
of those who passed it; that that intention is too 
loudly proclaimed in the Act itself, and too strongly 
corroborated by all the history of that eventful 
period, to leave the slightest ground to suspect that 
the specified reward was greater than that which it 
was intended to confer; that thereupon the Peti- 
tioner respectfully submits, that it is obviously im- 
possible now to substitute a permanent annuity of 
3,6251. for “ the said annuity of 5,000/” without 
directly contravening those intentions so declared 
and so sanctioned ; and praying the House to take 
the premises into their consideration, and to afford 
the Petitioner such relief therein as to their wisdom 
may seem meet. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to a 
Select Committee to examine into the allegations 
of fact contained therein. 

And a Committee was appointed of Mr. Granville 
Harcourt, Mr. Hume, Mr. Aglionby, Mr. Baines, 
Sir Robert Inglis, Mr. Poulett Scrope, Lord Vis- 
count Mahon, Sir Robert Price, the Marquis of 
Chandos, Mr. Tancred, Mr. O’ Connell, Sir a 
Canning, Sir James Graham, and Mr. Philip How- 
ard, with Power to send for persons, papers and 
records. 


Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 


A Petition of Prisoners for Debt, confined in the Imprisonment 
Debtors’ side of Horsemonger-lane Gaol, Surrey, pray- for Debt Bill. 


ing that the Imprisonment for Debt Bill may pass 
into a law, was presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of John Stevenson, surgeon, &amp;c., of the Apothecaries 
city of Limerick, praying the House to alter, amend Att Ireland.) 


or repeal so much of the Apothecaries Act of Ireland 
as will compel the Apothecaries’ Company of Lreland 
to recognize the diplomas or certified qualifications 
emanating from any of the colleges or corporate 
bodies of Great Britain, and further that all persons 
serving a regular apprenticeship to a duly qualified 
apothecary (no matter from what body he may hold 
his license) be entitled to the same privileges and 
advantages as if the said apprenticeship had been 
served with a licentiate of the Apothecaries Hall of 
Ireland, was presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Fable. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Garstang, praying Cotton. 


that the Tax on Cotton may be wholly and imme- 
diately repealed, was presented, and read ; and or- 
dered to he upon the Table. 


A Petition of Parishioners of Derr 
Galtrim and Kiltayle, praying that the 
(Ireland) Bill may pass into a law, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of John Cartman, Gentleman, Coroner Coroners. 


of the liberty of Ripon, in the county of York, com- 
plaining of the insufficient remuneration allowed to 
Coroners ; and praying the House to take into con- 
sideration the duties and remuneration of the office 
of Coroner, the means of enforcing the attendance 
of jurors, witnesses and others on inquests, and pro- 
viding a compensation for the same, and proper 
places for depositing bodies and holding inquisitions, 
and generally for remedying inconveniences expe- 
rienced by Coroners in discharge of their duties, was 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of Richard Radford Roe, of Killigny Richard 


House, in the county of Wexford, Esquire, Barrister- 
at-Law, complaining of Judicial oppressions exercised 
against him by the Judges and benchers of the Courts 
in Ireland, and praying for inquiry, was presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

3B4 A Message | 


Patrick, Poor Relief 
oor Relief (Ireland) Bill. 





Message from 
the Lords. 


Swansea 
Waterworks 


Bill, 


Butterhouse 
Green and 
Gorton Road 
Bill. 


Holme Reser- 
voirs Bill. 


Glasgow Road 
Bill. 


Antrim and 
Coleraine 
Roads Bill. 


Wakefield 
Waterworks 
Bill. 


Worcester 
Cattle Market 
Bill. 


Clon Forest 
Tnclosure Bill, 


Penitentiary 


(Milbank) Bill, 


Stourbridge 
Canal Bill, 


Angerstein’s 


Estate Bill. 


Answer to 
Addresses. 


East India 
Maritime 
Officers, 


376 


A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Farrar 

Sir Giffin Wilson : 
Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords have agreed to the several Bills fol- | 
lowing, without Amendment ; viz. | 

A Bill, intituled, An Act for better supplying with | 
Water the Town and Borough of Swansea, in the 
County of Glamorgan: 

A Bill, intituled, An Act for making and main- | 
taming a Turnpike Road from Butterhouse Green, 
in the County of Chester, to Thorneley-lane-end, 
the County of Lancaster : 

A Bill, intituled, An Act for making and main- 
taining certain Reservoirs in the several Townships | 
of Holme, Cartworth, Austonley, Upperthong, Wool- | 
dale and Hepworth, in the several Parishes of Kirk- | 
burton and Almondbury, in the West Riding of the 
County of York: 

A Bill, intituled, An Act for making and main- | 
taining a Road from the Road leading from Glasgow | 
to Carntyne, called Duke-street, to the East end of | 
Blackfriars-street, or Regent-street, in the said City | 
of Glasgow : | 

A Bill, intituled, An Act for maintaining, repair- | 
ing and amending Turnpike Roads from the Town | 
of Antrim, in the County of Antrim, towards Cole- | 
raine, in the County of Londonderry : | 
A Bill, intituled, An Act for better supplying with | 
Water the Town of Wakefield, and the Waigtaew- | 
hood thereof, in the West Riding of the County of 
York: 

A Bill, intituled, An Act for removing the Markets 
held in the City of Worcester, in the County of Wor- 
cester, for the Sale of Cattle, Horses, Sheep and 
Pigs, and for providing another Market-place in 
lieu thereof, and for providing for the better and 
more effectual draining the said City : 

A Bill, intituled, An Act for inclosing Lands in 
the Honor or Lordship and Forest of Clun, in the 
County of Salop : And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
Act to amend the Acts for regulating the General , 
Penitentiary at Milbank, with Amendments ; to | 
which Amendments the Lords desire the concurrence 
of this House: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
Act for making a Canal from the Stourbridge Navi- 
gation, near Brockmoor, in the Parish of Kingswin- 


! 
{ 





ford, in the County of Stafford, to the Oak Farm | 


Colliery, with a Branch. to the Standhills, both in 
the said Parish of Kingswinford, and County of 
Stafford, with Amendments ; to which Amendments 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House: | 
And also, 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
to enable John Angerstein, Esquire, to grant Build- 
ing and Repairing Leases of Lands and Heredita- | 
ments in the Parish of Grimsby, in the County of | 
Lincoln, and in the Parish of East Greenwich, in | 
the County of Kent,and to enable Amelia, the Wife | 
of the said John Angerstein, to grant similar Leases | 
of parts of the same Estates in the said Parish of | 
East Greenwich; to which the Lords desire the con- 
currence of this House :—And then the Messengers 
withdrew. 





Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer reported to the 
House, That their several Addresses of the 8th and 





12° Maiv. 
and | 





A. 1837. 


Officers of the East India Company’s late Maritime 
Service, whose claims to compensation have not been 
| admitted. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 


Table. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being put, Adjournment, 


' That this House will, at the rising of the House this 


day, adjourn till Wednesday next ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” to 
the end of the Question, in order to add the words 
“ leave be given to bring in a Bill to give publicity 
“ to the prices of working by Hand-loom Labour,” 
instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words pro- 
posed to be left out stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the old Lobby ; 

The Noes to the new Lobby. 

Tellers for the Yeas, / Mr. Robert Steuart, 
”? | Lord Seymour : 
Tellers for the Noes, { Mr. John Maxwell, 


Vee 
Harel, Ya, 
Mr. Aglionby : 
So it was resolved in the Athrmative. 


Resolved, That this House will, at the rising of the 
House this day, adjourn till Wednesday next. 


Mr. Fox Maule presented, pursuant to several Factories 
Addresses to His Majesty,—A Return of the Names = al 
and Situations of all the Mills in the Counties of =~ 
Lancaster and York in which, since the 6th July 
1836, the system of Relays of Children, or of work- 
ing by double sets has been continuously observed. 

Statements on Criminal Law, prepared by direc- Criminal Law. 
tion of the Secretary of State for the Home Depart- 
ment. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 


| Table. 


The House was moved, That the Order made upon Churches aud 
the 21st day of April last, That there be laid before C™?** 
this House, an Account respecting the Thirty-four 
Parishes alluded to in the Second Report of the 


_ Church Commissioners, as containing a Population 
of 1,137,000, with Church room only for 101,682 ; 


setting forth the Name of each Parish, its Popula- 
tion by the last Census, the Number of Parochial 
Churches and Chapels, and Proprietary Chapels, 
the Number of Sittings, distinguishing the Free 
Sittings, and the Number of officiating Clergy em- 
ployed therein :—And, a Similar Account with re- 
spect to the Thirty-eight Parishes and Districts in 
Lancashire, the Twenty Parishes or Districts in the 
Diocese of York, and the Sixteen Parishes in the 


Diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, alluded to in the 


same Report, might be read; and the same being 
read ; 

Ordered, That a Return to the said Order be laid 
before this House forthwith. 


A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Farrar and Message from 
Sir Giffin Wilson : iene 
Mr. Speaker, 
The Lords desire a Conference with this House Lower Canada. 
on Thursday next, at five o’clock, in the Committee 
Room No. 5, upon the subject matter of the Reso- 
lutions relative to the Government of Lower Canada, 





1ith days of this instant May (that His Majesty communicated to them at a Conference on Monday, 
would be graciously pleased to give directions that ; the 1st day of this instant May:—And then the 
the Papers therein mentioned might be laid before Messengers withdrew. 
this House), had been presented to His Majesty; Resolved, That this House doth agree to a Con- 
and that His Majesty had commanded him to ac- | ference with the Lords, as desired by their Lord- 
quaint this House, that He will give directions | ships. : 
accordingly. | And the Messengers were again called in; and 
| Mr. Speaker acquainted them therewith :—And then 
Mr. Vernon Smith presented, pursuant to Order, | they again withdrew. , 
—Copy of Correspondence between the President | 
of the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of } 
India in February and March 1835, and those _ mittee on the Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill ; 


Poor Relief 
(Ireland) Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 


And 





7 Wit. IV. 


And a Motion being made, and the Question being | 
put, That it be an nec to the Committee, 
That they have Power to make provision therein, 
for settlement, so as more justly to apportion the 
pecuniary charges to be incurred and levied under 
the name of Poor Rates; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 


Tellers for ws Mr. Lucas, 1 68 
Yeas, Sir Edmond Hayes: no 
Tellers for the { Mr. Robert Steuart, } 120 
Noes, Sir Andrew Leith Hay: é. 


So it passed in the Negative. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Saturday morning ; 


Sabbati, 13° die Maiti, 1837: 


Ways and The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
Means, into the Committee of Ways and Means. 
(In the Committee.) 
Exchequer 1. Resolved, That, towards making good the 
Bills, Supply granted to His Majesty, the sum of Eleven 
millions be raised by Exchequer Bills, for the ser- 
vice of the year 1837. 
East India 2. Resolved, That, towards making good the 
Half Pay. | Supply granted to His Majesty, the sum of Sixty 


thousand pounds be annually paid into the Ex- 
chequer by the United Company of Merchants of 
England, trading to the East Indies, towards the 
4 or of Retirmg Pay, Pensions and Allowances 
to His Majesty’s Forces serving in India, in pur- 
suance of an Act of the Fourth year of his late 
Majesty, shall be carried to, and made part of the 
Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great 
Britain and Ireland. 

3. Resolved, That, towards making good the 
Supply granted to His Majesty, the Balance now in 
the Exchequer, or which may be hereafter paid into 
the same = the Governor and Company of the 
Bank of England, pursuant to an Act of the fifty- 
sixth year of his late Majesty King George the 
Third, intituled, “An Act to authorize the advancing 
for the Public Service a proportion of the Balance 
that shall remain from time to time in the Bank of 
England, for the payment of Dividends on account 
of the Public Debt, for Lottery Prizes or Benefits, 
not claimed, and Principals of Stocks and Annu- 
ities remaining unclaimed ; provided that if at any 
time the said Balance shall be reduced to a less 
sum than One hundred thousand pounds then so 
much of the money advanced by the said Governor 
and Company shall be repaid to them as shall be 
equal to the sum by which the said Balance shall 
be less than the said sum of One hundred thousand 
pounds,” shall be carried to and made part of the 
Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great 
Britain and Ireland. 

Exchequer Bills 4. Resolved, That, towards making good the 

(Public Works.) Supply granted to His Majesty, any sum or sums 
which may have been, since the 5th of April 1837, 
or which may be hereafter paid into the Exchequer, 
in respect of Exchequer Bills, issued pursuant to the 
Acts of the fifty-seventh year of his late Majesty 
King George the Third, and of the third year of 
his late Majesty King George the Fourth, and of 
the first and second, and fourth and fifth years of 
His present Majesty, authorizing the issue of Ex- 
chequer Bills for carrying on ‘Public Works and 
Fisheries in the United Kingdom, and pursuant to 
the Act of the first and second years of His present 
Majesty, for the Relief of Persons who sustained 
Losses in the West Indies, shall be carried to, and 
made part of the Consolidated Fund of the United 
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 


Bank Balances. 


12°—13° Mair. 





Resolutions to be reported. 
Vou. 92. 


377 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had come to several 
Resolutions. 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon 
Wednesday next. 

Mr. Bernal also acquainted the House, That he 
was directed to move, That the Commjttee may have 
leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Benefices _ 
reading of the Benefices Plurality Bill ; Plurality Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Summary 
reading of the Summary Convictions (Juvenile Offen- a 
ders) Bill ; Otiendess) Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Friday, the 2d day of June next. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to take Shire Halls Bill. 
into further consideration the Report on the Shire 
Halls Bill; and the Amendments were read, and 
agreed to; and an Amendment was made to the Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed, and read the third time upon Wednes- 
day next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Wills Bill. 
reading of the Wills Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Coroners’ 
mittee on the Coroners’ Inquests’ Expenses Bill; —_ Inquests’ po 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday Expenses Bile 


next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Concealment 

into a Committee upon the Concealment of Births of Births Bill. 
Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal re- 
ported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill, and had directed him to report the same with- 
out Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be ingrossed ; and read 
the third time upon Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- supply. 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Municipal 
into a Committee upon the Municipal Corporations at ery 
(Scotland) Bill ; and, after some time spent therein, “we anual 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Bernal re- (No. 309-) 
ported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Bernal reported the Bill accordingly ; and 
the Report was ordered to be taken into further con- 
sideration upon Wednesday, the 31st day of this 
instant May; and the, Bill, as amended, to be 
printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Burehs 
mittee on the Burghs of Barony (Scotland) Bill ; — ” 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, (Setlsn@) Bill 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Public Works 
mittee on the Public Works (Ireland) Bill ; (Ireland) Bitl. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Imprisonment 
mittee on the Imprisonment for Debt Bill ; for Debt Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
3c The 





Registration 
and Marriages 
Bill. 


Supply 
(7th April.) 


Indemnity Bill. 


Newark 
Estate Bill. 


Church 
Building 
Commission. 


Turnpike Acts 
Continuance 
(Treland) Bill. 


No. 310. 


First Fruits aud 
Tenths. 


Parliameutary 
Electors Bill. 


No. 311, 


378 12°—13°—17° Maii. A. 1837. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second | on the Admission of Freemen: And the same was 


reading of the Registration and Marriages Bill; | 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for receiving the | 
Report from the Committee of Supply ; 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon Wed- 
nesday next. 


The ingrossed Bill to indemnify such Persons in 
the United Kingdom as have omitted to qualify 
themselves for Offices and Employments, and for 
extending the Time limited for those purposes respec- 
tively ; to permit such Persons in Great Britain as 
have omitted to make and file Affidavits of the ex- 
ecution of Indentures of Clerks to Attornies and 
Solicitors to make and file the same; and to allow 
Persons to make and file such Affidavits, although 
the Persons whom they served shall have neglected 
to take out their Annual Certificates, was, according 
to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act to indemnify such Persons in the 
United Kingdom as have omitted to qualify them- 
selves for Offices and Employments, and for ex- 
tending the Time limited for those purposes respec- 








tively, until the Twenty-fifth day of March One 
thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, and for 
the Relief of Clerks to Attornies and Solicitors, in 
certain cases. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Mr. Edward John Stanley reported the Newark 
Estate Bill; and the Amendments were read, and 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time upon Wednes- 
day next. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Accounts of the Sums expended under the direc- 


tion of the Commissioners for building Churches ; |: 


distinguishing the Amount contributed by the Public 
from that raised by Local Rate, Subscription, Loan 
or other Sources ; stating the several Churches and 
Chapels, the Amount expended on each, and the 
extent of Accommodation in Pews and Free Sittings: 
—Ofall Sums advanced on Loan by the Church 
Building Commissioners, and which are now due or 
in course of payment :—Of all Sums borrowed from | 
the Commissioners for the issuing of Exchequer 





Bills for building, enlarging or repairing Churches : 
-—Of any Sums now disposable by the Commis- | 
sioners for building Churches:—Of the the total 
Amount provided by Parliament, and to be expended 
by the Commissioners for building Churches :—And, 
Of the Number of Churches and Chapels in which the 
Stipends of the Ministers have been settled, the 
estimated Rental of the Pews therein, and the net 
average Stipend of each Minister. 


Mr. Robert Steuart presented a Bill for continu- 
ing, for a limited time, the several Acts for regulating 
the Turnpike Roads in Jreland, which will expire 
with the present or with the next Session of Par- 
liament: And the same was read the first time; and 
orderei to be read a second time upon Wednesday 
next; and to be printed. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Copy of the Royal Instructions given to the Com- 
missioners for taking the “ Valor Ecclesiasticus,” in 
the time of Henry the Eighth, for the rating of First 
Fruits and Tenths. 


_Mr. Fox Maule presented a Bill to regulate the 
Times of Payment of Rates and Taxes by Parlia- 
mentary Electors, and to abolish the Stamp Duty 





read the first time ; and ordered to be read a second 
time upon Wednesday next ; and to be printed. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Lunatic 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased Asylums. 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, an Account of the Number of Lunatics and 
Idiots, not Paupers, confined in Private Asylums in 
each County in England and Wales. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this Geese as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Lunatic 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased — and 
to give directions, that there be laid before this _ 
House, Tables, showing the Number of Pauper 
Lunatics and Idiots in England and Wales, with 
their average Weekly Cost per head :—Showing the 
Number of Pauper Lunatics and Idiots m 436 
Unions ; distinguishing the Number of Lunatics 
believed to be incurable, and the Number of Idiots 
who have been so from Birth :—And, an Account, 
showing the Weekly Rate of Expenditure for relief 
of the Poor in the year ended 25th March 1834, 
in England and Wales, in which the Counties are 
placed, according to their state of pauperism ; with 
a Statement of the Number of Pauper Lunatics and 
Idiots, as extracted from a Return prepared in pur- 
suance of an Address of the House of Commons of 
5th July 1836. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this ea as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Angerstein’s Estate Bill was read the first time ; Angerstein’s 
and ordered to be read a second time. Estate Bill. 


And then the House, having continued to sit till 
a quarter of an hour before one of the clock 


on Saturday morning, adjourned till Wednes- 
day next. 








Mercurii, 17° die Mau; 
Anno 7° Willielmi IV Regis, 1837. 
PRAYERS. 
R. Chalk, Chief Clerk to the Ecclesiastical Ecclesiastical 
Commissioners for England, was called inRevenue_ 
and at the bar presented, pursuant to Order,—Copies ©°™!™ 
of the Questions transmitted to the several Bene- 


ficed Clergymen in England and Wales by the Com- 
missioners of Ecclesiastical Revenue, and of such 


portions of the Answers thereto from the Clergy of 


the Diocese of Chester as relate to Population and 
Income :—And then he withdrew. 


Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Campbell, from the Court of Directors of East India 
the East India Company, was called in; and at the Company, 
bar presented, pursuant to the directions of an Act 
of Parliament,—List, No. 66, specifying the Par- 
ticulars of the Compensation proposed to be granted 
to certain Persons late of the Maritine Service of 
the East India Company, under an arrangement 
sanctioned by the Board of Commissioners for the 
Affairs of India, and laid before the Honourable 
the House of Commons on the 26th February 1835: 

—And then he withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 

Table. 


Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant Glasgow Writ. 
to the Clerk of the Crown, to make out a new Writ 
for the electing of a Commissioner to serve in ,this 
present Parliament for the City of Glasgow, in the 
room of James Oswald, Esquire, who, since his elec- 
tion for the said City, hath accepted the office of 
Steward 





Newe 
upon: 
Impr 
Bill. 


Angi 
Esta 


Lon 
Brig 
Rail 
(Ste 
Line 


We 


th -ehhe-k“P) 





Newcastle- 
upon-Tyne 
Improvement. 
Bill. 


Angerstein’s 
Estate Bill. 


London and 
Brighton 
Railway Bill 
(Stephenson’s 
Line.) 


Welland Outfall 


Drainage Bill. 


Hartlepool 
Pier Bill. 


Glasgow, 
Paisley, and 
Greenock 
Railway Bill, 


Collier Dock 
and Surrey 
Canal Bill. 


7 Wiut. IV. 17° Mazz. | 379 


Steward or Bailiff of His Majesty’s three Chiltern 
Hundreds of Stoke, Desborough and Bonenham, in 
the county of Buckingham. 


Mr. Ord reported from the Committee on the 
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Improvement Bill; and to 
whom a Petition against the said Bill was referred ; 
That no person appeared in support of the said 
Petition; and that the Committee had examined 
the allegations of the Bill, and found the same to 
be true ; and had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto ; and the Amendments were 
read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


Angerstein’s Estate Bill was read a second time ; 
and committed to Mr. Ord and the Kent List. 


A Petition of James Sebastian Yeats, Secretary 
to the Provisional Committee for forming a Railway 
from the South-eastern Railway to Brighton, with 
branches to Lewes and Newhaven, to be called 
“The South-eastern, Brighton, Lewes and New- 
haven Railway,” complaining of the methods which 
have been adopted to obtain signatures to the Sub- 
scription Contract for the London and Brighton 
Railway (Stephenson’s Line); and praying the House 
to cause these violations of their privileges to be 
inquired into, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be taken into 
consideration upon Friday next. 

Ordered, That the Petition be printed. 


A Petition of the Company of Proprietors of the 
Fosdyke Bridge, in the county of Lincoln, praying 
that they may be heard, by themselves, their counsel 
or agents, against certain parts of the Welland Out- 
fall Drainage Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


Ordered, That the Committee on the Hartlepool 
Pier Bill be revived ; and that they have leave to sit 
and proceed To-morrow. 


Mr. Patrick Stewart reported from the Com- 
mittee on the Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Rail- 
way Bill; and to whom several Petitions against 
the said Bill were referred; That the Standing 
Orders relative to Bills for making Railways had 
been complied with; and that they had con- 
sidered the said Petitions, and had heard counsel in 
support of several of them, and had also heard 
counsel in favour of the Bill; and that the Com- 
mittee had inquired into the several matters required 
by the Resolutions of the House, of the 1st day of 
March 1836; and had examined the allegations of 
the Bill, and found the same to be true; and had 
gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


A Petition of Directors of the Commercial Dock 
Company, and Proprietors of shares therein, pray- 
ing that they may be heard, by their counsel or 
agents, against certain parts of the Collier Dock 
and Surrey Canal Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to 
the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by their counsel or agents, upon their Pe- 
tition, if they think fit ; and counsel heard, in favour 
of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


NorthMetropo- A Petition of the Corporation of the London 


litan Cem t 
— eG 


emetery Company, praying that they may be 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, against 
VoL. 92. 





certain parts of the North Metropolitan Cemetery 
Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of Clergy and Tithe-owners of Salop, Ellesmere and 
Denbigh and Chester, praying that the Ellesmere Chester Canal 
and Chester Canal Bill may not pass into a law son 
as it now stands, was presented, and read, and 
referred to the Committee on the Bill. 


_ Mr. Emerson Tennent reported from the Com- Belfast Harbour 
mittee on the Belfast Harbour (No. 2.) Bill; and (No 2.) Bill. 
to whom several Petitions against the said Bill were 
referred ; That they had heard counsel in support of 
several of the: said Petitions; and had also heard 
counsel in favour of the Bill; and that they had 
examined the allegations of the Bill, and found the 
same to be true; and had gone through the Bill, 
and made Amendments thereunto. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration gtourbridge 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, in- Canal Bill 
tituled, An Act for making a Canal from the Stour- 
bridge Navigation, near Bicciane: in the Parish of 
Kingswinford, in the County of Stafford, to the Oak 
Farm Colliery, with a Branch to the Standhills, both 
in the said Parish of Kingswinford, and County of 
Stafford; and the same were read, as follow: 

Pr. 9. 1. 5. After “ mentioned” insert “ nor 
upon the lands numbered 61 and 62, on the said 
“ Map or Plan.” 

Pr. 18. 1.14. After “ reference”. insert “ and 
* Se from or out of any part of a certain 

rook or rivulet called Holbeche Brook, running 
into the River Smerton, or from or out of any 
part of a certain brook, or rivulet or stream, 
called Dawley Brook, also running into the River 
‘ Smerton.” 

. Pr. 20, 1.22. After “ works” insert Clause 
(A.) 

Ciause (A.) “ Provided always, and be it fur- 
ther Enacted, That nothing in this Act contained 
shall extend to authorize and empower the said 
Company to take or use any water which shall be 
raised or drained by means of any engine, fire- 
engine, machine or level already or hereafter to 
be erected, made or opened in or upon any lands 
or mines now belonging to the Trustees of the 
“ Will of the late Earl of Dudley.” 

Pr. 20. 1. 25. After “ mines” insert “ except 
the mines now belonging to the Trustees of the 
“ Will of the late Earl of Dudley.” 

Pr. 22. 1. 37. After “ mines” insert “ except as 
aforesaid.” 

Pr. 23. 1. 25. Leave out “ Canals” and insert 
“ Canal.” 

Pr. 97. 1. 26. After “ gotten” insert “ under 
“ the said Canal, or within the distance of Twelve 
“« yards thereof.” 

Pr. 98. 1. 7. After “ hereafter ” insert “on giv- 
ing Twenty-four hours’ previous notice thereof.” 

Pr. 100. 1.18. After “ Act” insert Clause (B.) 

Cxiavse (B.) “ Provided always, and be it fur- 
“ ther Enacted, That nothing in this Act contained 
“ shall extend or be construed to extend to re 
strict or control the respective proprietors, lessees 
or tenants of any mines or minerals lying at any 
greater distance than Twelve yards from the said 
Canal from working and getting such mines in the 
same manner to all intents and purposes as they 
could or might have done in case this Act had not 
“ been passed.” 

Pr. 113. 1. 25. Leave out “ his” and insert 

“ their.” 
Pr. 143. 1. 32. After “ the ” insert “ “4 or.” 
3C 2 r. 154 


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nan An 


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n 





Sligo Salmon 
Fisheries Bill. 


Manchester 
Gas, 


Church Rates 
Regulation. 


Government 
of Ireland, 


Poor Law Act. 


Huddersfield 
Election, 





380 17° Mai. 


Pr. 154. 1.3. Leave out “ Canals” and imsert 
“ Canal.” 

Pr, 203. 1. 26. After “ the” insert “ said.” 

Pr. 231. 1. 18. After “aforesaid” insert “ Pro- 
“ vided always, That nothing herein contained shall 
“ authorize the said Company to make use of any 
“ waste lands or grounds under the powers last 
aforesaid, which at the passing of this Act may 
“ belong to the Trustees of the Will of the late 
Earl of Dudley.” 
The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Sir Oswald Mosley do carry the 
Bill to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this 
House hath agreed to the Amendments made by 
their Lordships. . 


~ 
wn 


- 
a 


An ingrossed Bill to enable Joshua Edward Cooper, 
Esquire, to establish and protect a Salmon Fishery 
upon the Lakes and Rivers of Owenmore and Arrow, 
and also within the Bay of Ballisodare, in the County 
of Sligo, in Ireland, was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Emerson Tennent do carry the 
Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


A Petition of Directors of the Gas Works of Man- 
chester, for leave to present a Petition for leave to 
bring in a Bill to alter and amend several Acts for 
better lighting with Gas the Town of Manchester, 
was presented, and read; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


Petitions from Reading ; — Benington ;— Stick- 
ford ; —Leake ;— Leverton ;—Branstone ;—Harby ; 
—Perth;— Willingham ;— Eaton ;— Riby ;— Ingold- 
mells-with-Addlethorpe:— Langton ;— Cossington ;— 
Waltham ; — Dunston ; — and, Moderator of the 
Synod of Lothian and Tweeddale; praying that the 
proposed measure relative to Church Rates may not 
receive the sanction of the House,—were presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from Stockport ;— Barbican Chapel, 
London ;— New Nicholas Chapel, Ipswich ;—Bent- 
worth ;— New Broad-street Chapel, London ; — 
Saint Botolph without, Aldgate; —Landport Chapel, 
Portsea (Baptists);—Chairman of the Bucks Asso- 
ciation ef Baptist Churches ; —- Langport ;— Claver- 
ing Place, Newcastle-upon- Tyne vasiephiadans’, 
— Newcastle-upon- Tyne (Chairman of a Meeting) ;— 
Drumeliffe ; -— Kilcolman;—and, Ipswich ; praying 
that the said proposed measure may receive the 
sanction of the House,—were also presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Creagh and Tullow ;— Neale ;— 
Castletownroche and Ballyhooley ;— Murragh ;— 
Reynaghand Gallen;— Wherry ;— Lusmagh;—Birr ; 
—Clonmacnoide ;— Philipstown and Killelonfert ; 
— Killeden ;—Drumeliffe ;—Kilcolman, (two Peti- 
tions) ;—and, Zralee and Ardfert; praying the House 
to support His Majesty’s Miisters in their govern- 
ment of Ireland,—were presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Gawthorp ;— and, the Union of 
Kendal; praying for the repeal or amendment of 
the Poor Law Act,—-were presented, and read ; and 
referred tothe Select Committee on the Poor Law Act. 


A Petition of Richard Oastler, Esquire, of Fixby, 
late a candidate for the representation of the borough 
of Huddersfield in Parliament, was presented, and 
read ; setting forth, That at. the last Election for a 
Member of Parliament for the Borough of Hudders- 
field, the Petitioner was a candidate for its repre- 
sentation, and lost his election by a majority of fifty 
votes ; that the Petitioner charges, as being uncon- 
stitutional and illegal, the presence of a large body 
of the British army within the precincts of the bo- 
rough during the time of polling on Saturday, the 
6th day of May 1837, and that, in the words of a 


A. 1837. 
former Speaker of the House (Mr. Speaker Onslow), 


“ what has been done is against one of the most 
essential parts of the law of this Kingdom ;” that 
the Petitioner is informed a Resolution of the House 
exists of so long a date as the 17th November 1645, 
declaring “ that all Elections of any Knight, Citizen 
or Burgess to sit in Parliament shall be made without 
any interruption or molestation by any commander, 
governor or soldier ;” and that, by another Order or 
Resolution of the House, dated 22d December 1741, 
it was declared, “ That the presence of a regular 
body of soldiers at an Election of Members to serve 
in Parliament, is an infringement of the liberties of 
the subject, a manifest violation of the freedom of 
elections, and an open defiance of the laws and con- 
stitution of this Kingdom ;” therefore the Petitioner 
cannot doubt but that the House will, for the sake 
of securing hereafter the purity of election, and that 
an inquiry should take place into the facts of the 
case, and afterwards deal with it in such way as the 
rights of the Members of the House and their con- 
stituents may require; and praying that the House 
will make such inquirjes, and proceed in such way 
with regard to the late Election at Huddersfield, as 
the laws of the land, and the Orders of the House, 
may direct, evenif by so doing the election of Edward 
Ellice, junior, for the Borough of Huddersfield should 
be declared null and void; and, as the Petitioner is 
moved to petition the House purely on constitutional 
principles, the Petitioner implores that the House 
will be pleased to direct that His Majesty’s Attorney 
General be forthwith instructed to conduct the case 
of the Petitioner at the public expense, it being, in 
the view of the Petitioner, a question essentially of 
a public nature, and, again to use the words of Mr. 
Speaker Onslow, “ for the freedom of which every 
Briton ought to be ready to suffer any thing.” 

Ordered, That the said Petition do lie upon the 
Table. 


ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of Inhabitants of JVeilston, praying that 
that town may be included in the provisions of the 
said Bill, was also presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


—Stewarton ;— Portsmouth ;—Stalybridge ;—Hun- 
gerford ;— Dunfermline ;—and, Ministers and Elders 
of the Scottish Presbytery in London ; praying that 
the Lord’s Day Bill may be permitted to go into a 
Committee of the whole House,—were presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


(Scotland) Bill may not pass into a law as it now 
stands, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 





a law for rating to the relief of the Poor the Owners 
of small Tenements instead of the Occupiers,—were 
presented, and read; and referred to the Select 
Committee on the Poor Law Act. 


| Mills of Messrs. Taylor and Marsh, Haslingden, and 


Taylor and Sons, Bolton-le-Moors, praying the House 
to restrict the actual working of Operatives in all 
Mills and Factories to Ten hours per day for five 
| days of the weck, and eight on the Saturday, was 
presented, and read ; and ordered tolie upon the Table. 





| 
{ 


| The Order of the day being read, for the Com- East India 


‘mittee on the East India Maritime Officers Bill; 

| Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday, 
the 14th day of June next, resolve itself into the said 

; Committee. 7 

1e 





Petitions from Maybole;—and, Dalbeattie; pray- Burghs 
ing that the Burghs of Barony (Scotland) Bill may of Barony 
pass into a law,—were presented, and read; and es aa 


Petitions from Liverpool ; — Wainfleet ;— Hyde ; Lord's Day Bil. 


A Petition of the Provost, Baillies, Treasurer and Prisons ™ 
Councillors of Paisley, praying that the Prisons (Scotland) Bill 


Petitions from Dulverton Union;—- Williton Union ; Rating of 
—and, Langport Union; praying the House to pass Tenements. 


A Petition of Operatives employed in the Cotton Factories. 





awe tol eet 


Bonded Corn 
Manufacture 
Bill. 


First Report on 
Fictitious Votes 
(Ireland.) 


No, 308. 


Education 
(Ireland.) 


Longford 
County 
Election. 


No. 319. 


East India 
Sugar. 


Friendly 
Societies .Act. 


Sheriff and 
Burgh Courts 
(Scotland) 5 
and, Recovery 
of Tenements 
Bills. 


Dorchester 
Labourers. 


Municipai 
Corporations 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Burghs of 
Barony (Scot. 
land) Bill, 


Lough Swilly 
and Lough 
Foyle Drainage 
Bill, 


7 Wit. IV. 


The Order for reading a second time, upon Wed- 
nesday next, the Bonded Corn Manufacture Bill, 
was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday, the 14th day of June next. 


Lord Granville Somerset reported from the Select 
Committee appointed to inquire how far the inten- 
tions of the aati Bill are defeated, by creating 
and registering Fictitious and improper Votes in 
Ireland; and who were empowered to report the 
Minutes of the Evidence taken before them from time 
to time to the House ; That they had made Progress 
in the matters to them referred; and had directed 
him to report the Minutes of the Evidence taken 
before them. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Edderton, praying 
that the present system of National Education in 
Ireland may not be persisted in, was presented, and 
read; and referred to the Select Committee on Plan 
of Education (Ireland.) * 


Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken 
before the Select Committee on the Longford County 
Election Petitions, which were presented upon Wed- 
nesday last, be printed. 


A Petition of Members of the Chamber of Com- 
merce at Madras, praying the House to pass a Bill 
which may secure to the districts and dependencies 
of Madras the same option or privilege with regard 
to the exportation of Sugar as is now given to Fort 
William and its dependencies, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Thomas Champion, praying for the 
amendment of the Friendly Societies Act, was pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of William Theobald, of the Inner 
Temple, Barrister-at-Law, praying that the Sheriff 
and Burgh Courts (Scotland) Bill; and, Recovery 
of Tenements Bill, may not pass into law, was pre- 
sented, and read; and pHa to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Worthing, praying 
the House to adopt measures to ensure the safe and 
speedy return of the Dorchester Labourers to their 
families and homes, was presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from the Provost of Kilmarnock ;—and, 
Dean of Guild of Aberdeen; praying that the Muni- 
cipal Corporations (Scotland) Bill may not pass into 
a law,—were presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Mauchline, praying 
that the Burghs of Barony (Scotland) Bill may pass 
into a Jaw, with a Proviso that the whole of the 
rate-payers may have a control over the assessment 
proposed to be levied under the said Bill, was also 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 

A Petition of Magistrates, Councillors and Inha- 
bitants of the village of Galston, praying that the 
said Bill may pass into a law, and that, instead of 
the Five pound franchise, the elective power may be 
conferred on all who are liable to pay assessment, 
was also presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of the Master and Wardens of the 
Guild or Fraternity of the Body of Christ of the 
Skinners of the city of London, commonly called 
The Skinners’ Company, praying that they may be 

Voz. 92. 


17° Maiz. 





381 


heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, against 
certain parts of the Lough Swilly and Lough Foyle 
Drainage Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of Commissioners for paving, cleansing, London and 
&amp;c., the East Division of the Borough of Southwark, Brighton 
praying that they may be heard, by themselves, (Hemi: Line). 
their counsel or agents, against certain parts of the 
London and Brighton Railway Bill (Rennie’s Line), 
was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to 
the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Saint Olave, South- Land Tax. 
wark, praying the House to take immediate steps 
towards some legislative enactment, which will effect 
an equalization of the unredeemed Land Tax in 
England and Wales, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Members of the Radical Club, and Vote by Ballot. 
others (two Petitions) ;—and, Tullamoore; praying 
for the adoption of Vote by Ballot at Elections of 
Members to serve in Parliament,—were presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Cumnock, praying Household 
the House to extend the Elective Suffrage to every Suftee. 
Householder, was presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Keighley, praying Universal 
for the adoption of Universal Suffrage, Annual Par- Suffrage, &amp;e. 
liaments and Vote by Ballot, was presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Stonehouse, praying Universal 
the House to amend the Reform Acts, and so to S“rage- 
extend the Elective Franchise that every male above 
twenty-one years of age, of sane mind, and in posses- 
sion of his civil privileges as a subject, be entitled to 
vote in the Election of Members to serve in Parlia- 
ment, was presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the ‘Table. 


A Petition of W. H. Ashurst and H. S. Chapman, Printed 
praying that the people may be allowed to present Petitions. 
printed Petitions to the House, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Land-owners and Farmers in the Montrose_ 
county of Forfar, or ay, ay and Importers of Harbour Bill. 
grain and other commodiiies at the Harbour of 
Montrose, in the said county, praying that they may 
be heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
against certain parts of the Montrose Harbour Bill, 
was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


Rankine’s Estate Bill was read the first time ; and Rankine’s 
ordered to be read a second time. Estate Bill 


A Petition of Members of the Edinburgh Com Criminal Law. 
mittee of the Society for diffusing information on 
Capital Punishments, praying that the punishment 
of Death may be restricted in future to the crime of 
Murder, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


3c3 A Petitior 





Bankrupts’ 
Estates 


382 


A Petition of the Chamber of Commerce and 


(Scotland) Bill Manufactures of Edinburgh, praying that the Bank- 


American 


Steam Naviga- 
tion Company 


Bill. 


Agricultural 


aud Commercial 


Bank, Ireland 


(No, 2.) 


Agricultural 


and Commercial 


rupts’ Estates (Scotland) Bill may not pass into a law, 
was ens, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of Directors of the Bristol General 
Steam Navigation Company, praying that they may 
be heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
against certain parts of the American Steam Navi- 
gation Company Bill, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Shareholders in the Agricultural 
and Commercial Bank of Jreland, resident in the 
town of Ballina, taking notice of the application 
for leave to bring in the Agricultural and Commercial 
Bank Ireland (No. 2.) Bill, and praying that such 
Bill may not pass into a law, was presented, and 
read ; and referred to the Select Committee on Pe- 
titions for Private Bills. 


Petitions from Shareholders in the Agricultural 


Beak and Commercial Bank of Jreland resident in Mallow ; 
ank (Ireland.) 


Fast India 
Maritime 
Officers. 


Newspapers. 


Tithes 
(Ireland.) 


Glasgow and 
Ayr Railway 
Bill, 


Cilester and 
Birkenhead 
Railway Bill. 





—and, Castlebar; praying the House to extend 
support and protection to the Agricultural and Com- 
mercial Bank of [reland,—were presented, and read ; 
and referred to the Select Committee on Joint Stock 


Banks. 


A Petition of Charles Pennington, late an Officer 
in the East India Company’s Maritime Service, 
praying the House to pass a law to enable the East 
India Company, under the control of the Board of 
Commissioners for the affairs of India, to grant 
compensation to such of their Maritime Officers at 
present excluded from compensation as had served 
ten years and upwards on the 13th of August 1834, 
and had not abandoned the service, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Members of the Edinburgh Radical | 
Association, praying for the repeal of the Stamp 
Duty on Newspapers, was presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Tullamoore ;— Churchtown ;—and, 
Aglis; praying for the abolition of Tithes in Jre- 
land,—were presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


The House proceeded to take into further con- 
sideration the Report which, upon the 8th day of 
this instant May, was made from the Committee on 
the Glasgow and Ayr Railway Bill, printed Copies 
of the Bill having been delivered at the door upon 
Friday last; and the Amendments, as far as Clause 
12, B. being read a second time, were agreed to. 

Clause 12, B. (for preventing travelling on the Rail- 
way on the Lord’s Day), the next Amendment, 
being read a second time ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That this House doth agree with the 
Committee in the said Amendment ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 

Tellers for the f Sir Andrew Agnew, 

Yeas, L Mr. Cumming Bruce: 

Tellers for the f Dr. Bowring, 

Noes, Mr. Borthwick : 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Then the subsequent Amendments, being read 
a second time, were agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed. 


on 
—_ 


ae ae 
rs 


_The House proceeded to take into further con- 
sideration the Report which, upon the 8th day of 
this instant May, was made from the Committee on 


17° Marz. 


| day of this instant May, be printed. 








A. 1837. 


the Chester and Birkenhead Railway Bill, printed 
Copies of the Bill having been delivered at the door 
upon Friday last; and the Amendments were read, 
and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 


ingrossed. 


The House proceeded to take into further con- Dublin and 
sideration the Report which upon the 3d day of Drogheda 
this instant May was made from the Committee on #!sy Bill. 
the Dublin and Drogheda Railway Bill, printed 
Copies of the Bill having been delivered at the door 
upon Saturday, the 6th day of this instant May ; 

; and the Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 

ingrossed. 


The House proceeded to take into further con- Kilmarnock 
sideration the Rent which, upon the 4th day of and Troon 
this instant May, was made from the Committee on ®*!!"*y Bil 
the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway Bill, printed 
Copies of the Bill having been delivered at the door 
upon Wednesday last; and the Amendments were 
read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 


ingrossed. 


The House proceeded to take into further con- Ardrossan 
sideration the Report which, upon the 4th day of and Johnston 
this instant May was made from the Committee on *!vay Bill. 
the Ardrossan and Johnston Railway Bill, printed 
| Copies of the Bill having been delivered at the door 
_upon Wednesday last ; and the Amendments were 
read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


Ordered, That the Account relative to the Custom Custom House 
House (Dublin), which was presented upon the 8th gone A 
o. 312. 


Ordered, That the Returns relative to the Col- Coliection of 
lection of Taxes, which were presented upon Friday 7*** 
last, be printed. No, 313. 


Ordered, That the Accounts relative to Wool and Wool and 


Woollen Manufactures, which were presented upon Wovllen 


¢ ° Manufactures, 
Friday last, be printed. No. 314. 


Ordered, That the Accounts relative to Spirits, spirits. 
which were presented upon Friday last, be printed. —_ No, 315. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to the Post Post Office. 
Office, which was presented upon Friday last, be No. 316. 
printed. 

Ordered, That the Return relative to Factories Factories 
(Lancaster and York), which was presented upon — and 
Friday last, be printed. ma ) 

No. 317. 





The House, according to Order, resolved itself Controverted 


into a Committee upon the Controverted Elections Flectios - 
Bill. 


(In the Committee.) 
Bill read 1°, to be read 2°, paragraph by para- 
graph. 
Preamble postponed. 
Cuiavusg, N° 1, postponed. 
Motion made, and Question proposed, That the 


Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to sit 
again. 

Notice being taken, Forty Members were not 
present ; 


The Chairman counted the Committee, and only 
Thirty-six Members being present ; 


The Chairman left the Chair. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair :—And the House 
being told by Mr. Speaker, and Forty Members not 
being present, and it being then after four of the 
clock :—The House was adjourned by Mr. Speaker, 
without a Question first put, till To-morrow. 





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7 Witt. IV. 


Jovis, 18° die Mai; 
Anno 7° Willielmi [Vt Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


PETITION of Land-owners and Farmers 
in the county of Kincardine, or Exporters and 


18° Maiz. 383 


by their counsel or agents, upon their Petition, if 
they think fit ; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill against the said Petition. 


A Petition of Members of the Society of Friends, Bristol 
commonly called Quakers, residing in or near the Rncroachments 
city of Bristol, praying that they may be heard, by ~~ 


Montrose — 
Harbour Bill, 


Chester and 
Birkenhead 
Railway Bill. 


London and 
Brighton 
Railway Bill 
(Stephenson’s 
Line.) 


Darlaston 
and Shelton 
Roads Bill. 


Fishguard 
Harbour Bill. 


Liverpool 
Improvement 
Acts Amend- 
ment Bill, 


Montrose 
Harbour Bill, 


Ipswich 
Improvement 
and Docks Bill, 


Importers of grain and other commodities at the 
Harbour of Montrose, praying that they may be heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, against cer- 
tain parts of the Montrose Harbour Bill, was pre- 
sented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


An ingrossed Bill for making a Railway from the 
City of Chester to Birkenhead, was read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Jervis do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


A Petition of Members of the Provisional Com- 
mittee for forming a Railway from the Southampton 
Railway to Brighton, denying the allegations of the 
Petition of James Sebastian Yeats, Secretary to the 
Provisional Committee for forming a Railway called 
‘&lt;The South Eastern, Brighton, Lewes and Newhaven 
Railway,” presented yesterday, and praying that the 
House will take such course, with reference to the 
said Petition of the said James Sebastian Yeates, as 
shall appear just, was ——" and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Ordered, That the Petition be printed. 


Mr. Miller reported from the Committee on the 
Darlaston and Shelton Roads Bill; That the Stand- 
ing Orders relative to Turnpike Bills had been 
complied with ; and that they had examined the 
allegations of the Bill, and found the same to be 
true; and had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto ; and the Amendments were 
read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed. 


An ingrossed Bill for improving the Harbour and 
Port of Fishguard, otherwise Abergwain, in the 
County of Pembroke, was read the third time ; and 
Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Miller do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


A Petition of Butchers of Liverpool, praying that 
they may be heard, by their counsel or agents, 
against certain parts of the Liverpool Improve- 
ment Acts Amendment Bill, was presented, and 
read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by their counsel or agents, upon their Petition, 
if they think fit ; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of Merchants, Ship-owners, Manufac- 
turers, and others of Montrose, praying that the 
Montrose Harbour Bill may pass into a law, was 
——, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 


A Petition of Elizabeth Gower, and Charles Foote 
Gower, of Ipswich, praying that they may be heard, 
by their counsel or agents, against certain parts of 
the Ipswich Improvement and Docks Bill, was 
presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 

VoL. 92. 





themselves, their counsel or agents, against certain 
parts of the Bristol Encroachments Bill, was pre- 
sented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


Petitions from Whalton ;—Luton ;— Bolam ;— ‘ord’s Day Bill. 


City of York ;— Barugh ;— Malton ;—Westow ;— 
Winteringham ;—Duggleby ;— Dunstable ;—Shirley ; 
— Yeaveley ;—Spondon, &amp;c.;—Southampton ;—and, 
Moderator and Clerk of the Presbytery of New- 
castle-upon- Tyne ; praying that the Lord’s Day Bill 
may be permitted to go into a Committee of the whole 
House,—were presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Residents in the town of Salford, Tobacco. 


praying for the reduction of the Duty on Tobacco, 
was — and read ; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


Petitions from Harlow ;—Tring;—Royston ; — Church Rates 
Great Berkempstead (three Petitions) ;— Cheshunt ; Regulation. 


— Sawbridgworth ;—Bishop’s Stortford ;— Hitchin; 
—Little Hadham ;— Ashwell ;— Stansted ;—Saint 
Paul’s Walden ;— Birchanger ;--Manuden ;— Takely ; 
—Broomfield ; —Aisholt ;—Durleigh ; —Llanfach- 
reth ;— Borough Bridge (Somerset) ;— Minehead ;— 
Weston Zoyland ;— Wembdon ;—Enmore ;—Chelvey ; 
—Goathurst ;— Yeovil ;—South Petherton ;—Great 
Suffolk-street, Southwark ; — Othery; — Christ 
Church, Surrey ;—-Moderator of the Relief Church 
(Scotland) ; — Stohenchurch ; —Littleport ; — Saint 
Andrew, Holborn ;—Saint Paul, Deptford ;—East 
Rainton ; —Seaham Harbour ;—Deptford ;—Mor- 
ton ; — Middlewich ; — Bocking ; —High Ham;— 
Halsted ; -—— Braintree ; — Dedham ; — Filsted ; — 
Brightlingsea; — Union Chapel, Brixton Hill ; — 
Haddenham;— Great Dunmow ;— Holm of Balfron ; 
—New Park-street, Southwark ;— Barnet ;—Maid- 
enhead ;—and, Coggeshall; praying that the pro- 
posed measure relative to Church Rates may receive 
the sanction of the House,—were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from Barton-in-the-Clay ;—Friesthorpe; 
— Snelland ; — Faldingworth ; — Turvey ; — Colm- 
worth and Bolnhurst ;—Great Gonerby ;— Little 
Staughton ;—Belton ;—Saint Mary Magdalen, Lin- 
coln;— Melchbourn, &amp;c. ;—Belper ;-~ Chester field ;— 
Pinner ;— Wednesfield ;—and, Bushbury ; praying 
that the said proposed measure may not receive the 
sanction of the House,—were also presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Provost, Magistrates and Town Soap. 


Council of the Royal Burgh of Linlithgow, praying 
for the repeal of the duty on Soap, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Wickford ;—Rawreth ;—London ; Universal 
—and, Edinburgh; praying for the adoption of S"fse 


Universal Suffrage and Vote by Ballot, and the 
abolition of the property qualification of Members of 
Parliament,—were presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Bathgate, praying Household 
for the adoption of Household Suffrage, was pre- Suffrage. 


sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 





Table. 


304 Petitions 





Municipal 
Corporations 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Welsh Bishops. 


Burghs of 
Barony 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Small Debts 
(Scotland) Bill, 


Sewers Act. 


Corn Laws. 


Window Tax. 


Elective 
Franchise. 


Summary 
Convictions 
(Juvenile 
Offenders) Bill. 


Summary 
Convictions 
(Juvenile 
Offeusters) 
(No. 2.) Bill. 


County Rates 
bill. « 


Poor Law Act. 


384 


Petitions from Mussleburgh ; — Gorbals ; —and, 
Falkirk; praying that the Municipal Corporations 
(Scotland) Bill may not pass into a law,—were 
— and read; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 

A Petition of Inhabitants of Linlithgow, praying 
that the said Bill may pass into a law, was also 
— and read; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 


Petitions from Flint ;— Llanasa ;-—and, Anglesey ; 
praying that no individual unacquainted with the 
Welsh Language may be instituted to a Bishoprick 
in Wales,—were presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Campbelton ;—and, Chairman of 
a Meeting of the Commissioners of Supply of Jnver- 
ness ; praying that the Burghs of Barony (Scotland) 
Bill may not pass into a law,—were presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of Feuars and Inhabitants of Newton 
Stewart, praying that a Clause may be inserted in 
the said Bill empowering Magistrates to judge in civil 


18° Mazz. 





cases of debt to the amount of Five pounds, was 
also presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon | 
the Table. 

A Petition of Magistrates, Town Council, Feuars 
and other Inhabitants of Macduff, praying that the 
said Bill may pass into a law, was also presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 








A Petition of the Commissioners of Supply of 
Inverness, praying that the Small Debts (Scotland) 
Bill may not pass into a law, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Land-owners of the county of Somer- 


‘no portion of the Revenues of the Sees of Bangor 





set, praying the House to amend the Act 3 and 4 


Will. 4, relating to Sewers, by making it incumbent 
on the Commissioners to obtain the consent of a | 
majority of the Land-owners before any Rate be 
made or levied on them for the purposes of the said 
Act, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie | 
upon the Table. 


| 

Petitions from Kettering ;—and, Colne; praying | 
for the repeal of the Corn Laws,—were presented, | 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Saint Clement Danes ;—and, Saint | 
Martin-in-the-fields ; praying for the repeal of the | 
Window Tax,—were presented, and read ; and or- | 
dered to lie upon the fable. 


A Petition of Operatives of Chelmsford, praying 
the House to adopt some measure for the better 
representation of the productive portion of the people 
of these realms, was presented, and read ; and or- 
dred to lie upon the Table. 


The Order for reading a second time upon Friday, 
the 2nd day of June next, the Summary Convictions 
(Juvenile Offenders) Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to authorize the Summary Conviction of Juvenile 
Offenders in certain cases of Larceny: And that 
Sir Eardley Wilmot and Mr. Alderman Wood do| 
prepare, and bring it in. 











A Petition of Rate-payers of Angmering, Leo- 
minster, and other places, praying that the County 
Rates Bill may pass into a law, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Matthew Phillips, Geographical 
Engineer and Surveyor, praying for the Amendment 
of the Poor Law Act, was presented, and read; and 





| 


A. 1837. 


referred to the Select Committee on the Poor Law 
Act. 


Petitions from Kilquane ;—Kilrush and Killimer ; Government of 
—Inchicronan ; —Ennis ; —Feakle ;—Kilkeedy ;— eland. 
Ogonnoloe ;—and, Kilfarboy and Kilmurry [brickan ; 
praying the House to support His Majesty’s Minis- 
ters in their government of Jreland,—were presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Commissioners of the Court of Imprisonment 
Requests for the town of Southwark, praying that for Debt Bill. 
the Imprisonment for Debt Bill may not pass into 
a law, was presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


A Petition of W. Roberts, praying the House to Anatomy. 
allow him to prove before them that the science of 
Anatomy can be more effectually acquired by arrest- 
ing the progress of putrefaction for the period human 
bodies are subjected to anatomical examination, 
and also further praying the House to enable him 
to grant to all anatomical Schools free use of his 
discovery of a method for preventing the progress of 
such putrefaction, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Commissioners of Supply of Prisons 
Inverness, praying that the Prisons (Scotland) Bill (Setland) Bil. 
may pass into a law, was presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Chester, praying that St. Asaph 
and Bangor 
Dioceses. 


and Saint Asaph may be applied to the erection 
and augmentation of other Gichansiahe, but that 
the whole of those Revenues, after providing for the 
Bishop of the united Sees, may be devoted, in ac- 
cordance with the first report of the Commissioners 
of Ecclesiastical Inquiry, to the augmentation of 
poor and populous Benefices in the united Dioceses, 
and that the prelates of Wales be henceforward 
selected from that body of Clergymen who are ac- 
quainted with the Language of the Welsh people, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitant Householders of Sainé Land Tax. 
Andrew, Holborn, praying for an equalization of the 
unredeemed Land Tax in England and Wales, was 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of the Corporation of Winchester, Ecclesiastical 
praying the House to devise some expedient to 1" 
effect the Enfranchisement of all Property in Towns 
and Cities held under Corporations, particularly 
under Ecclesiastical Corporations, upon just and 
equitable terms at the option of either landlord or 
tenant, was presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


A Petition of Members of the Kentish Town National Edv- 
Literary and Scientitic Association, praying for the °°" 
establishment of a system of National Education 
such as will not exclude any class of the community, 
but comprise all who desire to partake of the benefits 
which it would necessarily produce, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Presteign, praying Vote by Bal'o’- 
for the adoption of Vote by Ballot in the election of 
Members to serve in Parliament, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Saint Mary, New- Reform of “a 
ington, praying that the Reform of Parliament Act pace ‘ 
Amendment Bill may pass into a law, was pre- 531, 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


Ordered, 








nt 





East India 
Maritime 
Officers. 


Glasgow and ; 
Ayr; and, 
Glasgow, 
Paisley, and 
Greenock 


Railway Bills. 


Glasgow and 
Ayr Railway 
Bill. 


Glasgow and 
Ayr Railway 
Bill. 


Marriages 
(Manchester. ) 


Recovery of 
Tenements Bill. 


Turnpike Tol's 
and Trusts, 


Canada, 


7 Wit. IV. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on the Pe- 
tition of Captains ewall, Barrow and Glasspoole, 
Commanders of the late maritime service of the 
East India Company, have Power to report the 
Minutes of the Evidence taken before them. 


Petitions from the Kirk Session of Martyrs Church, 
Paisley ;—Ministers and Elders of the Presbytery 
of Paisley ;—and, the Minister and Elders of the 
parish of Renfrew; praying the House to retain in 
the Glasgow and Ayr; and, Glasgow, Paisley and 
Greenock Railway Bills, the clauses prohibiting the 
transit of goods and passengers on the Lord’s Day, 
—were presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


Petitions from the Moderator and Elders of the 
Kirk Session of ZLochwinnoch ;—the Kirk Session 


of the church and parish of Saint David's, of Glas- | P 


gow ;—and, the Kirk Session of the church and parish 
of Blackfriar’s, Glasgow; praying the House to 
retain in the Glasgow and Ayr Hailway Bill the 
clauses prohibiting the transit of goods and pas- 
sengers on the Lord’s Day,—were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That that the Glasgow and Ayr Rail- 
way Bill be read the third time To-morrow. 


The House was moved, That the order made upon 
the 8th day of February last, That there be laid 
before this House, Returns of the Number of Mar- 
riages by License and Banns solemnized in the 
Collegiate Church of Manchester during the year 
1821, with a Statement of Fees allotted in either 
case to the Chaplains, Clerks and Choristers :—and, 
Of the Number of Publications of the Banns of 
Matrimony in the years 1821 and 1835 respectively; 
with the Amount of Fees in each case when the 
Marriage was not afterwards solemnized, might be 
read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That a Return to the said Order be laid 
before this House forthwith. 


A Petition of Freeholders, Copyholders and Lease- 
holders residing in the Tower Hamlets, praying 
that the Recovery of Tenements Bill may pass into 
a law, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


A Petition of Benjamin Wingrove, of Trowbridge, 
in the county of Wilts, general Surveyor of Reads, 
complaining of certain omissions and alterations in 
the printed Copies of the Evidence given by him 
before the Select Committee on Turnpike Tolls and 
Trusts in the last Session of Parliament, and pray- 
ing for inquiry, was presented, and read; and or- 
dered to lie upon the Table. 


The time being come for the Conference with the 
Lords upon a matter of high importance relating to 
the Government of the Province of Lower Canada; 

Ordered, That the Managers who managed the 
last Conference, do manage this Conference :—And 
the names of Mr. Cutlar Fergusson, Mr. Ayshford 
Sanford, Mr. Alston, Lord Granville Somerset, Sir 
John Wrottesley, Mr. Poulett Thomson, Sir Rufane 
Donkin, Sir Stratford Canning, Sir John Beckett, 
and Mr. Gillon, were added to them. 

Then the Names of the Managers were called 
over; and they went to the Conference ; and being 
returned ; 

Lord John Russell reported, That the Managers 
had met the Lords at the Conference, which was 
managed on the part of the Lords by the Duke of 
Richmond ; and that the Conference was to acquaint 
this House, that the Lords have taken into their 
consideration the Resolutions of the Commons 
communicated to their Lordships at a Conference 
on Monday the 1st day of this instant May; and 
that their Eecdaliigs have agreed to the same without 


any Amendment. 


OL. 92, 


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385 


Ordered, That a Bill or Bills be brought in upon 
the said Resolutions: And that Lord John Russell, 
Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Sir George 
Grey, do prepare, and bring in the same. 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday, Controverted 
the 20th day of June next, resolve itself into a Com- Elections Bill. 
mittee upon the Controverted Elections Bill. 


Ordered, That the Bribery at Elections Bill be Bribery at 
read a second time upon Wednesday, the 14th day Elections Bill. 
of June next. 


Ordered, That the Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Salmon 
Bill be read a second time upon Wednesday next. (Seotiend) Bill. 
Ordered, That the Debate upon the Question Members 
roposed upon the 6th day of April last, That it pure * 
is contrary to the law and usage of Parliament, Agents. 
that any Member of this House should be permitted 
to engage, either by himself or any partner, in the 
management of Private Bills before this or the 
other House or Parliament, for pecuniary reward, 
to be received by such Member, or by any person 
standing in any relation of partnership with him, be 
resumed upon Wednesday, the 7th day of June 
next. 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday, Sheriffs’ Fees 
the 7th day of June next, resolve itself into a Com- Bill. 
mittee upon the Sheriffs’ Fees Bill. 


Attornies and 
Solicitors Bill. 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday, 
the 7th day of June next, resolve itself into a Com- 
mittee upon the Attornies and Solicitors Bill. 


Ordered, That the Highway Rates Bill be read a Highway Rates 
second time To-morrow. Bill. 


Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- Bankrupts’ 
solve itself intoa Committee upon the Bankrupts’ —— — 
Estates (Scotland) Bill. ae dnes 


Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- Bankruptcy 
solve itself into a Committee upon the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Bill. 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Ordered, That the Report on the Sheriff's’ Courts Sheriff’ Cuurts 
Bill be taken into further consideration upon Wed- Bill. 
nesday, the 31st day of this instant May. 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday Registration of 
next, resolve itself into a Committee upon the Re- Voters Bill. 
gistration of Voters Bill. 


Ordered, That the Haileybury College Bill be Haileybury 
read the third time upon Wednesday next. College Bill. 


Ordered, That the East India Officers’ Salaries East India 


Bill be read the third time upon Wednesday next. +a 


Ordered, That the Election Expenses Bill be Election _ 
read a second time upon Wednesday next. Expenses Bill, 


Ordered, That the Report from the Committee Ways and 
of Ways and Means be received To-morrow. Means. 


Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- Ways and 
solve itself into the Committee of Ways and Means. Means. 


Ordered, That the Benefices Plurality Bill be Benefices _ 
read a second time upon Friday, the 9th day of Plurality Bill 
June next. 


Ordered, That the Shire Halls Bill be read the Shire Halls Bill. 
third time To-morrow. 


Ordered, That the Wills Bill be read a second Wills Bill. 


time To-morrow. 
3D Resolved, 


386 


Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into a Committee upon the Coroners’ In- 
quests’ Expenses Bill. 


Coroners’ 
Inquests’ 
Expenses Bill. 


Concealment 


: : Ordered, That the Concealment of Births Bill 
of Births Bill. 


be read the third time To-morrow. 
Supply. Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve into the Committee of Supply. 


Public Works 


k Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
(Treland) Bill. 


solve itself intoa Committee upon the Public Works 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Ordered, That the Report from the Committee 
of Supply be received To-morrow. 


Suppl 
(7th April.) 


—. Ordered, That the Newark Estate Bill be read 


the third time To-morrow. 


Turnpike Acts 
Continuance 


(Ireland) Bill. 


Ordered, That the Turnpike Acts Continuance 
(Jreland) Bill be read a second time To-morrow. 


Parliamentary 


Electors Bill. Ordered That the Parliamentary Electors Bill 


be read a second time To-morrow. 


Internal 
Communication. 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed 
to consider whether the present Amount of Taxation 
collected on internal communication, and various 
modes of travelling, may not be levied by a more 
just and equitable apportionment; and to report 
their observations thereupon to the House :—And a 
Committee was appointed of Mr. Gillon, Mr. Poulett 
Thomson, Sir Henry Parnell, Mr. Dugdale, Sir 
Harry Verney, Mr. Foster, Mr. Loch, Sir George 
Sinclair, Mr. Evelyn Denison, Mr. John Parker, 
Mr. Handley, Sir Thomas Fremantle, Mr. Mackin- 
non, Mr. William Miles, and Mr. Mark Philips, 
with Power to send for persons, papers and re- 
cords. 

Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 

Copyright Bill} Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to consolidate and amend the Laws relatmg to pro- 
perty in the nature of Copyright in Books, Musical 
Compositions, Acted Dramas, Pictures and En- 
gravings, to provide remedies for the violation 
thereof, and to extend the term of its duration: And 
that Mr. Serjeant Zalfourd, Mr. Chancellor of the 
Exchequer, Lord Viscount Mahon, and Sir Robert 
Inglis, do prepare, and bring it in. 

Final Register © Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
of Electors Bill. to render the Register of Electors final: And that 
Mr. Elphinstone and Mr. Aglionby do prepare, and 
bring it in. 

Notice being taken, that forty Members were not 
present, the House was told by Mr. Speaker, 
and forty Members not being present, and 
it being then after four of the clock :—The 
House was adjourned by Mr. Speaker, with- 
out a Question first put, till To-morrow. 





Veneris, 19° die Maii ; 


Anno 7° Willielmi IV" Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


M* Montagu Parker reported from the Com- 
mittee on the (re-committed) Brixham Har- 
bour and Market Bill; That they had made other 
Amendments thereunto ; and the Amendments were 
read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 


ingrossed. 


Brixham 
Hoerbour and 
Market Bill, 


Menchester 
and Stafford 
Railway Bill, 


Ordered, That the Committee on the Manchester 
and Stafford Railway Bill, have leave to sit this 


day till five of the clock, during the sitting of the 
House. 


18°—19° Mazz. 





A. 1837. 


Lord Viscount Clive reported from the Committee Shropshire and 
on the Shropshire and North Wales Assurance Com- a 
pany Bill ; That they had examined the allegations Company Bill, 
of the Bill, and found the same to be true; and 
had gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto ; and the Amendments were read, and 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to London and 
take into consideration the Petition of James Sebas- oe hton 
tian Yeats, complaining of the methods which have (Seghtems 
been adopted to obtain signatures to the Subscrip- Line.) 
tion Contract for the London and Brighton Rail- 
way Bill (Stephenson’s Line), which was presented 
upon Wednesday last. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Select Committee on the Deptford and Dover Rail- 
way Subscription List ; 

he House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 

Tellers for the (Sir Charles Blunt, 

Yeas, Mr. William Crawford : 

Tellers for the ¢ Mr. Wilson Patten, 

Noes, Mr. Greene: 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 


} 43. 
} 22, 


Petitions of Magistrates and Council of the Burgh Glasgow and 
of Newton-upon-Ayr ;—and, Clergy and Elders Ayr Railway 
in Paisley, and the Abbey Parish of Paisley; pray-  * 
ing that the Clause in the Glasgow and Ayr Railway 
Bill, preventing the transit of goods and passengers 
on the Lord’s bes, may receive the support of the 
House,—were presented, and read ; al ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 

The ingrossed Bill for making a Railway from pms, thon 
Glasgow to Paisley and Ayr, and from a point on ~ Presta 
the said Railway near Blairland to Kilmarnock, to 

be called “ The Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and 

Ayr Railway,” with Branches, was, according to 

Order, read the third time. 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Bill, in Pr. 308, lines 16 and 17, by leaving out from 
the word “ misdemeanor” to the word “And” in 
Pr. 308, 1.18. (for preventing travelling on the 
Railway on the Lord’s Day.) 

And the Question being put, That the words pro- 
posed to be left out stand part of the Bill; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 


Tellers for the Yeas, { Sir Andrew Agnew, 


Mr. Dunlop: 
Dr. Bowring, 
peaeens eaem, { Mr. Wak iy: 
So it passed in the Negative. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That Mr. Dunlop do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


} 
} ius. 


Sir Andrew Leith Hay reported from the Com- Banff Glebe 
mittee on the Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act Lands Bill 
to enable the Minister of the Parish of Banff, in the 
County of Banff, to feu the Glebe Lands of the 
said Parish; That they had examined the allega- 
tions of the Bill, and found the same to be true ; 
and that the parties concerned had given their con- 
sent to the Bill, to the satisfaction of the Committee ; 
and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, 
and had directed him to report the same, without 
Amendment :—And the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Sir Andrew Leith Hay do carry 
the Bill to the Lords; and acquaint them, that 
this House hath agreed to the same, without Amend- 


ment. 
The 















7 Wut. IV. 


Bristol 
Cemetery Bill. 


Montrose __ 
Harbour Bill. 


Manchester 
Gas. 


Message from 
the Lords. 


Duke of Argyll’s 
Estate Bill. 


Hales’ 
Nat, Bill, 


Oaths. 


Survey of 
Parishes 


(Tithe Commu- 


tation Act.) 


Oaths. 


The] Bristol Cemetery Bill was read a second 
time ; and committed to Sir Richard Vyvyan and 
the Somerset List. 


A Petition of Horatio Ross, of Rossie, Esquire, 
a Land-owner in the county of Forfar, praying that 
he may be heard, by himself, his counsel or agent, 
against certain parts of the Montrose Harbour Bill, 
was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by himself, his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, 
if he think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of 
the Bill, against the said Petition. 


Mr. Shaw Lefevre reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That in the 
case of the Petition for leave to present a Petition 
for leave to bring in the Manchester Gas Bill, it 
would, in the opinion of the Committee, be proper 
to grant the prayer of the Petition for the purposes 
therein stated. 

Ordered, That leave be given to present a Peti- 
tion, as desired. 

A Petition of Directors of the Gas Works of 
Manchester, for leave to bring in a Bill to alter and 
amend several Acts for better lighting with Gas the 
town of Manchester, was accordingly presented, 
and read; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Adam and 

Mr. Brougham : 
Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
to alter and extend the powers of an Act passed in 
the eleventh year of the reign of his late Majesty 
King George the Fourth, intituled, “ An Act for 
empowering George William Duke of Argyll, and 
his Trustee, to borrow a sum of Money, and to 
make it a charge on the Estate of Argyll, upon 
certain conditions,’ to which the Lords desire the 
concurrence of this House: And also, 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act for 
naturalizing Edmee Nicole Pulcherie Felice Hales, 
and her Infant Daughter, to which the Lords desire 
the concurrence of this House: And also, 

The Lords request that this House will give leave 
to the Lord Advocate for Scotland, a Member of 
this House, to attend their Lordships, in order to 
his beg examined as a witness before the Select 
Committee appointed by their Lordships to inquire 
into the expediency of substituting a Declaration in 
lieu of Oaths in certain cases: And also, 

athe Lords request that this House will be pleased 
to communicate to their Lordships, a Copy of the 
Report made from the Select Committee appointed 
by this House, in the present Session of Parliament, 
to consider the best mode of effecting the Surveys 
of Parishes, for the purpose of carrying into effect 
the Act for the Commutation of Tithes in England 
and Wales; together with the Minutes of Evidence 
taken before the Committee :—And then the Mes- 
sengers withdrew. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
that part of the said Message which requests the 
attendance of the Lord Advocate: And the Lord 
Advocate, being present, in his place, declared that 
he was willing, with the leave of the House, to go to 
the House of Lords, as desired by their Lordships. 

Resolved, That the Lord Advocate have leave to 
go to the House of Lords, as desired by their Lord- 
ships, if he think fit. 

Resolved, That this House will send an answer to 
the last part of the said Message, by Messengers of 
their own. 

And the Messengers were again called in, and 
Mr. Speaker acquainted them therewith :— And then 
they again withdrew. 


19° Maiz. 


387 


The Duke of Argyll’s Estate Bill was read the Duke of Argyll’s 


first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


and ordered to be read a second time. 


mittee on the Poor Relief (Zreland) Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, accordin 
into a Committee upon the tag a Bill; and, after 
some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the 
Chair; and Mr. Bernal reported, That the Com- 
mittee had gone through the Bill, and made Amend- 
ments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Bernal reported the Bill accordingly ; and 
the Report was ordered to be taken into further 
consideration upon Monday next; and the Bill, as 
amended, to be printed. 


Edinburgh, praying that the Punishment of Death 
may be restricted in future to the crime of Murder, 


was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


The Order of the day bein 
mittee on the Punishment of Death Bill ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question being 
proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the words 
“ it be an Instruction to the Committee, that they 
“« have Power to abolish Capital Punishment in all 
‘““ cases, except cases of Murder,” instead thereof. 

And the Crenation being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out pra part of the Question ; 

he House divided : 
The Yeas to the old Lobby ; 
The Noes to the new Lobby. 


Tellers for the { Mr. Edward John Stanley, | 73 
Yeas, Lord Dalmeny : yer 
Tellers for the { Mr. Ewart, } 72 
Noes, Dr. Bowring : : 


So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 
Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair. 
The House accordingly resolved itself into the 
Committee. 
(In the Committee.) 
Bill read 1°. 


To be read 2°, paragraph by paragraph. 
Preamble postponed. 

Cravsss, N° 1 to N° 3, amended, and agreed to. 
Preamble, First Part (25 Geo. 2, c. 37), agreed to. 
Second Part (Act 12 Geo. 3, c. 24), read. 


Amendment proposed: To leave out recital of Act. 
Question put, That those words stand part of the 


Preamble ; 
The Committee divided : 
Tellers for the ¢ Mr. Solicitor General, 102 
Yeas, Mr. Vernon Smith : } ms 
Tellers for the f Mr. Goulburn, } 40 
Noes, Mr. Shaw: , 


So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 
Third Part (37 Geo. 3. c. 17.) 
Fourth Part (52 Geo. 3, c. 104.) 
Fifth Part (59 Geo. 3. c. 136.) 

Sixth Part (5 Geo. 4. c. 113.) 
Seventh Part (3 and 4 Will. 4. c. 53.) 
Bill, as amended, to be reported. 


agreed to. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon Fri- 





OL. 92. 


day next. 
3 D2 And 


Estate Bill. 


Hales’ Naturalization Bill was read the first time, Hales’ - 
at. Dill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Poor Relief 
(Ireland) Bill. 


to Order, resolved itself Forgery Bill. 


No. 347. 


A Petition of the Town Council of the city of Criminal Law. 


read, for the Com- Punishment of 
Death Bill. 


ae A SEE 


AE ag ee et a ap SH 





aerate 


A oe 


2 ae EE 








Offences against 


388 


And the House having ‘continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Saturday morning ; 


Sabbati, 20° die Maiti, 1837: 
The House, according to Order, resolved itself 


the Person Bill. into a Committee upon the Offences against the 


Registration 


and Marriages 


Bill. 


Adjournment. 


Robbery, and 
Stealing from 
the Person Bill, 


Burglary, and 
Stealing in a 


Person Bill. 
(In the Committee.) 
Bill read 1°. 
To be read 2°, paragraph by paragraph. 
Preamble postponed. 
Crause, N° 1, amended, and agreed to. 


Crausez, N° 2, (Punishment of certain Offences 
against the Person)——read. 
Amendment proposed: P. 2. 1.19. After the word 
“« Person,” to insert “ thereby doing to such Person 
“ some grievous bodily harm.” 


To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress in 
the Bill; and that he was directed to move, That 
the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, 
again resolve itself into the said Committee. 





The Registration and Marriages Bill was, ac- 
cording to Order, read a second time; and com- 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for 
Monday next. 


Resolved, That this House will, at the rising of 
the House this day, adjourn till Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Robbery and Stealing from the Per- 
son Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Burglary and Stealing in a Dwelling 


—— House Bill ; 


Piracy Bill, 


Burning or 
destroying 
Builaings or 
Ships Bill. 


‘Transportation 
for Life Bill. 


Pillory 


Punishment 


Abolition Bill. 


Post Office 


Acts Repeal 


Bill. 


Post Office 


Management 


Bill. 


Postage Duties 


Bill. 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Piracy Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Burning or Destroying Buildings or 
Ships Bill ; 

Heccioee, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Transportation for Life Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Pillory Punishment Abolition Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the third 
reading of the Post Office Acts Repeal Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the third 
reading of the Post Office Management Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the da 


aon a, for the third 
reading of the Postage 


uties Bill; 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Monday next. . 





19°—20° Mazz. 





A. 1837: 


The Order of the day being read, for the third 
reading of the Franking Bill ; . 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the third 
reading of the Post Office Offences Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time upon 
Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Burghs of Barony (Scotland) Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 





Franking Bill, - 


Post Office 
Offences Bill, 


Burghs 
of Barony 
(Scotland) Bill, 


The Highway Rates Bill was, according to Order, Highway Rates 


read a second time ; and committed to a Committee 
of the whole House, for Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Bankrupts’ Estates (Scotland) Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Mr. Bernal reported from the Committee of Ways 
and Means, several Resolutions, which were read, 
as follow : 

1. Resolved, That, towards making good the Sup- 
ly granted to His Majesty, the sum of Eleven 
lillions be raised by Exchequer Bills, for the Service 

of the year 1837. 

2. Resolved, That, towards making good the Sup- 
ply granted to His Majesty, the Sum of Sixty thou- 
sand pounds, to be annually paid into the Exchequer 
by the United Company of Merchants of Bughead 


trading to the East Indies, towards the ~~ of 


Retiring Pay, Pensions and Allowances to His Ma- 
jesty’s Forces serving in India, in pursuance of an 
Act of the fourth year of his late Majesty, shall be 
carried to, and made part of, the Consolidated Fund 
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire- 
land. 

3. Resolved, That, towards making good the Sup- 
py — to His Majesty, the Balance now in the 

xchequer, or which may be hereafter paid into the 
same by the Governor and Company of the Bank 
of England, pursuant to an Act of the fifty-sixth 
year of his late Majesty King George the Third, in- 
tituled, “ An Act to authorize the advancing, for the 
Public Service, a proportion of the Balance that shall 
remain from time to time in the Bank of England, 
for the payment of Dividends on account of the 
Public Debt, for Lottery Prizes or Benefits, not 
claimed, and Principals of Stocks and Annuities re- 
maining unclaimed ;” provided that if at any time 
the said Balance shall be reduced to a less sum than 
One hundred thousand pounds, then so much of the 
Money advanced by the said Governor and Com- 
pany, shall be repaid to them, as shall be equal to 
the sum by which the said Balance shall be less 
than the said sum of One hundred thousand pounds, 
shall be carried to and made part of the Consolidated 
Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and 
Ireland. 

4. Resolved, That, towards making good the Sup- 
ply granted to His Majesty, any sum or sums which 
may have been, since the 5th of April 1837, or which 
may be hereafter paid into the Exchequer in respect 
of Exchequer Bills issued pursuant to the Acts of the 
fifty-seventh year of his late Majesty King George 
the Third, and of the third year of his late Majesty 
King George the Fourth, and of the first and second 
and fourth and fifth years of His ies Majesty, 
authorizing the issue of Exchequer Bills for carrying 
on Public Works and Fisheries in the United — 

om, 


il. 


Bankrupts’ 
Estates (Scot- 
land) Bill, 


Bankruptcy 
(Scotland) Bill, 


Ways and 
Means ; 


Exchequer 
Bills. 


East India 
Half Pay. 


Bank Balances. 


Exchequer Bills 


(Public Works.) 





‘ill, - 


Bill, 


ates 


it~ 


Bill, 





Ways and 
Means, 


7 Witt. IV. 


dom, and pursuant to the Act of the first and second 
years of His present Majesty, for the Relief of Per- 
sons who sustained Losses in the West Indies, shall 
be carried to, and made part of, the Consolidated 
Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and 
Ireland. 

The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That a Bill be brought in upon the first 
of the said Resolutions: And that Mr. Bernal, Mr. 
Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Mr. Baring do 
prepare, and bring it in. 

rdered, That a Bill be brought in upon the sub- 
sequent Resolutions: And that the same Gentlemen 
do prepare, and bring it in. 

rdered, That it be an Instruction to the Gen- 
tlemen appointed to prepare and bring in a Bill upon 
the second, third and fourth of the said Resolutions, 
that they do make provision in the said Bill for 
cancelling the Stock which has been transferred to 
the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National 
— on account of the Redemption of the Land 

ax. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Ways and Means; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Shire Hells Bill. The ingrossed Bill to explain and amend an Act 


Wills Bill. 


Coroners’ 
Inquests’ 
Expenses Bill, 


Concealment of 


Births Bill. 


Supply. 


Public Works 
(Ireland) Bill, 


Suppl 
(7th April.) 


of the seventh year of his late Majesty King George 
the Fourth, to provide for improving and rebuilding 
Shire Halls, County Halls and other Buildings, for 
holding the Assizes and Grand Sessions, “a also 
Judges’ Lodgings, throughout England and Wales, 
was, according to Order, read the third time. 

An ingrossed Clause was offered to be added to 
the Bill, by way of Rider, “ That Shire Halls be 
placed under the Secretary of State.” - 

And a Motion being made, and the Question being 
put, That the said Clause be brought up ; it passed 
in the Negative. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Wills Bill was, according to Order, read a 
second time; and committed to a Committee of the 
whole House, for Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Coroners’ Inquests’ Expenses Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday, the 
30th day of this instant May, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 


The ingrossed Bill to provide for the Costs of 
Prosecutions for concealing the Birth of Children 
by secret burying or otherwise disposing of their 
dead Bodies, was, according to Order, read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, Phat this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself into 
a Committee upon the Public Works (Ireland) Bill ; 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker re- 
sumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal reported, That 
the Committee had gone through the Bill; and 
made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon Mon- 
day next. 


The Order of the day being read, for receiving the 
hose from the Committee of Supply ; 
P dered, That the Report be received upon Mon- 
ay next. 


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389 


The ingrossed Bill to discharge the Newark Estate, Newark 
in the County of Nottingham, from any Costs of Estate Bill. 
rebuilding or repairing Trent and Markham — 
and to charge the same on the other Hereditary Re- 
venues of the Crown, was, according to Order, read 
the third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act to discharge His Majesty’s Manor 
and Demesne Lands at Newark, in the County of 
Nottingham, from any Costs of rebuilding or repair- 
ing Trent and Markham Bridges, and to charge the 
same on the other Hereditary Revenues of the 
Crown. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Turnpike Acts Continuance (Jreland) Bill Turnpike Act 
was, according to Order, read a second time; and (Ireland) Dill 
committed to a Committee of the whole House for . 
Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Parliamentary 
reading of the Parliamentary Electors Bill ; Electors Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


Mr. Baring presented a Bill for raising a Sum of Exchequer Bills 
a by Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the (£.11,000,000.) 
year One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven : ©" 

And the same was read the first time ; and ordered 
to be read a second time upon Monday next. 


Mr. Baring presented a Bill for carrying to the Monies in the 
Consolidated Fund certain Monies paid into the Exchequer Bill. 
Exchequer, and usually applied as a part of the No.322, 
Annual Aids and Supplies, and for cancelling the 
Stock which has been transferred to the Commis- 
sioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, on 
account of the Redemption of Land Tax: And the 
same was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time upon Monday next ; and to be 
printed. 


Mr. Elphinstone presented a Bill to render the Final Register 
Register of Electors final, and to amend certain of Electors Bill. 
provisions in the Reform of Parliament Act: And No, 320. 
the same was read the first time ; and ordered to be 
read a second time upon Wednesday next ; and to 
be printed. 


Sir Eardley Wilmot presented a Bill to authorize Summary 
the Summary Conviction of Juvenile Offenders in a 
certain cases of Larceny: And the same was read sender) 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second (No. 2.) Bill. 
time upon Friday the 2d day of June next; and to No,321. 


be printed. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, National Dett. 
a Return of the Sums applicable to the Reduction 
of the National Debt, being Surplus Revenue and 
Interest on Donations and Bequests, as stated 
quarterly in the Gazette. 
Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer accordingly pre- 
sented the said Return. 
Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on the Dept- Deptford and 
ford and Dover Railway Subscription List, have a Nia 
leave to sit this day, notwithstanding the adjourn- 73, 


meut of the House. 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed Negro 
to inquire into the working of the Apprenticeship 4pprenticeship. 
System in the Colonies, the condition of the pppre- 
tices and the Emancipated Negroes, and the Laws 
and Regulations affecting them ; and also the State 
of Education of the Negroes in the Colonies :—And 
a Committee was rene of Mr. Foxwell Buzton, 
Sir George Grey, r. O'Connell, Mr. William 





on. 92, 


Gladstone, Mr. Baines, Sir Stratford Canning, Mr. 
3D 3 bouchere, 


Religious 
Ceremoniés 


(Madras.) 


Poor Livings 


Augmentation, 


Public Works 
(Ireland) Act. 


Church 
Commission, 


First Fruits 
and Tenths. 


Prisons. 


Turnpike 
Trusts, 


390 


Labouchere, Mr. Andrew Johnston, Mr. Thornely, 
Mr. Patrick Stewart, Mr. Charles Lushington, Mr. 
Dunlop, Sir James Graham, Lord Viscount Sandon, 
and Lord Viscount Howick; with Power to send for 


persons, papers and records. 
Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Copy of the Memorial transmitted in August 1836, 
by the European Population of Madras, to the 
Garena of that Presidency, on the subject of their 
compulsory attendance upon the Religious Cere- 
monies of the Natives, together with the Letter of 
the Bishop of Madras transmitting the Memorial ; 
and a Copy of such Answer as may have been 
returned :—Also, a Copy of the Despatch of the 
Court of Directors regarding the Pilgrim Tax, dated 
the 20th February 1833 :—And, Copy of the Des- 
patch forwarded by the Court of Directors of the 
Last India Company, in compliance with the Re- 
— of the General Court of the 21st December 
ast. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, an Account of aJl the Poor Livings augmen- 
ted by Parliamentary Grants, or by Queen Anne’s 
Bounty, since the last Return made to Parliament. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this sea as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
an Account of the appropriation of the Sum of 
£.50,000, granted by the provisions of the Act of 
1 and 2 Will. 4,c. 33, in Aid of the Expenses of cer- 
tain Public Works in Ireland; showing the Date of 
recommendation, amount and object of each Grant. 

Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer accordingly 
presented the said Account. 

Ordered, That the said Account do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Fox Maule presented,—Further Return to an 
Address to His Majesty, dated the 16th day of 
March last, for Copies of all Communications ad- 
dressed to His Majesty’s Commissioners appointed 
to consider the state of the Established Church in 
England and Wales, with reference to Ecclesiastical 
Duties and Revenues; and to the Ecclesiastical 
Commissioners for England, relating to the union of 
the Bishoprick of Sodor and Mann with that of 
Carlisle : —And also, Copies of all Communications 
made to the same Commissioners from Cathedrals 
and Collegiate Churches in England and Wales, and 
from their several Chapters, Dignitaries, Members 
and Officers. 

Mr. Fox Maule also presented, pursuant to Order, 
—a Copy of the Royal Instructions given to the 
Commissioners for taking the “ Valor Ecclesiasticus” 
in the time of Henry the Eighth, for the rating of 
First Fruits and Tenths. 

Mr. Fox Maule also presenta by His Majesty’s 
command,—Second Report o the Inspectors ap- 
pointed under the provisions of the Act 5 and 6 
Will. 4, c. 38, to visit the different Prisons of Great 
Britain. 

Mr, Fox Maule also presented, pursuant to the 
directions of an Act of Parliament,—An Abstract of 
the General Statements of the Income and Expen- 
diture of the several Turnpike Trusts in the different 
counties of England and Wales, from the 1st day 
of January 1835, to the 31st day of December 1835 
inclusive. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till after one of the clock on Saturday morn- 
ing, adjourned till Monday next. 


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A. 1837. 


Luna, 22° die Maii; 
Anno 7° Willielmi [Vt Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


M3; Campbell, from the Court of Directors of the East India 
East India Company, was called in, and at Beulations. 
the bar presented, pursuant to the directions of an 
Act of Parliament,—Copies of Regulations passed 
by the Governor General in Council of Bengal, the 

overnor in Council of Fort Saint George, and the 
Governor in Council of Bombay, in the years 1833, 
1834, 1835 and 1836 :—And then he withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Port Patrick Port Patrick 
Harbour, which was presented upon the 8th day of Harbour. 
this instant May, be printed. No, 323, 

Ordered, That the Paper relative to East India East India M;. 
Maritime Officers, which was presented upon the “time Officers 
12th day of this instant May, be printed. No, 324, 

Ordered, That the Return relative to the National National Debs, 
Debt, which was presented upon Friday last, be No. 325. 
printed. 

Ordered, That the Account relative to Public Public Works 
Works (Ireland) Act, which was presented upon (Ireland.) 
Friday last, be printed. No. 326, 

Ordered, That the Return relative to the Church Church _ 
Commission, which was presented upon Friday last, Commission. 
be printed. No. 327. 

Ordered, That the Abstract of the Returns rela- Turnpike 
tive to Turnpike Trusts, which was presented upon Tsts. 
Friday last, be printed. No. 328. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to First Fruits First Fruits 
and Tenths, which was presented upon Friday last, ™4 Tenths. 
be referred to the Select Committee on First Fruits 
and Tenths. 


Petitions from Inhabitants of Stockport ;—Mac- Mersey Cou. 
clesfield ; —-Ashton-under-Lyne ;—President and Di- setvarcy Bill 
rectors of the Chamber of Commerce and Manu- 
factures at Manchester;—and Merchants and 
Traders of Dundalk; praying that the Mersey Con- 
servancy Bill may not pass into a law,—were pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Land-owners, Farmers, Merchants, Lough Swilly 
Traders and Inhabitants of the Counties of Derry 3x4 Lat 
and Donegal, in the neighbourhood of Lough Foyle, a er, 

raying that the Lough Swilly and Lough Foyle 

rainage Bill, may pass into a law, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from John Dougherty, of the City of Agricultural _ 
Londonderry, Merchant, Directors and Members of #4 gory 
the Consulting Committee of the Agricultural and (No. 2.) 
Commercial Bank of Jreland, and other holders 
of shares in said Company ; — Charles Walker, 
lace manufacturer in the city of Limerick ;— and 
Alexander Buchanan, cotton manufacturer in the 
city of Limerick; taking notice of the application 
for leave to bring in the Agricultural and Commer- 
cial Bank (Zreland). No. 2, Bill, and praying that 
such Bill may not pass into a law,—were presented, 
and read ; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Petitions for Private Bills. 

A Petition of Shareholders of the Bank called 
“The Agricultural and Commercial Bank, of Zre- 
land,” resident in Lisburn, taking notice of the 
application for leave to bring in the said Bill; and 
praying that such Bill may pass into a law, was 
also — and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of Agriculturists in the counties of Montrose 


Forfar and Kincardine, praying that they may be 4" Bill. 


heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, against 
certain parts of the Montrose Harbour Bill, was pre- 
sented, and read. 

Ordered, 








Stockport 
Improvement 
Bill. 


a. 
rs. Leeds Water- 
works Bill. 


bt. 


Shropshire and 
North Wales 
Assurance 
Company Bill. 


re 


Lowestoft 
Harbour Bill. 


Collier Dock 
and Surre 
Canal Bill, 


Darlaston 
and Shelton 
Roads Bill, 





7 Witt. IV. 


Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


Mr. Henry Marsland, reported from the Commit- 
tee on the Stockport Improvement Bill; and to 
whom several Petitions against the said Bill were 
referred ; That they had heard counsel in support 
of the said Petitions, and had also heard counsel in 
favour of the Bill; and had examined the allega- 
tions of the Bill, and found the same to be true ; 
and had gone through the Bill, and made Amend- 
ments thereunto; and the Amendments were read, 
and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed. 


The House proceeded to take into further con- 
sideration the Report which upon the 9th day of 
this instant May was made from the Committee on 
the Leeds Waterworks Bill, printed Copies of the 
Bill having been delivered at the door upon Saturday, 
the 13th day of this instant May. 

And the ies being informed that other Amend- 
ments are necessary to be made to the Bill :—The 
Bill was re-committed to the former Committee. 

Ordered, That the Committee have leave to sit 
and proceed To-morrow, and to make their Report 
on Thursday next. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 
posed, That the ingrossed Bill to enable “ The 
Shropshire and North Wales Assurance Company” 
to sue and he sued in the Name of tke Managing 
Director for the time being, or of any one of the 
general or local Directors of the said Company, be 
now read the third time ; 

The Amendments following were proposed to be 
made to the Question, viz. to leave out the word 
“ now” and at the end of the Question, to add the 
words “ upon this day six months.” 

And the Question being put, That the word 
“ now,” stand part of the Question; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 


Tellers for the Yeas, a "Ormsby — h 00. 
Tellers forthe Noes,{ = 2. -. } 79. 


So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read the third 
time :—The Bill was accordingly read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Lord Viscount Clive do carry the 
Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Lowestoft Harbour Bill was read a second 
time; and committed to Mr. Tulk, and the Suffolk List. 


Petitions from Mary Jane Evelyn, of Wotton, in 
the county of Surrey, widow, and the Honourable 
and Reverend John Evelyn Boscawen, of Wotton, 
aforesaid, Clerk ;—-Owners and other persons pos- 
sessed of and interested in property adjoining the 
scite of the proposed Collier Dock and Surrey Canal ; 
—and, the Company of Proprietors of the Kent Wa- 
terworks ; praying that they may be heard, by them- 
selves, their counsel or agents, against certain parts 
of the Collier Dock and Surrey Canal Bill, —were 
presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit ; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


An ingrossed Bill to amend An Act for improving 
the Roads from Darlaston Bridge, through New- 
castle-under-Lyme, to Butt-lane and Linley-lane, 
“= ~ ws Black Lion to Shelton Wharf, all in 

OL. 92. 


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391 


the county of Stafford, and to provide for the further 
Improvement of the said pon 34 was read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act for more effectually improving the 
several Roads from Mewcastle-under-Lyme to Dar- 
laston Bridge, Butt-lane and Linley-lane, and 
through Trent Vale and Stoke-tpon-Trent to Shelton 
Wharf, all in the county of Stafford. 

Ordered, That Mr. Miller do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Sir Eardley Wilmot reported from the Committee Birmingham 

on the Birmingham Gas (No. 1.) Bill ; and to whom = (No. 1.) 
several Petitions against the said Bill were referred; ~* * 
That they had heard counsel in support of the said 
Petitions; and had also heard counsel in favour of 
the Bill; and had examined the allegations con- 
tained in the Preamble of the Bill, but that the 
same had not been proved to their satisfaction. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from the Chairman, we a, Chairman London and 
and Directors of the East India Dock Company ;— Blackwall | 


the West India Dock Company ;—Captains and Railway Bill. 
Officers of Ships trading with the Port of London ; 

—and, Owners and Occupiers of houses and other 

property in Poplar and Blackwall; praymg that 

the London and Blackwall Commercial Railway Bill 

may pass into a law,—were presented, and read ; 

and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from the Minister and Elders com- Glasgow and 
osing the Kirk Session of Mewton-on-Ayr ;—and, - ny 
rovost, Magistrates and Town Council of the royal 

burgh of Ayr; praying the House to retain the 
Clause in the Glasgow and Ayr Railway Bill pro- 
hibiting the transit of goods and passengers on the 
Lord’s Day,—were presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the Petition of James Mackenzie, Biochairn 
Esquire, which was presented upon the 5th day of ©! Bill. 
this instant May, be referred to the Committee on 
the Blochairn Canal Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, if he 
think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the Bill, 
against the said Petition. 


The Earl of Darlington reported from the Com- Ellesmere and 
mittee on the Ellesmere and Chester Canal Bill; Ciester Canal 
and to whom two Petitions against the said Bill~'* 
were referred ; That they had considered the said 
Petitions; and had examined the allegations of 
the Bill, and found the same to be true; and had 
gone through the Bill, and made Amendments there- 
unto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Townley reported from the Committee on the Over Inclosure 
Over Inclosure and Drainage Bill; and to whom and Drainage 
a Petition against the said Bill was referred ; That Bil. 
the Standing Orders relative to Bills of Inclosure 
had been complied with; and that no person ap- 
peared in support of the said Petition; and that 
the Committee had examined the allegations of the 
Bill, and found the same to be true; and that the 
Parties concerned had given their consent to the 
Bill, to the satisfaction of the Committee ; and that 
the Committee had gone through the Bill, and 
made Amendments thereunto; and the Amend- 
ments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed. 


The London and Greenwich Railway (No. 2.) Bill, London and 
was read a second time; and committed to Mr. eae 


Dottin and the Kent List. (No. 2) Bill. 


Mr. Bootle Wilbraham reported from the Com- yanchester 
mittee on the Manchester and Tamworth Railway and Tamworth 
Bill; and, the Manchester and Stafford Railway Railway Bill; 
Bill; and to whom several Petitions against the ter and Stafford 
said Bills were referred; and who were instructed Railway Bili. 

to 


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392 22° Mazz. A. 1837. 


to consolidate the said Bills into one Bill; That the 
Standing Orders relative to Bills for making Rail- 
ways, had been complied with in respect to both of 
the said Bills; and that the Committee had con- 
sidered the said Petitions, and had heard counsel in 
support of several of them, and had also heard 
counsel in favour of the Bills; and that the Com- 
mittee had inquired into the several matters required 
by the Resolutions of the House of the 1st day of 
March 1836; and had examined the allegations of 
the said Bills, and found the same to be true; and 
had, pursuant to the instruction of the House, made 
them one Bill, “ for making a Railway from Man- 
chester, to join the Grand Junction Railway, in.the 
Parish of Chebsey, in the County of Stafford, to be 
Manchester and called “‘ The Manchester and Birmingham Railway,” 
—— with certain Branches therefrom ;” and had gone 
i through the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Welland Outfall Mr. Heathcote reported from the Committee on 


Drainage Bill. the Welland Outfall Drainage Bill; and to whom a|' 


Petition against the said Bill was referred; That 
the Standing Orders relative to Navigation Bills, 
had been complied with ; and that no person ap- 
peared on behalf of the said Petition; and that the 
Committee had examined the allegations of the Bill, 
and found the same to be true; and had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments there- 
unto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the 
Table. 


Brixham Ordered, That the Brixham Harbour and Market 


Harbour and Bi] be read the third time To-morrow. 
Market Bill. 


san and Ordered, That the Committee on the Bolton and 
en Preston Railway Bill have Power to send for per- 
sons, papers and records. 


Tenth Report Mr. Fazakerley reported from the Select Com- 
* Poor Law mittee appointed to inquire into the administration 
ct. . . ° 
of the Relief of the Poor under the orders and re- 
No, 329. . : er . ; 
gulations issued by the Commissioners appointed 
under the provisions of the Poor Law Amendment 
Act; and who were empowered to report the Minutes 
of the Evidence taken before them from time to time 
to the House; That they had made further Progress 
in the matters to them referred ; and had directed 
him to report the Minutes of the Evidence taken 
before them. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Bridlington A Petition of Owners and Occupiers of property 

Harbour Bill. jn the parish of Bridlington, praying that the Brid- 
lington Harbour Bill may not pass into a law as it 
now stands, was presented, and read; and referred 
to the Committee on the Bill. 


Message from | A Message from the Lords, by Sir Giffin Wilson 
the Lords. = and Mr. Senior : 
Mr. Speaker, 
Belfast and The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
Lisbum Road Act for maintaining, repairing and amending a Turn- 
3 pike Road from Belfast to Lisburn, by Malone, 

and by the Falls, and two Turnpike Roads leading 
from the Falls Road by Dundrod and Castlerobin 
respectively to Crumlin, in the County of Antrim, 
without any Amendment: And also, 

Roborough The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 

nor Act for the Recovery of Small Debts within the 

Debts Bill. Southern Division of the Hundred of Roborough, 
and within the Hundred of Plympton, in the County 
of Devon, and within the Southern Division of the 
Hundred of East, in the County of Cornwall, with 
Amendments; to which Amendments the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House: And also, 





The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Dundee 
Act to alter and amend an Act of the sixth year of Tesprovement 
the reign of his late Majesty, for opening certain’ * 
Streets in the Burgh of Dundee, and for otherwise 
improving the said Burgh, with Amendments ; to 
which Amendments the Lords desire the concurrence 
of this House: And also, 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act to Murray’s 
enable Alexander Murray, Esquire, of Broughton, =state Bill. 
to borrow a certain sum of Money upon the Security 
of certain of his Entailed Estates, for re-payment to 
him of a portion of the Monies laid out by him in 
the improvement of these Estates; to which the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House: And 
also, 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Lockhart’s 
for enabling the Trustees of William Eliott Lock- Estate Bill. 
hart, deceased, of Borthwickbrae, to sell the Lands 
of Old Melrose, and part of the Estate of Borthwick- 
brae, to pay the Debts affecting the same ; to which 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House: 

And also, 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Carnegie’s 
to vest certain parts of the entailed Estate of Boy- Estate Bill 
sack, in the County of Forfar, belonging to William 
Fullarton Lindsay Carnegie, Esquire, in Trustees, 

to sell the same, and apply the Price thereof in pay- 

ment of certain Debts affecting the said Estate, in 
building a Mansion House for the same, and in Re- 
payment of certain Sums of Money laid out in im- 
proving the said Estate, and to enable the Heir of 

Entail in possession of the said Estate to feu certain 

parts thereof; to which the Lords desire the concur- 

rence of this House: And also, 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Meinertz- 
for naturalizing Daniel Meinertzhagen; to which hagen’s Nat. 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House: “” 
And also, 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Huth’s 
for naturalizing Charles Frederick Huth; to which N*- Bill 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House :— 

And then the Messengers withdrew. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Colonel Arthur. 
Copies of Correspondence between the Commander No. 332. 
in Chief and the Secretary at War, respecting the 
Charge made against Colonel Arthur, of having, 
while Commandant at Honduras, caused Corporal 
Punishment to be inflicted on a Soldier of the Royal 
Artillery, named Jngram, in an unusual manner. 

Lord Viscount Howick accordingly presented the 
said Papers. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


Murray’s Estate Bill was read the first time ; and Murray’s 
ordered to be read a second time. Estate Bil!. 


Lockhart’s Estate Bill was read the first time ; Lockhar’s 
and ordered to be read a second time. Fstate Bill. 


Carnegie’s Estate Bill was read the first time ; and Carnegie’ 
ordered to be read a second time. Estate Bul. 


Meinertzhagen’s Naturalization Bill was read the Meinertz- 


first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. _ =. 


Huth’s Naturalization Bill was read the first time; og 
and ordered to be read a second time. _— 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Sarvey of — 
that part of the Message from the Lords, of Friday ceo 
last, wherein their Lordships request that this House Act.) 
will be pleased to communicate to their Lordships, a 
Copy of the Report made from the Select Committee 
appointed by this House, in the present Session of 
Parliament, ‘to consider the best mode of effecting 
the Surveys of Parishes, for the purpose carrying 
into effect the Act for the Commutation of Tithes in 

England 








Church Rates 
Regulation. 


ur, 





7 Witt. IV. 


England and Wales; together with the Minutes 
of ren taken before the Committee. 

Ordered, That a printed Copy of the said Report 
and Minutes of Evidence be communicated to the 
Lords, as desired by their Lordships; and that Mr. 
Bernal do deliver the same. 


Petitions from Upper Chapel, Heckmondwike ;— 
Brighouse ;— Shipley ;— Hartshead-cum-Clifton ;— 
Horsforth ;—Cleckheaton ;— Pontefract ;—Selby-in- 
the-West;— Hipperholme ;— Kirkheaton ;-- Heckmond- 
wike ;—Heptonstall Slack ;—Gore Chapel, Great 
Gomersall ;— Airedale Chapel ;—Stansfield ;— Birch- 
cliff ;— Bridgend Chapel, Rastrick ;— Barnoldswick ; 
— Farsley ;—- Lower Chapel, Heckmondwick e;-- Liver- 
sedge ;—Goole ; — Idle ;— Wadsworth;— Mill Hill 
Chapel, Leeds ;—Rastrick (Members of the Esta- 
blished Church) ;— Devonport ;—Greenwich ;— Mat- 
lock Bath ;—Ticknall ;— Nantwich ;— Poole ;— Ba- 
singstoke ;— Kirkcaldy ;—Swanwick and Riddings ; 
— Sandbach ;—New Alresford ;— Dumfries ;— Beard, 
Ollerset, and other places ;—Zion and Independent 
Chapels, Lincoln ;— Topsham ;—Smyrna, Cilycwym ; 
—Sion Chapel, Cilycwym ;— Cwmsarnddu ;— Cily- 
cwym ;—Commercial-street Chapel, Northampton ;— 
Fish-street Chapel, Northampton ; — College-street 
Chapel, Northampton ;— Zion Chapel, Bristol; — 
Lodge-street Chapel, Bristol;—Castle Green Chapel, 
Bristol ;—-King-street Chapel, Bristol;—the Taber- 
nacle, Bristol ;— Brunswick Square Chapel, Bristol ; 
—Pithay Chapel, Bristul;— Counterslip Chapel, 
Bristol ;—.Broadmead Chapel, Brisiol;— Thrissell- 
street Chapel, Bristol ;— Bridge-street Chapel, Bris- 
tol;—Providence Chapel, Middlesex; — Tipton; — 
Bideford; — Tunstead; — Georgeham;— Lanvabon ; 
— Somerton ;— Lancaster ;— Dalkeith ;—Aberdeen ; 
— Portsmouth ;— Friar -lane Chapel, Nottingham; 
—Hyson Green Chapel, Nottingham ;—Eustwood ; 
— Selstone;— Hill Top ;— Newport Pagnell; — 
Stourbridge; — Darby Hand and Netherton; — 
Old Ford, Bow ;— Grinstead ;— North Weald ;— 
Collier’s Rents, Southwark ;—Gibraltar Chapel, 
Bethnal Green ;—High-street Chapel, Lancaster ;— 
North Walsham;—WNeatishead (two Petitions) ;— 
Octagon Chapel, Norwich ;—Worstead ;—Salhouse 
and Blofield ;—North Walsham and Bradfield ;— 
Prince’s-street Chapel, Norwich ;—Saint Clement's 
Chapel, Norwich ;—Southwark ;—Stoke Goldington ; 
—Abbotis Roothing ;— Peterchurch ;— Rhos (four Pe- 
titions) ;— Rhuabon (four Petitions) ;—Tainant ;— 
Cefy Bycham;—Cefn Mawr (three Petitions) ;— 
Rhosymedre (two Petitions);— Kentish Town ;—Win- 
grave ;— Wolverhampton-street, Dudley ;—Chipping 
Ongar ;—Five Ways, Dudley ;—Oldbury ;— Leigh- 
ton;—Pant and Domgay ;—Tavistock ; — Stoney 
Stratford ;— Potterspury ;— Heanor ; —Feering ;— 
Little Totham;—Charlesworth;—Spring field ;— Cas- 
tle and Sible Hedingham ;— Heybridge ;—Saint Ma- 
ry’s, Maldon ;— Prittlewell ;— Broomfield ;—South- 
minster ;—Chelmsford;—All Saints, Maldon;— Saint 


* Peter’s, Maldon ;— Langham ;— Bedford ;— Roxton ; 


—Cotton End ;—Carlion ;—Cranfield ;—Turvey ;— 
Harrold ; — Sharnbrook ; -- Ridgemount ; — Salem 
Chapel, Reading ;--Hambleden ;--Madley ;--Guild- 
ford-street Chapel, Southwark ;—-Broad-street Chapel A 
Reading ;— King’s Road Chapel, Reading ;—Wes- 
leyans of Reading ;--London-street Chapel, Reading ; 
— Bridge-sireet Chapel, Reading ;—Great George- 
street Chapel, Liverpool ;—North Meols ;—--South- 
port ;-- Tabernacle, Great Croshall-street, Liver- 
pool;—Bethesda Chapel, Liverpool ;—Park Place 
Chapel, Liverpool ;—Lime-street Chapel, Liverpool ; 
— Russell-street Church, Liverpool ; — Stanhope- 
street Chapel, Liverpool; — Soho- street Chapel, 
Liverpool ; —- Byrom-street Chapel, Liverpool; — 
Hanover Chapel, Liverpool ; — Lydiate ;— Mount 
Pleasant Chapel, Liverpool ;— Rainford ;—Toxteth 
Park ;—Kirkdale ;--- Bradford (York) ;—Hanslope ; 
— Reading (Inhabitants) ;—North Crawley ;—Saint 
Mary, Islington ;—Llangollen ;— Brynteg ;—New- 
OL. 92. 


22° Mart. 393 


market ( Flint) ;—Milford ( Hants) ;-~Milsted ;—Lon- 
don and Westminster (Dissenting Ministers);—Olney; 
—Loddiswell ;— Stretham ;— Clutton ;—Barton ;— 
Westbury-upon-Trym;-- Annan ;—Wells (N orfolk) — 
East Letham ;—Lynn Regis ;—Costessy ;— Wymond- 
ham ;—Swanton Morley ;—Weusenham All Saints; 
—Stanfield ;——Litcham ;-—Llangattock ; — Bingley ; 
Great Tey ;—Maberley Chapel, Middlesex ;— Billeri- 
cay ;—Hochliffe ;—Luttle Ailie-street Chapel, Good- 
man’s Fields;— Little Prescott-street Chapel, London; 
——Kensington ;—-Wem ;-——North and South Killing- 
holme ; -- Brighton ;-— Rawden ; —- Bethel Chapel, 
Swansea ;—-Stevington ;— Woburn ;--Toddington ;— 
Shefford ;—-Wootton ;-—Southill ;— Keysoe ;— Blun- 
ham ;--Litile Staughton ;—Ampthill ;—Kingston- 
upon-Hull ;-—-Ministers and Representatives of In- 
dependent Churches of the county of Lancaster, 
assembled at Manchester ;--Oswestry ;—Friar-street 
Chapel, Ipswich ;—Saint James, Dublin ;—Winter- 
ton ;—- Swadlincote and Gresley ;--Charlbury ;--Al- 
ford ;— Dukinfield ; -- Pendleton ; — Brentwood ;-- 
Yeadon ;---Blakeley and Culcheth —-Oldham-street, 
Manchester ;—Woodford and other places ;— North 
Petherton ; -— Ardingly ; — Linfield ; — Cuckfield ; —- 
Garden-street Chapel, Sheffield;-- Wern Chapel, 
Wrerham ; — Presbyterian Chapel, Stockport ; -- 
Brenchley ;— Hastings ;—Moderator and Clerk of the 
United Associate Synod of the Secession Church 
met at Edinburgh ;--Cupar Fife ;—Pembrohke-street 
Chapel, Devonport ;—Saint John at Hackney ;-— 
Ely ;— Wisbech ;—New-street Chapel, Dudley ;— 
pa ere ;—King-street Chapel, Dudley ; -- 
Castle Square Chapel, Wisbech ;— Towersey ;—New- 
market ;— Kirton ;— Beulah Chapel, Commercial 
Road, London ;—High-street Chapel, Boston ;— 
Coventry (Inhabitants) ;-- Dudley Port ;—Bromley 

Woodside and Pensnett ;— Well-street Chapel, Coven- 
try ;—Vicar-lane Chapel, Coventry ;— Bulkington ;— 
Stoke, Coventry ;— White Friar’s-lane Chapel, Co- 
ventry ;— Gornal Wood;— Wareham ;-- West Orchard 
Chapel, Coventry ;—Buntingford ;—Jamaica Row 
Chapel, Bermondsey ;—-Merthyr Tydfil (Inhabitants) ; 
—Lye Waste Chapel, Worcester ;— Heath and Reach; 
—Foleshill ;— High-street Chapel, Coventry ;— Cow- 
lane Chapel, Coventry ;— Wellow ;— Newport, Isle of 
Wight ;—Wellow and Shalfleet ;—East Cowes ;— 
Shalfleet ;— Wilmslow ;— Hyde ;—and, Worstead; 
praying that the ip app measure relative to Church 
Rates may receive the sanction of the House,—were 
— and read; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 

Petitions from Llandaff ;—Langonoyd ;—County 
of Glamorgan ;— Cowbridge;— Radir ;— Whitchurch ; 
Penarth and Lavernoch ;—Llanmihangle and Fle- 
mingstone ; — Michaelstone-super-Avon ; — Ewenny ; 
—Merthyrmawr ;—Lantwit Major ;—Langan and 
Saint Mary Hill ;—Tythegston ;—Landough-juxta- 
Penarth, Cogan and Lechwith;— Lanharan ;—Dow- 
lais anh ;—Pyle (three Petitions) ;—Col- 
winstone ;—Bonvilstone, Pendoylan and Lantrithyd ; 
Barry and Cadoxton-by-Barry ;—Oystermouth ;— 
Llanwonno ;—Lysworney and Monknash ;—Merthyr 
Tydvil ;—Sully ;—Lantwit-juxta- Neath ;—Eglwys- 
ilan and Lanvabon ;— Neath ;—Llaniltem ;—Llan- 
sannor alias Thawe ;— Roath ;— Gellygare ;-- Cardiff; 
— Aberdare ; — Pendline ;— Saint George’s-super- 
Ely, &amp;c. ;— Lancarvan ;— Bridgend ;—Llandow and 
Eglwysbrewis ;—Ystradaven ;—Newton Nottage ;— 
Britonferry, Baglan and Aberavon ;—Wenvoe and 
Merthyr Dovan;—Pyle and Kenfig ;— Paterstone- 
super-Ely ;-—Saint Hilary ;—Whitchurch (Devon) ; 
— Highampton ; — Sydenham Damarcle ; — Brent 
Tor ;—Monk Okehampton ;—Sampford Spiney ;—- 
Buckland Monachorum ; — Lifton ; — Modbury ; — 
Walkhampton ;— Tavistock ;—Stowford ;—Meavy ; 
—Salcombe Regis ;— Dartmouth ;—Mary-Tavy ;— 
Lydford ;— Woodbury ;— Tonghill ;—Little Dew- 
church ;—Harewood ;— Colton ;—South Newington ; 
—Kemerton;—Saint John’s, Sligo; East Grinstead ; 





—Aston Botterell ;—Llanymowddroy ;— Ealing ;— 
3 E Highgate ; 




















































3594 


Highgate ;— Barnstaple ;—Beckbury ase J Wit- 
tenham ;—A berdeen ;— Todenham ;— Weasenham All 
Saints-with-Saint Peter ;—South Dalton ;—Baurtie; 
— Pertsea;—Archdeaconry of Brecon and Diocese of 
Saint David’s;—Upper Chelsea ;—Bobbington ;— 
Funtington;--Saint Andrew, Holborn;—Saint Giles- 
in-the-Fields ;— Marylebone ;— Tewhesbury ;—Rip- 
ponden ;—Shercoat ;— Oldbury ;—Egerton ;— Pud- 
dington ;—Abbey Dore ;—Orleton ;— Turnaston and 
other places ;— Coley ;— Felton and other places ;— 
Ovenden ;—Saint Mark, Clerkenwell ;—Broseley ;— 
Saint Pancras, Middlesex ;—Paddington ;— Elland; 
—Linley ;— Covenham Saint Mary ;— Covenham 
Saint Bartholomew ;—Astley Abbotts ;—Ecclesall ; 
— Weston-under-Penyard ; — Luddenden ; — Atter- 
cliffe-cum-Darnall ;— Halifax ;—Benthall ;—Bran- 
tingham and Thorpe Brantingham ;—Tewkesbury ; 
— Moderator of the Presbytery of Alford ;— 
Cross Stone; — Heptonstall; — Southowram and 
Brighouse ; — Todmorden ;— Sowerby Bridge ;— 
Saint Luke, Middlesex ; — Sowerby ;— Marshaw 
Bridge; — Dymoch;— Penn;— Farnley Tyas ;— 
Moderator of the Synod of Glasgow and Ayr ;— 
Abbotts Bromley ;—Mere ;— Cleathorpes ;— Rum- 
bolds Wyhke ;—Diss ;—Ryburgh Magna, Ryburgh 
Parva and Testerton;—East Dereham and Hoe; 
— Grimstone;— Axhurst-with-Foulden ;— Langham 
Episcopi; — Sedgeford;— Brome;— Hilborough;— 
Wells-next-the-Sea ; — Raynham ;— Fakenham ;— 
Clergy of the county of Norfolk ;— Barningham and 
other places ;—Gayton ;—Briseley ;—North Pick- 
enham ;—Starston ;— Mattishall ;—Sazlingham and 
Sherrington ;— Walsingham and other places ;—Lud- 
ham ;—Marsham ; —Great Massingham ;— Howe ;— 
Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Norwich ;—Stoke 
Prior ; —Whitkirk ; — Skipton ; — Almondbury ;— 
Nantwich, Wybunbury and Wistaston ;-— Little Wen- 
lock ;— Ringwood ;— Barrow ;—Saint Philip’s, Shef- 
field;— Wenhaston ;— Caistor ;—Saint Swithin, Win- 
chester ;—Saint Edmund the King and Martyr, and 
Saint Nicholas Acons, London ;—East Donyland ; 
—Idle ;— Willey ;—Minister and Elders of the Pres- 
bytery of Saint Andrew’s ;—Caldon and Waterfall ; 
—Saint Lawrence Jury and Saint Mary Magdalen, 
Mitk-street, London ;— Terrington Saint Clement's ; 
— Hughenden ; — Rawden ; —Llanafan ; —Pett ; — 
South Heighton-cum- Tarring and Tarring Neville ;— 
Hessle;—Saint Philip’s, Sheffield;—Stannington ;-- 
Saint Paul's, Sheffield ;—Saint George’s, Sheffield ; 
—LEcclesall ;—Sant Bride, London ;—Hartshead- 
cum-Clifton;—Saint Botolph, Bishopsgate ;— West 
Wickham ;—Moderator of the Synod of Galloway ; 
—Monxton;—Earl’s Barton ;—High Hoyland ;— 
Kingston Bagpuze ; — Fyfield ; —- Dinchworth ; — 
Grove ;— Lettcomb Bassett;— Ashbury;— Whap- 
lode ;-—-Bunwell ;—Wiilsford ;— Withycombe ;—Long 
Preston ; — Carletonrode;— Church Stanton; — 
Saint Paul, Exeter ;—Exeter;— Tiverton ;— Wins- 
ford ;—Saint Sidwell, Exeter ;— Hendon;— Hon- 
ley ;-— Chilbolton; — Handborough; — Childry ; — 
Carhampton ; — Hurstperpoint ; — Sion College, 
London ;—South Weald ;— Aston Sandford ;—Mo- 
derator of the Provincial Synod of Moray;— East 
Norton ;— Tugby ;— Great Gransden;— Clapham ;— 
Wragby ;—Addington ;— Gosforth ;—Southwold ;— 
Devonport ;—South Mims ;— Brandsburton;— Much 
Wenlock ;—Braughing ;— Little Gaddesden ;--Made- 
ley ;-— Hornsey;—Stoulton; — Shevington; — Great 
Carlion, Little and Castle Carlton ;—Morville ;— 
Hughley ;—Chelton, Glazeley and Deuxhill ;—Llan- 
dovery ;—Rhostie ;— Claverley ;—Acton Round ;— 
Stockton (Salop) ;— Wor field ;— Holcombe Burnell ; 
—Saint Nicholas, Devon; — Barnstaple;— Torbrian ; 
— Ugborough ; — Payhembury ; — Essex ; —North 
Huish ;— Cornwood ;—Clisthydon and Clist Saint 
Lawrence ;— Wembury ;— Broadwoodhelly ;— Totnes ; 
—Harford ; — Wolfardisworthy ; — Alwington ; — 
West Teignmouth ; — Moorwinstow, Kilkhampton, 
Poughilland Stratton ;— Marhamchurch;—Sidbury ; 
—Sowton; — Saint Mary Church; — Hennick ; — 





22°—23° Marz. 








A. 1837. 


Teignrace;— Corkington ;— and, Tormoham ; pray- 
ing that the said proposed measure may not receive 
the sanction of the House,—were also presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of Lessees of Coal Mines held under 
leases from the Bishop of Durham, the Dean and 
Chapter of Durham, and other Ecclesiastical persons 
or Bodies Corporate within the Diocese of Durham, 
was also presented, and read ; setting forth, That 
the ws for the abolition of Church Rates, which 
His Majesty’s Ministers are about to submit to the 
House, embracing (as the Petitioners presume it will) 
the enfranchisement or sale of the mines and mine- 
rals which are the property of the Church, will 
affect interests of great magnitude and importance ; 
and the Petitioners trust, that to ensure the best 
attention of the House to this important subject, it 
will be sufficient for them to state, that in conse- 
quence of the greater part of the best coal shipped 
on the north side of the river Zyne having been 
worked out, the principal supply of coals of the best 
quality, has for some time past been produced, and 
must continue to be produced from the collieries in the 
county of Durham; that the Church is in possession 
of more than one-third of the coal field in that 
county, in point of extent, and probably nearly one- 
half of it in point of value ; that the capital invested 
by the lessees of the coal mines held under the 
Church, in the Diocese of Durham, is of enormous 
amount, and has been so invested upon the clear 
understanding sanctioned by invariable practice, 
that their leases would be renewed from time to 
time so long as the collieries should continue to be 
worked, it being an indisputable fact, that the long- 
est term for which these Church leases can be 
legally granted, is greatly insufficient to enable the 
lessees of large collieries to replace the capital which 
they actually embark in these hazardous specula- 
tions, laying profits altogether out of consideration ; 
that the Petitioners are satisfied that the enfran- 
chisement of the property in question will be bene- 
ficial to all the parties interested in it, provided the 
terms of enfranchisement be just and equitable; and 
praying that the House will afford to a measure of 
such magnitude and importance, the most deliberate 
consideration, and that in discussing and settling 
the details of the plan, they will afford to the interests 
of the lessees that protection to which, under existing 
circumstances, they are equitably entitled, having 
due regard to the understanding and practice which 
have hitherto prevailed in leasmg the property in 
question, so that the measure, if carried into effect, 
may be founded on equity and justice. 

A Petition of Sir Edward Ffrench Bromhead, 
Baronet, an Owner of freehold property in the parish 
of Thurlby, in the county of Lincoln, and also a 
Lessee for Lives of the Tithes thereof, from the 
Prebend of Carlton-cum-Thurlby, now lapsed to the 
Church Commissioners, was also presented, and 
read ; setting forth, That the Petitioner’s Land has 
always been liable to the repair of Highways, Bridges 
and the Church; that the Petitioner wishes the rate 
to be laid on himself directly instead of an indirect 
payment through his tenants, and that under such 
change of circumstances the rate be limited to six- 
pence in the pound; that Ecclesiastical bodies should 
be empowered to commute the reversion of their Life 
Leases for an annual Corn Rent, payable forthwith 
and for ever, under valuation by an actuary; and that 
such Corn Rent should be applied wholly or in part 
to improve the perpetual curacy of that parish. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


Petitions from Ballinamore ; —Glenade ;—Clon- Government of 
degad ; — Ballymore Eustace ; — and, Kiltubride ; }t&lt;len4. 
praying the House to support His Majesty’s Minis- 
ters in their Government of Jreland,—were pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 





Table. 


Petitions 


7 Wit. IV. 


Petitions from Lymm ; —Feniton ;—Nedging and 
Naughton ; —Stroud ; —Dunshalt ; —Stockland ;— 
Dunkeswell ;—and, Sutton Bridge; praying that the 
Lord’s Day Bill may be permitted to go into a Com- 
mittee of the whole House,—were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Lord’s Day Bill. 


poor Law Actt A Petition of Inhabitants of Drighlington, pray- 


ing for the repeal of the Poor Law Act, was presented, 
and read; and referred to the Select Committee on 
the Poor Law Act. 
Municipal Petitions from Incorporation of Cordiners in Glas- 
(Sevand) Bill qo ;—and, Skinners in Glasgow ; praying that the 
; unicipal Corporations (Scotland) Bill may not pass 
into a law,—were presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


Edinburgh 
and Glasgow 
Railway Bill. 


A Petition of Land-owners, Farmers, Feuars and 
Householders of Mew Monkland, Slamannan and 
Cumbernauld, praying that the Edinburgh and Glas- 
gow Railway Bill may not pass into a law, was 
presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


Church Rates 


Mr. Bernal reported from the Committee, to whom 
Regulation. 


it was referred to consider of the payment of Church 
Rates, a Resolution, which was read, as followeth : 


Resolved, That, for the repair and maintenance of 
Parochial Churches and Chapels in England and 
Wales, and the due celebration of Divine Worship 
therein, a permanent and adequate provision be made 
out of an increased value given to Church Lands, by 
the introduction of a new system of management, 
and by the application of the proceeds of pew-rents; 
the collection of Church Rates ceasing altogether 
from a day to be determined by law; and that, in 
order to facilitate and give early effect to this Reso- 
lution, the Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasury 
be authorized to make advances on the security, 
and re-payable out of, the produce of such Church 
Lands. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question being 
proposed, That the said Resolution be now read a 
second time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” to 
the end of the Question, in order to add the words 
“ it is the opinion of this House, that funds may be 
“ derived from an improved mode of management 
“ of Church Lands, and that these funds should be 
“‘ applied to religious instruction within the Esta- 
‘* plished Church, where the same may be found 
* deficient in proportion to the existing population,” 
instead thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Question: 
—And a Debate arising thereupon ; 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Tuesday morning ; 


Martis, 23° die Maiti, 1837: 


Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till this 
day. 
Forgery Bill, The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
further consideration the Report on the Forgery 
Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration this day. 


Registration 


BL "8 mittee on the Registration and Marriages Bill ; 


Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


Sen Othos Acts The ingrossed Bill to repeal the several Laws re- 
peal Bill. lating to the Post Office, was according to Order, 


VoL. 92. 


99°_93° Mazz. 





The Order of the day being read, for the Com- | t 





395 


read the third time; and Amendments were made 
to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The ingrossed Bill for the Management and Re- Post Office 
gulation of the Post Office, was, according to Order, Pansgement 
read the third time ; and Amendments were made’ 
to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The ingrossed Bill for the Regulation of the Duties Postage Dutie 
of Postage, was, according to Order, read the third Bill. 
time ; and Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The ingrossed Bill for regulating the sending and Franking Bill. 
receiving of Letters and Packets by the Post, free 
from the Duty of Postage, was, according to Order, 
read the third time; and Amendments were made 
to the Bill. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Post Office 


The ingrossed Bill for consolidating the Laws Offences Bill, 


relative to Offences against the Post Office of the 
United Kingdom, was, according to Order, read the 
third time; and Amendments were made to the 
Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act for consolidating the Laws relative 
to Offences against the Post Office of the United 
Kingdom, and for regulating the Judicial Adminis- 
tration of the Post Office Laws, and for explaining 
pg terms and expressions employed in those 

aws. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Burghs 
into a Committee upon the Burghs of Barony (Scot- = evs A Bill 
land) Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. ‘ ‘. i gga 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal re- %339- 
yp That the Committee had gone through the 
ill, and made Amendments thereunto. 
Ordered, That the Report be now received. 


Mr. Bernal reported the Bill accordingly ; and 
the Report was ordered to be taken into further 
consideration upon Wednesday, the 31st day of this 
instant May; and the Bill, as amended, to be 
printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Ways and 

mittee of Ways and Means ; a 
Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 

solve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Supply. 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


Mr. Bernal reported the Public Works (Ireland) Public Works 
Bill; and the Amendments were read, and agreed (Ireland) Bill. 


o. 
Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed ; and read the third time this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for receiving Supply 
the Report from the Committee of Supply ; (7th April.y 
Ordered, That the Report be herlirse Toaie. 


3E2 The 





396 


The Order of the day pig 4 read, for the Com- 
= on the Turnpike Acts Continuance (Jreland) 
lil 5 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


Turnpike Acts 
Continuance 
(Ireland) Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Parliamentary Electors Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Friday next. 


Parliamentary 
Electors Bill. 


Exchequer Bills The Exchequer Bills Bill was, according to Order, 
(£.11,000,000.) read a second time ; and committed to a Committee 
Bill. of the whole House, for this day. 


Moniesinthe | The Order of the day being read, for the second 
Exchequer Bill. reading of the Monies in the ; Seren dies Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 


Ordered, That Mr. Serjeant Jackson be discharged 
from any further attendance on the Select Committee 
on Ecclesiastical Courts (Ireland.) 

Ordered, That Mr. Nicholl be added to the Com- 


mittee. 


Civil BillCourts The House was moved, That the Act 6 and 7 
(Ireland) Bill. Will. 4, c. 75, to extend the Jurisdiction, and re- 
) oar the Proceedings of the Civil Bill Courts in 
reland, might be read ; and the same being read ; 
Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to amend the said Act: And that Mr. Attorney 
General for Ireland and Lord Viscount Morpeth do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


Ecclesiastical 
Courts 
Ireland.) 


Treasurers of The House was moved, That the Act 4 Geo. 4, 

Counties, &amp;e, ¢, 33, to make more effectual regulations for the 

(Ireland.) Election, and to secure the performance of the Duties 
of County Treasurers in Jreland, might be read; 
and the same was read. 

The House was also moved, That the Act 5 Geo. 4, 
c. 29, to amend an Act of the last Session of Par- 
hiament for making more effectual Regulations for 
the Election, and for securing the performance of 
the Duties of County Treasurers in Ireland, might 
be read ; and the same was read. 

The House was also moved, That the Act 5 Geo. 4, 
c. 95, to amend the Acts of the last Session of Par- 
liament relating to Presentments by Grand Juries, 
for payment of the Salaries of Public Officers of the 
several Counties in Ireland, might be read ; and the 
same was read. 

The House was also moved, That the Act 6 Geo. 4, 
c. 52, to amend an Act of the last Session of Par- 
liament for amending former Acts relating to Pre- 
sentments by Grand Juries for payment of the 
Salaries of Treasurers and Public Officers of the 
several Counties in Jreland, might be read; and the 
same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to provide more effectual means to make Treasurers 
of Counties and Counties of Cities and Public Bodies 
in Ireland account for Public Monies, and to secure 
the same: And that Mr. Attorney General for Jre- 
land and Lord Viscount Morpeth do prepare, and 
bring it in. 


‘Vhe House was moved, That the Act 6 and 7 
Wiil. 4, c. 87, for extinguishing the Secular Juris- 
diction of the Archbishop of York and the Bishop 
of Ely in certain Liberties in the Counties of York, 
Nottingham and Cambridge, might be read ; and the 
same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to explain and amend the said Act: And that Mr. 
Solicitor General and Mr. Attorney General do pre- 
pare, and bring it in. 


Secular Joris- 
diction (York 
and Ely) Bill. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 


Burghs 
of Barony 
(Scotland.) 


292°—93° Maiz. 





| by himself, his agents, friends, managers, partisans 


A, 1837- 


House, a Return of the Amount of Population in 
each of the Towns enumerated in the eo of 
Barony Bill for Scotland, comprehending the Houses 
contiguous and adjacent to the said Towns. 
Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Mr. Solicitor General presented a Bill to explain Secular Juris. 
and amend an Act of the sixth and seventh years of pen a 
His present Majesty, for extinguishing the Secular N 9) Bill 
Jurisdiction of the Archbishop of York and the “% 31. 
Bishop of Ely in certain Liberties in the Counties 
of York, Nottingham and Cambridge: And the 
same was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time upon Friday next; and to be 
printed. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented River Thatnes, 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Copies of all Memorials presented to the 
Government since the 1st January 1835, respecting 
the obstructions of the River Thames. 
Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken Collier Dock 
before the Select Committee on the Port of London, = reo 
in the last Session of Parliament, be referred to the 
Committee on the Collier Dock and Surrey Canal 
Bill. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Youghal! Fire. 
Copies of all Correspondence that has passed between 
the Lord Lieutenant of Jreland and the Magistrates 
of Youghal, relative to the late Fire in the Premises 
of Mr. Luke Howard of that Town. 


A Petition of Farmers of Montrose and Brechin, Montrose _ 
praying that they may be allowed to withdraw their Harbour Bill 
+ gory to the Montrose Harbour Bill, and that 
the said Bill may pass into a law, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


And then the House having continued to sit till 
one of the clock on Tuesday morning, ad- 
journed till this day. 





Martis 23° die Mau ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi IV Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


OF DERED, That Sir Thomas Winnington have Leave of 
leave of absence for a month, on account of ill Absence. 
health. 


A Petition of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, of Gros- Bridgewater 
venor-square, in the county of Middlesex, Esquire, Ricetion. 
was delivered in, and read ; setting forth, That the 
Petitioner, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, at the time 
of the last Election of a Member to serve in this 
present Parliament for the Borough of Bridgewater, 
in the county of Somerset, and Henry Broadwood, 
Esquire, were Candidates to represent the said Bo- 
rough as a Burgess for the same in this present Par- 
liament ; that the said Election was held on Monday 
the 15th day of May instant; that at the said Elec- 
tion a poll having been demanded by and on behalf 
of the said Richard Brinsley Sheridan, the same 
was taken by Robert Ford, Esquire, Mayor and 
Returning Officer of the said Borough at the time 
of such Election, after which the said Henry Broad- 
wood, Esquire, was, by the said Returning Officer, 
declared duly elected, and the said Henry Broad- 
wood was, by the said Returning Officer, returned 
as a Burgess to serve in this present Parliament for 
the said Borough; that the said Henry Broadwood, 





and 











rk 
ll. 


and others on his behalf, before, at, and during the 
said Election, and before and during the said poll, 
was guilty of bribery and corruption of the electors 
of the said Borough, in order that he the said Henry 
Broadwood might be elected to serve in this present 
Parliament for the Borough of Bridgewater, and 
did by money, gifts and rewards, and by promises, 
offers, agreements and securities for money, gifts 
and rewards, and other illegal and corrupt practices, 
corrupt and procure, and attempt and endeavour to 
corrupt and procure, divers persons having or claim- 
ing to have a right to vote in the said Election, to 
give their votes at the said Election for the said 
Herry Broadwood, and to refuse and forbear to give 
their votes for the Petitioner, contrary to the law 
and custom of Parliament, and the Laws and Sta- 
tutes of the Realm, enacted for the prevention of 
bribery and corruption ; that the said Henry Broad- 
wood, Esquire, before and during the said Election, 
and after the issuing of the Writ which caused and 
commanded the said Election, did by himself, his 
agents, friends, managers, partisans, and others on 
his behalf, give and allow to divers persons having 
or claiming to have a right to vote for the said Bo- 
rough at the said Election, money, meat, drink, 
entertainment, and provision, and made presents, 
gifts, rewards and entertainments, and promises 
and agreements, and engagements to allow money, 
meat, drink, provisions, presents, rewards and enter- 
tainments to and for persons having or claiming to 
have aright to vote in the said Election, and to and 
for the use, advantage, benefit, emolument, profit 
and preferment of such persons, in order to his the 
said Henry Broadwood being elected a Burgess to 
serve in this present Parliament for the said Bo- 
rough; that extensive bribery and treating was re- 
sorted to and practised by divers persons at the said 
Election; and that the return of the said Henry 
Broadwood at the said last Election for the said 
Borough of Bridgewater was procured by means of 
bribery, treating and other corrupt and illegal prac- 
tices; that at the taking of the poll at the said 
Election the votes of divers persons were accepted 
and recorded in favour of the said Henry Broad- 
wood, although such persons were not entitled, and 
had no right to vote at the said Election; that at 
the last registration of persons entitled to vote in 
the Election of a Member or Members to serve in 
Parliament for the said Borough of Bridgewater, 
the names of divers persons were, by the overseers 
of the several parishes within the said Borough, 
whose duty it was to make out the lists of voters for 
their respective parishes, inserted in such lists, al- 
though such persons were not entitled to vote in the 
Election of such Member or Members, either by 
virtue of an Act of the second year of the reign of 
His present Majesty, William 4th, intituled, “ An 
Act to amend the Representation of the People in 
England and Wales,” or by virtue of any other right 
whatsoever, and that such persons, though duly 
objected to according to the provisions of the said 
recited Act, were nevertheless improperly retained 
on the Register of Voters for the said Borough by 
the Revising Barrister or Barristers appointed to 
revise the Lists of Voters for the said Borough ; and 
that such persons being so improperly retained on 
the register, were at the said Election permitted by 
the said Returning Officer to give their votes at the 
poll, and such persons did in fact illegally and im- 
properly vote at such Election for the said Henry 
Broadwood; that at the said Election the votes of 
many persons were accepted and recorded in favour 
of the said Henry Broadwood, although such persons 
were disqualified from voting at such Election, in 
consequence of such persons having received bribes, 
money, gifts and rewards, or promises of bribes, 
money, gifts or other rewards for giving their votes 
at such Election; that the votes of divers other 
persons were accepted and recorded in favour of the 
said Henry Broadwood, although such persons had 
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7 Witt. IV. 23° Maiz. 397 


received parochial relief at various periods between 
the time of the making of the register of voters for 
the said Borough in force at the said Election, and 
the time of the said Election, whereby they had 
become disqualified from voting at such Election ; 
that the votes of divers other persons were accepted 
and recorded in favour of the said Henry Broadwood, 
who had been and were employed as agents, and in 
other capacities for the purpose of the said Election, 
and who in consideration of or with reference to 
such employment, accepted and took money or other 
reward, or some promise or security for money or 
other reward, contrary to the laws and statutes in 
such case made and provided; that the votes of 
several other persons were accepted and recorded 
in favour of the said Henry Broadwood, although 
they had become disqualitied from voting at the 
said Election by having ceased to possess the pro- 
perty or other qualification in respect of which their 
names had been inserted on the register, or b 
having abandoned, changed or departed from their 
respective occupations or residences, or by having 
ceased to reside within the said town, or the limits 
required by the Statute in such case made and pro- 
vided ; that by means of the premises the said Henr. 
Broadwood obtained an apparent and colourable 
majority of fifty-eight votes over the Petitioner 
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, in manifest violation 
of the rights and privileges of all the real electors 
of the said Borough of Bridgewater, whereas the 
Petitioner alleges and humbly insists, that he, the 
said Richard Brinsley Sheridan, had a majority of 
legal votes at the said Election, and ought to have 
been returned accordingly ; the Petitioner therefore 
humbly prays, That the House will take the pre- 
mises into their consideration, and declare that the 
Petitioner Richard Brinsley Sheridan is duly elected, 
and ought to have been returned to serve in the pre- 
sent Parliament for the said Borough of Bridgewater, 
and will direct the Clerk of the coors to erase the 
name of the said Henry Broadwood from the said 
Return, and to insert the name of the Petitioner, 
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, or otherwise to declare 
the said Election and Return of the said Henry 
Broadwood to be wholly void, and to grant to the 
Petitioner such other relief as to the House shal 
seem meet. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be taken into 
consideration upon Tuesday, the 13th day of June 
next, at three of the clock in the afternoon. 

Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant 
or Warrants for such persons, papers and records as 
shall be thought necessary by the several parties on 
the hearing of the matter of the said Petition. 


Petitions from Inhabitants of Dublin ;—and, Mersey 
Drogheda; praying that the Mersey Conservancy ated 
Bill may not pass into a Jaw,—were presented, and * 


read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Sharman Crawford reported from the Com- Dundalk 


mittee on the Dundalk and Ballibay Railway Bill; Railway Bul 


That the Standing Orders relative to Bills for making 
Railways had been complied with; and that they 
had inquired into the several matters required b 
the Resolutions of the House of the Ist day of 
March 1836, and had examined the allegations of 
the Bill, and found the same to be true; and had 
gone through the Bill, and made Amendments there- 
unto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Mr. Hamilton reported from the Committee on Dublin Wide 
the Dublin Wide Streets Bill ; That they had ex- Streets Bill 


amined the allegations of the Bill, and found the 
same to be true; and had gone through the Bill, 
and made Amendments thereunto and the Amend- 
ments were read, and agmned to. 
Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed. 
353 A Petition 



























































Bridlington 
Harbour Bill. 


Exeter and 
Falmouth 
Railway Bill. 


Brixham 
Harbour and 
Market Bill. 


London and 
Brighton 
Railway Bills. 


398 


ae of Yarmouth, praying that they may be heard, 
y themselves, their counsel or agents, against cer- 
tain parts of the Bridlington Harbour Bill, was 
presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in fa- 
vour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


The House was moved, That the Petition of | 


Francis Finch, complaining of the names of needy 
and indigent persons having been inserted in the 
Subscription List for the Ezeter and Falmouth 
Railway, which was presented upon the 9th day of 
this instant May, might be read; and the same 
being read ; 

A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
wee. That the said Petition be referred to the 
select Committee on the Deptford and Dover Rail- 
way Subscription List :—And the said Motion was, 
with leave of the House, withdrawn. 


The Order of the day being read, for the third 
reading of the Brixham atbed? and Market Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Friday next. 


Lord George Lennoz reported from the Committee 
to whom the several Bills for making a Railway 
from London to Brighton were referred ; and to 


_ whom several Petitions against such lines were 


Glasgow and 
Greenock 
Railway Bill. 


Edinburgh 
Water Com- 
pany Bill. 


Dundee 
Improvement 
Bill. 


referred ; and who were instructed by the House to 
make a special Report “ of the engineering par- 
ticulars of each of the four competing Lines, to 
enable the House to determine which to send back 
for the purpose of having the land-owners heard, 
and Clauses settled ;” That in compliance with such 
instruction they had agreed to a Report. 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Tuesday next, and be printed. 


Petitions from the Minister, Elders and Deacons 
of the East parish of Greenock ;—and, the Minister 
and remanent Members of the Kirk Session of the 
parish of Port Glasgow; praying that the Clause 
m the Glasgow and Greenock Railway Bill, pro- 
hibiting the transit of goods and passengers on the 
Lord’s Day, may be retained,—were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Compton reported from the Select Committee 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That in the case of 
the Petition for the Edinburgh Water Company 
Bill, the Standing Orders relative to Bills for sup- 
plying Cities or Towns with Water had not been 
complied with, inasmuch as no notices had been given 
in the newspapers ; but it appeared to the Committee 
that the necessity for the application has arisen in 
consequence of an Act of the present Session, alter- 
ing the mode of assessment under the Police Tax 
in Edinburgh, which rendered it impossible to pre- 
sent their Petition within the time limited for pre- 
senting Petitions for Private Bills. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, in- 
tituled, An Act to alter and amend an Act of the 
sixth year of the reign of his late Majesty, for open- 
ing certain Streets in the Burgh of Dundee, and for 
otherwise improving the said Burgh; and the same 
were read, as follow: 

Pr. 17. 1. 6. Leave out from “ to” to “ the” in 
1. 16. 

Pr. 17. 1. 17. Leave out “ respectively.” 

Pr. 17. lines 18. and 19. Leave out “ respec- 


« tively.” 





23° Maiz. 


A Petition of Merchants and Shipowners at the | 


A. 1837. 


Pr. 17. 1. 21. Leave out from “ the” to “ pur- 
|“ chase”’ in 1, 23., and in 1. 23, after “ by” insert 
“ them.” 

| Pr. 17. 1. 24. Leave out from “ council” to the 
| first “of” in 1. 27., and in 1. 27, after the first “ of” 
Insert “ such.” 
| Pr. 17. 1.29. Leave out from “ meadows” to 
| for” in Pr. 18,1. 1., and insert “ as may be re- 
| quired.” 
| Pr. 18. 1.3. Leave out from “ and” to “ are”’ 
| in |. 5., and insert “ all and every person or persons, 
“body or bodies politic, corporate or collegiate, 
“trustees or others interested therein, or entitled 
“ thereto.” 

Pr. 18. 1. 10. After “so” insert “ to be.” 

Pr. 18. 1.12. Leave out from “ council” to “ in” 
in |. 13. 

Pr. 18. 1. 14. Leave out from “ manner ” 
“ And” in 1. 22. 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Chalmers do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lordships. 


to 


A Petition of Merchants and Distillers in Glasgow, 
praying that the Montrose Harbour Bill may not 
pass into a law as it now stands, was presented, and 
read ; and referred to the Committee on the Bill. 


Mr. Brotherton presented,—Returns to several 
Orders, dated the 8th day of February last, for Re- 
turns of the Number of Marriages by License and 
Banns solemnized in the Collegiate Church of Man- 
chester during the year 1821, with a Statement of 
Fees allotted in either case to the Chaplains, Clerks 
and Choristers: —and, of the Number of Publications 
of the Banns of Matrimony in the years 1821 and 
1835 respectively ; with the Amount of Fees in each 
case when the Marriage was not afterwards so- 
lemnized. 

Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table. 


Petitions from Inhabitants of Paisley ;—and, the 
Moderator and Elders of the Kirk Session of Paisley; 
praying that the Clause in the Glasgow and Ayr 
Railway Bill, prohibiting the transit of goods and 
passengers on the Lord’s Day may be retained,— 
were presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of the Moderator of the General As- 
sembly of the Church of Scotland, praying that the 
Clauses in the Glasgow and Ayr; and, Glasgow, 
Paisley and Greenock Railway Bills, prohibiting the 
transit of goods and passengers on the Lord’s Day, 
may be retained, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Colchester Union ;—Marlborough 
Union ;— Newbury Union ;— Royston Union ;—and, 
Swaffham Union ; praying the House to pass a Bill 
for rendering the landlords of small tenements 
liable to parochial Rates instead of the occupiers,— 
were presented, and read ; and referred to the Select 
Committee on the Poor Law Act. 


Belper (Inhabitants) ; — Belper (Independents) ;— 
Marsh Gibbon ; — Heage ; — Wycombe ; — Sitting- 
bourne and Milton ;— Ford Dinton;— White-church ; 
— Huntingdon ;— Godmanchester ;— Great Gidding ; 
— Spaldwick ; — Provost, Magistrates and Town 
Council of Wick ;—Haddenham ;—Saint Asaph ;— 
Piccadilly Chapel, Manchester; — Old Meeting 
House, Mansfield ;—Pucheridge ;— Ware ;—Aber- 
gavenny ; — Bassalleg ; — Penmain ;— Goytre ; — 
Glascoed ; — Panteange ; — Llanover ; — Blaenavon 
Iron Works ;—Llangibby ;—Maesllech ;— Bethany, 





Magor 





Montrose 
Harbour Bill. 


Marriages 
(Manchester) 


Glasgow and 
Ayr Railway 
Bill. 


Glasgow and 
Ayr ; and, 
Glasgow, 
Paisley and 
Greenock 
Railway Bills. 


Rating of __ 
Tenements Bill. 


Petitions from Wendover ;—Great Missenden ;— Church Rates 


Regulation. 





7 Wi. IV. 


Magor and Redwick; — Trevethen ; — Bethlehem 
Chapel, Blaenavon ;—Sardis Chapel, Pontypool ;— 
Babell British tron Works, Abersychan ;— Taber- 
nacle Chapel, Pontypool ;— Caerleon ;—Henllys ;— 
Trosnant, Pontypool ;—Bealah ;—Newport (Mon- 
mouth) ; — Blaeney ; — Llanwenarth ; — Brynmawr 
(two Petitions) ;—Nebo ;—Ebw Vale Chapel, Bed- 
wellty ; — Llanelly ; — Nantyglo ; — Llanthewy ;— 
Alltyrunnis ;—Penywain;—Highgate;— Devonshire 

ware Chapel, London ; — Lymington ; — Preston 
(Kent) ; —Staple ; —Eythorne ; —Chinnor ; —Saint 
Issey;—Saint Columb Major ;—Liverpool ;—Chip- 
ping Campden ;—Sardis Garndeffath, Trevethin;— 
Hetton-le-Hole ;— Lower Trosnant, Pontypool ;— 
Shiney Row ;— Pontrhydyrun ;— Abersychan ; — 
Waldridge ;—the Rev. Edward Price ;—and, Ket- 
tering ; praying that the proposed measure relative 
to Church Rates may receive the sanction of the 
House,—were presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from Potterne ; — Lewisham ; —Head- 
corn ;—Easton ;—East Carlton ;—Bracon Ash, and 
other places ;— Crownthorpe ; — Tivetshall Saint 
Mary and Saint Margaret ;— Wicklewood ; — Bes- 
thorpe, Shouldham and other places ;—Magistrates of 
Norfolk ; —Llangollen ; —Oakley ;—Southwark ;— 
Lavendon ; —Cheddington ;— Pentyrch ;— Lantwit- 
vardre ;—Saint Paul's, Islington;—and, Clergy 
within the Deanery of Hedingham; praying that the 
said — measure may not receive the sanction 
of the House,—were also presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Agricultural 
and Commercial 
Bank, Treland. 


Petitions from Shareholders in the Agricultural 
and Commercial Bank of Jreland, resident in Cavan ; 
—Boyle;—and, Roscommon ; praying the House to 
extend support and protection to the Agricultural 
and Commercial Bank of Jreland,—were presented, 
and read; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Joint Stock Banks. 


Agricultural 

and Commercial 
Bank, lreland 
(No 2.) 


A Petition of Landowners, Merchants and Free- 
holders residing in the county of Mayo, taking 
notice of the application for leave to bring in the 
Agricultural and Commercial Bank, Jreland (No. 2.) 
Bili, and praying that such Bill may not pass into a 
law, was presented, and read; and referred to the 
Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 
Carts, A Petition of Owners of Two-wheel Carriages in 
Derby, praying for the repeal of such part of the 
existing law which requires the name, occupation 
and place of abode of the owners of Carts to be 
painted thereon, was presented, and read ; and or- 
dered to lie upon the Table. 


Education 


A Petition of Inhabitants of sundry parishes in 
(Ireland. ) 


the united Diocese of Down and Connor, praying 
that the present system of National Education in 
Ireland may not be persisted in, was presented, and 


read; and referred to the Select Committee on Plan 


of Education (Jreland.) 


Criminal Law. A Petition of Inhabitants of Southampton, pray- 
ing the House to enact that the punishment of Death 
for every offence than that of Murder shall cease, 


was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


Petitions from: Cairneyhill ; — Fleckney ; —and, 
Galashiels ; praying for the adoption of Universal 
Suffrage and Vote by Ballot at Elections of Members 
to serve in Parliament,—were presented, and read; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Universal 
Suffrage, &amp;c. 


Corn Laws, A Petition of Inhabitants of Morley, praying for 


the repeal of the Corn Laws, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
lord’s Day Bill. Petitions from Long Stratton and other places ;— 
New Buchenham and other places ;=—-Shelton ; — 


23° Maiz. 





399 


Lancaster ;— Stoke-upon- Trent ;— Caton and Wray ; 
—Inverness ;-- Garstang and other places ;—Rye;— 
Castle Rising ;— and, Wadebridge; praying that 
the Lord’s Day Bill may be permitted to g@&gt; into a 
Committee of the wake House,—were presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


_A Petition of persons resident in the immediate Vauxhall 
vicinity of Vauxhall Bridge, complaining of the Bt4e- 
hardship of having to pay both ways on passing over 

that Bridge, and praying for consideration of their 

case, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 

the Table. 


A Petition of Coal Merchants and others con- Steam 
nected with the Coal Trade on the River Thames, Navigati 
praying that the House will cause such measures to (1O®™** 
be taken for checking the rapidity with which Steam 
Vessels are navigated through the Pool, and gene- 

rally for the better regulation of Steam Navigation 

on the said River, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to Jie upon the Table, 


on 


) 


A Petition of Barristers at Law, praying the British 
House to direct that the Reading Room of the Museu. 
British Museum be opened in the evening, was 


presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


Petitions from Saint Clement Danes;—and, Rye ; Land Tax. 
praying the House to take immediate steps towards 

some legislative enactment which will effect an 
equalization of the unredeemed Land Tax in Eng- 

land and Wales,—were presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Provost, Baillies, Treasurer and Distress _ 
Councillors of Paisley, complaining of the distressed (Scotland.) 
condition of the unemployed Operatives of that 

town, and praying the House to extend them relief, 

was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 

the Table. 


A Petition of Medical Practitioners, resident in Poor Law Act. 
Haverhill, praying the House to institute an inquiry 

into the system adopted by the Poor Law Commis- 

sioners of providing Medical Relief for sick Pau- 

pers, was presented, and read; and referred to the 

Select Committee on the Poor Law Act. 


A Petition of Thomas Bartlett, late in the Mari- East India 
time Service of the East India Company, praying Maritime | 
the House so to alter the East Tadic Maritime aaenaaieaae 
Officers Bill as to embrace the claim of the Peti- 

tioner to compensation, he having performed but 

one voyage, was presented, and read ; and ordered 

to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Zondon, praying the Richard 
House to institute an inquiry into the allegations M‘Cormick. 
contained in the Petitions of Richard M*‘Cormick, 
late a private in the 17th Lancers, complaining of 
abuses existing in the Army, was presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Commissioners of Police of Kil- Municipal 
marnock, praying that that Burgh may be excluded /orporations 
from the operations of the Municipal Corporations a 
(Scotland) Bill, was presented, and read; and or- 
dered to lie upon the Table. 


Dr. Bowring reported from the Select Committee Public 
on Public Petitions; That they had examined the Petitions. 
Petitions presented from the 3d to the 9th days of 
this instant May, both inclusive, and had directed 
him to make a Report thereof to the House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Roborough 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, (Dorsey 8 in 
intituled, An Act for the Recovery of Small Debts Debts Bill, 
within the Southern Division of the Hundred of 





Vou. 92. 





3E4 


Roborough, 


400 


Roborough, and within the Hundred of Plympton, 
in the County of Devon, and within the Southern 
Division of the Hundred of East, in the County of 
Cornwall; and the same were read, as follow: 
Pr. 1. 1.11. After “ Maker” insert “and the 
“ tithings of Compton Gifford and Weston Peverel.” 
Pr. 1. 1. 18. After “ Plympton” insert “ in the 
said County of Devon.” 
Pr. 2. 1. 4. After “ parishes ” insert “ or places.” 
Pr. 2. 1. 24. After “parishes” insert “ or places.” 
Pr. 2. 1. 34. Leave out “and,” and in the same 
line after “ tithings ” insert “and places.” 
Pr. 4. 1. 3. Leave out “and” and insert “ to.” 
Pr. 5. 1. 7. After “ Plympton” insert “ Saint 
“ Mary.” 

Pr. 9. 1. 12. After “ Devon” insert “or as the 
case may be.” 

Pr. 9. 1. 33. After “the” insert “ Plymouth and 
“ Devonport.” ; 

Pr. 9. 1. 34. Leave out from “ requests” to 
“ conformably ”’ in 1. 37. 

Pr. 10. ]. 10. Leave out from “God ” to “And” 
in |. 21. 

Pr. 10. 1. 29. After “ Commissioners ” insert 
“ any three or more of whom are hereby authorized 
“ and empowered to administer the same.” 

Pr. 11. 1. 26. Leave out “Court of Requests 
* ie.” 

Pr. 11. 1. 27. After “ Devonport” insert “ Court 
of Requests.” 

Pr. 12. 1. 3. Leave out “Court of Requests for.” 

Pr. 12. 1. 4. After “ Devonport” insert “ Court 
“* of Requests.” 

Pr. 14. 1. 23. Leave out from “ suit” to “ And” 
in Pr, 15. 1. 20. 

Pr. 15. 1. 38. After “arise ” insert “and in case 
no such tender shall have been made, it shall be 
lawful for the defendant in any such action, by 
leave of the Court after such action shall have 
been brought, at any time before issue joined to 
pay into Court such sum of money as he shall 
think fit, whereupon such proceedings, order and 
judgment shall be made and given in and by such 
Court, as in other actions where the defendant is 
allowed to pay money into Court.” 

Pr. 19. 1. penult. Leave out “ to consist.” 

Pr. 20. 1. 2. After “measure” insert “ to con- 
sist.” 

Pr. 21. 1. 37. 
for.” 

Pr. 21. 1. 38. After “ Devonport”’ insert “ Court 
of Requests.” 

Pr. 26. 1. 15. Leave out from “Commissioners” 
to “at” in |. 16. 

Pr. 26. 1. 18. After “‘ purpose ” insert “or the 
majority of them.” 

Pr. 31. 1. 17. Leave out “and,” and insert “ or 
“ within the.” 

Pr. 31. 1. 18. After “ of” insert “ East.” 

Pr. 40. |. 2. Leave out “ as,” and insert “ in.” 

Pr. 42. 1. 36. Leave out from “ inhabiting ”’ to 
“ within” in 1. penult., and in |. penult. leave out 
from “the” to “and” in Pr, 43. |. 1., and insert 
“ Jocal limits of the jurisdiction of the said Court.” 

Pr. 48. |. 30. Leave out “ or the,” and insert 
“ at the dwelling-house, or with the.” 

Pr. 48, 1. 32. Leave out from “the” to “lodg- 
ing” in lines 33. and 34, and in lines 33. and 34. 
after “lodging ” insert “or,” and in 1. 34. leave out 
from “ abode ” to “of” in 1. penult. 

Pr. 51, 1. 1. Leave out “in,” and insert “on.” 
Pr. 58. 1. 6. Leave out from “ Clerk” to “at” in 
1. 7, and insert “ one day.” 
Pr. 59. 1. 38. Leave out “ or,” 
“ the dwelling-house, or with.” 
Pr. 59. 1. 40. Leave out from “the” to “ lodg- 
“ ing” in |. 41, and in 1, 41. after “ lodging,” insert 
eo” 
Pr. 59. 1. 42. Leave out from “abode” to “of” 
in Pr. 60. 1. 1. 


no bt bo 


“ 


“ 


Leave out “Court of Requests 


“ 


“ 


““ 


and insert “ at 





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Pr. 69. 1. 6. Leave out “ hereinafter,” and insert 


“ hereinbefore.” 


Pr. 72. 1. 16. After “days” insert Clause (A.) 

Crause (A.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners, at 
their discretion, forthwith to contract by writing 
under the hands and seals of any seven or more 
of them, with any body or bodies corporate, and 
with such other person or persons as from time to 
time shall have legal charge, authority and con- 
trol over any common gaols or prisons within the 
limits of the jurisdiction of the said Court, who 
are also hereby authorized, at their discretion, so 
to contract for the reception, custody, maintenance 
and all expenses incidental to the same, of pri- 
soners who shall be committed to such gaols or 
prisons respectively, under and by virtue of the 
authority of this Act.” 

P. 72. 1. 22. After “ Devonport” insert “or of 
any other common gaol or prison within the local 
limits of the jurisdiction of the said Court.” 

Pr. 72. 1. 23. Leave out “and he,” and insert 
after such contracts respectively shall have been 
duly executed as aforesaid,” and in the same line 
leave out from “and” to “are” in 1. 24, and insert 
“ the said keepers.” 

Pr. 73. 1.21. Leave out from “peace ” to “upon” 
in l. 24., and insert “ having jurisdiction for the 
“ place where the offence shall be committed.” 

Pr. 73. 1. ult. Leave out from “ justices” to 
“ And” in Pr. 75. 1. 14. 

Pr. 76. 1. 4. Leave out from “ peace ” to “to” 
in |. 6., and insert “ having jurisdiction for the place 
“ wherein the offence shall be committed.” 

Pr. 83. 1. 37. Leave out “Court of Requests 
“ for.” 

Pr. 83. 1. 38. After “ Devonport” insert “Court 
of Requests.” 

Pr. 86. 1. 15. Leave out “ hereinbefore,’ and 
insert “ hereinafter.” 

Pr. 87. 1. 33. Leave out “ or,” and insert “and.” 

Pr. 87. 1. 34. Leave out from “ within ” to “ or” 
in |. 35., and insert “twelve months after the passing 
“ of this Act.” 

Pr. 87. 1. 37. After “at” insert “any.” 

Pr. 87. 1. penult. Leave out “ seven,” and insert 
“ twenty-one.” 

Pr. 92. 1. 5. Leave out from “peace” to “where” 
in |. 8., and insert “having jurisdiction for the 
“ place.” 

Pr. 94. 1. 7. Leave out from “the” to “ there”’ 
in 1. 9., and insert “local limits of the jurisdiction of 
“ the said Court.” 

Pr. 95. 1. 31. After “the” insert “ Plymouth 
“ and Devonport,” and in the same line, leave out 
from “ requests” to “of” in 1. 34. 

Pr. 97. 1.38. Leave out “ Mayors,” and in the 
same line, after “of,” insert “ Requests for the trial 
“ of civil actions in.”’ 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Sir Edward Codrington do carry 
the Bill to the Lords, and acquaint them, that this 
House hath agreed to the Amendments made by 
their Lordships. 


n 
nn 


“ 


Petitions from Coal Masters, Iron Masters, Miners, Bricks. 


Builders, Farmers and others in the hundred of 
Bromfield, in the county of Denbigh ;—and, Mem- 
bers of the Vestry of the parish of Rhuabon; pray- 

ing for the repeal of the Duty on Bricks,—were 

— and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
able. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Saint rag! Youghal, Tithes 
praying for the abolition of Tithes in Jreland, was (1relan®. 


presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of William Crozier, late Constable of William 





Police in the province of Ulster, complaining of Cr 


having 





7 Witt. IV. 


having been dismissed from his situation ; stating 
the particulars of his case, and praying for inquiry, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie. upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Northampton, pray- 
ing for a reduction of the Duty on Fire Insurances, 
was 1 agin and read ; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


Fire Insurances, 


Tobacco. A Petition of Residents in Coventry, praying for 
a reduction of the Duty on Tobacco, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

— A Petition of Inhabitants of Keith and Fife Keith, 

of Barony 


praying that the Burghs of Barony (Scotland) Bill 
may pass into a law, was presented, and read ; and 


(Scotland) Bill. 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Soap. A Petition of P. Brown, and other Consumers of 
Soap, praying for a repeal of the Duty on Soap, was 
a and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
able. 
Castle Eden The House proceeded to take into further con- 


and Merrington 


(Clarence and sideration the Report which, upon the 9th day of 


Hartlepool! _ this instant May, was made from the Committee on 
Junction) Rail- the Castle Eden and eg (Clarence and 
wey Bill Hartlepool Junction) Railway Bill; printed Copies 


of the Bill having been delivered at the door upon 
Friday last. 

And the House being informed that other Amend- 
ments are necessary to be made to the Bill :—The 
Bill was re-committed to the former Committee. 

Ordered, That the Committee have leave to sit 
and proceed To-morrow, and to make their Report 
on Thursday next. 


The House proceeded to take into further con- 
sideration the Report which, upon the 17th day of 
this instant May, was made from the Committee on 
the Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway Bill; 
printed Copies of the Bill having been delivered at 
the door upon Friday last ; and the Amendments, 
as far as Clause (M 2.), being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Clause (M 2.), the next Amendment, being read 
a second time ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question being 
put, That this House doth agree with the Committee 
in the said Amendment :—It passed in the Ne- 

tive. 

Then the subsequent Amendments, being read a 
second time, were agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


Glasgow, 
Paisley and 
Greenoc 
Railway Bill. 


The House proceeded to take into further con- 
sideration the Report which, upon the 11th day of 
this instant May, was made from the Committee on 
the Birmingham and Derby Railway (No. 2.) Bill; 
printed Copies of the Bill having been delivered at 
the door upon Thursday last ; and the Amendments 
were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Dowdeswell 


Birmingham 
and Derby 
Railway 

(No. 2.) Bill. 


Message from 


the Lords. = and Mr. Senior : 
Mr. Speaker, 
Plan of Educa- | The Lords request that this House will give leave 


tion (Ireland.) to Robert Ingham, Esquire, a Member of this House, 

to attend their Lordships on Friday next, in order 
to his being examined as a Witness before the Select 
Committee appointed by their Lordships, for the 
op wa of inquiring into the progress and operation 
of the new Plan of Education in Jreland :—And then 
the Messengers withdrew. 

Resolved, That this House will send an Answer 
to the said Message, by Messengers of their own. 

And the Messengers were again called in; and 
Mr. Speaker acquainted them therewith :—And then 
they again withdrew. 


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401 


The Lord Advocate presented,—Returns to several Consistorial 
Orders, dated the 27th day of February last, for (Scotland ) 
Returns, in columns, by the Commissary Clerk of : 
Edinburgh, of all Causes, distinguishing each Class, 
instituted and decided in the Consistorial Court of 
Scotland in each year, from 1823 to 1830, both in- 
clusive; specifying such as were advocated in the 
Court of Session ; also, the Amounts of the Accounts 
of Expenses as rendered in the aforesaid Causes ; 
and showing the Sums taken off the Accounts, if 
taxed ; also, the Number in each Class of Consistorial 
Causes transferred by the aforesaid Commissary 
Clerk, after the 6th October 1830, to the Court of 
Session: — Return, in columns, by the Principal 
Clerks of the Court of Session, of the Number of 
Causes transferred from the Consistorial Court in 
1830 to the Court of Session; distinguishing each 
Class of Causes so transferred, instituted and decided 
in that Court in each year from 1830 to 1836, both 
inclusive ; also, the Amounts of Accounts of Ex- 
penses as lodged with the Clerk of Court, and show- 
ing the Sums taken off the same, if taxed, in each 
Consistorial Cause in the Court of Session from 
1830 to 1836, inclusive. 

Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming Church Rates 

the adjourned Debate upon the Amendment which "esulation. 
was yesterday proposed to be made to the Question, 
That the Resolution which, upon that day, was re- 
ported from the Committee, to whom it was referred 
to consider of the payment of Church Rates, be now 
read a second time; and which Amendment was, 
to leave out from the word “ That” to the end of 
the Question, in order to add the words “ it is the 
“ opinion of this House, that funds may be derived 
“« from an improved mode of management of Church 
“ Lands, and that these funds should be applied 
“ to religious instruction within the Established 
“ Church, where the same may be found deficient 
“ in proportion to the existing population,” instead 
thereof. 

And the Question being again proposed, That the 
words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Question :—The House resumed the said adjourned 
Debate. 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Wednesday morning ; 


Mercurii, 24° die Maiti, 1837: 


The said proposed Amendment was, with leave of 
the House, withdrawn. 

Ordered, That the said Resolution be now read 
a second time :—The said Resolution was accord- 
mney read a second time, as followeth : 

esolved, That, for the repair and maintenance of 

Parochial Churches and Chapels in England and 
Wales, and the due celebration of Divine Worship 
therein,a permanent and adequate provision be made, 
out of an increased value given to Church Lands 
by the introduction of a new system of management, 
and by the application of the proceeds of Pew Rents; 
the collection of Church Rates ceasing altogether 
from a day to be determined by Law; and that, in 
order to facilitate and give early effect to this Reso- 
lution, the Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasury 
be authorized to make advances on the security, and 
repayable out of, the produce of such Church Lands. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question being 
put, That this House doth agree with the Committee 
in the said Resolution ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the old Lobby ; 

The Noes to the new Lobby. 

Tellers for the f Mr. Edward John Stanley, 
Yeas, ° Mr. Robert Steuart: 
Tellers for the f Sir Thomas Fremantle, 
Noes, Sir George Clerk: 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 


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3F Ordered, 





402 


Ordered, That a Bill be brought m upon the said 
Resolution: And that Mr. Chancellor of the Ex- 
chequer, Lord John Russell, Mr. Attorney General, 
and Mr. Solicitor General, do prepare, and bring 
it in. 

Resolved, That this House will, at the rising of 
the House, this day, adjourn till To-morrow. 


Ordered, That all Committees have leave to sit 
this day, notwithstanding the adjournment of the 
House. 


Adjournment. 


Committees. 


Poor Relief 


The Order of the day being read, for the Commit- 
(Treland) Bill. 


tee on the Poor Relief (Jreland) Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 
Forgery Bill. The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
further consideration the Report on the Forgery 
Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Friday next. 


Registration The House, according to Order, resolved itself 

and Marriages’ into a Committee upon the Registration and Mar- 

- ons riages Bill; and after some time spent therein, Mr. 
0. . 


Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal re- 
orted, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Bernal reported the Bill accordingly; and 
the Report was ordered to be taken into further 
consideration upon Tuesday next ; and the Bill, as 
amended, to be printed. 


Public Works 


(ireland) Bill The ingrossed Bill to amend the Acts for the Ex- 
relay ul 


tension and Promotion of Public Works in Ireland, 

was, according to Order, read the third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That Mr. Bernat do carry the Bill to 


the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Turnpike Acts 
Continuance 


(Ireland) Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Turnpike Acts Continuance (Ireland) 
Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday, the 
2d day of June next, resolve itself into the said 
Committee. 


Exchequer Bills The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
(£.11,000,000.) into a Committee upon the Exchequer Bills Bill ; 
Bill. : . 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker re- 
sumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal reported, That 
the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 
Ordered, That the Report be received upon Fri- 
day next. 


The Monies in the Exchequer Bill was, accord- 
ing to Order, read a second time; and committed 
to a Committee of the whole House, for Friday 
next. 


Monies in the 
Exchequer Bill. 


Common Law 


The Order for taking into further consideration 
Courts Bill. 


this day, the Report on the Common Law Courts 
Bill, was read and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Wednesday, the 7th day of June 
next. 


Custody in 


Cestety tn The Order for reading a second time this day, 
nfants Bill, 


the Custody in Infants Bill, was read and dis- 
charged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday the 1st day of June next. 


Waste Lands The Order for the House to resolve itself into a 
({reland) Bill. Committee this day, upon the Waste Lands (Zreland) 
Bill was read, and discharged. 


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A. 1837. 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday» 
the ist day of June next, resolve itself into the said 
Committee. 


The Order for the House to resolve into a Com- Tenants for Life ( 


mittee this day, upon the Tenants for Life (Ireland) (eland) Bil. 
Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday, 
the ist day of June next, resolve itself into the said 
Committee. 


The Order for the House to resolve itself into a Leases and 0 
Committee this day, upon the Leases and Exchanges Cieclents 
(Ireland) Bill, was read, and discharged. are 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
the 1st day of June next, resolve itself into the said : 
Committee. 1 


The Order for the House to resolve itself into a Railroads and 
Committee this day, upon the Railroads and Public — Works 
Works Bill, was read, and discharged. F 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order for the House to resolve itself into a Recovery of 
Committee this day, upon the Recovery of Tene- Tenements Bill 
ments Bill; was read and discharged. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday the 
2d day of June next, resolve itself into the said 
Committee. 


The Order for reading a second time this day, the County Polls 
County Polls (Ireland) Bill, was read, and dis- eld) Bill. 
charged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday, the 7th day of June next. 


The Order for reading a second time this day, Bills of 
the Bills of Exchange Bill, was read, and dis- Exchange Bill 
charged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 


The Order for reading the third time this day, Theatres 
the Theatres Regulation Bill, was read, and dis- Regulation 
charged. ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Wednesday, the 7th day of June next. 


The Order for reading a second time this day, the — 

+o ama (Scotland) Bill, was read, and (gootjand) Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 

upon Wednesday, the 7th day of June next. 


The Order for reading the third time this day, Haileybury 
the Haileybury College Bill, was read, and dis- ©*llese Bil 
charged. 

Ordered, That the Biil be read the third time 
upon Friday next. 


The Order for reading the third time this day, East India _ 
the East India Officers’ Salaries Bill, was read and _— ~eeee 
discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time upon 
Friday next. 


The Order for reading a second time this day, Election |. 
the Election Expenses Bill, was read and discharged. enh Be 
Ordered, that the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 


The Order for the House to resolve itself into a Highway Rates 
Committee this day, upon the Highway Rates Bill, = 
was read, and discharged. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday, 
the 7th day of June next, resolve itself into the said 
Committee. 


The Order for the House to resolve itself into p Sate 
Committee this day, n the Bankrupts’ Estates (Scotland) Bill. 


(Scotland) Bill, was read, and discharged. 


Resolved, 





Life 


Bankruptcy | 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Final Register 
of Electors Bill, 


Ways and 
Means. 


Supply. 


Suppl 
(7th April.) 


Plan of Educae 
tion (Ireland.) 


Poor Law 
Unions, 


Medical 
Charities 


(Ireland) Bill. 


Church 
Accommodation 
(Scotland.) 


Medical 
Charities 
(Ireland) Bill, 


No. 334. 


7 Wit. IV. 


Resolved, That this House will, — Thursday 
the 1st day of June next, resolve itself into the said 
Committee. 


The Order for the House to resolve itself into a 
Committee this day, upon the Bankruptcy (Scotland) 
Bill, was read, and discharged. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursda 
the ist day of June next, resolve itself into the said 
Committee. 


The Order for reading a second time this day, 
the Final Register of Electors Bill, was read and 
discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Wednesday next. 


The Order for the House to resolve itself, this day, 
into the Committee of Ways and Means, was read, 
and discharged, 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order for the House to resolve itself, this day, 
into the Committee of Supply, was read and dis- 
charged. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order for receiving this day, the Report from 
the Committee of Supply, was read and discharged. 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon Fri- 
day next. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Message from the Lords of this day, wherein 
their Lordships request, That this House will give 
leave to Robert Ingham, Esquire, a Member of 
this House, to attend their Lordships on Friday 
next, in order to his being examined as a witness 
before the Select Committee appointed by their 
Lordships, for the purpose of inquiring into the pro- 
gress and operation of the new plan of Education in 
Lreland. 

And Mr. Ingham, being present in his place, 
declared, that he was willing, with the leave of the 
House, to go to the House of Lords, as desired by 
their Lordships. 

Resolved, That Robert Ingham, Esquire, have 
leave to go to the House of Lords as desired by 
their Lordships, if he think fit. 

Ordered, That a Message be sent to the Lords 
to acquaint them, that this House hath given leave 
to Robert Ingham, Esquire, to go to the House of 
Lords, as desired by their Lordships, if he think 
fit:—And that Mr. Bernal do carry the said Mes- 


sage. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return of the Number of Auditors of Poor Law 
Unions, with the Amount of Salaries paid to 
each. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for the better regulation of Hospitals, Dispensaries 
and other Medical Charities in Jreland: And that 
Lord Viscount Morpeth, Mr. Attorney General for 
Treland, Mr. Fitzstephen French, and Mr. William 
O’ Brien do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Copy of the Memorial, dated July 1834, from the 
Moderator of the General Assembly, addressed to 
Viscount Melbourne, First Lord of the Treasury, on 
the subject of obtaining a Grant from Government for 
the purpose of affording additional Church accom- 
modation to the poorer classes in Scotland. 


Lord Viscount Morpeth presented a Bill for the 
better Regulation of Hospitals, Dispensaries, and 
other Medical Charities in Ireland: And the same 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time upon Thursday, the 1st day of June 
next ; and to be printed. 

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403 


The House was moved, That the order made upon Police Offices 
the 26th day of April last, for presenting to. His (Lendon.) 
Majesty an humble Address, That He will be gra- 
ciously pleased to give directions, that there be laid 
before this House, a Return of the Number and 
nature of all Charges brought before the Magistrates 
of each Police Office in London, including the Man- 


Y | sion House, Guildhall, and the Town Hall, for the 


last Twelve Months, and the manner in which each 
Charge has been disposed of, might be read; and 
the same being read ; 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Police Offices 
to His Majesty, That He will be graciously pleased (4o»don-) 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return of the Number of Persons charged 
with Felony, and also of the Number of Persons 
charged with Misdemeanor, under 10th, 11th, and 
12th sections of the Act of the 5th Geo. 4. c. 83, 
and under the 3d Wiil. 4. c. 19, brought before 
the different Police Offices during the last twelve 
months, and of the disposal of the Persons so 
charged. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Letters Patent. 
to His Majesty, That He will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of the Minute of the Lords of the 
Committee of Privy Council for Trade, dated 4th 
Nevember 1834, on granting Letters Patent. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour before three of the 
clock on Wednesday morning, adjourned till 
To-morrow. 








Jovis, 25° die Maii; 
Anno 7° Willielmi [Vt Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 

Bee riers ON of the Right honourable George Drogheda 
Cadogan, Earl Cadogan, praying that he may #4 Kells, 

be heard, by himself, his counsel or agent, against 7 ~"* 
certain parts of the Drogheda and Kells Railway Bill, 
was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, b 
himself, his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, if 
he: think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


Petitions from Maria Williamson, of No. 17, Collier Dock 
Lambeth Road, in the county of Surrey, Widow ;— 24 Surrey 
and, Wharfingers, Granary-keepers and Occupiers of ©™! Bill 
waterside premises within the several parishes of 
Saint Olave and Saint John, in the borough of 
Southwark, and Saint Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, 
in the county of Surrey; praying that they may be 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, against 
certain parts of the Collier Dock and Surrey Canal 
Bill,—were presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit ; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


An ingrossed Bill to rectify a Mistake in an Act Birmingham 
of the last Session of Parliament, for making a vm head 
Railway from the London and Birmingham Railway, (No. 2.3 Bill 
near Birmingham, to Derby, to be called “ The 
Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway,” with a 
Branch, was read the third time. 


3F2 Resolved 





404. 


Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That Sir Eardley Wilmot do carry the 
Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


25° Mair. A. 1837. 


Mr. George Wilbraham reported from the Com- Biddulph 
mittee on the Biddulph Roads Bill; That the Stand- Roads Bill. 
ing Orders relative to Turnpike Bills, had been 
complied with; and that they had examined the alle- 


Durham gations of the Bill, and found the same to be true ; 


A Petition of the Right Reverend Edward, Lord 


Junction 


Railway Bill. Bishop of Durham, praying that he may be heard, by 


his counsel or agent, against certain parts of the Dur- 
ham Junction Railway Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, if he 
think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the Bill, 
against the said Petition. 


Hartlepool 


Mr. Harland reported from the Committee on the 
Pier Bill. 


Hartlepool Pier Bill; and to whom two Petitions 
against the said Bill were referred ; That no person 
appeared in support of the said Petitions ; and that 
the Committee had examined the allegations of the 
Bill, and found the same to be true; and had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Bridlington 


Petitions from Proprietors of collieries upon the 
Harbour Bill. 


Rivers Tyne, Wear and Tees;— and, Benjamin 


and had gone through the Bill, and made Amend- 
ments thereunto; and the Amendments were read, 
and agreed to. J 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


Ordered, That the Petition of Merchants, Ship- Bridlington 
owners and others of Stockton, which was presented Harbour Bil, 


upon the 17th day of April last; and also, the Peti- 
tion of Ship-owners and Merchants of the port of 
Sunderlund, which was presented upon the 21st day 
of April last, be referred to the Committee on the 
Bridlington Harbour Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by their counsel or agents, upon their Petitions, if 
they think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petitions. 

Ordered, That the Report which, upon the 16th 
day of June in the last asiiels of Parliament, was 
made from the Select Committee on Harbours of 
Refuge, be referred to the said Committee. 


Sharpe Sawden, of Bridlington Quay, in the east 
riding of the county of York; praying that they 
may be heard, by their counsel or agents, against 
certain parts of the Bridlington Harbour Bill,—were 
presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by their counsel or agents, upon their Peti- 
tions, if they think fit ; and counsel heard, in favour 
of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


A Petition of the East India Company, praying East India 
that they may be heard, by their counsel or agents, Maritime | 
against certain parts of the East India Maritime °™** Bil. 
Officers’ Bill, was presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 

Ordered, That the Petition be printed. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Leeds, praying that Summary 
the Summary Convictions, Juvenile Offenders (No. 2) — 
Bill, may pass into a law, was presented, and read ; Offenders 
; and ordered to lie upon the Table. (No. 2.) Bill. 
Castle Eden Mr. Harland reported from the Committee on the 
and Merrington (re-committed) Castle Edenand Merrington( Clarence 


Cea and Hartlepool Junction) Railway Bill; That they 


Petitions from Kirkintilloch ;—Cotton, Woodside Burghs 


and Tanfield ;—and, Huntly; praying that the (S’otind) Bil 


Junction) Rail- had made other Amendments thereunto. 
way Bill. Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Hales’ 


Hales’ Naturalization Bill was read a second 
Nat Bill. 


time; and committed to Mr. Brotherton and the 
Middlesex List. 
Newcastle- A Petition of Benjamin Trotter, of Newcastle- 
upon-Tyne — upon-Tyne, Builder, praying that the Mewcastle- 
Improvement u 4 I t Bill t int 
Bill, pon- Tyne Improvement Bill may not pass into a 
law as it now stands, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 
London and A Petition of James Mills, praying the House to 
a - appoint a Select Committee to inquire into and re- 
ecttente = upon the gross misconduct complained of in 
Line.) is Petition presented on the 10th day of April last, 


was — and read; and ordered to lie upon 


the Table. 
Ordered, That the Petition be printed. 


Second Report 
on Fictitious 


Votes (Ireland.) 
No. 335. 


Lord Granville Somerset reported from the Select 
Committee appointed to inquire how far the inten- 
tions of the Reform Bill are defeated by creating 
and registering fictitious and eh Votes in Jre- 
land; That they had made further Progress in the 
matters to them referred; and had directed him to 
a the Minutes of the Evidence taken before 
them. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


St. George’s 
(Southwark) 
Market Bill, 


Mr. Alderman Humphery reported from the Com- 
mittee on the Saint George's (Southwark) Market 
Bill ; That they had exammed the allegations of the 
Bill, and found the same to be true; and had gone 


Burghs of Barony (Scotland) Bill, may pass into a 
law,—were presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


A Petition of Householders, Land-owners and In- Church Rates 
habitants of Icklesham, praying that the proposed Regulation, 


measure relative to Church Rates may not receive 
the sanction of the House, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from Maze Pond Chapel, Southwark ; 
— Odiham ;— Mount Sorrel; —Ditchling ; — Herst- 
monceux ;— Alfriston ;— Hebburn ;— Jarrow ;— East 
Bergholt ;— Burford ;— Pisgah Chapel, Trevethin ; 
—and, Zion Chapel, Monmouth ; praying that the 
said proposed measure may receive the sanction of 
the House,—were also presented, and read ; and or- 
dered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Kinlough ;—Kiltoghart ;— Cloon- Government 


cah ;— Arklow ;-——Baltinglass ;—- Bruree ;— Croom ; 
— Kilkeedy ;—Ulla ;— Knochaney ; — Knachaderry ; 
Shanagolden ;— Drumcolloher ;—Doon ;— Bruff ;— 
Glin ;—Robertstown ;— Ballyhahil ; — Kilteely and 
Dromkeen ;— Croagh;— Stradbally and Ballilaneen ; 
—Cloonycormican and Oran ;—Camma and Kil- 
toom ;—Killugan ;— Croghan ;— Tessaragh ;—Lusk; 
—Portlaw;—Dysartand Toughboy ;—Pallis Grean; 
—and, Limerick ; praying the House to support His 
Majesty’s Ministers in their Government of Ireland, 
—were presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 


the Table. 


A Petition of Members of the Mechanics’ Insti- Public Walks 


tution of Birmingham, praying that the Public Walks 
and Public Institutions Bill, may pass into a law, Bill. 
was presented, and read; and Ah see to lie upon 
the Table. 


through the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto ; 
and the Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


Petitions from Clones ;—and, Roscommon pray- Agen 
ing the House to extend Legislative protection and Bink, (Ireland) 
encouragement to the Agricultural and Commercial 


Bank 








ll, 


7 Witt. IV. 


Bank of Ireland, and to discountenance the attempts 
making to impede the progress of the said Com- 

any,—were presented, and read; and referred to the 
Belect Committee on Joint Stock Banks. 

Petitions from Belfast ;—and, Ulster; praying 
that the Committee now sitting on JointStock Banks, 
be directed to inquire into the affairs and manage- 
ment of the Agricultural and Commercial Bank of 
Ireland,—were also presented,and read ; and referred 
to the said Select Committee. 


Agricultural A Petition of Proprietors of stock in the Agri- 

and Commercial cultural and Commercial Bank of Jreland, taking 

Bank, Ireland notice of the application for leave to bring in the 

(No. 2.) Agricultural and Commercial Bank, Ireland (No. 2.) 
Bill; and praying that such Bill may pass into 
a law, was presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


Merchant A Petition of the Chairman of the Chamber of 
Shipping Re- Commerce of Kirkcaldy, praying that the Merchant 
gulation Bill. Shipping Regulation Bill may pass into a law, was 
a and read; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 


Municipal Petitions from Dunshalt ;—and, Tramore ; pray 
Cndend) Bill ing that the Municipal Corporations ([reland) Bill, 
— . es pass into a law,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
tenn) A Petition of Inhabitants of Tramore, praying for 
reland. 


the abolition of Tithes in Jreland, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Vote by Ballot. Petitions from Croagh ;—Cloncagh ;—Croom and 
Banogue ;- Bally Laneen;—and, Tramore ; pray- 
ing for the adoption of Vote by Ballot at Elections 
of Members to serve in Parliament,—were presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Tumpike Tolls A Petition of Inhabitants of Salehurst, praying 
that the law, as respects Turnpike Trusts, may be 
altered so that the Tadadiitons of parishes may no 
longer be liable to the payment of toll within their 
own boundaries, which toll is principally levied for 
the benefit of other and distant places, was pre- 


sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of Medical Practitioners of the county 
of Sussex, praying for an alteration of the system 
at present adopted by the Poor Law Commissioners 
for affording medical relief to the sick poor, was 
presented, and read; and referred to the Select 
Committee on the Poor Law Act. 


Poor Law Act. 


French Claims. Petitions from John Hamilton;—and, Leonard 
John Cole; complaining that their claims on the 
unappropriated residue of the fund provided by the 
French Government, in conformity with the Conven- 
tions of 1815 and 1818, for the liquidation of the 
claims of British subjects for losses sustained by 
the sequestration and confiscation of their property 
in France in the year 1793, have not been liqui- 
dated ; and praying that the House will order their 
cases to be investigated by a Committee, or that 
such other measures may be had thereon as to the 
House shall seem meet,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Municipal A Petition of the Provost, Magistrates and Town 

a, Council of Lanark, praying that the Municipal Cor- 

(Scotland) Bill. Horations (Scotland) Bill may not pass into a law 
as it now stands, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Distress Ordered, That there be laid before this House,— 


Prnalheldcons Copies of the Report of Dr. Kaye to the Poor Law 
ongham-) “Commissioners, on the subject of Distress in Spital- 
fields :—And, of the Report of Mr. Gulston to the 
Poor Law Commissioners on the subject of Distress 
in Nottingham. 

Van. 92. 


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405 


A Petition of Merchants and Inhabitants of Mersey 
Limerick, praying that the Mersey Conservanc a. — 
Bill may not pass into a law, was presented, an 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The Duke of Argyll’s Estate Bill was read a se- DukeofArgyll’s 
cond time ; and committed to Sir Andrew Agnew Estate Bill. 
and the West Scotland List. 


Ordered, That the Roxburgh Roads Bill be read ers 
the third time To-morrow. oadis EAN. 


A Petition of Guardians of the Hartismere Union, Poor Law Act. 
denying the allegations of the Petition of William 
Paxman, and others, of Wortham, presented on the 
11th day of April last, complaining of cruel treat- 
ment by the board of guardians of that Union), and 
praying for inquiry, was presented, and read ; and re- 
ferred to the delent Committee on the Poor Law Act. 


An ingrossed Bill to enable the Kilmarnock and Kitmarnock 
Troon Railway Company to raise a further Sum of aaa 
Money, to alter and amend the line of the said“) 
Railway, and for other purposes relating thereto, 
was read the third time; and Amendments were 
made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Lord William Bentinck do carry 
the Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Petitions from the Chairman of the Liverpool Steam Com- 
East India Association ;—and, Merchants and In- — with 
habitants of Liverpool interested in the trade with “"“"” 
the East Indies ; praying the House to adopt such 
measures aS may appear most expedient for the 
effectual establishment of a communication by Steam 
with India by way of the Red Sea,—were presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Robert Thompson, Esquire, one of Record _ 
the side clerks in the office of His Majesty’s Re- Commission. 
membrancer of the Court of Exchequer, complain- 
ing of misrepresentations with regard to the Peti- 
tioner in the Evidence taken before the Committee 
of last Session on the Record Commission, and 
praying relief, was presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. ; 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Bassingham, praying Slave Trade 
the House to adopt measures for the suppression of (America.) 
the Slave Trade carried on on the American Con- 
tinent and Islands adjoining His Majesty’s do- 
minions, was presented, and read; and poe sa to 
lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Members of the Chamber of Com- Bonded Corn 
merce of Belfast, praying that the Bonded Corn — 
Manufacture Bill may pass into a law, was pre- ° 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. ' 

A Petition of Spirit Dealers and Publicans of Bel- Excise Licenses 
fast, praying for the amendment of the Acts relating (Ireland) Acts, 
to Excise Licenses in Ireland, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Pyworthy ;—and, Thurso; praying Lord’s Day Bill 
that the Lord’s Day Bill may be permitted to go 
into a Committee of the whole House,—were pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from the Moderator of the Synod of Maynooth 
Caithness and Sutherland;—and, of Perth and Cullege. 
Stirling ; praying that no further grant of public 
money may be made to the Roman Catholic College 
of Maynooth,—were presented, and read ; and or- 
dered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from the county of Aberdeen ;—and, Prisons 
county of Caithness ; praying that the Prisons (Scot- (Scotland) Bil. 
land) Bill may not pass into a law,—were presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

3F3 A Petition 








406 


Aitornies’ A Petition of Writers in Fraserburgh, praying 

Certificates. for the repeal of the Stamp Duty on Attornies’ Cer- 
tificates, was presented, and read ; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 

Criminal Law. A Petition of Inhabitants of Stroud, praying the 


House to abolish the Punishment of Death for every 
crime except that of Murder, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Recovery of A Petition of Owners of Property in South Shields, 

Tenements Bill. praying that the Recovery of Tenements Bill may 
pass into a law, was presented, and read; and or- 
dered to lie upon the Table. 


Tithes A Petition of Samuel Gordon, of Aungier-street, 

(Ireland) Bill. Dyblin, praying that the Tithes (Ireland) Bill may 
not pass into a law, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Apothecaries 


A Petition of Apothecaries of Limerick, praying 
(Ireland.) 


the House to amend the Law relating to Apothecaries 
in Ireland, was presented, and read ; and ordered 
to le upon the Table. 


A Petition of Merchants, Manufacturers, and 
others, of Nottingham, praying for a reduction of 
the duty on Fire Insurances, was presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Fire Insurances. 


Theatres 
Regulation 
Bill. 


A Petition of Persons on the weekly pay list of 
various Theatres in the city of Westminster, and the 
liberties thereof, and in or near the metropolis, and 
the suburbs thereof, praying that the Theatres Re- 
gulation Bill may pass into a law, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Oaths. Ordered, That a Message be sent to the Lords to 
request that their Lordships will communicate to 
this House Copies of the Reports made, and Evi- 
dence taken by Committees of their Lordships’ 
House on the expediency of substituting Declara- 
tions for Oaths: And that Mr. Pease do carry the 
said Message. 


a. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
(Milbank) 


illk the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 
intituled, An Act to amend the Acts for regulating 
the General Penitentiary at Milbank ; and the same 
were read, as follow : 

Pr. 4. 1.19. Leave out “ under” and insert 
there to remain and continue for and during the 
term of Five years, Seven years or Ten years, in 
lieu of.” 

Pr. 4. |. ult. After “ offender” insert ‘‘ Provided 
always, That it shall be lawful for the superin- 
tending Committee of the said Penitentiary to 
recommend as objects of the Royal mercy on the 
e “ ground of good conduct, any of such convicts 
who shall have been removed to the said Peni- 
tentiary before the passing of this Act, being at 
the time of such removal under sentence or order 
of transportation for life, or for fourteen years.” 

Pr. 5. 1. 7. After “ mercy” insert “ save and 
except such convicts hereinbefore described as 
were removed to the said Penitentiary before the 
passing of this Act.” 

Pr. 5. 1. 35. Leave out from “ for” to “ Pro- 
vided ” in 1. 36, and insert “ life.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Fox Maule do carry the Bill to 
the Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lordships. 


“ 
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Peace The House was moved, That the Act 5 and 6 
Preservation 


Ireland.) 


Will. 4, c. 48, for the better prevention’ and more 
speedy Punishment of Offences endangering the 
Public Peace in Jreland, might be read ; and the 
same being read ; 


25° Mat. 


A. 1837. 


And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
repeal the said Act ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 

Tellers for the ¢ Mr. Sharman Crawford, 5 

Yeas, Mr. William O’ Brien: } ; 

Tellers for the { Mr. John Parker, ey 

Noes, L Mr. Robert Steuart: } Fj 
So it passed in the Negative. 


A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Dowdeswell Message from 
and Mr. Senior: the Lords, 
Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Gorbals Police 

Act to continue for a limited term of years the Police Bill. 
Act for the Barony of Gorbals, in the County of 
Lanark, and for other purposes relating thereto, 
with Amendments ; to which Amendments the Lords 

desire the concurrence of this House: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Trinity (North 
Act for constructing a Harbour, Dock or Docks, — go 
Piers and other Works at Trinity, in the Parish of" 
North Leith, and County of Edinburgh, with Amend- 
ments ; to which Amendments the Lords desire the 
concurrence of this House :—And then the Mes- 
sengers withdrew. 


Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer reported to the Answer to 
House, That their several Addresses of the 12th, Addresses. 
19th, 22d and 23d days of this instant May (That His 
Majesty would be graciously pleased to give direc- 
tions, that the Papers therein mentioned might be 
laid before this House), had been presented to His 
Majesty, and that His Majesty had commanded him 
to acquaint this House, that He will give directions 
accordingly. 


Mr. Poulett Thomson presented, pursuant to an Letters Patent, 
Address to His Majesty,—Copy of the Minute of 
the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for 
Trade, dated 4 November 1834, on granting Letters 
Patent. 
Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


The House was moved, That the Act 5 and 6 Municipal 
Will. 4, c. '76, to provide for the regulation of Mu- Borcae Dates 
nicipal Corporations in England and Wales, might aneas 
be read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to provide for the levying of Watch Rates, and for 
regulating the appointment of Inspectors of Weights 
and Measures in Boroughs and Towns having Mu- 
nicipal Corporations, in England and Wales: And 
that Mr. Hutt and Mr. Harland do prepare, and 


bring it in. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being put, French Claims. 
That a Select Committee be appointed to take into 
consideration the claims of D’Arcy Talbot, and 
other claimants on the French Compensation Fund ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 

Mr. Mackinnon, } 39. 


Tellers for the Yeas, Mr. Lynch: 


Mr. Baring, 
Tellers for the Noes, i. te Bakes F 49. 
So it passed in the Negative. 


Notice being taken that Forty Members were not 
present, the House was told by Mr. Speaker ; and 
Forty Members not being present, and it being then 
after four of the clock :—The House was adjourned 
by Mr. Speaker, without a Question first put, till 
To-morrow. 








oe. 


East India 
Company. 


Religious 
Ceremonies 
(Madras.) 





7 Wit: IV. 


Veneris, 26° die Maii ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi [Vt Regis, 1837. 
PRAYERS. 


M’ Campbell, from the Court of Directors of 
the East India Company, was called in; and 
at the bar presented, pursuant to the directions of 
an Act of Parliament,—List, Ne 67, specifying 
the Particulars of the Compensation proposed to be 
— to certain Persons of the late Maritime 

ervice of the East India Company, under an ar- 
rangement sanctioned by the Board of Commis- 
sioners for the Affairs of India, and laid before The 
Honourable the House of Commons on the 26th 
February 1835. 

Mr. Campbell also presented, pursuant to Order, 
—A Copy of the Memorial transmitted in August 
1836, by the European Population of Madras to the 
Governor of that Presidency, on the subject of their 
compulsory attendance upon the Religious Cere- 
monies of the Natives, together with the Letter of 
the Bishop of Madras transmitting the Memorial ; 
and a Copy of the Answer returned :—Also, Copy 


' of the Despatch of the Court of Directors regarding 


Justices of 
the Peace 
(Middlesex.) 


Port of 
London: 


London Bridge. 


Bridge House 
Estates, 


the Pilgrim Tax, dated the 20th February 1833 ; 

and, Copy of the Despatch forwarded by the Court 

of Directors of the t India Company, in com- 

pliance with the Resolution of the General Court of 

the 21st December last :—And then he withdrew. 

. a That the said Papers do lie upon the 
able. 


Mr. Unwin, from the Office of the Clerk of the 
Peace for the county of Middlesex, was called in ; 
and at the bar presented, pursuant to Order,—A Re- 
turn of all such Appointments as are in the disposal 
of the Justices of the Peace for the County of Mid- 
dlesex, either when assembled in Quarter, General or 
Petty Sessions, or in any Committee of such Justices ; 
the N ame and Residence of every Person who has 
received, and now holds, his or her appointment from 
the said Justices; exhibiting the nature of the Office, 
the Date of the Appointment, and the Annual Amount 
of Remuneration, whether aris:ng from Wages, Salary 
or Fees:—And then he withdrew. 

. ante That the said Return do lie upon the 
able. 


Mr. Scott, from the Office of the Chamberlain of 
the city of London, was called in; and at the bar 
presented, pursuant to the directions of several Acts 
of Parliament,—An Account of Monies received and 
paid by the Chamberlain of the City of Zondon for 
rebuilding London Bridge, and for improving and 
making suitable Approaches thereto, from the 31st 
December 1835 to the 31st December 1836. 

An Account of the Surplus of the Fund created 
and continued by the Acts of the 10th Geo. 4, c. 136, 
and the 11th Geo. 4, c. 64, for makmg and im- 
proving the Approaches to London Bridge, &amp;c., for 
the year ending 5th January 1837, and of the Ap- 
propriation of the same in the discharge of Monies 
raised under the authority of the said Acts. 

An Account of Monies received and paid by the 
Chamberlain of the City of London between the 6th 
January 1836 and the 19th January 1837, being 
the Produce and Application of the several Duties 
and Payments pursuant to the provisions of the Act 
10th Geo. 4, c. 136, for improving the Approaches 
to London Bridge; and also of the Act 11 Geo. 4, 
c. 64, for making further provision for defraying the 
Expenses of making the Approaches to London 
Bridge, and the removal of Fleet Market, in respect 
of the year ending the 5th January 1837. 

A Statement of the Receipt and Application of 
the surplus Rents and Profits of the Bridge House 
Estates (after deducting the existing Charges and 
Expenses of Management of the said Estates), from 
eet 14th August 1835 to the 14th August 1836. 

or, 92, 


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407 


An Account of Monies received and paid by the Paving, 
Chamberlain of the City of Zondon for paving, Lighting, and 
lighting and cleansing the said City and Liberties, “sine. 
for one year, ending the 29th day of September 
1836. 

An Account of Money received and paid by the Thames 
Chamberlain of the City of Zondon for improving Navigation. 
the Navigation of the River Thames westward of ‘ 
London Bridge, &amp;c., within the Liberties of the City 
of London, and for further improving the said Na- 
vigation, for one year ending the 29th of September 
1836. 

An Account of Monies received and paid by the Sewers. 
Chamberlain of the City of Zondon, for making, 
maintaining, enlarging, repairing and cleansing the 
Vaults, Drains and Sewers within the said City and 
Liberties, for one year, ending on the 29th of! Sep- 
tember 1836. 

An Account of Monies received and paid by the Blackfriars 
Chamberlain of the City of London for lighting, Bridge. 
watching, cleansing and scpeiting Blackfridrelidies, 
for the year ending the 14th of August 1836. 

An Account of Monies received and paid by the 
Chamberlain of the City of London, in pursuance of 
the Act 4 Will. 4, c. 118, for raising a sum of Mdne 
for the Repair of Blackfriars Bridge, from the 14t 
August 1835 to the 14th August 1836. 

An Account of Monies received and paid by the Mooring 
Chamberlain of the City of London for defraying pre 
the Costs and Charges of’ maintaining, repairing, &amp;c., ~ 


-the Mooring Chains in the River Thames, of paying 


the Salaries of the several Harbour Masters, &amp;c., and 
other Expenses of the Harbour Service, on account 
of the year a the 25th of July 1836. 

An Account of Monies received and paid by the Coal Market. 
Chamberlain of the City of Zondon in relation to 
the Market established for the sale of Coals, &amp;c., 
within the Cities of London and Westminster, and 
in certain parts of the Counties of Middlesex, Surrey, 
Kent, &amp;c., for one year, ending on the 31st of De- 
cember 1836 :—And then he withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Accounts do lie upon the 
Table. 


The Dundee Waterworks Bill was read a second Dundee 
time; and committed to Sir Henry Parnell and the les 
East Scotland List. = 


A Petition of Trustees of the Turnpike Road lead- Blochaim 
ing from Glasgow to Redburn Bridge, and Alex- C2! Bill. 
ander Campbell, their clerk, praying that they may 
be heard, by their counsel or agents, against certain 
parts of the Blochairn Canal Bill, was presented, 
and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to 
the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by their counsel or agents, upon their Pe- 
tition, if they think fit ; and counsel heard, in favour 
of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of Trustees within the Edinburgh Dis- Edinburgh 

trict on the Great Turnpike Road from Edinburgh 1° Glasgow 
s ; ailway Bill. 

to Glasgow, by Corstorphine, praying that they may 
be heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
against certain parts of the Edinburgh and Glasgow 
Railway Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of Christopher Tennent, complaining Lowestoft _ 
of the inadequacy of the amount of the Subscription "s"bour Bill 
List for the proposed Harbour of Refuge at Lowes- 
toft; and praying the House to appoint a Com- 
mission, consisting of naval and scientific men, to 
examine the three places at which vessels usually 
anchor in north-east gales of wind, between Harwich 
and Tynemouth, and to report on the existing Har- 

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408 


bours that are or may be made, and also on such 
Break waters as can be made to obtain smooth water 
roadsteads for safe anchorage, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Ordered, That the Petition be printed. 


Huth’s Naturalization Bill was read a second 
time; and committed to Mr. Alderman Copeland 
and the Middlesex List. 


Huth’s 
Nat. Bill. 


Meinertz- 
hagen’s 
Nat. Bill. 


Meinertzhagen’s Naturalization Bill was read a 
second time ; and committed to Mr. Alderman Cope- 
land and the Middlesex List. 


Murray’s Estate Bill was read a second time ; 
and committed to Mr. Brotherton and the East 
Scotland List. 


Murray’s 
Estate Bill, 


Carnegie’s Estate Bill was read a second time ; 
and committed to Mr. Chalmers and the East Scot- 
land List. 


Carneyie’s 
Estate Bill. 


Rankine’s Estate Bill was read a second time; 
and committed to Mr. Chalmers and the East Scot- 
land List. 


Rankine’s 
Estate Bill. 


Leckhart’s 


Lockhart’s Estate Bill was read a second time ; 
Estate Bill. 


and committed to Mr. Chalmers and the East Scot- 
land List. 


Standing 


Sir John Wrottesley reported from the Select Com- 
Orders ; 6 


mittee on Standing Orders relative to Private Bills, 
a Resolution, which was read, as followeth : 

Resolved, That, in the case of the Petition for the 
Edinburgh Water Company Bill, the Parties be 
permitted to proceed with their Bill, on giving no- 
tices in two successive weeks in some Newspaper 
published in the county of Edinburgh ; and that the 
Committee on the Bill do examine m the first place 
how far such order has been complied with ; and do 
_ the same to the House, on the Report of the 

ill. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 


Edinburgh 
Water Com- 
pany. 


The House proceeded to take into further consi- 
deration the Report which was yesterday made from 
the Committee on the Hartlepool Pier Bill; and the 
Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed. 


Hartlepool 
Pier Bill. 


North Metropo- A Petition of the Minister, Incumbent, Church- 
litan Cemetery wardens and Inhabitants of Saint John, Hampstead, 
_ praying that they may be heard, by themselves, their 
counsel or agents, against certain parts of the North 
Metropolitan Cemetery Bill, was presented, and read. 
Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 

favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


Glasgow, 
Paisley, and 
Greenock 
Railway Bill. 


An ingrossed Bill for making and maintaining a 
Railway from Glasgow to Greenock, by Paisley and 


Port Glasgow, to be called “ The Glasgow, Paisley 
aud Greenock Railway,” was read the third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That Dr. Bowring do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


London and 
Blackwall 
Railway Bill. 


Petitions from Ship-owners, Merchants, Traders 
and others, of Cornhill and Bishopsgate-street ; — 
Shipowners and others connected with the trade of 
the Port of London ;—Officers in the service of the 
East India Dock Company :—and, in the service of 
the West India Dock Company; praying that the 
London and Blackwall Railway Bill may pass into 
a law,—were presented, and read ; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


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Mr. Ewart reported from the Committee on the Liverpool 
Liverpool Improvement Bill ; and to whom a Peti- {mprovement 
tion against the said Bill was referred; That they . 
had heard counsel on behalf of the said Petition, 
and had also heard counsel in favour of the Bill; 
and that the Committee had examined the allega- 
tions of the Bill, and found the same to be true; 
and had gone through the Bill, and made Amend- 
ments thereunto; and the Amendments were read, 
and agreed to. 

_ Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


Mr. Tooke reported from the Committee on the London 
London National Cemetery Bill; That they had }stional 
examined the allegations of the Bill, and found the = 
same to be true; and had gone through the Bill, 
and made Amendments thereunto; and the Amend- 
ments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Trinity (North 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, in- Leith) Harbour 
tituled, An Act for constructing a Harbour, Dock a 
or Docks, Piers and other Works at Trinity, in the 
Parish of North Leith, and County of Edinburgh ; 
and the same were read, as follow: 

Pr. 3. 1. 22. Leave out the first “ D.,” and insert 
“ M.” 

Pr. 3. 1.24. Leave out “ Stewart Seaton,” and 
insert “ Stewart Seton.” 

Pr. 19. 1. 32. Leave out from “ Company ” to 
“ against ” in 1. 34. 

Pr. 22. 1. 19. Leave out “ by,” and insert “ in;” 
and in the same line, after “ writing,” insert “ or in 
“ print, or partly in writing and partly in print, and 
“ shall be.” 

Pr. 23. 1. 35. After “ me” insert “ at.” 

Pr, 23. 1. 38. After “ witnesses ” insert “ et 

cetera.” 

Pr. 24. 1.10. Leave out “ two,” and insert 
one.” 

Pr. 24, lines 23. and 24. Leave out “ imme- 
diately.” 

Pr, 24. 1. ult. After “ persons” insert “ or 
others.” 

Pr. 25. 1. 18. After ® persons ” 
others.” 

Pr. 26. 1. 4. After “ proprietor ” insert “ whose 
original certificates may have been lost, defaced 
or destroyed, upon dunes proof of such loss, 
defacing or destruction being produced to the 
Directors and to every arty coming in the place 
of a registered shareholder.’ 

Pr. 35. 1. 1. Leave out “ Stewart Seaton,” and 

insert “ Stewart Seton.” 

Pr. 45. 1.3. Leave out from “make” to “ before”’ 
in |, 5. and insert “ such oath or declaration as con- 
“ stables in Scotland are by law required to make.” 

Pr. 54. 1. 30. After “ or” insert “ persons ;” 
and in the same line, after “ corporation,” insert 
“ or company.” 

Pr. 55. 1. 24. After “ or ” insert “ persons ;” 
and in the same line, after “ corporation,” insert 
“ or company.” 

Pr. 55. 1. 27. After “ person” insert “ or per- 
“ sons.” 

Pr. 55. 1. 29. After “ corporation ” insert “ or 
“ company.” 

Pr. 55. lines 33. and 34. After “ corporation ” 
insert “ or company.” : 

Pr. 55. lines 38. and penult. After “ corporation”’ 
insert “ or company.” 

Pr. 56. 1. 3. After “ or” insert “ persons.” 

Pr. 56. lines 3. and 4, After “ corporation ” in- 
sert “ or Company.” : 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 


were agreed to. 
. Ordered, 


insert “ or 








sill, 


rth 
our 
Bill, 





Roxburgh 
Roads Bill. 


Biddulph 
Roads Bill. 


London and 
Brighton 
Railway Bill 
(Stephenson’s 
Line.) 


Bolton and 
Preston Rail- 
way Bill. 


Collier Dock 
and Surre 
Canal Bill. 


Blochairn 
Canal Bill. 


London and 
Brightcn 
Railway Bill 


7 Wi. IV. 


Ordered, That Sir Andrew Leith Hay do carry 
the Bill to the Lords ; and acquaint them, that this 
House hath agreed to the Amendments made by 
their Lordships. 


An ingrossed Bill for further and more effectually 
repairing, amending and maintaining certain Roads 
in the County of Roxburgh, and other Roads con- 
nected therewith leading into the Counties of Ber- 
wick, Northumberland and Durham, was, accord- 
ing to Order, read the third time; and Amendments 
were made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Sir Andrew Agnew do carry the 
Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


An ingrossed Bill for better maintaining the Road 
from Gillow Hollow, in the parish of Biddulph, in 
the County of Stafford, to the Congleton and Leek 
Turnpike Road at Park-lane, in the Township of 
Congleton, in the County of Chester; with the 
Road therefrom at Zich-lane, in the said Parish of 
Biddulph, was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. George Wilbraham do carry 
the Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


A Petition of William Crawshay and Robert Mur- 
ray, Members of the Provisional Committee for 
making a Railway to join the London and South- 
ampton Railway near London, and to form a com- 
munication between London and Brighton, by way of 
Shoreham, praying that the Committee on the Lon- 
don and Brighton Railway Bill (Stephenson's line), 
be instructed to hear the Land-owners on the subject 
of the said Bill, and settle the Clauses thereof, was 
presented, and read ; and ordered tolie upon the Table. 

Ordered, That the Petition be printed. 


A Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses 
of Preston, praying that they may be heard, by their 
counsel or agents, against certain parts of the Bolton 
and Preston Railway Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by their counsel or agents, upon their Petition, if 
they think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of Land-owners, Occupiers and Inha- 
bitants of Rotherhithe, praying that the Collier 
Dock and Surrey Canal Bill may pass into a law, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of Proprietors and Owners of cotton 
mills, dyeing-works and other manufactories in 
Duhe-street, Bridgeton, Calton, Mile-end, and other 
parts in the east end of the city of Glasgow, praying 
that the Blochairn Canal Bill may pass into a law, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of R. G. Young, Secretary to a Com- 
pany for making a Railway from Brighton, to join 


(Gibbs’s Line.) the London and Croydon Railway, praying that the 


Eleventh 
Report on 
Poor Law Act. 


No. 339. 


Committee on the London and Brighton Railway Bill 
( Gibbs’s Line) be instructed to hear the Land-owners 
on the subject of the said Bill, and settle the Clauses 
thereof, was presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 

Ordered, That the Petition be printed. 


Mr. Fazakerley reported from the Select Com- 
mittee appointed to inquire into the Administration 
of the Relief of the Poor under the orders and regu- 
lations issued by the Commissioners appointed under 
the Provisions of the Poor Law Amendment Act; and 
who were empowered to report the Minutes of the 
Evidence taken before them from time to time to the 
VoL. 92. 


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409 


House ; That they had made further Progress in the 
matters to them referred; and had directed him to re- 
port the Minutes of the Evidence taken before them. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Wigan, praying that wigan Reet 
the Wigan Rectory Estate Bill may not pass into Estate Bill, 
a law as it now stands, was presented, and read ; 
and referred to the Committee on the Bill. 


Petitions from Arles;—New Ross ;—Kilbeg ;— Government 
Galtrim, Kiltale and Derpatrick ;—_Denn;—Cashel; ° Ireland. 
—Donoughmore ;— and, Ratoath; praying the 
House to support His Majesty’s Ministers in their 
government of Jreland,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Edward Beattie, President of a Hand-loom 
meeting of hand-loom weavers of Chorley, complain- “¢ve'- 
ing of distress, and praying for the establishment 
of Boards of Trade to regulate the prices of hand- 
loom weaving, was presented, and read; and or- 
dered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Sir Robert Abercrombie, Baronet, Barghs 
praying that the Burghs of Barony (Scotland) Bill, of Barony | 
may not pass into a law, was presented, and read ; caeien jaa 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Merchants, Underwriters, Ship- Shipping 
owners and Mariners of Sunderland, complaining of $##**te- 
the heavy charges imposed upon the proprietors of 
the Shipping Gazette for postage of letters contain- 
ing shipping and commercial intelligence only, and 
praying relief, was presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Claverton ;-— Roundhay;— Pre- Church Rates 
cinct of Bridewell, London ;—Saint Mary’s, Truro ; Regulation. 
ee — Ipswich; — Bury ;— Otterford ;— 
Chepping Wycombe ;—Kimbolton ;—and, Holywell- 
with-Needingworth; praying that the proposed 
measure, relative to Church Rates, may not receive 
the sanction of the House,—were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from Saint George, Middlesex ;— Gor 
ran ;—Mevagissey ;— Great Glen (Wesleyans);— 

Combs ;— Truro (Wesleyans); Leicester (Wesley- 
ans) ;—Uley (Independents) ;—.Dursley;— Allington ; 
—Selston;—-and, Marston; praying that the said 
oo measure may receive the sanction of the 

ouse,—were also presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


The Order of the day being read, for the third Brixham 
reading of the ingrossed Bill for improving, enlarg- fiarbour and 
ing, and maintaining the Pier, Harbour and Market” ~ ot ag. 
of Brixham, in the county of Devon, and for the 
formation of a Breakwater in Torbay ; 

And a Motion being made, That the Bill be now 
read the third time ; 

Sir John Hobhouse, by His Majesty’s command, 
acquainted the House, That His Majesty, having 
been informed of the purport of the Bill, gives His 
consent as far as His Majesty’s interest is concerned, 
that the House may do therein as they shall 
think fit. 

Then the Bill was read the third time; and in- 
grossed Clauses were added, by way of Riders ; and 
Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Montagu Parker do carry 
the Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


A Petition of Merchants, Manufacturers and Fire Insurances. 
others of Chesterfield, praying for the Reduction of 
the Duty on Fire Insurances, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


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Petitions from Southwick ;—Sunderland ;—Ips- 
wich ;— Holbrook ; — Cheldmondiston ;— Hylton ;— 
Northallerton ; — Whitburn ;— Ham-and-Hatch ;— 
Riddings (Alfreton);— Baslow ;—and, the Reverend 
the Presbytery of Northumberland; praying that 
the Lord’s Day Bill may be allowed to go into a 
Committee of the whole House,—were presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Lord’s Day Bill. 


A Petition of Members of the Board of Guar- 
dians of the Poor of the Warwick Union, praying for 
the Amendment of the Poor Law Act, was pre- 
sented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on the Poor Law Act. 


Poor Law Act, 


Prisons A Petition of the Preses of a meeting of Justices 

(Scotland) Bill. of the Peace, Commissioners of Supply,-and Land- 
holders of the county of Kincardine, praying that 
the Prisons (Scotland) Bill may not pass into a law 
as it now stands, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Salmon 
Fisheries 
(Scotland) Bill, 


A Petition of Proprietors, Tacksmen, or others 
interested in the Salmon Fishings of the River Worth 
Esk, praying that the Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) 
Bill may pass into a law, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Clergy of the diocese of Kilmore, 
praying that the present system of National Educa- 
tion in Ireland may not be persisted in, was pre- 
sented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Plan of Education (Jreland.) 


Education 
(Treland.) 


Criminal Law. A Petition of Inhabitants of Bourn, praying the 
House to restrict the sentence of death to actual 
and wilful murder, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Horse Tax. A Petition of licensed Horse Porters of Plymouth, 
praying that they may be exempted from the pay- 
ment of the Horse Tax, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Agricultural A Petition of Members of the Consulting Com- 

a mittee and Holders of Shares in the Joint Stock 

(No. 2.) Bank, called “ The Agricultural and Commercial 
Bank of Jreland ;” taking notice of the application 
for leave to bring in the Agricultural and Commer- 
cial Bank, Ireland (No. 2.) Bill, and praying that 
such Bill may not pass into a law, was presented, 
nnd read ; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Petitions for Private Bills. 


Agricultural Petitions from Limerick ;—Longford ; — Cavan, 
and Commercial and other places ;—New Ross ;—Parsonstown;— 
Bauk, Ireland. ond, Thurles; praying the House to extend legisla- 
tive pee a 4 encouragement to the Agricul- 
‘ tural and Commercial Bank of Jreland, and to 
discountenance the attempts making to impede the 
progress of the said Company,—were presented, 
and read; and referred to the Select Committee on 

Joint Stock Banks. 


Fast India 
Maritime 
Officers. 


No. 336. 


Mr. George Frederick Young reported from the 
Select Committee to whom the Petition of Captains 
Newall, Barrow and Glasspoole, Commanders of the 
late Maritime Service of the East India Company, 
complzining that the compensation to which they are 
entitled has been withheld from them by the Board 
of Control, was referred; That they had considered 
the matter to them referred, and had directed him 
to make a Report thereof to the House, together 
with the Minutes of the Evidence taken laine 
them; with an Appendix. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; 
and be printed. 


A Petition of the Chamber of Commerce of 
Waterford, praying that the Mersey Conservancy 
Bill may not pass into a law as it now stands, was 


Mersey 
Conservancy 
Bill. 


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A. 1837. 


presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of the Chamber of Commerce of Bonded Corn 
Waterford, praying that the Bonded Corn Manu- Manufacture 
facture Bill, may pass into a law, was presented, and ~* 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


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A Petition of Dressers in the employ of Messrs. Factories, 
Hyde and Co., praying the House to pass a Bill to 
protect all factory workers from being worked more 
than ten hours for fivedays of the week, and eight on 
the Saturday, was presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Members of the Finsbury Discus- Shipwrecks. 
sion Society, praying the House to devise means for 
the prevention of Shipwrecks, and to secure the 
greatest degree of safety to the life and property 
of the Mercantile Navy, was presented, and read; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Moderator and Members of the Glasgow and 
Kirk Session of High Parish, Paisley, praying that Ayr Railway 
the Clause in the Glasgow and Ayr Railway Bill, to ®! 
ee the transit of goods and passengers on the 

ailway on the Lord’s Day, may be retained, was 


presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
able. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of New Ross, praying Vote by Ballot. 
for the adoption of Vote by Ballot in the election of 
Members to serve in Parliament for [reland, was pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Merchants, Manufacturers and In- Window Tex. 
habitants of Sunderland, praying for the repeal of 
the Window Tax, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Sunderland, praying Lower Canada. 
for an extension of the elective principle into the 
Legislative Council of Lower Canada, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Resolved, That this House will, at the rising of Adjournment. 
the House this day, adjourn till Tuesday next. 


A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Dowdeswell Message from 

and Mr. Senior : the Lords. 
Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Greenwich 
Act to alter and amend an Act of the last Session of Pier Bil. 
Parliament, intituled, ‘‘ An Act for making and 
maintaining a Pier, Wharf and other Works at 
Greenwich, in the County of Kent,” and to extend 
the Powers of the said Act, without Amendment : 

And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An London and 
Act to enlarge the Powers of an Act passed in the Greenwich. 
third year of the reign of His present Majesty, in- R#!"4y *™ 
tituled, “An Act for making a Railway from London 
to Greenwich,” with Amendments ; to which Amend- 
ments the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House :—And then the Messengers withdrew. 





Complaint being made to the House, by a Mem- Glasgow Writ. 
ber in his place, of the manner in which the Writ 
for the election of a Citizen for the City of Glas- 
gow, had been transmitted, as being contrary to the 
provisions of the Act for regulating the transmission 
of Writs ; 

Ordered, That the Messenger of the Crown Office 
who conveyed the Writ on Wednesday, the 17th day 
of this instant May, for the election of a Citizen to 
serve in Parliament for the City of Glasgow, do at- 
tend at the bar of this House on Tuesday next, 
bringing with him the Receipt of the Postmaster 
General, or his Deputy, expressing the time of the 
delivery of the said Writ; and that the Postmaster 
General, or his Deputy, who signed the Receipt “ 

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7 Wit. IV. 


the same, do also attend at the bar of this House 
at the same time, bringing with him the Duplicate 
of such Receipt. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 
posed, That the dropped Orders of the day of 
yesterday, be now read ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to 
the Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words “ there be laid before this House, 1. Copies 
“ of all Correspondence between the Governor Ge- 
neral of India, or the Indian Government and the 
East India Company, the Chairman, Director, or 
Directors, Secret or other Committees, on the 
subject of a Present proposed to be sent, and re- 
cently sent by the King of Oude to their Majes- 
ties, under charge of Philip Frille, Esquire, 
including Copies of all Communications with the 
Court of Oude, or the British Resident, on the 
subject : 

“2. Copies of all Correspondence between the 
Board of Control and the East India Company, 
the Chairman, Directors, Secret or other Com- 
mittees, in relation to the Present : 

“ 3. Copies of all Correspondence between the 
Secretary of State for the Colonies, ‘the Board of 
Control, or the East India Company, or any 
Officer thereof, and Philip Frille, Esquire, Co- 
lonel Du Bois, or his Agents, Rickards, Little 
and Co, and the East India Dock Company, 
relative to the Presents : 

“ 4. Copies of all Correspondence between the 
Governor General of India, or the Indian Govern- 
ment and the East India Company, the Chair- 
man, Directors, Secret or other Committees, rela- 
tive to the taking possession of Oude by the 
Indian Government, and the Instructions given 
to Lord William Bentinck and Lord Auckland in 
relation thereto : 

“« 5. Copies of all Correspondence between the 
Board of Control and the East India Company, 
the Chairman, Directors, Secret or other Com- 
mittees, on the same subject,” instead thereof. 
And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Question : 
—It was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That the dropped Orders of the day of 

esterday, be now read ; and the same being read; 


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Another Amendment proposed: L. 15 and 16. 
After “ rate-payer” to insert the following words ; 
“ the rate-payers shall elect such a number out of 
“ the said Justices as shall be by this Act allowed.” 

- Question put, That those words be there in- 
serted ; 

The Committee divided : 

Tellers for the f Mr. Hindley, } 38 

Yeas, 1 Mr. O’ Connell: ‘ 

Tellers for the Mr. Robert Steuart, } 

Noes, { Mr. Edward John Stanley: a. 

Another Amendment proposed: L. 15. and 16. 
To leave out the words “ elected by such rate- 
“ payers,” and insert the following words, “ ap- 
a — by the Lord Chancellor for the time 
“ being.” 

Question, That the words proposed to be left 
out stand part of the Clause——put, and agreed to. 

Cravse, N° 25, agreed to. 

Criausz, No 26, (On non-election of Guardians 
Commissioners to appoint)——read. 

Amendment proposed: P. 9. 1. 10. To leave out 
from the words “ his office,” to the words “ it shall 
“ be lawful,” in 1. 32. 

Question put, That the words proposed to be left 
out stand part of the Clause ; 

The Committee divided : 

Tellers for the — Mr. Robert Steuart, 


68. 


Yeas, Mr. John Parker: 
Tellers for the { Mr. Sharman Crawford, \ ,. 
Noes, { Mr. Hindley : : 


Another Amendment proposed: P. 9. 1. 10. To 
leave out the words from the word “ sufficient ” to 
the words “ the Commissioners,” in 1, 12. 
Question put, That the words proposed to be left 
out stand part of the Clause ; 
The Committee divided : 
Teller for the Yeas, Mr. John Parker - - 63. 
Teller for the Noes, Mr. Serjeant Jackson 23. 
Another Amendment proposed: L. 13. To leave 
out the word “ person,” and insert “ rate-payer in 
“ the district.” 
Question, That the word “person” stand part 
of the Clause put, and agreed to. 

CrauseE, N° 26, agreed to. 

Ciavse, Ne 27, (Power to Commissioners to ap- 
point paid officers)——read. 

Amendment proposed: P. 9. 1.39. After the words 





Registration of “ number of ” to insert the following words, “ rate- 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 


Voters Bill. next, resolve itself into a Committee upon the Regis- | “ payers in any division, are not found capable of 

tration of Voters Bill. “ bearing the expense of their attendance at the 
" “board of guardians, the Commissioners, if they 
oor Relief 


Resolved, That this House will, a re-|“ think fit, may order the daily expenses of the 


(Ireland) Bill. 


solve itself into a Committee upon the Poor Relief 
(Ireland) Bill. 
The House accordingly resolved itself into the 
Committee. 
(In the Committee.) 
Crauses, N° 21 to N° 23, agreed to. 


Crause, N° 24, (Ex-officio guardians)——read. 

Motion made, and Question put, That the said 
Clause stand part of the Bill; 

The Committee divided : 


Mr. More O’ Ferrall 
Tellers for the Yeas, &gt; ag ete song ? }o1. 
Mr. O’ Connell 
Tellers for the Noes, Mr. Lynch : . }as. 


Crause, N° 25, (Not to exceed one-third in num- 
ber of elected guardians) read. 

Amendment proposed: P. 8. 1, 11. To leave out 
the words “ one-third,” in order to insert the words 
“ one-sixth.” 

Question put, That the words proposed to be left 
out stand part of the Clause ; 

The Committee divided : 





Tellers for the { Sir Andrew Leith Hay, } 58 
Yeas, Mr. Robert Steuart : . 
Tellers for the f Mr. O’ Connell, }; 
Noes, | Dr. Bowring : +. 
Vox. 92. 


“to be defrayed out of the rate: Provided always, 
“ That no guardian shall be entitled to be paid for 
“more than Fifty-two attendances in the year, nor 
“ more than the sum of Three pounds for any such 
“ attendance.” 

Question, That those words be there inserted 
put, and negatived. 
Cravusz, N° 27, agreed to. 


Crausg, N°28, (Guardians incorporated) read. 

Several Amendments made. 

Amendment proposed: P. 10. 1. 20. After the 
words “ Assistant Commissioners” to insert the 
following words, “ and also every person in holy 
“‘ orders, or every regular minister resident within 
“ their district.” 

Question, That those words be there inserted 
put, and negatived. 

CrauseE, N° 28, as amended, agreed to. 

Cravuse, N° 29, (Meetings of guardians)——read. 

Amendment proposed: P, 29. 1.25. After the 
word “ Commissioners ” to insert the following 
words, “and so often as the wants of the Union 
“ shall require.” 

Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

CiavseE, N° 29, agreed to. 











3G 2 CLAusEs, 


“‘ guardians elected or appointed for such division, ' 





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Cravuses, N* 30 and 31, agreed to. 


Cuiause, N° 32, (Paid officers) ——read. 

Amendment proposed: P. 11. 1. 9. To leave out 
from the word “ guardians” to the word “ and” 
in 1. 10. 

Question, That the words proposed to be left out 
stand part of the Clause ; 

Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Crausz, N° 32, agreed to. 


Criauses, N® 33 and 34, agreed to. 


Criause. N° 35, (House of Industry, &amp;c., to vest in 
Commissioners) read. 

Several Amendments made. 

Amendment proposed, to add at the end of the 
Ciause “ Provided always, That nothing herein con- 
“* tained shall extend or be construed to extend to 
interfere with, or in any way control the Go- 
vernors of the Foundling Hospital of the cities of 
Dublin and Cork, in the management and guar- 
dianship of the Foundling children, as heretofore 
“ vested in the said Governors.” 

Question, That those words be there inserted 
put, and negatived. 

Ciause, N° 35, as amended, agreed to. 


To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 





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And the House having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Saturday morning ; 


Sabbati, 27° die Maii, 1837: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had made further 
Progress in the Bill, and that he was directed to 
move, That the Committee may have leave to sit 
again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Prisons 


The Prisons (Scotland) Bill was, according to 
(Scotland) Bill, 


Order, read a second time; and committed to Mr. 
Fox Maule, the Lord Advocate, Sir William Rae, 
Sir George Clerk, Lord Dalmeny, Captain Gordon, 
Mr. Bannerman, General Arbuthnott, Mr. Cumming 
Bruce, Sir Charles Adam, Mr. Dunlop, Sir Andrew 
Agnew, Mr. Robert Steuart, Sir George Sinclair, 
Mr. Gillon, Mr. Walter Campbell, Mr. Hope John- 
stone, Mr. John Marwell, Mr. Loch, Captain Fer- 
guson and Mr. Chalmers. 
Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 


Punishment of 


The Order of the day being read, for receiving 
Death Bill. 


the Report on the Punishment of Death Bill; 
Ordered, That the Report be received upon Tues- 
day next. 


Offencesagainst The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
the Person Bill. mittee on the Offences against the Person Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Robbery and The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Stealing from 1, mittee on the Robbery and Stealing from the Person 
le Fersu . 


Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Burglary and 
Stealing in a 
Dwelling-house 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Burglary and Stealing in a Dwelling- 


Bill. house Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday, 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
Piracy Bill, The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Piracy Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
Burning or The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Deildingeen q mittee on the Burning or Destroying Buildings and 
Ships Bil, | Ships Bill; 


26°—27° Mar. 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 








A. 1887. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Transportation 
mittee on the Transportation for Life Bill ; ioe 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Pillory Punish. 
mittee on the Pillory Punishment Abolition Bill ; met Abolition 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- wills Bill, 
mittee on the Wills Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, resolve itsel! into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Parliamentary 
reading of the Parliamentary Electors Bill ; Electors Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Secular Juris- 
reading of the Secular Jurisdiction (York and Ely) diction (York 
Bill ; and Ely) Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Forgery Bill. 
further consideration the Report on the Forgery 
Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Tuesday next. 


Mr. Baring reported the Exchequer Bills Bill ; Exchequer Bills N 
and the Amendments were read, and agreed to. Sey * 
Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be * 
ingrossed ; and read the time upon Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Monies in the 
mittee on the Monies in the Exchequer Bill ; Exchequer Bill. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday , 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. ; 


Railroads and 
Public Works 
Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Railroads and Public Works Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday, 
the 7th day of June next, resolve itself into the said 
Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the third Haileybury 

reading of the Haileybury College Bill ; oe 
Ordered, That the Bill be vead the third time 

upon Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the third East India 
reading of the East India Officers’ Salaries Bill; — gainries Bill 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Ways and 
mittee of Ways and Means; — 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Supply: 
mittee of Supply ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 


next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Supply 


The Order of the day being read, for receiving (otk Apeil. 


the Report from the Committee of Supply ; 
Ordered, That the Report be received upon Tues- 
day next. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Wexford Tithes. 
Copy of any Report sent to the Jrish Government 
with respect to the detention of any Cattle seized for 
Tithes in the Gaol of Wexford. 


Sir 








7 Witt. IV. 


Sir George Grey presented, pursuant to several 
Addresses to His Majesty,—Copies of the Orders 
sent out to the Canadas respecting Orange Lodges 
there, the Date of the Dispatch, and of arrival of 
those Orders there, and the Answers received from 
the Governors of Upper and Lower Canada as to 
the Proceedings adopted thereunder :—And, of the 
Address of the House of Assembly of Upper Canada 
to the Governor, respecting Orange Lodges, and his 
Answer thereto. 

Copy of an Abstract of Returns made by the 
Receiver General and Clerks of Vestries of the se- 
veral Parishes of Jamaica to the House of Assembly 
of the Island on the 22d February, in pursuance of 
an Order of that House, dated the 9th November 
1836 ; showing the Amount raised in the Island, 
and applied by the Assembly, and the Parochial 
Vestries for the Church Establishment, and for the 
support of Schools and Education in Jamaica, for 
Five years, ending the 30th September 1836 ; and 
also any Public Information or Extracts from any 
Dispatches, showing any Grants subsequently made 
for either of those purposes. 

Copies of two Reports of a Select Committee of 
the ~ aa of Assembly of Zower Canada, respect- 
ing Mr. Gugy, Sheriff of Montreal, and of any 
Correspondence between the Earl of Gosford and 
Lord Glenelg, on the subject of the Charges pre- 
ferred against Mr. Gugy. 

Copy of any Information received from the Earl 
of Gosford respecting the Debt due by Sir John 
Caldwell to the Province of Zower Canada; to- 
gether with a Copy of the Report of a Select Com- 
mittee of the House of Assembly of that Province 
on the same subject. 

Sir George Grey also presented, pursuant to the 
directions of several Acts of Parliament,—Copies 
of the Laws and Ordinances passed by the Governor 
and Council of the Colony of New South Wales. 
ee of the Laws and Ordinances passed by 


Orange Lodges 
(Canada.) 


Schools and 
Education 
(Jamaica. ) 


Canada. 


New South 
Wales. 


Van Diemen’s 


Land. the Governor and Council of the Colony of Van 
Diemen’s Land. 

Western Copies of the Laws and Ordinances passed by 

Australia, the Governor and Council of Western Australia. 


Ordered, That tke said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Letters Patent. 


Ordered, That the —— respecting Letters Pa- 


No. 337. tent, which was presented yesterday, be printed. 
Edinburgh The House was moved, That the Report in respect 
WaterCom- of the Petition for the Edinburgh Water Company 
aed Bill, which was this day made from the Select Com- 

mittee on Standing Orders relative to Private Bills, 
might be read ; and the same being read ; 
Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for amending the Acts for supplying the City of 
Edinburgh with Water: And that Mr. Chalmers 
and Mr. Denistoun do prepare, and bring it in. 
Municipal Mr. Hawes presented a Bill to provide for the 
a? Rates, levying of Watch Rates, and for regulating the ap- 
c., Bill, ‘ ae 
Ne, 200. pointment of Inspectors of Weights and Measures 


in Boroughs and Towns having Municipal Corpora- 
tions in England and Wales: And the same was 
read the first time ; and ordered to be read a second 
time upon Wednesday next ; and to be printed. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That an humble Address be presented to 
His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased to 
give directions, that there be laid before this House, 
an Abstract of Returns, showing the Amount of 
Monies received and expended by the Church- 
wardens and Chapelwardens in England and Wales, 
from Easter 1836 to Easter 1837; distinguishing 
the Monies received from Church Rates or Chapel 
Rates, from Estates or other Parish Funds, in aid of 
such Church or Chapel Rates, from Poor Rates, for 

Vou, 92. 


Church Rates 
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26°—27°—30° Maiz. 


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Mortuary or Burial Fees, for Pews and Sittings, and 
from any other source ; and distinguishing in the 
Account of Monies expended, the Money paid for 
Churches and Chapels, for Furniture and Orna- 
ments therein, for Books, Wine, &amp;c., for Salaries 
to Clerks, Sextons, and other Officers, and the 
Sums expended for any other purpose ; 


And Notice being taken that Forty Members were 
not present, the House was told by Mr. Speaker; 
and Forty Members not being present ; and it bein 
then a quarter of an hour after twelve of the nak 
on Saturday morning :—The House was adjourned 
by Mr. Speaker, without a Question first put, till 
Tuesday next. 





Martis, 30° die Maii ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi IV“ Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


Ao ingrossed Bill for incorporating a Company, London 
to be called “‘ The London Necropolis and National 
National Cemetery Company,” for enabling such Cemetery Bill. 
Company to establish Cemeteries for the interment 
of the Dead in the vicinity of the Metropolis, and 
the Suburbs thereof, was read the third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act for incorporating a Company, to 
be called “ The London Necropolis and National 
Cemetery Company ;” and for enabling such Com- 
pany to establish Cemeteries for the interment of 
the Dead in the vicinity of the Metropolis, and the 
Suburbs thereof. 
Ordered, That Mr. Tooke do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration London and 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, ean, 
intituled, An Act to enlarge the Powers of an Act a 
passed in the third year of the reign of His present 
Majesty, intituled, “ An Act for making a Railway 
from London to Greenwich ;” and the same were 
read, as follow : 

Pr. 6. 1. 25. Leave out from “ Act” to “ And” in 
Pr. 7. 1. 8. 

Pr. 13. 1, 18. After “ Company ”’ insert Clauses 
(A.), (B.) and (C.) 

Cuiause (A.) “ And whereas the viaduct of that 

“ part of the said Railway so made and opened to 
“ the public which crosses a certain street called 
Parish-street, in the parish of Saint John, in the 
borough of Southwark, under the control and 
jurisdiction of the Commissioners for paving the 
streets within the east division of the il borough, 
is erected so near to the workhouse belonging to 
the union of Saint Olave, within the borough of 
Southwark, as to prevent all communication by 
carts and carriages into and from the adjoining 
streets, to the great detriment and inconvenience 
of the public; and it is necessary and expedient 
for the convenience of the public that a street, not 
less than twenty-eight feet in width, should be so 
formed as to make a more direct communication 
between Artillery-street and Parish-street afore- 
said, than the site of the said viaduct allows, 
without pulling down the said workhouse or some 
art thereof: And whereas the parties interested 
in the said workhouse have consented to sell and 
dispose of so much of the said workhouse as shall 
accomplish the purpose aforesaid, and all their 
right and interest therein; Be it therefore Enacted, 
That in case the Commissioners having the control 
or jurisdiction of the pavements within the east 
division of Southwark aforesaid, shall, by notice 
in writing under the hand of the clerk for the time 
being to the said Commissioners, to be left at the 
office of the said Company, require the said Com- 
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workhouse, and the ground whereon the same is 
standing, and the respective rights and interests 
of the owners, lessees or other persons therein, it 
shall be lawful for the said Company, and they 
“ are hereby required, within thirty days after the 
“ service of, such notice, to treat with the owners, 
“ lessees or other persons having any estate or in- 
“ terest therein, for the purchase, and to purchase 
“so much of the said workhouse as shall be ne- 
“* cessary for the purposes aforesaid, and all their, 
“ his and her right or interest therein ; and it shall 
“ be lawful for such owners, lessees or other persons, 
“ absolutely to sell and dispose of the said portion 
“ ofthe said workhouse, hereditamentsand premises ; 
“ and in case the said Company shall not agree 
“* with the owners, lessees or other persons interested 
in the said portion of the said workhouse, here- 
ditaments and premises as to the amount or value 
and the satisfaction, recompense or compensation 
to be paid for and in respect of the same, then 
the umount or value of such portion of the said 
workhouse, land and hereditaments as aforesaid 
and of any satisfaction, recompense or compensa- 
tion ohich may be payable to the person or per- 
sons interested in the said portion of the said 
workhouse, lands and hereditaments, in conse- 
quence of any injury or damage sustained by them, 
or any of them, from the said portion of the said 
workhouse, lands and hereditaments, being pur- 
chased or taken by the said Company, shall be 
ascertained and settled by the verdict of a jury, 
in the manner as in the said recited Act of the 
third year of the reign of His present Majesty is 
directed for ascertaining and settling the value or 
recompense for other lands, tenements, heredita- 
ments and premises taken or to be taken or pur- 
chased for the purposes of the said recited Act.” 


Cravuse (B.) “ And be it further Enacted, That, 
within three calendar months next after the said 
Railway Company shall have purchased and 
become possessed of the said portion of the said 
workhouse, ground and premises, the said Com- 
pany shall at their own expense pull down so 
much of the said workhouse as shall be necessary 
for forming a convenient street, not less than 
twenty-eight feet in width, so as to make a direct 
communication from Artillery-street to Parish- 
street aforesaid, and well and effectually form and 
pave the same, under the direction and superin- 
tendence of the surveyor for the time being to the 
said Commissioners of pavement, but nevertheless 
at the costs, charges and expenses of the said 
Company, and from and after such street shall be 
set out, made and paved as aforesaid, to the satis- 
faction of the “ah surveyor, the same shall be 
under the control, jurisdiction and management 
of the said Commissioners, and shall thenceforth 
be maintained, cleansed and repaired by them.” 


Cause (C.) “ And whereas the Railway by the 
said recited Act authorized to be made, has been 
constructed nearly the whole distance, such portion 
thereof having been erected wholly on arches, 
= over the several streets and roads at 
1eights prescribed by the said recited Act; Be it 
therefore further Enacted, That the remainder of 
the said Railway shall be built conformable to the 
section deposited with the Clerks of the Peace for 
the counties of Kent and Surrey, or as near thereto 
as may be, having reference to the elevation of 
such portion of the Railway as is already con- 
structed, and the several heights prescribed by 
the said recited Act for crossing the several streets 
and roads, and the River Ravensborne.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 


Ordered, That Mr. Tooke do carry the Bill to the 


Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 


agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
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Sir Henry Parnell reported from the Committee Dundee 
on the Dundee Police Bill; That they had ex- Police Bil. 
amined the allegations of the Bill, and found the 
same to be true; and had gone through the Bill, and 
made Amendments thereunto ; and the Amendments 
were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed. 


Ordered, That the Committee on the Dundee Dundee 
Waterworks Bill have Power to send for persons, me 
papers and records. ; 


Mr. Wason reported from the Committee on the Ipswich 
Ipswich Improvement and Dock Bill ; and to whom se 
several Petitions against the said Bill were referred, “" am, 
and who were empowered to divide the said Bill into 
two Bills; That they had heard counsel in support 
of two of the said Petitions, and had considered the 
other Petitions; and had also heard counsel in favour 
of the Bill; and that the Committee had, pursuant 
to the power given them by the House, divided the 
said Bill into two Bills; and had examined the alle- 
gations of the first of the said Bills, “ for amending Ipswich 
several Acts for paving, cleansing and otherwise im- es 
proving the Town of Jpswich, in the County of Suf-~"” 
folk, and for removing and preventing encroachments 
and annoyances therein,” and had found the same to 
be true ; and had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto; and the Amendments were 
read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 

Mr. Wason also reported from the Committee on Ipswich 
the other of the said Bills “ for amending an Act of 2% Bill 
the 45th year of the reign of King Sate the 
Third, for improving and rendering more commodious 
the Port of Zpswich, and for constructing a Wet 
Dock there ;” That they had examined the allegations 
of the Bill, and found the same to be true; and had 
gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto. 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Edmund Harwich Chadd ;—and, Ouse a, 
Owners and Occupiers of lands referred to in the aati 
Ouse Banks Drainage Bill; praying that they may 
be heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
against certain parts of the Ouse Banks Drainage 
Bill,—were presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


An ingrossed Bill for draining, inclosing, dividing Over Inclosure 
and allotting certain Lands in the Parish of Over, and Drainage 
in the County of Cambridge, was read the third ®'" 
time ; and an ingrossed Clause was added to the 
Bill by way of Rider. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Townley do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Mr. Bethell reported from the Committee on the Bridlington 
Bridlington Harbour Bill; and to whom several Harbour Bill 
Petitions against the said Bill, together with the 
a from the Select Committee on Harbours of 
Refuge in the last Session of Parliament, were re- 
ferred ; That they had heard counsel in support of 
two of the said Petitions, and had considered the 
other Petitions, and had also heard counsel in favour 
of the Bill; and that the Committee had examined 
the allegations of the Bill, and found the same to be 
true; and had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto; and the Amendments were 
read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 





Petitions 





Dubl 
Kilke 
Raily 


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Dublin and 
Kilkenny 
Railway Bill. 


Agricultural I 
and Commerci 
Bank, Ireland. 


Angerstein’s 
Estate Bill. 


7 Wit. [V. 


Petitions from Nobility, Gentry, Merchants, 
Traders and Inhabitants of Enniscorthy ;— New 
Ross ;—High Sheaff, Grand Jury, Nobility, Gentry, 
Landed Proprietors and Freeholders of the county 
of Kildare ;—and, Nobility, Gentry, Landed Pro- 
prietors and Land-owners of the county of Kilkenny ; 
praying that the Dublin and Kilkenny Railway Bill 
may pass into a law,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Enniscorthy ;—Carnew ;— Gorey ; 
— Newtown Barry ;—and, Shareholders in the Agri- 
cultural and Commercial Bank of Ireland resident 
in Ennis; praying the House to extend support and 
encouragement to the Agricultural and Commercial 
Bank of Ireland,—were presented, and read ; and 


referred to the Select Committee on Joint Stock 
Banks. 


Mr. Brotherton reported from the Committee on 
the Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act to enable 
John Angerstein, Esquire to grant building and re- 

airing Leases of lands and hereditaments in the 

arish of Grimsby, in the County of Lincoln, and 
in the Parish of East Greenwich, in the County of 
Kent, and to enable Amelia, the wife of the said 
John Angerstein, to grant similar Leases of parts of 
the same Estates in the said Parish of East Green- 
wich; That they had examined the allegations of the 
Bill, and found the same to be true; and that the 
parties concerned had given their consent to the 
Bill, to the satisfaction of the Committee ; and that 


_ the Committee had gone through the Bill, and 


Wigan Rectory 


Estate Bill. 


Wishaw and 
Coltness 
Railway Bill. 


Mersey 
Conservancy 
Bill, 


London and 
Brighton 
Railway Bill 
(Stephenson’s 
Line.) 


Collier Dock 
and Surrey 
Canal Bill, 


directed him to report the same, without Amend- 
ment :—And the Bill was read the third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That Mr. Brotherton do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


Ordered, That the Committee on the Wigan Rec- 
tory Estate Bill be revived :—And that they have 
leave to sit, and proceed, To-morrow. 


An ingrossed Bill for further extending the time 
for as arm the Wishaw and Coltness Railway, in 
the County of Lanark, was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. John Maxwell do carry the 
Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Newry, praying that 


the Mersey Conservancy Bill may not pass into a 
law, was — and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Warrington, praying 
that the said Bill may not pass into a law as it now 
stands, was also presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Dorking ;— New Shoreham ;— 
Steyning ; — Henfield ;— Worthing ;—and, Hor- 
sham; praying that the London and Brighton Rail- 
way Bill (Stephenson’s Line) may pass into a law,— 


were presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of Owners and Occupiers of lands and 
premises, on the banks of the River Thames, and 
other parts of the parishes of Saint Mary, Rother- 
hithe, Saint Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, in the 
county of Surrey, and Saint John, in the borough 
of Southwark, praying that they may be heard, by 
their counsel or agents, against certain parts of the 
Collier Dock and Surrey Canal Bill, was presented, 
and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to 
the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by their counsel or agents, upon their Peti- 
tion, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in favour 
of the Bill, against the said Petition. 

Vox. 92. 


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415 


The House proceeded to take into further con- Ellesmere 
sideration the Report which upon the 22d day of = a 
this instant May was made from the Committee on ““"™ 
the Ellesmere and Chester Canal Bill; printed 
Copies of the Bill having been delivered at the door 
upon Friday last; and the Amendments were read, 
and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


A Petition of the council of the city and borough Bath Gas Bill. 
of Bath, praying that they may be heard, by their 
counsel or agents, against certain parts of the Bath 
Gas Bill, was presented, and read ; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee Agricultural _ 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That in the case of = — 
the Petition for the Agricultural and Commercial (No. ‘.) ” 
Bank Ireland (No. 2.) Bill, the application does not 
come within the Standing Orders of the House. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to facilitate the winding up of the affairs of the 
Agricultural and Commercial Bank of Jreland: And 
that Mr. Emerson Tennent and Mr. O’ Connell do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Greene reported from the Select Committee Manchester 
on Petitions for Private Bills; That in the case of &amp;4° 
the Petition for the Manchester Gas Bill, the Stand- 
ing Orders relative to Bills for lighting Cities or 
Towns with Gas, had not been complied with ; but 
it appeared to the Committee that no compulsory 
powers are sought for, nor is it intended to make any 
alteration in the rates; that the Petitioners are part 
of the Commissioners of Police, acting in discharge 
of the duties imposed on them by several Acts of 
Parliament, and are not a body of speculators, seek- 
ing their private advantage. 

Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Select 
Committee on Standing Orders. 


An ingrossed Bill for improving the Ardrossan Ardrossan 
and Johnston Railway, for separating the Manage- and Johnston 
ment thereof from the Management of the Glasgow, Beilway Bill. 
Paisley and Johnston Canal ; and for other purposes 
relating thereto, was read the third time ; and an 
ingrossed Clause was added to the Bill, by way of 
Rider. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Lord James Stuart do carry the 
Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Mr, Emerson Tennent presented a Bill to facilitate Agricultural — 
the winding up of the affairs of the Agricultural and = oo 
Commercial Bank of Lreland: And the same was (No. 2.) Bill. 
read the first time ; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


The House proceeded to take into further con- Belfast Harbour 
sideration the ene which, upon the 17th day of (No. 2.) Bill. 
this instant May, was made from the Committee on 
the Belfast Harbour (No. 2.) Bill; printed Copies 
of the Bill having been delivered at the door upon 
Friday last; and the Amendments were read, and 
agreed to. 
A Clause was offered to be added to the Bill re- 
specting exemption from toll :—-And the said Clause 
was brought up, and read the first and second time. 
Ordered, That the Bill be re-committed to the 
former Committee, so far as relates to the said 
Clause; and that they have leave to sit and proceed 
To-morrow, and to make their Report upon Thurs- 
day next. 


A Petition of Farmers in the district of Montrose Montrose 
and Brechin, praying that they may be allowed to Harbour Bill. 
withdraw their opposition to the Montrose Harbour 
Bill, and that the same may pass into a law, was 
saga and read; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 


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London and Petitions from Inhabitants of Lewes; —and, Owners 
Brighton i rehouses and other pr 
Railway pin 224 Occupiers of wharfs, warehouse pro- 


(Rennie’sLine.) Petty in the port of Newhaven ; praying that the 


London and Brighton Railway Bill ( Rennie’s Line) 


may pass into a law, —were presented, and read; | 


and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


NorthMetropo- Ordered, That the Committee on the North Me- 
—y Cemetery tropolitan Cemetery Bill be revived:—And that they 
: have leave to sit, and proceed, upon Friday next. 


Coroners’ Petitions from George Hinchcliffe, one of the 
— pil, Coroners for the county of Salop ;—J. C. Shebbear, 
- * one of the Coroners for the county of Southampton ; 
—Coroners for the county of Somerset ;—and, Co- 
roners for the county of Dorset; praying that pro- 
vision may be made in the Coroners’ Inquests’ 
Expenses Bill for their more adequate remuneration, 
—were presented, and read; and ordered to lie 

upon the Table. 


Four-and-a-half A Petition of Inhabitants of Stapleton, praying 

per Cent. Duty.the House to repeal the Four-and-a-half per cent. 
Duty in the Island of Antigua, and to admit the 
productions of that Island and the Leeward Islands 
into this country, at the same rate of duties as those 
of the ceded colonies and Bengal, was presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Church Rates Petitions from Union Chapel, Poplar ;—West 

Regulation. © Lavington ;— George-street, Hull ; — Colyton ;— 
Swansea ;—East Chinnock ;—Hardington Mande- 
ville ;— Headcorn ; —Market Lavington ;— Welsh 
Newton ;— Humberstone ;—Syston and Belgrave ;— 
and, Sutton Valence; praying that the proposed 
measure relative to Church Rates may receive the 
sanction of the House,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Saint Mary, Islington ;— Stur- | 


minster Marshall, &amp;c.;—and, Newnham and Little- 
dean; praying that the said proposed measure may 
not receive the sanction of the House,—were also 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
lable. 


Poor Law Act. Petitions from West Derby ;—and, Garstang 
Union; praying for the amendment of the Poor 
Law Act,—were presented, and read ; and referred 
to the Select Committee on the Poor Law Act. 


Rating of Petitions from the hundred of Hinckford ( Essex) ; | 
Tenements. —Taunton Union ;—counties of Suffolk and Essez ; | 


—and, Saffron Walden Union; praying the House 
to pass a law for rating to the relief of the poor 
the owners of small tenements instead of the occu- 
piers, were presented, and read ; and referred to the 
Select Committee on the Poor Law Act. 


Innkeepers. A Petition of Innkeepers, Publicans and Licensed 


Victuallers of the counties of Cambridge and Essea, | 


praying for the amendment of the laws relating to 
their trade, and for the gradual abolition of Beer- 
houses, was presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


Lord’s Day Bill. Petitions from Loughor ;— Pontefract ;—Teachers | 


connected with the Worcester Sunday School Union; 
— Ramsgate ;— Alfold;—Sheerness, and other places; 
— All Saints, Liverpoel ;—Salisbury ;— Oldbury ;— 
and, Dudley; praying that the Lord’s Day Bill 





A. 1837. 


Thomey for a riot at the last election for the district 
of Conception Bay, or that He will order their im- 
mediate liberation, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Minister, Elders and Members Belfast and 
of the Presbyterian congregation of Hollywood, ang A 
praying that a Clause may be inserted in the Belfast ““""*) Bill 
an Hollywood Railway Bill to prevent the transit 
of goods and passengers on the said Railway on 
‘the Lord’s Day, was presented, and read; and 
referred to the Committee on the Bill. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of the manor of Kilcrea, Manor Courts 
praying the House to adopt measures for rendering ('eland.) 
Manor Courts in Jreland more extensively useful, 
was presented, and read ; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Manor Courts (Jreland.) 


Petitions from Kilberry;—and Athy; praying Education 
that the present system of National Education in ‘!elend.) 
Lreland may not be persisted in,—were presented, 
and read; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Plan of Education (Jreland.) 





Petitions from Kilberry ;—and, Athy; praying Maynooth 
‘that no further grant of public money may be made ©" 
'to the Roman Catholic College of Maynooth,— 

| were presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 

‘the Table. 

| Petitions from Gormanstown ;— Kilcullen ;—_Dun- Government 
| ferth and Carberry ;—Gorey ;— Castiedermot ;— of Ireland, 
| IVaas ;— Milena and Kilnemanagh ;—Clone ;—and, 

| Kilfenaghty ; praying the House to wap His 

| Majesty’s Ministers in their Government of Ireland, 

| —were presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 

| the Table. 

| Petitions from Carberry ; — Ballyhuskard and Tithes 

| Killish;—Crookestown ;—and, Saint James, Dublin ; (e!04.) 
_praying for the abolition of Tithes in Ireland,— 

| were presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 

the Table. 


| 
| A Petition of Members of the Presbyterian con- Poor Relief 

gregation of Moneyrea, praying that the Poor Re- (Ireland) Bill 
lief (Ireland) Bill may pass into a law, was presented, 


| and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Crookestown, pray- Municipal 
ing that the Municipal Corporations (Jreland) Bill, Circtond) Bill 
| may pass into a law, was presented, and read ; and ‘ 


_ ordered to lie upon the Table. 


| A Petition of Feuars and Inhabitants of Zoch- Berghe of 
| gilphead and the port of Ardrissaig, praying that 227"Y ., .,. 
| those places may Lae be included - the Schedule ait: 
of the Burghs of Barony (Scotland) Bill, was pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
A Petition of Merchants, Manufacturers, Feuars 
‘and Inhabitants of Portsoy, praying that the said 
| Bill may pass into a law, was also presented, and 
‘read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the General Assembly of the Church Registration of 
of Scotland, praying that the Registration of merry wed 
Births, &amp;c.; and, Clandestine Marriages (Scotland) tine Marriages 
Bills may not pass into law, was presented, and a 


ordered to lie upon the Table. 


may be permitted to go into a Committee of the | 


whole House,—were = and read; and or- | 


dered to lie upon the Table. 

Newfoundland. A Petition of Inhabitants of Carbonear, in Con- 
ception Bay, in the Island of Newfoundland, praying 
the House to intercede with His Majesty, either to 
cancel the judgment of the Supreme Court of that 
Island, whereby sentence of imprisonment was passed 
on William Harding, William Saunders and Roger 


A Petition of Merchants, Bankers and other In- Postage Duties 
habitants of London, praying that a uniform and 
low rate of Postage may be established instead of 
the present varying and high rate ; that such rate 
'be henceforth one penny (paid in advance) for every 
letter or packet of letters under half an ounce in 
weight, with an additional penny for each additional 
half ounce, to any convenient amount ; and that 
advantage may be taken of the facilities which exist 
(particularly 





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Uniformity of 
Process Bill. 


Hops. 


Brewers, 
Victuallers, &amp;c. 


Malt, 


London 
National 
Cemetery Bill. 


Vote by Ballot. 


Small Debts, 


Message from 
the Lords. 


Darlaston 
and Shelton 
Roads Bill. 


7 Wit. IV. 


(particularly as respects large towns) for the more 
frequent transmission of the Mails than once in 
twenty-four hours, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Corporation of Deal, praying 
that the Uniformity of Pesiedia Bill may not pass 
into a law, was presented, and read ; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Accounts of the Total Number of Acres of Land 
in Great Britain, under the Cultivation of Hops, 
in the year 1836; distinguishing the Number of 
Acres in each Parish :--Of the Duty on Hops of the 
growth of the year 1836; distinguishing the Dis- 
tricts, and the old from the new Duty :—Of the 
Quantity of Hops exported from Great Britain to 
foreign Countries, from 5th January 1836 to 5th 
January 1837; distinguishing the Countries to 
which the same have been exported, and also the 
Quantities to each Country; also, British from 
Foreign growths, and the Dates of the years in 
which the British Hops were grown :—And, of the 
Quantity of Foreign - imported into the United 
Kingdom from 5th January 1836 to 5th January 
1887; distinguishing the Ports where imported, 
and the Countries from whence exported. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
an Account of the Number of Persons in each of 
the several Collections in the United Kingdom 
licensed as “ Brewers,” “ Victuallers,” “ to sell 
Beer to be drunk on the Premises,” and ‘to sell 
Beer not to be drunk on the Premises ;” stating the 
Number of each Class who brew their own Beer, 
and the Quantity of Malt consumed by them; par- 
ticularizing each Class in each Collection, from 5th 
January 1836 to 5th January 1837. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
an Account of the Total Number of Quarters of 
Malt made between the 5th January 1836 and 5th 
January 1837, in the United Kingdom ; distinguish- 
ing the Quantity made in each Country, and the 
Quantity used by Brewers and Victuallers, and Re- 
tail Brewers. 


A Petition of Directors of the Poor of the Parish 
of Saint Pancras, praying that they may be heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, against cer- 
tain parts of the London National Cemetery Bill, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Crookestown, pray- 
ing the House to pass an Act for a the Votes 
at Elections for Members to serve in Parliament, 
by Ballot, was presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Corporation of Saffron Walden, 
praying that in any alteration the House may think 
proper to make in the law for the regulating Muni- 
cipal Corporations, the powers of Courts for the 
Recovery of Small Debts, may be extended over the 
Poor Law Unions in which the Boroughsare situated, 
or to such given distances as may be deemed proper, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 


the Table. 


A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Wingfield and 

Mr. Roupell : 
Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill intituled, 
An Act for more effectually improving the several 
Roads from Newcastle-under-Lyme to Darlaston 
Bridge, Butt-lane, and Linley-lane, and through 
Trent Vale and Stoke-upon- Trent to Shelton Wharf, 
all in the county of Stafford, without any Amend- 
ment: And also, 

Vou, 92. 


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417 


The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Farr’s Estate 
to enable Edward Farr, and others, to effect a sale Bill. 


to Walter Wilkins, Esquire, of a Messuage and 
Lands situate in the Parish of Glasbury, in the 
County of Radnor, to which the Lords desire the 
concurrence of this House: And also, 


The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Cearns’ Estate 


for vesting 
wall, in the at of Lancaster, belonging to Ed- 
ward Paton Cearns, an Infant, in Trustees for Sale, 
and for investing the Monies thence arising in the 
Purchase of other Estates to be conveyed to the 
Infant, to which the Lords desire the concurrence 
of this House: And also, 


a piece of Land in the Parish of Child- Bil. 


The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Nairne’s 
Act to vest a part of the entailed Estate of Drum- Estate Bill. 


kilbo, and others, in the Counties of Perth and 
Forfar, in Trustees in fee simple, for the Sale, and 
to raise Money thereon for satisfying the Debts 
contracted for Sines laid out, or to be laid out, in 
the Improvement of the said entailed Estate, and in 
building a Mansion House thereon, and to enable 
David Nairne, Esquire, and the Heirs of Entail 
succeeding to him, if there be such, to grant feus of 
part of the said Estate of Drumkilbo, and others, 
to which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House :—And then the Messengers withdrew. 


The Order of the day being read for taking into London and 


further consideration the Special Report from the 
Committee on the London and Brighton Railway 
Bills :—The House proceeded to take the said Re- 
port into further consideration. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question being 
proposed, That this House doth agree with the 
Committee in their said Report, and that the Bill 
for the direct line be sent back to the Committee 
to have the Land-owners heard, and Clauses settled ; 
and that the Committee do meet on Thursday 
next: 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That,” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words, “ an humble Address be presented to His 
“ Majesty, praying that His Majesty will be gra- 
ciously pleased to refer to some Military Engineer 
the Statements of engineering particulars fur- 
nished by the several engineers in support of the 
several Lines of Brighton Railway, now under 
the consideration of this House, together with the 
several Plans and Sections, and the Evidence on 
such particulars taken before the Committee, in 
order that such Engineer may give his opinion 
on the merits of the respective Lines, in an engi- 
neering point of view, and which of such Lines 
is in whole or in part most fit to be adopted ; and 
that His Majesty will also be graciously pleased 
to cause such opinion to be laid before this House.” 
instead thereof: 

And the Question being put, That the words pro- 
posed to be left out stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 


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Tellers for the Noes,) Lord George Lennox: } 164, 


So it passed in the Negative. 
And the Question being put, That the words, 
an humble Address be presented to His Majesty, 
praying that His Majesty will be graciously 
leased to refer to some Military Engineer the 
tatements of engineering particulars furnished 
by the several Engineers in support of the several 
“ Lines of Brighton Railway, now under the con- 
“« sideration of this House, together with the several 
‘‘ Plans and Sections, and the Evidence on such 
“ particulars taken before the Committee, in order 
“ that such Engjneer may give his opinion on the 


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“ merits of the respective Lines, in an engineering 
“ point of view, and which of such Lines is in whole 
“ or in part most fit to be adopted; and that His 
“ Majesty will also be graciously pleased to cause 
““ such opinion to be laid before this House,” be 
added instead thereof:—It was resolved in the 
Affirmative. 
Then the main Question, so amended, being put, 
Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to His Majesty, praying that His Majesty will be 
graciously pleased to refer to some Military Engi- 
neer the statements of engineering particulars fur- 
nished by the several Engineers in support of the 
several Lines of Brighton Railway, now under the 
consideration of this House, together with the several 
Plans and Sections, and the Evidence on such 
particulars taken before the Committee, in order 
that such Engineer may give his opinion on the 
merits of the respective Lines, in an engineering 
point of view, and which of such Lines is in whole 
or in part most fit to be adopted ; and that His Ma- 
jesty will also be graciously pleased to cause such 
opinion to be laid before this * ten 
Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 
Castle Eden The House proceeded to take into further con- 
and Merrington sideration the Report which upon the 9th day of this 
(Clarence and . : 
Hartlepool | instant May was made from the Committee on the 
Junction) Castle Eden and Merrington (Clarence and Hartle- 
Railway Bill. pool Junction) Railway Bil ; printed Copies of the 
Bill having been delivered at the door upon Friday 
last; and the Amendments were read, and agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed. 


Manchesterand The House proceeded to take into further con- 
wo sideration the Report which upon the 22d day of 
away this instant May was made from the Committee on 
the Manchester and Birmingham Railway Bill ; 
printed Copies of the Bill having been delivered at 
the door upon Friday last; and the Amendments 

were read, and agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 

be ingrossed. 


Glasgow Writ. |The Order of the day being read, for the attend- 
ance of the Messenger of the Crown Office, who 
conveyed the Glasgow Writ on Wednesday, the 17th 
day of this instant May; and of the Postmaster 
General or his Deputy, who signed the receipt for 
the same ; 

And the House being informed, that William 
Spell, the Messenger to the Great Seal, who con- 
veyed the said Writ to the Post Office; and John 
Rood, the clerk in waiting who signed the receipt for 
the same, attended at the door, they were called in; 
and at the bar examined in relation to the forwarding 
of the said Writ by Express :—And then they were 
directed to withdraw. 

And Mr. Edward John Stanley, being heard in 
his place in respect to the transmission of the said 
Writ, delivered in a letter addressed by him to 
Lieutenant-Colonel Maberly, dated 17th May 1837, 
which was read as followeth ; 


Dear Maberly, Treasury, 17th May 1837. 
It is of the greatest consequence that the Writ 
for Glasgow should go by to night’s post, so that if 
it should not arrive in time for the Glasgow Mail, 
1 should wish it, if possible, to be forwarded by Ex- 
press to night, and directed to the Sheriff of Zanark- 
shire, at Glasgow. The delay has been occasioned 
by the Chancellor being at Wimbledon; but I be- 
lieve the Writ will be back in time, or soon after. 
Yours ever, 
(signed) £. J. Stanley. 
Lieut. Col. Maberly, &amp;c., &amp;c., &amp;e. 


Ordered, That William Spell and John Rood, be dis- 
charged from any further attendance on this House. 











A. 1837. 


The House was moved, That the Resolutions Publication of 
(being paragraphs 77, 78 and 79 of the Report) Printed Papers 
which, upon the 8th day of this instant May, were 
reported from the Select Committee appointed to 
examine Precedents with respect to the circulation 
and publication of Reports and Papers printed by 
Order of this House, and to ascertain the law and 
practice of Parliament prior to and since the Order 
for the Sale of such Papers, might be read; and 
the same were read, as follow: 

“ That the power of publishing such of its Re- 
ports, Votes and Proceedings as it shall deem neces- 
sary or conducive to the public interests, is an 
essential incident to the constitutional functions of 
Parliament, more especially of this House, as the 
representative portion of it. 

“That by the law and privilege of Parliament, 
this House has the sole and exclusive jurisdiction to 
determine upon the existence and extent of its pri- 
vileges, and that the institution or prosecution of 
any action, suit or other proceeding, for the purpose 
of bringing them into discussion or decision before 
any court or tribunal elsewhere than in Parliament, 
is a high breach of such Privilege, and renders all 
parties concerned therein amenable to its just dis- 
pleasure, and to the punishment consequent thereon. 

“That for any court or tribunal to assume to de- 
cide upon matters of Privilege inconsistent with the 
determination of either House of Parliament thereon, 
is contrary to the law of Parliament, and is a breach 
and contempt of the Privileges of Parliament.” 

And a Motion being made, and the Question being 
proposed, That the said Resolutions be now read a 
second time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” to 
the end of the Question, in order to add the words 
“‘ the Privileges claimed by this House from the 
King at the opening of each Parliament, and 
granted by the King, and also the other Privi- 
leges pertaining to this House, which have been 
recognized by the Courts of Law within this Realm 
(the same being Privileges for maintaining the 
freedom of Debate within this House, and the 
security of the persons of Members thereof from 
arbitrary violence, and from all arrest except by 
Courts of Law for contempt or in execution of 
criminal process) are pr ym Fascia to the 
existence and integrity of this House, as a body 
summoned to counsel the King touching the ar- 
duous affairs of Church and State; and that any 
person offending against such privileges is guilty 
of a violation of the Law of Parliament. 

“‘ That the right to punish persons guilty of such 
offence, whether such offence were by interrupting 
the freedom of debate within the a either 
by direct violence or by threats to any Member 
thereof, or by publishing any libel against the 
proceedings of this House, or were by contempt 
of the House before it, or were by arrest of any 
Member thereof, other than in execution of law- 
ful process as aforesaid, hath been repeatedly 
claimed and enforced by the authority of this 
House, and that no other authority hath or ought 
to have any jurisdiction whatever in limiting the 
exercise of the powers of this House, in punishing 
“ all persons so offending.” 

“ That, although this House hath occasionally 
addressed the King, to direct His Majesty's At- 
torney General to prosecute offenders for publish- 
ing libels against the proceedings of this House, 
yet that this House hath likewise an undoubted 
right to inquire into all libels against its gon d 
or proceedings, and to punish the same accord- 
ingly as breaches of its Privileges. ; 

“ That no Member of this House hath any claim 
of Privilege in respect to the publication of any 
matter or thing purporting to be his Speech, which, 
by due course of law, may be found to be a libel; 
and that this House hath never interfered, and 

“ ought 





Witt. IV. 


ought not to interfere, in any legal proceedings 
instituted thereon. 

“ That this House doth not claim any right, and 
that no other body of His Majesty’s subjects 
hath any right, to publish any matter or thing 
which by law would be adjudged to be a libel if 
contained in an unauthorized publication, or to do 
any thing which by law would be adjudged to be 
a trespass, or any personal injury. 

“ That the printing of Papers presented to this 
House, whether the same be Accounts, Reports 
or otherwise, is, and ought to be, for the use of 
Members of this House, and as such, ought to 
be Publication Privileged; but that any sale or 
dispersal of such Papers to any but to Mendis 
of this House, is, and ought to be, Publication 
Not Privileged. 

“« That while this House will resent and resist 
every attempt on the part of others to libel its 
proceedings, it doth not claim, and ought not to 
claim, any exemption on the part of its Speaker, 
or of any of its Officers, from any legal liability 
to which its proceedings may be subject; and 
that any Publication which would be a libel against 
an individual if proceeding from another indi- 
vidual, is a libel, if published by this House, any 
claim of Privilege notwithstanding, except as 
aforesaid ; and that any act which would be ad- 
judged by law to be a trespass or personal injury, 
if committed by an individual, is a trespass or 

ersonal injury, if committed by Order of this 

ouse, any claim of Privilege notwithstanding, 
“ except as aforesaid,” instead thereof. 


And the Question being proposed, That the 
words proposed to be left out stand part of the 
Question ; 


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And the House having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Wednesday morning ; 


Mercurii, 31° die Maiti, 1837: 


The said proposed Amendment was, with leave of 
the House, withdrawn. 

Ordered, That the said Resolutions be now read 
a second time. 

The first Resolution was accordingly read a 
second time, and agreed to, as followeth : 

Resolved, That the power of publishing such of 
its Reports, Votes and Proceedings as it shall deem 
necessary or conducive to the public interests, is an 
essential incident to the constitutional functions of 
Parliament, more especially of this House, as the 
representative portion of it. 

The second Resolution being read a second time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made there- 
unto, by leaving out from the word “ That” to the 
end of the Resolution, in order to add the words 
“ the Privileges claimed by this House from the 
King at the opening of each Parliament, and 
granted by the King, and also the other Privi- 
leges pertaining to this House, which have been 
recognized by the Courts of Law within this 
Realm (the same being Privileges for maintaining 
the freedom of Debate within this House, and 
the security of the persons of Members thereof 
from arbitrary violence, and from all arrest except 
by Courts of Law for contempt, or in execution 
of criminal process) are essentially necessary to 
the existence and integrity of this House, as a 
body summoned to counsel the King touching 
the arduous affairs of Church and State; and 
that any person offending against such privileges 
is guilty of a violation of the Law of Parlia- 
ment. 

“ That the right to punish’ persons guilty of 
such offence, whether such offence were by inter- 
rupting the freedom of debate within the House, 
either by direct violence, or by threats to any 
Member thereof, or by publishing any libel against 
the proceedings of this House, or were by con- 

Vox, 92. 


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419 


tempt of the House before it, or were by arrest 
of any Member thereof, other than in execution 
of lawful process as aforesaid, hath been re- 
peatedly claimed and enforced by the authorit 
of this Dian and that no other authority hat 
or ought to have any jurisdiction whatever in 
limiting the exercise of the powers of this House, 
in punishing all persons so ating. 

“ That, although this House hath occasionally 
addressed the King to direct His Majesty’s At- 
torney General to prosecute offenders for publish- 
ing libels against the proceedings of this House, 
yet that this House hath likewise an undoubted 
right to inquire into all libels against its authorit 
or proceedings, and to punish the same accord- 
ingly as breaches of its Privileges. 

“ That no Member of this House hath any claim 
of Privilege in respect to the publication of any 
matter or thing purporting to be his Speech, 
which, by due course of law, may be found to be 
a libel; und that this House hath never interfered, 
and ought not to interfere, in any legal proceed- 
ings instituted thereon. 

“ That this House doth not claim any right, and 
that no other body of His Majesty’s subjects hath 
any right to publish any matter or thing which 
by law would be adjudged to be a libel if con- 
tained in an unauthorized publication, or to do 
any thing which by law would be adjudged to be 
a trespass, or any personal injury. 

“ That the printing of Papers presented to this 
House, whether the same be Accounts, Reports 
or otherwise, is, and ought to be, for the use of 
Members of this House, and as such, ought to be 
Publication Privileged ; but that any sale or dis- 
persal of such Papers to any but to Members of 
this House, is, and ought to be, Publication Not 
Privileged. 

“ That while this House will resent and resist 
every attempt on the part of others to libel its 
proceedings, it doth not claim, and ought not to 
claim, any exemption on the part of its Speaker, 
or of any of its Officers, from any legal liability to 
which its proceedings may be subject; and that 
we Publication which would be a libel against an 
individual if proceeding from another individual, 
is a libel, if published by this House, any claim of 
Privilege notwithstanding, except as aforesaid ; 
and that any act which would be adjudged by 
law to be a trespass or personal injury, if com- 
mitted by an individual, is a trespass or personal 
injury, if committed by Order of this House, any 


“ 


claim of Privilege notwithstanding, except as 
aforesaid,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the said Reso- 
lution ; 

The House divided: 

The Yeas to the old Lobby ; 

The Noes to the new Lobby. 

Tellers for the ¢ Sir George Grey, lice 

Yeas, Mr. Solicitor General : Py ca 
Tellers for the f Sir Robert Inglis, } 36 
Noes, Mr. Thomas Duncombe : ‘ 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Resolved, That by the law and privilege of Parlia- 
ment, this House has the sole and exclusive jurisdic- 
tion to determine upon the existence and extent of 
its privileges, and that the institution or prosecution 
of any action, suit or other proceeding, for the pur- 
pose of bringing them into discussion or decision 
before any court or tribunal elsewhere than in Par- 
liament, is a high breach of such privilege, and ren- 
ders all parties concerned therein amenable to its 
just displeasure, and to the punishment consequent 
thereon. 

The third Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to, as followeth: 

Resolved, That for any court or tribunal to assume 
to decide upon matters of Privilege inconsistent 
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420 


with the determination of either House of Parlia- 
ment thereon, is contrary to the law of Parliament, 
and is a breach and contempt of the Privileges of 


Parliament. 
Borough Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
Bopndaries to settle the Boundaries and Wards of certain Cities 
‘ and Boroughs in England and Wales: And that 
Mr. Vernon Smith, Lord John Russell, Mr. Attorney 
General, and Mr. Shaw Lefevre, do prepare, and 
bring it in. 
Durham Resolved, That an humble Address be presented to 
Chapels. 


His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased to 
give directions that there be laid before this House, 
a Return of the Number of Parishes in the County of 
Durham having Chapels of Ease annexed, specify- 
ing the Number in each Parish, the Period of their 
several erections, and the nature and extent of their 
Endowments. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this a as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 
Bankrupts Bill. Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to amend the Laws relating to Bankrupts: And that 
Mr. Solicitor General and Mr. Attorney General do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


Coroners’ 
Inquests’ 
Expenses Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Coroners’ Aeon Ft Expenses Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Registration 
and Marriages 
Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
further consideration the Report on the Registration 
and Marriages Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Friday next. 


Punishment of 


Mr. Bernal reported the Punishment of Death 
Death Bill. 


Bill; and the Bill was re-committed to a Committee 


30°—31° Maiz. 





No. 340. of the whole House:—The House immediately re- 
solved itself into the said Committee; und, after 
some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the 
Chair; and Mr. Bernal reported, That the Com- 
mittee had gone through the Bill, and made Amend- 
ments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Bernal reported the Bill accordingly; and 
the Report was ordered to be taken into further 
consideration upon Monday, the 12th day of June 
next ; and the Bill, as amended, to be printed. 


Offences against The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
the Person Bill. into a Committee upon the Offences against the Per- 
No. 341. son Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal re- 

— That the Committee had gone through the 

ill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Bernal reported the Bill accordingly ; and 
the Report was ordered to be taken into further con- 
sideration upon Monday the 12th day of June next; 
and the Bill, as amended, to be printed. 


Robbery and 
Stealing from 
the Person Bill. 


No. 342, 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee upon the Robbery and Stealing 
from the Person Bill; and, after some time spent 
therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. 
Bernal reported, That the Committee had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Bernal reported the Bill accordingly; and 
the Report was ordered to be taken into further con- 
sideration upon Monday, the 12th day of June next; 
and the Bill, as amended, to be printed. 


Burglary, and 
Stealing in a 
Dwelling-house 


_ The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee upon the Burglary, and Stealing 


Bill. in a Dwelling-house Bill; and, after some time 
No. 343. 


spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and 


A. 1837. 


Mr. Bernal reported, That the Committee had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments there- 
unto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Bernal reported the Bill accordingly; and 
the Report was ordered to be taken into further con- 
sideration upon Monday, the 12th day of June next; 
and the Bill, as amended, to be printed. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Piracy Bill. 
into a Committee upon the Piracy Bill; and, after No. 344 
some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the 

Chair; and Mr. Bernal reported, That the Com- 

mittee had gone through the Bill, and made Amend- 

ments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Bernal reported the Bill accordingly; and 

the Report was ordered to be taken into further con- 
sideration upon Monday, the 12th day of June next; 

and the Bill, as amended, to be printed. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Buruing or 
into the Committee upon the Burning or Destroying ae 4 
Buildings and Ships Bill; and, after some time ships Bil, 
spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and jy, 345. 
Mr. Bernal reported, That the Committee had gone 

through the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Bernal reported the Bill accordingly ; and 

the Report was ordered to be taken into further con- 
sideration upon Monday, the 12th day of June next; 

and the Bill, as amended, to be printed. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Transportation 
into a Committee upon the Transportation for Life ‘ bie Bill 
Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker No. 346. 
resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Bernal reported, That 
the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Bernal reported the Bill accordingly ; and 
the Report was ordered to be taken into further con- 
sideration upon Monday, the 12th day of June next; 
and the Bill, as amended, to be printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Pillory 
mittee on the Pillory Punishment Abolition Bill ; Ponishuent 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, 4°" ® 

resolve itseif into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Wills Bill. 
mittee on the Wills Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, wpon Friday next, 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Secular Jurisdiction (York and Ely) Bill Secular Juris- 

: . diction (York 

was, according to Order, read a second time ; and 5.4 gly) Bill 
committed to a Committee of the whole House, for 


Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Forgery Bill. 
further consideration the Report on the Forgery No. 347. 
Bill :—The Bill was re-committed to a Committee 
of the whole House :—The House immediately re- 
solved itself into the said Committee ; and, after 
some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the 
Chair; and Mr. Bernal reported, That the Com- 
mittee had gone through the Bill, and made Amend- 
ments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Bernal reported the Bill accordingly ; and 
the Report was ordered to be taken into further 
consideration upon Monday, the 12th ‘day of June 
next; and the Bill, as amended, to be printed. 


The ingrossed Bill for raising a sum of Money by Exchequer Bills 
Exchequer Bills, for the service of the year One . wees 


° il! 
thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, was, ac- 





 ] 


cording to Order, read the third time. 
Resolved, 





| a ha ot 





Monies in the 
Exchequer Bill. 


Haileybury 
College Bill. 


East India 
Officers’ Salaries 
Bill. 


Supp! 


| 
(7th April.) 


Borough 
Boundaries Bill. 


No. 348. 


Bankrupts Bill. 
No. 349. 


Glossop 


Reservoirs Bill. 


Edinburgh 
Water Bill. 


Emigration 
(Australia.) 


Farr’s Estate 
Bill. 

Cearns’ Estate 
Bill, 


Nairne’s 


Estate Bill, 


Public 
Petitions, 





7 Wii. LV. 30°—31° Maz 


Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act for raising the sum of Eleven Mil- 
lions by Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the year 
One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee upon the Monies in the Exchequer 
Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal reported, That 
the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the third 
reading of the Haileybury College Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the third 
reading of the East India Officers’ Salaries Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for receiving 
the Report from the Committee of Supply ; 
Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 


Mr. Vernon Smith presented a Bill to settle the 
Boundaries and Wards of certain Cities and Boroughs 
in England and Wales: And the same was read the 
first time; and ordered to be read a second time 
upon Monday next; and to be printed. 

Mr. Solicitor General presented a Bill to amend 
the Laws relating to Padkinpte: And the same was 


read the first time ; and ordered to be read a second 
time upon Monday next; and to be printed. 


Mr. Gisborne reported from the Committee on the 
Glossop Reservoirs Bill; and to whom a Petition 
against the sdid Bill was referred ; That the Stand- 
ing Orders relative to Bills for making Reservoirs, 
had been complied with; and that they had heard 
counsel in support of the said Petition; and had 
examined the allegations of the Bill, and found the 
same to be true; and had gone through the Bill, 
and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie on the Table. 


Mr. Chalmers presented a Bill for amending the 
Acts for supplying the City of Edinburgh with Water: 
And the same was read the first time; and ordered 
to be read a second time. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Copies or Extracts of any Correspondence 
between the Secretary of State for the Colonies and 
the Governors of the Australian Colonies respecting 
Emigration, since the Papers presented to this House 
in March 1836. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Farr’s Estate Bill was read the first time ; and 
ordered to be read a second time. 


Cearns’ Estate Bill was read the first time; and 
ordered to be read a second time. 


Nairne’s Estate Bill was read the first time ; and 
ordered to be read a second time. 


Dr. Bowring reported from the Select Committee 
on Public Petitions; That they had examined the 
Petitions presented from the 10th to the 19th day 





2.—1° Junie. 


of this instant May, both inclusive; and had directed 
him to make a Report thereof to the House. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


421 


The Order for reading a second time To-morrow, Custody of 
the Custody of Infants Bill, was read, and dis- Infants Bill. 
charged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Wednesday, the 14th day of June next. 


The Order for reading a second time this day, Municipal 
the Municipal Borough Rates Bill, was read, and a. 
discharged. ae 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 

upon Wednesday, the 14th day of June next. 


Ordered, That the Dowlais Market Bill be read Dowlais 
a second time this day. Market Bill. 


’ And then the House, having continued to sit 
till half an hour after one of the clock on 
Wednesday morning, adjourned till this day. 








Mercurti, 31° die Maii; 
Anno 7° Willielmi IV“ Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


i. House met; and being counted by Mr. Adjournment. 
Speaker, it appeared that Forty Members were 

not present; yet, it being four of the clock, Mr. 

Speaker took the Chair, and again counted the 

ouse ; and Forty Members not being present :— 

The House was adjourned by Mr. Speaker, without 

a Question first put, till To-morrow. 











Jovis, 1° die Juni; 
Anno 7° Willielmi IV“ Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


A N ingrossed Bill for making and maintaining Castle Eden 
a Railway to connect the Great North of - ays 
England, Clarence and Hartlepool Railways, in the aes 


a , Hartlepool 
County of Durham, was read the third time. Junction) — 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. Railway Bill. 


Ordered, That Mr. Harland do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Ordered, That the time for the Committee on the London and 
London and Blackwall Commercial Railway Bill to ene 


make their Report, be enlarged till Monday, the Reiway Bill. 
19th day of this instant June. 


A Petition of Ship-owners and Master Mariners Bridlington 
of Southwold, praying that the Bridlington Harbour 4b" Bil. 
Bill may not pass into a law, was presented, and 

read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The House proceeded to take into further con- Barnsley 
sideration the Report which, upon the 11th day of — 
May last, was made from the Committee on the .° 
Barnsley Waterworks Bill; printed Copies of the 
Bill having been delivered at the door upon Tuesday, 
the 16th day of May last ; 

And the’ House being informed that other Amend- 
ments are necessary to be made to the Bill :—The 
Bill was re-committed to the former Committee. 

Ordered, That the Committee have leave to sit 
and proceed To-morrow. 


Ordered, That the Petition of the Council of Bath Gas Bill. 
Bath, which was presented upon Tuesday last, be 
referred to the Committee on the Bath Gas Bill; 
and the Petitioners heard, by themselves, their 
counsel or agents, upon their Petition, if they think 
fit ; and counsel heard, in favour of the Bill, against 
the said Petition. 





Von. 92. 





3n3 A Petition 


Mersey 
Conservancy 
Bill. 


Standing 
Orders ; 


Manehester 
Gas. 


Ellesmere and 
Chester Canal 
Bill. 


Dublin and 
Kilkenny 
Railway Bill. 


Gorbals Police 
Bill. 


Bridlington 
Harbour Bill. 


422 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Warrington, praying 
that they may be heard, by themselves, their counsel 
or agents, against the Mersey Conservancy Bill, was 
= and read; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 


Sir John Wrottesley reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on Standing Oudisis relative to Private Bills, 
a Resolution, which was read, as followeth ; 

Resolved, That in the case of the Petition for the 
Manchester Gas Bill, the parties be permitted to 
proceed with their Bill on giving notices for three 
successive weeks in some newspaper circulated in 
the County of Lancaster, and on affixing notices on 
the church doors in Manchester for three successive 
Sundays; and that the Committee on the Bill do 
examine in the first place how far such order has 
been complied with, and do report the same to the 
House on the Report of the Bill. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. . 


An ingrossed Bill to amend and enlarge the powers 
of the several Acts relating to the Ellesmere and 
Chester Canal, was read the third time ; and Amend- 
ments were made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Earl of Darlington do carry 
the Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Petitions from Nobility, Gentry, Merchants, 
Traders and other Inhabitants of Wezford ;—and, 
the High Sheriff, Grand Jury, Nobility, Gentry, 
Land Proprietors and Freeholders of the county of 
Carlow ; praying that the Dublin and Kilkenny 
Railway Bill may pass into a law,—were presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 
intituled, An Act to continue for a limited term of 
years the Police Act for the Barony of Gorbals, in 
the County of Lanark, and for other purposes re- 
lating thereto; and the same were read, as follow: 

Pr. 7. 1.22. Leave out “ castle,” and insert 
centre.” 

Pr. 7. 1.33. Leave out “ castle,” and insert 
centre.” 

Pr. 12. 1. 36. After “ Act” insert Clause (A.) 

Cuiause (A.) “ Provided always, and be it fur- 
ther Enacted, That nothing in this Act contained 
shall extend or be construed to extend to take 
away, abridge or diminish any rights or privileges, 
Jurisdictions or powers, which now belong to and 
are enjoyed by the Magistrates and Town Council 
“ of the City of Glasgow, by the Sheriff and Jus- 
“ tices of the Peace, or the Sheriff Clerk or Clerk 
“ of the Peace of the County of Lanark, or by the 
“ Bailies of Gorbals, or by the Bailie on the River 
and Frith of Clyde, in virtue of former Acts of 
Parliament, royal charters or immemorial usages, 
and particularly the rights, privileges, jurisdictions 
and powers which now belong to and are enjoyed 
by the Magistrates and Town Council of the City 
of Glasgow, Baron and Superior of the said 
“ Barony of Gorbals.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Lord William Bentinck do carry 
the ill to the Lords, and acquaint them, that this 
House hath agreed to the Amendments made by 
their Lordships. 


“ 


. 
nn 


- 
~ 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 
pene That the ingrossed Bill for improving the 

iers and Harbour of Bridlington, in the East 
Riding of the County of York, and for rendering 
the same more safe and commodious as a Harbour 
of Refuge, be now read the third time ; 

The Amendments following were proposed to be 
made to the Question ; viz. To leave out the word 





1° Junie. 








on the Belfast Harbour (No. 2.) Bill, which was re- 


A. 1837. 


“ now,” and at the end of the Question, to add the 
words “ upon this day six months.” 
And the Question being put, That the word 
“ now ”’ stand part of the Question ; 
The House divided : 
The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 
The Noes to the old Lobby. 
Tellers forthe f Mr. Bethell, } 12 
Yeas, Mr. George Frederick Young: J ~~ 
Tellers forthe f Mr. Pease, ls 
Noes, Mr. David Barclay: J 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 
Ordered, That the Bill be now read the third 
time :—The Bill was accordingly read the third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That Mr. Bethell do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Ordered, That the time for the Committee on the Bolton 
Bolton and Preston Railway Bill to make their 2nd Preston 
Report, be enlarged till Monday, the 12th day of Balvay Bill 
this instant June. 


oy | 


to 


A Motion being made, That the ingrossed Bill for Manchester and 
making a Railway from Manchester, to join the ae 
Grand Junction Railway, in the Parish of Chebsey, "7 ~™" 
in the County of Stafford, to be called “ The Man- 
chester and Birmingham Railway,” with certain 
Branches therefrom, be now read the third time ; 

Sir John Hobhouse, by His Majesty’s command, 
acquainted the House, That His Majesty, having 
been informed of the purport of the Bill, gives His 
consent as far as His Majesty’s interest is concerned, 
that the House may do therem as they shall think fit. 

Then the Bill was read the third time ; and in- 
grossed Clauses were added, by way of Riders; and 
Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do yum: And that the 
Title be, An Act for making a Railway from Man- 
chester, to join the Grand Junction Railway, in the 
Parish of Chebsey, in the County of Stafford, to be 
called, “The Manchester and Birmingham Railway,” 
with certain Branches therefrom. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bootle Wilbraham do carry 
the Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Ordered, That the time for the Committee on the Collier Dock 
Collier Dock and Surrey Canal Bill to make their abs f 
Report, be enlarged till Monday, the 12th day of this 


instant June. 


Mr. John Mazxwell reported from the Committee Polloc and 
on the Polloc and Govan Railway Bill; and to whom Govan Railway 
a Petition against the said Bill was referred ; That “"* 
the application being solely to continue the powers 
of former Acts, the matters required to be inquired 
into by Committees on Railway Bills did not apply 
to the present Bill; and that the Committee had 
heard counsel in support of the said Petition, and 
had also heard counsel in favour of the Bill, and 
had examined the allegations of the Bill, and found 
the same to be true; and had gone through the Bill, 
and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


A Petition of Owners of property in, and Inha- Ouse Banks 
bitants of, Downham Market, praying that they may P™se Bu 
be heard, by their counsel or agents, against certain 
parts of the Ouse Banks Drainage Bill, was pre- 
sented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by their counsel or agents, upon their Petition, if - 
they think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


Ordered, That the time for the Committee on the acer 
London and Greenwich Railwa 


(No. 2.) Bill to Railway 
make their Report, be enlarged till Monday, the (No. 2.) Bill. 
12th day of this instant June. 


rted from the Committee Belfast Harbour 


Mr. Emerson Tennent re (No. 2.) Bill 


committed 














7 Wit. IV. 


committed in respect to a Clause offered to the House, 
and proposed to be added to the said Bill, respecting 
exemption from toll; That they had considered the 
said Clause, and had disagreed thereto. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


Dundee 
Waterworks 
Bill. 


A Petition of Merchants, Bankers, Flax Spinners, 
Manufacturers, Ship-owners and other Inhabitants 
of Dundee, praying that the Dundee Waterworks 
Bill may not pass into a law, was presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from Thomas Gardyne, Esquire, of Mid- 
dleton, and others, Feuars of the lands of East Links 
of Barry, now called Gardynestown, the property 
of the said Thomas Gardyne;—and, Owners of 
dwelling-houses, shops, warehouses, spinning-mills, 
and other property within the Burgh of Dundee ; 
praying that they may be heard, by themselves, 
their counsel or agents, against certain parts of the 
said Bill,—were also presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be re- 
ferred to the Committee on the Bill; and the Peti- 
tioners heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
upon their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel 
heard in favour of the Bill, against the said Pe- 
titions. 


A Petition of Alexander Campbell, of Bedlay, 
writer in Glasgow, clerk to the trustees of the Glas- 
gow and Redburn Bridge turnpike-road, praying that 
he may be heard, by himself, his counsel or agent, 
against certain parts of the Blochairn Canal Bill, was 
presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by himself, his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, 
if he think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of 
the Bill, against the said Petition. 


NorthMetropo- A Petition of Copyholders of the manor of Hamp- 
9 Cemetery stead, and Inhabitants and Parishioners of the parish 
of Saint John, Hampstead, praying that they may 
be heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
against certain parts of the North Metropolitan 

Cemetery Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to 
the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petition, if they think fit ; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


Petitions from the Commissioners for paving, 
lighting, &amp;c., the parish of Walcot, without the city 
of Bath ;—and, Inhabitants of Weston; praying 
that they may be heard, by their counsel or agents, 
against certain parts of the Bath Gas Bill,—were 
presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be referred 
to the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by their counsel or agents, upon their Peti- 
tions, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in favour 
of the Bill, against the said Petitions. 


Sir Richard Vyvyan reported from the Committee 
on the Bristol Encroachments Bill; and to whom 
a Petition against the said Bill was referred ; That 
they had heard counsel in support of the said Peti- 
tion ; and had examined the allegations of the Bill, 
and found the same to be true; and had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto ; 
and the Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed. 


Blochairn 
Canal Bill. 


Bath Gas Bill. 


Bristol 


Encroacliments 
Bill 


Bristol Court Sir Richard Vyvyan reported from the Committee 
Binmmcience on the Bristol Court of Conscience Bill; That they 
had examined the allegations of the Bill, and found 
the same to be true; and had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto; and the 
Amendments were read, and agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed. 


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1° Junie. 


423 


A Petition of Inhabitants and Parishioners of the North Metropo- 
| Parish of Saint John, Hampstead, and of the several ay Cemetery 
sre adjoining the same, praying that the North" 
etropolitan Cemetery Bill may pass into a law, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 


the Table. 


A Petition of the Chairman and others of a Pro- London and 
visional Committee of a Company formed for the Brighton 
: ; ailway Bill 
purpose of constructing a Railway (without a tun- (Mills’s Line.) 
nel), from London to Brighton, praying the House 
to refer the examination of the Maps, Plans and 
Sections of the Petitioners’ line, as deposited in the 
Private Bill Office of this House, to the Military 
Engineer to whom the Plans and Sections of the 
other lines of Railway have been referred, and that 
the Petitioners’ engineer may be permitted to accom- 
pany the same with a statement with respect to his 
ine, similar to those furnished by the other engi- 
neers; and that the Military Engineer may be di- 
rected to report upon the Petitioners’ line, as upon 
all the others submitted to his examination, was 
1 ga and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
able. 


Ordered, That the Petition be printed. 


Mr. Fazakerley reported from the Select Com- twelfth Report 
mittee appointed to inquire into the Administration on Poor Law 
of the Relief of the Poor under the orders and re- 4“ 
gulations issued by the Commissioners appointed No.350. 
under the provisions of the Poor Law Amendment 
Act, and who were empowered to report the Evi- 
dence taken before them from time to time to the 
House ; That they had made further Progress in the 
matters to them referred ; and had directed him to re- 
port the Minutes of the Evidence taken before them. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Mr. Shaw Lefevre reported from the Select Com- Standing 
mittee appointed to consider the Standing Orders on }rders 
Private Bills; and who were empowered to report 
from time to time to the House ; and who were in- No. 367. 
structed, in the first place, to take into their considera- 
tion the Standing Orders relative to the Section of 
Railways, and to report to the House whether any and 
what measures may be proper to enforce the observ- 
ance of the same ; That they had made Progress in 
the matters to them referred ; and had directed him 
to make a Report thereof to the House; together 
with the Minutes of the Evidence taken before them. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; 
and be printed. 


Ordered, That all Petitions presented during the Prisons 
present Session in favour of and against the Prisons (Scotland) Bill. 
(Scotland) Bill, be referred to the Select Committee 
on the Bill. 


A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Wingfield Message from 

and Mr. Roupell: the Lords. 
Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords have agreed to the several Bills follow- 
ing, without Amendment ; viz. 

A Bill, intituled, An Act to indemnify such Per- Indemnity Bilt, 
sons in the United Kingdom as have omitted to 
qualify themselves for Offices and Employments, 
and for extending the time limited for those pur- 
poses respectively until the Twenty-fifth day of 
March one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, 
and for the relief of Clerks to Attornies and Solici- 
tors, in certain cases : 

A Bill, intituled, An Act to discharge His Ma- Newark 
jesty’s Manor and Demesne Lands at Newark, in state Bill. 
the County of Nottingham, from any Costs of re- 
building or repairing Zrent and Markham Bridges, 
and to charge the same on the other Hereditary Re- 
venues of the Crown: 

A Bill, intituled, An Act for building a Bridge Mertoun 
over the River Tweed, at or near to Mertoun Mill, ®ridgc Bill. 
in the County of Berwick, and for making Avenues 
and Approaches thereto : 

A Bill, 











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A. 1837. 


That the Petitioners are desirous of the instructions 
of the House in the matter of the said threatened 
process against them; and praying the instructions 
of the House in the matter of this their Petition, and 
as to the course they should pursue in resisting or 
defending any action or suit by the said Thomas 
Green. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be taken into con- 
sideration upon Tuesday next. 

Ordered, That the Petition be printed. 


A Petition of James Hansard and Luke Graves 
Hansard, Printers to the House, was presented, and 
read ; setting forth, That the Petitioners communi- 
cated to the House on the 6th day of February last, 
the legal proceedings of John Joseph Stockdale 
against them for the publication of certain Par- 
liamentary Papers and Reports ; that the Petitioners 
have subsequently been served with legal process 
in the Court of King’s Bench at the suit of the 
said John Joseph Stockdale, in a second action for 
damages in libel, and that the said plaintiff is suing 
in forma pauperis ; that, on the 30th ultimo, the Pe- 
titioners, through their attornies, were served with a 
declaration in such action; that the cause of action 
is the publication of papers of the House; that the 
Petitioners beg leave respectfully to apprise the 
House of the proceedings of the said John Joseph 
Stockdale, and to append to this their Petition a 
Copy of the said Declaration of the Plaintiff; and 

raying the instructions of the House in the matter 
of this their Petition, and as to the course they 
should pursue in resisting or defending the said 
action. 

(Copy Declaration.) 
In the King’s Bench.—-Tuesday, the thirtieth day 





Waterford A Bill, intituled, An Act for the uniform Valua- 
ag Rates tion of Lands and Tenements in the County of 
- Waterford, in Ireland, for the purpose of levying 
the County Rates therein: And also, 
Municipal The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
Corporations Act for the regulation of Municipal Corporations in 
™ England and Wales, with Amendments ; to which 
Amendments the Lords desire the concurrence of 
this House: And also, 
Dean and The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
a of for vesting an Estate arpa, | to the Dean and 
— Chapter of the Cathedral and Metropolitan Church 
of Saint Peter, in York, in Trustees for Sale, and 
for laying out the Monies arising from such Sales in 
the purchase of other Estates, to be settled to the 
same uses, subject nevertheless to making compen- 
sation to the Dean and Chapter for the time being, for 
certain Fines payable on renewal of the Leases of the 
said first-mentioned Estate, and also for payment of 
certain Debts due on account of the said Cathedral 
Church ; to which the Lords desire the concurrence 
of this House: And also, 
Rayley’s The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
Estute Bill. to enable Richard Rayley, Esquire, to grant Leases 
of the Messuages, Lands and Hereditaments ap- 
ointed or devised by the Will of Richard Rayley, 
Saasin, his late Father, deceased, and for selling 
certain of the said Messuages, Lands and Heredita- 
ments, and laying out the Monies to be produced 
by such Sales in the purchase of other Estates, to 
be settled to the same uses; to which the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House :—And then 
the Messengers withdrew. 
Municipal Ordered, That the Municipal Corporations Bill, 
peyPorations as amended by the Lords, be printed. 
No. 366. 


A Petition of John Bowyer Nichols and John 
Gough Nichols, Printers to the House, was presented, 
and read ; setting forth, That by an Order of the 
House, Mercurii, 1° die Februarii, 1837, the Peti- 
tioners were appointed to print the Votes and Pro- 
ceedings of the House; that the Petitioner, John 
Bowyer Nichols hath been for upwards of thirty years 
Printer of the Votes and Proceedings of the House, 
and that during that period to the present time no 
legal proceedings have been commenced against 
him, or the said John Gough Nichols, in respect 
of any printed documents or publications of the 
House; that by an Order of the House, Martis, 
14° die Martii, 1837, the Petitioners were directed 
to print, and did print, a certain Petition to the House 
of the Westminster Bridge, Deptford and Greenwich 
Railway Company, denying diddinns in the Peti- 
tions of Thomas Green; that the Petitioners have 
received the following Letter from Thomas Lord, 
whom the Petitioners believe to be a practising At- 
torney in the Courts of Westminster, threatening 
legal proceedings against the Petitioners in respect 
of the publication of the said Petition. 


Printed Papers. 


13, Northumberland-street Charing Cross, 
Sir, 31 May 1837. 

Painful as it may be (considering the discussion 
which is now going on in the House of Commons 
with reference to the protection of persons printing 
for the House of Commons), still | am compelled 
professionally to state, that I am instructed by Mr. 
Green to take proceedings against you for a gross 
libel upon his character, in your having been the 
Printer of a certain Petition which appears in the 
Votes of the 14th of March last. 

I have no other alternative than to request the 
name of your Solicitor, to whom the process may be 
sent for his undertaking to appear. 

I am, Sir, Yours, very obediently, 

To Mr. Nichols, Thomas Lord, 
Printer to the Honourable Parliamentary Solicitor. 

The House of Commons. 





of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight 
hundred and thirty-seven. 

Middlesex to wit.—John Joseph Stockdale, the 
plaintiff in this suit, in his own proper person, com- 
plains of James Hansard, Luke Graves Hansard, 
Luke James Hansard and Luke Henry Hansard, the 
defendants in this suit, who have been summoned 
to answer the said John Joseph Stockdale, in an 
action on the case. For that whereas before and at 
the time of committing the grievance next herein- 
after complained of, the said plaintiff was, and for 
a long time had been, a bookseller and publisher of 
books, and as such bookseller and publisher of 
books had published divers and very many scientific 
books, and particularly, in the year of our Lord one 
thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, a certain 
physiological and anatomical book, written by a 
learned physician, on the generative system, illus- 
trated by anatomical plates. And whereas the said 
defendants, on the first day of May, in the year of 
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, 
did publish, and cause to be published, in a certain 
book purporting to be Reports of the Inspectors of 
the Prisons of Great Britain, the passage following ; 
that is to say, “ this last is a book (meaning the 
said physiological and anatomical book) of a most 
disgusting nature, and the plates are indecent and 
obscene in the extreme.” Whereas in truth and in 
fact the said book is purely of a scientific character. 
Yet the said defendants, well knowing the premises, 
but contriving and maliciously intending to defame 
and injure the said plaintiff in his said trade of a 
bookseller and publisher, and cause it to be believed 
that he published indecent and obscene books, on 
the nineteenth day of August, in the year of our 
Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, 
maliciously and falsely did publish, and cause to be 
Y gueacings of and concerning the said plaintiff, in 
his said trade and business, in a certain printed 
Hers, purporting to be a copy of the reply of the 

nspectors of Prisons for the Home District, with 
regard to the report of the Court of Aldermen, to 
whom it was referred to consider the first Report of 
| the Inspectors of Prisons, so far as relates to the 


gaol 








7 Wit. IV. 
gaol of Newgate, which said copy of the reply pur- 
ports to be a letter from William Crawford and 
Whitworth Russell, Esquires, Inspectors of Prisons 
for the Home District, to the Right honourable Lord 
John Russell, &amp;c. &amp;c. &amp;c., the false, scandalous and 
defamatory libel following; that is to say, But we 
deny that that book is a scientific work (using that 
term in its ordinary acceptation), or that the “ plates 
are purely anatomical, calculated only to attract the 
attention of persons connected with surgical science ;” 
and we adhere to the terms which we have already 
employed, as those only by which to characterize 
such a book (meaning thereby that the said book 
was disgusting and obscene, as stated in the above- 
mentioned report of the Inspectors of Prisons of 
Great Britain); and in another part of the said 
letter to the substance and effect following, that is 
to say, We also applied to several medical book- 
sellers, who all gave it the same character. They 
described it as “ one of Stockdale’s obscene books,” 
(meaning thereby that the plaintiff was a common 
publisher of obscene books), that it “ never was 
considered as a scientific work, that it never was 
written for or bought by the members of the pro- 
fession as such,” that “it was intended to take young 
men in, by inducing them to give an exorbitant price 
for an indecent work,” to the great injury of the 
said plaintiff in his said trade and business, and 
also of his fair fame and reputation, to the damage 
to the said plaintiff of five thousand pounds, where- 
fore he brings his suit, &amp;c. 


Stockdale v. Hansard and others.—Upon reading 
the Petition and affidavit of John Joseph Stockdale, 
I do order that he be admitted to sue in formé 
pauperis, and do assign him John Curwood, Esquire, 
as his counsel. 

Dated the 27th day of May 1837. Denman. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be taken into 
consideration upon Tuesday next. 


Ordered, That the Petition be printed. 


Fourdrinier’s 
Patent, 


No. 351, 


Ordered, That the Select Committee, to whom 
the Petition of Henry Fourdrinier, of Burston, in 
the county of Stafford, and Sealy Fourdrinier, of 
Westminster, in the county of Middlesex, late whole- 
sale stationers and paper manufacturers, for leave 
to bring in a Bill to revive and extend the term of 
certain Letters Patent assigned to them for the in- 
vention of making Paper by means of machinery, 
was referred, to consider the matter thereof, and to 
report their observations thereupon to the House, 
have Power to report the Minutes of the Evidence 
taken before them. 

Mr. Mackinnon, reported from the said Select 
Committee ; That they had considered the matters 
to them referred; and had directed him to make a 
Report thereof to the House, together with the 
Minutes of the Evidence taken before them. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; 
and be printed. 


Marriages 
( Manchester.) 


No. 354. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Marriages 
(Manchester) which was presented upon the 23d 
day of May last, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to Orange 


Orange Lodges 
(U Lodges, (Upper Canada,) which was presented upon 


pper 


gn Friday last, be printed. 
Schools and Ordered, That the Paper relative to Schools and 
Gemalen) Education (Jamaica), which was presented upon 

No. 353, Ftday last, be printed. 
Lower Canada. Ordered, That the Paper relative to Mr. Gugy, 
No.355. Sheriff of Montreal, which was presented upon 

Friday last, be printed. 
LowerCanada, Ordered, That the Paper relative to the Debt due 
No. 356. by Sir John Caldwell to the Province of Lower 


anada, which was presented upon Friday last, be 
printed. 


Von. 92, 


1° Junie. 





425 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to Religious Religious 
Ceremonies (Madras), which was presented upon a 
Friday last, be printed. ¢ a 

The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Poor Relief’ 
mittee on the Poor Relief (Zreland) Bill; (Ireland) Bill, — 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


Ordered, That the Patents for Inventions Bill Patents for 
be read a second time upon Wednesday, the 21st Inventions Bill. 
day of this instant June. 


Ordered, That the Judicial Factors (Scotland) Judicial Factors 
Bill be read a second time upon Wednesday next. (Scotland) Bill. 


Ordered, That the Registration of Births, &amp;c., Reginatien 
: : of Births, &amp;c., 
laggy be read a second time upon Wed- (Scotland) Bill 


Ordered, That the Clandestine Marriages (Scot- Clandestine 


-_ Bill be read a second time upon Wednesday (Seatlena) -_ 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday, the Public Records 
27th day of this instant June, resolve itself into a Bill. 
Committee upon the Public Records Bill. 


Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, resolve Hackney 
itself into a Committee upon the Hackney Carriages (Mctrepelis) 
(Metropolis) Bill. Bill. , 

Ordered, That the Metropolis Improvement Bill Metropolis 
be read a second time upon Monday next. — 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday Uniformity of 
next, resolve itself into a Committee upon the Uni- Process Bill. 
formity of Process Bill. 


Ordered, That the a (Ireland) Bill County Boards 
be read a second time upon Wednesday next. (Ireland) Bil. 


Ordered, That the Common Fields Inclosure Bill Common Fields 
be read a second time upon Wednesday next. Inclosure Bill. 


Ordered, That the Game (Scotland) Bill be read Game : 
a second time upon Wednesday, the 14th day of (Scotland) Bill. 
this instant June. 


Ordered, That the Report on the Municipal Cor- Municipal 
porations (Scotland) Bill, be taken into further con- (rPr No" 
sideration upon Wednesday next. : 


Ordered, That the Report on the Sheriffs Courts Sheriffs Courts 
Bill, be taken into further consideration upon Wed- Bill. 
nesday, the 14th day of this instant June. 


Ordered, That the Report on the Burghs of Burghs 
Barony (Scotland) Bill, be taken into further con- (Sootlana) Bil! 
sideration upon Wednesday, the 14th day of this 
instant June. 


Ordered, That the Bills of Exchange Bill be read Billsof __ 
a second time upon Wednesday next. xchange Bill, 


Ordered, That the Election Expenses Bill be read Election _ 
a second time upon Wednesday next. Expenses Bill. 


Notice being taken that the Bill to render the Final Register 
Register of Electors final, and to amend certain ° Electors Bill. 
provisions in the Reform of Parliament Act,was not 
prepared according to the Order of Leave ; 

Ordered, That the Order for the second reading 
of the said Bill be discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be withdrawn. 


Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- Ways and 
solve itself into the Committee of Waysand Means. Mears. 


Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- Supply. 
solve itself into the Committee of Supply. 


31 Ordered, 





496 1°—2° Junzz. 


Monies in the 


Ordered, That the Report on the Monies in the 
Exchequer Bill. Fy chequer Bill be received To-morrow. 


row ag A Ordered, That the Haileybury College Bill be 
College Bil. ead the third time To-morrow. 
East [udia 


i Ordered, That the East India Officers’ Salaries 
Caicers'Salaries Bil] be read the third time To-morrow. 


Supp 


¥ , Ordered, That the Report from the Committee of 
(7th April.) 


Supply be received To-morrow. 


Dowlais Ordered, That the Dowlais Market Bill be read a 
Market Bil, cond time To-morrow. 


Board of 
Charitable 
Bequests 
(Ireland.) 


The House was moved, That the Order made upon 
the 13th day of April last, that there be laid before 
this House, Returns of the Sums of Money now 
in the hands of the Board of Charitable Bequests in 
Treland; specifying the exact Amount invested in 
the different Stocks or otherwise, and the Amount de- 
ducted as Treasurer’s Commission from the Interest 
and Dividends upon each particular Stock or other 
Investment, and by what authority such deductions 
were made :—Of the Annual Amount of Rents (dis- 
tinguishing from what source they respectively pro- 
ceed), Annuities, Rent-charges and other Annual Re- 
ceipts not embraced by the previous Return, and 
the Amount of Commission deducted therefrom as 
Treasurer's Commission :—Of all fixed Deductions 
made from Charity Property, Principal or Income, 
by virtue of any Order of the Board of Charitable 
Bequests, or otherwise, sanctioned by the Board :— 
Of all Orders made by the Board of Charitable Be- 
quests since its establishment, with the Date when 
each Order passed ; stating when the Orders, calling 
for Returns of Charitable Bequests, and requesting 
Statements of any withheld, concealed or misapplied 
Charitable Donations and Bequests to be forwarded 
to the Board, were first issued, and how, and at what 

eriods, the forms of Return are circulated by the 
Board :—Of the Number of forms of “ Return of 
Charitable Donations and Bequests,’ which have 
been issued by the Board of Charitable Bequests ; 
the Number of such Returns which have been per- 
fected and forwarded to the Board; stating the Gross 
Amount of the Principal and Interest of the Charity 
Funds in each Parish or Union in Jreland from 
which such Returns have been made; with the 
Rental or Income from Land or other Property not 
consisting of Money, specified in such Returns :— 
and, of the present state of Proceedings, and when 
Proceedings commenced, in each case instituted by 
the said Board, for the recovery of any Sums appli- 
cable to the Poor or to Charitable Institutions, 
might be read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 


Board of 
Charitable 
Bequests 
(Ireland.) 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Returns of the Sums of Money now in the hands of 
the Board of Charitable Bequests in Ireland; speci- 
fying the exact Amount invested in the different 
Stocks or otherwise, and the Amount deducted as 
Treasurer's Commission from the Interest and Divi- 
dends upon each particular Stock or other Invest- 
ment, and by what authority such deductions were 
made :—Of the Annual Amount of Rents (distin- 
guish.ng from what source they respectively pro- 
ceed), Annuities, Rent-charges and other Annual 
Receipts not embraced by the previous Return, and 
the Amount of Commission deducted therefrom as 
Treasurer’s Commission :—Of all fixed Deductions 
made for Charity Property, Principal or Income, 
by virtue of any Order of the Board of Charitable 
Bequests, or otherwise, sanctioned by the Board :— 
Of the Number of Orders made by the Board of 
Charitable Bequests since its establishment ; stating 
when the Orders calling for Returns of Charitable 
Bequests,and requesting Statements of any withheld, 
concealed or misapplied Charitable Donations and Be- 





A. 1837. 


quests to be forwarded to the Board, were first issued, 
and how, and at what periods, the forms of Return 
are circulated by the Board :—Of the Number of 
Forms of “ Return of Charitable Donations and 
Bequests,” which have been issued by the Board of 
Charitable Bequests; the Number of such Returns 
which have been perfected and forwarded to the 
Board ; stating the Gross Amount of the Principal 
and Interest of the Charity Funds in each Parish or 
Union in Jreland from which such Returns have 
been made ; with the Rental or Income from Land 
or other Property, not consisting of Money, speci- 
fied in such Return :—and, of the present state of 
Proceedings, and when Proceedings commenced in 
each case instituted by the said Board, for the re- 
covery of any Sums applicable to the Poor, or to 
Charitable Institutions. 


Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer reported to the Answer to 
House, That their several Addresses of the 30th day Addresses, 
of May last (that His Majesty would be graciously 
eves | to give directions that the Papers therein 
mentioned might be laid before this House), had 
been presented to His Majesty, and that His Ma- 
jesty had commanded him to acquaint this House, 
that He will give directions accordingly. 


Sir George Grey presented, pursuant to an Ad- Emigration 
dress to His Majesty,—Copies or Extracts of any (Australia.) 
Correspondence between the Secretary of State for 
the Colonies and the Governors of the Australian 
Colonies respecting Emigration, since the Papers 
presented to this House in March 1836. 

Ordered, That the said Papers dolie upon the Table. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being Colonel 
put, That a Select Committee be appointed, to Bradley. 
inquire into the allegations contained in the Peti- 
tion of Thomas Bradley, Esquire, late Lieutenant- 
Colonel, 2d West India Regiment, presented to 
this House, on the 17th day of February last ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 

Tellers for the f Mr. Thomas Duncombe, } 34 


Yeas, Mr. Wakley : 
Tellers for the { Mr. Fox Maule, } 81 
Noes, Mr. Ward: 


So it passed in the Negative. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- National 
posed, That leave be given to bring in a Bill for the Education, 
establishment of a System of National Education in 
England and Wales. 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That this House do now adjourn; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 


Tellers for the Yeas, { “ ~~. : } 36. 
Tellers for the Noes,{ os Ges 7 } 34. 


So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 
And the House accordingly adjourned til] To- 


morrow. 











Veneris, 2° die Junii ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi IV“ Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


M R. Crafer, from the Treasury, was called in ; gugar. 

and at the bar presented, pursuant to Orders, 

—An Account of the Quantities of Sugar imported 

into the United Kingdom from the West Indies and 

the Mauritius, and the Parts of those Quantities re- 

entered for Exportation, between the 5th January 

1836 and 5th January 1537; distinguishing the 
proportion 











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7 Witt. LV. 


proportion received from each Colony respectively ; 
and the like of other West Indian Produce. 

Accounts of the Quantities of Coals, Cinders and 
Culm shipped at the several Ports of England, Scot- 
land and Ireland coastways to other Ports of the 
United Kingdom in the year 1836, peyote. 
the Quantity shipped at each of the said Ports, as 
compared with the year 1835 :—Of the Quantities 
and declared Value of Coals, Cinders and Culm ex- 
ported from the several Ports of England, Scotland 
and Jreland to Foreign Countries and the British 
Settlements Abroad, in the year 1836, distinguishing 
the Countries to which the same were sent, and 
comparing the same with the year 1835 ; also, dis- 
tinguishing the Ports of the United Kingdom for 
which the same were shipped :—Of the Quantities 
of Coals, Cinders and Culm exported from the 
United Kingdom in the year 1836, with the Rate 
and Amount of Duty thereon :—and, of the Quan- 
tities of Coal brought coastways and by Inland 
Navigation into the Port of London, during the year 
1836, comparing the same with the Quantities brought 
during the year 1835. 

An Account of all Sums of Money granted in 
pursuance of an Act of last Session, in aid of the 
erection of Schools in England and Scotland; stating 
the Places in which the Schools are situated, the 
description of the School, and the respective Amounts 
contributed (in continuation of Paper N° 502, of 
1836). 

Copy of a Memorial, dated July 1834, from the 
Moderator of the General Assembly, addressed to 
Viscount Melbourne, First Lord of the Treasury, on 
the subject of obtaining a Grant from Government 
for the purpose of affording additional Church Ac- 
commodation to the poorer Classes in Scotland. 

Amended Return to an Order, dated the 9th day 
of March last, for an Account of the Amount of 
Duty charged on Glass ; distinguishing the Amount 
charged on Flint, Plate, Broad, Crown, Bottle and 
German Sheet Glass in the year 1836, together with 
the Amount of Drawback on each description of 
Glass; the Produce of the Duties in England, Scot- 
land and Ireland stated separately. 

Mr. Crafer also presented, pursuant to the direc- 
tions of several Acts of Parliament,—Copy of Trea- 
sury Minute, dated 9th May 1837, regulating the 
Offices of Vice-Treasurer and Teller of the Exchequer 

in Ireland. 

A Statement of the Expenses incurred under the 
Acts for the Redemption and Sale of the Land Tax, 
and for discharging the incidental Expenses at- 
tending the execution of those Acts, from 5th 


Coals. 


Schools 
(England and 
Scotland.) 


Church Accome 
modation 


(Scotland. ) 


Glass. 


Exchequer 
(Treland.) 


Land Tax. 


April 1836 to 5th April 1837:—And then he with- 


drew. 
Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Emigration 
(Australia.) 


No, 358. 


Ordered, That the Papers relative to Emigration 
(Australia), which were presented yesterday, be 
printed. 


AmericanSteam 
Navigation 
Company Bill, 


Petitions from the Secretary to the Galloway 
Steam Navigation Company ;—and, Owners or 
Freighters of Steam Packets and other vessels 
trading to and from the Port of Dumbarton ; pray- 
ing that the American Steam Navigation Company 
Bill may not pass into a law, were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of the British and American Steam 
Navigation Company, praying that they may be 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, against 
certain parts of the said Bill, was also presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Bath Gas Bill, 


A Petition of Members of the Bath Royal Horti- 
cultural and Floral Society, praying that the Bath 
Gas Bill may not pass into a law as it now stands, 
was presented, and read; and referred to the Com- 
mittee on the Bill. 

Vor. 92. 


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427 


A Petition of the Commissioners for paving, &amp;c., 
the parish of Walcot without the city of Bath, pray- 
ing that they may be heard, by their counsel or 
agents, against certain parts of the said Bill, was 
also presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by their counsel or agents, upon their Petition, if 
they think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of Merchants, Manufacturers and Mersey 
others, of Manchester, praying that the Mersey Con- ew 
servancy Bill may not pass into a law, was pre- an 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 

Petitions from the Chamber of Commerce and 
Manufactures at Manchester ;—and, Corn, Flour and 
Provision Merchants and Dealers of Manchester ; 
praying that the said Bill may not pass into a law 

as it now stands,—were also presented, and read; 

and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of the Chairman of a Meeting of Mer- 
chants, Manufacturers and others, of Manchester, 
praying that he may be heard, by himself, his 
coupsel or agent, against certain parts of the said 
Bill;-was also presented, and read; and ordered to lie 

upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the time for the Committee on the Westminster 
Westminster Bridge and Greenwich Railway Bill to a 
make their Report, be enlarged till Monday, the 19th Riviwev Bill 

se = y Bill. 
day of this instant June. 


Ordered, That the time for the Committee on the Quse Banks 
Ouse Banks Drainage Bill to make their Report, be Drainage Bill. 
enlarged till Monday, the 12th day of this instant 

June. 


Ordered, That the time for the Committee on the Lough swilly 
Lough Swilly and Lough Foyle Drainage Bill to and Lough 
make their Tipact, be enlarged till Monday, the ~ Drainage 
19th day of this instant June. "= 


Ordered, That the time for the Committee on the Belfast and 
Belfast and Hollywood Railway Bill to make their tg 
Report, be enlarged till Friday, the 16th day of this “7 “" 
instant June. 


Ordered, That a Message be sent to the Lords, to Belfast and 
request that their Lordships will give leave to Lord Hollywood 
Templemore to attend, in order to his being examined ®*!"4y Bill. 
as a witness before the Committee to whom the 
Belfast and Hollywood Railway Bill stands referred : 

And that Lord Viscount Castlereagh do carry the 
said Message. 


A Petition of Archibald Lord Douglas, of Douglas, Dundee 
praying that he may be heard, by himself, his counsel — 
or agent, against certain parts of the Dundee Water- ~"* 
works Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by himself, his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, 
if he think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


Ordered, That the time for the Committee on the Anti Dry-rot 
Anti Dry-rot Company Bill to make their Report, Company Bill 
be enlarged till Monday, the 19th day of this instant 
June. 


A Petition of the heer age Committee of the mee and 
Dublin and Kilkenny Railway, praying that the time p'..°"™y,. 
may be enlarged for mnt the wants of the sites 
Committee on the Dublin and Kilkenny Railway 
Bill till Friday, the 30th day of this instant June, 
was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 
the table. 

Ordered, That the time for the Committee on the 
said Bill to make their Report, be enlarged till 
Monday, the 19th day of this instant June. 

312 The 








428 


Dean and The Dean and Chapter of York Estate Bill was 

Chepterof —_—yead the first time; and ordered to be read a second 

York Estate . 

Bill. tame. 

Collier Dock Petitions from Charles Curling, proprietor of 

pres Davis Wharf, Horseleydown, tig 18 ;—and, the 

‘Right honourable Thomas Bowes Lyon, Earl of 

Strathmore and Kinghorn; praying that they may 
be heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
against certain parts of the Collier Dock and Surrey 
Canal Bill,—were presented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be re- 
ferred to the Committee on the Bill; and the Peti- 
tioners heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
upon their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel 
heard, in favour of the Bill, against the said Peti- 
tions. 

Leeds Water- Sir John Beckett reported from the Committee on 
works Bill. the (ve-committed) Leeds Waterworks Bill; That 
they had made other Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 

by _ The House owner to take into further con- 
Delage pili, sideration the Report which, upon the 23d day of 


May last, was made from the Committee on the 
Welland Outfall Drainage Bill; printed Copies of 
the Bill having been delivered at the door upon 
Tuesday, the 23d day of May last ; and the Amend- 
ments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


North Metropo- 
litan Cemetery 
Bill. 


A Petition of Joseph Cooke and William H. James, 
of Hampstead, praying that the North Metropolitan 
Cemetery Bill may not pass into a law, was pre- 


sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


London and 
Blackwall 
Commercial 
Railway Bill. 


A Petition of the New River Company, praying 


Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by their counsel or agents, upon their Petition, if 
they think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 
Bill, against the said Petition. 


Petitions from Macclesfield ; — Loughborough ;— 
Lincoln ;—and, Suffolk; praying for the repeal or 
amendment of the Poor Law Act,—were presented, 
and read; and referred to the Select Committee on 
the Poor Law Act. 

A Petition of Guardians of the Poor of the Hemel 
Hempsted Union, praying that no alteration may be 
made in the principle of the said Act, was also pre- 
sented, and read; and referred to the said Select 
Committee. 


Poor Law Act. 


A Petition of Innkeepers and Publicans of the 
county of Hertford, praying for the amendment of 
the Laws regulating their trade, and for the gradual 
abolition of Beer-houses, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Innkeepers. 


Church Rates 


Petitions from Coles-street Meeting-house, Vew- 
Regulation. 


ington; — Wrington ; — Roydon ; — Thornton ; — 
Ipsuich ;— Barwell ; —Broadwinsor ;— Blackdown ; 
— Netherhay ;— Oswestry ;—Lenham ;— Maidstone ; 
—and, Tenterden; praying that the proposed mea- 
sure relative to Church Rates may receive the sanc- 
tion of the House,—were presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from pi ed nage A a ; 
~—Broadhinton ; — Harescombe-cum-Pitchcombe ;— 
and, Welford and Sulby; praying that the said pro- 
— measure may not receive the sanction of the 

louse,—were also presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 





2 Junie. 


that they may be heard, by their counsel or agents, | 
against certain parts of the London and Blackwall ' 
Commercial Railway Bill, was presented, and read. 





A. 1837. 


A Petition of County Rate-payers and others, County Rates 
being Owners and Occupiers of land in the county P#- 
of Leicester ; praying that the County Rates Bill 
may pass into a law, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Fleet-street and other Smithfelg 
parts of the metropolis, praying that the Market of Market. 
Smithfield may no longer be permitted to exist, 
but that the same may be forthwith abolished, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


Petitions from the Provost, Magistrates and Prisons 
Council of Aberdeen ;—Commissioners of Police for (Scotland) Bill, 
Aberdeen ;—and, Preses of a Meeting of Heritors 
and Commissioners of Supply of the counties of 
Ross and Cromarty ; praying that the Prisons (Scot- 
land) Bill, with certain alterations, may pass into 
a law,—were presented, and read; and referred to 
the Select Committee on the Bill. 


A Petition of Members of the Leicestershire Agri- Corn Laws. 

cultural Society, and others, being Owners and Occu- 
piers of land in the county of Leicester, praying that 
the House will not pass any measure which shall 
take away or lessen the protection granted to the 
agricultural interest by the present Corn Laws, was 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


Petitions from Coroners for the county of Dorset; Coroners’ 

—county of Worcester ;—and, county of Bedford; — , 
; penses Bill. 

praying that the scale of expenses attendant upon 
Coroners’ Inquests may be regulated upon fixed and 
certain principles, or left to the discretion of the . 
Coroners, without being subject to disallowance by 
the magistrates, and that clauses may be inserted 
in the Sennen Inquests’ Expenses Bill, to provide 
for the better and more adequate remuneration of 
Coroners generally, —were presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 





Petitions from Freemen of the Seven Incorporated Municipal 
Trades ot Dumfries; — Provost, Magistrates and (Setdand) Bill 
Council of Sanquhar ; — Magistrates and Town “ctand) ©. 
Council of Dumfries ;—and, Convener and Dea- 
cons of the Seven Incorporated Trades of Kirkcud- 
bright ; praying that the Municipal Corporations 
(Scotland) Bill may not pass into a law as it now 
stands, —were presented, and read ; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from the Chairman of the Board of Rating of 
Guardians of the Plomesgate Union ; — and, the Tenement 
Chairman of the Board of Guardians of the Chelten- 
ham Union; praying the House to pass a law for 
rating to the relief of the Poor the Owners of small 
tenements instead of the Occupiers,—were presented, 
and read; and referred to the Select Committee on 
the Poor Law Act. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Cheltenham, praying Window Tax. 
for the repeal of the Window Tax, was presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of William Forlong and Andrew Forlong, W. and A. 

both of Kenilworth, in the Island of Van Diemen’s Fotlons- 
| Land, complaining of being deprived of a remunera- 
| tion in land in that Island, contrary to the terms 

held out by the Colonial Office, as an inducement 
_to persons to emigrate, on taking out valuable stock, 
which the Petitioners allege they have done; and 
| praying for inquiry, was presented, and read ; and 
| ordered to lie upon the Table. 
| A Petition of Inhabitants of Mewcastle-upon- Tyne, Drankenness. 
| praying the House to adopt some effectual measure 
| for the suppression of Drunkenness, was presented, 
‘and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
A Petition 

















7 Wit. IV. 


Burghs A Petition of Inhabitants of the baronial burgh 


of Barony 4, Of Prestwick, praying that that burgh may be in- 

(Scotland) Pu". cluded in the Burghs of Barony (Scotland) Bill, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 

Household A Petition of Members of the Reform Associa- 

Suffrage. 


tion of Knaresborough, praying the House tc pass 
a Bill to enable every inhabitant householder to 
vote at all future elections for Members to serve in 
Parliament, was presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


Marine A Petition of Ship-owners and Merchants of the 


Insurances: port of Sunderland, praying for the repeal of the 
duties on Marine Insurances, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Schools Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 


(West Indies.) to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of the Instructions addressed to the 
Inspector — to visit the Schools in the West 
Indies, which have received a share of the Parlia- 
mentary Grants of 1835 and 1836 for Negro Edu- 
cation. 
Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this "sai as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Colonel Arthur. Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of a Despatch to the Secretary of 
State for the Colonies from Colonel Arthur, trans- 
mitting his Report on a Petition from Mr. Gilbert 
Robertson, presented to this House on the 2d day 
of June 1836, and printed in the Appendix to the 
Seventeenth Report on Public Petitions in 1836. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Van Diemen’s § Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
Land. to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
to give directions that there be laid before this 
House, Copies of Papers relative to the Claim of 
William and Andrew Forlong in Van Diemen’s 
Land. 
Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Belfast Harbour An ingrossed Bill for the formation of a Floating 
(No. 2.) Bill. Dock, and for otherwise more effectually improving 
the Port and Harbour of Belfast in Ireland, was 
read the third time; and Amendments were made 
to the Bill. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act for the formation of a new Cut or 
Channel, and for otherwise more effectually im- 
proving the Port and Harbour of Belfast. 
Ordered, That Mr. Dunbar do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Edinburgh Ordered, That the time for the Committee on the 
aa Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Bill to make their 
yew" Report, be enlarged till Friday next. 


Lord’s Day Bill. Petitions from Worcester ;— Stafford ;— Chitterne 
All Saints and Saint Mary (Wilts) ;— Bradford ;— 
Newcastle-upon- Tyne ;— Newcastle ;— Bill Quay, 
Heworth ;— Gateshead Fell ;— Wickham Market ;— 
Gateshead ;—and, Hamlets of Gawcott and Lenbo- 
rough; praying that the Lord’s Day Bill may be 
permitted to go into a Committee of the whole House, 


—were presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


Plan of Educa- Ordered, That a Message be sent to the Lords, to 
sehen request that their Lordships will give leave to the 

Archbishop of Dublin to attend, in order to his being 
Vot. 92. 





2 Juniz. 429 


examined as a witness before the Select Committee 
appointed by this House on the Plan of Education 
({reland): And that Mr. Vernon Smith do carry the 
said Message. 


A Petition of Merchants, Underwriters, Mariners Shipping 
and others of the port of Swansea, praying the House G*zette. 
to relieve the proprietors of the Shipping Gazette 
from the postage of letters containing shipping and 
commercial intelligence only, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, Bankruptcy 
resolve itself into a Committee upon the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Bill, 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, Bankrupts’ 
resolve itself into a Committee upon the Bankrupts’ Estates 
Estates (Scotland) Bill. (Scotland) Bill. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Court of Session 
Return of the Number of Decrees by the Court of (Scotland) 
Session in Scotland, extracted during the three Decrees 
years preceding 1st January 1837; specifying in 
separate Columns the Number in each year, the 
Classes of Causes in which they were pronounced ; 
also, whether in absence or in foro, and the Number 
of Pages in each Extract, and the Persons employed 
in making such Extracts. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Sheriffs’ 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased ead 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return of the Number of Decrees by the 
Sheriffs Depute and Substitute of the County of 
Edinburgh, that have been extracted during the three 
years preceding 1st January 1837; specifying in 
separate Columns the Number in each year, the 
Classes of Causes in which they were pronounced ; 
also, whether in absence or in foro, and the Number 
of Pages in each Extract, and the Persons employed 
in making such Extracts. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


A Petition of William Parker, Esquire, of Passage Poor Relief 
West, praying That the Poor Relief (Jreland) Bill (lreland) Bill. 
may not pass into a law as it now stands, was pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of William Saunders, late of Carbonear, Newfoundland. 

in the district of Conception Bay, now a prisoner in 
His Majesty’s gaol of Saint John’s, Newfoundland, 
complaining of the proceedings instituted against 
him in the Supreme Court of that island, for an 
alleged riot during the late election there; and 
praying the House to address His Majesty to reverse 
the judgment against him in the said Supreme Court, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


Petitions from Trinity within Waterford ;—Dun- Government 

garvan ;—Saint Patrich’s, age ;—Slieverue ; of Ireland. 
— Modeligo ;— Saint John’s, Waterford ;— and, 
Affane; praying the House to support His Majesty’s 
Ministers in their government of Jreland,—were 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


Petitions from Bally Laneen ;—and, Kilscoran, Tithes 
Roslare and Ballybrennan ; praying for the abolition (Mend) Bill. 
of Tithes in Jreland,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Tavistock, praying Criminal Law. 
the House to pass a law for the abolition of the 
Punishment of Death, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

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Highway Rates 
Bill 


430 


A Petition of Spirit Dealers of Waterford, pray- 


(Ireland) Act. ing for the amendment of the Act of the last Session 


relating to Excise Licenses in [reland, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Braunston ;— Byfield ;—Badby ; 
— Barby ;— Crich ;— Charmelton ; — Daventry ;— 
Dodford ;— Kilsby ; —- Newnham ;— Staverton ;— 
Stowe ;— Weedon Beck ;— West Haddon ;— Welton ; 
— Ugborough ;—and, Totness ; praying that the 
Highway Rates Bill may not pass into a law,—were 
= and read; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 


A Petition of the President, Vice Presidents and 
Council of the Royal College of Surgeons in London, 
complaining of the defective state of the existing 
administration of the Poor Laws as far as respects 
medical relief, and praying for inquiry, was presented, 
and read; and referred to the Select Committee on 
the Poor Law Act. 


A Petition of Andrew Bent, of Hobart Town, in 
the island of Van Diemen’s Land, printer, complain- 
ing of the conduct of Colonel Arthur, late governor 
of that island, in refusing to grant the Petitioner a 
license to publish a newspaper, and praying relief, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


Sir Thomas Fremantle reported from the Select 
Committee appointed to inquire into the adminis- 
tration of the relief of the Poor under the orders 
and regulations issued by the Commissioners ap- 
pointed under the provisions of the Poor Law 
Amendment Act; That they had made further Pro- 
a in the matters to them referred; and had 

irected him to report the Minutes of the Evidence 
taken before them. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return of Flour and Corn shipped to India and 
the British Colonies, from the year 1814 to 1837, 
in each separate year, distinguishing the Port from 
which it was shipped. 


Rayley’s Estate Bill was read the first time, and 
ordered to be read a second time. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Extract of a Letter from the Commissioners of Excise 
Inquiry to the Lords of the Treasury, dated 18th 
October 1836, on the subject of the assistance and 
attention experienced by them from the Department 
of Excise; also, a Copy of the Treasury Minute 
thereon. 

Mr. Robert Steuart accordingly presented the 
seid Paper. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Resolved, That this House will, at the rising of 
the House this day, adjourn till Monday next. 


Ordered, That all Committees have leave to sit 
To-mcrrow, notwithstanding the adjournment of the 
House. 


A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Wingfield and 
Mr. Roupell: 
Mr. Speaker, 
The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
Act to continue for a limited term of years the Acts 
relating to the Police of the City of Glasgow, to 


vest the management of the Statute Labour Con- | ” 
version Money of the said City in the Board of | “ 
Police thereof, and for other purposes therein men- | “ 


tioned, without Amendment: And also, 


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A. 1837. 


The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Limitation of 
to amend an Act passed in the third and fourth Actions Bil. 


year of His present Majesty, intituled, An Act 
for the limitation of Actions and Suits relating to 
Real Property, and for simplifying the remedies 
for trying the rights thereto, to which the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House :—And then 
the Messengers withdrew. 


Mr. Fox Maule presented, pursuant to Orders,— Constabulary 


a Return in compliance with 6 Will. 4, c. 13, s. 57, 
containing a Statement of the Amount of Consta- 
bulary and Police Force employed in each County, 
County of a City and County of a Town in Ireland 
on the ist of January 1837; pe the 
Number of Persons in each Class or Rank of the 
Constabulary Force so employed, with the Salaries 
and Allowance actually enjoyed by each Class ; 
together with an Account of the whole Expenditure 
upon the Police and Constabulary in each County, 
County of a City and County of a Town; also a 
Summary of the Total Amount of Force employed, 
and of the Total Expenditure upon the Police and 
Constabulary Force for the whole of Ireland, show- 
ing the proportion of such Total Expense borne on 
the Consolidated Fund, and the Amount borne by 
the Counties, Cities and Towns of Jreland. 


Copies of the Report of Dr. Kaye to the Poor Distress 
Law Commissioners, on the subject of Distress in (Spita 


Spitalfields :—and, of the Report of Mr. Gulston to 
the Poor Law Commissioners on the subject of Dis- 
tress in Nottingham. 


Mr. Fox Maule also presented, pursuant to an Poor Livings 
Address to His Majesty,—An Account of all the Augmentation. 


Poor Livings augmented by Parliamentary Grants 
or by Queen Anne’s Bounty since the last Return 
made to Parliament. 


Mr. Fox Maule also presented, pursuant to the Education 
directions of an Act of Parliament,—The Annual (!reland.) 


Report of the Commissioners of Education in Ireland 
to His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, for the 
year ending 25th March 1837. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself into Poor Relief 


a Committee upon the Poor Relief (Zreland) Bill. 


(In the Committee.) 


Ciavse, N° 36,(Workhouses to be provided) —— 
read. 

Amendment proposed: P. 12. 1. 44 and 45. To 
leave out the words “ not exceeding Twelve acres, 
“* imperial measure.” 

Question put, That the words proposed to be left 
out stand part of the Clause: 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the Yeas, am or ee } 71. 
Mr. Barron, 

Mr. WilliamO’ Brien: 

Another Amendment proposed: P. 13. 1.3. After 
the word “ therein” to insert the following words : 
“ Provided always, That every such workhouse that 
“ shall be erected, or, if there be a workhouse, that 
shall be altered, shall in country places be pro- 
“ vided in every eight miles square.” 

Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

Another Amendment proposed: To add at the 
end of the Clause: “ Provided always, That it shall 
“ not be lawful for the Commissioners to build or 
“ enlarge any workhouse in any union, or to pur- 
chase or hire any land for the same without the 
consent and approval of not less than two-thirds 
of the Board of Guardians, and except it shall be 
declared by such majority of the Board of Guar- 
dians that a workhouse is in their opinion neces- 
sary for the proper relief or employment of the 
poor in such union.” 


Tellers for the Noes, 


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Question, 

















Registration 
and Marriages 
Bill, 


7 Wit. IV. 


Question, That those words be there added 
put, and negatived. 

Cxiause, N° 36, agreed to. 

Cravusszs, N° 37 to N° 41, agreed to. 


CuiausE, N° 42, (Relief in workhouses)—— 
read. 

Several Amendments made. 

Amendment proposed: At the end of the Clause, 
to add “ and until such workhouses are erected, or 
“in case such workhouses shall be found insuffi- 
“ cient for the reception of the destitute poor of the 
“‘ union, it shall be lawful for the Guardians of such 
“ union, with the consent of the Commissioners, to 
make such other provision out of the rate for the 
“ destitute poor as they shall think fit.” 

Question put, That those words be there added : 

The Committee divided : 
} 50. 





“ 


Tellers for the { Mr. William O’ Brien, 


Yeas, Mr. Sharman Crawford: 
Tellers for the f Mr. Robert Steuart, } 138 
Noes, Mr. More O’ Ferrall: : 


Another Amendment proposed: At the end of 
the Clause, to add “ Provided always, That it shall 
“ be lawful for the Guardians of any union, whether 
there be a workhouse or not in such union, to 
“ make (with the consent of the Commissioners) 
“ such other provision out of the rate for relief of 
“ the sick and infirm poor as they shall deem to be 
* most expedient.” 

Question, That those words be there added—— 
put, and negatived. 

Another Amendment proposed: At the end of 
the Clause, to add, “ Provided always, That the 
“ guardians be empowered (subject to the control of 
“ the Commissioners) to afford extern attendance, 
“ and a supply of food as well as medicine to the 
“ sick poor, where the persons to be relieved are not 
in a state to be removed from home.” 

Question put, That those words be there added 
put, and negatived. 
Ciavuss, N° 42, as amended, agreed to. 


To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had made further 
Progress in the Bill; andthat he was directed to 
move, That the Committee may have leave sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Saturday morning ; 


Sabbati, 3° die Junii, 1837: 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
further consideration the Report on the Registra- 
tion and Marriages Bill:—The Bill was re-com- 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House :— 
And the House immediately resolved itself into the 
Committee. 


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(In the Committee.) 
Bill read 1°. 


To be read 2°, paragraph by paragraph. 
Preamble postponed. 


Ciavusz, N* 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, (A.), (B.), and N° 7, 
agreed to. 


Cxrausg, N° 8, agreed to. 

Ciausgs, N° 9 to N° 11, agreed to. 

Cravses, (C.), (D.), and N° 12, agreed to. 
Ciause, N° 13, amended, and agreed to. 
Cuauses, N° 14, (E.), (F.), agreed to. 
Crause, N° 15, amended, and agreed to. 
Cravuse, N° 16, agreed to. 

To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal 
— That the Committee had made Progress 
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431 


in the Bill; and that he was directed to move, That 

the Committee may have leave to sit again. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 

next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Summary 
reading of the Summary Convictions (Juvenile —— 
Offenders) (No. 2.) Bill; fenders) 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time (No. 2.) Bill. 


upon Monday, the 12th day of this instant June. 


The Order of the day a read, for the Com- Turnpike Acts 

mittee on the Turnpike Acts Continuance (Ireland) Continuance 

Bill; “ (Ireland) Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, 

resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Recovery of 
mittee on the Recovery of Tenements Bill ; Tenements Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
the 14th day of this instant June, resolve itself into 
the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Registration of 
mittee on the Registration of Voters Bill ; Voters Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday, 
the 14th day of this instant June, resolve itself into 
the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Parliamentary 
reading of the Parliamentary Electors Bill ; Electors Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Coroners’ 
mittee on the Coroners’ Inquests’ Expenses Bill ; —— Bill 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday “P*™** © 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Pillor 
mittee on the Pillory Punishment Abolition Bill; ow ng 

Resolved, That i ees will, upon Monday” 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Wills Bill. 
mittee on the Wills Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself SecularJurisdic- 
into a Committee upon the Secular Jurisdiction tion (York and 
(York and Ely) Bill; and, after some time spent 7 — 
therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. 

Vernon Smith reported, That the Committee had 
gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon Mon- 
day next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Hackney 
mittee on the Hackney Carriages (Metropolis) Bill; ae 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday ee 


next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Ways and 
mittee of Ways and Means; Means. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Supply. 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Mr. Robert Steuart reported the Monies in the Monies in the 
Exchequer Bill; and the Amendments were read, Exchequer Bill. 
and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time upon Monday 





next. 
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432 9°— 3° Juniz. 


Haileybury The Order of the day being read, for the third 
College Bul. reading of the Haileybury College Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Wednesday next. 


East India. = The ingrossed Bill to repeal the prohibition of the 
= Salaries Payment of the Salaries and Allowances of the East 


India Company’s Officers during their absence from 
their respective Stations in India, was, according to 
Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for receiving 
the Report from the Committee of Supply ; 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon Mon- 
day next. 


Supply 
(7th April. ) 


Dowlais The Order of the day being read, for the second 
Market Vill. reading of the Dowlais Market Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Monday next. 


Spain. Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Copies of Memorials from Alicant, Glasgow, 
Manchester, Liverpool, Poole, Greenock, Port Gilas- 
gow, Edinburgh, and the City of London, to the 
Foreign Office and Board of Trade, on the expe- 
diency of revising our Commercial relations with 
Spain. 

" Gedwed, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty, by such Members of this House as 
are of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Small Debt Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
Courts Kill. to enable the Recorder in certain Boroughs to hold 


a Court for Recovery of Small Debts: And that | 


Colonel Seale, Lord Viscount Ebrington, and Mr. 
Divett, do prepare, and bring it in. 


Royal Military Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 

Canal Bill, for transferring and vesting the Royal Military 
Canal, Roads, Towing Paths, and the Ramparts, 
and other Works belonging thereto, and all Estates 
and Property taken al occupied for the same, in 
the Counties of Kent and Susser; and also the 
Rates and Tolls arising therefrom in the principal 
Officers of His Majesty’s Ordnance: And that Sir 
Andrew Leith Hay and Lord Viscount Howick do 
prepare, and bring it in. 


Final Register | Ordered, That leave be given to bring ina Bill to 
of Electors Bill. render the Register of Electors final, and to amend 
an Act of the second and third years of His present 
Majesty, for amending the Representation of the 
People in England and Wales: And that Mr. 
Elphinstone and Mr. Aglionby do prepare, and 


bring it in. 


Waste Lands Resolved, That this House will, immediately, re- 
(Ireland) Bill. solve itself into a Committee upon the Waste er 
No. 359. (Jreland) Bill. 

The House, accordingly resolved itself into the 
Committee ; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Pryme re- 
pe That the Committee had gone through the 

ill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Pryme reported the Bill accordingly; and 
the Report was ordered to be taken into further 
consideration upon Wednesday, the 14th day of this 
instant June; and the Bill, as amended, to be 
printed. 


Tenants for Life Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
(ireland) Bill. the 14th day of this instant June, resolve itself into a 


— upon the Tenants for Life (Jreland) 
ill. 





A. 1837. 


Resolved, That this House will, immediately, re- Leases and 
solve itself into a Committee upon the Leases and Exchanges — 
Exchanges (Ireland) Bill. (Ireland) Bill. 

The House accordingly resolved itself into the No.360. 
Committee; and, after some time spent therein, 

Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Pryme 
reported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Pryme reported the Bill accordingly ; and 
the Report was ordered to be taken into further 
consideration upon Wednesday, the 14th day of this 
instant June; and the Bill, as amended, to be 
printed. 


Ordered, That the Medical Charities (Zreland) Bill Medical 
be now read a second time :—The Bill was accord- Circles) Bal 
ingly read a second time, and committed to a Com- we 
mittee of the whole House for Thursday, the 15th 
day of this instant June. 


Mr. Attorney General for Ireland presented a Treasurers 
Bill to provide more effectual means to make Trea- - on 
surers of Counties and Counties of Cities and Public ‘ pri a, 
Bodies in Jreland account for Public Monies, and No. 361. 
to secure the same: And the same was read the 
first time; and ordered to be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next; and to be printed. 


Mr. Elphinstone presented a Bill to render the Final Register 
Register of Electors final, and to amend an Act of % Electors Bill 
the second and third years of His present Majesty No. 362. 
for amending the Representation of the People in 
| England and Wales: And the same was read the 
| first time; and ordered to be read a second time 
|upon Friday, the 16th day of this instant June; and 
| to be printed. 








| Colonel Seale presented a Bill to enable the Re- Small Debt 

corder in certain Boroughs to hold « Court for the ©" Bill 

Recovery of Small Debts: And the same was read No. 363. 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second 

time upon Wednesday, the 14th day of this instant 

June ; and to be printed. 


Sir Andrew Leith Hay presented a Bill for trans- Royal Military 
ferring and vesting the Royal Military Canal, Roads, Cane! Bill. 
Towing Paths, and the Ram arts and other works No. 364. 
belonging thereto, and all Estates and Property 
taken and occupied for the same in the Counties of 
| Kent and Susser; and also the Rates and Tolls 
| arising therefrom, in the principal Officers of His 
_Majesty’s Ordnance: And the same was read the 
| first time; and ordered to be read a second time 
'upon Monday next ; and to be printed. 


| 
| 





_ Lord John Russell, presented, by His Majesty’s Poor Laws 
|Command,—Copy of a Letter from WVassau W, (ireland.) 
| Senior, Esquire, to His Majesty’s Principal Secre- 

tary of State for the Home Department, on the 

Third Report from the Commissioners for inquiring 
| into the condition of the Poor in Ireland, dated 14th 
| April 1836. 
| Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
| Table. 


| Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Clergy 
| to His Majesty, that He will be gracicusly pleased or ay and 
_to give directions, that there be laid before this © **” 
House, a Return showing the Number of Resident 
Clergymen in each Diocese in England and Wales ; 

of Non-resident Clergymen in each Diocese; the 
Total Incomes of the Resident Clergy; the Total 
Incomes of the Non-resident Clergy; the Num- 

ber of Clergymen in each Diocese who serve more 
than one Church; Number of Churches in each 
Diocese in which Service is performed once only on 

the Sunday ; and, the Number of Churches in each 
Diocese in which Service is performed more than 
once on the Sunday. 





Ordered, 








7 Witt. IV. 


Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of all agreements for the Commutation of 
Tithes which have been received by the Tithe Com- 
missioners, from the several Counties of England 
and Wales, specifying the time when received, and 
also whether the same have been confirmed or dis- 
allowed, or be still under consideration, and speci- 
fying also in each case the Amount of Rent-charge 
agreed to be paid in lieu of Tithe to the Clerical In- 
cumbent, as well as the Gross Amount of Tithe or 
Composition, which may by the Tithe Commission- 
ers have been ascertained to have been received by 
such Incumbent, on the Average of the Seven years 
previous to Christmas 1835. 


Tithes Commu- 
tation, 


Duke of 
Marlborough’s 
Pension. 


No. 365. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee appointed 
to inquire into the allegations of fact contained in 
the Petition of the Duke of Marlborough, praying 
the House to inquire into and report to the House 
the circumstances under which the Parliamentary 
grant made to John Duke of Marlborough in 1706, 
has become subject to various deductions from which 
similar grants for eminent services have been ex- 
empted; have Power to report their observations 
thereupon, together with the Minutes of the Evi- 
dence taken before them. 

Mr. Granville Harcourt reported from the said 
Select Committee; That they had examined the 
matter to them referred; and had directed him 
to make a Report thereof to the House, together 
with the Minutes of the Evidence taken before them. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
an Account of the Number of Vessels laden with 
Coal, which have been entered inwards in the Har- 
bour of Dublin, for the years ending 5th April 1836 
and 1837 respectively ; with the Number of Tons of 
Coal imported, from what Ports, and the Quantity 
imported from each of such Ports respectively. 


Coals (Ireland.) 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour before two of the 
clock on Saturday morning, adjourned till 
Monday next. 





Luna, 5° die Juni ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi IV“ Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


PETITION of Proprietors, Merchants, Ma- 
nufacturers, Ship-owners and Householders of 
Dundee, praying that the Dundee Waterworks Bill 
may pass into a law, was presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the time for the Committee on the 
Dundee Waterworks Bill to make their Report, be 
enlarged till Monday next. 


Dundee 
Waterworks 
Bill, 


Dundee 
Waterworks 
ill, 


Hales’ 


oo Mr. Brotherton reported from the Committee on 
at. ub. 


the Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act for na- 
turalizing Edmee Nicole Pulcherie Felice Hales, 
and her ‘infant Daughter ; That they had examined 
the allegations, of the Bill, and found the same to 
be true; and had gone through the Bill, and directed 
him to report the same, without Amendment :—And 
the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Brotherton do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, without Amendment. 

Edinburgh 
and Glasgow 


Railway Bill, 


Ordered, That the Committee on the Edinburgh 
and er Railway Bill have leave to sit this da 


till five of the clock, during the sitting of the House. 
Vor. 92. 


9°__ 3° 5° Juniz. 


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433 


Mr. Brotherton reported from the Committee on Warkworth 
the Warkworth Harbour Bill; and to whom several !4#"bour Bill. 
Petitions against the said Bill were referred; That 
the Standing Orders relative to Bills for making 
Harbours, had been complied with; and that the 
Committee had heard counsel in support of the said 
Petitions ; and had examined the allegations of the 
Bill, and found the same to be true; and had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Brotherton reported from the Committee on Wigan Rectory 
the Wigan Rectory Estate Bill; and to whom a Pe- Fstate Bill. 
tition against the said Bill was referred ; That no 
person appeared in support of the said Petition; and 
that the Committee had examined the allegations of 


the Bill, and found the same to be true; and that 


the parties concerned had given their consent to the 
Bill, to the satisfaction of the Committee ; and that 
the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto; and the same were read, 
as follow: 

Pr. 19. 1. 33. After “ Railway” insert “ nor of 
such part or portion of the lands or grounds 
mentioned or described as number 4 in the said 
Schedule, as contain in the whole twelve statute 
acres lying in the north-west corner of the said 
lands or grounds, called the Mesnes, and com- 
mencing five yards south of a certain well, called 
the Mesnes well, situate in the said close, and 
extending in a north-easterly direction therefrom 
two hundred and fifteen yards or thereabouts, 
bounded on the west side thereof by the fence 
dividing the same from the close called the Bull 
Field, being number {wo in the said Schedule, 
‘“‘ and on the north side thereof by land, claimed to 
“ belong to John Fowden Hodson, Esquire.” 

Pr. 22. 1. 22. After “ thereof” insert “ and of, 
into or out of all public ways or footpaths over 
“« the same.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

A Clause was offered to be added to the Bill “ for 
application of augmented Revenues to the purpose 
of increasing Church Accommodation.” 

And a Motion being made, and the Question being 
proposed, That the said Clause be now brought up : 
—And a Debate arising thereupon ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till Friday 
next. 


“ 


Mr. Thomas Duncombe reported from the Com- North Metropo- 
mittee on the North Metropolitan Cemetery Bill ; titan Cemetery 
and to whom several Petitions against the said Bill 5" 
were referred ; That they had heard counsel in sup- 
port of the said Petitions; and had also heard counsel 
in favour of the Bill ; and had examined the allega- 
tions of the Bill, and found the same to be true ; 
and had gone through the Bill, and made Amend- 
ments thereunto; and the Amendments were read, 
and agreed to. ‘ 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed. 


Mr. Thomas Duncombe reported from the Com- Caoutchouc 

mittee on the Caoutchouc Company Bill; and to Company Bill. 
whom a Petition against the said Bill was referred ; 
That they had considered the said Petition; and 
had examined the allegations of the Bill, and found 
the same to be true; and had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto; and the 
Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


Mr. Lambton ee from the Committee on the Durham 
Durham Junction Railway Bill; and to whom several Junction 


Petitions against the said Bill were referred ; That ®*!”*¥ Be. 


Railways, had been complied with; and that no 
3K person 





454, 


person appeared in support of the said Petitions; and 
that the Committee had inquired into the several 
matters required by the Resolutions of the House of 
the 1st day of March 1836; and had examined the 
allegations of the Bill, and found the same to be 
true; and had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Hartlepool 


An ingrossed Bill for amending an Act of the 
Pier Bill. 


second year of the reign of His present Majesty, 
and for granting further Rates and Powers for im- 
proving the Port of Hartlepool, in the County of 
Durham, was read the third time ; and Amendments 
were made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Lambton do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Montrose 


Mr. Chalmers reported from the Committee on the 
Harbour Bill, 


Montrose Harbour Bill; and to whom several Peti- 
tions against the said Bill were referred ; That they 
had considered several of the said Petitions; and 
had heard counsel in support of one of them; and 
had also heard counsel in favour of the Bill; and 
had examined the allegations of the Bill, and found 
the same to be true; and had gone through the Bill, 
and made Amendments thereunto. 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Nairne’s 


JVairne’s Estate Bill was read a second time ; and 
Estate Bill. 


committed to Mr. Chalmers and the East Scotland 
List. 


Barnsley 
Waterworks 
Bill. 


Sir John Beckett reported from the Committee on 
the (re-committed) Barnsley Waterworks Bill; That 
they had made other Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


The House proceeded to take into further conside- 
ration the Report which, upon the 9th day pag last, 
was made from the Committee on the Leeds Water- 


Leeds Water- 
works Bill. 


works Bill; printed Copies of the Bill having been 
delivered at the door upon Monday last; and the 
Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


Bristol 
Parochiel 
Rates Bill. 


Sir Richard Vyvyan reported from the Committee 
on the Bristol Parochial Rates Bill; That they had 
examined the allegations of the Bill, and found the 
same to be true; and had gone through the Bill, 
and made Amendments thereunto ; and the Amend- 
ments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


Bristol 


Sir Richard Vyvyan reported from the Committee 
Cemetery Bill. 


on the Bristol Cemetery Bill; That they had exa- 
mined the allegations of the Bill, and found the 
same to be true; and had gone through the Bill, 
and made Amendments thereunto; and the Amend- 
ments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


Bristol Court of An ingrossed Bill for granting more effectual 
Conscience Bill. Powers for the regulation of the Court of Conscience 
within the City of Bristol, was read the third time ; 
and Amendments were made to the Bill. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That Sir Richard Vyvyan do carry the 
Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Bristol An ingrossed Bill for removing and preventing En- 
Encroachments eroachments within the City and County of Bristol, 
_ and for better regulating the Shipping, Rivers, 

Wharfs, Banks and Quays, and the Markets within 


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A. 1837. 


the same, and for other purposes, was read the third 
time ; and Amendments were made to the Bill. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That Sir Richard Vyvyan do carry the 
Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Ordered, That the time for the Committee on the Blochairn 
Blochairn Canal Bill to make their Report, be en- ©anal Bill. 
larged till Monday next. 


Mr. Forbes reported from the Committee on the Campsie Canal 

Campsie Canal Bill; and to wkom a Petition against Bill, 

the said Bill was referred ; That the Standing Orders 

relative to Navigation Bills, had been complied with, 

and that no person appeared in support of the said 

Petition; and that the Committee had -examined 

the allegations of the Bill, and had found the same 

to be true; and had gone through the Bill, and 

made Amendments thereunto. 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Forbes reported from the Committee on the pgkeof Argyll’ 
Duke of Argyll’s Estate Bill; That they had exa~ Estate Bill, 
mined the allegations of the Bill, and found the 
same to be true; and that the parties concerned 
had given their consent to the Bill, to the satisfaction 
of the Committee; and that the Committee had 
gone through the Bill, and made Amendments there- 
unto; and the same were read, as follow ; 

Amendments to the Schedule (B.) 

Pr. 51. 1. 14. Leave out “ a quarter’s allowance.” 

Pr. 53. 1. 26. Leave out “a quarter’s allowance.” 

Pr. 56. 1. 10. Leave out “ to redeem furniture.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 


Petitions from Owners of dwelling-houses, shops, Dundee 
&amp;e., in Dundee ;— and, the Convener, Deacons of Waterworks 
Crafts, and Members of the Nine Incorporated Trades _ 
of Dundee; praying that they may be heard, by 
themselves, their counsel or agents, against certain 
parts of the Dundee Waterworks Bill,— were pre- 
sented, and read. 

And the said Petitions were ordered to be re- 
ferred to the Committee on the Bill; and the Peti- 
tioners heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
upon their Petitions, if they think fit; and counsel 
heard, in favour of the Bill, against the said Peti- 
tions. 


/ 


An ingrossed Bill for improving and regulating Stockport 
the Borough of Stockport, in the several Counties Improvement 
of Chester and Lancaster, was read the third time. ~"* 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Henry Maridond do carry the 
Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Mr. Tulk reported from the Committee on the Lowestoft 
Lowestoft Harbour Bill; That the Resolution of the Harbour Bill. 
House of the 17th day of March last, permitting the 
parties to proceed with their Bill, on abandoning 
such parts thereof as relate to Docks, had been com- 
plied with; and that the Committee had examined 
the allegations of the Bill, and found the same to be 
true; and had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Farr’s Estate Bill was read a second time; and Farr’s Estate 
committed to Sir Robert Price and the Hereford Bill. 
List. 


Mr. Ewart reported from the Committee on the Liverpool 
Liverpool Improvement Acts Amendment Bill; and os. 
to whom several Petitions against the said Bill were jent Bill. 
referred ; That no person appeared on behalf of the 
said Petitions; and that the Committee had exa- 
mined the allegations of the Bill, and found the 
same to be true; and had gone through the Bill, 
and made Amendments thereunto; and the Amend- 
ments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 

Cearns’ 











7 Wiut. IV. 


Cearns’ Estate Bill was read a second time; and 


Cearns’ Estate 
Bill. committed to Mr. Ewart and the Lancaster List. 


Southwark and Ordered, That the time for the Committee on the 
sown Southwark and Hammersmith Railway Bill to make 
ve their Report, be enlarged till Monday, the 19th day 

of this instant June. 


Lough Swilly A Petition of Inhabitants of Newtownlimavady, 


and Lough raying that the Lough Swilly and Lough Foyle 

_ a rainage Bill may pass into a law, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Agricultural Petitions from Shareholders of the Agricultural 


= enmund) and Commercial Bank of Ireland ;—and, Merchants 
(No. 2) Bill. and other Inhabitants of Liverpool; praying that 
the Agricultural and Commercial Bank, Ireland 
(No. 2.) Bill may pass into a law,—were presented, 


and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Commercial A Petition of Owners or Freighters of Steam 
—— Packets and other vessels trading to and from the 
Bi. «port of Dumbarton, and Merchants, Traders and 
others in the said town, praying that the Commercial 
Steam Navigation Company Bill may not pass into 
a law, was presented, and read; and ordered to lie 


upon the Table. 


Mersey A Petition of Inhabitants of Clonmel, praying 

a that the Mersey Conservancy Bill may not pass into 

: a law, was presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


Mr. Fazakerley reported from the Select Com- 
mittee appointed to inquire into the Administration 
of the Relief of the Poor under the orders and re- 
No. 369. ulations issued by the Commissioners appointed 
under the provisions of the Poor Law Amendment 
Act; and who were empowered to report the Minutes 
of the Evidence taken before them from time to 
time to the House; That they had made further 
Progress in the matters to them referred ; and had 
directed him to report the Minutes of the Evidence 
taken before them. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Fourteenth 
Report on 
Poor Law Act, 


Dowlais _ The Dowlais Market Bill was, according to Order, 
Market Bill. read a second time; and committed to Mr. Tooke 
and the Wales List. 


FireInsurances. A Petition of the Corporation of Tewkesbury, 
praying for a reduction of the duty on Fire In- 
surances, was presented, and read ; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


Coroners A Petition of Coroners of boroughs, and their 
nquests’ smbhe ; paying’ | 
Expenses Bill limbs, in the county of Kent, praying that the scale 


of expenses of holding Coroners’ Inquests may be 
made fixed and certain, and also that a Clause or 
Clauses may be inserted in the Coroners’ Inquests’ 
Expenses Bill to provide for the better and more 
adequate remuneration of Coroners, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Government Petitions from Abington (Limerich);—Saint Peter 

of Ireland. and Saint Paul, Kilmallock;— Prior and Kile- 
mieagh ; — Bunnane ;— and, Duagh; praying the 
House to support His Majesty’s Ministers in their 
government of Jreland,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Church Rates Petitions from Sitleby ;— Charmouth ;—- Market 

Regulation, Bosworth and Barleston ;— Dartford ;—and, New- 


thorpe and Kimberley ; praying that the proposed 
measure relative to Church Rates may receive the 
sanction of the House,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from New Sarum ;—Ellingham ;—For- 
dingbridge ;—Harbridge ; —Ibsley ;—Little Abing- 


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ton ;—Palling and Waxton ;— Garveston ; —Saint 
Bee’s ; - Northfield ;—Archdeacon and Clergy of 
the Deanery of Bath ;— Saint John’s, Beckermet ; 
—and, Archdeacon and Clergy of the diocese of 
Norwich; praying that the said proposed measure 
may not receive the sanction of the House,—were 
also presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


Petitions from Brampton ;— Boat-owners and Lord’s Day Bill. 
others in the Northern Division of Staffordshire ;— 

Burslem ;— Walton ;—and, Hayton ; praying that 

the Lords’ Day Bill may be permitted to go into a 

Committee of the whole House,—were presented, 

and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Lisburn and the Manor of Billul- Manor Courts 
tagh ;—and, the Manor of Derryvolgie; praying (Teland.) 
the House not to interfere with the privileges i 
Courts have hitherto enjoyed, was presented, and 
read; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Manor Courts (Jreland.) 


Petitions from Edinburgh (Lord Provost, &amp;¢c.) ;— Prisons 
and, Cupar Fife; praying that the Prisons (Sco¢- (Scotland) Bill 
land) Bill may pass mto a law,—were presented, 
and read ; and referred to the Select Committee on 
the Bill. 
A Petition of Noblemen, Commissioners of Supply, 
and Landholders of the county of Wigtown, praying 
that the said Bill may not pass into a law, was also 
presented, and read; and referred to the Select 
Committee on the Bill. 


A Petition of Persons residing in the Eastern Carts. 
Division of the county of Suffolk, praying for the 
repeal of the Clause in the Act of the last Session 
compelling persons to inscribe their names, callings 
and places of abode on all carriages of the descrip- 
tion formerly called Taxed Carts, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Association incorporated for Education 
discountenancing Vice, and promoting the know- ([Ireland.) 
ledge and practice of the Christian Religion, praying 
the House to take such measures as shall seem fit 
for placing the association on its former efficient 
footing, and for enabling it to promote its important 
objects, was presented, and read; and referred to 
the Select Committee on Plan of Education (Zreland.) 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Yeomanry and 
Return of the Number of Troops or Corps, or Regi- Volunteers. 
ments of effective Yeomanry, of Great Britain and 
Ireland, according to the last Muster Roll ; stating 
the Date of that Muster, and distinguishing the 
Number of Officers and Men in each Corps or Regi- 
giment; and the Expense of each Corps in 1836 ; 
showing the manner in which the Sums voted for 
Great Britain and Ireland in that year were ex- 
pended. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Saint Bee’s, praying poor Law Act. 
for the repeal of the Poor Law Act, was presented, 
and read; and referred to the Select Committee on 
the Poor Law Act. 


Petitions from Hugh Bidwell, of Kensington ;— Patents for 
and, Julius Ludolphus Schroder, of Brixton, Gen- Iventions Bill. 
tleman ; praying that the Patents for Inventions Bill 
may pass into a law,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of James Davis, of Great Brunswickh- 
street, Dublin, patent agent, praying that the said 
Bill may not pass into a law as it now stands, was 
also presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 


the Table. 


A Petition of Shareholders in the Agricultural Agricultural 
and Commercial Bank of Jreland, and others regi- end Commercial 
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Bank of Jreland, was presented, and read ; and re- 
ferred to the Select Committee on Joint Stock Banks. 


Registration A Petition of Session Clerks of Scotland, praying 
of Births, &amp;c.; That the Registration of Births, &amp;c., (Scotland); and, 


— Clandestine Marriages (Scotland) Bills, may not 
(Scotland ) pass into law as they now stand, was presented, and 
Bills. read ; and ordered to lie upon the ‘lable. 

Registration A Petition of Parish Clerks of several parishes 


— Marriages of the metropolis, and the suburbs thereof, praying 
a that a Clause may be inserted in the Registration 
and Marriages Bill for compensating the Petitioners 
for the losses they will sustain by the passing of the 
Registration and Marriages Acts of the last Session, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 

the Table. 


Highway Rates A Petition of William Ferdinand Wratislaw, of 

_ Rugby, Gentleman, praying that the Highway Rates 
Bill may not pass into a law, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Edinburgh A Petition of the Lord Provost, Magistrates and 

Water Com- Council of the city of Edinburgh, praying that the 

pany Bill. Edinburgh Water Company Bill may not pass into 
a law, was presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 

Poor Employ- Mr. Lynch presented a Bill to promote the em- 


a (Ireland) ployment of the Poor in Jreland: And the same 


No.379. 25 read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
Noe379- second time upon Wednesday, the 14th day of this 
instant June ; and to be printed. 


Moniesinthe — The ingrossed Bill for carrying to the Consolidated 
Exchequer Bill. Fund certain Monies paid into the Exchequer, and 
usually applied as a part of the Annual Aids and 
Supplies, and for cancelling the Stock which has 
been transferred to the Commissioners for the Re- 
duction of the National Debt, on account of the 
Redemption of Land Tax, was, according to Order, 
read the third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act for carrying to the Consolidated 
Fund certain Monies paid into the Exchequer, and 
usually applied as a part of the Annual Aids and 
Supplies, and for cancelling Stock transferred to the 
Commissioners for the reduction of the National 
Debt, on account of the Redemption of Land Tax. 
Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to the 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Bath Gas Bill. © Ordered, That the time for the Committee on the 


Bath Gas Bill to make their Report, be enlarged 
till Thursday next. 


North Metropo- A Petition of Vestrymen of Saint Mary-le-bone, 
oo Cemetery praying that the North Metropolitan Cemetery Bill 
; may not pass into a law as it now stands, was pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


NorthMetropo- Ordered, That the North Metropolitan Cemetery 
oo Cemetery Bill be read the third time upon Friday next. 
‘ Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed at 


the expense of the parties. 


Rating of Petitions from the Board of Guardians of the 

Tenements. Horne Union, in the county of Suffolk ;—and, the 
Henstead Union, in the county of Norfolk ; praying 
the House to pass a law for rating to the relief of the 
Poor the Owners instead of the Occupiers of Tene- 
ments under a certain annual value,—were pre- 
sented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on the Poor Law Act. 


Poor Relief 


(Ireland) Bill A Petition of Physicians and Surgeons of Munster, 


praying that the Poor Relief (Zreland) Bill may pass 


into a law, was presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 








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A Petition of Friends and Subscribers of the Poor Laws 
Mendicity and other Charitable Institutions of the (Irel#d). 
City of Dublin, was presented, and read; setting 
forth, That the Petitioners hail with sincere gratifi- 
cation and thankfulness the proposal of a system of 
Poor Laws being established for Ireland ; That they 
submit as a measure requiring the immediate atten- 
tion of the House, that from the moment the new 
system shall have been adopted by Parliament, and 
long before it can be put into even partial operation, 
voluntary efforts will be paralyzed, and the funds 
to be derived from that source will either entirely 
cease or be greatly diminished; the Petitioners 
have experienced this effect already to a serious 
extent in the Mendicity Institution of that city ; 
and whilst the workhouse system, not having been 
commenced, or but imperfectly in operation, the 
poor must extensively and deeply suffer ; that for 
remedying such an evil as the withholding the usual 
voluntary subscriptions, in the anticipation of a 
compulsory rate being about to be imposed, the 
Petitioners suggest that the Lord Lieutenant of 
Freland should be authorized to make such advances 
of money, as he may deem necessary, for preserving 
the existence of such institutions upon their present 
principles as to regulations, and to be worked with 
their present machinery until superseded by the 
operation of the new system, providing for the re- 
payment of such advances upon the security of 
contingent rates ; and the Petitioners pray, that the 
House will also be further pleased to guard, in the 
proposed measure, the trust funds confided to the 
various charitable bodies in that city; and that as 
far as possible, in the contemplated change, they 
should not be diverted from their original des- 
tination. 

Ordered, That the said Petition do lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of Richard Harpur, late a Tidewaiter Richara 
in the port of Dublin, complaining of having been Harpur. 
dismissed from his situation on a charge of felony, 
and praying for inquiry, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Attornies and Solicitors of Zreland ; Attornies 
setting forth, That great inconvenience and injury to and Solicitors 
the public service, and to suitors in Jreland, have “*!4-) 
arisen from divers offices connected with the admi- 
nistration of justice, and the practice of the Courts 
of law, being filled by persons who are not members 
of the said profession of attorney and solicitor, and 
many of whom are utterly ignorant of the profession 
and practice of the law ; and praying the House to 
apply such remedy as they may deem fit, was pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


The Order for taking into consideration To-mor- Printed Papers. 
row, the Petition of John Bowyer Nichols and John 
Gough Nichols, was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be taken into 
consideration upon Thursday next. 

The Order for taking into consideration To-mor- 
row, the Petition of James Hansard and Luke Graves 
Hansard, was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be taken into 
consideration upon Thursday next. 


A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Farrer and Message from 

Sir Goffin Wilson: the Lords. 
r. Speaker, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Reoorders’ 
Act to empower the Recorder or other Person pre- Courts Bill. 
siding in Quarter Sessions in Corporate Cities and 
Towns, and Justices of the Peace for Counties, 

Ridings or Divisions, to divide their respective Courts, 
in certain cases, with Amendments; to which Amend- 
ments the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House: And also, 

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qumpike Acts The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 

Continuance Act for continuing until the first day of June, One 

Bill thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, and to the 
end of the then next Session of Parliament, the several 
Acts for regulating the Turnpike Roads in Great 
Britain, which will expire with the present or with 
the next Session of Parliament ; with Amendments, 
to which Amendments the Lords desire the concur- 
rence of this House: And also, 

Fictitious Votes ~The Lords give leave to the Earl of Glengall to 

(Ireland.) come to the Select Committee appointed by this 
House, to inquire how far the intentions of the 
Reform Bill are defeated by creating and regis- 
tering fictitious and improper Votes in Jreland, in 
order to his being examined as a witness before the 
said Committee, if his Lordship think fit :— And 
then the Messengers withdrew. 


Newspaper Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
(elnd.) Return of the Number of Stamps issued to each of 
rT . 


the Newspapers published in Jreland, from 5th 
January 1836 to 5th January 1837. 


Sugar. Ordered, That the Account relative to Sugar, 
No. 370. which was presented upon Friday last, be printed. 
Coals. Ordered, That the Account relative to Coals, 
No.371. which was presented upon Friday last, be printed. 
Schools Ordered, That the Account relative to Schools 


oo erg (England and Scotland), which was presented upon 
No 372. Friday last, be printed. 


Church Ordered, That the Paper relative to Church Ac- 

Accommodation egmmodation (Scotland), which was presented upon 

a Friday last, be printed. 

Glass “nly Ordered, That the Amended Return relative to 
No.374, the Glass Duty, which was presented upon Friday 


last, be printed. 


Excise Inquiry Ordered, That the Paper relative to the Excise 

Commission. Inquiry Commission, which was presented upon 
No.375. Friday last, be printed. 

Distress Ordered, That the Papers relative to Distress 

(Spitalfields and (Spitalfields and Nottingham) which was presented 

Nottingham.) ~ypon Friday last, be printed. 


No. 376. ‘ 
Dies thie Ordered, That the Account relative to Poor 
Augmentation. Livings Augmentation, which was presented upon 


No. 377. Friday last, be printed. 


Education Ordered, That the Report of the Commissioners 
recaps of Education in Jreland, which was presented upon 
No. 378. Friday last, be printed. 


Poor Inquiry Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer presented, by 
(Ireland) “His Majesty’s Command,—Remarks on the Third 
Report of the Jrish Poor Inquiry Commissioners, 
drawn up by the desire of the Chancellor of the 
Exchequer, for the purpose of being submitted to 
His Majesty’s Government, with an Appendix and 
Supplementary remarks, by George Cornewall Lewis, 

Esquire. 
Ovedered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Highway Rates A Petition of Trustees and Creditors of the King- 
-™ ton Turnpike Trust, praying that the Highway 
Rates Bill may pass into a law, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Poor Relief A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 
(Ireland) Bill. posed, That the Order of the day, for the Com- 
mittee on the Poor Relief (Jreland) Bill, be now 

read ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 

Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” to 

the end of the Question, in order to add the words 

“ in the opinion of this House the present system 

“ of the currency is not sufficient to meet the wants, 

“ and protect the interests of the community,” in- 

stead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words pro- 





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437 
The House divided : 


The Yeas to the old Lobby ; 
The Noes to the new Lobby. 


Tellers for the { Mr. Baring, } 85 
Yeas, L Mr. Robert Steuart: ; 
Tellers for the J Mr. Thomas Attwood, ~ 
Noes, Mr. Harvey : } wes 


So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That the Order of the day for the Com- 
mittee on the Poor Relief (Jreland) Bill, be now 
read ; and the same being read:—The House re- 
solved itself into the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 


CiauseE, N° 43, (Religious Service to be provided 
in workhouses) —~—read. 

Several Amendments made. 

Question put, That the said Clause, as amended, 
stand part of the Bill ; 

The Committee divided : 

Tellers for thef Mr. More O’ Ferrall, 


Yeas, Mr. Vernon Smith: ~~ 
Tellers for thef Mr. Ross, 36 
Noes, Sir George Sinclair : ‘ 


Crausz, N° 44, (No inmate of workhouse obliged 
to attend religious service contrary to his principles) 
read. 

Amendment proposed: P. 16. 1.1. After the 
word “ all” to msert the word “ reasonable.” 
Question, That the word “ reasonable” be there 
inserted——put, and negatived. 

Crause, N° 44, agreed to. 

Crauses, N° 45 and N° 46, agreed to. 


Crause, N° 47, (Commissioners may visit and 
regulate hospitals) ——read. 
Amendment proposed: P. 16. 1.34. After the 
word “ contributions” to insert the following words 
“ or by private endowment.” 

Whereupon a Motion was made, and Question 
put, That the Clause be postponed ; 

The Committee divided : 











Tellers for thes Mr. Wakley, lias 
Yeas, Mr. O’ Connell : May 
Tellers for the f Mr. Robert Steuart, 109 
Noes, | Sir Andrew Leith Hay: } . 


Motion made, and Question, That the Chairman 
do report Progress, and ask leave to sit again— 
Motion by leave withdrawn. 


Question put, That the words “ or by private 
“ endowment” be there inserted ; 

The Committee divided : 

Tellers for the Mr. Serjeant Jackson, "7 
Yeas, Mr. West: } : 

Tellers for thef Mr. Wyse, } 30 
Noes, Mr. O’ Connell : . 

Cuiause, N° 47, as amended, agreed to. 

Cravuse, N° 48, postponed. 

To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 





And the House having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Tuesday morning ; 


Martis, 6° die Junii, 1837: 

Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had made further Pro- 
cress in the Bill; and that he was directed to move, 

hat the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, again 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


reading of the Borough BoundariesBill ; daries Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Bankrupts Bill. 
reading of the Bankrupts Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 





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The Order of the day being read, for the second Borough Boun- 




























































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Metropolis 
Improvement 
Bill, 


Uniformity of 
Process Bill, 


Registration 
and Marriages 
Bill. 


Parliamentary 
Electors Bill. 


Coroners’ 
Inquests’ 
Expenses Bill. 


oes | 
Punishment 


Abolition Bill. 


Wills Bill. 


Secular Juris- 
diction (York 
and Ely) Bill. 


Hackney 
Carriages 
(Metropoiis) 
Bill. 


Ways and 
Means. 


Supply. 


Supply 
(7th April.) 


Royal Military 
Canal Bill. 


Audit Board. 


Leave of 


Absence. 


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The Order of the day being read, for the second | 
reading of the Metropolis Improvement Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Uniformity of Process Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Registration and Marriages Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Parliamentary Electors Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Coroners’ Inquests’ Expenses Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee upon the Pillory Punishment 
Abolition Bill; and, after some time spent therein, 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Robert 
Steuart reported, That the Committee had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments there- 
unto. 


Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Wills Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for receiving the 
Report on the Secular Jurisdiction (York and Ely) 
Bill; 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon Friday 
next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Hackney Carriages (Metropolis) Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Ways and Means; 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for receiving 
the Report from the Committee of Supply ; 
Ordered, That the Report be received ‘To-morrow. 


The Royal Military Canal Bill was, according 
to Order, read a second time; and committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for To-morrow. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Statement, in detail, of the Amount paid in the 
yeu ending 5th January 1837, out of the Consoli- 
dated Fund, or from any source, specifying that 
source, for the Salaries and Allowances of the 
Chairman and Commissioners of the Board of Audit, 
and of the other Salaries and Expenses of the said 
Board ; such Statement to specify the Name and 
Salary of each Person, and the Amount paid for 
each description of Service. 

Ordered, That Sir Edward Scott have leave of 
absence for a month, on account of ill health. 

And then the House, having continued to sit till 


one of the clock on Tuesday morning, ad- 
journed till this day. 





Junie. 


A. 1837. 


Martis, 6° die Junii ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi [Vt Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


p® ITIONS from Shareholders of Garvagh;— Agricultural 
and, Proprietors of Stock residing in Zondon- and Commercial 
derry ; praying that the Agricultural and Commer- ansee 
cial Bank Ireland, (No. 2.) Bill, may pass into“ ©” * 
a law,—were presented, and read ; and ordered to 

lie upon the Table. 


An ingrossed Bill for the better supplying with Leeds Water. 
Water the Town and Neighbourhood of Leeds, in works Bill. 
the West Riding of the County of York, was read 
the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Sir John Beckett do carry the 
Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Dean and Chapter of York Estate Bill was Dean and 
read a second time; and committed to Mr. Brother- Chapter of 
ton and the York List. = aes 

A Petition of Messrs. Jones and Walmisley, Par- Dowlais 
liamentary agents, praying that the time for making Market Bill 
the Report on the Dowlais Market Bill, be enlarged 
till the 19th day of this instant June, was presented, 
and read ; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Petitions for Private Bills. 


A Petition of Land-owners, Occupiers and Inha- Collier Dock 
bitants of Deptford, praying that the Collier Dock and Surrey 
and Surrey Canal Bill may pass into a law, was anne 
rng and read; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 


Petitions from Inhabitants of Londonderry ;—and, Mersey 
Bandon ; praying that the Mersey Conservancy Bill = gia 
may not pass into a law,—were presented, and~'* 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from Francis Richard Price, of Bryn-y- 

Pys, in the county of Flint, Esquire ;—Lords of 
Manors and Owners of Lands on the shores of the 
River Mersey ;—and, Richard Smith, of Poulton- 
cum~-Seacombe, Esquire ; praying that they may be 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, 
against certain parts of the said Bill,—were also pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


Petitions from West Cowes;—Alton ;— Mortimer Church Rates 
Stratford ;—Chairman of a meeting at Auchter- Regulation. 
muchty ; — Peppard; — Leicester; — and, Beach 
Hill; praying that the proposed measure relative 
to Church Rates may receive the sanction of the 
House,—were presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from Middleton ;—Great Abingdon;— 

Great Farringdon ;-- Hornby;-- Saint Andrew’s, 
Glamorganshire ;-— Kilybebyll;-— and, Rochdale; 
praying that the said proposed measure may not 
receive the sanction of the House,—were also pre- 


sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of Members of the Medical Profession Poor —, 
of the Province of Munster, praying that the Poor nee) 
Relief (Jreland) Bill, may pass into a law, was pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. . 

A Petition of Governors of the county of Louth 
Hospital, praying that the said Bill may not pass 
into a law as it now stands, was also presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitant Householders of the London _ 
Ward of Cripplegate Without, in the city of London, — 
praying that the Report of the Commissioners ap- 
pointed to inquire into the affairs of the wpetiiiee 

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of the city of London, be, as speedily as may be con- 
venient to the House, taken into consideration, was 
presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


Steam Commu- A Petition of Merchants, Bankers, Traders and 
cial nication with thers, of the city of London ;— Members of the Pro- 
4 _ visional Committee of an Association formed for the 

purpose of promoting Steam Navigation with India, 
vid the Red Sea;—and, the President, Vice Presi- 
dent and Directors of the Chamber of Commerce 
and Manufactures of Manchester; praying the 
House to adopt measures for establishing a regular 
Monthly Steam Communication by way of the 
Red Sea, between the principal ports of India 
and England, were presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of Merchants, Bankers and Traders 
in the city of Zondon connected with Ceylon, pray- 
ing, That the House in establishing a regular Monthly 
Steam Communication with India by way of the 
Red Sea, will consider the claims of Point de Galle 
as a Packet Station, and that no measure may re- 
ceive the sanction of the House that does uot obtain 
for the island of Ceylon the great benefits to be de- 
rived by a regular and expeditious Steam Commu- 
nication with England, was also presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Poor Law A Petition of Edmund Dewdney, clerk, of Portsea, 

Committee. alleging that the conduct of the Select Committee 
on the Poor Law Act, when he was examined before 
them, was partial; and praying for inquiry,was pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Ordered, That the Petition be printed. 

PoorLawAct. Petitions from Manchester;—-and, Rochdale ; 

praying for the repeal of the Poor Law Act,—were 

presented, and read; and referred to the Select 

Committee on the Poor Law Act. 

A Petition of Inhabitants of Droylsden, praying 
for the amendment of the said Act, was also pre- 
sented, and read; and referred to the said Select 
Committee. 


Recovery of A Petition of Owners or Occupiers of property 
Tenements Bill. in Chorlton-wpon-Medlock, praying that the Recovery 
of Tenements Bill may pass into a law, was pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to-lie upon the Table. 


Tobacco, A Petition of Residents in Rochdale, praying for 
a reduction of the Duty on Tobacco, was pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


Soap. A Petition of Consumers of Soap, residing in 
Rochdale, praying for the repeal of the Duty on 
Soap, was presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


Lord’s Day Bill. Petitions from Bilston; -- Wolverhampton; — 
Ettingshall;—- Prescot ;-— Buxton ;~— Boroughbridge; 
—and, Alfreton; praying that the Lord’s Day Bill 
may be permitted to go into a Committee of the 
whole House,—were presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


ee A Petition of the Rector and Parish Officers of 

pre Pinzxton, praying the House to pass a Bill, giving 
to local authorities the power of transferring Fairs 
and Markets to some other day of the week when- 
ever they shall fall either on the Saturday or the 
Monday, was presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


Factories, A Petition of Power-loom Overlookers of Man- 
chester, Oldham, Bury, Chorley, Warrington, Wigan, 
Hyde, Newton, Stayley Bridge, Ashton-under-Lyne, 
Preston and Blackburn, praying the House to re- 
we the actual working of all persons in the Mills 
OL. 92. 


6° Junie. 439 


and Factories of the United Kingdom to ten hours 
per day for five days of the week, and eight hours 
on the Saturday; and to prevent any child under 
ten years of age being worked in any Factory or 
Mill whatever, was presented, and read ; and or- 
dered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Jnverness ;—and, Banff’; praying Municipal 
that the Municipal Corporations (Scotland) Bill Corporations, 

. ° . . (Scotland) Bill. 
may, with certain alterations, pass into a law,—were 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of the Governor, Deputy Governor, Rating of 
Assistants and Guardians of the Poor of Sudbury, Terements. 
praying the House to pass a law for rating to the 
relief of the Poor the proprietors of all cottages 
under the yearly value of 8/., instead of the occu- 

lers, was presented, and read ; and referred to the 
Select Committee on the Poor Law Act. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That he had Bridgwater 
received a letter from Henry Broadwood, Esquire, a 
who is returned a Burgess to serve in this present 
Parliament for the Borough of Bridgwater, that 

he the said Henry Broadwood did not intend to 

defend his Return for the said Borough. 

And the said Letter was read, as followeth : 


To the Right Honourable The Speaker of the 
House of Commons. 
Sir, 

A Petition having been presented by Richard 
Brinsley Sheridan, Esquire, against my Return at 
the last election for the Borough of Bridgwater, 
in the county of Somerset, 1, as Sitting Member, 
beg to inform you, and I do hereby declare, that it 
is not my imtention to defend my Election or 
Return. 

I have the honour to be, Sir, . 
Your most obedient Servant, 
House of Commons, Henry Broadwood. 
5th June 1837. 


The House was moved, That the eleventh, twelfth 
and thirteenth sections of the Act 9 Geo. 4, c. 22., 
to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to the 
Trial of Controverted Elections, or Returns of Mem- 
bers to serve in Parliament, might be read ; and the 
same were read. 

The House was also moved, That the Order made 
upon the 23d day of May last, for taking into con- 
sideration, upon Tuesday, the 13th day of this in- 
stant June, the Petition of Richard Brinsley Sheri- 
dan, Esquire, complaining of an undue Election and 
Return for the Borough of Bridgwater, might be 
read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be taken into 
consideration upon Tuesday, the 11th day of July 
next, at three of the clock in the afternoon. 


A Petition of the Chairman and Secretary of the Regium 
Scottish Central Board for vindicating the rights of Donum. 
Dissenters, praying that no further grant of public 
money be made to Dissenting Ministers in Ireland, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of the Chairman of the Association of Internal 
Postmasters and Coach Proprietors of Scotland, Co™™nication. 
praying that the House, when revising the present 
laws as to Post Horse Duties, and Duties payable 
on Carriages let for hire, and on Stage Coaches, 
will place these on an equal footing, as far as prac- 
ticable, with Railways, Canals and Steam Naviga- 
tion, was presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


A Petition of William Thomas, of Court, in the Dowlais 
town of Merthyr Tidvil, praying that he may be Market Bill. 





heard, by his counsel or agent, against certain parts 
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Tithes 
(Treland.) 


Prisons 


(Scotland) Bill. 


Medical 
Profession. 


Committees on 
Private Bills. 


Robert Stewart. 


Welsh Bishops. 


Dukeof Argyll’s 
Estate Bill. 


London and 
Brighton 
Railway Bill 
CRennie’s Line.) 


440 


of the Dowiais Market Bill, was presented, and 
read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, if he 
think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the Bill, 
against the said Petition. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Kilmeena, praying for 
the abolition of Tithes in Jreland, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Provost, Magistrates and Council 
of the burgh of Kirkwall, in Orkney, praymg that 
the Islands of Orkney and Shetland may be exempted 
from the general enactments of the Prisons (Scof- 
land) Bill, was presented, and read ; and referred to 
the Select Committee on the Bill. 


A Petition of the President of the Royal College 
and Incorporation of Surgeons of Edinburgh, pray- 
ing the House to protect those whom the law recog- 
nizes as qualified to practise the different branches 
of the Medical Profession in one part of the United 
Kingdom from being subjected to vexatious prosecu- 
tions for practising the same in other parts thereof, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 


the Table. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return, showing the Number of Committees on 
Private Bills which sat daily during the last Session 
of Parliament; distinguishing those which were 
ys xan from those which were not opposed, and 
showing the Number of Days which the Committee 
on each opposed Bill sat. 


A Petition of Robert Stewart, Minister of the 
Church of Scotland, residing at Rutland House, 
Blackheath Road, Greenwich, alleging that he saved 
the life of Robert Wilson Hay, Esquire, late Under 


Secretary for the Colonies, and complaining of not | 


having been remunerated for so doing, was pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 


Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Dwggyfylchi, praying | 
that no individual unacquainted with the Welsh 
language may be henceforward instituted to a Bishop- 
rick in Wales, and that all those parishes which are 
at present attached to Bishopricks and Sinecures in 
England may, on the expiration of existing interests, | 
cease to be applied to purposes unconnected with | 
the Principality of Wales, was presented, and read ; | 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. | 


The Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act to alter | 
and extend the powers of an Act passed in the | 
eleventh year of the reign of his late Majesty King | 
George the Fourth, intituled, “‘ An Act for empower- | 
ing George William Duke of Argyll, and his Trustee, 
to borrow a sum of Money, and to make it a charge 
on the Estate of Argyll, upon certain Conditions,” | 
was read the third time. 


| 
| 


Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, | 





do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Forbes do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, with Amendments; to which 
Amendments this House doth desire the concurrence | 
of their Lordships. 

A Petition of Sir John Rennie, civil engineer, taking 
notice of the London and Brighton Railway Bill 
(Rennie’s Line) ;, and setting forth, That the Peti- | 
tioner has heard with surprise that, by means of 
misrepresentation of facts and circumstances on the | 
part of the promoters of rival lines of Railways to | 
Brighton, the House has been induced to come to | 
a decision by which the whole question will be | 





6° Junie. 


A. 1837. 


opened again, and the subject submitted to the de- 
| cision of a military engineer ; the Petitioner submits 
| that such an officer, whose education and pursuits 
are of an entirely different nature from that required 
_by a civil engineer, is not a competent judge upon 
| such a difficult and complicated question ; and he 
/also submits, that the question whether one line of 
Railway should be preferred to another, depends 
‘not upon engineering particulars alone, but upon 
| a variety of circumstances, and, amongst others, the 
convenience of the termini, facility for making 
branches, and the means of conferring the greatest 
benefit to the surrounding country, with the least 
possible interference with private and ornamental 
property, all which the Petitioner believes will be 
accomplished by the line surveyed by him; and 
praying the House to take the subject again under 
consideration, with a view to adopt the Report of 
the Committee on his line of Railway, in order that 
the Bill for that le may be sent back to them, to 
have the landowners heard, and the clauses settled, 


was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of Shareholders in Rennie’s Line of London and 
Brighton Railway ; praying that the parties may be Reliway - 
reimbursed the expenses incurred in the investigation (Rennie’s Line) 
before the Committee, and may not be called upon 
to pay the charges of the engineer to be appointed 
by the Government, was offered to be presented :— 
But the King’s Recommendation not having been 
signified, the Petition was not received. 


The House proceeded to take into further consi- Dundalk and 
deration the Report which, upon the 238d day of Ballibay 
May last, was made from the Committee on’ the Bly Bil. 
Dundalk and Ballibay Railway Bill; printed Copies 





of the Bill having been delivered at the door upon 


Friday, the 26th day of May last; and the Amend- 
/ments were read, and agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


The House was moved, That the Petition of James London and 
Mills, which was presented upon the 25th day of Brighton 


7 . Railway Bill 
May last, praying for the appointment of a Com- (stephenson’s 





| mittee to inquire into and report upon the gross mis- Line.) 


conduct complained of in his Petition presented on 
the 10th day of April last, might be read; and the 
same being read ; 

A Motion was made, and the Question being put, 
That a Select Committee be appointed, to inquire 
into the allegations contained in the Petition of Mr. 
Mills, relative to the conduct of certain parties in 
respect of Stephenson’s Line of Brighton Sicdvent: 
-—It passed in the Negative. 


A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Roupell and Message from 

Mr. Senior : Os Lam. 
Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Stewart's 
to enable the Tutors and Curators of Sir Michael Estate Bill 
Robert Shaw Stewart, Baronet, to grant Feu Rights 
of the Estate of Greenock, and other Lands in the 
County of Renfrew ; to which the Lords desire the 
concurrence of this House: And also, 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Hind’s 
for carrying into effect a Contract entered into with Estate Bill. 
Edward Riddell, Esquire, for the sale to him of a 
certain Farm, called Broomy Hall Farm, situate in 
the Township of Dalton, in the Parish of Mewburn, 
in the County of Vorthumberland, devised in strict 
settlement by the Will of Elizabeth Archer Hind, 
Spinster, deceased, and for applying the Money 
thence arising in the purchase of other Hereditaments 
in lieu thereof, to be settled to the like uses; to which 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House: And 
also, 

The Lords request that this House will re leave Birmingham 
to Sir John Eardley Wilmot, Baronet, a Member of a 
this House, to attend their Lordships, in order - (No. 2:) Bill. 

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7 Wit. IV. 


his being examined as a Witness before the Com- 
mittee to whom the Birmingham and Derby Junction 
Railway (No. 2.) Bill stands committed :—And then 
the Messengers withdrew. 

The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the last part of the said Message :—And Sir Eardley 
Wilmot, being present in his place, declared that he 
was willing, with leave of the House, to go to the 
House of Lords, as desired by their Lordships. 

Resolved, That Sir Eardley Wilmot, Baronet, have 
leave to go to the House of Lords, as desired by 
their Lordships, if he think fit. 

And the Messengers were again called in; and 
Mr. Speaker acquainted them therewith :—And then 
they again withdrew. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being put, 
That the Surveys, Papers and Documents relating 
to Mills’s Line of Railway to Brighton be referred 
to the Engineer appointed, or to be appointed, to 
examine the merits of the respective Lines of Rail- 
road to Brighton, and to report his opinion in like 
manner on the said Line; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 


Tellers for the Yeas,{ = a : } 43, 


;... J Mr. Shaw Lefevre 
Tellers for the Noes, Mr. Hope: , 


So it passed in the Negative. 


1 
J 71. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being put, 
That an humble Address be presented to His Ma- 
jesty, that He will be graciously pleased to give 
directions, that the Military Engineer appointed by 
His Majesty in pursuance of a former Address of 
this House, be instructed, when considering the 
subject of the London and Brighton Lines of Rail- 
way, to keep in view the formation of one main 
southern trunk Line out of London, by which unne- 
cessary intersection of the country may be avoided, 
and facilities of approach given to other towns on 
the southern coast ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 


Tellers for the Yeas, Mr Hodges ; } 38. 
Tellers for the Noes,{ ll i sth ee 7 36. 


So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That leave be given to bring in a Bill for 
rating Owners, and not the Occupiers, of Tenements 
under a certain Annual Value:—And the said Motion 
was, with leave of the House, withdrawn. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for removing Doubts respecting the validity of cer- 
tain Marriages among Persons professing the Jewish 
Religion: And that Mr. Fowell Buxton and Dr. 
Lushington do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Fox Maule presented, pursuant to Orders,— 
Copies of all Correspondence that has passed between 
the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and the Magistrates 
of Youghal, relative to the late Fire on the Premises 
of Mr. Luke Howard, of that Town. 

Copies of Reports sent to the Zrish Government 
with respect to the detention of any Cattle seized 
for Tithes in the Gaol of Wezford. 

Mr. Fox Maule also presented, by His Majesty’s 
command,—Copies of Evidence, Oral and Docu- 
mentary, taken and received by the Commissioners 
——_ by His late Majesty King George the 4th, 
July 23d, 1826, and re-appointed by His present 
Majesty, October 12th, 1830, for visiting the Uni- 
versities of Scotland. 

Vor. 92. 


6°—7° Junie. 


Mr. Fox Maule also presented, pursuant to the di- Ecclesiastieat 








441 





rections of an Act of Parliament,—Order in Council, © 
dated the 19th April 1837, approving a Scheme pre- 
pared by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners under the 
6th and 7th Will. 4, c.77, for transferring certain 
— of the Dioceses of Lincoln and Norwich to the 
locese of Ely, and charging the Bishop of Ely 
with a fixed annual Payment towards the augmenta- 
ion of the smaller Bishopricks. 
" — That the said Papers do lie upon the 
able. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Poor Relief 
into a Committee upon the Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill. (Ireland) Bill. 


(In the Committee.) 
Cravuse, N° 49, agreed to. 
Crause, N° 50, amended, and agreed to. 
Crauses, N° 51 and N° 52, agreed to. 
Crausess, N° 53 to N° 58, postponed. 


Cuiavuse, N° 59 (Rate to be made) read. 

Amendment proposed: At the end of the Clause 
to add “ Provided always, That such Rates shall not 
“* in any case exceed in amount Three pounds per 
“ centum upon the net amount value of such rate- 
“‘ able hereditaments as the same shall be estimated 
“ under the provisions of the Act.” 

Question proposed, That those words be there 
added——put, and negatived. 

Ciause, N° 59, agreed to. 

Cuiavuse, N° 60 (Where hereditaments are rate- 
able)——read. 

Amendment proposed: P. 20. 1. 41. To leave 
out all the words after “all” to the end of the 
Clause, and insert, “ rents and all profits, and value 
“ of all town lands occupied for the purpose of 
“ grazing.” instead renee § 

Question, That the words proposed to be left out 
stand part of the Clause——put, and agreed to. 

Another Amendment proposed: L. 41. After 
the word “ lands ”’ to insert “ And.” 

Question, That the word “ And” be there in- 
serted——put, and negatived. 

Amendment proposed: P. 21. 1.4. To leave out 
the words “ except rents seck and rents charge.” 

Question, That those words stand part of the 
Clause—~-put, and negatived. 

Another Amendment proposed: L. 5. To leave 
out the words “right to running water, or water 
“ power.” 

Question put, That those words stand part of the 
Clause ; 

The Committee divided : 
Tellers for thef Mr. Robert Steuart, 1 a0 

Yeas, Mr. Lynch: lag 

Tellers for thef Mr. O’ Connell, 27 

Noes, Sir Robert Ferguson : } 0 jh 

Another Amendment proposed : In 1. 5. To leave 
out “ allcanals,navigations and rights of navigation.” 

Question put, That those words stand part of the 














Clause ; 
The Committee divided. 
Tellers for thef Mr. Robert Steuart, 66 
Yeas, Mr. Lynch: } : 
Tellers for the/ Mr. O’ Connell, Lo 
Noes, Sir Robert Ferguson: 


Other Amendments made. ~ 
Crause, N° 60, as amended, agreed to. 


To report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. 





And the House having continued to sit till after 

twelve of the clock on Wednesday morning ; 
Mercurii, 7° die Junii, 1837: 

Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal 

reported, That the Committee had made further Pro- 

ress in the Bill; and that he was directed to move, 

hat the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, 
again resolve itself into the said Committee. 

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449 6°—7° Junie. 


Registration The Order of the day being read, for the Commit- 
and Marriages tee on the Registration and Marriages (No. 2) Bill; 


een dee Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 

Pill } i i 

oe Mr. Baring reported the Pillory Punishment 


Abolition Bil, ‘“Sbelition Bill; and the Amendments were read, 
and agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time upon Friday next. 


oe The Order of the day being read, for the second 
(Ireland) Bill, reading of the Treasurers of Counties (Zreland) Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 


To-morrow. 


sen. The Order of the day being read, for the second 
BL reading of the Metropolis Improvement Bill ; 


Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Friday next. 


any The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
(Metrepoli mittee on the Hackney Carriages (Metropolis) Bill ; 
polis) - A 3 ' J 
Bill. Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
— The House was moved, That the Act 50 Geo. 3, 
Salarie 


c. 31, for augmenting the Salaries of the Lords of 
Session, Lords Commissioners of Justiciary, and 
Barons of Exchequer in Scotland, and Judges in 
Ireland, might be read ; and the same being read ; 

And a Motion bemg made, That this House will, 
upon Thursday, the 22d day of this instant June, re- 
solve itself into a Committee, to consider of augment- 
ing the Salaries of His Majesty’s Judges in Scotland ; 

Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, by His Ma- 
jesty’s command, acquainted the House, That His 
Majesty, having been informed of the subject- 
matter of this Motion, recommends it to the con- 
sideration of this House. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday, 
the 22d day of this instant June, resolve itself into 
the said Committee. 


Get Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed 

to inquire into the monopoly enjoyed by persons in 

Treland on certain Roads there; how far the said 

monopoly is consistent with law, the convenience 

of Travellers, and the Revenue of the Post Office ; 

also, into the best mode of removing the said mono- 

poly, keeping in view the rights of private parties, 

if any:—And a Committee was appointed of Mr. 

Wallace, Lord Viscount Clements, Sir Henry Parnell, 

Sir Charles Coote, Mr. William O’ Brien, Sir Robert 

Ferguson, Mr. Hamilton, Sir Richard Musgrave, 

Mr. Christopher Fitzsimon, Mr. Morgan O’ Connell, 

Mr. Vesey, Mr. George Evans, Mr. Longfield, Mr. 
Lowther Chapman, and Mr. Callaghan. 
Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 


(Scotland.) 


a The House proceeded to take into consideration 
Bill, the Amendment made by the Lords to the Bill, in- 
tituled, An Act for continuing until the first day of 
June, One thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, 
and to the end of the then Session of Parliament, 
the several Acts for regulating the Turnpike Roads 
in Great Britain, which will expire with the present 
or with the next Session of Parliament; and the same 
was 1ead, as followeth: 
Pr. 1. 1. 18. Leave out from the first “ Parlia- 
‘“* ment” to the first “ And” in 1. 20. 
The said Amendment, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 
Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendment made by their Lordships. 


Tuclosure Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
Awards Bill. for confirming the Title of the Crown to Allotments 
made under Inclosure Acts where the Awards have 
not been duly executed: And that Mr. Edward John 
Stanley and Mr. Baring do prepare, and bring it in. 





A. 1837. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Probate of 

to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this House, 
a Return for the years 1834, 1835 and 1836, from 
the several Provincial, Diocesan and Archidiaconal 
Courts of England and Wales :—1. Of the whole 
Number of Wills proved in each :—2. Of the Num- 
ber of unattested Wills without Codicils:—3. Of 
the Number of Wills with Codicils unattested, spe- 
cifying the Number of the same to each Will re- 
spectively; distinguishing the Numbers proved re- 
spectively under each Scale of the Probate Duty:— 
4. Of the Number of Administrations which passed 
the Seals of the said Courts in the said years; 
specifying in like manner the Numbers proved under 
each Scale of the Duty (the Names not required in 
any Class, but the Numbers only). 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Validity of 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased Wills. 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return for the last Ten years, of the Num- 
ber of Suits in the Ecclesiastical Courts, touching 
the validity of Wills, Codicils and other Testament- 
ary Papers; distinguishing whether the Papers in 
dispute were Holograph or otherwise, or attested or 
unattested ; and in what Courts the same shall have 
been decided ; distinguishing those in which the 
Testamentary Papers were, or were not, established ; 
specifying, also, the Number of Decisions from 
which Appeals were brought ; and distinguishing the 
cases in which the Documents forming the ground- 
work of the Suits were Holograph or otherwise. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this ee as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Mr. Serjeant Talfourd presented a Bill to conso- Copyright Bil, 
lidate and amend the Laws relating to Property in No, 380. 
the nature of Copyright in Books, Musical Com- 
positions, Acted Dramas, Pictures, and Engravings, 
to provide Remedies for the violation thereof, and 
extend the term of its duration: And the same was 
read the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time upon Wednesday, the 14th day of this instant 
June ; and to be printed. 


Mr. Fox Maule, by Order, presented a Bill for Jewish 
removing Doubts respecting the validity of certain — - 
Marriages among Persons professing the Jewish Re- No. 381. 
ligion: And the same was read the first time ; and 
ordered to be read a second time upon Wednesday, 
the 14th day of this instant June ; and to be printed. 


Stewart's Estate Bill was read the first time ; and ——-., 
ordered to be read a second time. . 


Hind’s Estate Bill was read the first time ; and Hind’s - 
ordered to be read a second time. Estate Bill. 


Mr. Edward John Stanley presented a Bill for Inclosure 
confirming the Title of the Crown to Allotments Awards Bill. 
made under Inclosure Acts, where the Awards have No. 382. 
not been duly executed: And the same was read 
the first time ; and ordered to be read a second time 
To-morrow ; and to be printed. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till after one of the clock on Wednesday 
morning, adjourned till this day. 








Mercurii, 7° die Junit ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi IV“ Regis, 1837. 
PRAYERS. 


O# DERED, That the Caoutchoue Company Caoutchoue 
Bill be read the third time upon Wednesday Compas * 
next. 





Ordered, 





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ead God tom 








Dundalk and 
Rallibay 
Railway Bill. 


Dublin and 
Kilkenny 
Railway Bill. 


Meinertz- 
hagen’s 
Nat. Bill. 


Huth’s 
Nat. Bill. 


London and 
Greenwich 
Railway 

(No. 2.) Bill. 


Ipswich 
Dock Bill. 


Bristol 
Parochial 
Rates Bill. 


Murray's 
Estate Bill. 





7 Wut. IV. 


Ordered, That the Bill, as ingrossed, be printed 
at the expense of the parties. 


An ingrossed Bill for making and maintaining a 
Railway from the Town of Dundalk, in the county 
of Louth, to the Town of Ballibay, in the County 
of Monaghan, was read the third time ; and Amend- 
ments were made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Sharman Crawford do carry the 
Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Ordered, That leave be given to print the Minutes 
of the Evidence taken before the Connie on the 
Dublin and Kilkenny Railway Bill, from the Com- 
mittee Clerk’s Copy, at the expense of the parties, 
if they think fit. 


Mr. Alderman Copeland reported from the Com- 
mittee on the Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act 
for naturalizing Daniel Meinertzhagen; That they 
had examined the allegations of the Bill, and found 
the same to be true; and had gone through the Bill, 
and directed him to report the same, without Amend- 
ment :—And the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Alderman Copeland do carry 
the Bill to the Lords ; and acquaint them, that this 
House hath agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


Mr. Alderman Copeland reported from the Com- 
mittee on the Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act 
for naturalizing Charles Frederick Huth ; That they 
had examined the allegations of the Bill, and found 
the same to be true; and had gone through the Bill, 
and directed him to report the same, without Amend- 
ment :—And the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Alderman Copeland do carry 
the Bill to the Lords ; and acquaint them, that this 
House hath agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


Mr. Angerstein reported from the Committee on 
the London and Greenwich Railway (No. 2.) Bill; 
That the Order of the House of the 1st day of May 
last, requiring that Notices of the intended applica- 
tion should be inserted in some newspaper published 
within the county of Kent, and in the London 
Gazette, for three successive weeks, had been com- 
plied with; and that the application being solely 
for the purpose of enabling the Company to take 
certain Tolls for passengers, cattle and carriages, 
crossing the River Ravensborne, in pursuance of an 
agreement entered into with the Deptford Creek 
Bridge Company, none of the matters required by 
the Standing Orders to be inquired into by Com- 
mittees on Railway Bills apply to the present Bill ; 
and that the Committee had examined the allega- 
tions of the Bill, and found the same to be true ; 
and had gone through the Bill, and made Amend- 
ments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


The House proceeded to take into further con- 
sideration the Report which, upon the 30th day of 
May last, was made from the Committee on the 
Ipswich Dock Bill ; printed Copies of the Bill having 
been delivered at the door upon Friday last ; and 
the Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 

An ingrossed Bill for the better assessing and col- 
lecting certain Parochial and other Rates within the 
City and County of Bristol, was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Sir Richard Vyvyan do carry the 
Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Mr. Brotherton reported from the Committee on 
the Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act to enable 
Alexander Murray, Esquire, of Broughton, to borrow 


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443 


a certain Sum of Money upon the security of certain 
of his entailed Estates, for re-payment to him of 
a portion of the Monies laid out by him in the im- 
provement of these Estates ; That they had examined 
the allegations of the Bill, and found the same to 
be true; and that the parties concerned had given 
their consent to the Bill, to the satisfaction of the 
Committee ; and that the Committee had gone 
through the Bill, and directed him to report the 
same, without Amendment :—And the Bill was read 
the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Brotherton do carry the Bill 
to the Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


the Fourth, for improving the Outfall of the River 
Welland, in the County of Lincoln; and to alter 
and enlarge the powers of the said Act, was read 
the third time ; and ingrossed Clauses were added 
by way of Riders, and Amendments were made to 
the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Heathcote do carry the Bill 
to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


this instant June, was made from the Committee 
on the Glossop Reservoirs Bill; printed Copies of 
the Bill having been delivered at the door upon 
Friday last; and the Amendments were read, and 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed. 


Rankine, Esquire, of Dudhope, to feu certain portions 
of the Lands and Estate of Dudhope, in the County 
of Forfar ; That they had examined the allegations 
of the Bill, and found the same to be true; and 
that the parties concerned had given their consent 
to the Bill, to the satisfaction of the Committee ; 
and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, 
and directed him to report the same, without Amend- 
ment :—And the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. , 

Ordered, That Mr. Chalmers do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


certain parts of the Entailed Estate of Boysack, in 
the County of Forfar, belonging to William Ful- 
larton Lindsay Carnegie, Esquire, in Trustees to sell 
the same, and apply the price thereof in payment of 
certain Debts affecting the said Estate, in building 
a Mansion House for the same, and in re-payment 
of certain Sums of Money laid out in improving the 
said Estate, and to enable the Heir of Entail in 
possession of the said Estate to feu certain parts 
thereof; That they had examined the allegations of 
the Bill, and found the same to be true; and that 
the parties concerned had given their consent to the 
Bill, to the satisfaction of the Committee ; and that 
the Committee had gone through the Bill, and 
directed him to report the same, without Amend- 
ment :—And the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Chalmers do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


the Trustees of William Elliott Lockhart, deceased, 





Vou. 92. 





342 of 





An ingrossed Bill to increase the Tonnage Rates Wellana 
and Duties granted by an Act passed in the fifth Outfall 
year of the reign of his late Majesty King George Prinsge Bill. 


The House proceeded to take into further con- Glossop 
sideration the Report which, upon the 6th day of Reservoirs Bill. 


Mr. Chalmers reported from the Committee on the Rankine’s 
Bill from the Lords, intituled An Act to enable David Estate Bill, 


Mr. Chalmers reported from the Committee on Carnegie’s 
the Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act to vest Estate Bill. 


Mr. Chalmers reported from the Committee on the Lockiiart’s 
Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act for enabling Estate Bill. 


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of Borthwichbrae, to sell the Lands of Old Melrose, 
and part of the Estate of Borthwickbrae to pay the 
Debts affecting the same; That they had examined 
the allegations of the Bill, and found the same to be 
true ; and that the parties concerned had given their 
consent to the Bill, to the satisfaction of the Com- 
mittee; and that the Committee had gone through the 
Bill, and directed him to report the same, without 
Amendment :—And the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Chalmers do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


Edinburgh A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 
a posed, That the Edinburgh Water Company Bill be 
— read a second time upon Friday next ; 
An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the words “ Friday next” 
and adding the words “this day six months,” instead 
thereof. 
And the Question being put, That the words 
« Friday next” stand part of the Question :—It 
passed in the Negative. 
And the Question being put, That the words 
“ this day six months” be added instead thereof :— 
It was resolved in the Affirmative. 
Then the main Question, so amended, being put ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon this day six months. 


American — A Petition of Owners or Freighters of Steam 
ine Packets and other vessels trading to and from the 
Bi, port of Aberdeen, and Merchants and Traders in 
the said town, praying that the American Steam 
Navigation Company Bill may not pass into a law, 
was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 


the Table. 


London and A Petition of William Lang, of Portsmouth, Gen- 
—e ... tleman, praying that the military engineer to whom 
ailway Bills, : 5 _ 
the plans and documents relating to the several 
proposed lines of Brighton Railway are referred, 
be directed to report on the best line of Railway 
between London and Portsmouth, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


First Fruits and © Ordered, That the Select Committee appointed to 
Tenthe. inquire into the constitution of the Boards connected 
No. 384. with the receipt of the First Fruits and Tenths, and 
administration of Queen Anne’s Bounty, have Power 
to report their observations thereupon to the House, 
together with the Minutes of the Evidence taken 
before them. 
Mr. Gally Knight reported from the said Select 
Committee ; That they had examined the matters 
referred to them; and had directed him to make a 
Report thereof to the House, together with the 
Minutes of the Evidence taken before them, 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


London — A Petition of Inhabitant Householders of the 

Corporation. ward of Bread-street, in the city of London, pray- 
ing that the Report of the Commissioners appointed 
to inquire into the affairs of the city of London be 
as speedily as may be convenient to the House, taken 
into consideration, was presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Vauxhall A Petition of Parishioners of Lambeth, setting forth, 
oa That the Petitioners have learnt with the greatest sur- 
So 
prise and regret that it is now for the first time in- 
tended to open the gardens of Vauxhall on the night 
of Saturday in every week ; that inasmuch as it is 
apprehended that the magistrates of the county can 
exercise no jurisdiction in respect of the license 
already granted before the next licensing day, which 
will not occur until the close of the present season, 
the Petitioners earnestly invoke the attention of the 
House, in the hope that so much national crime and 
private inconvenience may be prevented as cannot 
otherwise fail to take place during the present 


summer, was presented, and read ; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Watton ;— Watlington ;—Payhem- Lord’sDay Bill, 


bury ;— Honiton (Bakers) ;—Stirling (Moderator of 
the Presbytery) ; — Morristoun ; — Northleigh ; — 
Crowland;— Beuverlee ;—Stirling (Magistrates, Xc.) ; 
— Water-street Chapel, Carmarthen; — Charlotte 
Chapel, Pimlico ;—Greasley (two Petitions) ;—Saint 
Michael’s, Derby (two Petitions); — Ashbourn;— 
Treasurer, Secretaries and Members of the Com- 
mittee of the Derbyshire Auxiliary Society for pro- 
moting the Observance of the Lord’s Day ;—Saint 
Werburgh’s, Derby (two Petitions) ;— Brailsford ;— 
Boat-owners and others on the Shardlow Canal ;— 
Dethick ;—Muggington ;—Croxhall ;— Breadsall ;— 
Sandiacre;—John Coxon, Innkeeper, Sandiacre ;— 
Quarndon ;—Alvaston and Boulton;— Saint Alk- 
mund’s, Derby, (two Petitions) ;— Kirk Langley 
{two Petitions); — Melbourne ;— Willington (two 
Petitions) ;—Saint John’s, Derby ;— Olney ;—Leck- 
ford ;—Cheddington ;— Derby (Hairdressers) ;—All 
Saints, Derby (two Petitions) ;—Minister, Elders 
and Congregation of Saint Andrew’s Scotch Church, 
London ;—Saint Matthew’s Church, Manchester ;— 
Persons signing at Exeter Hall, Middlesex ;— Kil- 
marnock ;— Chelsea (Tailors, Hatters and Salesmen); 
—Chelsea (Shoemakers and Leathersellers) ;—Chel- 
sea (Hairdressers) ;— Chelsea (Grocers and Cheese- 
mongers) ;— Chelsea (Butchers) ;—Chelsea (Poul- 
terers and Fishmongers) ; —Chelsea (Greengrocers 
and Coal Dealers); — Chelsea (Bakers and Corn 
Dealers) ; — Upper Chelsea (Trinity Church); — 
Derby (Bakers); — Derby (Trinity Church) ; — 
Ventnor ;— Queen Camell ;—Atlowe ;— Wallsend ;— 
Westgate, Newcastle;— North Wootton ;—Llansaint- 
ffraid and Llanvechen;— Llanwddyn;— Donaghadee ; 
— Roche ;—Stanton-by-Dale and Dale Abbey ;— 
Moderator of the Provincial Synod of Ross ;—Chirn- 
side ;—- Edderton ;—Moderator of the Associate Synod 
of Burgher Seceders (Scotland) ;— Fairlie ;— Yester ; 
—Largs ;— Bury (Lancaster) ;— Castle Donington ; 
—Meesham and Oakthorpe ;—Griffy Dam;— Ashby- 
de-la-Zouch ;— Hartlepool; — Birmingham (Cherry- 
street Chapel) ; — Birmingham (Belmont-row and 
Bradford-street Chapels) ; — Birmingham ( Wesley 
Chapel) ;— Stockton ; — Blewberry ;— Maldon ;— 
Framlingham ;—Shrewsbury ;— Hertherand Ibstock; 
—Radclif’; — Loughborough ;— Moderator of the 
General Assembly of the Church of Scotland;— New- 
ton-upon- Ouse ;—and, Richmond (Surrey); praying 
that the Lord’s Day Bill may be permitted to go into 
a Committee of the whole House,—were presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from &lt;Alvaston and Boulton ; — Kirk Fairs and 
Langley ;—and, Atlowe (Clergymen and Parish Offi- Markets. 


cers); praying the House to pass an Act for trans- 
ferring Fairs and Markets appointed to be held on 
Saturdays and Mondays, to other days,—were pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Berry Pomeroy ;— Yealmpton ;— Highway Rates 
Earmington ;—Harberton ;—and, Oundle ; praying Bll. 

that the Highway Rates Bill may not pass into a 
law,—were — and read; and ordered to 


lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from Trustees of the Lutterworth and 
Leicester Turnpike Road ;—Market Harborough and 
Lutterworth Road ;—Leicester and Melton Mowbray 
Road ; — Welford Bridge and Leicester Road ;— 
Leicester, Hinckley and Harborough Road ; — Lei- 
cester and Ashby-de-la-Zouch Road ;— Leicester and 
Fincett Bridge Road ;—and, Arundel and Stopham 
Road ; praying that the said Bill may pass into a 
law,— were also presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Thurmaston ( Wesleyans) ;—Stain- Church Rates 
drop ;— Hurworth ;— Cocherton;—and, Haughton-le- Regulation. 





Skerne; praying that the proposed measure relative 
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to Church Rates may receive the sanction of the 
House,—were presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


TithesCommu- Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 

tation. Return of the Number of Notices and Agreements 
for Commutation received by the Tithe Commis- 
sioners for England and Wales, from the 1st of March 
to the 1st of June, being in continuation of their 
Return ordered by this Sel to be printed on the 
9th of March last. 


Salmon A Petition of Residents of the north-west coast 
pene of Ireland, praying the House to pass a law to pre- 
— vent the destruction of the properties of those having 
interests in the Inland Salmon Fisheries of that part 
of Ireland by the use of nets, called “ bag nets,” 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 
Ordered, That the Petition be printed. 


Petitions from Edward Edwards, of North-street, 
Lambeth, Gentleman ;—and, John Noakes, of Shef- 
field; praying the House to consider of some plan 
for the prevention of Shipwrecks,—were presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Shipwrecks. 


Poor Relief A Petition of John Lawless, Esquire, praying that 
(Ireland) Sill. the Poor Relief (Jreland) Bill may pass into a law, 
was = and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. | 

Steem Commu- 


tezm Com A Petition of the President of the Bristol Chamber 
nication with — of Commerce, Trade and Manufactures, praying that 
India. ines aia 4 
the House will inquire into the means by which an 
intercourse by Steam Packets between Great Bri- 
tain and India, vid the Red Sea, may, at the earliest 
possible period, be brought into operation, was pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the President of the Bristol Chamber 
of Commerce, Trade and Manufactures, praying for 
a reduction of the Duty on Oil imported from Naples 
to the same rate payable on that imported from 
other places in the Mediterranean, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Olive Oil. 


Merchant A Petition of Ship-owners resident in Tynemouth, 
pace Bill. praying that the Merchant Shipping Regulation Bill 
may not pass into a law, was presented, and read ; 


and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Shipping A Petition of Merchants, Ship-owners, Traders, 

a Mariners and others residing at or trading to the 
Port of Brixham, praying the House to relieve the 
Proprietors of the Shipping Gazette from the postage 
of letters containing shipping and commercial intel- 
ligence only, was presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 

Fifteenth Mr. Fazakerley reported from the Select Com- 

€port on 


Poor Law Act, Muttee appointed to inquire into the Administration 
No. 385, Of the Relief of the Poor under the Orders and Re- 
gulations issued by the Commissioners appointed 
under the Provisions of the Poor Law Amendment 
Act; and who were empowered to report the Minutes 
of the Evidence taken before them from time to 
time to the House; That they had made further 
Progress in the matters to them referred; and had 
directed him to report the Minutes of the Evidence 
taken before them. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 
Leith and 


a, Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Ports, Returns, for the year ending 5th January 1837, of 
the Shipping which have entered and departed from 

the Port of Leith ; stating the Tonnage, and distin- 

guishing the Foreign from the Coasting Trade :—— 

From the Shore Dues Office at Leith, for Three 

years previous to, and ending, 5th January 1837, of 

the Tonnage of Goods imported into Leith, and of 

the Goods exported from that Port; distinguishing 

the Coasting from the Foreign Tonnage of such 

— and the Tonnage of Goods paying the Merk 

Tou. 92. 


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445 


per Ton:—Of the Number of Passengers, Horses, 
Carriages and Cattle, for the last Three years, which 
crossed the Ferries between the Counties of Mid- 
lothian and Fife, at Newhaven Pier and at Leith :— 
Of the Number of Passengers, Horses and Carriages 
for the last Three years, which landed or embarked 
at the Pier of Newhaven to and from Aberdeen, or 
any of the Ports to the North of the River Tay :— 
Of the Number of Passengers, Horses and Carriages 
by Steam or Sailing Vessels, for the last Three years, 
which landed or embarked at the Pier of Newhaven 
or the Port of Leith, to and from London, or any 
other intermediate Ports to the South of the River 
Tweed :-—and, of the Number of Passengers, Car- 
riages, Horses, Cattle and Sheep, for the last Three 
years, between the North and South Queensferry, 
in the Counties of Linlithgow and Fife. 


Complaint being made to the House of the pub- complaint 
lication of the Debates of the House in a printed made of a 
Newspaper, intituled, “The Morning Herald,” dated Newspaper. 
Tuesday June 6th, 1837, printed and published by 
John Ryan, No. 104, Shoe-lane, Fleet-street :—The 
said Paper was delivered in, and the paragraph com- 
plained of read. 

A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
ss That John Ryan do attend this House upon 

riday next :—And the said Motion was, with leave 
of the House, withdrawn. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a st. Paul’s 
Return of all Fees or Charges made to Visitors at Cathedral. 
Saint Paul’s Cathedral, at the Entrance, in every 
different portion of the Building, above and below, 
and for seeing Velson’s Monument; with the annual 
Amount of each of such different Charges, for the 
last Ten years, and the distinct appropriation thereof. 


The Order of theday being read, for the second read- Public Walks 
ing of the Public Walks and Public Institutions Bill; an¢ a a 
And a Motion being made, and the Question being ciiaaeaanee 
proposed, That the Bill be now read a second time; 
he Amendments following were proposed to be 
made to the Question; viz. To leave out the word 
“now,” and at the end of the Question to add the 
words “ upon this day six months.” 
And the Question being proposed, That the word 
“ now” stand part of the Question :—The said pro- 
posed Amendment was, with leave of the House, 
withdrawn. 
Ordered, That the Bill be now read a second 
time :—The Bill was accordingly read a second time; 
and committed to a Committee of the whole House, 
for Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Merchant 
reading of the Merchant Shipping Regulation Bill; Shipping 
And a Motion being made, and the Susetinn being Regulation Bill. 
proposed, That the Bill be now read a second time ; 
The Amendments following were proposed to be 
made to the Question; viz. To leave out the word 
“ now,” and at the end of the Question to add the 
words “ upon this day six months.” 
And the Question being put, That the word “ now” 
stand part of the Question ; 
The House divided : 
The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 
The Noes to the old Lobby. 





Tellers forthe Loa Buckingham, } 28 
Yeas, Mr. Ingham: il 

Tellers for the f Mr. Hutt, 1 176 
Noes, Mr. George Frederick Young:J °‘”* 


So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
“upon this day six months” be added at the end 
of At Question :—It was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Then the main Question, so amended, being put ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
this day six months. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Lord’s Day Bill. 
reading of the Lord’s Day Bill ; 








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Members 
acting as 
Parliamentary 
Agents, 


Sheriffs’ Fees 
Bill. 


446 7P°—8° 


And a Motion being made, and the Question being 

proposed, That the Bill be now read a second time ; 

he Amendments following were proposed to be 
made to the Question ; viz. To leave out the word 
“ now,” and at the end of the Question to add the 
words “ upon this day six months.” 

And the Question being put, That the word “ now” 
stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the old Lobby ; 

The Noes to the new Lobby. 

Tellers for the ( Sir Andrew Agnew, 

Yeas, \. Mr. Cumming Bruce: 

Tellers for the f Mr. Warburton, 66 

Noes, Mr. Ward: , 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read a second time : 
—The Bill was accordingly read a second time ; and 
committed to a Committee of the whole House, for 
Wednesday, the 21st day of this instant June. 


110. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned debate upon the Question proposed 
upon the 6th day of April last, “ That it is con- 
trary to the law and usage of Parliament, that any 
Member of this House should be permitted to 
engage, either by himself or any partner, in the 
management of Private Bills before this or the other 
House of Parliament, for pecuniary Reward, to be 
received by such Member, or by any Person stand- 
ing in any relation of partnership with him.” 

And the Question being again proposed :—The 
House resumed the said adjourned debate. 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the first word “That” 
to the first word “ Member,” and inserting the 
word “ no” instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words pro- 
pee to be left out stand part of the Question :— 

t passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the word “ no” 
be inserted instead thereof:—It was resolved in the 
Affirmative. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Question, by leaving out the word “ should.” 


And the Question being put, That the word 
“ should” stand part of the Question :—It passed 
in the Negative. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Question, by inserting after the words “ re- 
lation of” the words “ legal professional.” 

And the Question being put, That those words be 
there inserted :—It was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Then the main Question, so amended, being put, 
“ That no Member of this House be permitted to 
engage either by himself or any Partner in the 
Management of Private Bills before this or the 
other House of Parliament for pecuniary reward, 
to be received by such Member, or by any person 
standing in any relation of legal professional part- 
nership with him :” 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby. 

The Noes to the old Lobby ; 


mn fanthe Vang f Mr. Tooke, 
Tellers for the Yeas, Mie, Wileten 


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5 


6. 


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1 
Sir Frederick Poli ha 
Sir Lrederick Poltoc 
Tellers for the No pe “i ’ 
cers for the Noes, Mr. Solicitor General : f 
So it passed in the Negative. 
The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee upon the Sheriffs’ Fees Bill. 
(In the Committee.) 
Bill read 1°, to be read 2°, paragragh by paragraph. 
Preamble postponed. 
Crauses N°1 to N° 3, amended, and agreed to. 
Crause N° 4, agreed to. 
Crause N° 5 and N° 6, Negatived. 
Cxrausss (Act to extend to Lancaster and Durham 








Juniz. A. 1837. 
Courts)—and, (Act to extend to Dover Castle and 
Cinque Ports) added. 

Clause offered, (Poundage on Debt) read 1°. 

Question put, That the said Clause be read a 
second time ; 

The Committee divided. 








Tellers for the f Captain Pechell, lus 
Yeas. Mr. Aglionby: J 
Tellers for thef Mr. Tooke, } - 

Yeas. Mr. Serjeant Talfourd : 


Preamble, agreed to. 
Bill, as amended, to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Harvey 
reported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon Fri- 
day next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Attornies and 
into a Committee upon the Attornies and Solicitors Solicitors Bill 
Bill ; and, after some time spent therein, Mr.Speaker No. 383, 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. Harvey reported, That 
the Committee had gone through the Bill, and 
made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Harvey reported the Bill accordingly ; and 
the Report was ordered to be taken into further con- 
sideration upon Wednesday next ; and the Bill, as 
amended, to be printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Common Law 
further consideration the Report on the Common Courts Bill 
Law Courts Bill :—The Bill was re-committed to a 
Committee of the whole House :—And the House 
immediately resolved itself into the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 

Billread, 1°, to be read 2°, paragraph by paragraph. 

Preamble postponed. 

Cuavuses, N° 1 to N° 14, agreed to. 

Cxiavse, N° 15, (Salaries of the Masters fixed) 
——-read. 

Motion made, and Question put, That the blank 
P. 8. 1. 2. be filled up with 1,200 ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the {ue Serjeant Goulburn, } 30 


Yeas. Mr. Baring: 
Tellers for thef Mr. Harvey, } v4 
Noes. Mr. Warburton : aS. 


Other Clauses, agreed to. 

Schedule, agreed to. 

Cause offered, (Custos Brevium Patentee Office, 
for settling compensation for the heirs of the Countess 
of Lichfield) by leave, withdrawn. 

Preamble, agreed to. 

Bill, as amended, to be reported. 





And the House having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Thursday morning ; 


Jovis, 8° die Junii, 1837: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair, and Mr. Tooke 
reported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon Wed- 


nesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second County a 
reading of the County Polls (Jreland) Bill; (teolend) 5. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday, the 21st day of this instant June. 


The ingrossed Bill to amend an Act made in the Theatres 
tenth year of the reign of his late Majesty King — 
George the Second, intituled, “ An Act to explain ™"” 
and amend so much of an Act made in the twelfth 
year of the reign of Queen Anne, intituled, ‘ An Act 
for reducing the Laws relating to Rogues, Vaga- 
bonds, sturdy Beggars and Vagarants, into one Act of 
Parliament, and for the more effectual punishing such 
Rogues, Vagabonds, sturdy Beggars and aie | 

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7 Witt. IV. 


and sending them whither they ought to be sent, 
was, according to Order, read the third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act to amend an Act of the tenth year 
of his Majesty King George the Second, to explain 
and amend so much of an Act made in the twelfth 
year of the reign of Queen Anne, intituled, “ An Act 
for reducing the laws relating to Rogues, Vagabonds, 
sturdy Beggars, and Vagrants, into one Act of Par- 
liament, and for the more effectual punishing such 
Rogues, Vagabonds, sturdy Beggars and Vagrants, 
and sending them whither they ought to be sent.” 
Ordered, That Mr. Thomas Duncombe do carry 
the Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


999 


Salmon The Order of the day being read, for the second 
Fisheries 


Scotland) Bill reading of the Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Bill ; 
”" Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Wednesday, the 28th day of this instant June. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Highway Rates Bill; 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, That the Bill be committed to Mr. Shaw 
Lefevre, Mr. Estcourt, Mr. Cartwright, Mr. Handley, 
Sir Robert Price, Mr. Bramston, Mr. Robert Clive, 
Mr. Parrott, Mr. Pease, Sir Charles Burrell, Mr. 
Mostyn, Sir Charles Broke Vere, Mr. Lawson, Mr. 
Hector, and Mr. Halford. 

Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 


Railroadsand ©The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 

Public Works yittee on the Railroads and Public Works Bill ; 

- Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday, 
the 2ist day of this instant June, resolve itself into 
the said Committee. 


Highway Rates 
Bill. 


Judicial Factors The Order of the day being read, for the second 
(Scotland) Bill. reading of the Judicial Factors (Scotland) Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Wednesday, the 21st day of this instant June. 


Registration The Orderof the day being read, for the second read- 
(Seotlen3) Bill ing of the Registration of Births, &amp;c. (Scotland) Bill; 


Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 


Wednesday next. 
Clandestine The Order of the day being read, for the second 
a - reading of the Clandestine Marriages (Scotland) Bill; 
(Scotland) Bill. Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday next. 
County Boards The Order of the day being read, for the second 


(Ireland) Bill. yeading of the County Boards (Zreland) Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Wednesday, the 28th day of this instant June. 


Common Fields The Order of the day being read, for the second 


Bill, reading of the Common Fields Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Monday, the 19th day of this instant June. 
Municipai The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
meg further consideration the Report on the Municipal 
) Bi ‘Corporations (Scotland) Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Wednesday next. 
Bills of The Order of the day being read, for the second 


Brchange Bill. reading of the Bills of Exchange Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill bereadasecond time this day. 


Election The Order of the day being read, for the second 
Expenses Bill. reading of the Eléction Expenses Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time To- 
morrow. 


Gtileybury The Order of the day being read, for the third 
oe Bil. reading of the Haileybury College Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time To- 
morrow. 
mess aud The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 


mittee of Ways and Means ; 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 

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447 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Supply. 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for receiving Supply , 
the Report from the Committee of Supply ; = 298) 
Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Royal Military 
into a Committee upon the Royal Military Canal Canal Bill. 
Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. Solicitor General re- 
ported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Attornies’ and 
Returns of Customary and other Fees taken in each Solicitors’ 
of the Superior Courts of Law on the Admission of 4¢mssionFees, 
Attornies of such Courts respectively ; and of Ex- 
penses incurred in the Examination of Clerks pre- 
vious to Admission, and the Number of Clerks so 
examined in each Term:—and of Customary and 
other Fees taken in the High Court of Chancery on 
the Admission of Solicitors of that Court; and of 
Expenses incurred in the Examination of Clerks 
previous to Admission, and the Number of Clerks 
so examined in each Term. 


Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer reported to the Answer to 
House, That their several Addresses of the 2d and Addresses. 
3d days of this instant June (that His Majesty would 
be graciously pleased to give directions that the 
Papers therein mentioned might be laid before this 
House) had been presented to His Majesty; and 
that His Majesty had commanded him to acquaint 
the House, that He will give directions accordingly. 


Sir George Grey presented, pursuant to an Ad-gchoois 
dress to His Majesty,—Copy of the Instructions (West Indies.) 
addressed to the Inspector appointed to visit the 
Schools in the West Indies, which have received a 
share of the Parliamentary Grants of 1835 and 
1836 for Negro Education. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on Turnpike Turnpike Roads 
Roads (Ireland), have Power to send for persons, (Ireland). 
papers and records. 


And the House, having continued to sit till 
near two of the clock on Thursday morning, 
adjourned till this day. 











Jovis, 8° die Junii ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi 1V* Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


die E House proceeded to take into further con- Barnsley 
sideration the Report which, upon the 5th day Waterworks 
of this instant June was made from the Committee 3! 
on the Barnsley Waterworks Bill; printed Copies of 
the Bill having been delivered at the door upon 
Saturday last; and the Amendments were read, and 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


Mr. William Miles reported from the Committée path Gas Bill. 
on the Bath Gas Bill; and to whom several Peti- 
tions against the said Bill were referred ; That they 
had heard counsel on behalf of the said Petitions ; 
and had also heard counsel in favour of the Bill ; 
and that the Committee had examined the allega- 
tions of the Bill, and found the same to be true ; 
and had gone through the Bill, and made Amend- 
ments thereunto; and the Amendments were read, 
and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


3L4 A Petition 





448 8° Junie. A. 1837. 


Collier Dock A Petition of Churchwardens, Overseers and| A Petition of the Guardians of the Poor of the Rating of 
and Surrey = Inhabitants of Saint Paul, Deptford, praying that | Warminster Union, praying that in the case of smal] Tenements. 
Canal Bill. ? €—p » pray g * praying 3 
they may be heard, by themselves, their counsel | dwellings under the annual value of Eight pounds, 
or agents, against certain parts of the Collier Dock | the rate be made on the owners instead of the occu- 
and Surrey Canal Bill, was presented, and read. piers, was presented, and read ; and referred to the 
Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to! elect Committe on the Poor Law Act. 
the Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners 
heard, by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon 
their Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, 
in favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of William Norris, and other Share- Agricultural 
holders in the Commercial and Agricultural Bank of ee ee 
Ireland, praying that the Agricultural and Com- (No, 2.) Bill 
; ; ; mercial Bank, Jreland, (No. 2.) Bill may pass into 
Ipswich An ingrossed Bill for amending an Act of the|_ Jaw, was presented, and read; and ordered to 
Dock Bill. —_forty-fifth year of the reign of King George the Third, | jie upon the Table. 


for improving and rendering more commodious the tele ' 
Port of Ipswich, and for constructing a Wet Dock A Petition of Inhabitant Householders of the London 


there, was read the third time; and ingrossed Clauses ward of Cripplegate Within, in the city of London, Corporation, 

were added by way of Riders; and Amendments | Py™sg that the Report of the Commissioners ap- 

were made to the Bill. pointed to inquire into the affairs of the Corporation 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the of the city of London be speedily taken into con- 

Title be, An Act to amend an Act of the forty-fifth sideration by the House, was presented, and read ; 

year of the reign of King George the Third, for im- |@nd ordered to lie upon the Table. 


proving and rendering more commodious the Port A Petition of the Provost, Magistrates and Coun- prisons 

of Ipswich, and for constructing a Wet Dock there. | oj] of Port Glasgow, praying the House to exempt (Scotland) Bill, 
Ordered, That M r. Morrison do carry the Bill to | that burgh from the operation of the Prisons (Scot- 

the Lords, and desire their concurrence. land) Bill, was presented, and read; and referred 


Edinburgh Lord William Bentinck reported from the Com- | to the Select Committee on the Bill. 
yA aim mittee on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Bill; 
ye" and to whom several Petitions against the said Bill 
were referred ; That the Standing Orders relative to 
Bills for making Railways had been complied with; 
and that they had considered the said Petitions, and 
had heard counsel in support of several of them, and 
had also heard counsel in favour of the Bill; and that 
the Committee had inquired into the several matters 
required by the Resolutions of the House of the lstday | A Petition of Inhabitants of Zlannor, praying Welsh Bishops 
of March 1836; and had examined the allegations of | that no individual unacquainted with the language 
the Bill,and found the same to be true; and had gone | of the Welsh people may be henceforward instituted 
through the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. | to a Bishoprick m Wales, was presented, and read ; 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; | and ordered to lie upon the Table. F . 


and be printed. so ; 
ein Bh A Petition of Trustees of the Turnpike Road lead- Highway Rates 
Glossop. An ingrossed Bill for making and maintaining | jing from Cornhill to Milfield March Burn, and by ™ 
Reservoirs Bills Reservoirs upon the tributary Streams of the River | Ford Bridge to Lowich, praying that the Highway 
Etherow, otherwise the Mersey, in the Parish of Glos- | Rates Bill may pass into a law, ‘was presented, and 
sop, in the County of Derby, and for more effec- | read; and referred to the Select Committee on the 
tually and regularly supplying with Water the Mills, | Bill. 


Manufactories and Works on the said tributary ” , 
Streams and River, was read the third time. A Petition of the Merchants’ House of Glasgow, Private Bill 


Resolved, That the Bill do pass. praying the House to alter the present system of Committees 
Ordered, That Mr. Brotherton do carry the Bill proceeding in regard to Private Bills in Parliament, 


to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. and particularly the mode of constituting Com- 
_ ; ; mittees on them, was presented, and read ; and or- 
Collier Dock Ordered, That the time for the Committee on the | dered to lie upon the Table. 


Sanat Dat Collier Dock and Surrey Canal Bill to make their a 
"Report be further enlarged till Monday, the 19th| Petitions from the Out Ward of Saint George, Land Tax. 
day of this instant June. Hanover Square;—and, Edgeware; praying for 
an equalization of the unredeemed Land Tax in 
England and Wales,—were presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


SN a EES BS ee 


Dr. Bowring reported from the Select Committee Public 
on Public Petitions ; That they ‘had examined the Petitions. 
Petitions presented from the 22d to the 25th days of 
May last, both inclusive ; and had directed him to 
make a Report thereof to the House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


EE TORS  IE 


Ipswich An ingrossed Bill for amending several Acts for 
- jiataaaaae paving, cleansing and otherwise improving the Town 
of Ipswich, in the County of Suffolk, and for remov- 
ing and preventing Encroachments and Annoyances | Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Caffre Wat. 
therein, was read the third time; and Amendments | to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
were made to the Bill. to give directions; that there be laid before this 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the | House, Copies or Extracts of any further Des- 
Title be, An Act to amend the several Acts for pav- | patches which have been received from, or addressed 
ing, lighting, cleansing and otherwise improving the | to, the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, relative 
Town of Jpswich, in the County of Suffolk, and for | to the late Caffre War, since the Papers presented 
removing and preventing Encroachments, Obstruc- | to this House on 10th March 1836. 
tions and Annoyances therein. Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
Ordered, That Mr. Morrison do carry the Bill to | His Majesty by such Members of this een as are 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Church Rates Petitions from Marsden ;—~ Burton Latimer ;—| A Petition of Licensed Victuallers resident in the Innkeeper 
Regulation. and, Ampleforth; praying that the proposed measure | Counties of York, Northumberland, Durham, Lincoln, 
relative to Church Rates may not receive the sanc- | and Northampton, praying for the amendment of 
tion of the House— were presented, and read; and | the Law relating to te Ha and for the gradual 
ordered to lie upon the Table. . abolition of Beer-houses, was presented, and read ; 
Petitions from Ansty;—Sharnford;— Warminster | and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
and Deverill ;— Collingbourn Ducis;—and, Downton ; 
praying that the said proposed measure may receive | A Petition of Inhabitants of Saltash, praying the Saltash _ 
the sanction of the House,—were also presented, | House to place the municipal government, together Corporation 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. with the funds and property of that borough, re 
veste 














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ll. 


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7 Wit. LV. 


vested in the Mayor, Corporation and other feoffees, 
under such control and regulation as shall be best 
suited and most conducive to the good government 
and prosperity of the town, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Lo1d’s Day Bill. 


A Petition of the Congregation of Saint John’s 
Church, Swansea, praying that the Lord’s Day Bill 
may be permitted to go into a Committee of the 
whole House, was presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


Royal Assent 


a A Message by Sir Augustus Clifford, Gentleman 
to Duis. 


Usher of the Black Rod : 
Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords, authorized by virtue of His Majesty’s 
Commission, for declaring His Royal Assent to seve- 
ral Acts, agreed upon by both Houses, do desire the 
immediate attendance of this Honourable House in 
the House of Peers, to hear the Commission read. 

Accordingly Mr. Speaker, with the House, went 
up to the House of Peers :—And being returned ; 

Mr. Speaker reported, That the House, at the de- 
sire of the Lords, authorized by virtue of His Ma- 
jesty’s Commission, had been at the House of Peers, 
where a Commission under the Great Seal was read, 
giving, declaring and notifying the Royal Assent to 
the several Public and Private Bills therein men- 
tioned ; and that the Lords, thereby authorized, had 
declared the Royal Assent to the said Bills: —Which 
Bills are as follow : 

Fxchequer Bills An Act for raising the Sum of Eleven Millions by 
Samat Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the year One 
thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven : 

An Act to indemnify such Persons in the United 
Kingdom as have omitted to qualify themselves for 
Offices and Employments, and for extending the 
time limited for those purposes respectively until 
the Twenty-fifth day of March, One thousand eight 


| 


Indemnity Bill. 


8° Junie. 





449 


worth, in the several Parishes of Kirkburton and 
Almondbury, in the West Riding of the County of 
York: 

An Act for better supplying with Water the Town Wakefield 
of Wakefield, and the neighbourhood thereof, in the Waterworks 
West Riding of the County of York: _ 

An Act to alter and amend an Act of the last Greenwich 
Session of Parliament, intituled, “ An Act for making Pier Bill. 
and maintaining a Pier, Wharf and other Works at 
Greenwich, in the County of Kent, and to extend 
the powers of the said Act :” 

An Act for more effectually draining of certain Wormegay | 
Fen Lands and Low Grounds in the Honor, Manor Drainage Bill. 
and Parish of Wormegay, in the County of Norfolk, 
and other Lands and Grounds which are now drained 
by means of or through a certain Drain, called 
Polver Drain, in the said County : 

An Act for removing the Markets held in the City Worcester 
of Worcester, in the County of Worcester, for the Cattle Market 
sale of Cattle, Horses, Sheep and Pigs, and for pro- * 
viding another Market-place in lieu thereof, and for 
providing for the better and more effectual draining 
the said City: 

An Act to alter and amend an Act of the sixth Dundee 
year of the reign of His late Majesty for opening on 
certain Streets in the Burgh of Dundee, and for 
otherwise improving the said Burgh : 

An Act for building a Bridge over the River Tweed eta 
at or near to Mertoun Mill, in the County of Berwick, “8° *" 
and for making Avenues and Approaches thereto : 

An Act for the uniform Valuation of Lands and Waterford 
Tenements in the County of Waterford, in Ireland, a Rates 
for the purpose of levying the County Rates therein: ~ 

An Act for the Recovery of Small Debts within Roborough 
the Southern Division of the Hundred of Roborough, a — 
and within the Hundred of Plympton, in the County $25¢°))..™" 
of Devon, and within the Southern Division of the 
Hundred of East, in the County of Cornwall: 


An Act to enable the Managers of the Sun Life Sun Life 





hundred and thirty-eight, and for the relief of Clerks 
to Attornies and Solicitors, in certain cases : 

Penitentiary An Act to amend the Acts for regulating the 

(Milbank) Bill. General Penitentiary at Milbank: 

Newark An Act to discharge His Majesty’s Manor and 

Estate Bill. — Demesne Lands at Newark, in the County of Not- 
tingham, from any Costs of rebuilding or repairing 
Trent and Markham Bridges, and to charge the 
same on the other Hereditary Revenues of the 
Crown : 

Jury Trial An Act to explain and amend two Acts relating 

asian) OE. 1 Tiled by Jury in Scotland: 

Glasgow Police An Act to continue for a limited term of years the 

_ Acts relating to the Police of the City of Glasgow, 
to vest the management of the Statute Labour Con- 
version Money of the said City in the Board of 


Police thereof, and for other purposes therein men- | 


tioned : 

An Act to continue for a limited term of years 
the Police Act for the Barony of Gorbals, in the 
County of Lanark, and for other purposes relating 
thereto : 

An Act to enlarge the powers of an Act passed in 
the third year of the reign of His present Majesty, 
intituled, “ An Act for making a Railway from 

London to Greenwich :” 
Linity (North — An Act for constructing a Harbour, Dock or 
jor «bees Docks, Piers and other Works, at Trinity, in the 
* Parish of North Leith and County of Edinburgh : 


Gorbals Police 


ill, 


London and 
Greenwich 


Railway Bill, 


Swansea An Act for better supplying with Water the Town 
Bi * ~~ and Borough of Swansea, in the County of Gila- 
morgan : 
eee An Act for making a Canal from the Stourbridge 
anal Bill, 


Navigation, near Brockmoor, in the Parish of Kings- 
winford, in the County of Stafford, to the Oak 
Farm Colliery, with a Branch to the Standhills, 
both in the said Parish of Kingswinford and County 
of Stafford: 

An Act for making and maintaining certain Re- 
servoirs in the several Townships of Holme, Cart- 
— Austonley, Upperthong, Wooldale and Hep- 

OL, 92. 


Holme Reser- 
voirs Bill, 





icc’ -OnrI Assurance 
Assurance Society to appropriate any part of the Society Bill, 


‘profits thereof for the benefit of any Persons who 
om already effected or may hereafter effect Policies 
of Assurance with the said Society : 

| An Act for repairing and maintaining the Road Eltand and 
leading from Elland Bridge, in the Parish of Halifax, Dewsbury 

‘into the Dewsbury and Elland Turnpike Road, near ®°*4 Bill 
‘the Obelisk, in the Parish of Dewsbury, all in the 


| West Riding of the County of York: 


An Act for amending two several Acts of the Ashborne 
seventh and tenth years of his late Majesty King yr dl 
George the Fourth, for repairing the Road from“! 
Ashborne, in the County of Derby, to Leek, in the 
County of Stafford, and from Ryecroft Gate upon 
Rushton Common, to Congleton, in the County of 
Chester : 

An Act for making and maintaining a Turnpike Butterhouse 
Road from Butterhouse Gireen, in the County of &gt; 
Chester, to Thorneley Lane-end, in the County of ji), 
Lancaster : 

An Act for more effectually amending the Roads Manchester 
from Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, through = aa 
Oldham to Austerlands, in the County of York, and *°™' B" 
from Oldham to Ashton-under-Lyne, and from Old- 
ham to Rochdale, and other Roads, and for making 
and maintaining new Lines to communicate there- 
with, all in the said County of Lancaster : 

An Act for repairing, maintaining and improving Leeds and 
the Line of the Road from Leeds to Otley, in the Otley Road 
West Riding of the County of York : ™ 

An Act for maintaining, repairing and amending Belfast and 
a Turnpike Road from Belfast to Lisburn, by Ma- lisburn Road 
lone, and by the Falls, and two Turnpike Roads ®"- 
leading from the Falls Road by Dundrod and Castle- 
robin respectively, to Crumlin, in the County of 
Antrim: 

An Act for maintaining, repairing and amending Antrim and 
Turnpike Roads from the Town of Antrim, in the Coleraine 
County of Antrim, towards Coleraine, in the County %o#¢s Bil. 
of Londonderry. 











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4.50 8°— 9° 


Glasgow An Act for making and maintaining a Road from 
Road Bill. the Road leading from Glasgow to Carntyne, called 
Duke-street, to the East end of Blackfriars-street 
or Regent-street, in the said City of Glasgow: 
Darlaston An Act for more effectually improving the several 
sth mg Roads from MNewcastle-under-Lyme to Darlaston 
’ Bridge, Butt-lane and Linley-lane, and through 
Trent Vale and Stoke-upon-Trent to Shelton Wharf, 
all in the County of Stafford: 
Biddulph An Act for better maintaining the Road from 
Read Bal, Gillow Hollow, in the Parish of Biddulph, in the 
County of Stafford, to the Congleton and Leek 


Turnpike Road at Park-lane, in the Township of | 


Congleton, in the County of Chester, with the Road 
therefrom at Lick-lane, in the said Parish of Bid- 


dulph : 
Roxburgh An Act for further and more effectually repairing, 
Roads Bill. amending and maintaining certain Roads in the 
County of Roxburgh, and other Roads connected 
therewith, leading into the Counties of Berwick, 
Northumberland and Durham : 
Clapton An Act for inclosing Lands in the Parish of Clap- 
Inclosure Bill. . Se 
ton, inthe County of Somerset: 
Clun Forest An Act for inclosing Lands in the Honor or Lord- 
Inclosure Bill. ship and Forest of Clun, in the County of Salop: 
Banff Glebe An Act to enable the Minister of the Parish of 


Sande BM. Banff, in the County of Banff, to feu the Glebe 
Lands of the said Parish : 

Angerstein’s An Act to enable John Angerstein, Esquire, to 

Estate Bil. rant Building and Repairing Leases of Lands and 
Hereditaments in the Parish of Grimsby, in the 
County of Lincoln, and in the Parish of East 
Greenwich, in the County of Kent, and to enable 
Amelia, the wite of the said John Angerstein, to 
grant similar Leases of parts of the same Estates 
in the said Parish of East Greenwich. 

Hales’ An Act for naturalizing Edmee Nicole Pulcherie 

Nat. Bill. Felice Hales, and her Infant Daughter. 


Proclamations Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 

(Ireland.) a Return of all Rewards offered in Proclamations 
issued by the authority of the Lord Lieutenant of 
Treland for the apprehension of Persons concerned 
in Murders and other outrages, during six months 
ending 81st January 1837, which Rewards have 
been claimed by and paid to Persons giving infor- 
mation pursuant to such Proclamations, with the 
Dates of such Claims and Payments respectively. 


Dundee Ordered, That the time for the Committee on the 
—— Dundee Waterworks Bill to make their Report, be 
- further enlarged till Wednesday next. 
Message from A Message from the Lords by Mr. Roupell and 
the Lords. Mr. Senior: 
Mr. Speaker, 
The Lords have agreed to the several Bills follow- 
ing, without Amendment; viz. 

Exchequer Bills A Bill, intituled, An Act for raising the Sum of 
(£.11,000,000.) Eleven Millions by Exchequer Bills for the Service 
_ of the year One thousand eight hundred and thirty- 


seven : 
Roxburgh A Bill, intituled, An Act for further and more 
Roads Bill. effectually repairing, amending and maintaining cer- 
tain Roads in the County of Roxburgh, and other 
Roads connected therewith, leading into the Counties 
of .Berwick, Northumberland and Durham : 
Biddulph A Bill, intituled, An Act for better maintaining 
Roads Bill. the Road from Gillow Hollow, in the Parish of 


Biddulph, in the County of Stafford, to the Con- 
gleton and Leek Turnpike Road at Park-lane, in the 
Township of Congleton, in the County of Chester, 
with the Road therefrom at Lick-lane, in the said 
Parish of Biddulph: And also, 
Dublin Police | The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
-_ Act for amending the Act relating to the Police in 
the District of the Dublin Metropolis, with Amend- 
' ments; to which Amendments the Lords desire the 
concurrence of this House :—And then the Mes- 
sengers withdrew. 














Juniz. A. 1837. 


A Petition of John Wickey Stable, of Lincoln’s North Metropo- 
Inn Fields, in the county of Middlesex, solicitor for litan Cemetery 
the North Metropolitan Cemetery Bill, complaining ®" 


of an alteration not authorized by the Committee, 
having been made in the Committee Bill, by Sir 
Samuel Whalley, a Member of the House, was 
brought up, and read. 

And Sir Samuel Whalley, being in his place, stated 
that the Committee had determined, that Primrose 
Hill should not be taken for the purpose of the 
Cemetery ; that the Proviso for that purpose was 
drawn by himself, and adopted by the Committee ; 
that it was afterwards pointed out to him, that the 
words “or any part thereof,’ which had been sub- 
mitted to the Committee, were omitted, and that by 
his directions the Committee Clerk inserted those 
words ; that the Petitioner had made a proposal, 
not to present the Petition, provided he (Sir Samuel 
Whalley) would withdraw his opposition to the 
Bill. 

And the House being informed, that Mr. Stable 
attended at the door; he was called in, and at the 
bar examined in relation to the allegations of his 
Petition :—And then he was directed to withdraw. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be taken into 
further consideration To-morrow. 

Ordered, That Mr. Robert Sutton and Mr. John 
Rose do attend this House To-morrow. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to take Printed Papers, 


into consideration the Petition of John Bowyer 
Nichols and John Gough Nichols, Printers to the 
House, which was presented upon Thursday last, 
praying for the instructions of the House in respect 
to an action brought against them for the publication 
of an alleged Libel :—And the said Petition was 
again read. 

Ordered, That Messrs. John Bowyer Nichols and 
John Gough Nichols be permitted to appear and 
plead to the said action. 

Ordered, That His Majesty’s Attorney General be 
directed to defend Messrs. John Bowyer Nichols 
and John Gough Nichols against the said action. 

The House, according to Order, proceeded to take 
into consideration the Petition of James Hansard 
and Luke Graves Hansard, Printers to the House, 
which was presented upon Thursday last, praying 
for the instructions of the House in respect to an 
action brought against them for the publication of an 
alleged Libel: —And the said Petition was again read. 

Ordered, That Messrs. James Hansard and Luke 
Graves Hansard be permitted to appear and plead 
to the said action. 

Ordered, That His Majesty’s Attorney General 
be directed to defend Messrs. James Hansard and 
Luke Graves Hansard against the said action. 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Friday morning ; 


Veneris, 9° die Junii, 1837: 


A Motion was made, and the Question being put, Cliurches and 


That there be laid before this House, a Return of Places of 
. , ae . Worship (South 
the Number of Places of Worship in connection ghields, &amp;c.) 


with the Established Church, and of those in the 
Dissenting interest, in the Parishes of South Shields 
and Jarrow, Sunderland, Bishop Wearmouth, Monk 
Wearmouth, Stockton-on-Tees, Darlington and 
Gateshead, in the County of Durham, with the 
Number of Sittings annexed to each, and the average 
Number of Persons attending them severally on each 
Sunday :—It passed in the Negative. 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed Business of 
to consider the best means of conducting the Public the House. 


Business with improved regularity and dispatch, and 
also to consider whether any and what improvement 
can be adopted in the mode of conducting the Pri- 
vate Business of this House :—And a Committee 
was appointed of Lord John Russell, Sir Robert = 

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7 Wit. IV.- 8°—9° 


Mr. Poulett Thomson, Sir James Graham, Sir Ro- 
bert Inglis, Mr. O’ Connell, Mr. Shaw Lefevre, Lord 
Stanley, Mr. Roebuck, Mr. Loch, Mr. Williams Wynn, 
Mr. Aglionby, Lord Granville Somerset, Sir John 
Wrottesley and Mr. Charles Buller, with Power to 
send for persons, papers and records. 


Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to his Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
to give directions that there be laid before this House, 
Copies or Extracts of all Correspondence between 
our Ambassador at Constantinople and the Secretary 
of State for Foreign Affairs, relating to the Voyage 
and Capture of the Vixen :—Also, Copies of all Cor- 
respondence between the Secretary of State for 
Foreign Affairs and the Parties interested in the 
Vixen, relatmg to the same :—Also, Copies of all 
Correspondence between the Russian Government 
and our own; together with Copies or Extracts of 
all Correspondence between our Ambassador at the 
Court of Saint Petersburgh and the Secretary of 
State for Foreign Affairs, relating to the Voyage and 
Capture of the Vizen. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Ship “ Vixen.” 


Treasurers The Order of the day being read, for the second 

Cineland) Bill reading of the Treasurers of Counties (Lreland) Bill ; 

- ‘Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Tuesday next. 

Wills Bill. The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Wills Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 

next, resolve itself ito the said Committee. 

Inclosure The Inclosure Awards Bill was, according to 

Awards Bill. Order, read a second time; and committed to a 
Committee of the whole House for Monday next. 

Bills of The Bills of Exchange Bill was, according to 

Exchange Bill. Order, read a second time; and committed to a 


Committee of the whole House for Wednesday next. 


Sir Andrew Leith Hay reported the Royal Mili- 
tary Canal Bill; and the Amendments were read, and 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time this day. 


Royal Military 
Canal Bill. 


Municipal Ordered, That the Amendments made by the Lords 

_ to the Municipal Corporations Bill be taken into 
, consideration this day. 

Election The Order for reading a second time this day the 

Expenses Bill. 


Election Expenses Bill, was read, and discharged. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday, the 28th day of this instant June. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till half an hour after one of the clock on 
Friday morning, adjourned till this day. 





Veneris, 9° die Junii ; 
Anno 7° Willelmi [V% Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


_ House, according to Order, resumed the 
adjourned Debate upon the Question proposed 
upon Monday last, That the Clause (for application 
of augmented Revenues to the purpose of increasing 
Church Accommodation), which was offered to be 
added to the Wigan Rectory Estate Bill, be now 
brought up. 

And the Question being again proposed :—The 
said Motion was, with leave of the el with- 
drawn. 

Another Clause was offered to be added to the 
Bill, “ That nothing in the Act contained shall pre- 





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45 1 


vent or interfere with any future appropriation by 
Parliament of ‘any of the Monies raised under and 
by virtue of the Act, to the increase or provision of 
Salaries for Ministers of the Established Church in 
the Parish of Wigan.” 


And a Motion being made, and the Question being 
put, That the said Clause be now brought up ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 
The Noes to the old Lobby. 
Tellers for the f Mr. Hindley, 


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Yeas, Sir George Strickland : 
Tellers for the { The Earl of Darlington, } 
Noes, Mr. Wilson Patten : tan 


So it passed in the Negative. 

A Motion was made, and the Question being put, 
That the Bill, with the Amendments, do pass ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the old Lobby ; 

The Noes to the new Lobby. 


Tellers for the { The Earl of Darlington, \ 4,5 
Yeas, Mr. Wilson Patten: f - 
Tellers for the J Mr. Hindley, L 59 
Noes, Sir George Strickland: J ; 


So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 


An Amendment was proposed to be made in the 
Title of the Bill, by leaving out from the word 
“ leases” in |. 6. to the word “ subject” in 1. 7. 

And the Question being proposed, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Title of the 
Bill:—And a Debate arising thereupon ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the Debate be adjourned till this 
day six months ; 

The House divided : 
The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 
The Noes to the old Lobby. 


Tellers for the ¢ Mr. Hume, 1 
Yeas, Mr. Wakley= - 
Tellers for the { Lord Viscount Sandon, 
Noes, Mr. Wilson Patten: } — 


So it passed in the Negative. 


And the Question being put, That the words pro- 
posed to be left out stand part of the Title of the 
Bill :—It passed in the Negative. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
in the Title of the Bill, by inserting, after the word 
“ Rectory” in 1. 9. the words “ in order to enable 
“ the Rector and Patron of the said parish to in- 
crease their private property out of Church pro- 
perty, much needed for spiritual purposes in 
districts represented as being in a state of spiritual 
destitution.” 

And the Question being proposed, That those 
words be there inserted:—And a Debate arising 
thereupon ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the Debate be adjourned till Mon- 
day next ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 

Tellers for the { Mr. Hindley, 

Yeas, Mr. Hume: 
Tellers for the { Lord Viscount Stormont, 
Noes, \ The Earl of Lincoln : 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the words “ in 
“ order to enable the Rector and Patron of the said 
“ parish to increase their private property out of 
“ Church property, much needed for spiritual pur- 
“ poses in districts represented as being in a state of 
“ spiritual destitution,’ be there inserted :—It passed 
in the Negative. 

Ordered, That Mr. Brotherton do carry the Bill 
to the Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, with Amendments; to 
which Amendments this House doth desire the con- 
currence of their Lordships. 


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Bristol 
Cemetery Bill, 


Collier Dock 
and Surrey 
Canal Bil. 


Barnsley 
Waterworks 
Bill. 


Merthyr Tydvil 
Magistrates 
ill. 


North Metropo- 
litan Cemetery 
Bill. 


North Metropo- 
litan Cemetery 


Liverpool 
Improvement 
Acts Amend- 
ment Bill. 


Sixteenth 
Report on 
Poor Law Act. 


No, 386. 


452 6° Juniz. , 


An ingrossed Bill for establishing a General Ce- 
metery for the interment of the Dead in or near the 
City of Bristol, was read the third time; and Amend- 
ments were made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Sir Richard Vyvyan do carry the 
Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


A Petition of Inhabitants, Wharfingers, &amp;c., of 
Saint Mary, Rotherhithe, praying that they may be 
heard, by their counsel or agents, against certain 
parts of the Collier Dock and Surrey Canal Bill, 
was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by their counsel or agents, upon their Petition, if they 
think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the Bill, 
against the said Petition. 


An ingrossed Bill for better supplying with Water 
the Town and Neighbourhood of Barnsley, in the 
West Riding of the County of York, was read the 
third time; and Amendments were made to the 
Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Sir George Strickland do carry the 
Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Ordered, That the Merthyr Tydvil Magistrates 
Bill be read a second time upon Monday next. 


Ordered, That the North Metropolitan Cemetery 
Bill be read the third time upon Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
further consideration the Petition of John Wichey 
Stable, which was presented yesterday, in relation 
to the North Metropolitan Cemetery Bil. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be taken into 
further consideration upon Tuesday next. 

Ordered, That Mr. Robert Sutton and Mr. John 
Rose do attend this House upon Tuesday next. 


The ingrossed Bill for altering, amending, im- 
proving and enlarging the provisions of certain Acts 
of Parliament relating to the Town of Liverpool, in 
the County Palatine of Lancaster, and for extending 
the same to the whole of the Borough of Liverpool, 


and for the regulation of the times and places of Pp 


payment of Wages of Mechanics, Labourers and 
others in the said Borough, for the mitigation by 
Justices of Penalties under Bye-laws of the said 
Borough, for the summary recovery of the Possession 
of Shops and Stands in Fairs and Markets of the 
said Borough, for the summary recovery of the Tolls, 
Stallage Dues, Town’s Customs, and other Revenue 
of the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the said 
Borough, and for the payment of the Clerks to the 
Justices of the said Borough by Salaries in lieu of 
Fees, was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act for altering, amending, improving 
and extending the provisions of certain Acts of Par- 
lament relating to the Town of Liverpool, in the 
County Palatine of Lancaster. 

Ordered, That Mr. Brotherton do carry the Bill 
to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Sir George Clerk reported from the Select Com- 
mittee appointed to inquire into the administration 
of the Relief of the Poor under the orders and re- 
gulations issued by the Commissioners appointed 
under the provisions of the Poor Law Amendment 
Act; and who were empowered to report the Minutes 
of the Evidence taken before them from time to time 
to the House ; That they had made further Progress 
in the matters to them referred; and had directed 
him to report the Minutes of the Evidence taken 
before them. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 





A. 1837. 


A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Wingfield Message from 

and Mr. Farrar : the Lords, 
Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Monies in the 
Act for carrying to the Consolidated Fund certain Exchequer Bill, 
Monies paid into the Exchequer and usually applied 
as part of the annual Aids and Supplies, and for 
cancelling Stock transferred to the Commissioners 
for the Reduction of the National Debt, on account 
of the Redemption of Land Tax, without any Amend- 
ment: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Amendments made Duke of Argyll’ 
by this House to the Bill, intituled, An Act to alter Estate Bill, 
and extend the Powers of an Act passed in the 
eleventh year of the reign of his late Majesty King 
George the Fourth, intituled, “ An Act for empower- 
ing George William Duke of Argyll, and his Trustee, 
to borrow a Sum of Money, and to make it a charge 
on the Estate of Argyll, upon certain Conditions,” 
without any Amendment: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Brixham 
Act for improving, enlarging and maintaining the Harbour and 
Pier, Harbour and Market of Brixhgm, in the county Market Bil. 
of Devon, and for the formation of a Breakwater in 
Torbay; with Amendments ; to which Amendments 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House: 

And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Shropshire and 
Act to enable “ The Shropshire and North Wales North Wales 
Assurance Company” to sue and be sued in the Company Bil 
Name of the Managing Director for the time being, ; 
or of any one of the general or local Directors of 
the said Company ; with Amendments ; to which 
Amendments the Lords desire the concurrence of 
this House: And also, 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Church Notices 
to alter the mode of giving Notices for the holding ® - 
of Vestries, of making Proclamations in cases of 
Outlawry, and of giving Notices on Sundays with 
respect to various matters; to which the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House: And also, 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Martin's 
for naturalizing Andrew Martin ; to which the Lords §*- Bil 
desire the concurrence of this House:—And then 
the Messengers withdrew. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- Steam Commu- 
osed, That a Select Committee be appointed. to nication with 
inquire into the best means of establishing a Com- =" 
munication by Steam with India, by way of the 
Red Sea ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the words “ by way of the 
“ Red Sea.” 

And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Question : 
—It was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed 
to inquire into the best means of establishing a Com- 
munication by Steam with India, by way of the Red 
Sea. 

Ordered, That the Committee be nominated To- 
morrow. 


Petitions from Ardagh and Moydow ; — Saint Government 
Mary’s, Cork; — Cahirconlish ; — Enniskillen ; — Ireland. 
Kilmore and Drumsnat ;—-Columbhiill ; — Moancoin 
and other places ; — Ballingarry ; — Saint John’s, 
Killenvoy, Kitmain and Slice ;—Killcommich ;— 

Clones Kast ;— Lavy ; — Aughana ;— Saint John, 
Kilkenny ;—Abbeyleix ;— Innismacsaint ; — Castle- 
terra ;—Dysart Galen ;— Urney and Annagelliff ;— 
Kilmore, Kilturk, and Tomhaggard; — Tallow ;— 
West Tullaghabigly;—_Desertmarten;—Killaraught; 
— Edgeworthstown ;—Sutton’s Parish ;—Upper and 
Lower Moville;— Mayo and Doonane;—Bally James 
Duff ;—Kilcrohane;—Kiltwork ;— Carrichedmond ; 
—Galloon;—Ennisheen;—Saint Mary, Saint Peter, 
and Drum, Athlone;—- Clonrush and Holy Island ;— 





Trim ; — Donagh; — Ballybay and Tullycorbet ;—- 


Stranorlan ;— 





he 


Bill. 


yll’s 


es 


Tithes 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Tithes 
(Ireland.) 


Tithes 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Benefices 
Plurality Bill. 


7 Witt. IV. 


Stranorlan; — Drumgath;— Inniskeel;— Union of 
Fahan and Desertagny ;—Enniscorthy ; —Rathkeale; 
— Longford ;—Creeve and Clooncroff;—Monaghan ; 
—Aughaloo and Carnteel Union ;— Wicklow ;— Clon- 
tibrett; ---Bagenalstown, Ballenkillen, and Newtown ; 
— Clones ;— Laracor and Gallow ;— Donaghendryand 
Ballyclog ;—Drumcree ;— Rathvilly;— Drumcondra 
and other places ;—Cloongish ;—Valentia ;-—Killoe; 
— Kilcluney ;—Erigle Kicarn;—A hamlish;— Drum- 
shallon and Ballymakenny ;— Ballynow ;— Cloona- 
cule ; — Anna; — Templecrone;— Donaghcavey ; — 
Aughavoe; — Killanne;—Kilmorgan and Emlafad; 
—AInistioge; — Anna East;— Bree and Gabally; — 
Munsterconnaught and Castleraham ;—Caragh and 
Prosperous; — Ardnagquihe ; — Killmacallen ;— Ur- 
lingford; — Clemanto and Tubrid ;— Tomour and 
Drumratt ;— Cahir ;— Seagoe;— Ballyscullin ;— Kil- 
more ;— Cove;—Kilfree;—Ennis M¢Saint ;—Scrab- 
om Thomastown;— Kilbeagh;—and, Pulchell and 

onaghmore; praying the House to support His Ma- 
jesty’s Ministers in their government of Jreland,— 
were presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 


the Table. 


Petitions from Roman Catholic Clergymen of the 
Archdiocese and Deanery of Tuam ;— Cork, Cloyne 
and Ross ;—Lay Impropriators and Lessees of Im- 
propriate Tithes ;—Kilkerrin and Cloonbern ;—Kil- 
coman and Robin;—Annagh ;— Tuam ;— Roman 
Catholic Clergy of the Archdiocese of Tuam ;— 
Aughagour ;— Buiounah and Templetoher ;— Lis- 
heavy and Adrigoole ;—Kiltollo ;—Dunmore ;—and, 
Union of Kilconly and Kibbannon; praying that the 
Tithes (Jreland) Bill may not pass into a law,—were 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


. Petitions from Killowen, Dunboe and Macorquin ; 
—and, Ballinacourty; praying for the abolition of 
Tithes in Zreland,—were presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 
posed, That the Order of the day for the second 
reading of the Tithes (Ireland), Bill be now read ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That ” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words “ this House will resolve itself into a Com- 
“ mittee of the whole House to take into considera- 
“ tion the State of the Nation,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Question : 
—It was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That the Order of the day for the second 
reading of the Tithes (Ireland) Bill, be now read ; 
and the same being read ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

And the House having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Saturday morning ; 


Sabbati, 10° die Junii, 1837: 


And the Question being put ; 
The House divided : 

The Yeas to the old Lobby ; 
The Noes to the new Lobby. 

Tellers for the ¢ Mr. Robert Steuart, 
Yeas, Mr. Fox Maule : 
Tellers for the { Mr. Sharman Crawford, } 14 

Noes, Mr. Browne: ° 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

_ Ordered, That the Bill be now read a second 
time :—The Bill was accordingly read a second 
time, and committed to a Committee of the whole 
House, for Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Benefices Plurality Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read'a second time upon 
Friday, the 23d day of this instant June. 

Vor. 92. 


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453 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Bankrupts’ 
into a Committee upon the Bankrupts’ Estates (Scot- (lostion a) Bil 
land) Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. N F 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernat re- *“® 380. 
te That the Committee had gone through the 

ill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Bernal reported the Bill accordingly ; and 
the Report was ordered to be taken into further con- 
sideration upon Wednesday next, and the Bill, as 
amended, to be printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Bankruptcy — 
mittee on the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Bill ; (Scotland) Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednes- 
day next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Turnpike Acts 
mittee on the Turnpike Acts Continuance (Jreland) ee 
Bill ; (Ireland) Bill. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 


next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Bankrupts Bill was, according to Order, read Bankrupts Bill, 
a second time; and committed to a Committee of 
the whole House, for Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Uniformity of 
mittee on the Uniformity of Process Bill ; Process Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Parliamentary 
reading of the Parliamentary Electors Bill ; Electors Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Coroners’ 
into a Committee upon the Coroners’ Inquests’ Ex- aed Bil 
enses Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. a ‘ 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal re- o. 318. 
orted, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 
Ordered, That the Report be now received. 
Mr. Bernal reported the Bill accordingly ; and 
the Report was ordered to be taken into further 
consideration upon Friday next, and the Bill, as 
amended, to be printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Secular Juris- 
further consideration the Report on the Secular diction (York 
Jurisdiction (York and Ely) Bill:—The Bill was *"4 "'y) Bill. 
re-committed to a Committee of the whole House:— No. 387. 
And the House immediately resolved itself into the 
said Committee; and, after some time spent therein, 

Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Bernal reported the Bill accordingly ; and 
the Report was ordered to be taken into further con- 
sideration upon Friday next; and the Bill, as 
amended, to be printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Poor Relief 
mittee on the Poor Relief (Jreland) Bill; (Ireland) Bill 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Commit- Registration 
tee on the Registration and Marriages (No. 2) Bill; nd Marriages 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve (N°) Bill 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the third Pittory 
reading of the Pillory Punishment Abolition Bill ; Punishment 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time this «tion Bilt 


day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Metropolis 
reading of the Metropolis Improvement Bill ; — 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon" * 
Wednesday, the 21st day of this instant June. 


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4.54 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Hackney Carriages (Metropolis) Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday, 
the 21st day of this instant June, resolve itself into 
the said Committee. 


Hackney 

Carriages 

rae 
ill. 


Sheriffs’ Fees 


— Mr Tooke reported the Sheriffs’ Fees Bill; and 
ill. 


the Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed ; and read the third time upon Monday 
next. 


Haileybury 


The Order of the day being read, for the third 
College Bill. 


reading of the Haileybury College Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Wednesday next. 


Ways and 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Means. 


mittee of Ways and Means ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
Supply. The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Suppl 


re April) The Order of the day being read, for receiving 


the Report from the Committee of Supply ; 
Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 


Royal Military 


The ingrossed Bill for transferring and yesting 
Canal Bill. i 


the Royal Military Canal, Roads, Towing Paths, 
and the Ramparts and other Works belonging 
thereto, and all Estates and Property taken and 
occupied for the same in the counties of Kent and 
Sussex, and also the Rates and Tolls arising there- 
from, in the principal Officers of His Majesty’s 
Ordnance, was, according to Order, read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Municipal 
Corporations 
Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
consideration the Amendments made by the Lords 
to the Municipal Corporations Bill ; 

Ordered, That the said Amendments be taken 
into consideration this day. 


Foreign Officers Ordered,'That leave be given to bring in a Bill 


Bill. for enabling His Majesty to grant the Rank of Gene- 
ral Officers to Foreigners now bearing His Majesty’s 
Commission, and to permit the Enlistment of 
Foreigners, under certain restrictions : And that Lord 
Viscount Howick and Sir Henry Parnell do pre- 
pare, and bring it in. 

Church The House was moved, That the Act 3 and 

Temporalities 4 Will. 4, c. 37, to alter and amend the Laws re- 

(Ireland. ) 


lating to the Temporalities of the Church of [reland, 
might be read; and the same was read. 

The House was also moved, That the Act 4 and 
5 Will. 4, ce. 90, to amend an Act made in the third 
and fourth year of the Reign of His present Ma- 
jesty, intituled, An Act to alter and amend the 
Laws relating to the Temporalities of the Church 
of Ireland, might be read ; and the same was read. 

The House was also moved, That the Act 6 and 
7 Will. 4, c. 99, to amend two Acts passed respec- 
tively in the third and fourth, and in the fourth and 
fifth years of His present Majesty, for altering and 
amending the Laws relating to the Temporalities of 
the Church of Ireland, might be read ; and the same 
being read ; 

And a Motion being made, That this House will, 
upon Friday next, resolve itself into a Committee 
to consider of authorizing Advances to be made out 


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of the Consolidated Fund, for defraying the Ex- 
penses of the revision of Tithe Compositions, and | 











A. 1837. 


amendment of Applotments in Jreland, and also of 
establishing the amount of the Assessments to be 
hereafter made on every Dignity, Benefice, Office or 
Promotion in Ireland ; 


Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, by His Ma- 











jesty’s command, acquainted the House, That His 


Majesty, having been informed of the subject-matter 
of this Motion, recommends it to the consideration 
of the House. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Mr. Tooke reported from the Select Committee on Dowlais 
Petitions for Private Bills; That in the case of the Market Bill. 
Petition for extending the time till the 19th day of 
this instant June, for the Committee on the Dowlais 
Market Bill to make their Report, the Committee 
are of opinion the prayer of the said Petition should 
be complied with. 

Ordered, That the time for the Committee on the 
said Bill to make their Report be enlarged till Mon- 
day, the 19th day of this instant June. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Poor Law 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased Commission. 
to give directions that there be laid before this 
House, a Return of all the General Rules submitted, 
under the 16th section of the Act, by the Poor Law 
Commissioners to the Secretary of State; specify- 
ing those which have been disallowed, or any part 
thereof, and those which have received the sanction 
of His Majesty’s Secretary of State. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Rayley’s 


Rayley’s Estate Bill was read a second time ; and 
Estate Bill, 


committed to Mr. Pryme and the Norfolk List. 
And then the House, having continued to sit till 
half an hour after twelve of the clock on 
Saturday morning, adjourned till this day. 








Sabbati, 10° die Junii ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi IV“ Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


RDERED, That all Committees have leave Committees. 
to sit this day during the sitting of the House. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to take Municipal 
into consideration the Amendments made by the — 
Lords to the Bill, intituled, An Act for the Regula- ~" 
tion of Municipal Corporations in England and Wales; 
and the same were read, as follow : 

Pr. 2. 1. 2. After “ office” insert “ which shall 
“ take place after the passing of this Act.” 

Pr. 2. 1.3. Leave out from “ questioned ” to 
“ by” in |. 4. 

Pr. 2. 1. 7. Leave out “ have been” and insert 
“-. 

Pr. 2. 1. 9. Leave out from “ shall ” to “ then,” 
in 1. 10, and insert “ be.” 

Pr. 2. 1, 14. After “ and” insert “ subject and 
without prejudice to the provisions for discontinu- 
ing proceedings hereinafter contained.” 

Pr. 2. 1. 19. After “ in” insert “ either of.” 

Pr. 2. 1.29. After “ purposes” insert “ not- 
withstanding any defect in the title, or want of 
title in the person so presiding arising from the 
provisions of the said Act, or of any former char- 
ter or any local custom not having been duly 
complied with, and notwithstanding that there 
may not have beenat the time of the passing of the 
said Act any such body corporate as is named in 
the Schedule (A.) or (B.) of the said Act, m con- 
junction with the name of the Borough in which 
such election may have been had, or any such 
officer as is charged by the said Act with the exe- 
cution of such duties.” 

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Pr. 3. 1.4. Leave out from 
‘ Provided ” in 1. 14. 

Pr, 3. 1.21. After “ specified” insert “ Pro- 
vided also, That nothing in this Act contained 
shall extend to invalidate any payment bond fide 
made, or to invalidate or render valid any notice 
to quit given before the passing of this Act, or 
render liable to any penalty or punishment any 
person who would not have been liable to such 
penalty or punishment in case this Act had not 
“ been made.” 

Pr. 3. 1. 27. After “in” insert “ either of.” 

Pr. 3. 1.36. After “ elected” insert “ Pro- 
“ vided always, That nothing in this Act contained 
“ shall extend to affect the right of any person to 
prove the validity or invalidity of any election or 
“ act had or done before the passing of this Act, 
“ and hereby made good or valid, in any action 
“* already brought or hereafter to be brought, to 
“ try the right to any office of profit, or to recover 
“ the profits or receipts thereof; and every such 
*€ action, in which it may be material to either party 
“‘ to prove the validity or invalidity of any such 
“ election or act, shall be tried and decided to all 
“ intents and purposes as if this Act had not passed; 
“ provided that such action shall be brought within 
“« Twelve calendar months after the passing of this 
“ An.” 

Pr. 3. 1. ult. After “ in” insert “ either of.” 

Pr. 4. 1. 27. After “ March” insert “ or on the 
“ following day if that day be on a Sunday.” 

Pr. 5. 1. 31. Leave out from “made” to “ And” 
in Pr. 6. 1. 17. 

Pr. 6. 1. 31. Leave out “ Notwithstanding that” 
and insert “ in any case in which.” 

Pr. 6. 1.32. Leave out “ may” and _ insert 
“ shall.” 

Pr. 7. 1. 3. After “ made” insert Clauses (A.) 
and (B.) 

Cravuse (A.) “ And be it Enacted, That in every 
“ case in which, under the provisions of the said 
“ Act for regulating Corporations, any person shall 
“ be entitled to reckon the rating and occupancy of 
“‘ any house, warehouse, counting-house or shop in 
“ any Borough by any other person as part of his 
“ own rating and occupancy, it shall not be neces- 
“« sary, in support of the title of such person to be 
“ enrolled on the Burgess Roll, to prove that he was 
“ an inhabitant householder within the said Bo- 
“ rough, or within Seven miles of the said Borough, 
“ or that he was an occupant, or rated within the 
“ same, before the title to such house or other pro- 
“ perty as aforesaid shall have devolved upon him.” 

Crause (B.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
“ the rating in the name of the person previously 
“ occupying shall be considered a sufficient rating 
“‘ of the person so entitled until a new rate shall 
“ be made subsequent to such devolution of title as 
“ aforesaid.” 

Pr. 8. 1.13. After “ repealed”’ insert “ and 
“ that every election of a Councillor to supply any 
“* such extraordinary vacancy, either alone or toge- 
ther with other Councillors, which shall have 
been had on the First day of November last, 
shall be valid, although the number of Coun- 
cillors did then exceed Two-thirds of the whole 
number of the Council, and although such vacancy 
may have happened more than Ten days previ- 
ously to the said First day of November last, if 
“in other respects such Election shall have been 
duly had according to the provisions for the an- 
nual election of Councillors contained in the said 
“ Act for regulating Corporations; and the Coun- 
“ cillor elected by the smallest number of votes at 
such Election, if elected with other Councillors, 
“ shall be the Councillor elected to supply such 
extraordinary a as aforesaid ; and in every 
case in which more than One such extraordinary 
vacancy shall be so supplied, the Councillor 
elected by the smallest number of votes shall be 
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taken to be elected in the room of him who would 
regularly have first gone out of office, and the 
Councillor elected by the next smallest number of 
votes shall be taken to be elected in the room of 
him who would regularly have next gone out of 
office, and so with respect to the other.”’ 

Pr8. 1.34 and 35. Leave out from “Councillor” 
to “shall,” in 1. ult. and insert “ assessed to the 
“poor to the greatest amount in respect of any 
“ messuage, land, tenement, tithe or other here- 
ditaments, of which he is occupier, and also owner, 
within such Borough.” 

Pr. 9. 1.12. Leave out from “ Councillor” to 
shall,” in ]. 14., and insert “ assessed and being 
occupier and owner as aforesaid.” 

Pr. 9. 1. 24. Leave out from “ Councillor” to 
shall,” in I. 25. 

Pr. 9. 1. 33. Leave out “ or Councillors.” 

Pr. 10. 1. 16. Leave out “ not,” and in the 
same line leave out “ any,” and insert “ a.” 

Pr. 10. 1. 18. In Clause (A.), added by way of 
Rider to the Bill: 

Pr. 10. 1. 33. Leave out from “ instance” to 

“ And,” in Pr. 11. 1. 12., and insert Clauses (C.), 
(D.) and (E.) 
Crausz (C.) “ And whereas by the said Act for 
regulating Corporations it is provided, that no 
Burgess shall be eligible to be or be elected an 
“ Auditor or Assessor who shall be of the Coun- 
“ cil; Be it also Enacted, That no Burgess shall be 
“ eligible to be elected a Member of the Council 
“ while holding the office of Assessor or elective 
“ Auditor.” 

Cuiauss (D.) “ And be it Enacted, That in case 
“ of the illness or incapacity to act of any Alder- 
man at any Election, the Mayor shall be em- 
“* powered to appoint another Alderman to act in 
the room of such Alderman during such illness or 
“ meapacity.” 

Cause (E.) “ And be it Enacted, That every 
“ Assessor shall be empowered, and he is hereby 
“ directed, as soon as conveniently may be after his 
“ Election, and from time to time as the occasion 
“ may arise, or to him may seem fit, to appoint 
“ under his hand a Deputy to act for him in case of 
“ his illness or incapacity to act at any Election, or 
“ any revision of the Burgess Lists; and every 
“ such appointment shall be signified by him in 
“ writing under his hand to the Council, and shall be 
“ recorded on the Minutes of their proceedings.” 

Pr. 10. 1.22. After “ Candidate”’ insert “ Pro- 
vided that no person or persons have within the 
last hour been prevented from coming to the Poll 
by any riot, violence or other unlawful means, of 
which notice shall have been given to the Return- 
“ ing Officer.”’ 

Pr. 12. 1.14. Leave out from “ Act” to “ costs” 
in 1. 15., and insert “ upon payment of the ;” and 
in 1. 15. leave out from “ costs” to “ and,” in 1. 18., 
and insert “ incurred up to that time.” 

Pr. 12. 1. 21. After “ proceeding” insert “ all;”’ 
and in the same line, and in 1. 22. leave out “as 
“ the,” and insert “ to be taxed as between Attorney 
“ and Client, according to the practice of such;” and 
“ in 1. 22. leave out from “ Court” to “ And,” in 
1. 25., and insert Clauses (F.) and (G.) 

Cuiause (F.) “ And be it further Enacted, 
That no advantage shall be taken of the invalidity 
of any Election which shall be rendered valid by 
this Act in any-action already brought, or whic 
“ may be hereafter brought by any Corporation, but 
“ such action shall be tried on its merits, as if 
“ no such objection could be set up against the 
“ Plaintiff’s right of proceeding, but the Court in 
which such action is or shall be brought, or any 
“ Judge of the same Court in vacation, shall on 
“ application of the Defendant, if the Court or Judge 
“‘ think the invalidity of any such Election would 
“ have been a defence to such action, order the 
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his costs up to the time of the application, and | ° 
also his costs of the application, taxed as between 
party and party.” 

Cuause (G.) “ And be it further Enacted, hat | | 
from and after the commencement of this Act any | 
Burgess of any Borough shall be at liberty, at all | ‘ 
seasonable times, to make any copy of, or take | 
any extract from the book require by the said |‘ 
Act to be kept for the purpose of entering the | ‘ 
Minutes of Council, and also to make any copy | | 
or take any extract ‘from any Order in Council of | 
such Borough for the payment of any money; and | ¢ 
itshall also be lawful forany Alderman or Councillor 
of any Borough, at all seasonable times, to make | ‘ 
any copy of or take any extract from the book | ‘ 
required by the said Act to be kept by the Trea- | 
surer = such Borough.” \¢ 

Pr. 12. 1. 32. Leave out “ or;” and in the same 
line, es “ Councillor” insert “ or Burgess.” 

Pr. 12. 1. 34. Leave out from “ of” to “ after,” 
in 1. 35., and insert “ Twelve calendar months.” 

Pr. 12. i. 36. Leave out from “ the” to “ the,” 
in |. 37., and insert “ time when.” 

Pr. 12. 1. 39. After “ directed” imsert “ shall 
“ have become disqualified.” 

Pr. 15. 1. 28. After Clause (C.), added by way 
of Rider to the Bill, insert Clause (H.) 

Crause (H.) “ "And whereas by an Act passed 
in the last Session of Parliament, intituled, ‘ An 
‘ Act for the better Administration of the Borouch 
‘Fund in certain Boroughs,’ it is Enacted, that 
it shall be lawful for the Council of any Borough 
named in the Schedules (A.) and (B.), annexed to 
the first hereinbefore-mentioned Act, to execute 
from time to time any deed or obligation i in the \ 
name of the Body Corporate whose Council they | 
are, for securing repayment and satisfaction of any | 
debt or obligation contracted by or on behalf |‘ 
of the said Body Corporate before the passing of | ‘ 
the said Act for regulating Corporations; Be it |* 
Enacted, That any money borrowed by any such | 
Council for the purpose of being applied, and | 
which shall be actually applied im or towards | 
satisfaction and discharge of any such pre-exist- | 
ing debt or obligation shall be deemed and taken | 
to be, within the true intent and meaning of the | | 
said Act of tie last Session of Parliament, a debt | 
contracted by or on behalf of such Body Corpo- | 
rate before the passing of the said Act for regu- | 
lating oe “* | 
Pr. 16. 1. 33. After “ Borough ” 
(1.), (K.) and (L.) 

CL AusE (1.) “ And be it Enacted, That all matters | 
cognizable by virtue of any local Act of Parlia- |* 
ment or otherwise by any Justice of the Peace or | 
by the General or Quarter Sessions of the Peace | ‘ 
having jurisdiction within any place which, since | 
the passing of the said Act for regulating Corpo- 

rations, or of an Act passed in the sixth and 
seventh year of the reign of His present Majesty, 
intituled, ‘An Act to make temporary provisions 
for the Boundaries of certain Boroughs,’ has 
ceased to be within and to be part of any “Borough 
or the liberties thereof, shall be cognizable by the 
Justices of the Peace, or the General or Quarter 
Sessions of the county, riding or division, liberty 
or jurisdiction within which such place is situate, 
in the same manner and subject to the same pro- 
visions as the same were within the jurisdiction 
of the Justices of the Peace for that Borough or 
place, or of the General or Quarter Sessions of 
the same.” 

Crause (K.) “ And be it Enacted, That after 
the passing of this Act, all offences committed 
within any Borough, or the precincts thereof, 
against the provisions of any Local Act of Parlia- 
ment, shall be cognizable by the Justices of such 
Borough, and such Justices shall possess all the 
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‘ Justices of any county, riding, division, libert 
or jurisdiction, by virtue of any such Local Act: 
‘ Provided always, That in every case in which 
imprisonment might be awarded for any such 
offence, or to enforce payment of any penalty 
‘ imposed by any-such Act, such imprisonment ma 
be awarded to take place in any gaol to whic 
‘ the Justices of that Borough have power to 
“ commit offenders.” 

Crausk (L.) “ And be it Enacted, That every 

Court of Record for the trial of civil actions within 

‘ any Borough named in the Schedules to the said 
a ‘ Act for regulating Corporations may in the ab- 
sence of the Recorder be holden for all purposes 
‘ within the competency of the said Court (except 
the trial of issues in law or in fact) before any 
person whom the Recorder shall from time to 
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in Pr. on 1, 9. 
Pr. 17. 1. 28. After “ person” insert “ being a 


“ nant helt se or Attorney of Five years’ stand- 
ing.” 

Pr. 18. 1.8. After “ notwithstanding ” insert 
Clauses (M.) and (N.) 

Cravuse (M.) “ And be it Enacted, That if His 
Majesty shall be pleased, upon the joint Petition 
of the Council of any Borough named in either 
of the Schedules to the said Act for regulating 
“* Corporations, and of the Justices of the adjoining 
“ county, riding, parts or division of a county, in 
Quarter Session assembled, to grant that the 
‘ jurisdiction of any Court of Record for the trial 
of civil actions, or of any Court of Requests or 
of Conscience for the recovery of Small Debts. 
‘ within such Borough, shall be extended over any 
‘ district adjacent to the said Borough, and within 
‘ the jurisdiction of such Quarter Sessions, such as 
‘to His Majesty, with the Advice of His Privy 
* Council, shall seem fit, the jurisdiction of every 
« such Court respectiv ely shall be extended accord- 
ing to the tenor of the grant ; and all the powers 
‘ and provisions contained in ‘the said Act for re- 
gulating Corporations, and in an Act passed in 
the last Session of Parliament, intituled, ‘An Act 
for the better Administration of Justice in certain 
Boroughs,’ and in this Act, relating to any such 
Court, shall extend to the whole district com- 
7 prised within such extended jurisdiction.” 

Criause (N.) * And whereas by the said Act for 
‘ regulating Corporations, it is provided that no 
‘ person shall be summoned to serve as a Juror at 
‘ the Court of Session of the Peace, or Court of 
‘ Record, in any Borough named in either of the 
Schedules to the said Act, oftener than once in 
One year; Be it Enacted, That nothing in the 
said Act contained shall prevent or excuse any 
person, qualified and liable to serve on any such 
Jury, from being summoned a second time in One 
year, In case every person qualified and liable so 
to serve shall have been summoned once during 
that year.” 

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Pr. 19. 1.6. and 7. After “ Corporations ” insert 
subject nevetthehes to any alteration made in the 
last recited Acts, or either of them, by an Act 
made in the fifth and sixth years of His Majesty, 
intituled, ‘ An Act for effecting greater uniformity 
of Practice in the Government of the several 
Prisons in England and Wales, and for appointing 
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Pr. = 1. 11. After “ enlarging” insert “ or.’ 

Pr. 19. 1. 12. Leave out “ or regulating.” 

Pr. 7 1. 16. After “ Borough” insert “ Pro- 
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such City or Borough: Provided also, That all 
Rules and Regulations made for the government 
of any Prisoners confined in any such Gaol or 
House of Correction, shall be approved by Two 
or more Justices acting in and for that City or 
Borough, before they shall be transmitted to the 
Secretary of State ;” and also insert Clauses (O.), 


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powers of regulation which, before the passing of 
the said Act for regulating Corporations, were 
possessed by the Justices having the government 
or ordering of any such Gaol or House of Cor- 
rection, and all things by any Act of Parliament 
provided to be done at any General or Quarter 
Sessions of the Peace in relation to the regulating 
of any such Gaol or House of Correction, shall, 
subject to any such alteration as aforesaid, be 
exercised or done by the Justices of the City or 
Borough to which such Gaol or House of Cor- 
rection shall beiong, and for that purpose the 
Justices shall hold a quarterly session at the 
usual times of holding quarterly sessions of the 
peace, provided that no order made by the Justices 
in pursuance of these powers which shall require 
the expenditure or payment of any money, shall 
be of force until confirmed by the Council of that 
City or Borough.” 

Crause (P.) “ And be it Enacted, That it shall 
not be lawful for any Mayor, Alderman, Council- 
man or other Officer of a Corporation, to be in- 
terested or concerned or employed, directly or in- 
directly, as an architect, builder, artist, mechanic, 
workman, merchant, trader or otherwise how- 
soever, in any part of the work to be done, or 
materials to be supplied at any such Gaol or House 
of Correction, or in any contract whatever relating 
thereto; and if any one holding such office shall 
be so interested, concerned or —oe in such 
work or contract as aforesaid, he shall thence- 
forward be disqualified from continuing to hold 
such office, and also from being thereafter elected 
or appointed to fill any Corporate Office within 
any such City or Borough.” 

“: Mpeerne (Q.) “ And be it Enacted, That it shall 
be lawful for the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses 
of any Borough, by their Council, to contract for 


the purchase of, and to have and hold to them 


and their successors any lands, not exceeding in 
the whole Five acres, either within or beyond the 
limits of the Borough, and to build thereon a 
Town-hall, Council-house, Police-oftice, Gaol or 
House of Correction for the Borough; and any 
such Gaol or House of Correction, although built 
beyond the limits of the Borough, may be declared 
by a resolution of the Council, and upon such 
resolution shall be taken to be, the Gaol or House 
of Correction of the Borough, and shall be within 
the same jurisdiction, and shall be governed and 
regulated in like manner as if within the limits 
of the Borough.” 

Ciause (R.) “ And whereas by the extension of 
the Boundaries of certain Boroughs, Cities and 
places, the County Gaols, Court-houses, Depéts 
for Militia Arms, and other public edifices and 
offices of Counties, have been included within the 
Boundaries of those Cities or Boroughs, and are 
thereby subject to the jurisdiction of such Cities 
or Boroughs, and of the Sheriffs and other Muni- 
cipal authorities thereof; in remedy whereof, Be 
it Enacted, That all County Gaols, Courts, Depots 
for Arms, and all lands, buildings, easements and 
appurtenances thereunto belonging, which, before 
the passing of the Act passed in the last Session 
of Parliament, to make temporary provision for 
the Boundaries of certain Boroughs, or the autho- 
rized extension of the Boundaries of any Borough 
since the passing of that Act, were in, of or be- 
longing to any County, shall be taken to be and 
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considered, and shall remain part and parcel of 
such county, and under the exclusive jurisdiction 
of the authorities of such County, as if the said 
last-mentioned Act had not passed.” 

Crausz (S.) “ And be it Enacted, That in every 
case in which, by virtue of any contract made 
between the Council of any Borough and the 
Justices of any County, Riding, parts or division 
of a County, Liberty or Jurisdiction, according to 
the provisions of the said Act for regulating Cor- 
porations, the Gaol belonging to such County, 
Riding, parts or division of a County, Liberty or 
Jurisdiction, shall be used as the Gaol of such 
Borough, prisoners for debt or in contempt, ar- 
rested in any such Borough under any process 
from any Court, may be taken and removed from 
such Borough, and confined in that part of such 
Gaol which is appropriated to debtors, and such 
removal shall not be taken to be an escape: Pro- 
vided always, That every such prisoner shall still 
be taken to be within the legal custody of the 
person or persons in whose custody he would have 
been if imprisoned within the Borough Gaol, and 
the Sheriff of such County, Riding, parts or di- 
vision of a County, Liberty or Jurisdiction shall 
not be answerable for the safe custody of an 
such prisoner: Provided also, That it shall be 
lawful for the person or persons in whose custody 
such prisoner would have been if imprisoned within 
the Borough Gaol, to take such security from the 
gaoler or keeper of the Gaol to which any such 
prisoner shall be so removed, for the safe custody 
of all such prisoners as shall be agreed on between 
the Council and Justices aforesaid.” 

Pr. 19. 1, 34. Leave out Clause (D.) added, by 


way of Rider, to the Bill, and insert Clauses (T.), 
(U.), (W.), (X.), (Y.), (Z.) and (A 1.) 


Criausz (T.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
the accounts of the receipt and expenditure of 
such Borough, shall, from and after the passing of 
this Act, be referred by the Secretary of State to 
the Commissioners appointed or to be appointed 
for auditing Public Accounts, under an Act passed 
in the twenty-fifth year of the reign of His Ma- 
jesty King George the Third, intituled, ‘ An Act 
‘for the better Examining and Auditing the Pub- 
‘lic Accounts of this Kingdom ;’ also under An 
Act passed in the forty-sixth year of the reign of 
his said late Majesty King George the Third, in- 
tituled, ‘ An Act for making more effectual Pro-~ 
‘vision for the more speedy and regular Exa- 
‘mination and Audit of the Public Accounts of 
‘ this Kingdom ;’ and also under an Act passed in 
the first and second years of the reign of His 
Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled, ‘ An 
‘ Act to alter and abolish certain Forms of Pro- 
‘ceedings in the Exchequer and Audit Office 
‘relative to Public Accountants, and for making 
‘ further provisions for the purpose of facilitating 
“and expediting the passing of Public Accounts 
‘in Great Britain;’ and to render perpetual 
and amend an Act passed in the fifty-fourth year 
of his late Majesty, for the effectual Examination 
of the Accounts of certain Colonial Revenues ; 
and all the powers and provisions now in force 
of the same Acts, shall extend and be applicable 
to the examination, audit and discharge of the 
accounts of the said Boroughs by said Commis- 
sioners, as far as their powers and provisions are 
applicable thereto.” 
Cravsz (U.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of His 
Majesty’s Treasury for the time being, or any three 
or more of them, from time to time by warrant’ 
under their hands, to direct such new arrange- 
ments in the office of the Commissioners for 
auditing Public Accounts, and to assign to the 
Commissioners, individually or collectively, the 
exercise of such duties, and to make such orders 
and regulations in respect to the conduct of the 
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of His Majesty’s Treasury shall deem expedient, 
and best calculated to insure the most prompt and 
speedy examination and audit of the accounts of 
the receipt and expenditure of the said Boroughs.” 
Crause(W.) “ And whereas it is expedient to give 
all persons interested in the Borough Fund of every 
Borough a more direct and easy remedy for any 
misapplication of such Fund; BE it therefore En- 
acted, That any Order of the Council of any Bo- 
rough for the payment of anysum of money from or 
out of the Borough Fund of any Borough, may be 
removed into the Court of King’s Bench by writ of 
Certiorari, to be moved for according to the usual 
practice of the said Court with respect to writs 
of Certiorari; and that such Order may be dis- 
allowed or confirmed upon motion and hearing, 
with costs, according to the judgment and dis- 
cretion of the said Court.” 
Cuiause (X.) “ And be it Enacted, That any 
stocks, funds or public securities, which may be 
standing in the books of the Governor and Com- 
pany of the Bank of England, or of any other 
ublic Company or Society, in the name of the 
fayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of any Borough, 
either under their present or under any former 
style or title of incorporation, and the dividends 
and interest thereof, and all bonuses and accre- 
tions thereunto, which shall belong to the body 
corporate of such Borough, without being subject 
to any trust for charitable purposes, may be trans- 
ferred by and paid to such person or persons as 
the Council of the said Body Corporate shall 
appoint, by an instrument in writing under the 
corporate seal of the Borough: Provided that 
such instrument of appointment shall be signed 
and sealed also by the Clerk to the Charitable 
Trustees of the Borough, who is hereby directed, 
upon request, to sign and seal the same.” 
Criause (Y.) “ And be it Enacted, That any 
stocks, funds, securities and monies standing as 
aforesaid in the name of any such Body Corpo- 
rate, which shall belong to the Charitable Trus- 
tees of the Borough solely upon some charitable 
trust or trusts, may be transferred by and paid to 
such person or persons as shall be appointed 
under the hands and seals of the greater part of 
the Trustees, which appointment shall be attested 
under the hand and seal of the said Clerk, pro- 
vided that such instrument as last aforesaid shall 
be also sealed with the corporate seal of the 
Borough, and the Mayor of the Borough is hereby 
required, upon request, to cause the seal of the 
Borough to be affixed to such imstrument of 
nomination.” 
Cravuse (Z.) “ And be it Enacted, That the 
dividends and interest of any stocks, funds, secu- 
rities and monies, standing as aforesaid in the 
name of any such Body Corporate, which shall 
belong partly to the said Body Corporate, but 


subject to some charitable trust or trusts, may be | * 


paid to such person or persons as shall be autho- 
rized to have the same paid to him or them, by 
an instrument in writing under the corporate seal 
of the Borough, and appointed under the hands 
and seals of the greater part of the Trustees, 
which appointment shall be attested under the 
hand and seal of the said Clerk.” 

Crause(A 1.) “ And be it Enacted, That in every 
ease the receipt of the person or persons autho- 
rized to give a receipt to the said Company or 
Society, by any instrument under the corporate 
seal of the said Borough, and also signed and 
sealed by the Clerk to the Charitable Trustees, 
shall be an effectual discharge to the said Com- 
pany or Society, and all monies so paid shall be 
applied to the uses and in the manner provided 
by the said Act; that is to say, so much of the 
said monies as may be held on charitable trusts 
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the said Borough, and so much as the said Body 
Corporate shall be entitled to beneficially shall be 
paid over to the Treasurer of the Borough, and 
applied as directed by the said Act, as part of the 

orough Fund ; but no such public Company or 
Society as aforesaid shall be bound to see to the 
due application thereof, or to the validity of the 
appointment of the Clerk to the Charitable Trus- 
tees, or to the execution of any such instrument 
by any of the said Trustees, or to inquire whether 
or not the said stocks, funds, securities or monies 
are charged with or held upon any Charitable 
Trust ; and every person authorized to receive an 
monies under this Act shall account to the Council 
and to the Charitable Trustees respectively for all 
monies so received by him, and the Council and 
Trustees respectively shall have the same remedies 
against any such person refusing or wilfully neg- 
lecting so to account, as are provided by the said 
Act for regulating Corporations, in the case of 
a Treasurer or other officer appointed by the 
Council refusing or wilfully neglecting to account, 
as provided by the said Act, during the conti- 
nuance of his office, or within Three Months after 
the expiration of his office.” 

Pr. 20. |. 1. After “ Majesty” insert “ by any 
such charter.” 

Pr. 20. 1. 3. Leave out “ and,” and insert “ the 
“ same to.” 

Pr. 20. 1. 4. After “ any” insert “ such,” and 
in the same line, leave out from “ Borough” to 
“ all” in 1. 8., and insert “ within the district to be 
“ set forth in such charter.” 

Pr. 20. 1. 9. Leave out “ although,” and insert 
“ for regulating Corporations whether.” 

Pr. 20. 1. 10. Leave out “ may or may,” and 
insert “ be or be.” 

Pr. 20. 1. 11. Leave out “ be.” 

Pr. 20. 1. 12. Leave out “ may or may not.” 

Pr. 20. 1.18. After “ be” insert “ or be not,” 
and in the same line, after “in” insert “ either of.” 

Pr. 20. |. penult. Leave out from “ Act” tothe 
end of the Bill, and insert “ Provided nevertheless, 
“ That notice of every such Petition, and of the 
“ time when it shall please His Majesty to order 
“ that the same be taken into consideration by His 
Privy Council, shall be published in the London 
Gazette One month at least before such Petition 
shall be so considered, but such publication shall 
not need to be by Royal Proclamation,” and also 
insert Clause (B. 2.) 

Cravse (B. 2.) “ And be it further Enacted, 

That in all Boroughs and places where General 
or Quarter Sessions of the Peace have, under and 
by virtue of the said recited Act, ceased or been 
discontinued to be holden, all such business, 
matters and things which, under or by virtue of 
any general or local Act of Parliament, or an 
usage or custom, ought or were usually heard, 
decided or transacted at such General or Quarter 
Sessions, by the Justices of the Peace, with the 
assistance of any Juries there assembled, shall 
and may hereafter be heard, decided and trans- 
acted by the General or Quarter Sessions of the 
Peace for the Counties, Ridings or Divisions, Liber- 
ties or Jurisdictions in which such Boroughs are 
situate, and by the Justices of the Peace and Juries 
there assembled respectively.” 
The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
several were agreed to without Amendment, others 
were amended, and agreed tg ; and others were dis- 
agreed to, which will fully appear in the Report of 
the Committee appointed to draw up Reasons to be 
offered to the Lords for disagreeing to certain of the 
said Amendments. [v. p. 465.] 

Ordered, That a Committee be appointed to draw 
up Reasons to be offered to The i at a Con- 
ference for disagreeing to the Amendments to which 
this House hath disagreed :— And a Committee was 
appointed of Lord John Russell, Mr. Chancellor of 
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the Exchequer, Mr. Attorney General, Mr. Solicitor 
General, Mr. Bernal, Mr. Wason, Lord Seymour, 
Mr. Law Hodges and Mr. Hawkins. 

Ordered, That Three be the Quorum. 


Registration 
and Marriages 
‘No. 2) Bill. 


No. 390. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself into 
a Committee upon the Registration and Marriages 


(ie. 3) Sam. (In the Committee.) 

Clauses offered: (Deputy Superintendent Regis- 
trar to be appointed) (Clergyman to be paid for 
making register in Duplicate) (Stamp Duty not 
payable) (Licensing Chapels for Marriages) —— 
(Banns may be published in Chapels where Mar- 
riages may be solemnized)——(Marriages may be 
solemnized in Licensed Chapels, though only one of 
the Parties reside in the District) ——severally 
brought up; read 1°, 2°, and added. 

Clause offered: (Births which have occurred 
twelve years before July 1837 may be registered) —- 
brought up, and read first time. 

Question, That the said Clause be read a second 
time put, and negatived. 

Clauses offered: (Celebration of Marriages in 
separate holdings) (In case of Marriages for ease 
of the Consciences of the Parties, and not intended 
to be valid Marriages, Felony not to attach)—— 
severally brought up; read 1°, 2°, and added. 

Clause offered: (Guardians under local Acts to 
be deemed Guardians for the purposes of this Act) 
~—-by leave, withdrawn. 

Preamble, agreed to. 

Bill, as amended, to be reported. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Bernal reported the Bill accordingly ; and 
the Report was ordered to be taken into further 
consideration upon Thursday next; and the Bill, as 
amended, to be printed. 




















Royal Assent 


al A Message, by Mr. Pulman, Yeoman Usher of 
to Bulls. 


the Black Rod : 
Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords, authorized by virtue of His Majesty’s 
Commission for declaring His Royal Assent to seve- 
ral Acts agreed upon by both Houses, do desire the 
immediate attendance of this Honourable House in 
the House of Peers, to hear the Commission read. 

Accordingly Mr. Speaker, with the House, went 
up to the House of Peers :—And being returned ; 

Mr. Speaker reported, That the House, at the desire 
of the Lords, authorized by virtue of His Majesty’s 
Commission, had been at the House of Peers, where 
a Commission under the Great Seal was read, giving, 
declaring and notifying the Royal Assent to one 
Public and several Private Bills therein mentioned ; 
and that the Lords, thereby authorized, had declared 
the Royal Assent to the said Bills :—Which Bills 
are as follow: 

An Act for carrying to the Consolidated Fund 
certain Monies paid into the Exchequer and usually 
applied as a part of the Annual Aids and Supplies, 
and for cancelling Stock transferred to the Commis- 
sioners for the reduction of the National Debt, on 
account of the Redemption of Land Tax: 


Monies in the 
Exchequer Bill. 


Rankine’s 


Estate Bill, Dudhope, to feu certain portions of the Lands and 


Estate of Dudhope, in the County of Forfar : 
An Act to vest certain parts of the Entailed Es- 
tate of Boysack, in the County of Forfar, belonging 
to William Fullarton Lindsay Carnegie, Esquire, in 
Trustees to sell the same, and apply the Price 
thereof in payment of certain Debts affecting the 
said Estate, in building a Mansion House for the 
same, and in re-payment of certain Sums of Money 
laid out in improving the said Estate, and to enable 
the Heir of Entail in possession of the said Estate 
to feu certain parts thereof. 
Vot. 92. 


Carnegie’s 
Estate Bill. 


10° Junie. 


An Act to enable David Rankine, Esquire, of 


459 


An Act for enabling the Trustees of William Elliott Lockhart’s 
Lockhart, deceased, of Borthwickbrae, to sell the Estate Bill 
Lands of Old Melrose and part of the Estate of 
Borthwickbrae, to pay the Debts affecting the same. 

An Act to enable Alexander Murray, Esquire, of Murray’s 
Broughton, to borrow a certain Sum of Money upon =*#e Bill. 
the security of certain of his Entailed Estates for 
re-payment to him of a portion of the Monies laid 

out by him in the improvement of these Estates. 

An Act to alter and extend the powers of an Act DukeofArgyll’s 
passed in the eleventh year of the reign of his late ®t Bill 
Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled “ An 

Act for empowering G'eorge William Duke of Argyll, 

and his Trustee, to borrow a Sum of Money, and to 

make it a charge on the Estate of Argyll, upon 

certain conditions.” 

An Act for naturalizing Charles Frederick Huth, Huth’sNat.Bill, 


An Act for naturalizing Daniel Meinertzhagen, Meinertzhagens’ 
Nat. Bill. 


The ingrossed Bill to abolish the punishment of the pijtory 
Pillory, was, according to Order, read the third time. Punishment 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. Abolition Bill. 
Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 

the Lords, and desite their concurrence. 


Mr. Bernal reported from the Committee of Sup- Supply ; _ 
ply several Resolutions, which were read as follow: (7 April.) 
1. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One Adniralty 
hundred and nine thousand one hundred and ninety- Oe 

five pounds, be granted to His Majesty, to defray 

the Salaries of the Officers, and the contingent Ex- 

penses of the Admiralty Office, to the 31st day of 

March 1838. 

2. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Two Registry of 
thonsand three hundred and sixty-five pounds, be —" 
granted to His Majesty to defray the Salaries of the’ ; 
Officers, and the incidental Expenses of the Office 

for the Registry of Merchant Seamen, to the 31st 

day of March 1838. 

3. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Thirty- Scientific 
three thousand two hundred and seventy pounds, ey 
be granted to His Majesty, to defray the Salaries °° “*YY 
of the Officers, and the contingent Expenses of the 

several Scientific Departments of the Navy, to the 

31st day of March 1838. 

4. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One hun- Naval Esta- 
dred and eighteen thousand five hundred and six Dlishments at 
pounds, be granted to His Majesty, to defray the “°" 
Salaries of the Officers, and the contingent Expenses 
of His Majesty’s Naval Establishments at Home, to 
the 31st day of March 1838. 

5. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Nineteen D° - Abroad. 
thousand six hundred and fifty-four pounds, be 
granted to His Majesty, to defray the Salaries of the 
Officers, and the Contingent Expenses of His Ma- 
jesty’s Naval Establishments Abroad, to the 31st 
day of March 1838, 

6. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Fifty-nine Naval Stores. 
thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven pounds, be 
granted to His Majesty, to complete the Sum neces- 
sary to defray the Expense of Naval Stores for the 
Building and Repair of Ships and Vessels, purchase 
of Steam Machinery, and for other purposes con- 
nected therewith, to the 31st day of March 1838. 

7. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One hun- Dock Yards. 
dred and eight thousand and forty-eight pounds, 
be granted to His Majesty, to defray the charge of 
New Works, and Improvements and Repairs in the 
Yards, to the 31st day of March 1838. 

8. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Eighteen Medicines and 
thousand one hundred and sixty pounds, be granted Metical Stores, 
to His Majesty, to defray the charge of Medicines and 
Medical Stores, to the 31st day of March 1838. 

9. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Twenty- Naval 
nine thousand three hundred and sixty-six pounds, — 
be granted to His Majesty, to defray the charge of *""” 
divers Naval Miscellaneous Services, to the 31st day 
of March 1838. 

10, Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Eight‘hun- Half Pay. 
dred and ten thousand seven hundred and seventy-one 


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charge of Half-pay to Officers of the Navy and Royal 
Marines, which will come in course of Payment dur- 
ing the year ending on the 31st day of March 1838. 

11. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Five 
hundred and twenty-eight thousand six hundred and 
forty-nine pounds, be granted to His Majesty, to 
defray the charge of Military Pensions and Allow- 
ances which will come in course of Payment during 
the year ending on the 31st day of March 1838. 

12. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Two 
hundred and eight thousand seven hundred and 
sixty-five pounds, be granted to His Majesty, to 
defray the charge of Civil Pensions and Allowances, 
which will come in course of Payment during the 
year ending on the 31st day of March 1838. 

13. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One 
hundred and thirty-nine thousand and _ fifty-three 
pounds, be granted to His Majesty, to defray the 
charge of Transports on Monthly Pay, and to de- 
fray the other charges for the Conveyance and 
Victualling of Troops, and for the Freight of Stores 
on account of the Army and Ordnance Depart- 
ments, which will come in coursg of Payment during 
the year ending on the 31st day of March 1838. 
Convicts(New 14. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Ninety- 
South Wales.) ejoht thousand one hundred and eighty-eight pounds, 

be granted to His Majesty, to defray the Expense 
of conveying Convicts to New South Wales, which 
will come in course of Payment during the year 
ending on the 31st day of March 1838. 

The five first Resolutions being read a second 
time, were agreed to. 

The sixth Resolution being read a second time ; 

Ordered, That the said Resolution be taken into 
further consideration upon Monday, the 19th day 
of this instant June. 

The subsequent Resolutions being read a second 
time, were agreed to. 


Military 
Pensions and 
Allowances, 


Civil - - d°, 


Transports. 


Mr. Robert Steuart presented a Bill for enabling 
His Majesty to grant the rank of General Officers 
to Foreigners now bearing His Majesty’s Commis- 
sion, and to permit the Enlistment of Foreigners, 
under certain Restrictions: And the same was read 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time upon Monday next; and to be printed. 


Foreign Officers 
Bill. 


No. 388. 


The House was moved, That the Order made 
yesterday, That a Select Committee be appointed to 
inquire into the best means of establishing a Com- 
munication by Steam with India, by way of the 
Red Sea, might be read ; and the same being read ; 
A Committee was nominated of Sir John Hob- 
house, Lord William Bentinck, Sir James Graham, 
Mr. Robert Gordon, Mr. Sidney Herbert, Mr. Hutt, 
Mr. Mullins, Lord Viscount Sandon, Mr. William 
Crawford, Sir Charles Adam, Sir Thomas Trou- 
bridge, Mr. George Frederick Young, Mr. Williams 
Wynn, Mr. Bagshaw, and Mr. David Barclay; 
with Power to send for persons, papers and records. 

Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 


Steam Commu- 
nication with 
India. 


Recorders’ 
Courts Bill. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords, to the Bill, 
intituled, An Act to empower the Recorder or other 
Person presiding in Quarter Sessions in Corporate 
Cities and Towns, and Justices of the Peace for 
Counties, Ridings or Divisions, to divide their re- 
spective Courts, in certain cases ; and the same were 
read as follow: 
Pr. 1. 1. 20. After “ Third” insert “ intituled, 
“ An Act to empower Magistrates to divide the 
“ Court of Quarter Sessions.” 

Pr. 2. 1. 14. Leave out from “is” to “ Quar- 
“ ter” in]. 17. and insert “ sitting in such.” 

Pr. 2. 1. 31. After “ being” insert “ whilst the 
said Recorder or other person is so sitting as 
aforesaid.” 

Pr. 3. 1. 7. After “ Recorder” insert “ or other 
person.” 


Pr 3 1.27. After “ exercised” insert “ nor 


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A. 1837. 


unless the name of the Barrister proposed to be 
appointed in case such Recorder or other person 
shall, in the exercise of such discretion, deem such 
appointment necessary, shall have at some pre- 
vious time been transmitted to and approved of 
by One of His Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of 

State as a fit and proper person to be from time 

to time so appointed.” 

Pr. 5. 1.20. Leave out “ other,” and insert 
others.” : 

At the end of the Bill add Clause (A.) 

Cuiavss (A.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
this Act may be amended, altered or repealed b 
any other Act to be passed in this present Session. 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Stuart Wortley do carry the 
Bill to the Lords, and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


Martin’s Naturalization Bill was read the first Martin’s 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time. Nat. Bill. 


A Petition of Thomas Lord, praying that he may Printed Papers, 
not be considered as having committed a breach of 
Privilege in writing to Messrs. Nichols, the Printers 
to the House, certain professional letters, informing 
them that legal proceedings were about to be insti- 
tuted against them as the printers of a Petition of 
the Westminster Bridge, Deptford, and Greenwich 
Railway Company, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 
Ordered, That the Petition be printed. 


A Petition of Householders, Landholders and In- Church Rates 
habitants of Wimbish, praying that the proposed Regulation. 
measure relative to Church Rates may not receive 
the sanction of the House, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Chairman of the Halsted Union, Registration of 
in the county of Essex, praying that the Poor Rates Births, &amp;. Act. 
may be relieved from the burthen imposed by the 
Registration Act of last session, was presented, and 
read; and referred to the Select Committee on the 
Poor Law Act. 


A Petition of the Guardians of the Witham Union, Poor Law Act. 
in the county of Essex, praying that the Poor Law 
Act may not be repealed, or materially altered, was 
presented, and read; and referred to the Select 
Committee on the Poor Law Act. 


A Petition of Shareholders in the Agricultural Agricultural | 
= and Cormercial 


and Commercial Bank of Jreland, and others re- p,4x (Ireland.) 
sident in the town of Fermoy, praying the House to 

extend its support and protection to the Agricultural 

and Commercial Bank of Jre/and, was presented, and 

read ; and referred to the Select Committee on Joint 

Stock Banks. 


Petitions from Aghabollogue and Magourney ;— Tithes 2) Bat 
and, Liscarrol; praying that the Tithes (Ireland) (eae 
Bill may pass into a law,—were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Kilmurry and other places; — Government 


Mills-street ;— Charleville ;— Lisnalrin;—and, Con-° Ireland. 


na; praying the House to support His Majesty’s 
Ministers in their government of Jreland,—were pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Constabulary 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Consta- 314 police 
bulary and Police Force (Jreland), which was pre- (Ireland.) 
sented upon Friday last, be printed. No. 391. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to Wexford Wexford 


. 2 Tithes. 
Tithes, which was presented upon Tuesday last, be ‘te 399. 
printed. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to Schools (West Schools io 
Indies), which was presented upon Wednesday last, ¢ - ~y 
be printed. 0. due. 


And then the House adjourned till Monday next. 








Attornies’ and 
Solicitors’ 
Admission Fees, 


Shropshire and 
North Wales 
Assurance 


Company Bill. 


7 Wi. IV. 


Lune, 12° die Juni; 
Anno 7° Willielmi [Vt Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 
R. Le Blanc, Master of the Court of King’s 


Bench, was called in, and at the bar pre- 
sented,—Return to several Orders dated the 7th day 
of this instant June, for Returns of Customary and 
other Fees taken in each of the Superior Courts of 
Law on the Admission of Attornies of such Courts 
respectively ; and of Expenses incurred in the Exa- 
mination of Clerks previous to Admission, and the 
Number of Clerks so examined in each term :—And, 
of Customary and other Fees taken in the High 
Court of Chancery on the Admission of Solicitors 
of that Court ; and of Expenses incurred in the Exa- 
mination of Clerks previous to Admission, and the 
Number of Clerks so examined in each Term, (so 
far as relates to the Court of King’s Bench) :—And 
then he withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 
intituled, An Act to enable ‘ The Shropshire and 
North Wales Assurance Company’ to sue and be 
sued in the Name of the Managing Director for 
the time being, or of any one of the general or 
local Directors of the said Company; and the same 
were read as follow: 

Pr. 27. 1. ult. After “ Company” insert Clauses 
(A.), (B.), (C.) and (D.) 

Cuiavuse (A.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
when and so often as the Directors for the time 
being of the said Company shall, pursuant to any 
powers and authorities vested in them by any 
present or future deed of settlement or partner- 
ship agreement of the said Company, call upon 
the Proprietors of the said Company to pay any 
sum or sums of money for or towards such part 
as shall at the time remain unpaid of the amount 
of their respective shares of the capital of the said 
Company, or when and so often as any further 
or other call shall be made on the Proprietors of 
the said Company by any general meeting of the 
said Company, or otherwise under the provisions 
of any such deed of settlement, or partnership 
agreement as aforesaid, the several persons, bodies 
politic, corporate and collegiate, who now are, 
or shall at any time hereafter be Proprietors, or 
the representative or representatives of any de- 
ceased Proprietor or Proprietors of any share or 
shares in the Capital of the said Company, shall, 
and they are hereby respectively required, to pay 
such sum or sums as shall from time to time be 
so called for at such times and places, to such 
person or persons, and in such manner as shall 
be ordered and directed by the Directors for the 
time being of the said Company, or by such 
general meeting as aforesaid, pursuant to the pro- 
visions of any such deed of settlement or part- 
nership agreement ; and in case any person or 
persons, body or bodies politic, corporate or 
collegiate, shall at any time refuse or neglect to 
pay any such monies at such time or times, and 
in such manner as shall be ordered and directed 
by the said ‘Directors, or by such general meet- 
ing as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the 
said Company, in the name of the managing 
Director, or of any general or local Director, or 
of any Proprietor for the time being of the said 
Company, to sue for and recover the same, by 
action of debt or otherwise, in any of His Ma- 
jesty’s Courts of Record at Westminster, together 
with lawful interest for the same from such ap- 
pointed time of payment, and all costs of suit, 
from such person or persons, or body or bodies 
“ politic, corporate or collegiate respectively: Pro- 
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vided always, That in cases where any one or 
more share or shares in the capital of the said 
Company shali be held by or women vested in 
two or more persons jointly, then the said Com- 
pany shall and may, insmanner aforesaid, sue for 
and recover the said sum or sums of money so as 
aforesaid called for or required to be paid with 
interest and costs as before mentioned, from all 
or any or either of such persons respectively.” 

Crause (B.) “ And be it further Tanceel That 
in any action to be brought by the authority of 
the said Company in manner aforesaid, against 
any Proprietor or Proprietors, or the represent- 
ative or representatives of any deceased Proprietor 
or Proprietors of any share or shares in the 
capital of the said Company, to recover any sum 
or sums of money due and payable to the said 
Company for or by reason of any call or calls 
made by virtue of the provisions of any such deed 
of settlement or partnership agreement as afore- 
said, it shall be sufficient for the said Company 
to declare and allege that the defendant or de- 
fendants being a Proprietor or Proprietors, or the 
representative or representatives of adeceased Pro- 
prietor or Proprietors of such or so many share 
or shares in the capital of the said Company, is 
or are indebted to the said Company in such sum 
or sums of money as the call or calls in arrear 
shall amount to for such or so many call or calls 
of such and so many sum or sums of money 
upon such and so many share or shares belonging 
to the said defer.dant or defendants (as the case 
may happen to be) whereby an action hath accrued 
to the said Company by virtue of this Act, with- 
out setting forth the special matter; and on the 
trialo such action it shall only be necessary to 
prove that the defendant or defendants at the 
time of making such call or calls was or were a 
Proprietor or Proprietors, or the representative 
or representatives of a deceased Proprietor or 
Proprietors of such share or shares in the capital 
of the said Company as such action is brought 
in respect of, and that such call or calls was or 
were in fact made, and that such notice thereof 
was given as is directed by the said deed of set- 
tlement or partnership agreement, without proving 
the appointment of the Directors who made such 
call or calls, or any other matter whatsoever, and 
the said Company shall thereupon be entitled to 
recover what shall appear due.” 

Criause (C.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
if any Proprietor or Proprietors of any share or 
shares in the capital of the said Company, his, 
her or their executors, administrators, successors 
or assigns, shall neglect or refuse to pay his, her 
or their part or proportion of the money to be 
called for by the Directors of the said Company, 
or by such general meeting as aforesaid, by the 
time appointed for payment thereof, then and in 
every such case such person or persons so neg- 
lecting or refusing shall (if the Board of Directors 
of the said Company shall think fit so to order, 
and whether or not such money shall then have 
been sued for in any Court of Law or Equity) 
forfeit all his her or their share or shares upon 
“ which such neglect or defaults shall have been 
made, and all profit and advantage to arise there- 
from, and all shares which shall or may be so 
forfeited, shall or may at any time or times there- 
after, be sold by or by the order of the said 
Directors for the time being of the said Company, 
for the most money that can be gotten for the 
same, and may be assigned or transferred to the 
purchaser or purchasers thereof by the managing 
Director, or any two general or local Directors 
of the said Company, whose receipt or receipts 
for the said purchase-money shall effectually dis- 
charge the purchaser or purchasers of such share 
“ or shares, and the purchase-money thereof shall 
“ beapplied and disposed of inthe manner hereinafter 
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directed ; but no advantage shall be taken of any | 


such forfeiture as aforesaid, until after one ca-| Committee on the Ouse Banks Drainage Bill ; 
to whom several Petitions against the said Bill were 


lendar month’s notice shall have been given by 
the said Directors, under the hands of two of the 
said Directors, or by ¢he Principal Officer of the 
said Company to the Proprietor or Proprietors 
thereof, by notice left at his, her or their usual or 
last known place of abode, as the same is to “be 
found in the books of the said Company, or by 
letter sent by the Post, addressed to such Pro- 
prietor or Proprietors at such his, her or their 
place of abode, nor unless such order or declara- 
tion of forfeiture shall have been made by a meet- 
ing of the Board of Directors of the said Com- 
pany specially called for that purpose, and every 
such forfeiture so to be declared shall (as between 
the Proprietor or Proprietors of the share or 
shares so forfeited and the said Company) be an 
ubsolute indemnification and discharge to and 
for the said Proprietor or Proprietors, his, her or 
their executors, administrators, successors and 
assigns, against all further payments in respect 
of the share or shares so forfeited, and against 
all actions, suits and prosecutions for or on ac- 
count of any future call or calls.” 


Criavuse (D.) “ Provided always, and be it fur- 
ther Enacted, That in case the money produced 
by the sale of any share or shares which shall be 
forfeited by reason of the non-payment of any 
such call or calls as aforesaid, shall be more than 
sufficient to pay all such arrears of calls as afore- 
said, and legal interest thereon, and the expenses 
attending the sale or sales, the surplus of such 
money shall be paid on demand to the person or 
persons to whom such share or shares shall have 
belonged at the time of such forfeiture, or to his 
or her executors or administrators: Provided also, 
That the said Company or the said Directors shall 
not by virtue of this Act sell or transfer, or direct 
to be sold or transferred, any more of such shares 
of such defaulter or defaulters than shall be suffi- 
cient (as near as may be at the time of such sale) 
to pay the arrears due from such defaulter or de- 
faulters, for or on account of such call or calls, 
and the interest and expenses attending the same; 
and from and after the payment of all and every 
such call or calls, and the interest and expenses 
as aforesaid, any share or shares vested in the 
said Company as aforesaid, which shall remain in 
their hands unsold, shall revert to and again 
become the property of the person or persons to 
whom such share or shares shall have belonged 
immediately before such forfeiture as aforesaid, 
in such manner as if such calls had been duly 
and regularly paid: Provided always, That nothing 
herein contained shall affect the title of any pur- 
chaser under the powers or directions hereinbefore 
contained, or render it necessary for such purchaser 
to see to the application of his or her purchase- 
money.” 

In the Schedule to the Bill: | 

Pr. 33. 1. 19. After “ since”’ insert “ the.” | 

Pr. 33. 1. 33. After “ Affirmation” insert 
“ NV. B. The last memorial, as to the ceasing of | 
Proprietors, was enrolled on the day 
of ae 

Pr. 35. 1. 4. After “ Affirmation” insert 
“ WN. B. The last memorial as to new Proprietors, 
was enrolled on the day of 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 











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were agreed to. 


Ordered, That Lord Viscount Clive do carry the 


Bill to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 


hath agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


Hind’s Estate Bill was read a second time ; and 


ieee to Lord Viscount Clive and the Salop 
ist. 


12° Junie. 


A. 1837. 





Sir William Browne Folkes reported from the Ouse Banks 


referred ; That the Standing Orders relative to 


| Drainage Bills, had been complied with ; and that 
|they had heard counsel in support of the said Peti- 


tions, and had also heard counsel in favour of the 
Bill; and had examined the allegations of the Bill, 
and found the same to be true ; and that the parties 


concerned had given their consent to the 


ill, to 


the satisfaction of the Committee; and that the 
Committee had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto; and the Amendments were 
read, and agreed to. 


Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 


ingrossed. 


on the Blochairn Canal 


and Drainage Bill, 


Mr. Walter Campbell reported from the Committee Biochaim 


Petitions against the said Bill were referred ; That 
the Standing Orders relative to Navigation Bills,had 
been complied with; and that they had heard counsel 
in support of two of the said Petitions, and had 
considered the other Petitions; and had also heard 
counsel in favour of the Bill; and that the Com- 
mittee had examined the allegations of the Bill, and 
found the same to be true; and had gone through 
the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


York, praying that the Agricultural and Commercial 
Bank, Jreland, (No. 2.) Bill may not pass into a 
law, was presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


several Petitions against the said Bill were re- 
ferred; That the Standing Orders relative to Bills 
for making Railways, had been complied with; and 
that they had considered the said Petitions, and had 
heard counsel in support of two of them, and had 
also heard counsel in favour of the Bill; and that the 
Committee had inquired into the several matters 
required by the Resolutions of the House of the 1st 
day of March 1836; and had examined the allega- 
tions of the Bill; and had amended the Preamble of 
the same, in conformity with their opinion of the 
expediency of uniting, if practicable, with the North 
Union Railway; and had gone through the Bill, 
and made Amendments thereunto. 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 


and be printed. 


| Amendments made by 
|An Act for improving 


the Lords to the Bill, intituled, 


g, enlarging and maintaining 


|the Pier, Harbour and Market of Brixham, in the 
| County of Devon, and for the formation of a Break- 


water in Torbay ; and the same were read, as follow : 


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Pr. 2. lines 20. to 27. (both inclusive.) Leave out 
and whereas the said improvements cannot be 
effectually made unless the powers and provisions 
contained in the said recited Act are enlarged, 
and the tolls, rates and dues thereby imposed are 
altered, varied and increased, and other tolls, 
rates and dues granted.” 

Pr. 2. 1. 27. In the interlineation : 

Pr, 2. 1. 3. Leave out from “ otherwise” to the 


end of the interlineation, and insert “ And whereas 


the said improvements cannot be effectuaily made 
unless the powers and provisions contained in the 
said recited Act are enlarged, and the tolls, rates 
and dues thereby imposed are altered, varied and 
increased, and other tolls, rates and dues granted, 
but the same cannot be effected without the aid 
and authority of Parliament.” 

Pr. 25. 1. 20. After “ extend” insert “ by ap- 
propriating the property mentioned in Section 2. 
to Schedule (A.) to this Act annexed.” —— 

r. 27. 


ill; and to whom several Canal Bill, 


A Petition of Shareholders in the Agricultural and Agricultural 


Commercial Bank of Ireland, resident in the city of 2°4 Commercial 


Bank (Ireland) 
(No. 2.) Bill. 


Lord Stanley reported from the Committee on Bolton and 


the Bolton and Preston Railway Bill; and to whom Preston 


Railway Bill, 


The House proceeded to take into consideration the Brixham 


Harbour and 


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7 Witt. IV. 


Pr, 27. 1. 21. After “ in” insert “ Section 3. to 
“ the.” 

Pr. 28. 1.12. In Clause (A.), added by way of 
Rider to the Bill, Pr. 1. 1. 24. After “ shall” insert 
“ after the establishment of such claim.” 

Pr. 30. 1. 38. Leave out “ enlarging ” and in- 
sert “ removing.” 

Pr. 30. 1. penult. Leave out “ place;” and in 
the same line, after “ purchase” insert “ within 
“ two years after the passing of this Act, and after- 
“ wards to.” 

Pr. 31. 1. 4. After “in ” insert “ Section 1. in.” 

Pr. 31. 1. 8. Leave out from “ thereof” to “a” 
in 1. 15. 

Pr. 32. 1. 25. After “ Act” insert Clause (A.) 

Ciauss (A.) “ Provided always, and be it fur- 
ther Enacted, That notwithstanding anything in 
this Act contained, it shall be lawful for the said 
Commissioners, and they are hereby authorized 
and empowered to remove the said Market to, 
and to erect, establish and maintain the same, 
with all proper and convenient avenues and ap- 
proaches on, such other site or sites as they may 
think proper, within half a mile of the present 
existing Market-house, and for that purpose to 
purchase and take any lands, hereditaments and 
“ premises, with the consent in writing of the owners 
“* thereof, or persons interested therein, and to ex- 
ercise and enforce all and every the powers and 
authorities with respect to the said Market which 
they are by this Act empowered to exercise and en- 
force with reference to the said Market authorized 
“ to be built and erected on the property mentioned 
in Section 1. Schedule (A.), hereunto annexed.” 

Pr. 34. 1. 1. After “in” imsert “ Section 3. to 
“‘ the.” 

In the Schedules to the Bill : 

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Pr. 118. lines 29. 30. and 31. After 


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Pr. 118. 1. 32. After “ for”’ insert “ enlarging.” 


Pr. 119. lines 11. 12. and 13. After 


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insert “ Section 3.” 


The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Montagu Parker do carry the 
Bill to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this 
House hath agreed to the Amendments made by 
their Lordships. 


Mr. O’ Connell reported from the Committee on 


a Railway the Dublin and Kilkenny Railway Bill; and to 


whom two Petitions against the said Bill were re- 
ferred; That the Standing Orders relative to Rail- 
way Bills had been complied with; and that they 
had inquired into the several matters required by the 
Resolutions of the House of the 1st day of March 
1836; and had examined the allegations of the Bill, 
and found the same to be true; and had gone through 
the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


A Petition of the Barrow Navigation Company 
in Ireland, praying that the further progress of the 
Dublin and Kithenny Railway Bill may be suspended 
until the final Report of the Zrish Railway Com- 
missioners shall have been presented and taken into 
consideration by the House, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The House was moved, That the Report in respect 
to the Petition for the Manchester Gas Bill, which, 
upon the 1st day of this instant June, was made 

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463 


from the Select Committee on Standing Orders re- 
lative to Private Bills, might be read ; and the same 
being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for enabling the Directors of the Manchester Gas 
Works to purchase Land, Buildings and Apparatus 
for the extension of their Works: And that Mr. 
Mark Philips and Mr. Poulett Thomson do prepare, 


and bring it in. 


Petitions from Lewes ;—Jireh Chapel, Lewes ;— Church Rates 
Cartmel;— Warrington;— Goole ;—and, Longhorsley ; Regulation. 
praying that the proposed measure relative to Church 
Rates may not receive the sanction of the House,— 
were presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 

Petitions from Lewes ;— Stanton ;—Sittingbourne; 

— Glenfield ;— Brighton ;— Foulmire ;— Somerset- 
street, Bath;—and, Broad-street, King’s Lynn ; 
praying that the said proposed measure may receive 
the sanction of the House,—were also presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from the Chairman of a Meeting of In- Poor Law Act. 
habitants of the West Riding of Yorkshire ;— 
Derby ;--and, Wallsend ; praying for the repeal or 
amendment of the Poor Law Act,—were presented, 
and read; and referred to the Select Committee on 
the Poor Law Act. 


A Petition of Proprietors of the Royal Union and Stage Coaches. 
Kingdom of Fife Stage Coaches, running between 
Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen, through Fife, 
praying for the repeal of the tax on Stage Coaches, 
was presented, and read ; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Internal Communication. 


Petitions from North Berwick ;—and, Kirkaldy ; Prisons 
praying that the Prisons (Scotland) Bill may not (Scotland) Bill, 
pass into a law as it now stands,—were presented, 


and read; and referred to the Select Committee on 
the Bill. 


Petitions from Modbury ;— Aveton Gifford ;— Highway Rates 
Churchstow ;—and, Holbeton ; praying that the Bill. 
Highway Rates Bill may not pass into a law,—were 
presented, and read; and referred to the Select 
Committee on the Bill. 

Ordered, That all Petitions in favour and against 
the said Bill, and all Petitions relative to the High- 
way Act presented during the present Session, be 
referred to the said Select Committee. 


A Petition of Bankers, Merchants, Manufacturers steam Commu- 
and others of Birmingham, praying the House to nication with 
adopt measures for effecting a communication with "4 
India by Steam, by way of the Red Sea, was pre- 
sented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on Steam Communication with India. 


Petitions from Goole; — Bristol (Clergy); — Lord’sDayBill, 
Saint George’s, Claines, Worcester ;—and, Dalkeith ; 
praying that the Lord’s Day Bill may be permitted 
to go into a Committee of the whole House,—-were 


presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of the Moderator of the Presbytery of Railways 
Kirkcudbright, praying the House to pass a law to (Scotland. 
prevent all travelling by Coaches on Railways in 
Scotland on the Lord’s Day, was presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Elected Members of the Council Municipal 
of the borough of Jpswich, under the Act to pro- yeaa 
vide for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations * 
in England and Wales, praying that the 20th sec- 
tion of the said Act may be amended, so as to 
exempt them from payment of costs of proceedings 
calling upon them to show by what authority they 
exercised their offices, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Jeremiah Lennox Livingstone, of First Fruits and 
Nelson-square, in the County of Surrey, complaining 7th. 
3N4 that 


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Municipal 
Corporations 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Bills of 
Exchange. 


Tithes 
(Whitby.) 


Household 
Suffrage. 


Uniformity of 
Process Bill, 


Seventeenth 
Report on 
Poor Law Act 


No. 395. 


Public-houses 
Regulation Bil 


Registration of 


Births, &amp;c. ; 
and, Clandes- 
tine Marriages 
(Scotland) 
Bills, 


Clandestine 
Marriages 
(Scotland) Bil 


Municipal 
Corporations 
(Scotland) Bil 


Burghs 
of Barony 


464. 


that payment of the proceeds arising from First 
Fruits and Tenths has not been strictly enforced ; 
and praying the House to take the subject into con- 
sideration, was presented, and read ; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Corporation of Carlisle, praying 
that the Municipal Corporations (Jreland) Bill may 
pass into a law, was — and read ; and or- 
dered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Thomas Lott, of Bow-lane, Cheapside, 
in the city of London, attorney and solicitor, praying 
for an Enactment that to all actions on Bills of Ex- 
change and Promissory Notes alleged to be signed 
by the defendant, no plea denying the handwriting 
shall be legal, unless the same be accompanied by 
an affidavit in verification thereof, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Owners and Occupiers of land sub- 
ject to tithes within the parish of Whitby, alleging 
that the funds originally levied upon them for the 
support of religion, are now applied to totally dif- 
ferent purposes, and have been perverted to a source 
of private emolument, and praying for inquiry, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 


the Table. 


Petitions from Chatham;— and, Dunfermline ; 
praying that the Elective Franchise may be extended 
to all householders,—were presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Corporation of Eveter, praying 
for the equalization of the Land Tax, was presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Corporation of Dover, praying 
that the Uniformity of Process Bill may not pass 
into a law, was presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Fazakerley reported from the Select Com- 
mittee appointed to inquire into the administration 
of the Relief of the Poor under the orders and re- 
gulations issued by the Commissioners appointed 
under the provisions of the Poor Law Amendment 
Act; and who were empowered to report the Minutes 
of the Evidence taken before them from time to 
time to the House; That they had made further 
Progress in the matters to them referred ; and had 
directed him to report the Minutes of the Evidence 
taken before them. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Huddersfield, pray- 

hing that the. Public Houses Regulation Bill may 

pass into a law, was presented, and read; and or- 
dered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Dalkeith ;—and, Fordoun ; pray- 
ing that the Registration of Births, &amp;c., (Seathand, 
and Clandestine Marriages (Scotland) Bills may not 
pass into law,—were presented, and read ; and or- 
dered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Magistrates and Town Council of 
the royal burgh of Annan, praying that the Clan- 
destine Marriages (Scotland) Bill may not pass into 
a 'aw, was presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


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Petitions from Jedburgh;—and, Leith; praying 

,, that the Municipal Corporations (Scotland) Bill 

may not pass into a law,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from Kilmarnock ;—and, Lauder ; pray- 

ing that the said Bill may pass into a law,—were 

also presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 


the Table. 


A Petition of the Deacon, the Boxmaster and 


(Scotland) Bill, Members of the Incorporation of Wrights and 


Coopers of Inverness, praying that the Burghs of 


12° Junie. 


A. 1837. 


Barony (Scotland) Bill may pass into a law, was pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Llanbedr, &amp;c.;—Llanddwyeis y 
graig and Llanenddwyn ;—Barmouth and Llanaber ; 
— Dolgelly ;— London ;— Brecon ;— Whitford ;— 
Monmouth ;—and, Manchester ; praying that no in- 
dividual unacquainted with the Welsh language may 
be henceforward instituted to a Bishoprick in Wales, 
—were presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Towyn, Pennal, 
the hundred of Estimaner,in the county of Merionet h, 
complaining of the Tithes of those parishes having 
been alienated to the See of Lichfield and Coventry ; 
and praying that any surplus revenue arising from the 
union of the Bishopricks of Bangor and Saint 
Asaph, be applied in augmenting small livings, and 
in the erection and endowment of new churches and 
chapels of ease in those parts of the said respective 
Dioceses where the religious wants of the people 
demand to be supplied, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of Inhabitants and Freeholders of 
Llandrinio, Melveoley and Llandisilio, in the Diocese 
of Saint Asaph, complaining that a legislative enact- 
ment sanctions the application of the surplus re- 
venues of the North Welsh Sees to the erection of 
two new Bishopricks at Manchester and Ripon; 
and praying that the tithes of the said parishes 
may be restored and devoted to the religious in- 
struction of the inhabitants of the districts in which 
they are raised ; and that no part of the revenues 
of the Dioceses of North Wales may be diverted 
from the religious instruction of the people of that 
country, was also presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Thomas Hopper, of Paddington, 
in the county of Middlesex, architect, complaining 
of the plan of Mr. Barry not being in accordance 
with the particulars issued at the Office of His Ma- 
jesty’s Woods and Forests; and praying the House 
to allow him to prove the truth of his allegations, 


was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


Welsh Bishops, 


St. Asaph 


Talyllyn and Llanfihangel y Pennant, comprising **4 Bangor 


Dioceses, 


Houses of 
Parliament 
lans 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Bolton, praying that Mersey 


law, was presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


A Petition of Ship-owners and Inhabitants of 
Dundee, praying that they may be heard, by them- 
selves, their counsel or agents, against certain parts 
of the Dundee Waterworks Bill, was presented, and 
read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioners heard, 
by themselves, their counsel or agents, upon their 
Petition, if they think fit; and counsel heard, in 
favour of the Bill, against the said Petition. 


and committed to Mr. Patrick Stewart and the 
West Scotland List. 


Petitions from Southampton ;—and, Staines Union ; 
praying the House to pass a law for rating the 
owners instead of the occupiers of small tenements 
to the parochial assessments,—were presented, and 
read; and referred to the Select Committee on the 
Poor Law Act. 


Petitions from Galway ;—and, Rahoon ; praying 
the House to support His Majesty’s Ministers in 
their government of Jreland,—were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Shareholders in the Agricultural 

}and Commercial Bank of Ireland, resident in Gal- 

way, praying the House to extend its support an 
protection 





the Mersey Conservancy Bill may not pass into a, Conservancy 


Bill. 


Dundee 
Waterworks 
Bill, 


Stewart’s Estate Bill was read a second time ; Stewart's 


Estate Bill. 


Rating of 
Tenements. 


Government of 
Ireland. 


Agricultural 
and Commerc! 
Bank (Ireland-) 








ps. 





7 Wit. IV. 


protection to the said bank, was presented, and read ; 
and referred to the Select Committee on Joint Stock 


Banks. 

Tithes A Petition of Roman Catholics of Borrishoole, 

(Ireland.) praying that the Tithes (Jreland) Bill may not pass 
ito a law, was presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 

North Metropo- Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence of 


9 Cemetery John Wichey Stable, taken at the bar of this House 
a 4. Thursday last, in relation to the North Metro- 
oe politan Cemetery Bill, be printed. 


Mint. Ordered, That the Select Committee on the Mint 
have Power to adjourn from place to place. 


Poor Relief A Petition of Edward Brennan, of the parish of 

(Ireland) Bill. Saint Paul, in the city of Dublin, complaining that 
the 49th clause of the Poor Relief (Jreland) Bill, has 
been altered to the extent of exempting all chari- 
table Medical Institutions founded on Bequests and 
Donations from the operation of the Act, and praying 
that the said clause may be restored, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Message from 


A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Farrar and 


the Lords. Mr. Roupell : 

Mr. Speaker, 
Wigan Rectory The Lords have agreed to the Amendments made 
Estate Bill. 


by this House to the Bill, intituled, An Act to 
enable the Rector of the Parish of Wigan, in the 
County Palatine of Lancaster, to grant Leases of 
the Mines and Building Leases, and Conveyances 
in Fee subject to Ground Rents of the Glebe Lands 
belonging to the said Rectory, and for other pur- 
poses, without any Amendment: And also, 
Over Inclosure The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
= Drainage Act for draining, inclosing, dividing and allotting 
. certain Lands in the Parish of Over, in the County 
of Cambridge, with Amendments; to which Amend- 
ments the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House :—And then the Messengers withdrew. 


Borough Petitions from Saint Michael and Holy Trinity, 

Boundaries = Coventry ;—and, Corporation of Coventry ; praying 

™ that the Borough Boundaries Bill may not pass into 
a law, or that at all events the present Municipal 
Boundaries of that city may not be altered,—were 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 

Municipal Lord John Russell reported from the Committee 

peetions appointed to draw up Reasons, to be offered to the 


Lords at a Conference for disagreeing to certain of 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 
intituled, An Act for the regulation of Municipal 
Corporations in England and Wales; That they 
had drawn up Reasons accordingly, which they had 
directed him to report; and the same were read, as 
follow : 

The Commons agree to the Amendments pro- 
posed by your Lordships as far as Pr. 8. 1. 34. 

The Commons propose to amend the Amendment 
proposed by your Lordships, Pr. 8. 1. 34. by imsert- 
ing after the word “ Borough,” the words “ shall 
“ preside at such Election in the case of a Borough 
not divided into Wards; and, in the case of a 
“ Borough divided into Wards, the Councillors 
“ elected in each Ward shall separately choose the 


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‘ 


n 


** Councillors and Ward Assessors in that Ward, or 
“ in case a majority of them in any Ward cannot 
“ agree, then the Councillor elected in that Ward, 
“ who is assessed to the poor to the greatest 
“‘ amount in respect of any messuage, land, tene- 
ment, tithe or other hereditaments, of which he is 
“ occupier, and also owner within the Borough.” 
The Commons _ to amend the Amendment 
er ae by your se Pr. 9. 1. 12., by adding 
efore the word “assessed ” the words “ chosen b 
“ the Councillor, or, in the case of a Borough divi- 
“ ded into Wards, by the Councillors who shall have 


‘ 


nx 


Councillor, who shall preside at the Election of 





12° Junie. 465 


“ presided at the election of Councillors as afore- 


said, or in case a majority of them shall not be 

able to agree, then the Councillor chosen before 

“the passing of this Act,” and after the word 

“ aforesaid,” by adding the words “ to the greatest 

amount in the whole Borough.” 

The Commons agree to the Amendments pro- 

posed by your Lordships as far as Pr. 12. 1. 14. 

The Commons disagree to the Amendments pro- 
posed by your Lordships in Pr. 12, 1. 14, 15, 21, 
21 and 22. for the following Reasons : 

Because if all the actions had gone to trial, 
and the prosecutors or relators had suc- 
ceeded in obtaining the judgment of the 
Courts, they would not have been therefore 
entitled to costs as between attorney and 
client, as proposed to be allowed to them by 
your Lordships’ Amendments. 

Because the main object of the enactment in 
which these Amendments have been made, 
is to put an end to litigation on account of 
those defects of title which are intended to 
be cured by this Act, as being of such a 
nature that both Houses are of opinion they 
ought not to deprive any one of his official 
station. 

Because many of the parties by whom these 
proceedings have been instituted, have com- 
menced and carried them on with the full 
knowledge that a measure was pending in 
Parliament for putting as speedy an end to 
them as possible. 

Because both Houses of Parliament have de- 
clared their opinion, by assenting to the pro- 
visions of this Act, tliat those parties ought 
not to be permitted to succeed in these 
actions on such grounds; and although it 
may be right that they should be secured 
from pecuniary loss in consequence of that 
determination (inasmuch as they had a legal 
right to institute the proceedings which it 
is proposed should be stopped), no reason 
can be shown why they should be placed in 
a better condition in that respect, than if 
this Act should not pass. 

Because the Clause, as restored by the Com- 
mons, is in all its enactments the same which 
was settled last year after long and careful 
deliberation by your Lordships, who then 
made in the Clause which the Commons had 
originally proposed, many Amendments which 
were finally agreed to by the Commons. 

The Commons agree to the Amendments proposed 
by your Lordships as far as Clause (I.) Pr. 16. 1. 33. 

The Commons propose to amend Clause (I.) Fo. 1. 
l. 13., by inserting after the word “ceased,” the 
words “or which under any future Act may cease.” 

The Commons agree to the Amendments proposed 
by your Lordships as far as Clause (T.) Pr. 19. 1.16. 

The Commons disagree to Clause (T.) for the 
following Reasons: 

Because it is at variance with the principles 
of the Act for the regulation of Municipal 
Corporations, that the ordinary receipt and 
expenditure of the local bodies constituted 
under that Act, should be subject to the 
superintendence and control of the officers 
of His Majesty’s Government. , 

Because the effect of the proposed audit by 
the Commissioners for auditing the public 
accounts, would be to bring the whole of the 
receipt and expenditure in each account (by 
statements from the Auditors), under the 
consideration of the Lords Commissioners of 
His Majesty’s Treasury, to whose decision 
all doubtful points would be submitted, and 
under whose sanction disallowances and 
surcharges must be made and enforced. 

Because the Treasurers of the several Corpora- 
tions would thus become public Accountants ; 


“cc 
“ 


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Vo. 92. 











30 and 








466 12°—13° Juniz. 


and in case any legal proceedings arising out 
of these accounts should be directed against 
any Corporation or Corporate Officer,a heavy 
expense would fall upon the public on ac- 
count of matters which are not of general 
concernment. 

Because the proposed Audit cannot be per- 
formed without a large increase in the esta- 
blishment of the Office of the Commissioners 
for auditing the Public Accounts. 

Because the Commons are not disposed to make 
provisions for defraying the cost of such a large 
expenditure, to be occasioned by a Clause 
in the principle of which they do not concur. 

The Commons disagree to Clause (U.) for the 
same Reasons. 

The Commons agree to the other Amendments 
proposed by your Lordships to the Bill. 

The said Reasons, being read a second time, were 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That a Conference be desired by the 
Lords upon the subject-matter of the Amendments 
made by their Lordships to the said Bill: And that 
Mr. Bernal do go to the Lords, and desire the said 
Conference. 


Steam Commu- Ordered, That the Select Committee on Steam 
= with Communication with India have Power to adjourn 
ae from place to place. 


Coroners’ A Petition of Coroners of Surrey, praying that a 
Inquests’ Clause may be introduced into the Coroners’ In- 
Expenses Bill. 


quests’ Expenses Bill, to afford them a more ample 
remuneration for their arduous and _ responsible 
services, was presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


Municipal Mr. Bernal reported that, having been with the 
— Lords to desire a Conference on the subject-matter 
. of the Amendments made by their Lordships to the 
Bill, intituled, An Act to amend an Act for the 
regulation of Municipal Corporations in England 
and Wales, the Lords do agree to a Conference, 
and appoint the same immediately in the Committee 

Room, No. 5. 

Ordered, That the Committee who were to draw 
up Reasons to be offered to the Lords at a Con- 
ference for disagreeing to certain of the said Amend- 
ments, do manage the Conference :—And the names 
of Mr. Ridley Colborne, Mr. Labouchere, Mr. Aysh- 
ford Sanford, Mr. Hume, Mr. Ellice, Mr. Vernon 
Smith, Mr. Cutlar Fergusson, Mr. Fazakerley, Mr. 
Robert Steuart, and Sir George Grey, were added 
to them. 

Then the names of the Managers were called 
over; and they went to the Conference :—And being 
returned ; 

Mr, Chancellor of the Exchequer reported, That 
tle Managers had been at the Conference, which 
was managed on the part of the Lords by the Lord 
President of the Council ; and that they had deli- 
vered the Reasons for disagreeing to the said 
Amendments ; and had left the Bill and Amend- 
ments with their Lordships. 


Church Leases. A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 
posed, That a Select Committee be appointed to 
inquire into the mode of granting and renewing 
Leases of the Landed and other Property of the 
Bishops, Deans and Chapters, and other Eccle- 
siastical Bodies in England and Wales, and into the 
probable amount of any increased value which might 
be obtained by an improved management, with a 
due consideration of the interests of the Established 
Church, and of the present lessees of such property ; 

An Anicadment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by adding at the end thereof the words 
“ And further, that, whatever may be the result of 
“‘ the proposed inquiry, it is the opinion of this 
“ House, that, after a time to be fixed, the payment 





A. 1837. 


“ of Church Rates in England and Wales ought 
“ wholly to cease.” 


And the Question being put, That those words be 

there added ; 

The House divided : , 

The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 

Tellers for the { Mr. Harvey, } 58 
Yeas, Colonel Thompson : , 

Tellers for the [ Mr. Robert Steuart, } 489 
Noes, \ Mr. Edward John Stanley: : 

So it passed in the Negative. 


And the House, having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Tuesday morning ; 


Martis, 13° die Junii, 1837: 


And the Question being again proposed, That a 
Select Committee be appointed, to inquire into the 
mode of granting and renewing Leases of the Landed 
and other Property of the Bishops, Deans and 
Chapters, and other Ecclesiastical Bodies in Eng- 
land and Wales, and into the probable amount of 
any increased value which might be obtained by an 
improved management, with a due consideration of 
the interests of the Established Church, and of the 
present lessees of such property ; 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made to 
the Question, by leaving out the words “ That a 
“ Select Committee be appointed.” 


And the Question being put, That the words pro- 
posed to be left out stand part of the Question ; 
The House divided : 
The Yeas to the old Lobby ; 
The Noes to the new Lobby. 


Tellers for the f Mr. Edward John Stanley, 319 
Yeas, UMr. Robert Steuart : } . 
Tellers for the {Sir Thomas Fremantle, } 236 
Noes, Sir George Clerk: oP 


So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

And the Question being again proposed, That a 
Select Committee be appointed to inquire into the 
mode of granting and renewing Leases of the Landed 
and other Property of the Bishops, Deans and 
Chapters, and other Ecclesiastical Bodies in Eng- 
land and Wales, and into the probable amount of 
any increased value which might be obtained by an 
improved management, with a due consideration of 
the interests of the Established Church, and of the 
present lessees of such property ; 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made to 
the Question, by adding at the end thereof the 
words, ‘‘ with the view of applying such amount to 
“ the gradual diminution of the evils which flow 
“ from the deficiency in the means of religious in- 
“ struction and pastoral superintendence by Minis- 
“ ters of the Established Church.” 

And the Question being put, That those words 
be there added ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 


Tellers for the { Sir George Clerk, 265 
Yeas, Sir Thomas Fremantle : } ‘ 
Tellers for the { Mr. Robert Steuart, 291 
Noes, Mr. Edward John Stanley . ° 


So it passed in the Negative. 

Then the main Question being put ; 

Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed 
to inquire into the mode of granting and renewing 
Leases of the Landed and other Property of the 
Bishops, Deans and Chapters, and other Eccle- 
siastical Bodies in England and Wales, and into the 
probable amount of any increased value which might 
be obtained by an improved management, with a 
due consideration of the interests of the Esta- 
blished Church, and of the present lessees of such 


ug ee , ; 
esolved, That the Committee do consist of 





Twenty-one Members. 
wen y one e The 








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7 Wixt. IV. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
further consideration the Report on the Punishment 
of Death Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Monday next. 


Punishment of 
Death Bill. 


Offencesagainst The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
the Person Bill. Further consideration the Report on the Offences 
against the Person Bill; 
Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Monday next. 


Robbery, and 
Stealing from 
the Person Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
further consideration the Report on the Robbery 
and Stealing from the Person Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Monday next. 


Burglary and 
Stealing in a 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
further consideration the Report on the Burglary 


—— and Stealing in a Dwelling-house Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Monday next. 
Piracy Bill. The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
further consideration the Report on the Piracy Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Monday next. 
Borning or The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
destroying further consideration the Report on the Burning 
aie Ba or Destroying Buildings and Shine Bill ; 


Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
further consideration the Report on the Transporta- 
tion for Life Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Monday next. 


Transportation 
for Life Bill. 


Forgery Bill. The Order of the day being read, for taking into | 
further consideration the Report on the Forgery 
Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Monday next. 
Summary The Order of the day being read, for the second 
—— reading of the Summary Convictions (Juvenile Of- 
Offenders) fenders) (No. 2.) Bill; 
(No. 2.) Bill, Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday next. 
Borough The Order of the day being read, for the second 
_— reading of the Borough Boundaries Bill ; 
; Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Friday, the 23d day of this instant June. 
Wills Bill. The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Wills Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 
Inclosure The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Awards Bill, / 


mittee on the Inclosure Awards Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday, the 
27th day of this instant June, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Merthyr Tydfil Magistrates Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Parliamentary Electors Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the third 
reading of the Sheriffs’ Fees Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time To- 
morrow. 


Vo. 92. 


Merthyr Tydfil 
Magistrates 
Bill, 


Parliamentary 
Electors Bill. 


Sheriffs’ Fees 
Bill. 


12°—13° Junie. 





467 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Ways and 
mittee of Ways and Means; Means. 
Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 

solve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com-supply. 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 

solve itself into the said Committee. 


Foreign 


The Foreign Officers Bill was, according to Order, Offices Bill 


read a second time ; and committed to a Committee 
of the whole House, for Thursday next. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Trigonometrical 
Copies of the Memorials addressed to the Govern- Survey (Scot- 
ment from different Bodies in Scotland, on the sub- “"” 

ject of the state of the Trigonometrical Survey of 

that Country ; and of the Correspondence which 

ensued in consequence thereof. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Bankruptcy 
Return of Cash and Stock now standing in the 4°" 
name of the Accountant in Bankruptcy ; specifying 

the Date of the several Investments. 


Ordered, That the Bath Gas Bill be read the Bath Gas Bill. 
third time this day. 


Lord Viscount Palmerston presented, by His Ma- Arts (Foreign 
jesty’s command,—Further Copies of Communica- Ces.) 
tions made to and received from His Majesty’s 

Ministers Abroad respecting the Encouragement 

given to the cultivation of the Arts in si 
Countries. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 

Table. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till two of the clock on Tuesday morning, 
adjourned till this day. 





Martis, 13° die Junii ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi IV“ Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


M R. Cobb, from the Margate Pier and Harbour Margate 
Company, was called in; and at the bar pre- Harbour. 
sented, pursuant to the directions of an Act of Bar. 
liament,—An Account of the Receipt and Application 
of all Monies which have been received by the 
Directors of the Margate Pier and Harbour Com- 
pany from the 6th day of April 1836 to the 5th day 
of April 1837, both days inclusive :—And then he 
withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Account do lie upon the 
Table. 





The House proceeded to take into further con- Montrose 
sideration the Report which upon the 5th day of this Harbour Bill. 
instant June, was made from the Committee on the 
Montrose Harbour Bill; printed Copies of the Bill 
having been delivered at the door upon Thursday 
last; and the Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Over Inclosure 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, in- 224 Drainage 
tituled, An Act for draining, inclosing, dividing and i 
allotting certain Lands in the Parish of Over, in the 
County of Cambridge; and the same were read, as 
follow : 

Pr. 51. 1. 7. Leave out “ or,” and insert “ of.” 

Pr. 126. 1. 27. Leave out “ and.” 

Pr. 132. 1. 29. Leave out “ to,” and insert 
“ with;’’ and in the same line, after “as” in- 
sert “ is.” 

Pr. 133. 1. 23. After “ sale,” insert “ and re- 
“ gistration.” 


302 Pr. 134. 














Warkworth 
Harbour Bill, 


Merthyr Tidvil 
Smal! Debts. 


Bath Gas Bill. 


Church Rates 
Regulation. 


Internal Com. 
munication, 


Railways 
(Scotland.) 


Medical 
Profession. 


468 


Pr. 134. Is. 10 and 11. Leave out “ common- 
“ alty,” and insert “ conservators.” 

Pr. 134. 1.23. Leave out “ commonalty,” and 
insert “ conservators.” 

Pr. 134. 1. 34. Leave out “ commonalty,’ 
insert “ conservators.” 

Pr. 171. 1. 2. Leave out “ to.” 

Pr. 180. 1. 32. Leave out “ causes ” and insert 
“ courses.” 

Pr. 186. 1. 


? and 


15. Leave out “ and.” 

Pr. 193. 1. 17. Leave out “ upon.” 

Pr. 193. 1. 25. Leave out “ on.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Sir William Browne Folkes do carry 
the Bill to the Lords ; and acquaint them, that this 
House hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into further con- 
sideration the Report which upon the 5th day of 
this instant June, was made from the Committee on 
the Warkworth Harbour Bill; printed Copies of the 
Bill having been delivered at the door upon Friday 
last; and the Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Merthyr Tidvil, for 
leave to present a Petition for leave to bring in a Bill 
to establish a Court for the more easy and speedy 
recovery of Small Debts within the said parish, was 
presented, and read; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. 


An ingrossed Bill for better supplying and light- 
ing with Gas the City and Borough of Bath, in the 
County of Somerset, was, according to Order, read 
the third time ; and Amendments were made to the 
Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Roebuck do carry the Bill to 


the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Petitions from Fareham ;— Sutterton ;—Knigh- 
ton ;— Mildenhall ;— Stansfield ;— Barton Mills ;— 
Isleham ;—Herringswell ;— Soham ; — Saint Luke, 
Middlesex ;—Markfield ;— Hathern ;— Sutton Me- 
pal and Witcham;—and, county of Devon; praying 
that the proposed measure relative to Church Rates 
may receive the sanction of the House,—were 
— and read; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 

A Petition of Rate-payers of Great and Little 
Bedwyn, Burbage and Easton, praying the House 
not to sanction the said proposed measure, was 
also presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 


Table. 


A Petition of the Chairman of a Meeting of Jus- 
tices of the Peace, Commissioners of Supply, and 
Proprietors in the county of Fife, praying that 
travellers by Post Horse Carriages and Stage Coaches 
may not be subjected to a higher rate of taxation 
than persons using Railways, Canals and Steam Na- 
vigition, was presented, and read ; and referred to 
the Select Committee on Internal Communication. 


Petitions from Arbroath ;—and, Kinross, praying 
the House to pass a genera] Enactment to prevent 
all travelling by coaches on Railways in Scotland, 
on the Lord’s Day,—were presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Faculty of Physicians and 
Surgeons in Glasgow, praying for the amendment 
of the law relating to the Medical Profession, was 


presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


13° Juniz. 





A. 1837. 


Petitions from Daventry ;—and, Bovey Tracey; Tithes 
praying that the Tithes (Zreland) Bill may not pass (Ireland) Bill, 
into a law,—were presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Eirke, Fertagh and Glashare ;— Tithes 
Kilmacow; — Tulleroan ;— Carrigeen ; — Clemanto (eland.) 
and Tubrid;—Ballyragget ;—Killamory and Pullo- 
hought ;— Ballisodare ; — Kilmacshalgon ;— Glen- 
more ;— Roar ;— Urlingford ;— and, Callan, New- 
town and Coolagh; praying for the abolition of 
Tithes in Jreland,—were presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Moderator and Secretary of Regium 
the West Kent and Sussex Association of Baptist Donum. 
Churches, praying the House to withhold, hence- 
forward, the grant usually called the Regium Do- 
num, which it has been common to make annuall 
for the use of Dissenting Ministers, was sneeniiel, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Inhabitants of Dovor ;—and, the Dovor Harbour, 

Chairman and Clerk of the Board of Commissioners 
for paving, cleansing and improving the town and 
port of Dovor; praying the House to adopt and 
carry into full effect the Report of the Select Com- 
mittee of the last Session on the affairs of Dovor 
Harbour,—were presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


Dr. Bowring reported from the Select Com- Public 
mittee on Public Petitions; That they had exa- Petitions. 
mined the Petitions presented from the 26th da 
of May last to the 6th day of this instant June, bot 
inclusive; and had directed him to make a Report 
thereof to the House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; 
and be printed. 


Petitions from Green’s Norton ;—Paulerspury; Highway Rates 
—Towcester ;—Cold Higham and Pattishall;—and, Bill. 
Blisworth ; praying that the Highway Rates Bill 
may not pass into a law,—were presented, and read; 
and referred to the Select Committee on the Bill. 


A Petition of Members of a certain Friendly Friendly 
Society in Daventry, called The Church Union So- Secieties Ac‘. 
ciety, praying for the amendment of the Friendly 
Societies Act, was presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Proprietors and rg er of land Grand Jury 


abitants of Taxation 


in the liberties of Limerick ;—and, In (Ireland.) 


the parish of Saint Michael, in the county of the 
city of Limerick ; complaining of the heavy amount 
of Grand Jury Taxation levied in that city, and 
praying relief,—were presented, and read ; and or- 
dered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Chamber of Commerce of Zime- Dublin and ‘ 
rick, praying the House to institute an inquiry into — - 
the state of the law by which the Turnpike Road ~ 
between that city and Dublin, and the revenue de- 
rived therefrom are at present governed, and to 
amend the Act relating thereto, was presented, and 
read; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Turnpike Roads (Jreland.) 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Roscrea, praying Agricultural 
the House to extend legislative protection and en- or ba 
couragement to the Agricultural and Commercial ~ ” 
Bank of Ireland, was presented, and read ; and re- 
ferred to the Select Committee on Joint Stocks 
Banks. 


A Petition of Shareholders of the Agricultural Agricultural 
and Commercial Bank of Jreland, and others resi- ag 
dent at Ennis and Ennistymon, praying that the (No. 2.) Bill. 
Agricultural and Commercial Bank of Ireland 
(No. 2.) Bill may not pass into a law, was presented, 
and read ; and aint to lie upon the Table. 

Petitions 








Government 
of Ireland. 


Lord’s Day Bill. 


Burghs 
of Barony 
(Scotland) Bill. 


East India 
Maritime 
Officers Bill. 


Poor Law Act. 


Municipal 
Corporations 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Campsie Canal 
Bili, 


Manchester 
Gas Bill. 


Durham 
Junction 


Railway Bill. 


Polloc and 
Govan Railway 
Bill. 








7 Wit. IV. 


Petitions from Tullowhern ;—Graig, Ullard and 
Powerstown ;—Newport ;—Kilmacow ;— Tulleroan ; 
—Saint John’s Well ;-— Ballyhale ;— Rower ;— 
Johnstown ;— Longwood ; — Dromiskin ; — Clonuff ; 
— Dromore and Garvaghey ;—Callan, Newtown and 
Coolagh ; — Mosstown ; — Clonmana ;— Castletown 
Kilpatrick, Kilshine, Knock and Clonghiill ;— Bal- 
lyragget ;—Gowran ;—Fertagh and Glashare ;— 
Clough ;—Grange and Grove ;— Lavey ;—Killeen 
and Dunsany;—and, Donamaggan and Kilmaganny ; 
praying the House to support His Majesty’s Minis- 
ters in their government of Jreland,—were presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Wallingford; pray- 
ing that the Lord’s Day Bill may be permitted to go 
into a Committee of the whole House,—was pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Feuars and Inhabitants of Fraser- 
burgh, praying that the Burghs of Barony (Scotland) 
Bill may pass into a law, was presented, and read ; 
and orderéd to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Henry Thompson, of Greenwich, 
mariner, late of the East India Company’s Mari- 
time Service, praying that he may be heard, by his 
counsel or agent, in opposition to the Petition of 
the East India Company against the East India 
Maritime Officers Bill; and that he may be heard, 
in support of the said Bill, and the preamble and 
clauses thereof, and that the said Bill may pass into 
a law, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants, Labourers, Artizans 
and Working People of Boston, praying for the 
amendment of the Poor Law Act, was presented, 
and read ; and referred to the Select Committee on 
the Poor Law Act. 


A Petition of the Aldermen of the Ward, acting 
Justices of the Peace of Cork, taking notice of the 
Municipal Corporations (Zreland) Bill, and praying 
that provision may be made therein for compensating 
the Fettiiones for the losses they will sustain by 
the abolition of their offices, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The House proceeded to take into further con- 
sideration the Report which, upon the 5th day of 
this instant June, was made from the Committee on 
the Campsie Canal Bill; printed Copies of the Bill 
having been delivered at the door upon Friday last ; 
and the Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


Mr. Brotherton presented a Bill for enabling the 
Directors of the Manchester Gas Works to purchase 
Land, Buildings and Apparatus for the extension of 
their Works: And the same was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time. 


The House proceeded to take into further con- 


sideration the Report which, upon the 5th day of 


this instant June, was made from the Committee on 
the Durham Junction Railway Bill; printed Copies 
of the Bill having been delivered at the door upon 
that day; and the Amendments were read, and 
agreed to ; and Amendments were made to the Bill. 


Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 


ingrossed. 


The House 
sideration the 
this instant June, was made from the Committee on 


the Polloc and Govan Railway Bill; printed Copies 
of the Bill having been delivered at the door upon 
Thursday last ; and the Amendments were read, and 


agreed to. 


Ordered, That the further Proceeding on the said 


13° Junzz. 


roceeded to take into further con- 
eport which, upon the 1st day of 





469 


An ingrossed Bill to alter the Line of the Dublin Dublin and 
and Drogheda Railwey, and to amend the Act re- ee a 
lating thereto, was read the third time ; and an in- — 
grossed Clause was added by way of Rider; and 
Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Evans do carry the Bill to 

the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Dowlais, praying Dowlais 
that the Dowlais Market Bill may pass into a law, Market Bill. 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 

the Table. 


Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- Tolls on Rivers 
solve itself into a Committee to consider of autho- nd Streams 
rizing the imposition of Tolls upon any Rivers, (!"!4-) 
Streams or Lakes which may be rendered navigable 

under any Act of this Session of Parliament for the 
improvement of Uncultivated Lands in Ireland. 


e North 
Metropolitan 
Cemetery Bill, 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to tak 
into further consideration the Petition of John 
Wickey Stable, which was presented upon Thursday 
last, complaining of an alteration, not authorized by 
the Committee, having been made in the Committee 
Bill for the North Metropolitan Cemetery, by Sir 
Samuel Whalley, a Member of this House. 

And Mr. Robert Sutton, Mr. John Rose and Mr. 
Stable were respectively called to the bar, and 
examined in relation thereto :—And then they were 
directed to withdraw. 

Ordered, That Mr. Robert Sutton, Mr. John Rose 
and Mr. Stable be discharged from any further at- 
tendance on this House. 


A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Roupell and Message from 

Mr. Senior : the Lords. 
Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords have agreed to the several Bills follow- 

ing without Amendment ; viz. 

A Bill, intituled, An Act for removing and pre- Bristol 

venting Encroachments within the City and County Encroachments 

of Bristol, and for better regulating the Shipping, ana 

Rivers, Wharfs, Backs and Quays, and the Markets 

within the same, and for other purposes : 

A Bill, intituled, An Act. for granting more effec- Bristol Court 
tual Powers for the regulation of the Court of Con- 4 Conscience 
science within the City of Bristol: And also, pa 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An London and 
Act to amend the Acts relating to the Zondon and Railwey Bill 
Birmingham Railway, with Amendments ; to which 
Amendments the Lords desire the concurrence of 
this House :—And then the Messengers withdrew. 


The House was moved, That the Petition of the Fast India 
East India Company, which was presented on the Oana. Bin, 
25th day of May last, praying that they may be 
heard, by their counsel or agents, against certain 
parts of the East India Maritime Officers Bill, 
might be read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That the Petitioners be permitted to be 
heard, by their counsel, at the bar of this House, 
upon the Question that Mr. Speaker do leave the 
Chair for the purpose of the House going into a 
Committee upon the said Bill. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- Excise Inquiry. 
posed, That the Report of the Committee of the 
Commissioners of the Board of Excise, on the 
Twentieth Report of the Commissioners of Excise 
Inquiry, be referred to the late Commissioners, Sir 
Henry Parnell and Henry Berens, Esquire, to exa- 
mine the same, and to report their opinion thereon 
to this House; 


And Notice being taken that Forty Members were 
not present, the House was told by Mr. Speaker ; 
and Forty Members not being present ; and it being 
then after four of the clock :—The House was ad- 
journed by Mr. Speaker, without a Question first 





Report be adjourned till Thursday next. 
OL. 92. 





put, till To-morrow. 
303 


| 


Bankruptcy 
Accountant. 


Attornies’ 
and Solicitors’ 
Admission Fees, 


Caoutchouc 
Company Bill. 


Dundee 
Police Bill. 


Dundee 
Waterworks 
Bill. 


Warkworth 
Harbour Bill. 


470 


Mercurii, 14° die Juni; 
Anno 7° Willielmi 1V* Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 
R. Basil Montague, from the Office of the Ac- 


countant in Bankruptcy, was called in ; and at 
the bar presented,—A Return to an Order dated the 
12th day of this instant June, for a Return of Cash 
and Stock now standing in the name of the Ac- 
countant in Bankruptcy; specifying the Date of the 
several Investments :—And then he withdrew. 
Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Fry, from the Court of Chancery, was called 
in; and at the bar presented,—Further Return to 
several Orders dated the 7th day of this instant June, 
for Returns of Customary and other Fees taken in 
each of the Superior Courts of Law on the admission 
of Attornies of such Courts respectively ; and of Ex- 
penses incurred in the examination of Clerks pre- 
vious to Admission, and the Number of Clerks so 
examined in each Term :—And, of Customary and 
other Fees taken in the High Court of Chancery on 
the Admission of Solicitors of that Court; and of 
Expenses incurred in the examination of Clerks 
previous to Admission, and the Number of Clerks 
so examined in each Term, (so far as relates to the | 
Court of Chancery) :—And then he withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the | 
Table. 








The Order of the day being read, for the third 
reading of the ingrossed Bill for forming and regu- 
lating the London Caoutchouc Company, and to 
enable the said Company to purchase certain Letters 
Patent ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question being 
—— That the Bill be now read the third time; 

The Amendments following were proposed to be 
made to the Question; viz. To leave out the word 
“ now,” and, at the end of the Question, to add the 
words “ upon this day six months.” 

And the Question being proposed, That the word 
“ now” stand part of the Question :—And a De- 
bate arising thereupon ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till 
Wednesday next. 


An ingrossed Bill for the better Paving, Lighting, 
Watching and Cleansing the Burgh of Dundee, | 
and for maintaining and regulating the Police of 
the same, and places adjacent, and other purposes 
relating thereto, was read the third time; and 
Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Sir Henry Parnell do carry the 
Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Sir Henry Parnell reported from the Committee 
on the Dundee Waterworks Bill; and to whom 
several Petitions against the said Bill were referred ; 
That the Standing Orders relative to Bills for 
supplying Cities or Towns with Water had been 
complied with ; and that they had heard counsel in 
support of two of the said Petitions; and had con- 
sidered others of the said Petitions ; and had also 
heard counsel in favour of the Bill; and had ex- 
amined the allegations of the Bill, and found the 
same to be true; and had gone through the Bill, 
and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


An ingrossed Bill for forming a Harbour in the 
Parish of Warkworth, in the County of Worth- 
umberland, by improving the Navigation of the 
River Coquet, and for rendering the same safe and 
commodious, and easy of access, was read the third 
time ; and an ingrossed Clause was added by way of 
Rider; and Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 


14° June. 








A. 1837. 


Ordered, That Mr. Brotherton do carry the Bill 
to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


An ingrossed Bill to make and maintain a Canal Campsie Canal 
from the Forth and Clyde Canal, in the County of 8#!. 
Lanark, to Campsie Alum Works, in the County of 
Stirling, was read the third time. : 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Brotherton do carry the Bill 
to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Cork, praying the Agricultural 
House to extend legislative protection ee encourage- *"4 Commercial 
ment to the Agricultural and Commercial Bank of 8*™* (land) 
Ireland, was presented, and read; and referred to 
the Select Committee on Joint Stock Banks. 


A Petition of Shareholders of the Bank called the Agricultural 
Agricultural and Commercial Bank of Ireland, eid 
raying that the Agricultural and Commercial Bank (No aj bar 
of Ireland (No. 2.) Bill, may pass into a law, was 
— and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
able. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Cork, praying that Mersey 
the Mersey Conservancy Bill may not pass into a gala 
law, was presented, and read; and ordered to lie - 
upon the Table. 


A Petition of Stewards of the Incorporated Com- Newcastle- 
panies of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, praying that the pon-Tyne 
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Improvement Bill may not pup" 
pass into a law, was presented, and read; and _ 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Martin’s Naturalization Bill was read a second Martin’s 
time ; and committed to Mr. Shaw Lefevre and the Nat- Bill. 
Hants List. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration London and 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, ego 
intituled, An Act to amend the Acts relating to the li die 
London and Birmingham Railway: And the same 
were read, as follow : 

Pr. 28. 1. 15. After Clause (C.), added by way of 
Rider to the Bill, insert Clauses (A.),(B.), (C.), (D.), 
(E.) and (F.) 

Cuauss (A.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
in all cases where the said Company have in the 
execution of the said recited Acts constructed any 
sewers or drains within the site of any of their 
stations, and have provided for the drainage by 
the construction of other sewers or drains, it shall 
and may be lawful for the Commissioners of sewers 
for the district within which any such station may 
be situate, if they shall think fit, by an order 
made at any general or special Court, to cede and 
relinquish to the said Company the jurisdiction 
over such sewers and drains, under and subject to 
such regulations as the said Commissioners shall 
think proper, the said Company at all times 
thereafter repairing and keeping the same in 
repair at their own expense: Provided that no 
public waters be permitted to enter into or drain 
through the said sewers and drains so ceded and 
relinquished.” 

Crause (B.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
nothing herein contained shall be construed to 
exonerate the land and property at present drained 
by the sewers and drains so to be ceded and re- 
linquished, from liability to sewers rates or 
assessments.” 

Crause (C.) “ Provided always, and be it fur- 
ther Enacted, That whenever the said Company 
shall have occupied, or shall hereafter occupy 
under the provisions of the said recited Acts of 
the third and sixth years of the reign of his present 
Majesty, any land for temporary purposes, the 


said Company shall pay to the owner and occupier 
of the said land for the time being, full compen- 
sation for the occupation of the same, and for 
any temporary injury such owner and occupier 
may 


sustain im consequence of the occupation of 








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the same, the amount of which compensation, 
whether the same shall exceed or be less than 
Twenty pounds, shall be settled from time to time 
as such compensation shall be claimed, by any 
Two Justices acting for the district in which such 
land may lie, and shall be recovered in the same 
manner as damages to a small amount are di- 
rected to be recovered by the said recited Act of 
the third year of the reign of His present Majesty: 
Provided always, That the permanent injury or 
damage, if any, which may be done to the said 
land, shall be settled as directed by the said last- 
mentioned recited Act.” 

Criause (D.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
where the said Railway is intended to cross a 
certain street in the town of Birmingham, called 
Curzon-street, the said Company shall, whenever 
thereto required by the Commissioners of the 
streets acting for the time being for the said town, 
erect and for ever thereafter repair and maintain 
a Bridge over the said Railway for foot passengers 
along the said street, which Bridge shall be of 
such width, and shall be formed and constructed 
by and at the expense of the said Company, in 
such way and manner, as shall be required by and 
satisfactory to the said Commissioners, and that 
the said Company shall not carry upon the said 
Railway any passengers across Curzon-street afore- 
said, but shall take up and land all passengers 
on the southern side of the said street, nor shall 
the said Company allow their trains of carriages 
to cross the said street more than twelve times 
in any one day, nor shall the passage be obstructed 
by any train in crossing for a longer time than 
five minutes ; and in case the said Company shall 
allow their trains of carriages to pass across the 
said street oftener than twelve times in each day, 
the said Company shall forfeit and pay a sum of 
Five pounds for each time over and above the 
said twelve times; and in case the said passage 
shall be obstructed by any train for any space of 
time longer than Five minutes, the said Company 
shall forfeit and pay the sum of Five pounds for 
each time the said passage shall be obstructed 
during a longer time, and such penalties shall be 
recoverable and applicable in the same manner 
as the penalties, the recovery of which are not 
herein specially provided for, are by the first 
hereinbefore-recited Act directed to be recovered 
and applied.” 

Cuause (E.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
it shall be lawful for any Justice of the Peace 
acting within his jurisdiction, and he is hereby 
required, to appoint such fit and proper persons 
as he shall think proper, to be special constables 
within the said Railway and other works, and 
every or any part thereof; and every person so 
appointed shall make a solemn declaration, to be 
administered by the same or any other Justice of 
the Peace, duly to execute the office of constable 
for the said premises; and every person so ap- 
pointed, and having made such declaration as 
aforesaid, shall have power to act as a constable 
for the preservation of the peace, and for the 
security of persons and property against felonies 
and other unlawful acts within the limits of the 
said premises, and within half a mile therefrom, 
and shall have, use, exercise and enjoy all such 
powers, authorities, protection and privileges for 
the apprehending offenders, as well by night as 
by day, and for doing all acts, matters and things 
for the prevention, discovery and prosecution of 
felonies and other offences, and for the preserva- 
tion of the peace, as constables duly appointed 
now have by the laws and statutes of this King- 
dom ; and it shall be lawful for any such Justice 
to dismiss or remove any such constable from his 
office of constable, and upon every such dismissal 
or removal, all powers, authorities, protections 
and privileges by virtue of such appointment as 


14° Juni. 471 


“ aforesaid vested in any persons so dismissed or 
removed shall wholly cease.” 

Cxause (F.) “ And whereas considerable pro- 
gress has been made in the construction of the 
Railway by the said recited Acts authorized to 
be made, and some portions thereof are already 
“ completed ; Be it Enacted, That with respect to 
any works which shall be commenced after the 

assing of this Act, no alteration shall be made 
in the levels laid down upon the section deposited 
with the several clerks of the peace, and referred 
“ to by the said recited Acts further than may be 
necessary to connect such new works with those 
“ portions of the Railway which have been already 
“ commenced or are completed.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Sir Eardley Wilmot do carry the 
Bill to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this 
House hath agreed to the Amendments made by 
their Lordships. 

A Petition of Inhabitants of Mewtownlimavady, ny x — 
praying that the Lough Swilly and Lough Foyle ove Drainage 
Drainage Bill may pass into a law, was presented, Bill. 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of John Gordon and James Bulger, Join Gordon 
complaining of being confined in Horsemonger-lane — James 
Gaol for an alleged trespass on certain lands in the “"°" 
parish of Battersea; and praying the House to ap- 
point a Select Committee, and to cause inquiry to 
be made into their case, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Ordered, That the Petition be printed. 


A Petition of Merchants, Traders, Ship-owners Shipping 
and Mariners of Cork, praying that the Da age seaenaen 
of the Shipping Gazette may be relieved from the 
postage of Letters containing shipping and com- 
mercial intelligence only, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Electors of Cork, complaining of Register of 
the clerk of the peace having reinstated on the Re- aoe th 
gister the names of voters who were struck off the (C°™ C'y:) 
poll by the Select Committee on the Cork Election 
Petition in 1833, was a and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Members and Friends of the Tem- Public-houses 
perance Society in Pateley Bridge, praying that the Regulation Bill 
Public-houses Regulation Bill may pass into a law, 
was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of Proprietors of Stock in the Honour- East India 
able East India Company, praying that the East Maritime | 
India Maritime Officers Bil may pass into a law, Officers Bill. 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 


the Table. 


Petitions from Halwell;—and, Dartington; pray- Highway Rates 
ing that the Highway Rates Bill may not pass into Bill. 
a law,—were presented, and read; and referred to 
the Select Committee on the Bill. 


A Petition of Magistrates and Town Council of Prisons 
Fortrose, praying that the Prisons (Scotland) Bill (Sestiand) Om 
may pass into a law, was presented, and read ; and 
referred to the Select Committee on the Bill. 


Petitions from Dalbury and Trusley;—and, Rad- Lord’s Day Bill 
borne; praying that the Lord’s Day Bill on | be 
ermitted to go into a Committee of the whole 
eta tee presented, and read ; and ordered to 


lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Clergymen and Parish Officers Fairs aud 
of Dalbury and Trusley, praying the House to give M**ke- 
to local authorities the power of transferring Fairs 
and Markets to some other day of the week, when- 
ever they shall fall either on the Saturday or the 
Monday, was presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 





Vo. 92. 





304 A Petition 





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472 


A Petition of the Kirk Session of the Parish of 
Aberdeen, praying the House to refuse to pass into 
a law any measure that may be proposed for 
legalizing or allowing Travelling by Railroads in 
Scotland, on the Lord’s Day, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Feuars and Inhabitants of Rose- 
hearty, praying that the Burghs of Barony (Scot- 
land) Bill may pass into a law, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of Inhabitants of Barrhead, praymg 
that that town may be included in the said Bill, 
was also presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


Railways 
(Scotland.) 


Burghs 
of Barony 
(Scotland) Bill. 





Household 


Petitions from Great Yarmouth ;—and, Ovenden ; 
Suffrage. : 


praying the House to extend the Elective Franchise 
to all Householders,—were presented, and read; | 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Church Rates 


, Petitions from Bridgend ;— Three Crosses, in 
Regulation. 


the upper division of the parish of Llanrhidian ;— 
Members of the Ulster Voluntary Church Society ; 
— Dunstable ;—George-street Chapel, Leeds ;—and, 
Leighton Buzzard; praying that the proposed 
measure relative to Church Rates may receive the 
sanction of the House,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of the Minister, Churchwarden, Over- 
seer and other Inhabitants of Repham, praying that | 
the said proposed measure may not receive the | 
sanction of the House, was also presented, and read ; | 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Members of the Board of Guardians 
of the Woburn Union, praying the House to pass a 
law for assessing the owners of small Tenements, 
instead of the occupiers, to the Parochial Rates, was 
presented, and read; and referred to the Select 
Committee on the Poor Law Act. 


A Petition of the Clerk to the Justices in and for 
the borough of Dovor, praying the House either to 
adopt and carry into full effect the Report of the | 
Select Committee of the last Session on the affairs | 
of Dovor Harbour, or otherwise to place the control | 
of the Harbour under His Majesty’s Government, 


Rating of 
Tenements, 


Dovor Harbour. 














the Table. 


14° Juniz. 


| mittee on the East India Maritime Officers Bill ; 


A. 1837. 


report the Minutes of the Evidence taken before 
them. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into County Bridges 
further consideration the Report on the County Bill. 
Bridges Bill:—The Bill was re-committed to a No.397, 
Committee of the whole House :—And the House im- 
mediately resolved itself into the Committee; and, 
after some tinie spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed 
the Chair; and Mr. Freshfield reported, That the 
Committee had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Freshfield reported the Bill accordingly ; and 
the Report was ordered to be taken into further 
consideration upon Wednesday, the 12th day of 
July next ; and the Bill, as amended, to be printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- East India 
Maritime 


And a Motion being made, and the Question O# Bil. 


being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave 
the Chair ; 

The Petition of the East India Company, which 
= presented upon the 25th day of May last, was 
read. 

And the Counsel on behalf of the East India 
Company were called in, and heard in opposition 


‘to the Bill: — And then they were directed to 


withdraw. 

And the Question being again proposed, That 
Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” to 
the end of the Question, in order to add the words 


this House will upon this day six months resolve 


“ itself into the said Committee,” instead thereof. 
And the Question being put, That the words pro- 
posed to be left out stand part of the Question ; 
The House divided : 
The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 
The Noes to the old Lobby. 
Mr. Robinson, 
Mr. Praed: 
{ Mr. Vernon Smith, 
\ Mr. Fox Maule: 


Tellers for the Yeas, 


7 
he. 


Tellers for the Noes, 


| 

| 

was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon | 
| 

| 


So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
Ireland, praying that the Medical Charities (Zreland) | ““ this House will upon this day six months resolve 
Bill may not pass into a law as it now stands, was “ itself into the said Committee,” be added instead 
presented, a read ; and ordered to lie upon the | thereof :—It was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Table. | Then the main Question, so amended, being put ; 


as 


Medical 
Charities 
(Ireland) Bill. 


A Petition of Surgeons of County Infirmaries in | 


ee ne ne 
ae a oe ey TM a 


{ 

A Petition of John James Hood Lingard, Master | 
in the Royal Navy, complaining of the proceedings 

of a Court Martial held upon his conduct on the | 

17th day of July 1820; and praying that the same | 
may be annulled, was presented, and read ; and 

ordered to lie upon the Table. | 


J.J.H, Lingard. 


Orange Lodges. A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- | 


posed, That the Clerk who attended the Select | 

Committee on Orange Lodges in the Session of | 

1835, have liberty to attend the Court of King’s | 

Bench in Dublin, in the cause of Gore Jones versus | 

Henry Hunter and others, for Libel, and to produce | 

the Minutes of Evidence taken before them :—And | 

a Debate arising thereupon ; | 

Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till To- | 

morrow. | 

Eighteenth 


Report on 
Poor Law Act. 


No. 399 


Mr. Fazakerley reported from the Select Com- 
mittee appointed to inquire into the Administration 
of the Relief of the Poor under the orders and regu- 
lations issued by the Commissioners appointed under 
the Provisions of the Poor Law Amendment Act; and 
who were empowered to report the Minutes of the 
Evidence taken before them from time to time to the 
House ; That they had made further Progress in the 
matters to them referred; and had directed him to 





Resolved, That this House will, upon this day six 
months, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Bonded Com 
reading of the Bonded Corn Manufacture Bill ; — 

And a Motion being made, and the Question being “"" 
proposed, That the Bill be now read a second time ; 

The Amendments following were proposed to be 
made to the Question ; viz. To leave out the word 
“now,” and at the end of the Question, to add the 
words “upon this day six months.” 

And the Question being put, That the word 
“ now ” stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the old Lobby ; 

The Noes to the new Lobby. 

Tellers for the f Mr. Robinson, 

Yeas, Mr. Warburton: 
Tellers for the ( The Marquis of Chandos, 
Noes, \ Mr. Heathcote : 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read a second time: 
—The Bill was accordingly read a second time ; 
and committed to a Committee of the whole House 
for Wednesday next. 


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vo. 


42. 


1 
J 
\ 
J 


Bribery at 


The Order of the day being read, for the second ry at 
oe Elections Bill 


reading of the Bribery at Elections Bill ; 
And 











ridges 


7. 


ll, 
Custody of 
Infants Bill. 


Municipal 
Borough Rates 
Bill. 


Game 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Sheriffs Courts 
Bill. 


No. 396. 





And a Motion being made, and the Question being | 

proposed, That the Bill be now read a second time ; 
he Amendments following were proposed to be 

made to the Question; viz. To leave out the word 
“now,” and at the end of the Question, to add the 
words “ upon this day six months.” 

And the Question being put, That the word 
“now ” stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the old Lobby ; 

The Noes to the new Lobby. 


Tellers for the ¢ Mr. Hardy, "0 
Yeas, \ Mr. Baines: ian 

Tellers for the { Mr. Arthur Trevor, ew 
Noes, { Col. Sibthorp : ses 


So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read a second time: 
—The Bill was accordingly read a second time ; 
and committed to a Committee of the whole House 
for Wednesday next. 


The Custody of Infants Bill was, according to 
Order, read a second time ; and committed to a 
Committee of the whole House for Wednesday, the 
28th day of this instant June. 


The Municipal Borough Rates Bill was, according 
to Order, read a second time ; and committed to a 
Committee of the whole House for Wednesday, the 
28th day of this instant June. 


The Game (Scotland) Bill was, opie to Order, 
read a second time; and committed to 1 Committee 
of the whole House for Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for — into 
further consideration the Report on the Sheriffs 
Courts Bill:—The Bill was re-committed toa Com- 
mittee of the whole House. 

A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 
posed, That it be an Instruction to the Committee 
that they have Power to extend the provisions of 
the Bill to the Court of Common Pleas of the 
County Palatine of Lancaster ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ Bill” to 
the end of the Question, in order to add the words 
“ to all Courts which have now power to direct 
“« issues to be tried before Sheriffs for the amount 
* of £.20,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words pro- 
posed to be left out stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided : : 

The Yeas to the old Lobby ; 

The Noes to the new Lobby. 


f Lord Stanley, 

Tellers for the Yeas, LMr. Lynch : 50. 
{ Mr. Jervis, 

Tellers for the Noes,; eg hee j 14, 


So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That it be an Instruction to the Com- 
mittee that they have Power to extend the provisions 
of the Bill to the Court of Common Pleas of the 
County Palatine of Lancaster. 

Then the House resolved itself into the Committee. 

(In the Committee.) 
Bill read 1°; to be read 2°, paragraph by para- 


oe. 

reamble postponed. 
Several Amendments made. 
Preamble amended, and agreed to. 
Bill, as amended, to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Dr. Bowring 
reported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Dr. Bowring reported the Bill accordingly ; and 
the Report was ordered to be taken into further 
consideration upon Wednesday next; and the Bill, 
as amended, to be printed. 





7 Witt. IV. 14° Junii. 473 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Burghs 
further consideration the Report on the Burghs of eacotined) Bill 
Barony (Scotland) Bill; ' . 
Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration, upon Monday, the 26th day of this 


instant June. 


Petitions from the Western division of the hun- Recovery of 
dred of Brixton, Surrey ;—and, Leicester; praying Tenements Bill. 
that the Recovery of Tenements Bill may pass into 

a law,—were presented, and read ; and ordered to 

lie upon the Table. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Recovery of 
mittee on the Recovery of Tenements Bill; Tenements Biil, 
And a Motion being made, and the Question being 
proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair; 
An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” to 
the end of the Question, in order to add the words 
“ this House will, upon this day three months, resolve 
“ itself into the said Committee,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words pro- 
posed to be left out stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided ; 

The Yeas to the old Lobby ; 

The Noes to the new Lobby. 


Tellers for the Yeas, = oti , V 93. 
Tellers for the Noes, { a — } 2. 


So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair :—The House accordingly resolved itself into 
the Committee. 

(In the Committee.) 

Bill read 1°; to be read 2° paragraph by para 

graph. 

Preamble postponed. 

CLAUSE, Ne 1. Amendment proposed: P. 1. 
1.10. To leave out the words “ whereof the rent 
payable in respect of such tenancy.” 

Question put, That the words proposed to be left 
out stand part of the Clause ; 

The Committee divided : 

Tellers forthe Yeas,{ Pigg 1 6s. 

Tellers for the Noes, 7 Watiey . 16. 

Another Amendment proposed: P. 1.1.11. After 
the word “ tenancy” to leave out the words “ did 
“ not exceed,” and instead thereof to insert “ was 
“ not below.” 

Question, That the words “did not exceed” stand 
part of the Clause——Amendment, by leave, with- 
drawn. 

Motion made, and Question put, That the Chair- 
man do report Progress, and a leave to sit again ; 

The Committee divided : 

Tellers forthe Yeas,! oq Wahiey . } 11. 


Tellers for the Noes,{ a =— ‘ 7 52. 

Another Amendment proposed: P. 1. 1. 11. To 
leave out the words “ shall have expired by effluxion 
“ of time or.” 

Whereupon a Motion was made, and Question, 
That the Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave 
to sit again put, and agreed to. 








And the House having continued to sit till after 

twelve of the clock on Thursday morning ; 
Jovis, 15° die Junii, 1837: 

Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair, and Mr. Tooke 
reported, That the Committee had made Progress in 
the Bill; and that he was directed to move, That 
the Committee may have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesda 
the 28th day of this instant June, again resolve itself 





Vou. 92. 


into the said Committee. 
3P The 








474 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 


Registration of 


Voters Bill. mittee on the Registration of Voters Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
Waste Lands The Order of the day ~_ read, for taking into 
(Ireland) Bill. further consideration the eport on the Waste 


Lands (Jreland) Bill; 
Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Tuesday next. 


Tenants for Life The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
(Ireland) Bill. mittee on the Tenants for Life (Zreland) Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Leases and 
Exchanges 
(Ireland) Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
further consideration the Report on the Leases and 
Exchanges (Ireland) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Tuesday next. 


Small Debts The Order of the day being read, for the second 
(Scotland) Bill. reading of the Small Debts (Scotland) Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Wednesday, the 28th day of this instant June. 


Poor Employ- The Order of the day being read, for the second 
Bil. (Ireland) yeading of the Poor Employment (Jreland) Bill ; 
oan Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 
Copyright Bill. The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Copyright Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Wednesday, the 28th day of this instant June. 
Jewish The Order of the day being read, for the second 


Marriages Bill. reading of the Jewish Marriages Bill ; 


Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time To- 


morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Public Walks and Public Institutions 
Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 


next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Pablic Walks 
and Public 
Institutions Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
further consideration the Report on the Attornies 
and Solicitors Bill :—The Bill was re-committed to a 
Committee of the whole House:—And the House 
immediately resolved itself into the Committee ; 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair, and Mr. Solicitor General re- 
= That the Committee had gone through the 

ill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Solicitor General reported the Bill accord- 
ingly ; and the Report was ordered to be taken into 
further consideration upon Wednesday next; and 
the Bill, as amended, to be printed. 


Attornies 
and Solicitors 
Bill. 


No. 398. 


Mr. Serjeant Goulburn reported the Common 
Law Courts Bill; and the Amendments were read, 
and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time upon Wednesday 
next. 


Common Law 
Courts Bill, 


Registration of | The Order of the day being read, for the second 


re — of the Registration of Births, &amp;c. (Scotland) 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 
Clandestine The Order of the day being read, for the second 
eA -_ reading of the Clandestine Marriages (Scotland) Bill; 
Scotland) Bul.“ Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 
Municipal The Order of the day being read, for taking into 


Corporations further 
(Scotland) Bill. ¢y, 


consideration the Report on the Municipal 
rations (Scotland) Bill ; 

rdered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration this day. 





14°— 15° Juniz. 





A. 1837. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Bills of 
mittee on the Bills of Exchange Bill ; Exchange Bill 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Bankrupts’ 
further consideration the Report on the Bankrupts’ Estates 
Estates (Scotland) Bill; (Scotland) Bill, 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Baukruptcy 
mittee on the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Bill ; (Scotland) Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Uniformity of 

mittee on the Uniformity of Sen, Bill ; Process Bill, 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 

next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the third Haileybury 
reading of the Haileybury College Bill ; College Bill, 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Wills Bill. 
mittee on the Wills Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the third Sheriffs’ Fees 

reading of the Sheriff’s Fees Bill; Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 

upon Wednesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Ways and 
mittee of Ways and Means ; Means. 
Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Supply. 
mittee of Supply; 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Tolls on Rivers 
into a Committee to consider of authorizing the im- and Steams 
position of Tolls upon any Rivers, Streams or Lakes, — 
which may be rendered navigable under any Act of 
this Session of Parliament, for the improvement of 
Uncultivated Lands in Ireland. 


(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That it is expedient to authorize the 
imposition of Tolls upon any Ships, Boats, Barges 
or Vessels using or navigating any Rivers or Sikes 
which may be rendered navigable under the pro- 
visions of an Act of this Session of Parliament for 
the improvement of Uncultivated Lands in Ireland. 


Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. ~— 
— That the Committee had come to a Re- 
solution. 


Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Darham 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased U"iver''¥- 
to give directions that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of the Charter recently granted to 
the University of Durham. 
Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Dublin 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, Police Bill 
intituled, An Act for amending the Act relating to 

the Police in the District of the Dublin Metropolis ; 

and the same were read, as follow: 

Pr. 3. 1. 4. Leave out from “ Jreland” to “and,” 

in line ultimo. 

Pr. 14. 1. 8. After “time” insert “ or times.” 

Pr. 14. 1. 30. After “ Act” insert Cuause (A.) 
Cravse(A.) “And be it Enacted, That an — 

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Treasurers 

of Counties 
(Ireland) Bill, 
Dublin Police 
(No. 2) Bill. 


Belfast and 
Hollywood 
Railway Bill. 


London and 
Brighton 
Railways. 


7 Wit. LV. 


“ of all Monies received and expended for the pur- 


“ poses of this Act, made up to the Thirty-first day 
“ of December in each year, shall annually be laid 
“ before both Houses of Parliament, within Thirty 
“ days thereafter, if Parliament be then sitting, or 
“ within Thirty days after the first meeting of Par- 
“ liament, subsequent to the Thirty-first of Decem- 
“&lt; ber; and such account shall specify the total sum 
“ charged upon and received from every Parish, 
“ Township, Precinct, Liberty or Place, for the pur- 
“ poses of this Act, the rate in the pound at which 
“* such sum shall have been computed, and the total 
“ annual value of the entire property in every such 
“« Parish, Township, Precinct, Liberty or Place, as 
** such total annual value shall be stated in the last 
“ valuation thereof, acted upon for the purposes of 
“ this Act; and such account shall also specify the 
“ different heads of expenditure for the purposes of 
“ the Police, and the amount actually expended 
“ under each.” 
Pr. 19. 1.13. After “two” insert “ or the num- 

“ ber of offices be reduced below four.” 

Ordered, That the said Amendments be taken into 
further consideration upon this day six months. 


Ordered, That the Treasurers of Counties (Jre- 
land) Bill be read a second time this day. 


The House was moved, That the Act 6 and 7 Will. 4, 
c. 29, forimproving the Police in the District of Dublin 
Metropolis, might be read; and the same being read ; 
Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to make more effectual provisions relating to the 
Police in the District of Dublin Metropolis: And 
that Lord Viscount Morpeth and Mr. Attorney 

General for Zreland do prepare, and bring it in. 
And then the House, having continued to sit till 
half an hour after one of the clock on Thurs- 

day morning, adjourned till this day. 


n 








Jovis, 15° die Junii ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi IV“ Regis, 1837. | 
PRAYERS. 


ORDER ED, That the time for the Committee 

on the Belfast and Hollywood Railway Bill, to 
make their Report, be further enlarged till Monday, 
the 26th day of this instant June. 


A Petition of the there-undersigned Promoters 
of the several Bills now before Parliament for 
making a Railway between London and Brighton, 
called or known respectively as Stephenson’s Line, 
the Direct Line, the South Eastern Brighton Line, 
and Gibbs’s Line, was presented, and read, setting 
forth, That the Petitioners having been deputed on 
behalf of the respective Companies engaged in pro- 
moting the above Lines of Railway, to select from 
among them such a Line as may best carry into 
effect the main objects of the said respective Com- 
panies, and at the same time most fully secure the 
interests of the public, have entered into an arrange- 
ment among themselves for effecting those objects, 
and have accordingly agreed to form themselves 
into one Company, to be called “ The London and 
Brighton Railway Company;” that the House 
having been pleased to address His Majesty, pray- 
ing that He would be graciously pleased to refer to 
some Military Engineer the statements of engineer- 
ing particulars furnished in support of the above- 
mentioned Lines of Railway, in order that such 
Engineer might give his opiion on the merits of 
the respective Lines in an engineering point of view, 
and the Military Engineer having been appointed 
accordingly, the Petitioners are desirous of having 
the means of laying before him their Plans and 
suggestions previous to his reporting to the House ; 
and praying that they may be at liberty to lay 
before the said Engineer the Plans suggested by 
them, in order that he may examine the same pre- 
vious to making his Report, and that he may be 

VoL. 92. 


14°—15° Juniz. 


475 


authorized to propose any alterations in the said 
Plans which he may think expedient, or that the 
House will be pleased to make such other Order 
herein as to them may seem fit. 

Ordered, That the said Petition do lie upon the 
Table. 

Ordered, That the Petition be printed. 


East Thickley and Frosterley Railway Bill; That 
the Standing Orders relative to Railway Bills did 
not apply to the proposed Bill, inasmuch as the 
said Bill did not contain any compulsory powers 
for purchasing or taking any lands or premises, but 
contained Clauses expressly providing that the 
Company should not be authorized or empowered 
to enter upon or take any lands or premises without 
the previous consent in writing of the owners and 
occupiers thereof, and that the Company should be 
liable to be proceeded against for any public or 
private nuisance they may commit; and that the 
said Bill was merely to incorporate the Subscribers 
to the undertaking as a Joint Stock Company, and 
to provide for the election and appointment of the 
Officers of the Company, and to regulate the enjoy- 
ment and transmission of shares therein; and that 
the Committee were also of opinion that the Reso- 
lutions of the House of the 1st day of March 1836, 
did not apply to the present Bill; and that the Com- 
mittee had examined the allegations of the Bill, and 
found the same to be true, and had gone through 
the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, 'That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


An ingrossed Bill to authorize the Durham Junc- 
tion Railway Company to make two Branch Rail- 
ways from the Durham Junction Railway, to be 
called “ The Durham and Houghton-le-Sprin 
Branches ;” and for other purposes connected wit 
their undertaking, was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act to authorize the Durham Junction 
Railway Company to make a Branch Railway from 
the Durham h unction Railway, to be called “ The 
Houghton-le-Spring Branch.” 

Ordered, That Mr. Lambton do carry the Bill 


to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


An ingrossed Bill to alter, extend and enlarge 


the powers given to the Ouse Bank Commissioners Drainage Bill. 


appointed under the Eau Brink Act of the first and 
second years of His present Majesty’s reign, was 
read the third time; and an ingrossed Clause was 
added by way of Rider; and Amendments were 
made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Billdo pass: And that theTitle 
be, An Act to raise and apply Funds for the future 
Maintenance and Repair of the Banks of the River 
Ouze, between Denver Sluice and the Eau Brink 
Cut in the County of go ee 

Ordered, That Sir William Browne Folkes do 
carry the Bill to the Lords, and desire their con- 
currence. 


Sir Robert Price reported from the Committee on 
the Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act to enable 
Edward Farr and others to effect a Sale to Walter 
Wilkins, Esquire, of a Messuage and Lands situate 
in the Parish of Glasbury, in the County of Radnor; 
That they had examined the allegations of the Bill, 
and found the same to be true; and that the parties 
concerned had given their consent to the Bill to the 
satisfaction of the Committee ; and that the Com- 
mittee had gone through the Bill, and directed him 
to report the same without Amendment :—And the 
Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Sir Robert Price do carry the Bill 
to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 





hath agreed to the same, without Amendment. 
3P2 A Petition 


Mr. Bell reported from the Committee on the East Thickley 


and Frosterley 
Railway Bill, 


Durham 
Junction 


Railway Bill, 


Ouze Banks 


Farr’s Estate 
Bill, 


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476 


A Petition of the Lord Provost, Magistrates and 


Sheriff and 

Burgh Courts Common Council of Glasgow, praying that the 

(Scotland) Bill. Sheriff and Burgh Courts (Scotland) Bill, so far as 
it either directly or indirectly goes to enact the abo- 
lition of the Dean of Guild Court of Glasgow, may 
not pass into a law, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Prisons 


A Petition of Commissioners for executing an Act 
(Scotland) Bill. 


for erecting and maintaining a Bridewell for the 
county of Lanark, and cityrof Glasgow, praying 
that the Prisons (Scotland) Bill may not pass into 
a law, was presented, and read ; and referred to the 
Select Committee on the Bill. 


Steam Commu- 
nication with 
India. 


Petitions of Inhabitants of Calcutta ;— and, the 
Chairman of the East India Association of Glasgow ; 
praying the House to adopt measures for establish- 
ing a regular Steam Communication with India, by 
way of the Red Sea,—were presented, and read ; and 
referred to the Select Committee on Steam Com- 
munication with India. 

Ordered, That all Petitions upon the subject of 
Steam Communication with Jndia, presented to the 
House during the present Session, be referred to the 
said Select Committee. 


Church Rates 
Regulation. 


Petitions from Saint Pancras ;—Malton;—Upper 
Charles-street, Leicester ;-—-and, New Malton; pray- 
ing that the proposed measure relative to Church 
Rates may receive the sanction of the House,—were 

resented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 


the Table. 


Maynooth 


ae Petitions from Mullavilly ;—Seagoe;—Ballinacor ; 
ollege. 


— Killeshall ;--- Dungorman;— Drumesple ;— Taur- 
namore ;— Ballinakelly;—Ballygawley ;—Moyroe;— 
Tandragee (two Petitions) ;— Zartaraghan ;—Bal- 
lyoran ;—Brownstown and Clounagh ;—Loughgilly ; 
— Bracha ;— Kiernan ; — Poyntzpass ; —Belleeh ;— 
Market Hill;— Portadown ;— Ballintemple ;—Out- 
lacken ;—Knochavanan ;—Lurgana ;—Mullabrack ; 
Ballymore (Manor) ;— Ballymore (Parish) ;—Drum- 
cree ; — Mountnorris ;— Acton ;— and, Killyman ; 
praying that no further Grant of Public Money be 
made to the College of Maynooth,—were presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Borough 
Boundaries 
Bill. 


A Petition of the Corporation of Berwick-upon- 
Tweed, praying the House to insert the Parliament- 
ary Borough of Berwich-upon-Tweed in Schedule 
(A.) of the Borough Boundaries Bill, in lieu of the 
descriptions now therein, and insert in Schedule (B.) 
the descriptions of Wards as at present existing, 
which are set forth in the London Gazette of Mon- 
day, the 7th day of December 1835, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Rating of 


Tenements. 


A Petition of Proprietors of cottage property in 
Ipswich, praying that the owners of small tenements 
may not be made liable to the payment of Paro- 
chial Rates, was presented, and read ; and referred 
to the Select Committee on the Poor Law Act. 


Two-perny 
Post Letter 
Carriers. 


A Petition of Merchants, Traders and others re- 
sident in the city of London, praying the House 
to provide for the Twopenny Post Carriers a more 
reasor.able and adequate income, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Household 


; Petitions from the Chairman of the Glasgow and 
Suffrage. 


West of Scotland Power-loom Tenters’ Association ; 
— Pollockshaws ;— Saint Mary-le-bone ;—and, Dun- 
dee; praying the House to extend the Elective 
el to all householders,—were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Religious 
Instruction 
(Scotland.) 


A Petition of the General Assembly of the Church 
of Scotland, setting forth, That the Church of Scot- 
land feels itself entitled to expect that the first Re- 


15° Juniz. 








A. 1837. 


oe of the Commissioners relative to Religious 
nstruction in Scotland, which has now lain uncon- 
sidered upwards of three months on the Tables of 
Parliament, should have received the immediate 
attention of Government, and that some — 
adequate to the necessities of the case, and in full 
accordance with the principles of the Established 
Church, should, without delay, have been supplied ; 
and praying the House to take the same into con- 
sideration, was presented, and read ; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Magistrates, Councillors, Bur- Burghs 
gesses, Justices of the Peace, House Proprietors Seetiandy ™ 
and others of Kirkintilloch, praying that the Burghs eee, 
of Barony (Scotland) Bill may not pass into a law, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of Commissioners for the Earl of Edinburgh 
Hopetoun, and of Peter Ramsay, Esquire, alleging #4 Glsseow 
that certain sums have been subscribed under powers” ™ 
of attorney for the purposes of the Edinburgh and 
Glasgow Railway which powers of attorney were not 
produced before the Committee on the Bill, and 
praying for inquiry, was presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Thomas Bradley, Esquire, late Liew.-Co!, 
Lieutenant Colonel 2d West India Regiment, com- Bradley. 
— of the conduct of Colonel Arthur towards 

im and others while Superintendent at Honduras, 
and praying for inquiry, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Ordered, That the Petition be printed. 


Petitions from the Vale of Avon ;—Hovingham ; Lord’sDay Bill. 
—-South Normanton ;—.Doncaster ;— Grindon ; — 
and, Moderator of Saint John’s Kirk Session, Leith; 
praying that the Lord’s Day Bill may be permitted to 
go into a Committee of the whole House,—were pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of the Clergyman and Parish Officers Fairs and 
of South Normanton, praying the House to give to Markets. 
local authorities the power of transferring Fairs and 
Markets to some other day of the week, whenever 
they shall fall either on the Saturday or the Menday. 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of Joseph Bennett, of Maryborough, Joseph Bennett. 

in the Queen’s County, late an out-pensioner of 
Chelsea Hospital, stating that he commuted his 
pension for a grant of land in Canada, but was 
obliged to return to this country on account of ill 
health ; complaining of the Commissioners having 
refused to reinstate him on the Pension List, and 
praying relief, was presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Henry Towgood, one of the executors Fourdrinier’s 

of his late father, Matthew Towgood, of Saint Neots, Pate 

in the county of Huntingdon, praying that the mere 

of the Petitioner’s father, formerly a partner wit 

Henry and Sealy Fourdrinier, wholesale stationers 

and paper manufacturers, may be allowed their just 

share of such compensation as the House may think 

fit to grant to the above-named Henry and Sealy 
Fourdrinier for losses sustained by them, was pre- 

sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The House, according to Order, resumed the ad- Polloc and. 
journed Proceeding upon the further consideration of -— ay 
the Report of the Polloc and Govan Railway Bill. : 

A Clause was offered to be added to the Bill 
(Railway not to cross Park House Road ona level): 

-—And the said Clause was brought up, and read the 
first time. : 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the said Clause be now read a 





second time ; Th 
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Robert 
D’Oyly. 


Orange Lodges. 


Orange Lodges. 


Message from 
the Lords, 


Glossop Reser- 
voirs Bill, 


West Cork 
Mining Come 
pany Bill, 


Duke of 
Beaufort's 
Estate Bill, 
































































7 Witt. IV. 


The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 

Tellers for the ¢ Mr. Speirs, } 45 
Yeas, | Mr. Ross: ; 
Tellers for the { Mr. Wallace, \ 72 

Noes, Lord William Bentinck: J ‘~ 
So it passed in the Negative. 
Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


A Petition of Robert D’ Oyly, of Morton-in-the- 
Marsh, solicitor, complaining of the arrest of judg- 
ment in an action for slander, in which he was 
plaintiff, on the ground that the words were not 
actionable ; and praying the House to pass such a 
Bill as will reach assassins of character, persons who, 
being alike regardless of truth as unamenable to the 
laws of honour, can only be punished by the salutary 
visitations of a jury to their pockets, was presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Richard Davison, of Belfast, so- 
licitor, praying the House to permit the clerk who 
attended the Select Committee on Orange Lodges 
in the Session of 1835, to attend the Court of King’s 
Bench in Dublin, in the cause of Gore Jones versus 
Henry Hunter, and others, for libel, and produce 
the amended copy of the Evidence of the said Gore 
Jones, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
the adjourned Debate upon the Question —— 
yesterday, That the Clerk who attended the Com- 
mittee on Orange Lodges in the Session of 1835, 
have liberty to attend the Court of King’s Bench in 
Dublin, in the cause of Gore Jones versus Henry 
Hunter and others, for libel, and to produce the 
Minutes of Evidence taken before them. 

And the Question being again proposed :—The 
House resumed the said adjourned Debate. 

And the Question being put :—It was resolved in 
the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That the Clerk who attended the Com- 
mittee on Orange Lodges in the Session of 1835, 
have liberty to attend the Court of King’s Bench in 
Dublin, in the cause of Gore Jones versus Henry 
Hunter and others, for libel, and to produce the 
Minutes of the Evidence taken before them. 


A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Roupell and 
Mr. Senior : 

Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
Act for making and maintaining Reservoirs upon the 
Tributary Streams of the River Etherow, otherwise 
the Mersey, in the Parish of Glossop, in the County 
of Derby, for more effectually and regularly sup- 
plying with Water the Mills, Manufactories and 

orks on the said Tributary Streams and River, 
without Amendment: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
Act for amending and enlarging the provisions of 
an Act passed in the fourth year of the reign of His 
present Majesty, intituled, “ An Act to encourage 
the working of Mines and Quarries in Jreland, and 
to regulate a Joint Stock Company for that purpose, 
to be called ‘ The West Cork Mining Company,’ ” 
with Amendments ; to which Amendments the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House: And also, 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
for confirming a Lease granted by the Most noble 
Henry Charles, late Duke of Beaufort, to John 
Vivian, Esquire, of Lands and Hereditaments in the 
Parish of Saint John juxta Swansea, in the County 
of Glamorgan, and also a certain other Lease granted 
by the said Henry Charles, late Duke of Beaufort, 
and the Most noble Henry, Duke of Beaufort, 
by his then name of Henry Marquis of Worcester, 
to John Williams, Esquire, and others, of Lands 
and Hereditaments in the Parishes of Saint John 


15° Junie. 


477 


juata Swansea and Llangefelach, in the said County 
of Glamorgan; to which the Lords desire the con- 
currence of this House: And also, 
The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Watson’s 
for vesting an Estate in the Parish of Steeple Aston, © Bill- 
in the County. of Oxford, devised by the Will of 
John Marten Watson, Gentleman, deceased, in Trus- 
tees, for carrying into effect a Contract entered into 
for the sale thereof, and for laying out the Monies 
thence arising in the purchase of other Estates, to 
be settled to the same uses, to which the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House: And also, 
The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Lord Dynevor’s 
for vesting the settled undivided Shares of the Right Estate Bill. 
honourable George Talbot Rice, Lord Dynevor, in the 
County of Glamorgan, in Trustees for sale, and with 
Power to make a partition thereof, to which the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House: And also, 
The Lords request that this House will be pleased Prisons. 
to communicate to their Lordships a Copy of the Re- 
port made from the Select Committee appointed by 
this House in the last Session of Parliament, to con- 
sider of the expediency of amending the Laws relating 
to Prisons :—And then the Messengers withdrew. 
Resolved, That this House will send an Answer 
to the last part of the said Message by Messengers 
of their own. 
And the Messengers were again called in, and 
Mr. Speaker acquainted them therewith :—And then 
they again withdrew. 


The Order for the House to resolve itself into a Tithes 
Committee To-morrow, on the Tithes (Jreland) Bill, (Ireland) Bill. 
was read, and discharged. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday, the 
23d day of this instant June, resolve itself into the 
said Committee. 


The House was moved, That the Resolutions strangers’ 
which, upon the 28th day of July 1835, were re- Gallery. 
ported from the Select Committee appointed to 
consider and report upon the best means of setting 
apart and adapting a portion of the Strangers’ Gal- 
lery for the admittance of Ladies during the Debates 
of this House, such admittance to be granted or 
regulated according to such form as the Speaker 
shall appoint ; also to consider of directions proper 
to be given with a view to the same effect in the 
building of the new House of Commons, might be 
read ; and the same being read ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That an humble Address be presented to 
His Majesty, praying that He will be graciously 

leased to give directions for the immediate carrying 
into effect the recommendation of the Select Com- 
mittee appointed in 1835, relating to the best means 
of setting apart a portion of the Strangers’ Gallery 
for the admittance of Ladies, both in the present 
and new Houses of Parliament ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 

Tellers for the f Mr. Grantley Berkeley, 


} 92. 


Yeas, | Captain Chetwynd : 
Tellers for the f[ Mr. Loch, } 116 
Noes, Mr. Edward John Stanley : . 


So it passed in the Negative. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being 
That the Petition presented by the Twopenny 
Letter Carriers on the 14th day of April last, be 
referred to a Select Committee ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 


The Noes to the old Lobby. 


ut, Twopenny Post 
ost Letter Carriers. 


Captain Polhill, 7 
Tellers for the Yeas, { Calenl Sitherp: fj 19. 
. . Mr. John Parker an 
Tellers for the Noes, Lord Seymour : ? } 35. 


So it passed in the Negative. 





Von, 92. 


3P3 A Motion 











* 





Lunatic 
Asylum 
(Hanwell. ) 


Public 
Commissions. 


Public 
Revenues. 


Fourdrinier’s 
Patent. 


Rating of 


Tenements Bill. 


Railways 
(Scotland. 


478 


A Motion was made, and the Question being 
put, That a Select Committee be appointed to in- 
quire into the Asylum for Lunatic Paupers at Han- 
well :—It passed in the Negative. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being put, 
That a Select Committee be appointed to inquire 
into the present state of the various Public Com- 
missions, with a view of considering how far it may 
be expedient and practicable to make an alteration 
in the number, and consequently diminution in the 
enormous expenses, of the same ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 


Tellers for the Yeas, ee } 20. 


, Mr. Robert Steuart, 
Tellers for the Noes,{ Mr. Fox Maule: } 74, 
So it passed in the Negative. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
ene That for the proper security of the Public 
evenues, and for the purpose of giving to Parlia- 
ment the authority and control which it ought to 
exercise, it is necessary that the gross receipts of 
all the Departments of Revenue should be paid into 
the Exchequer ; and that no Department be allowed 
to detain or to appropriate any portion of the said 
Revenues without previous Parliamentary sanction. 
And the previous Question being put, That that 
Question be now put :—It passed in the Negative. 
A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That, in order to guard against abuse, and 
to bring the whole Revenues of the Nation under 
Parliamentary control, it is desirable that no depart- 
ment of expenditure should be allowed to appropriate 
funds, except by Issues from the Exchequer, and 
that all Monies arising from sale of Stores, Fees or 
other sources, should be paid into the Exchequer. 
And the previous Question being put, That that 
Question be now put :—It passed in the Negative. 


Notice being taken, That the Report which, upon 
the 1st day of this instant June, was made from the 
Select Committee, to whom the Petition of Henry 
Fourdrinier and Sealy Fourdrinier, was referred, 
contained a recommendation for public compensa- 
tion for losses incurred by the Patentees, and that 
the same had not been recommended by the Crown ; 

Ordered, That the Report be re-committed to the 
former Committee. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being put, 
That leave be given to bring in a Bill for rating the 
Owners and not the Occupiers of Tenements, under 
a certain Annual Value ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 

Tellers for the f Sir Harry Verney, 


11s, 


Yeas, Mr. Ayshford Sanford : 
Tellers for the { Mr. Pryme, a 45 
Noes, Sir George Strickland : * hse 


So it was resolved in the Affirmative :—And that 
Sir Harry Verney and Sir Charles Lemon do prépare, 
and ‘rmg in the Bill. 


r 


And the House having continued to sit till after 

twelve of the clock on Friday morning ; 
Veneris, 16° die Janii, 1837. 

Petitions from Stirling;&lt;¢fwhierwick ;---Kilmar- 
nock (two Petitions) ;—Stgpenston ;—Gargunnock ; 
— Ayr ; — Cumbernaild ; — Newcastle-upon- Tyne 
(Moderator and Clerk) ;--Saint Mark’s, Glasgow ; 
— Lochwinnoch ; — Dumbarton; — Saint Thomas, 
Glasgow ; -- Coylton; — Kilmaronock ; -— Carluke 
(Moderator) ; — Cardross ; — Kilmaurs ; — Lanark 
(Moderator) ; — Newton-upon-Ayr ; —Muirkirk ; — 


15°—16° Juniz. 





A. 1837. 


Paisley ; — Kilsyth (Moderator) ; — Kirkintilloch 
(Moderator) ; —- Stirling (Moderator) ; — Drymen 
(Moderator) ;—Stratton (Moderator and Clerk) ;— 
and, Kilbirnie (Moderator and Clerk); praying that 
a Bill may be introduced into the House to prevent 
the use of Railways in Scotland for the conveyance 
of passengers DY public carriages, or for any other 
traffic, on the Lord’s Day,—were presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- Railways 
posed, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to (Seotland.) 
declare that the use of Railways on the Lord’s Day 
is contrary to the Laws of Scotland ; 

A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That the other Orders of the day be now 
read:—And the said Motions were severally, with 
leave of the House, withdrawn. 


A Motion being made, That leave be given to Rolls Estate 
bring in a Bill to vest the Rolls Estate in His Ma- Bill 
jesty, and to abolish certain Payments and Fees 
which form part of the Salary of the Master of the 
Rolls ; 

Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, by His Ma- 
jesty’s command, acquainted the House, That His 
Majesty, having been informed of the subject matter 
of this Motion, gives His consent, as far as His Ma- 
jesty’s interest is concerned, that the House may do 
therein as they shall think fit. 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to vest the Rolls Estate in His Majesty, and to 
abolish certain Payments and Fees which form part 
of the Salary of the Master of the Rolls: And that 
Mr. Baring and Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer 
do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Foreign 
Return of the Number and Names of Foreigners 0°" 
now bearing His Majesty’s Commission ; together 
with the Date of their respective Ranks, as well as 
the Amount of Pay or Emolument enjoyed by each. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Medical 
mittee on the Medical Charities (Zreland) Bill; psa Bill 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday ‘ — 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Poor Relief 
mittee on the Poor Relief (Treland) Bill; (Ireland) Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to take Registration 
into further consideration the Report on the Regis- 24 Marriages 
tration and Marriages Bill; and the Amendments ©" 
were read, and agreed to; and a Clause was added ; 
and an Amendment was made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Parliamentary 
reading of the Parliamentary Electors Bill ; Electors Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time this 
day. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Foreign 
into a Committee upon the Foreign Officers Bill; O* °" 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. Baring reported, That 
the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second emg 
= of the Registration of Births, &amp;c., (Scotland) cs be Bill. 
ill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Thursday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Clandestine 


* ~ 4 / ~ “ Marriages _ 
coaewe of the Clandestine Marriages (Scotland) (evens) pill. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 











upon Thursday next. 
The 





Maun’ 
Corp 
(3c0 


Bill 
Exc 


Hs 


“weet 











































































































} Wills Bill. 


) of Counties 


7 Witt. IV. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
further consideration the Report on the Municipal 
Corporations (Scotland) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Tuesday next. 


Municipal 
Corporations 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Bills of 


: The Order of the day. being read, for the Com- 
Eachange Bill. J 


mittee on the Bills of Exchange Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Commiitee. 


The ingrossed Bill to authorize the Commissioners 
for the Affairs of India to suspend the subsisting 
Enactments concerning the fourfold system of no- 
mination of Candidates for the East India Company’s 
College at Haileybury, and for providing, during 
such suspension, for the examination of Candidates 
for the said College, was, according to Order, read 
the third time; and ingrossed Clauses were added 
to the Bill, by way of Riders. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Haileybury 
Coliege Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Wills Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


Tolls on Rivers 
and Streams 
(Ireland.) 


Mr. Attorney General reported from the Com- 
mittee, to whom it was referred to consider of autho- 
rizing the imposition of Tolls upon any Rivers, 
Streams or Lakes which may be rendered navigable 
under any Act of this Session of Parliament for the 
improvement of uncultivated Lands in Ireland, a 
Resolution ; which was read, as followeth ; 

Resolved, That it is expedient to authorize the 
imposition of Tolls upon any Ships, Boats, Barges 
or Vessels using or navigating any Rivers or Lakes 
which may be rendered navigable under the pro- 
visions of any Act of this Session of Parliament for 
the improvement of uncultivated Lands in Ireland. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 


‘Treasurers The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Treasurers of Counties (Ireland) Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 


upon Tuesday next. 


(Ireland) Bill. 


Dublin Police 
(No. 2) Bill. 


No. 400. 


Lord Viscount Morpeth presented a Bill to make 
more effectual provisions relating to the Police in 
the District of Dublin Metropolis: And the same 
was read the first time; and ordered to be read a 
second time this day ; and to be printed. 

Medical A Motion being made, That this House will, this 
Charities °, the A A 
(Ireland) [Sala- day, resolve itself into a Committee to consider of 
ries to Officers.] authorizing the payment, out of the Consolidated 
Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and 
Freland, of the Salaries and Travelling Expenses of 
Inspectors of Medical Charitable Institutions in 
Ireland, and also of the Expense of the erection, 
maintenance and support of such Institutions, in 
pursuance of any Act to be passed in the present 
Session of Parliament ; 

Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, by His Ma- 
jesty’s command, acquainted the House, That His 
Majesty, having been informed of the subject-matter 
of this Motion, recommends it to the consideration 
of the House. 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


ThamesTunnel, 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Copies of Treasury Minutes and Correspondence 
relating to the application of the Thames Tunnel 
Company for further advance of Exchequer Bills, 
and to the state, progress and future prospects of 


Vor. 92. 


15°—16° Juniz. 





479 


the Works carrying on by the Thames Tunnel 
Company. 


Mr. Baring presented a Bill to vest the Rolls Rolls Estate 
Estate in His Majesty, and to abolish certain Pay- #'l. 
ments and Fees which form part of the Salary of No. 401. 
the Master of the Rolls: And the ‘same was read. 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second 
time upon Monday next; and to be printed. 


The Church Notices Bill was read the first time ; Church Notices 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Wed- Bill. 


nesday, the 5th day of July next; and to be No. 402. 
printed. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Assistant 
a Copy of a Memorial presented to the Lord Lieu- Barristers 
tenant of Ireland, by certain Inhabitants of the “"6 
County and Town of Sligo, with the Signatures 
attached thereto, complaining of the conduct of the 
Assistant#Barrister of the said County, and praying 
for his removal ; and also, Copies of all Correspon- 
dence connected therewith between the Govern- 
ment, the Memorialists and the said Assistant 
Barrister. 


Sir Harry Verney presented a Bill to amend so 
much of an Act passed in the 59th year of the reign 
of King George the Third, intituled, “ An Act to 
amend the Laws for the relief of the Poor,” as re- 
lates to the rating of Small Tenements: And the 
same was read the first time ; and ordered to be read 
a second time upon Wednesday, the 28th day of this 
instant June ; and to be printed. 


Rating of 
Tenements Bill. 


No. 403. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Newspapers 
a Return of the Number of Stamps issued to each (!reland.) 
Newspaper in Ireland respectively, from 15th Sep- 
tember 1835 to 15th March 1837, and a like 
Return from 15th September 1836 to 15th March 
1837. 


The Duke of Beaufort’s Estate Bill was read the Duke of 


first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. = Beaufort's 
Estate Bill, 


Watson’s Estate Bill was read the first time ; and Watson’s 
ordered to be read a second time. Estate Bill. 


Lord Dynevor’s Estate Bill was read the first Lord Dynevor's 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time. Estate Bill, 


Mr. Fox Maule presented,—Returns to several Assize 
Orders dated the 16th day of March last, for Re- oe &amp;c- 
turns of the several Calendars laid before the seve- {°!"*) 
ral Judges at the Spring Assizes 1837; also, a 
Return of the several Calendars for the Spring and 
Summer Assizes in the years 1835 and 1836 re- 
spectively: — Of the Calendars laid before the 
Assistant Barristers at the January Sessions in 
the year 1837, and at the several Quarter Sessions 
during the years 1835 and 1836 :—Of the Criminal 
Proceedings at the several Petty Sessions in Zreland, 
during the said years 1835, 1836 and 1837 :—Of 
the Crown Panel for the Trial of Prisoners at the 
Longford Spring and Summer Assizes in the years 
1835 and 1836, and at the Spring Assizes in the 
year 1837 :—Of the Panel returned at the said Spring 
Assizes 1837 for the Trial of John Ruddeham, or 
from which the Jury for the said Trial was called, with 
the Names of such of the Jurors on the said Panel 
as were challenged by the Prisoner :—Of the Form 
of the detailed Monthly Report of Outrages re- 
quired to be made by the several Chief Constables 
in Ireland to the Sub-Inspectors, and to be trans- 
mitted by them to the Inspector General prior to 
July 1836:—And, of any Form which may have 
been substituted in lieu thereof, in or subsequent to 
the month of July 1836, tog2ther with the Causes 
of such change. 


3P4 +4 Mr, 




















Debtors 
(Scutland.) 






















River Thames. 


British 
Museuin, 



































Navy. 























































































































East India 
Company» 




















































































































480 

Mr. Fox Maule also presented, pursuant to an| 
Address to His Majesty,—A Return of the Number 
of Persons imprisoned in Scotland for Civil Debts 
for the first Three Months, viz. from 1st January to 
1st April, of the years 1833, 1834, 1835, 1836 and 
1837; distinguishing whether the Persons were im- 

risoned for Debts not exceeding £. 8. 6 s. 8 d. ster- 

fing, or for Debts exceeding that sum. 

Copies of all Memorials, &amp;e., presented to the 
Government since the 1st January 1835, respecting 
the Obstructions of the River Thames. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 

And then the House, having continued to sit 
till half an hour after one of the clock on 
Friday morning, adjourned till this day. 








Veneris, 16° die Junii; 
Anno 7° Willielmi IV Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 
N R. Butler, from the British Museum, was 


called in; and at the bar presented, pursuant 
to Order,—Copies or Extracts of Minutes made by 
the Trustees of the British Museum since the 20th 
of July 1836, with reference to the Resolutions 
passed by the Select Committee of this House during 
the last Session of Parliament, on the subject of the 
Museum :—And then he withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Thurtle, from the Admiralty, was called in ; 
and at the bar presented, pursuant to Orders,—A 
Return, showing the manner in which the Sum of 
£.11,206, voted in the Navy Estimates for the year 
1836-37, for Widows and Relatives of Officers slain, 
&amp;e., was applied ; stating the Name of each Person 
receiving, and the Annual Amount of Allowance re- 
ceived by each, the Date when such Allowance was 
first granted, and in what relation they stand to the 
deceased Officer. 

A similar Return of the manner in which £.147,150, 
voted in the Navy Estimates of 1836-37, for Pen- 
sions to Widows of Flag Officers, Captains, Com- 
manders, &amp;c., was applied. 

A similar Return of the manner in which £. 11,502, 
voted in the Navy Estimates of 1836-37, for Pen- 
sions to the Widows of Marine Officers, was applied. 

Return of the manner in which £.91,408, voted in 
the Navy Estimates for 1836-37, for Pensions to Com- 
missioned and Warrant Officers, &amp;c., was applied ; 
specifying the Names and Rank of the Commissioned 
Officers, the Nature of their Cases, the Amount of 
their Pensions, and the Dates of the Orders for 
granting the Pensions :—And then he withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Campbell, from the Court of Directors of the 
East India Company, was called in; and at the bar 
— pursuant to the directions of an Act of 

arliament,—List, No. 68, specifying the Particu- 
lars of the Compensation proposed to be granted to 
the there under-mentioned Person reduced from the 
East India Company’s Service in England, under an 
arrangement sanctioned by the Board of Commis- 
sioners for the Affairs of India, and laid before the 
Honourable the House of Commons on the 20th 
March 1834. 

List, specifying the Particulars of the Com- 
pensation proposed to be granted to the there 
under-mentioned Persons of the late Maritime Ser- 
vice of the East India Company, under an arrange- 
ment sanctioned by the Board of Commissioners for 
the Affairs of India, and laid before the Honourable 
the House of Commons on the 26th February 1835: 
—And then he withdrew. 


Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


15°—16° Juniz. 








1837. 


Mr. Waple, from the Qffice of the Commissioners Church 
for building Churches, was called in ; and at the bar Buildiug 


resented,—Returns to several Orders, dated the 
12th day of May last, for Accounts of the Sums ex- 
pended under the direction of the Commissioners 
for building Churches; distinguishing the Amount 
contributed by the Public from that raised by Local 
Rate, Subscription, Loan or other Sources ; stating 
the several Churches and Chapels, the Amount ex- 
ended on each, and the extent of Accommodation 
in Pews and Free Sittings :—Of all Sums advanced 
on Loan by the Church Building Commissioners, 
and which are now due or in course of payment :— 
Of all Sums borrowed from the Commissioners for 
the issuing of Exchequer Bills for building, enlarg- 
ing or repairing Churches :—Of any Sums now dis- 
posable by the Commissioners for Building Churches: 
—Of the total Amount provided by Parliament, and 
to be expended by the Commissioners for building 
Churches :—And, of the Number of Churches and 
Chapels in which the Stipends of the Ministers 
have been settled, the estimated Rental of the Pews 
therein, and the net average Stipend of each Mi- 
nister :—And then he withdrew. 
Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Ordered, That the time for the Committee on the 
Lough Swilly and Lough Foyle Drainage Bill, to 
make their Report, be further enlarged till Monday, 
the 26th day of this instant June. 


Petitions from Inhabitants of the City of Lon- 
don, its immediate vicinity, and policy. of the 
Northern Districts ;-—and, Inhabitants of the suburbs 
of London; praying that the North Metropolitan 
Cemetery Bill may not pass into a law as it now 
stands,--were presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


The Order of the day being read, for the third 
reading of the ingrossed Bill for establishing a 
Cemetery for the interment of the Dead, northward 
of the Metropolis, to be called “ The Portland 
Cemetery ;”’ 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read the third 
time ; 

The Amendments following were proposed to be 
made to the Question; viz., To leave out the word 
“ now,” and at the end of the Question to add the 
words “ upon this day three months.” 

And the Question being put, That the word “ now” 
stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 


Tellers for thef Mr. Thomas Duncombe, 47 
Yeas, Mr. Charles Buller : } ‘ 
Tellers for the) Mr. Hume, 1, 33 
Noes, Mr. Wakley : seg 


So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
“ upon this day three months” be added at the 
end of the Question:—-It was resolved in the 
Affirmative. 

Then the main Question, so amended, being put; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon this day three months. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, in- 
tituled, An Act for amending and enlarging the 
Provisions of an Act passed in the fourth year of the 
Reign of His present Majesty, intituled, “ An Act to 
encourage the working of Mines and Quarries in 
Treland, and to regulate a Joint Stock Company for 
that purpose, to be called ‘ The West Cork Mining 
Company ;’ ” and the same were read, as follow: 

Pr. 2. 1. 20. Leave out “ any Director or,” and 
insert “ the.” 

Pr. 2. 





omission, 


Lough Swil'y 
and Lough 
Foyle Drainage 
Bill, 


North Metropo- 
litan Cemetery 
Bill, 


North Metropo- 
litan Cemetery 
Bill. 


West Cork 
Mining Com- 
pany Bill. 





Naime’s 
Estate Bill. 


London and 
Brighton 
Railway Bills, 


Message from 
the Lords. 


Barnsley 
Waterworks 
Bill. 


Bristol Paro- 
chial Rates 
Bill. 


Birmingham 
and Derby 
Railway Bill, 


7 Witt. IV. 


Pr. 2. 1. 21. After “ Company - 
meeting of such Directors.” 

Pr. 9. 1. 1. After “ Act” insert Clause (A.) 

Cuiavse (A.) “ And whereas doubts have arisen 
as to the manner in which execution ought to be 
levied upon judgments recovered against the said 
Company, or the Directors thereof, according to 
the provisions of the said Act, and it is expedient 
to remove such doubts; Be it therefore Declared 
and Enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for 
any person or persons entitled to take out execu- 
tion for and in respect of any judgment already 
obtained, or hereafter to be obtained against any 
Managing Director, or any other Director as a 
nominal defendant for and on behalf of the said 
Company, to levy the amount of his, her or their 
damages and costs upon the reserved fund of the 
said Company, and all other property whatsoever 
“ belonging to the said Company.” : 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Ruthven do carry the Bill to 
the Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
— to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


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ce 


Mr. Chalmers reported from the Committee on 
the Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act to vest a 
part of the entailed Estate of Drumhkilbo and others, 
in the Counties of Perth and Forfar, in Trustees in 
Fee Simple, for the Sale, and to raise Money thereon 
for satisfying the Debts contracted for Money laid 
out, or to be laid out, in the Improvement of the 
said Entailed Estate, and in building a Mansion- 
house thereon, and to enable David Nairne, Esquire, 
and the Heirs of Entail succeeding to him, if there 
be such, to grant Feus of part of the said Estate of 
Drumkilbo and others; That they had examined 
the allegations of the Bill, and found the same 
to be true; and that the Parties concerned had given 
their consent to the Bill, to the satisfaction of the 
Committee; and that the Committee had gone 
through the Bill, and directed him to report the 
same, without Amendment :—And the Bill was read 
the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Chalmers do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to His Majesty, that He will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that the Military Engineer ap- 

ointed by His Majesty, in pursuance of a former 
Address of this House, be permitted to consider the 
Plan to be laid before him by the Promoters of the 
four Lines of Railway to Brighton, whose Petition 
was presented to this House the 15th day of this in- 
stant June, and report his opinion to this House. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
His Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Farrar and 

Mr. Roupell : 
Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords have agreed to the several Bills follow- 
ing, without Amendment ; viz. 

A Bill, intituled, An Act for better supplying with 
Water the Town and Neighbourhood of Barnsley, 
in the West Riding of the County of York : 

A Bill, intituled, An Act for the better assessing 
and collecting certain Parochial and other Rates 
within the City and County of Bris 

A Bill, intituled, An Act to rectii a Mistake in 
an Act of the last Session of Parliament for making 
a Railway from the London and Birmingham Rail- 
way near Birmingham, to Derby, to be called the 
Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway, with a 
Branch: And also, 

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481 


The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
for authorizing the Trustees under an Act passed in 
the thirty-ninth and fortieth years of his Majesty 
King George the Third, for enabling the Duke of 
Richmond, for the time being, to grant Jointures as 
therein mentioned, and for other purposes, to sell 
the residue remaining unsold of the Stocks, on trans- 
fer of which the said Annuity was made redeemable, 
and to invest the Money to arise from such sale in 
the purchase of Manors, Lands and Hereditaments, 
and for other purposes, to which the Lords desire 
the concurrence of this House: And also, 





Duke of 
Richmond's 
Estate Bill. 


The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act for Lord Sandys’ 


authorizing Trustees to sell part of the settled Estates 
of the Right honourable Arthur Moyses William 
Lord Sandys, in the Counties of Worcester, Cam- 
bridge, and Bedford, and for laying out the Monies 
to arise by such Sale in the purchase of other Estates 
to be settled to the same uses; and also for autho- 
rizing the same Trustees to grant Leases for building 
and manufacturing purposes of other parts of the 
said settled Estates in the County of Worcester ; 
to which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House: And also, 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
for effecting an exchange between the Warden and 
Scholars Clerks of Saint Mary College, of Win- 
chester, near Winchester, in the County of South- 
ampton, and the Dean of the Cathedral Church of 
the Holy Trinity of Winchester, in the said County, 
and the Chapter of the same Church, of divers Mes- 
suages or _ se Lands and Hereditaments ; 
to which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House: And also, 

The Lords communicate to this House, a Copy 
of the Report made from the Select Committee ap- 

ointed by their Lordships in Session 1835, to inquire 
mto the expediency of substituting declarations in 
lieu of oaths in certain cases; together with the 
Minutes of Evidence and Appendix thereto, as de- 
sired by this House in their Message of the 30th day 
of May last :—And then the Messengers withdrew. 


An ingrossed Bill to enable the Mayor, Aldermen 
and Burgesses of the Borough of Liverpool to open 
and widen certain Streets and Places in the Town 
of Liverpool, and otherwise to improve the same, 
and to enable the said Mayor, Aldermen and Bur- 
gesses, to appropriate Lands, Tenements and Here- 
ditaments, for public purposes, and also to erect 
public Buildings, was read the third time ; and an 
ingrossed Clause was added by way of Rider ; and 
Amendments were made to the Bill, 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Lord Viscount Sandon do carry 
the Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Lord Viscount Sandon reported from the Com- 
mittee on the Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act 
for vesting a piece of Land in the Parish of Child- 
wall, in the County of Lancaster, belonging to Ed- 
ward Paton Cearns, an Infaut, in Trustees for Sale, 
and for investing the Monies thence arising in the 
purchase of other Estates to be conveyed to the In- 
fant ; That they had examined the allegations of the 
Bill, and found the same to be true; and that the 
Parties concerned had given their consent to the 
Bill, to the satisfaction of the Committee ; and that 
the Committee had gone through the Bill, and di- 
rected him to report the same, without Amendment : 
— And the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Lord Viscount Sandon do carry 
the Bill to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this 
House hath agreed to the same, without Amend- 
ment. 


Petitions from Henry Hoppe, the solicitor and 
agent of the Collier Dock and Surrey Canal Bill ;— 
and, Charles Curling, of Davis’s Wharf, Horsley- 

3Q 


down, 


Estate Bill. 


Winchester 
College Estate 
ill. 


Oaths. 


Liverpool 
Improvement 
Bill. 


Cearns’ 
Estate Bill. 


Collier Dock 
and Surrey 
Canal Bill, 


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482 


down, Wharfinger ; praying that the time for the 
Committee on the said Bill to make their Report 
may be enlarged,—were presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the time for the Committee on the 
said Bill to make their Report be further enlarged 
till Monday, the 26th day of this instant June. 


Collier Dock A Petition of the Grand Surrey Canal Company, 
= Surrey = praying that they may be heard, by their counsel 
anal Bill. S , ; gps 

or agents, against certain parts of the Collier Dock 

and Surrey Canal Bill, was presented, and read. 
Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill ; and the Petitioners heard, 
by their counsel or agents, upon their Petition, if 
they think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of the 

Bill, against the said Petition. 

' — , : 

ee A Petition of Inhabitants of Drogheda, praying 


Bank (Ireland.) the House to extend legislative protection and en- 
couragement to the Agricultural and Commercial 
Bank of Jreland, and to discountenance the attempts 
making to impede its progress, was presented, and 
read ; and referred to the Select Committee on Joint 
Stock Banks. 


Agricultural = = Ordered, That the Agricultural and Commercial 
and Commercial 


Bank, Ireland Dank, Zreland, (No. 2.) Bill be read a second time 
(No. 2.) Bill. upon Tuesday next. 


An ingrossed Bill for altering, amending and en- 
larging the powers of an Act passed in the fourth 
year of the Reign of William the Fourth, intituled, 
“ An Act for erecting, establishing and maintaining 
a Market in the Parish of Saint George-the-Martyr, 
in the Borough of Southwark and County of Surrey,” 
was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act to alter and amend an Act of the 
fourth year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for 
erecting, establishing and maintaining a Market in 
the Parish of Saint George-the-Martyr, in the Bo- 
rough of Southwark. 

Ordered, That Mr. Alderman Humphery do carry 
the Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


St. George’s 
(Southwark) 
Market Bill. 


Westminster 
Bridge and 
Greenwich 


Railway Bill. 


Ordered, That the time for the Committee on the 
Westminster Bridge and Greenwich Railway Bill to 
make their Report, be further enlarged till Wednes- 
day, the 28th day of this instant June. 


Nineteenth 


Mr. Fazakerley reported from the Select Com- 


a Act, Muttee appointed to inquire into the Administration 
te ane ’ of the Relief of the Poor under the orders and re- 


gulations issued by the Commissioners appointed 
under the provisions of the Poor Law Amendment 
Act, and who were empowered to report the Evi- 
dence taken before them from time to time to the 
House; That they had made further Progress in 
the matters to them referred; and had directed him 
to report the Minutes of the Evidence taken before 
them. 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; | 


? 


and be printed. 


Second Report Sir Oswald Mosley reported from the Select Com- 
on Fourdrinier's mittee, to whom the Report on the Petition of Henry 
cae and Sealy Fourdrinier was re-committed ; That they 
No.405. hac. further considered the matters to them referred : 
and had directed him to make a Report thereof to 
the House. 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 

consideration upon Wednesday next. 


Ordered, That the Report be printed. 


Raguention An ingrossed Bill to explain and amend two Acts 
and Marriages , 


(No. 2.) Bill. passed in the last Session of Parliament for Mar- 
riages, and for registering Births, Deaths and Mar- 
riages in England, was read the third time; and 
Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


16° Junze. 





A. 1837. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Prisons. 

that part of the Message of the Lords of yesterday, 

wherein their Lordships request, that this House 

will be pleased to communicate to their Lordships, 

A Copy of the Report made from the Select Com- 

mittee appointed by this House in the last Session of 

Parliament, to consider of the expediency of amend- 

ing the Laws relating to Prisons. 
Resolved, That a printed Copy of the said Report 

be communicated to the Lords, as desired by their 

Lordships: And that Mr. Bernal do deliver the 


same. 


Petitions from Sheffield ;—Jevington;—Alfriston; Poor Law Act. 
— Wilmington and Folkington ; — Eastdean ; — 
Littlington and Westdean ;—Arlington ;—-and, Ber- 
wick and Alciston; praying for the repeal or amend- 
ment of the Poor Law Act,—were presented, and 
read; and referred to the Select Committee on the 
Poor Law Act. : 


A Petition of Guardians of the Poor of the Staf- Rating of 
ford Union, praying that the Rating of Tenements Tenements Bil, 
Bill may pass into a law, was presented, and read ; 
and referred to the Select Committee on the Poor 
Law Act. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- supply ; 
posed, ‘hat the Order of the day for the Committee 
of Supply, be now read ; 
An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” to 
the end of the Question, in order to add the words 
“ a Copy of the ninth day’s proceedings of the Com- 
“ mittee of Poor Law Inquiry be submitted to this 
“ House,” instead thereof. 
And the Question being put, That the words pro- 
posed to be left out stand part of the Question ; 
The House divided : 
The Yeas to the old Lobby ; 
The Noes to the new Lobby. 
Mr. Robert Steuart, | 119 
Mr. Fox Maule: f P 
Tellers for the Noes, { i roy a } 30. 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 
Ordered, That the Order of the day, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply be now read; and the same being 
read ; Estimates, 
Ordered, That the several Estimates for Miscel- referred: 
laneous Services for the year 1837-8, be referred to Miscellaneous 
the Committee. Services. 
Ordered, That the Estimate for Miscellaneous Miscellaneous 
Charges (Scotland), from 1st April 1837 to 31st March me. 
1838, be referred to the Committee. amas 
Then the House resolved itself into the Com- 
mittee. 


Tellers for the Yeas, 


(In the Committee.) 





1. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Sixty-six Ordnance Civil 
| thousand nine hundred and seventy-five pounds, be Establishments. 
granted to His Majesty, for defraying the Salaries 
to the Master General, and the principal Officers 
‘and Clerks belonging to the Office of Ordnance at 
ithe Tower, Pall Mall and Dublin, for the year 
| 1837-8. 

2. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Eighty- Barrack 
| four thousand one hundred and sixty-three pounds, Masters. 
be granted to His Majesty, for defraying the Salaries 
at Woolwich, Home Stations, Out Stations in Jre- 
land and Foreign Stations, and Salaries to Barrack 
Masters; &amp;c., in Great Britain, Ireland and the Co- 
lonies, for the year 1837-8. 

3. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Four thou- Master 
sand four hundred and forty-seven pounds, be granted Gunners. 
to His Majesty, for defraying the Expense of the 
Master Gunners at the several Garrisons and Bat- 
teries in Great Britain and Ireland, for the year 
1837-8. 

4. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Seventy- Royal 
four thousand two hundred and fifty-nine i Engineers, 

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&amp;e. 











Royal Regi- 
ment of 
Artillery. 


Royal Horse 
Artillery. 


Field Train 
Department. 


Medica! 
Establishment. 


Ordnance 
Works and 
Repairs. 


Contingencies. 


Ordnance 
Stores, 


Services not 
provided for, 


Superannuas 
tions, 











7 Witt. IV. 


be granted to His Majesty, for defraying the Expense 
of the Corps of Royal Engineers, the Corps of Royal 
Sappers and Miners; and for the instruction of 
Sappers and Miners, and of Junior Officers of the 
Corps of Royal Engineers in the construction of 
Field Works, for the year 1837-8. 

5. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Two hun- 
dred and seventy-four thousand six hundred and 
twenty-five pounds, be granted to His Majesty, for 
defraying the Expense of the Royal Regiment of 
Artillery for Great Britain, Ireland and the Colonies, 
for the year 1837-8. 

6. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Thirty-six 
thousand one hundred and eighty-eight pounds, be 
granted to His Majesty, for defraying the Expense 
of the Brigade of Royal Horse Artillery, and also 
for the Riding House aa for the year 1837-8. 

7. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Six hun- 
dred and two pounds, be granted to His Majesty, 
for defraying the Expense of the Director-General 
of Artillery and Field Train Department, for the 
year 1837-8. 

8. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Ten thou- 
sand one hundred and twenty-nine pounds, be granted 
to His Majesty, for defraying the Expense of the 
Medical Establishment for the Military Department 
of the Ordnance, for the year 1837-8. 

9. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One hun- 
dred and sixty-five thousand three hundred and 
thirty-one pounds, be granted to His Majesty, for de- 
fraying the Charge for the Superintendence, and for 
Ordnance Works and Repairs, Building and Repair 
of Barracks; for Storekeepers’ and Barrack Masters’ 
Expenditure, Allowances to Barrack Masters and 
Serjeants in Great Britain, Ireland and the Colonies, 
for the year 1837-8, after deducting Two hundred 
thousand nine hundred and fifty-six pounds, credits 
to be received for Rents, Sale of Lands and Pre- 
mises, Sale of Arms, Old Stores, &amp;c., and for Rent 
of Canteens. 

10. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One hun- 
dred and thirty-eight thousand seven hundred and 
forty-six pounds, be granted to His Majesty, for 
defraying the Expense of the Military, Civil and 
Barrack Contingencies in Great Britain, Ireland 
and the Colonies, for the year 1837-8. 

11. Motion made, and Question proposed, That a 
sum, not exceeding Sixty-five thousand pounds, be 
granted to His Majesty, for defraying the Expense 
of Stores for Ordnance and Military Store Branch 
Services in Great Britain, Ireland and the Colonies, 
for the year 1837-8, 

Whereupon a Motion was made, and Question 
put, That the Chairman do report Progress, and 
ask leave to sit again ; 

The Committee divided. 

Tellers for the ( Mr. Arthur Trevor, } 9 

Yeas, Mr. Borthwick : . 

Tellers for the { Sir Andrew Leith Hay, 57 

Noes, Sir Rufane Donkin : } sa 

Motion made, and Question put, That a sum, 
not exceeding Sixty-five thousand pounds, be granted 
to His Majesty, for defraying the Expense of Stores 
for Ordnance and Military Store Branch Services 
in Great Britain, Ireland and the Colonies, for the 
year 1837-8. 

The Committee divided : 

Teller for the Yeas, Mr. Robert Steuart - 56. 

Teller for the Noes, Mr. Arthur Trevor - 3. 

12. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Eight 
thousand three hundred and twenty-four pounds, 
be granted to His Majesty, for defraying the Expense 
of Services performed by the Office of Ordnance, 
and not provided for by Parliament, in the year 
1836-7. 

13. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One hun- 
dred and sixty-nine thousand eight hundred and 
forty-seven pounds, be granted to His Majesty, for 
defraying the Charge of the Office of Ordnance on 
account of the Allowances to Superannuated, Re- 





16°—17° Juniz. 483 


tired and Half-Pay Officers, Pensions for good Ser- 
vices, Wounds, and Pensions to Widows and Children 
of deceased Officers, late belonging to the several 
Ordnance Military Corps; also, for Allowances, 
Compensations and Emoluments, i the nature of 
Superannuated or Retired Allowances to Persons 
late belonging to the Office of Ordnance and to the 
Barrack Department, in respect of their having held 
any Public Offices or employments of a Civil nature ; 
and also for Widows’ Pensions in Great Britain and 
Ireland, for the year 1837-8. 

14. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Two hun- Commissariat. 
dred and three thousand three hundred and seventy- 
eight pounds, be granted to His Majesty, for de- 
fraying the Expense of Commissariat Supplies, viz. 
for the supply of Bread, Meat and Forage, Coals, 
Candles and Straw for the Troops in Great Britain ; 
and of Coals, Candles, Oil, Oats, &amp;c., from Great 
Britain to Stations in the Colonies, for the year 
1837-8. 

Resolutions to be reported. 





And the House having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Saturday morning ; 


Sabbati, 17° die Junti, 1837: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had come to several 
Resolutions. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 
Mr. Bernal also acquainted the House, that he 
was directed to move, That the Committee may have 
leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, = Monday 


next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Final Register 

reading of the Final Register of Electors (No. 2.) of age 

Bill; (No. 2.) lle 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 

upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Turnpike Acts 
mittee on the Turnpike Acts Continuance (Jreland) (ireland) Bill 
Bill ; ( ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 

next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


mittee on the Bankrupts Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Coroners’ 
further consideration the Report on the Coroners’ vests 5. 
&gt; : ixpenses Bill, 
Inquests’ Expenses Bill ; 
Ordered, ‘Yhat the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Secular Juris- 
further consideration the Report on the Secular we oe 
Jurisdiction (York and Ely) Bill ; and Ey) SS. 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com-Church 
mittee to whom it was referred to consider of autho- (ieed) 
rizing Advances to be made out of the Consolidated frxpenses.] 
Fund for defraying the Expenses of the revision of 
Tithe Compositions, and amendment of Applot- 
ments in Jreland; and also of establishing the 
amount of the Assessments to be hereafter made on 
every Dignity, Benefice, Office or Promotion in 
Ireland ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Summary 
reading of the Summary Convictions (Juvenile Offen- coaae 
ders), (No. 2.) Bill; Offenders) 


Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time (No. 2.) Bill. 





VoL. 92, 


upon Monday next. : 
3Q2 The 





The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Bankrupts Bill. 

























































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Jewish 


484. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 


Marriages Bill. yeading of the Jewish Marriages Bill ; 


Ways and 
Means. 


Parliamentary 
Electors Bill. 


Foreign 
Officers Bill. 


Wills Bill. 


Dublin Police 
(No. 2.) Bill. 


Medical 
Charities 


(Ireland) [Sala- 
ries to Officers.] 


Post Office 


Regulation Bill, 


Ordnance 
Board (Navy 
Officers.) 


Duke of 
Richmond's 
Estete Bill. 


Lord Sandys’ 
Estate Bill. 


Winchester 
College 
Estate Bill. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Ways and Means; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Parliamentary Electors Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
this day. 


Mr. Bernal reported the Foreign Officers Bill ; 
and the Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time upon Monday 
next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Wills Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday, 
the 27th day of this instant June, resolve itself into 
the said Committee. 


The Dublin Police (No. 2.) Bill was, according to 
Order, read a second time ; and committed to a Com- 
mittee of the whole House for this day. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee to consider of authorizing the pay- 
ment, out of the Consolidated Fund of the United 
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, of the 
Salaries and Travelling Expenses of Inspectors of 
Medical Charitable Institutions in Jreland ; and also 
of the Expense of the erection, maintenance and sup- 
ay of such Institutions, in pursuance of any Act to 
e passed in the present Session of Parliament. 


(In the Committee.) 


1. Resolved, That the Salaries and Travelling 
Expenses of the Inspectors to be appointed under 
any Act of the present Session for the better Regu- 
lation of Medical Charitable Institutions in Jreland, 
shall be defrayed out of the Consolidated Fund of 
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 

2. Resolved, That Provision be made out of the 
said Consolidated Fund for the payment of such 
Sums of Money as may be age for the erec- 
tion, maintenance and support of Medical Charitable 
Institutions in Jreland, under the provisions of any 
Act of the present Session. 

Resolutions to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had come to several 
Resolutions. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for the regulation of the Post Office: And that Mr. 
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Baring and Lord 
Seymour do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of Officers of the Navy who have formed a 
part of the Board of Ordnance since the year 1793 
up to the a period ; specifying the periods 
during which they have held such Office. 


The Duke of Richmond’s Estate Bill was read the 
first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


Lord Sandys’ Estate Bill was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time. 


The Winchester College Estate Bill was read the | 


first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. 


16°—17° Junie. 





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A. 1837. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Survey of 
Statement of the progress which has been made in !*elaud. 
the Ordnance Survey and Townland Valuation of 
Ireland since their commencement; of the Total 
Number of Acres which have been surveyed and 
valued ; of the Counties which have been brought 
under the full operation of the Act of the 7th Geo. 4, 

c. 62, and of subsequent Acts for the levy of Baro- 
nial Cess; and showing in particular the progress | 
which has been made » Bach the year immediatel 
preceding the Date of this Return; with an Esti- 
mate of the time that will be required to complete 
the survey and valuation. 
Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Queen's Ferry, 
An Abstract of the Accounts of the Fife and Mid- 
lothian Parliamentary Ferry Trustees, from the Year 


| 1830 to 1836, both years included. 


Ordered, That the Return of Cash and Stock Bankruptcy 
now standing in the name of the Accountant of Accountant. 
Bankruptcy, which was presented upon Tuesday No. 406. 
last, be printed. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour before two of the 
clock on Saturday morning, adjourned till 
this day. 








Sabbati, 17° die Junii ; 
Anno 7° Willielmi IV“ Regis, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 
PETITION of the Convener, Deacons of Municipal 


Crafts and other Members of the Nine Incor- (Seunland) Bill, 
porated Trades of the Royal Burgh of Dundee, pray- 
ing that the Municipal Corporations (Scotland) Bull 
may not pass into a law as it now stands, was pre- 


sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of the burgh of Pollok- Hand-loom 
shaws, complaining of distress; and praying the Weavers. 
house to cause foreign corn to be issued at the 
different ports in Scotland free from duty, and under 
such precautionary measures as will insure its dis- 
tribution for charitable purposes only, was presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 





A Petition of the Minister of the Session of the Railways 
Associate Congregation of Original Seceders at Had- (Scotland.) 
dington, praying the House to pass a Bill to prevent 
all traffic or travelling on any Railway in Scotland 
on the Lord’s Day, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Mr. George Phillips reported from the Select Com- Merthyr Tydvil 
mittee on Petitions for Private Bills; That in the Small Debts. 
case of the Petition for leave to present a Petition 
for the Merthyr Tydvil Small Debts Bill, it is the 
opinion of the Committee that the Petitioners should 
be allowed to present a Petition for a Bill, according 
to the prayer of their Petition. 

Ordered, That leave be given to present a Peti- 
tion, as desired. 

A Petition of Inhabitants of Merthyr Tydvil, 
was accordingly presented, and read ; praying that 
leave may be given to bring in a Bill to establish 
a Court for the purpose of recovering Small Debts 
within the parish of Merthyr Tydvil; and a Bill was 
ordered to be brought in accordingly by Mr. Guest 
and Mr. Dillwyn. 


Sir Andrew Leith Hay, by Order, reported from Supply ; 
the Committee of Supply, several Resolutions, which 
were read, as follow: i _ 
1. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Sixty- Ordnance ©! 
six thousand nine hundred and seventy-five owen — 
be granted to His Majesty, for defraying the Salaries 
to the Master General and the a Officers 
and Clerks belonging to the Office of Ordnance at 
the Tower, Pall Mall and Dublin, for the year 
1837-8, 


2. Resolved, 





ye 


Barrack 
Masters. 


Master 
Gunners. 


Royal 


Engineers, &amp;c. 


Royal Regi- 
ment of 
Artillery, 


Royal Horse 
Artillery. 


Field Train 
Department. 


Medical 
Establishment. 


Ordnance 


Works and 
Repairs. 


Contingencies. 


Ordnance 
Stores, 


Services not 
provided for. 


Superannua- 
tions, 


7 Wit. IV. 


2. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Eighty- 
four thousand one hundred and sixty-three pounds, 
be granted to His Majesty, for defraying the Salaries 
at Woolwich, Home Stations, Out Stations in Jre- 
land and Foreign Stations, and Salaries to Barrack 
Masters, &amp;c., in Great Britain, Ireland and the 
Colonies, for the year 1837-8. 

3. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Four 
thousand four hundred and forty-seven pounds, be 
granted to His Majesty, for defraying the Expense 
of the Master Gunners at the several Garrisons and 
Batteries in Great Britain and Ireland for the year 
1837-8. 

4. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Seventy- 
four thousand two hundred and fifty-nine pounds, 
be granted to His Majesty, for defraying the Ex- 
pense of the Corps of Royal Engineers, the Corps 
of Royal Sappers and Miners, and for the Instruc- 
tion of Sappers and Miners and of Junior Officers 
of the Corps of Royal Engineers in the construction 
of Field Works, for the year 1837-8. 

5. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Two 
hundred and seventy-four thousand six hundred and 
twenty-five pounds, be granted to His Majesty for 
defraying the Expense of the Royal Regiment of 
Artillery for Great Britain, Ireland and the Colo- 
nies, for the year 1837-8. 

6. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Thirty- 
six thousand one hundred and eighty-eight Bees: 4 
be granted to His Majesty for defraying the Ex- 
pense of the Brigade of Royal Horse Artillery, 
and also for the Riding House Troop, for the year 
1837-8. 

7. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Six hun- 
dred and two pounds, be granted to His Majesty, 
for defraying the Expense of the Director General 
of Artillery and Field Train Department, for the 
year 1837-8. 

8. Resolved, That asum, not exceeding Ten thou- 
sand one hundred and twenty-nine pounds, be 
granted to His Majesty, for defraying the Expense 
of the Medical Establishment for the Military De- 
partment of the Ordnance, for the year 1837-8. 

9. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One 
hundred and sixty-five thousand three hundred and 
thirty-one pounds, be granted to His Majesty, for 
defraying the Charge for the Superintendence and 
for owe Works and Repairs, Building and 
Repair of Barracks ; for Storekeepers’ and Barrack 
Masters’ Expenditure, Allowancesto Barrack Masters 
and Serjeants in Great Britain, Ireland and the 
Colonies, for the year 1837-8, after deducting Two 
hundred thousand nine hundred and fifty-six pounds, 
credits to be received for Rents, Sale of Lands and 
Premises, Sale of Arms, Old Stores, &amp;c., and for 
Rent of Canteens. 

10. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One 
hundred and thirty-eight thousand seven hundred 
and forty-six pounds, be granted to His Majesty, 
for defraying the Expense of the Military Civil and 
Barrack Contingencies in Great Britain, Ireland 
and the Colonies, for the year 1837-8. 

11. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Sixty- 
five thousand pounds, be granted to His Majesty, 
for defraying the Expense of Stores for Ordnance 
and Military Store Branch Services in Great Britain, 
Ireland and the Colonies, for the year 1837-8. 

12. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Eight 
thousand three hundred and twenty-four pounds, 
be granted to His Majesty, for defraying the Expense 
of Services performed by the Office of Ordnance, 
and not provided for by Parliament in the year 
1836-7. 

13. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One 
hundred and sixty-nine thousand, eight hundred and 
forty-seven pounds, be granted to His Majesty for 
defraying the Charge of the Office of Ordnance on 
account of the Allowances to Superannuated, Retired 
and Half Pay Officers, Pensions for good Services, 
Wounds, and Pensions to Widows and Children of 

Vox. 92. 


17° Juniz. 





485 


deceased Officers, late belonging to the several 
Ordnance Military Corps; also, for Allowances, 
Compensations and Emoluments in the nature of 
Superannuated or Retired Allowances to Persons 
late belonging to the Office of Ordnance and to the 
Barrack Department, in respect of their having held 
any Public Offices or Employments of a civil nature ; 
and also for Widows’ Pensions in Great Britain 
and Ireland, for the year 1837-8. 


14. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Two Commissariat. 


hundred and three thousand three hundred and 
seventy-eight pounds, be granted to His Majesty, 
for defraying the Expense of Commissariat Supplies, 
viz.; for the supply of Bread, Meat and Forage, 
Coals, Candles and Straw for the Troops m Great 
Britain; and of Coals, Candles, Oil, Oats, &amp;c., 
from Great Britain to Stations in the Colonies, for 
the year 1837-8. 

The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Jewish Meseaes Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Monday next. 


Jewish 
Marriuges Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Parliamentary 


reading of the Parliamentary Electors Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Monday next. 


Electors Bill. 


Lord Viscount Morpeth reported from the Com- Medical 


mittee to whom it was referred to consider of autho- 
rizing the payment, out of the Consolidated Fund 
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 
of the Salaries and Travelling Expenses of Inspectors 
of Medical Charitable Institutions in Jreland, and 
also of the Expense of the erection, maintenance 
and support of such Institutions, in pursuance of 
any Act to be passed in the present Session of Par- 
liament, several Resolutions, which were read ; as 
follow : 

1. Resolved, That the Salaries and Travelling 
Expenses of the Inspectors to be appointed under 
any Act of the present Session for the better regu- 
lation of Medical Charitable Institutions in Jreland, 
shall be defrayed out of the Consolidated Fund of 
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 

2. Resolved, That Provision be made out of the 
said Consolidated Fund for the payment of such 
Sums of Money as may be necessary for the erection, 
maintenance and support of Medical Charitable 
Institutions in Ireland, under the provisions of any 
Act of the present Session. 

The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That it be an Instruction to the Com- 
mittee on the Medical Charities (Jreland) Bill, that 
they have Power to make provision therein, pursuant 
to the said Resolutions. 


Charities 


(Ireland) [Sala- 
ries to Officers.} 


The House was moved, That the Order made Tithes 


upon the 21st day of April last, that there be laid 
before this House, Returns of all Affrays which have 
been reported to the Jrish Government to have 
occurred since the 1st January 1831, in consequence 
of attempts to collect Tithes in Ireland, stating the 
Number of the killed and wounded upon each occa- 
sion, with the Names of the Places at which such 
Affrays occurred, and the Dates of the occur- 
rences :—Of the Total Number of Persons who 
have been committed to Prison since the 1st Janu- 
ary 1831, in consequence of any proceedings con- 
nected with the Recovery of Tithe :—Of the Total 
Number of Writs, or other Processes, which have 
issued out of the Superior Courts of Law in Ireland 
since 1st January 1831, in proceedings for the Re- 
covery of Tithes ; classifying under distinct Heads 
the stages at which such proceedings have arrived, 
and their final result :—and, of the Total Number 

3Q3 of 





(Treland.) 





; 


ag OTN Ne RETO SAT = Pe ah IT CL ERE OE TL ELLE TEE BOLO TE NE oe NE: AR 


ene eH TS HE 2 








Tithes 
(Ireland.) 


Plan of Educa- 
tion (Ire!and.) 


Answer to 
Addresses. 


Dublin Police 
(No. 2.) Bill. 


Tithes 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Act of Sederunt 
(Scotland. ) 


No . 407. 
Debtors 
(Scotland.) 

No. 408, 


Foreign and 
Colonial Grain. 


486 


of Decrees which have been obtained in the Assist- 
ant Barristers’ Courts in each county in Ireland 
since 1st January 1831, in proceedings for the Re- 
covery of Tithes; with a general Summary for the 
whole of Ireland, might be read; and the same 
being read ; 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House 
Returns of the Total Number of Persons who have 
been committed to Prison since 1st January 1831, 
in consequence of any proceedings connected with 
the Recovery of Tithe: —Of the ‘Total Number of 
Writs, or other Processes, which have issued out of 
the Superior Courts of Law in Ireland, since 1st 
January 1831, in proceedings for the Recovery of 
Tithes; classifying under distinct Heads the stages 
at which proceedings have arrived, and their final 
result:—And, of the Total Number of Decrees which 
have been obtained in the Assistant Barristers’ 
Courts in each County in Jreland, since 1st Janu- 
ary 1831, in proceedings for the Recovery of Tithes ; 
with a general Summary for the whole of Ireland. 

Lord Viscount Morpeth accordingly presented 
the said Returns. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Ordered, That a Message be sent to the Lords to 
request that their Lordships will give leave to Earl 
Grey to attend, in order to his being examined as 
a witness before the Select Committee appointed 
by this House to inquire into the progress and oper- 
ation of the new plan of Education in Jreland: 
And that Mr. Vernon Smith do carry the said 
Message. 


Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer reported to the 
House, That their several Addresses of the 8th, 9th 
and 10th days of this instant June (that His Ma- 
jesty would be graciously pleased to give directions, 
that the Papers therein mentioned might be laid 
before this House) had been presented to His Ma- 
jesty; and that His Majesty had commanded him 
to acquaint this House, that He will directions 
accordingly. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Commit- 
tee on the Dublin Police (No. 2.) Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


A Petition of Magistrates, Clergy, Gentry, and 
other Inhabitants of Whitchurch, m the county of 
Salop, praying that the Tithes (Jreland) Bill may 
not pass into a law, was presented and read, and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Ordered, That the Act of Sederunt (Scotland) 
which was presented upon the 7th day of April 
last, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Return relative to Debtors 
(Scotland) which was presented upon Thursday last, 
be printed. 


And then the House adjourned till Monday next. 


Lune, 19° die Junii ; 


Anno 7° Willielmi [Vt Regis, 1837. 





PRAYERS. 


R. Crafer, from the Treasury, was called in, 

and at the bar presented, pursuant to Orders, 

--An Account showing the Total Quantity of each 
sort of Foreign and Colonial Grain admitted to 
Home Consumption in the United Kingdom during 
each of the three years ended 5th January 1837, 
and also the Proportion thereof on which Allow- 
ances were made on the ground of Damage ; toge- 
ther with a Statement of the Amount of Duty actu- 


17°—19° Junze. 








A. 1837. 


ally retained on the Quantity admitted to Consump- New 
tion, compared with the Amount which would have upo 
been received if there had been no Allowances of em 
the description above mentioned. - 
An Account of the Number of Vessels laden with Coals (Ireland.) 
Coal, which have been entered inwards in the Har- 
bour of Dublin for the years ending 5th April 1836 
and 1837 respectively ; with the Number of Tons 
of Coal imported, from what Ports, and the Quan- 
tity imported from each of such Ports respec- 
tively. 
A Statement, showing in detail the Amount paid Audit Board. 
in the year ending 5th January 1837, out of the 
Consolidated Fund, or from any source, specifying 
that source, for the Salaries and Allowances of the 
Chairman and Commissioners of the Board of Audit, 
and of the other Salaries and Expenses of the said 
Board ; specifying the Name and Salary of each 
Person, and the Amount paid for each description 
of Service. 
Copies of Treasury Minutes and Correspondence Thames Tunnel, 
relating to the Application of the Thames Tunnel 
Company for further Advance of Exchequer Bills, 
and to the State, Progress and future Prospects of 
the Works carrying on by the Thames Tunnel 
Company. 
Ordered, That the said Accounts do lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of Trustees for more effectually re- Edinburgh 
pairing and keeping in repair the Road from Car- ie 
lowrie Bridge, on the River Almond, to Linlithgow “""*Y °* 
Bridge on the River Avon, and other Roads in 
the County of Linlithgow, praying that the Edin- | 
burgh and Glasgow Railway Bill may not pass into : 
a law, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


a 





Mr. Dillwyn reported from the Committee on the Dowlais 
Dowlais Market Bill; and to whom a Petition Market Bill. 
against the said Bill was referred; That no person 
appeared in support of the said Petition ; and that the 
Committee had examined the allegations of the 
Bill, and found the same to be true; and had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto ; 
and the Amendments were read and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 


ingrossed. 


The Duke of Beaufort’s Estate Bill was read a Duke of 
second time ; and committed to Mr. Dillwyn and svg iM 
the Wales List. ‘ , 


The Manchester Gas Bill was read a second Manchester 
time; and committed to Mr. Brotherton and the © Bill. 
Lancaster List. 


Mr. Brotherton reported from the Committee on Dean and 
the Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act for vest- a - 
: . ork Estate 
ing an Estate belonging to the Dean and Chapter gj), 
of the Cathedral and Metropolitan Church of Saint 
Peter, in York, in Trustees for sale, and for laying 
out the Monies arising from such sales in the pur- 


chase of other Estates, to be settled to the same 








uses, subject nevertheless to making Compensation 
to the Dean and Chapter for the time being, for 
certain Fmes payable on renewal of the Leases of 
the said first-mentioned Estate, and also for pay- 
ment of certain Debts due on account of the said 
Cathedral Church; That they had examined the 
allegations of the Bill, and found the same to be 
true ; and that the parties concerned had given their 
consent to the Bill, to the satisfaction of the Com- 
mittee ; and that the Committee had gone through 
the Bill, and directed him to report the same, with- 
out Amendment :—And the Bill was read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. ; 

Ordered, That Mr. Brotherton do carry the Bill 
to the Lords, and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same without Amendment. 


An 





Newcastle- 

v ou-Ty ne 
Improvement 
Bill. 


Montrose 
Harbour Bill. 


London and 
Blackwall 
Commercial 


Railway Bill. 


Rating of 
Tenements Bill. 


Medical 
Charities 
(Ireland) Bill, 


Borough 
Boundaries 
Bill, 


Prisons 


(Scotland) Bill. 


7 Wit. IV. 


An ingrossed Bill for regulating and improving 
the Borough of Newcastle-upon- Tyne, was read the 
third time. 

An ingrossed Clause was offered to be added to 
the Bill by way of Rider, imposing a Toll upon 
Steam Carriages :—And the said Clause was brought 
up, and twice read ; and committed to a Committee 
of the whole House:—The House accordingly re- 
solved itself into the Committee; and, after some 
time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; 
and Mr. William Crawford, reported, That the 
Committee had gone through the Clause, and di- 
rected him to report the same, without Amend- 
ment. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Crawford accordingly reported the Clause ; 
and the said Clause was read the third time, and 
agreed to; to be made part of the Bill by way of 
Rider. 

Then Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Ord do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


An ingrossed Bill for improving the Harbour of 
the Burgh of Montrose, in the County of Forfar, 
was read the third time; and Amendments were 
made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Chalmers do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Mr. Alston reported from the Committee on the 
London and Blackwall Commercial Railway Bill ; 
and to whom several Petitions against the said Bill 
were referred; That the Standmg Orders relative 
to Bills for making Railways had been complied 
with; and that the Committee had considered the 
said Petitions, and had heard Counsel in support 
of several of them, and had also heard Counsel 
in favour of the Bill; and had inquired into the 
several matters required by the Resolutions of the 
House of the ist day of March 1836, and had 
examined the allegations of the Bill, and found the 
same to be true, and had gone through the Bill, 
and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Petitions from Zuton Union ;—and, Lexden and 
Winstre Union; praying that the Rating of Tene- 
ments Bill may pass into a law,—were presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Rate-payers of Donegal, praying 
that the Medical Charities (Jreland) Bill may not 
pass into a law, was presented, and read; and or- 
dered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Mayor and Chairman of a meet- 
ing of Proprietors and Occupiers of lands and tene- 
ments, and Inhabitants of Berwick-upon-Tweed, 
praying that the Borough Boundaries Bill may not 
pass into a law, was presented, and read; and or- 
dered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Chairman of a Meeting of the 
Justices of the Peace, and others, of Fife, praying 
that the Prisons (Scotland) Bill may not pass into 
a law, was presented, and read ; and referred to the 
Select Committee on the Bill. 


19° Junzz. 





487 


A Petition of Operative Weavers of Rochdale, Hand-loom 
praying for the establishment of Boards of Trade Weavers. 
to regulate the prices of Hand Loom Weaving 
throughout the United Kingdom, was presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Templecane ; — Magheraculmony Churches 
and Drumcheeran;—and, Aughalurcher ; praying the (Ieland.) 
House to pass some enactment whereby Churches 
of a size sufficient to accommodate the Protestant 
population of Zreland may be erected, to the great 
benefit of religion,—were presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants and Payers of the Highway Rates 
Highway Rates, in Dawlish,’praying that the High- 3! 
way Rates Bill may not pass into a law, was pre- 
sented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on the Bill. 


Petitions from Ministers and Elders of Paisley ; Railways 
—and, Saint George’s parish, Paisley ; praying the Seot!a4.) 
the House to pass a law for preventing travelling on 
any Railway in Scotland on the Lord’s Day,— 
were presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 


the Table. 


A Petition of the Provost, Baillies, Treasurer and Parliamentary 
Councillors of Paisley, praying that the provisions Electors Bill. 
of the Parliamentary Electors Bill may be extended 
to Scotland, was presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from ZLexden and Winstree Union ;— Poor Law Act. 
and, Penkridge Union; praying for the Amendment 
of the Poor Law Act,—were presented, and read; 
and referred to the Select Committee on the Poor 
Law Act. 


Lord Dynevor’s Estate Bill was read a second Lord Dynevor's 
time ; and committed to Mr. Ross and the Wales Estate Bill. 
List. 


Petitions from Dunbar ;—and, Incorporation of Municipal 
Wrights in Glasgow; praying that the Municipal pene 4 
Corporations (Scotland) Bill may not pass into a‘ om 
law as it now stands,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Auchtermuchty, pray- Corn Laws. 
ing the House to admit to market free from duty, 
the foreign grain at present in bond, to abolish 
entirely the Corn Laws, and allow a free importation 
of all articles of food from every part of the world, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 


the Table. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the British British 
Museum, which was presented upon Friday last, be Museum. 
printed. No. 409. 

Ordered, 'That tne Returns relative to the Navy, Nevy- 
which were presented upon Friday last, be printed. No. 410. 

Ordered, That the Copy of the Report relative Oaths. 
to substituting Declarations in lieu of Oaths, which No. 411. 
was communicated from the Lords upon Friday 
last, be printed. 


Notice being taken that Forty Members were not 
resent; the House was told by Mr. Speaker ; and 
Forty Members not being present, and it being then 
after four of the clock :—The House was adjourned 
by Mr. Speaker, without a Question first put, till 
To-morrow. 



























































488 


A. 1837. 





' 
Si ig i i ing William 
ition of \ \ Y HEREAS it has pleased Almighty God to call to His Mercy our late Sovereign Lord King 

| the Aecesion the Fourth, of , mane and Glorious Memory, by whose Decease the Imperial Crown of the 
= United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland is solely and rightfully come to the High and Mighty 
satis Princess, Alexandrina Victoria, saving the Rights of any Issue of His late Majesty King William the 
Fourth which may be born of His late Majesty’s Consort; We, therefore, the Lords Spiritual and 

4 


Temporal of this Realm, being here assisted with these of his late Majesty’s Privy Council, with 


; Numbers of other Principal Gentlemen of Quality, 


with the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of 


; London, do now hereby, with one Voice and Consent of Tongue and Heart, publish and proclaim, That 


the High and Mighty Princess 
Happy, Memory, become our on 


of t 


, Alexandrina Victoria, is now, by the Death of our late Sovereign of 
ly lawful and rightful Liege Lady Victoria, by the Grace of God, Queen 
e United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, saving as aforesaid : To 


whom, saving as aforesaid, we do acknowledge all Faith and constant Obedience, with all hearty and 


humble Affection ; beseeching God, by wl 
Victoria, with long and happy Years to reign over us. 


ERNEST. 
Avucustus FREDERICK. 


W. Cantuar. 
Cottenham, C. 
E. Ebor. 
Lansdowne, P. 
Duncannon, P.S. 
Norfolk, E. M. 
Richmond. 
Leeds. 
Wellington. 
Westmeath. 
Westminster. 
Hertford. 
Camden. 
Vane Londonderry. 
Gascoigne Salisbury. 
Delamere. 
Brechnock. 
Clarendon. 
Wilton. 
Jersey. 
Rosebery. 
Belfast. 
Lichfield. 
Grey. 
Shaftesbury. 
Tankerville. 
Albemarle. 
Ripon. 
Aberdeen. 
Haddington. 
Carlisle. 
Clare. 
Amherst. 
Minto. 
J. Russell. 
Francis Egerton. 
Charles Fitzroy. 
G. C. H. Somerset. 
Will” Russell. 
Melbourne. 
Lowther. 
Strangford. 
Howich. 
Canterbury. 
Combermere. 
Morpeth. 
Palmerston. 
Castlereagh. 
Brougham. 
Denman. 


i REE ot 





of 
My 


whom Kings and Queens do reign, to bless the Royal Princess 


Given at our Court at Kensington, this Twentieth Day of June, in the Year of our Lord 


One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven. 


GOD save the QuEEN. 


Burghersh. 
Lyndhurst. 
Hatherton. 

Stanley. 
Ellenborough. 
Heytesbury. 
Abinger. 

Fill. 

Cowley. 

Stuart de Rothsay. 
Langdale, M. R. 
Fitzgerald &amp; Vesci. 
Glenelg. 

Wallace. 

Wynford. 

Jas. Abercrombie. 
J. Parke. 

George Murray. 

J. W. Croker. 

Gore Ouseley. 

John Beckett. 

J. C. Herries. 

J. C. Hobhouse. 

W. Sturges Bourne. 
Rob. Gordon. 

Chas. Tennyson D’ Eyncourt. 
HI. Parnell. 

G. H. Rose. 

W. H. Fremantle. 
Charles Watkin Williams Wynn. 
Robert Peel. 

C. Poulett Thomson. 
Al, Ellis. 

Edward Ellice. 

S. R. Lushington. 
H. Hardinge. 

H. Labouchere. 
Lancelot Shadwell, V.C. 
T. Erskine. 

N. C. Tindal. 
George Byng. 
Stratford Canning. 
E. Knatchbull. 

HT, Corry. 

J. B. Bosanquet. 
Alex’. Johnston. 

H. W. Wiiliams Wynn. 
J. R. G. Graham. 
Thos. Per. Courtenay. 
W. Dundas. 

George Warrender. 
John Vaughan. 

C. Greville. 


W". L. Bathurst. 

Fred Shaw. 

Rob. Share. 

Tho’. Greene. 

Thomas Kelly, Mayor. 

J. M. Wood. 

Ja. Duke. 

Henry Winchester, Alderman. 

David W™. Wire. 

Ant. Brown. 

John Mirehouse. 

Tho’. Hartwell Horne. 

Rear Ad. Ross. 

J. Campbell. 

R. M. Rolfe. 

John Cowan, Alderman. 

John Pirie, Alderman. 

Sir Peter Laurie, Ald. 

John Johnson, Sheriff. 

Will. St. Julian Arabin. 

Thomas Frankland Lewis. 

W™. M. Vizard. 

James F. Firth. 

Andrew Spottiswoode. 

William Venables, Alderman. 

Henry Marriott. 

James Shaw, Chamberlain of 
London. 

Fra’. B. Hookey, Comptroller of 
Chamber of London. 

Rob'. Westwood, Depy. 

H. Haines. ° 

Robert Harry Inglis. 

C. A. Hamilton. 

Chapman Marshall, Ald. 

C. Tyrrell, City Remembrancer. 

R. F. Newman, City Solicitor. 

Char’. W™. Hick. 

H. Winston Barron, M.P. 

N. Bate. 

Frederick Adair Roe. 

J. B. Lennard. 

Henry Gaitskell. 

Harry Chester. 

W™. Woods, Clarenceux. 

Edmund Harrison. 

H. B. Lennard. 

Cha’. Geo. Villiers Bayly. 

John Lainson. 

Rich*. L. Jones. 

Edward Cust. 

Henry J. Seton. 

Fred. C. Mundy. 



























1 VicTroriz. 








At the COURT at KENSINGTON, 
The Twentieth day of June 1837 ; 
PRESENT, 


The QUEEN’s most Excellent Maszsty in Council. 


Her MAJESTY being this Day present in Council, was pleased to make the following Declaration; viz. 


THE severe and afflicting loss which the Nation has sustained by the Death of His Majesty, My The Queen's 


_ Declaration. 


beloved Uncle, has devolved upon Me the duty of administering the Government of this Empire. This 
awful responsibility is imposed upon Me so suddenly, and at so early a period of My life, that I should 
feel Myself utterly oppressed by the burthen, were I not sustained by the hope that Divine Providence, 
which has called Me to this work, will give Me strength for the performance of it ; and that I shall find 
in the purity of My intentions and in My zeal for the Public Welfare, that support and those resources 


which usually belong to a more mature age and to longer experience. 


I place My firm reliance upon the wisdom of Parliament, and upon the loyalty and affection of My 
People. I esteem it also a peculiar advantage that I succeed to a Sovereign whose constant regard for 
the Rights and Liberties of his Subjects, and whose desire to promote the amelioration of the Laws and 


Institutions of the Country, have rendered his Name the object of general attachment and veneration. 


Educated in England under the tender and enlightened care of a most affectionate Mother, I have 


learned from My infancy to respect and love the Constitution of My Native Country. 


It will be My unceasing study to maintain the Reformed Religion as by Law established, securing at 
the same time to all the full enjoyment of Religious Liberty ; and I shall steadily protect the Rights and 
promote to the utmost of My power, the happiness and welfare of all Classes of My Subjects. 


Whereupon the Lords of the Council made it their humble Request to Her Majesty, that 
Her Majesty’s most gracious Declaration to their Lordships might be made public ; 


which Her Majesty was pleased to order accordingly. 
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Death of 
Will. IV. 


Accession of 
Victoria. 


Members 
sworn. 


Members take 
the Oaths. 


Committees. 


Members take 
the Oaths. 


Shoreham 
Harbour. 


Winchester 
College Estate 
Bill. 


Dundee 
Waterworks 


Bill, 


490 


Martis, 20° die Juniz ; 
Anno 1° Victorie Regine, 1837. 


T' having pleased Almighty God to take to His 
Mercy our late Most gracious Sovereign Lord 
William the Fourth, of blessed Memory, who de- 
parted this life this morning, between the hours of 
two and three of the clock, at his Palace at Windsor ; 
and his late Majesty’s Most honourable Privy Council 
and others having met this day at the Palace of 
Kensington, and having directed that Her Royal 
Highness the Princess Alexandrina Victoria be 
proclaimed Queen To-morrow at Ten of the clock: 
About One of the clock this afternoon, the House 
met, pursuant to the statute made in the sixth year of 
the reign of her late Majesty Queen Anne, intituled, 
“ An Act for the Security of her Majesty’s Person 
and Government, and of the Succession to the Crown 
of Great Britain in the Protestant Line;” and 
Mr. Speaker and several other Members (John 
Henry Ley, Esquire, the Clerk, and John Rickman, 
and William Ley, Esquires, the Clerks Assistant 
and the other Clerks attending according to their 
duty) came into the House, whereupon Mr, Speaker 
first alone, standing upon the upper step of the 
Chair, took the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, 
and took and subscribed the Oath of Abjuration. 
And after him, several other Members took the said 
Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, and took and 
subscribed the said Oath of Abjuration. 

And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 








Mercurit, 21 die Junii ; 
Anno 1° Victoria Regine, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 
EVERAL other Members took the Oaths of 
Allegiance and Supremacy, and took and sub- 
scribed the Oath of Abjuration, and one Member, 
being one of the United Brethren called Moravians, 
made the Affirmation required by Law. 


Ordered, That all Committees be revived :—And 
that they have leave to sit, and proceed To-morrow. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 





Jovis, 22° die Junii ; 
Anno 1° Victorie Regine, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


EVERAL other Members took the Oaths of 
Allegiance and Supremacy, and took and sub- 
scribed the Oath of Abjuration. 


Mr. France, from the Commissioners of Shoreham 
Harbour, was called in; and at the bar presented, 
pursuant to the directions of an Act of Parliament, 
—The Report of the Commissioners acting under 
and by virtue of an Act of Parliament passed in 
the 56th year of the reign of his late Majesty King 
George the third, intituled, “ An Act for the more 
effectual Security and Improvement of the Harbour 
of New Shoreham, in the County of Sussex :”’—-And 
then he withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the Table. 


The Winchester College Estate Bill was read a 
second time ; and committed to Mr. East and the 
Hants List. 


The House proceeded to take into further consi- 
deration the Report which upon the 14th day of this 
instant June was made from the Committee on the 
Dundee Waterworks Bill; printed Copies of the Bill 
having been delivered at the door upon Friday last ; 
and the Amendments were read, and agreed to. 


20°—2.1°—22° Junii: 








A. 1837. 


Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


A Petition of Shareholders in the Agricultural and Agricultural 
Commercial Bank of Jreland, praying that they eS neal L 
may be heard by themselves, their counsel or agents, (No. 2) Bill, 
against certain parts of the Agricultural and Com- 
mercial Bank Ireland, (No. 2.) Bill, was presented, 


and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The Duke of Richmond’s Estate Bill was read a Duke of 
second time ; and committed to Lord George Lennox Richmond's 
and the Sussex List. Estate Bill. 


—Je © &amp; bet bet 


Ordered, That the Report on the Zondon and London and 
Greenwich Railway (No. 2.) Bill be taken into fur- ange 


ther consideration To-morrow. (Nova) Bill 


Ordered, That the Report on the Dublin and Dublin and 
Kilkenny Railway Bill be taken into further con- ee 
sideration To-morrow. oni ae 


Ordered, That the Report on the Edinburgh and Edinburgh 
Glasgow Railway Bill be taken into further con- 24 Glasgow 
sideration To-morrow. Railway Bill 


Ordered, That the Report on the Bolton and Pres- Bolton and 
ton Railway Bill be taken into further consideration Preston Rail- 
To-morrow. ae 


An ingrossed Bill for providing a Market-place Dowlais 
and Market at the Village of Dowlais, in the Parish Market Bill. 
of Merthyr Tydfil, in the County of Glamorgan, was 
read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Guest do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Ordered, That the Polloc and Govan Railway Bill Polloc and 
be read the third time To-morrow. — Railway 

Watson’s Estate Bill was read a second time ; and Watson's 
committed to Mr. Tancred and the Ozford List. —Pstte Bill. 


Ordered, That the adjourned Debate upon the Caoutchouc 
third reading of the Caoutchouc Company Bill be Company Bill. 
resumed To-morrow. 


A Petition of Zawrence Lord Dundas, praying Edinburgh 
that the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Bill may $04, Cen 
not pass into a law, was presented, and read; and mich ne 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Lord Sandys’ Estate Bill was read a second time; Lord Sandys’ 
= committed to General Zygon and the Worcester =**** ®'' 
ist. 


_ APetition of Nicholas Warin, of Old Broad-street, Collier Dock 
in the city of London, Gentleman, praying that he may and Surrey 
be heard, by himself, his counsel or agent, against ania 
certain parts of the Collier Dock and Surrey Canal 
Bill, was presented, and read. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the 
Committee on the Bill; and the Petitioner heard, 
by himself, his counsel or agent, upon his Petition, 
if he think fit; and counsel heard, in favour of 
the Bill, against the said Petition. 


A Petition of Owners and Occupiers of land in Weights and 
the vicinity of the city of Londonderry, praying for Me’ 4“ 
the amendment of the Weights and Measures Act, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee appointed to Ecclesiastici! 
inquire into the state of the Prerogative and Eccle- Courts 
siastical Courts in Ireland; and to consider the Re- “"!""*”) : 
ports of the Commissioners appointed to inquire No. 412. 
into the state of these Courts in 1826 and 1830, 
have Power to report the Minutes of the Evidence 
taken before them. 

Mr. Barron reported from the said Select Com- 
mittee ; That they had considered the matter to them 
referred ; and had directed him to report the Mi- 
nutes of the Evidence taken before them. 


Ordered, 





ial 


Lord’s Day Bill. 


Registration of 
Births, &amp;c. 5 
and, Clandes- 
tine Marriages 
(Scotland) 
Bills. 


Poor Law Act. 


Highway Act. 


Corn Laws, 


Maynooth 
College. 


Church Rates 
Regulation, 


Rating of 
Tenements Bill, 


Highway Rates 
Bill, 


Government of 
Treland, 


1 Vicroriz. 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Petitions from Pytchley, Broughton and Orling- 
bury ;—Kentisbeer ;— West Alvington ; —Buckherell ; 
— Bath ;—and, Wich; praying that the Lord’s Day 
Bill may be permitted to go into a Committee of the 
whole Sess poanonn presented, and read; and or- 
dered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Session Clerks of the Presby- 
tery of Tain, praying that the Registration of 
Births, &amp;c. ; and, Clanlestine Marriages (Scotland) 
Bills may not pass into law, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Chairman of the Board of 
Guardians of the Kingston Poor Law Union, in the 
counties of Surrey and Middlesex, praying the 
House to resist any proposition which may be calcu- 
lated to infringe the necessary powers, or to alter the 
essential principles of the Poor Law Act, was 
presented, and read ; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on the Poor Law Act. 


A Petition of Farmers, Graziers and others re- 
siding in the county of Leicester, having occasion 
to use waggons, carts and other such carriages on 
public highways, praying for the repeal of that part 
of the Highway Act which imposes a penalty of forty 
shillings on every owner of any waggon or cart or 
other such carriage, who shall use it, or allow it to 
be used, on any highway, without his name and de- 
scription painted upon some conspicuous part of the 
right or off side of the same, or shall suffer such 
name and description to become illegible, was pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Owners and Occupiers of land in 
Bury Saint Edmund’s, praying that no alteration 
may be made in the present mn Laws, was pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Protestants of Seagoe, praying the 
House not to sanction any further grant to the Col- 
lege of Maynooth without a full and minute scrutiny 
into the nature of its Educational System, was pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Molland ;—Broadway, Somerset ; 
— Gamlingay ;— Potton ;—and, Camborne ; praying 
that the proposed measure relative to Church Rates 
may receive the sanction of the House,—were pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Petitions from the Moderator of the Synod of 
Orkney ;—and, Aconbury; praying that the said 
proposed measure may not receive the sanction of 
the House,—were also presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Chippenham Union ;— Tendring 
Union ;—and, Dolton; praying that the Rating of 
Tenements Bill may pass into a law,—were pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Trustees of the Second Montgome- 
ryshire District of Roads ;—and, Trustees and Mort- 
agees of Tolls on the West Harptry Road ; pray- 
ing that the Highway Rates Bill may pass into a law, 
—were presented, and read; and referred to the 
Select Committee on the Bill. 
Petitions from Owners and Occupiers of land and 
remises in Rattery ,—Creditors of the Barnstaple 
Tosagiie Trust ;—and, Rate-payers of the Kings- 
bridge Union ; praying that the said Bill may not 
pass into a law,—were also presented, and read ; 
and referred to the Said Select Committee. 


Petitions from Ballymahon ;—Forkill ;-- Sligo;— 
Muckno ;--and, Mullagh; praying the House to 
Vou. 92. 


99° Juniz. 





491 


support Her Majesty’s present Ministers in their 
government of Jreland,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Merchants and Traders of Kilkenny, Mersey 
praying that the Mersey Conservancy Bill may not gt 
pass into a law, was presented, and read; and or- 
dered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Magherafelt ;—Inistioge ;—Holy- Vote by Ballot. 
well ;— and, Kiltivock; praying that at all future 
Elections of Members to serve in Parliament the 
Votes be taken by Ballot,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Ballymitty, praying Municipal 
that the Municipal Corporations (Jreland) Bill may Corporations 
ass into a law, and that at all future Elections of pong hg 
Shadiets to serve in Parliament the Votes be taken Ballot. &gt; 
by Ballot, was presented, and read; and ordered to 


lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Magherafelt ;—- and, Kiltivock ; Municipal 
raying that the Municipal Corporations (Zreland) Corporations 
. . (Treland) Bill. 
ill may pass into a law,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Members of the National Trades Septennial Act. 

Political Union of the city of Dublin, praying the 
House to repeal the laws establishing the continuance 
of Parliaments for seven years, and to reduce the 
term of each Parliament to one year, and to alter 
the laws regarding Elections on a basis calculated 
to insure the purity of Election in a safe and simple 
manner, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of the district of Sainé Newfoundland. 
John’s, Newfoundland, complaining of intimidation 
and illegal proceedings connected with the late Elec- 
tion in that Island; and praying that the future 
recurrence of an outrage so egregious upon the pri- 
vileges of the House of Assembly may be prevented, 
and that the people be permitted the free and un- 
restricted exercise of their franchise at the next and 
all succeeding Elections ; and further praying the 
House to restore to the Petitioners, and the people 
of Newfoundland generally, that security to life, 
liberty and property which good and impartial go- 
vernment ever bestows, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Killelagh and Ma- Tithes 
ghera, praying for the abolition of Tithes in Ireland, Lage 
and that the Votes at all future Elections of Mem- Balict. 
bers to serve in Parliament be taken by Ballot, was 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 


Table. 


A Petition of Registered Electors for Members to Polling Places 
serve in Parliament for the county of the city of (reland.) 
Dublin, praying for an alteration in the law whereby 
Returning Officers may be empowered to divide, 
in alphabetical order, the Electors whose names 
begin with the same letter of the alphabet, so that 
it shall not be necessary for more than six hundred 
voters to poll in any one place at any Election for 
cities and boroughs in Ireland, was presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of James Forster, of Hazlewood Currof, James Forster. 
in the county of Clare, complaining of his discharge 
from the service of the Revenue Police Force in 
Treland, and praying for inquiry, was presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Bandon;—and, Kilkenny; praying Agricultural 
the House to extend legislative protection and sup- Bank (lrelondh) 
port to the Agricultural and Commercial Bank of 
Ireland,—were presented, and read; and referred 
to the Select Committee on Joint Stock Banks. 

3R2 Petitions 

























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Tithes 
(Ireland.) 


Battersea 
Common Fields. 


Municipal 
Corporations 
Act. 


Medical 
Charities 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Poor Relief 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Church of 
Ireland. 


Tithes 
(Ireland.) 


Household 
Suffrage. 


492 22° Juniz. 


Petitions from Stranorlar ;—Magherafelt ;—Inis- 
tioge ;— Kiltivock ;—and, Ballymitty ; praying for 
the abolition of Tithes in Ireland,—were presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Thomas Cook and William Bullen, 
complaining of the proceedings of the Church- 
wardens and Overseers of the parish of Battersea 
towards the Petitioners and other parishioners, in 
reference to a disputed right of common there, and 
praying relief, was presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 

Ordered, That the Petition be printed. 


Ordered, That the Petition from Ipswich, relative 
to the Municipal Corporations Act, which was pre- 
sented upon the 12th day of this instant June, be 
printed. 


Petitions from Portarlington;—and, Clare; pray- 
ing that the Medical Charities (Ireland) Bill may not 
pass into a law as it now stands,—were presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of Fellows, Honorary Fellows and Li- 
centiates of the King and Queen’s College of Phy- 
sicians in Ireland, taking notice of the said Bill; 
and praying that at least two of the four inspectors 
to be appointed be chosen from amongst the Fellows, 
Honorary Fellows or Licentiates of the said College, 
was also presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


Petitions from Officers and Servants of the Found- 
ling Hospital of Cork ;— and, Governors of the 
workhouse of Cork; praying that the Foundling 
Hospital of Cork may be exempted from the opera- 
tion of the Poor Relief (Jreland) Bill,—were pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 

A Petition of Officers of the Mendicity Institution 
for the suppression of street begging in Dublin, 
praying that a clause may be introduced in the said 

ill, granting to the Petitioners situations under the 
said Bill equivalent to those they at present occupy, 
the Petitioners, from the nature of their offices, having 
been bong conversant with the wants and wishes of 
the poor, was also presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Clergymen and Laymen of the 
United Church of England and Ireland, suggesting 
certain alterations in the Ecclesiastical polity of the 
Church of Jreland, by which, the Petitioners submit, 
the constitution of Parliament would be left un- 
touched, the Royal Prerogative respected, and the 
Church would regain her rights, and be restored to 
such a measure of spiritual independence as will not 
interfere with her political relations ; and praying 
that their views may receive the attention of the 
House, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


A Petition of Lay Impropriators of five parishes 
in the counties of Cork and Waterford, praying the 
Hovse to adopt effectual measures for the easy and 
expeditious recovery of all Tithe arrears, and thereby 
put an end to the unhappy dissentions in that country 
upon the subject, and also that a Select Committee 
be appointed to inquire into the circumstances of 
Lay Tithes, as contradistinguished from Clerical 
Tithes, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


Petitions from the Chairman of the National 
Radical Association of Scotland ; — Stonehaven ;— 


Dunfermline ; — and, Finsbury; praying that the | 


Elective Franchise may be extended to all House- 
holders,—were presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Tables 








A. 1837. 


Dr. Bowring reported from the Select Committee Public 
on Public Petitions; That they had examined the Petitions. 
Petitions presented from the 7th to the 17th day 
of this instant June, both inclusive; and had directed 
him to make a Report thereof to the House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Wick, praying the Railways 
House to pass a law to prevent all travelling on Rail- Scotland.) 
ways in Scotland on the Lord’s Day, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Owners and Occupiers of property Borough 
in Skerton, praying that the Borough Boundaries _— 
Bill may not pass into a law, was presented, and~ * 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Gentry, Clergy and Freeholders of St. Asaph 
the county of Flint, praying for the repeal of so aang 
much of the Act of the last Session relating to Eccle- 
siastical Duties and Revenues, as appertains to the 
appropriation of a portion of the Revenues of the 
united Sees of Saint Asaph and Bangor to a general 
fund for increasing the incomes of the poorer Bishop- 
ricks in England and Wales, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Chairman of the Brighton Elective 
Radical Registration and Patriotic Association, pray- Franchise. 
ing for the enactment of laws calculated to extend 
the Elective Franchise, commensurate with service 
in the local militia, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Merchants, Mariners and others Shipping 
residing at or trading to Stromness, praying the Sette. 
House to relieve the proprietors of the Shipping 
Gazette from the postage of letters containing com- 
mercial and shipping intelligence only, was pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to le upon the 
Table. 


Petitions from Lincoln ;—Clergy of the Diocese Tithes __ 
of Limerick;——Dean and Chapter of Saint Patrich’s, (ieland) Bill 
Dublin ;— and, Provost, Fellows and Scholars of 
Dublin University ; praying that the Tithes (Jreland) 

Bill may not pass into a law,—were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Durham 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased U"’*""¥: 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of the Memorial of the Warden and 
Senate of the University of Durham to the Secretary 
of State for the Home Department ; and Copies of 
the Correspondence between the Secretary of State 
and the Bishop of Durham, on the subject of the 
Charter for the University of Durham. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
Her Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of Her Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Lord John Russell acquainted the House, that he Queen’s Mes- 
had a Message from Her Majesty to this House, s#s¢ respectins 
. . the Death of his 
signed by Her Majesty ; and he presented the same jae Majesty ; 
to the House, and it was read by Mr. Speaker (all 
the Members of the House being uncovered); and 
is as followeth: 


VICTORIA R. 


The Queen entertains the fullest confidence that 
the House of Commons will participate in the deep 
affliction which Her Majesty feels at the Death of 
the late King, whose constant desire to promote the 
Interests, to maintain the Liberties, and to improve 
the Laws and Institutions of the Country, will ensure 
for his Name and Memory the dutiful and affec- 
tionate respect of all Her Majesty’s Subjects. ‘is 

e 





1 Vicroriz. 


The present state of the Public Business, and the 
period of the Session, when considered in connection 
with the Law which imposes on Her Majesty the 
duty of summoning a new Parliament within a 
limited time, render it inexpedient, in the judgment 
of Her Majesty, that any new measure should be 
recommended for your adoption, with the exception 
of such as may be requisite for carrying on the 
Public Service from the close of the present Session 
to the meeting of the New Parliament. V.R 


Resolved, Nemine Contradicente, That an humble 
Address be presented to Her Majesty, to express to 
Her Majesty the deep affliction which we feel at the 
death of the late King, whose unremitting anxiety 
for the promotion of the National Interests, for the 
maintenance of our Liberties, and for the improvement 
of our Laws and Institutions, renders his Name and 
Memory the just objects of the veneration and 
dutiful affection of Her Majesty’s faithful Subjects. 

That this House humbly offers to Her Majesty 
its respectful congratulations on Her accession to 
the Throne of the United Kingdom, feeling the most 
loyal and devoted attachment to Her Majesty, and 
trusting that Almighty God may strengthen and 
direct Her Majesty’s Counsels for the maintenance 
of the Rights and C theatics of Her faithful people, the 
promotion of their true and permanent Interests, and 
the advancement of Religion and Morality through- 
out Her Majesty’s Dominions. 


Ordered, That, in consideration of the recent loss 
sustained by Her Majesty, the said Address be pre- 
sented to Her Majesty by such Members of this 
House as are of Her Majesty’s most honourable 
Privy Council. 


Address 
thereupon. 


Ordered, That Her Majesty’s said most gracious 


Queen's Mes- ! 5 3 
Message be taken into consideration To-morrow. 


sage to be 
considered. 


Queen 


a Resolved, Nemine Contradicente, That a Message 
lowager. 


of Condolence be sent to Her Majesty, the Queen 
Dowager, on the melancholy occasion of the great 
loss which Her Majesty has sustained, and to assure 
Her Majesty of the deep sympathy and unabated 
respect which this House feels for Her Majesty. 

Ordered, That Lord Viscount Morpeth, Lord Ash- 
ley, Lord Seymour, Lord Viscount Alford, Mr. La- 
bouchere, and Mr. Estcourt, do wait upon Her Ma- 
jesty with the said Message. 


Message from 


Dongs A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Wingfield and 
the rds, 


Sir Giffin Wilson : 
Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
Act for transferring and vesting the Royal Military 
Canal, Roads, Towing-paths, and the Ramparts and 
other Works belonging thereto, and all Estates and 
Property taken and occupied for the same in the 
Counties of Kent and Sussex, and also the Rates 
and Tolls arising therefrom, in the Principal Officers 
of His Majesty’s Ordnance, without Amendment : 
And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 


Royal Militar 
Canal Bill, J 


Public Works 


(Ireland) Bill. Act to amend the Acts for the Extension and Pro- 
. motion of Public Works in Jreland, with Amend- 
ments ; to which Amendments the Lords desire the 
concurrence of this House: And also, 
RelfastHarbour The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
(No. 2.) Bill. Act for the formation of a new Cut or Channel, and 
for otherwise more effectually improving the Port 
and Harbour of Belfast, with Amendments; to 
which Amendments the Lords desire the concur- 
a rence of this House: And also, 
sca The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 


to enable the Governors of the Free Grammar School 
of Clitheroe, inthe County of Lancaster, to sell and 
grant Building Leases of the School Estates, and 
to enlarge the Powers of the Governors ; to which 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House: 
And also, 

Vor. 92. 


School Estate 
Bill, 


22° Junie. 





495 


The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Acland’s 
to transfer the Endowments of the Domestic Chapel Estate Bill. 
of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, Baronet, at Columb 
John, in the Parish of Broadclist, in the County of 
Devon, which Chapel is proposed to be pulled down, 
to a Chapel intended whe built in lieu thereof, near 
his residence at Killerton, in the same Parish; to 
which the Lords desire the concurrence of this House: 

And also, 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Clanmorris’s 
for authorizing the Sale of certain Estates in the Estate Bill. 
Counties of Galway and Mayo, devised by the Will 
of the Right honourable John late Lord Clanmorris, 
deceased, and for laying out the Monies thence 
arising in the purchase of other Estates to be settled 
to the same uses; to which the Lords desire the 
concurrence of this House:—And then the Mes- 
sengers withdrew. 


Ordered, That the Common Fields Bill be read Common Fields 
a second time To-morrow. Biil. 


Ordered, That the Sixth of the Resolutions, which Supply. 
upon the 10th day of this instant June, were re- 
ported from the Committee of Supply, be taken 
into further consideration To-morrow. 


Ordered, That the Report on the Punishment of Punishment of 
Death Bill be taken into further consideration To- Death Bill. 
morrow. 


Ordered, That the Report on the Offences against Offences against 
the Person Bill be taken into further consideration the Person Bill. 
To-morrow. 


Ordered, That the Report on the Robbery and Robbery, and 
Stealing from the Person Bill be taken into further a oe 
consideration To-morrow. the Person Bi 


Ordered, That the Report on the Burglary and Burglary, and 
Stealing in a Dwelling-house Bill be taken into Stealing in a 
: : Dwelling-house 
further consideration To-morrow. Bill. 
Ordered, That the Report on the Piracy Bill be Piracy Bill, 
taken into further consideration To-morrow. 


Ordered, That the Report on the Burning or Burning or 
Destroying Buildings and Ships Bill be taken into ¢estreying 
further consideration To-morrow. ae ne 

ps Bill. 

Ordered, That the Report on the Transportation Transportation 
for Life Bill be taken into further consideration To- f* Life Bill. 
morrow. 


Ordered, That the Report on the Forgery Bill be Forgery Bill. 
taken into further consideration To-morrow. 


Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- Uniformity of 
solve itself into a Committee upon the Uniformity Process Bill. 
of Process Bill. 


Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- Poor Relief 
solve itself into a Committee upon the Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill. 
(Jreland) Bill. 


Ordered, That the Rolls Estate Bill be read a Rois Estate 
second time To-morrow. Bill. 


Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- supply. 
solve itself into the Committee of Supply. 


Ordered, That the Final Register of Electors Final Register 
(No. 2.) Bill be read a second time To-morrow. of Electors, 
(No. 2.) Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, resolve Bankrupts Bill: 
itself into a Committee upon the Bankrupts Bill. 


Ordered, That the Report on the Coroners’ In- Coroners 
quests’ Expenses Bill be taken into further consider- Inquests’ 
ation To-anestow Expenses Bill, 


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494 ae? Jeinis. 


Ordered, That the Report on the Secular Juris- 
diction (York diction (York and Ely) Bill be taken into further 


Secular Juris- 


aud Ely) Bill. -onsideration To-morrow. 


Summary Ordered, That the Summary Convictions (Juvenile 


——” Offenders) (No. 2.) Bill be read a second time To- 


Offenders) morrow. 


(No. 2.) Bill. 
Ways and Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
Means. solve itself into the Committee of Ways and 


Means. 


Foreign Officers Ordered, That the Foreign Officers Bill be read 
Bu. the third time To-morrow. 


Jewish Ordered, That the Jewish Marriages Bill be read 
Marriages Bill. 4 second time To-morrow. 


Parliamentary 


Ordered, That the Parliamentary Electors Bill 
Electors Bill. 


be read a second time To-morrow. 


Dublin Police 


i Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
(No, 2.) Bill. 


solve itself into a Committee upon the Dublin Police 
(No. 2.) Bill. 


Controverted 


ontr Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
Elections Bill, 


solve itself into a Committee upon the Controverted 
Elections Bill. 


Waste Lands 


Ordered, That the Report on the Waste Lands 
(Ireland) Bill. 


(Ireland) Bill be taken into further consideration 
To-morrow. 


Tenants for Life Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
(Ireland) Bill. solve itself into a Committee upon the Tenants for 
Life (Ireland) Bill. 


Leuses and 
Exchanges 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Ordered, That the Report on the Leases and 
Exchanges (Jreland) Bill be taken into further con- 
sideration To-morrow. 


Medical Resolved, That this House will, immediately, re- 
Cretand} pit, SOlve itself into a Committee upon the Medical 
No. 413 Charities (Zreland) Bill. 

ais The House accordingly resolved itself into the 
Committee ; and, after some time spent therein, 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Bernal reported the Bill accordingly ; and 
the Report was ordered to be taken into further 
consideration upon Tuesday next, and the Bill, as 
amended, to be printed. 


Municipal Ordered, That the ogre on the Municipal Cor- 
(Sentlond) Bil porations (Scotland) Bill, be taken into further con- 
* sideration To-morrow. 


a of Ordered, That the Treasurers of Counties (Ireland) 
(Ireland) Bill. Bill, be read a second time To-morrow. 


Agricultural Ordered, That the Agricultural and Commercial 


rat Teed Bank Ireland (No. 2.) Bill be read a second time 


(No. 2.) Bill, ‘To-morrow. 


Freemen’s Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 


Admission Bill. solve itself into a Committee upon the Freemen’s 
Admission Bill. 


Patents for 
Inventions Bill. 


Ordered, That the Patents for Inventions Bill be 
read a second time To-morrow. 


Lord’sDayBill. Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 


= itself into a Committee upon the Lord’s Day 
ill, 


County Polls 


(Ireland) Bill Ordered, That the County Polls (Zreland) Bill 


be read a second time To-morrow. 








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Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re~ Railroads ang cl 
solve itself into a Committee upon the Railroads — Works 6 
and Public Works Bill. ° 


Ordered, That the Judicial Factors (Scotland) Judicial Factors M 
Bill be read a second time To-morrow. (Scotland) Bill P 


Ordered, That the Metropolis Improvement Bill Metropolis 
be read a second time To-morrow. _ 
Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- Hackney 
solve itself into a Committee upon the Hackney Senin 
Carriages (Metropolis) Bill. Bil, is) 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- Bonded Cor 
solve itself into a Committee upon the Bonded Corn Manufacture 
Manufacture Bill. vei 


—e&gt; 


Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- Bribery at 
solve itself into a Committee upon the Bribery at Elections Bit, 
Elections Bill. 


Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- Game 
solve itself into a Committee upon the Game (Sco¢- (Stand) Bill 
land) Bill. 


Ordered, That the Report on the Sheriffs Courts Sheriffs Cuurts 
Bill be taken into further consideration To-morrow. 2#!- 


Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- Registration of 
solve itself into a Committee upon the Registration Voters Bill 
of Voters Bill. 


Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- Public Walks 
solve itself into a Committee upon the Public Walks set nd 
and Public Institutions Bill. ‘ 


Ordered, That the Report on the Attornies and Attornies and 
Solicitors Bill be taken into further consideration 5°!" Bill 
To-morrow. 


Ordered, That the Common Law Courts Bill be Common Law 
read the third time To-morrow. Courts Bill. 


Ordered, That the Report on the Bankrupts’ Es- Bankrupts’ 
tates (Scotland) Bill be taken into further considera- rt 4) Bu 
tion To-morrow. aati 


Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- Bankruptcy 
solve itself into a Committee upon the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Bill 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Ordered, That the Sheriffs’ Fees Bill be read the Sherifis’ Fees 
third time To-morrow. Bill. 


Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re-Billsof _ 
solve itself into a Committee upon the Bills of Ex- Exchange Bill 
change Bill. 


Ordered, That the second Report from the Select Fourdrinier’s 
Committee on the Petition for Fourdrinier’s Patent Pate 
Bill, be taken into further consideration To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Judges’ Salaries 
mittee to whom it was referred to consider of aug-(Scvtland.) 
menting the Salaries of Her Majesty’s Judges in 
Scotland ; 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Poor aot. 
reading of the Poor Employment (Jreland) Bill; 5" ~ 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 


To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Registration 


—s of the Registration of Births, &amp;c., (Scotland) Ceotland Bil 


Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time To- 
morrow. 


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1 Vicroriz. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Clandestine Marriages (Scotland) Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time To- 
morrow. 


The House was moved, That the Act 3 Will. 4, 
c. 19., for the more effectual Administration of Jus- 
tice in the office of a Justice of the Peace in the 
several Police Offices established in the Metropolis, 
and for the more effectual prevention of depredations 
on the River Thames and its vicinity, for Three years, 
might be read; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to continue the said Act: And that Mr. For Maule, 
Lord John Russell, and Mr. Baring do prepare, 
and bring it in. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of an Act passed My the Legislature 
of Upper Canada during its last Session, for con- 
tinuing the existence of the House of Assembly. 
notwithstanding the demise of the Crown :—Also, 
Copies of any similar Acts passed by the Legis- 
latures of any other of the British North American 
Colonies. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
Her Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of Her Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Mr. Fox Maule presented a Bill to continue, for 
a limited time, an Act for the more effectual admi- 
nistration of the Office of a Justice of the Peace, in 
and near the Metropolis: And the same was read 
the first time ; and ordered to be read a second time 
To-morrow. 


Mr. Fox Maule presented, pursuant to several 
Addresses to his late Majesty,—A Return of the 
Net Annual Revenue of each of the several Archbi- 
shopricks, Bishopricks, Deaneries, Canonries, Pre- 
bendaries, Rectories, Vicarages, and other Eccle- 
siastical Benefices in England and Wales, on an 
average of three years, ending 31st December 1831, 
of the clear Annual Income of £.250, and upwards, 
as returned in the Report of the Commissioners 
appointed by his late Majesty to inquire into the 
Ecclesiastical Revenues of Tagiend and Wales ; 
together with the Amount of the Sums paid for 
First Fruits and Tenths by each existing possessor 
of such Sees, Preferments and Livings respectively, 
during the said three years, and in each year from 
that time to the present. 

A Return of all the General Rules submitted, 
under the 16th Section of the Act, by the Poor Law 
Commissioners, to the Secretary of State ; specifying 
those which have been disallowed, or any part 
thereof, and those which have received the sanction 
of his late Majesty’s Secretary of State. 

Mr. Fox Maule also presented, pursuant to Order, 
—A Return of the Number of Notices and Agree- 
ments for Commutation received by the Tithe Com- 
missioners for England and Wales, from the 1st of 
March to the 1st of June, being in continuation of 
their Return ordered by this House to be printed 
on the 9th of March last. 

Mr. Fox Maulealso presented,—Returntoan Order 
dated the 1st day of this instant June, for Returns of 
the Sums of Money now in the hands of the Board 
of Charitable Bequests in Jreland, specifying the 
exact Amount invested in the different Stocks, or 
otherwise, and the Amount deducted as Treasurer’s 
Commission from the Interest and Dividends upon 
each particular Stock or other Investment, and by 
what authority such deductions were made :—Of 
the Annual Amount of Rents (distinguishing from 
what source they —— hanes Annuities, 
Rent-charges and other Annual Receipts not em- 
braced by the previous Return, and the Amount of 


a deducted therefrom as Treasurer’s Com- 
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495 


mission :—Of all fixed Deductions made for Charity 
Property, Principal or Income, by virtue of any 
Order of the Board of Charitable Bequests, or 
otherwise, sanctioned by the Board :—Of the Num- 
ber of Orders made by the Board of Charitable 
Bequests since its establishment ; stating when the 
Orders calling for Returns of Charitable Bequests, 
and requesting Statements of any withheld, con- 
cealed or misapplied Charitable Donations and Be- 
quests to be forwarded to the Board, were first issued, 
and how and at what periods the forms of Return 
are circulated by the Board :—Of the Number of 
Forms of “ Return of Charitable Donations and 
Bequests” which have been issued by the Board of 
Charitable Bequests; the Number of such Returns 
which have been perfected and forwarded to the 
Board ; stating the Gross Amount of the Principal 
and Interest of the Charity Funds in each Parish 
or Union in Jreland from which such Returns have 
been made ; with the Rental or Income from Land 
or other Property, not consisting of Money, speci- 
fied in such Returns :—And, of the present state of 
Proceedings, and when Proceedings commenced in 
each case instituted by the said Board, for the 
recovery of any Sums applicable to the Poor, or to 
Charitable Institutions. 

t — That the said Returns do lie upon the 

able. 


Acland’s Estate Bill was read the first time, and Aclana’s 
ordered to be read a second time. Estate Bil!. 


Clitheroe Grammar School Estate Bill was read Clitheroe 


the first time, and ordered to be read a second Grammar 
time School Estate 
i Bill. 


Lord Clanmorris’s Estate Bill was read the first tora Clanmor- 


time, and ordered to be read a second time. = Estate 
le 
And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 





Veneris, 23° die Junii ; 


Anno 1° Victorie Regine, 1837. 





PRAYERS. 
EVERAL other Members took the Oaths of Memters take 
Allegiance and Supremacy, and took and sub- Oaths. 
scribed the Oath of Abjuration; and one Member, 
being one of the People called Quakers, made the 
Affirmation required by Law. 


Mr. Johnson, from the Private Bill Office of this Committees on 
House, presented, pursuant to Order,--A Return, Private Bills. 
showing the Number of Committees on Private Bills 
which sat daily during the last Session of Parlia- 
ment; distinguishing those which were opposed from 
those which were not opposed, and showing the 
Number of Days which the Committee on each op- 
posed Bill sat. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of Thomas Forster and others, praying Caoutchove 
that the Caoutchouc Company Bill may not pass Company Bill. 
into a law, was presented, and read ; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


An ingrossed Bill for supplying the Royal Burgh of Dundee 
Dundee, and Suburbs thereof, with Water, was read Waterworks 
the third time. aia 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Sir Henry Parnell do carry the Bill 
to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


An ingrossed Bill to continue for certain purposes Polloc und 
the Powers of two Acts for making and maintaining Govan Railway 
the Polloc and Govan Railway, and to provide ® 
means of shipping and unshipping Commodities 
conveyed by Railways to and from the Harbour of 
Glasgow, was, according to Order, read the third 


time. 
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496 23° Juniz. 


Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act to continue, for certain purposes, 
the Powers of two Acts for making and maintaining 
the Polloc and Govan Railway. 

Ordered, That Mr. Hindley do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Rayley’s Mr. Pryme reported from the Committee on 

Estate Bill. — Rayley’s Estate Bill; That they had examined the 
allegations of the Bill, and found the same to be 
true; and that the Parties concerned had given their 
consent to the Bill; to the satisfaction of the Com- 
mittee ; and that the Committee had gone through 
the Bill, and directed him to report the same, with- 
out Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 

To-morrow. 

Westminster A Petition of Subscribers to, or Shareholders in, 

a a Company for the formation of the Railway herein- 

Railway Bill, after-mentioned, praying that the Westminster Bridge 
and Greenwich Railway Bill may not pass into a 
law, was presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


Bolton and_ A Petition of the Company of ny. wage of the 
. —_= North Union Railway, praying that the Bolton and 


Preston Railway Bill may not pass into a law, was 
—— and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
‘able. 


Caoutchouc 


The Order of the day being read, for resuming 
Company Bill, ] 


the adjourned Debate upon the Amendment which 
upon the 14th day of this instant June was pro- 
posed to be made to the Question, That the in- 
grossed Bill for forming and regulating the London 
Caoutchouc Company, and to enable the said Com- 
pany to purchase certain Letters Patent, be now 
read the third time: And which Amendment was, 
To leave out the word “ now,” and at the end of 
the Question, to add the words “ upon this day six 
“ months.” 

And the Question being again proposed, That 
the word “ now” stand part of the Thinsiien —_— 
The House resumed the said adjourned Debate. 

And the Question being put ; 

The House divided: 

The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 

Tellers for thef Mr. pom i Hughes, 

Yeas, \ Mr. Solicitor General : 

Tellers for the) Mr. Wigney, 

Noes, L Dr. pe ad : } ~ 

And the numbers being equal, Mr. Speaker de- 
clared himself with the Yeas, to give the House 
another opportunity of considering the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read the third time: 
—The Bill was accordingly read the third time ; 
and Amendments were made to the Bill. 

A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 
posed, That the Bill do pass:—And a Debate arising 
thereupon ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till Wed- 
nesday next. 


Van, 


Lough Swilly Ordered, That the time for the Committee on the 
oe Lough Swilly and Lough Foyle Drainage Bill, to 
Bil.» -make their Report, be further enlarged till Thurs- 
day next. 
Ordered, That the Committee have Power to 
make a special Report. 


+ a Mr. Fazakerley reported from the Select Com- 
Porr Law Act, Mittee appointed to inquire into the Administration 

No. 415 of the Relief of the Poor under the orders and regu- 
‘lations issued by the Commissioners appointed under 
the provisions of the Poor Law Amendment Act, 
and who were empowered to report the Minutes of 
the Evidence taken before them from time to time to 
the House ; That they had made further Progress in 








A. 1837. 


the matters to them referred ; and had directed him 
to report the Minutes of the Evidence taken before 
them. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into London and 
further consideration the Report on the London and —* 
Greenwich Railway (No. 2) Bill; (No. 2) Bill, 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Tuesday next. 


A Petition of the Chamber of Commerce of the Deblin and 
city of Waterford, praying that the Dublin and pYscny | 
Kilkenny Railway Bill may pass into a law, was ny ae 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to take Dublin and 
into further consideration the Report which upon the len 
12th day of this instant June was made from the sn 
Committee on the Dublin and Kilkenny Railway 
Bill; printed Copies of the Bill having been de- 
livered at the door upon Friday last; and the 
Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Edinburgh 
further consideration the Report which upon the 2nd Glasgow 
sth day of this instant June was made from the R#!!ay Bill. 
Committee on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway 
Bill; printed Copies of the Bill having been de- 
aed at the door upon Thursday, the 15th day of 
this instant June ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question being 
proposed, That the Amendments made by the Com- 
mittee to the Bill be now read a second time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the words “ That the ”’ 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the words 
“ Report be taken into further consideration upon 
“‘ this day six months,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words pro- 
posed to be left out stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the old Lobby ; 

The Noes to the new Lobby. 

Tellers for the { Mr. Attorney General, } ine 

Yeas, Sir Andrew Leith Hay: ae 

Tellers for the { Mr. Cumming Bruce, } 09 

Noes, Mr. Sheppard: ; 


So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the 
Committee to the Bill he now read a second time: 
—The said Amendments were accordingly read a 
second time, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


The House proceeded to take into further con- Bolton and 
sideration the sa which upon the 12th day of — 
this instant June was made from the Committee on “Y ~" 
the Bolton and Preston Railway Bill; printed 
Copies of the Bill having been delivered at the door 
upon Thursday the 15th day of this instant June ; 
and the Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 


ingrossed. 


A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Dowdeswell Message from 

and Mr. Wingfield : lee 
Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Act baste hig 
for the better supplying with Water the Town and “°'™ ©" 
Neighbourhood of Zeeds, in the West Riding of 
the County of York, with Amendments; to which 
Amendments the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House: And also, 


The 





l, 


Ellesmere and 
Chester Canal 
Bill. 


\ 


Hartlepool 
Pier Bill. 


Adams's 


Estate Bill. 


~ Limitation of 


Actions Bill. 
No. 416, 


Queen’s 
Message 
considered, 


Address 
thereupon. 


Ways and 
Means. 


Sugar Duties, 


Supply ; 


Civil Contin- 
gencies, 


1 Victrori2Z. 93°—94° 


The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
Act to amend and enlarge the Powers of the several 
Acts relating to the Ellesmere and Chester Canal, 
with Amendments; to which Amendments the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
Act for amending an Act of the second year of the 
reign of His present Majesty, and for granting fur- 
ther Rates and Powers for improving the Port of 
Hartlepool, in the County of Durham, with Amend- 
ments ; to which Amendments the Lords desire the 
concurrence of this House: And also, 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
for extending the powers of Sale and Exchange con- 
tained in the Marriage Settlement of Francis Adams, 
the younger, Esquire, and for other purposes; to 
which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House :—And then the Messengers withdrew. 


The Limitation of Actions Bill was read the first 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time upon 
Monday next, and to be printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
consideration Her Majesty’s most gracious Message 
of yesterday :—The House proceeded to take the 
said most gracious Message into consideration ; and 
the said Message was again read. 

Resolved, Nemine Contradicente, That an humble 
Address be presented to Her Majesty, dutifully to 
acknowledge the Communication which Her Majesty 
has been graciously pleased to make to this House : 

To express to Her Majesty the deep sense which 
this House entertains of Her Majesty’s considera- 
tion of the Public convenience, in being un- 
willing to recommend for adoption, in the present 
state of Public Business, and at this period of the 
Session, when considered in connection with the 
Law that imposes upon Her Majesty the duty of 
summoning a new Parliament within a limited time, 
any new measure, with the — of such as may 
be necessary to carry on the Public Service from 
the close of the present Session to the meeting of a 
new Parliament : 

Toassure Her Majesty, that this House will apply 
itself without delay to forward such measures as will 
not admit of postponement without injury to the 
Public Interest ; and to make such provision for the 
Public Service as may be requisite for the fulfilment 
of Her Majesty’s gracious intentions, and the wel- 
fare of the United Kingdom. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
Her Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of Her Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into the Committee of Ways and Means. 


(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That towards raising the Supply granted 
to Her Majesty, the several Duties on Sugar im- 
osed by an Act of the 6th and 7th years of his 
late Majesty, shall be further continued. 
Resolution to be reported. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Reso- 
lution. . 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 

Mr. Bernal’ also acquainted the House, that he 
was directed to move, That the Committee may have 
leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 





The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into the Committee of Supply. 


(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One hun- 
dred and twenty thousand pounds be granted to 
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Juniz. 497 
Her Majesty, to defray the charge of Civil Contin- 
gencies to the 31st day of March 1838. 

Resolution to be reported. 





And the House having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Saturday morning ; 


Sabbati, 24° die Junii, 1837 : 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal 
ru ag That the Committee had come to a Reso- 
ution. 


Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 


Mr. Bernal also acquainted the House, that he 
was directed to move, That the Committee may have 
leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Benefices _ 
reading of the Benefices Plurality Bill ; Plurality Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
this day three months. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Borough 
reading of the Borough ossidabins Bill ; — 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time” - 
upon this day three months. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Tithes 
mittee on the Tithes (Jreland) Bill ; (Ireland) Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon this day 
three months, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Tornpike Acts . 
mittee on the Turnpike Acts Continuance (Ireland) pre nie 
Bill; (Ireland) Bill. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Tuesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Church 
mittee on the Church Temporalities (Ireland) Bill; Temperalities 

Resolved, That this House will, upon this day Cea 
three months, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Common Fields 
reading of the Common Fields Bill ; Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into supply. 
further consideration the 6th of the Resolutions, 
which upon the 10th day of this instant June were 
reported from the Committee of Supply ; 

Ordered, That the said Resolution be taken into 
further consideration upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Punishment of 
further consideration the Report on the Punish- Death Bill. 
ment of Death Bill; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Offences against 
further consideration the Report on the Offences the Person Bill. 
against the Person Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Robbery and 
further consideration the Report on the Robbery Stealing fiom 
and Stealing from the Person Bill; the Person Bill, 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Burglary and 
further consideration the Report on the Burglary — ve 
. ° . . welliig-house 
and Stealing in a Dwelling-House Bill ; Bill. 
Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Tuesday next. 


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. Piracy Bill. 


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498 23°—24° Junie. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
further consideration the Report on the Piracy Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
further consideration the Report on the Burning or 
Destroying Buildings and Ships Bill; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Tuesday next. 

The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
further consideration the Report on the Transporta- 
tion for Life Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upou Tuesday next. 

The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
further consideration the Report on the Forgery Bill; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Uniformity of Process Bill ; 

Resolved, That this edad will, upon this day 
three months, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Poor Relief The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
(Ireland) Bill. mittee on the Poor Relief (Jreland) Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon this day three 
months, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
Rolls Estate The Rolls Estate Bill was, according to Order, 
Bill. read a second time ; and committed to a Committee 
of the whole House, for Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, forthe second read- 
ing of the Final Register of Electors (No.2.) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Bankrupts Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 

The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into further consideration the Report on the 
Coroners’ Inquests’ Expenses Bill, and the Amend- 
ments were read, and agreed to; and an Amendment 
was made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be in- 
grossed, and read the third time upon Tuesday next. 
Secular Juris- | The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
diction (York further consideration the Report on the Secular 
and Ely) Bil. urisdiction (York and Ely) Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Friday next. 

The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading- of the Summary Convictions (Juvenile 
Offenders) No. 2 Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Tuesday next. 

Foreign Officers The ingrossed Bill for enabling His Majesty to 
— grant the Rank of General Officers to Foreigners 
now bearing His Majesty’s Commission, and to 
‘rmit the Enlistment of Foreigners, under certain 
Restiietions, was, according to Order, read the third 
time ; and Amendments were made to the Bill. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act for enabling Her Majesty to grant 
the Rank of General Officers to Foreigners now bear- 
ing Her Majesty’s Commission, and to permit the 
Enlistment of Foreigners under certain Restrictions. 
Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 
Jewish The Order of the day being read, for the second 
Marriages Bill. reading of the Jewish Marriages Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon Monday next. 
Parliamentary The Order of the day being read, for the second 
Electors Bill. reading of the Parliamentary Electors Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 

Monday next. 


Dublin Police = The House, according to Order, resolved itself into 
(No. 2.) Bil. 4 Committee upon the Dublin Police (No. 2.) Bill; 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker re- 


Burning or 
destroying 
Buildings and 
Ships Bill. 


Transportation 
for Life Bill. 


Forgery Bill. 


Uniformity of 
Process Bill. 


Final Register 
of Electors 


(No. 2. ) Bill. 


Bankrupts Bill. 


Coroners’ 
Inquests’ 


Expenses Bill. 


Summary 

Convictions 
Juvenile 
ffenders) 

(No. 2.) Bill. 














A. 1837. 


sumed the Chair; and Mr. More O’ Ferrall reported, 
That the Committee had gone through the Bill, and 
made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Controverted 
mittee on the Controverted Elections Bill ; Electivns Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Waste Lands 
further consideration the Report on the Waste anes — _ 
(Ireland) Bill:—The Bill was re-committed toa ~” — 
Committee of the whole House. 

The House was moved, That the Resolution which, 
upon the 15th day of this instant June, was reported 
from the Committee, to whom it was referred to con- 
sider of authorizing the imposition of Tolls upon any 
Rivers, Streams or Lakes which may be rendered 
navigable under any Act of this Session of Parlia- 
ment for the improvement of uncultivated Lands in 
Ireland, and which Resolution was then agreed to, 
might be read ; and the same was read, as followeth : 

“ Resolved, That it is expedient to authorize the 
imposition of Tolls upon any Ships, Boats, Barges 
or Vessels using or navigating any Rivers or Lakes 
which may be rendered navigable under the provi- 
sions of any Act of this Session of Parliament for the 
improvement of uncultivated Lands in Ireland.” 

Ordered, That it be an Instruction tothe Committee 
on the said Bill, That they have power to make pro- 
vision therein, pursuant to the said Resolution. 

Then the House resolved itself into the Committee; 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker re- 
sumed the Chair; and Mr. Fox Maule reported, 
That the Committee had gone through the Bill, and 
made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Fox Maule reported the Bill accordingly ; 
and the Report was ordered to be taken into further 
consideration upon Tuesday next ; and the Bill, as 
amended, to be printed. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Tenants for Life 
into a Committee upon the Tenants for Life FE eg my 
land) Bill: and, after some time spent therein, Mr. ; 
Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. More O’ Ferrall 
reported, That the Committtee had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. More O’ Ferrall reported the Bill accordingly ; 
and the Report was ordered to be taken into further 
consideration upon Tuesday next; and the Bill, 
as amended, to be printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Leases and 
further consideration the Report on the Leases and es 
Exchanges (Ireland) Bill:—The Bill was re-com- ( on 
mitted to a‘'Committee of the whole House; and 
the House immediately resolved itself into the said 
Committee; and, after some time spent therein, 

Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. More 
O’ Ferrall reported, That the Committee had gone 
through the Bin, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. More O’ Ferrall reported the Bill accordingly ; 
and the Report was ordered to be taken into further 
consideration upon Tuesday next ; and the Bill, as 
amended, to be printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Manicipal 
further consideration the Report on the Municipal (oatiland) Bill 
Corporations (Scotland) Bill ; — 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon this day three months. 

The Order of the day being read, for the second Treasurers 
reading of the Treasurers of Counties (Jreland) Bill ; (Treland) Bill 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Aanet 
reading of the Agricultural and Commercial Bank 324 treland, 
Treland (No. 2.) Bill; ‘ (No. 2.) Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 


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Freemen’s The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Admission Bill. mittee on the Freemen’s Admission Bill ; . 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
Lord’s Day Bill. The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Lord’s Day Bill; 
Resolved, That this eens will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Railroadsand = The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 

Public Works mittee on the Railroads and Public Works Bill ; 

- Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Judicial Factors The Order of the day being read, for the second 
(Scotland) Bill. reading of the Judicial Factors (Scotland) Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon this day three months. 


Metropolis The Order of the day being read, for the second 
—* reading of the —— Improvement Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 

Monday next. 

Hackney The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 

(iletrepals) mittee on the Hackney Carriages (Metropolis) Bill ; 

Bill. ” Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 

Bonded Corn The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 

_— mittee on the Bonded Coon Manufacture Bill ; 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Wednesday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Game ~~‘ The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
(Scotland) Bill. ‘ittee on the Game (Scotland) Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon this day 

three months, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Sheriffs Courts The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
Bill further consideration the Report on the Sheriffs 
Courts Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Monday next. 

Attomiesand © The House, according to Order, proceeded to take 

Solicitors Bill. into further consideration the Report on the At- 
tornies and Solicitors Bill; and the Amendments 
were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed, and read the third time upon Mon- 
day next. 

CommonLaw The Order of the day being read, for the third 
Courts Bill. peading of the Common Law Courts Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 

upon Tuesday next. 
staged The Order of the day being read, for taking into 


further consideration the Report on the Bankrupts’ 
Estates (Scotland) Bill; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon this day three months. 


(Scotland) Bill, 


Bankruptcy 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
(Scotland) Bill. 


mittee on the eomgete ge (Scotland) Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon this day 
three months, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Sheriffs’ Fees The Order of the day being read, for the third 
Bil. reading of the Sheriffs’ es Bill; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time upon 
Tuesday next. 


Bills of 


Eschenge Ball, The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 


mittee on the Bills of Exchange Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 

Vot. 92. 


23°—24° Junie. 





| upon Tuesday next; and to be printed. 





499 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Poor Employ. 
reading of the Poor Employment (Jreland) Bill; ment (Ireland) 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time” 
upon Tuesday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Registration of 
— of the Registration of Births, &amp;c., (Scotland) (Scotland) Bill 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon this day three months. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Clandestine 
oe of the Clandestine Marriages (Scotland) (Seated) Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
this day three months. 


The Metropolis Police Offices Bill was, according Metropolis 
to Order, read a second time ; and committed to a Police Offices 
Committee of the whole House, for Monday next. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Poor Law 

to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased U!"s- 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Returns of the size (in square Miles) of the 
several Unions already formed by the Commissioners 
of Poor Laws in England and Wales, together with 
the Population in each, according to the last census, 
and the Number of Guardians appointed for each : 
—Of the Total Number of Guardians of the Poor 
in England and Wales, and the Number thereof 
whose place of Residence is more than Ten Miles 
distant from the place of meeting of the Board of 
Guardians :—and, of the Number of Weekly At- 
tendances given by such Guardians as reside upwards 
of Ten Miles from the place of meeting of their 
Boards, and the Number of Weekly Meetings that 
they have omitted to attend. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
Her Majesty by such Members of this liens as are 
of Her Majesty's most honourable Privy Council. 


The House was moved, That the Act 6 and 7 TithesCommu- 
Will. 4, c. 71, for the Commutation of Tithes in tation Bill. 
England and Wales, might be read; and the same 
being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
amend the said Act: And that Mr. Poulett Thomson 
and Lord John Russell do prepare, and bring it in. 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday Beet Root 
next, resolve itself into a Committee to consider Sugar. 
of imposing a Duty on Sugar made from Beet 
Root. 


The House was moved, That the Act 2 and 8 Reform of 
Will. 4, c. 88, to amend the Representation of the Parliament | 
People of Ireland, might be read; and the sante (Ieland) Bill. 
being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to amend the said Act: And that Mr. Callaghan 
and Mr. Attorney General for Ireland do prepare, 
and bring it in. 


Coroners 


Order ed, That leave be given to bring in a Bill (Durham) Bill. 


for regulating the Coroners of the County of Dur- 
ham: And that Mr. Solicitor General and Mr. At- 
torney General do prepare, and bring it in, 


Mr. Poulett Thomson presented a Bill to amend Tithes Commu- 
an Act for the Commutation of Tithes in England ‘*"" Bill. 


and Wales: And the same was read the first time; No- 420. 
and ordered to be read a second time upon Monday 
next; and to be printed. 

Mr. Attorney General for Ireland presented a Bill Gin) pill. 
to amend the Laws for the recovery of Small Debts * \ j54 . 
by Civil Bill in Zreland: And the same was read “°° *""" 


the first time ; and ordered to be read a second time 


382 Mr. 





Prisons 
(Scotland) Bill. 
No. 414. 


Malt Duties, 


Coroners 
(Durham) Bill, 


No. 421, 


Taxes. 


Royal Dublin 
Society. 


County 
‘Treasurers 


(Treland.) 


Creditors 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Answer to 
Addresses. 


500 23°—24° Juniz. 


Mr. Fox Maule reported from the Select Com- 
mittee on the Prisons (Scotland) Bill; and to whom 
several Petitions were referred ; That they had exa- 
mined the allegations of the Bill, and found the 
same to be true; and had gone through the Bill, 
and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 


The House was moved, That the Act 7 and 8 
Geo. 4, c. 52, to consolidate and amend certain Laws 
relating to the Revenue of Excise on Malt made in 
the United Kingdom ; and for amending the Laws 
relating to Brewers in Jreland, and to the allowance 
in respect of the Malt mp A on Spirits made in Scot- 
land and Ireland from Malt only, might be read ; 
and the same was read. 

The House was also moved, That the Act 11 
Geo. 4, c. 17, to alter and amend an Act of the 
seventh and eighth years of His present Majesty, 
for consolidating and amending the Laws of Scien 
on Malt made in the United Kingdom, and for 
amending the Laws relating to Brewers in Ireland, 
and the Malt Allowance on Spirits in Scotland and 
Treland, might be read; and the same being read ; 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into a Committee, to consider of so much of 
the said Acts as relates to the Duties on Malt. 


Mr. Solicitor General presented a Bill for regu- 
Jating the Coroners of the County of Durham: And 
the same was read the first time; and ordered to 
be read a second time upon Tuesday next; and to 


be printed. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, an 
Account of the Gross and Net Amount of all Taxes 
repealed, expired or reduced in each of the years 
1835 and 1836, and of all Taxes imposed in the 
same period ; showing the several Articles on which 
the alterations of Duty were made, together with 
an Estimate of the Amount of the reduction or in- 
crease of Duty upon each Article. 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Copies of any Communications which have taken 
place between the Jrish Government or the Treasury 
and the Royal Dublin Society, since the Report 
of the Select Committee on the Dublin Society was 
laid upon the Table of this House :—Also, a State- 
ment, showing how far the recommendations of that 
Committee have been complied with. 

Ordered, That there be' laid before this House, a 
Return, by the County Treasurers in Ireland, of the 
undischarged or respited Queries in their respective 
Counties; stating the Date of the oldest undis- 
charged Query in County Book at the Lent Assizes 
1837; the Gross Number and Amount then dis- 
allowed or expunged; the Number and Amount 
allowed or represented at original contract; the Num- 
ber and Amount represented at Sums greater or less 
than original contract; and the Number and Amount 
for the first time entered under the head of undis- 
charged Queries in the County Book of Lent Assizes 
1837. 


The House was moved, That the Act 54 Geo. 3, 
¢c. 137, for rendering the Payment of Creditors more 
equal and expeditious in Scotland, might be read ; 
anc the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to continue the said Act: And that the Lord Ad- 
vocate and Mr. Robert Steuart do prepare, and 
bring it in. 


Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer reported to the 
House, That their several Addresses of yesterday, 
(that Her Majesty would be graciously pleased to 
give directions that the Papers therein mentioned 
might be laid before this House), had been presented 
to Her Majesty; and that Her Majesty had com- 
manded him to acquaint this House, that She will 
give directions accordingly. 








A. 1837. 


Sir George Grey presented, pursuant to an Address Colonial 
to Her Majesty,—Copy of an Act passed by the Legislatures. 
Legislature of Upper Canada during its last Session, 
for continuing the existence of the House of As- 
sembly, notwithstanding the demise of the Crown: 

—Also, Copies of any similar Acts passed by the 
Legislatures of any other of the British North 
American Colonies. 

Sir George Grey also presented, pursuant to the Special Justices 
directions of an Act of Parliament,—List of the (Slavery Aboii- 
Names of all Persons appointed Special Justices of “™" a) 
the Peace for carrying into effect the Act 3 and 4 
Will. 4, c. 73, for the abolition of Slavery throughout 
the British Colonies; specifying the Date of such 
Commission or Appointment, by whom appointed, 
and the Amount of the Salary assigned to every such 
Justice of the Peace. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


The Lord Advocate presented a Bill to continue Creditors 
an Act of the fifty-fourth year of his Majesty King (Scotland) Bill 
George the Third, for rendering the payment of 
Creditors more equal and expeditious in Scotland : 
And the same was read the dest time ; and ordered 
to be read a second time this day. 


Adams’s Estate Bill was read the first time ; and Adams's 
ordered to be read a second time. Estate Bill. 


Ordered, That the Papers relative to the Thames ThamesTunnel, 
Tunnel, which were presented upon Monday last, Np, 499, 
be printed. 


And then the House, having continued to sit till 
half an hour after one of the clock on Satur- 
day morning, adjourned till this day. 








Sabbati, 24° die Junii; 
Anno 1° Victoria Regine, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


OF DERED, That all Committees have leave Committees. 
to sit this day, during the sitting of the House. 


The Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act to Rayley’s 
enable Richard Rayley, Esquire, to grant Leases of Estate Bill 
the Messuages, Lands and Hereditaments appointed 
or devised by the Will of Richard Rayley, Esquire, 
his late father, deceased, and for selling certain of 
the said Messuages, Lands and Hereditaments, and 
laying out the Monies to be produced by such Sales 
in the purchase of other Estates, to be settled to 
the same uses, was, according to Order, read the 
third time ; and the Amendments following were 
made to the Bill; 

Pr. 36. 1. 34. Leave out “ King’s,” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 

Pr, 37. 1.30. Leave out “ King’s,” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
do pass. 

Cndwed, That Mr. Macleod do carry the Bill to 
the Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, with Amendments ; to which 
Amendments this House doth desire the concurrence 
of their Lordships. 


Sir John Hobhouse, by Her Majesty’s command, Dablin and 
acquainted the House, That Her Majesty, having Kilkenny, 
been informed of the purport of the Dublin and ®*y *™ 
Kilkenny Railway Bill, gives Her consent as far as 
Her Majesty’s interest is concerned, that the House 
may do therein as they shall think fit. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Farming Stock. 
an Account of the Sums insured by each Office on 
Farming Stock exempt from Duty, for the quarters 
ending severally the 25th March, 24th June, 29th 
September, 














1 Victoriz. 


September, and 25th December 1836; distinguishing 
the Amount by each Office in the Country and 
London respectively. 


Highway Rates 
Bill. 


Ordered, That the Committee on the Highway 
Rates Bill have Power to send for persons, papers 
and records. 


Railways 


Tseullend.) Petitions from Maryhill, Glasgow ;— Partick ;—- 


Maybole;—Glasford;—Moderator of the Presbytery 
of Glasgow ;—Moderator of the Associate Pres- 
bytery of Glasgow ;— Crawford ;—Avondale and 
Strathaven ;— Arrochar ;—Moderator of the Kirk 
Session of Dailly ;— Alloa;— Portmoak ;—Abbey 
parish, Dunfermline; — Greenock (two Petitions) ; 
-—Gorbals ;—Moderator of the Session of Dalmel- 
lington ;—and, Glasgow ; praying the House to pass 
a Bill to prevent travelling on Railways in Scotland 
on the Lord’s Day,—were presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Lord’sDay Bill. Petitions from Clergymen of the Church of Eng- 
land ;—Fermoy ;—London ;—Saint James, Halifax; 
—Stockland and Dalwood ;— Nantwich ;—Dum- 
fries ;—Edinburgh ;—Derby ;—Coach Proprietors 
of England and Wales ;—Coachmen and Guards of 
Mails and Stage Coaches to and from London ;— 
Fulham, &amp;c.;— Chelsea ;—Blackheath, Greenwich 
and Lewisham ;—Saint Luke, Chelsea;—and, Hamp- 
stead and other places ; praying that the Lord’s Day 
Bill may be permitted to go into a Committee of 
the whole House,—were presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Shipping 


ra A Petition of Merchants, Ship-owners, Mariners 
azette, 


and others of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, pray- 
ing the House to relieve the proprietors of the Ship- 
ping Gazette from the postage of letters containing 
shipping and commercial intelligence only, was 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 
Slave Trade. Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions that there be laid before this House, 
Copies or Extracts of all Communications with 
Foreign Powers, or with the British Commissioners, 
relative to the Slave Trade, since the last were pre- 
sented; and also, a statement of any further measures 
which may have been adopted in consequence of the 
Address of this House to his late Majesty on the 
Foreign Slave Trade, of the 19th May 1835, and 
his Majesty’s most gracious Answer thereto. 
Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
Her Majesty by such Members of this thine as are 
of Her Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Slave Trade 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
(Ceylon.) 


to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions that there be laid before this House, 
Copies or Extracts of all Communications relating 
to the subject of Slavery in the Island of Ceylon, 
and to the measures there taken for its abolition. 
Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
Her Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of Her Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Slave Trade Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 

(East India.) Copies or Extracts of all Correspondence between 
the Court of Directors of the East India Company 
and the Company’s Government in India, since 
ist June 1827, on the subject of Slavery in the Ter- 
ritories under the Company’s rule ; also, respecting 
any Slave Trade therein ; also, of all Orders and 
Regulations issued, or any Proceedings taken, by 
order or under the authority of the Company, with 
a view to the abolition of Slavery and the Slave 
Trade, since the above date; also, of any Corre- 
spondence between the Board of Control and the 
Court of Directors on the said subjects. 

Vou. 92. 


Q4° Junii. 








501 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on Aborigines, Aborigines(Bri- 
(British Colonies) have Power to report the Minutes tish Colonies. ) 
of the Evidence taken before them. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Enfield, praying that Rating of __ 
the Rating of Tenements Bill may pass into a law, Tenements Bill. 


was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Ferry Port-on-Craig, Corn Laws. 
praying for the repeal of the Com Laws, was pre- 
—" and read; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 


A Petition from Stirling, praying that the Muni- Municipai 
cipal Corporations (Scotland) Bill may pass into a Corporations 
law, was presented, and read; and ordered to lie (Stand) Bill. 
upon the Table. : 


A Petition of Merchants, Traders and Inhabitants Edinburgh 
of Stirling, praying that the Edinburgh and Glasgow +4 Glasgow 
Railway Bill may pass into a law, was presented, ““'"*9 Bl 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Saint Mary, New salmon 
Ross, praying that no alteration may take place in Msheries 
the laws now in force in Ireland for the protection (*""*) 
of the Salmon Fisheries, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Baring reported from the Committee of Ways Ways and 
and Means, a Resolution, which was read, as fol- Means; 
loweth : 

Resolved, That, towards raising the Supply granted sugar Duties. 
to Her Majesty, the several Duties on Sugar imposed 
by an Act of the sixth and seventh years of his late 
Majesty, shall be further continued. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 

Ordered, That a Bill be brought in upon the said 
Resolution: And that Mr. Baring and Mr. Chan- 
cellor of the Exchequer do prepare, and bring 
it in. 


Mr. Baring reported from the Committee of Sup- Supply; 
ply, a Resolution, which was read, as followeth : 

Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One hundred Civil Contin- 
and twenty thousand pounds, be granted to Her sencies- 
Majesty, to defray the Charge of Civil Contingencies 
to the 31st day of March 1838. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 


Lord Viscount Morpeth reported the Dublin Police Dublin Police 
(No. 2.) Bill; and the Amendments were read, and (Ne. 2.) Bill. 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed ; and read the third time upon Monday 
next. 


The Creditors (Scotland) Bill was, according to Creditors 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a (Scotland) Bill. 
Committee of the whole House, for Monday next. 


Mr. Baring presented a Bill for granting to Her Sugar Duties 
Majesty certain Duties on Sugar imported into the Bill 
United Kingdom for the Service of the year One No. 424. 
thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven: And the 
same was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time upon Monday next; and to be 
printed. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Court of 
to render valid certain acts done in the performance maar. ard -_ 
of Duties in the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, by ©°'*"®) Pil- 
the Lord Ordinary on the Bills in the Court of 
Session, and for the better regulation of the said 
Court of Exchequer: And that Mr. Robert Steuart 
and the Lord Advocate do prepare, and bring 


it in. 
333 The 








Public Works 


502 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 


(Ireland) Bill. the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 


Malt Duties. 


Southwark and 
Hammersmith 
Railway Bill. 


Aborigines. 
(British Colo- 
nies.) 


No. 425, 


Collier Dock 
and Surre 


Canal Bill. 


East Thickley 
and Frosterley 


Railway Bill. 


intituled, An Act to amend the Acts for the Ex- 
tension and Promotion of Public Works in Lreland; 
and the same were read, as follow: 

Pr. 10. 1. 19. Leave out from “ Whereas ” to the 
second “ the ” in I. 20. 

Pr. 10. 1. 34. After “ said ” insert “ several.” 

Pr. 10. 1. ult. After “ Act” insert “ relating to 
“« the Fisheries.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee, to consider of so much of the 
Excise Acts as relates to the Duties on Malt. 


(In the Committee.) 
Resolved, That it is expedient to amend certain 
Laws of Excise relating to the Duties on Malt. 
Resolution to be reported. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Reso- 
lution. 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon Mon- 
day next. 


Ordered, That the time for the Committee on the 
Southwark and Hammersmith Railway Bill to make 
their Report, be further enlarged till Monday, the 
3d day of July next. 


And then the House adjourned till Monday 
next. 


Lune, 26° die Junii ; 
Anno 1° Victoria Regine, 1837. 
PRAYERS. 
M&amp; Fowell Buxton reported from the Select 


Committee appointed to consider what mea- 
sures ought to be adopted with regard to the native 
Inhabitants of Countries where British Settlements 
are made, and to the neighbouring Tribes, in order 
to secure to them the due observance of Justice 
and the protection of their rights, to promote the 
spread of civilization among them, and to lead them 
to the peaceful and voluntary reception of the 
Christian Religion; and to whom the Report from 
the Select Committee in 1836 on the same subject, 
was referred ; and who were empowered to report the 
Minutes of the Evidence taken before them, toge- 
ther with their observations thereupon, to the House ; 
That they had considered the matters to them re- 
ferred, and had directed him to make a Report 
thereof to the House, together with the Minutes of 
the Evidence taken before them. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; 
and be printed. 








Captain Alsager reported from the Committee on 
the Collier Dock and Surrey Canal Bill; and to 
whom several Petitions against the said Bill were 
referred ; That they had considered several of the 
said Petitions, and had heard counsel in support 
of two of them; and had also heard counsel in 
favour of the Bill; and had examined the allega- 
tions of the Bill, and found the same to be true ; 
and had gone through the Bill, and made Amend- 
ments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Wednesday next. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Bishop Auckland, 
Land-owners, through whose property the Railway 
hereinafter mentioned is proposed to pass, praying 





Q4°—26° Junie. 





A. 1837. 


that the East Thickley and Frosterley Railway Bill 
may pass into a law, was presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Leeds Water. 


the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 
intituled, An Act for the better supplying with Water 
the Town and Neighbourhood of Leeds, in the West 
Riding of the County of York; and the same were 
read, as follow : 

Pr. 2. 1.11. Leave out “ King’s,” and insert 
 Queen’s.” 

Pr. 16. 1. 11. Leave out “ or,” and in the same 
line, after “ up,” insert “ or continue.” 

Pr. 22. 1. 33. After “ of” insert “ the.” 

Pr. 34. 1. 17. Leave out “ or.” 

Pr. 41. 1. ult. 

Pr. 43. 1. 21. 

Pr. 44. 1. 10. 

Pr. 45. 1. 2.) 

Pr. 55. 1. 23. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her,” and in the same line leave out from “‘ Ma- 
“ jesty ” to “intituled ” in 1. 25. and insert “ Queen 
“ Victoria.” 

Pr. 66. 1. 5. Leave out “ in,” and insert “ on.” 


Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 


Pr. 75. 1. 1. 
~ 9 bd . ° 
Pr. 78, [, | Heave ‘out “ His,” and inset 
Pr. 81. 1. 3. - 
Pr. 84, 1. 16. 


Pr. 97. 1. 24. After “ direct” insert “ that.” 

Pr. 98. 1. 7. After “ deposited” insert “ the 
sums claimed in respect of the same.” 

Pr. 98. 1. 23. After “ expenses” insert “ Pro- 
vided also, That the expense of determining such 
costs, charges and expenses.” 

Pr. 98. 1, 28. Leave out “ the,” and insert 
one.” 

Pr. 119. 1. 23. Leave out “ drains,” and insert 
drain.” 

Pr, 124. 1. 3. Leave out from “such ” to “ turn- 
pike ” in 1. 4. and insert “ highway, footway.” 
Oe 124. 1. 35. Leave out “ His,” and insert 

er.” 

Pr. 126. 1. 25. Leave out “ highways,” and in- 
sert “ highway.” 


“ 


n~ 


‘ 
“ 


“ 


“ 


Pr. 131. 1. penult. Leave out “ the.” 

Pr. 137. 1. 5. Leave out “ enter,” and insert 
“ into.” 

Pr. 137. 1. 23. Leave out “ His,’ and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 139. 1.18. Leave out “ cases,” and insert 
** causes.” 

Pr. 150. 1. 1. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ He.” 

Pr. 151. 1. 2. Leave out “ whenever,” and insert 
“ wherever.” 

Pr. 151. 1. 13. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 


Pr. 157. 1. 


19. Leave out “ meetings,” and in- 
sert “ meeting. 
S 


2? 


Pr. 166. |. 29.) Leave out “ His,” and insert 

Pr. 172. 1.93.) “ Hes.” 

Pr. 177. 1. 26. Leave out “is,” and insert “ as.”’ 

&gt; or g ‘ 

Pr. 194. 1. ““*| Leave out “ His,” and insert 

Pr. 196. L 3. “ Her ” 

Pr. 196. 1. 36. ° 

Pr. 202. 1. 3. Leave out “ or.” 

Pr. 202. 1. 6. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 210. 1. 22. After “ orders ” insert “ and.” 

Pr. 220. 1. 18.) Leave out “ His,” and insert 

Pr, 220. 1.28.) “ Her.” 

Pr. 220. 1. 


“ 


29. Leave out from “ Majesty” to 
intituled ” in 1. 30. and insert “ Queen Vicioria.” 
Pr. 221. 1. 6. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
Her.” 
Pr, 221. 1.15. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
Her,” and in the same line leave out from “ Ma- 
“ jesty” 


“ 


works Bill. 


Martin’s 
Nat. Bill. 


Hartlepool 
Pier Bill. 


Dublin and 
Kilkenny 
Railway Bill, 


Cork and Pase 
sage Railway 
Bill, 


1 Vicroriz. 


“ jesty” to “ intituled ” in 1. 16. and insert “ Queen 
“ Victoria.” 

Pr. 228. 1. 19. Leave out “ His,’ 
“a. 

Pr, 228. 1. 32. After “ authorities” insert “ here- 
“ by granted.” 

Pr. 239. 1. 23. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her,” and in the same line leave out from “ Ma- 
“ jesty ” to “intituled ” in 1. 25, and insert “ Queen 
“ Victoria.” 


? and insert 


Pr. 242. 1. 23. After “ thereof” insert “ to be 
“ made.” 

Pr. 244. 1. 25.) Leave out “ His,” and insert 

Pr. 248. 1. 20. “ Her.” 


The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Sir John Beckett do carry the Bill 
to the Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


Mr. Shaw Lefevre reported from the Committee 
on Martin’s Naturalization Bill; That they had 
examined the allegations of the Bill, and found 
the same to be true; and had gone through the 
Bill, and made an Amendment thereunto; and the 
same was read, as followeth : 

Pr. 1. 1. 16. Leave out “ King,” and insert 
Queen.” 

The said Amendment, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 
intituled, An Act for amending an Act of the second 
year of the Reign of His present Majesty, and for 
granting further Rates and Powers for improving 
the Port of Hartlepool, in the County of Durham ; 
and the same were read, as follow: 

P.1. 1.11. Leave out “ present,” and insert 
“* Jate.” 

P.1. 1. 12. After “ Majesty ” insert “ King 
‘** William the Fourth.” 

P.2. 1. 8. Leave out “ King’s,” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 

P. 2. 1. 20. Leave out “ present,” and insert 
“ late.” 

P. 2. 1.21. After “ Majesty ” insert “ King 
“ William the Fourth.” 

P. 11. 1. 29. Leave out from “ of” to “ inti- 
“ tuled” in 1. 31. and insert “ Her Majesty Queen 
“ Victoria.” 

In the Title of the Bill: L. 3. Leave out “ pre- 
“ sent,” and insert “ late,” and in the same line 
after “ Majesty ” insert “ King William the Fourth.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Harland do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


An ingrossed Bill for making and maintaining a 
Railway from the City of Dublin to the City of 
Kilkenny, to be called “ The Great Leinster and 
Munster Railway,” was read the third time; and 
an ingrossed Clause was added by way of Rider ; 
and Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. O’ Connell do carry the Bill 
to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Ordered, That a Committee be appointed to in- 
spect the Journals of the House of Lords with re- 
lation to any proceedings upon the Cork and Passage 
Railway Bill, and to make Report thereof to the 
House :—And a Committee was appointed of Mr. 
Callaghan, Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Vesey, Mr. O’ Con- 
nell, Mr. Morgan John O’Connell, Mr. Serjeant 
Jackson, Mr. Thomas Martin, and Mr. Lefroy ;— 
And they are to withdraw immediately. 

Ordered, That Three be the Quorum. 

Voz. 92. 


26° Junie. 








503 


Mr. Brocklehurst reported from the Committee Hind’s 
on Hind’s Estate Bill; That they had examined Este Bill 
the allegations of the Bill, and found the same to 
be true; and that the parties concerned had given 
their consent to the Bill to the satisfa: tion of the 
Committee; and that the Committee had gone 
through the Bill, and directed him to report the 
same without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


Acland’s Estate Bill was read a second time; and Acland’s. 
committed to Sir John Yarde Buller and the Devon E*tte Bill. 
List. 


Clitheroe Grammar School Estate Bill was read ClitheroeGram- 
a second time ; and committed to Mr. Wilson Patten Pde 
and the Lancaster List. state Bill. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- Edinburgh 
posed, That the ingrossed Bill for making a Rail- Wd Glasgow 
1 from Edinburgh to Glasgow, to be called “'" 

“ The Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway,” with a 
branch to Falkirk, be now read the third time ; 

The Amendments following were proposed to be 
made to the Question ; viz. To leave out the word 
“ now,” and at the end of the Question to add the 
words “ upon this day three months.” 

And the Question being put, That the word “ now” 
stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the old Lobby. 

The Noes to the new Lobby. 

Tellers for the f Mr. Attorney General, 1 4 

Yeas, { Mr Wallace : as 

Tellers for the { Mr. Robert Ferguson, } 57 

Noes, Mr. Dundas : : 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read the the third 
time :—The Bill was accordingly read the third 
time, and Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Lord William Bentinck do carry 
the Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Mr. Patrick Stewart reported from the Commit- Stewart’s _, 
tee on Stewart’s Estate Bill; That they had exa- Estate Bill: 
mined the allegations of the Bill, and found the 
same to be true ; and that the parties concerned had 
given their consent to the Bill, to the satisfaction 
of the Committee; and that the Committee had 
gone through the Biil, and made Amendments 
thereunto ; and the same were read as follow: 

Pr, 15. 1. 4, Leave out “ King’s,” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 

Pr. 18. 1. 3. Leave out “ King’s” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 

Pr. 18. ]. 4. Leave out “ His” and insert “ Her.” 

Pr. 19. 1.5. Leave out “ King’s” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 

The said Amendments being read a second time, 
and agreed to. 


The House proceeded to take into further consi- Blochaim 
deration the Report which upon the 12th day of this ©**! Bill. 
instant June was made from the Committee on the 
Blochairn Canal Bill; printed Copies of the Bill = ° 
having been delivered at the door upon Thursday 
the 15th day of this instant June; and the Amend- 
ments were read and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed. 


A Petition of Ship-owners, Fishermen and others, Harbours of 
Inhabitants of Filey, praying the House to direct Refee 
an Inquiry or Survey as to the most eligible scite 
for a Harbour or Harbours of Refuge on the eastern 
coast of England, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Guardians of the Poor of Kings- Registration 
ton-upon-Hull, praying that in the Registration and — Marriages 
Marriages Bill, the power of appointing Superin- ~* 

384 tendent 








504. 


tendent Registrars and Registrars, may be extended 
to all permanent Guardians of the Poor, was pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Merchants and Shopkeepers, Mem- 
bers of a Guardian Society instituted for the pro- 
tection of Trade, and others interested therein at 
Kingston-upon-Hull;—the Corporation of Kingston- 
upon-Hull ;—and, Merchants, Bankers, and other 
Inhabitants of Wolverhampton; praying that a uni- 
form and low rate of Postage may be established 
instead of the present varying and high rate,—were 
presented, an read; and ordered to lie upon the 
lable. 


Postage Duties, 





Church Rates 


Petitions from the Moderator and Secretary of 
Regulation. 


the Baptist Churches in Pembrokeshire ;—and, In- 
habitants of Ramsgate; praying that the proposed 
measure, relative to Church Rates, may receive the 
sanction of the House, were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of Inhabitants and Householders of 
Pampisford, praying that the said proposed measure 
may not receive the sanction of the House, was also 
presented, and read ; and ordered to lie on the Table. 


Tithes 


Petitions from Ashby-de-la-Zouch ;—Bulwell ;— 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Stamford, and Saint Martin’s, Stamford Baron ;— 
Warrington ;— and, Archdeacons of Dublin and 
Glandelagh ; praying that the Tithes (Jreland) Bill 
may not pass into a law,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Lord’s Day Bill. Petitions from Saint Peter’s, Derby (Inhabit- 
ants) ;— Saint Peter's, Derby (Grocers and Huck- 
sters) ;—Helensburgh;—and, Saint Mary’s, Edin- 
burgh; praying that the Lord’s Day Bill may be 
permitted to go into a Committee,—were presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Railways 


Petitions from Helensburgh ;— Baldernock ;— 
(Scotland.) y 


Strathblane; — Moderator of the Presbytery of 
Dumbarton ;—and, Moderator of the Kirk Session | 
of Fintry ; praying the House to pass a law to pre- | 
vent travelling on Railways in Scotland on the | 
Lord’s Day,—were presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 





A Petition of Hand-loom Weavers of Irvine, Ful- 
larton and Halfway, for pecuniary aid, was offered 
to be presented :—But the Petition not having been 
recommended by the Crown, the same was not 
received. 


Hand-loom 
Weavers. 


A Petition of Magistrates and Town Council of 
the royal burgh of Jrvine, praying that the Muni- 
cipal Corporations (Scotland) Bill may not pass into 
a law as it now stands, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Municipal 
Corporations 


(Scotland) Bill. 


Burghs 
of Barony 


(Scotland) Bill. 


A Petition of Proprietors, Householders and other 
Inhabitants of Mewton-upon-Ayr, praying that the 
House will not allow any Clause or provision to be 
inserted in the Burghs of Barony (Scotland) Bill, 
which will tend in any way to prejudice the rights 
of the Petitioners, and the common good of that 
burgh, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 

Legacy Duty. A Petition of Inhabitants of Stowmarket, praying 
the House to repeal the Duty upon all Legacies be- 


queathed for religious or charitable purposes, was | 


presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


26° Juniz. 


may pass into a law,—were 








A. 1837. 


Petitions from Frome Union ;—and, Chesterton Rating of 
Union ; praying that the Rating of Tenements Bill TeementsBill, 
resented, and read; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 





Mr. William Miles reported from the Select Com- Twenty-first 
mittee appointed to inquire into the administration Report on 
of the Relief of the Poor under the orders and re- °°" 4@™ Act. 
gulations issued by the Commissioners appointed No. 426, 
under the provisions of the Poor Law Amendment 
Act; and who were empowered to report the Minutes 
of the Evidence taken before them from time to 
time to the House; That they had made further 
Progress in the matters to them referred; and had 
directed him to report the Minutes of the Evidence 
taken before them. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


A Petition of Inhabitant Householders in the Poor Law Act, 
parish of Saint Luke, in the county of Middlesex, 
praying for the repeal of the Poor Law Act, was 
presented, and read; and referred to the Select Com- 
mittee on the Poor Law Act. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Chester, praying the Maynooth 
House to institute an inquiry into the system of in- College. 
struction given in the Roman Catholic College of 
Maynooth, and into the manner in which the annual 
grant is applied, was presented, and read; and or- 
dered to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of Inhabitants of Wolverhampton, 
praying the House to withdraw the usual grant 
made to the Roman Catholic College of Maynooth, 
was also presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Smisby, praying the Roman 
House to pass such a law as shall prevent any Catholics. 
Roman Catholic from hereafter sitting in either 
House of Parliament, was presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Registration of 


Petitions from Dumbarton;—and, Kirkcaldy; 
Births, &amp;c. ; 


praying that the Registration of Births, &amp;c. ;—and, 314. Glande: 
Clandestine Marriages (Scotland) Bills may not pass tine Marriages 
into law as they now stand,—were presented, and — 

read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. - 


Registration 
of Births, &amp;c., 
(Scotland) Bill. 


A Petition of the Moderator of the presbytery of 
Dumbarton, praying that the Registration of Births, 
&amp;ce., (Scotland) Bill may pass into a law, was pre- 
— and read; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 


A Petition of the Moderator of the presbytery of Clandestine 
Dumbarton, praying that the Clandestine Marriages M* re Bill 
(Scotland) Bull, with certain alterations, may pass —— 
into a law, was presented, and read ; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 





Petitions from Decidirable;—and, Bracadle ; Distress 
complaining of distress ; and praying the House to (Scetland.) 
afford the Petitioners relief by enabling them to 
emigrate to Upper Canada, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 













A Petition of Robert Henry Aberdeen, of Honi- Coroners’ 
ton, one of Her Majesty’s Coroners for the county of Inquests’ Bill 
Devon, praying that a Clause or Clauses may be ——" 
added to the Coroners’ Inquests’ Expenses Bill to 
provide for the better and more adequate remunera- 
tion of Coroners, was presented, and read ; and or- 
dered to lie upon the Table. 




















Borough A Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen, Burgesses 
Boundaries . - 5 
Bill. and Inhabitants of the borough of Richmond, pray- 


ing that. the Borough Boundaries Bill may not pass 
into a law as it now stands, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 





The House was moved, That the Order made Church Leases- 
upon the 12th day of this instant June, That a Se- 
|lect Committee be appointed to inquire into the 
| mode of granting and renewing Leases of the Landed 

and other Property of the Bishops, Deans and Chap- 
ters, 


















1 Vicroriz«. 


ters, and other Ecclesiastical Bodies in England | 
and Wales, and into the probable amount of any 
increased value which might be obtained by an mm- 
proved management, with a due consideration of the 
interests of the Established Church, and of the pre- 
sent lessees of such property, might be read ; and 
the same being read ; 

A Committee was nominated of Mr. Chancellor 
of the Exchequer, Lord Viscount Howick, Mr. 
Pusey, Mr. Lambton, Mr. Granville Vernon, Mr. 
Pease, Mr. Ellice, Mr. Gally Knight, Mr. Charles 
Buller, Mr. Ingham, Mr. Attorney General, Mr. So- 
licitor General, Mr. Benett, Mr. Aglionby, Mr. 
William Ponsonby, Mr. Jervis, Sir Charles Lemon, 
Mr. Loch, Mr. Hector, Mr. William Crawford, and 
Mr. Shaw Lefevre; with Power to send for persons, 
papers and records. 

Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 


Supply ; The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
Estimates, mittee of Supply ; 
Rarer Ordered, That the several Estimates for Charitable 


Institutions and Institutions and Miscellaneous Services in Jreland, 


Miscellaneous be referred to the Committee. 
Services 


(Ireland.) Ordered, That the Estimate of Sums required for 

Commissariat. the Pay of the Commissariat Department at Home 
and Abroad, and for the supply of Forage, Coals, 
Candles and Straw, for the Troops in Ireland, for 
the year ending 31st March 1838; with a Statement 
of the Amount required for similar Services in the 
year ending 31st March 1837, be referred to the 
Committee. 

Ordered, That the Estimate of Sums required for 
the Half Pay of Commissariat Officers, and for Re- 
tired Full Pay, Compensation and Superannuation 
Allowances; also, for the Pensions of Widows of 
Commissariat Officers ; and for Compassionate Al- 
lowances to their Children ; for one year, from 1st 
April 1837 to 31st March 1838, be referred to the 
Committee. 

Then the House resolved itself into the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 





26° Junie. 505 


omy Official Residences for the Speaker of the 
ouse of Commons, and other Officers of that 
House, to the 31st day of March 1838. 
7. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Twenty- Prison (Isle of 
five thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, Wisht-) 
to defray the Expense of converting certain Build- 
ings attached to Albany Barracks, Isle of Wight, 
into a Prison for the reception of Juvenile Offenders. 
8. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Fourteen Custom House 
thousand and eight hundred pounds, be granted to (Glasgow.) 
Her Majesty, to defray, in the year 1837, the Ex- 
ense of building a new Custom House at Glasgow, 
including the Purchase of Ground. 

9. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Seventy- Salaries and 
six thousand and seven hundred pounds, be granted Expenses 
to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge of Salaries eersena ) 
and Expenses of the two Houses of Parliament, and 
of Allowances to Retired Officers of the two Houses, 
to the 31st day of March 1838. 

10. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Forty- D° - (Trea- 
nine thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, sury.) 
to pay the Salaries, Contingent and other Expenses, 
of the Department of Her Majesty’s Treasury, to 
the 31st day of March 1838. 

11. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Twenty De - (Home 
thousand, four hundred and eighty-one pounds, be Office.) 
granted to Her Majesty, to pay the Salaries and 
Expenses of the Office of Her Majesty’s Secretary 
of State for the Home Department, to the 31st day 
of March 1838. 

12. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Seventy Do - (Foreign 
thousand, eight hundred and sixty-seven pounds, Office.) 
be granted to Her Majesty, to pay the Salaries and 
other Expenses in the Department of Her Majesty’s 
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ; also, of the 
Foreign Messengers attached to that Department, 
to the 31st day of March 1838. 

13. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Seven- De - (Colonial 
teen thousand four hundred and forty-five pounds, Office.) 
be granted to Her Majesty, to pay the Salaries and 
other Expenses in the Department of Her Majesty’s 
Secretary of State for the Colonies, to the 31st day 

of March 1838. 

14. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Twenty- D° - (Privy 











Public 1. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Seventy- 


four thousand six hundred and thirty-eight pounds, Council Office.) 


Buildings. two thousand and fifty-nine pounds, be granted to | be granted to Her Majesty, to pay the Salaries and 


Her Majesty, to defray, to the 31st day of March 


| Expenses in the Department of Her Majesty’s Most 


1838, the Expense of Works and Repairs of Public | honourable Privy Council, and Committee of Privy 


Buildings, and for Furniture, and other Charges for 
Lighting and Watching, and for Rates and Taxes, 


| Council for Trade, to the 31st day of March 1838. 


15. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Forty- D° - (Paymas- 


and for the maintenance and repairs of Royal| two thousand and one hundred pounds, be granted '¢" Geveral’s 


Palaces and Works in the Royal Gardens, heretofore 
charged upon the Civil List. 
Kingstown 


Harbour. thousand one hundred and twenty-eight pounds, be 


granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Expense of 


Works and Repairs at the Harbour of Kingstown, 
to the 31st dav of March 1838. 
Holyhead 3. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Six thou- 
a sand six hundred and fifty pounds, be granted to 
Her Majesty, to defray the Expenses of the Holy- 
head and Liverpool Roads, and Holyhead and Howth 
Harbours, to the 31st day of March 1838. 
British 4. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Fourteen 
a thousand two hundred and fifty pounds, be granted 
to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge of New Build- 
ings at the British Museum, to the 31st day of 
March 1838. 
National 5. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Seven 
any. thousand and six hundred pounds, be granted to 
Her Majesty, to defray the probable Expense of 
inclosing the Ground in front of each of the Wings 
of the National Gallery and Royal Academy, and 
levelling, inclosing and ornamenting the area of 
Trafalgar-square. 
Sp ttonte 6. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Eleven 
mommenss thousand five hundred and ninety-five pounds, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Expense of 
providing Temporary Accommodation for the Houses 


of Parliament, Committee Rooms, Offices, and tem-! 


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_to Her Majesty, to defray the charge of the Office of 


. | 
2. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Seven’ 


Office.) 


Her Majesty’s Paymaster General, to the 31st day 
of March 1838. 

16. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Fourteen D° - (Comp- 
thousand and three hundred pounds, be granted to trolier-General 
Her Majesty, to pay the Salaries and Contingent gh ak 
Expenses in the Departments of the Comptroller 
General of the Exchequer and the Paymaster of 
Civil Services, to the 31st day of March 1838. 

17. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Two Professors 
thousand and six pounds, be granted to Her Ma- (Oxford and 
jesty, to defray the charge of the Salaries and Allow- ~"" — 
ances granted to certain Professors in the Univer- 
sities of Oxford and Cambridge, to the 31st day of 
March 1838. 

18. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Twelve Insolvent 
thousand and five hundred pounds, be granted to Her Pebtrs Court. 
Majesty, to defray the charge of the Salaries of the 
Commissioners of the Insolvent Debtors Court, of 
their Clerks, and the Contingent Expenses of the 
Court and Office, and also the Expenses attendant 
upon their Circuits, to the 31st day of March 
1838. 

19. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Thirteen Penitentiary 
thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to de- Milbank.) 
fray the charge of the Penitentiary at Milbank, to 
the 31st day of March 1838. 

20. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Three State Paper 
thousand nine hundred and eighty-five pounds, be lice, &amp;c. 
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Criminal Law 
Commission, 


Charities 


Commission. 


Religious 
Instruction 
(Scotland) 


Commission 


Ecclesiasticz 


Commission 


Poor Law 


al 


Cumwission, 


Slave Trade 


Commissions. 


Consuls, &amp;c 


Factories. 


. 


Inspectors of 


Prisons. 


Mint. 


Compensations, 


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acuionese, 


Emigrants. 


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granted to Her Majesty, to pay the Salaries and other | 
Expenses of the State Paper Office, the Office for 
the Custody of Records in the Tower, and the 


Office for the Custody of Records in the Chapter | 


House, Westminster, to the 31st day of March 1838. 

21. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Five 
thousand and one hundred pounds, be granted to 
Her Majesty, to defray the Expenses of the Com- 
mission for digesting the several Statutes relating to 
Criminal and other Law. 

22. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Eleven 
thousand eight hundred and twenty-five pounds, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray tne Expenses of 
the Commission for inquiring mto Public Charities 
to its termination. 

23. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Six thou- 
sand three hundred and thirty-five pounds, be granted 
to Her Majesty, to defray the Expenses of the Com- 
mission appointed to inquire into the opportunities 
of Religious Worship and means of Religious In- 
struction, and the Pastoral Superintendence afforded 
to the people of Scotland. 

24. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding. Two 
thousand and five hundred pounds, be granted to 
Her Majesty, to pay the Salaries and Expenses in- 
curred by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for Eing- 
land, to the 31st day of March 1838. 

25. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Fifty-two 
thousand one hundred and twenty-nine pounds, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray, in the year 1837, 
the charge of Salaries and Expenses of the Commis- 
sioners for the amendment and better administration 
of the Laws relating to the Poor in England and 
Wales. 

26. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Four- 
teen thousand and seven hundred pounds, be granted 
to Her Majesty, to pay, to the 31st day of March 
1838, the Salaries and Incidental Expenses for the 
Commissions appointed, on the part of Her Majesty, 
under the Treaties with Foreign Powers for prevent- 
ing: the illegal traftic in Slaves. 

27. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One 
hundred thousand three hundred and eighty-nine 
pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to pay the 
Salaries of Her Majesty’s Consuls General, Consuls, 
and Vice Consuls, and of the Superintendents of 
Trade at Canton ; also, of the Contmgent Expenses 
connected with the public duties of such Consuls 
General, Consuls, and Vice Consuls, and Super- 
intendents of Trade. 

28. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Nine 
thousand nine hundred and fifty-three pounds, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the charge of the 
Salaries, &amp;c., of the Inspectors and Superintendents 
of Factories, to the 31st day of March 1838. 

29. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Five 
thousand and eight hundred pounds, be granted to 
Her Majesty, to defray the Salaries and Expenses 
of the Inspectors of Prisons, to the 31st day of 
March 1838. 

30. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Fifty- 
one thousand eight hundred and forty pounds, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Expenditure 
for the several branches of the Mint, to the 31st day 
of March 1838. 

31. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Seventy- 
nine thousand three hundred and thirty-four pounds, 
be granted to Her Majesty, to defray the charge of 
Allowances or Compensations to persons formerly 
employed in the Public Offices or Departments, or 
in the Public Service, to the 31st day of March 
1838. 

32. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Ten 
thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to en- 
able Her to grant relief, to the 31st day of March 
1838, to Zoulonese and Corsican Emigrants, Dutch 
Naval Officers, Saint Domingo Sufferers, American 
Loyalists, and others, who have heretofore received 


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Allowances from Her Majesty, and who, for services 





A. 1837. 


vice, have special claims on Her Majesty’s justice 
and liberality. 

33. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One Vaccine 
thousand eight hundred and fifty pounds, be granted Fstablishment, 
to Her Majesty, to defray the Expense of the Na- 
tional Vaccine Establishment, for the year 1837. 

34. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Three Refuge for the 
thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, for Destitute, 
the support of the Institution called “The Refuge 
for the Destitute,” for the year 1837. 

35. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Three Criminal 
thousand and seventy-three pounds, be granted to Latics. 
Her Majesty, to defray the Expense of confining 
and maintaining Criminal Lunatics in the buildings 
attached to Bethlem Hospital, to the 31st day of 
March 1838. 

36. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Four Protestant 
thousand and six hundred pounds, be granted to ret 
Her Majesty, to pay, to the 31st day of March 1838, “U's 
the usual allowances to the Protestant Dissenting 
Ministers in England, poor French Refugee Clergy, 
poor French Retugee Laity, and sundry small Cha- 
ritable and other Allowances to the Poor of Saint 
Martin’ s-in-the-Fields and others. 


37. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Thirty- Secret Services, 


five thousand and nine hundred pounds, be granted 
to Her Majesty, to defray the charge of Her Ma- 
jesty’s Foreign and other Secret Services, to the 31st 
day of March 1838. 

38. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One Stationery 
hundred and seventy-three thousand and six hun- Office. 
dred pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray 
the Expense of providing Stationery, Printing, and 
Binding for the several departments of Government, 
and the two Houses of Parliament, to the 31st day 
of March 1838, including the expense of the esta- 
blishment of the Stationery Office. 

39. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Eleven Law Charges. 
thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to de- 
fray the expense of Law Charges, to the 31st day of 
March 1838. 

40. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Fifty- Convicts. 
three thousand and four hundred pounds, be granted 
to Her Majesty, to defray the Expense of the Con- 
vict Hulk Establishment at Home and at Bermuda, 
to the 31st day of March 1838. 

41. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Two 
hundred and forty-four thousand and one hundred 
pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray the 
Expense of maintaming Convicts at Mew South 
Wales and Van Diemen’s Land, to the 31st day of 
March 1838. 

42. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Twenty Captured 
thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to Nestoes. 
defray the Expenses for the support of Captured 
Negroes and Liberated Africans, under the Acts 
for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, to the 31st day 
of March 1838. 


43. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Two Sir A. B. King. 


thousand and five hundred pounds, be granted to 
Her Majesty, to pay the annual Compensation 
awarded to Sir Abraham Bradley King, late King’s 
Stationer in Jreland, for losses sustained by him by 
reason of the revocation of his Patent. 

44, Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Twenty School Houses. 
thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to 
enable Her to issue money for the erection of School 
Houses, in aid of private subscriptions for that pur- 
pose, for the education of the children of the poorer 
classes in England, to the 31st day of March 1838. 

45. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Ten Education 
theusand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to Sc) 
enable Her to issue, in the year 1837, money for the 
erection of School Houses, in aid of private subscrip- 


| tions for that purpose, for the education of the chil- 


dren of the poorer classes, and for the erection of 
Model Schools in Scotland. 

46. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Twenty- Revising 
four thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, Suviaeye. 


performed, or losses sustained, in the British Ser- | to pay the Allowances and Expenses of the Barristers 


employed 





Py om 





Sheriffs. 


County Rates. 


Distressed 
Poles. 


Expedition to 
New Holland. 


British 
Museum. 


Bahamas. 


Bermudas, 


Prince Edward’s 
Island. 


Western Coast 
of Africa. 


North 
American 
Provinces. 


Western 
Australia, 


Indian 
Department 
(Canada. ) 


Governors 
of West Indian 
Colonies, 


Heligoland, 


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employed in revising Lists of Voters under the Act 
for amending the Representation of the People in 
England and Wales, to the 31st day of March 
1838. 

47. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Fourteen 


26° June. 


‘nine thousand nine hundred and fifty pounds, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray, to the 31st day 


of March 1838, the Salaries and Allowances to 
Special Justices appointed in pursuance of the Act 


thousand four hundred and fifty pounds, be granted | for the abolition of Slavery throughout the British 
to Her Majesty, to defray, to the 31st day of March | Colonies. 


1838, the expenses incurred by Sheriffs formerly | 
paid from Civil Contingencies; and also to make 
good the deficiency of the Fees in the Office of the 
Queen’s Remembrancer in the Exchequer, and to 
pay the Salaries and ancient Allowances of certain 
Officers of the Court of Exchequer. 

48. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Eighty 
thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to 
defray, in the year 1837, certain Charges heretofore 
paid out of the County Rates. 

49. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Ten 
thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to 
enable Her to grant relief to the Distressed Poles, 
now in this Country. 

50. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One 
thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to 
defray a part of the Charge of an Expedition for 
exploring the North West part of Mew Holland. 

51. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One 
thousand five hundred and seventy-five pounds, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to enable the Trustees of 
the British Museum to purchase the Collection of 
Shells belonging to Mr. Broderip. 

52. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Three 
thousand seven hundred and eighty-three pounds, 
be granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge of 
the Civil Establishment of the Bahama Islands, to 
the 31st day of March 1838. 

53. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Four 
thousand four hundred and forty-nine pounds, thir- 
teen shillmgs and four-pence, be granted to Her 
Majesty, to defray the Charge of the Civil Esta- 
blishment of the Bermudas, to the 31st day of 
March 1838. 

54. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Three 
thousand and seventy pounds, be granted to Her 
Majesty, to defray the Charge of the Civil Esta- 
blishment of Prince Edward’s Island, to the 31st 
day of March 1838. 

55. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Eleven 
thousand and thirty pounds, fifteen shillings and | 
ten-pence, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray the | 
Charge of the Civil Establishments on the Western | 
Coast of Africa, to the 31st day of March 1838. 


56. Resolved, That asum, not exceeding Fourteen 
thousand one hundred and forty pounds, eighteen 
shillings and six-pence, be granted to Her Majesty, | 
to defray the Expenses of the Ecclesiastical Esta- 
blishment of the British North American Provinces, 
to the 31st day of March 183s. 

57. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Five 
thousand three hundred and nine pounds, and five 
shillings, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray the 
Expense of the Settlement of Western Australia, to 
the 31st day of March 1838. 

58. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Nineteen 
thousand and five hundred pounds, be granted to 
Her Majesty, to defray the Expense of the Esta- 
blishment and Pensions of the Jndian Department 
in Lower and Upper Canada, to the 31st day of 
March 1838. 

59. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Sixteen 
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven pounds, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to detray the Charge of 
the Salaries of the Governors, Lieutenant-Governors 
and others of Her Majesty’s West Indian Colonies, 
to the 31st day of March 1838. 

60. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Nine 
hundred and sixty-three pounds, and ten-pence, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Expense of 
the Civil Establishment of Heligoland, to the 31st 
day of March 1838. 


62. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Thirty 
thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to 
defray, in the year 1837, such Expenses as She may 
incur in aiding the local Legislatures in providing 
for the Religious and Moral Education of the Eman- 
cipated Negro Population. 

63. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Two 
thousand six hundred and sixty-four pounds, sixteen 
shillings and three-pence, be granted to Her Ma- 
jesty, for the Salaries of the Agents for Emigration, 
to the 31st day of March 1838. 

64. Resolved, That a-sum, not exceeding Eighteen 
thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to 
defray the Expense of the Civil Establishment at 
Saint Helena, and of Pensions and Allowances to 
the Civil and Military Officers and Soldiers of the 
East India Company’s late Establishments in that 
island, to the 31st day of March 1838. 

65. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Seven 
thousand and four hundred pounds, be granted to 
Her Majesty, to defray the Expenses of the Civil 
Government of Nova Scotia, to the 3ist day of 
March 1838, and also for the erection of Light- 
houses there. 

66. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Fourteen 
thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to 
defray, in the year 1837, the Charge of the Repair 
and Maintenance of the Rideau and Ottawa Canals, 
in Canada. 

Motion made, and Question proposed, That a sum, 
not exceeding Fifty thousand pounds, be granted 
to Her Majesty, to enable the Lord Lieutenant of 
Ireland to issue Money for the advancement of 
Education in Jreland, to the 31st day of March 
1838: 

Whereupon an Amendment was proposed, That 
asum, not exceeding Forty-six thousand six hun- 
dred and fifty-three pounds be granted to Her Ma- 
jesty, to enable the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to 
issue Money for the advancement of Education in 
Ireland, to the 31st day of March 1838. 

Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. 

67. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Fifty 
thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to 
enable the Lord Lieutenant of Jreland to issue 
Money for the advancement of Education in Jre- 
land, to the 31st day of March 1838. 

68. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Thirteen 
thousand and four hundred pounds, be granted to 
Her Majesty, to defray the Expense of the Found- 
ling Hospital in Dublin, to the 31st day of March 
1838. 

69. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Twenty 
thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to 
defray the Expense of the House of Industry in 
Dublin, the Lunatic Department, and the four 
general Hospitals attached, to the 31st day of March 
1838. 

70. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One hun- 
dred and fifty pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, 
to defray the Charge of the Hibernian Marine 
Society in Dublin, to the 31st day of March 1838. 

71. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One 
thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to 
defray the Expense of the Female Orphan House, 
Circular Road, Dublin, to the 31st day of March 
1838. 

72. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Two 
thousand and five hundred pounds, be granted to Her 
Majesty, to defray the Expense of the Westmorland 
Lock Hospital, to the 31st day of March 1838. 

73. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One 
thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to 





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61. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Sixty- Slave Trade. 


Negro 
Education, 


Emigration, 


St. Helena, 


Nova Scotia. 


Canals in 
Canada. 


Education 
(Ireland.) 


Foundling 
Hospital. 


House of 
Industry. 


Hibernian 
Marine Society. 


Female Orphen 
House, 


Westmorland 
Lock Hospital. 


Lying-in 
Hospital! 
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defray the Expense of the Lying-in Hospital in 
Dublin, to the 31st day of March 1838. 


Dr. Steevens’ 74. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One| 


Hospital. thousand and five hundred pounds, be granted to | 


Her Majesty, to defray the Expense of Doctor 


Steevens’ Hospital in Dublin, to the 31st day of | 


March 1838. 
Fever Hospital. -75, Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Three | 
thousand and eight hundred pounds, be granted to | 
Her Majesty, to defray the Expense of the Fever 
Hospital and House of Recovery, Cork-street, Dublin, 
to the 31st day of March 1838. 

76. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Five 
hundred pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to 
defray the Expense of the Hospital for Incurables, 
to the 31st day of March 1838. 

RomanCatholic 77, Motion made, and Question put, That a sum, 


Hospital fur 
Incurables. 


Cong not exceeding Eight thousand nine hundred and 
twenty-eight pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to 
defray the Charge of the Roman Catholic College 
in Ireland, to the 31st day March 1838. 

The Committee divided : 
ae Mr. Baring, 
— the Mr. pal General for \ 52 
vi Ireland : J 
Tellers for the f Mr. Plumptre, Lye 
Noes, Mr. Borthwick : ' fon 
Royal Irish 78. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Three 
Academy. hundred pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to 


defray the Expense of the Royal Jrish Academy, 
to the 3ist day of March 1838. 
Royal | 79. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Three 
ieee. hundred pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to 
defray the Expense of the Royal Hibernian Academy, 
to the 31st day of March 1838. 


Charitable 80. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Seven 
Douationsand hundred pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to 
oer defray the Salaries and Expenses of the Commis- 
sioners of Charitable Donations anc Bequests in 

Ireland, to the 31st day of March 1838. 


81. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One 
thousand and eight hundred pounds, be granted to 
Her Majesty, to defray the Rains of the Royal 
Belfast Academical Institution, to the 31st day of 
March 1838. 

82. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Nineteen 
thousand six hundred and seventy-six pounds, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Expense of 
repairing and maintaining the several Public Build- 
ings in the Department of the Commissioners of 
Public Works in Jreland, to the 31st day of March 
1838. 

Chief Secretary 83, Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Twenty- 
che wt gs two thousand three hundred and two pounds, be 

"granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Salaries and 
Expenses of the Offices of the Chief Secretary to 
the Lord Lieutenant of Jreland in Dublin and London, 
and Her Majesty’s Privy Council Office in Ireland, 
and of Printing for the Public Offices in Ireland, 
to the 31st day of March 1838. 


84. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Twelve 
thousand three hundred and ninety-four pounds, 
be granted to Her Majesty, to defray the charge of 
the Salaries of the Officers and Attendants of the 
Household of the Lord Lieutenant of Jreland, and 


Royal Belfast 
Academical 
Lustitution. 


Public Works. 


Household of 
the Lord 
Licutenant, 





A. 1837. 


87. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding twenty- Protestant 


‘seven thousand three hundred and forty-three Dissenting 


Ministers, 


pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray the 
Expense of Non-conforming, Seceding, and Protest- 
ant Dissenting Ministers in Ireland, to the 31st day 
of March 1838. 

88. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Sixty Criminal Prose. 
thousand and nine hundred pounds, be granted to cutivns. 
Her Majesty, to defray the charge of Criminal Pro- 
secutions and other Law Charges in Ireland, to the 
31st day of March 1838. 

89. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding twenty- Police(Dublin,) 
seven thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, 
in aid of the Funds for the maintenance of the 
Police Establishment of Dublin, to the 31st day of 
March 1838. 

90. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding three Public Works. 
thousand five hundred and ninety-one pounds, be 
— to Her Majesty, to defray the Expense of 

ublic Works in Ireland, to the 31st day of March 
1838. 

91. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding seven Tewnland 
thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to 5“"*?- 
defray the Expense of the Townland Survey of 
Ireland, to the 31st day of March 1838. 

92. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Five Railways 
thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to Poe 
defray the Expense. of the Commission appointed sana 
to report upon the best system of Railways in 
Ireland. 


Resolutions to be reported. 





And the House, having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Tuesday morning ; 


Martis, 27° die Junii, 1837: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Labou- 
chere reported, That the Committee had come to 
several Resolutions. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 

Mr. Labouchere also acquainted the House, that 
he was directed to move, That the Committee may 
have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, again 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Sugar Duties Bill was, according to Order, Sugar Duties 
read a second time ; and committed to a Committee Bill. 
of the whole House, for this day. 


The Tithes Commutation Bill was, according to Tithes Commu- 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a tation Bill, 
Committee of the whole House, for this day. 


The ingrossed Bill to make more effectual pro- Dublin Police 
visions relating to the Police in the District of (Ne. 2) Bill 
Dublin Metropolis, was, according to Order, read 
the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Parliamentary Electors Bill was, according Parliamentary 
to Order, read a second time; and committed to a Electors Bill. 
Committee of the whole House, for To-morrow. 





certain other Officers and Services formerly charged 


on the Civil List in Jreland, to the 31st day of 


March 1838. 
Vice-Treasurer 
and Teller of 


Eeclee ver, Sand and three hundred pounds, be granted to Her 
the Exchequer. ’ S 


Majesty, to defray the charge of the Establishments 
of the Vice Treasurer and Teller of the Exchequer 
in Ireland, to the 31st day of March 1838. 

86. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Four 
thousand one hundred and fifty-seven pounds, be 


Proclamations, 


granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Expense of 


publishing Proclamations and printing the Statutes 
in Ireland, to the 31st day of March 1838. 


85. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Six thou- | 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Beet Root 
mittee, to whom it was referred to consider of im- S48" 

| posing a Duty on Sugar manufactured from Beet 

| Root; ; 

__ Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 

| itself into the said Committee. 


| The House, according to Order, resolved itself a 
‘into a Committee upon the Metropolis Police Offices pi), 
Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal re- 
age That the Committee had gone through the 
ill, and made Amendments thereunto. 


Ordered, That the Report be received this a 


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Mr. Bernal reported from the Committee to whom 
it was referred to consider of so much of the Excise | 
Acts as relates to the Duties on Malt, a Resolution, | 
which was read as followeth : | 

Resolved, That it is expedient to amend certain | 
Laws of Excise relating to the Duties on Malt. 

The said Resolution being read a second time 
was agreed to. 

Ordered, That a Bill be brought in upon the said 
Resolution: And that Mr. Bernal, Mr. Chancellor 
of the Exchequer and Mr. Baring do prepare, and 
bring it in. 


Malt Duties. 


Rolls Estate 


~ A Motion being made, That this House will, this 
Salaries. 


day, resolve itself into a Committee, to consider of 
authorizing the Payment, out of the Consolidated 
Fund of the United Kindom of Great Britain and 
Ireland, of an annual Salary to the Master of the 
Rolls, and to the Preacher of the Rolls Chapel; 

Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, by Her Ma- 
jesty’s command, acquainted the House, That Her 
Majesty having been informed of the subject-matter 
of this Motion, recommends it to the consideration 
of the House. 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 





| Mr. Senior : 


Limitation of —§ The Limitation of Actions Bill was, according to 


Actions Billy Order, read a second time; and committed to a 

Committee of the whole House, for To-morrow. | 

pai and The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
eas. 


mittee of Ways and Means; 
Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


Common Fields 


- The Order of the day being read, for the second | 


reading of the Common Fields Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
this day six months. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
further consideration, the Sixth of the Resolutions, 
which upon the 10th day of this instant June were 
reported from the Committee of Supply 

Ordered, That the said Resolution be taken into 
further consideration this day. 


Supply. 


Rolls Estate 


a The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 


mittee on the Rolls Estate Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


Final Register = ‘The Order of the day being read, for the second 
of Electors 2 


(No. 2.) Bill. a of the Final Register of Electors (No. 2.) 

ill ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put; That the Bill be now read a second 
time ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the old Lobby. 


The Noes to the new ag 

Tellers for the on = = gaia } 29. 
en : Sir Robert Inglis, 

Tellers for theN 088) Mr. Shaw : J 4, 


And it appearing, — the report of the Division 
by the Tellers, that Forty Members were not pre- 
sent, and it being then half an hour after one of the 
clock on Tuesday morning :—The House was ad- 
journed by Mr. Speaker without a Question first 
put, till this day. 


25°—27° Junie. 


509 


Martis, 27° die Junii ; 
Anno 1° Victorie Regine, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


MOTION was made, and the Question being Boiton and 
_proposed, That the ingrossed Bill for making a Rail- 
a Railway from Bolton-le-Moors to Preston, in the “9 ° 


County Palatine of Lancaster, be now read the third 


time ; 
The Amendments following were proposed to he 
made to the Question; viz. ‘To leave out the word 


“now” and at the end of the Question, to add the 


words “ upon this day three months.” 

And the Question being proposed, That the word 
“ now” stand part of the Question :—The said pro 
posed Amendment was, with leave of the House, 
withdrawn. 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read the third 
time :—The Bill was accordingly read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Lord Stanley do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Roupell and Message from 
the Lords, 
Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords desire a Conference, this day, at five Municipal 
o’clock, with this House, in the Committee-room, Corporations 
No. 5., upon the subject-matter of the Conference - 
had on Monday, the 12th day of this instant June, 
relative to the Amendments made to the Bill, in- 
tituled, An Act to amend an Act forthe Regulation 
of Municipal Corporations in England and Wales: 

—And then the Messengers withdrew. 

Resolved, That this House doth agree to a Con- 
ference with the Lords, as desired by their Lord- 
ships. 

And the Messengers were again called in; and 
Mr. Speaker acquainted them therewith :—And then 
they again withdrew. 


A Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act for natu- Martin’s 
ralizing Andrew Martin, was read the third time. +t: Bill- 
Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendment, 
do pass. 
Ordered, That Mr. William Crawford do carry 
the Bill to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this 
House hath agreed to the same, with an Amend- 
ment; to which Amendment this House doth desire 
the concurrence of their Lordships. 


A Petition of Subscribers to a Deed or Contract London and 
for making a Railway from London to Blackwall, Blackwall 
. s Commercial 
praying that they may be heard, by themselves, gaijway Bill. 
their counsel or agents, against certain parts of the 
London and Blackwall Commercial Railway Bill, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 


the Table. 


Lord Clanmorris’s Estate Bill was read a second Lord Clanmor- 
time ; and committed to Mr. Plumptre and the Kent t's Estate Bill 
List. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Belfast Harbour 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, (Ne 2 Bill. 
intituled, An Act for the formation of a new Cut or 
Channel, and for otherwise more effectually im- 
proving the Port and Harbour of Belfast ; and the 
same were read, as follow: 

Pr. 19. lines 4. and 5. After “ writing ” insert 
Clause (A.) 

Crausk (A.) “ Provided also, and be it further 
“ Enacted, That in case the said Company shall 
“ not form and complete the several docks, quays, 
“ wharfs and other works which they are hereby 
“ authorized to make in the said county of Down, 
“ within the space of Five years from the passing 





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“ of this Act, on any land purchased by them from 
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the Right honourable Arthur Lord Templemore, 
his heirs or assigns, such land shall, at the ex- 
piration of the said term of Five years, revert to 
the said Lord Templemore, his heirs or assigns, | 
with the same powers of forming docks, quays, 
wharfs and other works, and all other privileges 
and authorities whatsoever, estate and interest, 
as he or they may have possessed over the same 
at the time of such purchase.” 

Pr. 22. 1. 11. After “ land ” insert “ or ship.” 

Pr. 23. lines 35. and 36. Leave out from “ Thom- 
“ son” to “ And” in Pr. 24. 1.17. 

Pr. 29. 1. 25. Leave out from “be” to “ em-| 
powered ”’ in I, 26. 

Pr. 29. 1. 31. Leave out “ county ” and insert 
counties” and in the same line, after “ Antrim,” 
insert “ and Down, both or either of them.” 

Pr. 30. 1. 2. In the Interiineation : 

L. 1. Leave out “ either,” and in the same line, 
leave out from “ the” to “ adjacent ”’ in 1. 3. and in- 
sert “ said counties, both or either of them.” | 

Pr. 34. |. 28. After “ purchased ” insert “ and | 
“ filling up such of the old docks.” 

Pr. 36. lines 1. and 2. After “ assigns” insert 
or the owner for the time being of the same.” 

Pr. 37. 1. 26. After “land” insert “ or ship.” 

Pr. 39. 1. 26. After “ assigns” insert “ or the 
owner for the time being.” 

Pr. 40. 1. 3. After “ purposes” imsert Clause 
(B.) 


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not to land or ship goods or passengers without 
the license or authority of the said Corporation, 
such goods and passengers nevertheless to be free 
from all quay and dock dues ; and the said Cor- 
poration shall and may, if they think proper so 
to do, build, erect and keep up over any such 
passage or entrance a good and sufficient draw, 
swing or other bridge, to the intent that ships and 
vessels may at all times conveniently navigate 
such passage and entrance without preventing the 
passage of goods and persons across the same at 
convenient times, and that such bridge shall be 
kept in proper repair and condition by the said 
Corporation, and be at times capable of being 
raised or otherwise effectually moved and worked, 
so as to answer such purposes of navigation as 
aforesaid, by the said Lord Templemore and Nar- 
cissus Batt, their heirs or assigns, or such owners 
as aforesaid, or the persons authorized by him or 
them as aforesaid.” 
Pr. 113. 1. 24. Leave out “ hereinbefore,” and 

insert “ hereinafter.” 

Pr, 114. 1. 34. After “further” insert “ that the 
“ Earl of Belfast and.” 

Pr. 114. 1. 37. Leave out “ a Member,” and in- 
sert “‘ Members.” 

Pr, 114. 1. penult. Leave out “ his,” and insert 
“ their.” 

Pr. 114. 1. ult. Leave out “ life,” and insert 
*¢ lives.” 


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CriauseE (B.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
in case the said Corporation shall take and pur- | 
chase the foreshore or unreclaimed mud bank | 
marked No. 1. and the quays, wharfs and cuts | 
“ marked No. 2. in that part of Schedule (A.) here- | 
unto annexed, which refers to the county of Down, 
and in case the said Corporation shall embank | 
and form any quays and docks on the same, it 
shall and may be lawful to and for the Right | 
honourable Arthur Lord Templemore and Nar-| 
cissus Batt, Esquire, or either of them, his or| 
their heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, | 
or the owners for the time being of such foreshore | 
or unreclaimed mud bank, at his and their own | 
costs and charges, at any time or times hereafter 
to cut, make and maintain through and over the 
ground which may be taken by the said Corpora- 
tion for such embankments, quays, wharfs and 
docks on each side of the said intended new cut 
or channel, one passage or entrance immediately 
opposite the back stream, or adjoining the lands 
of the said Lord Templemore and Narcissus Batt, 
or such owner as aforesaid, not exceeding the 
breadth of Thirty feet, to the intent that ships, | 
barges and other vessels may safely and con- 
veniently enter into and go out of the present 
channel of the River Zagan, from and into the 
back stream adjoining the lands of the said Lord | 


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Lord Templemore and Narcissus Batt, or such | 
owner as aforesaid, or into any deck or docks | 


Templemore or Narcissus Batt, their heirs or | 
assigns, or such owner as aforesaid, upon their 


and for the said Lord Templemore and Narcissus 


said, his heirs and assigns, and all persons em- 
ployed by him or them, and all persons navigating 
with his or their license or authority into or out 
of the said back stream, dock or docks, to use 
the piers of such passage or entrance, in such 
manner as may be necessary to the safe and con- 
‘ venient passage of ships and vessels to and from 
the said back stream, and for that purpose to 
attach any rings thereto, or to erect one or more 
capstans or other mechanical engines thereon, but 


The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Emerson Tennent do carry 
the Bill to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this 
House hath agreed to the Amendments made by 
their Lordships. 


Mr. Callaghan reported from the Committee ap- Cork and Pas. 
— to mspect the Journals of the House of aa Railway 


ords, with relation to any proceedings upon the 
Cork and Passage Railway Bill, and to make Report 
thereof to the House; That they had inspected the 
said Journals accordingly, and had taken Copies of 
the Proceedings of the Lords thereupon; and the 
same were read, as follow: 


“ Die Veneris, 23° Junii, 1837. 


“The Earl of Shaftesbury reported from the Lords’ “ Cork and Pas- 


Committees appointed to consider of the Bill, in- 
tituled, An Act for making a Railway from Cork to 
Passage, and to whom were referred the Petition of 
the Mayor, Sheriffs and Commonalty of the city of 
Cork, under their common seal; also, the Petition 
of Michael Roberts, of the city of Cork, Esquire, 
one of the Harbour Commissioners of the said city ; 
and also the Petition of the several persons whose 
names are thereunto subscribed, being inhabitants 
of the city and county of Cork, taking notice of 


Templemore and Narcissus Batt, or such owner | the Cork and Passage Railway Bill, and severally 
as aforesaid, or from and into the land of the said | praying their Lordships that they may be heard, 


by themselves, their counsel, agents and witnesses, 
against the same, with leave to the Committee to 


which shall be constructed by the said Lord | hear counsel against, and in favour of the said Bill; 


that the Committee had met and considered the 
said Bill, and also the said Petitions, and had found 


own lands, such passage to be well and substan-| that the provisions required by the Standing Order, 

tially made, with proper and durable brick or | No. 12, respecting Railway Bills, to be inserted in 
° ‘ | . . . 

stone walls; and it shall and may be lawful to all such Bills, had been so inserted, except in the 


following particular, viz.; that it is proposed to cross 


Batt, or either of them, or such owner as afore- | on a level a certain old Road (not being a Turnpike 


Road), called the Ancient Long Ring Road; but 
it having been shown by Evidence before the Com- 
mittee that the above Road has been long out of 
| use, and left unrepaired, and is now quite impassable 
for carriages, the Committee are of opinion that 
the restrictions contained in the third section of the 
said Standing Order ought not in the said particular 
to be enforced with reference to this Bill; and the 
opposition to the Bill having been withdrawn, the 
Committee had not thought it necessary to inquire 
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into the matters of the Standing Orders of the House 
with regard to the proceedings of Committees on 
Railway Bills; and that the Committee had gone 
through the Bill, and directed him to report the 
same to the House, with some Amendments. 

“ Which Report being read by the Clerk ; 

“ Ordered, That the said Report do lie on the 
Table. 

“ Then the Amendments made by the Committee 
to the said Bill, were read by the Clerk, as follow ; 





27° Suniz. 





511 


or parts thereof as shall not be so sold and con- 
veyed, shall immediately, after the expiration of 
such ten years, vest in the owners for the time 
being of the lands adjoining such superfluous 
lands.’ r 
_ “ Pr. 172. 1.15. Leave out ‘ one hundred,’ and 
insert ‘ sixty-six.’ 

“ Pr. 217. lines 32. and 33. After ‘ empowered ’ 
insert ‘ notwithstanding any thing to the contrary 
‘ in this Act contained.’ 


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“Pr. 1. 1.18. After ‘ Majesty’ insert ‘ claims.’ 
“ L. 19. Leave out ‘ is,’ and insert ‘to be en-|_ 
titled, and the Mayor and Corporation of the | : 
City of Cork also claim to be.’ | 


“ Pr. 5. 1.29. Leave out from ‘ them’ to ‘ and’ | 





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“ Pr. 11. 1. 9. After ‘ Cork’ insert Clause (A.) 

“ Crause (A.) ‘ And whereas it having been 
alleged by the harbour commissioners and the Cor- 
poration of the city of Cork, that it may be expe- 
dient that the proposed line of Railway over the 
slab or land marked numbers 6 and 7 upon the 
maps deposited with the respective Clerks of the | &lt; 
Peace, should be made south of the present line | &lt; 
marked upon the said maps to the extent of One |&lt; 
hundred yards authorized by this Act; Be it there- |&lt; 
fore Enacted, That in case the said Corporation of | &lt; 
Cork, and the harbour commissioners of the said | &lt; 
city, shall within three months after the passing of | &lt; 
this Act, require the said Company to make a |&lt; 
deviation of the line of the said Railway to an |; 
extent not exceeding One hundred yards south of | . 
the said present line of Railway over the said slab 
marked numbers 6 and 7, commencing on that 
part of the slab nearest to the city of Cork, and |&lt; 
continuing at such deviation to the south of the | &lt; 
line laid down, to aright line to be drawn between | ; 
the centre of the eastern stairs of the old naviga- | « 
tion wall, and the centre of the dwelling-house of | ; 
John Cogan, Esquire, in the Diamond Quarry, in | &lt; 
the Blackrock Road, then the said Company shall | . 
and they are hereby required to make such de-'! &lt; 
viation accordingly: Provided always, That the |&lt; 
breadth of the said Railway over any part of the | 

said slab, shall not exceed Fifty yards.’ | 





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“ Pr. 219. lL. ult. After ‘ authorized’ insert Clause 


(C.) 


“ Cause (C.) ‘ Provided always, and be it 
Enacted, that the rates or tolls and charges to be 
taken and made for the use of the said Railway, 
or for the carriage of any passengers, goods, 
animals, or other matters or things to be conveyed 
by the said Company, or for the use of any steam 
power or carriage to be supplied by the said Com- 
pany, shall be at all times charged equally to all 
persons, and after the same rate per mile, or per 
ton per mile, or after any other manner in which 
such rates and charges are herein directed or au- 
thorized to be taken or charged throughout the 
whole of the said Railway in respect of all pas- 
sengers, and of all goods, animals or carriages of 
a like description, and conveyed or propelled by 
a like carriage or engine; and no reduction or 
advance in any of the rates and tolls hereinbefore 
granted or authorized to be charged, or in any 
charge for conveyance by the said Company, or 
for the use of any locomotive power to be supplied 
by them, shall be made either directly or indirectly 
in favour of or against any particular company or 
person, or be confined to any particular part of 
the said Railway, but every reduction or advance 
in any rate, toll or charge to be taken by the said 
Company in respect of passengers, or any descrip- 
tion of goods, carriages or animals carried on the 
Railway, or for the use of any carriage or loco- 
motive power, shall extend to and take place 
at the same time throughout the whole and every 
part of the said Railway, in respect of such pas- 
sengers, goods, carriages, animals, carriage or 
locomotive power, as the case may be.’ 

“ Pr, 251. 1. penult. After ‘ highway’ insert ‘ or.’ 
“ Ordered, That the said Amendments be taken 


_ “ Pr, 36. 1, 33. Leave out from ‘ feet,’ to ‘and’ | into further consideration upon this day six months.” 
in |. 36. and insert Clause (B.) 


“ Criavuse (B.) ‘ Provided always, and be it fur- | 
ther Enacted, That nothing in this Act contained | 
shall extend to empower the said Company to | 
carry the said Railway across any turnpike-road | 





Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 


The House was moved, That the Report in respect 


or other highway on the level of such road, but of the Petition for the Cork and Passage Railway 
either the said Railway shall be carried over such | Bill, which, upon the 7th day of March last, was 
turnpike-road or other highway, or such turnpike- | made from the Select Committee on Petitions for 


road or other highway shall be carried over the | Private Bills, 


might be read; and the same being 


saic ailwa - means of a bridge, s read ; 
1 Railway by f a bridge, save and | read ; 


except as hereinafter is provided, videlicet ; an old | 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 


road called the ancient Long Ring Road, which | fo, making a Railway from the City of Cork to the 
has long been unrepaired, and is now quite im-| Town of Passage: And that Mr. Callaghan and 


passable for carriages.’ 

“ Pr. 65. 1. 4, Leave out from ‘ facts’ to ‘ pro- 
vided ’ in Pr. 68. 1. 21. 

“ Pr, 104. 1. 36. Leave out ‘ such,’ and insert 
the.’ 





Mr. Hamilton do prepare, and bring it in. 


Cork and Pas. 
sage Railway 
(No. 2.) 


A Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act for Hina’s 


“ Pr. 104, 1. 37. After ‘ therein’ insert ‘ in re- | certain Farm called Broomy Hali Farm, situate in 
spect of whose interest such money shall be paid.’ the Township of Dalton, in the Parish of Newburn, 


“ Pr. 119. 1. 23. Leave out ‘or to let or set.’ 


‘in the County of Northumberland, devised in strict 


“ Py, 119. lines 26. and 27. After ‘ reascnable,’ | settlement by the Will of Elizabeth Archer Hind, 
insert ‘and they are hereby required, within ten | Spister, deceased, and for applying the Money 


years after the passing of this Act.’ 


| thence arising in the purchase of other hereditaments 


“ Pr, 119. 1. 28. Leave out from ‘ thereof’ to | in lieu thereof, to be settled to the like uses, was 


any’ in |. 29. 


iread the third time; and the Amendments follow- 


“Pr, 122. 1. 18. After ‘ Act’ insert ‘ Provided | ing were made to the Bill. 


always, That if such superfluous lands, or any | 


Pr. 8. 1.24. Leave out “ King’s, and insert 


part thereof, shall not be sold and conveyed by the | “ Queen’s.” 


said Company as aforesaid within the space of ten 


years after the passing of this Act, then such part | 
Vox. 92. 





Pr. 15. 1. 25. Leave out “ King’s,” and insert 


“ Queen’s.” 


374 Pr. 


|carrying into effect a Contract entered into with Mstete Bill. 
| Edward Riddell, Esquire, for the sale to him of a 








Cork and Pas- 
sage Railway 
(No. 2.) Bill. 


Blochairn 


Caual Bill. 


Adams’s 
Estate Bill. 


Stewart's 
Estate Biil. 





Church Rates 
Regulation. 


Lord's Day Bill. 


Tobacco, 


Municipal 
Corporations 


(Ireland) Bill. 


Prisons 


(Scutlund) Bill. 


Insolvent 
Debtors Act. 


Arts (Foreign 
Countries.) 






512 


Pr. 15. 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 16. 1. 23. Leave out “ King’s,’ 
“ Queen’s.” 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Hodgson Hinde do carry the 
Bill to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this 
House hath agreed to the same, with Amendments ; 
to which Amendments this House doth desire the 
concurrence of their Lordships. 


1. 26. Leave out “ His,’ and imsert 


? 


and insert 


Mr. Callaghan presented a Bill for making a Rail- 
way from the City of Cork to the Town of Passage : 
And the same was read the first time ; and ordered 
to be read a second time upon Thursday next. 


Ordered, That the Blochairn Canal Bill be read 


the third time To-morrow. 


Adams’s Estate Bill was read a second time ; and 
committed to Mr. Tooke and the Somerset List. 


A Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act to enable 
the Tutors and Curators of Sir Michael Robert Shaw 
Stewart, Baronet, to grant Feu Rights of the Estate 
of Greenock, and other Lands in the County of 
Renfrew, was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Patrick Stewart do carry the 
Bill to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this 
House hath agreed to the same, with Amendments ; 
to which Amendments this House doth desire the 
concurrence of their Lordships. 


A Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen, Councillors, 
Clergy and other Inhabitants of Congleton, praying 
that the proposed measure relative to Church Rates 
may not receive the sanction of the House, was 
— and read; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 


Petitions from Inhabitants of Marple ;-—and, the 
Minister and Office-bearers of the Congregation of 
Lady Glenorchy’s Chapel, in the city of Edinburgh ; 
praying that the Lord’s Day Bill may be permitted 
to go into a Committee of the whole House, —were 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 


Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Knutsford, praying 
for a reduction of the Duty on Tobacco, was pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 


Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Cloonclare, praying 
that the Municipal Corporations (Jreland) Bill may 
pass into a law, was presented, and read; and or- 
dered to lie upon the Table. 


A, Petition of Directors of the Society for the im- 
srovement of Prison Discipline in Scotland ; pray- 
ing that the Prisons (Scot/and) Bill may pass into a 
law, was presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upcn the Table. 


A Petition of Charles Montriou, of the city of 
Westminster, Attorney-at-Law and Solicitor, pray- 
ing for the amendment of the Insolvent Debtors 
Act, was presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


Lord Viscount Palmerston presented, by Her Ma- 
jesty’s command,—Return (6) of Communications 
made to and received from Her Majesty’s Ministers 
Abroad, respecting the encouragement given to the 
cultivation of the Arts in Foreign Countries. 


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A. 1837. 


Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Lords upon the subj 
to the Munici al Corporations Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Managers who managed the 
last Conference do manage this Conference :—And 
the names of Sir John Hobhouse, Sir John Wrottes- 
ley, Mr. Alston, Sir Andrew Leith Hay, Mr. Patrick 
Stewart, Lord Viscount Morpeth, Lord George Len- 
nox, Mr. Hume, and Sir Ronald Ferguson, were 
added to them. 
Then the names of the Managers were called over, 
and they went to the Conference :—And being re- 
turned, 
Mr. Attorney General reported, That the Mana- 
gers had met the Lords at the Conference, which 
was managed on the part of the Lords by the Earl 
of Shaftesbury; who acquainted them, that the 
Lords, having taken into consideration the Reasons 
given by the Commons for disagreeing to several 
Amendments made by the Lords to the Municipal 
Corporations Bill, do insist upon some of the Amend- 
ments to which this House hath disagreed, for which 
they gave their Reasons ; do agree to some of the 
Amendments made by this House to the Amend- 
ments made by their Lordships, without Amend- 
ment; and to one of the said Amendments, with an 
Amendment, to which they desire the concurrence 
of this House. 

Ordered, That the said Reasons and Amend- 
ments be taken into further consideration upon 
Thursday next; and be printed. 


Mr. Thornely reported from the Select Committee 
to whom several Petitions relative to the Signatures 


Railway, were referred ; 
Petitions relative to the Subscription Lists for several : 


powered to report their observations thereupon, 
gether with the Minutes of the Evidence taken before 
them from time to time to the House; That they 
had further considered the matters to them referred ; 
(so far as regards the Subscription List for the 
Westminster Bridge and Greenwich Railway) and 
had directed him to make a Report thereof to the 
House, together with the Minutes of Evidence taken 
before them, and an Appendix. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Mr. Thornely also reported from the said Select 
Committee, That they had further considered the 


smith (City) Railway) and had directed him to make 
a Report thereof to the House, together with the 


an Appendix. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be prinied. 


Lord John Russell reported to the House, 
their Address of Thursday last to Her Majesty, “ to 
express to Her Majesty the deep affliction which we 
feel at the death of the late King, whose unremitting 
anxiety for the promotion of the national interests, 
for the maintenance of our Liberties, and for the im- 
provement of our Laws and Institutions, render his 
Name and Memory the just objects of the veneration 
and dutiful affection of Her Majesty’s faithful sub- 
jects: 

“That this House humbly offers to Her Ma- 
jesty its respectful congratulations on Her accession 
to the Throne of the United Kingdom, feeling the 
most loyal and devoted attachment to Her Majesty, 
and trusting that Almighty God may strengthen and 
direct Her Majesty’s Councils for the ne 

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The time being come for the Conference with the Municipal 


ect-matter of the Amendments pe 


Porations. 


No. 427, 


Second Report 
from Committee 
aha 3 on Deptford 
to the Subscription List for the Deptford and Dover and Dover 
and to whom certain other Railway Sub- 
cription List 

, Westminster 
other Railways, were referred; and who were em- bridge and 
to- Greenwich 
Railway Sub- 
scription List.} 


Third Report 
from d° Com- 


. ml 
matters to them referred ; (so far as regards the [Southwark ané 
Subscription List for the Southwark and Hammer- Hammersmith 
(City) Railway 
Subscription 
List.J 


Minutes of the Evidence taken before them, and No, 499, 


: Answer to 
That Addresses. 


No. 428. 


ttee 








London and 
Brighton 
Railways, 


London and 
Blackwall 
Commercial 


Railway Bill. 


London and 
Greenwich 
Railway 

(No. 2.) Bill. 


East T hickley 
and Frosterley 
Railway Bill. 





1 Vicroriz. 


of the Rights and Liberties of Her faithful people, the 
promotion of their true and permanent interests, 
and the advancement of religion and morality 
throughout Her Majesty’s Dominions,” had been 
presented to Her Majesty; and that Her Majesty 
was pleased to receive the same very graciously, and 
to give the following Answer : 


VICTORIA R. 

I receive, with the most sincere satisfaction, the 
loyal Address of the House of Commons. 

The assurance that My affliction for the death of 
his late Majesty meets with the sympathy of the 
House of Commons, and that they lament with Me 
the loss which the Nation has sustained, is consola- 
tory to My feelings, and in accordance with My ex- 

ectations. 

It shall be the study of My life to preserve the 
Liberties, to promote the welfare, and to maintain 
undiminished the ancient glory of My ~s 


Lord John Russell also reported to the House, 
That their Address of Friday last to Her Majesty, 
“ dutifully to acknowledge the Communication which 
Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to make to 
this House; to express to Her Majesty the deep 
sense which this House entertains of Her Majesty’s 
consideration of the public convenience, in being 
unwilling to recommend for adoption, in the present 
state of Public Business, and at this period of the 
Session, when considered in connection with the 
Law that imposes upon Her Majesty the duty of 
summoning a new Parliament within a limited time, 
any new measure, with the exception of such as 
may be necessary to carry on the Public Service 
from the close of the present Session to the meeting 
of a new Parliament : 

“To assure Her Majesty, that this House will 
apply itself without delay to forward such measures 
as will not admit of postponement without injury to 
the Public interest ; and to make such provision for 
the Public Service as may be requisite for the fulfil- 
ment of Her Majesty’s gracious intentions, and the 
welfare of the United Kingdom,” had been presented 
to Her Majesty, and that Her Majesty was pleased 
to receive the same very graciously, and to give the 
following Answer : 


VICTORIA R. 

I receive, with great satisfaction, your loyal and 
dutiful Address. 

It is very gratifying to Me to learn that the House 
of Commons will apply itself without delay to for- 
ward such measures as will not admit of postpone- 
ment without injury to the Public interest, and to 
make such provision for the Public Service as ma 
be requisite for the welfare of the United Kingdom. 


¥. &amp;. 


Lord John Russell presented, pursuant to an Ad- 
dress to his late Majesty,— Report of the Military 
Engineer appointed in pursuance of an Address of 
the House of Commons to his late Majesty, on the 
several Lines of Brighton Railway. 

Ordered, That the said Report be taken into con- 
sideration To-morrow ; and be printed. 


Ordered, That the Report on the London and 
Blackwall Commercial Railway Bill be taken into 
further consideration To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
further consideration the Report on the London and 
Greenwich Railway (No. 2.) Bill; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration To-morrow. 


Ordered, That the Report on the East Thickley 
and Frosterley Railway Bill be taken into further 
consideration To-morrow. 


Vou. 92. 


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513 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to take Forgery Bill. 
into further consideration the Report on the Forgery 
Bill; and the Amendments, with an Amendment to 
one of them, were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed; and read the third time uvon Friday 
next. 


A Message from the Lords by Mr. Roupell and Message from 

Mr. Senior : the Lords. 
Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Shire HallsBill. 

Act to explain and amend an Act of the seventh 
year of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, 
to provide for improving and rebuilding Shire Halls, 
County Halls and other Buildings, for holding the 
Assizes and Grand Sessions, and also Judges’ Lodg- 
ings, throughout England and Wales, with Amend- 
ments; to which Amendments the Lords desire the 
concurrence of this House: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Pillory 
Act to abolish the Punishment of the Pillory, with Punishment 
Amendments ; to which Amendments the Lords de- eo 
sire the concurrence of this House: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Ipswich 
Act to amend the several Acts for paving, lighting, —_— 
cleansing and otherwise improving the Town of [ps- - 
wich, in the County of Suffolk, and for removing 
and preventing Encroachments, Obstructions and 
Annoyances therein, with Amendments; to which 
Amendments the Lords desire the concurrence of 
this House: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Ipswich 
Act to amend an Act of the forty-fifth year of the Pek Bill. 
reign of King George the Third, for improving and 
rendering more commodious the Port of Ipswich, 
and for constructing a Wet Dock there, with Anyend- 
ments; to which Amendments the Lords desire the 
concurrence of this House: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Leicester and 
Act to enable the Leicester and Swannington Rail- et 

a ts ilway Bill, 
way Company to raise a further Sum of Money, 
with Amendments; to which Amendments the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House: And 
also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Welland Outfall 
Act to increase the Tonnage Rates and Duties Preinase Bill 
granted by an Act passed in the fifth year of the 
reign of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, 
for improving the Outfall of the River Welland, in 
the County of Lincoln ; and to alter and enlarge the 
powers of the said Act, with Amendments; to 
which Amendments the Lords desire the concur- 
rence of this House: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Warkworth 
Act for forming a Harbour in the Parish of Wark- Harbour Bill. 
worth,in the County of Northumberland, by improving 
the Navigation of the River Coquet, and for render- 
ing the same safe and commodious, and easy of 
access, with Amendments; to which Amendments 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House: 

And also, 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Sheriff, &amp;c. 
to interpret the Words “ Sheriff,” “ Sheriff Clerk,” (Scotland) Bill, 
“ Shire,” “ Sheriffdom,” and “ County,” occurring 
in Acts of Parliament relating to Scotland ; to which 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House : 

And also, 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Jackson’s 
for extending the By to grant Building Leases 5state Bill. 
contained in the Will of Randle Jackson, Esquire, 
deceased, and for other purposes; to which the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House :—And 
then the Messengers withdrew. 


into Offencesagainst 
the Person Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for takin 
further consideration the Report on the Offences 
against the Person Bill:—The Bill was re-committed 
to a Committee of the whole House:—And the 

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House immediately resolved itself into the said 
Committee. 
(In the Committee.) 


Bill read 1°; to be read 2°, Paragraph by Para- 


~~ 
reamble postponed. 

Cravuse, N° 1, agreed to. 

Crausez, N° 2, (Punishment of Death for certain 
offences against the Person) read. 

Motion made, and Question put: At the end of 
the Clause, P. 2. 1. 17. to add the words “ or shall 
“ be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be 
“ transported beyond the Seas for the term of the 
“ natural life of such person, or for any term not 
“ Jess than Fifteen years.” 

The Committee divided : 
Tellers for thef Mr. O’ Connell, 





Yeas, L Mr. Grote: os. 
Tellers for thef Mr. Attorney General, } 60 
Noes, \ Mr. Solicitor General : : 


CrauseE, N° 2, agreed to. 

Ciausess, N° 3 to N° 7, amended, and agreed to. 
Crausss, N°8 and N° 9, agreed to. 

Cxavuses, N° 10 and N° 11, agreed to. 


Preamble agreed to. 
Bill, as amended, to be reported. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 
Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 
Robbery and 


Stealing from 
the Person Bill, 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
further consideration the Report on the Robbery 
and Stealing from the Person Bill :—The Bill was 








re-committed to a Committee of the whole House: 
—And the House immediately resolved itself into | 
the Committee ; and, after some time spent therein, | 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal | 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 
Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 


Burglary and The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
Stealing in @ further consideration the Report on the Burglary 
Dwelling-house . . ‘ . : of 
Bill. and Stealing in a Dwelling-house Bill:—The Bill 
was re-committed to a Committee of the whole 

House :—And the House immediately resolved itself 

into the Committee; and, after some time spent 

therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair, and Mr. 

Bernal reported, That the Committee had gone 

through the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 


Piracy Dill. The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
further consideration the Report on the Piracy Bill: 


—The Bill was re-committed to a Committee of the 


whole House:—And the House immediately resolved | 


itself into the Committee; and, after some time 
spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair, and 
Mr. Bernal reported, That the Committee had 
gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 


Burning or The Order of the day being read, for taking into 


—— ; further consideration the Report on the Burning or 
ulldings anc allie : Se -, Se  — ’ TT 
Ships Bill. destroying Buildings and Ships Bill:—The Bill was 


re-committed to a Committee of the whole House :— 





A. 1837. 


Committee of the whole House:—And the House 
immediately resolved itself into the Committee ; and, 
after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed 
the Chair, and Mr. Bernal reported, That the 
Committee had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Punishment of 
further consideration the Report on the Punishment Peth Bill, 
of Death Bill:—The Bill was re-committed to a 
Committee of the whole House:—And the House 
immediately resolved itself into the Committee ; and, 
after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed 
the Chair, and Mr. Bernal reported, That the Com- 
mittee had made Progress in the Bill; and that he 
was directed to move, That the Committee may have 
leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Sugar Duties 
into a Committee upon the Sugar Duties Bill; ®" 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker re- 
sumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal reported, That 
the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 


Mr. Fox Maule presented, pursuant to several Police Offices 


Addresses to his late Majesty,—A Return of the (London) 


Number of Persons charged with Felony ; and, also, of 
the Number of Persons charged with Misdemeanor, 
under the 10th, 11th and 12th sections of the Act 
5 Geo. 4, c. 83, and under the Act 3 Will. 4, c. 19, 
brought before the different Police Offices during 
the last twelve months, and of the disposal of the 
Persons so charged. 

A Copy of the Charter recently granted to the Durham 
University of Durham. University. 
Mr. Fox Maule also presented, pursuant to an Durham 
Address to Her Majesty,—A Copy of the Memorial University. 
of the Warden and Senate of the University of Dur- 
ham to the Secretary of State for the ~ boa De- 
partment; and Copies of the Correspondence be- 
tween the Secretary of State and the Bishop of 
Durham, on the subject of the Charter for the Uni- 

versity of Durham. 
Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Church Church Build- 
Building Commission, which was presented upon img Commission. 
the 16th day of this instant June, be printed. No. 437. 

Ordered, That the Account relative to the Audit Audit Board. 
Board, which was presented upon the 19th day of No. 438. 
this instant June, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Return relative to Ecclesiasti- Ecclesiastical 
cal Benefices, which was presented upon Thursday ae 
last, be printed. No. 439. 

Ordered, That the Return relative to Tithes Com- Tithes’ Com- 
mutation, which was presented upon Friday last, be ™utaticn. 
printed. No. 440. 

Ordered, That the Return relative to Committees Committees | 
on Private Bills, which was presented upon Friday Private Bills. 
last, be printed. No. 441. 

Ordered, That the Paper relative to Colonial Colonial 
Legislatures, which was presented upon Friday last, a 
be printed. No, 442. 





And the House immediately resolved itself into the 
Committee ; and, after some time spent therein, 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair, and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 


Transportation | The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
for Lite Bill. further consideration the Report on the Transporta- 
tion for Life Bill:—The Bill was re-committed to a 


Ordered, That the List relative to Special Justices Special Justices 
|(Slavery Abolition Act), which was presented upon aay Abo- 
i wb: ~ . ithon Act.) 

Friday last, be referred to the Select Committee on 
| Negro Apprenticeship. 
| The House, according to Order, resolved itself Wills Bill, 
| into a Committee upon the Wills Bill. 


(In the Committee.) 
Bill read 1°, to be read 2°, Paragraph by Para- 


graph, 
- . CLavsss, 


| 
| 








Beet Root 
Sugar. 


Tithes Com- 


mutation Bill, 


Coroners’ 
Inquests? 


Expenses Bill. 


1 VicroriZ. 


Crausss, N° 1 to N° 6, amended, and agreed to. 


Ciause, N° 7, (No Person to be capable of 
making a Will under the age of twenty-one years) 
read. 

Amendment proposed: P. 5. 1. 32. To leave 
out “ Twenty-one” and insert “ Eighteen.” 

Question, That “ Twenty-one” stand part of the 
Clause put and agreed to. 

Motion made, and Question put, That Clause 
N° 7, stand part of the Bill. 

The Committee divided : 

Mr. Robert Steuart, 

Tellers for the Yeas, { Mr. Charles Wood: 

} Sir Robert Inglis, 

Tellers for the Noes, Mr. Plumptre : 

Cuause, N° 8, agreed to. 


Crausz, N° 9. (Wills to be attested in the pre- 
sence of two witnesses) read. 

Motion made, and Question put, That the fol- 
lowing Proviso, “ Provided always, That any Will, 
“ Codicil or other Testamentary Paper, disposing 
of Personal Property, which shall be written 
“ wholly by the Testator, and dated either in the 
“ introduction or at the close, or in any part thereof, 
“and signed by him at the foot thereof, shall be 
“ valid to all intents and purposes, without need of 
any attestation thereto, or of any acknow!edgment 
of the same before witnesses,” be added at the 
end of the Clause ; 

The Committee divided : 

Tellers for the { Sir Robert Inglis, 
Yeas, Mr. Plumpire : 

Tellers for the f Mr. Solicitor General, 
Noes, Mr. Labouchere, 

Crause, N° 9, agreed to. 

Cxavuszs N° 10 to N° 36, agreed to. 

Bill as amended to be reported. 








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Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 


The House, acsording to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee, to consider of imposing a Duty 
on Sugar made from Beet Root. 


(In the Committee.) 

Motion made, and Question put, That upon every 
hundred weight of Sugar manufactured from Beet 
Root, in the United Kingdom, there shall be charged 
a Duty of One pound four shillings. 

The Committee divided : 


§ Mr. Robert Gordon, ) 
Tellers for the Yeas, b Bie. Sale Pater 4 p72 


L 
Tellers for the Noes, Major Bez eile } 19. 


Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Reso- 
lution. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee upon the Tithes Commutation Bill; 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal reported, That 
the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 


The ingrossed Bill to provide for payment of the 
Expenses of holding Coroners’ Inquests, was, accord- 
ing to Order, read the third time ; and Amendments 
were made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 

Vo. 92, 


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515 


And the House having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Wednesday morning ; 


Mercurii, 28° die Junti, 1837: 


The ingrossed Bill to abolish certain Offices in the Common Law 
Superior Courts of Common Law, and to make pro- Courts Bill. 
vision for a more effective and uniform Establishment 
of Officers in those Courts, was, according to Order, 
read the third time; and ingrossed Clauses were 
added, by way of Riders, and Amendments were 
made to the Bill. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Bill in Pr. 3. 1. 38. by leaving out the word 
“ five,” and inserting the word “ four,” instead 
thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the word 
“ five,” stand part of the Bull; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the old Lobby; 

The Noes to the new Lobby. 

Tellers for the f Mr. Serjeant Goulburn, 

Yeas, Mr. More O’ Ferrall: 

Tellers for the { Mr. Harvey, 

Noes, Mr, Tooke : 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Then other Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Serjeant Goulburn do carry the 
Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Van. 
ya 


The Coroners (Durham) Bill was, according to Coroners _ 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a (Durham) Bill. 
Committee of the whole House, for this day. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Rolls Estate 
into a Committee, to consider of authorizing the [Salaries.] 
Payment, out of the Consolidated Fund of the United 
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, of an annual 
Salary to the Master of the Rolls,and to the Preacher 
of the Rolls Chapel. 


(In the Committee.) 


1. Resolved, That an annual Salary of Seven thou- 
sand pounds be paid to the Master of the Rolls, out 
of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom 
of Great Britain and Ireland, in lieu of the Rents 
of the Rolls Estate, and any Salary and Fees to 
which he is now entitled. 

2. Resolved, That an annual Sum of Two hundred 
and twenty-five pounds be paid to the Preacher at 
the Rolls Chapel, out of the said Consolidated Fund, 
in lieu of the yearly payments now made out of the 
Rents and Profits of the said Rolls Estate, to be 
applied under the direction of the Master of the 
Rolls, in payment of the expenses of the said Chapel. 

Resolutions to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Robert 
Steuart reported, That the Committee had come to 
several Resolutions. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Come Inclosure 
mittee on the Inclosure Awards Bill ; Awards Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Medical 
further consideration the Report on the Medical Charities 
Charities (Ireland) Bill; (Ireland) Bill. 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon this day three months. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Summary 
reading of the Summary Convictions (Juvenile Of- pense 
fenders), (No. 2.) Bill ; Offenders) 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time this (No. 2.) Bill. 


day. 


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Treasurers 


a The Treasurers of Counties (Ireland) Bill was, ac- 
Clrelend) Bille cording to Order, read a second time; and com- 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for this 

day. 


Sheriffs’ Fees 


ar The ingrossed Bill for better regulating the Fees 
Alle 


payable to Sheriffs, Under-Sheriffs and Bailiffs upon 
the execution of Civil Process, was, according to 
Order, read the third time ; and Amendments were 
made to the Bill. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made to 
the Bill in Pr. 2. 1. 38. by inserting, after the word 
“ respectively” the words “ Provided always, That 
“ from and after the passing of this Act, all and 

every defendant who shall be arrested or detained 

in execution upon a Writ or Writs of capias ad 
satisfaciendum, shall be liable and compellable 
to pay the Sheriff’s poundage upon the debt or 
demand indorsed, to levy upon such Writ of capias 
ad satisfaciendum ; but in case the defendant shall 
render to prison, and shall not pay the poundage 
of right payable to the Sheriff, then the plaintiff 
or plaintiffs in such suit or suits to be liable to the 

Sheriff for such poundage, as at present.” 

And the Question being put, That those words 
be there inserted :—It passed in the Negative. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act for better regulating the Fees 
— to Sheriffs upon the Execution of Civil 

rocess. 

Ordered, That Mr. Tooke do carry the Bill to the 
Lord, and desire their concurrence. 

Poor Employ- The Order of the day being read, for the second 
— (Ireland) yeading of the Poor Employment (Zreland) Bill; 

; Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
this day three months. 


Civil Bill Courts The Civil Bill Courts (Jreland) Bill was, accord- 
(Ireland) Bill. ing to Order, read a second time; and committed 
to a Committee of the whole House, for this day. 


The Order of the day being read, for receiving the 
Report from the Committee of Supply ; 
Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 


Supply. 


Metropolis Mr. Robert Steuart reported the Metropolis Police 
Police Offices Offices Bill; and the Amendments were read, and 
ou. agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time this day. 

Supply. The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
further consideration the sixth of the Resolutions 
which, upon the 10th day of this instant June, were 
reported from the Committee of Supply ; 

Ordered, That the said Resolution be taken into 
further consideration this day. 


Final Register 
of Eiectors 


(No. 2) Bill. 


Ordered, That the Final Register of Electors 
(N° 2) Bill be read a second time this day. 


Sent Ordered, That the Jewish Marriages Bill be read 


Marriages Bill. a second time this day. 


Controverted 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday, 
Elections Bill. the 6th day of July next, resolve itself into a Com- 
mittee upon the Controverted Elections Bill. 


Freemen’s Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, resolve 
Admission Bill. itself into a Committee upon the Freemen’s Admis- 
sion Bill. 


Railroads and = Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
— Works itself into a Committee upon the Railroads and 
- Public Works Bill. 


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A. 1837. 


Ordered, That the Report on the Sheriffs Courts Sheriffs Coarts 
Bill be taken into further consideration this day. B#- 


Ordered, That the Attornies and Solicitors Bill Attornies and 
be read the third time this day. Solicitors Bill, 


Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, resolve Bills of 


itself into a Committee upon the Bills of Exchange Pxchange Bill. 
Bill. 


Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve Creditors 
itself into a Committee upon the Creditors (Scot- (Scotland) Bil. 
land) Bill. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill First Fruits au 
for the Consolidation of the Boards of First Fruits, — &amp;e,, 
Tenths and Queen Anne’s Bounty: And that Mr. - 

Gally Knight and Lord Viscount Sandon do prepare, 


and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill China Cours 
to authorize the establishing a Court or Courts with Bill. 
Criminal and Admiralty and Civil Jurisdiction in 
China: And that Lord Viscount Palmerston and 
Sir John Hobhouse do prepare, and bring it in. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- Tithe Composi- 
posed, That there be laid before this House, Copies tivn (Ireland,) 
of all Official Orders or Instructions which have been 
issued since the appointment of the Earl of Mulgrave 
as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, up to the present 
time, with reference to the employment of Militar 
Forces on occasions connected with the levy of the 
Tithe Composition in [reland :—Also, Copies of all 
Official Orders, Regulations or Instructions which 
have been issued during the same period, with 1e- 
ference to the Employment or Duties of the Con- 
stabulary on like occasions :—Also, Copies of any 
Official Communications which have been received 
by Government with reference to the Proceedings of 
the Constabulary Force under the command of Mr. 
John Whitaker, Chief Constable, on the 13th day of 
May last, at Drimrath near Ballymote, in the county 
of Sligo, in seizing a Cow, the property of Mark 
Brehony ; and again, ina second seizure of six Cows 
and a Horse on the 30th day of May last, the pro- 
perty of Thomas Brehony ; and under what authority 
such seizures were made :—And a Debate arising 
thereupon ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till this 
day. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Law Commis- 
Return, showing in columns the Sums expended sion (Scotland.) 
each year respectively, by the Law Commission of 
Scotland since its commencement, and ending 1st 
June 1837, also the Sum Total ; stating the Expenses 
of Commissioners, of Secretary, of Witnesses, of 
printing and transcribing ; distinguishing the Dates 
of printing and re-printing each Report, the Number 
of Reports made in each year, the heads of Inquiry 
issued, those unreported on at present, and the 
reasons for not being reported on; also, the Number 
of times the Commissioners have met in each year, 
and the Number present at each Meeting. 





Ordered, That leave be given to bring ina Bill to Military. 
continue Military Commissions, and Commissions in Fammsso"* 
the Royal Marines, in force, notwithstanding the de- oss 
mise of the Crown: And that Lord Viscount Howick 
and Mr. Baring do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed, to Militia 

roo Estimates of the Charge of the disembodied Estimates 
lilitia for a year, to the 31st March 1838 :--And a 
Committee was appointed of Lord Viscount Howick, 
Sir Henry Hardinge, Mr. Fox Maule, Mr. Hume, 
Mr. Gore Langton, Colonel Perceval, Mr. Ayshford 
Sanford, Mr. Robert Gordon, Colonel Grey, Lord 
Viscount 








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Viscount Clive, Mr. Eaton, Mr. More O’ Ferrall, 


517 


Representation of the People in Ireland: And the 


Mr. Hawes, Lord Arthur Lennox, Mr. Shaw Lefevre, 
and all Colonels of Militia, with Power to send for 
persons, papers and records. 


same was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time upon Thursday next ; and to be 
printed. 


Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. Jackson's Estate Bill was read the first time ; and Jackson’s 


re ec t Estate Bill. 


The House was moved, That the Act 4 and 5 
Bill. 


Will. 4, c. 94,to enable His Majesty to invest Trading 
and other Companies with the Powers necessary for 
the due conduct of their Affairs, and for the security 


The Sheriff, &amp;c. (Scotland) Bill was read the first Sheriff, &amp;c. " 
time; and ordered to be read a second time To- (Scotland) Bill. 
morrow ; and to be printed. No. 436. 


Dean and 
Chapter of 
Durham. 


Court of 
Exchequer 
(Scotland) Bill. 


No. 430. 


Military 
Commissions 


of the rights and interests of their Creditors, might 
be read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for better enabling Her Majesty to: confer certain 
Powers and Immunities on Trading and other Com- 
panies: And that Mr. Poulett Thomson and Mr. 
Attorney General do prepare, and bring it in. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of all Proceedings (now existing in 
the Privy Council Office and in the Treasury of the 
County Palatine of Durham), with regard to the 
Tenant right of the Lessees of the Dean and Chapter 
of Durham, and the decisions with regard to the 
same in the reigns of Elizabeth and Charles the 
Second, and during the Usurpation. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
Her Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of Her Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Mr. Robert Steuart presented a Bill to render 
valid certain Acts done in the performance of Duties 
in the Court of Exchequer in Scotland by the Lord 
Ordinary on the Bills in the Court of Session, and 
for the better regulation of the said Court of Ex- 
chequer: And the same was read the first time ; and 
ordered to be read a second time this day; and to 
be printed. 


Mr. Robert Steuart presented a Bill for continuing 


to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Copies or Extracts of Correspondence between 
the Secretary of State and the Governor of Jamaica, 
relating to the removal of Dr. Palmer from the Office 
of Special Magistrate in Jamaica. 

Ordered, That the said Address be oe to 
Her Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of Her Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


And then the House, having continued to sit till 
a quarter of an hour after two of the clock on 
Wednesday morning, adjourned till this day. 





Mercurii, 28° die Juni; 
3 


Anno 1° Victorie Regine, 1837. 





PRAYERS. 


M called in ; and at the bar presented, pursuant 
to the directions of an Act of Parliament,—An Ac- 
count of the Receipt and Appropriation of the Pilots’ 
Fund of the Corporation of Trinity House of Dept- 
ford Strond, in the year ending 31st December 
1836 :—And then he withdrew . 

Ordered, That the said Account do lie upon the 
Table. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Jamaica. 


R. Berthon, from the Trinity House, was Pilotage. 


Military Commissions, and Commissions in the Royal 
Marines, in force, notwithstanding the demise of the 
Crown: And the same was read the first time; and 
ordered to be read a second time this day. 


Lord Viscount Howick, reported from the Select Militia 
Committee appointed to prepare Estimates of the Estimates. 
Charge of the disembodied Militia for a year, to No, 444. 
the 31st March 1838; That they had prepared the 
said Estimates accordingly, and had directed him 
to make a Report thereof to the House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Bill. 


Navy. 


Mr. Charles Wood presented, by Her Majesty’s 
No. 443, 


command,—Supplementary Estimate of Her Ma- 
ae Navy, 1837-38. 
rdered, That the said Estimate do lie upon the . 
Table; and be printed. _ The House, according to Order, proceeded to take Collier Dock 
? into further consideration the Report which upon #4 Surrey 


China Courts Monday last was made from the Committee on the ©"! Bi! 


Lord Viscount Palmerston presented a Bill to 


Bill. 


authorize the establishing a Court or Courts with 
No. 431. 


Criminal and Admiralty and Civil Jurisdiction in 
China: And the same was read the first time ; and 
ordered to be read a second time this day; and to 
be printed. 


Letters Patent 
Bill. 


No, 432. 


Mr. Poulett Thomson presented a Bill for better 
enabling Her Majesty to confer certain Powers and 
Immunities on Trading and other Companies: And 
the same was read the first time ; and ordered to be 
read a second time this day; and to be printed. 


Malt Duties 
Regulation 
Bill. 


No. 433. 


Mr. Baring presented a Bill to amend certain Laws 
of Excise relating to the Duties on Malt made in 
the United Kingdom: And the same was read the 
first time; and ordered to be read a second time 
upon Thursday next ; and to be printed. 


First Fruits and 
Tenths, &amp;c., 
Bill. 


No. 434, 


Mr. Gally Knight presented a Bill for the con- 
solidation of the Board of First Fruits, Tenths and 
Queen Anne’s Bounty: And the same was read the 
first time; and ordered to be read a second time 
upon Thursday, the 6th day of July next ; and to be 
printed. 

Reform of 


Parliament 
(Ireland) Bill. 


No. 435. 


Mr. Callaghan presented a Bill to alter and explain 
certain parts of an Act of the third and fourth years 
of the reign of his late Majesty, for amending the 

Vor. 92. 


Collier Dock and Surrey Canal Bill; printed 
Copies of the Bill having been delivered at the door 
this day; and the Amendments were read, and 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 


ingrossed. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Warkworth 


the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 
intituled, An Act for forming a Harbour in the 
Parish of Warkworth, in the County of Northumber- 
land, by improving the Navigation of the River 
Coquet, and for rendering the same safe and com- 
modious, and easy of access: And the same were 
read, as follow: 

Pr. 1. 1. 26. Leave out “ King’s” and _ insert 
“ Queen’s.”’ 

Pr. 5. 1. ult. Leave out from “ of” to “ intitu- 
“ Jed,” in Press 6. line 1. and insert “ Her Ma- 
“ jesty Queen Victoria.” 

Pr. 6. 1. 20. Leave out 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 8. 1. 9. Leave out “ five” and insert “ three.” 

Pr. 12, 1.26. Leave out “ His” and _ insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 14. 1. 4. Leave out 
“ Her.” 


“ His” and insert 


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Leicester and 
Swannington 


Railway Bill. 


518 28° Junzz. 


Pr. 22. 1. 29. After “ also” insert “ subject to 
the restrictions hereinafter contained.” 


Pr. 27. 1.12. Leave out “ His” and insert 
Her,” and in the same line leave out from “ Ma- 
jesty” to “ intituled,”’ in line 13, and insert 
Queen Victoria.” 

Pr. 36. 1. 13. After “ expedient” insert “ Pro- 
vided always, That such Harbour Master shall not 
anchor any vessel in, or otherwise interfere with 
that part of the river where the lessees of the 
Salmon Fishery hereinafter mentioned are now 
or shall then be lawfully in the habit of sweeping 
or drawing their nets.” 

Pr. 49. 1. 17. After “ unload” insert “ at.” 

Pr. 50. 1.18. Leave out “ His” and _ insert 
+s ies.” 

Pr, 50. 1. 21. Leave out “ His” and _ insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 50. 1. 25. Leave out “ He” and _ insert 
“ She.” 

Pr. 50. 1. 27. Leave out “ His” and _ insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 50. 1. 31. Leave out “ He” and _ insert 
“ She.” 

Pr. 73. 1.14. Leave out “ His” and _ insert 
Her,” and in the same line leave out from “ Ma- 
jesty” to “ intituled” in line 15, and insert 
“ Queen Victoria.” 


Pr. 83. 1.34. After “ paid” imsert “ to the 
said Commissioners.” 

Pr. 86. 1. 4. Leave out “ His” and insert 
a, 

Pr. 86. 1.19. Leave out “ His” and insert 
Her,” and in the same line leave out from “ Ma- 
jesty” to “ intituled” in line 20, and insert 
Queen Victoria.” 

Pr. 92. 1. 18. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 96. 1. 3. Leave out from “ Harbour” to 
and” in line 5. 

Pr, 96. 1. 6. Leave out from “ made ”’ to “ and” 
in line 7. 

Pr. 103. 1. 20. After “ affected” insert Clause 
(A.) 

“ Criause (A.) “ Provided always, and be it 
further Enacted, That nothing in this Act con- 
tained shall extend, or be deemed or construed to 
extend, to authorize or empower the said Com- 
missioners to commence and make the said Har- 
bour and Works on the lands of Thomas George 
Smith, Esquire, his heirs or assigns, without first 
obtaining his or their consent in writing, or to 
take away, impeach, abridge, restrain, alter, pre- 
judice or affect any estate, rights, powers, privi- 
leges or advantages whatsoever, of or belonging 
to the said Thomas George Smith, his heirs or 
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him or them.” 


The said Amendments being read a second time 
(and it appearing that the Amendment in Pr. 8. 
line 9. reducing the number of Commissioners to be 
present at a meeting from five to three, was necessary 
to carry into effect the intention of this House,) were 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That Captain Alsager do carry the Bill 
to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, in- 
tituled, An Act to enable the Leicester and Swan- 
nington Railway Company to raise a further sum of 
Money; and the same were read as follow : 

Pr. 2. 1. 21, After “‘ present” insert “ late.” 

Pr. 4. 1. 33. Leave out “ King’s” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 

Pr. 12. 1. 29. Leave out “ His” and insert | 
« Her.” 


A. 1837. 


Pr. 13. 1. 7. After “ whatsoever” insert Clauses 
(A.) and (B.) 
Criauss (A.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
in making the said Railway it shall not be lawful 
for the said Company to deviate from the levels 
of the said Railway, as referred to the common 
datum line described on the Section so approved 
of by Parliament, and as marked on the same, to 
any extent, exceeding in any place five feet, or, 
in passing through towns, two feet, without the 
consent of the owners, lessees and occupiers of the 
land in, through or over which such deviation is 
intended to be made; or in case any street or 
public carriage road shall be affected by such 
deviation, then the same shall not be made with- 
out the consent of the Trustees or Commissioners, 
or, if there be no such Trustees or Commissioners, 
without the consent of two or more Justices of 
the Peace in petty sessions assembled for that 
purpose, and acting for the district in which such 
street or public carriage road may be situate, or 
without the consent of the Commissioners for 
any public sewers, or of the proprietors of any 
Canal or navigation affected by such deviation, 
and that no increase in the inclination or gradi- 
ents of the said Railway as denoted by the said 
Section, shall be made in any place to an extent 
exceeding the rate of three feet per mile; and 
where in any place it is intended to carry the 
Railway on an arch or arches, as marked on the 
said Plan or Section, the same shall be made 
accordingly ; and where a tunnel is marked on 
the said Plan or Section as intended to be made 
at any place the same shall be made accordingly, 
unless the owners, lessees and. occupiers of the 
land in or through which such tunnel is intended 
to be made shall consent that the same shall not be 
somade: Provided nevertheless, That it shall be 
lawful for the said Company, with such consent 
as aforesaid and not otherwise, to make a tunnel 
or an arch or arches as aforesaid, not marked on 
the said Plan or Section, so that no such tunnel 
shall be of a greater length than two hundred 
yards, and that no two tunnels be at a less dis- 
tance from each other than one hundred yards 
measured on the line of the Railway: Provided 
always, That notice of every Petty Sessions to be 
holden for the purpose of obtaining such consent 
as aforesaid, shall, fourteen days previous to the 
holding of such petty sessions, be given in some 
newspaper circulating in the county, and also be 
affixed upon the church-door of the parish in 
which such deviation or alteration is intended to be 
made, or, if there be no church, some other place 
to which notices are usually affixed ; and provided 
also, that for the purpose of consenting to any 
such deviation from the said Sections, and to any 
tunelling or arching as aforesaid, the word 
‘ owners,’ shall be deemed and taken to mean, 
such persons as are herein capacitated to agree 
for the sale of, and to convey land for the making 
of the said Railway; and the consent of such 
persons, with or without the consent of any other 
persons interested as owners in the said lands, 
shall be deemed and taken to be sufficient for 
such purposes. 

Crause (B.) “ And be further Enacted, That 
it shall not be lawful to diminish the radius of 
any curve from what it is shown to be on the 
Plan deposited with the Clerk of the Peace, 
unless such radius exceed one mile, nor to dimi- 
nish it in any such case, so that it shall become 
less than one mile, nor to diminish any greater 
radius by more than a quarter of a mile, unless 
where it exceeds two miles, or by more than half 
a mile, unless where it exceeds three miles on the 
“ said Plan.” ; 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. : 

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Dundee Police 
Bill. 


Ceoutchouc 
Company Bill. 


Caoutchouc 
Company Bill ° 


Blechairn 
Canal Bill, 


London and 
Blackwall 
Commercial 
Railway Bill. 


1 Vicrortiz. 


the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


Ordered, That a Committee be appointed, to in- 
spect the Journals of the House of Lords, with re- 
lation to any proceedings upon the Dundee Police 
Bill; and to make Report p ae to the House :— 
And a Committee was appointed of Sir Henry Par- 
nell, Mr. Chalmers, Mr. Bannerman, Mr. M‘Leod, 
Sir Andrew Leith Hay, and Captain Winnington : 
And they are to withdraw immediately. 

Ordered, That Three be the Quorum. 


Petitions from Inhabitants of Zambeth ;—and, 
Charles Keene and others; praying that the Caout- 
chouc Company Bill may not pass into a law,—were 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


The House, according to Order, resumed the 
adjourned Debate upon the Question proposed upon 
Friday last, That the ingrossed Bill for forming and 
regulating the London Caoutchouc Company, and 
to enable the said Company to purchase certain 
Letters Patent, do pass. 

And the Question being put ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the old Lobby; 

The Noes to the new Lobby. 

Jf Mr. Hughes Hughes, 
Mr. Tooke : 


Tellers for the Noes, { Mr. Wigney, 


‘ellers for the Yeas, 


\s 
Dr. Bowring : } = 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That Mr. Hughes Hughes do carry the 


Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


An ingrossed Bill to make and maintain a Canal 
in the County of Lanark, from the Monkland Canal 
to the Lands of Dunchattan, on the North Side of 
Duke-street, of Glasgow, was, according to Order, 
read the third time. 

An ingrossed Clause was offered to be added to 
the Bill, by way of Rider, providing Compensation 
to the Trustees of the Glasgow and Redburn Bridge 
Road :—And the said Clause was brought up, and 
twice read with a blank ; and committed to a Com- 
mittee of the whole House:—The House accord- 
ingly resolved itself into the Committee ; and after 
some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the 
Chair; and Mr. Baring reported, That the Com- 
mittee had gone through the Clause, and made an 
Amendment thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Baring accordingly reported the Clause ; 
and the Amendment was read, and agreeil to; and 
the said Clause was read the third time, and agreed 
to, to be made part of the Bill, by way of Rider. 

Then another ingrossed Clause was added, by 
way of Rider ; and Amendments were made to the 
Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Denistoun do carry the Bill 
to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into further consideration the Report which, 
upon the 19th day of this instant June, was made 
from the Committee on the London and Blackwall 
Commercial Railway Bill; printed Copies of the 
Bill having been delivered at the door upon Thurs- 
day last ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question being 
proposed, That the Amendments made by the Com- 
mittee to the Bill be now read a second time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the words “ That the ” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 


98° Junie. 


519 


words “ Bill be re-committed to the former Com- 
“ mittee, with an Instruction to the Committee that 
they have power to receive evidence from the 
Petitioners against this Bill, in support of any 
objections to the terminus being made near Fen- 
church-street, or to a depot a established 
there; and, in the event of the Committee again 
reporting in favour of the terminus and depot being 
established on the scite so projected, to define by 
such Clause as may be requisite for that purpose, 
the extent and boundaries of the depét; and also 
to secure the public against obstructions in the 
traffic through the adjoining thoroughfares :— 
And, that the Committee be also instructed, that 
they have power to confine the powers of the 
Company to take such land only on the eastern 
side of the Minories as may be requisite for the 
construction of the Railway, excluding that which 
was, in the Bill of last year, provided for the con- 
struction of a dep6t near G'oodman’s-yard :— 
And that the Committee be further instructed, 
that they have power to inquire and to report, in 
reference to the amount of capital conditioned to 
“be subscribed for the construction of the Com- 
“ mercial (Blackwall) Railway, whether the sum of 
“ £.600,000, or how much of that sum, is now re- 
“ presented by subscriptions to the Deed of Co- 
“ partnership, made in virtue of the powers given 
“ to the Directors by the fourth section of that Act,” 
instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words pro- 
posed to be left out stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided ; 

The Yeas to the old Lobby ; 

The Noes to the new Lobby. 

Tellers for the { Mr. Alston, 

Yeas, Mr. Alderman Humphery : 
Tellers for they Mr. William Crawford : 
Noes, \ Mr. Grote: 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That the Amendments made by the 
Committee to the Bill be now read a second time :— 
The said Amendments were accordingly read a se- 
cond time, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


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Greenwich Railway (No. 2.) Bill; 
Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Friday next. 


the 15th day of this instant June, was made from 
the Committee on the East Thickley and Frosterley 
Railway Bill; printed Copies of the Bill having been 
delivered at the door this day; and the Amendments 
were read, and agreed to; and Amendments were 
made to the Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


into consideration the Report of the Military Engi- 
neer appointed in pursuance of an Address of the 
House of Commons to his late Majesty, on the 
several Lines of Brighton Railway, which was 
yesterday presented to the House; and the same 
was again read. 

Ordered, That the said Report be referred to the 
Committee on the London and Brighton Railway 
Bills. 

Ordered, That it be an Instruction to the Com- 
mittee that they have Power to hear the case of the 
Land-owners upon the Line called the Direct Line, 
in order to settle the Clauses relative thereto :—And, 
further, that the said Committee have power to con- 
solidate the several Bills, or the subscriptions for the 





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The Order of the day being read, for taking into London and 


further consideration the Report on the London and Greenwich 
Railway 


(No. 2.) Bill. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to take East Thickley 


into further consideration the Report which, upon 24 Frosterley 
sj Railway Bill, 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to take London and 
Brighton 
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same, if and so far as it shall appear to the Com-! 


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A. 1837. 


Sir Andrew Leith Hay reported from the Select Dundee Police 


Committee appointed to inspect the Journals of the Bil. 


Ordered, That the Committee have leave to sit| House of Lords, with relation to any proceedings 
and proceed, and to make their Report To-morrow, | upon the Dundee Police Bill, and to make Report 


or on any subsequent day, without giving notice. 
Westminster Ordered, That the time for the Committee on the 
Bridge and Westminster Bridge and Greenwich Railway Bill, to 
Railway Bill, make their Report, be further enlarged till Monday, 
the 10th day of July next. 


Ellesmere and 
Chester Canal 
Bill. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 
intituled, An Act to amend and enlarge the powers 
of the several Acts relating to the Ellesmere and 
Chester Canal; and the same were read, as fol- 
low: 

Pr. 5. 1.15. Leave out “ King’s,” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 

Pr. 8. 1.5. Leave out “ present,” and insert 
“ late.” 

Pr. 8. 1. 6. After “ Majesty” insert “ King 
“ William the Fourth.” 

Pr. 8. 1.15. Leave out “ present,” and insert 
“ said late; and in the same line, after “ Ma- 
“ jesty,” insert “ King William the Fourth.” 

Pr. 11. 1. 15. After “ Majesty” insert “ King 
“ George the Fourth.” 

Pr. 11. |. 17. Leave out “ present,” and insert 
* late.” 

Pr. 11. 1. 18. After “ Majesty” insert “ King 
“ William the Fourth.” 

Pr. 12. 1. 2. After “ Majesty” insert “ King 
“ George the Fourth.” 

Pr. 12. 1. 4. Leave out “ present,” and insert 
“ Jate”; and in the same line, after “ Majesty” in- 
sert “ King William the Fourth.” 

Pr. 13. Il. 23. After “ Majesty” insert “ King 
“ George the Fourth.” 

Pr. 13. 1.25. Leave out “ present,” and insert 
“ late; and in the same line, after “ Majesty ” 
insert “ King William the Fourth.” 

Pr. 15. Is. 5 and 6. After “ Majesty” insert 
“ King George the Fourth.” 

Pr. 15. 1. 7. Leave out “ present,” and insert 
“i.” 

Pr. 15. 1. 8. After “ Majesty” imsert “ King 
“ William the Fourth.” 

Pr. 16. 1. penult. After “Majesty” insert “ King 
“ George the Fourth.” 

Pr. 17. 1. 1. Leave out “ present,” and insert 
“ ate; and in the same line, after ‘“ Majesty,” 
insert “ King William the Fourth.” 


Pr. 29. 1. 6. 

Pr. 29. 1. 27. 

. 9 : = After “ Majesty ” insert “ King 
= ah = “nm ee ” 

Pr. 34. 1. 15. | George the Fourth. 

Pr. 35. 1. 6. 

Pr. 36. 1. 3. 


The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Brotherton do carry the Bill 
to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


Mr. Poulett Scrope reported from the Select Com- 
mittee appointed to inquire into the Administration 
of the 


Twenty-second 
Report on 
Poor Law Act. 


No. 446, 


of the Evidence taken before them from time to 
time to the House; That they kad made further 
Progress in the matters to them referred ; and had 
directed him to report the Minutes of the Evidence 
taken before them. 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table | 
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elief of the Poor under the orders and | 
regulations issued by the Commissioners appointed | 
under the provisions of the Poor Law Amendment 
Act; and who were empowered to report the Minutes | 
* late.’ 


thereof to the House ; That they had inspected the 
said Journals accordingly, 

the proceedings of the 7 
same were read, as follow: 


and had taken copies of 
ords thereupon; and the 


Die Martis, 27° Junii, 1837. 


“ The Earl of Shaftesbury reported from the Lords’ “ Dundee 
Committees, to whom the Bill, intituled, An Act for Plice Bill.” 


amending an Act relating to the Police of the Town 
of Dundee, and for other purposes therewith con- 
nected, was committed ; That they had considered 
the said Bill, and examined the all 

which were found to be true; and that the Com- 
mittee had gone through the Bill, and made several 
Amendments thereunto. 


legations thereof, 


“ Which Amendments were read by the Clerk, 


as follow; viz. 


“ Pr. 1. 1. 4. Leave out ‘ cap. 129.’ 
“ Pr. 1. 1.27. Leave out ‘ King’s, 


’ 


and insert 


“ Queen’s.’ 


“ Pr. 6. 1. 7. Leave out ‘ present,’ and insert 


* late.’ 


“ Pr. 18. 1. 1. Leave out ‘only,’ and in the same 


line, after ‘ Provost,’ insert ‘ the four Bailies and the 
‘ Dean of Guild.’ 


“ Pr. 52. 1. 29. Leave out ‘ present,’ and insert 


‘ late.’ 


“ Pr. 52. 1. 30. After ‘ Majesty’ insert ‘ King 


‘ William the Fourth.’ 


“ Pr. 91. 1.17. Leave out ‘ His,’ and insert 


* Her.’ 


“ Pr. 91. 1. 40. Leave out ‘ His,’ and insert 


‘ Her.’ 


“ Pr. 105. 1. 25. Leave out ‘ present,’ and insert 


‘ late,’ and in the same line, after ‘ Majesty,’ insert 
‘ King William the Fourth.’ 


“ Pr. 105. 1. 36. Leave out ‘ present,’ and insert 


* late.’ 


“ Pr. 106. 1. 1. Leave out ‘ present,’ and insert 
late.’ 


“ Pr. 106. 1. 22. Leave out ‘ present,’ and insert 


* late.’ 


“ Pr. 107. 1. 35. Leave out ‘ present,’ and insert 
late,’ and in the same line, after ‘ Majesty,’ insert 


‘ King William the Fourth.’ 


“ Pr. 108. 1. 6. Leave out ‘ present,’ and insert 
late.’ 
“ Pr. 108. 1. 17. Leave out ‘ present,’ and insert 


* late.’ 


“ Pr. 109. 1.1. After ‘ Majesty’ insert ‘ King 
George the Fourth.’ 
“ Pr. 110. 1. 17. After ‘ Majesty’ insert ‘ King 


‘ George the Fourth.’ 


“ Pr. 112. 1. 25. Leave out from ‘made’ to ‘ there’ 


in l. 29. and in the same line leave out ‘ set forth 
‘ the title of,’ and insert ‘ describe.’ 


“ Pr, 115. 1. 35. After ‘ Majesty’ insert ‘ King 


‘ George the Fourth.’ 


“ Pr. 119. 1. 26. After ‘ Majesty’ insert ‘ King 


‘ George the Fourth.’ 


“ Pr, 173. 1. 29. After ‘ Majesty’ insert ‘ King 
‘ George the Fourth.’ 

“ Pr. 181. 1.13. Leave out ‘ His, and insert 
‘ Her.’ 

+ Pr. 
‘ Her.’ 

wi 
‘ Her.’ 

* Pe 


181. 1.14. Leave out ‘ His,’ and insert 
181. 1.15. Leave out ‘ His,’ and insert 
196. 1. 8. Leave out ‘ present,’ and insert 


“ Pr. 196. 1. 9. After ‘ Majesty’ insert ‘ King 


‘ William the Fourth.’ 
“ Py, 204. 1. 6. Leave out from ‘and’ to ‘ Sheriff- 


“ 


| ; . A 
| ¢ —— ’ in |. 7. and insert ‘ the. 


r. 205. 1.17. Leave out ‘ His Majesty’s,’ and 


‘ the.’ 
“ Pr, 211. 











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‘ Pr. 211. 1. 22. After ‘ Majesty’ insert ‘ King 

‘ George the Fourth.’ 

“ Pr. 226. 1. 6. Leave out ‘ present,’ and insert 

late.’ 

“ Pr. 226. 1. 7. After ‘ Majesty’ insert ‘ King 
‘ William the Fourth.’ 

“ Pr. 226. 1. 30. Leave out ‘ present,’ and insert 
‘ late,’ and in the same line, after ‘ Majesty,’ insert 
‘ King William the Fourth.’ 


“ In the Title to the Bill: 


“ L. 1. Leave out from ‘ for’ to ‘ other’ in 1. 3. 
and insert ‘ the better paving, lighting, watching 
‘ and cleansing the Burgh of Dundee, and for main- 
‘ taining and regulating the Police of the same, and 
‘ places adjacent, and,’ and in 1. 3. leave out ‘ there- 
‘ with connected,’ and insert ‘ relating thereto.’ 

“ Ordered, That the said Amendments be taken 
into further consideration on this day three months.” 


Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table. 








The House was moved, That the Report in respect 
of the Petition for the Dundee Police Bill which, upon 
the 7th day of March last, was made from the Select 
Committee on Petitions for Private Bills, might be 
read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for the better paving, lighting, watching and cleans- 
ing the Burgh of Dundee, and for maintaining and 
regulating the Police of the same and places adjacent, 
and other purposes relating thereto: And that Sir 
Henry Parnell and Sir Andrew Leith Hay do pre- 
pare, and bring it in. 


Sir Andrew Leith Hay presented, pursuant to 
Order,—A Return of Officers of the Royal Navy who 
have formed a part of the Board of Ordnance since 
the year 1793 up to the present period, specifying 
the period during which they held such Office. 

. — That the said Return do lie upon the 
able. 


Sir Andrew Leith Hay presented a Bill for the 
better paving, lighting, watching and cleansing the 
Burgh of Dundee, and for maintaining and regulating 
the Police of the same and places adjacent, and 
other purposes relating thereto: And the same was 
read the first time ; and ordered to be read a second 
time To-morrow. 


Mr. Baring presented, by Her Majesty’s command, 
—An Estimate of the Sum that will be required 
towards satisfying such Charges, Pensions and An- 
nuities as would have been payable out of the Civil 
List, in case the demise of his late Majesty had not 
taken place before the 10th October 1837. 


An Estimate of the Sum that will be required to 
be voted, to defray the Charge of repairing Marl- 
borough House for the reception of the Queen 
Dowager. 

An Estimate of the Sum that will be required to 
be voted in the year 1837, towards the Expense of 
erecting the New Houses of Parliament. 

An Estimate of the Sum required to be voted, to 
carry on the Works in progress under the direction 
of the Commissioners of Public Records, to the 31st 
March 1838; also, to pay certain Arrears not pro- 
vided for by the Grant of last Session. 

An Estimate of the Sum required to be voted, in 
aid of the Funds of the Royal College of Surgeons 
in Edinburgh. 

An Estimate of the Sum required to be voted in 
aid of the Expenditure of the Royal Dublin Society 
for the year ending 31st March 1838. 

An Estimate of the Sum required to be voted in 
the year 1837, for the purchase of Pictures for the 
National Gallery. 

An Estimate of the Sum required to be voted to 


enable the Trustees of the British Museum to pur- 
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chase certain Etruscan Vases, part of the Collection 

of the Prince of Canino. 

An Estimate of the Sum required to be voted, in Upper Canada. 
addition to the Amount already provided from the 

Funds of the Colony, and other Sources, to pay 
Compensations to British Subjects in Upper Canada, 

for Losses sustained by them, during the War in 

1814 and 1815. 

An Estimate of the Sum that may be required for Lower Canada, 
Advances on Account of Arrears of Charges for the 
Administration of Justice and of the Civil Govern- 
ment of the Province of Lower Canada. 

An Estimate of the Sum required to be voted in Steam Com- 
the year 1837, towards defraying the Expense of pseten — 
Steam Communication to India by way of the Red“ 

Sea, for three quarters of a year, to the 31st March 
1838. 

Ordered, That the said Estimates do lie upon the 

Table ; and be printed. 


The Lord Advocate presented,— Further Returns Consistorial 
to several Orders, dated the 27th day of February last, (Seotlan d.) 
for Returns, in columns, by the Commissary Clerk of 
Edinburgh, of all Causes, distinguishing each Class, 
instituted and decided in the Consistorial Court of 
Scotland in each year, from 1823 to 1830, both in- 
clusive ; specifying such as were advocated in the 
Court of Session; also, the Amounts of the Accounts 
of Expenses as rendered in the aforesaid Causes ; 
and ening the Sums taken off the Accounts, if 
taxed; also, the Number in each Class of Consistorial 
Causes transferred by the aforesaid Commissary 
Clerk, after the 6th October 1830, to the Court of 
Session: —Return, in columns, by the Principal 
Clerks of the Court of Session, of the Number of 
Causes transferred from the Consistorial Court in 
1830 to the Court of Session; distinguishing each 
Class of Causes so transferred, instituted and decided 
in that Court in each year from 1830 to 1836, both 
inclusive ; also, the Amounts of Accounts of Ex- 
penses as lodged with the Clerk of Court, and show- 
ing the Sums taken off the same, if taxed, in each 
Consistorial Cause in the Court of Session from 
1830 to 1836, inclusive. 

Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table. 


Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, resolve Imprisonment 
itself into a Committee upon the Imprisonment for for Debt Bill. 
Debt Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Salmon 
reading of the Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Bill; Fisheries 

Ordered, That tne Bill be read a second time (Gootland) Bil. 
upon this day three months. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second County Boards 
reading of the County Boards (Ireland) Bill ; (freland) Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
this day three months. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Election » 
reading of the Election Expenses Bill ; Expenses Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon this day three months. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Custody of 
mittee on the Custody of Infants Bill; Infants Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, upon this day 
three months, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Small Debt 


The Order of the day being read, for the second ae 


reading of the Small Debt Courts Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon this day three months. 


A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Roupell and me a from 
Mr. Senior : iain 
Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords have 
by this House to the 


agreed to the Amendment made Martia’s 
Bill, intituled, An Act for natu- Nat. Bill. 





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ralizing Andrew Martin, without any Amendment: 
And also, 
London and The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
Railway Bil Act to alter the Line of the London and Southampton 
Railway, and to amend the Act relating thereto, 
with Amendments; to which Amendments the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House: And also, 


Newcastle- The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
te sl Act for sepeiatias and improving the Borough of 
Bill. Newcastle-upon- Tyne, with Amendments; to which 


Amendments the Lords desire the concurrence of 
this House: And also, 
York and The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
oe Act to alter the Line of the York and North Mid- 
ye Jand Railway, and to amend the Act relating thereto, 
with Amendments; to which Amendments the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House: And also, 
MerthyrTydvil The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
ar, Act to enable the Taff Vale Railway Company to 
mey alter the Line of the said Railway and the Act re- 
lating thereto, and to make additional Branches, 
with Amendments; to which Amendments the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House: And also, 
Manchester and The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
san ag Act for making a Railway from Manchester, to join 
ee" the Grand Junction Railway, in the Parish of Cheb- 
sey, in the County of Stafford, to be called “ The 
Manchester and Birmingham Railway,” with certain 
Branches therefrom, with Amendments ; to which 
Amendments the Lords desire the concurrence of 
this House: And also, 
Sligo Salmon The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
Fisheries Bill. Act to enable Joshua Edward Cooper, Esquire, to 
establish and protect a Salmon Fishery upon the 
Lakes and Rivers of Owenmore and Arrow, and also 
within the Bay of Ballisodare, in the County of Sligo, 
in Ireland, with Amendments; to which Amend- 
ments the Lords desire the concurrence of this House: 
And also, 
Chester and The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
Crewe Railway Act for making a Railway from the City of Chester 
. to join the Grand Junction Railway near Crewe Hall, 
in the County of Chester, to be called “ The Chester 
and Crewe Railway, with Amendments; to which 
Amendments the Lords desire the concurrence of 
this House: And also, 
Durham and The Lords have agreed to the Bill, itituled, An 
wna Act to enable the Durham and Sunderland Railway 
ye Company to alter a part of the main Line of their 
Railway, to abandon another part thereof, to make 
other Branches therefrom, and to amend and enlarge 
the Powers of the Act for incorporating the said 
Company, with Amendments; to which Amend- 
ments the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House: And also, 
Ouze Banks The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
Drainage Bill. Act to raise and apply Funds for the future Main- 
tenance and Repair of the Banks of the River Ouze, 
between Denver Sluice and the Eau Brink Cut, in 
the County of orfolk, with Amendments ; to which 
Amendments the Lords desire the concurrence of 
this House: And also, 
East’s The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
Estate Bill for confirming a partition of Estates devised and 
bequeathed by the Will of Sir William East, Ba- 
ronet, deceased, and other Property, and for con- 
firming a sale of other parts of the devised Estates ; 
to waich the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House :—And then the Messengers withdrew. 


Bridgwater A Petition of John Woodland, Jonathan Toogood, 
Election, = John Read, Richard Cave, Thomas Howel Watson 
Petron of, and William Pool, who claim to have had a right to 
and others, | Vote, and who had a right to vote at the last Elec- 
tion of a Member to serve in this present Parliament 
for the Borough of Bridgwater, in the county of 
Somerset, was delivered in, and read ; setting forth, 
That at the time of the last Election of a Member 
to serve in this present Parliament for the said 
Borough, Henry Broadwood, Esquire, and Richard 





Brinsley Sheridan, Esquire, were Candidates to 
represent the said Borough as a Burgess for the 
same in this present Parliament; that the said 
Election was held on Monday the fifteenth day of 
May in the present year; that, at the said Election, 
a poll having been demanded by and on behalf of 
the said Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Esquire, the 
same was taken by Robert Ford, Esquire, Mayor 
and Returning Officer of the said Borough at the 
time of such Election, after which the said Henry 
Broadwood, Esquire, was, by the said Returning 
Officer, declared duly elected ; and the said Henry 
Broadwood, Esquire, was, by the said Returning 
Officer, returned as a Burgess to serve in this pre- 
sent Parliament for the said Borough; that a certain 
Petition, complaining of the said Election and Re- 
turn of the said Henry Broadwood, Esquire, to serve 
as a Burgess in this present Parliament for the said 
Borough, that is to say, a certain Petition, purport- 
ing to be the Petition of the said Richard Brinsley 
Sheridan, Esquire, therein described as a Candidate 
at the said Election, to represent the said Borough 
as a Burgess for the same in this present Parliament, 
was duly presented to the House on the twenty- 
third day of May in this present year ; that the said 
Henry Broadwood, Esquire, being at the time the 
Sitting Member for the said Borough, did, on the 
fifth day of June in the poe year, by a declara- 
tion in writing, subscribed by him, and delivered in 
at the Table of the House, on the sixth day of the 
same month of June, and within fourteen days after 
the presentation of the said Petition, inform the 
House, that it was not his intention to defend his 
Election and Return ; that the Petitioners are de- 
sirous that they may be admitted as parties in the 
room of the said Henry Broadwood, Esquire, in 
defence of the said Election and Return, and in 
opposition to the said Petition; the Petitioners 
therefore humbly pray, That they may be admitted 
as parties in the room of the said Henry Broadwood, 
Esquire, according to the form of the Statute in 
such case made and provided, and that the House 
will grant such further relief to the Petitioners as 
the merits of their case may require. 

Ordered, That the Petitioners be admitted Parties 
in the room of the said Henry Broadwood, Esquire, 
according to the prayer of the said Petition. 


Fast’s Estate Bill was read the first time ; and 
ordered to be read a second time. 


The Copyright Bill was, according to Order, read Copyright Bill. 


a second time; and committed to a Committee of 
the whole House for this day three months. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Bankrupts Bill. 


mittee on the Bankrupts Bill ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon this day 
three months, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Bonded Com 


mittee on the Bonded Corn Manufacture Bill; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
oa proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 

hair ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “That ” to 
the end of the Question, in order to add the words 
“ this House will upon this day three months resolve 
itself into the said Committee,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words pro- 
posed to be left out stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 

Tellers forthe { Mr. Robinson, 


Yeas, Mr. George Frederick Young: i 


Tellers forthe [The Marquis of Chandos, } 89 
Noes, (Sir John Tyrrell: i 
So it passed in the Negative. 
And the Question being put, That the words 
“ this House will, upon this day three months, “a 
solve 


East’s 
Estate Bill. 


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solve itself into the said Committee,” be added 
instead thereof :—It was resolved in the Affirmative. 
Then the main Question, so amended, being put ; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon this day 
three months, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Supply- 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee upon the Limitation of Actions 
Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Sir Edward Knatchbull 
reported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bull, and had directed him to report the same, with- 
out Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
To-morrow. 


Limitation of 
Actions Bill. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Ways and Means; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Friday next, 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Ways and 
Means. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Rolls Estate Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into the said Committee. 


Rolls Estate 
Bill, 


Offencesagainst Mr. Robert Steuart reported the Offences against 
the Person Bill. the Person Bill; and the Amendments were read, 
and agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time To-morrow. 


Robbery and Mr. Robert Steuart reported the Robbery and 
ge Stealing from the Person Bill; and the Amend- 


ments were read, and agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time To-morrow. 


Burglary and 
Stealing in a 


Mr. Robert Steuart reported the Burglary and 
Stealing in a Dwelling-house Bill; and the Amend- 


paciing-house ments were read, and agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time To-morrow. 
Piracy Bill. Mr. Robert Steuart reported the Piracy Bill; 
and the Amendments were read, and agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time To-morrow. 
Burning or Mr. Robert Steuart reported the Burning or De- 
— stroying Buildings and Ships Bill; and the Amend- 
ings and 
Ships Bill, ments were read, and agreed to. 


Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time To-morrow. 


Transportation 


sporta Mr. Robert Steuart reported the Transportation 
for Life Bill. 


for Life Bill; and the Amendments were read, and 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time To-morrow. 


Sugar Duties 
ill, 


Mr. Robert Steuart reported the Sugar Duties 
Bili; and the Amendments were read, and agreed 
to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time To-morrow. 

Wills Bill, Mr. Robert Steuart reported the Wills Bill; and 
the Amendments were read, as follow: 

Pr. 1. 1. 1. Leave out “ King’s ” and insert 
“ Queen’s. 

Pr. 12. 1. 31. Leave out “late.” 

Pr. 12. 1.33. Leave out “ present” and insert 
“ late,” and after “ Majesty” insert “ King Wil- 
“ liam the Fourth.” 

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523 


Pr. 13. 1. 7. Leave out “ His” and insert “ Her.” 
The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
To-morrow. 


Mr. Baring reported from the Committee to Beet Root 
whom it was referred to consider of imposing a Duty Sug". 
on Sugar made from Beet Root, a Resolution, whic 
was read, as followeth ; 

Resolved, That upon every hundred weight of 
Sugar manufactured from Beet Root, in the United 
Kingdom, there shall be charged a Duty of One 
pound four shillings. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 

Ordered, That a Bill be brought in upon the said | 
Resolution: And that Mr. Baring, Mr. Poulett 
Thomson, and Mr. Labouchere do prepare, and bring 
it in. 


Mr. Robert Steuart reported the Tithes Commu- Tithes Commu- 
tation Bill; and the Amendments were read, and ‘tion Bill. 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time To-morrow. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Coroners 
into a Committee upon the Coroners ( Durham) Bill ; (Durham) Bill. 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker re- 
sumed the Chair; and Mr. Robert Steuart reported, 

That the Committee had gone through the Bill, and 
made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 


Rolls Estate 


Mr. Baring reported from the Committee to whom I 
[Salaries.] 


it was referred to consider of authorizing the pay- 
ment, out of the Consolidated Fund of the United 
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, of an an- 
nual Salary to the Master of the Rolls, and to the 
Preacher of the Rolls Chapel, several Resolutions, 
which were read, as follow: 

1. Resolved, That an annual Salary of Seven thou- 
sand pounds be paid to the Master of the Rolls, out 
of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom 
of Great Britain and Ireland, in lieu of the Rents 
of the Rolls Estate, and any Salary and Fees to 
which he is now entitled. 

2. Resolved, That the annual sum of ‘lwo hundred 
and twenty-five pounds be paid to the Preacher at 
the Rolls Chapel out of the said Consolidated Fund, 
in lieu of the yearly payments now made out of the 
rents and profits of the said Rolls Estate, to be 
applied under the direction of the Master of the 
Rolls in payment of the Expenses of the said 
Chapel. 

The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That it be an Instruction to the Com "i 
mittee on the Rolls Estate Bill, that they have 
Power to make provision therein, pursuant to the 
said Resolutions. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Inclosure_ 
into a Committee upon the Inclosure Awards Bill ; Awards Bill. 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker No. 449. 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. Robert Steuart re- 

orted, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Robert Steuart reported the Bill accordingly ; 
and the Report was ordered to be taken into further 
consideration upon this day three months ; and the 
Bill, as amended, to be printed. . 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Summary 
reading of the Summary Convictions, (Juvenile Of- a 
fenders) (No. 2.) Bill; Offenders) 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time (No. 2.) Bill | 
To-morrow. 

The 


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Treasurers 
of Counties 
(Ireland) Bill. 


No. 447. 


Civil Bill Courts 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Supply ; 


Public 
Buildings. 


Kingstown 
Harbour. 


Holyhead 
and Liverpool 
Roads, &amp;c. 


British 
Museum, 


National 
Gallery. 


Houses of Lords 
and Commons. 


Prison (Isle of 
Wight.) 


Custom House 
(Glasgow.) 


Salaries and 
Expenses 
(Houses of 
Parliament.) 


De - (Trea- 
sury, ) 


524 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself into 
a Committee upon the Treasurers of Counties (Ire- 
land) Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Robert Steuart 
reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Robert Steuart reported the Bill accordingly ; 
and the Report was ordered to be taken into further 
consideration upon Friday next; and the Bill, as 
amended, to be printed. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee upon the Civil Bill Courts (Jre- 
land) Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 
Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Robert Steuart 
reported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 


Mr. Baring, by Order, reported from the Com- 
mittee of Supply, several Resolutions, which were 
read, as follow: 

1. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Seventy- 
two thousand and fifty-nine pounds, be granted to 
Her Majesty, to defray, to the 31st day of March 
1838, the Expense of Works and Repairs of Public 
Buildings, and for Furniture, and other Charges for 
Lighting and Watching, and for Rates and Taxes, 
and for the maintenance and repairs of Royal Palaces 
and Works in the Royal Gardens, heretofore charged 
upon the Civil List. 

2. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Seven 
thousand one hundred and twenty-eight pounds, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Sauns of 
Works and Repairs at the Harbour of Kingstown, 
to the 31st day of March 1838. 

3. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Six thou- 
sand six hundred and fifty pounds, be granted to 
Her Majesty, to defray the Expenses of the Holy- 
head and Liverpool Roads, and Holyhead and Howth 
Harbours, to the 31st day of March 1838. 

4. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Fourteen 
thousand two hundred and fifty pounds, be granted 
to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge of New Build- 
ings at the British Museum, to the 31st day of 
March 1838. 

5. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Seven 
thousand and six hundred pounds, be granted to 
Her Majesty, to defray the probable Expense of 
inclosing the Ground in front of each of the Wings 
of the National Gallery and Royal Academy, and 
levelling, inclosing and ornamenting the area of 
Trafalgar-square. 

6. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Eleven 
thousand five hundred and ninety-five pounds, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Expense of 
providing Temporary Accommodation for the Houses 
of Parliament, Committee Rooms, Offices, and tem- 

orary Official Residences for the Speaker of the 
louse of Commons, and other Officers of that 
House, to the 31st day of March 1838. 

7. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Twenty- 
five thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, 
to defray the se of converting certain Build- 
ings attached to Albany Barracks, Isle of Wight, 
into a Prison for the reception of Juvenile Offenders. 

8. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Fourteen 
thousand and eight hundred pounds, be granted to 
Her Majesty, to defray, in the year 1837, the Ex- 

ense of building a new Custom House at Glasgow, 
including the Purchase of Ground. 

9. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Seventy- 
six thousand and seven hundred pounds, be granted 
to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge of Salaries 
and Expenses of the two Houses of Parliament, and 
of Allowances to Retired Officers of the two Houses, 
to the 31st day of March 1838. 

10. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Forty- 
nine thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, 
to pay the Salaries, Contingent and other Expenses, 


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A. 1837. 


of the Department of Her Majesty’s Treasury, to 
the 31st day of March 1838. 

11. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Twenty Salaries and 
thousand four hundred and eighty-one pounds, be Expenses 
granted to Her Majesty, to pay the Salaries and ‘Home Ofce. 
ny aoe of the Office of Her Majesty’s Secretary 
of State for the Home Department, to the 31st day 
of March 1838. 

12. Resolved, That a sum, not exeeeding Seventy n°. (Foreign 
thousand, eight hundred and sixty-seven pounds, Office.) 
be granted to Her Majesty, to pay the Salaries and 
other Expenses in the Department of Her Majesty’s 
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ; also, of the 
Foreign Messengers attached to that Department, 
to the 31st day of March 1838. 


13. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Seven- D° - (Colonial 
teen thousand four hundred and forty-five pounds, Office.) 
be granted to Her Majesty, to pay the Salaries and 
other Expenses in the Department of Her Majesty’s 
Secretary of State for the Colonies, to the 31st day 
of March 1838. 

14. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Twenty- p° - (Privy 
four thousand six hundred and thirty-eight pounds, Council Office, 
be granted to Her Majesty, to pay the alaries and 
Expenses in the Department of Her Majesty’s Most 
honourable Privy Council, and Committee of Privy 
Council for Trade, to the 31st day of March 1838. 


15. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Forty-two De - (Paymas. 


thousand and one hundred pounds, be granted to ter-General’s 
Her Majesty, to defray the charge of the Office of M¢*) 
Her Majesty’s Paymaster General, to the 31st day 

of March 1838. 

16. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Fourteen D° - (Comp- 
thousand and three hundred pounds, be granted to ya Hg 
Her Majesty, to pay the Salaries and Contingent quer, &amp;c.) 
Expenses in the Renate of the Comptroller 
General of the Exchequer and the Paymaster of 
Civil Services, to the 31st day of March 1838. 


17. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Two Professors 
thousand and six pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, es 
to defray the charge of the Salaries and Allowances “" 
granted to certain Professors in the Universities of 

Oxford and Cambridge, to the 31st day of March 

1838. 

18. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Twelve Insolvent 
thousand and five hundred 
Her Majesty, to defray the charge of the Salaries of 
the Commissioners of the Insolvent Debtors Court, 
of their Clerks, and the Contingent Expenses of the 
Court and Office, and also the Expenses attendant 
upon their Circuits, to the 31st day of March 1838. 

19. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Thirteen Penitentiary 
thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to (Milbank.) 
defray the charge of the Penitentiary at Milbank, 
to the 31st day of March 1838. 


20. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Three State Paper 
thousand nine hundred and eighty-five pounds, be fice, &amp;¢. 
granted to Her Majesty, to pay the Salaries and 
other Expenses of the State Paper Office, the Office 
for the Custody of Records in the Tower, and the 
Office for the Custody of Records in the Chapter 
House, Westminster, to the 31st day of March 1838. 

21. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Five Criminal Law 
thousand and one hundred pounds, be granted to Cemmss*™ 
Her Majesty, to defray the expenses of the Com- 
mission for digesting the several Statutes relating to 
Criminal and other Law. 

22. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Eleven Charities 
thousand eight hundred and twenty-five pounds, be Commission 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the expenses of 
the Commission for inquiring into Public Charities 
to its termination. 

23. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Six Religious 
thousand three hundred and thirty-five pounds, be (Scotland) 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the expenses Of Commission. 
the Commission appointed to inquire into the oppor- 
tunities of religious Worship and means of religious 
Instruction, and the pastoral Superintendence afford- 
ed to the people of Scotland. 

24. Resolved, 


ounds, be granted to Debtors Court. 








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Ecclesiastical 
Commission. 


Poor Law 
Commission. 


Slave Trade 
Commissions. 


Consuls, &amp;c. 


Factories. 


Inspectors of 


Prisuns. 


Mint. 


Compensations. 


Toulonese, &amp;c., 
Emigrants, 


Vaccine 
Establishment. 


Refuge for the 
Destitute. 


Criminal 
Lunatics, 


Protestant 
Dissenting 
Ministers, 


1 Victortz. 


24. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Two 
thousand and five hundred pounds, be granted to 
Her Majesty, to pay the Salaries and Expenses in- 
curred by the Rcclesiastical Commissioners for 
England, to the 31st day of March 1838. 

25. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Fifty- 
two thousand one hundred and twenty-nine pounds, 
be granted to Her Majesty, to defray, in the year 
1837, the charge of Salaries and Expenses of the 
Commissioners for the Amendment and better Ad- 
ministration of the Laws relating to the Poor in 
England and Wales. 

26. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Fourteen 
thousand and seven hundred pounds, be granted to 
Her Majesty, to pay, to the 31st day of March 1838, 
the Salaries and incidental Expenses for the Com- 
missions appointed, on the part of Her Majesty, 
under the Treaties with Foreign Powers for preventing 
the illegal Traffic in Slaves. 

27. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One 
hundred thousand three hundred and eighty-nine 
pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to pay the Sala- 
ries of Her Majesty’s Consuls General, Consuls and 
Vice Consuls, and of the Superintendents of Trade 
at Canton; also, of the Contingent Expenses con- 
nected with the public duties of such Consuls Gene- 
ral, Consuls and Vice Consuls, and Superintendents 
of Trade. 

28. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Nine 
thousand nine hundred and fifty-three pounds, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the charge of the 
Salaries, &amp;c., of the Inspectors and Superintendents 
of Factories, to the 31st day of March 1838. 

29. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Five 
thousand and eight hundred pounds, be granted to 
Her Majesty, to defray the Salaries and Expenses of 
the Inspectors of Prisons, to the 31st day of March 
1838. 

30. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Fifty- 
one thousand eight hundred and forty pounds, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Expenditure 
for the several branches of the Mint, to the 31st day 
of March 1838. 

31. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Seventy- 
nine thousand three hundred and thirty-four pounds, 
be granted to Her Majesty, to defray the charge of 
Allowances or Compensations to persons formerly 
employed in the Public Offices or Departments, or 
in the Public Service, to the 31st day of March 
1838. 

32. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Ten 
thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to 
enable Her to grant relief, to the 31st day of March 
1838, to Toulonese and Corsican Emigrants, Dutch 
Naval Officers, Saint Domingo Sufferers, American 
Loyalists, and others, who have heretofore received 
Allowances from Her Majesty, and who, for services 
— or losses sustained, in the British service, 

ave special claims on Her Majesty’s justice and 
liberality. 

33. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One 
thousand eight hundred and fifty pounds, be granted 
to Her Majesty, to defray the expense of the Notional 
Vaccine Establishment, for the year 1837. 

34. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Three 
thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, for 
the support of the Institution called “The Refuge 
for the Destitute,” for the year 1837. 

35. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Three 
thousand and séventy-three pounds, be granted to 
Her Majesty, to defray the expense of confining and 
maintaining Criminal Lunatics in the Buildings 
attached to Bethlem Hospital, to the 31st day of 
March 1838. 

36. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Four 
thousand and six hundred pounds, be granted to 
Her Majesty, to pay, to the 1st day of March 1838, 
the usual Allowances to the Protestant Dissenting 
Ministers in England, poor French Refugee Clergy, 
poor French Retugee Laity, and sundry small chari- 





28° Juniz. 525 


table and other Allowances to the Poor of Saint 

Martin’ s-in-the-Fields, and others. 

37. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Thirty- Secret Services. 
five thousand and nine hundred pounds, be granted 

to Her Majesty, to defray the charge of Her Majes- 

ty’s Foreign and other Secret Services, to the 31st 

day of March 1838. 

38. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One Stationery 
hundred and seventy-three thousand and six hundred Office. 
pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray the 
expense of ae Stationery, Printing and Bind- 

ing, for the several departments of Government, and 

the two Houses of Parliament, to the 31st day of 

March 1838, including the expense of the establish 

ment of the Stationery Office. 

39. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Eleven Law Charges 
thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to 

defray the expense of Law Charges, to the 31st day 

of March 1838. 

40. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Fifty- Convicts. 
three thousand and four hundred pounds, be granted 
to Her Majesty, to defray the expense of the Convict 
Hulk Establishment at ews and at Bermuda, to the 
3ist day of March 1838. 

41. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Two 
hundred and forty-four thousand and one hundred 
pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray the 
expense of maintaining Convicts at Wew South Wales 
and Van Diemen’s Land, to the 31st day of March 
1838. 

42. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Twenty Captured 
thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to Negroes. 
defray the expenses for the support of Captured 
Negroes and Liberated Africans, under the Acts for 
the Abolition of the Slave Trade, to the 31st day of 
March 1838. 

43. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Two Sir A.B. King. 
thousand and five hundred pounds, be granted to 
Her Majesty, to pay the annual Compensation 
awarded to Sir Abraham Bradley King, late King’s 
Stationer in Jreland, for losses sustained by him by 
reason of the revocation of his patent. 

44. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Twenty School Houses. 
thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to 
enable Her to issue money for the erection of School 
Houses, in aid of private subscriptions for that pur- 
pose, for the education of the Children of the poorer 
Classes in England, to the 31st day of March 1838. 

45. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Ten Education 
thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to Scotland.) 
enable Her to issue, in the year 1837, money for 
the erection of School Houses, in aid of private sub- 
scriptions for that purpose, for the education of the 
Children of the poorer Classes, and for the erection 
of Model Schools in Scotland. 

46. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Twenty- Revising 
four thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, Barristers. 
to pay the Allowances and Expenses of the Barristers 
employed in revising Lists of Voters under the Act 
for amending the Representation of the People in 
England and Wales, to the 31st day of March 1838. 

47. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Fourteen Sherifis. 
thousand four hundred and fifty pounds, be granted 
to Her Majesty, to defray, to the 31st day of March 
1838, the expenses incurred by Sheriffs, formerly paid 
from Civil Contingencies; also, to make good the 
deficiency of the Fees in the Office of the Queen’s 
Remembrancer in the Exchequer, and to pay the 
Salaries and ancient Allowances of certain Officers 
of the Court of Exchequer. 

48. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Eighty County Rates. 
thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to 
defray, in the year 1837, certain Charges heretofore 
paid out of the County Rates. 

49. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Ten Distressed 
thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to P'* 
enable Her to grant Relief to the Distressed Poles 
now in this Country. 

50. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One Expedition to 
thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, New Holland. 





Vor. 92. 


\ 3x3 to 

































































British 
Museum. 


Bahamas. 


Bermudas. 


Prince Edward’s 
Island. 


Western Coast 
of Africa, 


North 
American 
Provinces, 


Western 
Australia, 


Indian 
Department 
(Canada.) 


Governors 
of West Indian 
Colonies. 


Heligoland. 


Slave Trade. 


N egro 
Education. 


Emigration, 


St. Helena. 





526 


to defray a part of the Charge of an Expedi- 
tion for exploring the North West part of New 
Holland. 

51. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One 
thousand five hundred and seventy-five pounds, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to enable the Runes of 
the British Museum to purchase the Collection of 
Shells belonging to Mr. Broderip. 

52. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Three 
thousand seven hundred and eighty-three pounds, 
be granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge of 
the Civil Establishment of the Bahama Islands, to 
the 31st day of March 1838. 

53. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Four 
thousand four hundred and forty-nine pounds, thir- 
teen shillings and four-pence, be granted to Her 
Majesty, to defray the Charge of the Civil Esta- 
blishment of the Bermudas, to the 31st day of 
March 1838. 

54. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Three 
thousand and seventy pounds, be granted to Her 
Majesty, to defray the Charge of the Civil Esta- 
blishment of Prince Edward’s Island, to the 31st 
day of March 1838. 

55. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Eleven 
thousand and thirty pounds, fifteen shillings and 
ten-pence, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray-the 
Charge of the Civil Establishments on the Western 
Coast of Africa, to the 31st day of March 1838. 

56. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Fourteen 
thousand one hundred and forty pounds, eighteen 
shillings and six-pence, be granted to Her Majesty, 
to defray the Expenses of the Ecclesiastical Esta- 
blishment of the British North American Provinces, 
to the 31st day of March 1838. 

57. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Five 
thousand three hundred and nine pounds, and five 
shillings, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray the 
Expense of the Settlement of Western Australia, to 
the 31st day of March 1838, 

58. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Nineteen 
thousand and five hundred pounds, be granted to 
Her Majesty, to defray the Expense of the Esta- 
blishment and Pensions of the Jndian Department 
in Lower and Upper Canada, to the 31st day of 
March 1838. 

59. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Sixteen 
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven pounds, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge of the 
Salaries of the Governors, Lieutenant-Governors 
and others of Her Majesty’s West Indian Colonies, 
to the 31st day of March 1838. 

60. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Nine 
hundred and sixty-three pounds, and ten-pence, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Expense of 
the Civil Establishment of Heligoland, to the 31st 
day of March 1838. 

61. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Sixty- 
nine thousand nine hundred and fifty pounds, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray, to the 31st day 
of March 1838, the Salaries and Allowances to 
Special Justices appointed in pursuance of the Act 
for the abolition of Slavery throughout the British 
Colonies. 

62. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Thirty 
thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to 
defray, in the year 1837, such Expenses as She may 
incur in aiding the local Legislatures in providing 
for the Religious and Moral Education of the Eman- 
cipated Negro Population. 

63. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Two 
thousand six hundred and sixty-four pounds, sixteen 
shillings and three-pence, be granted to Her Ma- 
jesty, for the Salaries of the Agents for Emigration, 
to the 31st day of March 1838. 

64. Resolved, Thata sum, not exceeding Eighteen 
thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to 
defray the Expense of the Civil Establishment at 


28° Juniz. 


A. 1837. 


East India Company’s late Establishments in that 
Island, to the 31st day of March 1838. 


65. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Seven Nova Scotia, 
thousand and four hundred pounds, be granted to 
Her Majesty, to defray the Expenses of the Civil 
Government of Nova Scotia, to the 31st day of 
March 1838, and also for the erection of Light- 
houses there. 

66. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Fourteen Canals in 
thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to Canada. 
defray, in the year 1837, the Charge of the Repair 
and Maintenance of the Rideau and Ottawa Canals, 
in Canada. 

67. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Fifty Education 
thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to (Ireland.) 
enable the Lord Lieutenant of Jreland to issue 
Money for the advancement of Education in Zreland, 
to the 31st day of March 1838. 

68. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Thirteen Foundling 
thousand and four hundred pounds, be granted to Hospital. 
Her Majesty, to defray the Expense of the Found- 
ling Hospital in Dublin, to the 31st day of March 
1838. 

69. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Twenty House of 
thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to Industry. 
defray the Expense of the House of Industry in 
Dublin, the Lunatic Department, and the four gene- 
ral Hospitals attached, to the 31st day of March 
1838. 

70. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One Hibernian 
hundred and fifty pounds, be granted ‘to Her Ma- Marine Society. 
jesty, to defray the Charge of the Hibernian Marine 
Society in Dublin, to the 31st day of March 1838. 


71. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One Female Orphan 
thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to House. 
defray the Expense of the Female Orphan House, 

Circular Road, Dublin, to the 31st day of March 
1838. 

72. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Two Westmorland 
thousand and five hundred pounds, be granted to Lock Hospital. 
Her Majesty, to defray the expense of the West- 
morland Lock Hospital, to the 31st day of March 
1838. 

73. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One Lying-in 
thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to a 
defray the expense of the Lying-in Hospital in °°" 

| P ying pie 
Dublin, to the 31st day of March 1838. 

74. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One Dr. Steeven’s 
thousand and five hundred pounds, be granted to Hospital. 
Her Majesty, to defray the expense of Doctor 
Steeven’s Hospital m Dublin, to the 31st day of 
March 1838. 

75. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Three Fever Hospital. 
thousand and eight hundred pounds, be granted to 
Her Majesty, to defray the expense of the Fever 
Hospital and House of Recovery, Cork-street, Dublin, 
to the 31st day of March 1838. 

76. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Five Hospital for 
hundred pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to Moles 
defray the expense of the Hospital for Incurables, to 
the 31st day of March 1838. 

77. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Eight RomanCatholic 
thousand nine hundred and twenty eight pounds, be ©*!!’8* 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the charge of the 
Roman Catholic College in Ireland, to the 31st day 
of March 1838. ; 

78. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Three ~— Irish 
hundred pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to oe 
defray the expense of the Royal Jrish Academy, to 
the 31st day of March 1838. 

79. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Three Reyal | 
hundred pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to (ibs 
defray the expense of the Royal Hibernian Academy, : 
to the 31st day of March 1838. 


80. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Seven eile 
hundred pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to ,ont™ 





Saint Helena, and of Pensions and Allowances to 


the Civil and Military Officers and Soldiers of the | Treland, to the 31st day of March 1838. 


: - Bequests. 
defray the Salaries and Expenses of the Commis- ’ 
sioners of Charitable Donations and Bequests in 


81. Resolved, 


Pu 





1 Victroriz. 


Royal Belfast 81. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One 
ng thousand and eight hundred pounds, be granted to 
nstitution. 


Her Majesty, to defray the expense of the Roya: 
Belfast Academical Institution, to the 31st day of 
March 1838. 

82. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Nineteen 
thousand six hundred and seventy-six pounds, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the expense of 
repairing and maintaining the several Public Build- 
ings in the Department of the Commissioners of 
Public Works in Jreland, to the 31st day of March 
1838. 


Public Works. 


Chief ey 83. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Twenty- 
on gl two thousand three hundred and two pounds, be 


granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Salaries and 
Expenses of the Offices of the Chief Secretary to 
the Lord Lieutenant of Zreland in Dublin and Lon- 
don, and Her Majesty’s Rrivy Council Office in 
Treland, and of Printing for the Public Offices in 
Treland, to the 31st day of March 1838. 


rg of 84. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Twelve 
el thousand three hundred and ninety-four pounds, be 


eranted to Her Majesty, to defray the charge of the 
Salaries of the Officers and Attendants of the 
Household of the Lord Lieutenant of Jreland, and 
certain other Officers and Services formerly charged 
on the Civil List in Ireland, to the 31st day of 
March 1838. 

85. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Six 
thousand and three hundred pounds, be granted to 
Her Majesty, to defray the charge of the Establish- 
ments of the Vice Treasurer and Teller of the Ex- 
chequer in Ireland, to the 31st day of March 1838. 

86. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Four 
thousand one hundred and fifty-seven pounds, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Expense of 
publishing Proclamations and printing the Statutes 
in Ireland, to the 31st day of March 1838. 


Vice-Treasurer 
and Teller of 
the Exchequer. 


Proclamations. 


Protestant 


rotesta 87. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Twenty- 
st seven thousand three hundred and forty-three pounds, 


be granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Expense 
of Non-conforming, Seceding and Protestant Dis- 
senting Ministers in Ireland, to the 31st day of 
March 1838. 

88. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Sixty 
thousand and nine hundred pounds, be granted to Her 
Majesty, to defray the Charge of Criminal Prosecu- 
tions and other Law Charges in Jreland, to the 31st 
day of March 1838. 

89. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Twenty- 
seven thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, 
in aid of the Funds for the Maintenance of the 
Police Establishment of Dublin, to the 31st day of 
March 1838. 

90. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Three 
thousand five hundred and ninety-one pounds, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Expense 
of Public Works in Jreland, to the 31st day of 
March 1838. 


Criminal Prose- 
cutions, 


Police (Dublin.) 


Public Works. 


Towaland 91. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Seven 
- thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to 
defray the Expense of the Townland Survey of Jre- 
land, to the 31st day of March 1838. 
ome 92. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Five 
n . 

(Ireland.) thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to 
defray the Expense of the Commission appointed to 
ng upon the best System of Railways in Jre- 
and. 

The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. . 
Metropolis The ingrossed Bill to continue, for a limited time, 


an Act for the more effectual administration of the 
Office of a Justice of the Peace, in and near the 
Metropolis, was, according to Order, read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act to continue, until the First day of 
July, in the year One thousand eight hundred and 
thirty-eight, and from thence until the end of the 

Vot. 92. 


Police Offices 
Bill. 


28° Juniz. 





527 


then next Session of Parliament, an Act for the 

more effectual Administration of the Office of a 

Justice of the Peace in and near the Metropolis. 
Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 


the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Supply. 
further consideration the 6th of the Resolutions 
which, upon the 10th day of this instant June, were 
reported from the Committee of Supply ; 

Ordered, That the said Resolution be taken into 
further consideration upon Friday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second Final Register 
uoting of the Final Register of Electors (No. 2.) (New) Bill 
And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That the Bill be now read a second time ; 
The House divided : 
The Yeas to the old Lobby ; 
The Noes to the new Lobby. 
Tellers for the f Mr. Elphinstone, 49 
Yeas, L Mr. Aglionby: } 5 
Tellers for the f Sir Edward Knatchbull, 6 
Noes, L Lord Viscount Sandon : } ‘ 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative :—The Bill 
was accordingly read a second time ; and committed 
to a Committee of the whole House for To-morrow. 


The Jewish Marriages Bill was, according to Jewish 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a Marriages Bill. 
Committee of the whole House, for To-morrow. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Railroads and 
into a Committee upon the Railroads and Public public Works 
: ill. 
Works Bill. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair. 

The Order of the day being read, for taking into sheriffs Courts 
further consideration the Report on the Sheriffs Bill. 
Courts Bill ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Amendments made by the 
Committee to the Bill be now read a second time; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the words “ That the” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words “ Report be taken into further consideration 
“ upon this day three months,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words pro- 
posed to be left out stand part of the Question :— 
It passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
“ Report be taken into further consideration upon 
“ this day three months,” be added instead thereof. 

It was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Then the main Question, so amended, being: put; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon this day three months 


The ingrossed Bill for amending the several Acts Attornies and 
for the regulation of Attornies and Solicitors, was, Solicitors Bill. 
according to Order, read the third time ; and Amend- 
ments were made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Tooke do carry the Bill to the 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Creditors _ 

into a Committee upon the Creditors (Scotland) (S°t!aud) Bill. 
Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Sir George Grey 
reported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 


The House, according to Order, resumed the ad- Tithe Composi- 


journed Debate upon the Question — yester- tion (Ireland. ) 


day, That there be laid before this House, Copies 
of all Official Orders or Instructions which have 
3x4 been 








Court of 
Exchequer 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Military 
Commissions 


Bill, 


China Courts 
Bill. 


Letters Patent 
Bill. 


Masters and 
Workmen Bill. 


Ecclesiastical 
Appointments 


Suspension Bill, 


Church 
Building 
Commission 


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528 


been issued since the appointment of the Earl of 
Mulgrave, as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, up to the 
— time, with reference to the employment of 

ilitary Forces on occasions connected with the 
levy of the Tithe Composition in Ireland :—Also, 
Copies of all Official Orders, Regulations or Instruc- 
tions which have been issued during the same pe- 
riod, with reference to the employment or duties of 
the Constabulary, on like occasions :—Also, Copy 
of any Official Communications which have been 
received by Government with reference to the Pro- 
ceedings of the Constabulary Force under the com- 
mand of Mr. John Whittaker, Chief Constable, on 
the 13th May last, at Drimrath, near Ballymote, in 
the County of Sligo, in seizing a Cow, the property 
of Mark Brehony; and again, ina second seizure of 
six Cows anda eons on the 30th of May last, the 
ae ad of Thomas Brehony; and under what 
authority such seizures were made. 

And the Question being put :—It was resolved in 
the Affirmative. 


The Court of Exchequer (Scotland) Bill was, ac- 
cording to Order, read a second time; and com- 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for To- 
morrow. 


The Military Commissions Bill was, according to 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for To-morrow. 


The China Courts Bill was, according to Order, 
read a second time ; and committed to a Committee 
of the whole House, for To-morrow. 


The Letters Patent Bill was, according to Order, 
read a second time; and committed to a Committee 
of the whole House, for Friday next. 


The House was moved, That the Act 5 Geo. 4, 
c. 96, to consolidate and amend the Laws relative to 
the Arbitration of Disputes between Masters and 
Workmen, might be read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
to amend the said Act: And that Mr. Poulett 
Thomson and Mr. Labouchere do prepare, and bring 
it in. 

The House was moved, That the Act 6 and 7 
Will. 4, c. 67, for suspending for one year Appoint- 
ments to certain Dignities and Offices in Cathedral 
and Collegiate Churches, and to sinecure Rectories, 
might be read ; and the same was read. 

The House was also moved, That the Act 6 and 7 
Will. 4, c. 77, for carrying into effect the Reports of 
the Commissioners appomted te consider the state 
of the Established Church in England and Wales 
with reference to Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues, 
so far as they relate to Episcopal Dioceses, Revenues 
and Patronage, might be read ; and the same being 
read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill for 
continuing for a limited time the Enactments made 
in the last Session of Parliament for suspending ap- 
pointments to certain Dignities and Offices in Ca- 
thedral and Collegiate Churches, and to sinecure 
Rectories ; and for delaying for a limited time the 
alteration of Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions in certain 
cases: And that Lord John Russell and Mr. Chan- 


cellor of the Exchequer do prepare, and bring it in. 


The House was moved, That the Act 58 Geo. 3, 
c. 45, for building and promoting the building of 
additional Churches in populous parishes, might be 
read ; and the same was read. 


98° Junii. 


A. 1837. 


in the fifty-ninth year of his late Majesty Kin 
George the Third, intituled, An Act to amend ool 
render more effectual an Act passed in the last Ses- 
sion of Parliament for building and promoting the 
building of additional Churches in populous parishes, 
might be read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
continue the said Acts: And that Lord John Russell 
and Mr. Fox Maule do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Poulett Thomson presented a Bill to impose Beet Root 
certain Duties of Excise on Sugar made from Beet 5¥e** Bill. 
Root in the United Kingdom: And the same was 

read the first time; and ordered to be read a second 

time To-morrow. 


Mr. Poulett Thomson presented a Bill to amend Masters and 
an Act of the 5th year f his Majesty King George ¥°"™ Bil. 
the Fourth, for consolidating and amending the 

Laws relative to the arbitration of Disputes between 

Masters and Workmen: And the same was read the 

first time; and ordered to be read a second time 
To-morrow. 


Mr. George Frederick Young presented a Bill to Mortgages of 
amend the Law relating to Mortgages of Ships and Ships Bil. 
Vessels : And the same was read the first time; and No. 448, 
ordered to be read a second time upon Thursday, 

the 20th day of July next; and tobe printed. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented to Distress in the 
Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased to Highlands of 
give directions, that there be laid before this House, a" 
Copy of a Letter addressed to Mr. Fox Maule by 
Mr. Robert Graham, dated “ Edinburgh, 6th May,” 
and communicated, by Lord John Russell sdirections, 
to the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury, 
relative to Distress in the Highlands of Scotland. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
Her Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of Her Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Lord John Russell presented a Bill for continuing Ecclesiastical 
for a limited time the Enactments made in the last Appointments 
Session of Parliament for suspending appointments Suspension Bill 
to certain Dignities and Offices in Cathedral and 
Collegiate Churches, and to sinecure Rectories ; and 
for delaying for a limited time the alteration of 
Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions in certain cases: And 
the same was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time To-morrow. 


Dr. Bowring reported from the Select Committee public 
on Public Petitions; That they had examined the Petitions. 
Petitions presented from the 19th to the 23d days 
of this instant June, both inclusive ; and had directed 
him to make a Report thereof to House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


A Petition of Coroners for the county of Sussex, Coroners’ 
praying that a Clause or Clauses may be inserted in a aml Bill 
the Coroners’ Inquests’ Expenses Bill, for providing “P°"" ~ 
more adequate remuneration to Coroners for their 
arduous and responsible services, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Crueys Morchard;—and, Hal- Church Rates 
berton; praying that the proposed measure relative Reels. 
to Church Rates may not receive the sanction of 
the House,—were presented, and read ; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 





The House was also moved, That the Act 59 
Geo. 3, c. 134, to amend and render more effectua 
an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament for 
building and promoting the building of additional 
Churches in populous parishes, might be read; and 
the same was read. 

The House was also moved, That the Act 2 and 3 
Will. 4, c. 61, to render more effectual an Act passed 


| Petitions from Alnwick ; — Cuddington ;—Ches- 
| ham ;—and, Speen; praying that the said proposed 
| measure may receive the sanction of the House,— 
| were also presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


A Petition of Farmers and Occupiers of land in Bonded Com 
| the county of Cambridge, praying that the Bonded —_ 
| Corn Manufacture Bill may not pass into a law, * 
was 


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was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 
Malt. A Petition of Owners and Occupiers of land, and 
others attending Maidstone Market, praying for the 
repeal of the Duty on Malt, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
Lord’sDay Bill. A Petition of Inhabitants of Alnwick, praying 
That the Lord’s Day Bill may be permitted to go 
into a Committee of the whole House, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Agricultural 
and Commercial 
Bank, Treland. 


A Petition of Proprietors of stock in the Agri- 

cultural and Commercial Bank of Jreland, praying 
that the Select Committee on Joint Stock Banks be 
directed to inquire into the affairs and management 
of the said Company, was presented, and read ; and 
referred to the Select Committee on Joint Stock 
Banks. 
Borough = — A Petition of the Mayor, Chairman of a Meeting 
Boundaries Bill. 45¢ Proprietors and Occupiers of lands and tene- 
ments, and other Inhabitants of Tweedmouth and 
Spittle, praying that the Borough Boundaries Bill 
may not pass into a law, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Medical A Petition of the Governors and Governess of 
praca pil, the County Leitrim Infirmary, praying that the 


Medical Charities (Ireland) Bill may not pass into 
a law, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 

Vote by Ballot. = A Petition of Inhabitants of Cloonclare, praying 
that the votes at all Elections for Members to serve 
in Parliament be taken by Ballot, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 








Tithes A Petition of Inhabitants of Cloonclare, praying 
(Ireland. for the abolition of Tithes in Jreland, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 
Jovis, 29° die Juniz ; 
Anno 1° Victorie Regine, 1837. 
PRAYERS. 
East India M* Campbell, from the Court of Directors of 
cmpanye 


the East India Company, was called in ; and 

at the bar presented, pursuant to the directions of 
several Acts of Parliament,—1. An Account of the 
Receipts and Disbursements of the Home Treasury 
of the East India Company, from 1st May 1836 to 
30th April 1837 :—2. Estimate of the Receipts and 
Disbursements of the Home Treasury of the East 
India Company, from 1st May 1837 to 30th April 
1838 :—3. An Account of the Debts and Credits in 
England of the Government of India on the 1st May 
1837 :—4. A List of the several Establishments of 
the East India Company in England, and the 
Salaries and Allowances payable by the Court of 
Directors in respect thereof, on the Ist May 1837: 
—5. An Account of new or increased Salaries, Esta- 
blishments or Pensions payable in Great Britain, 
— or created between 1st May 1836 and 1st 
ay 1837:—6. Allowances, Compensations, Re- 
munerations and Superannuations granted to Officers 
and Servants of the East India Company, under 
the 93d Section of the Act 53 Geo. 3, c. 155, between 
Ist May 1836 and 1st May 1837:—7. Compensa- 
tions granted to reduced Officers and Servants of 
the East India Company in England, under the 
Act 3 and 4 Will. 4, c. 85, s.7, between 1st May 
1836 and 1st May 1837:—8. Compensations granted 
to Servants of the late China Establishment, between 
ist May 1836 and 1st May 1837, by way of An- 

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nuities :—9. Compensations granted by way of An- 
nuities to Commanders and Officers of the Com- 
pany’s Maritime Service, between 1st May 1836 and 
Ist May 1837:—10. Compensations to the Maritime 
Service, in the form of Gratuities to those who have 
served less than Ten years, computed according to 
Rank and Service, from 1st May 1836 to Ist May 
1837 :— 11. Extra Compensation, in the form of 
Gratuities to Officers and others of the Company’s 
own Ships : —12. Compensation in the form of An- 
nuities to the Families of deceased Officers and 
others of the late Maritime Service of the East India 
Company :—And then he withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Accounts do lie upon the 
Table. 


Lord George Lennox reported from the Committee London and 
on the London and Brighton Railway Bill (Rennie’s ot Bill 
Line); and to whom several Petitions against the said (Rennie’sLive). 
Bill were referred ; and who were instructed to make 
a Special Report of the engineering particulars of 
each of the four competing Lines, to enable the 
House to determine which to send back, for the 
purpose of having the Land-owners heard, and 
clauses settled ; ana who were instructed to hear the 
case of the Land-owners, upon the Line called the 
Direct Line, in order to settle the clauses relative 
thereto; and to consolidate the several Bills, and 
the subscriptions for the same, if and so far as it 
should appear to the Committee proper so to do ; 
That they had heard counsel in support of several 
of such Petitions, and had considered several others 
Petitions; and had also heard counsel in favour of 
the Bill, and had consolidated the subscriptions of 
the several competing Lines; and that the Com- 
mittee had inquired into the several matters required 
by the Resolutions of the House of the 1st day of 
March 18386 ; and had examined the allegations of 
the Bill, and found the same to be true; and had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 
Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration To-morrow ; and be printed. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration London and 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, et 
intituled, An Act to alter the Line of the Zondon oo 
and Southampton Railway, and to amend the Act 
relating thereto; and the same were read, as follow: 

Pr. 1. 1. 2. Leave out “ Fourth and.” 
Pr. 1. 1.3. Leave out“ years,” and insert“ year,” 
and in the same line leave out “ present,” and insert 
“ late.” 
Pr. 1. 1. 4. After “ Majesty ” insert “ King Wil- 
“ liam the Fourth.” 
Pr. 1. 1. 26. Leave out “ King’s,” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 
Pr. 12. 1. 
Pr. 12. 1. 
“ late.” 
Pr. 12. 1. 30. After “ Majesty’ insert “ King 
“ William the Fourth.” 
Pr. 18. 1. 32. After “ deviating ” insert Clauses 
(A.) and (B.) 
Cuiavuse (A.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
in making the said alterations in the line of the 
said Railway, it shall not be lawful for the said 
Company to deviate from the levels of the said 
alterations, as referred to the common datum line 
described on the section so approved of by Par- 
liament, and as marked on the same, to any extent 
exceeding in any place five feet, or, in passing 
through towns, two feet, without the consent of 
the owners, lessees and occupiers of the land in, ; 
through or over which such deviation is intended 
to be made, or in case any street or public carriage 
road shall be affected by such deviation, then the 
same shall not be made without the consent of 
the trustees or commissioners, or if there be no 
such trustees or commissioners, without the con- 
sent of Two or more Justices of the Peace in 
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Petty Sessions assembled for that purpose, and 
acting for the district in which such street or 
public carriage road may be situate, or without 
the consent of the commissioners for any public 
sewers, or of the proprietors of any canal or navi- 
gation affected by such deviation; and that no 
mcrease in the inclination or gradients of the said 
Railway as denoted by the said Section, shall be 
made in any place to any extent exceeding the 
rate of Three feet per mile, and where in any place 
it is intended to carry the Railway on an arch or 
arches as marked on the said plan or section, the 
same shall be made accordingly, and where a 
tunnel is marked on the said plan or section, as 
intended to be made at any place, the same shall 
be made accordingly, unless the owners, lessees 
and occupiers of the land in or through which 
such tunnel is intended to be made, shall consent 
that the same shall not be so made: Provided 
nevertheless, That it shall be lawful for the said 
Company, with such consent as aforesaid, and not 
otherwise, to make a tunnel or an arch or arches 
as aforesaid,not marked on the said plan or section, 
so that no such tunnel shall be ofa greater length 
than Two hundred yards, and that no two tunnels 
be at a less distance from each other than One 
hundred yards measured on the line of the Rail- 
way: Provided always, That notice of every Petty 
Sessions to be holden for the purpose of obtaining 
such consent as aforesaid, shall, Fourteen days 
previous to the holding of such Petty Sessions, be 
given in some newspaper circulating in the county, 
and also be affixed upon the church-door of the 
parish in which such deviation or alteration is 
intended to be made, or, if there be no church, on 
some other place to which notices are usually 
affixed: Provided also, That for the purpose of 
consenting to any such deviation from the said 
sections, and to any tunnelling or arching as 
aforesaid, the word ‘ owncrs’ shall be deemed and 
taken to mean such persons as are capacitated to 
agree for the sale of, and to convey, land for the 
making of the said Railway, and the consent of 
such persons, with or without the consent of any 
other persons interested as owners in the said 
lands, shall be deemed and taken to be sufficient 
for such purposes.” 

Cravuse (B.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
it shall not be lawful to diminish the radius of any 
curve from what it is shown to be on the plan 
deposited with the Clerk of the Peace, unless | 
such radius exceed one mile, nor to diminish it 
in any such case, so that it shall become less than 
one mile, nor to diminish any greater radius by 
more than a quarter of a mile, unless where it 
exceeds two miles, or by more than half a mile 
unless where it exceeds three miles, on the said 
plan.” 

Pr. 22. 1. 10. Leave out from “ canal” to “ and”’ 


be awarded by a jury summoned, empannelled 
and sworn in manner by the said recited and this 
Act authorized for or in respect of any loss or 
inconvenience which may be occasioned to the 
said canal by the works of the said Railway ; and 
if the works of the said Railway Company under 
the said canal, shall not be completed within Six 
calendar months from the commencement thereof, 
then and in such case the said Railway Company 
shall pay to the said Canal Company over and 
above any such compensation as aforesaid the 
sum of One hundred pounds for each and every 
day during which such works shall not be com- 
pleted.” 

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empower the said Railway Company to commence 
any works under the said canal until the said 
Railway Company shall at their own expense 
have completed a temporary canal or side cut and 
towing-path to be substituted for such part of the 
present canal and towing-path as shall be neces- 
sarily obstructed during the progress of the said 
Railway works, and which temporary diversion of 
the said canal and towing-path shall be con- 
structed, and, until the said canal shall be restored 
to its present course, shall be maintained, at the 
expense of the said Railway Company, in such 
manner and of such sufficient capacity that the 
barges, boats and horses navigating the said 
Basingstoke Canal shall at all times during such 
substitution pass along the said temporary canal 
and towing-path with security and convenience.” 
Pr. 94. 1. 33. Leave out “ twenty,” and insert 
sixteen.” 
Pr. 94, 1. 
Pr. 94, 1. 
thirty-six.” 
Pr. 95. 1. 4. Leave out from “ same” to “ And” 


34. After “ twenty ” insert “ five.” 
ult. Leave out “ forty,” and insert 


a 99. 1.9. and insert Clauses (D.), (E.), (F.) and 
(G.) 


Cuiause (D.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
the said new shares hereby authorized to be created 
shall be and the same are hereby respectively 
vested in the several corporations and persons 
who have subscribed, and shall hereafter subscribe, 
for the same respectively, and their several and 
respective successors, executors, administrators 
and assigns, to their proper use and benefit, pro- 
portionably to the sums by them severally sub- 
scribed, and to be subscribed; and all corporations 
and persons, and their several and respective suc- 
cessors, executors, administrators and assigns, who 
have subscribed, and shall subscribe, for one or 
more of the said new shares by this Act autho- 
rized to be created, or such sum or sums as shall 
be demanded in lieu thereof, shall be and they 
are hereby declared to be owners and proprietors 
of stock in the said Company, to the same extent 
and as beneficially to all intents and purposes 
whatsoever as proprietors of the same number of 
original shares of Fifty pounds in the said Com- 
pany, and shall in respect of the said new shares 
be entitled to all such rights and privileges, and 
be under and subject to all the powers, provisions, 
indemnities, remedies, penalties, clauses, matters 
and things contained in the said recited and this 
Act, in like manner as if the said new shares were 
original shares of Fifty pounds each, except where 
altered or varied by this Act.” 

Criause (E.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
the directors shall have power from time to time 
and at any time or times after the expiration of 
Six calendar months from the day of the passing 
of this Act, but not sooner, to make at their dis- 
cretion such call or calls of money from the sub- 
scribers to and proprietors of the said new shares 
in the said Company, as the directors shall from 
time to time find necessary for the purposes of 
the said Company, so that no such call shall 
exceed the sum of Five pounds upon each such 
new share, and so that there shall be an interval 
of Three calendar months at least between every. 
two successive calls; and the several sums of 
money so to be called for shall be paid into such 
banks, or to such persons, and subject to the re- 
strictions hereinbefore contained, at such time and 
place, and in such manner as the directors shall 
from time to time order and appoint, of which 
time and place Twenty-one days’ notice at least 
shall be previously given by advertisement under 
the hand of the secretary of the said Company, 
inserted in two or more of the daily London News- 
papers, and in one or more Newspapers usually 
circulated in each of the counties of Surrey and 
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and all the powers, provisions, remedies, penalties, 
forfeitures, matters and things created or imposed 
by the said recited Act for compelling the pay- 
ment of calls, with interest, or for forfeiting the 
shares of such proprietors as shall be in default, 
shall extend and be applicable to the said new 
shares, as fully and effectually to all intents and 
purposes, as if the same had been repeated and 
re-enacted in this present Act in respect of the 
said new shares.” 


Crauss (F.) “ Provided always, and be it further 
Enacted, That no original subscriber for any new 
share hereby authorized to be created; shall, within 
Six calendar months from the day of the passing 
of this Act, be capable of making any transfer by 
deed of such share, without first paying to the 
said Company in part of the sum of Twenty-five 
pounds payable on such share, such sum as here- 
inafter mentioned, (that is to say) the sum of One 
pound in case such transfer shall be proposed to 
be made before the expiration of Two calendar 
months from the day of the passing of this Act, 
the sum of Three pounds, in case such transfer 
shall be proposed to be made at or at any time 
after the expiration of Two calendar months and 
before the expiration of Four calendar months 
from the day of the passing of this Act, and the 
sum of Five pounds in case such transfer shall be 
proposed to be made at or at any time after the 
expiration of Four calendar months, and before 
the expiration of Six calendar months from the 
day of the passing of this Act.” 


Cravss (G.) “ Provided also, and be it further 
Enacted, That in case any original subscriber for 
any new share hereby authorized to be created, 
shall within Six calendar months from the day of 
the passing of this Act, make any such transfer 
by deed of such share as aforesaid, then and in 
every such case the corporation or person to whom 
such share shall be so transferred, or the succes- 
sors, executors, administrators or assigns of such 
corporation or person, shall in further part of the 
sum of Twenty-five pounds, payable on such share, 
pay to the said Company, such sum or sums, and 
on or at such day or time, or days or times, as 
hereinafter mentioned, (that is to say) in case such 
transfer shall have been made before the expira- 
tion of Two calendar months from the day of 
the passing of this Act, then the sum of I'wo 
pounds on the day of the expiration of such Two 
calendar months, and the further sum of Two 
pounds on the day of the expiration of Four 
calendar months from the day of the passing of 
this Act; and in case such transfer shall have 
been made after the expiration of Two calendar 
months, and before the expiration of Four calendar 
months from the day of the passing of this Act, 
then the further sum of Two pounds on the day 
of the expiration of such Four calendar months, 
and that such last-mentioned sum or sums of 
money, so to be paid as aforesaid, shall be paid 
on or before the day hereby appointed for the 
payment thereof, into the bank of Messrs. Wright, 
Covent Garden, London, the bankers of the said 
Company to the credit of the said Company ; 
and all the powers, provisions, remedies, penalties, 
forfeitures, matters and things created or imposed 
by the said recited and this Act, for compelling 
the payment of calls with interest, and for for- 
feiting the shares of such proprietors as shall be 
in default, shall extend and be applicable to the 
said new shares in respect of the sum or sums of 
money so to be paid as last aforesaid, in such and 
the same manner, and as fully and effectually, to 
all intents and purposes, as if such sum or sums 
were payable in respect of a call or calls on such 
new shares: Provided always, That no proprietor 
or owner of any new share hereby authorized to 
be created, shall be in any case liable to pay any 
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greater sum in the whole in respect of such share 
than the sum of Twenty-five pounds.” 

Pr. 101. 1. 13. After “ twenty ”’ insert “ five.” 

Pr. 104, 1. 24. After “ his” insert “ late.” 

Pr. 104. 1. 29. Leave out “seventh,” and insert 
first.” 

Pr. 104. 1. 30. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
Her,” and in the same line leave out from “ Ma- 


“ jesty” to “ intituled” in 1. 31. and 1, 32. and 
insert “ Queen Victoria.” 


Pr. 114. 1. 14. Leave out from “ bond holders ”’ 


to “ And ” in 1, 36. 


The said Amendments as far as the Amendment 


in Pr, 22.1. 10., being read a second time, were 
agreed to. 


The Amendment in Pr. 22, 1. 10., being read 


a second time ; 


An Amendment was made thereunto by leaving 


out the word “ thereof” and inserting the words 


of the temporary diversion of the said Canal” 


instead thereof. 


And the said Amendment, so amended, was 


agreed to. 


Then the subsequent Amendments being read 


a second time, were agreed to. 


Ordered, That Mr. Shaw Lefevre do carry the 


Bill to the Lords, and acquaint them, that this 
House hath agreed to the Amendments made b 
their Lordships, with an Amendment, to ick 
Amendment this House doth desire the concurrence 
of their Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 


Pr. 1. 1. 23. Leave out “ present,” and insert 
late.” 

Pr. 3. 1. 37. Leave out “ King’s,” and insert 
Queen’s.” 

Pr. 4. 1. 8. After “ whereas” insert “ in conse- 
quence of the passing of the said recited Act, of 
the Sixth year of his late Majesty, distinct and 
separate Rates for the purposes of watching and 
lighting, instead of a rate for both those purposes 
conjointly, are now payable within the said Bo- 
rough and.” 

Pr. 4.1. 9. After “ expedient,” insert “ to pro- 
vide for the assessment and collection of such 
distinct Rates and.” 

Pr. 5. 1. 8. Leave out “ present,” and insert 
late.” 

Pr. 7.1.3. Leave out “ present,” and insert “late.” 

Pr. 7.1. 15. After the second “ Borough,” insert 
and such Surveyors respectively are hereby autho- 
rized to contract and agree as aforesaid.” 

Pr. 12.1. 6. Leave out from “ Person”’ to “ shall”’ 


in line 9 and insert “save any i Yet or 


companies already established or hereafter to be 
established, for supplying the said Borough or any 
part thereof with gas or water, and already autho- 
rized vor hereafter to be authorized either by Act 
of Parliament or by the license of the Corporation 
of Newcastle-upon-Tyne as formerly constituted, 
or of the said Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses.” 

Pr. 12. 1. 11. After “ pavement,” insert “ or 
flagging.” 

Pr. 12. 1. 25. After “ pavement” insert “ or 
flagging.” 

Pr. 27. 1.17. Leave out “ disposition,” and insert 


“ direction.” 


Pr. 46. 1. 35 and 36. Leave out “ present,” and 


insert “ late.” 


Pr. 47. 1. 16. Leave out “ the.” 

Pr. 47%, 25. Leave out “ present,” and insert 
late.” 

Pr. 47. 1. penult. After “ Rate ” insert “ in.” 

Pr. 48. 1. 25. Leave out “ present,” and insert 


late.” 
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Newcastle- 


the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, upou-Tyne 
intituled, An Act for regulating and improving the 
Borough of Newcastle-upon-Tyne; and the same 
were read as follow : 


Improvement 
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Pr. 50, 1. 29. Leave out “ Gas.” 

Pr. 55. 1. 32. Leave out “set up and erected,” 
and insert “ purchased and provided.” 

Pr. 61. |. 38. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 64.1.7. Leave out the second “ and” and 
insert “ or.” 

Pr. 64. L. 9. Leave out “ are,” and insert “ is. 

Pr. 64. 1. 38. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her,” 

Pr. 70.1. 32. Leave out “ His” and insert “ Her,” 
and in the same line, leave out from “ Majesty” to 
“ intituled” in line 33 and insert “ Queen Victoria.” 


” 


Pr. 71. 1. 16. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Be.” 

Pr. 71. 1. 22. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 


Pr. 72. 1. 3. Leave out “ His” and insert “ Her.” 

Pr. 73. 1. 24. Leave out “ from” and insert “ to 
any Court of General Quarter Sessions of the 
Peace, pursuant to the provisions hereinafter 
contained against.” 

Pr. 73. 1. 26. Leave out “ such,” and insert 
any.” 

Pr. 80. 1. 1. 
which.” 

Pr. 80. 1. 3. Leave out “ crafts lying,” and insert 
“ craft shall lie.” 

Pr. 82. 1. 14. Leave out “ Magistrates,” and 
insert “ Justices of the Peace of the said borough.” 

Pr. 83. 1. 26. After “ borough” insert “ or two 
“ Justices of the Peace of the same borough.” 

Pr. 84. 1. 33. After “ cartmen”’ insert “ and.” 

Pr. 84. 1. 34. Leave out “ or watermen.” 

Pr. 94. 1. 4. After “ Agents” insert “ empowered 
by Act of Parliament or by the license of the 
Corporation of Newcastle-upon- Tyne as formerly 
constituted, or of the said Mayor, Aldermen and 
Burgesses.” 

Pr. 97. 1.19. Leave out “ present,” and insert 
“ late.” 

Pr. 98. 1. 25. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 107. 1. 32. Leave out “and” and in the 
same line after “ provide” insert “ and appropriate.” 

Pr. 108. Is. 3. and 4. Leave out “ particularly,” 
and insert “ for holding public hirings and also to 
“ find and provide.” 

Pr. 108. 1.10. Leave out “and” and in the 
same line and in line 11, after “ provided” insert 
* and appropriated.” 

Pr. 110. 1. 3. Leave out from “ warehouse” to 
“ or” in line 35. 

Pr. 114. 1.9. After “ street” insert “ the middle 
“* street.” 

Pr. 117. 1. 15. Leave out “ opposite,” and insert 
“ near.” 

Pr. 117. 1. 16. Leave out from “ of” to “ street” 
in line 17 and insert “ Gibson.” 

Pr. 117. 1. 34. After “ buildings” insert “ and 
yards and conveniences thereto.” 

Pr. 119. 1. 28. After “ fit” insert “ and to make 
“ and erect warehouses and other buildings upon 
“ or near to the said quays respectively.” 

Pr. 122.1. 14. After “ that” insert “ for the pur- 
“ poses aforesaid and.” 

Pr. 122. 1. 26. Leave out from “ shall ”’ to “ be” 
in line 28. 

Pr. 127. 1. 16. After “ otherwise ”’ insert Clause 


Leave out “ of,” and insert “ in 


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gardens and fields, or other person empowered to 
sell the same by virtue of this Act or otherwise.” 

Pr. 128. 1. 4. Leave out “one” and insert 
two.” 

Pr. 128. 1. 5. Leave out “His,” and insert 
Her.” 

Pr. 131. 1. 5. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
Her” and in the same line leave out from “ Ma- 
jesty ” to intituled in line 7, and insert “ Queen 
Victoria.” 

Pr. 134. 1. 30. Leave out “fourth and fifth 
years” and insert “ sixth year.” 

Pr. 134. 1. 31. Leave out “ present,” and insert 
late.” 

Pr. 134. 1. 36. Leave out “ grand.” 

Pr. 135. 1. 21. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
Her.” 

Pr. 137. 1. 5. Leave out “ or may.” 

Pr. 137. |. 6. After “ been” insert “ or may be.” 

Pr. 137. 1.32. Leave out “ seven,” and insert 
fourteen.” 

Pr. 142. 1. 12. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
Her.” 

Pr. 143. 1. 13. Leave out from “ thereon” to 
shall” in line 15. 

Pr. 145. 1. 15. Leave out “alleged to be sus- 
tained,” and insert ‘“ apprehended.” 

Pr. 147. 1. 10. Leave out “ Council of the 
Borough,” and insert “ Mayor, Aldermen and 
Burgesses.” 

Pr. 152.1. 21. Leave out from “ aforesaid ” to 
upon ” in line 23. 

Pr. 152. 1. 28. Leave out “ such,” and insert 
a just.” 

Pr. 152. 1. 30. Leave out from “ tenant” to 
and,” in line 31. 

Pr. 153. 1. 30. Leave out from “ England” to 
for” in line 33. 

Pr. 154. 1. 38. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
Her.” 

" Pr. 159. 1. 4. After “ thereto” insert Clause 
(B.) 

Crause (B.) “ Provided always, And be it 
further Enacted, That the interest, dividends and 
annual proceeds of the stocks or funds in which 
the purchase or compensation money for or in 
respect of any part or parts of the Castle leazes or 
Town Moor of Newcastle-upon-Tyne shall be in- 
vested, shall be paid and applied in like manner 
and for the like purposes as the rents of certain 
portions of the said Castle leazes and Town Moor 
are applicable under an Act of Parliament made 
and passed in the fourteenth year of the reign of 
his late Majesty King George the third, intituled, 
‘ An Act for confining to the resident freemen or 
burgesses and resident widows of deceased free- 
men or burgesses of the town of Mewcastle-upon- 
Tyne, their full right and benefit to the herbage 
of the Town Moor, Castle Leazes, and Nuns’ 
Moor, within the liberties of the said town for two 
milch cows each, in such manner as has been used, 
and for improving the herbage of the said Town 
Moor, Castle Leazes and Nuns’ Moor respec- 
tively.’ ” 

Pr. 167. 1. 138. Leave out “Council of the 
Borough,” and insert ‘“ Mayor, Aldermen and 


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“ Burgesses.” 
Pr. 175. 1. 22. Leave out “ Informers or.” 
Pr. 178. 1. 12. Leave out “ by virtue of this Act,” 





A.) 
Cravuse(A.) “ Provided also, and be it further | 
Enacted, That for the purpose of making the | 
said intended street, extending from the West end | 
of Blackett-street to the Military road near to | 
Adrianople, the said council shall not, where the | 
said intended street shall pass throsigh pleasure 


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street or roadway, without the consent of the 





grounds, gardens or fields, take and purchase | 
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more thereof than shall be used in forming the |“ Her.” 


owner or owners of the said pleasure grounds, \ late.” 


' and insert “ in that behalf.” 


Pr. 184. ]. penult. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“= Be.” 
Pr. 186. 
"oe 
Pr. 186. 
* ieee,” 
Pr. 189. 


1. 10. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
I. 


1. 


28. Leave out “ His,” and insert 


b 


28. Leave out “ His,” and insert 


Pr. 194. 1. 23. Leave out “ present,” and insert 


Pr. 195. 





Manchester 
Gas Bill, 


Manchester and 


Birmingham 


Railway Bill. 


1 Vicroriz. 


Pr. 195. Is.1. and 2. Leave out “ present,” and 
insert “ late.” 
Pr. 195. 1. 8. 
“ Queen’s.” 
Pr. 195. 1. 12. Leave out “ his.” 
Pr. 195. 1. 13. After “ her” insert “ his.” 
In the Fourth Schedule to the Bill : 
Pr. 244. 1. 29. In the first column leave out 
“ Bighton” and insert “ Brighton.” 
Pr. 245. 1.10. In the first column leave out 
“« Byran,” and insert “ Bryan.” 
Pr. 253. 1. 12. Leave out “ opposite ” and insert 
“ near to.” 
Pr. 279. 1. 9. In the first column, leave out 
“* Hounson,” and insert “ Hounsam.” 
Pr. 279. 1. 38. In the first column insert “ Mar- 
“ garet Mowbray.” 
Pr. 280. 1. 4. In the first column insert “ the 
Representatives of Daniel Mowbray.” 
Pr. 286. 1. 27. In the first column, leave out 
“ Henry Friar,” and insert “ Matthew Plummer.” 
Pr. 294. 1. 30. In the first column, leave out 
“ 4nn Heron,” and insert “‘ James Archbold.” 
Pr. 296. 1. 11. In the second column, insert “ the 
“ Herbage Committee, consisting of William Gar- 
“ ret, Robert Usher, Edward Hory, John Havelock, 
“ Robert Gilchrist, William Angus, Thomas Wal- 
“ Jace, Anthony Charlton Hewson, and William 
“ Foggen.” 
Pr. 296. 1. 14. In the third column, after “leazes,” 
insert “ and stables and other buildings.” 
Pr. 296. 1. 17. In the first column, leave out 
“ or,” and insert “ and.” 
Pr. 298. 1. 13. In the first column, leave out 
“ Waites,” and insert “ Wailes.” 
Pr. 298. 1. 22. In the first column, leave out 
“« Healey,” and insert “ Hedley.” 
Pr. 307. 1. 3. Leave out “ Docks,” and insert 
“ Quay.” 
Pr. 307. 1. 4. Leave out “ Quay.” 
Pr. 307. 1. 15. Leave out from 
es - - | andothers - - | Rooms. 
to the end of the Bill, and insert 
(| Matthew Nichol - |&gt; 
Ditto (Colling- | | James Calbreath - | 
wood Forster) | William William- 
‘Jackson, Les- \ son. 
see. ) John Dixon - - 
Robert Gilchrist - |) 
C.F. Jackson = = - 


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Leave out “ King’s,” and insert 


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| Tenement Rooms. 


Ditto - Ditto - | --A Quay lying 
to the West of the 
Copperas Works. 





above - mentioned 
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premises.” 





Sir Matthew | - - = - | -- The shore or bed 
White Ridley, , of the River Tyne 
Baronet. lying in front of the 


The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Ord do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lordships. 


Mr. Brotherton reported from the Committee on 
the Manchester Gas Bill; That they had examined, 
and found that Notices had been given in the News- 
papers, and affixed on the Church doors, in compli- 
ance with the Order of the House of the 1st day of 
this instant June; and that the Committee had 
examined the allegations of the Bill, and found the 
same to be true; and had gone through the Bill, 
and made Amendments thereunto ; and the Amend- 
ments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 
intituled, An Act for making a Railway from Man- 
chester, to join the Grand Junction Railway, in the 
Parish of Chebsey, in the County of Stafford, to be 
called “The Manchester and Birmingham Railway,” 

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533 


with certain Branches therefrom; and the same 
were read, as follow: 
Pr. 1. 1.14. Leave out “ King’s,” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 
Pr. 1.1.15. After “is” insert “ or claims to be.” 
Pr. 1.1.18. Leave out “his” and insert “ her.” 
Pr.1. 1.31. Leave out “ King’s” and _ insert 
“ Queen’s.” 

Pr. 8. 1. 4. After “line” insert “and level.” 

Pr. 8. 1. 24. After “ line” insert “ and level.” 

Pr. 9. 1,12. After “made” insert “ and such 
parts of the aforesaid deviations as have been 
agreed to be made through the estate of Thomas 
Kinnersley, Esquire, in the said parishes of Wol- 
stanton and Audley, are described in two enlarged 
re with sections marked respectively (A.) and 
“ (A. 2.)” 

Pr. 9. 1. 23. After “line” insert “ and level,” 
and in the same line, after “ of,” insert “ the.” 

Pr. 11. Is. 10. and 11. After “ elsewhere” insert 
Clause (A.) 

Crause (A.) “And be it further Enacted, That 
it shall not be lawful for the said Company to 
proceed in the execution of the said Railway here- 
inbefore authorized to be made, unless the said 
Company shall have, previously to the commence- 
ment of such work, deposited with the Clerk of 
the Peace of the several counties through which 
the said Railway hereby authorized to be made is 
intended to pass, a plan and section of all such 
alterations from the original plan and section as 
shall have been approved by Parliament, on the 
same scale, and containing the same particulars, 
as the original plan and section of the Railway ; 
and also with the clerks of the several parishes in 
or through which such alterations shall have been 
authorized to be made, copies or extracts of or 
from such plans and sections as shall relate to such 
parishes respectively ; and all persons interested 
shall have liberty to inspect and make extracts 
from or copies of the said plans and sections or 
extracts or copies thereof, paying to the Clerk 
of the Peace, or the clerk of the parish having 
the custody of such plan and section, or of such 
extract or copy, the sum of One Shilling for every 
such inspection, and after the rate of Sixpence for 
every one hundred words copied therefrom.” 

Pr. 11. 1.18. After ‘ sections” insert “ to be 
deposited as hereinbefore directed.” 

Pr. 11. 1. 28. Leave out “ His,’ and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 12. 1. 31. After “reference” insert Clauses 
(B.) and (C.) 

Crause (B.) “ And be it further Enacted, That, 
in making the said Railway, it shall not be lawful 
for the said Company to deviate from the levels of 
the said Railway, as referred to the common datum 
line described on the section so approved of by 
Parliament, and as marked on the same, to any 
extent, exceeding in any place five feet, or, in 
passing through towns, two feet, without the con- 
sent or the owners, lessees and occupiers of the 
land in, through or over which such deviation is in- 
tended to be made ; or in case any street or public 
carriage-road shall be affected by such deviation, 
then the same shall not be made without the con- 
sent of the trustees or commissioners, or, if there 
be no such trustees or commissioners, without 
the consent of two or more Justices of the Peace 
in petty sessions assembled for that purpose, and 
acting for the district in which such street or public 
carnage road may be situate, or without the con- 
sent of the commissioners for any public sewers, 
or of the proprietors of any canal or navigation 
affected by such deviation; and that no increase in 
the incljnation or gradients of the said Railway, 
as denoted by the said section, shall be made in 
“ any place to an extent exceeding the rate of three 
feet per mile, and where in any place it is intended 
to carry the Railway on an arch or arches, as 

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marked on the said plan or section, the same shall 
be made accordingly ; and where a tunnel is 
marked on the said plan or section, as intended to 
be made at any place, the same shall be made 
accordingly, unless the owners, lessees and occu- 

iers of the land in or through which such tunnel 
is intended to be made shall consent that the same 
shall not be so made: Provided nevertheless, that 
it shall be lawful for the said Company, with such 
consent as aforesaid, and not otherwise, to make 
a tunnel or an arch or arches, as aforesaid, not 
marked on the said plan or section, so that no 
such tunnel shall be of a greater length than two 
hundred yards, and that no two tunnels be at a 
less distance from each other than one hundred 
yards, measured on the line of the Railway: 
Provided always, That notice of every petty ses- 
sions to be holden for the purpose of obtaming 
such consent as aforesaid, shall, fourteen days 
previous to the holding of such petty sessions, be 
given in some newspaper circulating im the county, 
and also be affixed upon the church door of the 
parish in which such deviation or alteration is in- 
tended to be made, or, if there be no church, on 
some other place to which notices are usually 
affixed: Provided also, That for the — of 
consenting to any such deviation from the said 
sections, and to any tunnelling or arching as afore- 
said, the word ‘owners’ shall be deemed and 
taken to mean such persons as are herein capaci- 
tated to agree for the sale of and to convey land 
for the making of the said Railway ; and the con- 
sent of such persons, with or without the consent 
of any other persons interested as owners in the 
said lands, shall be deemed and taken to be sufli- 
cient for such purposes.” 

Crause (C.) “And be it further Enacted, That 
it shall not be lawful to diminish the radius of any 
curve from what it is shown to be on the plan 
deposited with the clerk of the peace, unless such 
radius exceed one mile, nor to diminish it in any 
such case, so that it shall become less than one 
mile, nor to diminish any greater radius by more 
than a quarter of a mile, unless where it exceeds 


* two miles, or by more than half a mile, unless 


where it exceeds three miles on the said plan.” 

Pr. 29, 1.21. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
Her.” 

Pr. 43. |. 10. Leave out “ His,’ and insert 
Her.” 

Pr. 44. |. 1. Leave out “ His” and insert “ Her.” 

Pr. 52. 1. 20. Leave out “present,” and insert 
late.” 

Pr. 52. Is. 28. and 29. Leave out “ present,” and 


insert “* last mentioned.” 


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Pr. 55. 1.33. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
Her.” 
Pr. 56. 1.28. Leave out “ His,’ and insert 
Her.” 
Pr. 75. 1. penult. Leave out from “ pass” to 


Provided,” in Pr. 76. 1. 20, and insert Clause (D.) 
Cravuse(D.) “ Provided also, and be it further 
Enacted, That the said Company shall not deviate 
at all from the said line delineated upon the plan 
now deposited in Parliament, and by this Act 
authorized to be made through the township of 
Brieryhurst, in the county of Stafford, so far as 
the same is intended to pass through the lands of 
Richard Edensor Heathcote, of Longton Hall, in 
the county of Stafford, Esquire, without the consent 
in writing of the said Richard Edensor Heathcote, 
his heirs or assigns, to such deviation, so far as 
the same may affect his lands.” 

Pr. 87. 1.23. Leave out from “ stone” to “ Pro- 
vided,” in Pr. 88. 1. 14. 


Pr. 89. 1. 5. After “ purposes ”’ ingert Clauses 
purp 


(E,) (F.) (G.) (H.) (L.) (K.) 


Crause (E.) “ Provided always, and be it En- 


“ acted, That the said Company shall not, in exe- 
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of the Whieldon Grove Estate, deviate at Fenton 
Mill, and at Whieldon Grove House, from the 
line as laid down on the plans so as aforesaid to 
be deposited with the Clerks of the Peace without 
the previous written consent of the owners of the 
said Whieldon Grove Estate for the time being.” 

Cravuse (F.) “ And whereas the line of the said 
Railway crosses the River Trent above but nearly 
contiguous to the said Fenton Mill, being part of the 
Whieldon Grove Estate ; BE it therefore further 
Enacted, That the said Company shall not divert 
the said River Trent, or any of the present chan- 
nels of such River, either temporarily or perma- 
nently, so as to deprive the said mill of the full 
use of the waters of the said River 7’rent, or in 
any other manner to obstruct or interfere with 
the working of the said mill ; and if in the execu- 
tion of the works of the said Railway, the said 
Company shall in any manner interfere with or 
injure the waste weir or flood-gates of the said 
mill, that then the said Company shall at their 
own expense replace and renew such waste weir 
or flood-gates in a good and sufficient manner, so 
that they may become and continue as available 
“ all intents and purposes as they had previously 

een.” 

Cxiause (G.) “ And whereas the line of the said 
Railway will cross a stream and irrigation chan- 
nel at the southern side of the said Whieldon 
Grove Estate; BE it Enacted, That it shall not 
be lawful for the said Company to divert or ob- 
struct such stream and irrigation channel in any 
manner whatsoever.” 

Cravuse (H.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
it shall not be lawful for the said Company to 
dig, get, use, remove or carry away, out of or from 
any of the lands adjoining or near to the line of 
the said intended Railway, through the Whieldon 
Grove and Fenton Hall estates, in the township of 
Fenton Vivian, in the parish of Stoke, in the said 
county of Stafford, and belonging to George 
Whieldon, Thomas Whieldon, the Reverend Ed- 
ward Whieldon, and the trustees of Charlotte Bad- 
deley, or either of them, without the consent in 
writing of the owners or owner thereof for the 
time being, any soil, gravel, clay, sand, stone or 
other materials for the purpose of forming em- 
bankments, or for making bricks, or for any other 
purpose connected with the said Railway and 
works, nor to make any deposit of soil except 
for temporary purposes, nor to make bricks on 
any part of the lands now forming part of the 
said estates respectively, nor shall any road, 
wharf, yard, engine, station, loading or unloading 
place, warehouse, toll-house, building, machine 
or machinery, at any time or times hereafter be 
made or erected by the said Company on any 
part of the said lands adjoining or near to the 
line of the said intended Railway, nor shall any 
of such adjoining lands be taken or used by the 
said Company for such purposes or any of them, 
without the previous consent in writing of the 
owners of the same respectively.” 

Cuiauss (I.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
within twelve calendar months after the comple- 
tion of the said Railway in such parts where the 
same shall be carried upon or by means of any 
embankment, or open cutting through any part 
of the said Whieldon Grove estate, or of the Fen- 
ton Hall estate immediately contiguous thereto, 
the said Company shall trim and form the slopes 
of such embankment and cutting to an uniform 
inclination, and cover the same with top soil, and, 
as may be required by the owners of the said 
estates respectively for the time being, shall either 
sow the same with grass seeds, or otherwise 
shall effectually plant such slopes with shrubs, 
and shall from time to time maintain such slopes 
ina permanent state of grass or plantation, as 
may be so required: Provided eas 

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grass and shrubs growing thereon, shall be in the 
said Company, and that it shall be lawful for 
them from time to time to cut down and remove 
so many of the said shrubs as by overhanging 
the works of the said Railway or otherwise may 
be deemed to be injurious thereto, or which from 
decay or other cause it shall be proper to cut 
down.” 

Criause (K.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
the said Company shall, and they are hereby re- 
quired to make, and for ever maintain, the follow- 
ing works; that is to say; under the said Rail- 
way one good and substantial bridge, of the 
clear width of fourteen feet, and of the height of 
twelve feet to the centre of the archway, and one 
other good and sufficient communication for the 
passage of cattle at such places on the said 
Whieldon Grove Estate, as the owners of the said 
estate for the time being shall point out for that 
purpose, before commencement of the works upon 
the said estate, and also a good and sufficient 
fence or screen of wood and quickset of the 
height of five feet upon the top of the embank- 
ment, and to extend from the Railway bridge 
over the turnpike-road from Stoke to Lane-end, 
to a distance of fifty yards beyond the mansion 
house of Whieldon Grove, and where the said 
Railway passes through the corridor connecting 
the said mansion house with the stable-yard, 
such Railway, and the embankment thereof, to be 
supported on both sides of such embankment by 
good and sufficient walls of brick-work or ma- 
sonry for a space of fifteen yards in length and 
“ five feet in height; and also that if it shall be 
necessary in the progress of the works of the said 
Railway for the said Company to make a diver- 
sion of the said turnpike-road, and to form a 
temporary road for the passage of the public, 
such temporary or diverted road shall be formed 
“ altogether on the north side of the line of the 
said present turnpike-road, and not in any part 
“ on the south side of the said line of road.” 

Pr, 111. 1. 23. After “ provided” insert Clause 
(L.) 

Cuiause (L.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
““ whenever the level of any road shall be altered 
“ by means of the said Railway, the inclination of 
“ the road shall not, if turnpike, be less than one 
“ foot in thirty, or if highway, less than one foot 
“ in twenty.” 

Pr. 118. 1. 25. After “ passages” insert “ made 
“ by the said Company or.” 

Pr. 130. 1. 2. Leave out “ His,’ and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 130. 
“ offices.” 

Pr. 137. 1. 21. Leave out “ such,” and in the 
same line, after “lands” insert “ authorized to be 
“* taken under the powers of this Act.” 

Pr. 138. 1. 23. Leave out from “ of” to “ in- 
“ tituled ” in |. 24. and |. 25., and insert “ Queen 
Victoria.” 

Pr. 144. 1. 25. After “ parties” insert “ which 
agreement may be made by any party hereby 
capacitated to sell.” 

Pr. 164. 1. 9. Leave out from “ of” to “ inti- 
“ tuled” in 1. 10. and 1. 11., and insert “ Queen 
“ Victoria.” 

Pr. 166. 1.37. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
‘Re. 

Pr. 168. lines 33. and 34. After “ corporation” 
insert “or to any such trustee or person respec- 
“ tively.” 

Pr. 169. 1.17. After “ Company” insert “ to 
“ take such lands and.” 

Pr. 171. 1. 7. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 171. 1. ult. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“« Her.” 


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Pr. 175. 1. 4. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
. 1. 9. Leave out “ His,” and insert 


Pr. 204, 1. 20. After “ Enacted” insert “ but 
without prejudice to any other powers herein 
contained, under which the said Company may 
take possession of land for the purposes of the 
said undertaking, at any different period or on 
different terms.” 

Pr. 206. 1.15. After “ therein” insert “ shall 
give the said Company previous notice in writing, 
stating the period of such unexpired term or 
interest.” 

Pr. 214. 1. 32. After “ Railway” insert “ Pro- 
“ vided also, That it shall not be lawful for the said 
Company, without the previous consent in writing 
of the said Thomas Kinnersley, his heirs or assigns, 
to take possession of, or to purchase or acquire 
any part of the lands of the said Thomas Kin- 
nersley, other than the site of the said intended 
Railway, for any of the purposes mentioned in 
this present Clause, or for any other purpose 
whatsoever, or to dig, cut, get, take, remove or 
carry away out of or from such lands, except as 
aforesaid, any soil, gravel, clay, sand, stone or 
other materials: Provided always, That the said 
Company shall be at liberty to take temporary 
possession of such land of the said Thomas Kin- 
nersley, lying on each side of the said Railway, 
as may be wanted for the purpose of depositing 
thereon the top soil of his lands passed by the 
said Railway, until such top soil shall be laid 
upon the slopes of the cuttings and embank- 
ments.” 

Pr. 214. 1.36. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 232. J. 14. Leave out the first “ His,” and 
insert “ Her,” and in the same line leave out the 
second “ His,” and insert “ Her.” 

Pr. 233. 1.21. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 233. 1, 22. 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 234. 1. 27. 
“ ee.” 

Pr, 237. Is. 26. and 27. Leave out from “ de- 
claration”’ to “made” in Pr. 2388. 1. 5., and insert 
in the form hereinafter described.” 

Pr. 238. 1.17. After “ pre-emption ”’ insert “ was 
not in England, or was not to be found, or.” 

Pr, 244, 1. 36. In the interlineation : 

L. 12. Leave out “ on,” and insert “ in. 

L. 15. Leave out “ on,” and insert “ in.” 

Pr. 251. Is. 18. and 19. After “distinguished ” 
insert “ and the amount of subscriptions paid 
“ thereon.” 

Pr. 253. 1. 2. Leave out from “that” to “every ” 
in ]. 24. 

Pr. 253. 1. 31. Leave out ‘‘ same,” and insert 
“ said book.” 

Pr. 254. 1. 4. Leave out “ books,” and insert 
“ book.” 

Pr. 254. 1. 6. 
within.” 

Pr. 258. 
* en” 

Pr. 275. 1.17. After “ vote” insert “ and the 
determination of any such meeting upon any 
question, matter or thing, shall be and be deemed 
and taken to be the decision of the said Com- 
pany, notwithstanding any irregularity which may 
have occurred in the giving or taking of any votes 
at such meeting.” 

Pr. 276. 1. 30. After “ used” insert Clause (M.) 

Cuause (M.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
“« for the purpose of ascertaining the persons entitled 
“ to vote at the first general meeting of the said 
Company hereby appointed to be held on the fifth 
“ Monday next after the passing of this Act, and 

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Leave out “ His,” and insert 


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for more easily taking the votes thereat, it shall 
be lawful for the ten directors in this Act named, 
and they are hereby required to appoint two 
persons who shall from time to time, after the 
passing of this Act, and so often as shall be 
necessary, and previously to the Saturday next 
preceding the said first general meeting, meet at 
some convenient place or places in Manchester 
aforesaid, to be appointed by the said ten directors, 
and then and there, upon application by the 
respective corporation, and persons who shall 
respectively have duly subscribed for or become 
the proprietors of, or entitled to shares in the said 
undertaking, or who shall hereafter subscribe 
towards the same undertaking, and upon the pro- 
duction and deposit of the certificates or tickets 
for such shares respectively held by them, grant 
unto the respective proprietors making such appli- 
cation, certificates in writing under the hands of 
the said two persons so to be appointed as afore- 
said, and in such form as they shall think fit, of 
the number of shares held by the said proprietors 
respectively, and in respect whereof they shall be 
entitled to vote at such meeting, and such cer- 
tificates shall, for the purposes of the aforesaid 
meeting, be the exclusive evidence of the right of 
voting thereat.” 

Pr. 281. 1. 6. After “ directed” insert “ the 
seller of such share shall be liable for all future 
calls thereon, and.” 

Pr. 285. 1. 25. Leave out “ King William the 
Fourth,” and insert “ Queen Victoria.” 

Pr. 291. 1. 29. Leave cut “ His,” and insert 
“ Be.” 

Pr. 296, 1, 3. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 
Pr. 306. |. 16. After “ held” insert “ in the 


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Pr. 400. 1. penult. Leave out from “ of” to 
“ intituled ” in 1. ult., and insert “ Queen Victoria.” 
Pr. 401. 1. 15. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 
Pr. 401. 1. 25. Leave out “ King William the 
“ Fourth,” and insert “ Queen Victoria.” 
Pr. 402. 1. 27. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 
Pr. 404. |. 32. Leave out from “ reasonable ” 
to “and” in Pr. 406. 1. 16., and insert Clause (N.) 
Cuavse (N.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
it shall be lawful for any two Justices of the 
Peace acting within their jurisdiction, and they 
are hereby required to appoint, from time to time, 
such fit and proper persons as thev shall think 
proper, to be special constables within the said 
Railway and other works, and every or any part 
thereof; and every person so appointed shall make 
a solemn declaration, to be administered by any 
one Justice of the Peace, duly to execute the 
office of a constable for the said premises ; and 
every person so appointed, and having made such 
declaration as aforesaid, shall have power to act 
as a constable for the preservation of the peace, 
and for the security of persons and property 
against felonies and other unlawful acts, within 
the limits of the said premises, and within half 
a mile therefrom, and shall have, use, exercise 
and enjoy all such powers, authorities, — 
and privileges for the apprehending offenders, as 
well by night as by day, and for doing all acts, 
matters and things for the prevention, discovery 
and prosecution of felonies and other offences, 
and for the preservation of the peace as constables 
duly appointed now have by the laws and statutes 
of this kingdom; and it shall be lawful for any 
two Justices to dismiss or remove any such con- 


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month of August, which will be.” 

Pr. 310. 1. 22. After “ directors ” insert “ save 
and except the meetings of the ten several direc- 
tors in this Act named, for the purposes of affixing 
the common seal of the Company.” 

Pr. 313. 1. 3. After “ shall” insert “ from and 
after the first general meeting to be held as herein- 
before mentioned.” 

Pr. 316. 1. 33. After “ that’ insert “ the said 
several directors hereinbefore named, from and 
immediately after the passing of this Act, and 
also.” 

Pr. 316. 1. 38. After “Company ” insert “ and 
the said several directors hereinbefore named, 
shall for that purpose have power to meet on the 
first Monday after the passing of this Act, or any 
subsequent day, and as often as need be.” 

Pr. 323. 1. 13. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 328. 1. 3. After “ months” insert “ Pro- 
vided always, That nothing herein contained shall 
tend to deprive the said Company of the power to 
proceed against such persons in any other way 
which the law will permit.” 

Pr. 333. 1.34. Leave out “ branches,” and insert 
a branch.” 

Pr. 333. 1. 35. Leave out from “ Macclesfield” 
* should ” in L. 36. 

Pr. 334. 1.6. Leave out “ branches,” and insert 
a branch.” 

Pr. 334. 1. 8. Leave out “ and Crewe.” 

Pr. 334. 1. 10. Leave out from “ opened” to 
“ and” in |. 13. 

Pr. 338. |. penult. Leave out “ and,” and in the 
same line, after “ rates” insert “ and sums.” 
Pr. 340. 1.38. Leave out “ or,” and insert “ of.” 
Pr. 353. 1. 9. Leave out “ His,” and insert 


“ Her.” 


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stable from his office of constable, and upon every 
such dismissal or removal, all powers, authorities, 
protections and privileges, by virtue of such ap- 
pointment as aforesaid, vested in any person so 
dismissed or removed, shall wholly cease; and 
every person so appointed by such Justices as 
aforesaid, shall, during such time as he shall act 
as constable for the purposes aforesaid, receive 
from the said Company such salary as the said 
Justices shall appoint ; and such salary shall be 
payable at such times, and in such manner, as the 
said Justices shall appoint, and shall be recover- 
able in the same manner as damages to a small 
amount are by this Act directed to be recovered.” 

Pr. 407. 1. 4. Leave out “ present,” and insert 
late,’ and in the same line, after “ Majesty” 
insert “ King William the Fourth.” 

Pr. 418. |. penult. Leave out “ King’s,” and 

insert “ Queen’s.” 

Pr. 418. |. ult. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 419. 1. 2. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 419. 1. 4. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Be,” 

Pr. 419. 1. 5. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
* Her.” 

Pr. 419. 1. 9. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 419. 1. 15. Leave out the first “ His,” and 
insert “ Her,” and in the same line, leave out the 
second “ His,” and insert “ Her.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. ' 

Ordered, That Mr. Brotherton do carry the Bill 
to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 





Pr. 372. 1. 22. Leave out “ His,” and insert| The House proceeded to take into consideration 


“ Her.” 


the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, in- 


Pr. 400. 1,27. Leave out “ His,” and insert |tituled, An Act to raise and apply Funds for the 
future Maintenance and Repair of the Banks of the 


“ Her.” 





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River Ouze, between Denver Sluice and the Eau 
Brink Cut, in the County of Norfolk: And the 
same were read, as follow: 

Pr. 1. 1. 16. Leave out “ present” and insert 
* late”; and in the same line, after “ Majesty” 
insert “ King William the Fourth.” 

Pr. 7. 1. 3. Leave out “ Acts,” and insert “ Act.” 

Pr. 7. 1. 18. Leave out “ King’s,” and insert 
“ Queen’s.”’ 

Pr. 9. 1, 22. Leave out “ said.” 

Pr. i4. 1. 7. Leave out “to,” and insert “ at”’ 

Pr. 14. 1. 15. After “ by” insert “a”; and in 
the same line, leave out “ sluices,” and insert 
“sluice.” 

Pr. 14, 
“ sluice.” 

Pr. 19. 1. 20. Leave out “ district,” and insert 
‘ districts.” 

Pr. 22. 1. 20. Leave out “ Commissioners,” and 
insert “ Commissioner.” 

Pr. 24. 1.14. Leave out “ circulated,” and in- 
sert “ published.” 

Pr. 25. 1. 33. Leave out “ district.” 


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1. 18. Leave out “ sluices,” and insert 


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537 


. 1, penult. Leave out “ His,” and insert 


Pr. 116 


“ 


. 1.37. Leave out “ His,” and insert 


Pr. 127. 1. 43. Leave out “ King William the 
Fourth,” and insert “ Queen Victoria.” 

Pr. 128. 1.32. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
Her.” 

Pr. 129. 1. 39. In Clause (A.), added by way of 
Rider to the Bill: 
L.13. After “other” insert “ or further.” 
L. 14. Leave out “ under the provisions,” and 
insert “ as in this Act expressly mentioned.” 
L. 15. Leave out “this Act,” and insert the 
“ same.” 
L. 17. Leave out “ or to,” and in the same 
line leave out from “ exemption” to “ to” in 
1, 18. 
L. penult. After “ purposes” insert “and under 
“ the provisions.” 


In the first Schedule to the Bill: 
Pr. 138. 1.31. In the first column leave out 


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Pr.28. 1.7. Leave out from “ officers” to “ and,” 
in |. 10. 

Pr. 36. 1. 33. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
« Her.” 

Pr. 39. 1.2. Leave out “ His,” and insert “ Her.” 

Pr. 66. 1. 1. Leave out “ Bunk,” and _ insert 
Brink.” 

Pr. 70. 1. 25. After “ them” insert “ save and 
except as to the banks, forelands and slopes to 
be maintained and repaired under the authority 
of this Act.” 

Pr. 81. 1. 29. After “ upon” insert “ the.” 

Pr. 82. 1. 21. Leave out from “ of” to “ in- 
tituled ” in 1. 22, and insert “ Queen Victoria.” 

Pr. 83. 1. 4. After “ the” insert “ said.” 

Pr. 87. 1. 12. After “ enforced” insert “ by 
them.” 

Pr. 89. 1. 5. After “ Commissioners” insert 
and which are now due,or shall henceforth become 
due.” 

Pr. 90. 1. penult. Leave out from “ of” to “ in- 
tituled” in |. ult., and insert “ Queen Victoria.” 

Pr. 94. 1.17. Leave out “ hereinafter,” and 
insert “ hereafter.” 

Pr. 94. 1. 32. Leave out “ treasurer,’ 
sert “ treasurers.” 
Pr. 96. 1.13. After “ Act” insert “ is.” 
Pr. 96. 1. 26. Leave out “ hereinafter,” and in- 
sert “ herein.” 
Pr. 97. 1.19. After “ treasurer” insert “ and.” 
Pr. 100. 1. 16. Leave out from “ of” to “ in- 
“ tituled””’ in Is. 17. and 18., and insert “ Queen 
“ Victoria,” 
Pr. 101. 1.17. Leave out from “ clerk” to 
* and,” inl. 18. 
Pr. 102. 1. 25. Leave out “ extension,” and in- 
sert “ extensions.” 

Pr. 102. 1. 26. After “ made” insert “ by or.” 

Pr. 102. 1.35. After “ and” insert “ by or.” 

Pr. 103. 1. 11. After “ thereof” insert “ to the 
said John Dyson, or the said other engineer.” 


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“ Frederick,” and insert “ Frederic.” 
The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 


Ordered, That Mr. Brotherton do carry the Bill 
to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


Sir Henry Parnell and the East Scotland List. 
Ordered, That the Committee have leave to sit, 
and proceed, and to make their Report To-morrow, 
or on any subsequent day, without giving notice. 


according to Order, read a second time; and com- 
mitted to Mr. Hamilton and the Munster List. 
Ordered, That the Committee have leave to sit, 
and proceed, and to make their Report To-morrow, 
or on any subsequent day, without giving notice. 


sons for the making and maintaining a Railway 
from the Stockton and Darlington Railway, in the 
Parish of Saint Andrew, Auckland, to or near to 
Witton Purk Colliery, with a Branch therefrom, all 
in the County of Durham, to be called “The Bishop 
Auckland and Weardale Railway,” was read the 
third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that. the 
Title be, An Act for incorporating certain Persons 
for the making and maintaining a Railway from 
near the Black Boy Branch of the Stockton and 
Darlington Railway, in the Township of Saint An- 
drew, Auckland, to or near to Witton Park Colliery, 
with a Branch therefrom, all in the County of Dur- 
ham, to be called “ The Bishop Auckland and Wear- 
dale Railway.” 

Ordered, That Mr. Pease do carry the Bill to 


the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Pr. 104. 1. 1. After “ the” insert “said.” 
Pr. 105. 1. 28. Leave out “ and,” and insert : ‘ ; 
+a , The House proceeded to take into consideration 
Pr. 106. 1.34. Leave out “ all,” and insert | the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 
+ | , intituled, An Act to enable the Durham and Sunder- 
Pr. 107. 1. 16. After “ bridges ” insert “ or.” land Railway Company to alter a part of the main 
Pr. 108. 1. 1. After “after” insert “ payment Line of their Railway, to abandon another part 
“ of” thereof, to make other Branches therefrom, and to 
Pr. 108. 1. 17. Leave out “ also,” and insert amend and enlarge the powers of the Act for in- 
6 and.” corporating the said Company: And the same were 
Pr. 110. 1. 7. Leave out “ present,” and insert | 'e@4, as follow : 


“ late ;” and in the same line, after “ Majesty ” 
insert “ King William the Fourth.” 

Pr. 115. |. 37. Leave out “ His,’ 
“ Her.” 


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Pr. 1. 1. 3. Leave out “present” and insert 
“ late,” 

Pr. 3. 1. 18. Leave out “ King’s” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 





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The Dundee Police (No. 2.) Bill was, according Dundee Police 
to Order, read a second time; and committed to (No 2.) Bill. 


The Cork and Passage Railway (No. 2.) Bill was, Cork and Pas- 
(No. 2.) Bill. 


Railway 


An ingrossed Bill for incorporating certain Per- East Thickley 
and Frosterley 


Railway Bill, 


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Pr. 3. 1. 28. Leave out “ present” and insert 
late.” 

Pr. 19. 1. 14. Leave out “twenty” and insert 
thirty.” 

Pr. 19. 1. 21. Leave out “twenty” and insert 
thirty.” 

Pr. 20. 1. 4. Leave out “twenty” and insert 
thirty.” 

Pr. 22. 1. 21. Leave out “present” and insert 
late.” 

Pr, 22. 1. 22. After “ Majesty” msert “ King 
William the Fourth.” 

Pr. 27. 1. 29. Leave out from “County” to 
And” in Pr. 28. 1. ult., and insert Clauses (A.), 


(B.) and (C.) 


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Crause (A.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
it shall not be lawful for the said Company to 
proceed in the execution of the said Rallooy 
hereinbefore authorized to be made, unless the 
said Company shall have, previously to the com- 
mencement of such work, deposited with the 
Clerk of the Peace of the said county of Durham, 
a plan and section of all such alterations from 
the original plan and section as shall have been 
approved of by Parliament, on the same scale and 
containing the same particulars as the original 
plan and section of the Railway ; and also with 
the clerks of the several parishes through which 
the said Railway shall pass, or in or through 
which such alterations shall have been authorized 
to be made, copies or extracts of or from such 
plans and sections as shall relate to such parishes 
respectively ; and all persons interested shall 
have liberty to inspect and make extracts from, 
or copies of the said plans and sections, or extracts 
or copies thereof, paying to the Clerk of the Peace 
or the clerk of the parish having the custody of 
such plan.and section, or of such extract or copy, 
the sum of one shilling for every such inspection, 
and after the rate of sixpence for every one hun- 
dred words copied therefrom.” 

Criavse (B.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
in making the said Railway, it shall not be lawful 
for the said Company to deviate from the levels 
of the said Railway as referred to the common 
datum line, described on the section so approved 
of by Parliament, and as marked on the same, to 
any extent exceeding in any place Five feet, or, 
in passing through towns, Two feet, without the 
consent of the owners, lessees and occupiers of the 
land in, through or over which such deviation is 
intended to be made; or in case any street or 
public carriage-road shall be affected by such 
deviation, then the same shall not be made with- 
out the consent of the trustees or commissioners, 
or, if there be no such trustees or commissioners, 
without the consent of two or more Justices of 
the Peace in petty sessions assembled for that 
purpose, and acting for the district in which such 
street or public carriage road may be situate, or 
without the consent of the commissioners for any 
public sewers, or of the proprietors of any canal 
or navigation affected by a deviation; and that 
no increase in the inclination or gradients of the 
said Railway, as denoted by the said section, shall 
be made in any place to an extent exceeding the 
rate of Three feet per mile; and where in any 
place it is intended to carry the Railway on an 
arcn or arches as marked on the said plan or 
sect.on, the same shall be made accordingly ; and 
where a tunnel is marked on the said plan or 
section as intended to be made at any place, the 
same shall be made accordingly, unless the owners, 
lessees and occupiers of the land in or through 
which such tunnel is intended to be made shall 
consent that the same shall not be so made: Pro- 
vided nevertheless, That it shall be lawful for the 
said Company, with such consent as aforesaid 
and not otherwise, to make a tunnel or an arch or 
arches as aforesaid, not marked on the said plan 


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A. 1837. 


or section, so that no such tunnel shall be of a 
“ greater length than Two hundred yards, and that 
no two tunnels be at a less distance from each 
other than One hundred yards, measured on the 
line of the Railway: Provided always, That notice 
of every petty sessions to be holden for the pur- 
sa of obtaining such consent as aforesaid, shall, 

ourteen days previous to the holding of such 
petty sessions, be given in some newspaper cir- 
culating in the county, and also be affixed upon 
the church door of the parish in which such devi- 
ation or alteration is intended to be made, or, if 
there be no church, some other place to which 
notices are usually affixed: And provided also, 
That for the purpose of consenting to any such 
deviation from the said sections, and to any tun- 
nelling or arching as aforesaid, the word ‘owners’ 
shall be deemed and taken to mean such persons 
as are herein capacitated to agree for the sale of 
and to convey land for the making of the said 
Railway ; and the consent of such persons, with 
or without the consent of any other persons 
interested as owners in the said lands, shall be 
deemed and taken to be sufficient for such pur- 
poses.” 

Cuiause (C.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
it shall not be lawful to diminish the radius of any 
curve from what it is shown to be on the plan 
deposited with the Clerk of the Peace, unless such 
radius exceed One mile, nor to diminish it in 
any such case so that it shall become less than One 
mile, nor to diminish any greater radius by more 
than a quarter of a mile, where it exceeds Two 
miles, or by more than half a mile, unless where 
it exceeds Three miles on the said plan.” 

Pr. 49. 1. 26. Leave out “present” and insert 
late,” and in the same line, after “‘ Majesty,” insert 
King William the Fourth.” 

Pr. 66. 1. 2. Leave out “seventh” and insert 
“ fest.” 

Pr. 66. 1. 4. Leave out “King William the 
Fourth ” and insert “ Queen Victoria.” 

Pr. 66. 1. 12. Leave out “said” and insert 
“ Jate.” 

Pr, 78. 1. 9. Leave out “ His” and insert “ Her.” 

Pr. 82. 1. 9. Leave out “ His” and insert “ Her.” 

Pr. 98. 1. 26. Leave out “ His” and insert “Her.” 

Pr. 113.1. 34. Leave out “ His” and insert “ Her.” 

Pr. 114. 1. 5. After “ Fourth” insert “or Her 
“ Majesty Queen Victoria.” 

Pr.114. ]. 22. Leave out “ His” and insert “ Her.” 

Pr. 114. 1. 33. After “ Fourth ” insert “ or Her 
“ Majesty Queen Victoria.” 

Pr.120. 1.31. Leave out “His” and insert “ Her.” 

Pr.131. 1.27. Leave out “His” and insert “ Her.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Tooke do carry the Bill to the 

Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lordships. 


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Duke of Beaufort’s Estate Bill; That they had ex- 
amined the allegations of the Bill, and found the 
same to be true, and that the parties concerned had 
given their consent to the Bill to the satisfaction of 
the Committee, and that the Committee had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto ; 
and the same were read as follow: 

Pr. 75. 1.5. Leave out “ King’s, 
“© Queen’s.” 

Pr. 81.1, 2. Leave out “ His,” and insert “ Her.” 

Pr. 81. 1. 23. Leave out from “ of ” to “ intituled” 
in line 24, and insert “ Queen Victoria.” 

Pr. 83. 1.10. Leave out “ King’s,” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 

Pr. 83. 1. 10. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 85. 1. 22. Leave out “ King’s 
* Queen’s.” 


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The 


Mr. Dillwyn reported from the Committee on the Duke of 


Beaufort’s 
Estate Bill. 


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York and 
North Midland 
Railway Bill. 





1 Vicroriz. 


The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 


To-morrow. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 


intituled, An Act to alter the Line of the York and | 


North Midland Railway, and to amend the Act 
relating thereto ; and the same were read, as follow: 

Pr. 1. 1. 4. Leave out “ present,” and insert 
“ late” and in the same line after “ Majesty,” insert 
“ King William the Fourth.” 

Pr. 1. 1. 24. Leave out “ King’s,” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 

Pr. 2. 1. ult. Leave out “ all or any,” and insert 
“ such.” 

Pr. 3. 1. 9. After “ York” insert “ as the devi- 
ations hereinafter mentioned will pass through.” 

Pr. 6. 1. 29. Leave out from “ the ” to “ cease’ 
in line 31, and insert “ passing of this Act.” 

Pr. 11. 1. 29. After “ reference ” insert Clauses 
(A.), (B.), (C.), (D.), (E.), (F.), (G.), (A), (I), J), 
(K.) and (L.) 

Cuause (A.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
when the alterations and deviations in the line of the 
said Railway hereby authorized to be made shali 
cross any turnpike-road or other highway whatso- 
ever, such turnpike-road or other highway shall be 
carried over the said Railway, or the said Railway 
shall be carried over the said turnpike-road or 
other highway, at the expense of the said Com- 
pany, by means of a bridge of such construction 
as in the said recited Act is mentioned, save and 
except as hereinafter is provided, videlicet, the 
road leading from Bolton Percy to Tadcaster, 
and the road or street in the village of Ulleskelf: 
And be it further Enacted ; That in case the said 
last-mentioned road or street shall be passed ona 
level, no engine or carriage shall be permitted to 
pass across the said road or street in the village 
of Ulleshelf at a greater rate than three miles an 
hour, and if any engine or carriage shall pass the 
said road or street at any greater speed, the said 
Company, in case such engine or carriage shall 
belong to the said Company, shall forfeit and pay 
for each offence the sum of Five pounds, to be 
recovered and applied in the same manner as the 
penalties for which no special provision is made 
by the said recited Act are directed thereby to be 
recovered and applied.” 

Cuause (B.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
where any bridge shall be erected for the purpose 
of carrying the Railway in and by the said recited 
Act authorized to be made over or across any 
turnpike-road, public highway or occupation-road, 
the road over such bridge shall be formed and 
shall at all times be continued of such width as to 
leave a clear and open space between the fences 
of such road of not less than Thirty feet, for the 
purposes of a turnpike-road, and for the purposes 
of any public carriage road, not less than Twenty- 
five feet, and the height of such bridge for the 
purposes of any turnpike shall be Eighteen feet at 
least, and for any public carriage road shall be 
Sixteen ‘feet at least, and the descent under such 
bridge shall not in the case of a turnpike-road 
exceed One foot in Thirty feet, and in case of any 
other public highway shall not exceed One foot 
in Twenty feet; and in the case of any such occu- 
pation-road shall not exceed One foot in Fifteen 
feet ; and that where any bridge shall be erected 
for the purpose of carrying any turnpike-road, 
public highway or occupation-road over or across 
the said Railway, the width of any such bridge 
in the case of a turnpike-road shall not be less 
than Thirty feet, and for any public carriage road 
shall not be less than Twenty feet, and the ascent 
to such bridge for the purpose of any turnpike- 
road shall not be more than One foot in Thirty 
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539 


“ feet, and for the purpose of any other public car- 
“ riage road shall not be more than One foot in 
Twenty feet, and for the purpose of any occupation- 
road not more than One foot in Thirteen feet, and 
a proper and sufficient fence of the height of Four 
feet at least, shall be made on each side of the 
said bridge above the surface thereof.” 

Cuause (C.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
wherever the level of any turnpike-road or public 
carriage road shall be altered for the purposes of 
this Act, the inclination of such road, being turn- 
pike, shall not be less than One in Thirty feet, 
or being highway, shall not be less than One in 
Twenty.” 

Cuiause (D.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
the said Company shall, and they are hereby re- 
quired, in passing the said Railway through the 
said township of Appleton Roebuck, to carry a 
certain public highway leading from Appleton to 
Colton, and a certain other public highway lying 
between the said first-mentioned public highway 
and the road leading from Bolton Percy to Colton 
respectively, over the said Railway, by sufficient 
bridges or arches, and with proper slopes and 
approaches thereto, the ascent of which slopes 
shall not be more than One foot in Twenty feet, 
and a good and sufficient fence shall be made on 
each side of each of such bridges of not less than 
Four feet above the surface thereof respectively : 
Provided always, That nothing herein contained 
shall prevent the said Company from diverting the 
said secondly-mentioned road or highway, so as to 
join the said first-mentioned road or highway be- 
fore the crossing of the said Railway, if the said 
Company shall be enabled to obtain the proper 
consents thereto: Provided always, and be it 
“ further Enacted, That the said Company shall, 
and they are hereby required in passing the said 
Railway through the township of Bolton Percy to 
carry a certain other public highway, leading from 
Bolton Percy to Tadcaster, also over the said 
Railway by a sufficient bridge or arch with pro- 
per slopes and approaches, with ascents not more 
than One foot in Twenty feet, unless the said 
Company shall obtain the previous consent in 
writing of two Justices of the Peace for the West 
“ Riding of the said county of York, that the said 
last-mentioned road may be crossed upon a 
level.” 

Cuiause (E.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
the said Railway Company shall, and they are 
hereby required to make the bridge over which 
the turnpike-road between Doncaster and Tad- 
caster is intended to cross the said Railway, of not 
“ less than Thirty feet in width between the battle- 
‘* ments thereof, and shall during the continuance 
of such Railway well and effectually make and 
maintain the said bridge with battlements of stone 
“ or brick on each side thereof, Four feet in height 
“ at the least, above the level of the road over the 
“ same, and also make and maintain a good, strong 
“ and sufficient post and rail fence on each side of 
“ the approaches to the said bridge of the height 
‘« aforesaid, so far as the embankments of such ap- 
“ proaches shall extend; and that neither of the 
“ approaches to the said bridge shall have a greater 
“ elevation than One foot in every Thirty feet of the 
“ length thereof; and that the said bridge and bat- 
tlements and fences, and the embankments form- 
ing the approaches thereto, shall be at all times 
hereafter maintained and kept in good and suffi- 
“ cient repair by and at the expense of the said 
“ Railway Company.” 

Ciausz (F.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
“ the said Railway Company shall, and they are 
“ hereby required to build at their own expense in 
a proper manner, and for ever afterwards maintain, 
“ such good, firm and substantial arch or arches of 
stone, brick, iron or other material over the towing- 
“ path, bridle and foot-way along the banks of the 
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River Wharfe where the said Railway is intended | 
to be carried over the said river, so as to leave | 
such towing-path, bridle and foot-way free and 
uninterrupted, and convenient in all respects for 
horses, passengers and other persons using the 
same ; and shall and will, in the mean time, and 
while the said arch or arches are being erected, at 
their own like expense provide and make such 
temporary road, way or path as may be necessary 


and convenient for the passing of horses, passen-| ‘ 


gers and other persons as aforesaid, until the said 
arch or arches shall be completed.” 

Crause (G.) “ And whereas the said Railway 
is intended to pass over certain low lands adjoin- 
ing to the River Wharfe, and other low lands 
called the Miers, along the line of the said Rail- 
way, as the same is intended to pass through the 
parish of Kirby Wharfe, and such lands respec- 
tively are liable in certain seasons of the year to 
be flooded, both from the overflow of the said 
river and otherwise, and such lands may require 
at certain other seasons of the year to be irrigated 
by artificial flooding ; BE it therefore Enacted, 
That the said Railway Company shall and will, 
and they are hereby required, to build at their 
own expense, of good and sufficient materials, 
and in a proper manner, and for ever afterwards 
maintain in perfect repair, such good and suffi- 
cient arches, culverts, drains, and other works in 
and upon the said lands respectively, so as to 
allow a free, open, and uninterrupted waterway at 
all times for the said natural and artificial floods, 





in, over, through, upon and from the said lands 
respectively.” | 

Crause (H.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
at that part of the road or highway in the town- | 
ship of Ulleskelf, over which the said Railway is! 


intended to pass on a level, the said Company ‘ 


shall, and they are hereby required to erect and 
build, and at all times henceforth to maintain, | 
continue and keep, a common and ordinary Rail- | 
way station: Provided always, That in case the| 
said Company shall not make, continue and keep | 
such Railway station at Ulleskelf as aforesaid, 
then and in that case the said Company shall 
erect, and at all times maintain good and suffi- 
cient gates across the said Railway at the point 
where it shall cross the said road, which gates 
shall be constantly kept shut by some person to be 
appointed by the said Company, and which person 
the said pine are hereby required to appoint, | 
under a penalty of Five pounds for each default, 
except during the times when carriages passing 
along the said Railway shall have to cross the 
said road, and then the same gates shall be 
opened for the purpose only of letting such car- 
riages pass through, and the person entrusted 
with the care of such gates shall cause any such 
gate to be shut as soon as such carriages shall 
have passed through the same, under a penalty 
of Forty shillings for every such default therein.” | 
Criauss (I.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
it shall be lawful for any two Justices of the 
Peace acting within their jurisdiction, and they 
are hereby required to appoint such fit and proper 
persons as they shall think proper to be special 
constables within the said Railway and other 
works, and every or any part thereof, and every 
person so appointed shall make a solemn decla- 
ration, to be administered by any one Justice of 
the Peace, duly to execute the office of a con- 
stable for the said premises; and every person 
so appointed, and having made such declaration as 
aforesaid, shall have power to act as a constable | 
for the preservation of the peace, and for the) 
security of persons and property against felonies | 
and other unlawful acts within the limits of the) 
said premises, and within half a mile therefrom, | 
and shall have, use, exercise and enjoy all such | 
powers, authorities, protections and privileges for | 





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the apprehending offenders as well by night as 
by day, and for doing all acts, matters and things 
for the prevention, discovery and prosecution of 
felonies and other offences, and for the preserva- 
tion of the peace as constables duly appointed 
now have by the laws and statutes of this King- 
dom; and it shall be lawful for any two Justices 
to dismiss or remove any such constable from his 
office of constable, and upon every such dismissal 
or removal all powers, authorities, protections and 
privileges by virtue of such appointment as afore- 
said, vested in any person so dismissed or re- 
moved, shall wholly cease ; and every person so 
appointed by such Justices as aforesaid, shall, 
during such time as he shall act as constable for 
the purposes aforesaid, receive from the said Com- 
pany such salary as the said Justices shall appoint, 
and such salary shall be payable at such times, 
and in such manner as the said Justices shall 
appoint, and shall be recoverable in the same 
manner as damages to a small amount are by the 
said recited Act directed to be recovered.” 

Cuause (J.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
it shall not be lawful for the said Company to 
proceed in the execution of the said Railway 
hereinbefore authorized to be made, unless the 
said Company shall have, previously to the 
commencement of such work, deposited with the 
Clerk of the Peace of the several counties through 
which the said Railway hereby authorized to be 
made is intended to pass, a plan and section 
of all such alterations from the original plan and 
section as shall have been approved of by Par- 
liament, on the same scale, and containing the 
same particulars as the original plan and sectiun 
of the Railway; and also with the clerks of the 
several parishes in England, the schoolmasters 
of the several parishes in Scotland, and the post- 
masters of the post towns in or nearest to such 
parishes in Jreland, in or through which such 
alterations shall have been authorized to be made, 
copies or extracts of or from such plans and 
sections as shall relate to such parishes respec- 
tively; and all persons interested shall have 
liberty to inspect and make extracts from, or 
copies of the said plans and sections, or extracts 
or copies thereof, paying to the Clerk of the Peace 
or the clerk, schoolmaster or postmaster of the 
parish having the custody of such plan and sec- 
tion, or of such extract or copy, the sum of one 
shilling for every such inspection, and after the 
rate of sixpence for every one hundred words 
copied therefrom.” 

Cuiause (K.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
in making the said Railway it shall not be lawful 
for the said Company to deviate from the levels 
of the said Railway as referred to the common 
datum line described on the section so approved of 
by Parliament, and as marked on the same, to any 
extent exceeding in any place Five feet, or in pass- 
ing through towns, Two feet, without the consent of 
the owners, lessees and occupiers of the land in, 
through or over which such deviation is intended 
to be made; or in case any street or public carriage 
road shall be affected by such deviation, then the 
same shall not be made without the consent of the 
trustees or commissioners, or, if there be no such 
trustees or commissioners, without the consent of 
two or more Justices of the Peace in petty ses- 
sions assembled for that purpose, and acting for 
the district in which such street or public carriage 
road may be situate, or without the consent of 
the commissioners for any public sewers, or of 
the proprietors of any canal or navigation affected 
by such deviation; and that no imcrease in the 
inclination of gradients of the said Railway, as 
denoted by the said section, shall be made in 
any place to any extent exceeding the rate of 
Three feet per mile, and where in any place it 1s 
intended to carry the Railway on an arch or 

“ arches, 














Lough Swilly 
and Lough 


Foyle Drainage 
Bill, 


London and 
Blackwall 
Commercial 
Railway Bill, 


1 Vicroriz. 


arches, as marked on the said plan or section, 
the same shall be made accordingly; and where 
a tunnel is marked on the the said plan or sec- 
tion as intended to be made at any place, the 
same shall be made accordingly, unless the ow- 
ers, lessees and occupiers of the land in or through 
which such tunnel is intended to be made shall 
consent that the same shall not be so made: 
Provided nevertheless, That it shall be lawful for 
the said Company, with such consent as aforesaid, 
and not otherwise, to make a tunnel or an arch 
or arches as aforesaid, not marked upon the said 
plan or section, so that no such tunnel shall be 
of greater length than Two hundred yards, and 
that no two tunnels be at a less distance from each 
other than One hundred yards, measured on the 
line of the Railway: Provided always, That 
notice of every petty sessions to be holden for 
the purpose of obtaining such consent as afore- 
said, shall, Fourteen days previous to the holding 


circulating in the county, and also be affixed 
upon the church door of the parish in which such 
deviation or alteration is intended to be made, 
or, if there be no church, some other place to which 
notices are usually affixed; and provided also, 
that for the purpose of consenting to any such 
deviation from the said sections, and to any tun- 
nelling or arching as aforesaid, the word ‘ owners’ 
shall be deemed and taken to mean such persons 
as are herein capacitated to agree for the sale of 
and to convey land for the making of the said 
Railway ; and the consent of such persons, with 
or without the consent of any other persons in- 
terested as owners in the said lands, shall be 
deemed and taken to be sufficient for such 
purposes.” 

Cuause (L.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
it shall not be lawful to diminish the radius of any 
curve from what it is shown to be on the plan 
deposited with the Clerk of the Peace, unless 
such radius exceed One mile, nor to diminish it 
in any such case so that it shall become less than 
One mile, nor to diminish any greater radius b 
more than a quarter of a mile, unless where it 
exceeds Two miles, or by more than half a mile 
unless where it exceeds Three miles on the said 
pian.” 

Pr. 23. 1. 23. Leave out from “ extinguished ” 
to “ Provided” in Pr. 25. 1. 17. 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. John Henry Lowther do carry 
the Bill to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this 
House hath agreed to the Amendments made by 
their Lordships. 


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Captain Jones reported from the Committee on the 
Lough Swilly and Lough Foyle Drainage Bill; and 
to whom several Petitions against the said Bill were 
referred ; That the Order of the House, of the 21st 
day of March last, requiring an affidavit sworn 
before a Judge in Ireland, of the necessary notices 
having been aflixed on the church door of the parish 
of Faughanvale, had been complied with; and that 
the Committee had heard counsel on behalf of some 
of the said Petitions ; and had considered the other 
Petitions ; and had also heard counsel in favour of 
the Bill; and had exariined the allegations of the 
Bill, and found. the same to be true; and had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto; 
and the Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 
posed, That the ingrossed Bill to enable the Com- 
mercial Railway Company to extend the Line of 
such Railway, and to amend the Act relating 
thereto, be now read the third time; 

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99° Junie. 


of such petty sessions, be given in some newspaper | 


541 


The Amendments following were proposed to be 
made to the Question ; viz. To leave out the word 
“ now,” and at the end of the Question, to add the 
words “ upon this day three months.” 

And the Question being put, That the word “ now” 
stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided: 

The Yeas to the old Lobby ; 

The Noes to the new Lobby. 

Tellers for thef Mr. Alston, 

Yeas, U Mr. Patrick Stewart : 

Tellers for theJ Mr. William Crawford, 

Noes, Mr. Grote : 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read the third time: 
— The Bill was accordingly read the third time, 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Alston do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


46. 


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| mined the allegations of the Bill, and found the same 
to be true; and that the Parties concerned had 
given their consent to the Bill, to the satisfaction of 
the Committee ; and that the Committee had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto 
and the same were read as follow: 

Pr. 31. 1. 5. Leave out “ King’s” and insert 
“ Queen’s.”’ 

Pr. 51. 1. 19. Leave out “ King’s” and insert 
 Queen’s.” 

Pr. 51. 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 52. 1. 38. Leave out “ King’s,” and ise 
“ Queen’s.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 

were agreed to. 


1. 20. Leave out “ His,” and insert 


tituled, An Act to amend an Act of the forty-fifth 
year of the reign of King George the Third, for im- 
proving and rendering more commodious the Port 
of Ipswich, and for constructing a Wet Dock there ; 
and the same were read, as follow:  . 

Pr. 3. 1. 15. Leave out “ King’s,” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 

Pr. 9. 1.5. Leave out “ His,” and insert “ Her.” 

Pr. 19. 1.19. Fill up the blank with “ First,” 
and in the same line leave out from “ of” to 
“ reign,’ in |. 20., and insert “ the;” and in 
l. 20. after “ reign” insert “ of Her Majesty 
“ Queen Victoria.” 

Pr. 20. 1. 2. Leave out “ His,’ 
Her.” 

Pr. 22. 1. 31. Leave out “ Committee,” and in- 
sert “ Committees.” 

Pr. 25. 1. 20. After the second “ and” insert 
“ so.” 

Pr. 30. Is. 12. and 13. After “ Commissioners ” 
insert “ and shall be of the same tenure, and sub- 
“ ject to the like uses, trusts, powers, provisions, 
“‘ charges, incumbrances and conditions as such 
“ last-mentioned quays and wharfs respectively.” 


Pr. 30. 1. 33. Leave out “in,” and insert “ by.” 


Pr. 32. 1. 19. Leave out from “ more” to “ Jus- 
tices,” in 1. 20. 


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Pr. 52. 1.12. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ie.” 

Pr. 62. ]. 8. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 64. 1. 37. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 67. 1. 5. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 67. 1.6. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
« Her.” 

Pr. 69. 1. 25. Leave out “ King’s,” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 





S2s Pr. 69. 


Mr. Charles Ross reported from the Committee on Lord Dynevor’s 
| Lord Dynevor'’s Estate Bill; That they had exa- Estate Bil. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Ipswich 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, in- Dock Bill. 








I psw ich 
Improvement 
Bill. 


542 


Pr. 69. |. 27. Leave out “ His,’ and insert | 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 92. 1,13. Fill up the blank with “ First.” 

Pr. 92. 1.14. Leave out from the second “ of” 
to “{here,” in line 15, and insert “ Queen Vic- 
“ toria.” 

Pr. 93. 1. 30. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 99. 1. 6. Fill up the blank with “ First.” 

Pr. 99. 1. 7. Leave out from the second “ of” 
to “ intituled,” in ls. 8 and 9, and insert “Queen 
“ Victoria.” 


Pr. 103. 1. 16. 


Leave out “ His,” and insert 


+ Ber.” 

Pr. 106. 1. 19. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 110. 1. 16. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 


Pr.120. 1.26. After “ quay” insert Clause (A.) 

Cause (A.) “ Provided always, and be it fur- 
ther Enacted, That no sale, conveyance, demise, 
or lease of any part of the lands of the bailiffs, 
burgesses and commonalty of the town or bo- 
“ rough of Ipswich, shall be valid, nor shall the 
said land, or any part thereof, be taken for the 
purposes of this Act, unless and until the approval 
of the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty’s 
Treasury, or any Three of them, shall have been 
“ obtained.” 


Pr. 146. 1.32. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 149. 1.29. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
‘* Hee.” 

Pr. 151. 1.18. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 155. 1. 37. In Clause (A.), added by way of 


Rider to the Bill: 

Pr. 2. 1. 29. After “ His” insert “ said.” 

In Clause(B.), added by way of Rider to the Bill: 
L. ult. After “ His” insert “ said.” 


Pr. 160. 1. 35. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 173. 1. 14. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“« Her.” 

Pr. 174. 1.37. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Ter.” 

Pr. 176. 1. 25. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Re.” 


Pr. 178. |. penult. Leave out “ present,” and 
insert “ late; and in the same line, after “ Ma- 
“* jesty ” insert “ King William the Fourth.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Colonel Rushbrooke do carry the 
Bill to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this 
House hath agreed to the Amendments made by 
their Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 


29° Juniz. 





the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 
intituled, An Act to amend the several Acts for 
paving, lighting, cleansing and otherwise improving | 
the Town of Ipswich, in the County of Suffolk, and 
for removing and preventing Encroachments, Ob- 
structions and Annoyances therein ; and the same | 
were read, as follow : | 

Pr. 2. 1. ult. After “ his” insert “ said.” 

Pr 3. 1.14. After “ Parliament” insert “ to 
“ amend an Act of the forty-fifth year of the reign | 
“ of King George the Third.” 

Pr. 4. 1. 21. Leave out “ King’s,” 
“ Queen’s.” 

Pr. 6. |. 29. Leave out “ His,” and insert “Her.” 

Pr. 8. 1. 5. Fill up the blank with “ first.” 

Pr. 8. 1. 6. Leave out “His,” and insert “Her.” 

Pr. 8. 1. 7. Leave out“ King Williamthe Fourth,” 
and insert “ Queen Victoria.” 

Pr. 9. 1. 11. Leave out “ meet at.” 


_ Pr. 9. 1.12. Leave out “ place,” and in the same 
line leave out “ at.” 





and insert | 








A. 1837. 


Pr. 9. 1. 20. Leave out “ to adjourn,” and insert 
such meeting shall be adjourned.” 
Pr. 11. 1.35. Leave out “ who,” and insert “and.” 
Pr. 11. 1. 37. After “ committee” insert “ the 
chairman of such meeting.” 
Pr. 15. 1.34. After “ commissioners” 
and committee of management.” 
Pr. 20. 1. 13. After “‘ or” insert “ to.” 
Pr. 20. 1. 38. Leave out “ or,” and insert “ and.” 
Pr. 25. 1. 25. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
°-, 
Pr. 26. 1. 29. After 
heretofore.” 
Pr. 27. 1. 27. After “ the” insert “ said.” 
Pr. 27. 1. 30. After “ re-paved” insert “ mac- 
adamized.”’ 
Pr. 27. 1. 35. After “ and” insert “ sewers.” 
Pr. 28. 1.6. Leave out “ the,” ‘and insert 
“ such.” 
Pr. 28. 1. 7. Leave out “ aforesaid,” and in the 
same line leave out “ and.” 
Pr. 28. 1. 8. Leave out “ hereby.” 
Pr. 30. 1. 21. Leave out “ or,” and insert “ and.” 
Pr. 30. 1. 24. Leave out from “ notice” to “ to,” 
in |. 26. 
Pr. 30. 1. 31. After “ notice” insert “and shall 
“ not show sufficient cause to the contrary.” 


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Pr. 31. 1. 14. Leave out “ the form of.” 

Pr. 34. 1. 1. Leave out “ His,” and _ insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 34. 1. 26. Leave out “ gas.” 

Pr. 36. 1. 2. Leave out “ or,” and insert “ and.” 

Pr. 36. 1. 25. Leave out “ or,” and insert “ and.” 

Pr. 47. 1. 15, Leave out from “ any” to “ build- 


“ ings,” in 1.16, and insert “ houses.” 


Pr. 47. 1. 17. After “ gardens” insert “ lands, 
“ tithes, parks.” 

Pr. 47. 1. 35. Leave out “in,” and insert “ into,” 
and in the same line leave out from “ any” to “ build- 
“ ings,” in 1. 36, and insert “ houses.” 

r. 47. 1. 38. After “ gardens” insert “ lands, 
“ tithes, parks.” 

Pr. 54. 1.19. Leave out “ His,” and _ insert 
* Tee.” 

Pr. 58. 1. 14. Leave out “ town.” 

Pr. 58. 1. 37. Leave out “ town.” 

Pr. 59. 1.3. Leave out “ town surveyor,” and 
insert “ treasurer.” 

Pr. 59. 1. 20. Leave out “ created,” and insert 
“« imposed.” 

Pr. 60. 1. 24. Leave out “ shed,” and insert 
“ head.” 

Pr. 60. |. ult. Leave out “bulks, sheds,” and 
insert “ bulkheads.” 

Pr. 62. 1.10. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 63. 1. 8. Leave out from “ of” to “this,” in 1.9. 

Pr. 64. 1. 11. After “ nor” insert “ shall any 
“ person.” 

Pr. 69. 1,35. Leave out “ clean,” and insert 
clear,” and in the same line, leave out from “ pas- 
sengers” to “nor,” in |, penult. 

Pr. 71. 1. 12. Leave out “ thereby.” 

Pr. 73. 1. 16. After “ any” insert “ person, cor- 
“ poration.” 

Pr. 73. 1. 31. After “by” insert “ or on behalf 
“ of such person, or by.” 

Pr. 73. 1. 33. After “said”’ insert “ corporation.” 

Pr. 74. 1. 1. Leave out “ town.” 

Pr. 74. 1. 3. Leave out “town of Ipswich,” and 
insert “ commissioners.” 

Pr. 74. 1. 7. After “such” insert “ person, cor- 
“* poration.” 

Pr. 74. 1. 
“ poration.” 

Pr. 74. 1. 
“ poration.” 

Pr, 75. 1. 18. Leave out “ town.” 

Pr. 75. 1. 19. Leave out from “ said” to “ and,” 


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23. After “any” insert “ person, cor- 


33. After “the” insert “person, cor- 


in 1. 20, and insert “ commissioners.” 


Pr. 76. 





1 VictoriZ. 


Pr. 76. 1. 6. After “ the” insert “ corporation.” 

Pr. 76. 1. 15. Leave out from “and” to “ the,” 
in I. 18. 

Pr. 76. 1. 33. Leave out “ surveyor,” and insert 
“ treasurer.” 


Pr. 77. 1.28. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 100. 1. 3. Leave out “ His,” and imsert 
“ Ties.” 

Pr. 109. 1. 2. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Hee.” 

Pr. 112. 1. 38, Leave out “ or,’ and insert 
“ ona.” 


Pr. 118. 1. 14. Leave out “ presented,” and in- 
sert “ prescribed.” 

Pr. 118. 1. 18. Leave out “ present.” 

Pr. 118. 1. 19. After “ Majesty” insert “King 
“ William the Fourth.” 


Pr. 120. 1. 28. Leave out “ or,” and insert 
“ and.” 

Pr. 121. 1. 3. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 


Pr. 123. 1. 27. Leave out from “ commissioners” 
to “ shall,” in 1. 29, and insert “ aforesaid.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Colonel Rushbrooke do carry the 
Bill to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this 
House hath agreed to the Amendments made by 
their Lordships. 


Collier Dock 
and Surrey 
Canal Bill. 


An ingrossed Bill for making Wet Docks and 
other Works on the South side of the River Thames, 
at or near Rotherhithe and Deptford, in the Counties 
of Surrey and Kent, to be called “The Grand Collier 
Docks,” was read the third time; and an ingrossed 
Clause was added, by way of Rider; and Amend- 
ments were made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Captain Alsager do carry the Bill 
to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Soap. A Petition of Consumers of Soap in Borrowston- 


ness, praying for the repeal of the duty on Soap, was 
— and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
able. 


A Petition of Trustees upon the Great Road 
betwixt Edinburgh and Glasgow, by Bathgate and 
Airdrie, praying the House to equalize the Taxes 
affecting the internal communication of the country, 
was presented, and read ; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Internal Communication. 


Internal Com- 
munication. 


Corn Laws. Petitions from Strathmiglo ;—Leuchars ;—and, 


the Chairman of a Meeting of Inhabitants of Glas- 
gow ; praying for the repeal of the Corn Laws,—were 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
lable. 


Petitions from Inhabitants of Tonbridge ;—and, 
John Temple Leader, and others ; praying the House 
to adopt such measures as may give to the public 
free and gratuitous access to every national building 
or establishment containing Works of Art, Historical 
and Literary Monuments or objects of Natural His- 
tory,—were presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


Public 
Buildings. 


lord's Day Bill. A Petition of Inhabitants of Bury, in the county 


of Lancaster, praying that the Lord’s Day Bill may 
pass into a law, was — and read ; and or- 
dered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Dovor, praying the 
House not to withdraw the management of Dovor 
Harbour from the hands of those to whom it is now 
intrusted, was presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


Dovor Harbour. 


Church Rates 
Regulation. 


Petitions from Fullwood ;— Nettleton ;—and, Bi- 


shopstone and other places; praying, That the pro- 
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543 


posed measure relative to Church Rates may receive 
the sanction of the House,—were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Rectifying Distillers carrying on Imprisonment 
business in and about the city of London, praying fr Debt Bill. 
that the Imprisonment for Debt Bill may not pass 
into a law, was presented, and read ; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of Prisoners confined for Debt in the 
County Gaol of Lancaster, praying that the said 
Bill may pass into a law, was also presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday Hackney 
next, resolve itself into a Committee upon the Hack- pe a 
ney Carriages (Metropolis) Bill. ong destined 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Sligo Salmon 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, Fisheries Bill 
intituled, An Act to enable Joshua Edward Cooper, 
Esquire, to establish and protect a Salmon Fishery 
upon the Lakes and Rivers of Owenmore and Arrow, 
and also within the Bay of Baliisodare, in the County 
of Sligo, in Ireland; and the same were read, as 
follow : 

Pr. 2. 1. 4. After “same ”’ insert “ some of them 
“ however at high spring tides ascending the lower 
“ fall, but are unable to ascend the continuing 
“ cascades or falls, from the shallowness of the water 
preventing them from making their spring, and 
therefore they return again into the ocean.” 

Pr. 2. 1. 16. After “ of” insert “ Edward.” 

Pr. 2. 1.17. Leave out “ Edward.” 

Pr. 3. 1. 18. Leave out “ the said.” 

Pr. 3. 1. 19. After “ Cooper” insert “ (who was 
the uncle of the said Edward Joshua Cooper) 
“ and to.” 

Pr. 3. Is. 25. and 26. Leave out “ continues,” 
and insert “ up to the time of his death continued.” 

Pr. 3. 1. 34. Leave out from “ Cooper ” to “ the?’ 
in 1, 35. and insert “ did after,” and in 1. 35. after 
“ conveyance ” insert “ and to the time of his 
“ death.” 

Pr. 3. 1. 36. Leave out “ exercised,” and insert 
“ exercise.” 

Pr. 3. 1.37. Leave out “ enjoyed,” and insert 
“ enjoy.” 

Pr. 4. 1.6. Leave out from “ whereas” to “And” 
in |, penult. and insert “ the said Joshua Edward 
“* Cooper died on or about the eighth day of June 
One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, 
intestate, whereby all the aforesaid estates, towns, 
lands and fishery have descended to, and are now 
vested in the said Edward Joshua Cooper, who is 
the nephew and heir-at-law of the said Joshua 
Edward Cooper ;” and in 1. penult, leave out from 
“ said” to “ Edward” in Pr. 5. 1. 3. 

Pr. 5. 1. 4. Leave out “ his nephew now.” 

Pr. 5. 1. 6. Leave out “ the,” and insert “ his 
“ own,” and in the same line leave out from “ ex- 
“ pense” to “on” in |. 8. 

Pr. 5. 1.15. Leave out “ Joshua,’ and in the 
same line, after “ Edward,” insert “ Joshua.” 

Pr. 5. 1.22. Leave out from “ only” to “ And” 
in Pr. 10. 1. 34, 

Pr. 11. 1. 8. Leave out “ Joshua.” 

Pr. 11. 1. 9. After “ Edward” insert “ Joshua.” 

Pr. 11. 1. 25. Leave out “ King’s,” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 

Pr. 11. 1.33. Leave out from “ Cooper” to 
“ shall” in 1. penult, and insert “ his heirs and 
“ assigns.” 

Pr. 12. 1. 2. Leave out “ the,” and insert “ his 
“ and their own,” and in the same line and 1. 3. 
leave out from “‘ expenses” to “ And” in I. 5. 

Pr. 12. 1. 15. Leave out from “ Ballisodare”’ to 
“ And” in |. 26. 

Pr. 12. 1.35. Leave out from “ Collooney” to 
“ Provided” in Pr, 13. Is. 2. and 3. and insert 

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“ in such manner as may be sufficient to effect the 


aforesaid object of enabling the said Salmon to 
ascend into the said rivers and lakes.” 

Pr. 13. 1. 8. Leave out “ lunatic,” and insert 
Edward Joshua Cooper.” 

Pr. 13. 1. 24. Leave out from ‘ Cooper ” to 
to” in |. 29. and insert “ his heirs and assigns.” 

Pr. 13. 1. 31. Leave out “ Lunatics.” 

Pr. 14. |. 10. Leave out from “ empower” to 
“the” in |. 18. 

Pr, 14. 1. 14. Leave out from “ Cooper” to “ or” 
in 1. 18. and insert “ his heirs or assigns.” 

Pr. 15. 1. 2. Leave out “ Joshua.” 

Pr. 15. 1. 3. After “ Edward” insert “ Joshua,” 
and in the same line leave out from “ assigns ” to 
“ And” in 1. 5. 

Pr. 16. 1. 8. Leave out “ Joshua.” 

Pr. 16. 1. 9. After “ Edward” insert “ Joshua,” 
and in the same line leave out from “ assigns” to 
“ And” inl. 11. 

Pr. 17. 1. 11. Leave out “ Joshua,” and in the 
same line, after “ Edward,” insert “ Joshua.” 

Pr. 17. 1. 12. Leave out from “ assigns” to “as” 
in 1. 13. 

Pr. 17. 1. 15. Leave out “ Joshua” and in the 
same line, after “ Edward” insert “ Joshua.” 

Pr. 17. 1.16. Leave out from “ assigns ’ 
“ And” in 1. 17. 

Pr. 18. |. 16. Leave out “ Joshua,” and in the 
same line, after “ Edward” insert “ Joshua.” 

Pr. 18. 1. 28. Leave out “ Joshua,” and in the 
same line, after “ Kdward,” insert “ Joshua.” 

Pr. 18. 1. 31. Leave out “ King William the 
“ Fourth,” and insert “ Queen Victoria. 

Pr. 18. 1. 35. Leave out “ Joshua.” 

Pr. 18. 1. 36. After“ Edward” insert “Joshua.”’ 

Pr. 19. 1. 2. Leave out “ Joshua,” and in the 
same line, after “ Edward,” insert “ Joshua.” 

Pr. 19. 1. 35. Leave out “ Joshua,” and in the 
same line, after “ Edward,” insert “ Joshua.” 

« Pr. 19. 1. 36. Leave out from “ assigns ” to “to” 
in |. 37. 

Pr. 20. 1. 9. Leave out “ Joshua,’ and in the 
same line, after “ Edward,” insert “ Joshua.” 

Pr. 20. 1. 22. Leave out “ Joshua,” and in the 
same line, after “ Edward,” insert “ Joshua.” 

Pr. 21. 1.15. Leave out “ His,” and 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 2 

Pr. 2 

Pr. 23. 

Pr. 23. 
“ aforesaid.’ 

Pr. 25. 1. 5. Leave out “ Joshua,’ and in the 
same line, after “ Edward,” insert “ Joshua.” 

Pr. 25. 1. 7. Leave out “ or the committee as 
“ aforesaid.” 

Pr. 26. |. 7. Leave out “ Joshua,” and in the 
same line, after “ Edward,” insert “ Joshua.” 

Pr. 27. 1. 18. Leave out “ Joshua,” and in the 
same line, after “ Edward,” insert “ Joshua.” 

Pr. 27 . Leave out “ Joshua.” 

Pr. 27 . After “ Edward” insert “ Joshua.” 

Pr. 28 . Leave out “ Joshua.” 

Pr. 28 . After “‘ Edward” insert “ Joshua.” 

Pr. 32 Leave out “ Joshua,” and in the 
same line, after “ Edward,” insert “ Joshua.” 

Pr. 35. 1. 2. Leave out “ seventh,” and insert 
“ sivet.” 


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. 26. Leave out “ Joshua.” 

27. After “ Edward” insert “Joshua.” 
28. Leave out “ or the committee 


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The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Captain Jones do carry the Bill 
to the Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


Company to alter the line of the said Railway, and 
the Act relating thereto, and to make additional 
branches ; and the same were read, as follow : 

Pr. 1.1.4. Leave out “ present” and insert 

“ Jate,” and in the same line, after “ Majesty,” 
insert “ King William the Fourth.” 

Pr. 1.1.26. Leave out “ King’s,” 

* Queen’s.” 

Pr. 4.1.24. After “plan” insert “ and sec- 
tion,” and in the same line, after “ line,” insert 
and levels.” 

Pr. 5.1. 7. After “ plan” insert “ section.” 

Pr. 5.1.17. After “ Glamorgan” insert “ And 
whereas the plan and section so deposited, toge- 
ther with a plan and section of the said intendied 
branch Railway to or near the Melvin Griffith 
Iron Works, to be deposited as hereinafter men- 
tioned, are the plans and sections approved of by 
Parliament, according to which the alteration of 
the said Railway and the several branches there- 
from are hereby authorized to be made.” 

Pr. 5.1. 19. After “ plan” insert “ section.” 

Pr. 5. 1. 23. After “ plan” insert “ and section.” 

Pr. 5. 1. 26. After “ line” insert “ and levels.” 

Pr. 6.1. 5. After “ plans ” insert “ sections.” 

Pr. 6.1. 21. After “ elsewhere ” insert Clause 

(A.) 

Criavuse (A.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
it shall not be lawful for the said Company to 
— in the execution of the said Railway 
hereinbefore authorized to be made, unless the said 
Company shall have, previously to the commence- 
ment of such work, deposited with the Clerk of 
the Peace of the several counties through which 
the said Railway hereby authorized to be made, 
is intended to pass, a plan and section of all such 
alterations from the original plan and section as 
shall have been approved of by Parliament, on 
the same scale and containing the same parti- 
culars as the original plan and section of the 
Railway, and also with the clerks of the several 
parishes in or through which such alterations shall 
have been authorized to be made, copies or extracts 
of or from such plans and sections as shall relate 
to such parishes respectively, and all persons in- 
terested shall have liberty to inspect and make 
extracts from or copies of the said plans and 
sections, or extracts or copies thereof, paying to 
the Clerk of the Peace or the clerk of the parish, 
having the custody of such plan and section, or of 
such extract or copy, the sum of One shilling for 
every such inspection, and after the rate of Six- 
pence for every One hundred words copied there- 
from.” 

Pr. 8.1. 12. After “ reference ” 

(B.) and (C.) 

Crause (B.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
in making the said Railway, it shall not be lawful 
for the said Company to deviate from the levels 


and _ insert 


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Pr. 35. 1. 8. Leave out “ His,” and insert “ Her,” 
and in the same line leave out from “ Majesty ”’ to | 
“ intituled’ in |. 4. and 1. 5. and imsert “ Queen | 
“ Victoria.” | 

Pr. 35. 1. 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 39. 1. 
in |. 38. | 

In the Title to the Bill: 

Pr. 39. 1. 1. Leave out “‘ Joshua,” and in the} 
same line, after “ Edward,” insert “ Joshua.” 


28. Leave out “ His,” and insert | 


28. Leave out from “law” to “ And” | ‘ 


of the said Railway as referred to the common 
datum line described on the section so approved 
of by Parliament, and as marked on the same, to 
any extent exceeding in any place Five feet, or, in 
passing through towns, Two feet, without the con- 
sent of the owners, lessees and occupiers of the 
land in, through or over which such deviation is 
intended to be made; or in case any street or 
public carriage road shall be affected by such 
deviation, then the same shall not be made with- 
out the consent of the trustees or commissioners, 

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The House proceeded to take into consideration Merthyr Tydii 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill — Cardiff 
intituled, An Act to enable the Taff Vale Railway **"*y Bil. 


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or if there be no such trustees or commissioners, 
without the consent of two or more Justices of the 
Peace in petty session assembled for that pur- 
pose, and acting for the district in which such 
street or public carriage road may be situate, or 
without the consent of the Commissioners for any 
public sewers, or of the proprietors of any canal 
or navigation affected by such deviation; and 
that no increase in the inclination or gradients 
of the said Railway, as denoted by the said sec- 
tion, shall be made in any place to an extent 
exceeding the rate of Three feet per mile; and 
where in any place it is intended to carry the 
Railway on an arch or arches, as marked on the 
said plan or section, the same shall be made 
accordingly ; and where a tunnel is marked on 
the said plan or section, as intended to be made, 
at any place, the same shall be made accordingly, 
unless the owners, lessees and — of the 
land in or through which such tunnel is intended 
be made, shall consent that the same shall not 
be so made: Provided nevertheless, That it shall 
be lawful for the said Company, with such consent 
as aforesaid, and not otherwise, to make a tunnel, 
or an arch or arches, as aforesaid, not marked on 
the said plan or section, so that no such tunnel 
shall be of a greater length than Two hundred 
yards, and that no two tunnels be at a less distance 
from each other than One hundred yards, measured 
on the line of the Railway: Provided always, 
That notice of every petty sessions to be holden 
for the purpose of obtaining such consent as 
aforesaid, shall, Fourteen days previous to the 
holding of such petty sessions, be given in 
some newspaper circulating in the county, and 
and also be affixed upon the church door of the 

arish in which such deviation or alteration is 
intended to be made, or, if there be no church, 
some other place to which notices are usually 
affixed: Provided also, That for the purpose of 
consenting to any such deviation from the said 
sections, and to any tunnelling or arching as afore- 
said, the word ‘ owners,’ shall be deemed and 
taken to mean such persons as are herein capa- 
citated to agree for the sale of, and to convey 
land for the making of the said Railway, and the 
consent of such persons, with or without the 
consent of any other persons interested as owners 
in the said lands, shall be deemed and taken to 
be sufficient for such purposes.” 

Cravuse (C.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
it shall not be lawful to diminish the radius of 
any curve from what it is shown to be on the plan 
deposited with the Clerk of the Peace, unless such 
radius exceed One mile, nor to diminish it in any 
such case so that it shall become less than One 
mile, nor to diminish any greater radius by more 
than a quarter of a mile, unless where it exceeds 
Two miles, or by more than half a mile unless 
where it exceeds Three miles, on the said plan.” 

Pr. 9. Is. 2. and 8. Leave out from “ reference ”’ 


to “ And,” in Pr. 10. 1.7, and insert Clauses (D.), 
(E.) and (F.) 


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Criavuse(D.) “ Provided always, and be it further 
Enacted, That it shall not be lawful for the said 
Company, or any person or persons whomsoever, 
to open or use, or cause, or authorize or permit to 
be opened or used any or either of the said branch 


Railways hereinbefore described, leading to ornear | 


the iron works of Pen-y-darran, Dowlais or Ply- 
mouth, in the hamlet of Heol-y-wormood, in the 
parish of Merthyr Tydfil, and to certain lime- 
stone quarries on the Morlais Castle farm, des- 
cribed on the plans as the Dowlais quarry, in the 
parish of Merthyr Tydfil, on the said branch Rail- 
way, to the western bank of the river Taff on the 
branch Railway, to or near the Melin Griffith 
iron works, in the parish of Whitchurch, until the 
main line of Railway from Merthyr Tydfil, to the 
terminus at Cardiff, shall be completed and 
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29° Junic. 


545 


opened for the passage of carriages ; and t2at in 
case the said Company or any person or persons 
whomsoever shall open or use, or cause or autho- 
rize, or permit to be opened or used, any or either 
of the said branch Railways, contrary to the pro- 
vision of this Act, it shall be lawful for any per- 
son through whose lands any part of the said main 
Railway ought, according to the provisions of this 
Act, to pass, to apply to Her Majesty's High 
Court of Chancery at Westminster, for an injunc- 
tion to restrain such opening, or using or causing, 
or authorizing or permitting to be opened or used, 
the said branch Railways, or any or either of them ; 
and the said Company, or the person or persons 
SO Opening, or using, or causing, or authorizing or 
permitting to be opened or used, the same, shall 
be thereafter restrained accordingly. 

Crause (E.) “ And whereas by the said recited 
Act it is Enacted, That the ascent of every bridge 
for carrying any turnpike-roads over the said 
Railway, shall not be more than One foot in 
Thirty feet ; and for the purpose of carrying any 
public highway, not being a turnpike-road over 
the said Railway, shall not be more than One foot 
in Twenty feet; and for carrying any private 
carriage road or occupation way over the said 
Railway, shall not be more than One foot in 
Thirteen feet ; and that the descent of every turn- 
pike-road, public carriage road, and occupation 
way respectively underneath the said Railway, 
shall not be steeper than the inclination before 
mentioned ; and whereas many of the roads to 
be crossed by the said Railway are already at 
the points where the same respectively are inten- 
ded to be crossed, steeper than the inclinations 
above limited, and it has, therefore, been found 
impracticable to preserve such inclinations in 
carrying the said Railway over or under the said 
roads: Be it therefore Enacted, That whenever 
the said Railway shall be carried over or under 
any turnpike-road, or public highway or occupa- 
tion-road, being already at the point of crossing 
on an inclination steeper than the inclinations 
prescribed in the said recited Act, it shall and 
may be lawful for the said Company to carry such 
turnpike-road, public highway or occupation-road 
over or under the said Railway, upon any inclina- 
tion not being steeper than the present inclination 
of such turnpike-road, public hghway or occupa- 
tion-road, as the case may be, any thing in the 
said recited Act contained to the contrary thereof 
in any wise notwithstanding.” 

Cravse (F.) “ And whereas by the said recited 
Act it is Enacted, That the said Company shall, 
within a certain period therein limited, sell and 
dispose of all superfluous lands of which they may 
be seised or possessed of, provided that before 
such sale they shall offer to sell such superfluous 
lands to the parties respectively in possession of 
the lands from which the same may have been 
originally severed: And whereas it is expedient 
that the said enactment should be amended as 
hereinafter mentioned: Be it therefore Enacted, 
whenever the said Company shall sell any super- 
fluous lands of which they are seised or possessed, 
and which they are required to sell under the 
provisions of this Act or of the said recited Act, 
they shall first offer to sell the same to the owner 
or owners of the lands immediately adjoining the 
same ; and such owner or owners shall be entitled 
to the same privileges and advantages in regard 
to the re-purchase of the said superfluous lands, 
and be subject to all such and the same provisions 
and restrictions in reference thereto, as the parties 
respectively in possession of the land frum which 
the same were originally severed, are by the said 
recited Act entitled or rendered subject or liable 
to, and the said recited Act, shall be construed 
and read as though the owner or owners of the 
lands adjoiming the said superfluous lands had 

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been inserted in the said Act, in reference to the | 
enactment above referred to, in lieu of the parties | 
ey ha 9 in possession of such lands, any thing | 
in the said recited Act contained to the contrary | 
notwithstanding.” 

Pr. 10. 1. 12. After “ take ” insert “ of any 
person or corporation hereby or by the said _re- 
cited Act authorized to sell lands, but with their | 
consent only.” 

Pr. 11. 1.6. After “ proper” insert “ with such | 
consent as aforesaid.” 

Pr. 12. 1. 12. After “chattels” insert Clauses 


Crause (G.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
the said Railway Company shall make and keep 
in good and sufficient repair, proper and sufficient 
tunnels under or archways over the said Railway, 
for the necessary and requisite crossings for the 
private roads, tramroads, watercourses and drains 
of Messrs. Richard Hill and Anthony Hill, and 
the proprietors, lessees and occupiers for the time 
being of the works, mills and lands now belonging 
to or held under lease by the said Richard Hill 
and Anthony Hill, and shall provide all other neces- 
sary conveniences for the said Richard Hill and 
Anthony Hill, or such proprietors, lessees and 
occupiers for the time being as last aforesaid, as 
may from time to time be reasonably required by 
them for the use and exercise of all their powers 
and privileges of occupation and running, in as 
full and ample manner as if the said Railway had 
not been made ; and that in case the said Railway 
Company shall refuse or neglect so to make or 
keep in repair the aforesaid tunnels, archways, 
crossings, drains and other conveniences, in a 
reasonable time after a request made to them in 
writing, that then the said Richard Hill and 
Anthony Hill, or such proprietors, lessees and 
occupiers, shall be at liberty to make or repair the 
same without the molestation or hindrance of the | 
said Railway Company, and shall be entitled to | 
charge the said Railway Company with the ex. | 
penses thereof; and in case of default in payment 
of the cost thereof by the said Railway Company 
within Ten days after a written demand shall be | 
duly made on the said Company for the same, the | 
said Richard Hill and Anthony Hill, or such | 
proprietors, lessees or occupiers for the time being, 
as last aforesaid, shall recover the amount of such 
cost, with all expenses incurred by reason or in 





29° Junie. 


A. 1837. 


A Petition of John Corrie, of Lower Grove-sireet, poor, 
Saint George’s-in-the-East, praying the House to 
institute an Inquiry into his plans for employing and 
supporting the Poor, was presented, and read ; and 
referred to the Select Committee on the Poor Law 


| Act. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Chichester, praying Church Leases, 
that property held by lease under Ecclesiastical 
Bodies may be enfranchised, and the proceeds ap- 
plied to the repair and support of the Churches of 
this Kingdom, was presented, and read; and referred 
to the Select Committee on Church Leases. 


A Petition of Members of the London Coffee- Tea, Coftee, Xe, 
house Keepers’ Association, praying for a reduction 
of the duties on Tea, Coffee, Chocolate and Sugar, 
was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of the President, Secretary and three Medical 
Members of the Royal College of Surgeons in Jre- — ; 
land, denying the allegations of the Petition of the ‘#4 Bill. 
Fellows, Honorary Fellows and Licentiates of the 
King and Queen’s College of Physicians in Ireland 
(presented upon the 22d day of this instant June) ; 
and praying the House not to entertain the appli- 
cation of those Petitioners, that at least two of the 
four Inspectors to be appointed under the Medical 
Charities (Jreland) Bill, should be chosen from 
amongst the Fellows, Honorary Fellows or Licen- 
tiates of the College of Physicians in Jreland, because 
the Petitioners are convinced that the Legislature 
will afford every facility to the Executive Govern- 
ment to select the best educated and most enlight- 
ened persons the profession affords to fill situations 
of so much importance to the community, was 
erage and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- fast India 
solve itself into a Committee to consider of imposing Postage. 
Duties of Postage on Letters conveyed between the 
Red Sea or the Persian Gulf, and the East Indies. 


A Petition of the Provost, Magistrates and Coun- Private Bill 
cillors of the burgh of Greenock, praying for an Committees 
alteration of the mode of carrying Private Bills 
through Parliament, and in the constitution of Com- 
mittees on them, was presented, and read ; and 


consequence of such default of payment, upon | referred to the Select Committee on Business of 
application to and proof made before the Court of | the House. 


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quarter sessions for the county of Glamorgan.” _ | 
| 

| 


CrauseE (H.) “ Provided always, and be it fur- 


ther Enacted, That nothing in the said recited | 
Act or this Act contained, shall authorize or em- | 
power the said Company to take or use any | 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Pollokshaws, praying Vote by Ballot 
for the adoption of Vote by Ballot, Universal &amp;«- 
Suffrage and Short Parliaments, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


greater quantity of the said lands, called Mardy, | 


for the terminus of the said Railway at Merthyr | 


A Petition of Commissioners of Supply of the Municipal 


Tidvil, than they are by this Act authorized to | county of Roxburgh, praying that the Municipal Corporations 


take for the terminus of the said Railway at | Corporations (Scotland) Bill may not pass into a 
| law, was — and read; and ordered to lie 
owner or owners for the time being of the said | upon the 


Cardiff, without the consent in writing of the 


lands first had or obtained for that purpose.” 

Pr. 12. 1. 22. Leave out from “ Act” to “ Pro- 
vided ” in Pr. 13. 1. penult. 

Pr. 14. 1. 9, After “ works” insert “ of cuttings 
and embankments, approaches to bridges, drains, 
culverts and fences.” 

Pr. 16. 1. 26. 

Pr. 17. 1. 8. 

Pr. 17 

Pr. 32 


| Leave out “ present.” 
. 112.) 
. 1. 31. Leave out from “ Act”’ to “And” 


in Pr. 33. 1. 4. 


The said Amendments, being read a second time, 


were agreed to. 


Ordered, That Mr. Robert Clive do carry the Bill 


(Scotland) Bill 


able. 


A Petition of Commissioners of Supply of the Burghs 
county of Roxburgh, praying that the Burghs of . ora | Bill 
Barony (Scotland) Bill may not pass into-a law, ©" 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


of the Sheriff and 
Burgh Courts 
(Scotland) Bill. 


A Petition of Commissioners of Supply 
county of Roxburgh, praying that the Sheriff and 
Burgh Courts (Scotland) Bill may not pass into a 
law, was presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 





| The House proceeded to take into consideration Chester and 


to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House | the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, Crewe Railwey 


er agreed to the Amendments made by their | intituled, An Act for making a Railway from the _ 
ordships, 


| City of Chester to join the Grand Junction Railway 
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1 Vicroriz. 29° Juniz. 547 


near Crewe Hall, in the County of Chester, to be 
called “ The Chester and Crewe Railway ;” and the 
same were read, as follow: 
Pr. 1. 1. 18. Leave out “ King’s,” and insert 
* Queen’s.” 
Pr. 5. 1. 10. After “ line ” insert “ and levels.” 
Pr. 5. 1. 24. After “ deposited” insert “ such 
maps or plans and sections, being the maps or 
“ plans and sections approved of by Parliament.” 
Pr. 7.1. penult. After “ reference ” insert Clauses 
(A.) and (B.)_ ‘ 
Crause (A.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
in making the said Railway it shall not be lawful 
for the said Company to deviate from the levels 
of the said Railway as referred to the common 
datum line described on the section so approved 
of by Parliament, and as marked on the same, to 
any extent exceeding in any place Five feet, or, 
in passing through towns, Two feet, without the 
consent of the owners, lessees and occupiers of 
the lands in, through or over which such deviation 
is intended to be made; or in case any street or 
public carriage road shall be affected by such 
deviation, then the same shall not be made with- 
out the consent of the trustees or commissioners, 
or, if there be no such trustees or commissioners, 
without the consent of two or more Justices of 
the Peace, in petty sessions assembled for that 
purpose, and acting for the district in which such 
street or public carriage road may be situate, or 
without the consent of the commissioners for any 
public sewers, or of the proprietors of any canal 
or navigation affected by am deviation ; and that 
no increase in the inclination or gradients of the 
said Railway, as denoted by the said section, shall 
be made in any place to an extent exceeding the 
rate of Three feet per mile; and where in any 
place it is intended to carry the Railway on an 
“ arch or arches, as marked on the said plan or 
“ section, the same shall be made accordingly ; and 
_where a tunnel is marked on the said plan or sec- 
tion, as intended to be made at any place, the 
same shall be made accordingly, unless the owners, 
“‘ lessees and occupiers of the land in or through 
“ which such tunnel is intended to be made shall 
“ consent that the same shall not be so made: 
“* Provided nevertheless, That it shall be lawful for 
“ the said Company, with such consent as afore- 
“ said, and not otherwise, to make a tunnel or an 
* arch or arches as aforesaid, not marked on the 
“ said plan or section, so that no such tunnel shall 
be of a greater length than Two hundred yards, 
and that no two tunnels be at a less distance from 
each other than One hundred yards, measured on 
“ the line of the Railway: Provided always, That 
notice of every petty sessions to be holden for the 
purpose of obtaining such consent as aforesaid, 
shall, Fourteen days previous to the holding of 
such petty sessions, be given in some newspaper 
circulating in the county, and also be affixed upon 
the church door of the parish in which such devia- 
tion or alteration is intended to be made, or, if 
there be no church, some other place to which 
notices are usually affixed: Provided also, That 
for the purpose of consenting to any such devia- 
tion from the said sections, and to any tunnelling 
or arching as aforesaid, the word ‘ owners’ shall 
be deemed and taken to mean such persons as 
are herein capacitated to agree for the sale of and 
to convey land for the making of the said Rail- 
way ; and the consent of such persons, with or 
without the consent of any other persons interested 
as owners inthe said lands, shall be deemed and 
“ taken to be sufficient for such purposes.” 
Crause (B.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
“‘ it shall not be lawful to diminish the radius of 
“ any curve from what it is shown to be on the plan 
“« deposited with the Clerk of the Peace, unless such 
“ radius exceed One mile, nor to diminish it in any 
“ such case so that it shall become less than One 
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mile, nor to diminish any greater radius by more 
than a quarter of a mile, unless where it exceeds 
Two miles, or by more than half a mile, unless 
where it exceeds Three miles, on the said plan.” 


Pr. 17. 1. 27. Leave out “ present,” and insert 
“ late,” and in the same line, after “ Majesty,” 
insert “ King William the Fourth.” 
Pr. 23. 1. 12. Leave out “ sixteen,” and insert 
eighteen.” 
Pr. 38. 1. 34. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
* Be.” 

Pr. 39. 1. 24. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 48. 1. 8. Leave out “ His,” and insert “ Her.” 

Pr. 48. 1. 38. Leave out “ His,” and insert 


“ 


Pr. 51. 1. 26. Leave out “ His,” and insert 


Pr. 53. 1. 28. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
* Be.” 

Pr. 64. 1. 1. Fill up the blank with “ first.” 

Pr. 64. 1.2. Leave out “ His,” and insert “ Her,” 
and in the same line, leave out from “ Majesty” to 
“ There,” in 1. 3., and insert “ Queen Victoria.” 

Pr. 92. 1. 15. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
* Bee.” 

Pr. 92. 1. 37. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
« Her.” 

Pr. 93. 1. 35. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 97. 1. 36. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 99. 1. 15. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 105. 1. 20. Leave out “ late.” 

Pr. 117. 1. 3. In the interlineation : 

L. 26. Leave out “ late.” 

Pr. 162. 1. 32. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 178. 1. 27. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 179. 1. ult. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 182. 1. 22. Fill up the blank with “ first.” 

Pr. 182. 1.23. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 182. 1. 24. Leave out “ King William the 
“ Fourth,” and insert “ Queen Victoria.” 


Pr. 189. 1.11. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
* ie.” 

Pr. 193. 1. 4. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 218. 1. 3. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 246. 1. 3. Leave out “ His,’ and msert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 260. 1. 28. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
« Her.” 

Pr. 287. 1. 35. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr, 288. 1. 3. Fill up the blank with “ first,” 

Pr. 288. 1. 4. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 
Pr. 288. 1.5. Leave out from “ Majesty” to 
intituled ” in 1. 6., and insert “ Queen Victoria.” 
Pr. 288. 1. 20. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 288. |. 27. Fill up the blank with “ first.” 

Pr. 288. 1.28. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 
Pr. 288. 1. 29. Leave out from “ Majesty,” to 
intituled ” in 1. 30, and insert “ Queen Victoria.” 
Pr. 291. 1.16. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 293. 1. 21. Leave out “ present,” and insert 
“ late,” and in the same line, after “ Majesty ” 
insert “ King William the Fourth.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 


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Bill to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this 
House hath agreed to the Amendments made by 
their Lordships. 


A Petition of the Archdeacon and Clergy of the 

* Diocese of Ferns, praying that the Tithes (Ireland) 

Bill may not pass into a law, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Tithes 
(Ireland) Bill 


Kerry A Petition of Justices of the Peace for the county 

Magistrates. of Kerry, complaining of the conduct of the Irish 
Government, in reference to an inquiry into charges 
preferred by certain Magistrates of that county, 
against Chief Constable Nicholas Mc Donagh, and 
praying for inquiry, was presented, aud read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Usury. A Petition of John Crowther, Serjeant Teacher, 
Royal Hibernian Military School, Phania Park 
Dublin, praying the House to pass a law to the effect 
that any charge for interest, discount, &amp;c., for the 
loan of money for any time and at any rate per cent. 
per annum, not exceeding the legal rates, shall be 
computed agreeably to the principles of compound 
interest, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


Metropolis 
Police Offices. 


No. 451. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee appointed to 
inquire into the provisions of the 3 &amp; 4 Will. 4. c. 
19, (Metropolis Police Offices), with a view to the 
further improvement of the same; and who were 
empowered to report their observations thereupon to 
the House, have Power to report the Minutes of the 
Evidence taken before them. 

_ Mr. Hawes reported from the said Select Com- 
mittee; That they had considered the matters to 
them referred; and had directed him to make a 
Report thereof to the House, together with the 
Minutes of the Evidence taken before them. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 

Shire Halls Bill. The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 


intituled, An Act to explain and amend an Act of 


the seventh year of his late Majesty King George 
the Fourth, to provide for improving and rebuilding 
Shire Halls, County Halls and other Buildings, for 
holding the Assizes and Grand Sessions, and also 
Judges’ Lodgings, throughout England and Wales ; 
and the same were read, as follow : 

Pr. 1.1. 3. Leave out “ late.” 

Pr. 3. 1. 23. Leave out from “ His” to “ reign” 
in 1, 24, and insert “ late Majesty King William 
“ the Fourth.” 

Pr. 4. 1. 10. Leave out “ late.” 

Pr. 4. 1. 19. Leave out “ present,’ and insert 
“ said late.” 

Pr. 4. 1. 36. 
“ Queen’s.” 

Pr. 5.1. 6. Leave out “ late.” 

Pr. 6. 1. 12. Leave out “ of His Majesty.” 

Pr. 6. 1.16. Leave out “ present,” and insert 
“ said late.” 

Pr. 6. 1. 30. Leave out “ late.” 

Pr. 9. |. 11. Leave out from “ given” to “in 
in 1. 12. 

Pr. 9. 1. 14. After “ Division” insert “ Twice.” 

Pr. 9. 1.15. Leave out “ Fourteen days,” and 
insert “ in each of the last Three Months.” 

In the ‘Title of the Bill: 

L. 2. Leave out “ late.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


Leave out “ King’s,” and insert 


” 





29° Junie. 
Ordered, That Mr. Wilson Patten do carry the | 


A. 1837. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Pillory 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, Punishment 
lintituled, An Act to abolish the punishment of the “&gt;elition Bil. 
| Pillory ; and the same were read, as follow: 

L. 4. Leave out “ King’s,” and insert “ Queen’s.” 

L. ult. After “ notwithstanding” insert “ Pro- 
vided that nothing herein contained shall extend 
or be construed to extend in any manner to change, 
alter or affect any Punishment whatsoever, which 
may now be by law inflicted in respect of an 
offence except only the punishment of Pillory.” 
The said Amendments, aa read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 


Lordships. 


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“ 
“ 
“ 
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| 
| 


The ingrossed Bill for granting to Her Majesty Sugar Duties 
certain Duties on Sugar imported into the United Bill. 
Kingdom, for the service of the year One thousand 
eight hundred and thirty-seven, was, according to 
Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act for granting to Her Majesty, until 
the fifth day of July One thousand eight hundred 
and thirty-eight, certain Duties on Sugar imported 
into the United Kingdom, for the service of the year 
One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Mr. Robert Steuart reported the Creditors (Scot- Creditors 
land) Bill; and the Amendments were read and (Scvtland) Bill 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time To-morrow. 


The Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act for the wills Bill. 
Amendment of the Law with respect to Wills, was, 
according to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, with Amendments ; to which 
Amendments this House doth desire the concurrence 
of their Lordships. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Rolls Estate 
into a Committee upon the Rolls Estate Bill; and, Bil 
after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed 
the Chair; and Mr. Bernal reported, That the Com- 
mittee had gone through the Bill, and made Amend- 
ments thereunto. 
Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 


Lord Viscount Morpeth reported the Civil Bill Civil BiliCourts 
Courts (Jreland) Bill; and the Amendments were (!reland) Bill. 
read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time To-morrow. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Court of 
into a Committee upon the Court of Exchequer ee Bill 
(Scotland) Bill; and, after some time spent therein, — 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Lord Seymour 
reported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill, and directed him to report the same, without 
Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be ingrossed; and read 
the third time To-morrow. 


A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Dowdeswell Message from 
and Mr. Roupell : the Lords. 
Mr. Speaker, 
| The Lords have agreed to the Amendments made Rayley’s 
| by this House to the Bill, intituled, An Act to enable Fstate Bill 
| Richard Rayley, Esquire, to grant Leases of the 
| Messuages, Lands and Hereditaments appointed or 
' devised by the Will of Richard Rayley, aie 
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1 VicroriZ. 


late Father, deceased, and for selling certain of the | 
said Messuages, Lands and Hereditaments, and 
laying out the Monies to be produced by such Sales 
in the purchase of other Estates, to be settled to 
the same uses, without any Amendment: And also, 
Stewart's The Lords have agreed to the Amendments made 


Estate Bill. ~~ hy this House to the Bill, intituled, An Act to enable | 


the Tutors and Curators of Sir Michael Robert Shaw 
Stewart, Baronet, to grant Feu Rights of the Estate 
of Greenock, and other Lands in the County of Ren- 
frew, without any Amendment: And also, 

Hind’s The Lords have agreed to the Amendments made 

Estate Bill. hy this House to the Bill, intituled, An Act for car- 
rying into effect a Contract entered into with Edward 
Riddell, Esquive, for the Sale to him of a certain 
Farm called Broomey Hall Farm, situate in the 
Township of Dalton, in the Parish of Mewburn, in 
the County of Northumberland, devised in strict 
Settlement by the Will of Elizabeth Archer Hind, 
spinster, deceased, and for applying the Money 
thence arising in the purchase of other Hereditaments 
in lieu thereof, to be settled to the like uses, without 
any Amendment: And also, 

Post Office The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 


- Repeal Act to repeal the several Laws relating to the Post 
: Office, with Amendments; to which Amendments 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House: And 
also, 
Post Office The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
Offences Bill, 


Act. for consolidating the Laws relative to Offences 
against the Post Office of the United Kingdom, and 
for regulating the Judicial Administration of the 
Post Office Laws, and for explaining certain terms 
and expressions employed in those Laws, with 
Amendments; to which Amendments the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House: And also, 
Postage Duties The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, Au 
- Act for the Regulation of the Duties of Postage, 
with Amendments; to which Amendments the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House: And 
also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
Act for regulating the sending and receiving of Let- 
ters and Packets by the Post, free from the Duty of 
Postage, with Amendments ; to which Amendments 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House: And 
also, 

Castle Eden The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
oes. Act for making and maintaining a Railway to con- 
Hartlepool nect the Great North of England, Clarence and Har- 
Junction) — tlepool Railways, in the County of Durham, with 
Railway Bill. Amendments; to which Amendments the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House: And also, 
London and The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
_ Railway Act to alter and extend the line of the South Eastern 
Railway, and to amend the Act relating thereto, 
with Amendments ; to which Amendments the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House: And 
also, 
Great Westen The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
wes wl Act to enable the Great Western Railway Company 
oe to extend the Line of such Railway, and for other 
purposes relating thereto, with Amendments; to 
which Amendments the Lords desire the concurrence 
of this House: And also, 
Great Western The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 


Franking Bill. 


mae! dee) Act to alter the Line of the Great Western Railway, 

&amp;* and to amend the Acts relating thereto, with Amend- 

ments; to which Amendments the Lords desire the 
concurrence of this House: And also, 

Durham The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 

Raleay pil, ct to authorize the Durham Junction Railway Com- 


pany to make a Branch Railway from the Durham 
Junction Railway, to be called “ The Houghton-le- 
Spring Branch,” with Amendments; to which 
Amendments the Lords desire the concurrence of 
this House: And also, 

Slamannan The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
Railway Bill. Act to alter, amend and enlarge the powers of an 











29° Juniz. 549 


the sixth year of his present Majesty, and to enable 
the Slamannan Railway Company to make and main- 
tain a Branch to Bathgate, in the County of Lin- 
lithgow, with Amendments ; to which Amendments 
_ Lords desire the concurrence of this House: And 
also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Dundalk 
Act for making and maintaining a Railway from the "4 Ballibay 
Town of Dundalk, in the County of Louth, to the ®!v*y BY 
Town of Ballibay, in the County of Monaghan, with 
Amendments; to which Amendments the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Montrose _ 
Act for improving the Harbour of the Burgh of H#tbour Bill. 
Montrose, in the County of Forfar, with Amend- 
ments; to which Amendments the Lords desire the 
concurrence of this House: And also, 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Bankrupt 
to appoint a Second Commissioner of Bankrupt in (Irelond) Bill 
Ireland ; to which the Lords desire the concurrence , 
of this House:—And then the Messengers with- 
drew. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Imprisonment 
into a Committee upon the [Imprisonment for Debt f° Pebt Bill. 
Bill. 

(In the Committee.) 


Cravusgs, N° 13 to N° 15, amended, and agreed 
to. 
Crauses, N° 16 to N° 31, agreed to. 


Cause, N° 32, amended, and agreed to. 
Cravszs, N° 33 to N° 35, agreed to. 
Several Clauses added. 

Preamble read, and agreed to. 

Bill, as amended, to be reported. 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 


The ingrossed Bill to amend the Laws relating to Offences against 
Offences against the Person, was, according to Order, the Person Bill. 
read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Baad do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The ingrossed Bill to amend the Laws relating to Robbery and 
Robbery and Stealing from the Person, was, accord- Stealing from. 
ing to Order, read the third time. achat, 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The ingrossed Bill to amend the Laws relating to Burglary, and 
Burglary and Stealing in a Dwelling House, was, Stealing in a 
according to Order, read the third time. — 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 


the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The ingrossed Bill to amend certain Acts relating Piracy Bill. 
to the Crime of Piracy, was, according to Order, 
read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The ingrossed Bill to amend the Laws relating to Burning or 
burning or destroying Buildings and Ships, was, destroying 
according to Order, read the third time. Ships Bil on 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The ingrossed Bill to amend the Law relative to Transportation 
Offences punishable by Transportation for Life, was, ‘or Life Dill. 
according to Order, read the third time. 





Act for making the Slamannan Railway, passed in 
Vor. 22. 


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Parliamentary 
Electors Bill. 


Tithes Commu- 
tation Act 
Amendment 
Bill. 


Beet Root 
Sugar Bill. 


Masters and 
Workmen Bill. 


Final Register 
of Electors 
(No. 2.) Bill. 


Ecclesiastical 
Appointments 
Suspension Bill. 


Military 
Commissions 
Bill. 


Municipal 
Corporations 


Bill. 


Message froin 
the Lords, 


London and 
Southampton 
Railway Bill. 


550 


Resolved, That the Bill do png 
Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, resolve 
itself into a Committee upon the Parliamentary 
Electors Bill. 


The ingrossed Bill to amend an Act for the Com- 
mutation of Tithes in England and Wales, was, ac- 
cording to Order, read the third time ; and Amend- 
ments were made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Beet Root Sugar Bill was, according to 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for To-morrow. 


The Masters and Workmen Bill was, according 
to Order, read a second time ; and committed toa 
Committee of the whole House, for To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Final Register of Electors (No. 2.) 
Bill; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question being 
put, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the old Lobby ; 

The Noes to the new Lobby. 

Tellers for the f Mr. Elphinstone, 2 70 

Yeas, Mr. Hume: P Gia 

Tellers for the | Sir Edward Knatchbull, } 17 

Noes, lL Mr. Thomas Estcourt : 2 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative :—The House 
accordingly resolved itself into the Committee ; and, 
after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed 
the Chair; and Mr. Robert Steuart reported, That 
the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 


The Ecclesiastical Appointments Suspension Bill 
was, according to Order, read a second time; and 
committed to a Committee of the whole House, for 
To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Military Commissions Bill ; 

Lord John Russell, by Her Majesty’s Command, 
acquainted the House that Her Majesty having been 
informed of the purport of the Bill, gives Her consent 
as far as Her Majesty’s interest is concerned, that 
the House may do therein as they shall think fit. 

Then the House resolved itself into the Com- 
mittee ; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal re- 
eatee, That the Committee had gone through the 

ill, and had directed him to report the same to the 
House, without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be ingrossed; and read 
the third time To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
consideration the Reasons offered by the Lords, at 
the conference held upon Tuesday last, for insisting 
upcn certain of their Amendments to the Municipal 
Corporations Bill, and also the Amendment made 
by the Lords to the Amendments made by the 
Commons to the Amendment made by the Lords to 
the said Bill ; 

Ordered, That the said Reasons and Amendments 
be taken into further consideration upon Monday 
next. 


A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Dowdeswell 
and Mr. Roupell : 
Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords have agreed to the Amendment made 

by this House to the Amendments made by their 

Lordships to the Bill, intituled, An Act to alter the 


29° Junie. 














A. 1837. 


Line of the London and Southampton Railway, and 
to amend the Act relating thereto, without any 
Amendment: And also, 


The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Registration 
Act to explain and amend two Acts passed in the and Marriages 
last Session of Parliament for Marriages, and for (N° 2) Bill 


registering Births, Deaths and Marriages in Eng- 
land, with Amendments; to which Amendments the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House: And 
also, 


The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Liverpool 
Act to enable the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses 1™provemen. 


of the Borough of Liverpool to open and widen cer- 
tain Streets and Places in the Town of Liverpool, 
and otherwise to improve the same, and to enable 
the said Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses, to appro- 
priate Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, for 
public purposes, and also to erect public Buildings, 
with Amendments; to which Amendments the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House: And 
also, 


The Lords request that this House will be pleased First Fruits, 
to communicate to their Lordships a Copy of a Re- ec. 


port made from the Select Committee appointed by 
this House, to inquire into the constitution of the 
Boards connected with the Receipt of the First 
Fruits and Tenths, and administration of Queen 
Anne’s Bounty, together with the Minutes of Evi- 
dence, and Appendix, taken before the Committee : 
—And then the Messengers withdrew. 

Resolved, That this House will send an answer 
to the last part of the said Message by Messengers 
of their own. 

And the Messengers were again called in; and 
Mr. Speaker acquainted them therewith : -- And 
then they again withdrew. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 
intituled, An Act to explain and amend two Acts 
passed in the last Session of Parliament for Mar- 
riages, and for registering Births, Deaths and Mar- 
riages in England: And the same were read as 
follow : 

Pr. 1. 1. 18. Leave out “ King’s,” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 

Pr. 3. 1. 11. Leave out “ last recited,’ and in- 
sert “ said.” 

Pr. 8. 1. 12. After “ Act” imsert “ for Mar- 
“ riages.” 

Pr. 5. 1.1. Leave out “ now next ensuing,” and 
insert “ One thousand eight hundred and thirty- 
“ seven.” 

Pr. 5. 1. 10. Leave out from “ July” to “ And” 
in]. 11., and insert “ One thousand eight hundred 
“ and thirty-seven.” 

Pr. 6. 1.19. Leave out “ present,” and insert 
“ iets.” 

Pr. 6. 1. 20. After “ Majesty,” insert “ King 
“ William the Fourth.” 

Pr. 7.1. 5. Leave out “ His,” and insert “ Her.” 

Pr.8.1.30. Leave out “ His,” and insert “ Her.” 

Pr.9.1.20. Leave out “ His,” and insert “ Her.” 

Pr. 10. 1. 18. After “ appointed ” insert Clause 
(A.) 


Crause (A.) “ And be it Enacted, That the Su- 
perintendent Registrar’s Office shall be taken, for 
the purposes of the said Act for Marriages, and for 
registering Births, Deaths and Marriages, and of 
this Act, to be within the district of which it is 
the Register Office, although not locally situated 
therein.” 

Pr. 12. 1. 5. Leave out “ or absence.” 

Pr. 12.1. 29. Leave out from “ General ” to 
And” in 1. 37. 

Pr. 17.1. 8. After “ Order” insert Clause (B.) 

Cuavse (B.) “ And be it Enacted, That until 
a Register Office shall be provided in any Super- 
intendent Registrar’s district the Superintendent 
Registrar shall appropriate some fit room in his 
“ house, 


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and Marriages 
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“ house, to be approved by the Registrar General, | 
‘ 


“as the Superintendent Registrar’s Office of that 
“ district.” 

Pr. 17.1.22. Leave out “ His,” and insert “ Her.” 

Pr. 18. 1.5. Leave out from “ And” to “ the” 
in |. 6. and insert “ whereby by.’ 

Pr. 18. 1. 7. Leave out from “ England” to 
“ of” in 1. 8. and insert “ provision is made for the 
“* transmission of notices.” 

Pr. 18. 1. 9. Leave out “ shall be transmitted.” 

Pr.18.1.11. Leave out the first “ any” and in- 
sert “the,” and in the same line, leave out the 
second “ any” and insert “ the.” 

Pr.18. 1.12. Leave out from “ place” to “of” 
in 1. 13. and insert “ comprising the district of a 
* Superintendent Registrar, and for the reading of 
“ the same at certain meetings,” and in 1. 13. leave 
out from “ Guardians” to “ every” in 1. 14. and in- 
sert “ And whereas it may happen in certain Super- 
“ intendent Registrars’ districts, that there may be 
no such Guardians: Be it therefore Enacted, 
That in every such case, but only until the election 
of such Board of Guardians, and of a clerk to their 
“ Board.” 

Pr. 18. 1. 24. After “ seven” insert “ succes- 
“¢ give.” 

Pr. 18. 1. 26. After “one ” insert “successive.” 

Pr. 18. 1. 30. After “ notice” insert “ and the 
*« particulars of every such notice shall be sent by 
the Superintendent Registrar to every Registrar 
“* of Marriages within his district, and shall be open 
to the inspection of every one who shall apply at 
reasonable times to such Registrar to inspect the 
““ same.” 

Pr. 19. 1. 25. After “ appointed ” insert “ who 
“ superintends the Registrar for whose use such 
“‘ books were provided or.” 

Pr. 19. 1. 29. Leave out from “ Registrar ” to 
“ and” inl. 32. 

Pr. 22. 1. 26. Leave out “ His,” and insert “ Her,” 
and in the same line, leave out from “ Majesty” to 
“ And ” in Pr. 23. 1. 2. and insert Clause (C.) 


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production of the Registrar’s Certificate as there- 
inafter provided: Be it Enacted, That the giving 
of notice to the Superintendent Registrar and the 
issue of the Superintendent Registrar’s Certificate, 
as in the said Act and by this Act provided, shall 
be used and stand instead of the publication of 
Banns to all intents and purposes where no such 
aor shall have taken place; and every 
arson, Vicar, Minister or Curate shall solemnize 
Marriage after such notice and Certificate as afore- 
said, in like manner as after due publication of 
Banns: Provided always, That the Church wherein 
any Marriage, according to the rites of the Ch arch 
“ of England shall so be solemnized, shall be 
within the district of the Superintendent Registrar 
by whom such Certificate as aforesaid, shall have 
been issued.” 
The said Amendments being read a second time, 
were agreed to ; 
Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lordships. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself into Bills of 
a Committee upon the Bills of Exchange Bill; and, Exchange Bill 
after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed 
the Chair; and Mr, Charles Wood reported, That 
the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 


A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Dowdeswell Message from 

and Mr. Roupell : the Lords. 
Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Post Office 
Act for the Management and Regulation of the Post Management 
Office, with Amendments; to which Amendments" * 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House :— 
And then the Messengers withdrew. 


Mr. Robert Steuart reported the Coroners( Durham) Coroners 





Cuiavss (C.) “ And be it Enacted, That in every 
“ case in which any Rector, Vicar or Curate, is re- 
“ quired by either of the said Acts for Marriages, 
“ and for registering Births, Deaths and Marriages, 
“ or by this Act, to give or deliver any Notice, Cer- 
tificate, or certified Copy to any Superintendent 
“ Registrar, it shall be sufficient for such Rector, 
“ Vicar or Curate, to give or deliver the same to 
“ some Registrar under the superintendence of such 
“ Superintendent Registrar ; and every Registrar on 
“« receiving any such notice, certificate or certified 
copy, shall give or deliver the same to the Super- 
intendent Registrar; and each Superintendent 
“ Registrar shall direct the Registrars of Births and 
“ Deaths under his superintendence quarterly to 
collect the Certificates and certified Copies from 
every Rector, Vicar, and Curate within his 
“ district.” 

Pr. 24. 1. 35. Leave out from “ passed” to the 
end of the Bill, and insert Clauses (D.) and (E.) 

Crause (D.) “ And whereas certain provisions 
“* are made in the Act, intituled, ‘ An Act for Mar- 
“ riages in England, relating to the celebration of 
“ Marriages in separate buildings: Be it Enacted, 
“ That any Building which shall have been licensed 
“ and used during One year next before Registration 
“ for public religious worship as a Roman Catholic 
“ Chapel exclusively shall be taken to be a separate 
“ building for the purpose of being registered for 
“ the celebration of Marriages, notwithstanding the 
‘ same shall be under the same roof with any other 
building, or shall form a part only of a building.” 

Cuiause (E.) “ And whereas it is enacted in the 

‘ said recited Act for Marriagesin England,that where 


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“ Marriage may be solemnized in like manner on 
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Ordered, That ‘Bill, with the Amendments, be in- 
grossed ; and read the third time upon Monday next. 


The Malt Duties Regulation Bill was, according Malt Duties 
Committee of the whole House, for To-morrow. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself into China Courts 
a Committee upon the China Courts Bill; and, after Bill. 
some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the 
Chair; and Mr. Bernal reported, That the Committee 
had gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Freemen’s 
mittee on the Freemen’s Admission Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon this day three 
months, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Reform of Parliament (Jreland) Bill was, Reform of 
according to Order, read a second time; and com- Parliament | 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for To- ("!#4) Bill 
morrow. 


The Sheriff, &amp;c. (Scotland) Bill was, according to Sheriff, &amp;c., 
Committee of the whole House, for To-morrow. 


The Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act to Limitation 
amend an Act passed in the third and fourth year ¢f Actions 
of His present Majesty, intituled, “An Act for the “"* 
limitation of Actions and Suits relating to Real 
Property, and for simplifying the remedies for trymg 


by any law or canon in force before the passing of | the rights thereto,” was, according to Order, read the 


third time; and the Amendments following were 

made to the Bill: 
Pr. 1. 1. 4. Leave out “year,” and insert “years.” 
4A4 Pr. 1. 





Bill; and the Amendments were read, and agreed to. (Durham) Bill. 


to Order, read a second time; and committed to a Regulation Bill. 


Admission Bill. 


Order, read a second time; and committed to a (Scotland) Bill. 






































































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Jewish 
Marriages Bill. 


New South 
Wales, &amp;c., 
Bill. 


Thames Tunnel. 


Fourdrinier’s 
Patent. 


Tithes 
Commutation, 


Kerry 
Magistrates, 


New South 
Wales, &amp;c., 
Bill. 


552 


Pr. 1. 1. 5. After “ His” insert “ late.” | 
Pr. 1. 1. 14. Leave out “ King’s,” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 
In the Title of the Bill: 
L. 2. Leave out “ passed in,” and insert “ of.” 
L. 3. Leave out “ year,” and insert “ years,” and 
leave out “ present,” and insert “ late.” 
L. 4. Leave out “ intituled, An Act.” 
Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 


do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, with Amendments; to which 
Amendments this House doth desire the concurrence 
of their Lordships. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee upon the Jewish Marriages Bill ; 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. Charles Wood reported, 
That the Committee had gone through the Bill, and 
directed him to report the same, without Amend- 
ment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be ingrossed; and read 
the third time To-morrow. 


The House was moved, That the Act 9 Geo. 4, c.83, 
to provide for the Administration of Justice in Mew 
South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land, and for the 
more effectual Government thereof, and for other 
purposes relating thereto, might be read ; and the 
same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
continue the said Act: And that Sir George Grey 
and Lord John Russell do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed, 
to consider the Papers laid before this House relating 
to the Thames Tunnel :—And a Committee was ap- 
pointed of Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord 
Viscount Morpeth, Mr. Walter, Sir Robert Harry 
Inglis, Mr. Hume, Mr. Alderman Wood, Captain 
Alsager, Mr. Grote, Mr. Bramston, Mr. Baring, Mr. 
Warburton, Mr. Goulburn, Mr. Hawes, Siv Thomas 
Fremantle, Lord Viscount Sandon and Mr. Thornely, 
with Power to send for persons, papers and records. 

Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 


Ordered, That the Report which, upon the 16th 
day of this instant June, was made from the Select 
Committee on the Petition for Fourdrinier’s Patent 
Bill be taken into further consideration upon Wed- 
nesday next. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the Sums which, in each case of Commu- 
tation of Tithes, have been added to the Rent-charge 
as an equivalent for Rates and Taxes heretofore paid 
by the Sie aanens (To be included in the Return 
of Agreements for the Commutation of Tithes ordered 
on the 3d of June.) 

Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Copy of the Evidence taken upon an Inquiry held 
betore the Honourable Thomas Browne, Vice-Lieu- 
tenant of the county of Kerry, in the month of No- 
vember 1836, upon the complaint of John F. Hewson, 
Esquire, and others, Magistrates of the county of 
Kerry; and upon the Complaint of Chief Constable | 
M‘ Donough against the said Magistrates ; and also, 
the Letter of the Lord Lieutenant, addressed to the | 
said Honourable Thomas Browne, on the subject of | 
said Inquiry, in the month of June last. 





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Sir George Grey presented a Bill to continue an | 
Act of the 9th year of his Majesty King George the | 
Fourth, for the Administration of Justice in Deu | 
South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land: And the same 
was read the first time ; and ordered to he read a} 
second time To-morrow. 





29° Junie. 





A. 1837. 


Mr. Baring presented, pursuant to Order,—Re- Deputy 
turns, showing in detail and in columns, the Gross Postmasters. 


and Net Income of the Deputy Postmasters and 
Mistresses in Great Britain and Ireland ;. stating 
the Amount of their fixed Salaries, and of their 
Emoluments or Perquisites arising out of Private 
Delivery Letter Boxes, the Amount paid annually 
- Box, the Number of Subscribers for Private 

oxes, with any other item of Emolument :—Also, 
in separate columns, the Sums paid out by each 
Postmaster for Office-rent, for Salaries to Clerks, 
and for other outlays ; stating the Number of Clerks, 
and distinguishing those paid by the Crown from 
those paid by the Postmaster; also, whether paid 
wholly by fixed Salary, or partly by Fees, Christmas- 


| boxes, or the like ; also, stating if the Post Office 


belongs to the Crown, or if any is being built by the 
Crown; and whether that part of the Public who 
have Private Boxes are better accommodated, or 
differently accommodated, or served earlier, than 
that portion of the public who receive their Letters 
without Private Boxes ; if differently accommodated, 


stating the nature and extent of the difference. 


Returns to an Order, dated the 10th day of Post Office, 


February last, for a Return in detail of the Number 
of cases which have occurred from 5th January 
1829 to 5th January 1837, in each year, of Letters, 
franked or unfranked, addressed to persons in London, 
Dublin or Edinburgh, or which have been applied 
for through the General Post Offices of those Cities, 
containing Money, Bills, Bank Notes or other pro- 
perty, which have been secreted or purloined by any 
person in the employment of the Post Office depart- 
ment, or been demanded therefrom by private parties 
as undelivered ; with the Amount thereof in each 
case in each year respectively :—Of the Names and 
Situations of all persons dismissed or removed from 
the Post Office Department as above, under the 
allegation of having purloined or secreted Letters, 
franked or unfranked, or been concerned therein, 
containing Money, Bills, Bank Notes or other pro- 
perty, belonging to private — with the Amount 
in each instance ; also, a Return, as above, of all 
Persons who have actually defrauded the Revenue 
Department of the Post Office, and been dismissed 
therefor; stating, in either case, if the first Offence 
was visited with removal or dismissal, or if repeated 
previous thereto :—Also, the nature of the Security 
taken by the Post Office regarding the abstracting 
or purloining Monies or other property by those 
employed therein; stating if the parties becoming 
Sureties are bound to make good and restore private 
property, when abstracted or purloined by the Ser- 
vants of the Public in that department, or only for 
their fraudulent acts against the Revenue. 


Accounts of the Number of Pounds Weight of Tobacco. 


Leaf Tobacco, Manufactured Tobacco, Segars and 
Snuff, paid Duty upon quarterly, for the year 1836, 
ending 5th January 1837; also the rate of Duty 
and Total Amount of the same ; distinguishing 
England, Scotland and Ireland, also the Number of 
Pounds Weight of each, and the Amount of Duty 
collected at the respective Ports of — 
within the same period, and the Total of each quarter 
and year :—Of the Number of Pounds weight of 
Unmanufactured Tobacco, Manufactured Tobacco 
called Negrohead, Segars and Snuff, imported into 
England, Scotland and Ireland, from the United 
States of America and all other parts, in the year 


| 1836, ending 5th January 1837; distinguishing the 


Quantities of each denomination imported into the 
respective Ports of the United Kingdom, and from 
whence it came, describing the Quantity of Unma- 
nufactured Tobacco, Manufactured Tobacco called 
Negrohead, Manufactured Segars and Snuff, and 
Total Amount of the same :—Of the Number of 
Pounds Weight of Cut, Shag and Roll Tobacco, 
Segars, Rappee, Scotch, and Brown Scotch Snuff, 
respectively, sent out by Permit or Certificate, by 
the Manufacturers in the United Kingdom, in the 
year 





Newspapers 
(Ireland. ) 


Leith and 
Newhaven 
Ports. 


Farming Stock. 


Monuments, &amp;c. 


(St. Paul’s and 
Westminster 
Abbey.) 


Municipal 
Borough Rates 
Bill. 


Bankrupt 
Commissioner 


(Ireland) Bilf. 
No. 450. 


Richmond 
Bridge. 


1 Vicroriz. 


year ending 5th January 1837; distinguishing the 
Quantities under each denomination for England, 
Scotland and Ireland :—and, of the Number of 
Pounds Weight of Leaf Tobacco, Tobacco Stalks, 
Returns of Tobacco, Cut, Shag and Roll Tobacco, 
Segars, Stalk Flour, Rappee, Scotch and Brown 
Scotch Snuff, and Snuff Work respectively, in the 
stock of Manufacturers in the United Kingdom, on 
the 5th January 1837, showing what part of each 
was in Stock, and what in operation ; distinguishing 
the Quantities under each denomination for England, 
Scotland and Ireland. 


A Return of the Number of Stamps issued to 
each of the Newspapers published in /reland, from 
5th January 1836 to 5th January 1837. 


Return to an Order, dated the 7th day of June 
last, for Returns for the year ending 5th January 
1837, of the Shipping which have entered and de- 
parted from the Port of Leith, stating the Tonnage, 
and distinguishing the Foreign from the Coasting 
Trade:—From the Shore Dues Office at Leith, for 
three years previous to and ending 5th January 1837, 
of the Tonnage of Goods imported into Leith, and 
of the Goods exported from that Port ; distinguishing 
the Coasting from the Foreign Tonnage of such 
Goods, and the Tonnage of Goods paying the merk 
per Ton:—Of the Number of Passengers, Horses, 
Carriages and Cattle, for the last three years, which 
crossed the Ferries between the Counties of Mid- 
lothian and Fife, at Newhaven Pier and at Leith :— 
Of the Number of Passengers, Horses and Carriages, 
for the last three years, which landed or embarked 
at the Pier of Newhaven to and from Aberdeen, or 
any of the Ports to the North of the River Tay :— 
Of the Number of Passengers, Horses and Carriages 
by Steam or Sailing Vessels, for the last three years, 
which landed or embarked at the Pier of Newhaven 
or the Port of Leith, to and from London, or any 
other intermediate Ports to the south of the River 
Tweed :—and, of the Number of Passengers, Car- 
riages, Horses, Cattle and Sheep, for the last three 
years, between the Worth and South Queensferry, 
in the Counties of Linlithgow and Fife. 


An Account of the Sams insured by each Office 
on Farming Stock exempt from Duty, for the quarters 
ending severally the 25th March, 24th June, 29th 
September and 25th December 1836 ; distinguishing 
the Amount by each Office in the Country and 
London respectively. 

Ordered, That the said Returns do lie upon the 
Table. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
a Return of the Amounts of Public Money paid for 
the erection of Monuments in the Cathedral of 
Saint Paul's and in Westminster Abbey; stating 
the Names, Dates and Amounts of each; also, an 
Account of the Amount of Public Money paid for 
the erection and repairs of any part of the Cathedral 
of Saint Paul’s and Westminster Abbey. 


Resolved, That this House will, To-morrow, re- 
solve itself into a Committee upon the Municipal 
Borough Rates Bill. 


The Bankrupt Commissioner (Jreland) Bill was 
read the first time ; and ordered to be read a second 
time To-morrow. 


Ordered, That the Bill be printed. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow, 


Veneris, 50° die Junii ; 
Anno 1° Victorie Regine, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


R. Smith, from the Commissioners of Rich- 

mond Bridge, was called in; and at the bar 
presented, pursuant to the directions of an Act of 
Vou. 92. 


29°—30° Juniz. 


553 


Parliament,— Richmond Bridge Cash Account, 1836: 

—And then he withdrew. 

- ie That the said Account do lie upon the 
able. 


—A Return of the Number of Decrees by the Court 
of Session in Scotland, extracted during the Three 
years preceding 1st January 1837; specifying, in 
separate columns, the Number in each year; the 
classes of Causes in which they were pronounced ; 
also, whether in absence or in foro; and the Num- 
ber of Pages in each Extract, and the Persons 
employed in making such Extracts. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


the Amendments made by 


the South Eastern Railway, and to amend the Act 
relating‘thereto: And the same were read, as follow : 

Pr. 1. 1. 31. Leave out “ King’s,” and insert 
“ Queen’s. 

Pr. 5. 1. 20. After “plans” insert “and sec- 
tions,’ and in the same line after “line,” insert 
and levels.” 

Pr. 5. 1. 35. After “ plans ” insert “ sections.” 

Pr. 5. 1. 36. After “ deposited” insert “ such 
plans and sections, being the plans and sections 
approved of by Parliament.” 

Pr. 6. 1. 9. After “ plans” insert “ sections.” 

Pr. 10. 1. 9. Leave out “ His,” and insert “ Her.” 

Pr. 10. 1. 34. Leave out “ on.” 

Pr. 11. 1. 11. Leave out “ His” and insert “ Her.”’ 

Pr. 15. 1. 12. After “or” insert “ other.” 

Pr. 15. 1. 16.and17. After “whatsoever” insert 
Clauses (A.), (B.), (C.), (D.), (E.), (F.), (G.), (HL), 
(I.), (K.), (L.), (M.) and (N.) | 

Criauss (A.) “ And whereas the line of the said 
Railway, according to the plan thereof deposited 
as hereinbefore recited, crosses at two places in 
the parishes of Coulsdon and Warlingham, in the 
county of Surrey, the turnpike-road leading from 
London to Godstone, which is part of the roads 
called the Surrey and Sussex roads, maintained 
and regulated by virtue of an Act passed in the 
ninth year of the reign of King George the Fourth, 
for more effectually amending the road leading 
“ from the Stones End in Blackman-street, in the 
borough of Southwark, to Highgate, in the county 
of Sussex, and several other roads therein men- 
tioned : And whereas the said Company are 
willing, in order to avoid the expense and incon- 
“* venience of the said crossings, to make at their 
own costs a new and more direct line of turnpike- 
road wholly on the west side of the line of the said 
Railway, between the points on the present 
turnpike-road, and in the direction and manner 
hereinafter mentioned ; and to construct and main- 
tain also such an embankment or other works for 
“ the protection or security of the traffic upon the 
said new line of road as also hereinafter men- 
“ tioned; Be it therefore further Enacted, That it 
“ shall be lawful for the said Company, and they 
are hereby empowered to purchase from all such 
“ persons as shall be owners of, or hereby capaci- 
“tated to sell, the lands next hereinafter mentioned, 
and who respectively shall be willing to make 
“ ‘such sale, all such lands as shall be required for 
the construction and maintenance of the new road, 
and the embankment and other works hereinafter 
respectively authorized and required to be made 
“ in addition to all other lands which the said Com- 
“ pany are by the said recited Act and this Act 
“ authorized to purchase; and further, That it shall 
“ be lawful also for the said Company, if occasion 
“ shall be, to effect for the last-mentioned pur- 
poses respectively, any compulsory purchase or 
purchases of the same lands in such cases only as 
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The Lord Advocate presented, pursuant to Order, Courtof Session 
Scotland) 


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the Lords to the Bill, Paver Railway 
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selves making the like diversion or alteration of 
the line thereof, would, by virtue of the general 
laws in force for the regulation of turnpike-roads 
in England, be competent to effect ; and all the 

owers and provisions herein, or in the firstly 
vate recited Act contained, for enabling 
the said Company to purchase lands for the pur- 
poses of the said Railway, and to enter upon and 
use lands for the same purposes, and for autho- 
rizing or capacitating any persons to sell and 
convey lands to the said Company for the said 
purposes, and for regulating the application of the 
price or consideration to be paid for the same, 
shall be applicable also to the purchase, use, sale 
and conveyance of the lands which shall be pur- 
chased or taken by the said Company under the 
last foregoing authorities, and to the application 
of the considerations paid for the same.” 

Crause (B.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
it shall be lawful for the said Company to make 
and construct a new line of turnpike-road of not 
less than Forty feet in width, to commence and 
diverge from the said subsisting turnpike-road at or 
as near as conveniently can be to the point thereon 
numbered 4 on the plan of the said Railway, (so 
deposited as hereinbefore recited), and situated 
in the parish of Coulsdon, in the county of Surrey, 
and to be carried from the said point wholly on 
the west side of the line of the said Railway in as 
direct a line as conveniently may be, as shall be 
agreed upon between the said Company and the 
trustees of the said turnpike-road, or at least 
Seven of their number, to or as near as may be 
to the other point on the said subsisting road 
numbered 3 on the said plan, and situate in the 
parish of Warlingham,in the said county of Surrey, 
at which point the said new road is to fall into 
the said subsisting road; and in making such new 
line of turnpike-road, every possible facility of 
communication shall be made and provided for 
between the lane leading to Warlingham and the 
new line of turnpike-road.” 

Crause (C.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
the said new line of turnpike-road shall by and at 
the costs of the said Company, be well and effec- 
tually screened from the said Railway, wherever 
the said Railway shall be constructed within 
Eighty yards of the said turnpike-road, by a solid 
bank or banks of earth, so as to exclude the sight 
of the said Railway, and the engines or carriages 
passing on the same from the said road, and the 
public using the sume; and that there shall 
always be a solid elevation of such bank or banks 
of at least Fifteen feet above the level of the said 
line of Railway ; and so that a line passing at an 
elevation of Fifteen feet from the surface at the 
centre of any part of the said new line of road to 
a point at the same elevation from the surface at 
the centre of the nearest part of the said Railway, 
would either pass on and along the top of, or cut 
or pass through some lower pomt of such screen ; 
and that the width of the base of such screen, or 
the clear distance measured horizontally between 
the said new road and the said Railway, shall in 
every part thereof be at least Forty feet, and be 
of the width of Three feet at least at the tap 
thereof, where the same shall be of the height 
wich would make such a line passing from such 
po'nt of elevation from the said road as aforesaid, 
pass upon and along the top of such screen as 
aforesaid; but where such screen shall be of a 
greater height than last mentioned it shall be 
sufficient if the width thereof be Three feet where 
such line would pass or cut through the said 
screen; and such screen shall be formed and com- 
pleted before the said Railway shall be publicly 
or generally used or travelled upon in the district 
of the said new line of road, and shall at all times 
be kept in good and sufficient repair by and at 
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Crause (D.) “ Provided also, and be it further 
Enacted, That no part of the said present turnpike- 
road shall be taken, used or injured by the said 
Company, except so far as may be requisite and 
necessary for the making and completion of the 
said new line of road, until the said new line of 
road shall be completed and fit for use.” 

Cuiauss (E.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
the said new line of turnpike-road, and all works, 
matters and things connected therewith, shall be 
constructed, made and formed under the directions 
and superintendence from time to time of the sur- 
veyor for the time being of the trustees of the said 
Surrey and Sussex roads; and the said Company 
shall maintain and keep in repair the said new line 
of road for the space of One whole year from the 
time of its being completed and fit for use by the 
public, and the materials wherewith the same shall 
be formed, made and so repaired as aforesaid, being 
such as may be obtained within Four miles from 
the same road, shall be determined and approved 
of by the said surveyor; and all works, matters 
and things connected with the construction, 
making and forming of such new line of road, 
and the said repairs thereof, shall be made, done 
and performed by and at the expense, costs and 
charges of the said Company; and in case the 
said Company shall not at all times during the 
space of One year as aforesaid, repair and keep 
in repair the said new line of road, and notice 
thereof be given to the said Company by or on 
behalf of the said trustees of the said Surrey and 
Sussex roads, and the said Company shall not 
for the space of Four days after the service of 
such notice, commence such repair, or shall not 
proceed therewith with all reasonable expedition, 
it shall be lawful for the trustees of the said 
Surrey and Sussex roads to proceed to repair and 
make good the same, and all costs, charges and 
expenses incurred by the said trustees on account 
thereof, shall be paid on demand by the said 
Company, or on failure of payment for Twenty- 
one days next after such demand, the same shall 


“ and may be recovered by the said trustees from 


the said Company, with full costs of suit by action 
of debt or on the case, in any of Her Majesty’s 
Courts of Record at Westminster.” 

Ciavse (F.) “ Provided always, and be it further 
Enacted, That, save and except as hereinbefore 
provided, nothing herein contained shall alter, 
take away or abridge any of the rights, powers, 
privileges or authorities vested in the trustees of 
the said Surrey and Sussex roads; but all such 
rights, powers, privileges and authorities shall be 
and remain in full force to all intents and pur- 
poses as if this Act had not been passed ; and 
that upon the said new line of road being taken 
possession of by the said trustees, or opened to 
the public under the authorities of this Act, the 
same shall be and be deemed to be subject to all 
the powers and provisions of the said Act of the 
ninth year of the reign of King George the Fourth, 
and the laws in force relating to turnpike-roads, 
as if the said new line had been part of the 
original line of the said Surrey and Sussex roads ; 
and the said new line of road shall thenceforth 
be and become vested in the said trustees and 
their successors in like manner and as fully and 
effectually as the original line of the said road ; 
and the portion of the said old road, which will 
be between the points at which it shall be so di- 
verted or turned as aforesaid, shall, from and after 
the said new line of road shall be taken possession 
of by the said trustees, or opened to the public 
under the authorities of this Act as aforesaid, 
cease to be a public road, or to be vested in the 
said trustees, and the same shall thenceforth be 
and become vested in the owners of the lands 
immediately adjoining the same on either side in 
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as shall be required for the purposes of the said 
Railway, which shall be and become the property 
of the said Company for the purposes of this 
Act.” 

Curause (G.) “ Provided also, and be it further 
Enacted, That, save as aforesaid, the said turn- 
pike-road leading from London to Godstone afore- 
said, shall not be, under any provision or construc- 
tion of this or the said recited Act, diverted or 
altered, without the consent in writing of any 
Seven or more of the trustees of the Surrey and 
Sussex roads, for any of the purposes aforesaid, 
first had and obtained.” 

Cuause (H.) “ Provided always, and be it further 
Enacted, That if the before-mentioned deviation 
shall not be made in the said turnpike-road as 
lastly hereinbefore mentioned, the bridge and 
archway required to be constructed, under the au- 
thority of this Act, over and under a certain road 
leading from London to Godstone, in the county 
of Surrey, which road is repaired, maintained and 
supported under and by virtue of the before-men- 
tioned Act of the ninth year of the reign of his 
Majesty King George the Fourth, and all ap- 
proaches, walls, fences and other works belonging 
to such bridge and archway, and all repairs and 
renewals of the said bridge and archway which 
shall hereafter be made by the said Company, 
shall be constructed and made and formed under 
the direction and superintendence from time totime 
of the surveyor for the time being of the trustees of 
the Surrey and Sussex roads; and that the plans 
and designs for the said bridge and archway, and 
the works belonging thereto, which shall respec- 
tively be as ornamental as shall be consistent with 
the nature and situation of the work, shall be deter- 
mined and approved of by the said surveyor for 
the tame being ; and previously to the commence- 
ment of the said bridge and archway, plans, sec- 
tions and specifications thereof, to be made at the 
expense of the said Company, shall be submitted 
to and approved of by the said trustees of the said 
Surrey and Sussex roads, or any Seven or more of 
them ; and in case in the construction of the said 
bridge and archway, or either of them, the said 
Company shall do, or cause to be done, any injury 
or damage to the said roads, and shall not forth- 
with proceed to repair and make good such injury 
or damage, to the satisfaction of the surveyor to 
the trustees of the said Surrey and Sussex roads, 
or if by reason of the construction of any of the 
works hereby authorized or required to be con- 
structed by the said Company, any alteration of 
the said roads, or of the drains or sewers under 
the same, shall, in the judgment of the said sur- 
veyor for the time being, be rendered necessary, 
then and in any such cases it shall be lawful for 
the said surveyor to cause all such repairs and 
alterations to be made, as he in his discretion 
shall think fit, and all costs and expenses of such 
repairs and alterations, shall be paid on demand 
by the said Company, ov, in default of payment 
for Twenty-one days after such demand, may be 
recovered by the said trustees, of the said Com- 
pany, with full costs of suit by action of debt, or 
on the case, in any of Her Majesty’s Courts of 
Record at Westminster.” 

Cuauss (I.) “ Provided always, and be it further 
Enacted, That the said bridge to be erected for 
carrying the said road over the said Railway, 
shall be formed, and shall at all times be con- 
tinued, of such width as to leave a clear and open 
space between the fences of such bridge of not 
less than Thirty feet ; and a good and sufficient 
wall or close fence shall be made on each side of 
every such bridge, of not less than Five feet above 
the surface of such bridge ; and, in making such 
bridge, the ascent upon or to any such bridge shall 
be carried out to an inclination not steeper than 
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all cases where in the exercise of any of the 
powers hereby or by the said recited Act granted, 
any part of the said Surrey and Sussex turnpike- 
road shall be cut through, raised, sunk, taken or 
so much injured as to be impassable or incon- 
venient for passengers or carriages, the said Com- 
pany shall, at their own expense, before any such 
road shall be so cut through, raised, sunk, taken 
or injured as aforesaid, cause another good and 
sufficient temporary road, not less than be | 
feet in width, to be set out, formed, lighted, 
watched and kept in good repair, and safe and 
convenient for passengers, durmg the whole term 
of its being substituted for the turnpike-road ; 
and the principal turnpike-road shall be restored 
within Six calendar months after the commence- 
ment of the use thereof for the above-mentioned 
purposes, to the satisfaction of the surveyor of the 
trustees of such turnpike road; and the said 
Company shall, in lowering the said turnpike- 
road, and before restoring the same, widen the 
said road, so far as the same shall be disturbed 
by the said Company, so that the said road shall 
be of the width of not less than Forty feet.” 

Cuause (K.) “ Provided also, and be it further 
Enacted, That the bridge to be erected by the 
said Company for the purpose of carrying the said 
Railway over or across the said Surrey and Sussex 
turnpike-road, the span of the arch of such bridge 
or arch shall be formed, and shall at all times be 
and be continued, of such width as to leave a clear 
and open space under such bridge or arch of not 
less than Thirty feet, and of a height from the 
surface of such road to the soffit of such bridge 
or arch of not less than Eighteen feet, and the 
descent under such bridge or arch shall not exceed 
One foot in Thirty feet.” 

Ciausk (L.) “ Provided also, and be it further 
Enacted, That after the said bridge and archway 
over and under the said turnpike-roads shall have 
been constructed, pursuant to the directions of 
this Act, the said Company shall, and they are 
hereby required, at all times thereafter to keep 
the said bridge and archway, and all approaches, 
walls, fences and other works belonging to such 
bridge and archway, in good and complete repair, 
to the satisfaction of the surveyor for the time 
being to the trustees of the said Surrey and 
Sussex turnpike-roads; and in case of any want 
of repair to the said bridge and archway, ap- 
proaches, walls, fences and other works, or any 
of them, and notice thereof be given to the said 
Company by or on behalf of the said trustees of 
the said turnpike-roads, if the said Company shall 
not for the space of Three days after the service 
of such notice commence such repair, and proceed 
therein with all reasonable expedition until the 
same shall be completed, it shall be lawful for the 
said trustees of the said turnpike-roads to proceed 
to repair and make good the same, causing as 
little obstruction to the said Railway in the pro- 
gress of such repairs as may be ; and all the costs, 
charges and expenses incurred by the said trustees 
shall be paid on demand by the said Company, 
or, in failure of payment for Twenty-one days after 
such demand, the same may be recovered by the 
said trustees, from the said Company, with full 
costs of suit, by action of debt or on the case, 
in any of Her Majesty’s Courts of Record at West- 
minster.” 

Cuiause (M.) “ And whereas the said Railway, 
according to the plan thereof deposited as afore- 
said, will be made upon an embankment across 
the park or lands of the East India Company, 
belonging to their Military Seminary at Addis- 
combe, in the parish of Croydon, in the county of 
Surrey: And whereas the said Railway will sever 
a large portion of the said lands from the residue 
thereof, and will prevent the mortar practice of 
the cadets there educated, by destroying the only 

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range of sufficient extent to be obtained for that 
purpose on the said lands, and will otherwise in- 
terfere with the advantages and privacy of the said 
lands; Be it further Enacted, That it shall be 
lawful for the South Eastern Railway Company, 
and that the same Company previously to their 
taking or using any part of the lands of the East 
India Company at or near Addiscombe aforesaid, 
under the powers of this Act, shall and they are 
hereby required, at their own costs, to purchase 
or otherwise provide and convey, or cause to be 
conveyed in fee simple to the said East India 
Company, some other parcel or parcels of land 
in or near the said parish of Croydon, to be ap- 
proved of by the last-mentioned Company, and 
not exceeding altogether Forty acres, in order to 
provide a sufficient range for the said mortar 
practice in lieu of their lands, which will be so 
taken, used or severed by the said South Eastern 
Railway Company as aforesaid ; and all the powers, 
authorities and provisions herein, or in the firstly 
hereinbefore mentioned Act contained, and au- 
thorizing the South Eastern Railway Company 
to purchase lands for the purposes of the said 
Railway, or authorizing or capacitating any per- 
sons or corporations to sell and convey lands to 
the said Company for the same purposes, shall 
extend and are hereby made applicable to the 
— sale and conveyance of the lands lastly 

ereinbefore directed to be provided by the said 
Railway Company to the said East India Com- 
pany ; and the same conveyances shall be effectual 
accordingly, and the monies to be paid for the 
purchase of the same lands shall be disposed of 
in the same manner as if such purchase, sales 
and conveyances respectively were made by and 
to the said Railway Company for the general 
purposes of their said Railway : Provided never- 
theless, That no purchase shall be made of any 
land whatsoever under the last foregoing autho- 
rities, without the contract or consent of the 
owners thereof, or the persons hereby authorized 
or capacitated to sell the same.” 

Cuiause (N.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
the said South Eastern Railway Company, within 
Six calendar months next after the embankment 
for the said Railway shall have been made on the 
lands of the East India Company intended to 
be traversed thereby as aforesaid, shall and they 
are hereby required to form the eastern side of the 
said embankment into a glacis, and cause the 
same to be planted with such trees and shrubs, 
and in such manner as the said East India Com- 
pany, or their surveyor, shall direct, and cause 
to be erected on the top or summit of the said 
glacis or embankment a fence, consisting of paling 
or hedge, or sufficient at all times effectually to 
screen, and also conceal the passage of carriages 
along the line of the said intended Railway from 
the seminary, and the land belonging thereto, and 
shall and will at all times thereafter, at the ex- 
pense of the said South Eastern Railway Com- 
pany, maintain and keep the said glacis and 
plantation, and the fence at the top of the said 
glacis, in good order and repair, to the satisfaction 
of the said East India Company, their successors 
and assigns ; and also shall and will, if so required 
by or on the part of the said East India Company, 
construct a good and sufficient archway under 
the said Railway and embankment, for the passage 
of and in order to keep open a sufficient private 
road for the use of the said East India Company.” 

Pr. 20. 1. 1. Leave out “ said” and insert “ last- 
mentioned.” 

Pr. 21. 1. 16. Leave out from “ Company” to 
And,” in I. ult., and insert Clause (O.) 


Cravuse (O.) “ And whereas it has been appre- | 
hended that the works of the said Railway, if! 
constructed upon the beach between Shakespeare | 
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the use of the beach or shore there, and to the 
Harbour of Dover; BE it therefore Enacted, That 
the said Company shall construct the works of 
the said Railway Sebeecenn Shakespeare Cliff and 
Dover, in such line and direction, and in such 
manner as shall be approved by the Lord Warden 
of the Cinque Ports for the time, and the Com- 
missioners of Dover Harbour, and shall in all 
things conform to and abide by the directions 
of the said Lord Warden and Commissioners, so 
as effectually to prevent detriment to the use of 
the said beach, or to the Harbour of Dover; nor 
shall any works be constructed in the said space, 
unless according to plans and specifications to be 
previously approved by the said Lord Warden and 
Commissioners.” 

Pr. 22. 1. 35. After “ reference” insert Clauses 


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CrauseE (P.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
in making the said Railway, it shall not be lawful 
for the said Company to deviate from the levels of 
the said Railway, as referred to the common da- 
tum line described in the section so approved of 
by Parliament, and as marked on the same, to 
any extent exceeding in any place Five feet, or, in 
passing through towns, Two feet, without the con- 
sent of the owners, lessees and occupiers of the 
land in, through or over which such deviation is 
intended to be made; or in case any street or 
public carriage-road shall be affected by such 
deviation, then the same shall not be made with- 
out the consent of the trustees or commissioners, 
or, if there be no such trustees or commissioners, 
without the consent of Two or more Justices of 
the Peace in petty sessions assembled for that 
purpose, and acting for the district in which such 
street or public carriage-road may be situate, or 
without the consent of the commissioners, for an‘ 
public sewers, or of the proprietors of any canal, 
or navigation affected by such deviation ; and that 
no increase in the inclination or gradients of the 
said Railway, as denoted by the said section, 
shall be made in any plan, to an extent ex- 
ceeding the rate of Three feet per mile; and 
where in any place it is intended to carry the 
Railway on an arcn or arches, as marked on the 
said plan or section, the same shall be made ac- 
cordingly; and where a tunnel is marked on the 
said plan or section, as intended to be made at 
-— place, the same shall be made accordingly, 
unless the owners, lessees and occupiers of the 
land in or through which such tunnel is intended 
to be made shall consent that the same shall not 
be so made: Provided nevertheless, That it shall 
be lawful for the said Company, with such con- 
sent as aforesaid, and not otherwise, to make a 
tunnel or an arch or arches as aforesaid, not 
marked on the said plan or section, so that no 
such tunnel shall be of a greater length than 
Two hundred yards, and that no two tunnels 
be at a less distance from each other than One 
hundred yards, measured on the line of the Rail- 
way: Provided always, That notice of every 
petty sessions to be holden for the purpose of ob- 
taining such consent as aforesaid, shall, Fourteen 
days previous to the holding of such petty ses- 
sions, be given in some newspaper circulating in 
the county, and also be affixed upon the church 
door of the parish in which such deviation or al- 
teration is intended to be made, or, if there be 
no church, some other place to which notices 
are usually affixed: Provided also, That for the 
purpose of consenting to any such deviation from 
the said sections, and to any tunnelling or arch- 
ing as aforesaid, the word ‘ owners’ shall be 
deemed and taken to mean such persons as are 
herein capacitated to agree for the sale of, and to 
convey land for the making of the said Railway : 
and the consent of such persons, with or without 
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owners in the said lands shall be deemed and 
taken to be sufficient for such purposes.” 

Cravse (Q.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
it shall not be lawful to diminish the radius of 
any curve from what it is shown to be on the plan 
deposited with the Clerk of the Peace, unless such 
radius exceed One mile, nor to diminish it in any 
such case so that it shall become less than One mile, 
nor to diminish any greater radius by more than 
a quarter of a mile, unless where it exceeds Two 
miles, or by more than half a mile, unless where 
it exceeds Three miles, on the said plan.” 

Pr. 24. 1. 38. After “sea” insert “or any other 
lands.” 

Pr. 25. 1. 5. After “ groins” insert “ tunnels, 
galleries, driftways, shafts.” 

Pr, 25. 1.17. After “ same” insert “ or for 
constructing or ventilating the said Railway.” 

Pr. 25. 1.37. Leave out “ His,’ and insert 
Her.” 

Pr. 26. 1.1. Leave out from “ being”’ to “ And,” 
in Pr. 27., 1. 1, and insert Clauses (R.), (S.) and 
(T.) 

CravuseE (R.’ “ Provided also, and be it further 
Enacted, That no buildings, constructions or works 
whatsoever shall be made or continued by the said 
Company under the authority of this Act, or of 
the said recited Act, by which the free and effect- 
ive use of all or any of the lines, batteries, forts, 
magazines or other military defences, works or 
buildings belonging to the fortifications of Dover, 
shall, in the judgment of the Master General and 
principal officers of the Ordnance, be liable to be 
im any manner interrupted, impeded, endangered 
or destroyed, nor shall any communication be 
made by the said Company along the line of 
cliff, between Archcliff Fort and Shakspeare 
Cliff, from the higher level above to the said 
Railway below, either by means of steps down the 
cliff, or by an inclined plane, path or road, or 
by any other means, or in any other manner what- 
soever, without the approbation and consent of 
the Master General and principal officers of the 
Ordnance first obtained for the said purposes, or 
any of them, in writing.” 

Criavss (S.) “ And whereas the line of the said 
Railway will pass within the jurisdiction of the 
Cinque Ports ; Be it therefore Enacted, That all 
the powers, authorities, acts, matters and things 
by the firstly hereinbefore recited Act, vested in 
or required or authorized to be done by the re- 
spective sheriffs of the counties of Surrey and 
Kent, with respect to matters arising within their 
several jurisdictions, shall in the like cases having 
relation to any lands or matters within the juris- 
diction of the Cinque Ports, where the sheriff of 
the county of Kent shall not have the execution 
of process, be vested in and done by the constable 
of Dover Castle for the time being, or his deputy, 
or, in case the said constable or his deputy shall 
be in any manner interested in the matter in 
question, then by the coroner of the town or place 
in which the matter in question shall have arisen; 
and that all juries impanelled, summoned and 
returned by the said constable or his deputy, or 
such last-mentioned coroner respectively, shall be 
subject in all a to the same regulations, and 
shall have all the same authorities with respect 
to the matters for the trial or determination 
whereof they shall be so impannelled, summoned 
and returned under the authority of this Act, as 
any jury impanelled, summoned and returned by 
the sheriff of either of the said counties of Surrey 
and Kent under the authority of the said firstly 
hereinbefore recited Act, would in the like case 
have within the jurisdiction of such sheriff.” 

Crause (T.) “ And be it also Enacted, That all 
verdicts to be returned by any jury under the 
authority of the foregoing provisions, shall be 


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“ coroner presiding at the taking of such inquisition, 


and shall be kept by the Clerk of the Peace for 
the town or place in which the matter in question 
shall have arisen, among the records of the quar- 
ter sessions of such town or place, and shall be 
deemed records to all intents, and the same, or 
true copies thereof, shall be good evidence in 
all courts whatsoever; and all persons shall have 
liberty to inspect the same, paying for each in- 
spection the sum of One shilling, and to take 
copies thereof, paying for every copy after the rate 
of Sixpence for every One hundred words ; and, 
further, that all the restrictions, penalties and re- 
gulations whatsoever by the said firstly herein- 
before-mentioned Act imposed on the said sheriffs 
respectively, or any jurors summoned by them 
respectively, or any witnesses summoned or giving 
evidence before such jurors, shall in the like cases 
be in force also with respect to, and the same are 
hereby imposed upon, the said constable and his 
deputy, and all coroners, jurors and witnesses 
respectively, who shall be required to do or per- 
form any acts or duties under the authority 
hereof, as fully and effectually as if all the same 
restrictions, penalties and regulations were herein 
repeated aan re-enacted, and expressly applied 
to the said constable and his deputy, and last- 
mentioned coroners, jurors and witnesses respec- 
tively.” 

Pr. 29. 1. 25. After “on” imsert “such,” and 
in the same line, leave out from “ fact” to “ shall ” 
in |], 28., and insert “as he may require.”’ 

Pr. 35. 1. 19. Leave out from the second “the” 
to “ Provided ” in 1. 22., and insert “ said rights or 
“ any lands which shall have been subject thereto.” 

Pr. 36. 1. 24. After “ repeal” insert Clause (U.) 

Cuause (U.) “ And be it Enacted, That nothing 
in this Act contained shall extend or be construed 
to extend to prejudice or derogate from any of the 
rights or privileges, or from the jurisdiction or 
authority of the Lord Warden of the Cinque 
Ports, or the Commissioners of Dover Harbour.” 

In the Schedule to the Bill : 

Pr. 50. Is. 10. 11. and 12. In the third column, 
leave out “ Archbishop of Canterbury.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Law Hodges do carry the 
Bill to the Lords; and acquaint them, that pre Ta 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


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Sir Henry Parnell reported from the Committee 
on the Dundee Police (No. 2.) Bill; That they had ex- 
amined the allegations of the Bill, and found the same 
to be true; and had gone through the Bill, and di- 
rected him to report the same without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be ingrossed ; and read 
the third time upon Monday next. 


An ingrossed Bill for enabling the Directors of 
the Manchester Gas Works to — Lands, 
Buildings and Apparatus for the Extension of their 
Works, was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That. Mr. Brotherton do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House proceeded to take into considera- 
tion the Amendments made by the Lords to the 
Bill, intituled, An Act for making and maintaining 
a Railway from the Town of Dundalk, in the County 
of Louth, to the Town of Ballibay, in the County 
of Monaghan ; and the same were read, as follow : 


Pr. 2. 1. 2. Leave out “ King’s” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 

Pr. 9. 1. 32. After “reference ” insert Clauses 
(A.), (B.) and (C.) 


Cuavse (A.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
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“ proceed in the execution of the said 
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Dundee Police 
(No. 2.) Bill. 


Manchester 
Gas Bill. 


Dundalk 
and Ballibay 
Railway Bill. 


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hereinbefore authorized to be made, unless the 
said Company shall have, previously to the com- 
mencement of such work, deposited with the Clerk 
of the Peace of the several counties through 
which the said Railway hereby authorized to be 
made is intended to pass, a plan and section of 
all such alterations from the original plan and 
section as shall have been approved of by Par- 
liament, on the same scale and containing the 
same particulars as the original plan and section 
of the Railway, and also with the postmasters of 
the post towns in or nearest to such parishes in 
Ireland in or through which such alterations shall 
have been authorized to be made, copies or ex- 
tracts of or from such plans and sections as shall 
relate to such parishes respectively ; and all per- 
sons interested shall have liberty to inspect and 
make extracts from or copies of the said plans 
and sections, or extract or copies thereof, paying 
to the postmaster of the parish having the custody 
of such plan and section, or of such extract or 
copy, the sum of One shilling for every such 
inspection, and after the rate of Sixpence for every 
One hundred words copied therefrom.” 

Cuiause (B.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
in making the said Railway, it shall not be law- 
ful for the said Company to deviate from the levels 
of the said Railway as referred to the common da- 
tum line described on the section so approved of by 
Parliament, and as marked on the same, to any 
extent exceeding in any place Five feet, or, in pass- 
ing through towns, Two feet, without the consent 
of the owners, lessees and occupiers of the land in, 
through or over which such deviation is intended to 
be made; or in case any street or public carriage- 
road shall be affected by such deviation, then the 
same shall not be made without the consent of the 
trustees or commissioners, or, if there be no such 
trustees or commissioners, without the consent of 
Two or more Justices of the Peace in petty sessions 
assembled for that purpose, and acting for the 
district in which such street or public carriage- 
road may be situate, or without the consent of the 
commissioners for any public sewers, or of the 
proprietors of any canal or navigation affected by 
such deviation; and that no increase in the incli- 
nation or gradients of the said Railway, as denoted 
by the said section, shall be made in any place to 
an extent exceeding the rate of Three feet per 
mile; and where im any place it is intended to 
carry the Railway on an arch or arches, as marked 
on the said plan or section, the same shall be made 
accordingly ; and where a tunnel is marked on the 
said plan or section, as intended to be made at any 
place, the same shall be made accordingly, unless 
the owners, lesses and occupiers of the land in or 
through which such tunnel is intended to be made, 
shall consent that the same shall not be so made: 


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A. 1837. 


capacitated to agree for the sale of and to convey 
land for the making of the said Railway ; and the 
consent of such persons with or without the consent 
of any other persons interested as owners in the 
said lands, shall be deemed and taken to be sufti- 
cient for such purposes.” 

Criause (C.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
it shall not be lawful to diminish the radius of any 
curve from what it is shown to be on the plan 
deposited with the clerk of the peace, unless such 
radius exceed One mile, nor to diminish it in any 
such case so that it shall become less than One 
mile, nor to diminish any greater radius by more 
than a quarter of a mile, unless where it exceeds 
Two miles, or by more than half a mile, unless 
where it exceeds Three miles, on the said plan.” 

Pr.34.1.27. Leave out “His,” and insert “ Her.” 

Pr. 42. l. 9. Leave out “ seventh,” and msert 
first.” 

Pr. 42. 1. 10. Leave out from “ of” to “ intituled” 

in 1. 12., and insert “ Queen Victoria.” 

Pr. 60. 1.21. Leave out “ His,” and insert “ Her.” 

Pr. 61. 1. 3. Leave out “ His,” and insert “ Her.” 

Pr. 63.1.35. Leave out “ His,” and insert “ Her.” 

Pr.66.1.24. Leave out “ His,” and insert “ Her.” 

Pr. 95. 1. 8. Leave out “ His,” and insert “ Her.” 

Pr.112.1. 36. Leave out “ His,” and insert “ Her.” 

Pr. 118. 1.34. Leave out “ His,” and insert “ Her.” 

Pr.121.1.31. Leave out “ His,” and insert “ Her.” 

Pr. 133. 1. 2. Leave out “ seventh,” and insert 

“ first.” 

Pr. 133. 1. 3. Leave out from “ of” to “ intituled” 

in |, 4., and insert “ Queen Victoria.” 

Pr. 138. 1. 28. Leave out “ present,” and insert 

“ late.” 

Pr. 138. 1. ult. After “ said” insert “ late.” 

Pr. 142. 1.20. Leave out “ His,” and insert “ Her.” 

Pr. 160. 1.28. Leave out “ His,” andinsert “ Her.” 

Pr. 187.1.12. Leave out “ His,” andinsert “ Her.” 

Pr. 201. 1.17. Leave out “ His,” and insert “ Her.” 

Pr. 220.1. 9. Leave out “ His,” and insert “ Her.” 

Pr. 220. 1. 16. Leave out “ His,” and insert 

“ Her,” and in the same line, leave out from “ Ma- 
“ jesty” to “intituled” in ls. 17. and 18., and 
insert “ Queen Victoria.” 

Pr. 220. 1. 27. Leave out “ His,” and insert 

“ Her.” 
Pr. 220. 1. 35. 
“ tituled” in line 36., and insert “ Queen Victoria.’ 
Pr. 221. 1. 27. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Brotherton do carry the Bill 
to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


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The House proceeded to take into consideration p,m 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, Junction — 
intituled, An Act to authorize the Durham Junction Railway Bill, 


Provided nevertheless, That it shall be lawful for 
the said Company, with such consent as aforesaid, 
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or arches as aforesaid, not marked on the said plan 
or section, so that no such tunnel shall be of a 
greater length than Two hundred yards, and that 
no two tunnels be at a less distance from each 
other than One hundred yards, measured on the 
lire of the Railway : Provided always, That notice 
of every petty sessions to be holden for the pur- 
pose of obtaining such consent as aforesaid, shall, 
Fourteen days previous to the holding of such 
‘ petty sessions, be given in some newspaper circu- 
lating in the county, and also be affixed upon the 
church door of the parish in which such deviation 
or alteration is intended to be made, or, if there be 
no church, some other place to which notices are 
usually affixed: And provided also, That for the 
purpose of consenting to any such deviation from 
' the said sections, and to any tunnelling or arching 
' as aforesaid, the word ‘ owners’ shall be deemed 
and taken to mean such persons as are herein 





Railway Company to make two Branch Railways 
from the Durham Junction Railway, to be called 
“ The Durhamand Houghton-le-Spring Branches ;” 
and for other purposes connected with their under- 
taking ; and the same were read as follow : 
Pr. 1. 1.3. Leave out “ present” and insert 
“ late.” 
“ Pr. 2. 1. 30. Leave out “ King’s” and insert 
Queen’s.” 
Pr. 5. 1. 12. After “ thereof” insert “ in lands, 
or to any extent exceeding ten yards in towns: 
“ Provided always, That after two years from the 
“ passing of this Act, the said Company shall not 
“ deviate from the said line or course,” and also 
insert Clauses (A.), (B.) and (C.) 
Cravuse (A.) And be it further Enacted, That 
“ it shall not be lawful for the said Company to 
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said Company shall have, previously to the | “ 
commencement of such work, deposited with | “ 
the Clerk of the Peace of the several counties | * 
through which the said Railway hereby au- | “ 
thorized to be made is intended to pass, a plan | “ 
and section of all such alterations from the origi- 
nal plan and section as shall have been approved 
of by Parliament, on the same scale, and con- 
taining the same particulars as the original plan 
and section of the Railway, and also with the 
clerks of the several parishes in England, the 
schoolmasters of the several parishes in Scotland, 
and the postmasters of the post towns in or 
nearest to such parishes in Jreland, in or through 
which such alterations shall have been authorized 
to be made, copies or extracts of or from such 
plans and sections as shall relate to such parishes 
respectively ; and all persons interested shall have 
liberty to inspect and make extracts from, or 
copies of the said plans and sections, or extracts 
or copies thereof, paying to the clerk of the peace, 
or the clerk, schoolmaster, or postmaster of the 
parish, having the custody of the said plan and 
section, or of such extract or copy, the sum of 
One shilling for every such inspection, and after 
the rate of Sixpence for every One hundred words 
copied therefrom.” 

LAUsE (B.) “ And be it further Enacted, That | ‘ 
in making the said Railway it shall not be law- | ‘ 
ful for the said Company to deviate from the levels 
of the said Railway, as referred to the common 
datum line described on the section so approved 
of by Parliament, and as marked on the same, to 
any extent exceeding in any place Five feet, or, in 
passing through towns, Two feet, without the 
consent of the owners, lessees and occupiers of 
the land in, through, or over which such deviation 
is intended to be made, or in case any street or | 
public carriage-road shall be affected by such | “ 
deviation, then the same shall not be made with- ; “ 
out the consent of the trustees or commissioners, | “ 
or, if there shall be no such trustees or commission- | “ 
ers, without the consent of two or more Justices of | “ 
the Peace in petty sessions assembled for that | . 
purpose, and acting for the district in which such | “ 
street or public carriage-road may be situate, 
or without the consent of the commissioners for 
any public sewers, or of the proprietors of any 
canal or navigation affected by such deviation ; 
and that no increase in the inclination or gra- 
dients of the said Railway, as denoted by the said 
section, shall be made in any place to an extent 
exceeding the rate of Three feet per mile, and 
where in any place it is intended to carry the 
Railway on an arch or arches, 2s marked on the 
said plan or section, the same shall be made 
accordingly ; and where a tunnel is marked on 
the said plan or section as intended to be made 
at any place, the same shall be made accordingly, 
unless the owners, lessees and occupiers of the 
land in or through which such tunnel is intended 
to be made shall consent that the same shall not 
be so made: Provided nevertheless that it shall 
be lawful for the said Company, with such con- 
sent as aforesaid, and not otherwise, to make a 
tunnel, or an arch or arches as aforesaid, not 
marked on the said plan or section, so that no 
such tunnel shall be of a greater length than Two 
hundred yards, and that no two tunnels be of a 
less distance from each other than One hun- 
dred yards, measured on the line of the Railway : 
Provided always, That notice of every petty 
sessions to be holden for the purpose of obtain- 
ing such consent as aforesaid, shall, Fourteen 
days previous to the holding of such petty ses- 
sions, be given in some newspaper circulating in 
the county, and also be affixed upon the church 
door of the parish in which such deviation or 
alteration is intended to be made, or, if there be 
no church, some other place to which notices 

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are usually affixed : And provided also, That for 
the purpose of consenting to any such deviation 
from the said sections, and to any tunnelling or 
arching as aforesaid, the word ‘ owners’ shall be 
deemed and taken to mean such persons as are 
herein capacitated to agree for the sale of and to 
convey land for the making of the said Railway ; 
and the consent of such persons, with or without 
the consent of any other persons interested as 
owners in the said lands, shall be deemed and 
taken to be sufficient for such purposes.” 

Criause (C.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
it shall not be lawful to diminish the radius of 
any curve from what it is shown to be on the 
plan deposited with the Clerk of the Peace, unless 
such radius exceed One mile, nor to diminish it 
in any such case so that it shall become less than 
One mile, nor to diminish any greater radius b 
more than a quarter of a mile, unless where it 
exceeds Two miles, or by more than half a mile, 
unless where it exceeds Three miles, on the said 
plan.” 

Pr. 7. 1. 26. Leave out “ present” and insert 
late.” 

Pr. 9. 1.19. After “ Pounds” insert “ Provided 
also, That the additional sum of Four thousand 
pounds hereby authorized to be raised, shall not 
be raised by mortgage until one half of the addi- 
tional capital of Twelve thousand pounds has 
been paid up.” 

Pr. 17. 1.22. Leave out “ His” 

Her.” 
Pr. 18. ]. 26. After “accordingly” insert Clause 


and insert 


Criause (D.) “ Provided always, and be it 
further Enacted, That it shall be lawful for the 
said Durham Junction Railway Company at any 
time or times hereafter to treat, contract and 
agree with the person and persons who are or 
shall be possessed of or entitled to or interested 
in the said rate or payment of One halfpenny per 
Newcastle chaldron, hereby made payable in re- 
spect of coals so carried as aforesaid, or any part 
or parts of such rate or payment, for the absolute 
purchase, redemption and extinction of the said 


‘ rate or payment, or any part or parts thereof; and 


it shall be lawful for, but not compulsory on, all 
bodies politic, corporate or collegiate, aggregate 
or sole, tenants in tail, or for any less freehold 
estate or interest, and all parties whatsoever, for 
and on behalf of themselves and their successors, 
heirs and issue, and of all persons in reversion, 
remainder or expectancy after them, and of their 
wards lunatic and idiots respectively, and of their 
cestui que trust, whether infants, issue unborn, 
lunatics, femes covert, or other persons, aud also 
for all femes covert, and all other persons whom- 
soever, who are or shall be possessed of or 
entitled to or interested in the said rate or pay- 
ment, or any part or parts thereof, to treat and 
agree as to the price to be paid for the sale, 
redemption and extinction thereof, or of any part 
or parts thereof, and to convey and assure the 
same rate or payment, or any part or parts thereof 
unto the said Durham Junction Railway Com- 
pany, and that all and every the powers, clauses, 
and other provisions contained in the said re- 
cited Act applicable to the sale and purchase of 
lands, and the disposal of the monies arising 
therefrom, save only so far as they are compulsory 
on any party or parties, and so far as they are 
repugnant to the provisions of this Act, shall be 
applicable to the purchase, redemption and ex- 
tinction of the said rate or payment, and every 
part thereof, and the conveyance and assurance 
thereof to the said Company, and the disposal of 
the monies to be paid for such purchase, redemp- 

tion and extinction.” 
Pr. 21. 1.12. After “ bridge” insert “ and 
wherever the level of any public carriage-road 
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‘ shall be altered by means of the said Railway, the 
« inclination of ante road, if turnpike, shall not be 
« preater than One foot in Thirty feet, and if high- 
“ way not greater than One foot in Twenty feet.” 

The said Amendments, as far as Clause (A.), 
being read a second time ; were agreed to. 

Ciause (A.) The next Amendment, being read 
a second time ; ° 

An Amendment was made thereunto, in Fo. 2. 
1. 1., by leaving out from the word “ parishes” to 
the second word “ in,” in 1. d. 

Another Amendment was made to the said 
Amendment in Fo. 2. 1. 16., by leaving out from the 
word “ Peace”’ to the word “ of,” in |. 7. 

And the said Amendment, so amended, was 
agreed to. 

Cuavuse (B.) The next Amendment, being read 
a second time ; 

An Amendment was made thereunto, in Fo. 1. 
1. 1., by inserting after the word “and” the words 
“ whereas a Map or Plan and Section, describing 
“ the line and levels of the said Railway, has been 
“‘ deposited with the Clerk of the Peace of the 
“ County of Durham, and has been approved of by 
‘ Parliament as the Map or Plan and Section ac- 
“ cording to which such Raibeny is to be made.” 

And the said Amendment, so amended, was 
agreed to. 

Then the subsequent Amendments, being read 
a second time, were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Lambton do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships with Amendments ; to which Amendments this 
House doth desire the concurrence of their Lord- 
ships. 


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Notice being taken that the Report which was 
esterday made from the Committee on the Lough 
Swilly and Lough Foyle Drainage Bill, had been 
made without notice having been given in the Private 
Bill Office ; 

A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That the Order made the sanie day, that the 
Bill, with the Amendments, be ingrossed, be dis- 
charged :—And the said Motion was, with leave of 
the House, withdrawn. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Monday next. 


Mr. O'Connell reported from the Committee on 
the Cork and Passage Railway (No. 2.) Bill; That 
they had examined the allegations of the Bill; and 
found the same to be true; and had gone through 
the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration To-morrow, and be printed. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 
intituled, An Act for improving the Harbour of the 
Burgh of Montrose, in the County of Forfar; and 
the same were read, as follow : 

Pr. 2. 1. 15. Leave out “ King’s,” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 

Pr. 5. |. 27. After “ His’ insert “ late.” 

Pr.57. 1.14. Leave out “ His,” and insert “ Her.” 

Pr. 62. 1. 26. Leave out from “ made ” to “ this,” 
and insert “ [here describe.” 


Pr. 70. 1. 8. After “ bridges ”’ insert “ or between 
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the chain bridge and the most westerly point of 





A. 1837. 


Pr. 84. 1.16. Leave out “ His,” and insert “ Her.” 
Pr. 84. |. 19. Leave out “ He,” and insert “ She.” 
Pr. 84. 1. 21. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
* hee.” 

Pr. 84. 1. 29. Leave out “He,” and insert “ She.” 
Pr. 87. 1. 21. Leave out “ His,” and _ insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 88. 1. 2. Leave out “ His,” and insert “ Her.” 
Pr, 88. 1. 17. Leave out “ His Majesty’s,” and 
insert “ the.” 

Pr. 88. 1. 23. Leave out “ His,” and _ insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 88. 1. 25. Leave out “ His,” and _ insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 88. 1. 28. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 88. 1. 34. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 88. 1. 37. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 99. 1. 2. Leave out “ present,” and insert 
“ late.” 

Pr. 99. Is. 2. and 3. After “ Majesty” insert 
“ King William the Fourth.” 

Pr.103. 1.38. Leave out “ His,” and insert “Her.” 
Pr. 104. 1.19. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
i” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Chalmers do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


nourable George Talbot Rice Lord Dynevor, in the 
County of Glamorgan, in Trustees for Sale, and with 
power to make a partition thereof, was read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 


do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Ross do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, with Amendments; to which 
Amendments this House doth desire the concurrence 
of their Lordships. 


firming a Lease granted by the Most noble Henry 
Charles, late Duke of Beaufort, to John Vivian, 
Esquire, of Lands and Hereditaments in the Parish 
of Saint John juata Swansea, in the County of Gla- 
morgan, and also a certain other Lease granted by 
the said Henry Charles, late Duke of Beaufort, and 
the Most noble Henry Duke of Beaufort, by his 
then name of Henry Marquis of Worcester, to John 
Williams, Esquire, and others, of Lands and Here- 
ditaments in the Parishes of Saint John juxta Swan- 
sea, and Llungefelach, in the said County of Gla- 
morgan, was, according to Order, read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Ross do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, with Amendments; to which 
Amendments this House doth desire the concurrence 
of their Lordships. 





the existing piers or quays, to the eastward of the 
said chain bridge.” 
Pr. 70. 1. 18. After “bridges” insert “or between 


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|intituled, An Act to alter the Line of the Grea 


the chain bridge and the most westerly point of | Western Railway, and to amend the Acts relating 
the existing piers or quays, to the eastward of the | thereto; and the same were read, as follow : 


Pr. 1. 1. 3. Leave out “ present,” and insert 


Pr. 84. Ll. 6. Leave out “ His,” and insert “ Her.” | “ Jate.”’ 


Pr. 84. |. 7. Leave out “ His,” and insert “ Her.” | 


Pr. 1. 1. 4. After “ Majesty” insert “ King Wii- 


Pr.84. 1.13. Leave out “His,” and insert “ Her.” |“ liam the Fourth.” 


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Pr. 2. 1.1. Leave out “ King’s,” and insert 
Queen’s.” 

Pr. 9. 1. 16. After “ plans” insert “ and sec- 
tions,” and in the same line, after “ line,” insert 
and levels.” 

Pr. 9. 1. ult. After “ plans ” insert “ sections.” 

Pr. 10. |. 8. After “ made,” insert “ and whereas 
the said maps or plans and sections already de- 
posited, so far as the same are not altered by the 
maps or plans and sections hereafter to be depo- 
sited, and the said maps or plans and sections to | 
be deposited as hereinafter mentioned, are the | 
maps or plans and sections approved of by Par- | 
liament.” 

Pr. 10. 1. 10. After “ plans” insert “ sections.” 

Pr. 10. 1. 14. After “ plans” insert “ and sec- 
tions.” 

Pr. 10. 1. 15. After “ line” insert “ and levels.” 

Pr. 10. 1. 34. After “ plans” insert “ sections.” 

Pr. 11. 1. 2. After “ plans ” insert “ sections.” 

Pr. 11. 1. 10. After “ elsewhere ” insert Clause | “ 





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Cuause (A.) “ And be it further Enacted, That | “ 
it shall not be lawful for the said Company to 

roceed in the execution of the said Railway here- | “ 
inbefore authorized to be made, unless the said 
Company shall have, previously to the commence- 
ment of such work, deposited with the Clerk of 
the Peace of the several counties through which 
the said Railway hereby authorized to be made | 
is intended to pass, a plan and section of all such | 
alterations from the original plan and section, as | 
shall have been approved of by Parliament, on the | “ 
same scale, and containing the same particulars | 
as the original plan and section of the Railway, 
and also with the clerks of the several parishes | «« 
in or through which such alterations shall have 
been authorized to be made, copies or extracts of 
or from such plans and sections as shall relate to 
such parishes respectively ; and all persons inter- | « 
ested shall have liberty to imspect and make | « 
extracts from or copies of the said plans and sec- | « 
tions, or extracts or copies thereof, paying to the | « 
Clerk of the Peace, or the clerk of the parish 
having the custody of such plan and section, or 
of such extract or copy, the sum of One shilling | « 
for every such inspection, and after the rate of | « 
Sixpence for every One hundred words copied | « 
therefrom.” é 

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Crause (B.) “ And be it further Enacted, That | « 
in making the said Railway it shall not be lawful | « 
for the said Company to deviate from the levels | « 
of the said Railway, as referred to the common | « 
datum line described on the section so approved | « 
of by Parliament, and as marked on the same, to | « 
any ‘extent exceeding in any place Five feet, or, in | « 
passing through towns, Two feet, without the con- | « 
sent of the owners, lessees and occupiers of the | « 
land in, through or over which such deviation is! « 
intended to be made, or in case any street or | « 
public carriage-road shall be affected by such de- | « 
viation, then the same shall not be made without | « 
the consent of the trustees or commissioners, or, | « 
if there he no such trustees or commissioners, | « 
without the consent of Two or more Justices of 
the Peace in petty sessions assembled for that! « 
purpose, and acting for the district in which such | « 
street or public carriage-road may be situate, or 
without the consent of the commissioners for any | «&amp; 
public sewers, or of the proprietors of any canal | « 
or navigation affected by such deviation ; and that t 
no increase of the inclination or gradients of the | «. 
said Railway, as denoted by the said section, shall | 
be made in any place to an extent exceeding the , 
rate of Three feet per mile ; and where in any | 
place it is intended to carry the Railway on an |“ 
arch or arches, as marked on the said plan or sec- | 
tion, the same shall be made accordingly ; and | 

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where a tunnel is marked on the said plan or sec- 
tion as intended to be made at any place, the same 
shall be made accordingly, unless the owners, 
lessees and. occupiers of the land in or through 
which such tunnel is intended to be made, shall 
consent that the same shall not be so made: Pro- 
vided nevertheless, That it shall be lawful for the 
said Company, with such consent as aforesaid, 
and not otherwise, to make a tunnel or an arch 
or arches as aforesaid, not marked on the said 
plan or section, so that no such tunnel shall be 
of a greater length than Two hundred yards, and 
that no two tunnels be ata less distance from 
each other than One hundred yards, measured on 
the line of the Railway: Provided always, That 
notice of every petty sessions to be holden for the 
purpose of obtaining such consent as aforesaid 
shall, Fourteen days previous to the holding of 
such petty sessions, be given in some newspaper 
circulating in the county, and also be affixed upon 
the church door of the parish in which such de- 
viation or alteration is intended to be made, or 
if there be no church, some other place to which 
notices are usually affixed: Provided also, That, 
for the purpose of consenting to any such deviation 
from the said sections, and to any tunnelling or 
arching as aforesaid, the word ‘ owners’ shall be 
deemed and taken to mean such persons as are 
herein capacitated to agree for the sale of and to 
convey land for the making of the said Railway ; 
and the consent of such persons, with or without 
the consent of any other persons interested as 
owners in the said lands, shall be deemed and 
taken to be sufficient for such purposes.” 


Criauss (C.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
it shall not be lawful to diminish the radius of 
any curve from what it is shown to be on the plan 
deposited with the Clerk of the Peace, unless such 
radius exceed one mile, nor to diminish it in any 
such case so that it shall become less than One 
mile, nor to diminish any greater radius by more 
than a quarter of a mile, unless where it exceeds 
Two miles, or by more than half a mile, unless 
where it exceeds Three miles, on the said plan.” 


Cxiauss (D.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
it shall be lawful for the said Company, by and 
with the consent in writing of any Two or more 
Justices of the Peace acting for the district where 
the same shall be situate, to stop up, use, enclose 
and alter such roads, streets, footpaths, squares, 
courts, alleys, yards, ways, passages and other 
places, or so much and such parts thereof as may 
be required for the purposes of this or the said 
recited Acts, or which may in consequence of the 
works hereby authorized become useless, and the 
ground or soil of such roads, streets, footpaths, 
squares, courts, alleys, yards, ways, passages and 
places, or such parts of the same as shall be so 
stopped up, shall be and are hereby vested in the 
said Company for the purposes of this and the 
said recited Acts, where the same shall be re- 
quired for the purposes thereof, or otherwise shall 
become the property of the owners ef the lands 
adjoining on each side of the said roads, streets, 
footpaths, squares, courts, alleys, yards, ways, 
passages and other places so to be stopped up, in 
equal moieties: Provided always, That any de- 
cision of Justices in respect to the stopping up of 
any roads, streets, footpaths, squares, courts, 
alleys, yards, ways, passages and other places, 
shall be subject to appeal in like manner as other 
decisions of Justices are rendered subject to ap- 
peal under the provisions of the said recited Act 
of the fifth and sixth William the Fourth.” 

Pr. 16. 1. 6. After “ proper ” insert “ locks.”’ 

Pr. 16. 1. 14. Leave out “ branch,” and insert 
line.” 

Pr. 16, 1. 35. Leave out “ branch,” and insert 
line.” 


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Pr. 20. 1.17. Leave out “ His,” and imsert 
“ Her.” 
Pr. 21. ]. 31. Leave out “ present,” and insert 
“ late,” and in the same line, after “ Majesty,” in- 
sert ““ King William the Fourth.” 
Pr. 23. 1. 13. Leave out “ stables.” 
Pr. 23. 1. 25. Leave out “ with stables.” 
Pr. 24. 1. 14. Leave out “ stables.” 
Pr. 25. 1.19. Leave out “ stables.” 
Pr, 28. |. 4. Leave out “ His,” and insert “ Her.” 
Pr.32. 1.30. Leave out “His,” and insert “Her.” 
Pr. 33. 1. 6. Leave out “ His,” and insert “ Her.” 
Pr. 33. 1. 19. After “‘ or” insert “ other.” 
Pr. 33. 1. 20. Leave out “ other.” 
Pr. 35. 1. 36. Leave out “ late.” 
Pr. 40. 1. 18. Leave out from “ Act” to “ And” 
in Pr, 41. 1. 28., and insert Clauses (E.) and (F.) 
Cxrause (E.) “ And whereas by the said recited 
Act of the sixth year of the reign of his late Ma- 
jesty King William the Fourth, it is enacted that 
the person or corporation for the time being in 
the possession or in the receipt of the rents and 
profits of any lands should, for the purposes of 
that and the said first recited Act, be enabled to 
contract for, sell and convey the same to the said 
Company, and to agree for the amount of any 
compensation for any damage, loss or incon- 
venience to be sustained by reason of the execu- 
tion of that or the said first recited Act; and that 
every contract, sale, conveyance or agreement 
thereafter made with or to the said Company by 
any such person or corporation, should be valid 
and effectual, and that in every case in which the 
amount of the price of any lands, or of any com- 
pensation should be paid into the Bank of Eng- 
land, in the name and with the privity of the 
Accountant General of the Court of Exchequer, 
to be placed to his account to the credit of the 
parties interested in the said lands, in manner 
provided by the said last recited Act, such pay- 
ment, and every contract or agreement in pur- 
suance whereof it was made, should be good to 
all intents and purposes, and the said Company 
should not be bound to see to the application 
thereof: Provided, That such agreement were 
made bond fide and without any fraud or collusion 
between the said Company and the party con- 
tracting; Be it Enacted, That the said recited 
provision shall be and the same is hereby repealed, 
and the said recited Acts shall be deemed, con- 
strued and taken, and all contracts, sales, con- 
veyances and agreements, and payments of pur- 
chase and compensation money under and by 
virtue of the said recited Acts, or either of them, 
after the passing of this Act, shall have such and 
the same effect as if the said recited provision had 
not formed part of or been inserted in the said 
last recited Act.” 
Ciause (F.) “ And whereas by the said first re- 
‘ cited Act, the several proprietors for the time being 
of the said undertaking are empowered, whether 
before or after any call paid in respect of any 
shares held by them respectively, to pay in ad- 
vance to such person as the said directors shall 
appoint, the respective sums of money by them 
respectively subscribed for, or such part or pro- 
portion thereof as may be wanting over and above 
the amount, if any, actually paid in respect of such 
shares, to make up the full sum of One hundred 
pounds in respect of each such share; and the | 
said Company are thereby required to pay interest 
at such rate, not exceeding Four pounds for every | 
One hundred pounds by the year, upon the prin- | 
cipal monies so paid in advance as aforesaid, as | 
the subscriber paying such sum in advance, and | 
the directors for the time being of the said Com- | 
pany may agree upon ; and whereas it is expedient | 
that the said Company should be enabled to in- | 
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to Five pounds per cent. ; Beit therefore Enacted, 
That it shall and may be lawful for the said Com- 
pany, and they are hereby empowered to pay in- 
terest, at such rate, not exceeding the rate of Five 
pounds for every One hundred pounds by the year, 
upon the principal monies which shall have been 
paid in advance in respect of any shares of and in 
the said undertaking, under the power for that pur- 
pose in the said first recited Act contained, as the 
subscriber paying such sum in advance, and the 
said Company, may agree upon.” 

The Amendments, as far as the Amendments 
in Pr. 40. 1. 18., being read a second time, were 
agreed to. 

The Amendments in Pr. 40. 1. 18., being read a 
second time, and it appearing that the said Amend- 
ments were to render the Bill conformable to the 
usual principle adopted with regard to the equality 
of Tolls to be taken on all parts of the Railway; 
the same were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Jervis do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Great Western 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, Railway Bill 
intituled, An Act to enable the Great Western Rail- (P#4¢ingtn.) 


way Company to extend the line of such Railway, 
and for other purposes relating thereto; and the 
same were read, as follow : 

Pr. 1. 1.3. Leave out “ present,” and insert 
“ Jate,” and in the same line, after “ Majesty,” 
insert “ King William the Fourth.” 

Pr. 1. 1. ult. Leave out “ King’s,” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 

Pr. 4. 1. 14. After “ made” insert “ and the 
new road so to be formed as aforesaid shall be- 
come and be absolutely vested in the Commis- 
sioners of the Metropolis Turnpike Roads north of 
the Thames.” 

Pr. 4. 1. 19. After “the” insert “ said,” and 
in Is. 19. and 20. leave out from “ commissioners ” 
to “im” im]. 21. 

Pr. 4. 1. 25. After “ plan” insert “and section.” 

Pr. 4. 1. 26. After “ line” insert “ and levels.” 

Pr. 5. 1. 3. After “ plan” insert “ section.” 

Pr. 5. 1. 4. After “ deposited ” insert “ such 
plan and section being the plan and section ap- 
“ proved of by Parliament.” 

Pr. 5. 1.12. After “ plan” insert “ section.” 

Pr. 5. 1.19. After “ plan” insert “ section.” 

Pr. 7. 1. 16. After “ reference” insert Clauses 
(A.) and (B.) 

Crause (A.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
in making the said Railway it shall not be lawful 
for the said Company to deviate from the levels 
of the said Railway as referred to the common 
datum line described on the section so approved 
of by Parliament, and as marked on the same, 
to any extent exceeding in any place Five feet, or, 
in passing through towns, Two feet, without the 
consent of the owners, lessees and occupiers of 
the land in, through or over which such deviation 
is intended to be made ; or in case any street or 
public carriage-road shall be affected by such 
deviation, then the same shall not be made with- 
out the consent of the trustees or commissioners, 
or, if there be no such trustees or commissioners, 
‘ without the consent of two or more Justices of 
the Peace, in petty sessions assembled for that 
purpose, and acting for the district in which such 
street or public carriage-road may be situate, or 
without the consent of the commissioners for any 
public sewers, or of the proprietors of any canal 
or navigation affected by such deviation ; and that 
no increase in the inclination or gradients of the 
said Railway as denoted by the said section, shall 
be made in any place to an extent exceeding the 
rate of Three feet per mile; and where in any 

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place it is intended to carry the Railway on an 
arch or arches, as marked on the said plan or 
section, the same shall be made accordingly ; and 
where a tunnel is marked on the said plan or 
section, as intended to be made at any place, the 
same shall be made accordingly, unless the owners, 
lessees and occupiers of the land in or through 
which such tunnel is intended to be made shall 
consent that the same shall not be so made: 
Provided nevertheless, That it shall be lawful for 
the said Company, with such consent as aforesaid, 
and not otherwise, to make a tunnel or an arch 
or arches as aforesaid, not marked on the said 
plan or section, so that no such tunnel shall be 
of a greater length than Two hundred yards, and 
that no two tunnels be at a less distance from 
each other than One hundred yards, measured on 
the line of the Railway: Provided always, That 
notice of every petty sessions to be holden for the 
purpose of obtaining such consent as aforesaid, 
shall, Fourteen days previous to the holding of 
such petty sessions, be given in some newspaper 
circulating in the county, and also be affixed upon 
the church door of the parish in which such 
deviation or alteration is intended to be made, or, 
if there be no church, some other place to which 
notices are usually affixed: Provided also, That 
for the purpose of consenting to any such devia- 
tion from the said sections, and to any tunnelling 
or arching as aforesaid, the word ‘ owners’ shall 
be deemed and taken to mean such persons as 
are herein capacitated to agree for the sale of and 
to convey land for the making of the said Railway; 
and the consent of such persons, with or without 
the consent of any other persons interested as 
owners in the said lands, shall be deemed and 
taken to be sufficient for such purposes.” 

Crause (B.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
it shall not be lawful to diminish the radius of 
any curve from what it is shown to be on the plan 
deposited with the Clerk of the Peace, unless such 
radius exceed One mile, nor to diminish it in any 
such case, so that it shall become less than One 
mile, nor to diminish any greater radius by more 
than a quarter of a mile, unless where it exceeds 
Two miles, or by more than half a mile, unless 
where it exceeds Three miles, on the said plan.” 

Pr. 11. 1. 29. After “ whereas” insert “ certain 
portions of.” 

Pr. 11. 1. 34. Leave out from “ thereof” to 
now” in |. 36. 

Pr. 12. 1. 12. In the interlineation : 

L. 3. Leave out “ Thirty,” and insert “ Twenty- 
three.” 

Pr. 13. 1. penult. After “ footpath ” insert 
which shall thereupon revert to the owners of the 
lands on either side thereof.” 

Pr. 17. 1. 9. After “ architect ” insert Clause 


Cuausz (C.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
the said Company shall, and they are hereby re- 
quired, at their own expense, to supply such 
additional police, under the direction of the Com- 
missioners of Police, or pay for such additional 
number of policemen as the said Company may 
find necessary for the safety, convenience and 
protection of the public by reason of the construc- 
tion of the works within the said parish of Pad- 
dington, until the opening of the said Railway for 
the conveyance of passengers thereon.” 

Pr. 18. 1. 15. After “ Act” insert Clause (D.) 

Cxause (D.) “ Provided always, and be it fur- 
ther Enacted, That nothing in this Act contained 
shall extend to prejudice, diminish, alter or take 
away any of the rights, privileges, powers or au- 
thorities vested in the Birmingham, Bristol and 
Thames Junction Railway Company, but all the 
rights, privileges and franchises of the said Com- 
pany, and also all such powers and authorities in 
the Act relating thereto, as if this Act had not 
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been passed, are hereby saved and reserved to 
such Company, save in so far as the same may be 
in any manner affected by any agreement already 
subsisting, or hereafter to be made, between them 
and the said Great Western Railway Company.” 

Pr. 22. 1. 28. After “ Company ” insert Clauses 


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Ciauss (E.) “ Provided always, and be it fur- 
ther Enacted, That nothing in this Act contained 
shall extend to authorize or empower the said 
Railway Company to raise, sink, alter, or in any 
manner to interfere with any main or pipe, or 
stop-cock, plug or branch laid down or fixed or 
set up by the Company of Proprietors of the West 
Middlesex Waterworks, or by any other water- 
works company in the district through which the 
Railway is intended to pass, unless Fourteen days’ 
notice in writing of the intention of the said Rail- 
way Company to raise or to sink lower or alter 
the position or course of or otherwise to interfere 
with any such main, pipe, stop-cock, plug or 
branch, shall have been given to the said West 
Middlesex Waterworks Company or other the 
company to whom such main, pipe, stop-cock, 
plug or branch may belong, and after and not- 
withstanding such notice, then only to such extent 
and degree as shall be requisite and necessary for 
the purpose of enabling the said Railway Com- 
pany to carry into effect the provisions of this 
Act, and not further, or otherwise; and the said 
Railway Company shall then, with all convenient 
speed, at their own costs, charges and expenses, 
do, or cause to be done, all such works and repairs, 
and every other act and measure necessary for 
completing and perfecting any main or pipe, stop- 
cock, plug or branch which shall have been so 
raised, sunk or altered, or interfered with as afore- 
said; and in case the said Railway Company 
shall, by reason of the construction of these 
works, or otherwise, occasion any interruption to 
the supply of water from the mains of any water- 
works company with which they may interfere 
in the progress of such works, they shall forfeit 
and pay to any persons who may sue for the same, 
the sum of One hundred pounds for every day 
during which such supply shall have been inter- 
rupted ; and the said Railway Company shall pay 
and reimburse unto the said waterworks compan 
to whom any main, pipe, stop-cock, plug or re 
interfered with by them may belong, or otherwise 
indemnify them from and against all penalties, 
charges, losses, costs, damages and expenses 
whatsoever, which they shall or may necessarily 
incur or be put unto by reason of such alteration 
of or interference with any of their said works, 
pursuant to the provisions of this Act, and the 
same shall and may be recovered, with full costs 
of suit, by action of debt or on the case, in any of 
Her Majesty’s Courts of Record at Westminster : 
Provided always, That whenever the said intended 
Railway, or the piers of any viaduct to be con- 
structed for the purpose of the said Railway, shall 
pass over or be upon the pipes, mains or other 
works of the said West Middlesex Waterworks 
Company, or of any other waterworks company, 
then the said Railway Company shall build and 
for ever after keep in repair one or more culvert 
or culverts of sufficient dimensions, under the 
inspection of, and to the satisfaction of the en- 
gineer for the time being of the said West Mid- 
dlesex Waterworks Company, or other the Com- 
pany whose mains, pipes or other works are so 
interfered with, for the purpose of laying small 
mains or pipes therein.” 

CrauseE (F.) “ And be it further Enacted , That 
nothing in this Act contained shall extend to 

revent the said Company of Proprietors of the 
West Middlesex Waterworks, or any other Water- 
works company now established, their or any of 
their servants, workmen or agents, from raising or 

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sinking, laying down, repairing or altering any 
main or pipe, stop-cock, plug or branch which 


now is upon or under or crossed by the line of | 


the said intended Railway, or upon or under an 

land or ground in the occupation of the said Rail- 
way Company, or from laying down, fixing or 
setting up any new and additional main, pipe, 
stop-cock, plug or branch which may be necessary 
for the purpose of supplying with water any part 
of the districts now authorized to be supplied by 
such waterworks company, or for the more per- 
fectly or completely supplying with water all or 
any of the districts which now are or which have 
at any time been supplied with water by them: 
Provided always, That such additional mains, pipes, 
stop-cocks, plugs and branches shall be carried 
over or under the said Railway by or through 
such bridges and culverts as may be then con- 
structed, where the same may be practicable: 
Provided also, That before entering upon or in- 
terfering with any of the lands or works of the 


‘ Great Western Railway Company for any of the 


purposes aforesaid, the said Waterworks Company 
shall give to the said Railway Company Fourteen 
days’ notice of their intention so to do; and all 
works of the said Waterworks Company shall be 
done under the superintendence of the engineer 
for the time being of the said Railway, and in 
such manner as to do as little injury or damage, 
and to occasion as little obstruction to the said 
Railway, or the works connected therewith, as 
possible.” 

Crause (G.) “ Provided always, and be it fur- 
ther Enacted, That nothing in this Act contained 
shall extend, or be deemed or construed to extend, 
to alter, diminish, prejudice, affect or take away 
any of the rights, privileges, powers and autho- 
rities vested in the said Company of the Pro- 
prietors of the West Middlesex Waterworks. ’ 

Pr. 24. 1. 16. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
Her.” 

Pr. 32. 1. 2. Leave out “ His,” and insert “ Her.”’ 

Pr. 32. ls.3 and 4. After “ Westminster” insert 


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that the person or corporation for the time being 
in the possession or in the receipt of the rents and 
profits of any lands should, for the purposes of 
that and the said first recited Act, be enabled to 
contract for, sell and convey the same to the said 
Company, and to agree for the amount of any 
compensation for any damage, loss or inconve- 
nience to be sustained by reason of the execution 
of that or the said first recited Act; and that every 
contract, sale, conveyance or agreement thereafter 
made with or to the said Company, by any such 
person or corporation, should be valid and effec- 
tual, and that in every case in which the amount 
of the price of any lands, or of any compensation, 
should be paid into the Bank of England, in the 
name and with the privity of the Accountant- 
General of the Court of Exchequer, to be placed 
to his account, to the credit of the parties inter- 
ested in the said lands, in manner provided by the 
said last recited Act, such payment, and every 
contract or agreement in pursuance whereof it was 
made, should be good to all intents and purposes ; 
and the said Company should not be bound to 
see to the application thereof, provided that such 
agreement were made bond fide, and without any 
fraud or collusion between the said Company and 
the party contracting; BE it Enacted, That the 
said recited provision shall be and the same is 
hereby repealed ; and the said recited Acts shall 
be deemed, construed and taken, and all contracts, 
sales, conveyances and agreements, and payments 
of purchase and compensation money under and 
by virtue of the said recited Acts, or either of 
them, after the passing of this Act, shall have 
such and the same effect as if the said recited 

rovision had not formed part of or been inserted 
m the said last recited Act.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 


were agreed to. 


Ordered, That Mr. Jervis do carry the Bill to the 


Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
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Criause(H.) “ Provided always, and be it further 
“ Enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall 
‘ = or hinder the respective owners of the 
“ Jands adjoining to the said proposed new turnpike- 
road from substituting, at any time or times here- 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Castle Eden 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, yn ee 
intituled, An Act for making and maintaining a Rail- cone 
way to connect the Great North of England, Clarence Junction) 


and Hartlepool Railways, in the County of Durham; Railway Bil. 


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after, under the inspection and to the approbation 
of the general surveyor for the time being of the 
said Metropolis Turnpike Roads, sufficient retain- 
ing walls or buildings, in the place of the embank- 
ments and slopes on the outer edge of the foot- 
paths of the said road, and upon completion of 
such retaining walls or buildings, to such appro- 
bation as aforesaid, from removing the railings 
and fences at the outer edge of the said footpaths, 
if the same shall become necessary by reason of 
such walls or buildings, and thereafter from having 
access to the said proposed new road from any 
buildings to be erected contiguous to the same, or, 
until the said buildings or retaining walls shall be 
made, from using or cultivating the said embank- 
ments and slopes on the outer sides of the said 
railings, doing no injury thereby to the said pro- 
posed new road, or the fences, railings, embank- 
ments or slopes thereof; and that nothing herein 
contained shall be construed to extend to divest 
the said proprietors of the ownership of the ground 
on the outer sides of the said railings or fences.” 
Pr. 34. 1. 23. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
Her.” 
Pr. 41. 
Pr. 44. 
railway.” 
Pr. 45. 1. 4. After “ Acton” insert Clause (1.) 
Ciause (I.) “ And whereas, by the said recited 


22. Leave out “ late.” 
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Pr. 1. 1.19. Leave out “ King’s,” and insert 
Queen’s.” 

Pr. 8. 1. ult. Leave out “ and levels.” 

Pr. 9. 1. 1. Leave out “ and section.” 

Pr. 10. 1. 5. Leave out from “ Act” to “ And,” 


in Pr. 11. 1.19, and insert Clauses (A.), (B.) and (C.) 


Criauss (A.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
it shall not be lawful for the said Company to 
proceed in the execution of the said Railway 
hereinbefore authorized to be made, unless the 
said Cumpany shall have, previously to the com- 
mencement of such work, deposited with the Clerk 
of the Peace of the several counties through which 
the said Railway hereby authorized to be made is 
intended to pass, a plan and section of all such 
alterations from the original plan and section as 
shall have been approved of by Parliament, on 
the same scale, and containing the same particu- 
lars as the original plan and section of the Rail- 
way, and also with the clerks of the several 
parishes in England, the schoolmasters of the 
several parishes in Scotland, and the postmasters 
of the post towns in or nearest to such parishes in 
Ireland, in or through which such alterations shall 
have been authorized to be made, copies or extracts 
of or from such plans and sections as shall relate 
to such parishes respectively; and all persons 
interested shall have liberty to inspect and make 
extracts from or copies of the said plans and sec- 
tions, or extracts or copies thereof, paying to the 

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Clerk of the peace, or the clerk, schoolmaster or | 
postmaster of the parish having the custody of | 
such plan and section, or of such extract or copy, 
the sum of One shilling for every such inspection, 
and after the rate of Sixpence for every one hun- 
dred words copied therefrom.” 

Criause (B.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
in making the said Railway it shall not be lawful 
for the said Company to deviate from the levels of 
the said Railway,as referred to the common datum 
line described on the section so approved of by 
Parliament, and as marked on the same, to any 
extent exceeding in any place Five feet, or, in 
passing through towns, Two feet, without the 
consent of the owners, lessees and occupiers of the 
land in, through or over which such deviation is 
intended to be made; or in case any street or 
public carriage-road shall be affected by such 
deviation, then the same shall not be made without 
the consent of the trustees or commissioners, or, if 
there be no such trustees or commissioners, with- 
out the consent of Two or more Justices of the 
Peace in petty sessions assembled for that purpose, 
and acting for the district in which such street or 
public carriage-road may be situate, or without 
the consent of the commissioners for any public 
sewers, or of the proprietors of any canal or navi- 
gation affected by such deviation; and that no in- 
crease in the inclination or gradients of the said 
Railway, as denoted by the said section, shall be 
made in any place to an extent exceeding the rate 
of Three feet per mile; and where in any place it is 
intended to carry the Railway on an arch or arches, 
as marked on the said plan, the same shall be 
made accordingly ; and where a tunnel is marked 
on the said plan or section, as intended to be made 
at any place, the same shall be made accordingly, 
unless the owners, lessees and occupiers of the 
land in or through which such tunnel is intended 
to be made, shall consent that the same shall not 
be so made: Provided nevertheless, That it shall 
be lawful for the said Company, with such consent 
as aforesaid, and not otherwise, to make a tunnel, 
or an arch or arches, as aforesaid, not marked on 
the said plan or section, so that no such tunnel 
shall be of a greater length than Two hundred 
yards, and that no two tunnels be at a less dis- 
tance from each other than One hundred yards, 
measured on the line of the Railway: Provided 
always, That notice of every petty sessions to be 
holden for the purpose of obtaining such consent 
as aforesaid, shall, Fourteen days previous to the 
holding of such petty sessions, be given in some 
newspaper circulating in the county, and also be 
affixed upon the church-door of the parish in which 
such deviation or alteration is intended to be made, 
or, if there be no church, some other place to which 
notices are usually aflixed: And provided also, 
that for the purpose of consenting to any such 
deviation from the said sections, and to any tun- 
nelling or arching as aforesaid, the word ‘ owners’ 
shall be deemed and taken to mean such persons 
as are herein capacitated to agree for the sale of 
and to convey land for the making of the said 
Railway ; and the consent of such persons, with 
or without the consent of any other persons inter- 
ested as owners in the said lands, shall be deemed 
and taken to be sufficient for such purposes.” 

Crause (C.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 





it shall not be lawful to diminish the radius of any 


30° June. 565 


Pr. 11. 1. 23. After “ Majesty” insert “ King 
“ William the Fourth.” 
Pr. 21.1.8. Leave out “a,” and insert “ of.” 
Pr. 23.1.20. Leave out “ present,” and insert “late.” 
Pr. 27. 1.10. After “ which” insert “ a.” 
Pr. 31.1.10. Leave out “ lane,” and insert “ line.” 
Pr. 31. 1.28. Leave out “ present, and insert 
“ late,” and in the same line, after “ Majesty,” in- 
sert “ King William the Fourth.” 
Pr. 35. 1. 4. After “road” insert “ of.” 
Pr. 35. 1. 27. After “ bridge” insert Clause (D.) 
Cravusk (D.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
wherever the level of any turnpike-road or public 
carriage-road shall be altered by means of the 
said Railway, the inclination of such road, 
turnpike, shall not exceed One foot in Thirty fee 
and if highway, shall not exceed One foot m 
“ Twenty feet.” 
Pr. 38. 1. 36. Leave out “ His,” and insert “ Her.” 
Pr. 39. 1.35. Leave out “ His,” and insert “ Her.” 
Pr. 47. |. 1. Leave out “ His,” and insert “ Her,” 
and in the same line, leave out from “ Majesty” to 
“ intituled,” in ls. 2 and 3, and insert “ Queen Vic- 
“ toria.” 
Pr. 64, 1.31. After “and” insert “ the other by.” 
Pr. 78. 1. 38. Leave out “ His,” and insert “ Her.” 
Pr. 80. 1. 21. Leave out “ His,” and insert “ Her.” 
Pr. 81. 1. 20. Leave out “His,” and insert “ Her.” 
Pr. 86. 1.1. Leave out “ His,” and insert “ Her.” 
Pr. 88. 1.3. Leave out “or,” and insert “ of.” 


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Pr. 106. 1. 32. Leave out “ His,” and insert | 


“ Her.” 
Pr. 106. 1. 38. Leave out “King William the 
Fourth,” and insert “ Queen Victoria.” 
Pr. 115. 1. 3. After “ or” insert “ in case the said 
Company.” 
Pr. 118. 1.35. Leave out “ His,’ and msert 
“ Her.” 
Pr. i123. 1.13. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
Her.” 
Pr. 147. 1. 24. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 
Pr. 174. 1. 29. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 
Pr. 183. ls. 3 and 4. After “ carriage” insert 
respecting any such carriage.” 
Pr. 191. 1. 1. Leave out “ His,” and _ insert 
“ Her.” 
Pr. 213. 1. 27. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 
Pr. 213. 1. 45. Leave out “ His,” and _ insert 
“ Her.” 
Pr. 213. 1. 46. Leave out from “ Majesty” to 
“ intituled,” in |. 47., and insert “ Queen Victoria.” 
Pr. 214. 1. 8. Leave out “ His,” and _ insert 
«“ Her.” 
Pr. 214. 1.15. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 
Pr. 214. 1. 16. Leave out from “ Majesty” to 
“ jntituled,” in 1]. 17., and insert “ Queen Victoria.” 
Pr. 215. 1.10. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 
Pr. 217. 1. 11. Leave out from “ reasonable” to 
“ And,” in Pr. 218. 1. 25, and insert Clause (E.) 
Cravuse (E.) “And be it further Enacted, That 
“ it shall be lawful for any Two Justices of the Peace 
“ acting within their jurisdiction, and they are here- 
“ by required, to appoint such fit and proper persons 
“ as they shall think proper to be special constables 
“ within the said Railway and other works, and 


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curve from what it is shown to be on the plan |“ 
deposited with the Clerk of the Peace, unless such | “ 
radius exceed One mile, nor to diminish it in any |“ 
such case so that it shall become less than One | “ 
mile, nor to diminish any greater radius by more | “ 
than a quarter of a mile, unless where it exceeds | “ 
Two miles, or by more than half a mile, unless |“ 
where it exceeds Three miles, on the said plan.” |“ 
Pr. 11. 1, 22. Leave out “ present,” and insert | “ 
late.” 4 
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every or any part thereof; and every person so 
appointed shall make a solemn declaration, to be 
administered by any One Justice of the Peace, duly 
to execute the office of a constable for the said 
premises; and every person so appointed, and 
having made such declaration as aforesaid, shall 
have power to act as a constable for the preserva- 
tion of the peace, and for the security of persons 
and property against felonies and other unlawful 
acts, within the limits of the said premises, and 

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Slamannan 
Railway Bill. 


566 30° Junie. 


“ within half a mile therefrom, and shall have, use, | 
“ exercise and enjoy all such powers, authorities, | 


“ protections and privileges for the apprehending 
“ offenders, as well by night as by day, and for 
“ doing all acts, matters and things for the preven- 
“ tion, discovery and prosecution of felonies and other 
“ offences, and for the preservation of the peace, as 
“ constables duly appomted now have by the laws 
“ and statutes of this kingdom; and it shall be 
“ lawful for any Two Justices to dismiss or remove 
“ any such constable from his office of constable, 
“ and upon every such dismissal or removal, all 
“ powers, authorities, protections and privileges, by 
“ virtue of such appointment as aforesaid, vested in 
“ any person so dismissed or removed, shall wholly 
“ cease ; and every person so appointed by such 
“ Justices as aforesaid shall, during such time as he 
“ shall act as constable for the purposes aforesaid, 
“ receive from the said Company such salary as the 
“ said Justices shall appoint, and such salary shall 
be payable at such times and in such manner as 
the said Justices shall appoint, and shall be reco- 
verable in the same manner as damages to a small 
amount are by the said recited Act directed to be 
“ recovered.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Wilson Patten do carry the 
Bill to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this 
House hath agreed to the Amendments made by 
their Lordships. 


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The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 
intituled, An Act to alter, amend and enlarge the 
powers of an Act for making the Slamannan Rail- 
way, passed in the sixth year of his present Majesty, 
and to enable the Slamannan Railway Company to 
make and maintain a Branch to Bathgate, in the 
County of Linlithgow ; and the same were read, 
as follow : 

Pr. 1. i. 3. Leave out “ present,’ and insert 
“ late.” 

Pr. 2. 1. 3. Leave out “ King’s,” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 

Pr. 3. |. 16. Leave out “ present,” and insert 
“ late.” 

Pr. 4. |. 32. After “ shall” msert “ not.” 

Pr. 4. 1. 37. Leave out “ not.” 

Pr. 4. |. 38. After “ line” insert “ nor to de- 
‘ viate at all after Two years from the passing of 
“ this Act.” 

Pr. 5. 1. 31. After “same” insert Clauses (A.), 
(B.) and (C.) 

Cravse (A.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
“ it shall not be lawful for the said Company to 
“ proceed in the execution of the said branch Rail- 
“* way hereinbefore authorized to be made, unless 
“ the said Company shall have, previously to the 
“ commencement of such work, deposited with the 
“ Clerk of the Peace of the several counties through 
“ which the said branch Railway hereby authorized 
“ to be made, is intended to pass, a plan and sec- 
“ tion of all such alterations from the original plan 
“ and section as shall have been approved of by 
“ Parliament, on the same scale and containing the 
“ same particulars as the original plan and section 
“ of the Railway; and also with the clerks of the 
“* several parishes in England, the schoolmasters of 
“ the several — in Scotland, and the post- 
“ masters of the post towns in or nearest to such 
parishes in Ireland, in or through which such 
“ alterations shall have been authorized to be made, 
“* copies or extracts of or from such plans and sec- 
“ tions as shall relate to such parishes respectively ; 
“ and all persons interested shall have liberty to 
“ inspect and make extracts from or copies of the 
said plans and sections, or extracts or copies 
“ thereof, paying to the Clerk of the Peace, or the 
“ clerk, schoolmaster or postmaster of the parish, 


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having the custody of such plan and section or 
of such extract or copy, the sum of One shilling 
for every such imspection, and after the rate of 
Sixpence for every One hundred words copied 
therefrom.” 

Crause (B.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
in making the said branch Railway, it shall not 
be lawful to the said Company to deviate from the 
levels of the same, as referred to the common 
datum line described on the section so approved 
of by Parliament, and as marked on the same, to 
any extent exceeding in any place Five feet, or, 
in passing through towns, Two feet, without the 
consent of the owners, lessees and occupiers of 
the land in, through or over which such deviation 
is intended to be made ; or in case any street or 
public carriage-road shall be affected by such 
deviation, then the same shall not be made with- 
out the consent of the trustees or commissioners, 
or, if there be no such trustees or commissioners, 
without the consent of Two or more Justices of the 
Peace in petty sessions assembled for that pur- 
pose, and acting for the district in which such 
street or public carriage-road may be situate, or 
without the consent of the commissioners for any 
public sewers, or of the proprietors of any canal 
or navigation affected by such deviation; and 
that no increase in the inclination or gradients of 
the said branch Railway, as denoted by the said 
section, shall be made in any place to an extent 
exceeding the rate of ‘Three feet per mile; and 
where in any place it is intended to carry the 
Railway on an arch or arches, as marked on the 
said plan or section, the same shall be made ac- 
cordingly ; and where a tunnel is marked on the 
said plan or section, as intended to be made at 
any place, the same shall be made accordingly, 
unless the owners, lessees and occupiers of the 
land in or through which such tunnel is intended 
to be made, shall consent that the same shall not 
be so made; Provided nevertheless, That it shall 
be lawful for the said Company, with such consent 
as aforesaid, and not otherwise, to make a tunnel, 
or an arch or arches as aforesaid, not marked on the 
said plan or section, so that no such tunnel shall 
be of a greater length than Two hundred yards, 
and that no two tunnels be at a less distance from 
each other than One hundred yards, measured on 
the line of the Railway: Provided always, That 
notice of every petty sessions to be holden for the 
purpose of obtaining such consent as aforesaid, 
shall, Fourteen days previous to the holding of 
such petty sessions, be given in some newspaper 
circulating in the county, and also be affixed upon 
the church door of the parish in which such de- 
viation or alteration is intended to be made, or, if 
there be no church, some other place to which 
notices are usually affixed: And provided also, 
That for the purpose of consenting to any such 
deviation from the said sections, and to any 
tunnelling or arching as aforesaid, the word 
‘owners’ shall be deemed and taken to mean 
such persons as are herein capacitated to agree for 
the sale of and to convey land fer the making of 
the said Railway ; and the consent of such per- 


‘ sons, with or without the consent of any other 


persons interested as owners in the said lands, 
shall be deemed and taken to be sufficient for 
such purposes.” 

Crause (C.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
it shall not be lawful to diminish the radius of 
any curve from what it is shown to be on the 
plan deposited with the Clerk of the Peace, unless 
such radius exceed One mile, nor to diminish it 
in any such case so that it shall become less than 
One mile, nor to diminish any greater radius by 
more than a quarter of a mile unless where it 
exceeds Two miles, or by more than half a mile 
unless where it exceeds Three miles, on the said 


plan.” 
Pr. 6. 





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India Revenues. 


1 Vicroriz. 


Pr. 6.1. 22. After 
“ highway.” 

Pr. 6.1. 24, After 
“ highway.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second 
time, were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Hindley do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
an Account of all Monies supplied from the Re- 
venues of India, since the Return made to the Order 
of the House of the 7th July 1836, towards the pay- 
ment of Expenses in England, chargeable on those 
Revenues ; particularizing (as before) monthly and 
annually :—1. The Amount of Bills drawn by the 
Court of Directors on the several Governments of 
India, in separate Accounts of each Presidency, for 
Monies paid into the London Treasury of the East 
India Company, with the Rates of Exchange at 
which such Bills were issued :—2. The Amount of 
Remittances, in separate Accounts, made by the 
several Governments of India, and by the East India 
Company’s Agents in China, to the Court of Direc- 
tors ; specifying the Dates of Remittances, as advised 
in the Registers received from India; and the Dates 
when the same were received into the London Trea- 
sury ; whether the due payment of these Remittances 
were protected by the hypothecation of Goods, or 
by any other Security ; with the Rates of Exchange 
at which such Remittances were made :—3. The 
Amount of Bills drawn by the Eust India Company’s 
Agents in China on the several Governments of 
India, with the Rates of Exchange at which such 
Bills were issued at Canton :—also, an Account of 
Remittances from Jndia or China since the com-: 
mencement of the present Charter, in Silk or any 
other description of Goods; specifying the Invoice 
Cost in Indian currency and in British sterling 
money ; with a Statement of the Net Proceeds rea- 
lized m London :—also, an Account of any Remit- 
tances received into the London Treasury of the 
East India Company, in repayment of Advances 
made in India, on account of Her Majesty’s Go- 
vernment, and also made applicable towards the 
payment of Expenses in England chargeable on the 
Revenues of India. 


“ road ”’ insert “ or other 


“ road ” insert “ or other 


Petitions from Dingwall ;—and, Linlithgow, pray- 
ing that the Prisons (Scotland) Bill, may pass into a 
law,—were presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 


upon the Table. 


30° Junie. 


567 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to take London and 
into further consideration the Report which upon the 2reenwich 
7th day of June last, was made from the Committee (No, 2.) Bill. 
on the London and Greenwich Railway (No. 2.) Bill ; 
printed Copies of the Bill having been delivered at 
the door upon Tuesday last ; and the Amendments 
were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 





Ordered, That the Select Committee on the High- Highway Rates 
| way Rates Bill, have Power to report their obser- Bill. 

| vations thereupon to the House ; together with the No. 457. 

| Minutes of the Evidence taken before them. 

| Mr. Shaw Lefevre reported from the said Select 
| Committee ; and to whom several Petitions were re- 
| ferred ; That they had considered the matters to them 
_referred ; and had directed him to make a Report 
thereof to the House, together with the Minutes of 
the Evidence taken before them ; and that the Com- 
mittee had examined the allegations of the Bill, and 
found the same to be true; and had gone through 
the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

| Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, together 
| with the Report from the Committee, and the Mi- 
‘nutes of Evidence, be printed. 





A Petition of Members of the Popular Educa- National 
tional Association, praying for the establishment of Education. 
a System of National Education, such as will not ex- 
clude any class of the community, but include all 
who desire to partake of the benefits which it would 
necessarily produce, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


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} 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Brighton, praying London and 
that the London and Brighton Railway Bill (Ren- a 
nie’s Line), may pass into a law, was presented, and (jennie’sLine.) 


read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The House proceeded to take into further con- London and 
sideration the Report which was yesterday made 0 ose 
from the Committee on the London and Brighton (Renniz’s Line.) 
Railway Bill (Rennie’s Line); printed Copies of the 
Bill having been delivered at the door this day ; and 
the Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed. 


Petitions from Athy ;—and, Fourmilewater ; pray- Government of 
ing the House to support Her Majesty’s present !reland. 
Ministers in their government of Jreland,—were 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 


Internal Com- 
munication, 


No. 456. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee appointed to | Table. 
consider whether the present amount of Taxation 
collected on Internal Communication and various 
modes of travelling may not be levied by a more 
just and equitable apportionment; and to report 
their observations thereupon to the House, have 
Power to report the Minutes of the Evidence taken 
before them. 

Mr. Gillon reported from the said Select Com- 
mittee; That they had considered the matters to them 
referred ; and had directed him to make a Report 
thereof to the House, together with the Minutes of | By j#qin in the first Six months in each year, 1835, 
the Evidence taken before them. — 1836 and 1837 :—Of the Official Value of Imports 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; | into Great Britain in the first Six months in each 
and be printed. | year, 1835, 1836 and 1837:—Of the Official and 

Petitions from Operative Broad Silk Weavers of | Declared Value of each of the following Articles of 
Spitalfields ;—and, the Chairman of a meeting of British Produce and Manufactures exported from 
Hand-loom Weavers of Glasgow, complaining of | Great Britain in the first Six months in each year, 
distress from want of employment; and praying | 1835, 1836 and 1837 ; viz. Brass and Copper; Cot- 
relief,—were presented, and read; and ordered to | ton Manufactures ; Cotton Yarn ; Hardware and 
lie upon the Table. Cutlery; Iron and Steel ; Lead and Shot; Tin; 

Ordered, That the Petitions be printed. Linen Manufactures; Silk Manufactures ; Woollen 
Manufactures :—And, of the Amount of ad-valorem 
Duty paid at the Customs on British Produce and 
Manufactures exported from Great Britain in the 
first Six months in each year, 1835, 1836 and 1837. 

4c4 A petition 


A Petition of Session Clerks in the Presbytery of Registration of 
Stirling, praying that the Registration of Births, &amp;c. ; Births, &amp;e. ; 
and, Clandestine Marriages (Scotland) Bills, ma Hsing ers 
and, Ulandestine i ae Y tine Marriages 
not pass into law, was presented, and read ; and (Scotland) 
ordered to lie upon the Table. Bills. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House,— Imports and 
Returns of the Official and Declared Value of British Exports. 
Produce and Manufactures exported from Grreat 





Hand-loom 
eavers, 


Cora Laws, A Petition of Inhabitants of Arbroath, praying 


for the repeal of the Corn Laws, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
VoL. 92. 








Poor Law Act, 


Private Bill 
Committees, 


Recovery of 
Tenements Bill, 


Tithes 
(Ireland. ) 


‘Tithes 
(Ireland) Bill, 


Public Acts 
and Bills. 


Ordnance 
Board (Naval 
Officers.) 
No. 458. 
Consistorial 
Courts 


(Scotland.) 
No. 459. 
East India 
Company. 
No. 460. 
Tobacco. 
No. 461, 
Newspapers 
(Lreland.) 
No. 462. 
Farming Stock, 
No. 463. 
Agriculture. 


No. 464. 


Municipal 
Corporations 
(Scotland) Bii), 


Internal Com. 
munication. 


Church Rates 
Regulation. 


568 


A Petition of Guardians of the Eastward Poor 
Law Union, and Inhabitants of the county of West- 
moreland, praying for the amendment of the Poor 
Law Act, was presented, and read ; and referred to 
the Select Committee on the Poor Law Act. 


A Petition of the Provost of Kilmarnock, pray- 


ing for an alteration of the present mode of carrying | 


Private Bills through Parliament, and of the con- 
stitution of Committees on them, was presented, and 
read ; and referred to the Select Committee on 
Business of the House. 


A Petition of Owners of Tenements in Newport, 


in the county of Monmouth, praying that the Re- 
covery of Tenements Bill may pass into a law, was 
presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the 


Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Castledermot, Moone 
and Levitstown, praymg for the abolition of Tithes 
in Lreland, was presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Landholders of Stabannon, praying 
that the Tithes (Jreland) Bill may not pass into a 
law, was riggs and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 


30° Junie. 


A. 1837. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Waterford, praying Agricultural 
the House to extend Legislative protection and = Jommercial 
| encouragement to the Agricultural and Commercial ant, Todend, 
| Bank of Ireland, was presented, and read; and 

|referred to the Select Committee on Joint Stock 

| Banks. 


} 


A Petition of Shareholders of the Agricultural Agricultural 
and Commercial Bank of Ireland, praying that the 4 ommend 
Agricultural and Commercial Bank of Ireland ( “shy 
(No. 2.) Bill may not pass into a law, was presented, 

and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

A Petition of the Chancellor, Clergy and Gentle- Registration 
men of the Diocese of Carlisle, praying that the pi Marriages 
Registration and Marriages Bill may not pass into ~ 
a law as it now stands, was presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 





| A Petition of Physicians and Surgeons cf Water- Medical 
ford, praying the House to take into consideration ene 
the propriety of adopting measures by which all‘ ""” 
— conferring exclusive rights to practice 
edicine or Surgery in any district or locality, or 
exclusive eligibility for any public Medical ap- 
pointment, shall be abolished throughout the United 
Kingdom, was presented, and read ; and ordered to 
| lie upon the Table. 


| A Petition of Edward Troy and Patrick Ward, 





Newfoundland, 


List of Public Acts which have received the Royal | Catholic Clergymen of Newfoundland, complaining 
Assent during this Session, and of Public Bills now | of oppressive conduct exercised against them by 
in Progress; stating when leave given, and the | Judge Boulton in that Island, and praying that a rigid 


several subsequent and present stages thereof. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Ordnance 
Board (Naval Officers), which was presented wpon 
Wednesday last, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Returns relative to Consis- | 


torial Courts (Scotland), which were presented upon 
the 23d day of May last, and Wednesday last, be 
printed. 


Ordered, That the Accounts relative to the East | 


India Company, which were presented yesterday, 
be printed, 

Ordered, That the Account relative to Tobacco, 
which was presented yesterday, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Return relative to News- 
papers (Jreland), which was presented yesterday, be 
printed. 

Ordered, That the Return relative to Farming 
Stock, which was presented yesterday, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Copy of the Report relative to 


the State of Agriculture, which was communicated | 
from the Lords upon the 6th day of March last, be | 


printed. ; 

Petitions from Brechin; —Aberbrothick ;—and, 
Montrose; praying that the Municipal Corporations 
(Scotland) Bill may pass into a law,—were presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Stage Coach Proprietors residing 


between Edinburgh and Newcastle, and Newcastle | 
and Leeds ;—Mail Coach Contractors and Stage | 
Coach Proprietors upon the Great North Road, | 


between London and Edinburgh ;—Proprietors of 
Stage Coaches, Omnibuses and Gigs between New- 
castle-upon- Tyne and Tynemouth ; —and, Trustees 
on the Gorbals and Kilbride Roads ; praying the 
House to repeal the Duties on Horses and Carriages 
let for hire, and on Stage Coaches, or to put an 
equal tax on all means of travelling,-- were presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from the Chancellor, Clergy and Geutle- 
men of the Diocese of Carlisle ;—and, Inhabitants 
of Ellesmere; praymg that the proposed measure 
relative to Church Rates may not receive the sauc- 
tion of the House,—were presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


inquiry may be instituted, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Message, by Sir Augustus Clifford, Gentleman Royal Assent 
Usher of the Black Rod : to Bills. 
Mr. Speaker, 
The Lords, authorized by virtue of Her Majesty’s 
| Commission for declaring Her Royal Assent to seve- 
ral Acts agreed upon by both Houses, do desire the 
immediate attendance of this Honourable House in 
the House of Peers, to hear the Commission read. 
Accordingly Mr. Speaker, with the House, went 
up to the House of Peers :—And being returned ; 
Mr. Speaker reported, That the House, at the desire 
of the Lords, authorized by virtue of Her Majesty’s 
Comunission, had been at the House of Peers, where 





/a Commission under the Great Seal was read, giving, 
declaring and notifying the Royal Assent to the 
| several Public and Private Bills therein mentioned ; 
and that the Lords, thereby authorized, had declared 


- 


‘the Royal Assent to the said Bills :—Which Bills 


| 
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 


are as follow : 

An Act to explain and amend two Acts passed in Registration 
‘the last Session of Parliament for Marriages, and and Marriages 
|for Registering Births, Deaths and Marriages in (oea7 ee 

England : 
| An Act for continuing until the first day of June Turnpike Acs 
| One thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, and to Continuance 
ithe end of the then Session of Parliament, the seve- _ 
iral Acts for regulating the Turnpike Roads in Great 
| Britain, which will expire with the present or with 

the next Session of Parliament : 

An Act to empower the Recorder or other Person Recorders 
presiding in Quarter Sessions in Corporate Cities and Courts Bill. 
‘Towns, and Justices of the Peace for Counties, 

Ridings or Divisions, to divide their respective 
Courts in certain cases : 

An Act to explain and amend an Act of the Shire Hails Bil. 
seventh year of his late Majesty King George the 
Fourth, to provide for improving and rebuilding 
Shire Halls, County Halls and other Buildings for 
holding the Assizes and Grand Sessions, and also 
Judges’ Lodgings throughout England and Wales : 


An Act to abolish the Punishment of the Pil- pillory 
lory: Punishment 
wi Abolition Bill. 


An Act for transferrmg and vesting the Royal Reyal Military 
Military Canal, Roads, Towing Paths and the Ram- Canal Bill. 
parts, und other Works belonging thereto, — all 

astates 





cial 
nd, 


ind, 


Nn 
ges 
ill. 


icts 


s Bill. 


ut 
Bill. 
litary 
, 





1 Vicrortiz. 


Estates and Property taken and occupied for the 
same in the Counties of Kent and Sussex, and also 
the Rates and Tolls arising therefrom in the Prin- 
cipal Officers of His Majesty’s Ordnance : 
Public Works =An Act to amend the Acts for the Extension and 
(Ireland) Bill. Promotion of Public Works in Jreland: 
Chester and An Act for making a Railway from the City of 
Crewe Railway Chester, to join the “Grand Junction Railway,” 
Ba. near Crewe Hall, in the County of Chester, to be 
called the Chester and Crewe Railway : 


London and An Act to amend the Acts relating to the London 
er and Birmingham Railway : 

Birmingham An Act to rectify a mistake in an Act of the last 
hatin a Session of Parliament, for making a Railway from 


the London and Birmingham Railway, near Bir- 
mingham, to Derby, to be called the Birmingham 
and Derby Junction Railway, with a Branch: 

An Act to enable the Leicester and Swanning- 
ton Railway Company to raise a further Sum of 


Leicester and 
Swannington 


Railway Bill. Money . 
Durham and An Act to enable the Durham and Sunderland 
——, Railway Company to alter a part of the main Line 
umey “of their Railway, to abandon another part thereof, 
to make other Branches therefrom, and to amend 
and enlarge the powers of the Act for incorporating 
the said Company : 
ee An Act to alter the Line of the York and North 
Railway pil, Midland Railway, and to amend the Act relating 
thereto : 
Manchesterand An Act for making a Railway from Manchester 
eng to join the Grand Junction Railway, in the Parish 
&gt; a Chebsey, in the County of Stafford, to be called 
“ The Manchester and Birmingham Railway,” with 
certain Branches therefrom : 
Merthyr Tydvil An Act to enable the Taff Vale Railway Com- 
and Cardiff : 


Railway Bill, P@ny to alter the Line of the said Railway, and 
ee” the Act relating thereto, and to make additional 
Branches : 


cout and An Act to alter the Line of the London and South- 

Outhampton M : 

Railway Riu. @m*pton Railway, and to amend the Act relating 
thereto : 

Newcastle- An Act for regulating and improving the Borough 


upon-Tyne Im- MN 4 c : 
provement Bill. of Newcastle upon Ti yne 


Ipswich 


An Act to amend the several Acts for Paving, 
Improvement 


Lighting, Cleansing and otherwise Improving the 
Town of Ipswich, in the County of Suffolk, and for 
removing and preventing Encroachments, Obstruc- 
tions and Annoyances therein : 


Ipswich An Act toamend an Act of the Forty-fifth year of 

Dek OM. =the reign of King George the Third, for Improving 
and rendering more commodious the Port of Ipswich, 
and for constructing a Wet Dock there: 

Brixham An Act for improving, enlarging and maintaining 

ae agony the Pier, Harbour and Market of Brixham, in the 

* County of Devon, and for the formation of a Break- 

water in Torbay: 

Belfast Harbour An Act for the formation of a New Cut orChannel, 

(Ne-2.) Bill. and for otherwise more effectually improving the 
Port and Harbour of Belfast : 

Warkworth 


An Act for forming a Harbour in the Parish of 
Warkworth, in the County of Northumberland, by 
improving the Navigation of the River Coquet, and 
for rendering the same safe and commodious, and 
easy of access: 


Harbour Bill. 


eg An Act for amending an Act of the second year 
- of the reign of his late Majesty King William the 
Fourth, and for granting further Rates and Powers 
for improving the Port of Hartlepool, in the County 
of Durham: 
me An Act for making and maintaining Reservoirs 
: Servoirs 


Bill, upon the Tributary Streams of the River Etherow, 
otherwise the Mersey, in the Parish of Glossop, in 
the —- of Derby, for more effectually and regu- 
larly supplying with Water the Mills, Manufactories 
and Works on the said Tributary Streams and 
River : 

An Act to amend and enlarge the powers of the 
several Acts relating to the Ellesmere and Chester 
Canal : 

Vox. 92. 


Ellesmere and 
Chester Canal 
Bill. 


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569 


An Act to raise and apply Funds for the future Ouze Banks 
Maintenance and Repair of the Banks of the River Prainage Bill. 
Ouze, between Denver Sluice and the Eau Brink 
Cut, in the County of Norfolk : 


An Act for better supplying with Water the Town Bamsley 
and Neighbourhood of Barnsley, in the West Riding Waterworks 
of the County of York: bill. 


An Act for the better supplying with Water the Leeds Water- 
Town and Neighbourhood of Leeds, in the West works Bill. 
Riding of the County of York: 


An Act for granting more effectual Powers for the Bristol Court 
regulation of the Court of Conscience within the of Conscience 
~ of Bristol : _ 

n Act for removing and preventing Encroach- Bristol 
ments within the City and County of Bristol, and Encroachments 
for better regulating the Shipping, Rivers, Wharfs, - 

Backs and Quays, and the Markets within the same, 
and for other purposes : 

An Act for better assessing and collecting certain Bristol 
Parochial and other Rates within the City and wren 
County of Bristol: ; 

An Act to enable the Shropshire and North Shropshire and 
Wales Assurance Company to sue and be sued in yom ga 
the name of the Managing Director for the time Company Bill. 
being, or of any one of the general or local Directors 
of the said Company : 

An Act for amendin 
visions of an Act passe 
present Majesty, intituled, “An Act to encourage 
the working of Mines and Quarries in Jreland,” and 
to regulate a Joint Stock Company for that purpose, 
to be called “The West Cork Mining Company.” 

An Act to enable Edward Joshua Cooper, Esquire, Sligo Salmon 
to establish and protect a Salmon Fishery upon the Fisheries Bill, 
Lakes and Rivers of Owenmore and Arrow, and 
also within the Bay of Ballisodare, in the County 
of Sligo, in Ireland: 

An Act for draining, inclosing, dividing and allot- Over Inclosure 
ery S aehaer Lands in the parish of Over in the County = Samange 
of Cambridge : ; 

An Act io enable Edward Farr and others to Far’s _ 
effect a sale to Walter Wilkins, Esquire, of a Mes- tate Bill. 
suage and Lands situate in the Parish of Glasbury in 
the County of Radnor: 

An Act for vesting a piece of Land in the Parish of Cearns _ 
Childwall, in the County of Lancaster, belonging to *#te Bil! 
Edward Paton Cearns, an Infant, in Trustees for Sale 
and for investing the Monies thence arising, in the 
purchase of other Estates to be conveyed to the 
Infant : 

An Act to vest a part of the entailed Estate of Nairne's 
Drumkilbo and others, in the Counties of Perth and =e Bill. 
Forfar, in trustees in fee simple for the Sale, and to 
raise Money thereon for satisfying the Debts con- 
tracted for Money laid out or to be laid out in the 
improvement of the said entailed Estate, and in build- 
ing a Mansion House thereon, and to enable David 
Nairne, Esquire, and the Heirs of entail succeeding 
to him, if there be such, to grant Feus of part of the 
said Estate of Drumkilbo and others: 

An Act for vesting an Estate belonging to the Dean York Dean 
and Chapter of the Cathedral and Metropolitical and Chapter 
Church of Saint Peter in York, in Trustees for Sale Ese Bil! 
and for laying out the Monies arising from such Sales, 
in the purchase of other Estates to be settled to the 
same use, subject nevertheless to making Compensa- 
tion to the Dean and Chapter for the time being, for 
certain Fines payable on renewal of the Leases of the 
said first-mentioned Estate, and also for payment of 
certain Debts due on account of the said Cathedral 
Church : 

An Act to enable Richard Rayley, Esquire, to Rayley’s 
grant Leases of the Messuages, Lands and Heredita- Estate Bill. 
ments, appointed or devised by the will of Richard 
Rayley, se his late father, deceased, and for 
selling certain of the said Messuages, Lands and 
Hereditaments, and laying out the Monies to be pro- 
duced by such Sales, in the purchase of other Estates 
to be settled to the same uses : 

4D An 


and enlarging the Pro- West Cork 


in the fourth year of His Mining Com- 
pany Bill. 





570 


An Act for carrying into effect a Contract entered 
into with Edward Riddle, Esquire, for the Sale to 
him of a certain Farm called Broomey Hall Farm, 
situate in the Township of Dalton in the Parish of 
Newburn in the County of Northumberland, devised 
in strict settlement by the will of Elizabeth Archer 
Hind, spinster, deceased, and for applying the Money 
thence arising, in the purchase of other Heredita- 
ments in lieu thereof, to be settled to the like uses: 

An Act to enable the Tutors and Curators of Sir 

Michael Robert Shaw Stewart, Baronet, to grant Feu 
Rights of the Estate of Greenock and other lands in 
the County of Renfrew : 
Wigan Rectory An Act to enable the Rector of the Parish of 
Estate Bill. Wigan, in the County Palatine of Lancaster, to grant 
Leases of the Mines, and Building Leases subject to 
ground rents, of the Glebe Lands, belonging to the 
said Rectory, and for other purposes : 


An Act for naturalizing Andrew Martin. 


Hind’s 
Estate Bill. 


Stewart’s 
Estate Bill. 


Martin’s 
Nat. Bill. 

Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer reported to the 
House, That their several Addresses of the 23d, 24th, 
27th and 28th days of this instant June (that Her Ma- 
jesty would be graciously pleased to give directions 
that the Papers therein mentioned might be laid 
before this House) had been presented to Her Ma- 
jesty; and that Her Majesty had commanded him to 
acquaint the House, that She will give directions 
accordingly. 


Answer to 
Addresses, 


Jamaica. 


Sir George Grey presented, pursuant to an Ad- 
dress to Her Majesty,—Copies or Extracts of Cor- 
respondence between the Secretary of State and the 
Governor of Jamaica, relating to the removal of Dr. 
Palmer from the office of special magistrate in 
Jamaica. 


Ordered, That thesaid Paper do lie uponthe Table. 


Mint. 
No. 465. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee appointed to 
inquire into the Establishment of the Royal Mint; 
and the system under which the fabrication and 
delivery of the Coin are conducted; have Power 
to report their Observations thereupon to the House ; 
together with the Minutes of the Evidence taken 
before them. 

Mr. Labouchere reported from the said Select 
Committee ; That they had considered the matters 
to them referred; and had directed him to make 
a Report thereof to the House, together with the 
Minutes of the Evidence taken before them. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Post-Office 
Management 
Bill, 


The House proceeded to take into consideration the 
Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, intituled, 
An Act for the Management and Regulation of the 
Post Office ; and the same were read as follow ; 


Pr. 1. 1. 6. Leave out “ King’s,” and insert 
* Queen’s.” 
Pr. 1. lL. 20. 
Pe. 1. i. 92. 
Pr. 1. 1. 26. Leave out “ King’s,” 
“ Queen’s.” 
Pr, 1. 1. 20.5 
Pr. 
Pr. 
Pr 
Pr 
Pr. 
Pr. 
Pr. 
Pr. 
Pr. 


\Leave out “ His,” and insert “ Her.” 


and insert 


it tans 


~ 


Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 


qo 
. 


or 
. 


- 27. 
Pr, 7. 1.37. 
Pr. 9. 1. 2. Leave out “ present,” and insert 

“ late,” and in the same line, after “ Majesty,” 

insert “ King William the Fourth.” 


Pr. 9. 1. 26. Leave out “ His Majesty,” and insert 
“ the Crown”. 





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i 


30° Junie. 


A. 1837. 


Pr. 9. 1.27. Leave out “ other,” and in the same 
line leave out “ His,” and also in the same line, 
after “ behalf,” insert “ of the Crown.” 

Pr. 10. 1. | 

Pr. 11. 

Pr. 11. 

Pr, 12. 

Pr. 12. 


or 


ad 


&gt; 


Leave out “ His,” and insert 
| * Her.” 


Tor hth 


Lo 
rs" 


Pr. 13 
Pr. 13 
Pr. 13 
Pr. 14. 1. 6. 
Pr. 14. 1. 12. 
Pr. 15. 1.29. After “ force” insert “ or of any 
“ other legal right.” 
In the Schedule to the Bill: 
Pr. 18.1. 19. Leave out “ Eighth,” and insert 
“ First.” 
Pr. 18. 1. 20. Leave out “ His present,” and insert 
“ Be.” 
Pr. 18. 1. 21. After “ Majesty” insert “ Queen 
“ Victoria.” 
Ordered, That the said Amendments be taken into 
further consideration upon this day three months. 


1. 
1. 
1. 
1. 
1. 
1, 
3 
1. 


the management of the Post Office: And that Mr. 
Labouchere and Mr. Baring, do prepare and bring 
it in. 


the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 
intituled, An Act for consolidating the Laws relative 
to Offences against the Post Office of the United 
Kingdom, and for regulating the Judicial Adminis- 
tration of the Post Office Laws, and for explaining 
certain terms and expressions employed in those 
Laws; and the same were read, as follow: 

Pr. 1. 1.6. Leave out “ King’s,” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 





5S. 
Pr. 13. 
Pr, 13. 
Pr, 14. 
Pr. 14. 1. 25. 
Pr. 


14, |. 29. 
Pr. 


] 
] 
] 
l 
] 
14. |. 
Pr. ] 
] 
] 
] 
] 
] 


\ 


. 13. 
. 29. 
. 21. 
On 





Leave out “ His,” and insert 


15. 1. 
Pr. “ Her.” 


19.1. 
Pr. 19. 1. 
Pr. 19.1. 5 
Pr. 19. 1. 
Pr. 19. 1. 
Pr. 20. 
Pr. 


20.. 5. 
Pr. 20. 1. 36. 


Pr, 27. 1. 31. After “ thereof” insert “ nor to the 
opening or detaining or delaying of a Post Letter, 
in obedience to an express warrant in writing 
under the hand (in Great Britain) of one of the 
principal Secretaries of State, and, (in Jreland,) 
“* under the hand and seal of the Lord Lieutenant of 
“ Treland.” 

Pr. 39. 1. 10. 
Pr. 39. 1. 21 
Pr. 42. 1. 8. 
Pr, 42. 1. 19. 
Pr, 42. 1. 24. 
Pr. 42. 1. 25. In the Interlineation ; leave out 
“ His,” and insert “ Her.” 
Pr, 42. 1. 34. } 
Pr, 42. 1. 35. 
Pr. 45. 1. 36. 
Pr. 46. 1. 2 
l 
] 
] 


“ 
“&amp; 
“ 
“ 


Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 


Leave out “ His,” and insert 


~_e “ 2? 
Pr. 46. 1. 19. Her. 


Pr. 46. |. 34. 

Pr. 47. 1. 12, 
Pr. 47. 1.13. Leave out the first “ His,” and 
insert “ Her,” and in the same line, leave out the 











second “ His,” and insert “ Her.” 
Pr. 47. 





Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill for Post Office 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Post Ofice 





Franking Bill. 


1 Vicroriz. 30° Junzz. 571 


Pr, 47. 
Pr. 47. 
Pr. 47. 1. 25. 

Pr. 48. 1, 6. Leave out “ His,” and insert 


1. 15. 
] 
1 
] 
Pr. 49. 1. 11. | “ Her.” 
1 
l 
l 


. 20. 


Pr. 49. 1. 36. 

Pr. 51. 1. 7. 

Pr. 53. 1. 39. 

In the Schedule to the Bill: 

19. 

11. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
» 3. * Be 

23. 

. 26. Leave out “ eighth,” and insert 


Pr. 


5 
Pr. 5 
5 
5 


a 
. . . 


Pr. 56. 1. 27. Leave out “ His present,” and 
insert “ Her.” 

Pr. 56. 1.28. Leave out from “ Majesty” to 
“ intituled ” in 1. 29, and insert “ Queen Victoria.” 


Pr. 58. 1. ult. ) 
Pr. 60. 1. 25. 
Pr. 61. 1. 5. 
Pr. 61. 1. 11. 
Pr 61.1ult.\ Leave out “ His,” and insert 
| 
] 
] 
l 
] 


Pr. 62 17 “ Her.” 


Pr. 63. 1. 12. 
Pr. 64, 1. 33. 

Pr. 65. 1. 16. 

Pr. 67. 1. 22. | 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 





The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, in- 
tituled, An Act for regulating the sending and re- 
ceiving of Letters and Packets by the Post, free 
from the Duty of Postage ; and the same were read, 
as follow: 

Pr. 1. 1.7. Leave out “ King’s,” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 





Pr. 14. 1. 11.7 

Pr. 14. 1,21. Leave out from “ of” to “ shall,” 
in |. 22, and insert “ the reign of his late Majesty 
“ King William the Fourth.” 

Pr. 14. 1.24. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Ge.” 


Pr. 1. 1. 23.5 
Pr. 1. 1. 25. 
Pr. 2. 1. 23. 
Pr. 2. 1. 27. 
Pr. 2. 1. 29. 
Pr. 2. 1. 34, 
Pr. 3. 1. 15. 
Pr. 3. 1. 18. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
Pr. 3. 1. 26. / “ Her.” 
Pr. 3. 1. 28. 
Pr. 3. 1, 32. 
Pr. 3. 1. 37. 
Pr. 4. 1. 27. 
Pr. 8. 1. 20. 
Pr. 12. 1. 16 
1. 
] 


In Schedule (A.) to the Bill : 
Pr. 17. 1. 23. In the second column, leave out 
“ His,” and insert “ Her.” 
Pr. 18. 1. 5. In the fourth column leave out 
“ His,” and insert “ Her.” 
Pr. 18. 1. 28. In the fourth column leave out 
“ His,” and insert “ Her.” 


In Schedule (B.) to the Bill : 
Pr. 19. 1. 23. In the second column, leave out 
‘ His,” and insert “ Her.” 
Pr. 19. |. 23. In the fourth column leave out 
“ His,” and insert “ Her.” 
Von. 92. 


n 








In Schedule (C.) to the Bill: 
Pr. 21. 1. 6. In the fourth column, leave out 
“ His,” and insert “ Her.” 


In Schedule (D.) to the Bill : 

Pr. 21. 1. 23. In the fourth column, leave out 
“ His,” and insert “ Her.” 

Pr. 22. 1. 9. In the fifth column, leave out “ His,” 
and insert “ Her.” 

Pr. 23. 1. 8. In the second column, leave out 
“ 51,” and insert “57 ;” and in the same line leave 
out “ 15,” and insert “ 34.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
— to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Postage Duties 

the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, in- Bill 
tituled, An Act for the Regulation of the Duties of 
Postage ; and the same were read, as follow : 

Pr. 1. 1.7. Leave out “ King’s,” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 

re. 2. 26. 

Pr. 1. 1. 25. ) 


Pr. 7. 1. 23. 
Pr. 8. 1 3. 
Pr. 13. 1, 25. 
Pr. 14. 1. 30. 
Pr. 15. 1. 3. 
Pr. 16.1, 4. 
Pr. 16. 1. ult. 
Pr. 20. 1. penult. 
Pr. 23. 1. 33. 
Pr, 28. 1. penult. 
Pr. 29. 1.18. 
Pr, 29. 1, 24. 
Pr. 29. 1. ult. 
Pr. 31. 1. 32. Leave out “ His,” and in- 
Pr, 31. 1. 35. sert “ Her.” 
Pr. 32. 1. 3. 
Pr. 32. 1. 18. 
Pr, 33. 1. 20. 
Pr. 34 1. 4. 
Pr. 39. 1. 5. 
Pr, 40. 1. 11. 
Pr. 43. 1. 9. 
Pr, 43. 1. 10. 
Pr. 43. 1. 13. 
Pr, 43. 1. 16. 
Pr. 43. 1. 18. 
Pr, 43. 1. 21. 
Pr, 43. 1. 22. 
Pr. 43. 1. 27. 
Pr. 43. 1. 





30. 

Pr. 45. 1. 6. J 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill 
to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Post-Office 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, in- a Repeal 
7 : ill. 
tituled, An Act to repeal the several Laws relating 
to the Post Office; and the same were read, as 
follow : 

Pr. 1. 1. 11. Leave out “ King’s,” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 

In Schedule (A.) to the Bill, in the third column : 

Pr. 5. 1, 25. 

re &amp; 4b. 2. Leave out “ His,” and insert 

Pr. 11. 1. 32. |“ Her.” 

Pr. 32. 1. 28. 

In Schedule (B.) to the Bill, in the third co- 
lumn : 


Pr. 39. 1. 14. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
Pr. 47. 1. 16. J“ Her.” 
4pD2 The 








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5] 


Y 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, | 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill 
to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Roupell and 
Mr. Senior : 

Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords have directed us to acquaint this 
House, That an ingrossed Bill, with the following | 
Title, “ An Act to appoint a second Commissioner of | 
Bankrupt in Jreland,” has been sent to this House | 
by mistake; and to request that the said Bill may | 
be returned to the Lords:—And then the Messen- | 
gers withdrew. 

The House proceeded to take into consideration | 
the said Message. 

Ordered, That the Bill be returned to the Lords : 
—And the Messengers were again called in; and 
the said Bill was delivered to them accordingly :— 
And then they again withdrew. 

The House was moved, That the Order made 
yesterday, for reading the said Billa second time 
this day, might be read ; and the same was read. 

The House was also moved, That the Order made 
yesterday, That the said Bill be printed, might be 
read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That the said Orders be discharged. 


Message from 
the Lords. 





Bankrupt 
Commissioner 


(Ireland) Bill, 


Ways and The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
Means. into the Committee of Ways and Means. 

(In the Committee.) 
Exchequer Resolved, That towards raising the Supply granted 
Bills. 


to Her Majesty, the sum of Thirteen Millions six 
hundred and twenty-three thousand and three hun- 
dred pounds, be raised by Exchequer Bills, for the 
service of the year 1837. 

Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Reso- 
lution. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 

Mr. Bernal also acquainted the House, That he 
was directed to move, That the Committee may 
have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Message from 


she Lesde. A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Roupell and 


Mr. Senior : 
Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
Act to make more effectual Provisions relating to 
the Police in the District of Dublin Metropolis, 
without Amendment: And also, 


Dublin Police 
Bill. 


Durham The Lords have agreed to the Amendments made 
Junction ic ~ ’ . 
Railway Bill. by this House to the Amendments made by their 


Lordships to the Bill, intituled, An Act to authorize 
the Durham Junction Railway Company to make a 


30° Juni. 


A. 1837. 


establishing and maintaining a Market in the Parish 
of Saint George-the-Martyr, in the Borough of 
Southwark, with Amendments ; to which Amend- 
ments the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Liverpool 
Act for altering, amending, improving and extending re penny 
the provisions of certain Acts of Parliament relating ment Bil, 
to the Town of Liverpool, in the County Palatine of 
Lancaster, with Amendments ; to which Amend- 
ments the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Wishaw and 
Act for further extending the time for completing eltness Rail- 
the Wishaw and Coltness Railway, in the County “*Y Bi. 
of Lanark, with Amendments; to which Amend- 
ments the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House: And also, 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Eversfeld’s 
to extend the powers given to the Trustees of the Estate Bill. 
Will of Charles Eversfield, Esquire, by an Act of 
Parliament passed in the seventh year of the reign 
of his Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled, 

“ An Act to enable Trustees to grant Building 

Leases of Lands in the several Parishes of Saint 
Leonard’s, Hollington, Saint Mary of the Castle of 
Hastings, Maudlin, Saint Mary Magdalen, Saint ' 
Michael near Hastings, and Horsham, im the County 

of Sussex, parts of the Estate devised by the Will 

of Charles Eversfield, Esquire, and to sell the same 

Lands, and also two detached Farms in the Parishes 

of Hollington and Horsham aforesaid, other parts of 

the same Estate, and for laying out the Money 

arising by such sale in the purchase of other Estates, 

to be settled to the same uses ; to which the Lords ‘ | 
desire the concurrence of this House: And also, 


The Lords request that this House will be pleased Fictitious 
to communicate to their Lordships, Copies of the (*e!#"4-) 
First and Second Reports from the Select Com- 
mittee appointed by this House on Fictitious Votes 
(Ireland), together with the Minutes of the Evidence 
taken before the Committee, and the Appendixes 
thereto :—And then the Messengers withdrew. 


Resolved, That this House will send an Answer 
to the last part of the said Message, by Messengers 
of their own. 

And the Messengers were again called in; and 
Mr. Speaker acquainted them therewith :—And then 
they again withdrew. 









The Order of the day being read, for the Com-Supply ; 
mittee of Supply ; 


Ordered, That the Account of Exchequer Bills Exchequer 
outstanding on the 5th January 1836, the Amounts Bills. 
subsequently issued and cancelled, and the Amount 
outstanding on the 22d April 1837; together with 
the Amount of Supply Services unissued on the 5th 
January 1837; and the Ways and Means in the 
Exchequer, or to be raised for defraying the same, 
which was presented upon the 4th day of May last, 
be referred to the Committee. 














Branch Railway from the Durham Junction Railway, 


to be called, “The Houghton-le-Spring Branch,” | 


without Amendment: And also, 


Campsie Canal The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 


Bill, Act to make and maintain a Canal from the Forth 
and Clyde Canal, in the County of Lanark, to 
Campsie Alum Works, in the County of Stirling, 
with Amendments; to which Amendments the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House: And also, 

ao The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 


Act for making a Railway from the Town and Port 
of Maryport to the Borough of Carlisle, to be called 
“The Maryport and Carlisle Railway,” with Amend- 
ments; to which Amendments the Lords desire the 
concurrence of this House: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
Act to alter and amend an Act of the fourth year 
of the Reign of His present Majesty, for erecting, 


Railway Bill. 


St. George’s 
(Southwark) 
Market Bill. 





Ordered, That the several Estimates of Miscel- Miscellaneous 
_laneous Services, which were presented upon Wed- — % 

| nesday last, be referred to the Committee. 

| Ordered, That the Account of the Income and British 


Expenditure of the British Museum for the year Museum. 













| 1836, of the estimated Charges and Expenses for 
| the year ending 25th March 1838, and of the Sums 
| necessary to discharge the same; and also an Ac- 

count of the Number of Persons admitted to view 
'the Museum, from Christmas 1830 to Christmas 
/1836, which was presented upon the 21st day of 

March last, be referred to the Committee. 
_ Then the House resolved itself into the Com- 
| mittee. 
(In the Committee.) 

Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Twenty-nine British 

thousand and four hundred pounds, be granted to Her “useu™ 


Majesty, 





















Forgery Bill. 


Imprisonment 
for Debt Bill. 


Imprisonment 
for Debt Bill. 


1 Vicrorizx. 


Majesty, to defray the estimated Expenditure of the 
British Museum, for the year ending at Lady Day 
1838. 


Resolution to be reported. 
And the House having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Saturday morning ; 
Sabbati, 1° die Julii, 1837: 


Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Re- 
solution. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 

Mr. Bernal also acquainted the House, that he 
was directed to move, That the Committee may 
have leave to sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, again resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The ingrossed Bill to abolish the punishment of 
Death in cases of Forgery was, according to Order, 
read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


A Petition of Commissioners of Her Majesty’s 
Court of Bankruptcy, praying that the Imprisonment 
for Debt Bill, so far as it affects the Petitioners, 
may not pass into a law, unless it be declared that 
each Commissioner sitting in the discharge of his 
judicial functions constitutes a Court of Record, was 
presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 
posed, That the Order of the day for receiving the 
— on the Imprisonment for ™ebt Bill, be now 
read ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That this House do now adjourn ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 

Tellers for the f Mr. John Richards, 


Yeas, Mr. Shaw: } = 
Tellers for the f Mr. Serjeant Talfourd Si 
Noes, Mr. Lynch : . ao 


So it passed in the Negative. 


And the Question being put, That the Order of 
the day for receiving the Report on the Imprison- 
ment for Debt Bill be now read :—It was resolved 
im the Affirmative. 

And the said Order being read accordingly, Mr. 
Bernal reported the Bill. 

A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 
posed, That the Report be now read ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the words “That 
the” to the end of the Question, in order to add 
the words “ Bill be re-committed,” instead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the words pro- 
posed to be left out stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided: 

The Yeas to the old Lobby ; 

The Noes to the new Lobby. 

Tellers for the ¢ Mr. Robert Steuart, 56 

Yeas, Sir George Grey : } bi 

Tellers for the ( Mr. John Richards, 15 

Noes, “U Lord Viscount Cole: } i 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 


And the Question being put, That the Report be 
now read :—It was resolved in the Affirmative. 

The Amendments were accordingly read a second 
time, and agreed to. 

A Motion was made, and the Question being 
proposed, That the Bill, with the Amendments, . be 
ingrossed ; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That this House do now adjourn ; 

Voi. 92. 


30° Junzz.—1° Julie. 





573 


The House divided : 
The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 
The Noes to the old Lobby. 


Tellers for the f Mr. John Richards, 71 14 
Yeas, Mr. Hawkes : oo" 

Tellers for the f Mr. Robert Steuart, } 54 
Noes, Mr. Thomas Duncombe : 


So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the Bill, with 
the Amendments, be ingrossed :—It was resolved in 
the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
upon Monday next. 

The Order of the day being read, for taking into Secular Juris- 
further consideration the Report on the Secular a il 
Jurisdiction (York and Ely) Bill ; ieeks 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Treasurers 
further consideration the Report on the Treasurers (Irelend) Bill, 
of Counties (Ireland) Bill; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 


consideration upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Supply. 
further consideration the Sixth of the Resolutions, 
which upon the 10th day of this instant June, were 
reported from the Committee of Supply ; 

Ordered, That the said Resolution be taken into 
further consideration upon Monday next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Letters Patent 
mittee on the Letters Patent Bill; Bill. 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself East India 
into a Committee, to consider of imposing Duties of Po*teee- 
Postage on Letters conveyed between the Red Sea 
or the Persian Gulf and the East Indies. 


(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That upon every Letter transmitted by 
Packet Boats between Suez or Bassora, or any other 
convenient Port of the Red Sea or the Persian 
Gulf, and the East Indies, there shall be charged : 

For every single Letter, One shilling : 

For every double Letter, Two shillings : 

For every treble Letter, Three shillings : 

And for every Letter of One ounce weight, whether 

a single, double or treble Letter, Four Shillings ; 
and for every additional quarter of an ounce, 
the Postage of a single Letter. 

Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Re- 
solution. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 


The ingrossed Bill to continue an Act of the Creditors 
fifty-fourth year of his Majesty King George the (Scotland) Bill. 
Third, for rendering the payment of Creditors more 
equal and expeditious in Scotland, was, according to 
Order, read the third time. &gt; 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act to continue an Act of the fifty- 
fourth year of his Majesty King George the Third, 
for rendering the payment of Creditors more equal 
and expeditious in Scotland, until the First day of 
May One thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, 
and from thence to the end of the then next Session 
of Parliament. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Mr. Bernal reported the Rolls Estate Bill; and 
the Amendments were read, and agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time this day. 
4D3 


Rolls Estate 
Bill. 


The 








Civil Bill Courts 
(Treland) Bill. 


Court of 
Exchequer 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Parliamentary 
Electors Bill. 


Beet Root 
Sugar Hill. 


No. 452. 


Masters and 
Workmen Bill. 


No. 453. 


Final Register 
of Electors 


(No. 2.) Bill. 


Ecclesiastical 
Appointments 


Suspension Bill. 


Military 
Commissions 


Bill. 


Bills of 
Exchange Bill, 


Malt Duties 
Regulation Bill, 


China Courts 
Bill. 


Reform of 
Parliament 


(Ireland) Bill. 


Sheriff, X&amp;c. 


(Scotland) Bill, 


574 


The ingrossed Bill to amend the Laws for the 
Recovery of Small Debts by Civil Bill in Zreland, 
was, according to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, ‘That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The ingrossed Bill to render valid certain Acts 
done in the performance of duties in the Court of 
Exchequer in Scotland by the Lord Ordinary on the 
Bills in the Court of Session, and for the better 
regulation of the said Court of Exchequer, was, 
according to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 


the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Parliamentary Electors Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Beet Root Sugar Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Ordered, That the Bill be printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Masters and Workmen Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


Ordered, That the Bill be printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for receiving the 
Report on the Final Register of Electors (No. 2.) 


1 


Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 
The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 


mittee on the Ecclesiastical Appointments Suspen- 
sion Bill; 
Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 


next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The ingrossed Bill for continuing Military Com- 
missions, and Commissions in the Royal Marines, 
in force, notwithstanding the demise of the Crown, 
was, according to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for receiving 
the Report on the Bills of Exchange Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee upon the Malt Duties Regula- 
tion Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal re- 
— That the Committee had gone through the 

ill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 


Mr. Bernal reported the China Courts Bill; and 
the Amendments were read, and agreed to. 
C'rdered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 


ingrossed ; and read the third time upon Monday 
next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Reform of Parliament (Jreland) Bill ; 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Sheriff, &amp;c. (Scotland) Bill ; 
_ Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve 
itself into the said Committee. 





30° Juniz.-—1° Juli. 





A. 1837. 


The ingrossed Bill for removing doubts respecting Jewish 
the validity of certain Marriages among Persons Marriages Bill 
professing the Jewish Religion, was, according to 
Order, read the third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The New South Wales, &amp;c., Bill was, according to New South 


Order, read a second time; and committed to a Wales,&amp;c.,Bill 


Committee of the whole House, for this day. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Municipal 
into a Committee upon the Municipal Borough Rates Borough Rates 
Bill ; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker ~*~ 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. Robert Steuart re- 
ported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Robert Steuart reported the Bill accordingly ; 
and the Report was ordered to be taken into further 
consideration this day ; and the Bill, as amended, to 
be printed. 


= 


0. 455, 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Attornies 
for the better regulation of the profession of Attorney Cis Mend 
and Solicitor in Ireland, and the several Offices con-* om. 
nected therewith: And that Mr. Hamilton and Mr. 

West do prepare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill Cruelty to 
to extend to Jreland the Act of the fifth and sixth Animals 
: ‘gerne F cas (Ireland) Bill, 

years of his late Majesty’s reign, consolidating and 
amending the Laws relating to the cruel and improper 
Treatment of Animals: And that Lord Viscount 

Morpeth and Mr. Attorney General for Ireland do 

prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Hamilton presented a Bill for the better re- Attornies 
gulation of the profession of Attorney and Solicitor Crelend) Bil 
in Ireland, and the several Offices connected there- No. 454 : 
with: And the same was read the first time; and “°*?* 
ordered io be read a second time upon Thursday 
next ; and to be printed. 


The House was moved, That the Act 6 and 7 Fermanagi 
Will. 4, c. 116, to consolidate and amend the Laws onal 
relating to the Presentment of Public Money by Ri, 
Grand Juries in Jreland, might be read; and the 
same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
amend the said Act, so far as to empower the Grand 
Jury of the County of Fermanagh, to re-construct 
the Baronial Subdivisions of the said County: And 
that Mr. Archdall and Lord Viscount Cole do pre- 
pare, and bring it in. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, Newspaper 
a Return of the Number of Stamps issued by the 5@™?* 
Stamp Office for all Newspapers in Great Britain 
and Jreland, from 1st January 1837 to 30th June, 
both days inclusive ; specifying each Newspaper by 
name, and the Number of Stamps issued each month 
during that period to each Newspaper. 


Mr. Baring presented a Bill for the Management Post Office 
of the Post Office: And the same was read the first (No.8) Bill 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time this 
day. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Flogging 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased reer 
to give directions, that there be laid before this ~~ 
House, a Return of the Number of Cases in which 
the Punishment of Flogging has been inflicted in 
the Australian Colonies, in criminal cases, from year 
to year, since 1st January 1830; and of the Acts 
by which authority is given for the infliction of that 
Punishment :—Also, of any Correspondence which 
has taken place between the Secretary of State = 
the 








Cruelty to 
tT Animals ; 
‘ (Ireland) Bill. 


Exchequer Bills 


1 Vicroriz. 


the Colonial authorities, since Ist August 1834, on 
the subject of Secondary Punishments, and especially 
on the effects of Flogging as a Secondary Punish- 
ment. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
Her Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of Her Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Lord Viscount Morpeth presented a Bill to extend 
to Ireland the Act of the fifth and sixth years of 
his late Majesty’s reign, consolidating and amending 
the Laws relating to the cruel and improper Treat- 
ment of Animals: And the same was read the first 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time this 


day. 


The House was moved, That the Act 57 Geo. 3, 


(Public Works)) ¢, 34, to authorize the issue of Exchequer Bills, and 


Cork and Pas- 
sage Railway 
(No. 2.) Bill. 





the advance of money out of the Consolidated Fund 
to a limited amount for the carrying on of Public 
Works and Fisheries in the United Kingdom, and 
employment of the Poor in Great Britain, in man- 
ner therein mentioned, might be read ; and the same 
was read. 

The House was also moved, That the Act 1 and 
2 Will. 4, c. 24, to amend several Acts passed for 
authorizing the issue of Exchequer Bills, and the 
advance of Money for carrying on Public Works 
and Fisheries, and employment of the Poor, and to 
authorize a further issue of Exchequer Bills for the 
purposes of the said Acts, might be read; and the 
same was read. 

The House was also moved, That the Act 4 and 
5 Will. 4, c. 72, to amend several Acts for authorizing 
the issue of Exchequer Bills for carrymg on Public 
Works and Fisheries, and employment of the Poor, 
and to authorize a further issue of Exchequer Bills 
for the purposes of the said Acts, might be read ; 
and the same being read ; 

And a Motion being made, That this House will, 
upon Monday next, resolve itself into a Committee 
to consider of authorizing a further advance of Ex- 
chequer Bills for carrying on Public Works and 
Fisheries in the United Kingdom ; 

Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, by Her Ma- 
jesty’s command, acquainted the House, That Her 
Majesty, having been informed of the subject-matter 

f this Motion, recommends it to the consideration 
of the House. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 


next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 
And then the House having continued to sit till 


half an hour after two of the clock on Satur- 
day morning, adjourned till this day. 








Sabbati, 1° die Julii ; 
Anno 1° Victorize Regine, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


f Bnd Order of the day being read, for taking 
into further consideration the Report which was 
yesterday made from the Committee on the Cork 
and Passage Railway (No. 2.) Bill ; 

And a Motion being made and the Question being 
proposed, That the Report be now taken into further 
consideration ; ye 

Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, by Her Majesty’s 
command, acquainted the House, That Her Ma- 
jesty, having been informed of the purport of the 
Bill, gives Her consent as far as Her Majesty’s 
interest is concerned, that the House may do therein 
as they shall think fit. 

Ordered, That the Report be now taken into 
further consideration ;—-The House accordingly pro- 
ceeded to take the Report into further consideration; 
and the Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill with the Amendments be 
ingrossed. 


Vot. 92. 


30° Junzz.—1° Julie. 


575 


A Petition of Inhabitants and payers to the High- Highway Rates 
way Rates in East Teignmouth, praying that the Bill. 
Highway Rates Bill may not pass into a law, was 
ae and read; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 


Petitions from Dumblane ;—and, Perth; praying Registration 
that the Registration of Births, &amp;c.; and, Clandestine of Births, &amp;c.; 
Marriages (Scotland) Bills, may not pass into law,— | 
were presented and read; and ordered to lie upon the (Scotland) 
Table. Bills. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Malton, praying that Cburch Rates 
the proposed measure relative to Church Rates may Regulation. 
receive the sanction of the House, was presented 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Postmasters and Stage Coach Pro- Internal Com- 
prietors of the county of Ayr, praying the House to ™™uen. 
equalize the duties on every mode of conveyance, 
used either by steam or animal power, whereby 
passengers are carried for hire, was presented and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Letters Patent 
into a Committee upon the Letters Patent Bill; and, 3" 
after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed 
the Chair; and Sir George Grey reported, That the 
Committee had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon Mon- 
day next. 


Mr. Baring reported from the Committee of Ways Ways and 
and Means, a Resolution, which was read, as Mears. 
followeth : 

Resolved, That towards raising the Supply granted Exchequer 
to Her Majesty, the sum of Thirteen millions six Bills. 
hundred and twenty-three thousand and three hundred 
pounds, be raised by Exchequer Bills, for the service 
of the year 1837. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 

Ordered, That a Bill be brought in upon the 
said Resolution: And that Mr. Baring and Mr. 
Chancellor of the Exchequer do prepare and bring 
it in. 


Mr. Baring reported from the Committee of supply. 
Supply, a Resolution, which was read, as followeth : 
Resolved, That a Sum, not exceeding Twenty-nine British 
thousand and Four hundred pounds, be granted to Museum. 
Her Majesty to defray the estimated Expenditure of 
the British Museum, for the year ending at Lady- 
day 1838. 
The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 


Mr. Baring reported from the Committee to East India 
whom it was referred to consider of imposing Duties P9steg*- 
of Postage on Letters conveyed between the Red Sea 
or the Persian Gulf and the East Indies, a Resolu- 
tion, which was read as followeth ; 

Resolved, That upon every Letter transmitted by 
Packet Boats between Suez or Bassora, or any other 
convenient port of the Red Sea or the Persian Gulf 
and the East Indies, there shall be charged : 

For every single Letter, One shilling : 

For every double Letter, ‘Two shillings : 

For every treble Letter, Three shillings : 

And for every Letter of One ounce weight, whether 

a single, double or treble Letter, Four shillings ; 
and for every additional quarter of an ounce, the 
Postage of a single Letter. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 

Ordered, That a Bill be brought in upon the said 
Resolution : And that Mr. Baring, Mr. Chancellor 
of the Exchequer and Mr. Labouchere, do prepare 
and bring it in. 





4p4 The 





Rolls Estate 
Bill. 


Malt Duties 
Regulation Bill. 


Post Office 
Management 
(No. 2.) Bill. 


New South 
Wales, &amp;c., Bill. 


Sheriff, &amp;c., 
(Scotland) Bill. 


London and 
Brightcn 
Railway Bill. 
(Rennie’s 
Line. ) 


Eversfield’s 
Estate Bill. 


Liverpool 
Improvement 
Acts Amend- 
ment Bill, 


576 


The ingrossed Bill, to vest the Rolls Estate in Her 
Majesty, and to abolish certain Payments and Fees 
which form part of the Salary of the Master of the 
Rolls, was, according to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved; That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act to vest the Rolls Estate in Her 
Majesty, and to provide for the future Payment of 
the Salary of the Master of the Rolls, and the Ex- 
penses of the Rolls Chapel. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Mr. Baring reported the Malt Duties Regulation 
Bill ; and the Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Biil, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time upon Monday 
next. 


The Post Office Management (No. 2.) Bill was, 
according to Order, read a second time; and com- 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for Mon- 
day next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself into 
a Committee upon the Vew South Wales, &amp;c., Bill; 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. Charles Wood reported, 
That the Committee had gone through the Bill, and 
made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon Mon- 
day next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee upon the Sheriff, &amp;c., (Scotland) 
Bill; and, after some time spent therein,.Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. Robert Steuart reported, 
That the Committee had gone through the Bill, and 
directed him to report the same, without Amend- 
ment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time upon 
Monday next. 


A Motion being made, That the ingrossed Bill for 
making a Railway from the London and Croydon Rail- 
way to Brighton, with branches to Shoreham, New- 
haven, Lewes and Hove, be now read the third time ; 

Lord Viscount Howick, by Her Majesty’s com- 
mand, acquainted the House, That Her Majesty, 
having been informed of the purport of the Bill, gives 
Her consent, as far as Her Majesty’s interest is con- 
cerned, that the House may do therein as they shall 
think fit. 

Then the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the Title 
be An Act for making a Railway from the London 
and Croydon Railway to Brighton, with Branches 
to Shoreham, Newhaven and Lewes. 

Ordered, That Lord George Lennox do carry the 
Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Eversfield’s Estate Bill was read the first time; 
and ordered to be read a second time. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 
intituled, An Act for alterg, amending, improving 
and extending the provisions of certain Acts of Par- 
liament relating to the Town of Liverpool, in the 
County Palatine of Lancaster ; and the same were 
read, as follow : 

Pr. 2. 1. 18. Leave out “ present,” and insert 
“ jate,’ and in the same line, after “ Majesty,” 
insert “ King William the Fourth.” 

Pr. 2. 1. 23. Leave out “ the.” 

Pr. 2. 1. 36. Leave out “ present,” and insert 
“ late,” and in the same line, after “‘ Majesty,” 
insert “ King William the Fourth.” 

Pr. 3. ls. 13 and 14. Leave out “ present,” and 
insert “ late,” and in |. 14, after “ Majesty,” insert 
“ King William the Fourth.” 

Pr. 3. 1. 23. Leave out “ King’s, 
“ Queen’s.” " 


”? 


and insert 





1° Julia. 








A. 1837. 


Pr. 4. 1. 6. Leave out “ present,” and insert late.” 

Pr. 4. 1. 7. After “ Majesty” insert “ King 
‘ William the Fourth.” 

Pr. 5.1. 23. Leave out “ an,’ 
“ said.” 

Pr. 5. 1. 
late.” 

Pr. 5.1. 26. After “ Majesty ” insert “ King 
William the Fourth.” 

Pr. 5. 1. 29. Leave out “ such.” 

Pr. 5. 1. 32. After “ thereto” insert “ under 
and by virtue of the said recited Act of the first 
year of the reign of his late Majesty King George 
‘ the Fourth.” 

Pr. 5.1.38. 
Pr.6. 1.17. 
Pr. 6.1.21. 
Pr. 6. 1.23. 
Pr.6. 1.25. 
Pr.6. 1.32. 
Pr. 6. 1. 33. 


n 


b] 


and insert “ the 


25. Leave out “ present,” and insert 


“ 
“ec 


nn 


Leave out “ first,” andinsert “fourth.” 
Leave out “ His,” and insert “ Her.” 
Leave out “ two.” 
Leave out “ His,” and insert “ Her.” 
Leave out “ His,” and insert “ Her.” 
Leave out “ His,” and insert “ Her.” 
Leave out “ He,” and insert “ She.” 
Pr. 7.1.11. Leave out “ His,” and insert “ Her.” 
Pr.9.1. 8. Leave out “ present,” and insert 
“ late,” and in the same line, after “ Majesty,” 
insert “ King William the Fourth.” 

Pr.12.1.19. After “ Acts ” insert “ And whereas 
so much of the said Acts of the twenty-first year 
of the reign of his late Majesty King George the 
Second, and of the seventh year of his late Ma- 
jesty King George the Fourth, as relates to the 
appointment, regulation, powers and duties or to 
the assessment or collection of any rate to pro- 
vide for the expenses of any watchmen, con- 
stables, patrol or police, have, under the said 
Act to provide for the regulation of Municipal 
Corporations in England and Wales, ceased and 
are determined : And whereas it is expedient that 
the said Council and also, upon appeal, the Court 
of Quarter Sessions to which such appeals shall be 
made, shall be enabled to amend rates and assess- 
ments remaining under the said Act of the twenty- 
first year of the reign of his late Majesty King 
George the Second, or under the said Act of the 
seventh year of his late Majesty King George the 
Fourth.” 

Pr. 15.1. 11. Leave out “ forfeit,” and insert 
forfeiture.” 

Pr.18. 1.21. Leave out “ His,” and insert “Her.” 

Pr.19.1. 4. Leave out “ present,” and insert 
“ late,” and in the same line, after “ Majesty,” 
insert “ King William the Fourth.” 

Pr. 19. 1. 30. After “ appoint” insert “ one or 
“* more.” 
Pr. 19. 1. 32. After “ building ” insert “ and 
“ with or without assistants or power to appoint the 
“« same.” 
Pr. 20. 1. 6. Leave out “ and,” and insert “ Pro- 
“ vided, That.” 
Pr. 20. 1. 8. Leave out “ shall take,” and insert 
“ in lieu of.” 
Pr. 20. 1. 9. Leave out from “ oath” to “ to” 
in |. 10, and insert “ directed.” 
Pr. 20. 1. 11. Leave out “ that,” and insert 
“ the said,” and in the same line, after “ Act,” 
insert “ of the sixth year of the reign of his late 
“ Majesty King George the Fourth.” 
Pr. 20. 1. 13. After “ buildings” insert “ shall 
“ make and subscribe a declaration in the words or 
“ to the effect following : 
“1, A. B., being one of the Surveyors [or, the 
“ Surveyor] of buildings, appointed in pur- 
suance of an Act of Parliament passed in 
the first year of the reign of Queen Victoria, 
intituled, ‘ An Aci [here set forth the 
title of the Act], do declare that I will 
diligently, impartially and faithfully execute 
the said office of Surveyor of buildings, and, 
to the utmost of my abilities, endeavour to 
cause to be strictly observed the provisions 
and regulations prescribed in the Acts 
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“ passed in the sixth year of the reign of 
“ King George the Fourth, and fifth and 
“ sixth years of the reign of King William 
‘ the Fourth, for the Regulation of Buildings 
“ in the Town of Liverpool, and that with 
“ out favour or affection, prejudice or malice 
to any person or persons whomsoever.” 

Pr. 25. 1. 21. Leave out “ present” and insert 
“ late” and in the same line, after “ Majesty ” in- 
sert “ King William the Fourth.” 

Pr. 29.1. 10. Leave out “ present” and insert 
“ late” and in the same line, after “ Majesty ” 
insert “ King William the Fourth.” 

Pr. 31.1.7. Leave out “ present” and insert 
“ late” and in the same line, after “ Majesty ” 
insert “ King William the Fourth.” 

Pr. 31. 1. ult. Leave out “ present” and insert 
“ late.” 

Pr. 32. 1. 1. After “ Majesty” insert “ King 
“ George the Fourth.” 

Pr. 32. 1. 38. Leave out “ present” and insert 
“ late” and in the same line atter “ Majesty ” in- 
sert “ King William the Fourth.” 

Pr. 34. 1. 4. After “ mentioned ” insert Clause 
(A.) 

Ciause (A.) “ Provided always, and be it 
“ Enacted, That nothing herein contained shall 
“* authorize or empower the said Council to demise, 
“ sell or alienate any land otherwise than as is 
“ allowed by the said Actto provide for the regulation 
of Municipal Corporations in England and Wales, 
“or the said Act for the better administration of 
“ Justice in certain Boroughs.” 

Pr. 34.1. 7. Leave out “ present” and insert 
“ Jate ” and in the same line, after “ Majesty” in- 
sert “ King William the Fourth.” 

Pr. 34.1. 25. Leave out “ present” and insert 
“ late” and in the same line, after “ Majesty ” in- 
sert “ King William the Fourth.” 

Pr. 34. 1. 32. Leave out “ present” and insert 
“ late.” 

Pr. 34. 1. 33. After “ Majesty” insert “ King 
“ William the Fourth.” 

Pr. 37. 1. 36. Leave out from “ Act” to “ And” 
in Pr. 38. 1. 13., and insert Clause (B.) 

Cravse (B.) “ And whereas by the said local 
“ Act passed in the fifth and sixth years of the reign 
“ of his late Majesty King William the Fourth, it 
is Enacted, That if the Owner or Occupier or any 
“ other person in the charge or management of any 
“« Shed or other Building in the said Town, roofed 
“ or covered with boards or timber, shall cause or 
** make, or permit or suffer any fire to be lighted or 
“ burning in any such Shed or Building, every per- 
“ son so offending shall forfeit and pay a sum not 
“ exceeding Ten pounds for every such offence: 
“ Now be it Enacted, That no such Owner, Occupier 
“* or other person shall be liable to the said penalty 
“‘ in any case in which the Shed or other Building 
“ shall be surrounded by substantial brick or stone 
“ walls, with the exception of necessary gates or 
“* doorways therein, such walls being of sufficient 
“ height, and the Shed or other Building being so 
“« placed within the same, as that any fire in such 
Shed or other Building would not endanger any 
“ neighbouring property; and no such Owner, Oc- 
cupier or other person shall be liable to the said 
- ard in any case in which such Shed or other 

uilding shall be distant from the property of any 
other person Twenty yards at the least, without 
computing any property besides such Shed or other 
“ Building belonging to the Owner in the holding 
“« of the occupier, or under the charge or manage- 
“ ment of the person having the charge or manage- 
“ ment of such Shed or other Building as afore- 
“ said.” 

Pr. 38. 1.16. “ After “ cask ” insert “ pun- 
cheon, barrel.” 
Pr. 38. 1. 36. After “cask ” insert “ puncheon, 

barrel.” 


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Pr. 42. 1.17. Leave out “ removed in,” and 
insert “ put into.” 

Pr..42. 1. 18. Leave out from “ carriage 
“in” inl. 19. 

Pr. 42. 1. 20. After “ place” insert “ and re- 
“ moved therefrom in the same.” 

Pr. 44. 1. 3. Leave out “ or bitch.” 

Pr. 44.1.11. Leave out from “ dog” to “to” 
in 1. 12. 

Pr. 45. 1.16. After “ notice” insert “ in writing.” 

Pr. 45. 1.18. After “borough ” insert “ to such 
owner or person, to be left at his usual place of 
abode or of business, or fixed upon such room or 
“ cellar.” 

Pr. 46. 1. 23. After “ shillings” insert “ Pro- 
vided that nothing herein contained shall extend 
to the washing, cleaning, making or repairing any 
carriage or any part of any carriage, in mews or 
places set apart for the purposes of mews.” 

Pr, 54. 1. 27. Leave out from “a” to “ suffi- 
“ cient” in 1. 28. 

Pr. 63. 1. 26. After “ prostitutes” insert “ re- 
“ puted thieves or drunken.” 

Pr. 66. 1.32. Leave out “same” and insert “said.” 

Pr. 68. 1. 33. Leave out from “ same” to “and ” 
in line penult. 

Pr. 75. 1. 15. After “ pounds ” insert “ Pro- 
“ vided that nothing hereim contained shall extend 
“ to any case in which the person so pes or 
“ causing to be set on fire any chimney, shall be 
“ liable to be indicted for felony.” 

Pr. 89. 1. 27. Leave out “ five” and _ insert 
seven” and in the same line, leave out from “ the” 
to “and” in |. 28., and insert “ time of such 
“ detention.” 

Pr. 90.1. 8. Leave out from “Justice” to “is” 
in 1. 11. 

Pr.93.1.24. Leave out “ His” and insert “ Her.” 

Pr. 93. 1. 35. Leave out “ which hath imposed ” 
and insert “ whereby he hath incurred.” 

Pr.94. 1. 9. Leave out “ His ” and insert “ Her.” 

Pr. 95. 1. 20. Leave out “ of” and insert “ if.” 

Pr. 96. 1. penult. Leave out “ five” and insert 
“ ten.” 

Pr.97. 1. 1. Leave out “ or” and insert “ to.” 

Pr. 100. 1. 32. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 106. 1. 38. Leave out “ present ” and insert 
“ late.” 

Pr. 106. 1. penult. After “ Majesty” insert 
“ King William the Fourth.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to; 

Ordered, That Mr. John Parker do carry the 
Bill to the Lords, and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


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Mr. Warburton hs the Bills of Exchange Billsof __ 
Bill; and the Amendments were read, and agreed to. Exchange Bill. 


Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed ; and read the third time upon Mon- 
day next. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Reform of 
mittee on the Reform of Parliament (Jreland) Bill; Parliament 
And a Motion being made, and the Question (Ireland) Bill. 


being proposed, That Mr. Speaker do now leave the 
Chair ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” 
to the end of the Question, in order to add the 
words “ this House will, upon this day three months, 
“ resolve itself into the said Committee,” instead 
thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That the words 
roposed to be left out stand part of the Question :— 
he said proposed Amendment and Motion were 

severally, with leave of the House, withdrawn. 

Resolved, That this House will, upon Monday 
next, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


4E The 





Parliamentary 
Electors Bill. 


Liverpool 
Improveinent 


Bill. 


578 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee upon the ee nag’ J Electors 
Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. Charles Wood reported, 
That the Committee had gone through the Bull, and 
made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received upon Mon- 
day next. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, in- 
tituled, An Act to enable the Mayor, Aldermen and 
Burgesses of the Borough of Liverpool to _— and 
widen certain Streets and Places in the Town of 
Liverpool, and otherwise to improve the same, and to 
enable the said Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses, to 
appropriate Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, 
for public purposes, and also to erect public Build- 
ings ; and the same were read, as follow: 

Pr. 2. 1. 9. Leave out “ King’s” and insert 

“ Queen’s.” 

Pr. 4. 1. 25. Leave out “ lands.” 

Pr. 5. 1. 39. After “ streets ” 
places.” 

Pr. 6. 1. 8. After “ repair” insert “ and such 
part or parts of any of the said streets or places 
as in consequence of the said improvements may 
not be longer wanted for such streets and places, 
shall reinain freed and discharged from the public 
use thereof vested in the parties who are now by 
law entitled thereto, subject, nevertheless, to the 
right of the Commissioners for the better paving 
and sewerage of the town of Liverpool, at any 
time within One month after notice in writing, to 
remove and take away any pavement or flagging 
thereupon belonging to them, the said Commis- 
sioners.” 

Pr. 8. 1, 14. Leave out “ or” and insert “ be.” 

Pr. 10. 1. 18. Leave out “ His” and _ insert 
Her ;” and in the same line leave out from “ Ma- 
jesty” to “ intituled,’ in 1. 19., and msert 
Queen Victoria.” 

Pr. 15. 1. 6. Leave out “ as aforesaid.” 

Pr. 19. 1, 24. Leave out “ interests ” and insert 
interest.” 

Pr. 19. 1. 
interest.” 

Pr. 26. 


insert “ or 


32. Leave out “ interests ” and insert 


. 11. Leave out “ as aforesaid.” 
Pr. 27. 1. 23. Leave out “ in” and insert “to.” 
Pr. 28. 1. 37. Leave out “ His” and insert “ Her.” 
Pr. 29. 1. 18. Leave out “ His” and insert “ Her.” 
Pr. 33. 1. 11. Leave out from “ the” to “at,” 
in 1. 13., and insert “ Recorder presiding.” 
Pr. 33. 1. 27. Leave out “ and Corporations.” 
Pr. 34, 1. 9. Leave out “ His ” and insert “ Her.” 
Pr.34. 1. 11. Leave out “ His ” and insert “ Her.” 
Pr.35. 1. 28. Leave out “ His ” and insert “ Her.”’ 
Pr. 36. 1.37. Leave out from “ said” to 
“ And ”’ in I. 40., and insert “ Recorder.” 
Pr. 38. 1. 37. Leave out from “the” to “ shall ” 
in |, 39., and insert “ Council.” 
Pr. 39. 1. 16. Leave out from “the” to “ shall ” 
in], 18., and insert “ Council.” 
Pr. 39. 1. 22. Leave out from “the” to “to” 
in], 23., and insert “ Council.” 
Pr. 45. 1. 37. Leave out “ herein” and insert 
“* therein.” 
Pr. 48, 1.17. Leave out “them ” and insert “him.” 
Pr. 56. Is. 32. and 33. Leave out “ describing ” 
and insert “ described.” 
Pr. 56. 1.34. Leave out from “ received” to 
“ And” in Pr. 58. 1.3., and insert Clause (A.) 
CravusE (A.) “ Provided always, and be it fur- 
ther Enacted, That where any question shall arise 
touching the title of any party to any money to be 
paid into the Bank of England in the name and 
with the privity of the Accountant-General of the 
Court of Exchequer, in pursuance of this Act, for 
the purchase of any land, or of any estate, right, 
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in pursuance of this Act, or for or in respect of 
compensation or satisfaction as hereinbefore men- 
tioned, or to any annuities or securities to be pur- 
chased with any such money as herein mentioned, 
or to the dividends or interest of any such annui- 
ties or securities, the parties respectively who 
shall have been in possession or receipt of the 
rents or profits of such land at the time of such 
purchase or damage, and all Corporations and 
persons claiming under such parties, or under or 
consistently with the possession of such parties, 
shall be deemed to have been lawfully entitled to 
such land according to such possession until the 
contrary shall be shown, to the satisfaction of the 
said Court; and the dividends or interest of the 
annuities or securities to be purchased with such 
money, and also the capital of such annuities or 
securities shall be paid, applied and disposed of 
accordingly, unless it shall be made to appear, to 
the satisfaction of the said Court, that such pos- 
session was a wrongful possession, and that some 
other party was lawfully entitled to such land or 
to some estate or interest therein, when the:said 
Court shall make such orders respecting the said 
capital and the dividends and interest thereof as 
the cirewnstances of the case may require.” 

Pr. 62. 1.11. After “ agree” insert “ as.” 

Pr. 70. 1. 6. Leave out “ His ” and insert “ Her.” 

Pr. 73. 1.13. Leave out “ present” and insert 
late ;” and in the same line, and in 1. 14, after 
Majesty ” insert “ King William the Fourth.” 

Pr. 85. 1. 22. In Clause (A.), added by way of 

Rider to the Bill: 
Pr. 1. 1. 37. Leave out “ considerable” and 
insert “ material.” 
Pr. 4. 1.13. After “ building” insert “ but 
“ not of any subsequent costs, charges or ex- 
“ penses for any purpose whatsoever.” 

Pr. 100. 1. 36. Leave out from “ Act” to “ to,” 

in |. penult. 

Pr. 102. 1.31. Leave out “ His” 
Her.” 

Pr. 103. 1. 3. Leave out “ His” and insert 
Her ;”’ and in the same line leave out from “ Ma- 
jesty ” to “ intituled ” in |. 4, and insert “ Queen 
Victoria.” 

Pr. 103. 1. 
Her.” 

Pr. 103, 1. 
Her.” 

Pr. 103. 1. 
Fourth,” 


and insert 


20. Leave out “ His” and insert 


30. Leave out “ His” and insert 


31. Leave out “ King William the 
and insert “ Queen Victoria.”’ 
. 1.38. Leave out “ His” and insert 


. 1. penult. Leave out from “ Majesty ” 
to “ intituled,” in |. ult., and insert “ Queen Vic- 
“ toria.” 

Pr. 106. 1. 31. Leave out from “ borough ” to 
“ with,” in 1. 33. 

Pr. 108. 1. 6. Leave out “ and effect.” 

Pr. 109. 1,2. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. John Parker do carry the Bill 
to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


Mr. Elphinstone reported the Final Register of 
Electors (No. 2.) Bill; and the Amendments were 
read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time upon Monday 
next. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to 
take into further consideration the Report on the 
Municipal Borough Rates Bill; and the Amend- 
ments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, 








1 Vicrortiz. 


Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time upon Monday 
next. 


The Cruelty to Animals (Jreland) Bill was, ac- 
cording to Order, read a second time; and com- 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for Mon- 
day next. 


Cruelty te 
Animals 
(Ireland) Bill. 


St. George’s 
Southwark ) 
Market Bill. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, in- 
tituled, An Act to alter and amend an Act of the 
fourth year of the Reign of His present Majesty, 
for erecting, establishing and maintaining a Market 
in the Parish of Saint George-the-Martyr, in the 
Borough of Southwark; and the same were read, as 
follow : 

Pr. 1.1.3. Leave out “present ”’ and insert “ late.” 

Pr. 2. 1.10. Leave out “ King’s” and insert 
“ Queen’s.”’ 

Pr.2.1.17. Leave out “present” and insert “late.” 

In the Title of the Bill : 

L.3. Leave out “present ” and insert “late.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Baines do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 

Wishaw and: 


Coltness Rail- 
way Bill. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 
intituled, An Act for further extending the time for 
completing the Wishaw and Coltness Railway, in 
the County of Lanark; and the same were read as 
follow : 

Pr, 2. i. 20. Leave out “ present” and insert 
“ Jate;” and in the same line, after “ Majesty” 
insert “ King William the Fourth.” 

Pr. 3. 1. 16. Leave out “ will expire ” and insert 
“ expired.” 

Pr. 3. 1. 27. Leave out “ King’s” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 

Pr. 3. 1. 38. Leave out “ present” and insert 
“ late;” and in the same line, after “ Majesty ” 
insert “ King William the Fourth.” 

Pr. 5. 1. ult. Leave out “ or used.” 

Pr. 6. 1.1. Leave out from “ Railway” to 
“ without” in |. 4. 

Pr. 6. 1. 19. Leave out from “ places” to “ Pro- 
“ vided,” in 1. ult. 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Baines do carry the Bill to 
to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


East India 
Postage Bill. 


No. 467. 


Mr. Baring presented a Bill to impose Rates of 
Packet Postage on East India Letters, and to 
amend certain Acts relating to the Post Office : 
And the same was read the first time ; and ordered 
to be read a second time upon Monday next; and 
to be printed. 


Exchequer Bills Mr. Baring presented a Bill for raising a Sum by 

caenane) Exchequer Bills, for the service of the year One 

” thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven: And the 
same was read the first time; and ordered to be 
read a second time upon Monday next. 


Library of the 


House, 


No. 468, 


Sir Robert ‘Inglis reported from the Standing 
Committee appointed to assist Mr. Speaker in the 
direction of the Library; That they had considered 
the matters to them referred, and had directed him 
to make a Report thereof to the House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 

Fermanagh 
Baronia} 
Subdivisions 
Bill. 


Mr. Archdall presented a Bill to amend the Law 
relating to Grand Juries in Ireland, so far as to 
empower the Grand Jury of the County of Ferma- 


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nagh to re-construct the Baronial Subdivisions of 
the said County: And the same was read the first 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time upon 
Monday next ; and to be printed. 


Ordered, That the Accounts relative to Attornies Attornies and 
and Solicitors, which were presented upon the 12th Slicitors. 
and 14th days of June last; be printed. No, 469. 


And then the House adjourned till Monday 
next. 








Luna, 3° die Julii ; 
Anno 1° Victoria Regine, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


M R. Randolph, from the Commissioners of Staines Staines Bridge. 
Bridge, was called in; and at the bar presented, 
pursuant to the directions of an Act of Parliament, 
—An Account of the Receipts and Disbursements 
of the Tolls and other Monies collected on Staines 
Bridge, from the 26th day of March 1836, to the 
25th day of March 1837, both days inclusive :— 
And then he withdrew. 
Ordered, That the said Account do lie upon the 
Table. , 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on Turnpike Turnpike Roads 
Roads (Ireland) have leave to sit this day till four (Ireland.) 
of the clock, during the sitting of the House. 


Sir Robert Inglis reported from the Committee Watson’s 
on Watson’s Estate Bill; That they had examined Estate Bill. 
the allegations of the Bill, and found the same to 
be true; and that the parties concerned had given 
their consent to the Bill, to the satisfaction of the 
Committee ; and that the Committee had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto ; 
and the same were read, as follow: 

Pr. 17. 1. ult. Leave out “ King’s” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 

Pr. 31. 1.20. Leave out “ King’s” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 

Pr. 31. 1. 21. 
“ Be.” 

Pr. 32. 1.9. Leave out “ King’s” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 


Leave out “ His” and insert 


An ingrossed Bill to enable The Zondon and London and 
Greenwich Railway Company to take certain Tolls —— - 
for Passengers, Cattle and Carriages, crossing the (No. 2.) Bill. 
River Ravensborne, in pursuance of an agreement 
entered into with The Deptford Creek Bridge Com- 
pany, was read the third time; and Amendments 
were made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Alderman Wood do carry the 


Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


East’s Estate Bill was read a second time; and East’s 
committed to Mr. Alderman Wood and the Surrey ttiean 
List. 

Ordered, That the Committee have leave to sit 
and proceed upon Wednesday, and to make their 
Report upon Thursday next. 


Jackson's Estate Bill was read a second time ; Jackson’s 
and committed to Mr. Alderman Wood and the Estate Bill 
Middlesex List. 

Ordered, That the Committee have leave to sit 
and proceed upon Wednesday, and to make their 
Report upon Thursday next. 


A Petition of the Sheriff Officers of the city and Sheriff and 
county of Edinburgh, praying that the Sheriff and en 
Burgh Courts; and, Small Debts (Scotland), Bills, Debts (Scot- 
may not pass into law, was presented, and read ; land) Bills. 


a ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Moderator of the United Asso- King’s Printers 
ciate Synod of the Secession Church in Scotland, (Scvtland.) 
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Prisons 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Railways 
(Scotland.) 


Cork and Pas- 
sage Railway 
(No, 2.) Bill. 


Negro Appren- 
ticeship. 


Poor Law 
Unions. 


Poor Law 
Unions. 


Public Works 
(Ireland.) 


Municipal 
Corporations 


(Scotland) Bill. 


Barglis of 
Barony 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Small Debts 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Spirituous 
Liquors 


(Ireland.) 


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praying the House to resist the renewal of the Patent 
for printing Bibles, together with the Confession of 
Faith and Catechisms, as now held by those called 
the King’s Printers in Scotland, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Inverary, praying 
that the Prisons (Scetland) Bill may pass into a 
law, was presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Moderator and Clerk of the 
Presbytery of Dunkeld, praying for the prohibition 
of Sunday Travelling upon Railways in Scotland, 
was — and read ; and ordered to lie upon 


the Table. 


An ingrossed Bill for making a Railway from the 
City of Cork to the Town of Passage, was read the 
third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Callaghan do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Glasgow, praying for 
the immediate extinction of the system of Slavery 
in the British Colonies, under the name of Appren- 
ticeship, was presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


The House was moved, That the Order made upon 
the 23d day of June last, for presenting to Her Ma- 
jesty an humble Address, That She will be graciously 
pleased to give directions that there be laid before 
this House, Returns of the size (in square miles) of 
the several Unions already formed by the Commis- 
sioners of Poor Laws in England and Wales, together 
with the Population in each, according to the last 
census, and the number of Guardians appointed for 
each :—Of the total number of Guardians of the 
Poor in England and Wales, and the number thereof 
whose place of residence is more than ten miles 
distant from the place of meeting of the Board of 
Guardians :—And, of the Number of Weekly Attend- 
ances given by such Guardians as reside upwards of 
ten miles from the place of meeting of their Boards, 
and the Number of Weekly Meetings that they have 
omitted to attend, might be read ; and the same being 
read ; 


Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Return of the size (in square miles) of the several 
Unions already formed by the Commissioners of 
Poor Laws in England and Wales, together with the 
population in each, according to the last census, and 
the number of Guardians appointed for each. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
Copy of the fifth Annual Report of the Commissioners 
of Public Works in Jreland. 

Mr. Baring accordingly presented the said Paper. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Petitions from Annan;—and, Dunbarton; praying 
that the Municipal Corporations (Scotland) Bill may 
pass into a law,—were presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Incorporation of Maltmen in Leith, 
praying that the Burghs of Barony (Scotland) Bill 
may rot pass into a law as it now stands, was pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 


Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Kilehrenan, praying 
that the Small Debts (Scotland) Bill, may pass into 
a law, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


A Petition of Overseers under the Spirit License 
Acts (3d and 4th, and 6th and 7th Will. 4.) for the 
town of Belfast and parish of Shankhill, praying 
that the sale of Spirituous Liquors, and other intoxi- 


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A. 1837. 


cating Liquors, may be prohibited during the whole 
of the Sabbath, and that no individual be permitted 
to hold a Grocery and Retail Spirit License in Jreland, 
was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of the Chairman of a Meeting of Inha- Poor Law Act. 
bitants of Morpeth, praying for the repeal of the 
Poor Law Act, was presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Citizens and Electors of the county Polling Pinces 
of the city of Dublin, praying for an alteration in (freland.) 
the law whereby returning officers may be empowered 
to divide in alphabetical order the electors whose 
names begin with the same letter of the alphabet, so 
that it shall not be necessary for more than six hun- 
dred voters to poll in any one place, at any election 
for Cities and Boroughs in Ireland, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Members of the Society for the Cruelty to 
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Belfast, praying ae om 
that the Cruelty to Animals (Jreland) Bill may pass (1eland) Bill 
into a law, was presented, and read ; and ordered to 


lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of the county of Tippe- Cashel and 
rary, reciting several Acts of the Parliament of Ire- a 
land, for keeping in repair several Turnpike Roads “°*" 
in the Leinster and Munster Divisions, which Acts 
will shortly expire ; and praying the House not to 
pass any Act for the purpose of continuing the said 
statutes, or the said Turnpike Trusts, so far as the 
extend to the Munster Division of the said Roads, 
was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Wetherby, praying Church Rates 
that the proposed measure relative to Church Rates Regulation. 
re | receive the sanction of the House, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Tadcaster; — Haworth ; — and, Lord’s Day Bill. 
Keighley ; praying that the Lord’s Day Bill may 
be permitted to go into a Committee of the whole 
House,—were presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Householders in the parish of Saint Grand Jury 
Catherine, Dublin, praying that they may be re- pe ) 
lieved from Grand Jury Taxation, was presented, ; 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Campsie Canal 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, Bill. 
intituled, An Act to make and maintain a Canal 
from the Forth and Clyde Canal, in the County of 
Lanark, to Campsie Alum Works, in the County of 
Stirling ; and the same were read, as follow: 

Pr. 2. 1. 9. Leave out “ King’s” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 

Pr. 20. 1. 7. After “ bridge” insert “ having a 
clear roadway of at least Twenty-four feet in 
breadth.” 

Pr. 20. 1. 18. After “ bridge” insert “ suffi- 
ciently broad.” 

Pr. 20. 1. 23. After “ bridge” insert “ which 
shall have a clear roadway of at least Twenty-four 
“« feet in breadth.” 

Pr. 24. 1. 9. Leave out from “ Act” to “ inti- 
tuled”” in |. 12., and insert “ [here describe this 
“ Act.]” , 

Pr. 50. 1. 15. Leave out “ one of His Majesty’s 
Justices,” and insert “ any Justice.” 

Pr. 64. 1. 15. Leave out “ of His Majesty’s.” 

Pr. 87. 1. 25. Leave out the first “ of” and in- 
sert “ such and so many.” 

Pr. 97. 1.35. Leave out from “ made” to “ in- 
“ tituled ” in |. 37., and insert “ [here describe this 
“ Act.]” 


cc 
‘ 


. 


‘ 


. 


Pr. 109. 


Duke of 
Richmond’s 
Estate Bill. 


1 Vievortiz. 


Pr. 109. 1.18. Leave out “ less” and insert 
more.” 

Pr. 123. 1. penult. Leave out from “ before ” to 
the second “ of” in 1. ult., and insert “ any Justice.” 

Pr. 137. 1. 34. Leave out “ His Majesty’s”’ and 
insert “ the.” 

In the Schedule to the Bill: 

Pr. 144. Is. 7. and 8. In the second column, 
leave out “ William Reid” and insert “ditto.” 

Pr. 144. ls. 12. and 13. In the second column, 
leave out “ William Reid” and insert “ ditto.” 

Pr. 147. 1. 2. In the third column, leave out 
“ Crombie,” and insert “ Colville.” 

Pr. 147. Is. 12. and 13. In the third column, 
leave out “ Meek Russell” and in the third column, 
ls. 16. and 17. leave out “ and Smith.” 

Pr. 148. ls. 22. 23. and 24. In the second column, 
leave out “ Right Honourable Lord” and insert 
“ the Honourable Mr.” 

Pr. 148. 1. 29. In the second column, leave out 
“ Mrs. Strang” and insert “ ditto” and in the third 
column, leave out “ herself” and insert “ Mrs. 
“ Strang.” 

Pr. 149. 1. 5. In the third column, leave out 
“ Lock” and insert “ Jack.” 

Pr. 149. ls. 19. 20. and 21. In the second column, 

,leave out “ Right honourable Lord,” and insert “ the 
“ Honourable Mr.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Brotherton do carry the Bill 
to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the laealinate made by their 
Lordships. 


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Lord George Lennox reported from the Committee 
on the Duke of Richmond’s Estate Bill; That they 
had examined the allegations of the Bill, and found 
the same to be true; and that the parties concerned 
had given their consent to the Bill, to the satisfaction 
ofthe Committee ; and that the Committee had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto ; 
and the same were read, as follow: 

Pr. 40. 1. 2. After “ Gordon” insert “ Gordon.” 

Pr. 40. 1. 4. After “ Gordon” insert “ Gordon.” 

Pr. 40. 1. 10. After “ His” insert “ late.” 

Pr. 51. 1. 22. Leave out “ King’s” and insert 
Queen’s.” 

Pr. 67. 1.24. After “ joituring” insert “ for that 
purpose.” 

Pr. 67. 1. 25. 

Pr. 68. 1. 15. 
“ Act.” 

Pr. 73. 1. 7. Leave out “ in.” 

Pr. 78. 1. 10. Leave out “ sasine” and insert 
‘ sazine.” 

Pr. 92. 1. 7. Leaveout “ His ” and insert “ Her.” 

Pr. 103. 1. ult. Leave out “ of.” 

Pr. 104. 1. 12. Leave out “ of” and insert “ to.” 

Pr. 106. 1. 25. Leave out from “ credit” to 
“ saving” in P. 107. 1. 33. 

Pr. 107. 1. 34. Leave out “ King’s ” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 

Pr. 107. 1. 34. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 108. 1. 8. Leave out “ King’s” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 

Pr.108. 1.9. Leave out “His” and insert “ Her.” 

Pr. 108. 1. 47. Leave out “ King’s ” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 

Amendments to the First Schedule : 

Pr. 109.and 110. 1. 12. Leave out “ Eastham ” 
and insert “ Eartham.” 

Pr. 109. and 110. 1. 20. Leave out “ and.” 

Pr. 109. and 110. 1. 27. After “ Westbourne” in- 
sert “ and West Stoke.” 

Pr. 111. and 112. 1. 14. Leave out “ Selherst” 
and insert “ Selhurst.” 

Pr. 113. and 114. 1. 2. Leave out “ Neveman ” 
and insert “ Newman.” 


Vo. 92. 


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Leave out “ for that purpose.” 
After “ Acts ” insert “ and this 


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Pr. 113. and 114. 1. 15. Leave out “ Prescott” 
and insert “ Pescott.” 

Amendments to the Second Schedule : 

Pr. 115. 1. 6. Blank “ first.” 

Pr. 115. 1.7. Leave out “ His” and insert “ Her.” 

Pr. 115. 1. 8. Leave out “ King William the 
“ Fourth” and insert “ Queen Victoria.” 

Pr. 115. 1. 22. and 23. Leave out from “ the” to 
the end of]. 23.,and insert “ Clauses in the foregoing 
“ Act as to the Acts of the tenth year of the reign 
“ of King George the Third and fifth year of the 
“ reign of King George the Fourth.” 

Pr. 115. 1. 30. Leave out “ Gordon.” 


Pr.116. 1. 14. After “ Richmond” insert “ and 
“ Lennox.” 

Pr. 116. 1. 25. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 116. 1. 26. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 117. 1.20. After “ Richmond” insert “ and 
“Lennox.” 


Pr. 1171.25. After “ Act” leave out “namely.” 

Pr. 117. 1.36. After “declaring” insert “also.” 

Pr. 119. 1. 32. After “ Charles” insert “ now.” 

Pr. i23. 1. 32. Leaveout “ an Act” and insert 
“ two Acts.” 

Pr. 123. 1. 33. After “ Parliament” insert “ one 
passed in the tenth year of the reign of His Ma- 
jesty King George the Third, intituled, ‘ An Act to 
encourage the Improvement of Lands, Tenements 
and Hereditaments in that part of Great Britain 
“ called Scotland, held under strict Entail,’ and 
“ another.” 

Pr. 124. 1. 3. After “ Richmond” insert “ and 
Lennox.” . 

Pr. 124. 1. 20. After “ Richmond ” insert “ and 
Lennox.” 

Pr. 128. 1. 20. After “ heirs ” insert “ male.” 

Pr. 128. 1. 22. Leave out “ taillie”’ and insert 
“ tailzie.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 


A Petition of Warren Hastings Leslie Frith, Lieu- w.H. L. Frith. 


tenant Colonel in the artillery service of the East 
India Company, on the Bengal Establishment, 
stating that the Petitioner is the legal personal re- 
presentative of his late father, Lieutenant-Colonel 
Robert Frith, of the East India Company’s service, 
and alleging that in that character he has pecuniar 
claims to a considerable amount on the late Nabo 
of Oude, and on the East India Company, which he 
has for a long time past most anxiously but unsuccess- 
fully endeavoured to get settled and discharged ; 
stating the particulars thereof; and praying the 
House to take his claims into consideration, and to 
adopt means for their acknowledgment and adjust- 
ment by the Kast India Company, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Sir George Grey reported the New South Wales, New South _ 
mendments were read, and Wales, &amp;c.,Bill. 


&amp;e., Bill; and the 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time To-morrow. 


The ingrossed Bill for regulating the Coroners of Coroners 
the County of Durham, was, according to Order, (Durham) Bill. 


read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The ingrossed Bill to authorize the establishing China Courts 
a Court or Courts with Criminal and Admiralty and B'!. 


Civil Jurisdiction in China, was, according to Order, 
read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


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Post Office 
Management 
(No. 2.) Bill. 


East India 
Postage Pill. 


Lough Swilly 
and Lough 


Foyle Drainage 


Bill. 


Lord Sandys’ 
Estate Bill. 


Exchequer Bills 


ill. 


Sheriff, &amp;c. 


(Scotland) Bill. terpret the words “ Sheriff,’ “ Sheriff Clerk,” 


Cruelty to 
Animals 


(Ireland) Bill. 


Winchester 
College Estate 
Bill. 


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The House, according to Order, resolved itself into 
a Committee upon the Post Office Management 
(No. 2.) Bill; and, after some time spent therein, 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Robert 
Steuart reported, That the Committee had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 


The East India Postage Bill was, according to 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the third 
reading of the ingrossed Bill for the Drainage of 
Waste Lands in Lough Swilly and Lough Foyle, in 
the Counties of Donegal and Londonderry ; 

And a Motion being made, That the Bill be now 
read the third time ; 

Lord Viscount Morpeth, by Her Majesty’s com- 
mand, acquainted the House, That Her Majesty, 
having been informed of the purport of the Bill, gives 
Her consent, as far as Her Majesty’s interest is con- 
cerned, that the House may do therein as they shall 
think fit. 

Then the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Alderman Wood do carry the 
Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


General Lygon reported from the Committee on 
Lord Sandys’ Estate Bill; That they had examined 
the allegations of the Bill, and found the same to 
be true; and that the parties concerned had given 
their consent to the Bill, to the satisfaction of the 
Committee; and that the Committee had gone 
throuéh the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto ; 
and the same were read, as follow : 

Pr. 54. 1. 29. Leave out “ King’s,” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 

Pr. 78. 1. 30. Leave out “ King’s,” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 

Pr. 78. 1. 31. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 81. 131. Leave out “ King’s,” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 


l The Exchequer Bills Bill was, according to Order, 
1 3aa.900-) read a second time; and committed to a Committee 


of the whole House, for To-morrow. 


The Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act to in- 


“ Shire,” ‘ Sheriffdom,” and “ County,” occurring 
in Acts of Parliament relating to Scotland, was, 
according to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Robert Steuart do carry the 
Bill to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this 
House hath agreed to the same, without Amend- 
ment. 








The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee upon the Cruelty to Animals 
(Ireland) Bill; and, after some time spent therein, 
Mr, Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal | 
reported, That the Committee had gone through the | 
Bill, and directed him to report the same, without 
Amendment. | 

Ordered, That the Bill be ingrossed, and read the | 
third time To-morrow. | 


Mr. East reported from the Committee on the | 
Winchester College Estate Bill; That they had | 
examined the allegations of the Bill, and found the | 
same to be true ; and that the parties concerned had | 
civen their consent to the Bill, to the satisfaction of 
the Committee; and that the Committee had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto ; 
and the same were read, as follow; 


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A. 1837. 


Pr. 3. 1.24. Leave out “ King” and insert 
“ Queen.” 

Pr. 7. 1. 14. Leave out “ King” and insert 
“ Queen.” 

Pr. 7. 1. 15. Leave out “‘ His” and insert “ Her.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Treasurers 

further consideration the Report on the Treasurers °f Counties 
of Counties (Ireland) Bill:—The Bill was re-com- (Ireland) Bil. 
mitted toa Committee of the whole House :—And the 
House immediately resolved itself into the Com- 
mittee ; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal re- 
ported, That the Committee had made Progress in 
the Bill; and that he was directed to move that the 
Committee may have leave io sit again. 

Resolved, That this House will, this day, again 
resolve itself into the said Committee. 


A Message, by Sir Augustus Clifford, Gentleman Royal Assent 
Usher of the Black Rod: . to Bills, 
Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords, authorized by virtue of Her Majesty’s 
Commission for declaring iter Royal Assent to seve- 
ral Acts agreed upon by both Houses, do desire the 
immediate attendance of this Honourable House in’ 
the House of Peers, to hear the Commission read. 

Accordingly Mr. Speaker, with the House, went 
up to the House of Peers :—And, being returned ; 

Mr. Speaker reported, That the House, at the desire 
of the Lords, authorized by virtue of Her Majesty’s 
Commission, had been at the House of Peers, where 
a Commission under the Great Seal was read, giving, 
declaring and notifying the Royal Assent to the 
several Public and Private Bills therein mentioned ; 
and that the Lords, thereby authorized, had declared 
the Royal Assent to the said Bills:—Which Bills 
are as follow : 

An Act for granting to Her Majesty until the Sugar Duties 
Fifth day of July One thousand eight hundred and Bi! 
thirty-eight, certain Duties on Sugar imported into 
the United Kingdom, for the Service of the year One 
thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven : 

An Act for the Amendment of the Laws with re- Wills Bill. 
spect to Wills: 

An Act to amend an Act of the third and fourth Limitation of 
years of Hislate Majesty, forthe Limitation of Actions Action OS. 
and Suits relating to Real Property, and for simpli- 
fying the Remedies for trying the Rights thereto: 

An Act to make more effectual Provisions rela- Dublin Police 
ting to the Police in the District of Dublin Metro- _ 

olis : 
4 An Act to alter the Line of the Great Western Great Western 


Railway, and to amend the Acts relating thereto : (Trowts de) 


An Act to enable the Great Western Railway Great Western 
Company to extend the Line of such Railway, and rosie d nt 
for other purposes relating thereto: iene 

An Act to alter and extend the Line of the South inet 
Eastern Railway, and to amend the Act relating py” 
thereto : 

An Act to alter, amend and enlarge the powers of ose 
an Act for making the Slamannan Railway, passed — 
in the sixth year of his present Majesty, and to en- 
able the Slamannan Railway Company to make and 
maintain a Branch to Bathgate, in the County of 
Linlithgow: 

An Aet for making and maintaining a Railway parece 
to connect the Great North of England, Clarence (Clarence and 
and Hartlepool Railways, in the County of Dur- Hartlepoo! 
ham: ‘ bates . way Bill. 

An Act for making and maintaining a Railway pga 
from the Town of Dundalk in the County of Louth, and Bailibay 
tothe Town of Ballibay in the County of Monaghan : Railway Bill 

An Act to authorize the Durham Junction Rail- punam 
way Company to make a Branch Railway from the Junction ~ 
Durham Junction Railway, to be called “The Rllway *™ 
“ Houghton-le-Spring Branch.” m 

n 





Junction) Rail 





ill. 


on 





1 Victroriz. 


Liverpool An Act for altering, amending, improving and ex- 
Improvement tending the Provisions of certain Acts of Parliament 


aan “ relating to the Town of Liverpool, in the County 
? Palatine of Lancaster : 
Montrose An Act for improving the Harbour of the Burgh 


Harbour Bill. of Montrose in the County of Forfar : 

on An Act for confirming a Lease granted by the 
a Estate Most noble Henry Charles, late Duke of Beaufort, to 
Bill. John Vivian, Esquire, of Landsand Hereditaments in 
the Parish of Saint John-juxta-Swansea, in the County 
of Glamorgan, and also a certain other Lease granted 
by the said Henry Charles, late Duke of Beaufort, 
and the Most noble Henry Duke of Beaufort, by his 
then Name of Henry Marquis of Worcester, to John 
Williams, Esquire and others, of Lands and Heredi- 
taments in the Parishes of Saint John-juxta-Swansea, 
and Llangefelach in the said County of Glamorgan : 

An Act for vesting the settled undivided Shares of 
the Right Honourable George Talbot Rice Lord 
Dynevor, in the County of Glamorgan, in Trustees 
for Sale, and with Power to make a Partition thereof. 


Lord Dynevor’s 
Estate Bill. 


Treasurers 
of Counties 
(Ireland) Bill. 


The House, according to the Order made this day, 
resolved itself into a Committee, to consider further 
of the Treasurers of Counties (Ireland) Bill; and, 
after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed 
the Chair ; and Mr. Bernal reported, That the Com- 
mittee had gone through the Bill, and made Amend - 
ments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 


Supply The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee of Supply ; 

Papers, Ordered, That the Supplementary Estimate of 

relerred: | Her Majesty’s Navy, 1837-38, which was presented 

Navy Supple- 


mentary Esti- Upon the 27th day of June last, be referred to the 
mate, Committee. 
en A Motion being made, That the Report which, 
Militia upon the 28th day of June last, was made from the 
Estimates. Select Committee appointed to prepare Estimates of 
the Charge of the Disembodied Militia of Great 
Britain and Ireland, for a year, to 31st March 1838, 
be referred to the Committee ; 
Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, by Her Ma- 
jesty’s command, acquainted the House, that Her 
Majesty, having been informed of the subject-matter 
of this Motion, recommends it to the consideration 
of the House. 
Ordered, That the said Report be referred to the 
Committee. 


Then the House resolved itself into the Committee. 


(In the Committee.) 


1. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Fifty-nine 
thousand and three hundred pounds, be granted to 
Her Majesty, to defray, to the 31st day of March 
1838, Law Charges, Grants to Scottish Universities, 
and other Charges formerly paid out of the Here- 
ditary Revenues, and not provided for out of his 
late Majesty’s Civil List, nor out of the Consolidated 
Fund. 

2. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One hun- 
dred and eighty-six thousand seven hundred and 
fifty-eight pounds, five shillings and three-pence, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge of 
the Commissariat Department, to the 31st day of 
March 1838. 

3. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Fifty-two 
thousand, seven hundred and twenty-seven pounds, 
four shillings and sixpence, be granted to Her Ma- 
jesty, to defray the Expense of Half Pay, Pensions 


Miscellaneous 
Charges 
(Scotland. ) 


Commissariat. 


Half Pay, &amp;c. 


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and Allowances in the Commissariat Department, to 
the 31st day of March 1838. 

4. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Two hun- 
dred thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, 
towards satisfying such Charges, Pensions and An- 
nuities, as would have been payable out of the Civil 
List in case the demise of his late Majesty had not 
taken place before the 31st day of December 1837. 

Vor, 92. 


Civil List 


Pensions, 


5. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Twenty- Marlborough 
one thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, House. 
to defray the Charge of repairing Marlborough 

House, for the reception of the Queen Dowager. 

6. Motion made, and Question put, That a sum, not New Houses of 
exceeding Eighty-eight thousand pounds, be granted Parliament. 
to Her Majesty, towards defraying the Expense of 
erecting the New Houses of Parliament in the year 
1837, 

The Committee divided : 

Tellers for the f Sir Andrew Leith Hay, hh 00 

Yeas, Mr. Charles Wood : P 

Tellers for thes Mr. Hume, a 

Noes, L Mr. Hawes: - 

7. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Eighteen Recora 
thousand one hundred and seventy-two pounds, be Commission. 
granted to Her Majesty, to carry on to the 31st day 
of March 1838, the Works in progress under the 
direction of the Commissioners of Public Records ; 
also, to pay certain Arrears not provided for by the 
grant of last Session. 

8. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Five thou- Royal College 
sand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, in aid of of Surgeons 
the Fade of the Royal College of Surgeons, in (Pinbureh-) 
Edinburgh. 

9. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Five thou- Royal Dublin 
sand and three hundred pounds, be granted to Her Society. 
Majesty, in aid of the Expenditure of the Royal 
Dublin Society, to the 31st day of March 1838. 

10. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Nine Pictures 
thousand and thirty pounds, be granted to Her Ma- (National 
jesty, to purchase, in the year 1837, Pictures for the S*"*'y) 
National Gallery. 

11. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One gritish 
thousand and two hundred pounds, be granted to Museum. 
Her Majesty, to enable the Toutes of the British 
Museum to purchase certain Etruscan Vases, part of 
the collection of the Prince of Canino. 

12. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Seven- Upper Canada. 
teen thousand nine hundred and ten pounds, eight 
shillings and one penny, be granted to Her Majesty, 
to pay Compensations to British Subjects in Upper 
Canada, for losses sustained by them during the 
War in 1813 and 1814, in addition to the amount 
already provided from the Funds of the Colony, and 
other sources. 

13. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One Lower Canada. 
hundred and forty-two thousand one hundred and 
sixty pounds, fourteen shillings and sixpence, be 
granted to Her Majesty, for Advances on account of 
Arrears of Charges for the Administration of Jus- 
tice, and of the Civil Government of the Province 
of Lower Canada. 

14. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Thirty- Steam Commu- 
seven thousand and five hundred pounds, be granted Ticjton with 
to Her Majesty, towards defraying the Expense of =~ 
Steam Communication to India, by way of the Red 
Sea, for three quarters of a year, to the 31st day of 
March 1838. 

15. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Two Deficiency of 
hundred and twenty-three thousand nine hundred St" 
and twelve pounds, ten shillings and eleven-pence, 
be granted to Her Majesty, to make good the defi- 
ciency of Grants of former years. ° 

16. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One Disembodied 
hundred and ninety-two thousand one hundred and Militia. 
fifteen pounds, two shillings and two-pence, be 
granted: to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge of the 
Disembodied Militia of the United Kingdom, to the 
gist day of March 1838. 

17. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Twenty- Seamen’s 
two thousand eight hundred and eleven pounds, be coe acket 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge of , 
Wages for Seamen employed in the Packet Service, 
which will come in course of payment in the year 
ending 31st March 1838. 

18. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Ten thou- Victuals for 
sand seven hundred and seventy pounds, be granted Navy. 
to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge of Victuals 





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for Seamen in Her Majesty’s Fleet, to the 31st day 
of March 1838. 


Adniralty 19. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Two 


Office. thousand four hundred and eighty-eight pounds, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to a Bea the Salaries of 
the Officers of the Admiralty Office, to the 31st day 
of March of 1838. 

Naval Esta- 20. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Two 

blishments at_ thousand three hundred and ninety-one pounds, be 

ae. granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Salaries of 
the Officers, and the contingent Expenses of Her 
Majesty’s Naval Establishments at home, to the 
31st day March 1838. 

— 21. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Forty 

ages. 


thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to 
pay the Wages of Artificers, Labourers and others 
employed in Her Majesty’s Naval Establishments 
at home, to the 31st day of March 1838. 

22. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One 
hundred and fifty-five thousand pounds, be granted 
to Her Majesty, to defray the Expense of Naval 
Stores, for the building and repair of Vessels, for 
the purchase and hire of Vessels and of Steam Ma- 
chinery, and for other purposes connected therewith, 
to the 31st day of March 1838. 

23. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Three 
thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to 
defray the Charge of New Works and Improvements, 
and Repairs in the Yards, to the 31st day of March 
1838. 

24. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Thirty 
thousand and eight hundred pounds, be granted to 
Her Majesty, to defray the Charge of divers Naval 
Miscellaneous Services, to the 31st day of March 
1838. 


Resolutions to be reported. 


Naval Stores, 


Dock Yards. 


Naval 
Miscellaneous 
Services, 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had come to several 
Resolutions. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 


Imprisonment 


for Debt Bill. The ingrossed Bill for extending the Remedies of 


Creditors against the Property of Debtors, and for 
abolishing Imprisonment for Debt, except in certain 
cases of Fraud, was, according to Order, read the 
third time ; and an ingrossed Clause was added by 
way of Rider; and Amendments were made to the 
Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Attorney General do carry the 
Bill to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Malt Duties 


uties The ingrossed Bill to amend certain Laws of Excise 
Regulation Bill. : 


relating to the Duties on Malt made in the United 
Kingdom, was, according to Order, read the third 
time. 

Resolved, Thai the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Parliamentary 


i The Order of the day being read, for receiving the 
Electors Bill. of © 


Xeport on the Parliamentary Electors Bill ; 
And a Motion being made, and the Question 

‘ being put, That the Report be now brought up ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the old Lobby ; 

The Noes to the new Lobby. 

Tellers for the { Mr. Vernon Smith, 
Yeas, | Lord Seymour : 

Tellers for the f Mr. Serjeant Goulburn, 
Noes, \ Mr. Hodgson Hinde : 


So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 


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A. 1837. 


ments Suspension Bill; and, after some time spent 
therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. 
Bernal reported, That the Committee had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 
Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Punisiment of 
into a Committee upon the Punishment of Death Death Bill. 
Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal reported, That 
the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Masters and 
into a Committee upon the Masters and Workmen Workmen Bill 
Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal reported, That 
the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself ona 
into a Committee upon the Beet Root Sugar Bill; ee 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal reported, That 
the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 


Mr. Bernal reported the Letters Patent Bill; and péi'ers Patent 
the Amendments were read, and agreed to. : 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time To-morrow. 


Bills of 


The ingrossed Bill to exempt certain Bills of Ex- Exchange Bill. 


change and Promissory Notes from the operation 
of the Laws relating to Usury, was, according to 
Order, read the third time ; and Amendments were 
made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Warburton do carry the Bill 


to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Exchequer ome 
into a Committee, to consider of authorizing a fur-  ieaasasnaiaiai 
ther advance of Exchequer Bills for carrying on 
Public Works and Fisheries in the United er 
dom. 

(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That Her Majesty be enabled to direct 
Exchequer Bills, to an amount not exceeding Five 
hundred thousand pounds, to be issued to Commis- 
sioners, to be by them advanced towards the com- 
pletion of Works of a public nature, or for the 
encouragement of the Fisheries, or for the employ- 
ment of the Poor, on due security being given for 
the re-payment of the Sum so advanced. 

Resolution to be reported. 





Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Reso- 
lution. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself ee 
into the Committee of Ways and Means. ain 


(In the Committee.) 


Resolved, That, towards making good the Supply 
granted to Her Majesty, the sum of Five millions 
two hundred and twenty thousand pounds, be issued 
out of the Consolidated Fund of the United King- 





Mr. Solicitor General accordingly reported the Bill; | 
and the Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed ; and read the third time To-morrow. 


Ecclesiastical 
Appointments 
Suspension Bill, 








dom of Great Britain and Ireland, for the service 
of the year 1837. 
Resolution to be reported. 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had come to a Reso- 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself | lution. 
: - . Ait agg 
into a Committee upon the Ecclesiastical Appoint- 


Ordered, That the Report be received a 
€ 


Final Register 
of Electors 
(No. 2.) Bill. 


Municipal 
Corporations 
Bill. 


1 Vicrortz. 


The Order of the day being read, for the third 
reading of the ingrossed Bill to render the Register 
of Electors final, and to amend an Act of the second 
and third years of His present Majesty, for amend- 
ing the Representation of the People in England 
and Wales; 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the Bill be now read the third 
time ; 

The Amendments following were proposed to be 
made to the Question ; viz. To leave out the word 
“now,” and, at the end of the Question, to add the 
words “upon this day three months.” 

And the Question being put, That the word 
“now ” stand part of the Question ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the old Lobby ; 

The Noes to the new Lobby. 

Tellers for the f Mr. Elphinstone, } 62 

Yeas, | Mr. Hindley : 

Tellers for the f Mr. Serjeant Goulburn, \ 41 

Noes, { Mi William Gladstone: J *** 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read the third 
time :—,The Bill was accordingly read the third 
time ; and an ingrossed Clause was added to the 
Bill, by way of Rider. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act to render the Register of Electors 
final, and to amend an Act of the second and third 
years of his late Majesty, for amending the Repre- 
sentation of the People in England and Wales. 

Ordered, That Mr. Elphinstone do carry the Bill 
to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House, acccording to Order, proceeded to 
take into consideration the Reasons offered by the 
Lords, at the Conference held upon Tuesday last, 
for insisting upon some of their Amendments to the 
Municipal Corporations Bill, to which this House 
hath disagreed ; and to the Amendment made by 
the Lords to the Amendment made by the Commons 
to the Amendment made by the Lords to the said 
Bill: — And the same were read, as follow : 

“The Lords agree to the Amendment made by the 
Commons to the Amendment made by this ~ Son 
in Pr. 8, 1. 34. 


“The Lords agree to the Amendment made by the 
Commons to the Amendment made by this oun 
in Pr. 9. 1. 12., with the followmg Amendment : 
Leave out ‘chosen by the Councillor, or, in the 
‘ case of a Borough divided into Wards, by the 
‘ Councillors who shall have presided at the election 
‘ of Councillors as aforesaid,’ and insert ‘ who 
‘ shall be chosen for that purpose by the greatest 
‘number of Councillors within the Borough,’ 
which Amendment they have made for the followmg 
Reason : 

“ Because, by voting by Wards (instead of all 
the Councillors voting individually at a general 
meeting of the Councillors of a a a ina 
Borough in which the different Wards have not 
each the same number of Councillors, a small 
minority of the Councillors of the Borough may 
succeed in the election of the President of the 
whole body, against the wishes of a great ma- 
jority of the Councillors. 


“The Lords agree to the other Amendment made 
by the Commons to the Amendment made by this 
eae in Pr. 9. 1. 12. 

“ The Lords insist upon their Amendments in Pr. 
12. Is. 14., 15., 21., 22. and 25. to which the 
Commons disagree (which Amendments are for al- 
lowing to the parties whose legal proceedings may 
be rendered ineffectual by this Bill, their costs as 
between attorney and client), for the following 
Reasons : 

“ Because the parties having a legal right to 
institute the proceedings proposed to be stopped, 
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and being entitled to attain the object of 
their suits, ought not, as is admitted by the 
Commons, to suffer any pecuniary loss by the 
intervention of a retrospective law to defeat 
their legal rights. 

“ Because, in cases of a retrospective law, it 
has been most usual to exempt from its ope- 
ration suits actually depending ; and if in the 

resent instance that exemption has not been 
insisted upon, it was from the full conviction, 
that the parties whose suits depending would 
be actually defeated, would at least not be ex- 
posed to the risk of any pecuniary loss by an 
ex-post-facto law. 

“ Because, in cases in which no trial has yet 
taken place before a Jury, the proceeding to 
procure a decision of the Court, or of a Judge, 
upon the manner in which the costs ought to 
be taxed, would probably be attended with as 
much expense as would equal the difference 
between the costs between party and party, and 
the costs between attorney and client, and this 
proceeding must, at all events, in every case 

reatly increase the expense to both parties. 

he Lords agree to the other Amendments made 
by the Commons.” 


“ 





Resolved, That the Commons do agree to the 
Amendment proposed by the Lords to the Amend- 
ment proposed by the Commons in Pr. 9. ]. 12., but 
propose in consequence thereof to amend the latter 
of the Amendment proposed by the Commons, 

y leaving out the words “or in case a Majority 
“ of them shall not be able to agree, then the 

Councillor chosen before the passing of this Act, 
assessed, and being Occupier and Owner as afore- 
“said to the greatest Amount in the whole 
“ Borough,” and inserting the words “ shall preside 
“ at the Election of Aldermen or Mayor (as the 
“ case may be), as hereinafter next provided ; or in 
“ case that there shall be no Mayor, and also that 
a majority of the Councillors shall not be able to 
agree in the choice of a President, the Burgesses 
“ of the whole Borough shall, on the third day after 
the vacancies hereinbefore last mentioned shall 
have been filled up, (or on the following day if the 
“ third day shall be on a Sunday), elect a Coun- 
“ cillor to be President for that time; at which 
election of President, the Councillor or Council- 
lors who shall have presided at the election of 
Councillors as last aforesaid shall preside, and 
“ shall have in that behalf all the powers given to 
“ the Mayor at the first election of Councillors 
“ under the said Act; and the Mayor, or in default 
“ of a Mayor, the Councillor so dene or elected 
“ President for that time as aforesaid (as the case 
““ may be).” 

Resolved, That the Commons do not insist on 
their Disagreement to the Amendments made by the 
Lords in Pr. 12. 1. 14., 15., 21., 22. and 25. 

Ordered, That a Conference be desired with the 
Lords upon the subject-matter of the Amendments 
to the said Bill: And that Mr. Bernal do go to the 
Lords, and desire the said Conference. 


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And the House, having continued to sit till after 
twelve of the clock on Tuesday morning ; 


Martis, 4° die Julti, 1837: 


A Petition of Rowland Milner, late a lieutenant Rowland 
in the Royal Navy, complaining of being deprived Milner. 


of his half-pay, and praying for relief, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into Supply ; 


further consideration the 6th of the Resolutions 
which, upon the 10th day of June last, were re- 
ported from the Committee of Supply ; 
The House proceeded to take the said Resolution 
into further consideration. 
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Secular Juris- 
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and Ely) Bill. 


No. 474, 





586 

And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being proposed, That the said Resolution be now 
read a second time ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the word “ That” to 
the end of the Question, in order to add the words 
“ there be laid before this House, a Return of Ships 
“ in ordinary on 1st January 1833 and 1st January 
“‘ 1837, arranged according to their respective Rates, 
“ and specifying the State and Condition of the 
several Ships at those periods respectively. 

“ Return of Ships and Vessels actually building, 
and ordered to be built, on 1st January 1833, 
with the Date of the Order for building each, 
and distinguishing such as have since been 
launched, and the Date of launching. 

“ Return of Ships and Vessels ordered to be 
built since Ist January 1833, with the Date of 
the respective orders ; distinguishing such as have 
been launched, and the Date of launching, and 
specifying the state of Progress of the remainder 
on ist January last. 

“* Return of Expenses incurred since the Appoint- 
ment of the present Surveyor of Her Majesty’s 
Navy, in Alterations made while building in Her 
“ Majesty’s Ships Boscawen, Royal Frederick, Ti- 
“ gress, Statira, Lily, Daphne, Woolverine and Wan- 
“* derer; stating the general nature of such Altera- 
“ tions, certified by the Storekeepers of the respective 
“ Dock Yards. 

“ Return, certified by the Storekeepers of the 
“ Dock Yards in which they were respectively built 
“ or completed, showing the Total Cost of building 
“ and completing the Hulls of Her Majesty’s Ships 
Rodney, Vanguard, Clarence, Vernon, Vengeance, 
“ Winchester, Pique, Castor, Vestal, Andromache, 
“ Inconstant, Ringdove, Harrier, and the Blazer 
Steamer, specifying the Number of Guns for which 
“ each is pierced, and by whose plan each has been 
“ constructed. 

“ Return, showing the whole time which Her 
“« Majesty’s Ships Vernon, Barham, Castor, Pique 
“ and Inconstant, have been in Commission; the 
Number of Days each has been at Sea within 
“ such period, and the Total Expense incurred on 
each during the same period in Masts, Spars and 
“ Rigging. 

“ Report of Admiral Sir Charles Paget on the 
“ relative sailing Qualities of Her Majesty’s Ships 
Pique and Inconstant :—Report of Lord John 
Hay on the trial of sailing aot the Castor 
and Pique in March 1835 :—Report of the rela- 
tive sailing Qualitiesof Her Majesty’s Ships Vestal 
and President :—Reports of the sailing Qualities 
of Her Majesty’s Ships Tribune and Magicienne, 
previous and subsequent to the alteration of the 
Masts and Yards of those Ships, made in con- 
formity with the new Classification,’ instead 
thereof : 

And the Question being put, That the words 
proposed to be left out, stand part of the Question : 
—It was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That the said Resolution be now read a 
second time:—The said Resolution was, accordingly, 
read a second time, and amended, by leaving out 
the word “ His” and inserting the word “ Her” 
mste: d thereof. 

And the said Resolution, so amended, was agreed 
to as followeth : 

Resolved, That a sum not exceeding Fifty-nine 
thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven pounds 
be granted to Her Majesty, to complete the sum 
necessary to defray the expense of Naval Stores for 
the Building and Repair of Ships and Vessels, pur- 
chase of Steam Machinery, and for other purposes 
connected therewith, to the 31st day of March 1838. 


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_ The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
further consideration the Report on the Secular 
Jurisdiction (York and Ely) Bill :—The Bill was 





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A. 1837. 


re-committed to a Committee of the whole House : 
—The House immediately resolved itself into the 
said Committee ; and, after some time spent therein, 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Vernon 
Smith reported, That the Committee had gone 
through the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. , 

Mr. Vernon Smith reported the Bill accordingly ; 
and the Report was ordered to be taken into further 
consideration To-morrow ; and the Bill, as amended, 
to be printed. . 


The ingrossed Bill to provide for levying of Watch Municipal 
Rates, and for regulating the Appointment of In- ee 
spectors of Weights and Measures in Boroughs ““ ” 
and Towns having Municipal Corporations, in Eng- 
land and Wales, was, according to Order, read the 
third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act to provide for the levying of Watch 
Rates in Boroughs and Towns having Municipal 
Corporations, in England and Wales. 

Guilerdl, That Mr. Hutt do carry the Bill to the 
Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Hackney 
mittee on the Hackney Carriages (Metropolis) Carriages 
Bill ; oon 
Resolved, That this House will, this day, resolve - 
itself into the said Committee. 


The ingrossed Bill for the better paving, lighting, Dundee Police 
watching and cleansing the Burgh of Dundee and (No2.) Bill. 
for maintaining and regulating the Police of the 
same and Places adjacent, and other purposes re- 
lating thereto, was, according to Order, read the 
third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Sir Henry Parnell do carry the Bill 
to the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Reform of 
into a Committee upon the Reform of Parliament eae 
(Ireland) Bill; and, after some time spent therein, ‘ eo 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Morgan 
John O’ Connell reported, That the Committee had 
gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received this day. 


The Fermanagh Baronial Subdivisions Bill was, Fermanagh 
according to Order, read a second time ; and com- — - 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for °°" ™" 
this day. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to Central 
assimilate the Practice of the Central Criminal Court = Gent 
to other Courts of Criminal Judicature within the ~ 
Kingdom of England and Wales, with respect to 
Offenders liable to the Punishment of Death: And 
that Lord John Russell and Mr. Attorney General 
do prepare, and bring it in. 

Slave Trade 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to ee. 


authorize Her Majesty to carry into immediate 
execution, by Orders in Council, any Treaties, 
Conventions or Stipulations made with any Foreign 
Power or State for the suppression of the Slave 
Trade: And that Lord Viscount Palmerston and 
Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer do prepare, and 
bring it in. 


Lord John Russell presented a Bill to assimilate Central ae 
the Practice of the Central Criminal Court to other — — 
Courts of Criminal Judicature within the Kingdom No 470 
of England and Wales, with respect to Offenders ee 
liable tothe Punishment of Death: And the same was 
read the first time ; and ordered to be read a second 
time this day; and to be printed. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in @ Bill 
suspend, for a limited time, the making of Lists, an 


the Ballots and Enrolments for the Militia of the 
United 


to Militia Ballots 
qd Suspension Bill. 
























































1 Victroriz. 


United Kingdom: And that Lord John Russell and 
Lord Viscount Howick do prepare, and bring 
it in. 


Bank of The House was moved, That the Act1 and 2 Geo. 4, 
Ireland Bill. =, 72, for making further provision for the gradual 
resumption of payments in cash by the Bank of Jre- 
land, might be read; and the same was read. 
The &gt; in was also moved, That the Act3 Geo. 4, 
c. 26, to reduce the Rate of Interest payable on the 
sum of One Million two hundred and fifty thousand 
pounds, advanced by the Governor and Company of 
the Bank of Ireland, for the Public Service, under 
an Act made in the forty-eighth year of his late 
Majesty, might be read; and the same being read ; 
Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
postpone the Re-payment of certain Sums advanced 
by the Bank of Jreland for the Public Service: And 
that Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mr. 
Baring do prepare, and bring it in. 


Assessed Taxes The House was moved, That the Act 43 Geo. 3, 

Exemption Bill. - 161, for repealing the several Duties under the 
management of the Commissioners for the Affairs 
of Taxes, and granting new Duties in lieu thereof ; 
for granting new Duties in certain cases therein 
mentioned ; for repealing the Duties of Excise on 
Licenses, and on Conlanes constructed by Coach- 
makers, and granting new Duties thereon under the 
management of the said Commissioners for the Af- 
fairs of Taxes, and also new Duties on Persons 
selling Carriages by Auction or on Commission, 
might be read ; and the same was read. 

The House was also moved, That the Act 
6 and 7 Will. 4, c. 65, for granting Relief from the 
Duties of Assessed Taxes, and on Stage Carriages, 
in certain cases, and to regulate the charging of the 
Duty payable for taking or killing Game in Great 
Britain, and to provide for the collection of certain 
Local Taxes in Scotland, might be read; and the 
same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
extend an Exemption granted by an Act of the last 
Session of Parliament from the Duties of Assessed 
Taxes in respect of certain Carriages with less than 
four Wheels, and to amend the Laws relating to the 
said Duties: And that Mr. Chancellor of the Exche- 
quer and Mr. Baring do prepare, and bring it in. 


Lawof Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
Coverture Bill. amend the Law of Coverture: And that a ptain 
Pechell and Mr. Wigney do prepare, and bring it in. 


Bank of Mr. Baring presented a Bill to postpone, for a 
ireland Bill. Jimited time, the Re-payment of certain Sums ad- 
No.471. vanced by the Bank of Ireland for the Public Ser- 
vice: And the same was read the first time ; and 
ordered to be read asecond time this day; and to be 

printed. 


Assessed Taxes Mr. Baring presented a Bill to extend an Exemp- 
Exemption Bill. tion granted by an Act of the last Session of Parlia- 
No. 472. ment from the Duties of Assessed Taxes in respect 
of certain Carriages with less than four Wheels, and 

to amend the Laws relating to the said Duties: 

And the same was read the first time; and ordered 

to be read a second time this day; and to be 

printed. 


SherifisCourts The Lord Advocate reported from the Select 
(Scotland) Bill. Committee on the Sheriffs Courts (Scotland) Bill ; 
No. 473. That they had examined the allegations of the Bill, 
and found the same to be true; and had gone 

through the Bill, and made Amendments there- 

unto. 


Ordered, That the Bill, as amended, be printed. 


oa Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 
ee Copy of Instructions to Lieutenant-Colonel Chesney, 
“ou. 92. 


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587 


the Officer commanding the Euphrates Expedition ; 
together with Abstract of Correspondence, and Ac- 
counts of Expenditure relative to that Enterprize. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Burmese 
Copy of Dispatches from Jndia, and other Papers Prize Money. 
relative to the distribution of Burmese Prize Money. 


And then the House, having continued to sit 
till a quarter of an hour after one of the 
clock on Tuesday morning, adjourned till 
this day. 


Martis, 4° die Julii ; 


Anno 1° Victorie Regine, 1837. 





PRAYERS. 


O# DERED, That all Committees have leave Committees. 
to sit this day till four of the clock, during the 
sitting of the House. 


A Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act for au- Duke of 
thorizing the Trustees under an Act passed in the oe 
thirty-ninth and fortieth years of His Majesty King “°° 
George the Third, for enabling the Duke of Richmond 

for the time being to grant Jointures, as therein 
mentioned, and for other purposes, to sell the Residue 
remaining unsold of the Stocks, on Transfer of which 

the said Annuity was made redeemable, and to invest 

the Money to arise from such Sale in the Purchase 

of Manors, Lands and Hereditaments, and for other 
purposes, was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 


do pass. 

Onieed, That Lord George Lennox do carry the 
Bill to the Lords ; and acquaint them, that this 
House hath agreed to the same, with Amendments ; 
to which Amendments this House doth desire the 
concurrence of their Lordships. 


A Petition of the Chairman of a Meeting of the Southwark and 
Directors of the City of London or Southwark and Hammersmith 
Hammersmith Railway Company, was presented, and Bilvay Bill. 
read ; stating that from various causes the Directors 
of the said Company are unable to proceed effectually 
in the progress of the Southwark and Hammersmith 
Railway Bill during the present Session; and praying 
that they may be allowed to proceed with their Bill 
in the ensuing Parliament without being subjected to 
the repetition of the heavy expenses which would be 
occasioned by again complymg with the Standing 
Orders of the House; but that the House will order 
that the notices, books of reference, with the plans and 
sections already given to the owners, lessees and 
occupiers affected by the proposed line of Railway, 
and deposited with the officers of the House, shall 
be deemed sufficient for the purpose of prosecuting 
the said Bill in the ensuing Session of Parliament. 

Ordered, That the said Petition do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


A Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act for au- Lord Sandys’ 
thorizing Trustees to sell part of the settled Estates Estate Bill. 
of the Right honourable Arthur Moyses William 
Lord Sandys, in the Counties of Worcester, Cambridge 
and Bedford, and for laying out the Monies to arise 
by such Sale in the Purchase of other Estates to be 
settled to the same uses; and also for authorizing 
the same Trustees to grant Leases, for building and 
manufacturing purposes, of other Parts of the said 
settled Estates in the County of Worcester, was 
read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
do pass. 

Ordered, That General Zygon do carry the Bil 
to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, with Amendments ; to 
which Amendments this House doth desire the con- 
currence of their Lordships. 

















4F2 A Bill, 

















Winchester 


College Estate . 


Bill. 


Watson’s 
Estate Bill. 


Lord’s Day Bill. 


Poor Law Act, 


Ecclesiastical 
Appointments 
Suspension Bill. 


Larne Harbour, 


Public 
Petitions. 


Plan of Educa 
tion (Ireland.) 


Tithes 
(Treland.) 


588 


A Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act for effect- 
ing an Exchange between the Warden and Scholars 
Clerks of Saint Mary College, of Winchester, near 
Winchester, in the County of Southampton, and the 
Dean of the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity 
of Winchester, in the said County, and the Chapter 
of the same Church, of divers Messuages or Tene- 
ments, Lands and Hereditaments, was read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. East do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, with Amendments; to which 
Amendments this House doth desire the concurrence 
of their Lordships. 


A Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act for vest- 
ing an Estate in the Parish of Steeple Aston, in the 
County of Oxford, devised by the Will of John Marten 
Watson, Gentleman, deceased, in Trustees, for car- 
rying into effect a Contract entered into for the Sale 
thereof, and for laying out the Monies thence arising 
in the purchase of other Estates to be settled to the 
same uses, was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
do pass. 

Ordered, That Sir Robert Inglis do carry the Bill 
to the Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, with Amendments ; to 
which Amendments this House doth desire the con- 
currence of their Lordships. 


Petitions from Tenterden ;— Ashford ;—Ferry Port 
on Craig ;—and, Saint Paul's Chapel, Vauxhall, 
Lambeth, praying that the Lord’s Day Bill may be 
ane to go into a Committee of the whole 

ouse,—were presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Manchester and Salford ;—Rhwng- 
dwy-glydach ;—Chairman of a Meeting of Inhabitants 
of Tottington-lower-end ;—Chairman of a Meeting of 
Inhabitants of Brighouse ;—and, Elland-cum-Greet- 
land; praying for the repeal of the Poor Law Act,— 
were presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of the Dean and Chapter of the Cathe- 
dral and Metropolitical Church of Christ, Canterbury, 
praying that the Ecclesiastical Appointments Sus- 
pension Bill may not pass into a law, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Zarne, praying that 
the Harbour of Larne may be selected as a Packet 
Station for the transmission of the Mail between 
Scotland and Ireland, was presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Dr. Bowring reported from the Select Committee 
on Public Petitions ; That they had examined the 
Petitions presented from the 24th to the 30th days 
of June last, both inclusive ; and had directed him 
to make a Report thereof to the House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 


and be printed. 


Or tered, That a Message be sent to the Lords, to 
request that their Lordships will give leave to the 
Bishop of Exeter to attend, in order to his being 
examined as a witness before the Select Committee 
appointed by this House to inquire into the progress 
and operation of the new plan of Education in Jreland, 
and to report thereupon to the House: And that 
Mr. Vernon Smith do carry the said Message. 


Petitions from Killeen and Dunsany ;—Laracor 
and Gallow ;—Clonalvey ;—Derrypatrick and other 
places ;—Ardcath ;—and, Kilmesson; praying for 
the abolition of Tithes in Jreland,—were presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 





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Petitions from Ardcath;— Dunboyne and Kilbride ; Municipai 
— Glenalvey ;—Derrypatrich, &amp;c.;—and, Kilmesson ; Forporations 
praying the House to grant to Ireland a measure of (**!*4) 
unicipal Reform similar to that passed for England 
and Scotland,—were presented, and read; and or- 
dered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from &lt;Ardcath ;— Navan ;—Clonalvey; Vote by Ballot, 
Laracor and Gallow ;—Derrypatrick, &amp;c. ;—and, 
Kilmesson ; praying that the Votes at all Elections 
for Members to serve in Parliament may be taken by 
Ballot,—were presented, and read ; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Moynalty ;— A thboy and Rathmore ; Government 
—Nobber;—Painstown and Ardmulchan;—Syddan Ireland, 
and other places ;—Cullmullen and Knockmark ;— 
Dunshaughlin ;—.Duleek ;—Kentstown ;— Navan ;— 
and, Ardcath ; praying the House to support Her 
Majesty’s present Ministers in their Government of 
Ireland,—were presented, and read ; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Doncaster, praying Maynooth 
that no further grant may be made to the Roman College. 
Catholic College of Maynooth, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Chairman of a Meeting of the Highway Rates 
Trustees of the Hulme and Eccles Turnpike Road, Bill. 
praying that the Highway Rates Bill may pass into 
a law, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 


upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Chairman of a Meeting of In- Universal 
habitants of Southowram, praying for the adoption Suffrage. 
of Universal Suffrage in the election of Members to 
serve in Parliament, was presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Auchtermuchty ;—Strathmiglo ;— Fife Mail. 
and, George Danie; praying the House to give such 
directions as may speedily ensure the establishment 
of a direct Mail through Fife,—were presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Guardians of the Tisbury Union, Rating of 
praying that the Rating of Tenements Bill may pass _— 
into a law, was presented, and read; and ordered to~' ° 
lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from the Chairman of the Radical Asso- Factories Act. 

ciation of Edinburgh ;—and, Operatives employed 
in the Cotton Mills of Mr. Taylor, Sharples, near 
Bolton; praying the House to pass a law to restrict 
the ae pa. A of operatives, in all mills and fac- 
tories of the United Kingdom, to Ten hours per day 
for five days of the week, and eight on the Saturday, 
—were presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of the Chairman of a Meeting of Weavers Corn Laws. 
and others, of Bolton, praying for the repeal of the 
Corn Laws, was presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Catrine ;—Kirkoswald ;—and, the Railways 
Moderator of the Presbytery of Dundee, praying the (Se) 
House to pass a law prohibiting all traftic on Rail- 
ways in Scotland on the Lord’s Day,—were presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Rate-payers and others of Berry- Church Rates 
narbor, praying that the proposed measure relative Segue. 
to Church Rates may receive the sanction of the 
House, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Archdeacon and Clergy of the Churches. 
Archdeaconry of Richmond (York), praying the 
House to provide, from the revenues of the country, 
such Churches as may still be required for the a oor 
ua 


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Lord Dynevor’s 


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tual wants of the population, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Governors of the Queen’s County In- 
firmary, praying that the Medical Charities (Zre/and) 
Bill may not pass into a law, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 
posed, That an humble Address be presented to Her 
Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased to issue 
a Commission of Inquiry into the condition of the 
unemployed Hand-loom Weavers, and to report 
whether any, and, if so, what, measures can be 
devised for their relief:—And a Debate arising 
thereupon— 


A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Dowdeswell 

and Mr. Roupell: 
Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords have agreed to the several Bills fol- 
lowing, without Amendment ; viz. 

A Bill, intituled, An Act for granting to Her Ma- 
jesty, until the fifth day of July One thousand eight 
hundred and thirty-eight, certain Duties on Sugar 
imported into the United Kingdom, for the Service 
of the year One thousand eight hundred and thirty- 
seven : 

A Bill, intituled, An Act for enabling Her Ma- 
jesty to grant the Rank of General Officers to Fo- 
reigners now bearing Her Majesty’s Commission, 
and to permit the Enlistment of Foreigners, under 
certain Restrictions: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Amendments made 
by this House to the Bill, intituled, An Act for the 
Amendment of the Laws with respect to Wills, 
without any Amendment: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Amendments made 
by this House to the Bill, intituled, An Act to amend 
an Act passed in the third and fourth year of His 
present Majesty, intituled, “ An Act for the Limita- 
tion of Actions and Suits relating to Real Property, 
and for simplifying the Remedies for trying the 
Rights thereto,” without any Amendment: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Amendments made 
by this House to the Bill, intituled, An Act for 
confirming a Lease granted by the Most noble Henry 
Charles, late Duke of Beaufort, to John Vivian, 
Esquire, of Lands and Hereditaments in the Parish 
of Saint John-juxta-Swansea, in the County of Gla- 
morgan, and &lt;a a certain other Lease granted by 
the said Henry Charles, late Duke of Beaufort, and 
the Most Noble Henry Duke of Beaufort, by his 
then Name of Henry Marquis of Worcester, to John 
Williams, Esquire, and others, of Lands and Here- 
ditaments in the Parishes of Saint John-juxta-Swan- 
sea and Llangefelach, in the said County of Gla- 
morgan, without any Amendment: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Amendments made 
by this House to the Bill, intituled, An Act for vest- 
ing the settled undivided Shares of the Right honour- 
able George Talbot Rice Lord Dynevor, in the County 
of Glamorgan, in Trustees for Sale, and with Power 
to make a partition thereof, without any Amend- 
ment: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
Act to alter, amend, explain and enlarge the Powers 
of the several Acts for making and maintaining the 

Clarence Railway, with Amendments; to which 


Amendments the Lords desire the concurrence of 


this House: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
Act to enable “ The Great North of England Rail- 
way Company ” to extend the Line of their Railway, 
and to make two Branches therefrom, and for other 
purposes relating thereto, with Amendments; to 
which Amendments the Lords desire the concurrence 
of this House: And also, 


The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
to alter and amend an Act passed in the second year 


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589 


Fourth, intituled, “ An Act to enable the Governors 


of the Possessions, Revenues and Goods of the Free 


Grammar School of King Edward the Sixth in Bir- 


mingham, in the County of Warwick, to vest a School 


House, Masters’ Houses, and other suitable accom- 
modations for the said School, and to extend the 
objects of the Charity, and for other purposes ;” to 
which the Lords desire the concurrence of this House: 
And also, 


to attend their Lordships, in order to his being exa- 
mined as a Witness before the Committee to whom 
the Glusgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway 
Bill stands committed :—And then the Messengers 
withdrew. 

The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the last part of the said Message:—And Mr. Dunlop, 
being present in his place, declared that he was 
willing, with leave of the House, to go to the House 
of Lords, as desired by their Lordships. 

Resolved, That John Dunlop, Esquire, have leave 
to go to the House of Lords, as desired by their 
Lordships, if he think fit. 

And the Messengers were again called in; and 
Mr. Speaker acquainted them therewith :—And then 
they again withdrew. 


of the Amendments to the Bill, intituled, “ An Act” 
to amend an Act for the Regulation of Municipal 
Corporations in England and Wales,” the Lords do 
agree to a Conference, and appoint the same imme- 
diately in the Committee Room, No. 5. 

Ordered, That the Managers who managed the 
last Conference do manage this Conference : —And 
the names of Lord Viscount Palmerston, Mr. Poulett 
Thomson, Sir Henry Parnell, Sir Rufane Donkin, 
Mr. Wilbraham, Mr. Bernal, the Earl of Euston, 
Mr. Robinson, and Mr. Wallace, were added to 
them. 

Then the names of the Managers were called over; 
and they went to the Conference :—And being re- 
turned ; 

Lord John Russell reported, That the Managers 
had been at the Conference, which was managed on 
the part of the Lords by the Marquis of Salisbury ; 
and that they had left the Bill, and Amendments, 
with their Lordships. 


and Mr. Roupell: 
Mr. Speaker, 


to appoint a Second Commissioner of Bankrupt in 
Ireland, and to amend an Act passed in the sixth 
and seventh years of the Reign of his late Majesty 
King William the Fourth, intituled, “ An Act to 
amend the Laws relating to Bankrupts in Jreland;” 
to which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House: And also, 


ingley-cum-Burley, in the Parish of Leeds, in the 
County of York, of which John Henry Fawcett, 
Esquire, is Tenant for Life, in Trustees for Sale, and 
for investing the Monies to be produced thereby in 
the purchase of other Estates to be settled to the 
same uses; to which the Lords desire the concur- 
rence of this House :—And then the Messengers 
withdrew. 


Then the House resumed the said Debate ; 

And the Question being 
Address be presented to Her 
be graciously pleased to issue a Commission of In- 
quiry into the condition of the unemployed Hand- 
loom Weavers, and to report whether any, and, if 
so, what, measures can be devised for their Relief ; 





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The Lords request that this House will give leave Glasgow and 
to John Dunlop, —— a Member of this House, 9 Railway 


Mr. Bernal reported, That having been with the Municipal 
Lords to desire a Conference on the subject-matter Corporations 





A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Dowdeswell ta from 
e rds, 


The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Bankrupts 


The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Faweett’s 
for vesting settled Estates in the Township of Head- Estate Bill. 


ut, That an humble Hand-loom 
ajesty, that She will Weavers. 


Lotteries. 


Corporate 
Property 


(Ireland) Bill. 


Bridgwater 
Election. 


Tithe Advances 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Supply ; 


Miscellaneous 
Charges 
(Scotland.) 


Commissariat. 


Half Pay, &amp;c. 


Civil List 


Pensions. 


590 


The House divided : 
The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 
The Noes to the old Lobby. 
Tellers for the ¢ Mr. John Maxwell, 1s 
Yeas, \ Mr. Wakley: ies 
Tellers for the { Lord Seymour, 45 
Noes, Sir George Grey: } ‘ 
So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 
Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
Her Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of Her Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
posed, That a Select Committee be appointed, to 
inquire into the Lottery system, to learn whether 
Foreign Lotteries are or are not greatly published 
and negotiated in various parts of the United King- 
dom; to ascertain whether Private Lotteries or 
“ Little Goes” (some of which are said to be by 
authority of Parliament) are or are not now carried 
on to a considerable extent, and to report thereon: 
—And the said Motion was, with leave of the House, 
withdrawn. 


The House was moved, That the Act 6 and 7 
Will. 4, c. 100, to restrain the alienation of Corporate 
Property in certain Towns in Jreland, might be read ; 
and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
restrain the alienation of Corporate Property in cer- 
tain Towns in Jreland: And that Lord Viscount 
Morpeth and Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer do 


prepare, and bring it in. 


The Order for taking into consideration upon Tues- 
day, the 11th day of this instant July, the Petition 
of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, of Grosvenor-square, 
in the county of Middlesex, Esquire, complaining 
of an undue Election and Return for the ate 
of Bridgwater, was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That the said Petition be taken into 
consideration upon Tuesday, the 25th day of this 
instant July, at three of the clock in the Afternoon. 


The House was moved, That the Act 6 and 7 
Will. 4, c. 81, to suspend, until the sixth day of 
April One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, 
Proceedings for recovering payment of the Money 
advanced under the Acts for establishing Tithe Com- 
positions in Jreland, might be read ; and the same 
being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
revive and continue the said Act: And that Mr. 
Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lord Viscount 
Morpeth do prepare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Bernal reported from the Committee of Sup- 
ply, several Resolutions, which were read, as follow: 

1. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Fifty-nine 
thousand and three hundred pounds, be granted to 


Her Majesty, to defray, to the 31st day of March 
1838, Law Charges, Grants to Scottish Ciisenitien. 
and other Charges formerly paid out of the Here- 
ditary Revenues, and not provided for out of his 
late Majesty’s Civil List, nor out of the Consolidated 
Fund. 

2. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One hun- 
dred and eighty-six thousand seven hundred and 
fifty-eight pounds, five shillings and three-pence, 
be granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge of 
the Commissariat Department, to the 31st day of 
March 1838. 

3. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Fifty-two 
thousand seven hundred and twenty-seven ounds, 
four shillings and sixpence, be granted to Her Ma- 
jesty, to defray the Expense of Half-Pay, Pensions, 
and Allowances in the Commissariat Department, 
to the 31st day of March 1838. 

4. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Two hun- 
dred thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, 
towards satisfying such Charges, Pensions and An- 


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A. 1837. 


nuities, as would have been payable out of the Civil 
List in case the demise of his late Majesty had not 
taken place before the 31st day of December 1837. 

5. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Twenty- Marlborough 
one thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, House. 
to defray the Charge of repairing Marlborough House, 
for the reception of the Gene Dowager. 

6. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Eighty- New Houses of 
eight thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, Parliament. 
towards defraying the Expense of erecting the New 
Houses of Parliament, in the year 1837. 

7. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Eighteen Record 
thousand one hundred and seventy-two pounds, be Commission, 
granted to Her Majesty, to carry on, to the 31st day 
of March 1838, the Works in progress under the 
direction of the Commissioners of Public Records ; 
also, to pay certain Arrears not provided for by the 
Grant of last Session. 

8. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Five thou- Royal College 
sand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, in aid of of Surgeons 
the Fonte of the Royal College of Surgeons in ‘fi&gt;uel.) 
Edinburgh. 

9. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Five thou- Royal Dublin 
sand and three hundred pounds, be granted to Her 5°): 
Majesty, in aid of the Sandie of the Royal 
Dublin Society, to the 31st day of March 1838. 

10. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Nine Pictures 
thousand and thirty pounds, be granted to Her Ma- Gallery.) 
jesty, to purchase, in the year 1837, Pictures for the ™ 
National Gallery. 

11. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One British 
thousand and two hundred pounds, be granted to Museu. 
Her Majesty, to enable the Trustees of the British 
Museum to purchase certain Etruscan Vases, part 
of the Collection of the Prince cf Canino. 

12. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Seventeen Upper Canada, 
thousand nine hundred and ten pounds, eight shillings 
and one penny, be granted to Her Majesty, to pay 
Compensations to British Subjects in Upper Canada, 
for Losses sustained by them during the War in 
1813 and 1814, in addition to the amount already 
provided from the Funds of the Colony, and other 
sources. 

13. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One hun- 
dred and forty-two thousand one hundred and sixty 
pounds, fourteen shillings and sixpence, be granted 
to Her Majesty, for Advances on account of Arrears 
of Charges for the Administration of Justice, and of 
the Civil Government of the Province of Lower 
Canada. 

14. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Thirty- Steam Commu- 
seven thousand and five hundred pounds, be granted Rication with 
to Her Majesty, towards defraying the Expense of = ~ 
Steam Communication to India, by way of the Red 
Sea, for three quarters of a year, to the 31st day of 
March 1838. 

15. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Two hun- Deficiency of 
dred and twenty-three thousand nine hundred and 6" 
twelve pounds, ten shillings and eleven-pence, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to make good the deficiency 


Lower Canada. 


fof Grants of former years. 


16. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One hun- Disembodied 
dred and ninety-two thousand one hundred and — 
fifteen pounds, two shillings and two-pence, be 
eranted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge of the 
Disembodied Militia of the United Kingdom, to the 
31st day of March 1838. 

17. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Twenty- Seamen’s ;, 
two thousand eight hundred and eleven pounds, be —r ” 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge of 
Wages for Seamen employed in the Packet Service, 
which will come in course of payment in the year 
ending 31st March 1838. ae 

18. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Ten Victuals tor 
thousand seven hundred and seventy pounds, be “*’” 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge of 
Victuals for Seamen in Her Majesty’s Fleet, to the 
31st day of March 1838. 

19. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Two Admiralty 
thousand four hundred and eighty-eight pounds, be Office. 

granted 





Naval Esta- 
blishments at 
Home. 


Artificers’ 
Wages. 


Naval Stores. 


Dock Yards. 


Naval 
Miscellaneous 
Services. 


Militia Pay 
Bill. 


Ways and 
Means. 


Consolidated 
Fund Bill. 


Psnishment of 
Death Bill. 


Ecclesiastical 
Appointments 
Suspension Bill. 


Parliamentary 
Electors Bill. 


Centra! 
Criminal Court 
Bill. 


7” 


New South 
Wales, &amp;c,, Bill. 


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granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Salaries of 
the Officers of the Admiralty Office, to the 31st day 
of March 1838. 

20. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Two 
thousand three hundred and ninety-one pounds, be 
granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Salaries of 
the Officers, and the Contingent Expenses of Her 
Majesty’s Naval Establishments at Home, to the 
31st day of March 1838. 

21. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Forty 
thousand —— be granted to Her Majesty, to 
pay the Wages of Artificers, Labourers and others 
employed in Her Majesty’s Naval Establishments 
at Home, to the 31st day of March 1838. 

22, Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding One hun- 
dred and fifty-tive thousand pounds, be granted to 
Her Majesty, to defray the Expense of Naval Stores, 
for the building and repair of Vessels, for the pur- 
chase and hire of Vessels and of Steam Machinery, 
and for other purposes connected therewith, to the 
31st day of March 1838. 

23. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Three 
thousand pounds, be granted to Her Majesty, to 
defray the Charge of New Works and Improvements 
and Repairs in the Yards, to the 31st day of March 
1838. 

24. Resolved, That a sum, not exceeding Thirty 
thousand and eight hundred — be granted to 
Her Majesty, to defray the Charge of divers Naval 
Miscellaneous Services, to the 31st day of March 
1838. 

The said Resolutions, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That a Bill be brought in upon the 
16th of the said Resolutions: And that Lord Viscount 
Howick and Mr. Bernal do prepare, and bring 
it in. 

Mr. Charles Wood reported from the Committee 
of Ways and Means, a eoibatien: which was read, 
as followeth: 

Resolved, That, towards making good the Supply 
granted to Her Majesty, the Sum of Five Millions 
and two hundred and twenty thousand pounds, be 
issued out of the Consolidated Fund of the United 
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for the 
service of the year 1837. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 

Ordered, That a Bill be brought in upon the said 
Resolution: And that Mr. Charles Wood, Mr.Chan- 
cellor of the Exchequer and Mr. Baring do pre- 
pare, and bring it in. 


Mr. Bernal reported the Punishment of Death 
Bill; and the Amendments were read, and agreed 
to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time To-morrow. 


Mr. Bernal reported the Ecclesiastical Appoint- 


ments Suspension Bill; and the Amendments were, 


read, and agreed to. 
Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time To-morrow. 


The ingrossed Bill to regulate the times of pay- 
ment of Rates and Taxes by Parliamentary Electors, 
and to abolish the Stamp Duty on the admission of 
Freemen, was, according to Order, read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. p todd | do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Central Criminal Court Bill was, according 
to Order, read a second time; and committed to a 
Committee of the whole House, for To-morrow. 


The ingrossed Bill to continue an Act of the ninth 
year of his Majesty King Gevrge the Fourth, for 
the administration of Justice in New South Wales 

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591 


and Van Diemen’s Land, was, according to Order, 
read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act to continue until the Thirty-first 
day of December one thousand eight hundred and 
thirty-eight, and from thence to the end of the then 
next Session of Parliament, an Act of the ninth year 
of his Majesty King George the Fourth, for the 
Administration of Justice in New South Wales and 
Van Diemen’s Land. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Mr. Bernal reported the Beet Root Sugar Bill ; Beet Root 
and the Amendments were read, and agreed to. Seger Bul. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time To-morrow. 


Mr. Bernal reported the Masters and Workmen Masters and 
Bill; and the Amendments were read, and agreed to, Vorkmen Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time To-morrow. 


The ingrossed Bill for better enabling Her Ma- Letters Patent 
jesty to confer certain Powers and Immunities on ~” 
Trading and other Companies, was, according to 
Order, read the third time ; and Amendments were 
made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Mr. Bernal reported from the Committee, to whom Exchequer Bills 
it was referred to consider of authorizing a further (Public Works.) 
advance of Exchequer Bills for carrying on Public 
Works and Fisheries in the United Kingdom, a Re- 
solution, which was read as followeth ; 

Resolved, That Her Majesty be enabled to direct 
Exchequer Bills, to an amount not exceeding Five 
hundred thousand pounds, to be issued to Commis- 
sioners, to be by them advanced towards the com- 
pletion of Works of a public nature, or for the 
encouragement of the Fisheries, or for the employ- 
ment of the Poor, on due security being given for 
the re-payment of the sum so advanced. 

The said Resolution, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 

Ordered, That a Bill be brought in upon the said 
Resolution: And that Mr. Bernal, Mr. Chancellor 
of the Exchequer and Mr. Baring do prepare, and 
bring it in. 

Mr. Bernal reported the Post Office Manage- Post Office 
ment (No. 2.) Bill; and the Amendments were read, Management 

(No. 2) Bill. 
and agreed to. 


Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed; and read the third time To-morrow. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself East India 
into a Committee upon the East India Postage Bill; Posse Bill. 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker re- 
sumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal reported, That 
the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself ye og Bills 
into a Committee upon the Exchequer Bills Bill ; £13: 23,300.) 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker re- 
sumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal reported, That 
the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 


The Bank of Jreland Bill was, according to Order, Bank of — 
read a second time ; and committed to a Committee !eland Bill. 
of the whole House, for To-morrow. 


The Assessed Taxes Exemption Bill was, accord- Assessed Taxes 
ing to Order, read a second time ; and committed to P**™?tion Bil 
a Committee of the whole House, for To-morrow. 

4Fr4 Lord 








Treasurers 
of Counties 


(Ireland) Bill. 


Cruelty to 
Animals 


(Ireland) Bill. 


Militia Pay 
Bill. 


Militiz Ballots 


9) 


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59 


Lord Viscount Morpeth, by Order, reported the 
Treasurers of Counties (/reland) Bill; and the 
Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time To-morrow. 


The ingrossed Bill to extend to Ireland the Act of 


the fifth and sixth years of his late Majesty’s Reign, 
consolidating and amending the Laws relating to 
the cruel and improper Treatment of Animals, was, 
according to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Lord Viscount Howick presented a Bill to defray 
the charge of the Pay, Clothing and Contingent and 
other Expenses of the Disembodied Militia in Great 
Britain and Ireland, and to grant Allowances in 
certain cases to Subaltern Officers, Adjutants, Pay- 
masters, Quartermasters, Surgeons, Assistant Sur- 
a Surgeons’ Mates, and Serjeant Majors of the 

ilitia: And the same was read the first time ; and 
ordered to be read a second time To-morrow. 


Lord Viscount Howick presented a Bill to suspend 


Suspension Bill. ¢. @ limited time the making of Lists and the 


Corporate 
Property 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Exchequer Bills 
(Public Works) 
Bill. 


Slave Trade 
Treaties Bill. 


No, 475. 


Consolidated 
Fund Bill. 


Ballots and Enrolments for the Militia of the United 
Kingdom: And the same was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time To-morrow. 


Lord Viscount Morpeth presented a Bill to restrain 


the Alienation of Corporate Property in certain | 


Towns in Jreland: And the same was read the first 
time; and ordered to be read a second time To- 
morrow. 


Mr. Bernal presented a Bill to authorize a further 
issue of Exchequer Bills for the purposes of carrying 
on Public Works and Fisheries, and Employment 
of the Poor, and to amend the Acts relating thereto: 
And the same was read the first time ; and ordered 
to be read a second time To-morrow. 


Lord Viscount Palmerston presented a Bill to 
authorize Her Majesty to carry into immediate exe- 
cution, by Orders in Council, any Treaties, Conven- 
tions, or Stipulations made with any Foreign Power 
or State for the Suppression of the Slave Trade: And 
the same was read the first time ; and ordered to be 
yead a second time To-morrow ; and to be printed. 


Mr. John Parker, by Order, presented a Bill to 
apply a sum of Money out of the Consolidated Fund 
for the service of the year One thousand eight 
hundred and thirty-seven: And the same was read 
the first time ; and ordered to be read a second time 
‘To-morrow. 


4°— 5° Juliz. 


A. 1837. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- Losses by Fin 
posed, That a Select Committee be appointed to con- [Late Houses 
sider the case of the late Speaker, and Officers of the ° Patliament,) 
Houses of Parliament, who suffered by the Fire: of 
the former Houses of Parliament, and to report on 
the same ; 

Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, by Her Ma- 
jesty’s command, acquainted the House, That Her 
Majesty, having been informed of the subject-matter 
|of this Motion, recommends it to the consideration 
| of the House. 

And the Question being again proposed :—And 
a Debate arising thereupon ; 

Ordered, That the Debate be adjourned till To- 


morrow. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented County Polling 
to Her Majesty, That She will be graciously pleased P!#¢e* 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Return of the.several additional Polling 
Places for Counties, Ridings, Parts or Divisions of 
Counties in England and Wales, which shall have 
been appointed under the Act 6 and 7 Will. 4, 

c. 102, intituled, An Act for rendering more easy 
the taking of the Poll at County Elections. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
Her Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of Her Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


_ The Bankrupts (Jreland) Bill was read the first Bankrupts 
time; and ordered to be read a second time To- (ireland) Bill. 
| morrow. No. 476. 


Ordered, That the Bill be printed. 


Fawcett’s Estate Bill was read the first time ; and Fawcett’s 
ordered to be read a second time. Estate Bill. 


Birmingham Free School Estate Bill, was read the Birmingham 


first time ; and ordered to be read a second time. _Free School 
Estate Bill. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 





Mercurii, 5° die Julii ; 
Anno 1° Victorie Regine, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


QRDE RED, That all Committees have leave Committees. 
to sit this day till four of the clock, during 
the sitting of the House. 





The House proceeded to take into consideration Hurworth and 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, bang Railway 
‘intituled, An Act to enable “The Great North of “"” 
England Railway Company” to extend the Line of 


|their Railway, and to make two Branches there- 
‘from, and for other purposes relating thereto; and 


Mr. John Parker, by Order, presented a Bill to the same were read as follow : 
revive and continue an Act of the last Session of} Pr. 1. 1.3. Leave out “ present” and _ insert 
Parliament for suspending Proceedings forrecovering |“ late,’ and in the same line, after ‘‘ Majesty “in- 
payment of the Money advanced under the Acts for |“ sert “ King William the Fourth.” 
establishing Tithe Compositions in Jreland: And| Pr. 2. 1.5. Leave out “ King’s” 
the same was read the first time ; and ordered to be | “ Queen’s.” 
read a second time To-morrow. Pr. 3. 1. 2.) Leave out “ His” 
Pr. 3. 1. 12.“ Her.” 
Pr. 9. 1.3. Leave out “a plan” and _ insert 
plans and sections.” 
Pr. 9. 1. 4. After “ line” insert “ and levels.” 
Pr. 9. 1. 7. After “ lines” insert “ and levels. 
Pr. 9. 1. 30. After “ made” insert “ and whereas 
the said plans and sections have been approved 
of by Parliament as the plans and sections ac- 
cording to which the said extension and branches 


Tithe Advances 
(Ireland) Bil!. 


and insert 


and insert 


| 
Mr. Callaghan reported the Reform of Parliament | 
(Iveland) Bill; and the Amendments were aed “ 
| 
{ 


Reform of 
Parliament 
Ire ill. 
ee oak agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 


be ingrossed ; and read the third time To-morrow. 
mid 


Fermanagh “ 
Baronial 
Subdivisions 


Bill. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself, 
into a Committee upon the Fermanagh Baronial, 
Subdivisions Bill; and, after some time spent therein, | “ are to be made.” 

Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Shaw | Pr. 12. 1. 34. After “ six” insert Clauses (A.), 
reported, That the Committee had gone through the | (B.), (C.) and (D.) 

Bill, and directed him to report the same, without; | Cxavuse (A.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
Amendment. “ in making the said extension branches, and other 

Ordered, That that the Bill be ingrossed ; and “ works, it shall not be lawful for the said Company 
read the third Time To-morrow. “ to deviate from the levels of the said extension 

| “ branches 


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1 Victroriz. 


5° Jultz. 


“ 


593 


“ branches and other works, as referred to the com- 
* mon datum line described on the section so ap- | “ 
proved of by Parliament, and as marked on the 
same, to any extent exceeding in any place Five | ‘ 
feet, or, in passing through towns, Two feet, with- | “ 
out the consent of the owners, lessees and occu- | ‘ 
piers of the land in, through or over which such 


making and completing the works hereby autho- 
rized to be made.” 

Cuiaussr (D.)“ Provided always, and be it further 
Enacted, That the said Company shall, and they 
are hereby required, within the space of Six calendar 
months from and after the passing of this Act, to 
commence the construction of the viaduct intended 


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deviation is intended to be made; or, in case any | “ 


street or public carriage-road shall be affected by 
such deviation, then the same shall not be made 
without the consent of the trustees or commis- 
sioners, or, if there be no such trustees or com- 
missioners, without the consent of Two or more 
Justices of the Peace in petty sessions assembled 
for that purpose, and acting for the district in 
which such street or public carriage-road may be 
situate, or without the consent of the commission- 
ers for any public sewers, or of the proprietors of 
any canal or navigation, affected by such devia- 
tion ; and that no increase in the inclination or 
gradients of the said Railway, as denoted by the 
said section, shall be made in any place to an 
extent exceeding the rate of Three feet per mile ; 
and where in any place it is intended to carry 
the Railway on an arch or arches, as marked on 
the said plan or section, the same shall be made 
accordingly ; and where a tunnel is marked on 
the said plan or section, as intended to be made 
at any place, the same shall be made accordingly, 
unless the owners, lessees and occupiers of the 
land in or through which such tunnel is intended 
to be made, shall consent that the same shall not 
be so made: Provided nevertheless, That it shall 
be lawful for the said Company, with such con- 
sent as aforesaid, and not otherwise, to make a 
tunnel, or an arch or arches as aforesaid, not 
marked on the said plan or section, so that no 
such tunnel shall be of a greater length than Two 
hundred yards, and that no two tunnels be at a 
less distance from each other than One hundred 
yards, measured on the line of the Railway : Pro- 
vided always, That notice of every petty sessions 
to be holden for the purpuse of obtaining such 
consent as aforesaid, shall, Fourteen days pre- 
vious to the holding of such petty sessions, be 
given in some newspaper circulating in the county, 
and also be affixed on the church door of the 
parish in which such deviation or alteration is in- 
tended to be made, or, if ‘here beno church, on some 
other place to which notices are usually affixed: 
Provided also, That for the purpose of consenting 
to any such deviation from the said sections, and 
to any tunnelling or arching as aforesaid, the 
word ‘ owners’ shall be deemed and taken to 
mean such persons as are herein, or by the said 
recited Act, capacitated to agree for the sale of 
and to convey land for the making of the said 
Railway extension branches and other works, and 
the consent of such persons, with or without the 
consent of any other persons interested as owners 
in the said lands, shall be deemed and taken to 
be sufficient for such purposes.” 


Crause (B.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
it shall not be lawful to diminish the radius of 
any curve from what it is shown to be on the 
plan deposited with the Clerk of the Peace, unless 


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to be made under the provisions of the said re- 
cited Act, in the Township of Shincliff, in the said 
county of Durham, and eh thenceforth to pro- 
ceed uninterruptedly in the formation of the said 
viaduct, so as that the same shall be completed 
within the space of four years from and after the 
passing of this Act.” 

Pr. 15. 1. 29. Leave out from “ avenue” to 
and ” in Pr. 16. 1. 14., and insert Clause (E.) 

Crauss (E.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
at the point where the said extended Railway 
shall intersect the road in the township of News- 
ham-cum-Brickenborough, the said Company shall, 
for the purposes of peor y | the said road over or 
across the said extended Railway, at their own 
expense, erect and make a bridge of one neat 
symmetrical iron arch, springing at each end from 
a stone buttress erected upon the said road ; and 
also make approaches to the said bridge com- 
posed of earth, and also make a road upon the 
said bridge and approaches fit and proper for 
horses and carriages to pass over the same; and 
that the ascent of the slope on each side of each 
approach to the said bridge, shall not exceed One 
foot in Two feet, and so in a smaller quantity than 
a foot; and that the said Company shall, at all 
times, at their own expense, keep the said bridge, 
and the approaches thereto, and the slopes on the 
sides of the said approaches, with the exception 
of the road which they are to make upon the said 
bridge and approaches, in good repair, order and 
condition; and that in order to render the said 
bridge and approaches as little unsightly as pos- 
sible, the earth of which each of the said slopes 
on each side of the said approaches shall be made, 
shall be of such a nature and quality as is fit and 
suitable for the growth of trees; and the said 
Company shall, within Three calendar months 
after the opening of the road over the said bridge, 
at their own expense, plant upon the slope on 
each side of each approach to the said bridge, 
such and so many trees as the said Samuel 
Crompton, his heirs or assigns, shall require ; and 
that the freehold and inheritance of the slopes on 
the sides of the said approaches to the said bridge, 
shall be and continue vested in, and that the said 
trees shall be and continue the property of, the 
said Samuel Crompton, his heirs and assigns.” 

Pr. 17. 1. 17. Leave out from “ Railway” to 
and ” in 1. 27. 

Pr. 17. 1.31. Leave out from “and” to “ upon” 


in 1. 38., and insert “ which shall be a neat stone 


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building, and at all times be maintained and kept 
in good repair and condition by the said Com- 
any.” 
Pr. 17. 1.36. Leave out “ effect” and insert 
affect.” 
Pr. 20. 1. ult. After “ settled” insert Clause (T’.) 
Causes (F.) “ Provided always, and it is hereby 


further Enacted, That in case the said Company 
shall require to take or use any part of the lands 
belonging to George William Tireman, Esquire, 
and the devisees in trust under the will of the 
“ late Mary, the wife of George Ellin, Esquire, 
both deceased, situate in the parish of Saint Mary, 
Bishophill, the younger, in the suburbs of the 
city of York, and numbered respectively 3, 4, 
5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 13, 13a., 14, 14a., 15 and 18 in 
“ the said plan and book of reference, the said 
“ Company shall, and they are hereby required 
“ to purchase the whole of the said last-mentioned 
“lands, if required so to do by the said George 
“ William Tireman and the said devisees, the value 
4G “ thereof 


such radius exceed One mile, nor to diminish it 
in any such case so that it shall become less than 
One mile, nor to ‘diminish any greater radius by 
more than a quarter of a mile unless where it 
exceeds Two miles, or by more than half a mile 
unless where it exceeds Three miles, on the said | , 
plan.” 


CuiavseE (C.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
the said Company shall, and they are hereby re- 
quired to make and complete the said branch 
called, “ The City of York Branch,” and the said 
branch called “ The City of Durham Branch,” 
within the time in this Act specified for the 

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thereof to be ascertained and settled in the same 
manner as the value of other lands taken for the 
purposes of this Act is directed to be ascertained 
and settled: Provided always, That if the said 
Company shall be required to purchase more of 
the said lands than shall be necessary for con- 
structing the said Railway, the said Company 
shall, and they are hereby required, within Two 
years from the time of the completion of the 
purchase thereof, to sell and dispose of so much 
and such part of the lands so purchased as may 
not be required for the purposes of the said Rail- 
way: Provided also, That if the said Company 
shall not, within the said period of Two years, sell 
and dispose of such part of such lands as shall 
not be so required for the purposes of the said 
Railway, the same shall vest in and become the 
property of the owners of the lands adjoining 
thereto on either side thereof, in the manner fol- 
lowing, that is to say; one moiety thereof in the 
owner of the land on the one side thereof, and 
the remainder in the owner of the land on the 
other side thereof.” 

Pr. 21. 1. 30. Leave out “ the bridges on.” 

Pr. 22. 1. ult. After “ provided ” insert “ not- 
withstanding any thing in the said recited Act 
contained to the contrary.” 

Pr. 23. 1. ult. After “ Railway” insert “ not- 
withstanding any thing in the said recited Act 
contained to the contrary.” 

Pr. 25. 1.1. Leave out ‘ the same.” 

Pr. 25. 1. 11. After “ contract” insert “ not- 
withstanding any thing in the said recited Act 
contained to the contrary.” 

Pr. 38. 1. 12. Leave out from “ mentioned ” to 
and” in |. 20. and insert Clauses (G.) and (H.) 

Crause (G.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
in all cases where a turnpike-road shall be car- 
ried over the said Railway, the width of such 
turnpike-road, as well between the parapet walls 
of such bridge as on the batteries, raised embank- 
ments and approaches thereto, shall not be less 
than Thirty feet, and the inclinations of the turn- 
pike-road on such bridge, and on the approaches 
thereto, shall not be greater than One in Thirty ; 
and where the said Railway shall be carried over 
a turnpike-road, and it shall, for the purposes of 

‘ this Act, be necessary to lower such turnpike-road, 
the width of such turnpike-road, as well under 
the bridge as on the excavated approaches thereto 
(which shall have proper slopes on each side 
thereof of not less than Two feet horizontal to 
One foot perpendicular), shall in no case be less 
than Thirty feet, and the height of the arch of 
such bridge shall not be less than Eighteen feet 
from the soffit of the arch to the roadway under 
such bridge; and the inclination, as well under 
the bridge as on the approaches to the roadway 
under the bridge, shall not be greater than One 
in Thirty.” 

Criause (H.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
in all cases where a turnpike-road shall be carried 
over the said Railway, such turnpike-road shall 
be efficiently defended and supported by and with 
proper walls and other sufficient fences for the 
protection of passengers using the same, and as 
well where a turnpike-road shall be carried over 
the said Railway, as where the said Railway shall 
be carried over a turnpike-road, the several works 
so to be made, constructed, executed and com- 
pleted as aforesaid, with the inclinations of such 
turnpike-road, and the approaches to or towards 
the said Railway, shall be so made, constructed, 
executed and completed in manner aforesaid, by 
and at the expense of the said Company, in a 
proper and workmanlike manner, to the satisfac- 
tion of an uninterested competent road surveyor, 
to be appointed by the trustees of such turnpike- 
road and the said Company, or, in case they shall 
disagree about the same, by the Clerk of the 


5° Sulit. 


A. 1837. 


Peace for the county or riding into or through 
which the part of the turnpike-road so altered or 
made shall lie or pass; and the said Compan 
shall at all times, and on all occasions thereafter, 
well and sufficiently maintain, uphold, amend and 
keep in repair the bridges, tunnels, arches, drains, 
sinks, sewers, under drains, parapet walls, fences, 
and the walls, banks, mounds, batteries, erections 
and other works for the support of such bridges, 
tunnels, arches, turnpike-roads and approaches 
thereto respectively, and for the protection of all 
persons, horses and cattle using such turnpike- 
road ; and after any such turnpike-road shall have 
been so made, constructed, executed and com- 
pleted by and at the expense of the said Company 
in manner as aforesaid, the same shall for ever 
thereafter be vested in and become the right and 
property of the trustees of such turnpike-road, 
but all mines, minerals and fossils laying under 
the same, shall be the property of the person or 
persons who would from time to time have been 
entitled to the same if this Act had not been 
passed; and the subsequent surface repairs of 
such turnpike-road shall from thenceforth be made 
and performed by the trustees of such turnpike- 
road, from time to time, out of the funds appli- 
cable to the repair of such turnpike-road.” 
Pr. 38. 1. 31. Leave out from “ than” to “ twenty” 
in 1, 34., and in 1. 34. leave out “in all other cases.” 
Pr. 38. 1. penult. Leave out from “ bridge” to 
“ in,” in Pr. 39. 1. 1. 
Pr. 39. 1. 2. Leave out “ any other” and in- 
sert “a.” 
Pr. 39.1. 17. Leave out from “than” to “twenty ” 
in |. 19. 
Pr. 39. 1. 20. Leave out “ in all other cases.” 
Pr. 39. 1.22. Leave out from “ road ” to “shall ” 
in I. 26. 
Pr. 39. 1. 35. After “ bridge” insert Clause (I.) 
Cuiause (I.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
wherever the level of any turnpike-road or public 
carriage-road shall be altered by means of the 
said Railway, the inclination of such road, if 
turnpike, shall not exceed One foot in Thirty feet 
and if highway, shall not exceed One foot in 
Twenty feet.” 
Pr. 49. 1.11. After “ the” insert “ same.” 


In the Schedule to the Bill: 


Pr. 55. Is. 11. and 12. Leave out 
“ Ditto -| ditto - | ditto - 


‘&lt; 


-- Anthony | - - Cottage an 
Goulds- | garden.” 
borough. | 
Pr. 55. Is. 17.,18.,19., 20., 21. and 22. Leave out 
“ Ditto -| ditto - | ditto - --John Ro- | -- Orchard or 
| binson. | garden. 
Ditto - | ditto - | ditto - - ditto -- Farm-house, 
| stack-yard, yard 
| and out-build- 
| ings.” 
Pr. 60. 1.31. In the third column, after “ George” 
insert “ William.” 
Pr. 60. 1. 32. After “ Tireman” insert “ and 
“ the trustees of the will of Mary Ellin, deceased.” 
The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 
Ordered, That Mr. Bowes do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lordships. 








The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 
\intituled, An Act for making a Railway from the 
Town and Port of Maryport, to the Borough of 
Carlisle, to be called “The Maryport and Carlisle 
Railway ;”” and the same were read, as follow : 

Pr. 2. 1. 17. Leave out “King’s” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 

Pr. 6. 1. 29. After “ line ” insert “and levels.” 

Pr. 7. 1. 4. After “ County” insert “ And 
“ whereas the said maps, or plans and sections have 
“ been approved of by Parliament as the maps, or 
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Maryport 
and Carlisle 
Railway Bill. 


1 Victroriz. 5° Juli. 595 


* en and sections according to which the said |“ Two miles, or by more than half a mile, unless 
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ailway is to be made.” “ where it exceeds Three miles, on the said plan.” 
Pr. 8. 1. 11. After “plans” insert “or sections.” Pr. 25. 1.29. Leave out “present” and insert 
Pr. 9. 1. 10, After “line” insert “and levels.” |“ late,” and in the same line, after “ Majesty,” 
en 1.2%. Mee tales” ect Mia” insert “ King William the Fourth.” 

- 9. 1.11. After“ plans insert " and sections. Pr. 27. |. 26. After “feet” insert “and the 

Pr. 10. Is. 1. and 2. After “ reference” insert | « springing of every such arch shall commence at 
Clauses (A.) and (B.) “ and from a height of not less than Twelve feet 
Cravse (A.) “ And be it further Enacted, That | “ from the surface of every such turnpike-road.” 
in making the said Railway it shall not be lawful Pr. 30. 1. 4. After “ bridge” insert Clause (C.) 
for the said Company to deviate from the levels Cuauss (C.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
of the said Railway ‘as referred to the common |“ whenever the level of any public carriage-road 
datum line described on the section so approved | “ shall be altered for the purposes of the said Rail- 
of by Parliament, and as marked on the same, to way, the ascent of any turnpike-road shall not be 
any extent exceeding in any place Five feet, or, | “ more than One foot in Thirty feet, and of an 
in passing through towns, ‘Two feet, without the |“ other public road, not more than One foot in 
consent of the owners, lessees and occupiers of | “ Twenty feet.” 


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“ the land in, through or over which such deviation Pr. 45. 1.34. Leave out “His” and insert “Her.” 
“ is intended to be made; or in case any street or Pr. 46. 1.33. Leave out “ His” and insert “Her.” 
“‘ public carriage-road shall be affected by such Pr. 54. 1. 28. Leave out “His” and insert “ Her.” 
“ deviation, then the same shall not be made with- Pr. 54. 1. 29. Leave out from “ Majesty” to 
“‘ out the consent of the trustees or commissioners, | “ intituled in 1. 30., and insert “ Queen Victoria.” 
“* or, if there be no such trustees or commissioners, Pr. 84. 1.35. Leave out “His” and insert “ Her.” 
“ without the consent of Two or more Justices of Pr. 85. 1.15. Leave out “His” and insert “ Her.” 
“ the Peace in petty sessions assembled for that Pr. 90. 1. 16. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ purpose, and acting for the district in which such | “ Her.” 

“ street or public carriage-road may be situate, or Pr. 91. 1. 87. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ without the consent of the commissioners for any | “ Her.” 

“ public sewers, or of the proprietors of any canal Pr. 120. ls. 21. and 22. After “authorized” insert 


“ or navigation, affected by such deviation ; and that |“ whether the same exceeds the sum of Twenty 


no increase in the inclination or gradients of the | “ pounds or not.” 
said Railway, as denoted by the said section, Pr. 148. 1. 15. Leave out “ present” and insert 
shall be made in any place to an extent exceeding | “ late,” and in the same line, after “ Majesty” 
the rate of Three feet per mile; and where in any | insert “ King William the Fourth.” 
place it is intended to carry the Railway on any Pr. 148. 1. 32. Leave out “ His” and insert 
arch or arches, as marked on the said plan or |“ Her.” 
section, the same shall be made accordingly; and Pr. 150. 1. 10. Leave out “ His” and insert 
where a tunnel is marked on the said plan or |“ Her.” 
section, as intended to be made at any place, the Pr. 154. 1. 29. Leave out “ His” and insert 
same shall be made accordingly, unless the owners, | “ Her.” 
“‘ lessees and occupiers of the land in or through Pr. 174. 1. 21. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“‘ which such tunnel is intended to be made shall | “ Her,” and in the same line, leave out “ King Wil- 
“ consent that the same shall not be so made: Pro- |“ “am the Fourth ” and insert “ Queen Victoria.” 
“ vided nevertheless, That it shall be lawful for the Pr. 181. 1. 2. Leave out “ His” and insert 
said Company, with such consent as aforesaid, |“ Her.” 
and not otherwise, to make a tunnel or an arch or Pr. 184. l. 15. Leave out “ His” and insert 
arches as aforesaid, not marked on the said plan | “ Her.” 
or section, so that no such tunnel shall be of a Pr. 206. 1. 2. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ oreater length than Two hundred yards, and that |“ Her.” 
no two tunnels be at a less distance from each Pr. 220. 1. 30. Leave out “ His” and insert 
other than One hundred yards, measured on the |“ Her.” 
“ line of the Railway: Provided always, That Pr. 235. 1. 10. Leave out “ His” and insert 
notice of every petty sessions to be holden for the | “ Her.” 
purpose of obtaining such consent as aforesaid, Pr. 250. Ll. ult. Leave out “ His” and insert 
shall, Fourteen days previous to the holding of} “ Her.” 
such petty sessions, be given in some newspaper Pr. 277. 1. 10. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ circulating in the county, and also be affixed upon | “ Her.” 

the pens Ses of the parish in which such devi- Pr. 277. 1. 20. Leave out “ His” and insert 
ation or alteration is intended to be made, or, if |‘ Her,” and in the same line, leave out from “ Ma- 
there be no church, some other place to which |“ jesty” to “intituled” in 1. 21. and insert “Queen 
notices are usually affixed: And provided also, | “ Victoria.” 


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“ deviation from the said sections, and to any tun- | “ Her.” 
“ nelling or arching as aforesaid, the word ‘owners’ Pr. 278. 1. 4. Leave out “His” and insert 


- shall be deemed and taken to mean such persons | “ Her,” and in the same line and |. 5. leave out 
as are herein capacitated to agree for the sale of, | from “ Majesty” to “intituled”’ in 1. 6., and insert 
and to convey land for the making of the said | “ Queen Victoria.” 
Railway ; and the consent of such persons, with Pr. 280. 1. 36. Leave out “ His” and insert 
le or without the consent of any other persons in- |“ Her.” 
jill. “ terested as owners in the said lands, shall be} The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
deemed and taken to be sufficient for such pur- | were agreed to. : 
poses.” Ordered, That Captain Alsager do carry the Bill to 
Cause (B.) “ And be it further Enacted, That | the Lords; and acquaint them, that pie hath 
it shall not be lawful to diminish the radius of any | agreed to the Amendments made by their Lordships. 
curve from what it is shown to be on the plan 
deposited with the Clerk of the Peace, unlesssuch| Eversfield’s Estate Bill was read a second time ; Eversfield’s 
radius exceed One mile, nor to diminish it in any | and committed to Mr. Callaghan and the Sussex List. ®***¢ Bil. 
such case so that it shall become less than One| Ordered, That the Committee have leave to sit, 
mile, nor to diminish any greater radius by more | and proceed To-morrow; and to make their Report 
than a quarter of a mile, unless where it exceeds | upon Friday next. 
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Rating of 
Tenements Bill. 


Cotton. 


Third Report 
on Fictitious 
Votes (Ireland. 


No. 480, 


Jamaica. 


Cape of Good 
Hope. 


Bonding 
Warehouses, 


Timahoe and 
Tipperary 


oad, 


Highway Rates 
Bill. 


Recovery of 
Tenements Bill, 


Welland Outfall 


Drainage Bill. 


596 


Petitions from Docking Union;—and, Westbury 
and Whorwellsdown Union; praying that the Rating 
of Tenements Bill may pass into a law, — were 

resented, and read ; ll orderedl to lie upon the 


able. 


Petitions from Heywood ; — Ashton-under-Lyne 
and Duchinfield ;—and, Holywell; praying for the 
repeal of the Duty on the Importation of Cotton,— 
were presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 


the Table. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee appointed to 
inquire how far the intentions of the Reform Bill 
are defeated, by creating and registering Fictitious 
and —— Votes in Jreland, and who were em- 
0 to report the Minutes of the Evidence taken 

efore them from time to time, have Power to report 
their Observations thereupon to the House. 

Lord Granville Somerset reported from the said 
Select Committee; That they had considered the 
matters to them referred; and had directed him to 
make a Report thereof to the House; together with 
the Minutes of the Evidence taken before them, 
with an Appendix. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to Jamaica, 
which was presented upon Friday last, be referred 
to the Select Committee on Negro Apprenticeship. 


A Petition of Freeholders and others residents of 
the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, praying that 
a Commission may be appointed to proceed to that 
Colony to investigate the charges which have been 
made against the colonists as regards their relations 
with the Aboriginal Tribes, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Edward Steele, of Liverpool, Soap 
manufacturer, complaining of the Excise restrictions 
in regard to the manufacture of Soap, and praying 
relief, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


Petitions from Leith ;—and, Port Glasgow ; pray- 
ing the House to take into consideration the state of 
the law as regards Warehouses of special security, 
and to alter the same in such a manner as that 
while the revenue is fully secured, a uniform bonding 
= heme shall be established throughout the United 

ingdom, placing every port on the same just and 
equitable foundation,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Ballinakill, praying 
the House not to renew the Act for making and 
maintaining the Turnpike Road leading from 7Ji- 
mahoe, through Ballinakill, to Tipperary, was pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 


Table. 


A Petition of the Chairman of a meeting of the 
Trustees for executing the Act for building a Bridge 
over the River Severn, near the town of Tewkesbury, 
and for making convenient Roads to communicate 
therewith, praying that the Highway Rates Bill 
may pass into a law, was presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Owners of property in Manchester, 
praying that the Recovery of Tenements Bill may 
pass into a law, was presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 
intituled, An Act to increase the Tonnage Rates 
and Duties granted by an Act passed in the fifth 


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A. 1837. 


year of the reign of his late Majesty King George 
the Fourth, for improving the Outfall ‘of the River 
Welland, in the County of Lincoln; and to alter 
and enlarge the powers of the said Act; and the 
same were read, as follow: 
Pr. 4. 1. 8. Leave out “ King’s” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 
Pr. 8.1.21. 
Pr. 8. 1. 23. 
Pr. 8. 1. 24. 


Leave out “ His” and insert “ Her.” 
Leave out “ His” and insert “ Her.” 
. Leave out “ His” and insert “ Her.” 

Pr. 8.1. 26. Leave out “ His” and insert “ Her.” 

Pr. 8.1. 28. Leave out “ His” and insert “ Her.” 

Pr. 11. 1.34. After “ Bridge” insert “ to the 
“ junction of the Rivers Witham and Welland.” 

Pr. 11. 1. 35. After “ River” insert “ Welland, 
“ to the extent aforesaid.” 

Pr. 12.1.1. Leave out “to” and insert “ to- 
wards.” 

Pr. 12.1.6. After “ Wash” insert “ within the 
limits aforesaid.” 

Pr. 12. ls. 36. and 37. After “ Trustees” insert 
to carry the said works beyond the junction of the 
said Rivers Witham and Welland or.” 

Pr, 23. |. 31. Leave out “ King William the 
Fourth,” and insert “ Queen Victoria.” 

Pr. 25. 1. 10. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
Her,” and in the same line, leave out from “ Ma- 
jesty ” to “ intituled ” in |. 11., and insert “ Queen 
Victoria.” 

Pr. 28. 1. 21. Leave out “ His” 
Her.” 

Pr. 29. 1. 
Her.” 

Pr. 48. 1. 17. Leave out “ present ” and insert 
“ late,” and in the same line, after “ Majesty ” in- 
sert “ King William the Fourth.” 

Pr. 48. 1. 30. Leave out “ present” and insert 
“ late.” 

Pr. 49. 1. 11. Leave out “ present” and insert 
“ late.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Jervis do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


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and insert 


35. Leave out “ His” and insert 


Mr. Wakley presented a Bill for abolishing the Parish Vestries 
system of Plurality of Voting in Vestries and Unions: 3#!. 
And the same was read the first time; and ordered No. 478. 
to be read a second time upon Monday next ; and 
to be printed. 


Captain Pechell presented a Bill to amend the Lawof __ 
Law of Coverture: And the same was read the Coverture Bill 
first time; and ordered to be read a second time No.479. 
To-morrow ; and to be printed. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Dunboyne and Kil- Tithes 
bride, praying for the abolition of Tithes in Zreland, (Ireland.) 


was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Dunboyne and Kil- Vote by Ballot. 
bride, praying that the Votes at Elections for Mem- 
bers to serve in Parliament may be taken by Ballot, 


was —— and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


The Church Notices Bill was, according to Order, Church Notices 
read a second time ; and committed to a Committee 
of the whole House, for To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into gga 
further consideration the Report which, upon the — 
16th day of June last, was made from the Select 
Committee on the Petition for Fourdrinier’s Patent 
Bill; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Wednesday next. m= 

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Secular Juris- The House, according to Order, proceeded to take 
diction seen into further consideration the Report on the Secular 
and Ely) 0". Jurisdiction (York and Ely) Bill; and the Amend- 
ments were read, and agreed to; and a Clause was 

added, and Amendments were made to the Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 

ingrossed ; and read the third time To-morrow. 


Punishment of 


The ingrossed Bill for abolishing the punishment 
Death Bill. 


of Death in certain cases, was, according to Order, 
read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 


the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Ecclesiastical The ingrossed Bill for continuing for a limited 
———, time, the Enactments made in the last Session of 
Suspension *""" Parliament for suspending Appointments to certain 
Dignities and Offices in Cathedral and Collegiate 
Churches, and to Sinecure Rectories, and for delay- 
ing for a limited time, the alteration of Ecclesiastical 
Jurisdictions in certain cases, was, according to 
Order, read the third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act to continue, until the first day of 
August One thousand eight hundred and thirty- 
eight, and to the end of the then Session of Parlia- 
ment, two Acts of the last Session of Parliament, for 
suspending Appointments to certain Dignities and 
Offices in Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, and 
to Sinecure Rectories, and for preventing the imme- 
diate effects on Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions, of the 
measures in progress for the alteration of Dioceses. 


Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 

the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 
Central The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
= Court into a Committee upon the Central Criminal Court 


Bill ; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair ; and Mr. Charles Wood reported, 
That the Committee had gone through the Bill, and 
made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 


Beet Root 


The ingrossed Bill to impose certain Duties of 
Sugar Bill. 


Excise on Sugar made from Beet Root in the United 
Kingdom, was, according to Order, read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Masters and 


weg A The ingrossed Bill to amend an Act of the fifth 


year of his Majesty King George the Fourth, for con- 
solidating and amending the Laws relative to the 
arbitration of Disputes between Masters and Work- 
men, was, according to Order, read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Post Office The ingrossed Bill for the management of the 
Ny Post Office was, according to Order, read the third 
i ioe 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


East India 


Mr. Charles Wood reported the East India Post- 
Postage Bill. 


age Bill; and the Amendments were read, and 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time To-morrow. 


Exchequer Bills Lord Seymour reported the Exchequer Bills Bill ; 
{£-13,023,300.) and the Amendments were read, and agreed to. 
' Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
be ingrossed ; and read the third time To-morrow. 
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5° Jultz. 597 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Bank of — 
into a Committee upon the Bank of Jreland Bill ; Pe!#n¢ Bill. 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker re- 
sumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal reported, That 
the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Assessed Taxes 
into a Committee upon the Assessed Taxes Exemp- Exemption Bill. 
tion Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. 
Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal re- 
ported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill, and directed him to report the same, without 
Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be ingrossed; and read 


the third time To-morrow. 


The ingrossed Bill to provide more effectual means Treasurers 
to make Treasurers of Counties and Counties of of Counties — 
Cities and Public Bodies in Ireland account for (!¢!#"4) Bil. 
Public Monies, and to secure the same, was, accord- 
ing to Order, read the third time ; and ingrossed 
Clauses were added by way of Riders, and Amend- 
ments were made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act to provide more effectual means to 
make Treasurers of Counties and Counties of Cities 
in Ireland account for Public Monies, and to secure 
the same. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 


tne Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Militia Pay Bill was, according to Order, Militia Pay 
read a second time; and committed to a Committee Bill. 
of the whole House, for To-morrow. 


The Militia Ballots Suspension Bill was, accord- Militia Ballots 
cording to Order, read a second time; and com- Suspension Bill. 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for To- 
morrow. 


The Exchequer Bills (Public Works) Bill was, Exchequer Bills 
according to Order, read a second time ; and com- (Public Works) 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for To- Bi! 
morrow. 


The Corporate Property (Jreland) Bill was, ac- Corporate 
cording to Order, read a second time; and com- a i 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for To~ Cement) BM. 
morrow. 


The Slave Trade Treaties Bill was, according to Slave Trade 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a Treaties Bill. 
Committee of the whole House, for To-morrow. 


The Consolidated Fund Bill was, according to Consolidated 
Order, read a second time; and committed to a Fund Bill. 
Committee of the whole House, for To-morrow. 


The Tithe Advances (Ireland) Bill was, according Tithe Advances 
to Order, read a second time; and committed to “reland) Bill. 
a Committee of the whole House, for To-morrow. 


The ingrossed Bill to alter and explain certain Reform of 
parts of an Act of the third and fourth years of the (Ireland) Bill 
reign of his late Majesty, for amending the Repre- 
sentation of the People in Jreland, was, according 
to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act to facilitate the Polling of Electors 
in Ireland. 

Ordered, That Mr. Callaghan do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 

The ingrossed Bill to amend the Law relating to Fermanagh 
Grand Juries in Ireland, so far as to empower the ee 
Grand Jury of the County of Fermanagh to re-con- Bill. 
struct the Andes Subdivisions of the said County, 
was, according to Order, read the third time; and 
Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Archdall do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 

4G3 The 





Losses by Fire 
oe Houses of 
arliament.) 


Message from 
the Lords. 


Winchester 
College Estate 


598 


The House, according to Order, resumed the 
adjourned Debate upon the Question proposed 
yesterday, That a Select Committee be appointed to 
consider the case of the late Speaker and Officers of 
the Houses of Parliament who suffered by the fire 
of the former Houses of Parliament; and to report 
on the same. 

And the Question being again proposed; and a 
Debate arising thereupon ; 

A Motion was made, and the Question being put, 
That the Debate be further adjourned till this day 
month ; 

The House divided. 

The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 

Tellers for the f Mr. Warburton, 1 re 

Yeas, Mr. Aglionby : { =. 

Tellers for the f Sir Frederick Pollock, 68 

Noes, Sir Thomas Fremantle : } ? 

So it passed in the Negative. 

And the Question being again proposed, That a 
Select Committee be appointed to consider the case 
of the late Speaker and Officers of the Houses of 
Parliament who suffered by the fire of the former 
Houses of Parliament, and to report on the same ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out the word “ consider,” and 
inserting the words “ inquire into the facts of,” in- 
stead thereof. 

And the Question being put, That the word 
“ consider” stand part of the Question:—It passed 
in the Negative. 

And the Question being put, That the words 
“ inquire into the facts of” be inserted instead 
thereof :—It was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made to 
the Question, by leaving out the word “ on.” 

And the Question being put, That the word 
“ on” stand part of the Question :—It passed in 
the Negative. 

Another Amendment was proposed to be made 
to the Question, by adding at the end thereof the 
words “ and also to inquire into the case of Messrs. 
“ Macfie, of Leith, who suffered Loss by Fire :’— 
But the Recommendation of the Crown not being 
signified, the Question to add such Amendment was 
not put. 

Then the main Question, so amended, being 
ut ; 

' Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed 
to inquire into the facts of the case of the late 
Speaker and Officers of the Houses of Parliament 
who suffered by the Fire of the former Houses o 
Parliament; and to report the same :—And a Com- 


mittee was appointed of Mr. Aglionby, Mr. Pem-| 


berton, Sir John Wrottesley, Mr. Miles, Mr. De- 
nistoun, Mr. Pendarves, Lord Stanley, Mr. Ord, 
Mr. Estcourt, Mr. Lynch, Mr. Jephson, and Mr. 
Forster; with Power to send for persons, papers 
and records. 

Ordered, That Five be the Quorum. 


A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Dowdes- 
well and Mr. Roupell: 
Mr. Speaker, 
The Lords have agreed to the Amendments made 


5° Juli. 


A. 1837. 


bridge and Bedford, and for laying out the Monies 
to arise by such Sale in the purchase of other 
| Estates, to be settled to the same uses ; and also for 
}authorizing the same Trustees to grant Leases for 
| building and manufacturing purposes of other part 
‘of the said settled Estates in the County of 
cester, without any Amendment: And also, 


The Lords have agreed to the Amendments made Duke of 
by this House to the Bill, intituled, An Act tor ptr 
| authorizing the Trustees under an Act passed in the leant 
thirty-ninth and fortieth years of the Reign of his 
Majesty King George the Third, for enabling the 
Duke of Richmond, for the time being, to grant 
Jointures, as therein mentioned, and for other pur- 

oses ; to sell the residue remaining unsold of the 

tocks on transfer of which the said Annuity was 
made redeemable, and to invest the Money to arise 
from such Sale in the purchase of Manors, Lands 
and Hereditaments, and for other purposes, without 
any Amendment: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An East India 
Act to repeal the Prohibition of the Payment of the Officers’ 
Salaries and Allowances of the East India Com- aes 
pany’s Officers during their absence from their re- 
spective Stations in India, with Amendments ; to 
which Amendments the Lords desire the concur- 
rence of this House: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An small Debts 
Act for the more effectual Recovery of Small Debts (Scotland) Bill. 
in the Sheriff Courts, and for establishing Circuit 
Courts for the Trial of Small Debt Causes by the 
Sheriffs in Scotland, with Amendments ; to which 
Amendments the Lords desire the concurrence of 
this House: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Manchester 
Act for enabling the Directors of the Manchester Gas Bill. 
Gas Works to purchase Lands, Buildings and Appa- 
ratus for the Extension of their Works, with Amend- 
ments; to which Amendments the Lords desire the 
concurrence of this House: And also, 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Small Debts 
for the more effectual Recovery of Small Debts in Mo. 2.) Bill 
the Justice of Peace Courts in Scotland; to which* “~ 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House: 
| And also, 
| The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 

for empowering the Trustees of the Will, as to his 
real Estate, of Silvanus Bevan, Esquire, deceased, 
| to sell the Freehold Estates in the Counties of Wilts 
jand Berks, devised by the same Will, and for laying 


| 


, out the Money to arise from such Sale in the pur- 


chase of other Estates, to be settled to the same 


juses ; to which the Lords desire the concurrence of 
this House :—And then the Messengers withdrew. 





Bevan’s 
Estate Bill. 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the Small Debts | 
| Lords to the Small Debts (Scotland) Bill be taken (Scotland) Bill 
into consideration To-morrow. No, 477. 
Ordered, That the said Amendments be printed. 


The Bankrupts (Jreland) Bill was, according to Bankrupts _ 
‘Order, read a second time; and committed to a (Ireland) Bill. 
Committee of the whole House, for To-morrow. 





Ordered, That the Select Committee appointed Twenty-third 


js eit ars : ° Report on 
to inquire into the administration of the Relief of aoe nal 


by this House to the Bill, intituled, An Act for the Poor under the orders and regulations issued 


Bill, a - | as 
effecting an Exchange between the Warden and |by the Commissioners appointed under the pro- 


No. 481. 


Lord Sandys’ 
Estate Bill. 


Scholars’ Clerks of Saint Mary College of Win- | 
chester, near Winchester, in the County of South-| 
ampton, and the Déan of the Cathedral Church of | 
the Holy Trinity of Winchester, in the said County, 
and the Chapter of the same Church, of divers Mes- 
suages or Tenements, Lands and Hereditaments, 
without any Amendment: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Amendments made 
by this House to the Bill, intituled, An Act for 
authorizing Trustees to sell part of the settled Estates 
of the Right honourable Arthur Moyses William 
Lord Sandys, in the Counties of Worcester, Cam- 





visions of the Poor Law Amendment Act; and who 
were empowered to report the Minutes of the Evi- 
dence sdlinin before them from time to time, have 
Power to report their observations thereupon to the 
House. 

Mr. Fazakerley reported from the said Select Com- 
mittee; That they had further considered the matters 
to them referred; and had directed him to make a 
Report thereof to the House; together with the 
Minutes of the Evidence taken before them. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 

The 








Clarence 
(Durham) 
Railway Bill. 


1 VicTroriz. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, in- 
tituled, An Act to alter, amend, explain and enlarge 
the Powers of the several Acts for making and 
maintaining the Clarence Railway; and the same 
were read, as follow : 

Pr. 1. 1.32. Leave out “ present” and insert 
“ late.” 
Pr. 2. Is. 9. and 10. Leave out “ present ” and 
insert “ late.” 
Pr. 2. 1,21. Leave out “ present” and insert 
“ late.” 
Pr. 3. 1.16. Leave out “ King’s’ 
Queen’s.” 
Pr. 6. 1. 14. Leave out “ late.” 
Pr. 7. 1. 7. Leave out “ late.” 
Pr. 19. 1. 6. Leave out from “ Railways” to 
“ And” in Pr. 21. 1. 7. 
Pr. 23. 1.1. Leave out “ present” and insert 
“ Jate.” 
Pr. 25. 1. 37. Leave out “ present” and insert 
“ late.” 
Pr. 27. 1. 33. Leave out “ present” and insert 
“ Jate.” 
Pr. 34, 1. 14. Leave out “ present” and insert 
“ late.” 
Pr. 36. 1. 28. Leave out “ present” and insert 
“ late.” 
Pr. 37. 1.17. Leave out “ shall pass.” 
Pr. 37. 1.18. After “ shall” insert “ subject 
“ to any mortgage which may have been granted b 
“ the said Company affecting the said lands, and to 
“* any powers vested in the mortgagees for the reco- 
very of the money thereby secured in case such 
“ mortgagees shall have any legal charge on the 
“* said lands.” 
Pr. 39. 1. 14. After “ year” insert Clauses 
(A.) and (B.) 
Cravse (A.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
** in making the said Railway, it shall not be lawful 
“* for the said Company to deviate from the levels 
“ of the said Railway as referred to the common 
‘ datum line described on the section so approved 
“* of by Parliament, and as marked on the same, to 
“ any extent exceeding in any place Five feet, or, 
“ in passing through towns, Two feet, without the 
“ consent of the owners, lessees and occupiers of the 
“ Jand in, through or over which such deviation is in- 
*“* tended to be made ; or incase any street or public 
“ carriage-road shall be affected by such deviation, 
“ then the same shall not be made without the con- 
“ sent of the trustees or commissioners, or, if there 
be no such trustees or commissioners, without the 
“ consent of Two or more Justices of the Peace in 
petty sessions assembled for that purpose, and 
“ acting for the district in which such street or 
public carriage-road may be situate, or without 
the consent of the commissioners for any public 
“ sewers, or of the proprietors of any canal or navi- 
“ gation affected by such deviation; and that no 
“* increase in the inclination or gradients of the 
“ said Railway, as denoted by the said section, 
“ shall be made in any place to an extent exceed- 
“* ing the rate of Three feet per mile; and where in 
“ any place it is intended to carry the Railway on 
“ an arch or arches, as marked on the said plan or 
“ section, the same shall be made accordingly ; and 
‘“¢ where a tunnel is marked on the said plan or sec- 
“ tion, as intended to be made at any place, the 
same shall be made accordingly, unless the 
owners, lessees and occupiers of the land in or 
“ through which such tunnel is intended to be made 
shall consent that the same shall not be so made : 
“ Provided nevertheless, That it shall be lawful for 
the said Company, with such consent as aforesaid, 
“ and not otherwise, to make a tunnel, or an arch 
“ or arches as aforesaid, not marked on the said 
“« plan or section, so that no such tunnel shall be of 
a greater length than Two hundred yards, and 
“ that no two tunnels be at a less distance from 
Von, 92, 


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599 


“ each other than One hundred yards, measured on 
“ the line of the Railway: Provided always, That 
notice of every petty sessions to be holden for the 
purpose of obtaining such consent as aforesaid, 
shall, Fourteen days previous to the holding of 
such petty sessions, be given in some newspaper 
circulating in the county, and also be affixed 
upon the church door of the parish in which such 
deviation or alteration is intended to be made, or, 
if there be no church, some other place to which 
notices are usually affixed: And provided also, 
That for the purpose of consenting to any such 
deviation from the said sections, and to any tun- 
nelling or arching as aforesaid, the word ‘owners’ 
shall be deemed and taken to mean such persons 
as are herein capacitated to agree for the sale of, 
and to convey land for the making of the said 
Railway; and the consent of such persons, with 
or without the consent of any other persons in- 
terested as owners in the said lands, shall be 
deemed and taken to be sufficient for such pur- 
poses.” 


Cuiause (B.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
“ it shall not be lawful to diminish the radius of 
“ any curve from what it is shown to be on the 
“* plan deposited with the Clerk of the Peace, unless 
“ such radius exceed One mile, nor to diminish it 
“ in any such case, so that it shall become less than 
“ One mile; nor to diminish any greater radius by 
“ more than a quarter of a mile, unless where it 
exceeds Two miles ; or by more than half a mile, 
unless where it exceeds Three miles on the said 
“ plan.” 


Pr. 39. 1. 18. After “ formed” insert “ if any 
“ such there be.” 

Pr. 39. 1. 20. Leave out from “ Tees” to “ be- 
“ tween,” in 1. 22. 

Pr. 39. 1. 23. Leave out from “ Railway” to 
“ And,” in 1. 24, 

Pr. 39. 1. 30. Leave out from “this” to “ con- 
tained ” in 1. 31., and insert “ Act.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Sir Thomas Fremantle do carry the 
Bill to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


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Bevan’s Estate Bill was read the first time; and pevan's 


ordered to be read a second time. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a port-dynilaen 
Copy of the Survey of Port-dynllaen Bay, and a Re- Harbour. 


ort of the capabilities of such Bay as a Packet 
Station and Refuge Harbour, in pursuance of the Re- 
solution of the Select Committee on the London and 
Dublin Communication in the last Session of Parlia- 
ment, and of which Bay a Sketch was returned by 
W. L. Sheringham, Lieut. R. N., and Surveyor, to 
an Order of this House, dated the 21st day of Fe- 
bruary last. 


Lord Viscount Palmerston presented, pursuant to ghip « Vixen.” 


an Address to his late Majesty,—Copies or Ex- 
tracts of all Correspondence between our Ambas- 
sador at Constantinople and the Secretary of State 
for Foreign Affairs relating to the voyage and cap- 
ture of the Vixen:—Also, Copies of all Corre- 
spondence between the Secretary of State for Foreign 
Affairs and the Parties interested in the Vixen, re- 
lating to the same :—Also, a of all Corre- 
spondence between the Russian Governmentand our 
own; together with Copies or Extracts of all Cor- 
respondence between our Ambassador at the Court 
of Saint Petersburgh and the Secretary of State for 
Foreign Affairs, relating to the voyage and capture 
of the Vixen. 
Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 
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Board of Chari- 
table Bequests 
(Ireland. 


No. 482. 


Public Works 
(Treland.) 


No, 483. 


Dublin Wide 
Streets Bill. 


600 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Board of 
Charitable Bequests (Zreland), which was presented 
upon the 22d day of June last, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Fifth Annual Report of the 
Commissioners of Public Works (Jreland), which 
was presented upon Monday last, be printed. 


Notice being taken that Forty Members were not 
resent, the Bins was told by Mr. Speaker; and 
Forty Members not being present ; and it being then 
after four of the clock :—The House was adjourned 
by Mr. Speaker, without a Question first put, till 
To-morrow. 





Jovis, 6° die Julii ; 
Anno 1° Victorie Regine, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


A‘ ingrossed Bill to extend, alter, and enlarge 
the Powers of several Acts for enabling the 
Commissioners of Wide Streets in Dublin to widen 
and improve certain Ways, Streets and Passages in 
the said City and County of Dublin, and for raising 
further Funds to enable the said Commissioners to 
carry the same into execution, was read the third 
time: And an ingrossed Clause was added to the 
Bill, by way of Rider. 

Another ingrossed Clause was offered to be added 
to the Bill by way of Rider, (Jurors on Inquisitions, 
how to be paid) : And the said Clause was brought 
up, and twice read with a blank; and committed to 
a Committee of the whole House:—The House 
accordingly resolved itself into the Committee ; and 
after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed 
the Chair; and Mr. Hamilton reported, That the 
Committee had gone through the Clause, and made 
an Amendment thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Hamilton accordingly reported the Clause ; 
and the Amendment was read, and agreed to; and 
the said Clause was read the third time, and agreed 
to, to be made part of the Bill, by way of Rider. 


Another ingrossed Clause was offered to be added 
to the Bill by way of Rider, (Officers of Watch Tax 
to make Returns): And the said Clause was brought 
up, and twice read with a blank; and committed to 
a Committee of the whole House:—The House 
accordingly resolved itself into the Committee ; and 
after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed 
the Chair; and 
Committee had gone through the Clause, and made 
an Amendment thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

_ Mr. Hamilton accordingly reported the Clause ; 
and the Amendment was read, and agreed to; and 
the said Clause was read the third time, and agreed 
to, to be made part of the Bill, by way of Rider. 

Another ingrossed Clause was offered to be added 
to the Bill by way of Rider, (Grand Juries to present 
amount of expenses of carrying this Act into execu- 
tion): And the said Clause was brought up, and 
twice read with a blank ; and committed to a Com- 
mittee of the whole House :—The House accordingly 
resolved itself into the Committee; and after some 


r. Hamilton reported, That the | 


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A. 1837. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration, Manchester 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, &amp;** Bill. 


intituled, An Act for enabling the Directors of the 
Manchester Gas Works to purchase Lands, Build- 
ings and Apparatus for the Extension of their Works; 
and the same were read, as follow : 

Pr. 10.1. 15. After “ shall” insert “ from and 
“ after the purchase thereof, by the said Directors,” 
and in the same line, leave out from “ be” to 
“ vested ” inl. 16. 

Pr. 15.1.°7. Leave out from “ whatsoever” to 
“ and” inl. 17. 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Brotherton do carry the Bill 
to the Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


Petitions from Agents for the Opponents of the 
Southwark and Hammersmith Railway Bill;—and, 
Charles Fassett Burnett, John Fassett Burnett and 
Robert Burnett Brander, of Vauxhall, Lambeth, co- 
partners, Brandy Merchants, Vinegar Makers and 
Distillers ; praying that the Directors of the South- 
wark and Hammersmith Railway Company may not 
have the relief they ask in their Petition, presented 
upon Tuesday last,—were presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Colonel Seale reported from the Committee on 
Acland’s Estate Bill; That they had examined the 
allegations of the Bill, and found the same to be 
true ; and that the parties concerned had given their 
consent, to the satisfaction of the Committee ; and 
that the Committee had gone through the Bill, and 
made Amendments thereunto; and the same were 
read, as follow: 

Pr. 28. 1. 8. Leave out “ King’s ” 
* Queen’s.” 

Pr. 27. 1. 15. Leave out “ King’s” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 

Pr. 27. 1. 16. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“me 

Pr. 28. 1.12. Leave out “ King’s” 
“ Queen’s.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 


and insert 


and insert 


Captain Alsager reported from the Committee on 
the Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act for extend- 
ing the power to grant Building Leases, contained in 
the Will of Randle Jackson, Esquire, deceased, and 
for other purposes ; That they had examined the 
allegations of the Bill, and found the same to be 
true ; and that the parties concerned had given their 
consent to the Bill, to the satisfaction of the Com- 
mittee ; and that the Committee had gone through 
the Bill, and directed him to report the same, with- 
out Amendment :—And the Bill was read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Captain Alsager do carry the Bill 
to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath. agreed to the same, without Amendment. 














Captain Alsager reported from the Committee on 


time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; | the Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act for con- 


and Mr Hamilton reported, That the Committee had 
gone through the Clause, and made an Amendment 
thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Hamilton accordingly reported the Clause ; 
and the Amendment was read, and agreed to; and 
the said Clause was read the third time, and agreed 
to, to be made part of the Bill, by way of Rider. 

Then Amendments were made to the Bill. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Hamilton do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


| 


firming a partition of Estates devised and bequeathed 
by the Will of Sir William East, Baronet, deceased, 
and other property, and for confirming a Sale of the 
other parts of the devised Estates ; That they had 
examined the allegations of the Bill, and found the 
same to be true; and that the parties concerned had 
given their consent to the Bill to the satisfaction of 
the Committee; and that the Committee had gone 
through the Bill, and directed him to report the 
same, without Amendment :—And the Bill was read 
the third time. 





Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, 


Southwark and 
Hammersmith 
Railway Bill. 


Acland’s 
Estate Bill. 


Jackson’s 
Estate Bill. 


East’s 
Estate Bill 


1 Victrortiz. 


Ordered, That Captain Alsager do carry the Bill 
to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


Turnpike Roads 
(Ireland.) 


No. 484. 


Ordered That the Select Committee appointed to 
inquire into the monopoly enjoyed by persons in 
Ireland, on certain roads there; how far the said 
monopoly is consistent with law, the convenience of 
travellers, and the revenue of the Post Office; also 
into the best mode of removing the said monopoly, 
keeping in view the rights of private parties, if any ; 
have Power to report their observations thereupon 
to the House, tégether with the Minutes of the 
Evidence taken before them. 

Mr. Wallace reported from the said Select Com- 
mittee; and to whom a Petition of the Chamber of 
Commerce of Limerick was referred ; That they had 
examined the matters to them referred, and had di- 
rected him to make a Report thereof to the House, 
together with the Minutes of the Evidence taken 
before them ; and an Appendix. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Clitheroe 
Grammar 
School Estate 
Bill. 


Mr. Wilson Patten reported from the Committee 
on the Clitheroe Grammar School Estate Bill ; That 
they had examined the allegations of the Bill, and 
found the same to be true; and that the parties 
concerned had given their consent, to the satisfaction 
of the Committee; and that the Committee had gone 
through the Bill and made Amendments thereunto ; 
and the same were read, as follow: 

Pr. 15. 1. 14. Leave out “ King’s” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 

Pr. 16. 1. 15. After “ direct,” insert “ Provided 
always, That no such sale shall be made by 
public auction or private contract, until notice 
of the intention of making such sale shall have 
been given in two successive newspapers circu- 
lated in the county of Lancaster, one month pre- 
vious to such sale being made.” 

Pr. 16. 1. 28. Leave out “ His” and insert 


« Her.” 

Pr. 27. 1. 36. Leave out “ King’s” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 

Pr. 28. 1. 23. Leave out “ King’s ” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 


The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 
Factories Act. Petitions from the Power-loom Tenters of Glas- 
gow ;—Moulders and others of the Globe Foundry, 
Washington-street, Glasgow ;—Operative Tailors of 
Glasgow ;—Shoemakers of Glasgow and suburbs ; 
— Duntocher ;—Moulders and others in the Eagle 
Foundry, Port Dundas, Glasgow ; — Hand-loom 
Weavers, King-street district, Calton ;—Hand-loom 
Weavers, Springbank, Glasgow ;—Calderhaugh Fac- 
tory, Lochwinnoch ;—East Duke-street, Glasgow ;— 
Elderslie;—Operative Bakers of Glasgow ;—Mould- 
ers and others of the Calton Foundry, Glasgow ;— 
Operative Ironfounders and others, New Wynd, 
Glasgow ;—Cotton Spinners, Carders, Tenters, &amp;c., 
of Factory, Bridge Weir ;—Johnstone (three Peti- 
tions) ;— West Muir, Glasgow ;— Glasgow and Sub- 
urbs (twenty-six Petitions); — Duntocher (seven 
Petitions ) ;— Barrhead;—Elderslie Mill, Renfrew ; 
—Cartside Mill, Renfrew ;—Blackquarry, Glasgow ; 
— Hill-street, Glasgow ;— Vulcan Foundry, Glasgow; 
—Leveran Water, Renfrew (two Petitions) ;—Town- 
head, Glasgow ;— Paisley (two Petitions) ;—Bridge- 
town, Glasgow (eight Petitions);—- Anderston, Glasgow 
(three Petitions) ;— Lochwinnoch;—Cowcaddens (two 
Petitions); — Tylefield, Calton, Glasgow; -—~- Port 
Dundas, Glasgow (four Petitions) ;—Kelven-street, 
district of Glasgow ;—Calton of Glasgow (fifteen 
Petitions) ;—Kippoch Hill, Glasgow ;— Main-street, 
Gorbals of Glasgow ;—Washington-street, Glasgow ; 
— Hutchesontown, Glasgow (six Petitions) ;—Town- 
head district, Glasgow ;—Ferneize Printfield, Ren- 
Vot. 92. 


6° Julie. 








601 


frew;—Little Gowane ;—Port Eglington ;—Niels- 
ton ;—Finnieston ;— Springburn, Glasgow ;— Duke- 
street, Glasgow ;— Tradeston, Glasgow ;— Lancefield, 
Glasgow ;—and, Spring field, Glasgow ; praying the 
House to pass a law to protect all Factory workers 
from being worked more than ten hours for five days 
of the week, and eight on the Saturday,—were pre- 


sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of the Chairman of a meeting of Hand- Hand-loom 
loom Weavers of Biggar, complaining of distress, Weavers. 
and praying the House to take their case into im- 
mediate consideration, and grant them relief, was 
presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 


Table. 


A Petition of Proprietors and Householders of Burghs 
Carluke, praying that the Burghs of Barony (Sco¢- of Barony | 
land) Bill, may pass into a law, was presented, and ——— 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Members of the Radical Association Universal 
of Kettering, praying for the adoption of Universal Sse 
Suffrage at elections of Members to serve in Parlia- 
ment ; was presented, and read; and ordered to lie 


upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Watford, praying Vote by Ballot. 
that at all future elections of Members to serve in 
Parliament, the Votes be taken by Ballot ; was pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Brighton, praying Dorchester 
the House to take such steps as may ensure to the Lebourers 
Dorchester Labourers a speedy return to their native 
country, was presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Chairman of a meeting of the Idolatry 
Association of the General Baptist Churches of (die) 
Great Britain, assembled at Leicester, praying the 
House speedily to remove the evils of Idolatry in 
India, was presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Rower, praying the Salmon 
House not to alter the existing laws now in force in Fisheries 
Treland, for the protection of the Salmon Fisheries, iateiaed 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


Petitions from Saint Mullins; — Leighlin ; — Government 
Timyland and Benekerry ; —Ballon ;— Tullow ; — °f !reland. 
and, Sens Dae the House to support Her 
Majesty’s present Ministers in their Government of 
Ireland,—were presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Electors and Inhabitants of Zam- House of Lords. 
beth, praying for a Reform of the House of Lords, 
was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of Electors for the combined counties Ross and 
of Ross and Cromarty, complaining of the abduction 
of John Gibson, a voter, on the occasion of the late 
election for those shires ; and praying the House 
to order a public prosecution to be mstituted by the 
a officer against the offenders, or to adopt 
such other proceedings as they may think expedient, 
or the case may require, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 

Ordered, That the Petition be printed. 


Cromarty 
Election. 


A Petition of the Proprietor of Alice’s Coffee Losses by Fire 
House, for Compensation for the destruction of his (late Houses of 
property in the fire of the late Houses of Parliament P#tli#ment.) 
was offered to be presented :—But the said Petition 
not being recommended by the Crown, the same was 
not received. 





4H A Petition 








Public 
Buildings. 


Church Rates 


Regulation. 


Tithes 
(freland.) 


Law of Property 


(Scotland.) 


Church Build- 
ing Commission 


Bill. 


Plan of Educa- 
tion (Ireland.) 


No, 485, 


Controverted 
Elections Bill. 


First Fruits aud 
Tenths Bill. 


Attornies 
and Solicitors 
(Ireland) Bilt. 


Law of 
Coverture Bill, 


Church Notices 
Bill. 


Central 
Criminal Court 
Bill. 


602 


A Petition of Members of the Poplar Institution 
for mutual Instruction and the promotion of Litera- 
ture, Science, &amp;c., praying the Sane to give to the 
public free access at all times to all places of 
worship, and to every national building or esta- 
blishment containing works of art, historical and 
literary monuments, or objects of natural history, 
was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon 


the Table. 


A Petition of Wesleyan Methodists of Thurlton, 
praying that the proposed measure relative to 
Church Rates may receive the sanction of the House, 


was ge and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Ballon and Rathoe, acelin dln yur One Umea agi tonvel al 


praying for the abolition of Tithes in Jreland, was 
— and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
able. 


Petitions from Members of the Kilmarnock 
Building Society ;— and, Mary Hill, Glasgow ; 
praying for a reform of the law relating to the 
transference of Landed Property in Scotland,—were 
— and read ; and ordered to lie upon the 

able. 


Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer presented a Bill 
to prolong the time for executing the Commission 
for building new Churches: And the same was 
read the first time ; and ordered to be read a second 
time To-morrow. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee appointed to 
inquire into the progress and operation of the new 
Plan of Education in Jreland, and to report there- 
upon to the House, have Power to report the 
Minutes of the Evidence taken before them. 

Mr. Vernon Smith reported from the said Select 
Committee ; and to whom several Petitions were 
referred ; That they had proceeded in the matters to 
them referred; and had agreed to report the Minutes 
of the Evidence taken before them, accompanied by 
some preliminary observations, to the House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 


and be printed. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- 
mittee on the Controverted Elections Bill; 

Resolved, That this House will, upon this day 
three months, resolve itself into the said Committee. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the First Fruits and Tenths Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Attornies and Solicitors (Jreland) 
Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time To- 
morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Law of Coverture Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 
Wednesday next. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee upon the Church Notices Bill ; 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker re- 
sumed the Chair; and Mr. Wilson Patten reported, 
That the Committee had gone through the Bill, 
and directed him to report the same, without 
Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time To- 
morrow. 


Mr. Charles Wood reported the Central Criminal 
Court Bill; and the Amendments were read, and 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time To-morrow. 





6° Julie. 





A. 1837. 


The ingrossed Bill to impose Rates of Packet East India 
Postage on East India Letters, and to amend cer- Postage Bill. 
tain Acts relating to the Post Office, was, according 
to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 


the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The ingrossed Bill for raising a sum by Exchequer Exchequer Bills 
Bills, for the Service of the year One thousand eight (£-131023,300.) 
hundred and thirty-seven, was, according to Order, ~* 
read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act for raising the Sum of Thirteen 
millions six hundred and twenty-three thousand 
three hundred pounds, by Exchequer Bills, for the 


thirty-seven. 
Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 


the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Mr. Charles Wood reported the Bank of Jreland Bank of 
Bill ; and the Amendments were read, and agreed to. H*eland Bill. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time To-morrow. 


The ingrossed Bill to extend an Exemption Assessed Taxes 
granted by an Act of the last Session of Parliament Exemption Bill, 
from the Duties of Assessed Taxes in respect of 
certain Carriages with less than Four Wheels, and to 
amend the Laws relating to the said Duties, was, 
according to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire theiv concurrence. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Militia Pay 
into a Committee upon the Militia Pay Bill; and, Bill. 
after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed 
the Chair; and Mr. Baring reported, That the 
Committee had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Militia Ballots 

into a Committee upon the Militia Ballots Sus- Suspension Bill. 
pension Bill; and, after some time spent therein, 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Baring 
reported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Exchequer Bills 

into a Committee upon the Exchequer Bills (Public (Public Works) 
Works) Bill; and, after some time spent therein," * 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Baring 
reported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Corporate 
into a Committee upon the Corporate Property Property 
(Ireland) Bill; and, after some time spent therein, (#4 - 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair ; and Lord Viscount 
Morpeth reported, That the Committee had gone 
through the Bill, and directed him to report the 
same, without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be ingrossed; and read 
the third time To-morrow. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself stave Trade 
into a Committee upon the Slave Trade Treaties Bill ; Treaties Bill 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal reported, 'That 
the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the Com- Consolidated 
mittee on the Consolidated Fund Bill; 


Fund Bill. 
Ordered, 





Tithe Advances 
(Irelund) Bili. 


Small Debts 
(Scotland) Bill. 


1 Vicrortiz. 


Ordered, That it be an Instruction to the Com- 
mittee, that they have Power to receive a Clause of 
a 

hen the House resolved itself into the Committee ; 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal reported, That 
the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made 
Amendments thereunto. 
Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 





The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee upon the Tithe Advances (Ireland) 
Bill; and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Lord Viscount Morpeth 
reported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to take 
into consideration the Amendments made by the 
Lords to the Bill} intituled, An Act for the more 
effectual Recovery of Small Debts in the Sheriff 
Courts, and for establishing Circuit Courts for the 
trial of Small Debt Causes by the Sheriffs in Scot- 
land; and the same were read, as follow: 

Pr. 1. 1. 3. Leave out “ late.” 

Pr. 1. 1. 23. Leave out “ King’s” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 

Pr. 3. 1. 30. Leave out from “the” to “ not,” 
in 1. 32, and insert “time and place mentioned in 
“ such summons and complaint.” 

Pr. 9. 1. 31. In Clause (A), added by way of 
Rider to the Bill: L.2. Leave out from “of” to 
“ shall,” in 1. 3, and insert “labourers and manu- 
facturers.” L. penult. After “ as,” insert “ ser- 
vants’ fees and.” 

Pr. 15. 1. 18. After “ given” insert “ Provided 
“ also, That the pursuer of such action of forth- 
“ coming shall not, by such action, be held to have 
restricted the amount of the debt due by the 
“ common debtor.” 

Pr. 16. 1. 6. Leave out from “ havers” to “and,” 
in 1. 10. 

Pr. 16. 1. 21. After “ case” insert “of oath in 
“ supplement being required, or.” 

Pr. 16. 1. 26. Leave out “ oaths or.” 

Pr. 16. 1. 27. Leave out “ parties or.” 

Pr. 16. 1. 29. Leave out from “attend” to “and,” 
in 1. 30, and insert “upon special cause shown, and 
“ such cause shall in all cases be entered in the 
“ book of causes kept by the Sheriff Clerk, due 
“ notice of the examination being given to both 
“ parties.” 

Pr. 18. 1. 12. After “ any” insert “ such.” 

Pr. 18. 1. 27. After “allow” insert “such per- 
“ son not being an officer of court.” 

Pr. 18. 1. 35. After “allow” insert “such per- 
“ son not being an officer of court.” 

Pr. 25. 1. 34. Leave out “late.” 

Pr. 26. 1. 2. Leave out “late.” 

Pr, 26. 1. 13. Leave out “ the jurisdiction ” and 
insert “an.” 

Pr. 26. 1. 16. After “second” insert “for taking 
“ away and abolishing the heritable jurisdictions in 
“ Scotland.” 

Pr. 26. 1. 27. Leave out “ late” and in the same 
line, after “ Majesty” insert “King George the 
Fourth.” 

Pr. 27. 1. 7. After “at” insert “ such of.” 

Pr. 27. 1..8. Leave out from “ Sheriffdom” to 


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“ tary ” and insert “Secretaries ;” and also in 1. 12, 
leave out from “ state” to “may ” in 1.13. 
Pr. 28. 1. 16. Leave out “the said” and insert 
“ such.” 
_ Pr. 28. 1.17. Leave out “are appointed” and 
insert “shall be directed ;” and in the same line, 
after “ held” insert “as aforesaid.” 
Pr. 29. 1. 5. Leave out from “ courts” to 
” may ” in 1.6; and in L. 6, leave out “ appointed ” 
“ and insert directed.” 
_ _ Pr. 30. 1. 32. Leave out from “ shall” to “by ” 
in I. 34, and insert “Three months before holding 
“ any circuit court in terms of this Act.” 
Pr. 31. 1.8. Leave out “ each” and _ insert 
“ any.” 
_ Pr. 31. 1.12. Leave out “ appointment” and 
insert “ apportionment.” 
Pr. 33. 1.7. Leave out “such.” 
Pr. 33. 1.8. Leave out “as are hereinbefore pro- 
“ vided.” 
Pr. 33. 1.17. After “ that” insert “ in case it 
“ shall be directed by one of Her Majesty’s Princi- 
“ pal Secretaries of State, that a circuit court should 
“ be established in terms of this Act for the upper 
“ district of Morayshire.” ° 
oe 34. 1.7. Leave out “are” and insert “ shall 
“ wed 
Pr. 34. i. 8. After “ held” insert “as aforesaid.” 
Pr. 37. 1. 36. Leave out “or messenger’s.” 
Pr. 37. 1.38. Leave out “ first.” 
Pr. 38. 1.19. Leave out “ or messenger’s.” 
Pr. 40. 1.34. After “ person” insert “ whatso- 
“ ever.” 
Pr. 40. 1. ult. After “Justice’’ insert “or other- 
wise.” 
Pr. 41. 1. 36. Leave out from “clerk” to “the’’ 
in |. penult. 


In Schedule (A.) annexed to the Bill : 


Pr. 44, 1.1. Leave out from “ payment” to “ to,” 


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Pr. 45. 1.12. Leave out “ or messenger.” 
Pr. 45. 1.33. Leave out “ or messenger.” 
Pr. 46. 1. 26, Leave out “ or messenger.” 
Pr. 47. 1.19. Leave out “ or messenger.” 
Pr. 48. ls. 6.&amp; 7. Leave out “ or messenger. 
Pr. 52. 1.16. Leave out “ or messenger.” 
Pr. 53. 1s. 6.&amp;7. Leave out “ or messenger.” 


In Schedule (C.) annexed to the Bill: 
Pr. 56. ls. 35. &amp; 36. Leave out “ or messenger.” 
Pr. 57. 1. penult. Leave out “ or messenger.” 
Pr. 60. 1. 7. &amp; 8. Leave out “ or messenger.” 
Pr. 60. 1. 26. Leave out “ or messenger.” 


In Schedule (F.) annexed to the Bill: 
Leave out the heading of the fifth column, and 
insert “ Nature and Amount.” 


In Schedule (G.) annexed to the Bill: 
Pr. 70. Is. 2. &amp; 3. Leave out “ or messenger.” 
Pr. 70. Is.10.&amp;11. Leave out “ or messenger.” 
In the Title to the Bill: 

L. 2. Leave out “establishing” and insert “re- 
“ gulating the Establishment of.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Lord Advocate do carry the 
Bill to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this 
House hath agreed to the Amendments made by 





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“ set,” in 1.10. The House, according to Order, resolved into a Bankrupts 
Pr. 27. 1.11. After “Act” insert “and for such | Committee upon the Bankrupts (Jreland) Bill; and, (reland) Bill. 

“ number of times within each place in each year, | after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed 

“ not exceeding the number of times mentioned in| the Chair; and Lord Viscount Morpeth reported, 

“ the said Schedule (H.), as shall be directed by | That the Committee had gone through the Bill, and 

“ warrant under Her Majesty’s sign manual, and to | made Amendments thereunto. é; 

“ be published in The London Gazette.” Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 
Pr. 27. 1. 30. After “holding” insert “ all.” 
Pr. 27. 1. 31. Leave out “ all.” The ingrossed Bill to explain and amend an Act Secular Juris- | 
Pr. 28. 1. 11. Leave out “ His ” and insert “ one | of the sixth and seventh ae of his present Majesty, on — | 

of Her ;” and in ls. 11 and 12, leave out’ “ Secre-| for extinguishing the Secular Jurisdiction of the oo 
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Archbishop of York and the Bishop of Ely, in cer- 
tain Liberties in the Counties of York, Nottingham 
and Cambridge, was, according to Order, read the 
third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the Title 
be, An Act to explain and amend an Act of the sixth 
and seventh years of his late Majesty, for extinguishing 
the Secular Jurisdiction of the Archbishop of York 
and the Bishop of Ely, in certain Liberties in the 
Counties of York, Nottingham and Cambridge. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to the 


Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Loan Societies The House was moved, That the Act 6 and 7 
(Ireland) Bill. W7i{]/. 4, ¢.55, to amend the laws relating to Loan 
Societies in Ireland, might be read; and the same 
being read ; 
Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill 
for the Amendment of the Laws relating to Loan 
Societies in Ireland: And that Lord Viscount Mor- 
peth and Mr. Attorney General for Ireland do pre- 
pare, and bring it in. 


Loan Societies | Lord Viscount Morpeth presented a Bill for the 
(Ireland) Bill. Amendment of the Laws relating to Loan Societies 
No. 486. in Jreland: And the same was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time upon this day 
fortnight ; and to be printed. 
Naval Officers. | A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 
posed, That an humble Address be presented to Her 
Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased to give 
directions that, previous to the Estimates of 1838-9, 
means be taken to ascertain the Number of effective 
and non-effective Officers of Her Majesty’s Navy, 
with a view of forming a Retired List, to benefit the 
old and meritorious Officers who served during the 
late War:—And a Debate arising thereupon ;— 


Message from 


A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Dowdeswell 
the Lords, - 


and Mr. Cross: 
Mr. Speaker, 
The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 


Chester and 


Birkenhead == Act for making a Railway from the City of Chester 
aaa os Birkenhead, with Amendments ; to which Amend- 
ments the Lords desire the concurrence of this House: 
And also, 
Kilmarnock The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
heat Act to enable the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway 
iain Company to raise a further Sum of Money, to alter 
and amend the line of the said Railway, and for 
other purposes relating thereto, with Amendments ; 
to which Amendments the Lords desire the concur- 
rence of this House: And also, 
Duolin and The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
Rabrey Bill Act to alter the Line of the Dublin and Drogheda 
* Railway, aud to amend the Act relating thereto, with 
Amendments; to which Amendments the Lords de- 
sire the concurrence of this House: And also, 
Lands and The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
eeenet Bille” to facilitate the conveyance of Lands and Buildings 


for the purposes of two Acts passed es in 
the fifth and sixth years of his late Majesty King 
William the Fourth; to which the Lords desire the 
concurrence of this House: And also, 

Acts of The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
ye ace Bill for corsecting mistaken References to his late Ma- 
"~~" jesty, in Acts of this Session of Parliament; to which 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House :— 
And also, 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
to enable the Right honourable Thomas Earl of 
Wilton, and the Person or Persons for the time being 
entitled to the Estates devised by, or standing limited 
to the uses of the Wills of the Right honourable 
Thomas late Earl of Wilton, and the Right honour- 
able Eleanor late Countess of Wilton, both deceased, 
to makeconveyancesin Fee or Demises for long Terms 
of Years, of certain parts of the said Estates, for 
building on or improving the same, under reserved 


Ear! of Wilton’s 
Estate Bill. 


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A. 1837. 


yearly rents; to which the Lords desire the concur- 
rence of this House: And also, 

The Lords give leave to the Lord Bishop of Exeter Pian of 
to come to the Select Committee appointed by this Education 
House on Plan of Education (Ireland), in order to his (aint) 
being examined before the said Committee, if his Lord- 
ship think fit:—And then the Messengers withdrew, 


Then the House resumed the said Debate ; 
And the Question being again proposed, That an Naval Officers. 
humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, that 
She will be graciously pleased to give directions that, 
previous to the Estimates of 1838-9, means be taken 
to ascertain the number of effective and non-effective 
Officers of Her Majesty’s Navy, with a view of form- 
ing a Retired List, to benefit the old and meritorious 
Officers who served during the late War ;-— 


A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Dowdeswell Message from 
and Mr. Cross: a 
Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Bridlington 
Act for improving the Piers and Harbour of Bridling- #4"bour Bill. 
ton, in the East Riding of the County of York, and for 
rendering the same more safe and commodious as 
a Harbour of Refuge, with Amendments; to which 
Amendments the Lords desire the concurrence of 
this House:—And then the Messengers withdrew. 


Then the House again resumed the said Debate ; 

And the Question being put, That an humble Naval Officers. 
Address be presented to Her Majesty, that She will 
be graciously pleased to give directions that, previous 
to the Estimates of 1838-9, means be taken to as- 
certain the Number of effective ard non-effective 
Officers of Her Majesty’s Navy, with a view of forming 
a Retired List, to benefit the old and meritorious 
Officers who served during the late War ; 

The House divided : 

The Yeas to the new Lobby ; 

The Noes to the old Lobby. 

Tellers forthe Pag Dundas, } in 

Yeas, Sir Edward Codrington : - 
Tellers for thef Mr. Charles Wood, 
Noes, Sir Charles Adam: 

So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
Her Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of Her Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


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The Earl of Wilton’s Estate Bill was read the first Earl of Wilton’s 
time ; and ordered to be read a second time. Estate Bill. 


Notice being taken that Forty Members were not 
po, the House was told by Mr. Speaker ; and 
orty Members not being present ; and it being then 
after four of the clock :—The House was adjourned 


by Mr.Speaker, without a Question first put, till 
To-morrow. 


Veneris, 7° die Juli ; 
Anno 1° Victorie Regine, 1837. 





PRAYERS. 


M R. Plumptre reported from the Committee on Lord Clanmor- 
Lord Clanmorris’s Estate Bill ; That they had ris’s Estate 
examined the allegations of the Bill, and found the 8" 
same to be true; and that the parties concerned 
had given their consent to the Bill, to the satisfac 
tion of the Committee ; and that the Committee had 
gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto; and the same were read as follow: 

Pr. 21. 1. 3. Leave out “ King’s” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 

Pr. 36. 1. 1. Leave out “ King’s” and insert 
“ Queen’s. 

Pr. 36. 1.2. Leave out “ His” and_ insert 
“ Her.” 
Pr. 37. 








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Pr. 37. 1. 40. Leave out “ King’s” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 
The said Amendments, being read a second time, 


were agreed to. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 
intituled, An Act for improving the Piers and Har- 
bour of Bridlington, in the East Riding of the 
County of York, and for rendering the same more 
safe and commodious as a Harbour of Refuge ; and 
the same were read as follow: 

Pr. 4. 1. 21. Leave out “ King’s” 
“ Queen’s.” 

Pr. 14. 1. 11. Leave out from “ of” to “ inti- 
“ tuled ” in Is. 12 and 13, and insert “ Queen Vic- 
“ toria.” 


and insert 


Pr. 16. 1. 3. Leave out “ His” and insert} 
“ Her.” 

Pr, 25. 1.6. Leave out “ His” and _ insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 28. 1.29. Leave out “ His” and _ insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 34. 1.19. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 45. 1. 34. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 45. 1. 35. Leave out from “ Majesty” to 


“ intituled,” in 1. 36, and insert “ Queen Victoria.” 


Pr. 75. 1. 8. Leave out “ His” and_ insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 75. 1.11. Leave out “ His” and _ insert 
“ Hey.” 

Pr. 75. 1; 20. Leave out “ His” and _ insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 76. 1. 36. Leave out present” and insert 
“ late.” | 

Pr. 77. 1. 3. Leave out “ His” and insert 
* Her.” 

Pr. 77. 1. 6. Leave out “ His” and _ insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 77. 1. 20. Leave out “ His” and _ insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 84. 1. 24. Leave out “ shall” and insert 


“ may with the permission of the Commissioners 
of Her Majesty’s Customs.” 


Pr. 84. 1. 33. Leave out from “ House” to 
“ and,” in |. 38. ; 

Pr. 84. 1. ult. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Ber.” 

Pr. 85. 1.6. Leave out “ His” and _ insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 85. 1. 23. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 86. 1.1. Leave out “ His” and _ insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 89. 1. 4. Leave out “ present” and insert 
“ ] 2? 

ate. ; f 

Pr. 98. 1.19. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 


Pr. 114. 1. 28. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her;” and in the same line, leave out from “ Ma- 
“ jesty” to “ intituled,” in Is. 29. and 30., and 
insert “ Queen Victoria.” 

Pr. 118. 1. 13. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her ;” and in the same line leave out from “ Ma- 
“ jesty” to “ intituled,” in 1. 14., and _ insert 
“ Queen Victoria.” 

Pr. 131. 1. 22. Leave out 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 131. 1. 36. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her ;” and in the same line, and 1. 37., leave out 
“ from “ Majesty” to “intituled,” in line penult., 
and insert “ Queen Victoria.” 

Pr. 138. 1. 4. Leave out 
“ier. 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Beilby Thompson do carry the 
Bill to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this 

VoL. 92. 


“His” and insert 


“ His” and insert 


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605 


House hath agreed to the Amendments made by 


their Lordships. 


A Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act to trans- Acland’s 
fer the Endowments of the Domestic Chapel of Sir Estate Bill. 
Thomas Dyke Acland, Baronet, at Columb John, in 
the Parish of Broadclist, in the County of Devon, 
which Chapel is proposed to be pulled down, to a 
Chapel intended to be built in lieu thereof, near 
his residence at Killerton, in the same Parish, was 
read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Shaw Lefevre do carry the 
Bill to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this 
House hath agreed to the same, with Amendments ; 
to which Amendments this House doth desire the 
concurrence of their Lordships. 





| Mr. Wilks, by Order, reported from the Com- Adams's 

| mittee on Adams’s Estate Bill; That they had exa- saute Bill. 
| mined the allegations of the Bill, and found the 

; Same to be true; and that the Parties concerned 

| had given their consent to the Bill, to the satisfac- 

tion of the Committee ; and that the Committee had 

gone through the Bill, and made Amendments 
thereunto ; and the same were read as follow: 





Pr. 30. 1. 32. After “and” insert “ that.’ 

Pr. 47. 1. 5. After “ and” insert “ that.” 

Pr. 50. 1. 6. After “ witnessed ” insert “ that.” 

Pr. 73. 1. 35. Leave out “ His” and insert 
|“ Her.” 
Pr. 76. 1. 34. Leave out “ His” and _ insert 
“ Her.” 





| The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
_ were agreed to. 


A Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act to enable ciitheroeGram- 
the Governors of the Free Grammar School of mar School 
Clitheroe, in the County of Lancaster, to sell and Estate Bill. 
grant Building Leases of the School Estates, and to 
enlarge the Powers of the Governors, was read the 
third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Wilson Patten do carry the 
Bifl to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this 
House hath agreed to the same, with Amendments; 
to which Amendments this House doth desire the 
concurrence of their Lordships. 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the Chester and 
Lords to the Chester and Birkenhead Railway Bill, Birkenhead 
be taken into consideration upon Monday next. Railway Bill, 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Springburn, Auchin- Com Laws. 
earn and Bishopbridge, praying for the repeal of the 
Corn Laws, was presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Stratford Saint Mary, ;—Black- Church Rates 

burn; — Hare-court Chapel, Aldersgate-street; — Regulation, 
Fenny Stratford ;— Hammersmith ;—Mile-end Old 
Town ;— Tower Hamlets;—and, Lewin’s Mead, 
Bristol; praying that the proposed measure relative 
to Church Rates may receive the sanction of the 
House,—-were presented, and read ; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


A Petition praying for a further Grant of Money Polish 
for the Relief of the distressed Poles now in this Refugees. 
country, was offered to be presented :—But the 
said Petition not being recommended by the Crown ; 
the same was not received. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of West Bromwich, Maynooth 
raying that no further grant may be made to the College. 
nian Catholic College at Maynooth, was pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 
The 





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Small Debts 


(Sco 
No. 


tland ), 
2. Bill. 


No. 491. 


Committees. 


Berkhampstead 


School. 


Regium 


Donumn. 


Mas 


Workmen Bill. 


Public Records 


Bill. 


ters and 


Central 


Criminal Court 


Bill. 


Bank of 
Treland Bill. 


Chu 


rch 


Notices Bil. 


Corporate 
Property 


(Ire 


y 
land) Bille 


606 


The Small Debts (Scotland), No. 2, Bill, was 
read the first time ; and ordered to be read a second 
time. 


Ordered, That the Bill be printed. 


Ordered, That all Committees have leave to sit 
this day, during the sitting of the House. 


Petitions from Great Berkhampstead ;— Hemel 
Hempstead;—and, Chesham; praying that the 
Grammar School, founded by King Edward the 
Sixth, in the town of Berkhampstead, may be piaced 
on such a footing, and under such control, as may 
insure its good government for the future,—were 


peat, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
able. 


A Petition of the Moderator and Secretary of the 
East Kent Baptist Association, praying that no fur- 
ther grant of public money may be made to Pro- 
testant Dissenting Ministers, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Operative Weavers of Spitalfields, 
praying that the Pitan and Workmen Bill may 
pass into a law, was presented, and read; and or- 
dered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Sir Francis Palgrave, Keeper of the 
Records of the Treasury of Her Majesty’s Exche- 
quer, now deposited in the ancient house of the 
collegiate church of Saint Peter, Westminster, pray- 
ing that the Public Records Bill may not pass into 
a law, was presented, and read; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


The ingrossed Bill to assimilate the practice of 
the Central Criminal Court to other Courts of Cri- 
minal Judicature within the Kingdom of England 
and Wales, with respect to Offenders liable to the 
Punishment of Death, was, according to Order, 
read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The ingrossed Bill to postpone for a limited time 
the re-payment of certain Sums advanced by the 
Bank of Jreland for the Public Service, was, accord- 
ing to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act to postpone, until the First day 
of January, One thousand eight hundred and thirty- 
nine, the re-payment of certain Sums advanced by 
the Bank of Jreland for the Public Service. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


The Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act to 
alter the mode of giving Notices for the holding of 
Vestries, of making Proclamations in cases of Out- 
lawry, and of giving Notices on Sundays with respect 
to various matters, was, according to Order, read 
the third time ; and the Amendments followmg were 
made to the Bill; 

Pr. 1. 1. 4. Leave out “ late.” 

Pr, 2. 1. 30. Leave out “ King’s” and insert 
© Queen’s.” 

Pr. 5. 1.11. Leave out “ King” 
“ Queen.” 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
do pass. 


Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 


and insert 


the Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath |‘ 
agreed to the same, with Amendments; to which | 


Amendments this House doth desire the concurrence 
of their Lordships. 


The ingrossed Bill to restrain the Alienation of | 


Corporate Property in certain Towns in Ireland, was, 
according to Order, read the third time. 


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A. 1837. 


Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 


‘the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Mr. Bernal reported the Consolidated Fund (Ap- Consolidated 
propriation) Bill; and the Amendments were read, Fund (Appro. 
and avreed to. ao 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 


ingrossed ; and read the third time upon Monday 
next. 


Mr. Bernal reported the Militia Pay Bill; and Militia Pay 

the Amendments were read, and agreed to. Bill. 
Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 

ingrossed ; and read the third time upon Monday 

next. 


Mr. Bernal reported the Militia Ballots Suspen- Militia Ballots 
sion Bill; and the Amendments were read, and Suspension Bill. 
agreed to. 

Ordered That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 


ingrossed ; and read the third time upon Monday 
next. 


Mr. Bernal reported the Exchequer Bills (Public Exchequer Bills 
Works) Bill; and the Amendments were read, and — Wats) 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time upon Monday 
next. 


Mr. Bernal reported the Slave Trade Treaties Bill ; Slave Trade 
and the Amendments were read, and agreed to. amen 
Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time upon Monday 
next. 


Mr. Bernal reported the Tithe Advances (Ireland) Tithe Advances 
Bill; and the Amendments were read, and agreed to. aan ieee 
Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time upon Monday 
next. 


Mr. Bernal reported the Bankrupts (Jreland) Bankrupts 
Bill; and the Amendments were read, as follow: — ‘Htelau¢) Bill 
Pr. 6.1. 5. Leave out “ this,” and insert “ the 
“ said.” 
Pr. 7.1. 14. After “ Parliament ” insert Clauses 
(A.) and (B.) 

Crauss (A.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 

from and after the appointment of said second 
Commissioner, there shall be paid to him and his 
successors in office, out of the monies standing to 
the bankruptcy and compensation fund account, 
the yearly sum of One thousand five hundred 
pounds, the which said sum shall be paid at the 
same times, and in like manner, as the salary pro- 
vided by said recited Act is directed to be paid to 
the Commissioner thereby appointed ; and the Com- 
missioner appointed by virtue of this Act, or his 
executors and administrators, shall be entitled to 
the like proportional part of his salary in the 
event of his removal, resignation or death, as is 
provided by said recited Act for said Commis- 
sioner thereby appointed.” 
Criavuse (B.) “ And be it Enacted, That in lieu of 
the fee of Three pounds sterling, payable by the 
said recited Act for every sitting under any Com- 
mission, there shall be paid for every sitting under 
any Commission before either of said Commis- 
sioners the sum of Four pounds sterling, to be 
paid or abated as in said recited Act is provided 
with reference to the said former fee of Three 
pounds.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 


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were agreed to. 


Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 


upon Monday next. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- Orders of the 


posed, That the other Orders of the day be now read ; Day. 


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An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by leaving out from the words “ That 
“ the” to the end of the Question, in order to add | 
the words “ Duty now chargeable on all In- 
surances against Fire, at the rate of 3s. per cent. 
on each Policy, shall cease; and that the Duty 
“ shall be henceforward at the rate of 1s. 6d. in 
“ lieu thereof, on all such Policies, being a reduction 
of one half of the former amount of Duty,” in- 
stead thereof. 

And the Question being proposed, That the words 
proposed to be left out stand part of the Question :— 
And a Debate arising thereupon ; 


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Message from _ A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Cross and 
the Lords. Mr. Senior: 
Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords have agreed to the several Bills follow- 

ing, without Amendment, viz. 
Metropolis A Bill, intituled, An Act to continue until the 
Bil Offiees First day of July, in the year One thousand eight 
; hundred and thirty-eight, and from thence to the 
end of the then next Session of Parliament, An Act 
for the more effectual Administration of the Office 
of a Justice of the Peace in and near the Metropolis : 





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Common Law 
Courts Bill. in the Superior Courts of Common Law, and to 
make provision for a more effective and uniform 
Establishment of Officers in those Courts : 

A Bill, intituled, An Act for continuing Military 
Commissions, and Commissions in the Royal Ma- 
rines, in force, notwithstanding the Demise of the 
Crown: And also, 

Dublin and Kil- The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
i Railway Act for making and maintaining a Railway from the 
City of Dublin to the City of Kilkenny, to be called 
“ The Great Leinster and Munster Railway,” with 
Amendments; to which Amendments the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House: And also, 
Actons’ The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
om for naturalizing Dame Marie Louise Pelline De 
Dalberg Acton, and her infant son, Sir John Emerick 
Edward Dalberg Acton, Baronet, to which the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House:—And then 
the Messengers withdrew. 


Military Come 
missions Bill. 


Then the House resumed the said Debate: 
And the Question being put, That the words pro- 


Orders of the 


Day. osed to be left out, stand part of the Question : — 
t was resolved in the Affirmative. 
Ordered, That the other Orders of the day be 
now read ; and the same being read ; 
Char Build- The Church Building Commission Billi was read 
zi, @ second time; and committed to a Committee of 
the whole House for Monday next. 
hae The Order of the day being read, for the second 


reading of the First Fruits and Tenths Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon this day three weeks. 


ad The Order of the day being read, for the second 
(Ireland) Bin, 2e@ding of the Attornies and Solicitors (Zreland) Bill ; 
Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time upon 


this day three weeks. 


Resolved, That this House will, at the rising of 
the House this day, adjourn till Monday next. 


Adjournment, 


og Actons’ Naturalization Bill was read the first time ; 

a and ordered to be read a second time. 

Lande and The Lands and Buildings Conveyance Bill was 
uildings Con- 4 


veyance Bill, Tead the first time ; and ordered to be read a second 
No, 47, time upon Monday next. 
Ordered, That the Bill be printed. 
a. The Acts of Parliament References Bill was read 
References Bil), the first time ; and ordered to be read a second time 
No, 4gg, upon Monday next. 
Ordered, That the Bill be printed. 
Vou. 92. 





A Bill, intituled, An Act to abolish certain Offices | to give directions, that there be laid before this 


7°—10° Julit. 607 


A Motion was made, and the Question being put, Upper Canada, 
That an humble Address be presented to Her Ma- 
jesty, that She will be graciously pleased to dis- 
agree to an Act of the Legislature of Upper Canada, 
7 Will. 4, c.17, mtituled, “ An Act to prevent the 
Dissolution of the Parliament of this Province in 
the event of a demise of the Crown,” which renders 
unnecessary the calling of a new Parliament within 
six months after the demise of the Crown, and 
continues the existence of the present House of 
Assembly for four years, contrary to the existing 
constitution of the Canadas as by law established : 
—It passed in the Negative. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Parliamentary 

Return in columns, showing the Total Number of P#?e"* 
Reports, Bills, and other Public Parliamentary 
Papers, which have been issued in the years 1833, 
1834, 1835, 1836 and 1837, respectively ; showing 
the Number of each kind issued gratis, and sold in 
each year, since the Sale commenced, and the Sum 
Total produced in each year. 


Resolved, That an humble Address be presented Consistorial 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased ior — 
House, a Return in columns, showing the Names of 
| the Sheriffs lately appointed to take proofs in Con- 
sistorial Causes in Scotland ; the authority under 
which they have been appointed ; the nature and 
extent of the Duties imposed ; the Salary or Allow- 
ances paid, or to be paid, and whether in addition 
to the Salaries they previously had and still enjoy ; 
also, specifying the Commissaries who have died or 
been superannuated ; the Salaries they previously 
had ; the Retired Allowances they now have, their 
Ages, and those of the Sheriffs who have been ap- 
pointed. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
Her Majesty by such Members of this icine as are 
of Her Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 








Mr. Shaw Lefevre reported from the Select Com- Standing Order 
mittee appointed to consider the Standing Orders Revision. 
on Private Bills, and who were empowered to report No. 489. 
from time to time to the House, and who were in- 
structed in the first place to take into their con- 
sideration the Standing Order relative to the section 
of Railways, and to report to the House whether 
any and what measures may be proper to enforce the 
observance of the same ; That they had made fur- 
ther Progress in the matters to them referred, and 
had come to several Resolutions which they had 
directed him to report to the House, together with 
the Minutes of the Evidence taken before them, 
with an Appendix. 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon Tuesday next ; and be printed. 


And then the House adjourned till Monday 


next. 


Lune, 10° die Julii ; 
Anno 1° Victoria Regine, 1837. 





PRAYERS. 
N R. Waple, from the Commissioners for building New Churches. 
new Churches, was called in; and at the bar 
presented, pursuant to the directions of several Acts 
of Parliament,—An Account of Charges and Ex- 
enses paid by Her oy at Commissioners for 
building new Churches, from the 25th March 1836 
to the 25th March 1837 :—And then he withdrew. 
Ordered, That the said Account do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Callaghan reported from the Committee on Eversfeld’s 
the Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act to extend Estate Bill. 
the Powers given to the Trustees of the Will of 

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Adanis’s 
Estate Bill. 


Bevan’s 


Estate Bill. 


Dublin and 
Kilkenny 


Railway Bill, 


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Charles Eversfield, Esquire, by an Act of Parliament 
passed in the seventh year of the reign of his Ma- 
jesty King George the Fourth, intituled, “ An Act 
to enable Trustees to grant Building Leases of Lands 
in the several Parishes of Saint Leonard’s, Holling- 
ton, Saint Mary of the Castle of Hastings, Maudlin, 
Saint Mary Magdalen, Saint Michael near Hastings 
and Horsham, in the County of Sussex, parts of the 
Estate devised by the Will of Charles Eversfield, 
Esquire, and to sell the same Lands, and also two 
detached Farms in the Parishes of Hollington and 
Horsham aforesaid, other parts of the same Estates, 
and for laying out the Money arising by such Sale 
in the purchase of other Estates, to be settled to the 
same uses ;” That they had examined the allegations 
of the Bill, and found the same to be true; and that 
the parties concerned had given their consent to the 
Bill, to the satisfaction of the Committee ; and that 
the Committee had gone through the Bill, and di- 
rected him to report the same, without Amendment : 
—And the Bill was read the third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That Mr. Callaghan do carry the Bill to 
the Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


A Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act for ex- 
tending the Powers of Sale and Exchange contained 
in the Marriage Settlement of Francis Adams the 
younger, Esquire, and for other purposes, was read 
the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 


do pass. 

Dedued That Mr. Brotherton do carry the Bill 
to the Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, with Amendments; to 
which Amendments this House doth desire the con- 
currence of their Lordships. 


A. 1837. 


without the consent of the commissioners for any 
public sewers, or of the proprietors of any canal or 
navigation affected by such deviation; and that 
no increase in the inclination or gradients of the 
said Railway, as denoted by the said section, shall 
be made in any place to an extent exceeding the 
rate of Three feet per mile ; and where in any 
place it is intended to carry the Railway on an 
arch or arches, as marked on the said plan or 
section, the same shall be made accordingly ; and 
where a tunnel is marked on the said plan or sec- 
tion, as intended to be made at any place, the 
same shall be made accordingly, unless the owners, 
lessees and occupiers of the land in or through 
which such tunnel is intended to be made, shall 
consent that the same shall not be so made: Pro- 
“ vided nevertheless, That it shall be lawful for the 
said Company, with such consent as aforesaid, 
and not otherwise, to make a tunnel or an arch or 
arches as aforesaid, not marked on the said plan 
or section, so that no such tunnel shall be of a 
greater length than Two hundred yards, and that 
no two tunnels be ata less distance from each 
other than One hundred yards, measured on the 
* line of the Railway: Provided always, That notice 
of every petty sessions to be holden for the purpose 
of obtaining such consent as aforesaid, shall, 
Fourteen days previous to the holding of such 
petty sessions, be given in some newspaper circu- 
lating in the county, and also be affixed upon the 
church door of the parish in which such deviation 
or alteration is intended to be made, or, if there 
be no church, some other place to which notices 
are usually affixed ; and provided also, that for 
the purpose of consenting to any such deviation 
from the said sections, and to any tunnelling or 
arching as aforesaid, the word ‘ owners’ shall be 
deemed and taken to mean such persons as are 





Bevan’s Estate Bill was read a second time; and 
committed to Mr. Brotherton and the Cambridge 
List. 

Ordered, That the Committee have leave to sit 
and proceed To-morrow, and to make their Report 
upon Wednesday next. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 
intituled, An Act for making and maintaining a Rail- 
way from the City of Dublin to the City of Kilkenny, 
to be called “ The Great Leinster and Munster Rail- 
way; and the same were read, as follow: 

Pr. 8. 1. 23. After “ Kilkenny ” insert “ And 
whereas such plans and sections have been ap- 
proved of by Parliament as the plans and sections 
according to which the said Railway is to be 
“ made.” 

Pr. 10. 1. 37. Leave out “ two” and _ insert 
“ three.” 

Pr. 11. |. 26. After “ reference” insert Clauses 
(A.) and (B.) 

Cuiauss (A.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 


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of the said Railway, as referred to the common 
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in making the said Railway, it shall not be lawful | 


of by Parliament, and as marked on the same, to | 


herein capacitated to agree for the sale of and to 
convey land for the making of the said Railway; 
and the consent of such persons, with or without 
the consent of any other persons interested as 
owners in the said lands, shall be deemed and 
taken to be sufficient for such purposes.” 

Cuavuse (B.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
it shall not be lawful to diminish the radius of any 
curve from what it is shown to be on the plan 
deposited with the Clerk of the Peace unless such 
ee a exceed One mile, nor to diminish it in any 
such case, so that it shall become less than One 
mile, nor to diminish any greater radius by more 
than a quarter of a mile, unless where it exceeds 
Two miles, or by more than half a mile, unless 
where it exceeds Three miles, on the said plan.” 

Pr. 12. 1. 26. After “ reference ” insert Clauses 
(C.), (D.), (E.), (F.) and (G.) 

Criavuse (C.) “ Provided always, and be it further 

“« Enacted, That no part of the said intended Rail- 
way, other than that part thereof which extends 
“ from the city of Dublin to the town of Sallins, in 
the county of Kildare, shall be commenced by 
the said Company, until the expiration of Twelve 
calendar months, to be computed from the passing 
of this Act; aad that such part of the said in- 
tended Railway as extends from the city of Dublin 
to the said town of Sallins, shall be made of such 
width as shall be :ecommended by the Railway 
'“ Commissioners for Trunk Lines in /reland.” 
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consent of the owners, lessees and occupiers of the | “ 
land in, through or over which such deviation is | “ 
intended to be made; or in case any street or | “ 
public carriage-road shall be affected by such | “ 
deviation, then the same shall not be made without | “ 
the consent of the trustees or commissioners, or, | “ 
if there be no such trustees or commissioners, | “ 
without the consent of Two or more Justices of | “ 
the Peace, in petty sessions assembled for that | “ 
purpose, and acting for the district in which such | “ 
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further Enacted, That it shall not be competent 
to the said Company, at any time or times hereafter, 
to set up or allege in opposition to any other line 
or lines of Railway projected or to be projected in 
Ireland, any of the rights or privileges of the said 
Company under this Act, or the injury to be occa- 
sioned by such projected line or lines, to the said 
intended Railway, or to demand compensation for 
any such injury, but that the projecting of any 
other line or lines of Railway in Jreland, and the 
obtaining of the aid and authority of Parliament 

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“ to execute the same, shall be as open and unpre- 
“ judiced as if this Act had not passed.” 


Cuauss (E.) “ And whereas the Right honour- 
“ able the Earl of Donoughmore, Major John Wills, 
“ and Major Robert Wilcox, are lessees and occu- 
piers of certain lands through which the line of 
the said Railway is designed to pass; and whereas 
on account of the injury which may be done to 
the property of the said Earl of Donoughmore, 
* Major John Wills and Major Robert Wilcox, by 
the said Railway, in disturbing the privacy thereof, 
they claim to be entitled tv special compensation ; 
Be it therefore Enacted, That in case the said 
Farl of Donoughmore, Major John Wills and 
Major Robert Wilcox, or any of them, shall not 
agree with the said Company as to the amount of 
the purchase-money and compensation to be made 
to them respectively for the land which may be 
required for the purposes of the Railway, and the 
injury which may be done to their remaining pro- 
perty, then the amount of such purchase-money 
and compensation shall be ascertained and deter- 
mined by the valuation of Two indifferent persons, 
one to be named by the said Company and the 
other by the party or parties disagreeing with the 
said Company, or in case of difference between 
such valuers, then by an umpire, to be named by 
them previous to entering upon their valuation.” 


Cuavuse (F.) “ And whereas it may be that the 
works of the Railway will interfere with the suppl 
of water to the lands and demesne of the Earl of 
Donoughmore severed by the Railway; Be it 
therefore Enacted, That the said Company shall 
be bound and required at all times hereafter, at 
their own expense, to make and execute and keep 
in repair such conduit, syphon or other works, for 
“ the purpose of preserving to the use of the said 
™ Earl of Donoughmore the stream or streams of 
water from which his estate is at present supplied, 
in such manner as shall be required by the arbi- 
trators hereinbefore referred to, or their umpire, 
and in as ample and beneficial a manner as such 
supply of water is at present enjoyed.” 

CrauseE (G.) “ Provided always, and be it fur- 
ther Enacted, That no deviation from the line of 
the said intended Railway, as marked upon the 
plan deposited in the Parliament Office, shall be 
made across any part of the land now in the occu- 
pation of the said Earl of Donoughmore, without 
the consent of the said Earl of Donoughmore.” 

Pr. 25. 1. 6. Leave out from “ mentioned ” to 
“ Provided ” in Pr. 26. 1. 1. 

Pr. 26. 1. 17. Leave out “ eighteen ” and insert 
twenty.” 

Pr. 26. 1. 31. Leave out from “ where ”’ to “ Pro- 
vided ” in Pr. 27. 1. 1., and insert “ any public 
carriage-road shall be altered by means of the 
said Railway, the inclination of the road so altered, 
if turnpike, shall not be less than One foot in 
Thirty feet, and if highway, not less than One 
“ foot in Twenty feet.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. William Roche do carry the 
Bill to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this 
House hath agrecd to the Amendments made by 
their Lordships. 


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Ordered, That a Message be sent to the Lords, 
to acquaint them, That in the Committee upon the 
Bill, intituled, An Act to facilitate the Polling of 
Electors in Ireland, two Clauses were disagreed to, 
which Clauses, according to the copy of the Bill, as 
printed by the Lords, appear in the ingrossment ; 
and to request that their Lordships will expunge the 
said Clauses, viz. from the word “ divided,” in Pr. 3. 
1. 18, to the end of the Bill, the same not forming 
part of the Bill as passed by the Commons: And 
that Mr. Callaghan do carry the said Message. 

Vor. 92. 


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609 


Ordered, That a Message be sent to the Lords, Losses by Fire 
to request that their Lordships will give leave to Somer) - 
Viscount Canterbury to attend, in order to his being . 
examined as a witness before the Select Committee 
appointed by this House to inquire into the facts of 
the case of the late Speaker, and Officers of the 
Houses of Parliament, who suffered by the Fire of 
the former Houses of Parliament, and to report the 
same: And that Sir John Wrottesley do carry the 
said Message. 

Ordered, That the Committee have Power to 
report the Minutes of the Evidence taken before 
them. 


Birmingham Free School Estate Bill was read a Birmingham 
second time ; and committed to Sir John Wrottesley Free School 
and the Warwick List. —_ 

Ordered, That the Committee have leave to sit 
and proceed To-morrow, and to make their Report 
upon Wednesday next. 


Fawcett’s Estate Bill was reada second time; and Faweett’s 
committed to Sir John Beckett, and the York List. Estate Bill. 
Ordered, That the Committee have leave to sit 
and proceed To-morrow, and to make their Report 
upon Wednesday next. 


A Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act for au- ford Clanmor- 
thorizing the Sale of certain Estates in the Counties ris’s Estate Bill. 
of Galway and Mayo, devised by the Will of the 
Right honourable John late Lord Clanmorris, de- 
ceased, and for laying out the Monies thence arising 
in the purchase of other Estates, to be settled to the 
same uses, was, according to Order, read the third 
time. 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Witson Patten do carry the 
Bill to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this 
House hath agreed to the same, with Amendments ; 
to which Amendments this House doth desire the 
concurrence of their Lordships. 


Petitions from Chard;—and, Saint Giles, Ox- tithes 
ford; praying that the Tithes (Jre/and) Bill may not (Ireland) Bill. 
pass into a law,—were presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Dean and Chapter of the Ca- Ecclesiastical 
thedral Church of Winchester, praying that the Appointments 
Ecclesiastical Appointments Suspension Bill may S¥*Peusion Bill 
not pass into a law, was presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Stradbally ;—and, Carrabrown ; Municipal 
raying that the Municipal Corporations (Jreland) ——— 
Bill may pass into a law,—were presented, and read ; (Ireland) Bill 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Holders of Bonds of the Republics Spanisi 
of Mexico, Columbia, Peru, Buenos Ayres, Chile, American 
and central America, complaining of the govern- ®°™“* 
ments of the said Republics not having appropriated 
the Revenues of the States to the liquidation of the 
Bonds held by them, or sopenee of the Interest 
thereon ; and praying the House to pase measures 
for obtaining redress, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Mansfield ;— Wadsworth ; —Poul- poor Law Act. 
ton, Thornton and other places ;— Chairman of a 
Meeting of Inhabitants of Mansfield ;—and, Ed- 
ward Manby and Frederick Manby ; praying for the 
repeal or amendment of the Poor Law Act,—-were 
— and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
able. 


Petitions from Operative Shoemakers employed Factories Act. 
by Mr. Watson, of Manchester ;—Operative Spinners 
in the employ of Mr. Williams, of Manchester ;— 
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Factory Labourers in the employ of Samuel Barrett, 
of Stockport; — Mr. Christy, of Stockport; — 
Operatives in the employ of Mr. Clarke, of Man- 
chester ;—in the Mills at Horwick ;—Bricklayers of 
Manchester ;—and, Inhabitants of Hulme, praying 
the House to pass a law to protect all factory 
workers from being worked more than ten hours 
for five days of the week, and eight on the Saturday, 
—were presented, and read; and ordered to hie 
upon the Table. 


Manor Courts 
(Treland.) 


No. 494. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee appointed to 
inquire into the operation of the Small Debt Juris- 
diction of Manor Courts in Ireland, the abuses which 
may exist therein, and the remedies proper to be 
applied, have Power to report their observations 
thereupon, together with the Minutes of the Evi- 
dence taken before them. 

Mr. Morgan John O'Connell reported from the 
said Select Committee, That they had considered 
the matters to them referred ; and had directed him 
to make a Report thereof to the House, together with 
the Minutes of the Evidence taken before them. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 


and be printed. 


Steam Commu- 
nication with 
India. 


A Petition of the Incorporation of Traffickers or 
Merchant Company of Leith, praying the House 
to pass any measure which may be brought before 
them, having for its object the facilitating the com- 
munication between this country and India, was 
presented, and read; and referred to the Select 
Committee on Steam Communication with India. 
Queen’s Ferry. The Lord Advocate presented,—Return to an 
Order, dated the 16th day of June last, for an Ab- 
stract of the Accounts of the Fife and Midlothian 
Ferry Trustees, from the year 1830 to 1836, both 
years included. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Fourth Report Mr. Warburton reported from the Select Com- 
from Committee mittee to whom several Petitions respecting the 
Dover Railway Parliamentary Subscription Contracts of certain 
Subscription Railway Companies were referred ; and also several 
List (South — Petitions respecting the Parliamentary Subscription 
tice Railway] Contract of the South Midland Counties Railway 
No. 495, Company; and who were empowered to report their 
=" opinion thereupon, together with the Minutes of the 
Evidence taken before them from time to time to 
the House ; That they had considered the matters 
to them referred (so far as regards the Subscription 
List for the South Midland Counties Railway); and 
had directed him to make a Report thereof to the 
House, together with the Minutes of the Evidence 

taken before them, and an Appendix. 
Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 

and be printed. 


Apothecaries 


(reland.) A Petition of Apothecaries of Ireland, praying 


the House to create a College of Pharmacy in Jre- 
land, endowed with adequate powers to regulate the 
Education of the Apothecary, in order to his exer- 
cising with efficiency the functions which imme- 
morial usage has allotted to him, and with authority 
to repress the ignorant and unqualified from wield- 
ing with pernicious and destructive liability the 
various agents of materia meiica, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Timothy Trangott Triebner, com- 
plaining of a quantity of Poppy Seed, imported by 
him from Hamburgh, having been taken possession 
of by the Custom-house Officer, on non-payment of 
duty, and praying that Poppy Seed may be imported 
at the same rate of duty as Rape Seed; and, also 

raying that Petitions presented to the House may 
he read at length, was presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


T. T. Triebner. 


10° Juliz. 


A. 1837. 


Ordered, That a Message be sent to the Lords, Oaths. 
to request that their Lordships will be pleased to 
communicate to this House, Copies of any Reports 
from the Select Committee appointed by their 
Lordships during the present Session on Oaths and 
Declarations : And that Mr. Pease do carry the said 
Message. 


Petitions from the Chairman of a meeting of In- Negro Appren- 
habitants of Airdrie ;—Irvine ;—and, Kilmarnock ; "ship. 
praying for the abolition of Negro Apprenticeship in 
the Colonies,—were presented, and read ; and or- 
dered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of John H. Stack, of Listowel, Gen- John H. Stack, 
tleman, complaining of having been deprived of his 
situation of Clerk and Registrar of the Listowel 
Petty Sessions, for having obeyed an order of the 
Lrish Government, for Returns of the number and 
particulars of cases in which magistrates have acted 
singly out of Petty Sessions; and praying relief, was 
— and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
able. 


A Petition of William Bennett, of Princes-street, W. Bennett, 








Bedford Row, complaining of his Goods having 
been distrained and sold for payment of Assessed 
Taxes, and praying relief, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Members of the Westminster Me- National 
chanics Institution, praying for the establishment Education. 
of a system of National Education, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Clerkenwell;—and, Members of the Parish Vestries 
Brighton Radical Registration and Patriotic Asso- Bill. 
ciation ; praying that the Parish Vestries Bill may 
pass into a law,—were presented, and read; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The Earl of Wilton’s Estate Bill was read a se- Earl of Wilton’s 
cond time; and committed to Lord Robert Grosve- Estate Bill. 
nor, and the Chester List. 

Ordered, That the Committee have leave to sit 
and proceed To-morrow, and to make their Report 
upon Wednesday next. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Dublin and 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, Drogheda. 
intituled, An Act to alter the Line of the Dublin — 
and Drogheda Railway, and to amend the Act 
relating thereto ; and the same were read, as follow: 

Pr. 1. 1. 3. Leave out “present” and insert 
“‘ late.” 
Pr. 1. 1, 27. Leave out “ King’s” and insert 
“ Queen’s. 
Pr. 4. 1.19. After “and” insert “it shall not 
“ be lawful for.” 
Pr. 4. 1. 20. Leave out “ shall abandon,’ 
insert “ to make.” 
Pr. 4. 1. 283. Leave out from “as” to “and” in 
1. 27., and insert “ lie between the terminus of the 
“ said Railway in the city of Dublin, and the com- 
mencement of the deviation near the river Maine, 
in the united parishes of Kilbarrack, Howth and 
Baldoyle, by this Act authorized to be made.” 
Pr. 4. 1. ult. After “plans” insert “ and 
sections.” 
Pr. 5. 1. 1. After “line”’ insert “ and levels.” 
Pr. 5. 1. 17. After “ Dublin” msert “ And 
whereas said maps or plans and sections have 
been approved of by Parliament, as the maps, 
plans and sections according to which the said 
intended alteration is to be made.” 
Pr. 5. 1. 19. After “plans” insert “ sections.” 
Pr. 9. 1. 13. After Clause (A.), added by way of 
Rider to the Bill, insert Clauses (A.) and (B.) 
Curause (A.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
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for the said Company to deviate from the levels of 
the said Railway as referred to the common datum 
line described on the section so approved of by 
Parliament, and as marked on the same, to any 
extent exceeding in any place Five feet, or, in 
passing through towns, Two feet, without the 
consent of the owners, lessees and occupiers of 
the land in, through or over which such deviation 
is intended to be made, or in case any street or 
public carriage-road shall be affected by such 
deviation, then the same shall not be made with- 
out the consent of.the trustees or commissioners, 
or, if there be no such trustees or commissioners, 
without the consent of Two or more Justices of 
the Peace in petty sessions assembled for that 
purpose, and acting for the district in which such 
street or public carriage-road may be situate, or 
without the consent of the commissioners for any 
public sewers, or of the proprietors of any canal 
or navigation affected by such deviation; and 
that no increase in the inclination or gradients of 
the said Railway, as denoted by the said section, 
shall be made in any place to an extent exceeding 
the rate of Three feet per mile ; and where in any 
place it is intended to carry the Railway on an 
arch or arches, as marked on the said plan or 
section, the same shall be made accordingly; and 
where a tunnel is marked on the said plan or 
section, as intended to be made at any place, 
the same shall be made accordingly, unless the 
owners, lessees and occupiers of the land in or 
through which such tunnel is intended to be made 
shall consent that the same shall not be so made: 
Provided nevertheless, That it shall be lawful for 
the said Company, with such consent as aforesaid, 
and not otherwise, to make a tunnel or an arch 
or arches as aforesaid, not marked on the said 
plan or section, so that no such tunnel shall be of 
a greater length than Two hundred yards, and 
that no two tunnels be at a less distance from 
each other than One hundred yards, measured on 
the line of the Railway: Provided always, That 
notice of every petty sessions to be holden for the 
purpose of obtainirg such consent as aforesaid, 
shall, Fourteen days previous to the holding of 
such petty sessions, be given in some newspaper 
circulating in the county, and also be affixed upon 
the church-door of the parish in which such devi- 
ation or alteration is intended to be made, or, if 
there be no church, some other place to which 
notices are usually affixed: And provided also, 
That for the purpose of consenting to any such 
deviation from the said sections, and to any tun- 
nelling or arching as aforesaid, the word ‘owners’ 
shall be deemed and taken to mean such persons 
as are herein capacitated to agree for the sale of, 
and to convey land for the making of the said 
Railway; and the consent of such persons, with 
or without the consent of any other persons inter- 
ested as owners in the said lands, shall be deemed 
and taken to be sufficient for such purposes.” 

Crause (B.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
it shall not be lawful to diminish the radius of 
any curve from what it is shown to be on the plan 
deposited with the Clerk of the Peace, unless 
such radius exceed One mile, nor to diminish it 
in any such case so that it shall become less than 
One mile, nor to diminish any greater radius by 
more than a quarter of a mile, unless where it 
exceeds Two miles, or by more than half a mile, 
— where it exceeds Three miles, on the said 
plan.” 

Pr. 11. 1.13. After “ Act” insert Clauses (C.), 


(D.), (E.), (F.) and (G.) 


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Act, it is enacted, That the said Railway shall not 
be made across any street or highway (upon which 
carriages or cattle shall pass), on the level, with- 
out the previous consent in writing of some Two 
Justices of the Peace for the county, acting for 

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the division within which the street or highway 
so to be crossed shall be situate : And whereas it 
is by the said recited Act, further enacted, that 
where any bridge shall be erected by the said 
Company for the purpose of carrying the said 
Railway over or across any public carriage-road, 
the span of the arch of such bridge shall be 
formed, and shall at all times be and be con- 
tinued of such width as to leave a clear and open 
space under every arch of not less than Fifteon 
feet, and of a height from the surface of such 
road to the centre of such arch of not less than 
Sixteen feet,and the descent under any such bridge 
for the purposes of any public carriage-road shall 
not exceed One foot in Thirty feet, and for the 
purposes of any other road shall not exceed One 
foot in Thirteen feet: And whereas it is by the said 
recited Act further enacted, that where any 
bridge shall be erected for carrying any public 
carriage-road over the Railway, the road over 
such bridge shall be formed and shall at all times 
be continued of such width as to leave a clear 
and open space between the fences of such road 
of not less than Fifteen feet, and the ascent of 
every such bridge for the purpose of such — 
carriage-road shall not be more than One foot in 
Thirty feet, and with respect to any private car- 
riage-road not more than One foot in Thirteen 
feet, and a good and sufficient fence shall be made 
on each side of every such bridge, which fence 
shall not be less than Four feet above the surface 
of such bridge; Be it Enacted, That the said 
recited provisions shall be and the same are 
hereby repealed.” 

Criavse (D.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
nothing in the said recited Act or this Act con- 
tained, shall extend to empower the said Com- 
pany to carry the said Railway across any 
turnpike-road or other public carriage-road on 
the level of such road, but either the said Rail- 
way shall be carried over such turnpike-road or 
other public carriage-road, or such turnpike-road 
or other public carriage-road shall be carried 
over the said Railway by means of a bridge.” 

Cuause (E.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
where any bridge shall be erected by the said 
Company for the purpose of carrying the said 
Railway over or across any turnpike-road or other 
public carriage-road, the span of the arch of such 
bridge shall be formed, and shall at all times be 
and be continued of such width as to leave a clear 
and open space under every such arch of not less 
than Thirty feet for a turnpike-road, and of not less 
than Twenty feet for a public carriage-road, and 
of a height from the foot of such turnpike-road 
to the centre of such arch of not less than Six- 
teen feet ; and of a height from the surface of a 
public carriage-road to the centre of such arch of 
not less than Fourteen feet, and the descent under 
any such bridge in the case of a turnpike-road 
shall not exceed One foot in Thirty feet, and in 
the case of any other public carriage-road One 
foot in Twenty feet, and in case of any other 
road One foot in Fifteen feet.” 

Cravuse (F.) “ And be it further Enacted, ‘That 
where any bridge shall be erected for carrying 
any turnpike-road over the said Railway, the 
road over such bridge shall be formed, and shall 
at all times be continued of such width as to leave 
a clear and open space between the fences of such 
road, of not less than Thirty feet; and where any 
public carriage-road, not being a turnpike-road, 
shall be carried over the said Railway, such space 
shall not be less than Twenty feet, and the ascent 
of every such bridge for the purpose of such turn- 
pike-road shall not be more than One foot in 
Thirty feet, and with respect to any public car- 
riage-road not being a turnpike-road not more 
than One foot in Twenty feet, and with respect 
to any occupation-road or private carriage-road 

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not more than One foot in Fifteen feet, and a good | 
and sufficient fence shall be made, and at all 
times thereafter continued and repaired by and 
at the expense of the said Company, on each side 
of every such bridge, which fence shall not be less 
than Four feet above the surface of the road over 
such bridge: Provided nevertheless, That the 
regulations hereinbefore contained respecting the 
ascent or descent of roads over or under the said 
Railway, shall not apply where the inclination of 
such roads shall not be increased:or altered by 
the making of the said Railway ; Provided also, 
That where the level of any public carriage-road 
shall be altered by means of the said Railway, 
the inclination of such road if turnpike shall not 
exceed One foot in Thirty feet, or if highway 
shall not exceed One foot in Twenty feet.” 
Causes (G.) “ Provided always, and be it further 
Enacted, That it shall not be lawful for the said 
Company to raise any Money by loan or mort- 
gage under any of the powers or provisions con- 
tained in the said recited Act, until one-half part 
of the capital of Six hundred thousand pounds, by 
the said recited Act authorized to be raised by 
subscription, shall have been paid up.” 


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Pr. 12. 1. 10. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 
Pr. 12. 1, 26. Leave out “ His” and insert 


‘“* Her.” 

Pr. 15. 1. 28. Leave out from “ Act” to “ and,” 
in Pr, 19. 1. ult. 

Pr. 20.1. penult. Leave out “ present” and in- 
sert “ late.” 

Pr. 22. 1. 29. Leave out “ His’ 
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Pr. 27. 1. 34. Leave out “ present” and insert 
“ late,” and in the same line, after “ Majesty ” in- 
sert “ King William the Fourth.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr Callaghan do carry the Bill 
to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


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and insert 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 
intituled, An Act to enable the Kilmarnock and 
Troon Railway Company to raise a further Sum of 
Money, to alter and amend the line of the said 
Railway, and for other purposes relating thereto ; 
and the same were read, as follow : 


Pr, 2. 1. 15. Leave out “ King’s ” and insert 
“© Queen’s.” 

Pr. 20. 1. 37. After “ not” insert “ if turn- 
“ pike.” 


Pr. 20. 1. penult. Leave out “ Fifteen” and in- 
sert “ Thirty feet, or, in case of any other public 
“ carriage-road, more than One foot in Twenty.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 
Ordered, That Mr. Robert Steuart do carry the 
Bill to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The ingrossed Bill to apply a Sum of Money out 
of the Consolidated Fund for the service of the year 
One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, was, 
according to Order, read third time. 

Resolved, 'That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act to apply the Sum of Five millions 
two hundred and twenty thousand pounds out of 


10° Jultz. 


A. 1837. 


Pay, Clothing, and Contingent and other Expenses Bill. 
of the Disembodied Militia in Great Britain and 
Ireland, and to grant Allowances in certain cases to 
Subaltern Officers, Adjutants, Paymasters, Quarter- 
masters, Surgeons, Assistant Surgeons, Surgeons’ 
Mates, and Serjeant Majors of the Militia, was, 
according to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act to defray the Charge of the Pay, 
Clothing, and Contingent and other Expenses of the 
Disembodied Militia in Great Britain and Ireland, 
and to grant Allowances in certain cases to Sub- 
altern Officers, Adjutants, Paymasters, Quarter- 
masters, Surgeons, Assistant Surgeons, Surgeons’ 
Mates, and Serjeant Majors of the Militia, until the 
First day of July One thousand eight hundred and 
thirty-eight. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


for the Militia of the United Kingdom, was, accord- 
ing to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act to suspend, to the end of the next 
Session of Parliament, the making of Lists and the 
Ballots and Enrolments for the Militia of the United 
Kingdom. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 


the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Public Works and Fisheries, and Employment of a 
the Poor, and to amend the Acts relating thereto, 
was, according to Order, read the third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act to authorize a further issue of Ex- 
chequer Bills for Public Works and Fisheries, and 
Employment of the Poor, and to amend the Acts 
relating thereto. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


cil, any Treaties, Conventions, or Stipulations made 
with any Foreign Power or State for the Suppression 
of the Slave Trade, was, according to Order, read 
the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act to authorize Her Majesty, until 
Six months after the commencement of the next 
Session of Parliament, to carry into immediate 
execution, by Orders in Council, any Treaties, Con- 
ventions, or Stipulations made with any Foreign 
Power or State for the Suppression of the Slave 
Trade. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


of the last Session of Parliament for suspending 
Proceedings for recovering Payment of the Money 
advanced under the Acts for establishing Tithe Com- 
positions in Jreland, was, according to Order, read 
the third time. : 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act to revive and continue, until the 
sixth day of April One thousand eight hundred and 











the Consolidated Fund to the service of the year 
One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, and 
to appropriate the Supplies granted in this Session 
of Parliament. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


thirty-eight, an Act of the last Session of Parliament 

| for suspending Proceedings for recovering Payment 

|of the Money advanced under the Acts for esta- 

_blishing Tithe Compositions in Ireland. 

| Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 

the Lords, and desire their concurrence. . 
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The ingrossed Bill to defray the Charge of the Militia Pay 


The ingrossed Bill to suspend, for a limited time, Militia Ballots 
the making of Lists and the Ballots and Enrolments S'sPen*ion Bill. 





The ingrossed Bill to authorize a further issue ot Exchequer Bills 
Exchequer Bills for the purposes of carrying on a Works 


The ingrossed Bill to authorize Her Majesty to stave Trade 
carry into immediate execution, by Orders in Coun- Treaties Bill. 


The ingrossed Bill to revive and continue an Act Tithe Advances 
(Ireland) Bill. 





Bankrupts — 
(Ireland) Bill. 


Church Build- 
ing Commission 
Bill. 


Lands and 
Buildings Con- 
veyance Bilt. 


Acts of 
Parliament 
References Bill. 


Parish Vestries 
Bill. 


Church 
Accommodation 
(Scotland. ) 


Ross and 
Cromarty 
Election. 


Court of 
J usticiary 


(Scotland.) 


Court of 
Exchequer 
(Scotland. ) 


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The Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act to ap- 
point a second Commissioner of Bankrupt in Jre- 
land, and to amend an Act passed in the sixth and 
seventh years of the reign of his late Majesty King 
William the Fourth, intituled, “ An Act to amend 
the Laws relating to Bankrupts in Jreland ;” was, 
according to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 


do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, with Amendments; to which 
Amendments this House doth desire the concurrence 
of their Lordships. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee upon the Church Building Com- 
mission Bill; and, after some time spent therein, 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal 
reported, That the Committee had gone through the 
Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be received To-morrow. 


The Lands and Buildings Conveyance Bill was, 
according to Order, read a second time; and com- 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House, for To- 
morrow. 


The Acts of Parliament References Bill was, ac- 
cording to Order, read a second time; and com- 
mitted to a Committee of the whole House for To- 
morrow. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Parish Vestries Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon this day three weeks. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Returns of the number of Churches which have been 
erected by voluntary contributions, recognized as 
necessary by the General Assembly, and whose 
Ministers have been admitted into Church Courts by 
the recent Act of Assembly :—and, Of the number of 
Seats in every such Church ; specifying the amount 
of the seat rents annually collected; distinguishing 
each number paid for, from the lowest to the highest 
rate, and whether any or how many seats are occu- 
pied rent free ; and specifying the amount of stipend 
annually paid to the Ministers of every such Church, 
and the sources from which such stipend has been 
derived ; also, the amount which has been annually 
devoted to the support of the poor, from the collec- 
tion at the doors of every such place of worship. 


A Motion was made, and the Question was pro- 
a That an humble Address be presented to Her 
Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased to give 
directions that there be laid before this House, 
Copies of the Depositions and Declarations taken in 
the counties of Ross, Cromarty, Sutherland, and 
Nairn, respecting the abduction of John Gibson, of 
Castlecraig, in the county of Ross, in the month of 
April last:—And the said Motion was, with leave 
of the House, withdrawn. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Returns of the number of Diets held by the High 
Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh during the years 
1833, 1834, 1835 and 1836 :—Of the number of Trials 
which took place before the said High Court during 
these years; ‘showing in how many the plea of 
“ Guilty” and “ Not guilty ” was recorded, respec- 
tively:—And, of the number of Diets held by the 
Judges of the said Court at the various Circuits 
during these years, and of the number of Trials which 


1834, 1835 and 1836, specifying the dates thereof, 
and the Judges before whom they took place ; and of 
the whole business and procedure which took place 
before that Court during the like period ; the name 
of the Judge lately appointed to try Exchequer 
Causes, and the salary and other emolument the said 
Judge enjoys. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Deputy Deputy 
Postmasters, which was presented upon the 29th day Postmasters. 
of June last, be printed. No. 496. 

Ordered, That the Return relative to the Post Post Office. 
Office, which was presented upon the 29th day of No. 497. 
June last, be printed. 


A Petition of Merchants, Agriculturists and Tra- Postage Duties. 
ders of Padstow, praying that a uniform and low 
rate of postage may be established, instead of the 
eee varying and high rates; that such rate be 

enceforth One penny, (paid in advance) for every 
Letter or Packet of Letters, under half an ounce in 
weight, with an additional penny for each additional 
half ounce, to any convenient amount; and that ad- 
vantage may be taken of the facilities which exist for 
the more frequent transmission of the mails than 
once in Twenty-four hours, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Bachelors of Arts and Undergra- Cambridge 
duates of the University of Cambridge, praying the U"iversity- 
House to refuse to sanction any proposition tending, 
by violent interference, to endanger the high charac- 
ter and prosperity of that University, which the 
Petitioners believe to be mainly dependent on its 
existing constitution, and sufficiently secured by the 
wisdom and integrity of those in whom its govern- 
ment has hitherto happily vested, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Land-owners and others of the Borough Boun- 
arish of Heavitree, praying that the Borough “@ties Bill. 
oundaries Bill may not pass into a law, was pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That Indexes Indexes to 
to Reports, 1801 to 1834, and Catalogue to Reports Reports. 
1835 to 1837, was upon the Table. No. 498. 

Ordered, That the said Indexes and Catalogue be 
printed. 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to take Chester and 
into consideration the Amendments made by the ae sanmag 
Lords to the Bill, intituled, An Act for making a vinci 
Railway from the City of Chester to Birkenhead ; 
and the same were read, as follow: 

Pr. 1. 1. 138. Leave out “ King’s” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 

Pr. 4. 1.19. After “ City” insert Clause (A.) 

Crauss (A.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
“ in making the said Railway, it shall not be law- 
ful for the said Company to deviate from the 
levels of the said Railway as referred to the com- 
“ mon datum line described on the section so ap- 
“ proved of by Parliament, and as marked on the 
“ same, to any extent exceeding in any place Five 
“&lt; feet, or, in passing, through towns, Two feet, with- 
“ out the consent of the owners, lessees and occupiers 
“ of the land in, through or over which such devi- 
“ ation is intended to be made, or in case any street 
“ or public carriage-road shall be affected by such 
“ deviation, then the same shall not be made with- 
“ out the consent of the trustees or commissioners, 
or, if there be no such trustees or commissioners, 
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took place ; and in how — the plea of “ Guilty” 
and “ Not guilty” was recorded, respectively ; also, 


“ the Peace in petty sessions assembled for that 


the number of Civil Causes tried by the said Court at | “ purpose, and acting for the district in which such 
“ 


each Circuit town, respectively. 
Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a 


street or public carriage-road may be situate, or 


without the consent of the commissioners for any 


Return of the number of Trials in the Court of | “ public sewers Or of the proprietors of any canal or 
Exchequer in Scotland, during the years 1833,|“ navigation affected by such deviation; and that no 


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Railway, as denoted by the said section, shall be 
made in any place to an extent exceeding the rate 
of Three feet per mile ; and where in any place it is 
intended to carry the Railway on anarch or arches, 
as marked on the said plan or section, the same | 
shall be made accordingly, and where a tunnel is | 
marked on the said plan or section, as intended 
to be made at any place, the same shall be made 
accordingly, unless the owners, lessees and occu- 
piers of the land in or through which such tunnel 
is intended to be made shall consent that the same, 
shall not be so made; Provided nevertheless, 
That it shall be lawful for the said Company, with 
such consent as aforesaid, and not otherwise, to 
make a tunnel or an arch or arches as aforesaid, 
not marked on the said plan or section, so that 
no such tunnel shall be of a greater length than 
Two hundred yards, and that no two tunnels be at 
a less distance from each other than One hundred 
yards, measured on the line of the Railway; Pro- 
vided always, That notice of every petty sessions 
to be holden for the purpose of obtaining such 
consent as aforesaid, shall, Fourteen days pre- 
vious to the holding of such petty sessions, be 
given in some newspaper circulating in the county, 
and also be affixed on the church door of the 
parish in which such deviation or alteration is in- 
tended to be made, or, if there be no church, some 
other place to which notices are usually affixed : 
Provided also, That for the purpose of consenting 
to any such deviation from the said sections, and 
to any tunnelling or arching as aforesaid, the 
word ‘ owners’ shall be deemed and taken to 
mean such persons as are herein capacitated to 


agree for the sale of and to convey land for the | , 


making of the said Railway; and the consent of 
such persons, with or without the consent of any 
other persons mterested as owners in the said 
lands, shall be deemed and taken to be sufficient 
for such purposes.” 

Pr. 4. |. 34. After “ Chester” insert “ and 
whereas the said maps or plans and sections have 
been approved of by Parliament, as the maps or 


P ‘ 4 ‘ ‘ 
plans and sections according to which the said 


Railway is to be made.” 
Pr. 4. 1. 37. After “ deposited ” insert “ such 


plans and sections being the plans and sections 
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approved of by Parliament.” 

Pr. 7. ls. 14. and 15. Leave out from “ reference” 
“ Provided” in Pr. 8. 1. 23. 

Pr. 10.1. 1. After “ require ” insert Clauses (B.) 


Cravse(B.) “ And be it further Enacted, That it 
shall not be lawful to diminish the radius of any 
curve from what it is shown to be on the plan de- 
posited with the Clerk of the Peace, unless such 
radius exceed One mile, nor to diminish it in any 
such case so that it shall become less than One 
mile, nor to diminish any greater radius by more 
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increase in the inclination or gradients of the said | “ 


A. 1837. 


ways to be for ever thereafter maintained and kept 
in good repair by and at the expense of the said 
Company or other person or persons making the 
same: Provided always, That it shall not be lawful 
for the said Company to use or employ any loco- 
motive engines upon the said Railway, between 
the said station and the said Woodside Ferry, un- 
less branches shall be made upon which locomotive 
engines may be used, between the said station and 
the said Ferries of Birkenhead and Tranmere, nor 
to fix any stationary engine for working the line 
between the said station and Woodside Ferry, 
until a similar engine shall have been erected by 
the said Company for the use of the said Ferries 
respectively.” 

Pr, 23. 1. 38. Leave out “ present” and insert 
late.” 

Pr. 23. 1. penult. After “ Majesty ” insert “ King 
William the Fourth.” 

Pr. 45. 1. 38. Leave out “ His” and insert 
Her.” 

Pr. 46. 
Her.” 

Pr. 57. 
Her.” 

Pr. 59. 1. 10. Fill up the blank with “ First.” 


Pr. 59. 1. 11. Leave out “ His” and insert 
Her ” and, in the same line, leave out from “ Ma- 
jesty ” to “ intituled” in Is. 12 and 13, and insert 
Queen Victoria.” 

Pr. 91. 1. 1. Leave out 
Her.” 

Pr. 91. 
Her.”’ 

Pr. 92. 
Her.” 

Pr. 97. 
Her.” 

Pr. 98. 
Her.” 

Pr. 105.1. 8. Leave out “ late.” 

Pr. 116. 1. 3. Leave out “ late.” 

Pr. 163. 1. 30. Leave out “ His” 
Her.” 

181. l. 32. 
Her.” 

Pr. 183. 1. 16. Leave out “ His” and insert 
Her.” 

Pr. 186. 1. 26, Fill up the blank with “ First.” 

Pr. 186. 1. 28. Leave out “ His” and imsert 
Her ” and, in the same line, leave out from “ Ma- 
jesty” to “ intituled” in 1. 29., and insert “ Queen 


1. 35. Leave out “ His” and insert 


]. 1. Leave out “ His” and insert 


“ His” and insert 


]. 23. Leave out “ His” and insert 


l. 21. Leave out “ His” and insert 


]. 1. Leave out “ His” and insert 


l, 26. Leave out “ His” and insert 


and insert 


Leave out “ His” and insert 


* Victoria.” 


‘&lt; 


Two miles, or by more than half a mile, unless | “ 


where it exceeds Three miles, on the said plan.” | 


Cravse (C.) “ And be it further Enacted, That |“ 


it shall not be lawful for the said Company to! 


open any Railway or Tramroad from the said |“ 


station at or near Grange Lane to or to commu- 
nicate with Woodside Ferry aforesaid, nor to allow 
any other Company or person or persons to unite 
or to communicate, by means of a Railway or! 
Tramroad, from the said Woodside Ferry to the 
said Railway hereby authorized to be made, or to 
convey any passengers, goods or merchandize 
which may have been conveyed from the said 


Ferry called Woodside Ferry by such Railway, | 


until a good and convenient Branch Railway fit 
for the conveyance of passengers and goods by 
horse power shall have been opened from the said 
main line, to the said Ferries called Birkenhead 
and Tranmere respectively, such Branch Rail- 








‘ 


‘ 


Pr. 194. 1. 38. Leave out “ His” 
Her.” 
Pr. 199. 
Her.” 
Pr. 225. 
Her.” 
Pr. 
Her.” 
Pr. 252. 1. 
Her.” 
Pr. 266. 
Her.” 
Pr. 290. 
Her.” 
Pr. 290. 
Pr. 290. 
Her.” 
Pr. 290. 


and insert 


]. 14. Leave out “ His” and insert 


"a 
His” 


His” 


1. 16. Leave out and insert 


239. 1. 19. Leave out and insert 


7. Leave out and insert 


1. 13. Leave out “ His” and insert 


]. 25. Leave out “ His” and insert 


1. 31. Fill up the blank with “ First.” 
]. 32. Leave out “ His” and insert 


1. 33. Leave out “ King William the 
Fourth,” and insert “ Queen Victoria.” 


Pr. 
Her.” a 
Pr, 291. 1. 11. Fill up the blank with “ First ’ 


291. 1. 5. Leave out “ His” and insert 


and, in the same line, leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 


Pr. 291. 1. 12. Leave out “ King William the 


“ Fourth” and insert “ Queen Victoria. 


Pr. 294. 











Prisons 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Railways 
(Scotland.) 


Burghs 
of Barony 


(Scotland) Bill, 


Lord’s Day Bill 


Colonel Arthur. 


1 Vicroriz. 


Pr. 294. 1. 20. Leave out “ His” and insert 
‘oe 

Pr. 296. 1. 20. Leave out “ present ” and insert | 
“ late.” 

Pr. 296. 1. 21. After “ Majesty ” insert “ King 
** William the Fourth.” 

The said Amendments, as far asClause(C.), being 
read a second time, were agreed to. 

Clause (C.), the next Amendment, being read a 
second time, the Amendments following were made 
thereunto. 

L. 1. After “ and” insert “ whereas it would tend 


serious injury to the owners of Tranmere and 
Birkenhead Ferries, if the accomodation for goods 
and passengers to and from the said Railway, and 
the said several Ferries of Tranmere, Birkenhead 
and Woodside were kept equal. 

L. 3. After “ Tramroad”’ insert “ or any yard 
or depot.” 

L. 8. After “ of” insert “ any yard, depot,” and, 
in the same line, leave out “ a.” 

L. 16. After “ by ” insert “ the same description 
‘= 

L. 16. Leave out “ horse” and, in the same line, 
after “‘ been” insert “ made and.” 

L. 29. After “ be ” insert “ equally.” 

L. ult. After “respectively” insert “ Provided 
also, That it shall not be lawful for the said Com- 
pany to open or use any booking offices for pas- 
sengers and goods to be carried upon the said 
Railway, hereby authorized to be made, at any 
other place than the said station near to Grange 
Lane aforesaid, and numbered 34 on the said plan, 
and also in the town of Liverpool respectively.” 

And the said Amendment, so amended, was 
agreed to. 

Then the subsequent Amendments, being read a 
second time, were agreed to. 


“cc 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 


“ 


‘ 


10° Juliz. 


to the convenience of the public, and prevent |, 





Ordered, That Lord Robert Grosvenor do carry 
the Bill to the Lords ; and acquaint them, that this 
House hath agreed to the Amendments made by 
their Lordships, with Amendments, to which Amend- | 
ments this House doth desire the concurrence of their 
Lordships. ad 


Petitions from Land-owners of the county of 
Ayr ;—and, Commissioners of Supply of the said 
county ; praying that the Prisons (Scotland) Bill 
may not pass into a law,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from the Kirk Session of Monkton and 
Prestwick ;—Minister and Elders of the parish of 
Auchinleck ;—Presbytery of Irvine ;—parish of Dal- 
rymple;—and, Stewarton ; praying the House to pass 
a Bill to prevent travelling by steam carriages, or 
otherwise, on Railways, on the Lord’s Day, in Scot- 
land,—were presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Magistrates and Council of the 
Burgh of Girvan, praying that the Burghs of Barony 
(Scotland) Bill may pass into a law, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Kingsbridge, pray- 
ing that the Lord’s Day Bill may be permitted to 
go into a Committee of the whole House, was pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


615 
The House proceeded to take into consideration 


intituled, An Act to repeal the prohibition of the 


| Payment of the Salaries and Allowances of the East 


India Company’s Officers during their absence from 
their respective Stations in India; and the same 
were read, as follow : 

Pr. 1. 1. 3. Leave out “ late.” 

Pr. 1. 1, 20. Leave out “ present” and insert 
“‘ late.” 

Pr. 1. 1. 21. After “ Majesty ” insert “ King 
“ William the Fourth.” 
Pr. 1. 1. 27. Leave out from “ that” to “ if,” 
in |. 30. 

Pr. 2. 1.13. After “ belonged” insert “ and 
whereas it is further provided in the said last- 
mentioned Act, that it shall be lawful for the said 
Company to make such payment as is now by 
law permitted to be made to the representatives 
of their officers or servants, who, having left their 
stations, intending to return thereto, shall, during 
their absence.” 

Pr. 2. 1. 18. Leave out “ King’s” and insert 
Queen’s.” 

Pr. 2. 1. 29. Leave out “ present” and insert 
said late.” 

Pr. 2. 1. 30. After “ Majesty” insert “ King 
William the Fourth.” 

Pr. 3. 1. 4. After “ Company” insert “ under 
the rank of governor or members of council.” 

Pr. 3. 1, 7. Leave out “ regulations ” and insert 
rules.” 

Pr. 3. 1. 12. Leave out “ not.” 

Pr. 3. 1. 13. Leave out “ beyond” and insert 
within.” 

Pr. 3. 1.14. Leave out from “charter” to “ the” 
1. 15., and insert “ or to.” 

Pr. 3. 1. 16. Leave out “ and.” 

Pr. 3. 1.18. After “ Company ” insert “ under 
such rank as aforesaid.” 

At the end of the Bill add Clauses (A.) and (B.) 

CuausE (A.) “ Provided always, and be it 
Enacted, That no such rule so to be established 
as aforesaid shall have any force or validity until 
the same shall have been approved by the court 
of directors of the said Company, subject to the 
control of the Commissioners for the Affairs of 
India, in like manner as is provided by the said 
Act of the third and fourth years of the reign of 
his late Majesty King William the Fourth.” 

Crause (B.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
it shall be lawful for the said court of directors, 
subject to such control as aforesaid, to direct the 
refunding by any officer or servant of the said 
Company, or by the representatives of any such 
officer or servant, of the whole or any part of the 
salary or allowance which he or they may have 
received under or by virtue of any such rule so to 
be established as aforesaid, if it shall appear to 
the said court, subject to such control as aforesaid, 
that the permission to such officer or servant to 
quit the presidency to which he shall belong hath 
been improperly granted or obtained; and such 
sum as the said court, subject to such control as 
aforesaid, shall direct such officer or servant, or 
the representatives of such officer or servant, to 
refund, shall be a debt due to the said Company, 
and shall be recoverable by them in any court, in 


“ 





Resolved, That an humble Address be presented | 
to Her Majesty, That She will be graciously pleased | 
to give directions, that there be laid before this! 
House, a Copy of a Report from Colonel Arthur, 
late Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen’s Land, 
on the allegations set forth in the Petition of Mr. 
Andrew Bent, of Hobart’s Town. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
Her Majesty by such Members of this Senn as are 
of a Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 

OL. 92. 





like manner as any debt may, or hereafter shall 
be, recovered by them.” 
The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 
Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lordships. 


Mr. Baring presented, pursuant to an Address to Distress in the 
of a Letter addressed to Mr. Highlands of 
Fox Maule by Mr. Robert Graham, dated “ Edin- 5°t!"4- 


Her Majesty,—Copy 


burgh, 6th May,” and communicated by Lord John 
414 Russell's 


East India 


the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, — 











Caftre War. 


Van Diemen’s 
Land, 


Colonel Arthur, 


Losses by Fire 
(late Houses of 
Parliament.) 


No. 493. 


Ecclesiastical 
Revenues and 
Patronage 
(Treland.) 


No. 508. 


Thames Tunnel. 


No. 499. 


Message from 
the Lords. 


Lords Justices 
Bill. 


Lords Justices 
Bill. 


No, 492. 


Public Income 
aud Expendi- 
ture. 


616 

Russell’s directions to the Commissioners of Her | 
Majesty’s Treasury relative to Distress in the High- | 
lands of Scotland. 

Mr. Baring also presented, pursuant to several 
Addresses to his late Majesty,—Copies or Extracts 
of any further Despatches which have been received 
from, or addressed to, the Governor of the Cape of 
Good Hope, relative to the late Caffre War, since 
the Papers presented to this House on the 10th of 
March 1836. 

Copies of Papers relative to the Claim of William 
and Andrew Forlong, in Van Diemen’s Land. 

Copy of Peyeack to the Secretary of State for 
the Colonies, from Colonel Arthur, transmitting his | 
Report on a Petition from Mr. Gilbert Robertson, 
presented to this House on the 2d June 1836, and 
printed in the Appendix to the 17th Report on Public 
Petitions in 1836. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Sir John Wrottesley reported from the Select Com- 
mittee appointed to inquire into the facts of the case 
of the late Speaker and Officers of the Houses of 
Parliament, who suffered by the Fire of the former 
Houses of Parliament, and to report the same; and 
who were empowered to report the Minutes of Evi- 
dence taken before them to the House ; That they 
had considered the matters to them referred, and had 
directed him to report the Minutes of the Evidence 
taken before them, with an Appendix. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Lord John Russell presented, by Her Majesty’s 
command,— Fourth Report of the Commissioners on 
Ecclesiastical Revenues and Patronage in Ireland. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee appointed to 
consider the Papers laid before the House relating 
to the Thames Tunnel, have Power to report the 
Minutes of the Evidence taken before them. 

Captain Alsager reported from the said Select 
Committee ; That they had considered the matters to 
them referred, and had directed him to make a Re- 
port thereof to the House ; together with the Minutes 
of the Evidence taken before them. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Farrar and 
Mr. Senior : 

Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
to provide for the appointment of Lords Justices in 
the case of the next Successor to the Crown being 
out of the Realm at the time of the demise of Her 
Majesty, to which the Lords desire the concurrence 
of this House:—And then the Messengers with- 
drew. 


The Lords Justices Bill was read the first time ; 
and ordered to be read a second time To-morrow ; 
and to be printed. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 


Martis, 11° die Juli; 


Anno 1° Victoria Regine, 183 





' 
~ ! 
de | 


PRAYERS. | 


N R. Crafer, from the Treasury, was called in ; | 
‘4 and at the bar presented, pursuant to Orders, | 
—An Account of the Public Income and Expendi- | 
ture of the United Kingdom in the years ended 5th | 
January 1835, 1836 and 1837; distinguishing the | 
actual Payments for the Expenses incurred im the | 


Collection and Management of the Revenue ; for | 


10°—11° Julia. 


A. 1837. 


the Charges of the Public Debt (the Terminable An- 
nuities being also valued by estimate); for the Ex- 
penses of the Civil Government; the Allowances to 
the Royal Family, and to His Royal Highness Prince 
Leopold; the Establishment of the Lord Lieutenant 
of Ireland; the Expenses of the two Houses of Par- 
liament, and the Civil Departments ; the other Pen- 
sions on the Consolidated Fund or the Gross Re- 
venue, and the Civil List ; also, the Payments for 
the Administration of Justice; Diplomatic Expenses; 
and the Payments on account of the Sums voted for 
the Army, Navy and Ordnance Services; also Public 
Works, Bounties, Post Office, the Quarantine and 
Warehousing Establishments, and all other Pay- 
ments not coming under any of the foregoing heads; 
with an Appendix showing the several items com- 
posing each head of the Account. 

A Return of the Number of Persons whose Pen- 
sions on his late Majesty’s Civil List have ceased 
since 20th April 1835, stating the Names and Amount 
of each Pension; also, the Number of Persons to 
whom Pensions have been granted on the said List 
since 20th April 1835, stating the Names and Amount 
of each Pension ; also, the Total Amount of Pensions 
now payable on the same List :—and, of the Number 
of Pensioners on the Civil List by Act 2 and 8 
Will. 4, c. 116, payable from the Consolidated Fund ; 
stating the Amount of each Pension, and the Name 
of the Person who received the same, which have 
ceased on or since 20th June 1835; also, the Total 
Amount of Pensions now payable from the Conso- 
lidated Fund. 

Returns to several Orders, dated the 30th day of 
May last, for Accounts of the Total Number of Acres 
of Land in Great Britain, under the cultivation of 
Hops, in the year 1836; distinguishing the Number 
of Acres in each Parish :—Of the Duty on Hops of 
the growth of the year 1836; distinguishing the 
Districts, and the old from the new Duty :—Of the 
Quantity of Hops exported from Great Britain to 
Foreign Countries, from 5th January 1836 to 5th 
January 1837; distinguishing the Countries to which 
the same have been exported, and also the Quantities 
to each Country; also British from Foreign growths, 
and the Dates of the years in which the British 
Hops were grown :—And, of the Quantity of Foreign 
Hops imported into the United Kingdom from 5th 
January 1836 to 5th January 1837 ; distinguishing 
the Ports where imported, and the Countries from 
whence exported. 

An Account of the Total Number of Quarters of 
Malt made between 5th January 1836 and 5th 
January 1837, in the United Kingdom ; distinguish- 
ing the Quantity made in each Country, and the 
Quantity used by Brewers and Victuallers and Re- 
tail Brewers. 

Returns to an Order, dated the 23d day of June 
last, for an Account of the Gross and Net Amount 
of all Taxes repealed, expired or reduced in each of 
the years 1835 and 1836, and of all Taxes imposed 
in the same period ; showing the several Articles on 
which the alterations of Duty were made, together 
with an Estimate of the Amount of the Reduction 
or Increase of Duty upon each Article. 

A Return of the Number of Schools to which 
Grants have been made by the Board of Education 
in Ireland ; specifymg the Sums allotted to each, 
and such as are of Protestant or Roman Catholic 
Foundation. 

Copy of a Memorial presented to the Lord Lieu- 
tenant of Ireland, by certain Inhabitants of the 
County and Town of Sligo, with the Signatures 
attached thereto, complaining of the conduct of the 
Assistant Barrister of the said County, and praying 
for his removal ; also, Copies of all Correspondence 
connected therewith between the Government, the 
Memorialists, and the said Assistant Barrister. 

Mr. Crafer also presented, pursuant to an Address 
to his late Majesty,—Tables, showing the Number 
of Pauper Lunatics and Idiots in England and Wi — 

with 


Pensions. 


Hops. 


Malt, 


Taxes. 


Education 


(Treland. ) 


Assistant 
Barrister 
(Sligo.) 


Lunatic 


Paupers and 


Idiots. 





Lunatic 
Paupers and 
Idiots. 


Actons’ Natu- 
ralization Bill. 


Colonial 
Accounts. 


Poor Law Act. 


Negro Appren- 
ticeship. 


Railways 
(Scotland, ) 


National 
Education 
(Ireland.) 


Factories, 


1 Victoria. 


with their average weekly Cost per head :—Showing 
the Number of Pauper Lunatics and Idiots in 436 
Unions ; distinguishing the Number of Lunatics be- 
lieved to be incurable, and the Number of Idiots 
who have been so from Birth :—And, an Account, 
showing the weekly rate of Expenditure for Relief 
of the Boor in the year ended 25th March 1834, in 
England and Wales, in which the Counties are 
placed according to their state of pauperism; with 
a Statement of the Number of Pauper Eauaties and 
Idiots, as extracted from a Return prepared in pur- 
suance of an Address of this House of 5th July 
1836. 

Mr. Crafer also presented, pursuant to several 
Addresses to his late Majesty, dated the 5th day of 
July, in the last Session of Parliament,—Returns of 
the Number of Pauper Lunatics and Idiots in each 
County in England and Wales ; diatinguishing those 
who are confined in Pauper Lunatic Asylums built 
under the provisions of the Act 9 Geo. 4, c. 40; 
those confined in Private Lunatic Asylums; and 
those who are under the care and management of 
the Guardians or Overseers of the Poor of their 
respective Parishes:—And, of the Criminal Lunatics, 
and where confined :—And then he withdrew. 

‘ Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
able. 


Actons’ Naturalization Bill was read a second 
time ; and committed to Captain Alsager and the 
Chester List. 

Ordered, That the Committee have leave to sit, 
and proceed, and to make their Report To-morrow. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on Colonial 
Accounts have Power to report the Minutes of the 
Evidence taken before them. 


A Petition of Rate-payers and Inhabitants of Ad/ 
Saints, Poplar, praying for the repeal of the Poor 
Law Act, was presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of the Chairman of a Meeting of Inha- 
bitants of Edinburgh, praying for the abolition of 
Negro Apprenticeship in the Colonies, was presented, 
and read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of the parish of Vew- 
street, Canongate, Edinburgh, praying the House to 
ass a Bill to prevent the travelling of Carriages on 
Subeaps in Scotland on the Lord’s Day, was pre- 
sented, and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


A Petition of Protestant Laymen of all Religious 
denominations residing in the diocese of Armagh, 
complaining of the present system of National Edu- 
cation in Ireland, and praying that it may be no 
longer persisted in, but that the present grant may 
be appropriated to the support of schools conducted 
on principles in accordance with religious liberty 
and evangelical truth, was presented, and read ; and 
ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Officers and Teachers of the Inde- 
pendent Sunday School, Bolton-le-Moors ;— Ope- 
ratives in the employ of Messrs. Ormrod and Hard- 
castle, Bolton-le-Moors; — Mr. Cross, Mill Stot, 
Hillock, near Bolton ;—Mr. Pooley, Hulme ;—Mr. 
Clark, Manchester ; — Mr. Barton, Manchester ; — 
Bee Hive Mill, Jersey-street, Manchester ;— Mr. 
Higgins, Manchester ; — Mr. Allen, Manchester ; — 
and, Messrs, Thomason and Son, Mill Hill, Bolton ; 
praying the House to restrict the actual working 
of operatives in all Mills and Factories to ten hours 
per day for five days, and eight on the Saturday,— 
were presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 
the Table. 

VoL. 92. 


11°—12° Juliz. 


617 


Dr. Bowring reported from the Select Committee Public 
on Public Petitions; That they had examined the Petitions. 
Petitions presented from the 1st to the 6th days of 
this instant July, both inclusive ; and had directed 
him to make a Report thereof to the House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to Distress in Distress in the 
the Highlands, which was presented yesterday, be ang “ 
: cotland. 
printed. 
No. 501. 

The Order of the day being read, for taking into Standing Orders 
consideration the Report which, upon Friday last, Revision. 
was made from the Select Committee appointed to 
consider the Standing Orders on Private Bills; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into consi- 
deration upon Thursday next. 


The Lords Justices Bill was, according to Order, Lords Justices 
read a second time ; and committed to a Committee Bill. 
of the whole House, for To-morrow. 


_ The House, according to Order, resolved itself Acts of 
into a Committee upon the Acts of Parliament Re- gent Bill 
ferences Bill; and, after some time spent therein, ppacrnceaeii 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Vernon 
Smith reported, That the Committee had gone 
through the Bill, and directed him to report the 
same, without Amendment. 
Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time To- 


morrow. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself Lands and 
into a Committee upon the Lands and Buildings en» gl 
Conveyance Bill; and, after some time spent therein, *” . 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Vernon 
Smith reported, That the Committee had gone 
through the Bill, and directed him to report the 
same, without Amendment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
To-morrow. 


Mr. Vernon Smith reported the Church Building Church Build- 
Commission Bill; and the Amendments were read, ing Commission 
and agreed to. - 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time To-morrow. 


Mr. Poulett Thomson presented, pursuant to an Spain. 
Address to his late Majesty,—Copies of Memorials No, 509, 
from British Merchants, on the expediency of re- 
vising the Commercial Relations Seteiens Great 
Britain and Spain, with Despatches from the British 
Minister at Madrid upon the same subject, 1832 to 
1837. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 








Mercurii, 12° die Julii ; 
Anno 1° Victories Regine, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 
RDERED, That all Committees have leave Committees. 
to sit this day, till four of the clock, during 
the sitting of the House. 


Ordered, That the Account relative to New New Churches. 
Churches, which was presented upon Monday last, No, 505. 
be printed. 


Ordered, That the Paper relative to the Caffre Cattre War. 
War, which was presented upon Monday last, be No. 503. 
printed. 

Ordered, That the Account relative to Public In- Public Income 
come and Expenditure, which was presented yes~ a4 Expendi- 
terday, be printed. ae 





4k Ordered, 
























































Ce eT A A 


—— 








Pensious. 


No. 450. 


Hops. 


No. 490. 


Malt. 


No. 490. 


‘Taxes. 


No, 506. 


Education 
(Ireland. ) 


No. 507. 


Lunatic Paupers 


and Idiots. 
No. 508. 


Bevan’s 
Estate Bill. 


Actons’ 
Nat, Bill. 


Fawcett’s 
Estate Bill. 


3irmingham 
Free School 
Estate Bill. 


618 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Pensions, 
which was presented yesterday, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Accounts relative to Hops, 
which were presented yesterday, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Account relative to Malt, which 
was presented yesterday, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Returns relative to Taxes, 
which were presented yesterday, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Education 
(Jreland) which was presented yesterday, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Tables, showing the Number 
of Pauper Lunatics and Idiots in England and 
Wales, which were presented yesterday, be printed. 

Ordered, That the Returns of the Number of 
Pauper Lunatics and Idiots in each County ; also, 
of Criminal Lunatics, and their places of confine- 
ment, which were presented yesterday, be printed. 


Captain Alsager reported from the Committee 
on the Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act for 
empowering the Trustees of the Will, as to his real 
Estate, of Silvanus Bevan, Esquire, deceased, to 
sell the Freehold Estates in the Counties of Wilts 
and Berks, devised by the same Will, and for laying 
out the money to arise from such Sale in the pur- 
chase of other Estates, to be settled to the same 
uses; That they had examined the allegations of 
the Bill, and found the same to be true; and that 
the Parties concerned had given their consent to 
the Bill, to the satisfaction of the Committee ; and 
that the Committee had gone through the Bill, and 
directed him to report the same, without Amend- 
ment :—And the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Captain Alsager do carry the Bill 
to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


Captain Alsager reported from the Committee on 
the Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act for natu- 
ralizing Dame Marie Louise Pelline De Dalberg 
Acton, and her Infant Son, Sir John Kmerick Ed- 
ward Dalberg Acton, Baronet; That they had exa- 
mined the allegations of the Bill, and found the 
same to be true; and had gone through the Bill, 
and directed him to report the same, without Amend- 
ment :—And the Bili was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Captain Alsager do carry the Bill 
to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


Sir John Beckett reported from the Committee on 


the Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act for vesting | 


settled Estates in the Township of Headingley-cum- 
Burley, in the Parish of Leeds, in the County of 
York, of which John Henry Fawcett, Esquire, is 
tenant for life, in Trustees for Sale, and for investing 
the Monies to be produced thereby in the purchase 
of other Estates to be settled to the same uses ; 
That they had examined the allegations of the Bill, 
and found the same to be true; and that the 
Parties concerned had given their consent to the 
Bill, to the satisfaction of the Committee ; and that 
the VWommittee had gone through the Bill, and 
directed him to report the same without Amend- 
ment :—And the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Sir John Beckett do carry the 
Bill to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this 
House hath agreed to the same, without Amend- 
ment. 


Sir John Wrottesley reported from the Committee 
on the Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act to 
alter and amend an Act passed in the second year 
of the reign of his late Majesty King William the 
Fourth, intituled, “ An Act to enable the Governors 





12° Juliz. 


A. 1837. 


of the Possessions, Revenues and Goods of the 
Free Grammar School of King Edward the Sixth 
in Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, to vest 
a School House, Masters’ Houses, and other suit- 
able Accommodations for the said School, and to 
extend the objects of the Charity, and for other 
purposes ;” That they had examined the allegations 
of the Bill, and found the same to be crue; and 
that the Parties concerned had given their consent 
to the Bill, to the satisfaction of the Committee ; 
and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, 
and directed him to report the same, without Amend- 
ment :—And the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Sir John Wrottesley do carry the 
Bill to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this 
House hath agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


Lord Robert Grosvenor reported from the Com- Earl of Wilton’s 
mittee on the Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act tte Bill. 
to enable the Right honourable Thomas Earl of 
Wilton, and the Person or Persons for the time being 
entitled to the Estates devised by or standing 
limited to the uses of the Wills of the Right honour- 
able Thomas late Earl of Wilton, and the Right 
honourable Eleanor late Countess of Wilton, both 
deceased, to make Conveyances in Fee or Demises 
for long Terms of Years, of certain parts of the said 
Estates, for building on or improving the same, 
under reserved yearly Rents; That they had exa- 
mined the allegations of the Bill, and found the 
same to be true; and that the Parties concerned 
had given their consent to the Bill, to the satisfaction 
of the Committee; and that the Committee had 
gone through the Bill, and directed him to report 
the same, without Amendment :—And the Bill was 
read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Lord Robert Grosvenor do carry 
the Bill to the Lords ; and acquaint them, that this 
House hath agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Dysart, praying for Cor Laws. 
the repeal of the Corn Laws, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Nohill, praying for Vote by Ballot. 
the adoption of Vote by Ballot at Elections of Mem- 
bers to serve in Parliament, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Petitions from Kilkenny West ;— Street ;—and, Tithes 
Killuggan and Rahue; praying for the abolition (leeland-) 
|of Tithes in Jreland,—were presented, and read ; 
| and ordered to lie upon the Table. 





A Petition of Inhabitants of Birmingham, praying Housebold 
for the adoption of Household Suffrage, Vote by Sse, &amp;% 
Ballot and Triennial Parliaments, and the Abolition 
of the Property Qualification of Members of Par- 
liament, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


Government of 


Petitions from Mullingar ;— Horseleap ;—-and, 
} Treland. 


Ballyloughloe; praying the House to support Her 
Majesty’s present Ministers in their government of 
Treland,—were presented, and read ; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


_ A Petition of Inhabitants of Rochdale, praying Church Rates. 
that the proposed measure relative to Church Rates 
may receive the sanction of the House, was pre- 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Lord Viscount Morpeth reported to the House, Queen 
That Her Majesty, the Queen Dowager, had been jovani a 
attended with the Message of this House to con- Message. 
dole with Her Majesty upon the death of His late 


Majesty ; and that Her Majesty, the Queen Dow- 


ager, was pleased to return this answer: 





Gentlemen, 


1 Victroriz. 


Gentlemen, Windsor Castle, 4th July 1837. 

I thank you most gratefully for the Message of 
Condolence which you have Hat charged to de- 
liver to me from the House of Commons on the 
great affliction I have lately sustained. 

The unanimous tribute which has been paid by 
your honourable House to the upright character 
and patriotic intentions of our late beloved Sove- 
reign, is the most welcome alleviation that could 
have been offered to my feelings. 


Pablic Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 

Departments a Return of all persons on the Redundant List of 

Ca “the several Public Departments ; showing the Num- 
ber on the List at the commencement of the year 
1836 ; the Number that have died or become inca- 
pable of serving during the year ; the Number that 
have re-entered the Public Service during the year ; 
the Number that have been added to the List 
during the year; and the Number that remained 
on the List at the close of the year. 

National Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 

Vaccine 


to Her Majesty, That She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, a Copy of the last Report to the Secretary 
of State from the National Vaccine Institution. 
Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
Her Majesty, by such Members of this House as are 
of Her Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Institution. 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
further consideration the Report on the’ County 
Bridges Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon this day three months. 


County Bridges 
Bill. 


Fourdrinier’s 


The Order of the day being read, for taking into 
Patent Bill. 


further consideration the Report which, upon the 
16th day of June last, was made from the Select 
Committee on the Petition for Foudrinier’s Patent 
Bill ; 

Ordered, That the Report be taken into further 
consideration upon this day three months. 


The Order of the day being read, for the second 
reading of the Law of Coverture Bill; 

Ordered, That the Bill be read a second time 
upon this day three months. 


Law of 
Coverture Bill. 


The House, according to Order, resolved itself 
into a Committee upon the Lords Justices Bill ; 
and, after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker 
resumed the Chair; and Mr. Bernal reported, That 
the Committee had gone through the Bill, and 
directed him to report the same, without Amend- 
ment. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time 
To-morrow. 


Lords Justices 
Bill, 


A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Farrer and 
Mr. Roupell : 

Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords have agreed to the several Bills follow- 
ing, without Amendment ; viz. 

A Bill, intituled, An Act to provide for the Costs 
of Prosecutions for concealing the Birth of Children 
by secret burying, or otherwise disposing of their 
dead Bodies : 

Civil BilCourts A Bill, intituled, An Act to amend the Laws for 
(Ireland) Bill. the Recovery of Small Debts by Civil Bill in 
Ireland: 

A Bill, intituled, An Act for raising the Sum of 
Thirteen Millions six hundred and twenty-three 
thousand and three hundred pounds, by Exchequer 
Bills, for the Service of the year One thousand eight 
hundred and thirty-seven : 

A Bill, intituled, An Act to vest the Rolls Estate 
in Her Majesty, and to provide for the future Pay- 
ment of the Salary of the Master of the Rolls, and 
the Expenses of the Rolls Chapel : 

New South A Bill, intituled, An Act to continue, until the 
Wales, &amp;e. Bill, thirty-first day of December One thousand eight 
VoL. 92. 


Message from 
the Lords. 


Concealment of 
Births Bill, 


Exchequer Bills 
(£.13,623,300.) 
Bill, 


Rolls Estate 
Bill, 


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hundred and thirty-eight, and from thence to the 
end of the then next Session of Parliament, an Act 
of the ninth year of his Majesty King George the 
Fourth, for the Administration of Justice in New 
South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land: 


A Bill, intituled, An Act to continue an Act of Creditors 
the fifty-fourth year of his Majesty King George the (Scotland) Bill. 
Third, for rendering the Payment of Creditors more 
equal and expeditious in Scotland, until the first day 
of May, One thousand eight hundred and thirty- 





eight, and from thence to the end of the then next 
Session of Parliament : 
A Bill, intituled, An Act to amend certain Laws Malt Duties 
of Excise relating to the Duties on Malt made in Bill. 
the United Kingdom : 


A Bill, intituled, An Act for the Management of Post Ottice 


the Post Office : Management 
(No. 2.) Bill. 


A Bill, intituled, An Act for making a Railway Cork and Pas 


from the City of Cork to the Town of Passage : sage Railway 
(No. 2.) Bill. 


A Bill, intituled, An Act for the better paving, Dundee Police 
lighting, watching and cleansing the Burgh of Dun- (No. 2.) Bill. 
dee, and for maitaining and regulating the Police 
of the same and Places adjacent, and other pur- 
poses relating thereto: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Amendments made Bankrupts 
by this House, to the Bill, intituled, An Act to ap- (Ireland) Bill. 
point a second Commissioner of Bankrupt in Jre- 
land, and to amend an Act passed in the sixth and 
seventh years of the Reign of his late Majesty King 
William the Fourth, intituled, “ An Act to amend 
the Laws relating to Bankrupts in Jredand,” without 
any Amendment: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Amendments made Church Notices 
by this House, to the Bill, intituled, An Act to alter Bill. 
the mode of giving Notices for holding of Vestries, 
of making Proclamations in cases of Outlawry, and 
of giving Notices on Sundays, with respect to va- 
rious matters, without any Amendment: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Amendments made Watson's 
by this House, to the Bill, intituled, An Act for Estate Bill. 
vesting an Estate in the Parish of Steeple Aston, in 
the County of Oxford, devised by the Will of John 
Marten Watson, Gentleman, deceased, in Trustees 
for carrying into effect a Contract entered into for 
the Sale thereof, and for laying out the Monies 
thence arising in the purchase of other Estates to 
be settled to the same uses, without any Amend- 
ment: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Amendments made Acland’s 
by this House, to the Bill, intituled, An Act to Estate bill. 
transfer the Endowments of the domestic Chapel of 
Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, Baronet, at Columb John, 
in the Parish of Broadclist, in the County of Devon, 
which Chapel is proposed to be pulled down, to a 
Chapel intended to be built by him, in lieu thereof, 
near his Residence, at Killerton, in the same Parish, 
without any Amendment: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Amendments made Adams’s 
by this House, to the Bill, intituled, An Act for ex~ Estate Bill 
tending the Powers of Sale and Exchange contained 
in the Marriage Settlement of Francis Adams, the 
younger, Esquire, and for other purposes, without 
any Amendment: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Amendments made Clitheroe Gram- 
by this House, to the Bill, intituled, An Act to en- mar School 
able the Governors of the Free Grammar School of #***'¢ i! 
Clitheroe, in the County of Lancaster, to sell and 
grant Building Leases of the School Estates, and to 
enlarge the Powers of the Governors, without any 
Amendment: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Court of 
Act to render valid certain acts done in the per- (Scotland) Bill. 
formance of Duties in the Court of Exchequer in 
Scotland by the Lord Ordinary on the Bills in the 
Court of Session, and for the better Regulation of 
the said Court of Exchequer, with an Amendment ; 
to which Amendment the Lords desire the concur- 
rence of this House: And also, 





The 


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Treasurers 
of Counties 


(Ireland) Bil! 


Attornies and 


Solicitors Bill. 


Sheriffs’ Fees 
Bill. 


Theatres 


Regulation Bill. 


Tithes Commu- 


tation Bill. 


Haileybury 
College Bull. 


Ecclesiastical 
Appointments 


Suspension Bill, 


Coroners’ 
Inquests Ex- 
penses Bill. 


Dundee 
Waterworks 
Bill. 


London and 
Westminsier 


Cemetery Bill. 


Blochairn 
Canal Bill. 


Dowlais 


Market Bill. 


620 


The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
Act to provide more effectual means to make Trea- 
surers of Counties and Counties of Cities in Ireland 
account for Public Monies, and to secure the same, 
with Amendments ; to which Amendments the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
Act for amending the several Acts for the regulation 
of Attornies and Solicitors, with Amendments ; to 
which Amendments the Lords desire the concur- 
rence of this House: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
Act for better regulating the Fees payable to Sheriffs 
upon the execution of Civil Process, with an Amend- 
ment; to which Amendment the Lords desire the 
concurrence of this House: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
Act to amend an Act of the tenth year of his Ma- 
jesty King George the Second, to explain and amend 
so much of an Act made in the twelfth year of the 
reign of Queen Anne, intituled, “ An Act for reducing 
the Laws relating to Rogues, Vagabonds, sturdy Beg- 
gars and Vagrants, into one Act of Parliament, and 
for the more effectual punishing such Rogues, Vaga- 
bonds, sturdy Beggars and Vagrants, and sending 
them whither they ought to be sent,” with Amend- 
ments ; to which Amendents the Lords desire the 
concurrence of this House: And also, 

The Lords have agreed tothe Bill, intituled, An 
Act to amend an Act for the Commutation of Tithes 
in England and Wales, with Amendments; to which 
Amendments the Lords desire the concurrence of 
this House: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
Act to authorize the Commissioners for the Affairs 
of India to suspend the subsisting Enactments con- 
cerning the fourfold system of nomination of Candi- 
dates for the East India Company’s College at 
Haileybury, and for providing, during such suspen- 
sion, for the examination of Candidates for the said 
College, with Amendments ; to which Amendments 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House ; 
And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
Act to continue, until the first day of August One 
thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, and to the 
end of the then Session of Parliament, two Acts of 
the last Session of Parliament for suspending Ap- 
pointments to certain Dignities and Offices in 
Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, and to Sine- 
cure Rectories, and for preventing the immediate 
effects on Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions, of the mea- 
sures in progress for the alteration of Dioceses, with 
Amendments; to which Amendments the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
Act to provide for Payment of the Expenses of holding 
Coroners’ Inquests, with Amendments ; to which 
Amendments the Lords desire the concurrence of 
this House: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
Act for supplying the Royal Burgh of Dundee, 
and Suburbs thereof, with Water, with Amendments; 
to which Amendments the Lords desire the concur- 
rence of this House: And also, 


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The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An | 
Act sor establishing a Cemetery for the Interment of | 
the Dead westward of the Metropolis, by a Com- 
pany, to be called “The West of London and West- | 
minster Cemetery Company,” with Amendments ; | 
to which Amendments the Lords desire the con- 
currence of this House: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
Act to make and maintain a Canal in the County of 
Lanark, from the Monkland Canal to the Lands of 
Dunchattan, on the North Side of Duke-street, of 
Glasgow, with Amendments ; to which Amendments 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House : 
And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 











A. 1837. 


Act for providing a Market-place and Market at the 
Village of Dovwlais, in the Parish of Merthyr Tydfil, 
in the County of Glamorgan, with Amendments ; 
to which Amendments the Lords desire the concur- 
rence of this House: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Caoutchouc 
Act for forming and regulating the London Caout- Company Bil. 
chouc Company, and to enable the said Company to 
purchase certain Letters Patent, with Amendments ; 
to which Amendments the Lords desire the con- 
rence of this House: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Cottier Docks 
Act for making Wet Docks and other Works on the and Surrey _ 
South side of the River Thames, at or near Rother- ©"! Bill. 
hithe and Deptford, in the Counties of Surrey and 
Kent, to be called “ The Grand Collier Docks,” with 
Amendments ; to which Amendments the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Glasgow, 
Act for making and maintaining a Railway from G*sley and 
Glasgow to Greenock, by Paisley and Port Glasgow, Railway Bill 
to be called “The Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock 
Railway,” with Amendments; to which Amend- 
ments the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Pollcc and 
Act to continue for certain purposes the Powers of Govan Railway 
two Acts for making and maintaining the Polloc ®'" 
and Govan Railway, with Amendments ; to which 
Amendments the Lords desire the concurrence of 
this House: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Biil, intituled, An London and 
Act for making a Railway from the London and Brighton 
Croydon Railway to Brighton, with Branches to (tiv atine) 
Shoreham, Newhaven and Lewes, with Amendments ; 
to which Amendments the Lords desire the concur- 
rence of this House: And also, 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Marquis of 
for exchanging part of the settled Estates of the Bute’s Estate 
Most honourable the Marquis of Bute and Earl of - 
Dumfries, in the County of Glamorgan, in England, 
for Estates of the said Marquis, in the Counties of 
Ayr, Wigton and Bute, in Scotland, and for other 
purposes ; to which the Lords desire the concurrence 
of this House: And also, 

The Lords request, that this House will be pleased Poor Law 
to communicate to their Lordships, Copies of Re- — 
ports made from the Select Committee appointed ~ 
by this House to inquire into the Administration of 
the Relief of the Poor, under the Orders and Regu- 
lations issued by the Commissioners appointed under 
the provisions of the Poor Law Amendment Act :— 

And also, 


The Lords request, that this House will be pleased LoughSwilly 


to communicate to their Lordships, A Copy of the 24 Lough 
Pes : ‘ Foyle Drainage 
Evidence taken by the Committee appointed by gif, 


this House, to whom the Bill, intituled, “An Act 
for the Drainage of Waste Lands in Lough Swilly 
and Lough Foyle, in the Counties of Donegal and 
Londonderry,” was referred :—And then the Mes- 
sengers withdrew. 

Resolved, That this House will send an Answer 
to the last part of the said Message by Messengers 
of their own. 

And the Messengers were again called in; and 
Mr. Speaker acquainted them therewith :—And then 
they again withdrew. 


The Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act for Acts of 
correcting mistaken References to his late Majesty Parliament 
in Acts of this Session of Parliament, was, according — 
to Order, read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


Lands and 
Buildings 
Conveyance 
Bill. 


The Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act to 
facilitate the Conveyance of Lands and Buildings 
for the purposes of two Acts passed respectively in 
the 














1 Vicroriz. 


the fifth and sixth years of his late Majesty King 
William the Fourth, was, according to Order, read 
the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


Church Build- | The ingrossed Bill to prolong the time ‘for exe- 
ing Commission cyting the Commission for building new Churches, 
Bill was, according to Order, read the third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass: And that the 
Title be, An Act to prolong, for Ten years, Her Ma- 
jesty’s Commission for building New Churches. 
Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 


Colonial The Order made upon the 28th day of April last, 
Accounts. That Five be the Quorum of the Select Committee 
on Colonial Accounts, was read, and discharged. 

Ordered, That Three be the Quorum of the said 
Committee. 

Ordered, That it be an Instruction to the Com- 
mittee, That they do report the Evidence only already 
taken before them. 

Court of The House proceeded to take into consideration 
Exchequer the Amendment made by the Lords to the Bill, in- 
(Scotland) Bill. 


tituled, An Act to render valid certain acts done in 
the performance of duties in the Court of Exchequer 
in Scotland by the Lord Ordinary on the Bills in the 
Court of Session, and for the better regulation of the 
said Court of Exchéquer ; and the same was read, 
as followeth : 

At the end of the Bill add Clause (A.) 

Cuiavse (A.) “ And be it Enacted, That the said 
“ recited Act of the fifth and sixth years of the reign 
“ of his said late Majesty shall be, and the same 
“ is hereby made, perpetual.” 

The said Amendment, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Lord Advocate do carry the 
Bill to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this 
House hath agreed to the Amendment made by their 
Lordships. 


Fictitious Votes 


The Order made upon the 6th day of February 
(Scotiand.) 


last, That Five be the Quorum of the Select Com- 
mittee on Fictitious Votes (Scotland), was read, and 
discharged. 

Ordered, That Three be the Quorum of the said 
Committee. 

Ordered, That it be an Instruction to the Com- 
mittee, That they do report the Evidence only already 
taken before them. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, an 
Account of the Expense incurred in the appointment 
of the Committee of Inquiry into the operation of 
the new Poor Law; distinguishing the Amount 
paid to the several Witnesses who gave evidence 
before the said Committee. 


Poor Law Act 
Committee 
(Expenses. ) 


Poor Law Act 
(Medical At- 
tendance), &amp;c. 


A Motion was made, and the Question being put, 
That there be laid before this House, a Return of 
the Contracts entered into by the several Unions 
established under the Poor Law Amendment Act 
for Medical Attendance; the Number of Medical 
Practitioners, with the Salaries to be paid to each ; 
the Number of Persons that have been admitted, 
and the Number of Deaths, distinguishing Male and 
Female, that have occurred since the formation of 
each Union in Great Britain :—It passed in the 
Negative. 


Dundee The House proceeded to take into consideration 
materworks the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 


12° Julre. 


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“cc 


621 


Pr. 2. 1.13. Leave out “ King’s” and insert 
Queen’s.” 

Pr. 3, 1. 38. Leave out “ present’ and insert 
late.” 

Pr, 29. 1. 8. After “ flow” insert “ but so as 
not to affect the waters of the Pitairly or Barry 
Burn, except as hereinafter provided.” 

Pr. 55. 1. 20. After “ divert” insert “ into the 
settling reservoir to be constructed on Craigton 
Muir.” 

Pr. 57. 1. 27. After “time” insert “ being ” and 


in the same line, after “ estate” insert “ with the 


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“ 
« 


consent of the heir of entail next entitled to succeed 
to him therein, or of the legal guardian of such 
heir, if he, the said heir, shall be a minor or 
otherwise incapable of acting.” 

Pr. 58. 1. 34. After “ whatever” insert Clause 


(A.) 


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xa an AW 


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nn RnR KR A 
na nan nan Aa 


Cuause (A.) “ And be it Enacted, That if at any 
time after the expenditure of the said sum of Five 
thousand pounds in the construction of the said 
compensation reservoirs for the said estate of 
Panmure, in the manner hereinbefore provided, 
but not sooner than Five years after water shall 
have been brought into the said burgh under the 
provisions of this Act, and not later than Thirty 
years from and after the passing of this Act, it 
shall appear to the proprietor for the time being 
of the said estate of Panmure that the said re- 
servoirs are not sufficient to secure an adequate 
compensation for the water diverted from the said 
entailed estate by virtue of this Act, then and in 
that case the said Commissioners shall be bound, 
and they are hereby required, when requested to 
do so by the proprietor for the time being of the 
said estate, to make and construct, at the expense 
of them the said Commissioners, such additional 
reservoir or reservoirs at such place or places 
below or on the south of the line of the said 
aqueduct leading from Crombie Burn to the said 
settling reservoir, of such form and dimensions as 
shall be fixed upon and determined by the pro- 
prietor for the time being of the said estate, with 
the consent of the heir of entail next entitled to 
succeed to him therein, or of the legal guardian 
of such heir if he the said heir shall be a minor 
or otherwise incapable of cies 2 ; but provided 
always that the whole expense of such additional 
reservoir or reservoirs to be paid by the said Com- 
missioners shall not in all exceed the further sum 
of Five thousand pounds; and if any question or 
dispute shall arise between the proprietor for the 
time being of the said estate and the heir of entail 
next entitled to succeed thereto and the said 
Commissioners, as to any matter in any way con- 
cerning such additional reservoir or reservoirs, 
such question or dispute shall be settled and 
determined by the sheriff of the said county, or 
his substitute, at Dundee, whose decision shall be 
final, and not subject to review or question in any 
way whatever; and if the said Commissioners shall 
fail to implement the decision of such Sheriff 
within the time limited thereby, it shall not be 
lawful for the said Commissioners to divert any 
water from the said estate until they shall imple- 
ment such decision.” 

Pr. 63. 1. 15. Leave out from “ accordingly ” to 
And” in Pr. 64. 1. 23., and insert Clauses (B.), 


(C.) and (D.) 





intituled, An Act for supplying the Royal Burgh of | “ 


Dundee, and Suburbs thereof, with Water; and the 
same were read, as follow: 


Vou. 92. 


“ 
te 
| 


Crause (B.) “ And be it Enacted, That the 
said Commissioners shall, simultaneously with the 
formation of the reservoirs in Craighton Muir, 
construct a covered drain along the tail or bottom 
of the south side of the embankment of the said 
reservoirs, extending from a point where a conduit 
presently crosses the road leading from the village 
of Monkie to Drumsturdy Muir, at or near to 
No. 20. on the said plan, to a point on the north 
side of the said road, at or near to No. 27. on 
the said plan; and shall also construct an open 

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622 12° Juli. A. 1837. 


“ drain from the point at or near the said last- Pr. 91. 1. 26. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ mentioned number on said plan to the Burn of |“ Her.” 

“ Pitairly, which drain shall be so formed as to Pr. 105. 1. 21. Leave out from “Two” to “ Jus- 
“ intercept and convey into the Pitairly Burn the |“ tices” in Ll. 22. 

“ whole water produced by the drainage of the Pr. 107. 1. 22. Leave out “ His” and _ insert 
“ grounds lying above the site of the said reservoirs, |“ Her.” 

“ and which naturally drain into the said Burn.” Pr. 107. 1. 25. Leave out “ His” and insert 


Cravse (C.) “ And, in order to compensate for |“ Her.’ P = 
any injury that may arise in scmmapeae of * oe 1. 38. Leave out “ His” and insert 
said intended operations to parties interested in , * “ 
the water Senin into the Pitairly or Barry Burn; | . Pr. 117. I. 9. Leave out from “ Act ‘ bee % [here 
Be it Enacted, That the said Commissioners shall, | l. 15.,_ and “ I. 15. leave out from | [here ” to 
after the said reservoirs on Craighton Muir shall this - 1. 16., and insert * describe. ' 
be completed and water collected therein, convey | ,. Pr. 180. I. 2. Leave out slate and “ey the conan 
therefrom, or from the said clear water basin, into ying ati after Majesty ” insert “ King George 
the channel of Craighton Burn, by means of a petite ae 
pipe or conduit to ie dedebedied at their expense, | . Pr. 132. 1. et a from “ to” to “Sheriff 
at least six millions of cubic feet of water in all, | 1.11. and insert “ the, : 
in the proportion of One million of cubic feet of | . Ordered, That the said Amendments be taken 
water, in each of the months of January, February, into further consideration upon this day three 
March, April, May and June in every year, and months. 

€ aqual quantities, betwee hours ay . . 
that by el quantities, between the hours of] | Message by Sie Augustus Cliford Gentleman Roy Aas 
during the aforesaid period: Provided always, tir. Gasser : 
That the said Commissioners shall be liable in a 1 
penalty of Ten pounds for each and every week 
in which they shall refuse or neglect to pass the 
aforesaid quantity of water into the channel of 
Craighton Burn, as before provided, to be paid to 
any proprietor of lands on the said Pitairly or 
Barry Burn, who shall sue for the same, and such 
penalty shall be recoverable in the manner hereby 
provided for the recovery of penalties; and pro- 
vided further, That if any question or dispute shall 


The Lords, authorized by virtue of Her Majesty’s 
Commission for declaring Her Royal Assent to seve- 
ral Acts agreed upon by both Houses, do desire the 
immediate attendance of this Honourable House in 
the House of Peers, to hear the Commission read. 

Accordingly Mr. Speaker, with the House, went 
up to the House of Peers :—And being returned ; 

Mr. Speaker reported, That the House, at the de- 
sire of the Lords, authorized by virtue of Her Ma- 
. tse jesty’s Commission, had been at the House of Peers, 
at any time arise between the said Commissioners |\y}¢re a Commission under the Great Seal was read, 


and any person interested in the said water, such giving, declaring and notifying the Royal Assent to 
question or dispute shall be settled and determined | fhe several Publ; 


Sigg . . ic and Private Bills therein men- 
by the Sheriff of the said county, or his substitute, | tioned; and that the Lords, thereby authorized, had 
at Dundee, whose decision shall be final, and not 


; “thy declared the Royal Assent to the said Bills: —Which 
subject to review or question in any way whatever; | Bills are as follow : 
and provided also, Phat by all the persons inte- An Act for raising the Sum of Thirteen Millions Exchequer Bilis 
rested in the said water shall agree with the said | gix hundred and twenty-three thousand and three (£.13,623,300.) 
Commissioners that the said water shall be passed | hundred pounds, by Exchequer Bills, for the Service Bi! 
in other proportions or at other times than are | of the year One thousand eight hundred and thisty- 
hereinbefore provided, then and in that case the | coven =" “ . 
raga = Pe the said water ac-/ An Act to amend certain Laws of Excise relating Malt Duties 
cording to such ayreouan. to the Duties on Malt made in the United King- Bill. 
Cuiause (D.) “ And be it Enacted, That the said | dom: 
Commissioners shall, and they are hereby required,! An Act to repeal the several Laws relating to the Post Oftice Acts 
at the request of the proprietor for the time of} Post Office: Repeal Bill. 
the mills and the mill lands of Barry, to improve| An Act for the Management of the Post Office : Post Office 
and extend the dams situated at the upper and (Nove) Bil 

a, ) = . 5 si : ? ; ig, 2.) Bill. 

nether mills of Bar ry, or to construct other dams} ay, Act for the Regulation of the Duties of Post- Postage Dutic: 
on the said lands of Barry, in the option of the | aoe. Bill. 
said pepe, &lt;t ape ies and manner as the; “An Act for regulating the sending and receiving Franking Bill. 
said proprietor shall direct and require, but 80 | of Letters and Packets by the Post free from the 
that the whole expense to be paid by the said Duty of Postage: 
Commissioners for such improvement and exten-|" Ay, Act for consolidating the Laws relative to Post Offic 
sion or construction shall not in all exceed the! Ogences aoainst the Post Office of the United King- Ottences Bill. 
sum of Two hundred pounds ; and if any question i. ~s 





oe tl dc | dom, and for regulating the Judicial Administration 
6 RR SS ae eee Van See Nee of the Post Office Laws, and fe explaining certain 


sioners and such proprietor relative to such ex- | 
tension, Improvement or construction, the same} “Ay Act to abolish certain Offices in the Superior Common Law 
shall be settled and determined by the Sheriff of | Courts of Common Law, and to make Provision for Courts Bill 
_s aid year or his substitute, at.D undee, who 5¢ | a more effective and uniform Establishment of Of- 
decision shall be final and not subject to review | g.ors in those Courts: 
or question in any way whatever. | An Act to provide for the Costs of Prosecutions Concealment of 
Pr. 67. 1. 10. Leave out from “ Act ” to“ [here ” | for concealing the Birth of Children by secret bury- Births Bill. 
in |. 14, and in I. 14., leave out “ insert the Title of” | ine, or otherwise disposing of their Dead Bodies: 
and insert “ describe.” | An Act to alter the mode of giving Notices for Church Notices 
Pr. 85. 1.5. Leave out “ present” and insert the holding of Vestries, of making Proclamations in Bill. 
“ late.” _cases of Outlawry, and of giving Notices on Sun- 
Pr. 85. 1. 11. Leave out from “ provided” to | days with respect to various matters : 
“ And” im Pr. 87. 1. 11. | An Act to continue until the first day of July in the Metropol 
Pr. 90. 1.35. Leave out ‘ His” and insert! year One thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, a — 
“ Her,” and in the same line leave out “ His” and | and from thence to the end of the then next Session ~"” 
insert “ Her” ‘of Parliament, an Act for the more effectual Admi- 
Pr. 91. 1.25. Leave out “ His” and insert | histration of the Office of a Justice of the Peace in 
*. es.” and near the Metropolis : 


; An 


terms and expressions employed in those Laws: 





ills 


0.) 


ots 


1 Vicroriz. 


Military An Act for continuing Military Commissions 
Commissions and Commissions in the Royal Marines in force, 


a notwithstanding the Demise of the Crown: 

Rolls Estate An Act to vest the Rolls Estate in Her Majesty, 

Bil. and to provide for the future Payment of the Salary 
of the Master of the Rolls, and the Expenses of the 
Rolls Chapel : 

New South An Act to continue until the thirty-first day of 


Wales, &amp;¢- Bill December One thousand eight hundred and thirty- 


eight, and from thence to the end of the then next 
Session of Parliament, an Act of the ninth year of 
his Majesty King George the Fourth, for the Admi- 
nistration of Justice in Mew South Wales and Van 
Diemen’s Land. 

An Act for enabling Her Majesty to grant the 
Rank of General Officers to Foreigners now bearing 
Her Majesty’s Commission, and to permit the En- 
listment of Foreigners, under certain restrictions : 
Civil BillCourts An Act to amend the Laws for the Recovery of 
(Ireland) Bill. Small Debts by Civil Bill in Jreland : 


Bankrupts An Act to appoint a second Commissioner of 
(Ireland) Bill. Benkrupt in Zreland, and to amend an Act passed 
in the sixth and seventh years of the reign of his 
late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled, 
“ An Act to amend the Laws relating to Bankrupts 
in Ireland: 

An Act for the more effectual Recovery of Small 
Debts in the Sheriff Courts, and for regulating the 
Establishment of Circuit Courts for the Trial of 
Small Debt Causes by the Sheriffs in Scotland: 

An Act to continue an Act of the fifty-fourth year 
of his Majesty King George the Third for rendering 
the Payment of Creditors more equal and expeditious 
in Scotland, until the first day of May One thousand 
eight hundred and thirty-eight, and from thence to 
the end of the then next Session of Parliament : 
An Act to interpret the Words “ Sheriff,” “ She- 
iffClerk,” “ Shire,” “Sheriffdom,” and “County ” 

occurring in Acts of Parliament relating to Scotland : 
East Iudia == An Act to repeal the prohibition of the Payment 
—_— of the Salaries and Allowances of the East India 
ill. ‘ : ; : 
Company’s Officers during their absence from their 
respective Stations in India : 
An Act for further extending the Time for com- 


Foreign Officers 
Bill. 


Small Debts 
(Scotland) Bill. 


Creditors 
(Scotlaud) Bill. 


Sheriff, &amp;c., 
(Scotland) Bill. ¢¢ . 


Wishaw and 
Coltness Rail- 


way Bill. pleting the Wishaw and Coltness Railway, in the 
County of Lanark: 

rs ae An Act for making a Railway from the Town and 

and Carlisle 


Railway Bill, Port of Maryport to the Borough of Carlisle, to be 
called “The Maryport and Carlisle Railway :” 
Hurworth and 


An Act to enable the Great North of England 
ayy Railway Railway Company to extend the Line of their Rail- 
‘ way, and to make two Branches therefrom, and for 
other purposes relating thereto : 
An Act to alter, amend, explain and enlarge the 
owers of the several Acts for making and maintain- 
ing the Clarence Railway : 
— and An Act for making and maintaining a Railway 
Railway Bill from the City of Dublin to the City of Kilkenny, to 
be called the Great Leinster and Munster Railway : 
An Act to enable the Kilmarnock and Troon 
Railway Company to raise a further Sum of Money, 
to alter and amend the Line of the said Railway, and 
for other purposes relating thereto : 
— - An Act to alter the Line of the Dublin and 
Railway Bill, -Drogheda Railway, and to amend the Act relating 
thereto : 
An Act for making a Railway from the City of 
Chester to Birkenhead : 


Clarence (Dur- 
ham) Railway 
ig allway P 


Kilmarnock 
and Troon 
Railway Bill. 


Chester and 
Birkenhead 


Railway Bill. 

trl An Act for making a Railway from the City of 

(No.2) Bi, Cork to the Town of Passage: 

Duudee Police An Act for the better paving, lighting, watching 

(No. 2.) Bill, and cleansing the Burgh of Dundee, and for main- 
taining and regulating the Police of the same, and 
Places adjacent, and other purposes relating thereto; 

ir ol An Act for improving the Piers and Harbour of 


Bridlington, in the East Riding of the County of 
York, and for rendering the same more safe and 


commodious as a Harbour of Refuge : 
VoL. 92, 


12° Juliz. 








623 


An Act to make and maintain a Canal from the Campsie Canal 
Forth and Clyde Canal, in the County of Lanark, ®*"- 
to Campsie Alum Works, in the County of Stirling : 

An Act for enabling the Directors of the Man- Manchester 
chester Gas Works to purchase Lands, Buildings Gas Bill. 
and Apparatus for the extension of their Works: 

An Act to increase the Tonnage Rates and Duties Welland Outfa 
granted by an Act passed in the fifth year of the Prainage Bill. 
reign of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, 
for improving the Outfall of the River Welland, in 
the County of Lincoln, and to alter and enlarge the 
Powers of the said Act: 

An Act to alter and amend an Act of the fourth St. George’s 
year of the reign of his late Majesty, for erecting, Serena 
establishing and maintaining a Market in the Parish 
of Saint George-the- Martyr, in the Borough of South- 
wark: 

An Act to enable the Mayor, Aldermen and Bur- Liverpool. 
gesses of the Borough of Liverpool to open and — 
widen certain Streets and Places in the Town of ° 
Liverpool, and otherwise to improve the same; and 
to enable the said Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses 
to appropriate Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments 
for public purposes, and also to erect public Build- 
ings : 

“din Act for authorizing Trustees to sell part of Lord Sandys’ 
the settled Estates of the Right honourable Arthur Est Bill 
Moyses William Lord Sandys, in the Counties of 
Worcester, Cambridge and Bedford, and for laying 
out the Monies to arise by such Sale in the purchase 
of other Estates to be settled to the same uses, and 
also for authorizing the same Trustees to grant 
Leases for building and manufacturing purposes of 
other part of the said settled Estates in the County 
of Worcester : 

An Act for effecting an exchange between the Winchester 
Warden and Scholars Clerks of Saint Mary Col- College Estate 
lege, of Winchester, near Winchester, in the County ‘i 
of Southampton and the Dean of the Cathedral 
Church of the Holy Trinity, of Winchester, in the 
said County, and the Chapter of the same Church, 
of divers Messuages or Tenements, Lands and He- 
reditaments : 

An Act for confirming a Partition of Estates de- East’s _ 
vised and bequeathed by the Will of Sir William Estate Bill. 
East, Baronet, deceased, and other Property, and 
for confirming a Sale of other parts of the devised 
Estates : 

An Act for extending the power to grant building Juckson’s 
Leases contained in the Will of Randle Jackson, ¥state Bill. 
Esquire, deceased, and for other purposes : 

An Act to enable the Governors of the Free ClitheroeGram- 
Grammar School of Clitheroe, in the County of mar School 
Lancaster, to sell and grant Building Leases of the P**te Bi 
School Estates, and to enlarge the Powers of the 
Governors : 

An Act for vesting an Estate in the Parish of Watson’s 
Steeple Aston, in the County of Oxford, devised by ©stte Bill. 
the Wilt of John Marten Watson, Gentleman, de- 
ceased, in Trustees, for carrying into effect a Con- 
tract entered into for the Sale thereof, and for lay- 
ing out the Monies thence arising in the purchase 
other Estates to be settled to the same uses : 

An Act to transfer the Endowments of the Do- Acland s 
mestic Chapel of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, Baronet, Estate Bill. 
at Columb John, in the Parish of Broadclist, in the 
County cf Devon, which Chapel is proposed to be 
pulled down, to a Chapel intended to be built in 
lieu thereof near his Residence at Killerton, in the 
same Parish : 

An Act for authorizing the Trustees under an Act Duke of 

assed in the thirty-ninth and fortieth years of his Richmond’s 
Majesty King George the Third, for enabling the ste Bill. 
Duke of Richmond for the time being to grant Join- 
tures as therein mentioned, and for other purposes, 
to sell the residue remaining unsold of the Stocks 
on transfer of which the said Annuity was made re- 
deemable, and to invest the Money to arise from 
such Sale in the purchase of Manors, Lands and 
Hereditaments, and for other purposes : 
4k4 An 








— 





Eversfield’s 
Estate Bill. 


Lord Clanmor- 
ris’s Estate 
Bill. 


Dundee 
Waterworks 


(No. 2.) Bill. 


Ramsgate 
Harbour. 


Dundee 
Waterworks 


(No, 2.) Bill. 


Hailey bury 
College Bill. 


624. 


An Act to extend the Powers given to the Trus- 
tees of the Will of Charles Eversfield, Esquire, by 
an Act of Parliament passed in the seventh year of 
the reign of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, 
intituled, “ An Act to enable Trustees to grant 
Building Leases of Lands in the several Parishes of 
Saint Leonards, Hollington, Saint Mary of the 
Castle of Hastings, Maudlin, Saint Mary Magda- 
len, Saint Michael near Hastings and Horsham, 
in the County of Sussez, _ of the Estates devised 
by the Will of Charles Eversfield, Esquire, and to 
sell the same Lands, and also two detached Farms 
in the Parishes of Hollington and Horsham, afore- 
said, other part of the same Estates, and for laying 
out the Money arising by such Sale in the purchase 
of other Estates to be settled to the same uses : 

An Act for authorizing the Sale of certain Estates 
in the Counties of Galway and Mayo, devised by 
the Will of the Right honourable John, late Lord 
Clanmorris, deceased, and for laying out the Monies 
thence arising in the purchase of other Estates to 
be settled to the same uses. 


The House was moved, That the Report which, 
upon the 7th day of March last, was made from the 
Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills, 
might be read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill for 
supplying the Royal Burgh of Dundee, and Suburbs 
thereof, with Water: And that Mr. Chalmers and 
Mr. Alexander Denistoun do prepare, and bring 
it in. 

Mr. Shadwell, from the Directors of the Royal 
Harbour of Ramsgate, was called in; and at the bar 
tae pursuant to the directions of an Act of 

arliament,— Ramsgate Harbour Trust Account, 
from the 24th June 1835 to the 24th June 1836 :— 
And then he withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Account do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Chalmers presented a Bill for supplying the 
Royal Burgh of Dundee, and Suburbs thereof, with 
Water: And the same was read the first, and ordered 
to be read a second time. 

Ordered, That the Bill be now read a second time. 

The Bill was accordingly read asecond time; and 
committed to Mr. Chalmers and the East Scotland 
List. 

Ordered, That the Committee have leave to sit 
and proceed, and to make their Report To-morrow. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 
intituled, An Act to authorize the Commissioners 
for the Affairs of India to suspend the subsisting 
Enactments concerning the fourfold system of nomi- 
nation of Candidates for the East India Company’s 
College at Haileybury, and for providing, during 
such suspension, for the examination of Candidates 
for the said College; and the same were read, as 
follow : 

Pr. 2. 1. 2. After “ India” insert “ and the Court 
“ of Directors of the East India Company.” 

Pr. 2. |. 3. After “invested” insert “jointly.” 

Pr. 2. 1. 5. After “ suspend” insert “ and to re- 
“ men, ?? 


“ Court of Directors.” 

Pr. 2. 1.18. After “ Commissioners” insert “ and 
‘ Court of Directors.” 

In the Title to the Bill: 

L. 2. After “ Jndia”’ insert “and the Court of 
“ Directors of the East India Company.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. 


oe 


fernon Smith do carry the Bill 


. to the Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House 


hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


12° Julie. 





A. 1837. 





Ordered, That the Select Committee appointed Negro Appren. 


to inquire into the working of the ow ticeship. 


system in the Colonies, the condition of the Appren- 
tices, and the emancipated Negroes, and the Laws 
and Regulations affecting them, and also the state 
of Education of the Negroes in the Colonies, have 
Power to report their observations thereupon to the 
House. 

Mr. Labouchere reported from the said Select Com- 
mittee, That they had considered the matters to 
them referred, and directed him to make a Report 
thereof to the House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Brigus, in Conception 
Bay, in the Island of Newfoundland, complaining 
of certain proceedings at the late Election in that 
Island, and praying for inquiry, was presented, and 
read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of John Doherty, bookseller and printer 
(but formerly an operative cotton-spinner) of Man- 
chester, complaining of an incorrect statement rela- 
tive to him in a Paper printed by order of the House 
in 1834, being a Report by Mr. E. Carleton, one of 
the Factory Commissioners, and praying the House 
to cause the said Report, or so much thereof as 
relates to the Petitioner, to be suppressed, or with- 
held from further publication, was presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 
intituled, An Act to provide more effectual means 
to make Treasurers of Counties and Counties of 
Cities, in Ireland, account for Public Monies, and 
to secure the same; and the same were read, as 
follow : 

Pr, 3. 1. 22. After “ Body” insert Clause (A.) 

Cuiavuse(A.) “ And be it Enacted, That it shall 
be lawful for the said Lord Lieutenant, or other 
chief Governor or Governors of Zreland, to annex 
the duty of auditing the said accounts to any 
existing office, by and with the consent of the 
person holding the same, and thereupon to regu- 
late such office, and any other office or offices 
which it may be necessary to regulate therewith, 
provided the person or persons holding the same 
shall consent thereto; and the future powers and 
duties of any office so regulated shall be such as 
shall be assigned to it in and by such regulations 
as to the said Lord Lieutenant, or other chief 
Governor or Governors, shall, by warrant signed 
by him or them, make in that behalf; and any 
provisions or enactments theretofore made touch- 
ing such office shall thenceforth cease and be 
repealed, save as to any act or acts theretofore 
done, and any right or rights now enjoyed by 
virtue of any such provision or enactment: Pro- 
vided always, That nothing herein contained, or 
which shall be done by virtue hereof, shail extend 
to alter or affect the tenure by which any such 
office as aforesaid is now holden, or any salary, 
fees or emoluments, now appertaining thereto, or 
any right now vested in Her Majesty, to grant 
any annuity to any person, upon his resigning the 
same. 

Pr. 11. 1. 6. Leave out “ said.” 

Pr. 11. 1. 7. After “Chancery” insert “in Jre- 
“ land.” 

Pr. 14. 1. 3. Leave out “allowed” and insert 
altered.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Attorney General for Lreland 
do carry the Bill to the Lords; and acquaint them, 
that this House hath agreed to the Amendments 
made by their Lordships. 


‘ 


i 


The 


No. 510, 


Newfoundland. 


John Doherty. 


Treasurers of 


Counties (Ire- 


land) Bill, 


1 Vicroriz. 


Marquis of The Marquis of Bute’s Estate Bill was read the 

Bute's Estate first time; and ordered to be read a second time 

=. To-morrow. 

King’s Printers’ Ordered, That the Select Committee appointed to 

Patent (Seot- inquire into the nature and extent of the King’s 

land.) Printers’ Patent in Scotland, and to report their 
No. 511. future Grant of 


opinion as to the propriety of an 
that Patent, have a to cenetk th 
Evidence taken before them. 

The Lord Advocate reported from the said Select 
Committee; and to whom the Report which, upon 
the 20th day of June 1810, was oak from the Select 
Committee on Public Expenditure: Also, the Report 
which, upon the 30th day of July 1822, was made 
from the Select Committee on Printing and Station- 
ery: Also, the Minutes of Evidence taken before 
the Select Committee on King’s Printers’ Patents in 
Session 1830-31: And also, the Report which, upon 
the 8th day of August 1832, was made from the 
Select Committee on King’s Printers’ Patents, toge- 
ther with the Minutes of the Evidence taken before 
the said Committee, were referred; That they had 
made Progress in the matters to them referred ; and 
had directed him to report the Minutes of the Evi- 
dence taken before them. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


e Minutes of the 


Tithes Commu- 
tation Bill. 


No. 502. 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the 
Lords to the Tithes Commutation Bill be printed. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 








Jovis, 13° die Juli; 
Anno 1° Victorie Regine, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


Dover Harbour. M R. Shipdem, from the Warden and Assistants of 
Dover Harbour, was called in ; and at the bar 
presented, pursuant to the directions of an Act of Par- 
liament,—An Account of the Receipt and Applica- 
* tion of the Monies received by the Warden and 
Assistants of the Harbour of Dover in the county of 
Kent, from the 10th day of October 1835, to the 
10th day of October 1836 :—And then he withdrew. 
Ordered, That the said Account do lie upon the 

Table. 


Answer to 
Addresses. 


Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer reported to the 
House, That their several Addresses of the 30th day 
of June last and the 4th, 7th, 10th and 12th days of 
this instant July, (that Her Majesty would be 
—— pleased to give directions that the several 

apers therein mentioned, might be laid before this 
House,) had been presented to Her Majesty ; and 
that Her Majesty had commanded him to acquaint 
the House, that She will give directions accordingly. 


Flour and Corn 
shipped to 
India, &amp;e. 


Mr. Crafer, from the Treasury, was called in, and 
at the bar presented, pursuant to Orders,—A Return 
of Flour and Corn shipped to India and the British 
Colonies, from the year 1814 to 1837, in each sepa- 
rate year ; distinguishing the Port from which it was 
shipped. 


Copies of Memorials addressed to the Government 
from different bodies in Scotland, on the subject of 


Trigonometrical 
urve 


(Scotland, ‘ - 

"t.) ‘the state of the Trigonometrical Survey of that 
country ; and of the Correspondence which ensued in 
consequence thereof. 

— Returns to an Order, dated the 30th day of June 

Se 


last, for a Return of the number of Stamps issued by 
the Stamp Office for all Newspapers in Great Britain 
and Ireland, from the 1st January 1837 to 30th June, 
both days inclusive ; specifying each Newspaper b 
name, and the number of Stamps issued each ale | 
during that period to each Newspaper. 

Vou. 92. 


19°—13° Jultz. 





625 
A Return, showing the number of persons on the Public 

Redundant List of the several Public Departments lee 
therein mentioned, at the commencement of the List.) 7 

ear 1836; the number that have died or become 
incapable of serving during the year; the number 
that have re-entered the Public service during the 
year; the number that have been added during the 
year; and the number that remained on the list at 
the close of the year. 


Mr. Crafer also presented, pursuant to an Address Turnpike Trusts 
to his late Majesty,—A Return of debts on the (Scotland.) 
Turnpike Trusts in the counties of Lanark, Ayr, and 
Renfrew ; distinguishing those cases in which the 
Trustees are, from those in which they are not, per- 
sonally responsible ; together with the rates of interest 
chargeable upon each respectively, for the year 
ending Whitsunday 1836. 


Return to an Address to his late Majesty, dated Justice of 
the 3d day of May last, for A Return (to amend and i ee 
complete the Return by the Justice of Peace Clerks 8°"? 
and their deputies and assistants, ordered 17th Au- 
gust 1836, and printed 14th February 1837,) for 
each of the three years preceding 1st April 1837, or 
during the incumbency of the present officers, if less 
than three years; showing the designations and 
whole employments of the depute clerks in the 
counties of Aberdeen, Argyll, Banff, Berwick, Bute, 
Caithness, Clackmannan, Dumbarton, Dumfries, 
Edinburgh, Elgin, Fife, Forfar, Haddington, Kin- 
cardine, Kinross, Kirkcudbright, Lanark, Orkney, 
Perth, Renfrew, Roxburgh, Ross, Stirling and 
Sutherland; also, any other offices held, or occu- 
pations or business followed by the principal Justices 
of Peace Clerks of the counties of Fife, Elgin (Elgin 
district), Lanark (Glasgow and Lanark districts), 
and Sutherland; also, distinguishing, where such 
offices are held by clergymen, to what sect they 
belong ; where held by merchants, whether they are 
merchants by retail; where held by schoolmasters, 
whether they are parochial schooimasters ; where 
held by factors or land stewards, whether their sala- 
ries or emoluments as such are received from any of 
the acting Justices, or for the management of landed 
properties within the jurisdiction of the Court ; and 
where held by solicitors or writers, or attornies, 
whether, by themselves or their partners, they prac- 
tise as such within the district of such Court. 


Mr. Crafer also presented, pursuant to an Address National 
to Her Majesty,—Copy of the last Report to the Vaccine 
Secretary of State from the National Vaccine Insti- "*"""™ 
tution :—And then he withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration London and 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, Brighton 
intituled, An Act for making-a Railway from the Qailway — 
London and Croydon Railway to Brighton, with : 
branches to Shoreham, Newhaven and Lewes ; and 
the same were read as follow: 

Pr. 4. 1. 36. Leave out “ plan” and insert 
“ original and altered plans respectively.” 

Pr. 4.1.37. After “ reference ” insert “ deposited, 
“ and to be.” 

Pr. 4. 1. penult. After “ Sussex” insert “ as 
hereinafter mentioned.” 

Pr. 7. 1.19. After “ Enacted ” insert “ That 
maps, plans and sections of such alterations as 
approved of by Parliament, authenticated by the 
signature of the Right honourable the Speaker of 
the House of Commons, shall be deposited with 
the said Clerks of the Peace as hereinafter men- 
tioned, such plans and sections so deposited as 
aforesaid, so far as the same have not been altered 
as hereinbefore mentioned, together with the said 

lans and sections to be deposited as aforesaid, 
being the plans and sections approved of by 
Parliament, according to which the said Railway 
is hereby authorized to be constructed, and.” 

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Pr. 8. 1. 15. After “ said” msert “ original and 
“ altered.” 

Pr. 8. 1. 16. After “ plans” insert “ deposited 
“ and to be deposited respectively, as aforesaid.” 

Pr. 9. 1. 4. After “ deposited” imsert “ and to 
“ be deposited.” 

Pr. 9.1. 6. Leave out “ hereinbefore mentioned ” 
and insert “ aforesaid.” 

Pr. 33.1. 8. After “ quantity” insert “ and of 
building land less than Ten square yards in 
extent.” 

Pr. 33.1. 21. After “ quantity ” msert “ or Ten 
square yards, as the case may be.” 

Pr. 55. Is. 22 and 23. After “ begun ” insert 
either before or.” 

Pr. 55. 1. 25. After “ Brighton” insert “ and 
shall, when so commenced, be completed and 
opened for public use from Brighton as far as 
the Western arm or branch of Shoreham Harbour 
within Three years from the passing of this Act: 
Provided always, and the said Company shall and 
they are hereby required to carry and make the 
said branch Railway to some wharf or wharfs on 
the said Western Arm or branch of Shoreham 
Harbour, provided they can obtain the consent of 
the owners-and occupiers of land for that pur- 

ose.” 

Pr. 56. 1. 30. Leave out from “ after” to “ divert ” 
in 1. 31., and insert “ their commencing to carry 
“ into execution any of the works by this Act au- 
“ thorized, within Sea thousand yards of the said 
“ turnpike-road.” 

Pr. 65. 1. 23. Leave out from “ after ”’ to “ divert’ 
in |. 24, and insert “ their commencing to carry into 
“ execution any of the works by this Act authorized, 

within One thousand yards of such last-mentioned 
turnpike-road.” 

Pr. 80. 1. 6. After “‘ Esquires ” insert “ or of the 
lands in the occupation of the said Richard Monk- 
house Tillstone, Esquire, under the will of the late 
Benjamin Tillstone, Esquire, or of the lands of 
the Earls of Chichester, Abergavenny and De La 
Warr, Mary Countess of Plymouth, Sir George 
Shiffner, Baronet, Jeremiah Harmar, William 
Elphich, William John Campion, John William 

‘ Goodday, Mrs. Mary Goring, Mrs. Louisa Hurley, 

Thomas Tourle, William Ridge, Henry Ridge, 
Harry Colville Bridger and Richard Verrall.” 

Pr. 80. i. 9. Leave out “ and,” and in the same 
Ine, after “ Aldrington” insert “ Falmer, Pidding- 
“ hoe, Patcham, Saint Ann, Lewes, Rodmill, Iford, 

Southease, Newhaven, Clayton, Kingston near 

Lewes and Old Shoreham.” 

Pr. 80.1. 34. After “ Fuller” insert “ The Earls 
of Chichester, Abergavenny and De La Warr, 

' Mary Countess of Plymouth, Sir George Shiffner, 

Baronet, Jeremiah Harmar, William Elphick, 

William John Campion, John William Goodday, 

Mrs. Mary Goring, Mrs. Louisa Hurley, Thomas 

Tourle, William Ridge, Henry Ridge, Harry 

Colville Bridger and Richard Verrall, or in the 

occupation of the said Richard Monkhouse Till- 

stone.” 

Pr. 80, 1. 36. After “ required ” insert “ and 
purchased.” 

Pr. 81. 1.12. Inthe Interlineation, after “ Fudler’”’ 
insert “ and in the occupation of the said Richard 
“© Monkhouse Tillstone.’ 

Pr. 81. 1. 27. After “ respectively ” insert “ and 
in the occupation of the said Richard Monkhouse 
Tillstone.” 

Pr. 81. 1.34. After “ Fuller” insert “ and in 
the occupation of the said Richard Monkhouse 
Tillstone.” 

Pr. 82. 1.7. After “‘ Fuller” insert “and in the 
occupation of the said Richard Monkhouse Till- 

* stone.” 

Pr. 82. 1. 16. After “ respectively ” insert “ and 

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Pr. 83. 1.12. After “ Fuller” insert “ The Earls 
of Chichester, Abergavenny and De La Warr, 
Mary Countess of Plymouth, Sir George Shiffner, 
Baronet, Jeremiah Harmar, William Elphick, 
William John Campion, John William Goodday, 
Mrs. Mary Goring, Mrs. Louisa Hurley, Thomas 
Tourle, William Ridge, Henry Ridge, Harry 
Colville Bridger and Richard Verrall.” 

Pr. 83. 1. 13. After “ assigns ” insert “ and also 
for the said Richard Monkhouse Tillstone and 
other the parties for the time being interested in 
the estate now in his occupation.” 

Pr. 83. 1. 31. Leave out “and” and in the 
same line after “ Fuller” insert “ Richard Monk- 
“ house Tillstone, The Earls of Chichester, Aberga- 

venny and De La Warr, Mary Countess of 
Plymouth, Sir George Shiffner, Baronet, Jeremiah 
Harmar, William Elphick, William John Campion, 
John William Goodday, Mrs. Mary Goring, Mrs. 
Louisa Hurley, Thomas Tourle, William Ridge, 
Henry Ridge, Harry Colville Bridger and Richard 
Verrall.” 

Pr. 84. 1. 10. Leave out from “ within” to “com- 
mence ” in |. 12, and insert “ One calendar month 
after they shall have commenced the execution of 
any work whatsoever by this Act authorized, other 
than the staking and marking out the said Rail- 
way.” 

Pr. 84, 1. 25. After “ Stanford” insert “ and 
Richard Monkhouse Tillstone. 

Pr. 90. 1.15. Leave out from “ same” to “and ” 

in Pr. 93.1.1. 

Pr. 93. 1. 9. After “ place” insert “ under the 
“ jurisdiction of the Commissioners having the 
“ control of the pavement.” 

Pr. 93. 1. 25. After “ the ” insert “ said ” and in 
the same line, leave out from “ Commissioners” to 
“or ” in I. 29. 

Pr. 94. Is. 5 and 6. Leave out from “ Commis- 
“ sioners ” to “or” inl. 9. 

Pr. 102. 1. 1. After “ other” insert “ dwelling” 
and in the same line, after “ houses” insert “ or,” 
and also in the same line, leave out from “ shops” to 
“in” in 1. 8. 

Pr. 102. 1.12. After “any” insert “ dwelling ” 
and in the same line, after “ house ” insert “ or.” 

Pr. 102. 1. 13. Leave out from “ shop” to “ in” 
in I. 15. 

Pr. 102. 1. 29. After “ such”’ insert “ dwelling ” 
and in the same line, after “ houses ” insert “ or.” 

Pr. 102. 1.36. Leave out from “ shops ” to “the” 
in 1. 32. 

Pr. 103. 1.1. After “ such ” insert “ dwelling.” 

Pr. 103. 1. 2. After “ houses” insert “ or” and 
in the same line, leave out from “ shops” to “ men- 
“ tioned ” in 1. 4. 

Pr. 103. ].21. After “ such” insert “ dwelling.” 

Pr. 103. 1. 22. After “ houses” insert “ or” and 
in the same line, leave out from “ shops” to “ good- 
“« wills” in 1, 24. 

Pr. 103. 1. 39. Leave out “ lands or houses ” and 
insert “ dwelling-house or shop.” 

Pr. 181. 1. 11. After “ purpose ” insert “ Pro- 
vided also, That the provisions last hereinbefore 
contained, shall not control or supersede the 
clause hereinbefore contained, for regulating the 
construction of the said Railway through the 
lands of the said Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, William 
Stanford, William Pennington Gorringe, Hugh 
Fuller, The Earls of Chichester, Abergavenny and 
De La Warr, Mary Countess of Plymouth, Sir 
George Shiffner, Baronet, Jeremiah Harmar, 
William Elphick, William John Campion, John 
William Goodday, Mrs, Mary a Mrs. Louisa 
Hurley, Thomas Tourle, William Ridge, Henry 
Ridge, Harry Colville Bridger and Richard 
Verrall,” 

Pr. 206. 1. 18. After “ thereof” insert “ and.” 

Pr. 206. 1. 30. Leave out from “ shall” to “ and” 
inl, 34., and insert, “as soon as conveniently may be 

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“ after the passing of this Act, be apportioned and 
* divided to and amongst the several provisional 
“* committees or provisional directors named in the 
said several subscription deeds or contracts, or the 
subscribers’ agreements of even date therewith, in 
the proportions hereinbefore mentioned ; and shall 
by such provisional committees or provisional 
directors respectively, be allotted among the 
several subscribers of the said before-mentioned 
five lines of Railway, in proportion to the amount 
of their respective subscriptions, subject to the 
payment to each provisional committee or board 
of directors by every such subscriber, of a like 
proportion of all costs, charges and expenses in- 
“ curred before the Thirteenth day of i une One 
thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, in re- 
spect of any application to Parliament for autho- 
rizing the execution of his respective projected 
line, or in any wise relating thereto, such payment 
te be made before any share can be required to 
“ be finally appropriated and registered as belonging 
“ to the subscriber as the holder thereof.” 

Pr. 207. 1. 22. After “ respectively ” insert 
Clause (A.) 

Cuiause(A.) “ Provided always, and be it further 
“¢ Enacted, That every subscriber to the first four 
‘¢ mentioned of the said projected lines shall, upon 
“ such advertisements having been inserted as here- 
“ inafter directed, and within Six weeks after the 
“ last of such advertisements, leave or cause to be 
“ left at the office of the Company hereby incor- 
“ porated, a written notice stating his place of abode 
and his intention to accept the shares to be al- 
lotted to him by the provisional committee or 
provisional directors in manner and subject as 
“ hereinbefore directed ; and in default of such notice 
“ the directors of the said ——- hereby incor- 
“ porated shall, and they are hereby required, by 
“¢ a minute to be entered in their books, to declare 
“ the shares of every subscriber making default 
“ herein to be forfeited; and the said subscriber 
“ making such default shall thereupon forfeit all 
“ right, title and interest to any share in the said 
“ undertaking, and after such default he shall be 
“ released from all liability under this Act in respect 
“ of his subscription, and the shares so forfeited 
may be allotted by the directors of the said Com- 
pany hereby incorporated in such manner as they 
shall think proper: Provided always, That the 
said directors of the Company hereby incorporated 
shall and they are hereby required within One 
“ fortnight after the passing of this Act, to insert 
“ three several times in Two or more London news- 
papers, and once in Two or more papers published 
at Brighton, an advertisement stating the date of 
the passing of this Act, and the proper direction 
of the office of the Company hereby incorporated, 
“ and the substance of the several matters by this 
“ present clause enacted.” 

Pr. 207. 1.38. Leave out “ proprietors” and 
insert “ proprietor.” 

Pr. 207. 1. penult. After “ him” insert “ or in 
case he shall make such application, but shall 
refuse or neglect for One calendar month after 
such application to pay to the provisional Com- 
mittee or board of directors allotting his shares, 
his proportionate part of such costs, charges and 
expenses, as hereinbefore mentioned.” 

Pr. 208. 1.1. After “ Company ” insert “ hereby 
incorporated.” 

Pr. 208. 1. 3. Leave out from “ forfeited ” to 
“ and” inl. 15. 

Pr. 208. 1.17. After “ herein ” insert “ as afore- 
“&lt; said.” 

Pr. 208. 1. 22. After “ proper” insert “ or in 
“ case of the non-payment of such proportionate 
“ part of the said costs, charges and expenses, the 
said forfeited shares, or a competent number 
thereof, shall and may be sold by the provisional 
committee or board of directors allotting the same, 

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and the proceeds applied in making such pay- 
ment.” 

Pr. 215. 1. 24. After “ subscribed ” insert “ to 
“ the said lines of Railway as hereinbefore men- 
“ tioned.” 

Pr. 215. 1.26. After “ undertaking ” insert “ and 
who shall not be released, or whose shares shall 
“ not be forfeited, under the provisions of this Act.” 

Pr. 216. 1. 36. Leave out “such” and in the 
same line, after “ share” insert “ of that amount, 
“ and so in proportion for any less share.” 

Pr. 217. 1. 20. After “ of” insert “ shares in.” 

Pr. 217. 1. 30. Leave out “such” and in the 
same line, after “ share ” insert “ of that amount.” 

Pr. 217. 1. 33. After “each” insert “ such.” 

Pr. 217. l.penult. After “each ” insert “such.” 

Pr. 217. i. ult. After “ share” insert “ and so 
“ in proportion for all shares of less amount.” 

Pr. 223. 1. penult. After “ share ” insert “ of 
“ that amount.” 

Pr, 224. 1.1. After “each ” insert “ such ” and 
in the same line, after “share” insert “ and so in 
“ proportion for any less share.” 

Pr. 224, 1. 9. After “ year” insert “ on ashare 
of Fifty pounds, and so in proportion for a share 
of less amount.” 

Pr. 228. 1. penult. After “ shares” insert “ of 
Fifty pounds each.” 

Pr. 229. 1. 9. After “shares” insert “ of Fifty 
pounds each.” 

Pr. 229, 1. 18. After “ Five” insert “ such.” 

Pr, 229. 1. 22. After “Twenty” insert “such.” 

Pr. 230. 1. ult. After “ of ” insert 
Provided always, That the proprietor of any num- 
ber of shares of less than Fifty pounds each, shall 
for all the purposes last aforesaid be considered 
as a proprietor of so many shares of Fifty pounds 
as shall be equivalent in amount to the shares 
held by him, and shall also always be entitled to 
at least one vote.” 

Pr. 238. 1. 34. Leave out “ further or addi- 
“ tional.” 

Pr. 238. 1. 35. After “ sum” insert “in addi- 
tion to their said capital of One million eight 
“ hundred thousand pounds.” ; 

Pr. 254. 1.24. Leave out “ incurred in” and 
insert “ of.” 

Pr, 254. 1. 26. Leave out from “ Act” to “ pre- 
“ paratory ” in 1. 27., and insert “ or.” 

Pr. 254. 1. 28. After “ thereto” insert “ in- 
“ curred since the Thirteenth day of June One thou- 
sand eight hundred and thirty-seven.” 


Pr. 256. ls. 4 and 5. After “ execution” insert 
“ and that the expenses incurred by the several pro- 
“ visional committees or boards of directors of the 
“« said five projected lines, before the said Thirteenth 
“ day of June, shall be raised and paid by the sub- 
scribers to the said several lines, in respect of 
“ each such line, in proportion to the amount of 
“ their respective subscriptions, and which sum 
“ shall be apportioned by the said provisional com- 
“ mittees or boards of directors accordingly ; and 
“ the apportioned payment shall be a ik in the 
“‘ same manner as any call in respect of any share 
“ under this Act may be enforced under the powers 
“ and authorities herein contained, unless the same 
“ shall have been previously paid by the subscribers, 
“ or raised by a sale of their shares forfeited for 
“ non-payment thereof, or non-registering of the 
“ said shares.” 
Pr. 256. 1. 9. After “ shares” insert “ of Fifty 
pounds each, or their equivalent in less shares.’ 
Pr, 256. 1. 13. After “time” insert “ whether 
‘ before or after the first general meeting.” 
Pr, 258. 1. 23. After “shares” insert “ of Fifty 
“ pounds each, or their equivalent in less shares.” 
Pr. 259. 1,20. After “ shares” insert “ of Fifty 
“ pounds each, or their equivalent in less shares.” 
Pr. 260, 1. 22. After “ shares ” insert “ of Fift 
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“ pounds,” and in the same line, after “ each” in- 
sert “ or their equivalent in less shares.” 

Pr. 263. 1. 4. After “ shares” insert “ of Fifty 
“ pounds each, or their equivalent in less shares.” 

Pr. 284. 1. 3. After “ upon” insert “ or along.” 

Pr. 295. 1. 3. After “ up” insert “ unless the 
“ said boards, stones or marks shall have been tem- 
“ porarily removed for the — of repairing, shall 
. hoes been accidently or wilfully removed, destroyed 
“ or defaced by any person without the order or 
“ privity of the said Company.” 

Pr. 357. 1. 35. After “ Westminster 
Clauses (B.) and (C.) 

Cravusez (B.) “ Provided always, and be it fur- 
ther Enacted, That nothing in this Act contained 
shall extend or be deemed or construed to extend 
“ to prejudice or diminish, alter, abridge or take 
“ away any of the rights, powers or authorities 
vested in the Commissioners of Sewers for the 
“ limits extending from East Mouldsey, in the 
county of Surrey, to Ravensbourne, in the county 
of Kent, and also of the Commissioners of Sewers 
for the county of Sussex ; but all the rights, powers 
and authorities vested in them shall be as good, 
valid and effectual as if this Act had not been 
“ made.” 

Ciavss (C.) “ Saving always, unto the Queen’s 
most excellent Majesty, Her ag successors and 
assigns, all such estate, right, title, interest, claim 
and demand in or to or upon the hereditaments 
mentioned and set forth in the said Schedule here- 
unto annexed, as Her Majesty, Her heirs, suc- 
cessors or assigns had or could, or might have 
had if this Act had not been passed, save and 
except so far as the same are expressly altered or 
affected by the provisions of this Act.’ 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Captain Alsager do carry the Bill 
to the Lords, and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
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The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 
intituled, An Act for making Wet Docks and other 
Works on the South side of the River Thames, at 
or near Rotherhithe and Deptford, in the Counties 
of Surrey and Kent, to be called “ The Grand 
Collier Docks ;” and the same were read as follow: 

Pr. 5. 1.17. After “ execution” insert Clauses 
(A.) and (B.) 

Cuiauss (A.) “ And whereas, The probable ex- 
“ pense of making the said Docks and the other 
“ Works hereby authorized, will amount to the sum 
“ of Five hundred and fifty thousand pounds, 
“ three-fourths whereof have been already subscribed 
for by several persons, under a contract, binding 
themselves, their heirs, executors, administrators 
and assigns, for the payment of the several sums 
by them respectively subscribed for: BE it there- 
“ fore Enacted, That the whole of the said sum of 
Five hundred and fifty thousand pounds shall be 
subscribed for in like manner before any of the 
powers given by this Act, in relation to the com- 
pulsory taking of lands for the purposes of the 
said Docks and other works, shall be put in 
force.” 

CrausE (B.) “ Provided always, and be it 
“ further Enacted, That a Certificate under the 
hand and seal of any Justice of the Peace for 
“ either of the counties of Surrey or Kent, that the 
‘“* whole of the said sum of Five hundred and fifty 
thousand pounds hath been subscribed as afore- 
* said, and which certificate such Justice is hereby 

authorized and required to grant, on application 

made to him by the said Company, and on such 
; end of the subscription of the said capital as 
“he may require, shall for all purposes whatsoever 
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“ sum of Five hundred and fifty thousand pounds 
“ has been subscribed for.” 

Pr. 13. 1. 35. Leave out “ required” and in- 
sert “ empowered.” 

Pr. 18. 1. 13. After “ Acts” insert “ which 
“ they now are entitled by law to have or exer- 
“ cise.” 

Pr. 18. 1.14. Leave out from “ except” to 
“ the ” in 1. 15., and insert “ the powers contained 
“ in,” and in |. 15. leave out from “ Acts ” to “ to” 
in ]. 16., and insert “ enabling the said proprietors,” 
and in 1. 16., leave out from “ to” to “money” in 
1. 17., and insert “ borrow.” 

Pr. 18. 1. 18. Leave out “ the ” and insert “ to.” 
Pr. 18. 1.19. Leave out “ sale of” and insert 
“om. 

Pr. 18. 1. 21. Leave out “ the formation of” 
and insert “ to form.” 

Pr. 18. ls. 28. and 29. After “ 
sert “ if now exercisable by law.” 

Pr. 18. 1. 36. After “ shall” insert “ in case 
“ the said Company hereby incorporated shall pur- 
“ chase the works of the said Canal Company.” 

* "K 20. 1. 27. After “ therewith” insert Clause 
(C. 

CuauseE (C.) “ Provided always, and be it 
“ further Enacted, That it shall and may be lawful 
to and for the said Company of Proprietors of 
the Grand Surry Canal to sue for, recover and 
receive all debts and sums of money, claims and 
demands whatsoever, which at the time of the 
completion of the purchase of the Docks, Canal, 
and other property of the said Canal Company, 
may or shall become due or payable to them in 
the same manner as they might, and otherwise 
would have been entitled had the said purchase 
not taken place, any thing in this Act contained 
to the contrary notwithstanding.” 

Pr. 21. 1. 6. Leave out “ and Docks.” 

Pr, 22. 1. 18. Leave out from “to” to “ the” 
in ], 19. 

Pr. 22. 1. 25. Leave out from “ mentioned” to 
“ may” in 1. 26., and insert “ Company.” 

Pr, 22. 1. ult. Leave out “ such” and insert 
“ the.” 

Pr. 23. 1. 7. Leave out “ property ” and insert 
“ and such compensation, if any, as aforesaid.” 

Pr. 88. 1. 1. After “ building” insert “ wharf 
“ dock, dock-yard, or shipbuilder’s yard.” 

Pr. 88. 1. 2. After “ any” insert “ other” and 
in the same line, after “ ground” insert “ such 
“ other yard, garden or ground.” 

Pr. 88. 1. 14. Leave out the first “ or” and in 
the same line leave out the second “ or” and in- 
sert “ wharf, dock, dock-yard or shipbuilder’s yard, 
“ or such other.” 

Pr. 88. 1. 20. Leave out “ or” and in the same 
line, after “ building” insert “ wharf, dock, dock- 
“ yard, or shipbuilder’s yard.” 

Pr. 88. 1. 21. After “ such” insert “ others.” 

Pr. 88. 1. 33. Leave out the first “ or” and in 
the same line leave out the second “ or” and insert 
“ wharf, dock, dock-yard, or shipbuilder’s yard, or 
such other.” 

Pr. 102. 1. 16. After “ situated ” insert “ Pro 
vided always, That any determination of Justices 
herein, shall be subject to appeal in manner pre- 
‘ scribed by an Act passed in the fifth and sixth 
“ years of the reign of his late Majesty King Wil- 
“ liam the Fourth, intituled,‘ An Act to consolidate 
“ and amend the Laws relating to Highways in 
“ that part of Great Britain called England.’” 

Pr. 116. 1. 38. Leave out “ repealed” and in- 
sert “ repeated.” 

Pr. 128. 1. 21. After “ feet” insert Clause (D.) 

CrausE (D.) “ And whereas in making and 
“ executing the said Wet Docks, and the several 
“ other Works by this Act authorized, it may be 
“ necessary for the said Company, their agents and 
“ workmen, to enter upon and take temporary pos- 


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session of some parts of the lands adjoining to 
the said intended docks and other works, for the 
purpose of laying or depositing, and working 
thereon, earth, clay, stones, bricks, slates, timber, 
lime, and other materials, or of manufacturing 
such clay into bricks, or for forming temporary 
roads or approaches to and from the said works ; 
and inasmuch as a jury summoned as directed by 
this Act to assess a compensation for the damage 
and injury done to such adjoining lands by the 
exercise of the powers and authorities by this 
Act granted, cannot, either upon view or from 
evidence, form a just opinion of the permanent 
injury which will be sustained by the owners or 
proprietors of such adjoining lands by the exer- 
cise of the powers and authorities aforesaid, until 
the works shall have been completed, it is expe- 
dient that the said Company, their agents and 
workmen, should be empowered to enter upon 
such adjoining lands for the purposes aforesaid, 
without having previously made such payment, 
tender or investment of money as hereinbefore 
mentioned; BE it therefore Enacted, That not- 
withstanding any thing in this Act contained, it 
shall be lawful for the said Company, their agents 
and workmen, and they are hereby empowered 
to enter upon the lands of any person or corpora- 
tion whatsoever adjoining or lying near to the said 
intended docks and other works by this Act 
authorized to be made and maintained or any 
of them, or any part thereof respectively, for the 
purpose of laying, depositing, working, or manu- 
facturing upon such lands, or upon any part 
thereof respectively, any earth, clay, stones, bricks, 
slates, timber, lime or other materials, or for 
forming temporary roads or approaches to and 
from the said works, they the said Company, 
their agents and workmen doing as little damage 
as may be in the exercise of the several powers 
hereby granted to them, and making compensa- 
tion for such temporary occupation, or temporary 
damage of the said lands to the owners and occu- 
piers thereof, such compensation, in case the 
parties differ about the same, to be settled and 
recovered in manner hereinbefore provided for in 
cases of disputes as to the value of lands through 
or upon which the said intended docks and other 
works are intended to be made, and the compen- 
sation for any damage sustained by reason of the 
execution of any of the works by this Act autho- 
rized: Provided always, That the said Compan 
shall, and they are hereby required to make set | 
compensation and satisfaction for the permanent 
damage or injury, if any, which may have been 
done to the said lands by the exercise of any of 
the powers and authorities aforesaid, within one 
calendar month after the expiration of the period 
by this Act granted for executing the said in- 
tended docks and other works: Provided also, 
That before it shall be lawful for the said Com- 
pany to make such temporary use as aforesaid of 
the lands adjoining or lying near to the said in- 
tended docks and other works, the said Company 
shall, and they are hereby required to give sad 
teen days’ notice of such their intention to the 
occupiers or owners of such lands, and to separate 
and set apart, by sufficient railings or fencings, 
so much of the lands as shall be required to be 
so used as aforesaid, from the other lands adjoin- 
ing thereto: Provided also, That it shall not be 
lawful for the said Company to make any tem- 
porary use of any such lands, as aforesaid, lying 
at a greater distance than Two hundred and fifty 
yards from the said intended docks, nor to make 
bricks, or place a steam engine upon any of 
such lands at any place which shall not be distant 
at least Two hundred and fifty yards from any 
mansion, without the leave of the owner or occu- 
pier of such mansion, in writing first obtained 
for that purpose: Provided also, That before 
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entering on any such lands for temporary pur- 
poses as aforesaid, the said Company shall, if 
required by the owner or occupier thereof, find 
two sufficient persons, who shall enter into a bond 
to the owner or occupier of such lands in a 
ig of Fifty pounds per acre, or if such lands 
orm part of the estate called the Evelyn estate, 
at Deptford aforesaid, then in a penalty of Five 
hundred pounds per acre condition, for the pay 
ment of compensation as aforesaid, such securi- 
ties to be approved of by Two Justices of the 
Peace of the county in which such lands shall be 
situate.” , 

Pr. 128. 1. 26. After “ Act” insert “ such meet- 
ing to be called by Ten or more subscribers to the 
said undertaking, holding in the aggregate Five 
hundred shares or upwards, by advertisement 
inserted in two or more London newspapers.” 

Pr. 131. 1. 24. After “ that” insert “ save as 
herein excepted. 


Pr. 153. 1. 19. After “ first’ insert “ general ” 


and in the same line leave out “ of Directors.” 


(E.) 


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Pr. 173. 1. 17. After “whatsoever” insert Clause 


Criause (E.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
it shall be lawful for the several proprietors for 
the time being of the said undertaking, and they 
are hereby empowered, whether before or after 
any call shall have been paid in respect of any 
shares held by them respectively, to pay in advance, 
in case the directors shall think proper to accept 
the same, which they are hereby authorized to do, 
to such person as the said directors shall appoint, 
the respective sums of money by them respectively 
oceans for, or such part or proportion thereof 
as shall be wanting (over and doa the amount, 
if any, actually paid in respect of such shares) to 
make up the fat sum of Fifty pounds in respect 
of each such share; and the said Company shall, 
and they are hereby required to ey interest at 
such rate not ome the rate of Four pounds 
for every One hundred pounds by the year, upon 
the principal monies which shall have been so 
paid in advance, or for so much thereof as shall 
from time to time exceed the amount of the calls 
which shall have been made upon the shares in 
respect of which such money shall have been paid 
in advance as aforesaid, as the subscriber paying 
such sum in advance and the directors for the 
time being of the said Company shall agree 
upon.” 

r. 220. 1. 26. After “ Kingdom” insert “ or 
according to any Act in force relating to the ad- 
measurement of the tonnage and burthen of the 
merchant shipping of the United Kingdom.” 

Pr. 231. 1. 4. After “ Friday ” insert “such days 
as shall have been appointed for the celebration 
of the Birthday of Her Majesty and Her Suc 
cessors.” 

Pr. 235. 1.17. After “ rates” insert “ and to 
such rates for the relief of the poor, and other 
county and parochial purposes.” 

Pr. 236. |. 7. Leave out “ whatsoever ” and in- 


sert “ local or otherwise.” 


if 


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Pr. 242. 1. 20. Leave out “ hereby appointed 
or.” 
Pr. 246. 1. 10. After “ forfeitures ” insert Clause 


Cravse (F.) “ And whereas by the said recited 
Act of the fifty-first year of the reign of King 
George the Third, it was enacted, that all fines, 
penalties and forfeitures inflicted by that Act, or 
by any rule or bye-law which should thereafter 
be made in pursuance of that Act, might be levied 
and recovered within Twelve months after the 
offence or offences committed before any Justice 
or Justices of the Peace for the counties of Kent 
and Surrey; and such Justice or Justices were 
thereby empowered and required, upon — 
to him or them made, to grant a warrant to bring 


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Caoutchouc 
Company Bill. 


Dowlais 


Market Bill. 


630 


“ before him or them such offender or offenders at 


“ the time and place in such warrant specified ; and 
“ in case of non-payment thereof, on conviction of 
the offenders respectively, on his, her or their 
confession, or on the evidence of any one or more 
credible witness or witnesses examined on oath, 
(which oath the said Justice or Justices was and 
were thereby required and empowered to ad- 
minister) should be levied by distress and sale of 
the goods and chattels of the offender or offenders, 
by warrant under the hand or seal, or hands or 
seals, of such Justice or Justices ; and all fines 
and forfeitures, when recovered, should go and be 
applied, one half to him who might sue or inform, 
and the other half to the use of the said Company, 
to be paid into the hands of their treasurer, and, 
for want of sufficient distress, or in case the fine, 
penalty or forfeiture should not be forthwith paid, 
it should be lawful for such Justice or Justices, 
by warrant under his or their hand and seal, or 
hands and seals, to commit any such offender to 
the common gaol or house of correction, there to 
remain without bail or mainprize for any time not 
exceeding Three calendar months, unless such fine, 
penalty or forfeiture, and all reasonable charges 
attending the recovery thereof, should be sooner 
paid ; and whereas it is expedient that the pro- 
visions above recited should be repealed from the 
— when the said rights and privileges of the 
ast Country Dock Company shall vest in the 
said Company hereby incorporated: Be it there- 
fore Enacted, That the same shall be and are 
hereby repealed accordingly.” 

Pr. 246. 1.13. After “ Act” insert “ or by the 
said recited Act of the fifty-first year of the reign 
of King George the Third.” 

Pr. 253. 1. 5. After “ Justice” insert “ acting 
for the district wherein the same may occur.” 

Pr. 262. 1. 32. Leave out “ or” and insert “con- 
tained nor any thing.” 

Pr. 262. 1. 36. After “respectively” insert “from 
and after the completion of the respective pur- 
chases of the property of the said Company of 
Proprietors of the Grand Surrey Canal, and of 
the Fast Country Dock Company respectively.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 

were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Captain Alsager do carry the Bill 
to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 
intituled, An Act for forming and regulating the 
London Caoutchouc Company, and to enable the 
said Company to purchase certain Letters Patent; 
and the same were read, as follow: 

Pr. 5. 1,4. Leave out “ King’s ” 

“ Queen’s.” : 

Pr. 10. 1. 15. After “ twelve ” insert “ And 
whereas the inventions and discoveries comprised 
in the said letters patent are likely to be of public 
utility ; and whereas the private fortunes of the 
said Robert William Seivier and Joshua Procter 
Westhead are insufficient to enable them to esta- 
Llish the necessary machinery, and to carry into 
full effect the objects comprised in the said several 
letters patent granted to them respectively as 
aforesaid.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. . 

Ordered, That Captain Alsager do carry the Bill 
te the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 


Lordships. 


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The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 
intituled, An Act for providing a Market-place and 


13° Juliz. 


A. 1837. 


Market at the Village of Dowlais, in the Parish of 
Merthyr Tydfil, in the County of Glamorgan ; and 
the same were read, as follow : 

Pr. 3. 1. 5. Leave out “ King’s ” 
“ Queen’s.” 

Pr. 25. 1.33. Leave out “His” and insert “ Her.” 

Pr. 25. 1. 37. Leave out “ seventh ” and insert 
“ first.” 

Pr. 25. 1. 38. Leave out “ His” interlined, and 
insert “ Her ” and in 1. 38. leave out from “ Majesty ” 
to “ intituled” in ls. penult. and ult., and insert 
“ Queen Victoria.” 

Pr. 29. 1.20. Leave out “ His” and insert “ Her.” 

Pr. 35. 1. 29. After “thereof” insert Clause (A.) 

Cxiauss (A.) “ Provided always, and be it further 

Enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall 

extend, or be construed to extend, affect, prejudice, 

alter, diminish, abridge or take away any of the 
rights, tolls, privileges, franchises, powers, autho- 
rities, liberties or advantages whatsoever granted 
in or by a certain Act made and passed in the 
fifth year of the reign of his late Majesty King 
William the Fourth, intituled, ‘ An Act for pro- 
viding a Market-place, and regulating the Markets 
in the Town on Borough of Merthyr Tidvil, in 
the County of Glamorgan ;’ but that the same 
rights, tolls, privileges, franchises, powers, autho- 
rities, liberties and advantages whatsoever, shall 
and may be held, exercised and enjoyed in like 
manner to all intents and purposes as they could 
or might or ought to be held, exercised and en- 
joyed in case this Act had not been passed, except 
so far as the same may be affected by the Market 
hereby authorized to be established, and by the 
rights, tolls, privileges, franchises, powers, liberties 
and advantages hereby expressed to be given to 
the said John Josiah Guest, Wyndham Lewis and 

William Price, their heirs or assigns, or the owner 

or owners of the said Market hereby authorized 

for the time being.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Brotherton do carry the Bill 
to the Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


and insert 


intituled, An Act to contimue for certain purposes 
the Powers of two Acts for making and maintaining 
the Polloc and Govan Railway; and the same were 
read, as follow: 
Pr. 1. 1. 12. Leave out “ present” and insert 
“ late.” 
Pr. 2. 1. 20. Leave out “ King’s ” 
“ Queen’s.” 
Pr. 2 
Pr. 2 
Pr. 
Pr. 3. 
(A.) and (B.) 
CuiavuseE (A.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
if any bridge shall be erected by the said Com- 
pany for the purpose of carrying the said Railway 
over or across any turnpike-road, the span of the 
arch of such bridge shall be formed and shall at 
all times be and be continued of such width as to 
leave a clear and open space under every such 
arch of not less than Thirty feet, and of a height 
from the surface of such turnpike-road to the 
centre of such arch, of not less than Eighteen 
feet ; and if the said Railway shall be carried 
over any public or private carriage-road not being 
‘a turnpike-road, the span of the arch of such 
last-mentioned bridge shall be formed and shall 
at all times be and be continued of such width 
as to leave a clear and open space under every 
such arch of not less than Twenty-five feet, and 
of a height from the surface of such road to the 
“ centre 


and insert 


27. Leave out “ first two.” 
33. Leave out “ first two.” 
4. Leave out “ first two.” 


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The House proceeded to take into consideration Polloc and 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, — Railway 


Dundee 
Waterworks 


(No. 2.) Bill. 


Marquis of 
Bute’s Estate 
Bill. 


Sheriffs’ Fees 
Bill, 


Attornies and 


Solicitors Bill. 


1 VictoriIz. 


“ centre of such arch of not less than Sixteen feet, 
“and the descent under such bridge, in the case 
of a turnpike-road shall not exceed One foot in 
Thirty feet, and in the case of a public carriage- 
road shall not exceed One foot in Twenty feet, 
and in the case of a private carriage-road shall 
not exceed One foot in Fifteen feet.” 

Cuiauses (B.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
where any bridge shall be erected for carrying any 
turnpike-road or public carriage-road over the 
said Railway, the road over such bridge shall be 
formed and shall at all times be continued of 
such a width as to leave a clear and open space 
between the parapet walls or fences of such turn- 
pike-road of not less than Thirty feet, and for the 
purpose of any public or private carriage-road 
of not less than Twenty-five feet, and the ascent 
of every such bridge for the purpose of such 
turnpike-road shall not be more than One foot 
in Thirty feet, and in the case of a public car- 
riage-road not more than One foot in Twenty 
feet, and of a private carriage-road not more than 
One foot in Fifteen feet; and a good and suffi- 
cient parapet wall or fence shall be made on each 
side of every such bridge, which fence shall not 
be less than Four feet above the surface of such 
bridge.” 

Pr. 3. 1.11. Leave out from “ Railway ” to 
and” in 1. 16., and insert “ unless the said Com- 
pany shall, when it crosses any turnpike or other 
public carriage-road (with the exception of the 
turnpike-road after mentioned, leading from Gias- 
gow to Parkhouse), cause the same to be carried 
over or under the said Railway by means of a 
bridge or tunnel.” 

Pr. 3. 1. 21. After “ road ” insert “ leading from 
“ Glasgow to Parkhouse.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, ! 
were agreed to. 
Ordered, That Mr. Brotherton dc carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that tisis House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lordships. 


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Mr, Chalmers reported from the Committee on 
the Dundee Waterworks (No. 2.) Bill; That they 
had examined the allegations of the Bill, and found 
the same to be true; and had gone through the 
Bili, and made Amendments thereunto; and the 
Amendments were read, and agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be 
ingrossed ; and read the third time this day. 


The Marquis of Bute’s Estate Bill was, according 
to Order, read a second time ; and committed to Mr. 
Chalmers and the Wales and West Scotland Lists. 

Ordered, That the Committee have leave to sit 
and proceed, and to make their Report To-morrow. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendment made by the Lords to the Bill, in- 
tituled, An Act for better regulating the Fees pay- 
able to Sheriffs upon the Execution of Civil Process ; 
and the same was read, as followeth : 

Pr. 4. 1. 11. Leave out from “ made” to “ and” 
in |. penult. 

The said Amendment, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendment made by their Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, in- 
tituled, An Act for amending the several Acts for 
the regulation of Attornies and Solicitors; and the 
same were read, as follow: 

Pr. 1. 1. 25. After “ Acts” insert “ a body 
“ politic and corporate, by the name of.” 

Pr. 1. 1. 26. Leave out “ founded and esta- 
“ blished,” and insert “ constituted.” 


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Pr. 3. 1. 13. After “ said” insert “ body politic 
and corporate, called the.” 
Pr. 3. 1. 15. After “ respectively ” insert “ con- 
“ stituted and.” 
The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 
Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lordships. 


“ 


Ordered, That the Amendments made by the Theatres 
Lords to the Theatres Regulation Bill, be taken Regulation 
into consideration To-morrow ; and be printed. - 

0.514, 

A Petition of Inhabitants of Stanton-by-Dale Poor Law Act. 
and Dale Abbey, praying for the repeal of the Poor 
Law Act, was presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Killeen and Dunsany, Vote by Ballot. 
praying that the votes at all elections for Members 
to serve in Parliament be taken by ballot, was pre 
sented, and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Killeen and Dunsany, Municipal 
praying that the Municipal Corporations (Ireland) (Cirdend) Bill 

ill may pass into a law, was presented, and read ; : 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Eglish, praying the Government of 
House to support Her Majesty’s present Ministers Ireland. 
in their government of Ireland, was presented, and 
read; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Dr. Bowring reported, from the Select Committee Qojonial 
appointed to examine into the Accounts of Colonial Accounts. 
Receipt and Expenditure laid on the Table of this No.516. 
House, and to report to the House as to the mode 
in whicn it may be desirable to frame the same for 
the future, in order to introduce uniformity, regu- 
larity, correctness and completeness ; and who were 
instructed to report the Evidence only already taken 
before them to the House ; That they had proceeded 
in the matters to them referred, and had directed 
him to report the Minutes of the Evidence taken 
before them. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


The Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act to pro- Lords Justices 
vide for the Appointment of Lords Justices in the ¥i!- 
case of the next successor to the Crown being out 
of the realm at the time of the demise of Her Ma- 
jesty, was, according to Order, read the third time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the same, without Amendment. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Glasgow, 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, Paisley, - 
intituled, An Act for making and maintaining a RiijjWway Bill 
Railway from Glasgow to Greenock, by Paisley and , 
Port Glasgow, to be called “ The Glasgow, Paisley 
and G'reenock Railway ;” and the same were read ; 
as follow: 

Pr. 1. 1. 28. Leave out “ King’s’ 
“ Queen’s.”’ 

Pr. 6. 1. 33. After “ plans” insert “ and sec- 
“ tions,” and in the same line, after “ line’’ msert 
“ and levels.” 

Pr. 7. ls. 4. and 5. After “ Renfrew ” insert 
“and such plans and sections have been approved 
“ of by Parliament as the plans and sections ac- 
“ cording to which the Railway hereby authorized 
“‘ to be made shall be constructed.” 

Pr. 7. 1. 6. After “ plans ” insert “ sections.” 

Pr. 7. 1. 15. After “ plans ” insert “ sections.” 

Pr. 7. 1. 18. After “ plan ” insert “ section.” 

Pr. 7. 1. 26. After “ plans ” insert “ sections.” 

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Pr. 10. 1. 1. Leave out “or” and insert “and.” 

Pr. 10. 1.16. After “ obtained” insert “ Pro- 
“ vided also, That the said Company shall not 
deviate from the line laid down on the said plans 
in the parish of Kilbarchan, so as to interfere 
with the plantation belonging to William Napier, 
Esquire, and numbered $ on the said plans, with- 
out the consent in writing of the said William 
Napier, his heirs or assigns ;” and also insert 
Clauses (A.) and (B.) 

Crausz (A.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
in making the said Railway it shall not be lawful 
for the said Company to deviate from the levels 
of the said Railway as referred to the common 
datum line described on the section so approved 
of by Parliament, and as marked on the same, to 
any extent exceeding in any place Five feet, or, in 
passing through towns, Two feet, without the con- 
sent of the owners, lessees and occupiers of the 
land in, through or over which such deviation is 
intended to be made, or in case er public street 
or public carriage-road shall be affected by such 
deviation, then the same shall not be made with- 
out the consent of the trustees or commissioners, 
or, if there be no such trustees or commissioners, 
without the consent of Two or more Justices of 
the Peace in petty sessions assembled for that 
purpose, and acting for the district in which such 
street or public carriage-road may be situate, or 
without the consent of the commissioners for any 
public sewers, or of the proprietors of any canal 
or navigation affected by such deviation; and that 
no increase in the inclination or gradients of the 
said Railway, as denoted by the said section, shall 
be made in any place to an extent exceeding the 
rate of Three feet per mile; and where, in any 
place it is intended to carry the Railway on an 
arch or arches, as marked on the said plan or sec- 
tion, the same shall be made accordingly; and 
where a tunnel is marked on the said plan or sec- 
tion, as intended to be made at any place, the 
same shall be made accordingly, unless the owners, 
occupiers and lessees of the land in or through 
which such tunnel is intended to be made shall 
consent that the same shall not be so made: Pro- 
“ vided nevertheless, That it shall be lawful for the 
said Company, with such consent as aforesaid, and 
not otherwise, to make a tunnel, or an arch or 
arches as aforesaid, as marked on the said plan 
or section, so that no such tunnel shall be of greater 
length than Two hundred yards, and that no two 
tunnels be at a less distance from each other than 
One hundred yards, measured on the line of the 
Railway: Provided always, That notice of every 
petty sessions to be holden for the purpose of 
obtaining such consent as aforesaid, shall, Four- 
teen days previous to the holding of such petty 
sessions, be given in some newspaper circulating 
in the county, and also be affixed upon tie church 
door of the parish in which such deviation or 
alteration is intended to be made, or, if there be 
no church, some other places to which notices are 
usually affixed: Provided also, That for the pur- 
pose of consenting to any such deviation from the 
said sections, and to any tunnelling or arching as 
aforesaid, the word ‘ owners’ shall be deemed and 

aken to mean such persons as are herein capaci- 
tated to agree for the sale of, and to convey land for 
the making of the said Railway ; and the consent 
of such persons, with or without the consent of 
any other persons interested’ as owners in the 
said lands, shall be deemed and taken to be sufti- 
cient for such purposes.” 

Cravuse (B.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
it shall not be lawful to diminish the radius of any 
curve from what it is shown to be on the plan 
deposited with the Clerk of the Peace, unless such 
radius exceed One mile, nor to diminish it in any 
such case so that it shall become less than One 
mile, nor to diminish any greater radius by more 


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“ than a quarter of a mile, unless where it exceeds 
“ Two miles, or by more than half a mile, unless 
“ where it exceeds Three miles, on the said plan.” 

F Pr. 10. 1. 38. After “ property” insert Clause 
(C.) 

Criause (C.) “ And whereas the line of the said 
Railway is intended to pass through certain villa 
" property situated in the east parish of Greenock, 

aid down and numbered on the said plans as 
numbers 18 and 48, and described in the said books 
of reference as ‘ dwelling-house, offices, ground 
and gardens,’ extending to about two imperial 
acres, and belonging to James Hunter, Esquire, 
of Hafton, and is intended to be carried across 
the same, on a raised ground or archway, within 
a short distance of the said house; and whereas 
the said mansion house will thus be destroyed or 
greatly injured as a place of residence, and it is 
just and reasonable that the said Company should 
be required to purchase the whole of the said 
property; Be it therefore Enacted, That if the said 
Company shall carry the said Railway through 
or into the said lands, or take or acquire any part 
thereof for the purposes of the said Railway, they 
shall be bound, and are hereby required to pur- 
chase and pay for the whole of the said land, house 
and premises, the property of the said James 
Hunter, at such price or prices as may be fixed 
by a jury, to be summoned in manner provided 
by this Act, in case the parties cannot agree upon 
the amount thereof.” 

Pr. 15. 1. 37. After “ thereon ” insert “ Provided 
also, That the said Company shall not have power 
to alter or divert the line of the turnpike-road 
leading from Glasgow to Greenock, where the 
same passes through the parish of Erskine, with- 
out the consent in writing of the trustees of the 
said road, or of their clerk for the time being, first 
had and obtained.” 

Pr. 20. 1. 29. After “ canal ” insert “ and John 
* M‘Gee.” 

Pr. 20. 1. 36. After “ street” insert “ parallel 
“ to that street.” 

Pr. 21. 1.3. Leave out “ south ” and insert 
north.” 

Pr. 25. 1. 1. Leave out “ Provided always, and 
be it further,” and insert “ whereas the line of 
the said intended Railway passes for nearly Three 
miles through the estates of the Right honourable 
Lord Blantyre, in the parish of Erskine, and it 
is expedient that the said Railway should be 
carried through the same with as little detriment 
as possible ; Be it therefore.” 

Pr. 26. 1. 4. After “ line” insert “ from,” and 
in the same line leave out from “ same ” to “ all” 
in |. 7., and insert “ comes out at the western ex- 
“ tremity of the said part of the West Ferry Hill 
“ plantation, numbered %}, to the western extremity 
“ of his Lordship’s property.” 

Pr. 27. 1. 5. Leave out “ erect.” 

Pr. 27. 1. 7. After “ Railway ” insert “‘ complete 
“ the erection of.” 

Pr. 27. 1. 31. Leave out “ Lanark” and insert 
“ Renfrew.” 

Pr, 27. 1. 37. After “ finished ” insert “ and 
afterwards maintained.” 

Pr. 28. 1.11. Leave out “ excavation” and in- 
sert “ excavations.” 

Pr. 28. 1. 23. Leave out from “ successors ” to 
“ Provided ” in Pr. 29. 1. 19. 

Pr. 29. 1. 32. After “ aforesaid ” insert “ nor to 
“ make any shafts in the said tunnels, or either of 
* them, without the consent of the said Lord Blan- 
“ tyre, his heirs or assigns, first had and obtained.” 

Pr. 30. 1. 3. Leave out from “ thereof” to “and” 
in 1. 15., and insert “ and except to the south of the 
“ said line, at that part of the said estate of the 
“ said Lord Blantyre which lies between the west 
“ wall of the before-mentioned field, numbered 25 
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“ the said Ferry Hill plantation, and within the 
“« said last-mentioned part of the said estate, at 
“‘ such point or points only as the said Lord Blan- 
“ tyre shall direct, and at no greater distance than 
“* One hundred yards from the line of the said Rail-: 
way, and to no greater extent than Sixty thousand 
cubic yards in the whole, the ground from which 
such materials shall be dug or taken, to be sloped, 
dressed and maintained, according to the provisions 
of this Act hereinbefore contained in respect to 
the slopes of cuttings and embankments upon the 
property of the said Lord Blantyre.” 

Pr. 30. 1. 35. Leave out from “ Blantyre” to 
within ” in |. 38. 

‘ Pr. 31. 1.15. After “ Blantyre” insert Clause 
(D.) 

CuiauseE(D.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
“ the said Company shall, in addition to the bridges 
“ over the two private or occupation-roads to the 
east of Bishopton House, where the said Railway 
passes through the property of the said Lord 
Blantyre, provide a bridge under the said Rail- 
way where it may be most convenient for the said 
Lord Blantyre, his heirs or successors, in the 
field number 3 of the parliamentary plan (number 
7 of the private plan of the said Lord Blantyre’s 
estate), the said bridge to be Fourteen feet wide 
and Twelve feet high in the clear, and this without 
prejudice to all claims of the said Lord Blantyre, 
his heirs or successors, under the provisions of 
this Act, for such further accesses by bridges or 
otherwise, competent to him within the time 
limited by the said Act.” 

Pr. 31. 1. 24. Leave out from “ heritages” to 
to” in 1. 26. 

Pr. 31. 1. 27. Leave out from “lands” to“ which” 
in I, 29. 

Pr. 31. 1. 31. Leave out “ the” and insert 
“ such,” and in the same line leave out from “ es- 
“ tates” to “ which ” in 1. 32., and insert “ and.” 

Pr. 35. 1. 7. Leave out “ as far as may be prac- 
“ ticable.” 

Pr, 35. 1. 9. Leave out “ all” and insert “ such 
“&lt; parts of any” and in the same line, after “ public,” 
insert “ or private” and in ls. 9. and 10. leave out 
“ which they” and insert “as” and in 1. 10. leave 
out “ interfere” and insert “ be interfered” and 
also in 1. 10. leave out “ in” and insert “ by.” 

Pr. 35. 1.11. Leave out “ construction’ and 
insert “ works.” 

Pr. 35. 1.12. Leave out “ which they” and 
insert “ as” and in the same line leave out “ sub- 
“ stituted” and insert “ be substituted.” 

Pr. 35. 1.13. After “roads” insert “ during 
“ the continuance of such works.” 

Pr. 35. 1. 16. Leave out from “ road”’ to “ the,” 
in 1. 18. 

Pr. 49. 1. 36. Leave out “ present.” 

Pr. 52. 1. 25. After “ Railway” insert Clause 
(E.) 

Crause (E.) “ And whereas the corporation of 
the City of Glasgow are interested in the solum 
of the turnpike-road between Greenock and Ren- 
frew, and as creditors, or obligants to creditors 
upon the said road, and the said Railway Com- 
pany have agreed with the said corporation to pay 
them a sum of One thousand five hundred pounds 
and interest, as a solatum for any injury the form- 
ation of the said Railway may occasion to the 
said road and revenues thereon; Be it therefore 
Enacted, That the said Railway Company shal! 
be bound to pay to the magistrates and council 
of the said city, or their successors in office, the 
foresaid sum of One thousand five hundred 

ounds, as soon as the said Railway, or any part 
thereof, shall be opened for the use of the public, 
with interest on the said sum at the rate of Four 
per centum per annum, from the date of the pass- 
ing of the present Act until the said payment shall 
“ be made: Provided always, That the said cor- 

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poration shall, notwithstanding the said payment, 
continue entitled to be ranked upon the revenues 
of the said road, for the full amount of the debt 
and obligations due to or come under by them, 
undiminished by such payment.” 

Pr. 54. Is. 3. and 4. After “canal” insert “ and 
either.” 

Pr. 54. 1.8. After “ thereof” insert “ or on the 
bridges or walls belonging to the said Railway 
Company.” 

Pr. 54. 1. 26. After “which” insert “ works.” 

Pr. 58. 1. 4. After “ the” insert “ rail of the.” 

Pr. 59. 1. 32. Leave out “ present.” 

Pr. 59. 1.33. After “ Majesty” insert “ King 
William the Fourth.” 

Pr. 66. 1. 36. After “ otherwise ” insert “ at the 
option of the proprietor.” 

Pr. 66. |. ult. After “ county” insert “ in which 
the said lands may be situated.” 

Pr. 68. 1.20. After “ drains” insert “ supplies 
of water, watering-places.” 

Pr. 68. 1. ult. After “the ” insert “ neglect or.” 

Pr. 70. 1. 9. After “drains” insert “ supplies of 
water, watering-places.” 

Pr. 70. 1. penult. Leave out “or” and insert 
supplies of water, watering-places, and.” 

r. 71. 1. 18. After “drains” insert “ supplies 
of water, watering-places.”’ 

Pr. 71. 1. 33. After “ drains” insert “ supplies 
of water, watering-places.” 

Pr. 75. 1. 5. After “ the” insert “ said.’ 

Pr. 79. 1. 28. After “ sell” insert “ feu.” 

Pr. 84. 1. ult. Leave out “ His present,” and in-~ 
sert “ Her” and in the same line after “ Majesty ” 
insert “ Queen Victoria.” 

Pr. 103. 1.11. After “ hereby” insert “ respec- 
“ tively.” 

Pr. 103. 1.30. Leave out “‘ Twenty” and insert 
“ not more than Fifty, nor less than Thirty-six.” 

. Pr. 107. 1. 20. After “ aforesaid” insert Clause 
(F.) 

Cuavse (F.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
it shall be lawful for any of the parties, in any 
case where the matters aforesaid are ordered to be 
assessed and ascertained by the verdict of a jury, 
to apply to such sheriff as aforesaid to direct that 
the same shall be assessed and ascertained by a 
jury specially chosen from disinterested persons 
— to act as special jurors in Scotland, and 
the said sheriff shall thereupon cause to be re- 
turned to the clerk of such sheriff a list of Thirty- 
six persons qualified to be special jurors in Scot- 
land, and shall appoint a day for the —_— or 
their agents to appear before such sheriff clerk to 
reduce the number of such jury, and on the day 
appointed the parties or their agents shall ap- 
pear before such sheriff clerk, and, alternately be- 
ginning with the party who had originally applied 
to have the matters aforesaid assessed or ascer- 
tained by a special jury, strike off One from the 
said list until the number of jurymen is reduced 
to Twenty, which Twenty only shall be summoned 
to attend the said sheriff on the day appointed for 
the trial of the matter aforesaid; and if either of 
the parties or their agents shall fail to attend on 
the day appointed for reducing the number of 
jurymen, then the other party attending shall 

roceed to strike off One from the said list, and 
the sheriff clerk shall strike off One alternately till 
the list be reduced to Twenty as aforesaid ; and 
on the day appointed for trying the matters afore- 
said, the jury shall consist of such Thirteen of the 
said Twenty as shall firstappear, on thenames bein 
called over, all persons having their lawful chal- 
lenges or exceptions against any of the said jury- 
men; and where a full jury shall not appear, or 
shall not remain after such —— as afore- 
said, it shall be lawful to the said sheriff to add 
to the list of the jury the names of such other dis- 
interested persons qualified to act as special jury- 

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men in Scotland, who may then be attending the 

Court as may be necessary to make a jury of 
Thirteen, all parties having also their lawful 
challenges or exceptions against such persons; 
and the said sheriff shall and may proceed to the 
trial of the matters aforesaid with those persons 
who were originally inserted in such list of jurors, 
together with the persons added in manner afore- 
said, in the same manner as the said sheriff might 
and ought to have done if all the said persons 
whose names were inserted in the said original 
list had appeared to try the matters aforesaid ; 
and the said sheriff may order and authorise 
the said jury, or any Three or more of them, to 
view the land, place or premises in controversy ; 
and the verdict shall be returned by a majority of 
such Thirteen persons as aforesaid.” 

Pr. 113. 1, 20. Leave out “ on” 
under.’? 

Pr. 128. ls. 17. and 18. Leave out “ herein- 
before ” and insert “ herein.” 

Pr. 156. 1. 20. Leave out “ present” and in 
the same line after “ Majesty” insert “ King 
“ William the Fourth.” 

Pr. 156. 1. 31. Leave out “ His” and insert 
‘i, 

Pr. 157. 1.33. Leave out “ His” and insert 
Her.” 

Pr. 186. 1. ult. Fill up the blank with “ First.” 

Pr. 187. 1.2. Leave out “ His” and insert 
Her” and in the same line leave out from “ Ma- 
jesty ” to “ intituled,” in 1. 4., and insert “ Queen 
Victoria.” 

Pr. 195. 1. 5. After “ so” insert “ to be.” 

Pr. 197. 1. 16. 
date.” 

Pr. 285, 1.11. 

Pr. 286. 1. 11. 
or.” 

Pr. 295. 1. 14. Fill up the blank with “ First.” 

Pr, 295. 1.15. Leave out “ His” and insert 
Her.” 

Pr. 295. 1.16. Leave out from “ Majesty” to 
intituled,” in 1. 17., and insert “ Queen Vic- 
toria.” 

Pr. 295. 1. 35, Fillup the blank with “ First.” 

Pr. 295. 1.36. Leave out “ His” and insert 
Her” and in the same line leave out from “ Ma- 
jesty ” to “ intituled,” in 1. 37., and insert “Queen 
Victoria.” 

Pr. 296. 1. 31. After “ situated” insert “ and 
he is hereby required.” 

Pr, 296. 1. 34. Leave out from “ as” to “any” 
in 1, 36., and insert “ he shall think proper during 
“ the construction of the said Railway, or as the 
“ said Company or.” 

Pr. 296. 1. 37. Leave out “ of the said Com- 
pany,” and insert “ thereof may nominate to 

im. 

Pr. 297. 1. 37. Leave out “ sheriffs ” and insert 
during the construction of the said Railway, or 
afterwards for the said sheriff.” 

Pr. 298. 1. 8. After “cease” insert “ and every 
person so appointed by such sheriff as aforesaid 
shall, during such time as he shall act as con- 
stable for the purposes aforesaid, receive from the 
said Company such salary as the said sheriff shall 
approve of, and such salary shall be payable at 
such times and in such manner as the said sheriff 
shall appoint, and shall be recoverable in the 
same manner as damages to a small amount are 
by this Act directed to be recovered.” 

Pr, 303. 1. 2. After “always” insert “that when 
such persons shall be absent from Scotland, the 
said summons, demand, notice, writ or other pro- 
ceeding at law, or in equity or otherwise, shall 
also be served personally on the known factor or 
agent of such person, if any, to be delivered to 
some inmate at the last or usual place of abode of 
such factor or agent, and.” 


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Pr. 328. 1.15. Leave out “ present.” 

Pr. 328. 1. 16. After “ Majesty” insert “ King 
“ William the Fourth.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Attorney General do car 
Bill to the Lords ; and acquaint them, that this 
hath agreed to the neal 
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ments made by their Lord- 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 
intituled, An Act for establishing a Cemetery for the 
Interment of the Dead Westward of the Metropolis, 
by a Company to be called “ The West of London 
and Westminster Cemetery Company;” and the same 
were read, as follow : 

Pr. 1. 1. penult. Leave out “ King’s’ 
sert “ Queen’s.” 

Pr, 2. 1. 6. After “ that ” insert “the Reverend 
“ Abbiss Clerk.” 

Pr. 2. 1.11. After “ Evered” insert “ George 
“ Forsyth.” 

Pr. 2. 1. 14. Leave out “ Thomas Wakley,” and 
insert “ William Spencer.” 

Pr. 3. 1.15. After “ empowered ” insert “ with 
“ the consent of the owners and occupiers of the 
“ land hereinafter described.” 

Pr. 3. 1.17. Leave out from “ ground ” to 
and,” in 1. 22., and insert “ on all or any part of 
a certain piece of land belonging to or claimed 
by the Right honourable William Lord Kensington 
and the Equitable Gas Company, situate at Honey- 
lane, in the parish of Saint Mary Abbotts, Ken- 
sington, in the county of Middlesex, consisting of 
Forty acres, more or less, now in the occupation 
of John Shorter, or his under-tenants, bounded on 
the north-east by Honey-lane aforesaid, on the 
north-west by the new turnpike-road leading from 
Earl’s-court to Fulham, on the south-west partly 
by the towing-path of the Kensington Canal and 
partly by lands contracted to be purchased by 
the Kensington Canal Company from Robert 
Gunter, Esquire, and on the south-east by the 
Fulham road, and land of the Equitable Gas 
Company, or their under-tenants : Provided al- 
ways, That it shall not be lawful for the said 
Company to take or use any land for any other 
“ purpose than for the purposes of such Cemetery.” 

Pr. 9. 1.15. Leave out “ His” and insert “ Her” 
and in the same line leave out from “ Majesty ” to 
“ intituled,” in Is. 16. and 17., and insert “ om 
“ Victoria.” 

Pr. 14. 1. 33. Leave out “ His” and insert 
Her.” 

tg 19. 1. 9. After “ within” insert “ any part 
Oo hag 

Pr. 19. 1. 16. Leave out “ weekly bills of mor- 

tality,” and insert “ distance of Ten miles of the 
said county.” 
_ Pr. 19. 1. 23. Leave out from “the” to “ and” 
in |. 31., and insert “sum of Ten shillings; and 
“ also to every person at the time of passing this 
Act holding the office of clerk of the parish, or 
other ecclesiastical district or division of the parish 
from which such person shall be removed, the 
sum of One shilling.” 

Pr. 24. 1. 12. Leave out “at” and insert “ in 
the consecrated part of.” 

Pr. 25. 1.7. After “ Ireland” insert “ and that 
no persons shall celebrate the burial service ac- 
cording to such established usage, except in the 
consecrated part of the said Cemetery.” 

Pr. 26. 1. ult. Leave out “ His” and insert 
Her.” 

Pr. 28. 1. 2. Leave out “ any ” and insert “the.” 

Pr. 28. 1.4. Leave out from “in” to “ the” in 
1. 5., and in Is. 5. and 6. leave out from “ Mid- 
“ dlesex” to “for” in 1. 9., and insert “ herein- 


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Pr. 28. 1. 38. After “ situated” insert “ within 
“ Two hundred and fifty yards of a certain house 
“ called Colhern House, or of any house having 
“a plantation or ornamental garden or pleasure 
“* » round ocenpied therewith, between which house 
** and the said Cemetery any public road intervenes, 
*wa 

Pr. 28. 1. penult. After “ any” insert “ other.” 

Pr. 29. 1.4. Leave out from “ thereof” to “ and ” 
in Pr. 40. 1. 16. 

Pr. 40. 1.31. Leave out from “ Act” to “and” 
in Pr. 42. 1. 33., and insert “ Provided also, That it 
“ shall not be lawful to sell any lands which shall 
have been consecrated or used for the burial of 
“ the dead.” 

Pr. 46. 1.16. After “ possible” insert “ Pro- 
vided always, That in making such sewers the 
said Company shall not disturb any place in the 
said Cemetery, in which any person or persons 
shall have been interred.” 

Pr. 51. 1. 30. Leave out “ His” 

“ Her.” 

Pr. 51. 1. 31. Leave out “ King William the 
Fourth,” and insert “ Queen Victoria.” 

Pr. 55. 1. 4. Leave out “ His” and insert “ Her.” 

Pr. 57. 1. ult. Leave out “ His” and insert 
* Tee.” 

Pr. 79. 1. 20. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 82. 1. 4. After “ Byng ” insert “ Davis 
“ Boyley.” 

Pr, 82. 1.7. After “ Evered” insert “ George 
“ Forsyth.” 

Pr. 82. 1.9. Leave out from “ Baronet ” to 
and ” in 1. 10., and insert “ William Spencer.” 

Pr. 94. 1.21. Leave out “ Two” and insert 
* One,” and in the same line leave out “ months ” 
and insert “ month.” 

Pr. 103. 1. 20. Leave out “ Two” and insert 
“ One.” 

Pr. 103. 1. 21. Leave out “ months ” and insert 
month.” 

Pr. 103. 1. 27. Leave out “ His” and insert 
* Ber.” 

Pr. 107. 1. 33. Leave out “ Two” and insert 
“ One.” 

Pr. 107. 1. 34. Leave out “ months” and insert 
“ month.” 

Pr. 112. 1. 21. Leave out “ His” and insert 


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“ Her.” 
Pr. 116. 1.27. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 
Pr. 117. 1.10. Leave out “ His” and 
“ Her.” 
Pr, 127. 1. 35. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 
Pr. 128. 1. 3. Leave out from “ of” to “ inti- 
tuled,” in 1. 4., and insert “ Queen Victoria.” 
Pr. 128. 1. 16. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 
Pr. 128. 1. 22. Leave out from “ of” to “ inti- 
tuled,” in 1. 23., and insert “ Queen Victoria.” 
Pr. 129. 1. 17. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 
Pr. 129. 1. 21. Leave out from “ of” to “ inti- 
“ tuled,” in 1. 22., and insert “ Queen Victoria.” 


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Pr, 129. 1. 37. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“« Her.” 
Pr. 130. 1. 35. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 
Pr. 133. 1.3. Leave out “ His” and insert 
« ie.” 
Pr. 136. 1. 12. Leave out “ present” and insert 
“ late” and in the same line, after “ Majesty ” in- 
sert “ King William the Fourth.” 
The said Amendments, being read a second time, 


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635 


Ordered, That Mr. Harvey do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Blochaim 


the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 
intituled, An Act to make and maintain a Canal in 
the County of Lanark, from the Monkland Canal 
to the Lands of Dunchattan, on the North Side of 
Duke-street, of Glasgow ; and the same were read, 
as follow : 

Pr. 15. 1.3. After “ more” insert “ than Ten 
“« yards in towns, or more.” 

Pr. 15. 1. 4. After “ yards ” insert “in lands.” 

Pr. 15. 1. 6. Leave out from “ plans” to “ pro- 
“ vided,” in |. 11. 

Pr. 22. 1. 21. Leave out from “ preservation” 
to “and” in Pr. 23. 1. 31. . 

Pr. 46. Is. 6. and 7. After “ requisite” insert 
Clause (A.) 

Ciause (A.) “ Provided always, and be it 
‘ Enacted, That it shall not be lawful for the said 
“ Company to purchase, for any of the purposes 
lastly hereinbefore mentioned, more than Ten 
statute acres of land from any corporation, heir 
of entail, life-renter, husband, tutor or curator, or 
other guardian, judicial factor or trustee for chari- 
table or other purposes, or any executor or admi- 
nistrator, or any infant, minor, issue unborn, 
bankrupt, lunatic, idiot, married woman or other 
person being under legal disability or incapacity, 
and who would not be enabled to sell or convey 
the said lands, except under the powers of this 
Act; and in case the said Company shall pur- 
chase such Ten statute acres from any person or 
corporation, under such legal disability or inca- 
pacity as aforesaid, and shall afterwards sell the 
whole, or any part of such Ten statute acres so 
purchased, it shall not be lawful for the said Com- 
pany to purchase of or from the same, or of or 
from any other person or corporation, being under 
legal disability or incapacity, nor for the same, 
nor for any other person or corporation, being 
under legal disability or incapacity, to sell to the 
said Company any other lands in lieu of such Ten 
statute acres of land, or any part thereof so sold 
or disposed of by the said Company.” 

Pr. 60. 1. 36. After “ canal ” insert “ and for 
the Company of proprietors of the Monkland 
navigation, and their officers and servants, when 
and as often as they shall think proper, to run off 
“ the water from the Monkland Canal for the pur- 
pose of repairing the same, or any part thereof, 
or for any other purpose whatsoever relating to 
the said canal.” 

Pr. 60. 1. 37. After “ notice” insert “ to the 
said Dunchattan Canal Company, or.” 

Pr, 63. 1. 32. After “ itself” insert “the supply 
“ to be furnished by the said Monkland Canal Com- 
pany to the said intended canal, being strictly 
limited to any surplus water beyond what is suffi- 
cient for their own purposes, which may be in the 
said Monkland canal from time to time.” 

Pr. 64. 1. 31. After “ servitudes ” insert “ or to 
alter or affect any rights of property of or in the 
surplus water flowing from time to time through 
“ the Monkland Canal.” 

Pr. 64, 1. 33. Leave out “ or” and insert “ of.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Alexander Denistoun do carry 
the Bill to the Lords ; and acquaint them, that this 
House hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


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Lords to the Tithes Commutation Bill be taken into «tion Bill. 


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StandingOrders The House, according to Order, proceeded to take 
Revision. into consideration the Report which, upon the 7th 
No.6515. day of this instant July, was made from the Select 
Committee appointed to consider the Standing 
Orders on Private Bills:—And the Resolutions of 
the Committee being read a second time, were, with 
several Amendments, agreed to by the House, as 

follow : 


STANDING ORDERS : 


Regulating the Practice of The House with regard 
to Private Bits. 


I. 
Petitions,when That all Petitions for Private Bills, be presented 
tobe presented. within Fourteen days after the First Friday in 
every Session of Parliament. 


II. 
How to be That né Private Bill be brought into This House, 
signed, but upon a Petition first presented, truly stating the 
case ; at the peril of the Parties preferring the same : 
And that ou Petition be signed by the Parties, or 
some of them, who are Suitors for such Bill. 


III. 


No Petition That this House will not receive any Petitions on 
complainingof Private Bills, referring solely to the compliance or 
Standing Orders . 2 " - 

—subsequent to 2ON-compliance with the Standing Orders of The 


Second Read- House, subsequently to the Second Reading of the 


ing of Bills. —_ Bills to which they respectively relate, unless in the 
case of those Standing Orders which must neces- 
sarily be taken into consideration by the Committee 
on the Bill. 
IV. 
Standing That a Committee be appointed at the commence- 
on ment of every Session, consisting of Fifteen Mem- 
bers, of whom Five shall be a Quorum, to be deno- 
minated, “ The Select Committee on Standing 
“ Orders.” 
V. 
Select Com- That a Select Committee, consisting of Forty-two 
mittee to ine ,. Members, (not being Members of the Select Com- 
+ —caeaper mittee on Standing Orders,) of whom Five shall 
Standing be a Quorum, be appointed at the commencement 
Orders. of every Session, to which shall be referred all Peti- 
tions for Private Bills; and such Committee shall 
be denominated “ The Select Committee on Petitions 
“ for Private Bills.” . 
2. That all Petitions applying for leave to dis- 
em with any of the Sessional Orders of the 
ouse relating to Private Bills, be referred to the 
said Committee, and that they do report to the 
House whether such Orders ought or ought not to 
be dispensed with. 
Sub-Com- 3. That the said Committee have leave to divide 


mittees. themselves into Sub-committees, consisting of Seven 
Members at the least, and to make regulations for 
the transaction of business. 


ompliance 4. That before such Sub-Committee the compli- 

bors Stunding ance with the Standing Orders shall be proved, and 
rders to be : 5 “ 

proved before @ny parties shall be at liberty to appear and be 

Sub-Com- heard, by themselves, their agents and witnesses, 

ne upon any Petition which may be referred to the 

Committee complaining of a non-compliance with 

the S:anding Orders, provided the matter complained 

of be specifically stated in such Petition, and that 

such Petition be presented Three clear days before 


the meeting of such Sub-committee. 
Sub-Committee 5. That when such Sub-Committee shall report 
to report facts to the House that the Standing Orders have not 
when Standing b : ° 5 f; 
Orders have | been complied with, they do report the facts upon 
not been com- which their decision is founded, and any special cir- 


plied with. cumstances connected with the case. 
6. That the Select Committee on Standing Orders 


Compliance 


Standing Orders 


Committeeto shall thereupon determine whether the Standing 
Orders ought or ought not to be dispensed with, and 
do report the same to The House accordingly. 


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A. 1837. 


7. That there be Ten clear days between the day Interval be. 
on which the Petition for any Private Bill relating tween presen- 
to England shall be presented, and the day on ane a 
which the Sub-Committee shall sit thereupon; ing of Sub. — 
and Fifteen days in case such Bill shall relate to Commitee. 
Scotland or Ireland. 

8. That no Committee on Private Bills shall have Committee on 
Power to examine into the compliance or non-com- — not to 
pliance with such Standing Orders as are directed Stee 
to be proved before the Select Committee on Peti- Orders, unless 
tions for Private Bills, unless by the special direc- specially di- 
tion of The House. Te 

Vi. 


That all Private Bills, except Naturalization and What Bills to 
Name Bills, be printed; and printed copies thereof b¢ printed, and 
delivered to the door-keepers for the use of the “"” 
Members before the First Reading. 


1. That a Bill printed on paper, of a size to be Printed Bill to 
determined upon by Mr. Speaker, be presented to be presented. 
The House, with a Cover of Parchment attached 
to it, upon which the Title of the Bill is to be writ- 
ten; and the short Title of the Bill, as first en- 
tered on the Votes, shall be in accordance with the 
subject matter of the Bill, and shall not be changed 
unless by special vote of The House. 


2. That Five Copies of the Bill, printed on paper Printed Copies 
of the same size, and interleaved with blank paper, a —— in 
be deposited at the Private Bill Office, for the use Ofice, 


of the Committee on the Bill, and for the Report. 


3. That the proposed amount of all Rates, Tolls, Rates, Tolls and 
and other matters heretofore left blank in Private ether Matters 
Bills when presented to The House, be inserted in ;° — 
Italics in the printed Bills. 


vil 


That there be Three clear days between the First Time between 
and Second Reading of all Private Bills First and Se- 
cond Reading. 


Vill. 


That no Private Bill be read a Second time until Second Read- 
after the expiration of Two calendar months from ing. 
the day the last Notice shall have been given in the 


Newspaper. 
IX. 


That no Bill or Clause for the particular interest when Fees to 
or benefit of any Person or Persons, County or be paid. 
Counties, Corporation or Corporations, or Body or 
Bodies of People, be read a Second time, unless Fees 
be paid for the same. 


X. 


That there be Seven clear days between the when Con- 
Second Reading of every Private Bill, and _ the mittee to sit. 
sitting of the Committee thereupon. 


XI. 


That no Petition against a Private Bill be referred Petition against 
to the Committee on such Bill, which shall not Pil! 
distinctly — the ground on which the Peti- 
tioner or Petitioners object to any of the pro- 
visions thereof; and that the Petitioners be onl 
heard on such grounds so stated; and if it shall 
appear to the said Committee that such grounds are 
not specified with sufficient accuracy, the Committee 
may direct that there be given in to the Committee 
a more specific Statement, in writing, and limited to 
such grounds of Objection so inaccurately specified. 


XII. 


That after any Committee on a Private Bill shall Members may 
have been formed, no Members shall be added rd ee wg 
thereto, except upon special application to The gpon special 
House. application. 


XIII. 


That Five Members be the number to Con- Quorum of 
stitute a Committee on a Bill; and that the Names Commies: 
of the Members attending each Committee be 
entered by the Clerk on the Minutes of the Com- 
mittee; and if any Division shall take place in the 
Committee, 


Committee Bill 
and Clauses. 


Piau to be 
signed. 


Certified Plan 
to be verified, 


Report of 
Committee. 


Minutes of 
Committee. 


Consideration 
of Report of 
certain Bills, 


Bill to be 
printed after 
Teported, 


Affidavits, 
Consents and 
Notices, 


Scotland, 


Treland. 





1 Vicroriz. 


Committee, the Clerk do take down the Names of 
Members voting in any such division, distinguishing 
on which side of the Question they respectively vote, 
and that such Lists be given in with the Report to 
The House. 

XIV. 

That the Chairman of the Committee do sign, 
with his Name at length, a printed Copy of the Bill 
(to be called the Committee Bill) on which the 
Amendments are to be fairly written ; and also sign, 
with the Initials of his Name, the several Clauses 
added in the Committee. 


XV. 

That every Plan, and Book of Reference thereto, 
which shall be produced before the Committee upon 
any Private Bill (whether the same shall have been 
previously lodged in the Private Bill Office, or not,) 
shall be signed by the Chairman of such Committee 
with his Name at length; and he shall also mark 
with the Initials of his Name every Alteration of 
such Plan and Book of Reference, which shall be 
agreed upon by the said Committee; and — such 
Plan and Book of Reference shall thereafter be 
deposited in the Private Bill Office. 


XVI. 

That every Plan and Book of Reference thereto, 
which shall be certified by The Speaker of the 
House of Commons, in pursuance of any Act of 
Parliament, shall previously be ascertained, and 
verified in such manner as shall be deemed most 
advisable hy The Speaker, to be exactly conformable 
in all respects to the Plan and Book of Reference 
which shall have been signed by the Chairman of 
the Committee upon the Bill. 


XVII. 


That the Chairman of the Committee, upon the 
Report of every Private Bill, do acquaint The House, 
that the Allegations of the Bill have been exa- 
mined; and whether the Parties concerned have 
given their Consent, (where such Consent is re- 
quired by the Standing Orders,) to the satisfaction 
of the Committee. 


XVIII. 


That the Minutes of the Committee, on every 
Private Bill, be brought up and laid on the Table 
of The House, with the Report of the Bill. 


XIX. 

That there be Seven clear days between the day 
on which every Bill within the Standing Orders 
included within the second class is reported, and 
the day when the Report shall be taken into con- 
sideration. 

XX. 

That every such Bill, as amended by the Com- 
mittee, be printed, at the expense of the Parties 
applying for the same; and be delivered to the 
door-keepers for the use of the Members, Three 
clear days at least before such Report shall be taken 
jnto consideration. 


XXI. 
That the Committee to whom any Petitition or 


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Private Bill relating to Scotland shall be referred, 
may admit proof of the compliance with the Stand- | 
ing Orders of this House, and of the Consents 
of Parties concerned in interest in such Private 
Bill, on the production of Affidavits sworn before 
any Sheriff Depute or his Substitute there, whose 
Certificate shall be admitted as evidence of such 
proof having been made, unless the Committee shall 
require further evidence. 


XXII. 

That the Committee to whom any Petition or 
Private Bill relating to Jreland shall be referred, 
may admit proof of the compliance with the Stand-] 
ing Orders of this House, and of the consents of 





Vout. 92. 





637 


Parties concerned in interest in such Private Bill, 
on the production of Affidavits sworn before any 
Assistant Barrister of that part of the United King- 
dom, whose Certificate shall be admitted as evidence 
of such proof having been made, unless the Com- 
mittee shall require further evidence. 


XXIII. 


That in all other instances, the Committee to Consents in al. 
whom any Petition or Private Bill shall be referred, °"** °*** 
may admit proof of the consents of Parties con- 
cerned in interest in such Private Bill, on the 
production of Certificates in writing of such Parties, 
whose Signature to such Certificate shall be proved 
by one or more Witnesses, unless the Committee 
shall require further evidence. 


XXIV. 


That a Committee be appointed, to be called Appointment 
“The Committee of Appeals upon Private Bills ;” of Committee 
which Committee shall consist of all the Knights pete, 
of the Shire, all the Members for Cities, and such Bills. 
other Members as may be named therein, so that 
the whole number appointed to serve upon such 


Committee shall amount to Two hundred at least. 


XXV. 


That where any Party interested in a Private Parties dissa- 
Bill, who shall have appeared in support of his tisfied with Vote 
Petition, by himself, his counsel or agent, in the on eng’ Bill in 
Committee upon such Bill, or where the Promoters which they are 
of a Private Bill shall be dissatisfied with any interested, may 
Vote of the Committee upon such Bill, and shall a oo by 
petition the House, setting forth the particular Vote a Select Com- 
or Votes objected to, and praying that they may mittee of Ap- 
be heard, by themselves, their counsel or agent, ~ 
against such Vote or Votes, the House shall, if they 
so think fit, refer such Petition, together with the 
Report of the Committee upon the Bill, and the 
Minutes and Evidence taken before such Committee, 
to a Select Committee of Seven Members of the 
House, to be chosen by Ballot from the Committee 
of Appeals upon Private Bills, which Select Com- 
mittee shall hear the arguments of the Parties com- 

— of, and also of. the Parties supporting, such 

ote or Votes, and shall report their opmion thereon 

to the House. 


XXVI. 


That before any Petition praying for a Com- Sureties to be 

mittee of Appeal shall be presented to the House, siven for Pay- 
the Petitioner, or one of the Petitioners, in case i 
there be more than one, shall enter into a Bond 
or Obligation to the Agent or Agents, or some 
person named for that purpose by the Agent or 
Agents of the opposite Party or Parties, in the penal 
sum of Five hundred pounds, and with two sufticient 
Sureties in the penal sum of Two hundred and fifty 
pounds each, conditional, to be void in case the said 
Petitioner or Petitioners shall duly pay all Costs, 
Charges and Expenses of the Party or Parties who 
shall appear before the House, and any Committee, 
in opposition to such Petition (such Costs, Charges 
and Expenses to be found and assessed by the 
Clerk, or one of the Clerks Assistant of this House,) 
in case the said Select Committee shall report to 
the House that the said Petition appeared to them 
to be frivolous and vexatious. 


XXVII. 


That the sufficiency of the Sureties, and of the Sufficiency of 
form of the Bond, shall be examined into and de- pesca be 
termined by the Clerk, or one of the Clerks Assistant ne 
of this House; and that the Names, together with 
the additions and usual Places of Residence, of the 
Persons who are proposed as such Sureties, be de- 
livered in writing by the Agent for the Petitioner 
or Petitioners, to the Agent for the opposite Party 
or Parties, One clear day before such Bond or Obhi- 
gation shall be entered into. 

4M 3 That 











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PTT 


XS: 


Manner of 
choosing Select 
Committee of 
ag to 
whom Petition 
referred ; and 
Order of Pro- 
ceeding. 


No Member to 
absent himself 
from Committee 
without leave 
of The House. 


Notices of 
Application. 


638 13° Julia. A. 1837. 


XXVIII. 

That whenever any such Petition shall have been 
referred to such Select Committee, the House shall 
fix a day whereon to ballot for a Select Com- 
mittee ; upon which day, at a quarter past four of 
the clock, or as near thereto as the Question which 
may be then before the House will permit, the 
Speaker shall order the doors of the House to be 
locked: and the Names of the Members com- 
posing the Committee of Appeals upon Private Bills 

eing written upon separate pieces of paper, and 
put into the glass, the Clerk shall draw therefrom 
the Names, until Seven Members of such Commit- 
tee, who shall be then present, and who shall not 
have voted at the Committee upon the Private Bill 
to which the Petition refers, or shall not be excused 
by the House, shall have answered to their Names ; 
which Seven Members shall be the Select Commit- 
tee to which such Petition shal! be referred ; and 
such Select Committee shall meet for business the 
following day at eleven of the clock, and continue 
to sit, de die in diem, until they have reported upon 
the same ; and that only one Counsel or Agent shall 
be heard in support of any one Party. 


XXIX. 


That no Member of the said Select Committee 
shall be allowed to absent himself from the same 
without leave obtained from The House, or an 
excuse allowed by The House at the next Sitting 
thereof, on special cause shown; and the said Select 
Committee shall never sit until all the Members 
to whom such leave has not been granted, nor ex- 
cuse allowed, are met; and in case they shall not 
all meet within one hour after the time to which the 
said Select Committee shall have been adjourned, a 
further adjournment shall be made in the manner as 
before directed, and reported, with the cause thereof, 
to The House. 





GENERAL STANDING ORDERS, 


Compliance with which must be proved before 
Committee on Petitions. 


I. 

That Notices shall be given in all cases where 
Application is intended to be made for leave to 
bring in a Bill included in any of the following 
classes :-— 

ist Class. 

Bills for Inclosing, Draining or Improving 
Lands ; 

Making or Altering a Burial Ground ; 

Building, Enlarging, Repairing or Maintaining 
a Church or Chapel ; 

Paving, Lighting, Watching, Cleansing or Im- 
proving Cities or Towns ; 

Erecting, Improving, Repairing, Maintaining 
or Regulating Town Halls, Market-places or 
Markets ; 

Constituting any Local Court ; 

The Payment of any Stipendiary Magistrate or 
other Public Officer ; 

Bills relating to Poor Rates, or the Maintenance 
or Employment of the Poor. 

2d Class. 

Bills for making, varying, extending or enlarg- 
ing any Public Works, such as Bridges, 
Turnpike Roads, Cuts, Canals, Reservoirs, 
Aqueducts, Waterworks, Navigations, Tun- 
nels, Archways, Railways, Piers, Ports, 
Harbours, Ferries and Docks. 

3d. Class. 

Bills relating to County Rates, Gaols or Houses 
of Correction, or for confirming or prolonging 
the term of Letters Patent, or Bills to con- 
tinue or amend any former Act passed for 
any of the purposes included in this or the 
two preceding Classes, where no extension 
of time or power to take Land is required. 








II. 

That such Notices shall be published in Three Notices to be 
successive weeks in the months of October and Published. 
November, or either of them, (and in the case of 
Railway Bills, twice in the month of February and 
twice in the month of March,) immediately preced- 
ing the Session of Parliament in which Application 
for the Bill to which such Notices relate is intended 
to be made, in the London, Edinburgh or Dublin 
Gazette, and in some one and the same Newspaper 
of the County in which the City, Town or Lands to 
which such Bill relates shall be situate, or, if there 
isno Newspaper published therein, then in the News- 
paper of some County adjoining or near thereto. 

Ill. 

That if it be the intention of the Parties applying Intention to 
for leave to bring in any Bill, to levy any Tolls, ;¢*¥ 0 alter 
Rates or Duties, or to increase, diminish or alter Soe - 
any existing Tolls, Rates or Duties, the Notices shall 
specify such intention. 

IV 


That before any application is made to The House Application to 
for a Bill by which any Lands or Houses are intended Owners, &amp;c. 
to be taken, application in writing be made to the 

Owners or reputed Owners, Lessees or reputed Les- 

sees, and Occupiers, either by delivering the same to 

such Owners or reputed Owners, Lessees or reputed 

Lessees and Occupiers, personally, or by sending the 

same by the Post to their usual Place of Abode in the 

United Kingdom, or, in their absence, to their Agents 
respectively, and that such Applications shall be made 

on or before the 31st day of Sane, in the year 
immediately preceding that in which the application 

for a Bill is intended to be made ; and that separate 

Lists be made of the Names of such Owners, Lessees 

and Occupiers, distinguishing which of them have 
assented, dissented or are neuter in respect thereto. 


Vs 
Further Order with regard to Bills of the 1st Class : 


That Notices shall also be affixed to the Church- notices on 
doors of every Parish to which they specially relate, Chuch-doors. 
for Three successive Sundays in the said months of 
October and November, or either of them. 


VI. 
Further Orders with regard to Bills of the 2d Class : 


1. That all Notices shall contain the Names of the Notices to 
Parishes and Townships from, in, through or into contain — 
which any such Public Work is intended to be made, Parishes &amp;: 
varied, extended or enlarged, and shall state the 
time and place of deposit of the Plans, Sections and 
Books of Reference. 

2. That duplicate Plans, on a scale of not less Plans, &amp;c. 
than Four Inches to a Mile, exhibiting thereon with Clerk of 
the height of the several Embankments, and the “° — 
depth of the several Cuttings respectively, on a 
scale specified thereon, (see Fig. 1.), with Sections as 
hereinafter described, be deposited for public inspec- 
tion at the office of the Clerk of the Peace for every 
County, Riding or Division in England or Ireland, 
and in the office of the Principal Sheriff Clerk of 
every County in Scotland, in or through which 
such Public Work is proposed to be made, varied, 
extended or enlarged, on or before the 30th day of 
November, (and in the case of Bills relating to Rail- 
ways on or before the 1st day of March) immediately 
preceding the Session of Parliament in which such 
Application is intended to be made; which Plans 
shall describe the line or situation of the whole of 
such Public Work, and the Lands in or through 
which it is to be made, varied, extended or enlarged, 
or through which every communication to or from 
such Public Work shall be made, together with a 
Book of Reference containing the Names of the 
Owners or reputed Owners, Lessees or reputed 
Lessees and Occupiers, of such Lands respectively. 

3. That each Section shall be drawn to the same geale of 
horizontal scale as the Plan, and to a vertical scale Section. 
of not less than One inch to every One hundred feet, 
and shall show the surface of the ground marked 
on 








foe on ol 


- 


Lands within 
Deviaton, to 
de on Plan. 


Buildings, &amp;c. 
on enlarged 
Scale. 


Clerks of Peace 
to indorse a 
Memorial on 
Plans, &amp;c. 


Inspection and 
Fee, 


Plan and Sec- 
tion with Parish 
Clerk, &amp;c. 


Time for 
Deposit in 
Private Bill 
Office. 


Estimate and 
Subscription 
Contracts. 


To contain 

Christian and 

Surnames of 
arties, 


1 Vicroriz. 


onthe Plan, and a datum horizontal line, which shall 
be the same throughout the whole length of the 
Railway, or any Branch thereof respectively, and 
shall be referred to some fixed point (stated in writing 
on the Section) near either of the Termini. (See 
Line D. D., Fig. 2.) 

4. That where it is the intention of the parties to 
apply for powers to make any lateral deviation from 
the line of any proposed Public Work, all Lands 
included within the limits of such deviation shall 
be marked upon the Plan; and that in all cases an 
additional Plan of any Building, Yard, Court-yard 
or Land within the curtilage of any Building, or 
of any Ground cultivated as a Garden, either on 
the original line or included within the limits of 
the said deviation shall be laid down upon a scale of 
not less than a quarter of an inch to every One hun- 
dred feet. (See Fig. 3.) 

5. That the Clerks of the Peace or Sheriff 
Clerks, or their respective Deputies, do make a 
Memorial in writing upon the Plans, Sections and 
Book of Reference so deposited with them, denoting 
the time at which the same were lodged in their 
respective offices, and do at all seasonable hours of 
the day permit any person to view and examine one 
of the same, and to make copies or extracts there- 
from, such person paying the sum of One shilling 
for every such inspection, and the further sum of 
One shilling for every hour during which such in- 
spection shall continue after the first hour; provided 
that one of the two Plans and Sections so deposited 
be sealed up and retained in the possession of the 
Clerk of the Peace or Sheriff Clerk until called for 
by order of one of the two Houses of Parliament. 

6. That on or before the 31st day of December 
in each year (and on or before the ist day of 
April, in cases of Railway Bills where the pre- 
vious deposits with the Clerks of the Peace or 
Sheriff-Clerks are required on the 1st day of March), 
a copy, of so much of the said Plans as relates to 
each Parish in or through which any Public Work 
is intended to be made, varied, extended or enlarged 
(see Fig. 5.) together with a Book of Reference 
thereto, shall be deposited with the Parish Clerk of 
each such Parish in England, the Schoolmaster of 
each such Parish in Scotland (or in Royal Burghs 
with the Town Clerk), and the Postmaster of the 
Post Town in or nearest to such Parish in Jreland, 
for the inspection of all persons concerned, at all 
seasonable hours of the day, such person paying for 
each inspection the sum of One shilling. 

7. That on or before the 31st day of December 
in each year (and on or before the 1st day of April 
in cases of Railway Bills where the previous deposits 
with the Clerks of the Peace or Sheriff-Clerks are 
required on the 1st day of March), a copy of the said 
Plans, Sections and Books ofReference shall be de- 
posited in the Private Bill Office of this House. 

8. That an Estimate of the Expense be made 
and signed by the person making the same, and 
that a Subscription be entered into under a Con- 
tract made as hereinafter described to three-fourths 
the amount of the Estimate, provided that in all 
cases where any Public Work is to be made out 
of the Funds in the hands of Directors, Trustees 
or Commissioners, as the case may be, of any exist- 
ing Public Work, a Declaration to that effect, under 
the common seal of the Company, or under the hand 
of some authorized Officer of such Directors, Trustees 
or Commissioners, may be substituted in lieu of such 
Subscription Contract. 

9. That all Subscription Contracts shall contain 
the Christian and Surnames, Description and Place 
of Abode of every Subscriber, his Signature to 
the amount of his Subscription, and the name of 
the Party witnessing such Signature, and the date 
of the same respectively ; and that it be proved, to 
the satisfaction of the Committee on Petitions, that 
a sum equal to one-tenth part of the amount sub- 
—- be paid up and deposited in the Bank of 

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639 


England, or in any Bank in Scotland, incorporated 
by Act of Parliament, or by Royal Charter, if the 
Bill relate to Scotland, or invested in some Govern- 
ment security in the names of the Clerk of the 
House of Commons for the time being, and of an 

two persons named by the Promoters of the Bill, 
the said sum or securities so to remain until the Bill 
has either passed or been rejected by this House, or 
been withdrawn by the parties; and when the said 
Bill shall have passed this House, or been rejected 
ty this House, or been withdrawn by the parties, the 

lerk of this House and the said Trustees shall pay 
over or transfer such sum of money or securities to 
some person or persons named for the purpose of 
receiving the same by the parties making the de- 
posit or investment at the time of their making such 
deposit or investment. 

A Motion was made, and the Question being pro- 
posed, That no Subscription Contract shall be valid 
unless it be entered into subsequent to the close of 
the Session of Parliament previous to that in which 
application is made for leave to bring in the Bill to 
which it relates, and unless the Parties subscribing 
to it bind themselves, their Executors, Adminis- 
trators and Assigns, for the payment of the Money 
so subscribed ; 

An Amendment was proposed to be made to the 
Question, by adding at the end thereof, the words 
“ Provided that, upon parties renewing in the 
“ next Session any application to Parliament in 
“ respect of any Railway, a Bill for which may 
“ have passed this House during the present Session, 

“ no other Subscription Deposit or Contract shall 
“ be required than was necessary during the present 
“ Session, provided such Contract shall authorize 
“ such renewed application.” 

And the Question being proposed, That those 
words be there added :—The said proposed Amend- 
ment was, with leave of the House, withdrawn. 

10. That no Subscription Contract shall be valid Not valid, 
unless it be entered into subsequent to the close of wless entered | 
the Session of Parliament previous to that in which to close a 
application is made for leave to bring in the Bill vious Session, 
to which it relates, and unless the Parties sub- 
scribing to it bind themselves, their Executors, 
Administrators and Assigns, for the payment of the 
Money so subscribed. 

11. That, previous to the presentation of a Subscription 
Petition for any Private Bill included in the Contract to be 

: ae printed at 
Second Class, copies of the Subscription Contract Expense of 
be printed at the expense of the Promoters of the Promoters of 
Bill, and be delivered at the Vote Office for the use *!! 
of the Members of The House. 

12. That, before any application is made to The Application to 
House for a Bill to vary any Public Work autho- 0° mate fo 
rized by any former Act, notice in writing of such Bill when the Bill is 
be given to the Owners or reputed Owners and Occu- te abridge the 
sae of the Lands in which the part of the said Public pyr" que, 

ork intended to be thereby relinquished is situate. 





Vil. 
To be proved before the Committee on the Bill. 


1. That, in all Bills presented to the House for car Clause co mpel- 
rying on any Work by means of a Company, Com- Ane Pay ~m # 
missioners or Trustees, provision be made for com- and to gg 
pelling Persons who have subscribed any Money Security from 
towards carrying any such Work into execution, Tess"ers, &amp;. 
to make payment of the Sums severally subscribed 
by them, and also to oblige the Company, Com- 
missioners or Trustees to take Security from their 
Treasurer, Receiver or Collector for the faithful exe- 
cution of his office. 

2. That, where the level of any Road shall be Level of Roads. 
altered in —s any Public Work, the ascent 
of any Turnpike Road shall not be more than one 
foot in Thirty feet; and of any other public Carriage 
Road not more than one foot in Twenty feet; and 
that a good and sufficient fence, of four feet high 
at the least, shall be made on each side of every 
Bridge which shall be erected. 


4m4 SPECIAL 





Sarees 





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640 


SPECIAL STANDING ORDERS 


To be observed, in addition to the GENERAL STanpD- 
iNG ORDERS, in the following Bills :— 


IncLosurE Bi.ts. 
To be proved before the Committee on the Bill. 


I. 


That the Committee to whom any Petition or 
Bill for inclosing Lands, or for extinguishing any 
Right of Common thereon, shall be referred, may 
admit proof of the Notices required by the Standing 
Orders, and of the Allegations in the Preamble 
of such Bill, by Affidavit taken and authenticated, 
according to the form prescribed in the Sche- 
dule to the General Inclosure Act (41 Geo. 3. 
c. 109); unless such Committee shall otherwise 


Notices aud 
Allegations. 





Inclosures. 


General 
Inclosure Act. 


order. 
II. 
oa for That in all Bills for inclosing Commons or Waste 
eaving * ee 
open Space. Lands provision be made for leaving an open space 


sufficient for purposes of exercise and_ recreation 
of the neighbourmg population; and that in | 
case where such provision is not made in the Bill, 
the Committee on the same be required specially 
to report to the House the reasons for not complying 
with such Order. 


Ill. 


Names of Com- 
missioners and 
Compensations 
for Manorial 
Rights, Tithes, 
and Enfran- 
chisements, 


the Manor, and the Owners of Tithes, in lieu of 
their respective Rights, and also the Compensation 
intended to be made for the enfranchisement of 
Copyholds, where any Bargains or Agreements 
have been made for such Compensations, be in- 
serted in the Copy of the Bill presented to the 
House: and that all Copies of such Bills, whether 
printed or written, which shall be sent to any of the 
Persons interested in the said Manor, Tithes, Lands 


13° Juliz. 





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! 


That in all Bills for inclosing Lands, the Names | such intended — rvo t 
of the Commissioners proposed to be appointed, | Or Navigation, in all cases where it is proposed to an intended 
and the Compensation intended for the Lord of| divert into any such intended Cut, Canal, Reser- 





A. 1837. 


BILLS for making TurnPIKE Roads 
(in Ireland only). 
To be proved before the Committee on the Bill. 
That in all Bills for making a Turnpike Road, Clause for 


or for the continuing or amending any Act of Par- Qualification of 
liament passed for that purpose, or for the in- 
crease or alteration of the existing Tolls, Rates or 


Commissioners, 


Duties upon any such Road, or for widening or di- 
verting any such Road, a Clause be inserted to pre- 
vent any Person who shall be nominated a Com- 
missioner, from acting or voting in the business of 
the said Turnpike, unless he shall be possessed of an 
Estate in Land, or a Personal Estate, to such certain 
value as shall be specified in such Bills; and that 
such Qualification 7 extended to the Heirs appa- 
rent of Persons possessed of an Estate in Land to 


| a certain value to be specified. 





BILLS for making, varying, extending or enlarg- 
ing Navigable Canats and Rivers, supplying 
Towns with Water, and Reservoirs. 


To be proved before the Committee on Petitions. 
I 


That in order to give notice to the Owners or When itis 
Proprietors of all Brooks or Streams, the waters of nee to 
which may in any degree be taken for the use of pv" Weew 


: rom an existin, 
ut, Canal, Reservoir, Aqueduct Cut, &amp;c., into” 


Cut, &amp;c., the 
: Raker ° ~ name of the 
voir, Aqueduct or Navigation, or into any such in- existing Cut, 


tended variation, extension or enlargement, any &amp;c.;to be men- 
water from any existing Cut, Canal, Reservoir, Cue 
Aqueduct or Navigation, whether directly or deriva- 

tively, and whether under any agreement with the 
Proprietors thereof, or otherwise, the notices shall 

contain the names ofevery such existing Cut, Canal, 

Reservoir, Aqueduct and Navigation, the waters 

supplying which by virtue of any Act of Parliament 


or Commons, for their consent, do contain the | Will, either directly or derivatively, flow or proceed 
Names of such proposed Commissioners, and also | into any such Cut, Canal, Reservoir, Aqueduct or 


the Compensations so bargained or agreed for. 


IV. 


That no Person shall be named in any such 
Bills, as a Commissioner, Umpire, Surveyor or 
Valuer, who shall be interested in the Inclosure to 
be made by virtue of such Bill, or the Agent ordi- 
narily intrusted with the care, superintendence or 
management of the Estate of any Person so in- 
terested. 


Disqualification 
of Commis- 
sioners, Sur- 
veyors, &amp;c. 


V. 
That in all Bills for inclosing, draining or im- 
c i Lands, which shall be presented to the 
onunissioners, a . °° 

and passing ouse, there be inserted a Clause, providing what 
their Accounts. sum of Money in the whole, or by the day, shall be 
“gg to each of the Commissioners to be appointed 
y such Bill, in satisfaction of the expense and 
trouble which he shall incur in the execution of the 
powers thereby given; and that there be also in- 
serted in such Bill a Clause, providing that the Ac- 
count of such Commissioner or Commissioners, con- 
taining a true statement of all Sums by him or them 
received and expended, or due to him or them for 
their own trouble or expenses, shall, at least once 
in every year, from the date of the passing of such 
Aci till such Accounts shall be finally allowed, to- 
gether with the Vouchers relating to the same, be 
examined by some Person or Persons to be ap- 
pointed by such Bill, and the Balance by him or 
them stated in the Book of Accounts required to be 
kept in the Office of the Clerk of such Commis- 
sioners ; and that no charge or item in such Ac- 
counts shall be binding on the Parties concerned, 
or be valid in law, unless the same shall be duly al- 

lowed by such Person or Persons. 


Clauses for 
settling Pay of 








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Navigation so intended to be made. 


II. 

That the Plan shall also describe the Brooks Plan to describe 
and Streams to be directly diverted into such in- —" ° 
tended Cut, Canal, Reservoir, Aqueduct or Navi- ; 
gation, or into such variation, extension or en- 
largement for supplymg the same with Water ; 
and the Section shall specify the Levels of both 
Banks of such Cut, Canal, Reservoir, Aqueduct or 
Navigation, and describe the same by feet and 
inches. 





BILLS FOR MAKING RAILWAYS. 


To be proved before Committee on Petition. 


:. 
That the line of the Railway marked upon the Lineof Railway 
Section shall correspond with the upper surface of perc ‘with 
the Rails. (See Line S. S., Fig. 2.) 


upper surface 


Il of Rails. 


That a vertical measure from the datum line to Vertical 
the line of the Railway shall be marked in feet Measum 
and inches at each change of the gradient or in- change of 
clination (see E, F., Fig. 2.), and that the propor- Gradient. 
tion or rate or inclination between each such change 
shall also be marked. (See G. G. in Fig. 2.) 


; Il. 

That the height of the Railway over or under the Height of Rail- 
surface of every Turnpike Road, public Carriage "#3) 0c et, 
Road, navigable River, Canal or Railway, or junc to be marked 
tion with a Railway, shall be marked in figures atevery crossing 
at every crossing thereof (see I. I. I., Fig. 2.); and °f* — 
if there shall be no such crossing in one half 
mile, then the height over or under the surface of 
the ground shall be marked once in that space 


(see O. 











of Tunnelling and 
TS, Archway to be 
marked. 


Alterations of 
Line. 


Alterations 
in Railways 
authorized to 
be made. 


1 Vicroriz. 


(see O. O. O., Fig. 2); and if any alteration in the 
~— level or rate of inclination of any Turnpike 
oad, Carriage Road or Railway, be intended, then 
the same shall be stated on the said Section. (See 
P. Fig. 2.) 
IV. 

That where tunnelling as a substitute for open 
cutting, or arching as a substitute for solid em- 
bankment, is intended, the same shall be marked 
both on the Plan and Section. (See Q. R., Figs. 
1 and 2.) 

V. 

That Parties desiring to make any alteration 
in the Line of any Railway, the Plans for which 
shall have been deposited, and the Notices for 
which shall have been given, as before mentioned, 
shall be permitted so to do, provided no one devia- 
tion shall exceed one mile in length, and provided 
a Plan and Section, as before described, of such 
alteration, together with a Book of Reference thereto, 
shall be deposited with the Clerk of the Peace of 
every County, Riding or Division in England or 
Treland, and in the office of the principal Sheriff- 
Clerk of every county in Scotland, in which such 
alteration is proposed to be made, and a Plan and 
Section so far as relates to each Parish, together 
with a Book of Reference thereto, with the Parish 
Clerks of each such Parish in England, the School- 
master of each such Parish in Scotland, (or in Royal 
Burghs with the Town Clerk,) and the Postmaster 
of the Post-town in or nearest to each such Parish 
in Ireland, in which such alteration is intended to be 
made, on or before the 30th day of November, in 
the year immediately preceding that in which such 
application is intended to be made, and that the 
intention to make such alteration shall be pub- 
lished in manner before directed, in three successive 
weeks in the months of October and November, or 
either of them, and that personal application shall 
be made to the Owners or reputed Owners, Lessees 


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641 


lands through which any such variation, extension 
or enlargement is proposed to be made. 


VIL. 


tices for which shall have been given, as directed 
by the Standing Orders in force at the time of 
such deposit, shall be permitted so to do in the 
Session next ensuing that in which such appli- 
cation to Parliament was made, provided that no 
one deviation shall exceed One mile in length, and 
provided a Plan and Section, as before described, 
of such Railway, together with a Book of Reference 
thereto, shall be deposited with the Clerk of the 
Peace of every County, Riding or Division in Eng- 
land or Ireland, and in the office of the Principal 
Sheriff-Clerk of every County in Scotland, in or 
through which such Railway is proposed to be 
made ; and a Plan and Section, as before described, 
so far as relates to each Parish, together with a 
Book of Reference thereto, with the Parish Clerks 
of each such Parish in England, the Schoolmaster of 
each such Parish in Scotland, (or in Royal Burghs 
with the Town Clerk,) and the Postmaster of the 
Post-town in or nearest to each such Parish in Jre- 
land, through which such Railway is proposed to be 
made, on or before the 30th day of November, in 
the year immediately preceding that in which such 
application is intended to be made; and that the 
intention to make such application shall be adver- 
tised in manner next before directed, in October 
and November ; and that on or before the 31st day 
of December, immediately preceding such renewed 
application to Parliament, personal application shall 
be made to the Owners or reputed Owners, Lessees 
or reputed Lessees, or in their absence from the 


United Kingdom to their Agents respectively, and 


to the Occupiers of the Lands through which any 
such Railway is proposed to be made. 











or reputed Lessees, or in their absence from the 
United Kingdom to their Agents respectively, and 
to the Occupiers of Lands through which any ‘such 
alteration is proposed to be made. 


VI. 


That parties desiring to make an application for 
a Bill to vary, extend or enlarge any Line of Rail- 
way, for making which an Act of Parliament shall 
have been passed, shall be permitted so to do, pro- 
vided that no one deviation shall exceed One mile 
in length, and provided a Plan and Section, as before 
described, of such variation, extension or enlarge- 
ment, together with a Book of Reference thereto, 
shall be deposited with the Clerk of the Peace of 
every County, Riding, or Division in England or 
Ireland, and in the oftice of the principal Sheriff- 
Clerk of every County in Scotand, in or through 


which such variation, extension or enlargement is | * 


proposed to be made; anda Plan and Section, as 
before described, so far as relates to each Parish, 





To be proved before the Committee on the Bill, 
who are directed to report specially thereupon. 


I 


third of their Capital ; and that, until Fifty per cent. 
on the whole of the Capital shall have been paid up, 
it shall not be in the power of the Company to raise 
any Money by Loan or Mortgage. 


pelled by Steam shall be made across any Turnpike- 
road or other public Carriage-way on the level, unless 
the Committee on the Bill report that such a restric- 
tion ought not to be enforced, with the reasons and 
facts upon which their opinion is founded. 








formed for the execution of the project, and the 
amount of any Loans which they may be empowered 


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That Parties desiring to renew any application Renewal of 
to Parliament in respect of any Railway, the Plans Application to 
for which shall have been deposited, and the No- Puta, 


1, That no such Company shall be authorized to Restrictions as 
raise, by Loan or Mortgage, a larger sum than One- to Mortgage. 


2. That no Railway whereon Carriages are pro- Railways upt to 


3. As to the proposed Capital of the Company Capital. 


together with a Book of Reference thereto, with the | to raise by the Bill; the amount of Shares sub- 
Parish Clerks of each such Parish in England, the | scribed for, and the Deposits paid thereon, the 
Schoolmaster of each such Parish in Scotland (or, Names and places of residence of the Directors or 
in Royal Burghs with the Town Clerk,) and the | Provisional Committee, with the amount of Shares 
Postmaster of the Post-town in or nearest to each| taken by each; the number of Shareholders who 
such Parish in Jreland, in which such variation,| may be considered as having a local interest in the 
extension or enlargement is intended to be made, on | Line, and the amount of Capital subscribed for by 
or before the 30th day of November, in the year im- them, and the number of other Parties, and the 
mediately preceding that in which such application Capital taken by them ; a Statement of the number 
is intended to be made; and that the intention to of Shareholders subscribng for 2,000/. and up- 
make the application for such variation, extension | wards, with their Names and Residences, and the 
or enlargement shall be advertised in manner next | amount for which they have subscribed. 


before directed in Oztober and November ; and that | 4. The sufficiency or insufficiency for agricultural, Present means 
on or before the 31st day of December, immedi- commercial, manufacturing or other purposes, of of Conveyance, 


ately preceding such application to Parliament, per- | the present Means of Conveyance, and of Commu- 
sonal application shall be made to the Owners or nication between the proposed Termini, stating the 
reputed Owners, Lessees or reputed Lessees, or in | present amount of Traffic by Land or Water, the 
their absence from the United Kingdom to their | average Charges made for Passengers and Goods, 
— respectively, and to the Occupiers of the |and time occupied. 

OL. 92. 


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omer ee 


es 


meee pesret moran = 


642 


Passengers,xc., 5. The number of Passengers, and the weight 


expected. and description of the Goods expected upon the 
proposed Railway. 

Income 6. The amount of Income expected to arise from 

expected, 


the Conveyance of Passengers and Goods, and in 
what proportion ; stating also generally the descrip- 
tion of Goods from which the largest Revenue is 
anticipated. 
Whether Rail- =——'7, Whether the proposed Railway be a complete 
way be = com and integral Line between the Termini specified, or 
oat ofa more @ part of a more extended plan now in contemplation, 
extended Plan, and likely to be hereafter submitted to Parliament, 
and to what extent the calculations of remuneration 
depend on such contemplated extension of the Line. 

8. Whether any, and what, competing Lines of 
Railway there are existing, and whether any, and 
what, are in progress or contemplation, and to state, 
so far as circumstances will permit, in what respects 
the proposed Line is superior or inferior to the other 
Lines ; but that no Line of Railway shall be deemed 
a competing Line in contemplation, unless the Plan, 
Section and Book of Reference for the same shall 
have been deposited with the Clerks of the Peace 
and in the Private Office respectively, as required 
by the Standing Orders. 

9. To state what planes on the Railway are pro- 
posed to be worked, either by assistant Engines, 
stationary or locomotive, with the respective lengths 
and inclinations of such planes. 

10. To advert to any peculiar engineering diffi- 
culties in the proposed Line, and to report the manner 
in which it is intended they should be overcome. 

11. To state the length, breadth and height, and 
means of ventilation, of any proposed Tunnels, and 
whether the strata through which they are to pass 
are favourable or otherwise. 

12. To state whether in the Lines proposed, the 
Gradients and Curves are generally favourable or 
otherwise, and the steepest Gradient, exclusive of the 
inclined planes above referred to, and the smallest 
radius of a Curve. 

13. To state the length of the main Line of the 
proposed Railway, and of its branches respectively. 

14. To state generally the fitness, in an engineer- 
ing point of view, of the projected Line of Rail- 
way. 


Competing 
Lines, 


Assistant 
Engines. 


Engineering 
difficulties. 


Ventilation 
of Tunnels. 


Gradients and 
Curves. 


Length of Line. 


Fitness in an 
Engineering 
point of view. 


Level 15. If it be intended that the Railway shall pass 

Highways. on a level any Turnpike-road or Highway, to call the 
particular attention of the House tothat circumstance. 

Estimates. 16. To state the amount of the Estimates of the 
Cost or other Expenses to be incurred up to the time 
of the completion of the Railway, and whether they 
appear to be supported by evidence, and to be fully 
adequate for the purpose. 

ote 17. To state what is the estimated Charge of the 

- xpenses, 


Annual Expenses of the Railway when completed, 
and how far the calculations on which the Charge is 
estimated, have been sufficiently proved. 

18. Whether the calculations proved in evidencé 
before the Committee, have satisfactorily established 
that the Revenue is likely to be sufficient to support 
the Annual Charges of the maintenance of the Rail- 
way, and still allow profit to the Projectors. 

19. The number of Assents, Dissents and Neuters 
upon the Line, and the length and amount of Pro- 
— belonging to each class traversed by the said 

ailway, distinguishing Owners from Occupiers ; 
anc in the case of any Bill to vary the original Line, 
stating the above particulars with reference to such 
Parties only as may be affected by the proposed 
deviation. 

20. To state the name or names of the Engineers 
examined in support of the Bill, and of those, if any, 
examined in opposition to it. 

21. To state the main allegation of any Petition 
or Petitions which may have been referred to the 
Committee in opposition to the Preamble of the 
Bill, or to any of its Clauses ; and whether the alle- 


Revenue in 
reference to 
amiual Charge. 


Assents, &amp;c. 


Engineers 
examined. 


Petitions in 
opposition, 


gations have beenconsidered by the Committee, and if 
not considered, the cause of their not having been so. 





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A. 1837. 


22. To state in addition, any circumstances which, Any other 
in the opinion of the Committee, it is desirable the “’™™"&lt;es. 
House should be informed of. 


II. 


That in all such Bills there be inserted the follow- 
ing Clauses : 

1. And beit further Enacted, That it shall not be Railway not to 
lawful for the said Company to proceed in the exe- ee. 
cution of the said Railway hereinbefore authorized pian. gc" 
to be made, unless the said Company shall have, deposited. 
previously to the commencement of such work, 
deposited with the Clerk of the Peace of the several 
Counties in England or Ireland, and in the Office of 
the Principal Sheriff-Clerk in every County in Scot- 
land, in or through which the said Railway hereby 
authorized to be made is intended to pass, a Plan 
and Section of all such alterations from the original 
Plan and Section as shall have been approved of by 
Parliament, on the same scale and containing the 
same particulars as the original Plan and Section 
of the Railway ; and also with the Clerks of the 
several Parishes in England, the Schoolmasters of 
the several Parishes in Scotland (or in Royal Burghs 
with the Town Clerk), and the Postmasters of the 
Post towns in or nearest to such Parishes in Ireland, 
in or through which such alterations shall have been 
authorized to be made, copies or extracts of or from 
such Plans and Sections as shall relate to such 
Parishes respectively; and all persons interested 
shall have liberty to inspect and make extracts from 
or copies of the said Plans and Sections, or extracts 
or copies thereof, paying to the Officer having the 
custody of such Plan and Section, or of such ex- 
tract or copy, the sum of One shilling for every 
such inspection, and after the rate of Sixpence for 
every One hundred words copied therefrom. 

2. And be it further Enacted, That in making the Limiting _ 
said Railway it shall not be lawful for the said Com- — 
pany to deviate from the levels of the said Railway described on 
as referred to the common datum line described on the Section, &amp;c. 
the Section so approved of by Parliament, and as 
marked on the same, to any extent exceeding in any 
place Five feet, or, in passing through towns, Two 
feet, without the consent of the owners, lessees and 
occupiers of the land in, through or over which such 
deviation is intended to be made; or in case any 
street or public carriage-road shall be affected by 
such deviation, then the same shall not be made 
without the consent of the Trustees or Commis- 
sioners, or, if there be no such Trustees or Commis- 
sioners, without the consent of Two or more Justices 
of the Peace in petty sessions assembled for that 
purpose, and acting for the district in which such 
street or public carriage-road may be situate, or 
without the consent of the Commissioners for any 
Public Sewers, or the proprietors of any canal or 
navigation affected by such deviation; and that no 
increase in the inclination or gradients of the said 
Railway, as denoted by the said Section, shall be 
made in any place to an extent exceeding the rate 
of Three feet per mile ; and where in any place it is 
intended to carry the Railway on an arch or arches, 
as marked on the said Plan or Section, the same 
shall be made accordingly ; and where a Tunnel is 
marked on the said Plan or Section as intended to 
be made at any place, the same shall be made ac- 
cordingly, unless the owners, lessees and occupiers 
of the land in or through which such Tunnel is in- 
tended to be made shall consent that the same shall 
not be so made: Provided nevertheless, That it shall 
be lawful for the said Company, with such consent 
as aforesaid, and not otherwise, to make a Tunnel, or 
an arch or arches as aforesaid, not marked on the 
said Plan or Section, so that no such Tunnel shall be 
of greater length than Two hundred yards, and that 
no two Tunnels be at a less distance from each other 
than One hundred yards, measured on the Line of 
the Railway: Provided always, That notice of every 
Petty Sessions to be holden for the purpose of ob- 


taining 





‘ain 


Limiting 
alteration of 
Curves. 


Specific 
Replies. 


Reports on 
Railway Bills 
to be discussed 
upon every 
Tuesday. 


Bill not to 
contain certain 
Clauses. 


Divorce, 





1 Victor. 


taining such consent as aforesaid shall, Fourteen 
days previous to the holding of such Petty Sessions, 
be given in somenewspaper circulating in the County, 
and also be affixed upon the Church-door of the 
parish in which such deviation or alteration is in- 
tended to be made, or, if there be no Church, some 
other place to which notices are usually affixed ; 


13° Julie. 











and provided also, that for the purpose of consenting 
to any such deviation from the said Sections, and to 
any tunnelling or arching as aforesaid, the word 
“ owners” shall be deemed and taken to mean such 
persons as are herein capacitated to agree for the 
sale of and to convey land for the making of the 
said Railway; and the consent of such persons, 
with or without the consent of any other persons 
interested as owners in the said lands, shall be 
deemed and taken to be sufficient for such purposes. 

3. And be it further Enacted, That it shall not be 
lawful to diminish the Radius of any Curve as de- 
scribed on the Plan deposited with the Clerk of the 
Peace, or Principal Sheriff Clerk, unless such Radius 
exceed One mile, nor to diminish it in any such case 
so that it shall become less than One mile, nor to 
diminish any greater Radius by more than a quarter 
of a mile, unless where it exceeds Two miles, or by 
more than half a mile, unless where it exceeds Three 
miles, on the said plan. 


Ill. 

That this House will not proceed with the fur- 
ther consideration of Report of any such Bill, until 
it has received from the Committee specific Replies 
in answer to each of the Questions contained in the 
foregoing Resolutions. 

IV. 

That. in order to afford time for the proper discus- 
sion of the Reports on Railway Bills, this House 
will upon every Tuesday proceed, at Five o’clock, to 
the consideration of Reports on such Bills. 





BILLS for maintaining, lodging or employing 

the POOR. 

That the Chairman of the Committee upon any 
such Bill, upon the Report thereof, do acquaint the 
House, that the Bill contains no Clause or Clauses 
whereby the general Law of Settlement of the Poor 
shall be departed from, or any power of Corporal 
Punishment given to any Persons employed in the 
Management of the Poor. 





BILLS for Confirming or Prolonging the 
Term of Lerrers Parent. 
Further Order to be proved before the Committee 
on the Petition. 

That each Notice shall have prefixed to it in Ca- 
pital Letters, the name by which the Invention is 
usually distinguished, and shall contain a distinct 
Description of the Invention for which such Letters 
Patent have been obtained, and also an account of 
the Term of their Duration. 

To be proved before the Committee on the Bill. 

That when any Bill shall be brought into the 
House, for confirming of Letters Patent, there be a 


true Copy of such Letters Patent annexed to the 
Bill. 





BILLS OF DIVORCE. 


That before any Bill of Divorce for Adultery do 
pass this House, Evidence be given before the Com- 
mittee to whom the said Bill shall be committed 
that an Action for Damages has been brought in one 
of Her Majesty’s Courts of Record at Westminster, 
or in any one of Her Majesty’s Courts of Record 
in Dublin, against the persons supposed to have 
been guilty of Adultery, and Judgment for the 
Plaintiff had thereupon ; or sufficient cause be shown 
to the said Committee why such Action was not 
brought, or such Judgment was not obtained. 





Vo. 92. 





643 


PRIVATE BILL OFFICE. 





1. That a Book, to be called “ The PRIVATE Private Bil 


BILL REGISTER,” be kept in a Room to 
called “ The Private Bint Orricz,” in whic 
Book shall be entered, by the Clerks to be ap- 
~— for the business of that Office, the Name, 

escription and Place of Residence of the Parlia- 


/mentary Agent in Town, and of the Agent in the 


Country (if any) soliciting the Bill; and all the Pro- 
ceedings, from the Petition to the passing of the 
Bill:—Such Entry to specify, briefly, each day’s 
Proceeding in the House, or in any Committee to 
which the Bill or Petition may be referred ; the day 
and hour on which the Committee is appointed to 
sit; the day and hour to which such Committee 
may be adjourned, and the name of the Committee 
Clerk. Such Book to be open to public inspection 
daily, in the said Office, between the hours of Eleven 
and Six. 


Copies of the Subscription Contracts, required by 
the Standing Orders of the House, be lodged in 
the Private Bill Office ; and that the receipt thereof 
be acknowledged accordingly by one of the Clerks 
of the said Office, upon the said Documents, and 
upon the Petition, before it is presented. 


before Six of the clock in the evening. 


for the Votes, be in the custody of the Clerks of 
the Private Bill Office, until laid upon the Table for 
the Second Reading ; and when committed, be taken 
by thej proper Committee Clerk into his charge, till 
reported. 


first time, its name (or short Title), shall be copied 
by the Clerks of the Private Bill Office, from the 
Clerk’s Minute Book of the day, into a separate 
Book, to be called “ The Examination Book,” 
wherein shall be noted the number of such Bill, ac- 
cording to the priority of its being read, and the 
date of the day of such First Reading. 

6. That between the First and Second Readings, 
every such Bill shall, according to its priority, be 
examined, with all practicable dispatch, by the Clerks 
of the Private Bill Office, as to its conformity with 
the Rules and Standing Orders of the House ; and 
the Breviate thereof be compared with such Bill ; 
and the Examining Clerk shall, at the foot of such 
Breviate, state, “ that the Bill is [or, is not] pre- 
pared in due form:’—And if not in due form, he 
shall specify the folio in which any irregularity occurs; 
and shall, moreover, in all cases, sign and date the 
Breviate of such Bill, with the day of such Exami- 
nation, and shall also enter the like date, together 
with his own name, in the Examination Book. 

7. That the points to which the duty of the Exa- 
mining Clerk shall extend, be the following: viz. 
That the Title and Provisions of the Bill are com- 
prehended within the allegations of the Petition, 
and within the Order of Leave ; and that Bills for 
confirming Letters Patent havea Copy of the Letters 
Patent annexed. 

8. That the Examining Clerk do moreover com- 
pare the Breviate with the Bill, and see that the sub- 
ject-matter of each Clause or set of Clauses is suffi- 
ciently pointed out :—The form of the Breviate to be 
such as the Speaker shall from time to time direct. 

9. That Ten clear days’ notice be given to the 
Clerks in the Private Bill Office of the meetin 
any Sub-Committee on a Petition for a Private Bill. 

10. That Notice in writing of the day proposed 
for the Second Reading of every Private Bill, be 
given by the Agent soliciting the Bill, to the Clerks 
in the Private Bill Office, Three clear days before 
such Second Reading. 





4n2 


11. That 


be Office and 
h Register. 


2. That all Plans, Sections, Books of Reference, Plans, &amp;c., to 
Lists of Owners and Occupiers, Estimates and &gt;¢ lodged. 


3. That all Notices required to be given in the Time for 
Private Bill Office, be delivered in the said -Office ve 


4, That every Private Bill, after it has been read Custody of 
the First time, and the Title copied and examined Bills- 


5. That after each Private Bill has been read the Examination 


Book. 


Examination 


of Bill and 
Breviate. 


Of Bill. 


Breviate. 


Notice of 


of Meeting, 


Notice of 


Second Nead- 


ing. 





Committee 
upon the Bill. 


Filled-up Bill 
to be deposited 
in Private Bill 
Office. 


Postponement 
of First Meet- 
ing of Com- 
mittee on the 


Bill. 


Note of 
Adjournment. 


Lists of 
Committees 
sitting. 


Bill, as amended 


in Committee, 
to be delivered 
in, 


Notice of 
Report, and of 
Consideration. 


Amendments 
on Report and 
Third Reading. 


Examination of 
Tugrossments. 


Notice of 


Third Reading. 


Certificate ot 
Examination. 


644. 


11. That Notice of the day and hour on which 
the Committee on the Bill is appointed to sit, be 
given in writing Three clear days beforehand, by 
the Agent soliciting the Bill, to the Clerks in the 
Private Bill Office, and that all Committee Pro- 
ceedings, of which such Notice shall not have been 
given, be void. 

12. That a filled-up Bill, signed by the Agent for 
the Bill, as proposed to be submitted to the Com- 
mittee, be deposited in the Private Bill Office at 
the time of giving notice of the meeting of the Com- 
mittee on the Bill; and that all Parties shall be en- 
titled to a copy thereof, upon payment of the charges 
for making out Amendments of such Bill. 

13. That no postponement of the first meeting of 
any Committee on a Private Bill, or Petition for 
a Private Bill, shall take place, unless Notice be 
given in the Private Bill Office One clear day before 
the time fixed for such meeting. 


14. That a Note in writing of the day and hour 
to which each Committee is adjourned, be given by 
the Committee Clerk to the Clerks in the Private 
Bill Office. 

15. That the Clerks in the Private Bill Office do 
prepare daily, Lists of all Private Bills, and Peti- 
tions for Private Bills, upon which any Committee 
is appointed to sit; specifying the hour of meeting, 
and the room where the Committee shall sit; and that 
the same be hung up in the Lobby of the House. 


16. That the Committee Clerk, after the Report 
is made out, do deliver into the Private Bill Office 
a printed copy of the Bill, with the written Amend- 
ments made in the Committee ; in which Bill all the 
Clauses added by the Committee shall be regularly 
marked in those parts of the Bill wherein they are 
to be inserted. 

17. That Notice in writing of the day on which 
the Bill is to be reported be given by the Agent 
soliciting the Bill to the Clerks in the Private Bill 
Office, at least One clear day before the day of the 
Report: And in all cases where Reports on Bills 
are ordered to lie on the Table, Notice in writing of 
the day on which such Report is intended to be 
taken into consideration be given to the Clerks in 
the Private Bill Office, at least One clear day before 
such Report shall be taken into consideration. 


18. That the Amendments (if any) which are made 
upon the Report and upon the Third Reading, be 
entered by one of the Clerks in the Private Bill 
Office upon the printed copy of the Bill as amended 
by the Committee, which Clerk shail sign the said 
copy so amended, in order to its being deposited 
and preserved in the said Office. 


13° Julte. 


A. 1837. 


A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Farrer and 

Mr. Brougham: 
Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords have agreed to the several Bills follow- 
ing, without Amendment ; viz. 

A Bill, intituled, An Act to explain and amend 
an Act of the sixth and seventh years of his late 
Majesty, for extinguishing the Secular Jurisdiction 
of the Archbishop of York and the Bishop of Ely, 
in certain Liberties in the Counties of York, Notting- 
ham and Cambridge : 

A Bill, intituled, An Act for regulating the Co- 
roners of the County of Durham: And also, 

The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act 
to enable the Court of Chancery in Ireland to ap- 
point other Persons to act under the Family Settle- 
ment of the Marquis of Donegall and Earl of Belfast, 
bearing date the Twenty-eighth of October One 
thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, in the place 
of Thomas Ball and Thomas Ellis, deceased; to 
which the Lords desire the concurrence of this House: 
And also, 

The Lords request that this House will be pleased 
to communicate to their Lordships, a Copy of a Re- 
port made from the Select Committee appointed by 
this House to inquire how far the intentions of the 
Reform Bill are defeated by creating and registering 
fictitious and improper Votes in Ireland ; together 
with the Minutes of Evidence taken before the Com- 
mittee, and the Appendix thereto: And also, 

The Lords request that this House will be pleased 
to communicate to their Lordships, a Copy of a Re- 
port made from the Select Committee appointed by 
this House to consider what measures ought to be 
adopted with regard to the native Inhabitants of 
Countries where British Settlements are made, and 
to the neighbouring Tribes, in order to secure to 
them the due observance of Justice, and the pro- 
tection of their Rights; to promote the spread of 
Civilization among them; and to lead them to the 
9m and voluntary reception of the Christian 

eligion; together with the Minutes of Evidence 
taken before the Committee, and the Appendix 
thereto: And also, 

The Lords request that this House will be pleased 
to communicate to their Lordships, a Copy of a Re- 
port made from the Select Committee appointed by 
this House to inquire into the progress and operation 
of the new Plan of Education in Ireland ; together 
with the Minutes of Evidence taken before the Com- 
mittee, and the Appendix thereto: And also, 

The Lords request that this House will be pleased 
to communicate to their Lordships, a Copy of a Re- 
port made from the Select Committee appointed by 





19. That to insure the accuracy of the Ingross- | 
ment of all Private Bills, the Clerk of the House | 
be required to provide a sufficient number of Clerks, | 
to be called Examiners of Ingrossments. | 

20. That Notice in writing of the day proposed | 
for the Third Reading of every Private Bill, be given | 
by the Agent soliciting the Bill, to the Clerks in the | 
Private Bill Office, one clear day before such Third | 
Reading. | 

21. That no Bill be read a Third time, until a| 
Certificate is indorsed upon the Paper Bill, and | 
signed by one or more of the said Examiners of | 
Ingrossments, declaring that the Ingrossment thereof | 
has been examined, and agrees with the Bill, as. 
amended by the Committee, and on the Report. 





The House was moved, That the present Standing | 
Orders relative to Private Bills, might be read ; and | 
the same being read ; ; 

Ordered, That the said Standing Orders be 
repealed. 

Resolved, That the several Resolutions agreed to 
this day, be made Standing Orders in lieu of those 
repealed. ‘ 

Ordered, That the said Standing Orders be printed. 








ing the Receipts of each year, and distinguishing 


this House to inquire into the Establishment of the 
Royal Mint, and the System under which the fabri- 
cation and delivery of the Coin are conducted ; to- 
gether with the Minutes of Evidence taken before 
the Committee, and the Appendix thereto :—And 
then the Messengers withdrew. 

Resolved, That this House will send an Answer 
to the last part of the said Message by Messengers 
of their own. 

And the Messengers were again called in; and 
Mr. Speaker acquainted them therewith :—And then 
they again withdrew. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
an Account, showing the amount of Monies which 


would have been applicable to the Civil Government 


in England, if the Hereditary and the Temporary 
Revenues of the Crown enjoyed by his Majesty King 
George 2, had been enjoyed by succeeding Sove- 


et 


‘reigns ; distinguishing their reigns, that is to say, by 


his Majesty King George 3, from 25th October 1760 
to 29th January 1820; by his Majesty King George 
4, from 29th January 1820 to 26th June 1830; and 
by his Majesty King William 4, from 26th June 1830 
to 21st June 1837; and, in each reign, distinguish- 


also 


Message from 
the Lords, 


Secular Juris. 
diction (York 
and Ely) Bill, 


Coroners 
(Durham) Bill, 


Marquis of 


Donegall’s 
Estate Bill, 


Fictitious Votes 
(Ireland.) 


Aborigines 


( British 


Settlements.) 


Education 


(Ireland.) 


Mint. 


Civil List Acts. 


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also the Hereditary and the Temporary Revenue of 
the Crown respectively ;—showing also, first, the 
Amount of the Annuity received by their late Ma- 
jesties in lieu of those Revenues; secondly, the 
Amount of Monies granted by Parliament for the 
discharge of the Civil List Debt during the said 
period ; and, thirdly, the difference to the Nation 
upon the balance of the said Account, in respect to 
each reign, so far as the same can be ascertained ; 
such Account being in reference to the Account 
marked Appendix (C.) to the Report of the Select 
Committee upon the Civil List, ordered to be printed 
on the 16th June 1815, No. 401; and in reference to 
No. 18 of (III.) Civil List, ordered to be printed on 
the 12th November 1830, No. 22; and in continua- 
tion of No. 121 (Civil List Acts), ordered to be 
printed on the 7th February 1832. 


Ecclesiastical Ordered, That the Amendments made by the 
Appointments Lords to the Ecclesiastical Appointments Suspension 


a port " Bill, be taken into consideration To-morrow ; and be 
NO. e 


printed. 
Coroners’ The House proceeded to take into consideration 
Inquests’ the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 


Expenses Bil. intituled, An Act to provide for Payment of the Ex- 
penses of holding Coroners’ Inquests ; and the same 
were read, as follow : 

Pr. 4.1. 18. Leave out “ from time to time,” and 
insert “ within Four months after holding any In- 
“ quest.” 

Pr. 4. 1. 31. Leave out from “ shall ” to “ cause ” 
in 1. 32, and insert “ within Four months after hold- 
“ ing any Inquest.” 

Pr. 6. 1. 3. After “ aforesaid ” insert Clause (A.) 

Cuavuss (A.) “ And be it Enacted, That this Act 
“ and the several provisions hereinafter contained, 
“‘ shall extend and be applicable to the city of Lon- 
“ don and the town and borough of Southwark.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 


Lordships. 
Fees on Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Renewal of a Copy of the Treasury Minute of the 24th day of 
—_ September 1830, relative to the Fees to be paid on re- 
newals of appointments to Offices under the Crown. 
Mr. Solicitor General accordingly presented the 
said Paper. 
Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 
Dundee An ingrossed Bill for supplying the royal Burgh 
Waterworks of Dundee and Suburbs thereof with Water, was, ac- 
seiaieain cording to the Order made this day, read the third 
time. 
Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 
Ordered, That Mr. Chalmers do carry the Bill to 
the Lords, and desire their concurrence. 
Revenue, Mr. Poulett Thomson presented, by Her Majesty’s 
cae command,—Tables of the Revenue, Population, 
25 Commerce, &amp;c., of the United Kingdom and its De- 
pendencies :—Supplement to Part V. Colonies 1834. 
Law of Partner- Report on the Law of Partnership. 
SDIp. 


Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Business of the 
ouse, 


No. 517. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee appointed to 
consider the best means of conducting the Public 
Business with improved regularity and dispatch, and 
also to consider whether any and what improvement 
can be adopted in the mode of conducting the Pri- 
vate Business of this House, have Power to report 
their observations thereupon to the House. 

Mr. Poulett Thomson reported from the said Select 
Committee, That they had considered the matters to 

Vox. 92. 


13° Juliz. 


645 


them referred, and had directed him to make a Re- 
port thereof to the House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table; 
and be printed. 


The Marquis of Donegall’s Estate Bill was read Marquis of 
the first, and ordered to be read a second time. Donegall’s 
Ordered, That the Bill be now read a second time. — 
The Bill was accordingly read a second time, and 
committed to the Earl of Belfast and the Ulster List. 
Ordered, That the Committee have leave to sit and 
proceed, and to make their Report To-morrow. 


A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Farrer and Message from 
Mr. Brougham: the Lords. 


Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords have agreed to the several Bills follow- 
ing, without Amendment ; viz. 

A Bill, intituled, An Act to authorize Her Majesty, Slave Trade 
until Six Months after the commencement of the Treaties Dill 
next Session of Parliament, to carry into immediate 
execution by orders in Council, any Treaties, Conven- 
tions or Stipulations made with any Foreign Power 
or State for the Suppression of the Slave Trade : 

A Bill, intituled, An Act to authorize a further Exchequer Bills 
Issue of Exchequer Bills for Public Works and (Public Works) 
Fisheries, and employment of the Poor, and to 
amend the Acts relating thereto : 

A Bill, intituled, An Act to postpone until the Bank of 
first day of January One thousand eight hundred and Treland Bill. 
thirty-nine, the re-payment of certain sums advanced 
by the Bank of Jreland for the Public Service : 

A Bill, intituled, An Act to suspend to the end of Militia Ballots 
the next Session of Parliament, the making of Lists SusPe"sien Bill. 
and the Ballots and Enrolments for the Militia of 
the United Kingdom : 

A Bill, intituled, An Act to defray the charge of Militia Pay 
the Pay, Clothing and contingent and other ex- B#!!. 
penses of the Disembodied Militia in Great Britain 
and Ireland, and to grant allowances, in certain cases, 
to Subaltern Officers, Adjutants, Pay-masters, Quar- 
ter-masters, Surgeons, Assistant Surgeons, Surgeons’ 

Mates and Serjeant Majors of the Militia, until the 
First day of July One thousand eight hundred and 
thirty-eight : 

A Bill, intituled, An Act to extend an exemption Assessed Taxes 
granted by an Act of the last Session of Parliament E*emption Bill. 
from the Duties of Assessed Taxes, in respect of 
certain Carriages with less than Four wheels, and to 
amend the Laws relating to the said Duties: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Amendments made Chester and 
by this House, to the Amendments made by their Birkenhead 
Lordships to the Bill, intituled, An Act for making sanseite inate 
a Railway from the City of Chester to Birkenhead, 
without any Amendment: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Bolton and 
Act for making a Railway from Bolton-le-Moors to Preston Rail- 
Preston, in the County Palatine of Lancaster, with “*Y Bi". 
Amendments; to which Amendments the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Bristol 
Act for establishing a General Cemetery for the in- “emetery Bill. 
terment of the Dead in or near the City of Bristol, 
with Amendments; to which Amendments the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House: And also, 


The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act Clerks of the 
to compel Clerks of the Peace for Counties, and Peace Docu- 
other Persons, to take the custody ofsuch Documents ™™* ®"" 
as shall be directed to be deposited with them under 
the Standing Orders of either House of Parliament ; 
to which the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House: And also, 

The Lords desire a present Conference with this Municipal 
House, in their Lordships’ Committee Room, No. 5., Corporations 
upon the subject matter of the Amendment made by ps 
the Lords to the Amendment made by the Commons 
to the Amendments made by the Lords to the Amend- 
ments made by the Commons to the Amendments to 
the Municipal Corporations Bill:—And then the 


Messengers withdrew. 


No. 513. 





4N3 Resolved, 











646 13°—14° Julie. A. 1837. 


Resolved, That this House doth agree to a Con- 
ference with the Lords, as is desired by their Lord- 
ships. 

And the Messengers were again called in; and 
Mr. Speaker acquainted them therewith :—And then 
they again withdrew. 

Ordered, That the managers who managed the 
last Conference do manage this Conference :—And 
the namesof Sir Robert Price, Mr. Wyse, Mr. Hector, 
Mr. Borthwick, Mr. Richard Richards, Mr. Brown- 
rigg, Mr. Charles Russell, Mr. Dillwyn, and Mr. 
Gordon, were added to them. 

Then the names of the Managers were called 
over; and they went to the Conference :—And being 
returned ; 

Lord John Russell reported, that the Managers 
had met the Lords at the Conference, which was 
managed on the part of the Lords by the Marquis of 
Salisbury ; and that the Conference was to acquaint 
this House that the Lords do disagree to the said 
Amendment ; for which they gave their Reason. 

Ordered, That the said Reason and Amendment 
be taken into consideration To-morrow; and be 


“Guilty” and“ Not guilty” wasrecorded respectively : 


_—and, Of the number of Diets held by the Judges 


of the said Court at the various Circuits during these 
years, and of the number of Trials which took place, 
and in how many the plea of “ Guilty” and “ Not 
“ guilty ’” was recorded respectively ; also the num- 
ber of Civil Causes tried by the said Court at each 
Circuit Town respectively, might be read; and the 
same being read ; 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Returns of the number of Diets held by the 
High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh during the 
years 1833, 1824, 1835 and 1836 :-—Of the number 
of Trials which took place before the said High 
Court during these years ; showing in how many the 
plea of “ Guilty” and“ Not guilty” was recorded res- 
pectively :—and, Of the number of Diets held by the 
Judges of the said Court at the various Circuits 
during these years, and of the number of Trials which 
took place, and in how many the plea of “ Guilty ” 
and “ Not guilty ” was recorded respectively ; also, 
the number of Civil Causes tried by the said Court 





printed. 
Clerks of the The Clerks of the Peace Documents Bill, was 
oe = read the first, and ordered to be read a second time. | 
Ordered, That the Bill be now read a second time. | 
The Bill was accordingly read a second time, and | 
committed to a Committee of the whole House, for 
To-morrow. 
Church The House was moved, That the Order made upon 
Accommodation 


(Scotland.) Monday last, That there be laid before this House, 
Returns of the number of Churches which have been 
erected by voluntary contributions, recognised as 
necessary by the General Assembly, and whose 
Ministers have been admitted into Church Courts 
by the recent Act of Assembly :—Of the number of 
Seats in every such Church ; specifying the amount 
of the seat rents annually collected, distinguishing 
each number paid for, from the lowest to the highest 
rate,and whether any or howmany seats are occupied 
rent-free ; and specifying the amount of Stipend 
annually paid to the Ministers of every such Church, 
and the sources from which such Stipend has been 
derived ; also the amount which has been annually 
devoted to the support of the poor, from the collec- 
tion at the doors of every such place of worship, 
might be read ; and the same being read ; 

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged. 

Resolved, That an humble Address be presented 
to Her Majesty, that She will be graciously pleased 
to give directions, that there be laid before this 
House, Returns of the number of Churches which 
have been erected by voluntary contributions, re- 
cognised as necessary by the General Assembly, and 
whose Ministers have been admitted into Church 


Courts by the recent Act of Assembly :—and, of the | 


number of Seats in every such Church; specifying 
the amount of the seat rents annually collected, dis- 
tinguishing each number paid for, from the lowest to 
the highest rate, and whether any or how many seats 
are occupied rent-free ; and specifying the amount 
of Stipend annually paid to the Ministers of every 
such Church, and the sources from which such Sti- 
pend has been derived ; also the amount which has 
been annually devoted to the support of the poor, 
from the collection at the doors of every such place 
of worship. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
Her Majesty by such Members of this sane as are 
of Her Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


Court of The House was moved, that the Order made upon 


Justiciary Monday last, That there be laid before this House, 
(Scotland, : 


Returns of the number of Diets held by the High 
Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh during the years 


at each Circuit Town respectively. 

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to 
Her Majesty by such Members of this House as are 
of Her Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council. 


And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 


Veneris, 14° die Julai; 


Anno 1° Victorie Regine, 1837. 





PRAYERS. 


M&amp; Mudge, from the Office of Woods and 





Forests, was called in; and at the bar pre- 
sented, pursuant to the directions of several Acts of 
| Parliament,—The Fourteenth Report of the Com- 
missioners for the Improvement of the Holyhead 
and Liverpool Road, Holyhead and Howth Harbours, 
| &amp;e. :—And then he withdrew. 
| Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
| Table. 

Mr. Fache, from the Court of Exchequer, was 
called in; and at the bar presented,—Further Re- 
turn to an Order, dated the 7th day of June last, for 
Returns of Customary and other Fees taken in each 
of the Superior Courts of Law on the Admission of 
Attornies of such Courts respectively; and of Ex- 
penses incurred in the Examination of Clerks pre- 
vious to Admission, and the Number of Clerks so 
examined in each Term :--And, of Customary and 
other Fees taken in the High Court of Chancery on 
the Admission of Solicitors of that Court; and of 
Expenses incurred in the Examination of Clerks 
previous to Admission, and the Number of Clerks 
so examined in each Term, so far as relates to the 
Court of Exchequer :—And then he withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Return do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Campbell, from the Court of Directors of the 
East India Company, was called in ; and at the bar 
presented, pursuant to Order,—Copy of Despatches 
from India, and other Papers relative to the distri- 
bution of Burmese Prize Money. 

Mr. Campbell also presented, pursuant to the di- 
rections of an Act of Parliament,—List, No. 70, 
specifying the Particulars of the Compensation pro- 

sc to be granted to certain persons of the late 
| Maritime Service of the East India Company under 
an arrangement sanctioned by the Board of Com- 
| missioners for the Affairs of India, and laid before 
‘the Honourable the House of Commons on the 26th 








1833, 1834, 1835 and 1836:—Of the number of | February 1835 :—And then he withdrew. 


Trials which took place before the said High Court 


during these years ; showing in how many the plea of | Tabie. 


Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 


Lord 


Holyhead 
Roads, &amp;c. 


Attornies and 
Solicitors’ 
Admission Fees. 


Burmese 
Prize Money. 


East India 
Company. 





id at 





Marquis of 
Bute’s Estate 
Bill. 


Steam Commu- 
nication with 
India. 


Marquis of 
Donegall’s 
Estate Bill. 


Bolton and 
Preston 
Railway Bill, 








1 Victroriz. 


Lord Viscount Sandon reported from the Com- 
mittee on the Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act 
for exchanging part of the settled Estates of the 
Most honourable the Marquis of Bute and Earl of 
Dumfries, in the County of Glamorgan in England, 
for Estates of the said Marquis, in the Counties of 
Ayr, Wigton, and Bute, in Scotland, and for other 
purposes ; That they had examined the allegations | 
of the Bill, and found the same to be true; and | 
that the Parties concerned had given their consent | 
to the Bill, to the satisfaction of the Committee ; 
and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, 
and directed him to report the same, without Amend- 
ment :—And the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That Lord Viscount Sandon do carry the 
Bill to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this 
House hath agreed to the same, without Amend- 
ment. 


Ordered, That the Select Committee on Steam 
Communication with Jndia, have leave to sit this 
day till six of the clock during the sitting of the 
House. 


The Earl of Belfast reported from the Committee 
on the Bill from the Lords, intituled, An ‘Act to 
enable the Court of Chancery in Jreland to appoint 
other Persons to act under the Family Settlement of 
the Marquis of Donegall and Earl of Belfast, bear- 
ing date the twenty-eighth of October One thou- 
sand eight hundred and twenty-two, in the place 
of Thomas Ball and Thomas Ellis, deceased ; That 
they had examined the allegations of the Bill, 
and found the same to be true ; and that the Parties 
concerned had given their consent to the Bill, to 
the satisfaction of the Committee; and that the 
Committee had gone through the Bill, and directed 
him to report the same, without Amendment :—And 
the Bill was read the third time. 

Resolved, That the Bill do pass. 

Ordered, That the Earl of Belfast do carry the 
Bill to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this 
House hath agreed to the same, without Amend- 
ment. 





The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 
intituled, An Act for making a Railway from Bolton- 
le-Moors to Preston, in the County Palatine of Lan- 
caster; and the same were read, as follow: 

Pr. 1. 1. 22. Leave out “ King’s” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 

Pr. 5. 1. 32, After “ Zancaster” insert Clause 
(A.) 

CravuseE(A.) “ And whereas the iine of the Rail- 
way hereby authorized to be made is laid down from 
a place called Chorley, to Preston, in a direction 
nearly parallel to the line of a certain Railwa 
now in course of construction, called the North 
Union Railway, and it would be attended with 
advantage if the said last-mentioned Railway 
could be made available for the purposes of the 
traffic of the Railway hereby authorized to be 
made between Chorley aforesaid and Preston; 
Be it therefore Enacted, That nothing in this Act 
contained shall extend to authorize or empower 
the said Company hereby incorporated to purchase 
any lands, or to proceed in the formation of any 
part of the said Railway hereby authorized to be 
made, or of any of the works connected therewith 
lying between Harper’s Lane, in Chorley and 
Preston aforesaid until the expiration of Three 
years from the passing of this Act; anything 
herein contained to the contrary in any wise not- 
withstanding.” 

Pr. 6. 1. 13. After “ deposited” insert “ such 
map or plan or section approved of by Parlia- 
ment.” 

Pr. 7. 1.20. Leave out “ His” 
Her.” 


and insert 


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647 


and insert 


b] 


Pr, 9. 1, 22. Leave out “ Twenty’ 
“ Thirty.” 

Pr..9. ls. 26. and 27. After “ Railway ” insert 
Clauses (B.) and (C.) 

Crause (B.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
in making the said Railway it shall not be lawful 
for the said Company to deviate from the levels of 
the said Railway, as referred to the common 
datum-line described on the section so approved 
of by Parliament, and as marked on the same, to 
any extent exceeding in any place Five feet, or, in 
passing through towns Two feet, without the con- 
sent of the owners, lessees and occupiers of the 
land in, through or over which such deviation is in- 
tended to be made ; or in case any street or public 
carriage-road shall be affected by such deviation, 
then the same shall not be made without the con- 
sent of the trustees or commissioners, or, if there 
be no such trustees or commissioners, without 
the consent of Two or more Justices of the Peace 
in petty sessions assembled for that purpose, and 
acting for the district in which such street or pub- 
lic carriage-road may be situate, or without the 
consent of the commissioners for any public 
sewers, or of the proprietors of any canal or navi- 
gation, affected by such deviation ; and that no 
increase in the inclination or gradients of the said 
Railway, as denoted by the said section, shall be 
made in any place to an extent exceeding the rate 
of Three feet per mile; and where in any place it 
is intended to carry the Railway on an arch or 
arches, as marked on the said plan or section, the 
same shall be made accordingly, and where a 
tunnel is marked on the said plan or section, as 
intended to be made at any place, the same shall 
be made accordingly, unless the owners, lessees 
and occupiers of the land in or through which 
such tunnel is intended to be made shall consent 
that the same shall not be so made: Provided 
nevertheless, That it shall be lawful for the said 
Company, with such consent as aforesaid, and not 
otherwise, to make a tunnel or an arch or arches 
as aforesaid, not marked on the said plan or sec- 
tion, so that no such tunnel shall be of a greater 
length than Two hundred yards, and that no two 
tunnels be at a less distance from each other than 
One hundred yards, measured on the line of 
the Railway: Provided always, That notice of 
every petty sessions to be holden for the purpose 
of obtaining such consent as aforesaid shall, within 
Fourteen days previous to the holding of such 
petty sessions, be given in some newspaper cir- 
culating in the county, and also be affixed upon 
the church-door of the parish in which such devia- 
tion or alteration is intended to be made, or, if there 
be no church, some other place tc which notices 
are usually affixed: Provided also, that for the pur- 
pose of consenting to any such deviation from the 
said sections, and to any tunnelling or arching as 
aforesaid, the word ‘ owners’ shall be deemed 
and taken to mean such persons as are herein 
capacitated to agree for the sale of and to convey 
land for the making of the said Railway; and the 
consent of such persons, with or without the con- 
sent of any other persons interested as owners in 
the said lands, shall be deemed and taken to be 
sufficient for such purposes,” 

Cravuse (C.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
it shall not be lawful to diminish the radius of any 
curve from what it is shown to be on the plan 
deposited with the Clerk of the Peace unless such 
radius exceed One mile, nor to diminish it in any 
such case so that it shall become less than One 
mile, nor to diminish any greater radius by more 
than a quarter of a mile unless where it exceeds 
Two miles, or by more than half a mile unless 
where it exceeds Three miles, on the said plan.” 

Pr. 20. 1. 11. Leave out “ they.” 

Pr. 34. 1. 7%. Leave out “ iis “ 
Her.” 


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nx 


and insert 


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648 


Pr. 44. 1.28. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 45. 1.38. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.”’ 

Pr. 45. |. penult. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 50. 1.15. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 57. 1. 5. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 74. 1.21. Leave out “ or” and insert “ and.” 


Pr. 88. Is. penult. and ult. Leave out from 
provided” to “ And” in Pr. 89. 1. 28. 

Pr. 90. 1. 20. Leave out “ present.” 

Pr. 90. 1. 21. After “ Majesty” insert “ King 
William the Fourth.” 

Pr. 97. 1.13. After “ said” insert “ road upon 
the said.” 

Pr. 97. 1.18. After “ made” insert “ and.” 


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Pr. 113. 1.34. Leave out “ His,” and insert 
“ Her.” : 
Pr. 120. 1. 26. Fill up the blank with “ First.” 


Pr. 120. 1. 28. Leave out “ His” and msert 
Her ”’ and in the same line leave out from “ Ma- 
jesty ” to intituled,” in Is. 29. and 30., and insert 
Queen Victoria.” 

Pr. 152. 1. 23. Fill upthe blank with “ First.” 


Pr. 152. 1. 24. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 
Pr. 152. 1. 25. Leave out from “ Majesty” to 


intituled,” in 1. 26., and insert “ Queen Victoria.” 
Pr. 154. |. ult. Leave out “ His” and insert 


? i 

Pr. 159. 1.19. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 159. |. penult. Leave out “ His ” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 160. 1. 32. Leave out “ His” and insert 
° a” 

Pr. 164. 1. 30. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 166. 1.14. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr.191. 1. 4. Leave out “ His” and insert 
* 

Pr. 229. 1. 24. Leave out “ His” and insert 
* Be.” 

Pr. 232. 1. 26. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 248. 1.27. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 251. 1.17. Fill up the blank with “ First.” 

Pr. 251, 1.18. Leave out “ His” and insert 


Her ;”’ and in the same line leave out from “ Ma- 

jesty”’ to “ intituled,” in Is. 19. and 20., and insert 

Queen Victoria.” 
Pr. 257. 1. 30. 


Leave out “ His” and insert 


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A. 1837. 


Pr. 362. 1. 12. Leave out “ present” and in 
the same line after “ Majesty” insert “ King 
“ William the Fourth.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Brotherton do carry the Bill 
to the Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 
intituled, An Act for establishing a General Ceme- 
tery for the Interment of the Dead in or near the 
City of Bristol; and the same were read, as follow : 
Pr. 2. 1. 2. Leave out “ King’s” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 
re Ss. &amp; 
late.” 

Pr. 11. 1. 10. Leave out “ His” and insert 
Her.” 

Pr. 11. 1. 11. Leave out from “ Majesty ” to 
intituled ” in |. 12., and insert “ Queen Victoria.” 

Pr. 13. 1. 22. Leave out “ present,” and insert 
late.” 

Pr. 14. 1. 21. Leave out 
Her.” 

Pr. 14. 1. 29. Leave out “ late.” 

Pr, 28. 1.21. After “ possible” insert “ and 
making full compensation to any person or party 
injured by means of such works.” 

Pr. 29. 1. 12. After “ diocese” insert “ of G'lou- 
cester and Bristol.” 

Pr. 29. 1. 16. Leave out “ at” and insert “ in 
the consecrated part of.” 

Pr. 30. 1. 1. Leave out from “ cause” to “ the” 
in |. 3. 

Pr. 30. 1. 9. After “ Zreland” insert “ and that 
no person shall celebrate the burial service ac- 
cording to such usage, except in the consecrated 
“ part of the said Cemetery.” 

Pr. 30. 1. 37. Leave out “ they.” 

Pr. 30. 1. 38. Leave out “ think fit ” and insert 
“ be approved of by the Bishop of the diocese of 
“ Gloucester and Bristol for the time being.” 


25. Leave out “ present ” and insert 
“ . 


“ 


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“ 


“ His” and insert 


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&lt;&lt; 


Pr. 32. 1. 8. Leave out “ His ” and insert “ Her.”’ 
Pr, 32. 1]. 13. After “ within ” insert “ any part 
* 


b] 


Pr. 32. 1. 20. Leave out from “ any ” to “ the’ 
in |. 22., and insert “ parish or ecclesiastical district 
“ or division of a parish, within the distance of Ten 
“ miles of the said Cemetery.” 

Pr. 32. 1. 25. After “ parish ” insert “ or eccle- 
siastical district or division of a parish.” 

Pr. 32. 1. 27. Leave out from “ the ” to “ And” 
in |. 36., and insert “ sum of Ten shillings, and also 
“ to every person at the time of passing this Act, 
‘ holding the office of the Clerk of the parish, or 
“ other ecclesiastical district or division of the parish 
from which such person shall be removed, so long 


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“ Her.” 

Pr. 261. 1. 20. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“’ Her.” 

Pr. 283. 1. 2. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 299. 1.38. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 330. 1. 3. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 356. 1. penult. Leave out “ His ” and insert 
© Her.” 

Pr. 357. 1. 7. Fill up the blank with “ First.” 

Pr. 357. 1.8. Leave out “ His” and _ insert 
“ Her;” and in the same line leave out from “ Ma- 


jesty ” to “ intituled,” in |. 9., and insert “ Queen 
Victoria.” 
Pr. 357. 1. 


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28. Fill up the blank with “ First.” 


Pr. 357. 1. 29. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 
Pr. 357. 1. 30. Leave out from “ Majesty” to 


“ 
“ 


intituled” in |. 31., and insert “ Queen Victoria.” 
Pr. 360. 1. 9. Leave out “ His” and insert 
Her.” 


“ 





“as he shall hold such office, the sum of One 


shilling.” 

Pr. 42. 1. 6. Leave out “ His ” and insert “ Her,” 
and in the same line leave out from “ Majesty ” to 
“¢ intituled”’ in 1. 7., and insert “ Queen Victoria.” 

Pr. 47. 1. 31. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Ber.” 

Pr. 51. 1. 21; Leave out “ clerk” and insert 
* chaplain.” 

Pr. 52. 1. 8. After “ curate” insert “ Provided 
also, That for the purposes of registry, and for all 
other purposes herein mentioned, the said Ceme- 
tery shall be deemed and taken to be situate in 
the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, although 
the same may be locally situate in any other 
diocese.” 


Pr. 59. 1. 


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25. Leave out “ His” and insert 


Her ” and in the same line leave out from “ Ma- 
jesty ” to “intituled ” in 1. 26., and insert “ Queen 
Victoria.” 





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Pr. 62. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Bristol 
Cemetery Bill, 








Lords’ 
Messages 
considered, 


Post Office. 


Transportation, 


No, 518, 








1 Vicroriz. 


Pr. 62. 1. 38. Leave out “ His” and _ insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 64. 1. 9. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 84. 1. 30. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 97. 1. 8. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 104. 1. 16. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 107. 1.11. Leave out “ His” and insert 
Her.” 

Pr. 108. 1. 2. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 108. 1. 26. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“¢ Her.” 

Pr. 126. 1. 31. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 126. f. ult. Leave out “ His” and insert 


‘‘ Her” and in the same line leave out from “ Ma- 
‘ jesty” to “ intituled ” in Pr. 127. 1. 1., and in- 
sert “ Queen Victoria.” 
Pr. 127. 1.18. Leave out “ His” 
“ Her.” 
Pr. 127. 1.26. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her,” and in the same line leave out from “ Ma- 
“ jesty ” to “ intituled ” in Is. 27. and 28., and in- 
sert “ Queen Victoria.” 
Pr. 128. 1. 28. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 
Pr, 128. 1, 31. Fill up the blank with “ First.” 
Pr. 128. 1. 32. Leave out “ His” and insert 
Her.” 
Pr. 128. 1.33. Leave out from “ Majesty” to 
intituled ”’ in 1. 34., and insert “ Queen Victoria.” 


and insert 


iff 


Pr. 129. 1.8. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 130. 1. 8. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” ' 

Pr. 130. 1. 29. Leave out “ His” and insert 
* Her.” 


Pr. 134. 1. 33. Leave out “ present ” and insert 
late.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Brotherton do carry the Bill 
to the Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
those parts of the Messages from the Lords, of Wed- 
nesday and Thursday last, wherein their Lordships 
request that this House will be pleased to communi- 
cate to their Lordships, Copies of the Reports made 
from the Select Committees appointed by this House 
on the Poor Law Act ;—Fictitious Votes (Ireland) ;— 
Aborigines ( British Settlements) ;—Plan of Educa- 
tion (Ireland) ;—and, the Mint. 

Resolved, That printed Copies of the said Reports 
be communicated io the Lords, as desired by their 
Lordships: And that Mr. Bernal do deliver the 


same. 


Mr. Labouchere presented, by Her Majesty’s com- 
mand,-—The Ninth Report of the Commissioners 
appointed to inquire into the management of the 
Post Office Department. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. : 


Ordered, That the Select Committee appointed to 
inquire into the system of Transportation, its efficacy 
as a punishment, its influence on the moral state 
of Society in the penal Colonies, and how far it is 
susceptible of improvement, have Power to report 
their Observations thereupon to the House ; together 
with the Minutes of the Evidence taken before 
them. 

Sir William Molesworth reported from the said 
Select Committee ; That they had considered the 

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649 


matters to them referred ; and had directed him to 
make a Report thereof to the House, together with 
the Minutes of the Evidence taken before them. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Mr. Warburton reported from the Select Com- Fifth Report 

mittee, to whom several Petitions relative to the om Committee 
Signatures to the Subscription List for the Deptford org 
and Dover Railway, were referred; and to whom Railway Sub- 
certain other Petitions relative to the Subscription scription List 
Lists for several other Railways, were also referred ; ighton rand 
and who were empowered to report their Observa- way (Rennie’s 
tions thereupon, together with the Minutes of the Line.) 
Evidence taken before them from time to time to No. 519. 
the House ; That they had further considered the 
matters to them referred (so far as regards the Sub- 
scription List for the London and Brighton Railway, 
Rennie’s Line,) and had directed him to make a 
Report thereof to the House; together with the 
Minutes of the Evidence taken before them, with an 
Appendix. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Mr. Warburton also reported from the said Select Sixth Report 
Committee ; That they had further considered the mittee [righ 
matters to them referred (so far as regards the Sub- ton, Lewes, and 
scription List for the Brighton, Lewes and Newhaven Newhaven 
Railway), and had directed him to make a Report R#vay-] 
thereof to the House; together with the Minutes of No. 520. 
the Evidence taken before them, with an Appendix. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


A Petition of Bachelors and Under Graduates of Universities. 

the University of Cambridge, praying the House to 
effect a reform in the Universities, so that the great 
object of education may be promoted by these in- 
stitutions more efficiently than it is now, and also 
(if the taking of oaths be not altogether abolished) 
that their observance may be sworn to without per- 
jury, was presented, and read ; and ordered to lie 
upon the Table. 


Petitions from Cambridge (Chairman of a Meet- Poor Law Act. 
ing) ;—Hulme;—and, Stroud ; praying for the repeal 
of the Poor Law Act,—were presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Clergymen of Riddings, praying for Maynooth 
the discontinuance of the annual Grant to Maynooth College. 
College, was presented, and read; and ordered to 
lie upon the Table. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Fletching and Newich, church Rates 
praying that the proposed measure relative to Church Regulation 
ates may receive the sanction of the House, was 
ns li and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
able. 


Mr. Labouchere presented, by Her Majesty’s com- slavery 
mand,— Papers in explanation of the measures Abolition. 
adopted by Her Majesty’s Government for giving No. 521. 
effect to the Act for the abolition of Slavery through- 
out the British Colonies. ‘ 

Mr. Labouchere also presented, pursuant to an . 
Address to Her Majesty,—Copy of a Report from ne 
Colonel Arthur, late Lieutenant-Governor of Van 
Diemen’s Land, on the allegations set forth in the 
Petition of Mr. Andrew Bent, of Hobart Town. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do he upon the 
Table; and that the Paper relative to Slavery Abo- 
lition be printed. 


Sir Andrew Leith Hay presented, pursuant to Ordnance 
Order,—A Statement of the progress which has Survey 
been made in the Ordnance Survey of Ireland. (Ireland.) 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the No. 522. 
Table; and be printed. 


40 A Petition 


Negro Appren- 
ticeship, 


New Churches, 
No. 523. 


Poor Law Act. 


Hand-loom 
Weavers 


Ecclesiastical 
Appointments 
Suspension Bill, 





650 


A Petition of the Chairman of a Meeting of In- 
habitants of Falkirk, praying for the immediate 
abolition of the system of Negro Apprenticeship in 
the Colonies, was presented, and read; and ordered 
to lie upon the Table. 


Mr. Edward John Stanley presented, pursuant to 
the directions of an Act of Parliament,—The Seven- 
teenth Annual Report of Her Majesty’s Commis- 
sioners for building new Churches. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table ; and be printed. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, 
Copies of Letters addressed by order of the Poor Law 
Commissioners to the Guardians of Saffron Walden 
and Swansea, dated April 1837 and July 1837, re- 
specting arrangements for Religious Worship. 

Mr. Edward John Stanley accordingly presented 
the said Paper. 

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 
Table. 


Lord John Russell reported to the House, that their 
Address of the 4th day of this instant July, (that Her 
Majesty would be graciously pleased to issue a Com- 
mission of Inquiry into the condition of the un- 
employed Hand-loom Weavers, and to report whether 
any, and, if so, what, measures can be devised for 
their relief,) had been presented to Her Majesty, and 
that Her Majesty had commanded him to acquaint 
this House, that She will give directions accordingly. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, in- 
tituled, An Act to continue, until the first day of 
August One thousand eight hundred and thirty- 
eight, and to the end of the then Session of Par- 
liament, two Acts of the last Session of Parliament, 
for suspending Appointments to certain Dignities 
and Offices in Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, 
and to Sinecure Rectories, and for preventing the im- 
mediate effects on Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions of the 
measures in progress for the Alteration of Dioceses ; 
and the same were read, as follow : 

At the end of the Bill add Clauses (A.) and (B.) 

Ciause (A.) “ And whereas his late Majesty 
‘ was graciously pleased, in conformity with Ad- 
dresses of the House of Commons, to acquaint 
the said House that he would confer dignities in 
the Church upon the Reverend Frederick Vernon 
“ Lockwood, M.A., the Reverend Edward Repton, 
M.A., and the Reverend Temple Frere, M.A., 
who had severally filled the office of chaplain to 
the said House; Be it hereby Enacted, That 
nothing in this Act shall be construed to preclude 
Her Majesty, if Her Majesty shall so think fit, 
from giving effect to his late Majesty’s gracious 
intention, as expressed in answer to the above- 
mentioned Addresses of the House of Com- 
mons.” 

Crause (B.) “ Provided always, and be it 
Enacted, That nothing contained in this Act shall 
be construed to prevent any Bishop or Arch- 
deacon to whom ecclesiastical jurisdiction and 
authority over any parts of England or Wales 
shall have been given by any order in council 
under the provisions of the said last recited Act 
passed in the Session held in the sixth and seventh 
years of the reign of his late Majesty, from hold- 
ing visitations of the Clergy, and at such visitations 
admitting Churchwardens, receiving presentments, 
and doing all other acts, matters and things by 
custom appertaining to the visitation of Bishops 
and Archdeacons in the places assigned to his 
jurisdiction and authority, under the enactments 
of the said recited Act: Provided also, That no- 
thing contained in this Act shall be construed to 
prevent any Bishop from consecrating a new 
Church or Chapel, or a new Burial-ground within 


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“ his diocese, as assigned by the provisions of the 
“ said recited Act.” 
The first Amendment being read a second time ; 
And a Motion being made, and the Question 
being put, That this House doth disagree with the 
Lords in the said Amendment ; 
The House divided : 
The Yeas to the old Lobby ; 
The Noes to the new Lobby. 


Tellers for the f Mr. Charles Wood, } a” 


Yeas, Mr. Labouchere : 
Tellers for the { Sir Robert Inglis, } - 
Noes, | Mr. Estcourt : ‘ 


So it was resolved in the Affirmative. 

The other Amendment, being read a second time, 
was agreed to. 

Ordered, That a Committee be appointed to draw 
up Reasons to be offered to the a at a Con- 
ference, for disagreeing to the said Amendment :— 
And a Committee was appointed of Lord John Rus- 
sell, Mr. Vernon Smith, Lord Viscount Howick, Mr. 
Labouchere, Mr. Warburton, Mr. Attorney General, 
Mr. Poulett Thomson, Mr. Ellice, Lord Seymour and 
Mr. Hume ; and they are to withdraw immediately. 

Ordered, That Three be the Quorum. 





The House, according to Order, resolved itself Clerks of the 


into a Committee upon the Clerks of the Peace 
Documents Bill; and, after some time spent therein, 
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair; and Mr. Charles 
Wood reported, That the Committee had gone through 
the Bill, and made Amendments thereunto. 

Ordered, That the Report be now received. 

Mr. Charles Wood reported the Bill accordingly; 
and the Amendments were read, as follow : 

Pr. 1. 1. 6. Leave out “ public works,” and in- 
sert “ bridges, turnpike-roads, cuts, canals, reser- 
“ voirs, aqueducts, waterworks, navigations, tunnels, 
archways, railways, piers, ports, harbours, ferries, 
docks and other works, to be made under the 
authority of Parliament.” 

Pr. 1. 1. 18. Leave out “ public.” 

Pr. 1. 1. 26. Leave out “ public.” 

Pr. 1. 1. 27. After “ made” insert “ and with 
other persons.” 

Pr. 2. 1. 3. Leave out “ and ” and after “ post- 
masters ” insert “ and other persons.” 

Pr. 2. 1. 29. Leave out “ and ” and after “ post- 
master ” insert “ and other persons.” 

Pr. 2. 1. 37. After “ them ” imsert “ respec- 
tively.” 

Pr. 3. 1. 31. Fill up the Blank “ One shilling.” 

Pr. 3. 1. 32. After “ inspection ” insert “ and 
the further sum of One shilling for every hour 
during which such inspection shall continue after 
the first hour.” 

Pr. 3. 1. 33. Fill up the Blank with “ Sixpence.” 

Pr, 3. 1. 34. Leave out “word” and insert “ One 
hundred words.” 

Pr. 3. 1. 38. Leave out “ or” and after “ post- 
master” insert “ or other persons.” 

Pr. 4. 1. 1. After “ with” insert “ any of.” 

Pr. 4. 1. 4. Leave out “ or.” 

Pr. 4. 1. 5. After “ postmaster” insert “ or other 
person.” 

re. 4, 4. 
exceeding.” 

Pr. 4. 1. 8. Leave out “ that.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That the Bill be read the third time To- 


morrow. 


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insert “ any sum not 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Tithes Commu- 


Peace Docu- 
ments Bill. 


the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, in- tation Bill. 


tituled, An Act to amend an Act for the Commu- 
tation of Tithes in England and Wales; and the 
same were read, as follow: } 

Pr. 2. 1.13. After “ seal” insert “ Provided 
“ always, That the Commissioners, in case they 
“ shall confirm such voluntary apportionment or 
“ agreement, 


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agreement, but shall not think proper to seal such 
map or plan, shall certify under their hands upon 
some part of such map or plan, that the same is 
the map or plan referred to in such voluntary 
apportionment or agreement, as the case may be, 
which certificate shall be received as evidence of 
that fact.” 

Pr. 4. 1. 15. Leave out from “ pass ” to “ And” 
Pr. 5. 1. 16., and insert Clause (A.) 


Crause (A.) “ And be it Enacted, That any 
person interested in the judgment or determination 
of the said Commissioners or Assistant Commis- 
sioner, respecting the said boundaries, who shall 
be dissatisfied with such determination, may, 
within Six calendar months next after the pub- 
lication of the said boundaries, by delivering or 
leaving such description as aforesaid, move the 
Court of Queen’s Bench to remove the said judg- 
ment by certiorari into the said Court, the party 
making such application giving Eight day’s notice 
of such application, and of the matter and ground 
thereof in writing to the said Commissioners}; and 
the decision of the said Commissioners or As- 
sistant Commissioner, or, in case of removal as 
aforesaid, the decision of the said Court therein, 
shall be final and conclusive as to the boundaries 
of such parish or district for all purposes what- 
soever ; and after the expiration of the said term 
of Six calendar months, the judgment shall not 
be removed or removable by certiorari, or any 
other writ or process whatsoever, into any of Her 
Majesty’s Courts of Record at Westminster, or 
elsewhere ; and no certiorari shall be allowed to 
remove any such judgment, unless the party pro- 
secuting the certiorari shall, before allowance 
thereof, enter into a recognizance before one of 
the Justices of the said Court in the sum of Fifty 
pounds, with condition to prosecute the same with- 
out wilful delay, and to pay to the said Commis- 
sioners their full costs and charges, within One 
calendar month after the judgment shall be con- 
firmed, to be taxed according to the custom of 
the Court.” 

Pr. 6. |. 6. After “therein ” insert Clauses (B.) 


and (C.) 


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Cravuse (B.) “ And be it Enacted, That it shall 
not be necessary to state in any instrument of 
voluntary apportionment, made in consequence of 
a parochial agreement, whether the several lands 
are then cultivated as arable, meadow or pasture 
land, or as wood land, common land, or howsoever 
otherwise, nor to state the amount charged on the 
several closes of every individual land-owner, if 
Three-fourths of the land-owners interested in the 
said apportionment shall, by some writing under 
their hands, request the Commissioners to direct 
that such statements be omitted.” 

Crause (C.) “ And be it Enacted, That it shall 
not be necessary for the Commissioners to send 
a copy of any draft of voluntary apportionment 
made in consequence of a parochial agreement 
for the inspection of any parties, nor to hold any 
meeting to hear any objection thereto, when one 
land-owner shall be seised either in fee-simple or 
fee-tail of the whole of the lands that are not 
glebe lands in such parish.” 


Pr, 9. 1. 15. Leave out from “ the ” to “ regard ” 


inl. 18., and insert “time at which, by the said 


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agreement for Commutation, the lands shall be 
discharged from the payment of tithe.” 

Pr. 9. Is. 34. and 35. After “ preceding ” insert 
or from the first day of April, or first day of July, 
or first day of October, preceding or following.” 

Pr. 10. 1. 4. Leave out from “ the” to “ the” 


in 1, 5., and insert “ expiration of Six calendar 


“ 


months from.” 


At the end of the Bill add Clause (D.) 
Ciause (D.) “ And be it Enacted, That this 


“« Act shall be taken to be a part of the said Act 





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“ for the Commutation of Tithes in England and 
“&lt; Wales.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Theatres 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, Regus 
intituled, An Act to amend an Act of the tenth — 
year of his Majesty King George the Second, to 

explain and amend so much of an Act made in the 

twelfth year of the reignof Queen Anne, intituled, ‘An 

Act for reducing the Laws relating to Rogues, Vaga- 
bonds, Sturdy Beggars, and Vagrants, into one Ket 
of Parliament, and for the more effectual punishing 
such Rogues, Vagabonds, Sturdy Beggars and Va- 
grants, and sending them whither they ought to be 
sent;” and the same were read as follow: 


Pr. 1. 1.1. Leave out from “ Whereas” to 
“ Be” in Pr. 4. 1. 2, and insert “ it is expedient to 
“ prevent the recurrence of practices which have 
“ occasioned scandal to religion.” 

Pr. 4. 1.3. Leave out “ King’s”’ and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 

Pr. 4. 1. 10. Leave out from “no” to “on” 
in |. 15., and insert “ Theatre, nor house or place 
“ licensed for music or dancing under an Act passed 
in the twenty-fifth year of his late Majesty King 
“ George the Second, intituled, ‘ An Act for the 
better preventing Thefts and Robberies, and for 
regulating Places of Public Entertainment, and 
punishirg Persons keeping Disorderly Houses,’ 
nor house or place licensed for music and dancing 
under an Act passed in the twenty-eighth year of 
“ his late Majesty King George the Third, intituled, 
“An Act to enable Justices of the Peace to 
license Theatrical Representations occasionall 
under the Restrictions therein contained,’ shall 
be opened to the public.” 


Pr. 4. 1. 23. Leave out from “ Mourning” to 
“ and” and in Pr. 6. 1. 33., and insert Clause (A.) 


Cuause (A.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
if any Theatre, or house or place licensed for 
music and dancing under the above recited Acts, 
or either of them, shall be opened to the public 
on any of the above-mentioned days, the license 
or licenses under which the said places are per- 
mitted to be opened, shall be null and void, and 
“ the persons holding the same shall be liable to 
“ all the penalties and forfeitures to which they 
“ would be liable if the said license or licenses 
had never been granted.” 

Pr. 7. 1. 1. Leave out from “ Household” to 


and” in 1. 15., and insert “ except as hereby pro- 
“ vided.” 


In the Title to the Bill ; 
Line 1. Leave out from the first “ Act’’ to the 


end of the Title, and insert “ for the Regulation of 
“ Theatres.” 


Ordered, That the said Amendments be taken 
into further consideration upon this day three 
weeks. 


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The Order of the day being read, for taking into Municipal 
consideration, the Reason offered by the Lords, at Corporations 
a Conference, for disagreeing to an Amendment to ~'” 
the Municipal Corporations Bill ; 

Ordered, That the said Reason and Amendment 
be taken into consideration To-morrow. 


Ordered, That there be laid before this House, a Newspaper 
Return of the Number of Stamps issued monthly 5t™ps. 
to each of the Provincial Papers in England and 
Wales from 1st January 1837 to 30th June, both days 
inclusive ; of the Number of Advertisements pub- 
lished in each Newspaper for the same period ; and, 

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Message from 
the Lords. 


Masters and 
Workmen Bill. 


Beet Root 
Sugar Bill. 


Cruelty to 
Animals 
(Ireland) Bill, 


London and 
Greenwich 
Railway 
(No. 2.) Bill. 


East India 
Postage Bill. 


Tithe Advances 
(Ireland ) Bill. 


Fishguard 
Harbour Bill. 


East Thickley 
and Frosterley 
Railway Bill, 


Glasgow and 
Ayr Railway 
Bill. 


Stockport 
Improvement 
Bill. 


Dublin Wide 
Streets Bill, 


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of the amount of Duty on Advertisements paid by 
each Paper for the same period. 


A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Farrer and 

Mr. Brougham : 
Mr. Speaker, 

The Tide have agreed to the several Bills follow- 
ing, without Amendment ; viz. 

A Bill, intituled, An Act to amend an Act of the 
fifth year of His Majesty King George the Fourth, 
for consolidating and amending the Laws relative 
to the Arbitration of Disputes between Masters and 
Workmen : 

A Bill, intituled, An Act to impose certain Duties 
of Excise on Sugar made from Beet Root in the 
United Kingdom : 

A Bill, intituled, An Act to extend to Ireland 
the Act of the fifth and sixth years of his late 
Majesty’s reign, consolidating and amending the 
Laws relating to the cruel and improper Treatment 
of Animals : 

A Bill, intituled, An Act to enable the London 
and Greenwich Railway Company to take certain 
Tolls for Passengers, Cattle and Carriages crossing 
the River Ravensborne, in pursuance of an Agree- 
ment entered into with “ the Deptford Creek 
Bridge Company :” And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
Act to impose Rates of Packet Postage on East 
India Letters, and to amend certain Acts relating 
to the Post Office, with Amendments; to which 
Amendments the Lords desire the concurrence of 
this House: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
Act to revive and continue an Act of the last Ses- 
sion of Parliament for suspending Proceedings for 
recovering Payment of the Money advanced under 
the Acts for establishing Tithe Compositions in Jre- 
land, with Amendments ; to which Amendments the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House: And 
also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
Act for improving the Harbour and Port of Fish- 
guard, otherwise Abergwain, in the County of Pem- 
broke, with Amendments; to which Amendments 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House: 
And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
Act for incorporating certain Persons for the making 
and maintaining a Railway from near the Black 
Boy Branch of the Stockton and Darlington Rail- 
way, in the Township of Saint Andrew, Auckland, 
,to or near to Witton Park Colliery, with a Branch 
therefrom, all in the County of Durham, to be 
called “ The Bishop Auckland and Weardale Rail- 
way,’ with Amendments ; to which Amendments the 
Lords desire the concurrence of this House: And 
also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
Act for making a Railway from Glasgow to Paisley 
and Ayr, and from a point on the said Railway near 
Blairland to Kilmarnock, to be called “ The Glas- 
gow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway,” with 
Branches, with Amendments; to which Amend- 
ments the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House: And also, ; 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
Act for improving and regulating the Borough of 
Stockport, in the several Counties of Chester and 
Lancaster, with Amendments; to which Amend- 
ments the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
Act to extend, alter, and enlarge the Powers of 
several Acts for enabling the Commissioners of 
Wide Streets in Dublin to widen and improve cer- 
tain Ways, Streets and Passages in the said City 
and County of Dudlin, and for raising further Funds 
to enable the said Commissioners to carry the same 
into execution, with Amendments ; to which Amend- 


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ments the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House :—And then the Messengers withdrew. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Fishguard 


the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 
intituled, An Act for improving the Harbour and 
Port of Fishguard, otherwise Abergwain, in the 
County of Pembroke ; and the same were read, as 
follow : 

Pr. 2. 1. 28. Leave out “ King’s” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 

Pr. 13. 1.11. Leave out “ seventh ” and insert 
“ Gest.” 

Pr. 13.1. 12. Leave out from “ of” to “ inti- 
“ tuled,” in Is. 13. and 14. and insert “ Queen 
Victoria.” 

Pr. 17. 1.25. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 20. 1.15. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 23. 1.15. Leave out “ His” and imsert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 43. 1.15. Leave out “ His” and _ insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 46. 1.27. Leave out from “ which” to 
pounds,” in }. 28., and insert “ One hundred and 
Sg ee thousand one hundred and ten.” 

r. 56. 1. 32. Leave out “ seventh” and insert 
* 

Pr. 56. 1. 33. Leave out from “ of” to “ in- 
tituled,” in 1. 34., and insert “Queen Victoria.” 

Pr. 61. 1. 30. Leave out “ His” and insert 
* Be.” 

Pr, 70. 1. 8. Leave out “ His” and _ insert 
* Her.” 

Pr, 82. 1. 37. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 95. 1. 7 Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 95. 1. 11. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 95. 1. 21. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 103. 1. 1. Leave out “ seventh” and insert 
“ first.” 

Pr. 103. 1. 2. Leave out from “ of” to “ in- 
tituled,”’ in 1. 3., and insert “ Queen Victoria.” 

Pr. 103. 1. 6. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 103. 1. 27. Leave out “ His” and insert 


Pr. 111. 1. 36. Leave out “ His” and insert 
Pr. 129. l. 18. Leave out “ His” and insert 


Pr. 129. 1. 26. Leave out “ seventh” and in- 
sert “ first.” 

Pr. 129. 1. 27. Leave out from “ of” to “ in- 
“ tituled,” in Is. 28. and 29., and insert “ Queen 
“ Victoria.” 

Pr. 131. 1. 21. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 136. 1. 28. Leave out “ His” and insert 
‘re. 

Pr. 136. 1. 31. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 

Pr. 137. 1. 16. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second 
time, were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Chalmers do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration East Thickley 


the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 
intituled, An Act for incorporating certain Persons 
for the making and maintaining a Railway from 
near the Black Boy Branch of the Stockton and 
Darlington 











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Darlington Railway, in the Township of Saint An- 
drew, Auckland, to or near to Witton Park Colliery, 
with a Branch therefrom, all in the County of Dur- 
ham, to be called “ The Bishop Auckland and 

Weardale Railway ;” and the same were read, as 
follow : 

Pr. 6. 1. 27. After “ Durham” insert “ and 
whereas the said map or plan and section have 
been approved of by Parliament, as the map or 
“ plan and section according to which such Rail- 
“ way is to be made.” 

Pr. 9.1. 8. Leave out from “ Act” to “ And” 
in Pr. 10. 1. 11., and insert Clauses (A.) and (B.) 

Cuause (A.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
in making the said Railway, it shall not be lawful 
for the said Company to deviate from the levels 
“ of the said Railway as referred to the common 
“* datum line on the section so approved of by Par- 
“ liament, and as marked on the same, to any 
“ extent, exceeding in any place Five feet, or, in 
“ passing through towns, Two feet, without the 
** consent of the owners, lessees and occupiers of the 
“ Jands in, through or over which such deviation is 
“‘ intended to be made; or in case any street or 
“ public carriage-road shall be affected by such 
“ deviation, then the same shall not be made with- 
“ out the consent of the trustees or commissioners, 
“ or, if their, be no such trustees or commissioners, 
“ without the consent of Two or more Justices of 
“ the Peace in petty sessions assembled for that 
“* purpose, and acting for the district in which such 
“ street or public carriage-road may be situate, or 
“* without the consent of the commissioners for 
** any public sewers, or of the proprietors of any 
“ canal or navigation affected by such deviation ; 
“‘ and that no increase in the inclination or gradi- 
“ ents of the said Railway as denoted by the said 
* section, shall be made in any place to an extent 
“ exceeding the rate of Three feet per mile; and 
“‘ where in any case it is intended to carry the 
“* Railway on an arch or arches, as marked on the 
“‘ said plan or section, the same shall be made 
accordingly ; and where a tunnel is marked on 
the said plan or section, as intended to be made 
“ at any place, the same shall be made accordingly, 
“ unless the owners, lessees and’ occupiers of the 
“ Jand in or through which such tunnel is intended 
“ to be made shall consent that the same shall not 
“ be somade: Provided nevertheless, That it shall 
“ be lawful for the said Company, with such consent 
“ as aforesaid and not otherwise, to make a tunnel 
“ or an arch or arches as aforesaid, not marked on 
“ the said’ plan or section, so that no such tunnel 
“ shall be of a greater length than Two hundred 
“ yards, and that no two tunnels shall be at a less 
“* distance from each other than One hundred yards, 
“‘ measured on the line of the Railway: Provided 
“ always, That notice of every petty sessions to be 
“ holden for the purpose of obtaining such consent 
“ as aforesaid, shall, Fourteen days previous to the 
“ holding of such petty sessions, be given in some 
“‘ newspaper circulated in the said county of Dur- 
“ ham, and also be affixed upon the church-door of 
“ the parish in which such deviation or alteration is 
“* intended to be made, or, if there be no church, 
“‘ some other place to which noiices are usually 
“« affixed ; Provided also, that for the purpose of 
“ consenting to any such deviation from the said 
“ section, and toany tunnelling or arching as afore- 
“ said, the word ‘ owners,’ shall be deemed and 
“* taken to mean such persons as are herein capa- 
“ citated to agree for the sale of and to convey 
“ Jand for the making of the said Railway; and 
“ the consent of such persons, with or without the 
“* consent of any other persons interested as owners 
“ in the said lands, shall be deemed and taken to 
“ be sufficient for such purposes.” 

Cuause (B.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 

“ it shall not be lawful to diminish the radius of 

“* any curve from what it is shown to be on the 
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“ plan deposited with the Clerk of the Peace, un- 
‘ less such radius exceed One mile, nor to diminish 
it in any such case so that it shall become 
less than One mile, nor to diminish any greater 
radius by more than a quarter of a mile unless 
where it exceeds Two miles, or by more than half 
a mile, unless where it exceeds Three miles, on the 
“ said Plan.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Chalmers do carry the Bill to 
the Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration, Glasgow and 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, Ayr Railway 
intituled, An Act for making a Railway from Glas- ®" 


gow to Paisley and Ayr, and from a point on the 
said Railway near Blairland to Kilmarnock, to be 
called “ The Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and 
Ayr Railway,” with Branches ; and the same were 
read, as follow: 

Pr. 1. 1. 30. Leave out “ King’s” and insert 
“ Queen’s.” 

Pr. 8. 1. 27. After “ plans” insert “ and sec- 
tions” and in the same line after “ the” insert 
“ centre.” ‘ 

Pr. 8. 1. 28. After “ line ” insert “ and levels.” 
Pr. 8. 1. 30. Leave out “ same” and insert 
“ Railway.” 

Pr. 9. 1. 3. After “ Ayr” insert “ and the said 
plans and sections, so far as the same are not 
“ altered by the plans and sections to be deposited 
“as hereinafter mentioned, together with the said 
" sce and sections to be deposited as aforesaid, 

ave been approved of by Parliament, as the plans 
and sections according to which the said Railwa 
and the branches therefrom are hereby authorized 
“ to be made.” 

Pr. 9.1. 4. After “ plans” insert “ sections.” 

Pr. 9. 1. 13. After “ plans” insert “ sections.” 

Pr. 9. 1. 23. After “ plans” insert “ sections.” 

Pr. 9.1. 34. After “ plans ” insert “ sections.” 

Pr. 10. 1. 4. Leave out “ maps” and insert “a 
“ map.” 

Pr. 10. 1. 5. Leave out “ plans” and insert 
“ plan and section.” 

Pr. 10. 1. 6. After “ lines” insert “ and levels.” 

Pr. 10. 1. 7. Leave out “ intended to be altered ” 
and insert “ approved of by Parliament.” 

Pr. 10. 1. 10. Leave out “ and.” 

Pr. 10. 1,17. Leave out from “ Ayr” to “ Pro- 
“ vided ” in ]. 30., and insert Clause (A.) ’ 

Cxiauses (A.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
“ it shall not be lawful for the said Company to 
“ proceed in the execution of the said: Railway 

eon ola authorized to be made, unless the 

“ said Company shall have, previously to the com- 
“ mencement of such work, deposited with the 
“ Clerk of the Peace of the several counties ee 
“ which the said Railway hereby authorized to be 
“‘ made is intended to pass, a plan and section of all 
“ such alterations from the original plan and section 
“ as shall have been approved of by Parliament, on 
“ the same scale, and containing the same particu- 
“ Jars as the original plan and section of the Rail- 
“ way, and also with the schoolmasters of the several 
“ parishes in or through which such alterations shall 
“‘ have been authorized to be made copies or ex- 
“ tracts of or from such plans and sections as shall 
“ relate to such parishes respectively ; and all persons 
“ interested shall have liberty to inspect and make 
“ extracts from and copies of the said plans and 
“ sections, or extracts or copies thereof, paying to 
“ the Clerk of the Peace or the schoolmaster of the 
“ parish having the custody of such plan and section, 
“ or of such extract or copy, the sum of One shilling 
“ for every such inspection, and after the rate of 
“ Sixpence for every One hundred words copied 
“ therefrom.” 


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Pr. 11. 1. 33. Leave out “and” and insert 
which consent shall specify the mode in which 
the said Railway is to be so carried over or on the 
said harbour and street, and shall be sufficient 
authority to the said Company for constructing 
the same according thereto, but.” 

Pr. 11. 1. 35. Leave out “ and” and insert “ as.” 

Pr. 11.1. 36. After “ proper” insert “ anything 
in this Act contained to the contrary notwith- 
standing.” 

Pr. 12. 1.3. Leave out “ from” and in the same 


line after “ the’’ insert “ said.” 


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Pr. 12. 1. 5. Leave out from “ deposited” to 
with ” in I. 6. 

Pr. 13. 1. 9. After “ power ” insert “ without the 
consent of the proprietors.” 

Pr. 13. ]. 17. Leave out from “ nor” to the first 
to” inl. 18. 

Pr. 13.1. 19. Leave out “ said.” 

Pr. 13. 1. 23. After “ Lochwinnock”’ insert “ nor 
more than ten yards to the south of the said line, 
in passing through the field numbered 47, in the 
said parish.”’ 


Pr. 13. 1. 28. After “ parish” insert “ nor more | ° 


than ten yards to the east, or fifty yards to the 
west, of the said line, in passing through the fields 
numbered 33 and 29, in the parish of Kilwinning,” 


and in the same line, leave out “ to deviate.” 


Pr. 13. 1. 37. Leave out “ to be.” 
Pr. 14. 1. 18. After “ thereof” insert Clauses 


(B.), (C.) and (D.) 


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Cuiause (B.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
in making the said Railway it shall not be lawful 
for the said Company to deviate from the levels 
of the said Railway, as referred to the common 
datum line described on the section so approved 
by Parliament, and as marked on the same, to an 
extent exceeding in any place Five feet, or, in 
passing through towns, Two feet, without the con- 
sent of the owners, lessees and occupiers of the 
land in, through or over which such deviation is 
intended to be made; or in case any street or 
public carriage-road shall be affected by such de- 
viation, then the same shall not be made without 
the consent of the trustees or commissioners, or, if 
there be no such trustees or commissioners, with- 
out the consent of two or more Justices of the 
Peace in petty sessions assembled for that pur- 
pose, and acting for the district in which such 
street or public carriage-road may be situate, or 
without the consent of the commissioners for 
any public sewers, or of the proprietors of any 
canal or navigation affected by such deviation ; 
and that no increase in the inclinatidtg or gra- 
dients of the said Railway, as denoted by the said 
section, shall be made in any place to an extent 
exceeding the rate of Three feet per mile; and 
where in any place it is intended to carry the 
Railway on an arch or arches, as marked on the 
said plan or section, the same shall be made 
accordingly ; and where a tunnel is marked on 
the said plan or section, as intended to be made 
at any place, the same shall be made accordingly, 
unless the owners, lessees and occupiers of the 
land in or through which such tunnel is intended 
to be made shall consent that the same shall not be 
so made: Provided nevertheless, That it shall be 
lawful for the said Company, with such consent 
as aforesaid and not otherwise, to make a tunnel 
or an arch or arches as aforesaid, not marked on 
the said plan or section, so that no such tunnel 
shall be of a greater length than Two hundred 
yards, and that no two tunnels ,be at a less dis- 
tance from each other than One hundred yards, 
measured on the line of the Railway: Provided 
always, That notice of every petty sessions to be 
holden for the purpose of obtaining such consent 
as aforesaid, shall, within Fourteen days previous 
to the holding of such petty sessions, be given in 
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be affixed upon the church-door of the parish in 
which such deviation or alteration is intended to be 
made, or, if there be no church, some other place 
to which notices are usually affixed; provided 
also, that for the purpose ‘of consenting to any 
such deviation from the said sections, and to any 
tunnelling or arching ‘as aforesaid, the word 
‘owners, shall be deemed and taken to mean 
such persons as are herein capacitated to agree 
for the sale of and to convey land for the making 
of the said Railway; and the consent of nae 
persons, with or without the consent of any other 
persons interested as owners in the said lands, 
shall be deemed and taken to be sufficient for 
such purposes.” 

Crause (C.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
it shall not be lawful to diminish the radius of 
any curve from what it is shown to be on the 
plan deposited with the Clerk of the Peace, 
unless such radius exceed One mile, nor to dimi- 
nish it in any such case so that it shall become 
less than One mile, nor to diminish any greater 
radius by more than a quarter of a mile unless 
where it exceeds Two miles, or by more than half 
a mile unless where it exceeds Three miles on the 
said plan.” 

CriauseE (D.) “ Provided always, and be it fur- 
ther Enacted, That nothing herein contained shall 
extend to authorize the said line of Railway to be 
carried nearer to the house of Greenlaw, the resi- 
dence of Mrs. Marianne Kibble, in the Abbey 
parish of Paisley, than as shown on the plan 
thereof deposited with the Clerk of the Peace for 
the county of Renfrew, without the consent in 
writing of the said Mrs. Marianne Kibble or her 
successors in the said property of Greenlaw.” 

Pr. 15.1. 9. Leave out “ Borassie” and insert 
Barassie.” 

Pr. 15. 1. 11. Leave out “ Borassie ” and insert 
Barassie.” 

Pr. 15. 1. 16. After “ mentioned ” insert “ unless 
with the consent in writing of the owners of the 
lands through which the line would pass, between 
Barassie mill and the aforesaid harbour of Troon 
or of the greater part thereof.” 

Pr. 15.1. 22. Leave out “ Borassie” and insert 
Barassie.” 

Pr. 15. 1. 30. Leave out “ Borassie”’ and insert 
Barassie.” 

Pr. 15. 1. 34. Leave out “ Borassie” and insert 
Barassie.” 

Pr. 16. 1. 4. Leave out “ Borassie,” and insert 
Barassie.” 

Pr. 17. 1. 2. After “ Duke ” insert “ or his suc- 
cessors.” 

Pr. 18. 1. 27. After “ park ” insert “ policy.” 

Pr. 22. 1. 22. After “thereon ” insert “ Provided 
also, That nothing herein contained shall autho- 
rize or empower the said Fe se to enter upon 
any lands belonging to his Grace the Duke of 
Portland, between the Cross-street at Troon and 
at the Harbour of Troon, or between the road 
passing near Willoxtown Boys and the north 
boundary of the plantation near Sandhill Cottage, 
except upon the line of the said Railway itself, 
for the purpose of digging or taking therefrom 
any earth, stone, rubbish, gravel or sand, or any 
other materials requisite for making, maintaining, 
altering or repairing the said Railway, without 
giving Fourteen days’ previous notice thereof in 
writing to the said Duke, or his factor or agent, 
or leaving the same at his usual place of abode ; 
and in case the said Duke, his heirs or successors, 
shall thereupon point out any other place or places 
belonging to him or them where sufficient and 
proper materials -an be obtained for the purposes 
aforesaid, such ‘ce or places not being situate 
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said Company to dig, get and take away such 
materials from such last mentioned place or places, 
then and in such case the said Company shall 
“ not be authorized or empowered to enter for the 
purposes aforesaid upon such first mentioned lands, 
“ or upon any part thereof.” 

Pr. 26. 1. 30. After “ canal ” insert “ and John 
M‘Gee.” 

Pr. 26. 1. 38. After “ street” insert “ parallel 
“ to that street.” 

Pr. 27. 1. 5. 
“ north.” 

Pr. 28. 1.16. Leave out “ Kimnighouse” and 
insert “ Kinnighouse.” 

Pr. 31. 1. 6. Leave out “and” and insert “ or.” 

Pr. 35. 1.12. Leave out from “ required” to 
“ to” in 1. 18. 

Pr, 35. 1. 14. Leave out “all” and insert “ such 
“ parts of any,” and in the same line after “ public ” 
insert “ or private.” a 

Pr. 35. 1.15. Leave out “ which they” and in- 
sert “as” and in the saine line leave out “ interfere ” 
and insert “ be interfered.” 

Pr. 35. 1. 16. Leave out “ in the construction ” 
and insert “ by the works.” 

Pr. 35. 1.17. Leave out “ which they” and in- 
sert “ as.” 

Pr. 35. 1. 18. Leave out “ substitute ” and insert 
“ be substituted,” and in the same line after “roads ” 
insert “ during the construction of such works.” 

Pr. 35. 1. 21. Leave out from “ road ” to “ the” 
in 1. 23. 

Pr. 36. 1. 28. After “ that” insert “ except as 
“ herein otherwise provided.” 

Pr. 37. 1. 31. Leave out from “feet ” to “ and” 
in 1, 32. 

Pr. 38. 1. 16. After “that” insert “ except as 
“ herein otherwise provided.” 

Pr. 47. Is. 24. and 25. After “Company ” insert 
Clauses (E.), (F.) and (G.) 

Cxiauss (E.) “ And whereas the said Railway is 
intended to be carried through part of the county 
“ of Ayr in such a manner as to prejudice the re- 
“ venue of certain turnpike-roads in that county, 
viz. The Lochlibo district of roads, comprehending 
“ the road from the Girdle near Irvine, to the ex- 
“ tremity of Ayrshire, near Lochlibo, and the road 
“ from Kilwinning, by Monkredding, to the said 
road, near Authentibben; and second, the Clark- 
bridge district of roads, comprehending the road 
“ from Kilwinning, by Beith and Dalry, to Clarks- 
“ bridge, and the road from Dalry to Marchbridge: 
“ And whereas considerable sums of money have 
“* been expended for improvements on the said roads, 
“ and the said trustees have rendered themselves 
“ individually responsible for the payment thereof; 
“ videlicet, upon the Lochlibo roads for Six thousand 
seven hundred and sixty-five pounds of principal 
“ sums, exclusive of interest, and upon the Clarks- 
“ bridge roads for Five thousand and three hundred 
pounds of principal ; and it has been deemed ex- 
“ pedient that the said trustees should, under the 
special circumstances of the case, be relieved from 
personal liability in respect of a portion of the 
said debts as after mentioned: Be it therefore 
Enacted, That the said Company shall, and they 
“ are hereby required, at or before the completion 
and opening of the said Railway for the whole 
distance, between Glasgow and Irvine, to pay or 
advance to the trustees on the said Locklibo dis- 
“ trict of roads the sum of Eight hundred pounds, 
“ and shall and they are hereby required, at or before 
the completion and opening of the said Railway 
“ for the whole distance between Johnstone and 
“ Kilwinning, to pay or advance to the trustees on 
“ the said Clarksbridge district of roads, the sum 
“‘ of One thousand and two hundred pounds, with 
interest upon those respective sums from the period 
“* before specified until payment, which several sums 
“ shall be applied by the said trustees respectively 
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at the sight of the Company, pro tanto, toward® 
uplifting the principal of the debts now due and 
owing by the said districts of roads none 
and for which the said trustees are so personally 
hable as aforesaid.” 

Cravuse (F.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
the said sums, when so respectively paid and ap- 
plied as aforesaid, shall, with interest thereon as 
after mentioned, be and remain valid and effectual 
charges upon the said respective districts of roads 
lastly hereinbefore mentioned, postponed, so far 
as regards the sum of Eight hundred pounds in 
respect of the Lochlibo district of roads to, and 
ranking next preferably after, the sum of Five 
thousand nine hundred and sixty-five pounds, 
which will be the balance of the said principal 
money due thereon, after applying the aforesaid 
sum of Eight hundred pounds, as on Taplow see . 
and in so far as regards the aforesaid sum of One 
thousand and two hundred pounds in respect of 
the said Clarksbridge district of roads, postponed 
to, and ranking next preferably after, the sum of 
Four thousand and one hundred pounds, which 
will be the balance of the said principal money 
due thereon, after applying the aforesaid sum of 
One thousand and two hundred pounds in respect 
thereof, as before mentioned: Provided always, 
That, notwithstanding the postponement of the 
re-payment of the said two sums respectively as 
aforesaid, the said Company shall be entitled to 
draw interest thereon from the dates of advance 
at the same rate as shall be charged at the time 
on the said preferable debts out of such surplus 
mcome as shall remain after applying the income 
of the tolls levied on the said two districts respec- 
tively in keeping in repair the roads in those dis- 
tricts, and paying the interest of the said preferable 
debts, and also in accumulating an annual sinking 
fund of Five pounds per centum on the said pre- 
ferable debts, to be applied towards extinction of 
the principal thereof; but until the income of the 
tolls of the said two districts shall be sufficient 
to keep the roads in those districts respectively 
in repair, and to pay the interest of the said prior 
debts, and to accumulate an annual sinking fund 
at Five pounds per centum in each district as 
aforesaid, the’ said Company shall not be entitled 
to draw or receive any interest on the said two 
sums to be advanced by them as before mentioned ; 
and the said trustees are hereby authorized and 
directed, upon the request of the said Company, 
to execute in favour of the said Company, and at 
their expense, such receipts, conveyances and 
entries in their books or deeds, as may from time 
to time be deemed necessary for securing to them 
and their assigns the re-payment of the sums to 
be advanced by them, and interest thereon, in the 
terms before expressed.” 

Criause (G.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
until the said money so to be paid or advanced 
by the said Company to the trustees of the said 
two last mentioned districts of roads respectively 
and interest thereon, shall be repaid, the said 
Company shall, from and after the date of the 
said respective advances, be authorized and em- 
powered by their chairman or deputy chairman, 
or one of their directors, or the secretary or the 
agent of the Company, to attend the several meet- 
ings of the said trustees ay when and 
so often as the same may be held, and to vote as 
a trustee in the management of the said respective 
roads, and to exercise a veto on any resolution 
occasioning an extraordinary expenditure or dimi- 
nution of the annual revenue thereof, subject never- 
theless to appeal by the said trustees to the com- 
missioners on the highlands roads, or to some other 
body or person to be mutually chosen by the said 
trustees respectively, and by the said Company.” 

Pr. 48. 1. 13. After “ canal” insert “ Provided 
nevertheless, That at the said point of the canal 

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between West-street and a point Five hundred feet 
west thereof, the said Railway Company shall not 
be authorized or empowered to alter the line or 
level of the said canal or towing-path, nor to ap- 
proach nearer than Three feet from the fence of 
the said towing-path.” 

Pr. 48. 1. 25. After “ thereof” insert “ but so 
that such bridges shall not approach nearer to 
the present bridges than as laid down on the said 
map or plan.” 

Pr. 49. 1. 4. Leave out “ Eight” and insert 
Ten.” 

Pr. 49. 1. 5. Leave out “ and a half.” 

Pr. 49. 1. 6. After “path” insert “ and the said 
Railway Company shall, and they are hereby re- 
quired, to construct the towing-path under each 
such bridge, in the like mamer, and of the like 
materials as and of which the towing-path under 
the other bridges of the said canal are constructed.” 

Pr. 50. 1. 29. Leave out from “and ” to “ with- 
out” in I. 30. ' 

Pr. 50. 1. 32. After “ walls” insert “ or other 
property.” 

Pr. 50. 1. 34. After “ necessary” insert “ and 
in such situations as shall be determined.” 

Pr. 53. 1. 6. After “ part” insert Clause (H.) 

Cuause (H.) “ And be it Enacted, That all the 
provisions herein contained relative to the said 
Glasgow, Paisley and Ardrossan Canal, shall, in 
so far as the same relate to the said joint line from 
Glasgow to Paisley, be applicable and in force in 
relation to such joint line, whether the same shall 
be formed by the said Company hereby incor- 
porated, or by the said Railway Company jointly 
with any other Company.” 

Pr. 53. 1.14. After “the” sert “ versate sine, 
or.” 

Pr. 53. 1. 25. Leave out “ present”’ and insert 
late.” 

Pr. 53. 1. 26. After “ Majesty ” insert “ William 
the Fourth.” 

Pr. 54. 1. 22. After “ width” insert “ clear.” 

Pr. 54. 1. 34. After “ width” imsert “and the 
passage for foot passengers on each side of that 
carriage-way shall be of the clear width of not 
less than Twelve feet.” 

Pr. 54. 1. penult. Leave out “and Clyde-place.” 

Pr. 55. 1. 31. After “ beams ” insert “ except 
the bridge over the lane, called Stoney Brae, 
which may be constructed so as to leave a clear 
height of not less than Eleven feet with the road 
under the same, of such inclination as may be 
conveniently given, provided it does not exceed 
the present inclination of the said road where 
such bridge shall be erected.” 

Pr. 55. 1. penult. Leave out “ Millar” and in- 


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Crauss (I.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
in making the said Railway through the lands 
of the Most noble the Marquis of Abercorn, the 
said Company shall, and they are hereby required, 
to construct certain bridges, in order to afford 
proper accesses to the lands of the said Marquis, 
in the following places, that is to say; a bridge 
under the said Railway, at or near Candren Burn, 
another such bridge under the said Railway, and 
over Linwood Road; another bridge at or near 
Old Linwood Road, which iast-mentioned bridge 
shall be so constructed as to form a communica- 
tion to the fields, numbered 157 and 158, in the 
Abbey parish of Paisley, and also to make and 
provide a crossing over the said Railway at the 
east end of the field, numbered 160, in the said 
Abbey parish of Paisley, and also an access to 
the west-end of the same field from the turnpike- 
road from Paisley to Johnstone, which bridges, 
crossings and accesses shall be made and com- 
pleted without prejudice to the said Marquis’s 
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“ cesses as may be convenient and necessary under 
“ the general provisions of this Act.” 

Pr. 57. 1. 23. After “ otherwise ” insert “at the 
aa mee of the proprietor.” 

r. 67. 1.29. Leave out “ making any” and 

insert “ exercising any right which he may at pre- 
“ sent have to make a.” 
Pr. 67. 1. 35. Leave out “ field” and insert 
“ fields” and in the same line leave out from “ the ” 
to “ the” in 1. 37., and insert “ county of Ayr, so 
“ that the same may cross.” 

Pr. 67. 1. penult. After “ made” insert “ at a 
“ point in the parish of ewton-upon-Ayr or Prest- 
“ wick” and in the same line leave out “ thereof” 
and insert “ of the said Railway.” 

Pr. 68. 1.1. After “ Ayr” insert “ Provided 
also, That the said Company shall leave a passage 
Twelve feet in width and Thirteen feet in height 
under the said Railway, on the inclosure, num- 
bered 46, in the parish of Lochwinnock and 
county of Ayr,on the maps or plans so deposited 
as aforesaid, for the purpose of preserving the 
present road leading to the parish church of Loch- 
winnock passing under the same, and of providing 
an occupation-road_ to the piece of ground which 
will be situate on the north side of the Railway, 
and shall keep the arch over the said road in 
good repair, in all time coming.” 

Pr. 75. 1.13. After “ Act ” insert “ and the 
making up of all title, so far as the same may be 
necessary or required, shall be paid for by the said 
Company.” 

Pr. 76. 1. 5. Fill up the blank with “ First.” 

Pr. 76. 1. 6. Leave out “ His present ” and in- 
sert “ the reign of Her.” 

Pr. 76. 1. 7. After “ Majesty ” insert “ Queen 
“ Victoria.” 

Pr. 89. 1. 13. Leave out “in Paisley” and in- 
gt “ intended to be taken for the purposes of this 
"i." 

Pr. 94. 1. 38. Leave out “ Twenty” and insert 
“ not more than Fifty, nor less than Thirty-six.” 

Pr. 98. ls. 27. and 28. After “ aforesaid ” insert 
Clause (K.) 

CriauseE (K.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
it shall be lawful for any of the parties in any 
case where the matters aforesaid are ordered to 
be assessed and ascertained by the verdict of a 
‘ jury, to apply tosuch sheriff as aforesaid to direct 
that the same shall be assessed and ascertained 
by a jury specially chosen from disinterested per- 
sons, qualified to act as special jurors in Scotland ; 
and the said sheriff shall thereupon cause to be 
returned to the clerk of such sheriff, a list of 
Thirty-six persons qualified to be special jurors in 
Scotland, and shall appoint a day for the parties, 
or their agents, to appear before such sheriff- 
clerk to reduce the number of such jury ; and on 
the day appointed, the parties or their agents, 
shall appear before such sheriff-clerk, and, alter- 
nately, beginning with the party who had originally 
applied to have the matters aforesaid assessed or 
ascertained by a jury, strike off one from the said 
list until the number of jurymen is reduced to 
Twenty, which Twenty only shall be summoned 
to attend the said sheriff on the day appointed 
for the trial of the matter aforesaid ; and if either 
of the parties, or their agents, shall fail to attend 
on the day appointed for reducing the number of 
jurymen, then the other party attending shall 
proceed to strike off one from the said list, and 
the sheriff-clerk shall strike off one, alternately, till 
the list be reduced to Twenty as aforesaid; and 
on the day appointed for trying the matters afore- 
said, the jury shall consist of such Thirteen of 
the said Twenty as shall first appear on the names 
being called over, all persons Gola their lawful 
challenges or exceptions against any of the said 
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said, it shall be lawful for the said sheriff to add 
to the list of the jury the names of such other 
disinterested persons qualified to act as special 
jurymen in Scotland, who may then be attending 
the court, as may be necessary to make a jury of 
Thirteen, all parties having also their lawful io 
lenges or exceptions against such persons; and 
the said sheriff shall and may proceed to the 
trial of the matters aforesaid with those persons 
who were originally inserted in such list of jurors, 
together with the persons added in manner afore- 
said, in the same manner as the said sheriff might 
and ought to have done if all the said persons 
whose names were inserted in the said original 
list, had appeared to try the matters aforesaid ; 
and the said sheriff may order and authorize the 
said jury, or any Three or more of them, to view 
the land, place or premises in controversy, and the 
verdict shall be returned by a majority of such 
Thirteen persons as aforesaid.” 

Pr. 131. 1.30. Leave out from “ same” to “ to” 
in |, 28. 

Pr. 131, 1. 34. Leave out from “ aforesaid” to 
“ and ” in 1. 37. 

Pr. 138. 1. 27. After “ respectively” insert 
Clause (L.) 

Cuiauss (L.) “ Provided always, and be it fur- 
ther Enacted, That, together with such notice as 
aforesaid, shall be delivered a plan of not less 
than Four chains to an inch, whereon shall be 
properly delineated the whole space required by 
the said Company for the purposes of the said 
Railway, its slopes and fences, together with a 
section of the lands, and a statement of the quan- 
tity of land in each parcel of the lands through 
which it is intended that the said Railway shall 
pass.” 

Pr, 146. 1. 7. Leave out “ present.” 

Pr. 146. 1. 8. After “ Majesty” insert “ King 
William the Fourth.” 

Pr. 146. 1. 23. Leave out “ His” and insert 
Her.” 

Pr. 147. 
Her.” 

Pr. 172. 1. 31. 
for” in |. 32. 

Pr. 172. 1. penult. Leave out “ or Justice.” 

Pr. 173. 1. 38. Fill up the blank with “ First.” 

Pr. 173. 1. penult. Leave out “ His” and insert 
Her,” and in the same line leave out from “ Ma- 
jesty” to “ intituled,” in 1. ult., and insert “ Queen 
Victoria.” 

Pr. 277. 1. 17. Fill up the blank with “ First.” 

Pr. 277. 1.18. Leave out “ His” and insert 
Her.” 

Pr. 277. 1. 19. Leave out “ King William the 
Fourth,” and insert “ Queen Victoria.” 

Pr. 277. 1. penult. Fill up the blank with 
First.” 

Pr. 277. 1. ult. 
Her.” 

Pr. 278. 1.1. Leave out from “ Majesty” to 
intituled,” in |. 2., and insert “ Queen Victoria.” 

Pr. 278. 1. ult. After “ situated ” insert “ and 
he is hereby required.” 

Pr. 279. 1. 4. Leave out from “ as” to “ to” in 
1. 8., and insert “ he shall think proper, during the 
“ construction of the said Railway, or as the said 
“ Company, or any Three of the directors thereof 
“ may thereafter nominate to him for that pur- 
pose.” 

_ Pr. 279. 1.15. Leave out “ hereinbefore” and 
insert “ herein.” 

Pr. 280. 1. 12. Leave out “ sheriffs” and insert 
sheriff during the construction of the said Rail- 
way, and afterwards for the said sheriff.” 

Pr. 280. 1.24. After “ cease” insert “ and 
every person so appointed by such sheriff as afore- 
said shall, during such time as he shall act as 
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constable for the purposes aforesaid, receive from 
the said Company such salary as the said sheriff 
shall approve of, and such salary shall be payable 
at such times and in such manner as the said 
sheriff shall appoint, and shall be recoverable in 
the same manner as damages to a small amount 
are by this Act made recoverable.” 

Pr. 285. 1. ult. After “ always” insert “ that 
when such persons shall be absent from Scotland, 
the said summons, demand, notice, writ or other 
proceeding in law or in equity, or otherwise, shall 
be served personally on the known commissioner, 
factor or agent of such person, if any, to be de- 
livered to some inmate of the last or usual place 
of on of such commissioner, factor or agent, 
and.’ 

Pr. 307. 1. 20. After “ made” insert Clause(M.) 


Crause (M.) “ And be it Enacted, That the said 
Company shall commence the making of the said 
Railway at the extremity of the said Railway at 
Ayr, at the same time that the making thereof at 
the extremity at Glasgow shall be commenced, 
and shall expend in the formation of the said 
Railway from the said extremity at Ayr onward, 
a sum or sums of money equal to the sum or sums 
which shall be expended at the extremity of the 
said Railway at Glasgow and onward.” 

Pr. 307. 1.31. Leave out “ present” and insert 
late.” 

Pr.307. 1.32. After ‘‘ Majesty” insert “ William 
the Fourth.” 


In the Schedule to the Bill: 
Pr. 331. 1. penult. In the fourth column, after 
“ barn,” insert “ policy.” 
Pr. 385. 1.23. In the first column, after “ Boyle” 
insert “ or his heir.” 
Pr. 385. ls. 33. and 34. Leave out from 
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Plantation.” 
in Pr. 386. ls. 29. and 30. 


Pr. 389. 1. 9. In the first column, before “ Robert” 
insert “ Ditto and.” 


Pr. 389. ls. 17. and 18. Leave out from 
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of Portland. Public. Harbour.” 


in Pr. 391, ls. 12., 13. and 14. 


The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Hastie do carry the Bill to the 
Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration, Stockport 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, — 
sau: ° ° : ill, 
intituled, An Act for improving and regulating the 


Borough of Stockport, in the several Counties of 
Chester and Lancaster; and the same were read, 
as follow: 

Pr. 1. 1. 3. Leave out “ late.” 

Pr. 1. 1.15. Leave out “ present” and insert 
“late” and in the same line, after “ Majesty ” 
insert “ William the Fourth.” 

Pr. 2. 1. 2. Leave out “ present” and insert 
“ late,” and in the same line, after “ Majesty ” 
insert “ King William the Fourth.” 

Pr. 2. 1. 13. Leave out “ present” and insert 
“ late” and in the same line, after “ Majesty” 
insert “ King William the Fourth.” 

Pr. 4. 1. 36. Leave out “ King’s” and insert 
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Pr. 5. 1.4. Leave out “ late” and in the 
same line, after “ Majesty” insert “ George the 
“ Fourth.” 

Pr. 5. 1. 29. Leave out “ present” and insert 
“ late” and in the same line, after “ Majesty ” 
insert “ King William the Fourth.” 

Pr. 10. 1. 6. Leave out “ late” and in the same 
line, after “ Majesty” insert “ King George the 
“ Fourth.” 

Pr. 10. 1. penult. Leave out “ late ” and in the 
same line, after “ Majesty” insert “ King George 
“ the Fourth.” 

Pr. 18. 1. 5. Leave out “ His” and insert “ Her.” 

Pr. 88. 1. 20. Leave out “ acting in and.” 

Pr. 119. 1. 34. Leave out from “ Railways” to 
within ” in 1. 35. 


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Pr. 171. 1.2. Leave out “ His” and insert 
“ Her.” 
Pr. 198. 1. 11. Leave out “ His” and insert 


“ Her” and in the same line leave out from 
“ Majesty” to “ intituled” in Is. 12 and 13., and 
insert “ Queen Victoria.” 

Pr. 207. 1.3. Leave out “ His” and insert 
Her.” 

Pr. 211. 1. 
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Pr. 215. 1. 33. Leave out “ His” and insert 
Her.” 

Pr. 220. 1.17. Leave out from “ issue” to 
And ” in Pr. 221. 1. 7., and insert Clause (A.) 

Crause (A.) “ And whereas some part or parts 
of the said houses, buildings and hereditaments 
to be purchased, taken or used as aforesaid, may 
be more than will be necessary for effecting the pur- 
poses of this Act: Be it therefore Enacted, That 
it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners, and 
they are hereby required, within ten years after 
the passing of this Act, to sell any such part or 
parts, or any estate or interest purchased by the 
said Commissioners, in such houses, buildings 
and hereditaments, or in any part thereof, either 
together or in parcels, by public auction or private 
contract, or partly by public auction and partly 
by private contract, and for such prices as they 
shall deem most convenient and think fit, and by 
any deed under the common seal of the said 
Borough, to convey and assure the same to the 
purchaser thereof, or as he may request ; and all 
such conveyances from the said Commissioners 
shall be valid and effectual, any thing in this Act 
contained, or in law, statute or custom to the 
contrary, notwithstanding ; Provided always, 
That the said Commissioners before they shall 
dispose of the same, shall first offer to sell the 
same tothe persons whose land shall immediately 
adjoin the houses, buildings and hereditaments 
so proposed to be sold, or to some one of them, 
such persons being in England, and conveniently 
to be found, and who shall be capable of entering 
into a contract for the purchase thereof; and all 
persons and corporations hereby capacitated to 
sell in like manner, shall be and are hereby ca- 
pacitated to purchase of the said Commissioners ; 
and every such person, in case he shall be desirous 
of purchasing the same, shall signify such his 
desire and intention in that behalf to the said 
Commissioners in writing within Thirty days after 
such offer of sale shall have been made, by notice 
in writing given to or left for him at his last known 
or usual place of abode ; and im case such persons 
shall decline or neglect to avail themselves of 
such offer, or shall neglect so to signify their 
desire and intention to purchase such lands for 
the space of Thirty days after such offer shall have 
been made, the rights of pre-emption of every 
such person so declining or neglecting in respect 
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cluded in such offer shall cease, and a declaration 
made before a Master or Masters extraordina 
in the High Court of Chancery or before a Justice 
of the Peace for the said Borough, by some per- 
son not interested in the said lands, stating that 
at the time such land shall have been sold, the 
person entitled to such right or pre-emption was 
not in —_—— or was not found, or was not 
capable of entering into a contract for the pur- 
chase of such lands, or that such offer was made 
by or on behalf of the said Commissioners, was 
refused or was not accepted or agreed to (as the 
case may be) by the person to whom the same 
was made, within the space of Thirty days from 
the time of making the same, shall in all courts 
and on all occasions whatsoever be conclusive 
evidence and proof of the fact or facts therein 
stated; and in case such person shall be desirous 
of purchasing the same, and he and the said 
Commissioners shall not agree with respect to the 
price thereof, then the price shall be ascertained 
by a jury in manner by this Act directed with 
respect to the disputed value of the hereditaments 
to be taken by the said Commissioners; and the 
expense of hearing and determining such dif- 
ference shall be borne and paid in like manner 
as in this Act is directed with respect to the 
disputed value of hereditaments to be taken or 
used by the said Commissioners as aforesaid, 
mutatis mutandis ; and the money produced by the 
sale which may be made by the said Commis- 
sioners of any lands as aforesaid, shall be applied 
to the purposes of this Act.” 


Pr. 221. 1. 29. Leave out “ His” and insert 
Her.” 


Pr. 221. 1. 37. Leave out “ late.” 


Pr. 231. 1. 15. After “ direct” insert Clause(B.) 

Cuiause (B.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
all costs, charges and expenses on the part as 
well of the seller as the purchaser of all con- 
veyances and assurances of any land which shall 
be purchased or taken by the said Commissioners 
for the purposes of this Act, and for deducing 
evidence and verifying such title to the said land, 
and of making out and furnishing such abstract 
and such attested copies as the said Commis- 
sioners may require, and all expenses whatsoever 
incident to the investigation, deduction and 
verification of such title, shall be exclusively borne 
and paid by the said Commissioners before entering 
into possession of the land so purchased or taken, 
shall pay the amount of such costs, charges 
and expenses, or in case there shall be any dis- 
pute about the same, shall obtain such order as 
hereinafter mentioned, and shall deposit, for the 
—— of paying the same in such manner as 

ereinafter mentioned, the amount of the costs, 
charges and expenses claimed by the party from 
whom the land shall be purchased or taken.” 


Pr. 248. 1. 14. 
Her.” 

Pr. 248. 1. 5. Leave out from “ Majesty” to 
intituled ” in 1. 6., and insert “ Queen Victoria.” 

Pr. 248. 1. ult. Leave out “ His” and insert 
Her.” 

Pr. 251. 1. 20. Leave out from “ of” to “ inti- 
tuled” in Is. 21. and 22., and insert “ Her Ma- 
jesty Queen Victoria.” 

Pr. 254. 1. 32. Leave out “ King William 
the Fourth” and insert “ Her Majesty Queen 
Victoria.” 

Pr. 273. 1. 2. 
Her.” 

Pr. 273. 1.17. Leave out “ His” and msert 
Her.” 

Pr. 273. 1. 18. Leave out “ King William the 
Fourth ” and insert “ Queen Victoria.” 


Leave out “ His ” and insert 


Leave out “ His” and insert 


Pr. 283. 








Dublin Wide 
Streets Bill. 


Ecclesiastical 
Appointments 
Suspension Bill. 


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Pr. 283. |. 13. Leave out “ His” and insert 
« Her.” 

(In the Schedule to the Bill.) 

Pr. 287. ls. 1.,2., 3. and 4. In the third column 
leave out “ Trustees and Legatees of William Wil- 
“ son,” and insert “ ditto.” 

Pr. 287. 1. 27. In the third column leave out 
“ John” and insert “ Joseph.” 

Pr. 288. Is. 37., 38. and penult. Leave out 


“Land - | Stockport | -- Trustees of} -  - |-- The Trus- 
| the Methodist tees.” 
| Chapel. 
The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 
Ordered, That Mr. Hastie do carry the Bill to the 
Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lordships. 





The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 
intituled, An Act to extend, alter and enlarge the 
Powers of several Acts for enabling the Commis- 
sioners of Wide Streets in Dublin to widen and 
improve certain Ways, Streets and Passages in the 
said City and County of Dublin, and for raising 


further Funds to enable the said Commissioners to | 


carry the same into execution; and the same were 
read, as follow: 

Pr. 11. 1. ult. Leave out from “that” to “ the” 
in Pr. 12. 1. 4. 

Pr. 15. 1. 36. Leave out “ such.” 

Pr. 15. 1. 37. After “ plans” insert “ deposited 
“ with the Clerk of the Peace for the county of the 
“ city of Dublin, and with the clerk or secretary 
“ of the said Commissioners.” 

Pr. 15. 1. penult. Leave out “ as hereinbefore 
“ referred to.” 

Pr. 18. ls. 3. and 4. After “ notwithstanding ” 
insert Clause (A.) 

Cuiause (A.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
if the said Commissioners shall not, within the 
space of Four years (to be computed from the 
passing of this Act), agree for, or cause to be 
valued and paid for, in manner directed by the said 
recited Acts, the several messuages and other build- 
ings, lands, tenements and hereditaments which 
they are hereby empowered to purchase, take and 
use, or so much thereof as they shall deem neces- 
sary or proper for the purposes of this Act, then 
and from thenceforth the powers with are hereby 
given them for such purpose, shall cease, deter- 
mine and be utterly void, save and except with 
the consent of the owners or proprietors thereof.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Solicitor General do carry the 
Bill to the Lords, and acquaint them, that this 
House hath agreed to the Amendments made by 
their Lordships. 


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Lord John Russell reported from the Committee 
appointed to draw up Reasons to be offered to the 
Lords at a Conference for disagreeing to one of the 
Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, intituled, 
An Act to continue, until the first day of August, 
One thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, and 
to the end of the then Session of Parliament, two 
Acts of the last Session of Parliament, for suspend- 
ing Appointments to certain Dignities and Offices 
in Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, and to Sine- 
cure Rectories, and for preventing the immediate 
effects on Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions, of the mea- 
sures in progress for the alteration of Dioceses ; 
That they had drawn up a Reason accordingly, which 
they had directed him to report; and the same was 
read, as followeth : 

The Commons disagree to Clause (A.) of the said 
Amendments ; 

Because the Amendment proposed by the Lords 
relates to a matter within the peculiar cog- 

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nizance of the House of Commons, and be- 
cause the answers given by the Crown to the 
Addresses of the see of Commons, have 
reference solely to duties performed in that 
House. 

The Commons agree to Clause (B.) 

The said Reason, being read a second time, was 
agreed to. 

Ordered, That a Conference be desired with the 
Lords upon the subject-matter of the Amendments 
made by their Lordships to the said Bill: And that 
Mr. Vernon Smith do go to the Lords, and desire 
the said Conference. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, in- 
tituled, An Act to revive and continue an Act of the 
last Session of Parliament for suspending Proceed- 
ings for recovering Payment of the Money advanced 
under the Acts for establishing Tithe Compositions 
in Ireland; and the same were read, as follow : 

Pr. 1. 1. 20. Leave out “ Her Majesty” and 

insert “ his late Majesty King William the Fourth,” 

Pr. 1. 1. 22. After “ Zreland” insert “ shall and 
may be exercised by the Commissioners of Her 
Majesty’s Treasury, or any three or more of 
“ them.” 

P. 1. 1. 23. Leave out “ therein” and insert 
in the said Act.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


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The House proceeded to take into consideration East India 


the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 
intituled, An Act to impose Rates of Packet Postage 
on East India Letters, and to amend certain Acts 
relating to the Post Office ; and the same were read, 
as follow: 

Pr. 1. 1. 2. Leave out “ now.” 

Pr. 1. 1. 4. After “ postage ” insert “ by an Act 
“ passed in the present Session of Parliament.” 

At the end of the Bill add Clause (A.) 

CrauseE (A.) “ And be it Enacted, That this 
“ Act shall come into operation on the Second day 
“ of August, One thousand eight hundred and 
“ thirty-seven.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to, the same being rendered necessary 
by the several Acts lately passed for the repeal and 
consolidation of the Laws relating to the Post 
Office. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


Mr. Vernon Smith reported, that having been with Ecclesiastical 


the Lords to desire a Conference upon the subject- 
matter of the Amendments made by their Lordships 
to the Bill, intituled, An Act to continue until the 
First day of August One thousand eight hundred 
and thirty-eight, and to the end of the then Session 
of Parliament, two Acts of the last Session of Par- 
liament, for suspending Appointments to certain 
Dignities and Offices in Cathedral and Collegiate 
Churches and to Sinecure Rectories, and for pre- 
venting the immediate effects on Ecclesiastical Juris- 
dictions of the measures in progress for the alteration 
of Dioceses, the Lords do agree to a Conference, and 
oo the same presently in the Committee-room, 

Oo. 5. 

Ordered, That the Committee who were appointed 
to draw up Reasons to be offered to the Lords, do. 
manage the Conference:—And the names of Mr. 
Hastie, Mr. Edward John Stanley, Lord Viscount 

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Morpeth, M1. Solicitor General, Sir John Hobhouse, 
ard Sir Andrew Leith Hay, were added to them. 

Then the names of the Managers were called over ; 
and they went to the Conference :—And being re- 
turned ; 

Lord John Russell reported, that the Managers 
had been at the Conference, which was managed on 
the part of the Lords by the Lord President of the 
Council; and that they had delivered the Reason 
for disagreeing to the said Amendment, and had 
left the Bill and Amendments with their Lordships. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Flour and 


Flour and Corn 


Indi, &amp;e. Com shipped to India, &amp;c., which was presented 
"Ne sats yesterday, be printed. 


Trigonometrical Ordered, Thai the Paper relative to the Trigono- 
Survey metrical Survey (Scotland), which was presented 


Scotland. : . 
( No. — yesterday, be printed. | 
Newspaper Ordered, That the Returns relative to Newspaper 
ay ae Stamps, which were presented yesterday, be printed. 
0. . ” . 
Public Depat- | Ordered, That the Return relative to Public De- 


ments (Redun- partments (Redundant List), which was presented 








"Sie. aun yesterday, be printed. 
National Ordered, That the Copy of the last Report to the 
Veosine Secretary of State from the National Vaccine Insti- 
pee greed tution, which was presented yesterday, be printed. 
Fees on Ordered, That the Paper relative to Fees on Re- 
Renewal of ~~ newal of Offices, which was presented yesterday, 
on be printed. 
Law of Ordered, That the Paper relative to the Law of 
Partnership. Partnership, which was presented yesterday, be 
No, 530. printed. 
Tithes A Petition of Inhabitants of MVohill, praying for 
(Ireland.) the abolition of Tithes in Jreland, was presented, 
and read ; and ordered to lie upon the Table. 
And then the House adjourned till To-morrow. 
Sabbati, 15° die Julii ; 
Anno 1° Victorie Regine, 1837. 
PRAYERS. 
Army. M* Crafer, from the Treasury, was called in ; 
(Commissariat. and at the bar presented, pursuant to Orders, 


—Returns of the Number of Officers of the Com- 
missariat Department on the 25th December 1836 
on Full Pay; distinguishing the Number of each 
Rank :—Of the Number on Half and on Retired 
Pay :—And, of the Number of Officers of the Com- 
missariat Department promoted since Ist January 
1837 ; distinguishing the Number of each Rank, 
and whether promoted from Full, Half or Retired 
Pay ; stating also the Date of entry of each into the 
Service, the Dates of their several Promotions, the 
aggregate time each has served on Full Pay, and the 
aggregate time each has been on Half and Retired 
Pay since entering the Service ; likewise, the annual 
increase of Expense to the Country in consequence 
of the Promotions since 1st January 1837. 
a An Account of the Number of Persons in each 
Victuallers, &amp;c. of the several Collections in the United Kingdom 
licensed as “‘ Brewers,” “ Victuallers,” “ to sell Beer 
to be drunk on the Premises,” and “ to sell Beer 
not to be drunk on the Premises ;” stating the Num- 
ber of each class who brew their own Beer, and the 
Quantity of Malt consumed by them; particularizing 
each class in each Collection, from 5th January 1836 
to 5th January 1837. 

A Return to an Order, dated the 14th day of this 
instant July, for a Return of the Number of Stamps 
issued monthly to each of the Provincial Papers in 
England and Wales, from 1st January 1837 to 30th 
June, both days inclusive ; of the Number of Adver- 
tisements published in each Newspaper for the same 


Newspaper 
Stamps. 


5° Julie. A. 1837. 


period ; and of the Amount of Duty on Advertise- 
ments paid by each Paper for the same period. 

An Account of the Expense incurred in the ap- Poor Law Act 
pointment of: the Committee of Inquiry into the Commitee 
| operation of the new Poor Law; distinguishing the {®*penses.] 
|Amount paid to the several Witnesses who gave 
evidence before the said Committee. 

A Copy of the Evidence taken upon an Inquiry Kerry 

held before the Hon. Thomas Browne, Vice-Lieu- ses. 
tenant of the County of Kerry, in the month of No- 
vember 1836, upon the complaint of John F. Hewson, 
Esquire, and others, Magistrates of the County of 
Kerry; and upon the complaint of Chief Constable 
M‘ Donough against the said Magistrates; and also, 
the Letter of the Lord Lieutenant, addressed to the 
said Hon. Thomas Browne, on the subject of said 
Inquiry, in the month of June last: —And then he 
withdrew. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


Mr. Campbell, from the Court of Directors of the Fast India 
East India Company, was called in; and at the bar Company. 
presented, pursuant to the directions of several Acts 
of Parliament,— Resolutions of the Court of Di- 
rectors of the East India Company, being the War- 
rants or Instruments granting any Pension. 

Resolutions of the Court of Directors of the East 
India Company, being the Warrants or Instruments 
granting any Salary or Gratuity. 

List, No. 71, specifying the Particulars of the 
Compensation proposed to be granted to certain 
Persons reduced from the Kast India Company’s 
Service in England, under an Arrangement, sanc- 
tioned by the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs 
of India, and laid before The Honourable the House 
of Commons on the 20th March 1834. 

List, No. 72, specifying the Particulars of the 
Compensation proposed to be granted to the there 
under-mentioned Person, of the late Maritime Service 
of the East India Company, under an Arrangement 
sanctioned by the Board of Commissioners for the 
Affairs of India, and laid before The Honourable the 
House of Commons on the 26th February 1835 :— 
And then he withdrew. 

Ordered, 'Yhat’the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table. 


A Message from the Lords, by Sir Giffin Wilson Message from 

and Mr. Roupell : the Lords. 
Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Dundee 
Act for supplying the Royal Burgh of Dundee, and Waterworks 
Suburbs thereof, with Water, without Amendment ; (N® 2+) Bill 
And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Punishment of 
Act for abolishing the Punishment of Death in cer- Death Bill. 
tain cases, with Amendments; to which Amendments 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House: 

And also, 


The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Transportation 
Act to amend the Law relative to Offences punish- /* Life Bill. 
able by Transportation for Life, with Amendments ; 
to which Amendments the Lords desire the concur- 
rence of this House: And also, 


The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Burning or 
Act to amend the Laws relating to burning or de- destreying P 
stroying Buildings and Ships, with Amendments ; Shins Bill. 
to which Amendments the Lords desire the concur- 
rence of this House: And also, 


The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Forgery Bill. 
Act to abolish the Punishment of Death in cases of 
Forgery, with Amendments ; to which Amendments 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House: 

And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An Robbery, and 
Act to amend the Laws relating to Robbery and Steang from. 
Stealing from the Person, with Amendments; to‘ *"~'" 
which Amendments the Lords desire the concurrence 
of this House: And also, 





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The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 

Act to amend the Laws relating to Burglary and 
Stealing in a Dwelling House, with Amendments ; 
to which Amendments the Lords desire the concur- 
rence of this House: And also, 
The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
ct to amend the Laws relating to Offences against 
the Person, with Amendments; to which Amend- 
ments the Lords desire the concurrence of this House: 
And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
Act to amend certain Acts relating to the Crime of 
Piracy, with Amendments; to which Amendments 
the Lords desire the concurrence of this House: And 
also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
Act for better enabling Her Majesty to confer cer- 
tain Powers and Immunities on Trading and other 
Companies, with Amendments; to which. Amend- 
ments the Lords desire the concurrence of this House: 
And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
Act to assimilate the practice of the Central Criminal 
Court to other Courts of Criminal Judicature within 
the Kingdom of England and Wales, with respect 
to Offenders liable to the Punishment of Death, 
with Amendments; to which Amendments the Lords 
desire the concurrence of this House: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
Act to exempt certain Bills of Exchange and Pro- 
missory Notes from the operation of the Laws re- 
lating to Usury, with Amendments; to which Amend- 
ments the Lords desire the concurrence of this 
House: And also, 

The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 
Act to provide for the levying of Watch Rates in 
Boroughs and Towns having Municipal Corporations, 
in England and Wales, with Amendments ; to which 
Amendments the Lords desire the concurrence of 
this House: And also, 

The Lords do not insist upon Clause (A.) of the 
Amendments made by their Lordships to the Bill, 
intituled, An Act to continue, until the First day of 
August, One thousand eight hundred and _thirty- 
eight, and to the End of the then Session of Par- 
liament, two Acts of the last Session of Parliament, 
for suspending Appointments to certain Dignities 
and Offices in Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, 
and to Sinecure Rectories, and for preventing the 
immediate effects on Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions of 
the measures in progress for the alteration of Dio- 
ceses ; to which the Commons disagree: -— And 
then the Messengers withdrew. 


Burglary and 
Stealing in a 
Dwelling-house 


Bill. 


Offences against 
the Person Bill. A 


Piracy Bill. 


Letters Patent 
Bill. 


Central 
Criminal Court 
Bill. 


Bills of 
Exchange Bill, 


Municipal 
Borough Rates 
Bill. 


Ecclesiastical 
Appointments 
Suspension Bill. 


Royal Assent 


ie A Message by Sir Augustus Clifford, Gentleman 
MIS, 


Usher of the Black Rod : 
Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords, authorized by virtue of Her Majesty’s 
Commission for declaring Her Royal Assent to 
several Acts agreed upon by both Houses, do desire 
the immediate attendance of this Honourable House 
in the House of Peers, to hear the Commission 
read. 

Accordingly Mr. Speaker, with the House, went 
up to the House of Peers :— And being returned ; 

Mr. Speaker reported, That the House, at the 
desire of the Lords, authorized by virtue of Her 
Majesty’s Commission, had been at the House of 
Peers, where 2a Commission under the Great Seal 
was read, giving, declaring and notifying the Royal 
Assent to the several Public and Private Bills 
therein mentioned; and that the Lords, thereby 
authorized, had declared the Royal Assent to the 
said Bills:—Which Bills are as follow: 

An Act to provide for the Appointment of Lords 
Justices in the case of the next Successor to the 
Crown being out of the Realm at the time of the 
demise of Her Majesty : 
eeneaer Bills An Act to authorize a further Issue of Exchequer 
Bi,” Vrks) Bills for public Works and Fisheries, and Employ- 
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661 


ment of the Poor, and to amend the Acts relating 
thereto : . 

An Act to extend an exemption granted by an Assessed Taxes 
Act of the last Session of Parliament, from the Exemption Bill. 
Duties of Assessed Taxes, in respect of certain Car- 
riages with less than Four Wheels, and to amend 
the Laws relating to the said Duties : 

An Act to defray the charge of the Pay, Clothing, Militia Pay 

and Contingent and other Expenses of the Disem- Bill. 
bodied Militia in Great Britain and Ireland, and 
to grant Allowances in certain cases to Subaltern 
Officers, Adjutants, Pay-masters, Quarter-masters, 
Surgeons, Assistant Surgeons, Surgeons’ Mates, and 
Serjeant Majors of the Militia, until the First day 
of a One thousand eight hundred and thirty- 
eight: 

An Act to suspend to the end of the next Session Militia Ballots 
of Parliament, the making of Lists, and the Ballots Suspension Bill. 
and Enrolments for the Militia of the United 
Kingdom : 

An Act to continue until the first day of August Ecclesiastical 
One thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, and ——. 
to the end of the then Session of Parliament, Two &gt;"? cet 
Acts of the last Session of Parliament, for suspend- 
ing Appointments to certain Dignities and Offices 
in Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, and to Si- 
necure Rectories, and for preventing the immediate 
effects on Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions of the mea- 
sures in progress for the alteration of Dioceses : 


An Act to amend an Act for the Commutation of Tithes Commu- 
Tithes in England and Wales : whe Oe 

An Act for amending the several Acts for the Attornies and 
Regulation of Attornies and Solicitors : Solicitors Bill. 


An Act for the better regulating the Fees payable Sheriffs’ Fees 
to Sheriffs upon the execution of Civil Process: Bill. 


An Act to provide for Payment of the Expenses Coroners’ 


of holding Coroners’ Inquests : Inquests’ 
5 e q “ Expenses Bill, 


An Act for regulating the Coroners of the County Coroners 
of Durham: (Durham) Bill, 


An Act to impose certain Duties of Excise on Beet Root 
— made from Beet Root in the United King- Sagar Bill. 

om: 

An Act for correcting mistaken References to his Acts of 
late Majesty in Acts of this Session of Parlia- ar case ; 
ment. eferences Bill, 

An Act to amend an Act of the fifth year of His Masters and 
Majesty King George the Fourth, for consolidating Workmen Bill. 
and amending the Laws relative to the Arbitration 
of Disputes between Masters and Workmen : 

An Act to facilitate the conveyance of Lands and Lands and 
Buildings for the purposes of Two Acts passed re- Buildings 
spectively in the fifth and sixth years of His late Sovvy 
Majesty King William the Fourth: 

An Act to explain and amend an Act of the sixth Secular Juris- 
and seventh years of his late Majesty, for extinguish- paige io 
ing the secular jurisdiction of the Archbishop of “° end 
York and the Bishop of Ely, in certain Liberties in 
the Counties of York, Nottingham and Cambridge : 

An Act to authorize Her Majesty, until six months Slave Trade 
after the commencement of the next Session of Treaties Bill. 
Parliament, to carry into immediate execution, by 
Orders in Council, any Treaties, Conventions, or 
Stipulations made with any Foreign Power or State 
for the Suppression of the Slave Trade : 

An Act to authorize the Commissioners for the Haileybury 
Affairs of India, and the Court of Directors of the ©ol'ege Bill. 
East India Company, to suspend the subsisting 
Enactments concerning the Fourfold system of 
Nomination of Candidates for the East India Com- 
pany’s College at Haileybury, and for providing 
during such Suspension for the Examination of Can- 
didates for the said College: 

An Act to revive and continue until the Sixth Tithe Advances 
day of April One thousand eight hundred and thirty- (Ireland) Vill. 
eight, an Act of the last Session of Parliament for 
suspending Proceedings for recovering Payment of 
the Money advanced under the Acts for establishing 
Tithe Compositions in Ireland: 


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An Act to postpone, until the First day of Janu- | 
ary One thousand eight hundred and t r¢ tapes] 
the Repayment of certain Sums advanced by the 
Bank of /reland for the Public Service : | 


Bank of 
Treland Bill. 


Treasurers 
of Counties 


(Ireland) Bill. Treasurers of Counties, and Counties of Cities in 


reland, account for Public Monies, and to secure 
the same : 


Cruelty to An Act to extend to Ireland the Act of the fifth 
Cluelend) pi, 22d sixth years of his late Majesty’s reign, conso- 
’ Jidating and amending the Laws relating to the 
cruel and improper Treatment of Animals : 
Court of An Act to render valid certain Acts done in the 
era on Performance of Duties in the Court of Exchequer 
ae. 5 Scotland, by the Lord Ordinary, on the Bills in| 
the Court of Session, and for the better Regulation | 
of the said Court of Exchequer : 
Glasgow, An Act for making and maintaining a Railway 
a from Glasgow to Greenock by Paisley and Port 
Railway Bill. Glasgow, to be called, “ The Glasgow, Paisley, and 


“ Greenock Railway :” 


Glasgow and An Act for making a Railway from Glasgow to 


-_ Railway Paisley and Ayr, and froma point on the said Rail- 
way, near Blairland to Kilmarnock, to be called, 
“ The Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnockand Ayr Rail- 
“ way,” with Branches :” 

Polloc und An Act to continue for certain purposes the Powers 

— Railway of two Acts for making and maintaining the Polloc 


and Govan Railway: 


London and An Act for making a Railway from the London 


ong and Croydon Railway to Brighton, with Branches 
(Rennie’s Line) to Shoreham, Newhaven and Lewes : 

London and An Act to enable the London and Greenwich 
— Railway Company to take certain Tolls for Passen- 


gers, Cattle and Carriages crossing the River Ravens- 
borne, in pursuance of an Agreement entered into with 
“ The Deptford Creek Bridge Company :” 

An Act for making a Railway from Bolton-le- 
Moors to Preston,in the County Palatine of Lancaster: 


(No. 2.) Bill. 


Bolton and 
Preston Rail- 
way Bill. 

East Thickley 
and Frosterley 
Railway Bill, 


An Act for incorporating certain Persons for the 
making and maintaining a Railway from near the 
Black Boy Branch of the Stockton and Darlington 
Railway, in the Township of Saint Andrew Auckland, 
to or near to Witton Park Colliery, with a Branch 
therefrom, all in the County of Durham, to be 
called, “ The Bishop Auckland and Weardale Rail- 


“ way:” 


Collier Docks An Act for making Wet Docks and other Works 
and Surrey on the South side of the River Thames, at or near 
Canal Bill, Rotherhithe and Deptford, in the Counties of Surrey 

and Kent, to be called, “ The Grand Collier Docks:” 
Fishyuard An Act for improving the Harbour and Port of 


Harbour Bill. Fishguard, otherwise Abergwain, in the County of | 
Pembroke : 

An Act to make and maintain a Canal in the 
County of Lanark, from the Monkland Canal to the 
Lands of Dunchattan, on the North side of Duke- 
street, Glasgow : 

An Act for supplying the Royal Burgh of Dundee 
and Suburbs thereof with Water : 

An Act to extend, alter and enlarge the Powers 
of several Acts for enabling the Commissioners of 
Wide Streets in Dublin, to widen and improve 
certain Ways, Streets and Passages in the said City 
und County of Dublin, and for raising further Funds 
t2 enable the said Commissioners to carry the same 
into execution : 


Blochairn 
Canal Bill. 


Dundee Water- 
works Bill, 


Dublin Wide 
Streets Bill. 


Dowlais An Act for providing a Market-place and Market 

Market Bill. at the Village of Dowdlais, in the Parish of Merthyr 
Tydfil in the County ef Glamorgan : 

Stockport An Act for improving and regulating the 

ee Borough of Stockport, in the several Counties of 


Chester and Lancaster : 
An Act for establishing a Cemetery for the Inter- 
ment of the Dead westward of the Metropolis, by 


West London 
and Westmin- 
ster Cemetery 


Bill. a Company, to be called, “ The West of London and 
Westminster Cemetery Company :” 
Bristol An Act for establishing a General Cemetery for the 


Cemetery Bill. Interment of the Dead in or near the City of Bristol: 


15° Juli. 


Caoutchouc Company, and to enable the said Com- ©°™pauy Bill, 
pany to purchase certain Letters Patent: 


An Act to provide more effectual means to make | Earl of Wilton, and the Person or Persons for the Estate Bill, 
time being entitled to the Estates devised by or 
standing limited to the uses of the Wills of the Right 
Honourable Thomas late Earl of Wilton and the 
Right Honourable Eleanor, late Countess of Wilton, 
both deceased, to make Conveyances in Fee or 


the said Estates for building on or improving th 
same under reserved yearly Rents: 


to appoint other Persons to act under the Fami 


the place of Thomas Ball and Thomas 





A. 1837. 


An Act for forming and regulating the London Caoutchouc 







An Act to enable the Right Honorable Thomas Earl of Wiltox’, 








Demises for long terms of years of certain parts of 


An Act to enable the Court of Chancery in Jreland Marquis of 
ly Senegaits 
Settlement of the Marquis of Donegall and Earl of “““° - 
Belfast, bearing date the Twenty-eighth of Octo- 
ber One thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, in 
llis, de- 
ceased : 

An Act for vesting settled Estates in the Town- Fawcett’s 
ship of Headingly-cum-Burley, inthe Parish of Leeds, ®t Bill. 
in the County of York, of which John Henry Fawcett, 
Esquire, is Tenant for life, in Trustees for Sale and 
for investing the Monies to be produced thereby in 
the Purchase of other Estates to be settled to the 
same uses: 

An Act for empowering the Trustees of the Will, 
as to his real Estate, of Silvanus Bevan, Esquire, 
deceased, to sell the Freehold Estates in the Counties 
of Wilts and Berks, devised by the same Will, and 
for laying out the Money to arise from such Sale, in 
the Purchase of other Estates to be settled to the 
same uses: 

An Act to alter and amend an Act passed in the Birmingham 
second year of the reign of his late Majesty King — +’ 
William the Fourth, intituled, “An Act to enable ““°~” 
the Governors of the Possessions, Revenues and 

Goods of the Free Grammar School of King Edward 

the Sixth, in Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, 

to erect a School House, Masters’ Houses and other 

suitable Accommodations for the said School, and to 

extend the Objects of the Charity, and for other 
Purposes :” 

An Act for exchanging part of the settled Estates Marquis of 
of the most Honourable the Marquis of Bute and —" nae 
Earl of Dumfries, in the County of Glamorgan in + 
England, for Estates of the said Marquis in the 
Counties of Ayr, Wigton and Bute in Scotland, and 
for other Purposes : 

An Act for naturalizing Dame Marie Louise Actons' 
Pelline De Dalberg Acton, and her Infant Son, Sir §# Bill 
John Emerick Edward Dalberg Acton, Baronet. 


Bevan’s 


Estate Bill. 










Petitions from Murhur and Knucanure ;—Errigal Government of 
Truagh;— Tydavnit ;—and, Killivan and Aughabog ; Ireland. 
praying the House to support Her Majesty’s present 
Ministers in their Government of /reland,—were 
presented, and ordered to lie upon the Table. 











Ordered, That the Select Committee appointed to Joint Stock 
inquire into the operation of the Acts permitting the Banks. 
establishment of Joint Stock Banks in England and No. 531. 
Ireiand, under certain restrictions, and whether it 
be expedient to make any amendment in the provi- 
sions of those Acts ; have Power to report the Mi- 
nutes of the Evidence taken before them. 

Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer reported from 
the said Select Committee, That they had considered 
the matters to them referred, and had directed him 
to report the Minutes of the Evidence taken before 
them. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 















Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer presented, pur- Slave Trade. 
suant to an Address to his late Majesty,—Papers 
relating to the Slave Trade, 1836 :—Class A. Cor- 
respondence with the British Commissioners at 
Sierra Leone, the Havannah, Rio de Janeiro and 
Surinam : 





























Offences against 
the Person Bill. the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 
intituled, An Act to amend the Laws relating to 
Offences against the Person; and the same were 
read, as follow: 

Pr. 3.1. 11. Leave out “ other.” 


Forgery Bill. 


1 


Table. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 


Pr. 3. 1. 33. Leave out “ harm” and insert 
injury.” 

Pr. 4. 1. 2. Leave out “ Five” and insert 
“ Three.” 

Pr. 4. 1. 27. Leave out “ Five” and insert 
“ Three.” 

Pr. 5. 1. 17. Leave out “ Five” and insert 
“ Three.” 

Pr. 5. 1. 20. Leave out “ pregnant.” 

Pr. 5. 1. 36. Leave out “ Five” and insert 
“ Three.” 


VIcTORIZ. 


Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 


Pr. 6. 1. 23. Leave out “ the whole or.” 

Pr. 6. 1. 27. After “labour” insert “ not ex- 
ceeding one month at any one time, and not 
exceeding three months in any one year.” 

Pr. 6. 1. 28. After “ meet,” insert Clause (A.) 

Curause (A.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
nothing in this Act contained shall be construed 
to extend to the alteration or repeal of any of the 
powers, provisions or regulations contained in an 
Act made and passed in the fifth and sixth years 
of the reign of his late Majesty King William the 
Fourth, intituled, ‘ An Act for effecting greater 
Uniformity of Practice in the Government of the 
several Prisons in England and Wales, and for ap- 
pointing Inspectors of Prisons in Great Britain ;’ 
or in an Act made and passed in the fourth year 
of his Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled, 
‘ An Act for consolidating and amending the Laws 





relating to the building, repairing and regulating 
of certain Gaols and Houses of Correction in 
England and Wales.’”’ 

Pr. 6. 1. penult. After “ jurisdiction” insert 


Clause (B.) 


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CravuseE (B.) “ And be it Enacted, That on the 
trial of any person for any of the offences herein- 
before mentioned, or for any felony whatever 
where the crime charged shall include an assault 
against the person, it shall be lawful for the Jury 
to acquit of the felony, and to find a Verdict of 
guilty of assault against the person indicted, if the 
evidence shall warrant such finding ; and when 
such Verdict shall be found, the Court shall have 
power to imprison the person so found guilty of 
an assault for any term not exceeding Three 
years.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 


were agreed to. 


Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to the 


Lords ; and — them that this House hath 


agreed to the 


mendments made by their Lord- 


ships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 


the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, in- 
tituled, An Act to abolish the Punishment of Death 
in cases of Forgery; and the same were read, as 
follow : 


“ 


“ 


“ 


“ 


Pr. 10. 1.9. Leave out “ passing” and insert 
commencement.” 

Pr. 13. 1. 4. After “ shall” insert “ from and 
after the commencement of this Act.” 

Pr. 13. 1. 13. Leave out “ Fifteen” and insert 
Seven.” 


Pr. 13. 1.15. Leave out “ Five” and insert 


Four” and in the same line, after “‘ years ” insert 
nor less than Two years.” 

Pr. 13. 1. 29. Leave out from “for” to “ any 
in |, 28, 
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Pr. 13. 1. 29. After “ imprisonment” insert 
not exceeding one month at any one time, and 
not exceeding three months in any one year.” 

At the end of the Bill add Clauses (A.) and (B.) 

Crause (A.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
nothing in this Act contained shall be construed 
to extend to the alteration or repeal of any of the 
powers, provisions or regulations contained in an 
Act made and passed in the fifth and sixth years 
of the reign of his late Majesty King Welliam 
the Fourth, intituled, ‘An Act for effecting greater 
Uniformity of Practice in the Government of the 
several Prisons in England and Wales, and for 
appointing Inspectors of Prisons in Great Bri- 
tain ;’ or in anAct made and passed in the fourth 
year of his Majesty King George the Fourth, 
intituled, ‘ An Act for consolidating and amend- 
ing the Laws relating to the building, repairing 
and regulating of certain Gaols and Houses of 
Correction in England and Wales.’ ” 

Crause (B.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
this Act shall commence and take effect on the 
first day of October One thousand eight hundred 
and thirty-seven.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 


were agreed to. 


Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 


the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Burning or 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, in- 
tituled, An Act to amend the Laws relating to burn- . 
ing or destroying Buildings and Ships; and the same 


were read, as follow: 


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Pr. 4. 1. 36. 
Three.” 

Pr. 5. 1. 4. Leave out “lawfully being therein.” 

Pr. 5. 1. 9. After “ shall” insert “ unlawfully.” 

Pr. 6. 1. 9.+ Leave out “ Five” and insert 
Three” and in the same line, after “ years” in- 


Leave out “ Five”? and insert 


sert Clause (A.) 


Crauss (A.) “ And be it Enacted, That whoso- 
ever shall by force prevent or impede any person 
endeavouring to save his life from any ship or 
vessel which shall be in distress, pa te 4 or 
stranded, or cast on shore (whether he shall be on 
board or shall have quitted the same), shall be 
guilty of felony, and, being convicted thereof, shall 
be hable, at the discretion of the Court, to be 
transported beyond the seas for the term of the 
natural life of such offender, or for any term not 
less than Fifteen years, or to be imprisoned for 
any term not exceeding Three years.” 


Pr. 6. 1. 28. Leave out “ Five” and _ insert 
Three.” 
Pr. 7. 1.2. Leave out “ Five” and imsert 
Three.” 


Pr. 7. 1. 6. After “ pulse” insert “ tares.” 

Pr. 7. 1. 7. After “ stubble”’ insert “ furze, 
heath, fern.” 

Pr. 7. 1. 8. After “ wood” insert “ or any steer 
of wood.” 

Pr. 7. 1.19. Leave out “ Five” and insert 
Three.” 

Pr. 8. 1. 8. Leave out “ the whole or.” 

Pr. 8. 1. 11. After “labour” insert “ not ex- 
ceeding one month at any one time, and not ex- 
ceeding Three months in any one year.” 

Pr. 8. 1. 13. After “ meet” insert Clause (B.) 

Crause (B.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
nothing in this Act contained shall be construed 
to extend to the alteration or repeal of any of the 
powers, provisoes or regulations contained in an 
Act made and passed in the fifth and sixth years 
of the reign of fis late Majesty King William the 
Fourth, intituled, An Act for effecting greater 
Uniformity of Practice in the Government of the 
several Prisons nm England and Wales, and for 

4P4 “ appointing 


destroying 


Ships Bill. 





Robbery end 
Stealing from 
the Person Bill. 


Burglary and 
Stealing in a 
Dwelling-house 
Bill. 





664. 


“ appointing Inspectors of Prisons in Great Britain, 
“ or inan Act made and passed in the Fourth year 
“ of his Majesty King George the Fourth, intivuled, 
‘ An Act for consolidating and amending the Laws 
relating to the building, repairmg and regulating 
of certain Gaols and Houses of Correction in Eng- 
land and Wales.’ ” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


“ 
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“cc 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 
intituled, An Act to amend the Laws relating to 
Robbery and Stealing from the Person; and the 
same were read, as follow : 

Pr. 3. 1. 9. Leave out from “ and” to “ such” 
in 1. 11., and insert “ at the time of, or immediately 
“ before, or immediately after.” 

Pr. 3. 1. 25. Leave out from “and” to “ such” 
in |. 27., and insert “ at the time of, or immediately 
“ before, or immediately after.” 

Pr. 3. 1. penult. Leave out “ Five” and insert 
“ Three.” 

Pr. 4. 1. 34. Leave out 
“ Three.” 

Pr. 5. 1. 6. Leave out “ Five” and insert “ Three.’ 

Pr. 5. 1. 17. Leave out “ Five” and insert 
“ Three.” 

Pr. 6. 1. 
“ Three.” 

Pr. 6. 1.5. Leave out “ Five” and insert “ Three.’ 

Pr. 6. 1. 37. Leave out from “ for” to “ any” 
in I. 38. 

Pr. 7. 1. 1. After “ labour ” insert “ not exceed- 
“ ing one month at any one time, and not exceeding 
“‘ three months in any one year.” 

Pr. 7. 1. 3. After “ meet” insert Clause (A.) 

Cuiause (A.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
nothing in this Act contained shall be construed 
“ to extend to the alteration or repeal of any of the 
““ powers, provisions or regulations contained in an 
Act made and passed in the fifth and sixth years 
of the reign of his late Majesty King William the 
Fourth, intituled, ‘An Act for effecting greater 
Uniformity of Practice in the Government of the 
several Prisons in England and Wales, and for 
‘ appointing Inspectors of Prisons in Great Britain,’ 
“ or in an Act made and passed in the fourth year 
of his Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled, 
‘¢ An Act for consolidating and amending the 
“ Laws relating to the building, repairing and regu- 
lating of certain Gaols and Houses of Correction 
‘ in England and Wales.’” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


“ Five” and insert 


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27. Leave out “ Five” and imsert 


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The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 
inticuled, An Act to amend the Laws relating to 
Burglary and Stealing in a Dwelling House ; and 
the same were read, as follow : 

Pr. 2. 1. 15. Leave out “ from.” 

Pr, 2. 1. 18. Leave out from “ and” to “ pun- 
“ ished ” in |. 19. 

Pr. 2. 1. 30. Leave out from “ death” to “and ” 
in Pr. 3. |. 11. 

Pr. 3. 1. 14. After “ liable” insert “ at the dis- 
cretion of the court.” 

Pr. 3. 1. 15. Leave out “any” and insert “the.” 

Pr. 3. 1. 16. Leave out from “term” to “ less” 
in 1. 17., and insert “ of the natural life of such 
“ offender, or for any term not.” 


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Pr. 3. 1,19. Leave out “ Five” 
Three.” 

Pr. 4. 1.1. Leave out “ Five” and insert “Three.” 

Pr. 4. 1. 31. Leave out “ the whole or.” 

Pr. 4. 1. 34. After “ labour” insert “ not ex- 
ceeding one month at any one time, and not 
exceeding three months in any one year.” 

Pr. 4. 1. 36. After “ meet” insert Clause (A.) 

CrauseE (A.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
nothing in this Act contained shall be construed 
to extend to the alteration or repeal of any of the 
powers, provisoes or regulations contained in an 
Act made and passed in the fifth and sixth years 
of the reign of his late Majesty King William the 
Fourth, intituled, ‘ An Act for effecting greater 
Uniformity of Practice in the Government of the 
several Prisons in England and Wales, and for 
appointing Inspectors of Prisons in Great Britain,’ 
or in an Act made and passed in the fourth year 
of his Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled, 
‘An Act for consolidating and amending the 
Laws relating to the building, repairing and regu- 
lating of certain Gaols and Houses of Correction 
in England and Wales.’” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords ; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 


and insert 


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The House proceeded to take into consideration Piracy Bill. 


the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 
intituled, An Act to amend certain Acts relating to 
the Crime of Piracy; and the same were read, as 
follow : 

Pr. 2. 1. 19. Leave out “ passing” and insert 
commencement.” 

Pr. 2. 1. 22. Leave out “ passing” and insert 
“ commencement.” 

Pr. 2. 1. 24. Leave out “ having committed” 
and insert “ at the time of, or immediately before 
“ or immediately after committing.” 

Pr, 2. 1. 32. After “ person” insert “ or un- 
“ lawfully do any act by which the life of such 
“ person may be endangered.” 

Pr. 2. ls. 36. and 37. Leave out “ passing” and 
insert “ commencement.” 

Pr. 3. 1. 2. After “ piracy” insert “ and.” 

Pr. 3. 1. 11. Leave out “ Five” and insert 
“ Three.” 

Pr. 4. 1. 7. Leave out “ the whole or.” 

Pr. 4. 1.10. After “labour ” insert “ not exceed- 
ing one month at any one time, and not exceeding 
three months in any one year.” 

At the end of the Bill add Clauses (A.) and (B.) 

Cuause (A.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
nothing in this Act contained shall be construed 
to extend to the alteration or repeal of any of the 
powers, provisions or regulations contained in an 
Act made and passed in the fifth and sixth years 
of the reign of his late Majesty King William the 
Fourth, mtituled, ‘ An Act for effecting greater 
Uniformity of Practice in the Government of the 
several Prisons in England and Wales, and for 
appointing Inspectors of Prisons in Great Britain, 
or in an Act made and passed in the fourth year 
of his Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled, 
‘An Act for consolidatmg and amending the 
Laws relating to the building, repairing and regu- 
lating of certain Gaols and Houses of Correction 
in England and Wales.’” 

Ciavse (B.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
this Act shall commence and take effect on the 
First day of October One thousand eight hundred 
and thirty-seven.” } 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. ; 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them that this House 


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Transportation 
for Life Bill. 


1 Vicrortiz. 


hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, 
intituled, An Act to amend the Law relative to 
Offences punishable by Transportation for Life; and 
the same were read, as follow: 

Pr. 2.1. 6. After “year” insert “And whereas 
by the said last-mentioned recited Act every per- 
son convicted of breaking and entering an 
dwelling-house, and stealing therein any chattel, 
money, or valuable security to any value what- 
ever, as principals or accessaries before the fact, 
are liable to be transported beyond the seas for 
life, or for any term not less than Seven years, 
as the Court before whom any such person shall 
be convicted shall adjudge, and previously to 
transportation are liable to be imprisoned, with 
or without hard labour, as in that Act mentioned, 
for any term not exceeding Four years, or are 
liable to be imprisoned, with or without hard 
labour, in the common gaol or house of correction 
for any term not exceeding Four years nor less 
than One year.” 

Pr. 2. 1. 7. Leave out “ repeal” and insert 
“ alter and amend ”’ and in the same line leave out 
from “Acts” to “ Be,” inl. 12. 

Pr. 2. 1. 27. Leave out “ shall” and insert 
“ and so much of the said Act of the fourth year 
“ of the said reign as relates to the punishment of 
“ any person convicted of the offence of breaking 
and entering any dwelling-house and stealing 
“ therein as in that Act mentioned, shall, from and 
“ after the couamencement of this Act.” 

Pr. 2. 1. 29. Leave out “ passing ” 
commencement.” 

Pr. 2. 1.33. Leave out “the” and insert “any ” 
and in the same line leave out from “ term” to 
“ less” inl. 35., and insert “ not exceeding Fif- 
“* teen years nor.” 

Pr. 2. 1. 36. Leave out “ Fifteen” and insert 
‘hs. 

Pr. 2. 1. 38. Leave out “ Five’ 
“ Three” and in the same line, after “ years 
Clause (A.) 

Ciause (A.) “ And whereas by an Act passed 
“ in the seventh and eighth years of the reign of 
“ King George the Fourth, intituled, ‘ An Act for 
“ consolidating and amending the Laws in England 
“ relative to Larceny and other Offences connected 
therewith,’ it was enacted, that if any person 
should break and enter any building, and steal 
“ therein any chattel, money, or valuable security, 
“ such building being within the curtilage of a 
“« dwelling-house and occupied therewith, but not 
“ being part thereof, according to the provision 
thereinbefore mentioned, every such offender, 
“ being convicted thereof (either upon an indict- 
“ ment for the same offence, or upon an indictment 
“ for burglary, housebreaking, or stealing to the 
“ value of Five pounds in a dwelling-house, con- 
“ taining a separate count for such offence), should 
“ be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be 
“ transported beyond the seas for life or for any 
“term not less than Seven years, or to be im- 
“ prisoned for any term not exceeding Four years, 
and, if a male, to be once, twice, or thrice pub- 
“ licly or privately whipped (if the Court should so 
*“ think fit),in addition to such imprisonment: And 
“ whereas by the said last-mentioned Act it was 
“ also enacted, that if any person should break and 
“ enter any shop, warehouse or counting-house, 
“ and steal therein any chattel, money.or valuable 
security, every such offender, being convicted 


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thereof, should be liable to any of the punishments 

which the Court might award as_ hereinbefore 

last-mentioned: And whereas by the said last- 

mentioned Act it was also enacted, that if any 

person should steal to the value of Ten shillings 
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any goods or article of silk, woollen, linen or 
cotton, or of any one or more of those materials 
mixed with each other or mixed with any other 
material, whilst laid, placed or exposed, during 
any stage, process or progress of manufacture, in 
any building, field or other place, every such 
offender, being convicted thereof, should be liable 
to any of the punishments which the Court might 
award as hereinbefore last mentioned: And 
whereas by the said last-mentioned Act it was 
also enacted, that if any person should steal any 
goods or merchandize in any vessel, barge or boat 
of any description whatsoever in any port of entry 
or discharge, or upon any navigable river or canal, 
or in any creek belonging to or communicating 
with any such port, river or canal, or should steal 
any goods or merchandize from any dock, wharf 
or quay adjacent to — such port, river, canal or 
creek, every such offender, being convicted thereof, 
should be liable to any of the punishments which 
the Court might award as hereinbefore last men- 
tioned: And whereas by an Act passed in the 
said seventh and eighth years of the said reign, 
intituled, ‘ An Act for consolidating and amending 
the Laws in England relative to malicious Injuries 
to Property,’ it was enacted, that if any person 
should unlawfully and maliciously kill, maim or 
wound any cattle, every such offender should be 
guilty of felony, and, being convicted thereof, 
“ should be liable at the discretion of the Court, to 
be transported beyond the seas for life or for any 
term not less than Seven years, or to be impri- 
soned for any term not exceeding Four years, and, 
if a male, to be once, twice or thrice publicly or 
privately whipped (if the Court should so think 
fit), in addition to such imprisonment: And 
whereas by the said last-mentioned Act it was also 
enacted, that if any — should unlawfully and 
maliciously cut or otherwise destroy any hopbinds 
growing on poles in any plantation of hops, every 
such offender should be guilty of felony, and, 
being convicted thereof, should be liable, at the 
discretion of the Court, to be transported beyond 
the seas for life, or for any term not less than 
Seven years, or to be imprisoned for any term not 
exceeding Four years, and, if a male, to be once, 
twice or thrice publicly or privately whipped (if 
“ the Court should so think fit), in addition to such 
imprisonment: And whereas it is expedient to 
alter and amend the said last-mentioned in part re- 
“ cited Acts: Be it therefore Enacted, That so much 
of the said last-mentioned Acts of the seventh 
and eighth years of the reign aforesaid as relates 
to the punishment of persons convicted of any of 
the offences hereinbefore specified, as in those 
Acts contained respectively, shall from and after 
“ the commencement of this Act be and the same 
are hereby repealed ; and every person convicted 
“ after the commencement of this Act of any of 
“ such offences respectively shall be liable to be 
“ transported beyond the seas for any term not 
“ exceeding Fifteen years nor less than Ten years, 
“ or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding 
Three years.” 

Pr. 3. 1. 9. Leave out “the whole or.” 

Pr. 3. 1. 12. After “ labour” insert “ not ex- 
“ ceeding One month at any one time, and not 
“ exceeding Three months in any one year.” 

At the end of the Bill add Clauses (B.), (C.) and 
(D. 
—_ (B.) “ And be it further Enacted, 
“ That nothing in this Act contained shall be con- 
“ strued to extend to the alteration or repeal of any 
“ of the powers, provisoes or regulations contained 
“ in an Act made and passed in the fifth and sixth 
“ years of the reign of his late Majesty King Wi/- 
“ liam the Fourth, intituled, ‘ An Act for effecting 
greater Uniformity of Practice in the Government 
“ of the several Prisons in England and Wales, and 
“ for appointing Inspectors of Prisons in Great 
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A. 1837. 


“ Britain, or in an Act made and passed in the; “ out benefit of clergy; and that every such per- 


“ fourth vear of His Majesty King George the 
“ Fourth, intituled, ‘ An Act for consolidating and 
“ amending the Laws relating to the building, re- 
“‘ pairing and regulating of certain Gaols and 

Seems of Correction in England and Wales.’ ”’ 
Cravse (C.) “ And whereas by the laws now in 
“ force it is lawful for the Court before whom any 
“ person shall be convicted of certain offences for 
“ which imprisonment or imprisonment with hard 
“ labour may be awarded, to direct that the offender 
“« shall be kept in solitary confinement for the whole 
“ or any portion or portions of such imprisonment, 
“ or of such imprisonment with hard labour, as to 
“ such Court in its discretion should seem meet, it 
“ is hereby enacted, that from and after the com- 
“ mencement of this Act, it shall not be lawful for 
“ any Court to direct that any offender shall be 
“ kept in solitary confinement for any longer periods 
“ than One month at a time, or than Three months 
“ in the space of One year.” 

Cravuse (D.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
“ this Act shall commence and take effect on the 
“ first day of October One thousand eight hundred 
“ and thirty-seven.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second 
time, were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernai do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, in- 
tituled, An Act for abolishing the Punishment of 
Death in certain cases ; and the same were read as 
follow : 

Pr.1. 1.1. After “ Whereas” insert “ by an Act 
“ passed in the first year of the reign of King George 
“ the First, intituled, ‘ An Act for preventing Tu- 
“ mults and Riotous Assemblies ; and for the more 
“ speedy and effectually punishing the Rioters,’ 
it was, amongst other things, enacted, that if any 
persons, to the number of Twelve or more, being 
unlawfully, riotously and tumultuously assembled 
together, to the disturbance of the public peace, 
and being required or commanded by any one or 
“ more Justice or Justices of the Peace, or by the 
“ Sheriff of the county or his Under-sheriff, or by the 
* Mayor, Bailiff or Bailiffs, or other head officer or 
Justice of the Peace of any city or town corpo- 
rate where such assembly should be, by procla- 
mation to be made in the King’s name in the 
form thereinafter directed, to disperse themselves, 
and peaceably to depart to their habitations or to 
lawful business, should, to the number of Twelve 
or more, (notwithstanding such proclamation 
made,) unlawfully, riotously and tumultuously re- 
main or continue together by the space of One 
hour after such command or request made by 
proclamation, that then such continuing together 
‘ to the number of Twelve or more, after such com- 
mand or request made by proclamation, should 
‘ be adjudged felony without benefit of clergy, and 
the offenders therein should be adjudged felons, 
and should suffer Death as in case of felony with- 
out benefit of clergy ; and it was also by the said 
‘ Act further enacted, that if any person or persons 
did or should, with force and arms wilfully and 
knowingly let, hinder or hurt any person or per- 
sons that should begin to proclaim or go to pro- 
claim, according to the proclamation thereby di- | 
rected to be made, whereby such proclamation 
‘ should not be made, that then every such oppos- 
ing, obstructing, letting, letting, hindering or hurt- 
ing such person or persons so beginning or going 
* to make such proclamation as aforesaid, should be 
‘ adjudged felony without benefit of clergy, and 
the offenders therein should be adjudged felons, 


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son or persons so being unlawfully, riotously and 
“ tumultuously assembled to the number of Twelve 
as aforesaid, or more, to whom proclamation should 
“ or ought to have been made if the same had not 
“ not been hindered as aforesaid, should likewise, 
in case they or any of them, to the number of 
Twelve or more, should continue together and not 
disperse themselves within One hour after such 
let or hindrance so made, having knowledge of 
such let or hindrance so made, should be adjudged 
felons, and should suffer Death as in case of fe- 
lony without benefit of clergy: And whereas.” 

Pr. 2. 1.2. Leave out from “clergy” to “and” 
in Pr. 3. 1.9. 

Pr. 7. 1.11. Leave out from “ suffer” to “and” 
in Pr. 8. 1. 5. 

Pr. 10. 1.10. Leave out “ passing” and insert 
commencement.” 

Pr. 10. 1.23. Leave out “ Five” and insert 
“ Three.” 

Pr. 10. 1.24. Leave out from “ years” to “ and ” 
in Pr. 11. 1.1. 

Pr. 11. line 13. Leave out “ the whole or.” 

Pr. 11. 1.16. After “ labour” insert “ not ex- 
ceeding One month at any one time, and not ex- 
ceeding Three months in any one year.” 

Pr. 11. 1.18. After “ meet” insert CLausE (A.) 

CriavuseE (A.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
nothing in this Act contained shall be construed 
to extend to the alteration or repeal of any of the 
powers, provisions or regulations contained in an 
Act made and passed in the fifth and sixth years 
“ of the reign of his late Majesty King William the 
“ Fourth, intituled, ‘An Act for effecting greater 
Uniformity of Practice in the Government of the 
several Prisons in England and Wales, and for 
appointing Inspectors of Prisons in Great Bri- 
tain, or inan Act made and passed in the fourth 
year of his Majesty King George the Fourth, in- 
tituled, ‘ An Act for consolidating and amending 
the Laws relating to the building, repairing and 
regulating of certain Gaols and Houses of Cor- 
rection in England and Wales.’” 

At the end of the Bill add Crausk (B.) 

CriauseE (B.) “ And be it further Enacted, That 
this Act shall commence and take effect on the 
First day of October One thousand eight hundred 
and Thirty-seven.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, That this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


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intituled, An Act to assimilate the practice of the 
Central Criminal Court to other Courts of Criminal 
Judicature within the Kingdom of England and 
Wales, with respect to Offenders liable to the Punish- 
ment of Death; and the same were read, as follow: 

Pr. 1. 1.20. Leave out from “ Majesty ” to 
in” in |, 22., and insert “ Her heirs and suc- 
cessors.” 

Pr. 2. 1. 2. Leave out “ the ” and insert “ any.” 

Pr. 2. 1. 3. After “ Judge” insert “ being a 
Judge of one of the Superior Courts of West- 
“ minster Hall.” 

Pr. 4. 1. 19. Leave out from “offender” to “ Pro- 
vided ” in Pr. 6. 1. 7., and insert “in the same 
manner as any Court of Assize is empowered to 
order and direct execution by the Law as it stood 
before the passing of this Act.” 

Pr. 6. 1. 30. After “ exercise” insert “ except 
so far as is otherwise by this Act expressly vro- 
“ vided.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 


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and should suffer Death as in case of felony with- | Were agreed to, 


Ordered, 


The House proceeded to take into consideration Central 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, — Court 


Mur 
Bor 
Bill 





Municipal 
Borough Rates 
Bill. 


Letters Patent 
Bill, 





1 VicrortzZ. 


Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 





The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, in- 
tituled, An Act to provide for the levying of Watch 
Rates in Boroughs and Towns having Municipal 
Corporations, in England and Wales ; and the same 
were read, as follow: 

Pr. 3. 1. 29. Leave out from “manner” to “ and” 
in Pr, 4. 1. 30. 

Pr. 6. 1. 25. Leave out from “ force” to the end 
of the Bill. 

In the Title of the Bill: 

L. 2. Leave out “ watch.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Bernal do carry the Bill to 
the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House hath 
agreed to the Amendments made by their Lord- 
ships. 

The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, in- 
tituled, An Act for better enabling Her Majesty to 
confer certain Powers and Immunities on Trading 
and other Companies ; and the same were read, as 
follow : 

Pr. 6. 1. penult. Leave out from “ to” to “ con- 
taining ” in Pr. 7. 1. 1., and insert “ such one of 
the offices for enrolment hereinafter meutioned 
as shall be required under the provisions of this 
Act.” 

Pr. 13. Is.34. and 35. After “ fraudulent” insert 
Clause (A.) 

Cuavse (A.) “ And be it Enacted, That where 
the principal or only place for carrying on the 
business of any such company or body as afore- 
said shall be situated in any part of England or 
Wales, the returns hereinbefore directed shall be 
made to the Enrolment Office of the Court of 
Chancery in England ; and where such principal 
or only place for carrying on such business shall 
be situate in any part of Scotland, such returns 
shall be made to His Majesty’s General Registry 
Office at Edinburgh; and where such principal 
or only place for carrying on such business shall 
be situated in any part of Ireland, such returns 
shall be made to the Enrolment Office of the 
Court of Chancery in Lreland.” 

Pr. 13. 1. 36. Leave out from “as” to “ for” 
in Pr. 14. 1. 2.,and insert “ are hereinbefore directed 
“ to be made to the Enrolment Office of the Court | 
of Chancery in England, shall be registered by 
the Clerks of Enrolments in Chancery, or their | 
deputy, and that all such returns as are herein- | 
before directed to be made to the General Registry | 
Office at Edinburgh, shall be registered by the | 
Lord Clerk Register, or his deputy, and all such 
returns as are hereinbefore directed to be made 
to the Enrolment Office of the Court of Chancery | 
in Ireland, shall be registered by the Clerks of, 
Enrolments in Chancery in Ireland, or their de-| 
puty, in books to be by them respectively kept.” 

Pr. 15. 1, 2. Leave out from “thereof” to “and” 
in 1. 17., and insert Clause (B.) 

Cravse (B.) “ And be it Enacted, That such 
orders and directions as to the forms of the re- 
turns to be made in pursuance of this Act, and 
the mode of keeping the register, and of making 
the index thereof, and of any other matters inci- 
dental thereto as may be deemed expedient, may 
from time to time be made, altered or varied, as 
follows; that is to say, as regards the registration 
to be made in the Enrolment Office in the Court 
of Chancery in England, by the Lord Chancellor, 
Lord Keeper, or First Lord Commissioner of the 
Great Seal, and the Master of the Rolls jointly ; 
as regards the registration to be made in the 


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the 
“ Lord Clerk Register and Lords of Council and 
“ Session jointly ; and as regards the registration 
“ to be made in the Court of Chancery in Ireland, 
“ by the Lord Chancellor of Zreland, and Master of 
“ the Rolls in Zreland jointly.” 

Pr. 21. 1. 14. Leave out from “ body” to “ and” 
in |, 32. 

Pr. 22. 1. 10. Leave out from “ all” to “ of” 
in 1. 11. 
_ Pr. 22. 1. 15. Leave out “ incorporated ” and 
insert “ unincorporated.” 

Pr. 22. 1. 20. Leave out “ or any of.” 

Pr. 22. 1. 24. In the interlineation, leave out 
“ incorporated,” and insert “ unincorporated.” 

Pr. 22. 1s. 29. and 30. Leave out “incorporated ” 
and insert “ unincorporated.” 

- Pr. 23.1. 1. After “ corporation” insert Clause 
(C.) 

Crause (C.) “ Provided always, and be it 
Enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall 
authorize or be construed to authorize Her Ma- 
jesty, Her heirs and successors, by any such Let- 
ters Patent, to exempt any company or body of 
persons associated as aforesaid from the necessity 
of entering into a deed of partnership, from making 
the eturn of the Patent to the Enrolment Office 
of he Court of Chancery, from the necessity of 
carrying into execution the provisions of this Act 
in respect to change of name or style of the com- 
pany or body associated, in respect to the cessa- 
tion, or to the addition or to the change of name 
of any of the individuals of the company, or to 
the transfer of shares, and to the notices to be 
given thereof, or to the payment of any sum by 
any shareholder on account of any preferment 
against such company or body, or to the returns 
to be made to the Enrolment Office of such pay- 
ment, or of the repayment thereof, or from siding 
a return to the said office of the name of the 
officer appointed by said company to sue and be 
sued on its behalf, in case of the death, resignation 
or removal of the one registered, or to exempt an 
company or body so associated from the provi- 
sions of this Act in relation to the period at which 
its several members shall become entitled or shall 
cease to share in the profits thereof, the whole as 
required by the provisions of this Act.” 

The said Amendments being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Robert Gordon do carry the 
Bill to the Lords; and acquaint them that this ~ finan 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


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The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to the Bill, in- 
tituled, An Act to exempt certain Bills of Exchange 
and Promissory Notes from the operation of the 
Laws relating to Usury ; and the same were read, as 
follow : 

Pr. 1. 1.3. Leave out “late’’ and in the same 
line, after “ Majesty” insert “ King William the 
“ Fourth.” 

Pr. 1. 1. 26. After “ That” insert “ from and 
“ after the passing of this Act, and till the first of 
“ January Gas thousand eight hundred and forty.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Robert Gordon do carry the 
Bill to the Lords ; and acquaint them that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


Lord John Russell presented, by Her M ajesty’s 
command,—The Thirtieth Report of the C ommis- 
sioners for inquiring concerning Charities. 

The Thirty-first Report of the Commissioners for 
inquiring concerning Charities. 


Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 





Vou. 92. 


Table. 
4Q2 The 





Bills of 
Exchange Bill. 


Charities. 











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Municipal 
Corporations 
Bill. 


Message from 
the Lords. 


Consolidated 
Fund (Appro- 
priation) Bill. 


Church Build- 
ing Commission 
Bill. 


Fermanagh 
Baronial Sub- 
divisions Bill, 


Corporate 
Property 
(Ireland) Bill, 


London and 
Blackwall 
Commercial 


Railway Bill. 


London and 
Blackwall 
Commercial 
Railway Bill. 


668 


The House, according to Order, proceeded to take 
into consideration the Reason offered by the Lords 
at the Conference held yesterday upon the subject- 
matter of the Amendment made by the Lords to the 
Amendment made by the Commons to the Amend- 
ment made by the Lords to the Bill, intituled, An 
Act to amend an Act for the regulation of Muni- 
cipal Corporations in England and Wales; and the 
same was read, as followeth: 


“ The Lords do not agree to the Amendment 
made by the Commons to the Amendment in Pr. 9. 
1. 12., for the following Reason:” 

‘“« Because, of the words now proposed to be left 
out of the Thirteenth Clause by the Com- 
mons, part was introduced by the Commons, 
and assented to by the Lords, and the inser- 
tion of the remainder of the words so proposed 
to be left out has been agreed to by the Com- 
mons, and thereby one of the most important 
principles objected to by the Lords is again 
introduced ; and that which was substituted 
by the Lords, and assented to by the Com- 
mons, is removed.” 


The said Reason and Amendment being read a 
second time ; 

Resolved, That this House doth not insist on the 
Amendment proposed by them to the Amendment 
made by the Lords in Pr. 9. 1. 12. of the said Bill. 

Ordered, That a Message be sent to the Lords, to 
acquaint their Lordships therewith :—And that Mr. 
Charles Wood do carry the said Message. 


A Message from the Lords, by Sir Giffin Wilson 

and Mr. Roupell: 
Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords have agreed to the several Bills fol- 
lowing, without Amendment : viz. 

A Bill, intituled, An Act to apply the sum of Five 
millions two hundred and twenty thousand Pounds, 
out of the Consolidated Fund, to the service of the 
year One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, 
and to appropriate the Supplies granted in this 
Session of Parliament : 

A Bill, intituled, An Act to prolong for Ten years 
Her Majesty's Commission for building New 
Churches: 

A Bill, intituled, An Actto amend the Law relating 
to Grand Juries in Jreland, so far as to empower 
the Grand Jury of the County of Fermanagh to re- 
construct the Baronial Subdivisions of the said 
County : 


15° Juli. 





A. 1837. 


Pr. 34. 1. 11. After “ Company” insert “ at 
“ Blackwall.” 

Leave out the Schedule to the Bill. 

In the Title of the Bill: 

L. 1. Leave out from “ to” to “ amend ” inl. 2. 

L. 4. Leave out “ thereto” and insert “ to the 
“ Commercial Railway Company.” 

The said Amendments, being read a second time, 
were agreed to. 

Ordered, That Mr. Alston do carry the Bill 
to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this House 
hath agreed to the Amendments made by their 
Lordships. 


The Bill from the Lords, intituled, An Act to 
compel Clerks of the Peace for Counties, and other 
Persons, to take the Custody of such Documents as 
shall be directed to be deposited with them under 
the Standing Orders of either House of Parliament, 
was, according to Order, read the third time ; and 
the Amendments following were made to the 
Bill: 

Pr. 1.1. 23. After “ Scotland” insert “ or in 
“ royal burghs, with the town clerk.” 

Pr. 2. 1.2. After “ schoolmasters” insert “ town 
“ clerks.” 

Pr. 2. 1. 29. 
* town clerks.” 

Pr. 3. 1. 22. 

town clerks.” 

Pr. 3. ]. 26. After “ schoolmaster” insert “ town 
“ clerk.” 

Pr. 3.1. 38. After “ schoolmaster ” insert “ town 
“ clerk.” 

Pr. 4. 1. 4. After “ schoolmaster” insert “ town 
“ clerk.” 

Resolved, That the Bill, with the Amendments, 
do pass. 

Ordered, That Mr. Robert Gordon do carry the 
Bill to the Lords; and acquaint them, that this 
House hath agreed to the same, with Amendments ; 
to which Amendments this House doth desire the 
concurrence of their Lordships. 


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After “ schoolmasters” insert 


After ‘ schoolmasters ” insert 
“ 


Ordered, That the Select Committee appointed to 
inquire into the best means of establishing a Com- 
munication by Steam with Jndia, by way of the Red 
Sea; and to whom several Petitions upon that 
subject were referred; have Power to report their 
observations thereupon, together with the Minutes 
of the Evidence taken before them. 





A Bill, intituled, An Act to restrain the Alienation ' 


of Corporate Property in certain Towns in Jreland : 
And also, 
The Lords have agreed to the Bill, intituled, An 


Act to enable the Commercial Railway Company to | 


extend the Line of such Railway, and to amend the 
Act relating thereto, with Amendments; to which 


Amendments the Lords desire the concurrence of | 


this House :—And then the Messengers withdrew. 


The House proceeded to take into consideration 
the Amendments made by the Lords to Bill, intituled, 
An Act to enable the Commercial Railway Company 
to extend the Line of such Railway, and to amend 
the Act relating thereto ; and the same were read, as 
foliow: 


Lord William Bentinck reported from the said 
Select Committee, That they had considered the mat- 
ters to them referred; and had directed him to make 
a Report thereof to the House, together with the 
Minutes of the Evidence taken before them, with an 
Appendix. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to 
permit Rectified Spirits and Compounds to be ware- 


housed for Removal from and to England, Scotland : 


jand Ireland respectively, and for Exportation to 
Foreign Parts, and to be removed and exported, 
under certain Regulations: And that Mr. Chan- 





'cellor of the Exchequer and Mr. Baring do prepare, 
| and bring it in. 


Pr. 1.1.3. Leave out “present ” and insert “late.” | 


Pr. 1. 1. 4. After “ Majesty” insert “ King 
‘“ William the Fourth.” 


Pr. 1. 1. 13. Leave oat from “ undertaking” | Imprisonment of Mr. Russell, the British 


to “ and ” in ]. 23. 

Pr. 1. ]. 24. Leave out “ also.” 

Pr. 2. 1. 3. Leave out “ King’s” 
“ Queen’s.” 


], 28. 
_ _Pr. 2. 1.36. Leave out from “ Act” to “ And” 
in Pr. 34. 1. 1. 


and insert | 


| Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer presented, by 
Her Majesty’s command,—Papers relatin 


| sul at Panama, in the state of Wew Grenada, by the 
‘authorities at that Port. 


said Governments 1834 to 1837. 


Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 


| Table. 





to the Consulate. 
ro-Con- 


Correspondence between the British authorities American 
-and the Government of America, on the subject of Loans. 
Pr. 2. 1.20. Leave out from ‘ Act” to “ as” in | Loans contracted in this Country for account of the 


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Clerks of the 
Peace Docu- 
meuts Bill, 





Steam Commu- 
nication with 
India. 


No. 539. 


Warehonsed 
Spirits Inter- 
ourse Bill. 


Panama 


1 Vicroriz. 


Medical A Petition of James Flynn, Graduate of Arts and 

P ee) Medicine in the University of Dublin, praying the 

— House to give the same protection to the practice 
of Medicine in Ireland which it has afforded to the 
Law and to the Church, was presented, and read ; 
and ordered to lie upon the Table. 


Warehoused 
Spirits Inter- 


Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer presented a Bill 
to permit Rectified Spirits and Compounds to be 


— vine warehoused for Removal from and to England, Scot- 
No. 542. Jand and Ireland respectively, and for Exportation to 
Foreign Parts, and to be removed and exported, 
under certain Regulations: And the same was read 
the first time; and ordered to be read a second 

time ; and to be printed. 
Poor Law Ordered, That the Paper relative to the Poor 
oe Law Commission, which was presented upon the 

No. 532, 


22d day of June last, be printed. 


Holyhead Ordered, That the Fourteenth Report of the Com- 
Roads, Xe: missioners of Holyhead Roads, &amp;c., which was pre- 
No.533. sented yesterday, be printed. 


Burmese Ordered, That the Papers relative to Burmese 
Prize Money. Pyize Money, which were presented yesterday, be 
No.534- printed. 


Poor Law Act. Ordered, That the Papers relative to the Poor 
No.535. Law Act,which were presented yesterday, be printed. 


And then the House adjourned till Monday 
next. 





Lune, 17° die Julii ; 
Anno 1° Victorie Regine, 1837. 


PRAYERS. 


Wovds and R. Wailer, from the Commissioners of Her 
Forests, See. Majesty’s Woods, Forests and Land Re- 
No.536. venues, was called in, and at the bar presented, 
pursuant to the directions of an Act of Parliament,— 
The Fourteenth Report of the Commissioners of Her 
Majesty’s Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works 
and Buildings, being the Eighth Annual Report of the 

said Commissioners :—And then he withdrew. 
Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the 

Table ; and be printed. 


Message from | A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Roupell and 
the Lords, Mr. Senior : 
Mr. Speaker, 
Clerks of the The Lords have agreed to the Amendments made 
Peace Docu- by this House to the Bill, intituled, An Act to com- 
ments Bill, pel Clerks of the Peace for Counties and other 
Persons to take the Custody of suck Documents as 
shall be directed to be deposited with them, under 
the Standing Orders of either House of Parliament, 
without any Amendment :—And then the Messen- 
gers withdrew. 


Plan of Educa- 


Ordered, That a Message be sent to the Lords 
tion (Treland.) 


to request that their Lordships will be pleased to 
communicate to this House, a Copy of the Report 
from the Select Committee appointed by their Lord- 
ships, to inquire into the progress and operation of 
the new Plan of Education in Jreland, and to report 
thereon ; together with the Minutes of the Evidence 
taken before them, and Appendix and Index thereto: 
And that Mr. Pryme do carry the said Message. 


Sevath Report Mr. Warburton reported from the Select Com- 
on Deptford. Mittee to whom several Petitions relative to the sig- 


ond Dover = natures to the Subscription List for the Deptford 
rar Sub- and Dover Railway were referred; and to whom 
a _ certain other Petitions relative to the Subscription 
Brighton Rail- Lists for several other Railways, were referred ; and 
“ay Gtephen- who were empowered to report their Observations 
on’s Line.) ] Vo. 92 

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thereupon, together with the Minutes of the Evi- 
dence taken before them from time to time to the 
House; That they had considered the matters to 
them referred [so far as relates to the Subscription 
List for the London and Brighton Railway (Ste- 
phenson’s Line) ]; and had directed him to make a 
Report thereof to the House; together with the 
Minutes of the Evidence taken before them, and an 
Appendix. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


A Petition of Directors of the Westminster Westminster 
Bridge, Deptford and Greenwich Railway Com- Bridge and 


Greenwich 


pany, praying that they may be permitted to proceed Railway Bill. _ 


with their Bill in the next Session, without further 
compliance with the Standing Orders of the House, 
was presented, and read; and ordered to lie upon 


the Table. 


Sir John Hobhouse presented by Her Majesty’s Poor Law Act. 
command,—The Third Annual Report of the Poor No. 546. 
Law Commissioners for England and Wales, with 
Appendices, 1837. 

Sir John Hobhouse also presented, pursuant to Euphrates 
Order,—A Copy of Instructions to Colonel Chesney, P*Pettio 
the officer commanding the Euphrates Expedition, No. 540. 
together with abstract of correspondence and ac- 
counts of expenditure relative to that Enterprize. 

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the 
Table; and be printed. 


Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, That a List of Public Acts 
Public Acts which have received the Royal Assent *4 Bills. 
during this Session, and of Public Bills now in pro- No. 541. 
gress; stating when leave given, and the several 
subsequent and present stages thereof, was upon the 
Table. 

Ordered, That the said Paper be printed. 


A Petition of Inhabitants of Tiverton, complaining Tiverton 


of the misapplication of the funds of the Charity Charity School. 


School in that Borough, and praying for relief; 
was presented and read; and ordered to lie upon the 
Table. 


A Message from the Lords, by Mr. Roupell and Message from 

Mr. Senior: the Lords. 
Mr. Speaker, 

The Lords communicate to this House, a Copy of Plan of Educa- 
the Report from the Select Committee appointed by tien (Ireland.) 
their Lordships to inquire into the progress and 
operation of the new Plan of Education in Jreland, 
and to report thereon; together with the Minutes 
of the Evidence taken before them, and Appendix 
and Index thereto :—And then the Messengers with- 
drew. 


Ordered, That the Report on the Plan of Educa- Plan of Educa- 
tion (Ireland), which was this day communicated "°" apa 
from the Lords, be printed. No. 543. 


Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer reported from Church Leases. 
the Select Committee appointed to inquire into the No. 538. 
mode of granting and renewing Leases of the Landed 
and other Property of the Bishops, Deans and 
Chapters, and other Ecclesiastical Bodies in Eng- 
land and Wales, and into the probable amount of 
any increased value which might be obtained by an 
improved management, With a due consideration of 
the interests of the Established Church, and of the 
present Lessees of such Property; That they had 
considered the matters to them referred; and had 
directed him to make a Report thereof to the House, 
with an Appendix. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 

4Q3 Ordered, 





670 


Ordered, That the Return relative to the Army | 
(Commissariat), which was presented upon Saturday 
last, be printed. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Brewers, 
which was presented upon Saturday last, be printed. 


Army (Com- 
wissariat, ) 


No. 544. 


Brewers. 


No. 490. 


Newspaper 
Stamps. 


No. 526. 


Ordered, That the Return relative to Newspaper 
Stamps, which was presented upon Saturday last, 
be printed. 


Ordered, That the Account relative to the Ex- 
penses incurred by the Poor Law Act Committee, 
which was presented upon Saturday last, be printed. 


Poor Law Act 
Committee 


[Expenses. } 
No. 545. 


Dr. Bowring reported from the Select Committee 
on Public Petitions; That they had examined the 
Petitions presented from the 7th to the 17th days 
of this instant July, both inclusive ; and had directed 
him to make a Report thereof to the House. 

Ordered, That the Report do lie upon the Table ; 
and be printed. 


Public 
Petitions. 


Royal Assent 


yal A Message from Her Majesty, by Sir Augustus 
to Dis. 


Clifford, Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod: 
Mr. Speaker, 

The Queen commands this Honourable House to 
attend Her Majesty immediately, in the House of 
Peers. 

Accordingly Mr. Speaker, with the House, went 
up to attend Her Majesty ; where Her Majesty was 
pleased to give the Royal Assent to the several 
Public Bills, and to one Private Bill, following ; 
viz. 

An Act to apply the Sum of Five millions two 
hundred and twenty thousand pounds, out of the 
Consolidated Fund, to the Service of the year One 
thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, and to 
appropriate the Supplies granted in this Session of 
Parliament : 


Consolidated 
Fund (Appro- 
priation) Bill, 


East India 
Postage Bill. Fast India Letters, and to amend certain Acts re- 


lating to the Post Office : 


Bills of An Act to exempt certain Bills of Exchange and 

Exchange Bill. Pyomissory Notes from the operation of the Laws 
relating to Usury: 

Municipal 

Corporations 


Bill, 
Municipal 
Borough 


Bill. 


An Act to amend an Act for the Regulation of 
Municipal Corporations in England and Wales : 


An Act to provide for the levying of Rates in 
Rates Boroughs and Towns having Municipal Corporations, 
in England and Wales: 

An Act to prolong for Ten years Her Majesty’s 
Commission for building new Churches : 


Church Build- 
ing Commission 
Bill. 

Letters Patent 


An Act for better enabling Her Majesty to confer 
Bill. 


certain Powers and Immunities on Trading and 
other Companies : 
An Act to abolish the Punishment of Death in 


Forgery Bill. 
cases of Forgery : 


Offencesagainst An Act to amend the Laws relating to Offences 


the Person Bill. against the Person: 
An Act to amend the Laws relating 
and Stealing in a Dwelling House : 


Burglary and 
Stealing in a 
Dwelling-house 
Bill. 

Robbery and 
Stealing from 
the Person Bill, 
Piracy Bill, 


to Burglary 


An Act to amend the Laws relating 


to Robbery 
and Stealing from the Person : 


An Act to amend certain Acts relating to the 
Crime of Piracy: 
Burning or 
destroying 
suiluings and 
Ships Bill. 


Transportation 
for Life Bill. 


An Act to amend the Laws relating to the burning 
or destroying Buildings and Ships : 


An Act to amend the Laws relative to Offences 
punishable by Transportation for Life : 


_ An Act for abolishing the Punishment of Death 
in certain Cases : 


Punishment of 
Death Bill. 


17° Juliz. 


An Act to impose Rates of Packet Postage on} 


| place, 





A. 1837. 


An Act to assimilate the Practice of the Central Centra! 
Criminal Court to other Courts of Criminal Judi- Criminal Court 
cature within the Kingdom of England and Wales, — 
with respect to Offenders liable to the Punishment 
of Death. 


An Act to compel Clerks of the Peace for Counties, Cierks of the 
and other Persons, to take the custody of such Peace Docu- 
Documents as shall be directed to be deposited with ™™ Bil. 
them under the Standing Orders of either House of 
Parliament : 


An Act to restrain the Alienation of Corporate Corporate 


Property in certain Towns in Jrelund: Creat 
: : reland) Bill. 
An Act to amend the Law relating to Grand Juries Fermanach 


in Ireland, so far as to empower the Grand Jury of Beronial Sub- 
the County of Fermanagh to re-construct the Baro- “*'s"s Bill. 
nial Subdivisions of the said County : 


An Act to amend the Act relating to the Com- London and 
mercial Railway Company : onal 
Rallway Bill. 

An Act for extending the Powers of Sale and Adams's 
Exchange contained in the Marriage Settlement of Estte Bil. 
Francis Adams, the younger, Esquire, and for other 
purposes. 


After which, Her Majesty was pleased to make Her Majesty’s 
a most gracious Speech from the Throne to both Spee! 
Houses of Parliament, as followeth : 


My Lords, and Gentlemen, 


I have been anxious to seize the first opportunity 
of meeting you, in order that I might repeat in per- 
son, My cordial thanks for your condolence upon 
the death of his late Majesty, and for the expres- 
sions of attachment and _ affection with which you 
congratulated Me upon My Accession to the Throne. 
[ am desirous of renewing the assurance of my 
determination to maintain the Protestant religion, 
as established by Law, to secure to all the free 
exercise of the rights of conscience, to protect the 
liberties, and to promote the welfare, of all classes 
of the community. 

I rejoice that in ascending the Throne I find the 
Country in Amity with all Foreign Powers; and 
while I faithfully anaes the Engagements of My 
Crown, and carefully watch over the interests of 
My Subjects, it shall be the constant object of My 
solicitude to preserve the blessings of Peace. , 


Gentlemen of the House of Commons, 


I thank you for the liberal Supplies which you 
have granted for the Public Service of the Year, as 
well as for the provision which you have made to 
meet the payments usually chargeable upon the 
Civil List. 

I will give directions that the Public Expenditure 
in all its branches be administered with the strictest 
economy. 


My Lords, and Gentlemen, 


In taking leave of this Parliament, I return you 
My thanks for the zeal and assiduity with which 
you have applied yourselves to the public business 
of the Country. 

Although your labours have been unexpectedly 
noe “Ht by the melancholy event which has taken 

trust that they will have the beneficial effect 
of advancing the progress of Legislation in a new 
Parliament. I perceive with satisfaction that you 
have brought to maturity some useful measures, 
amongst which I regard with peculiar interest the 
amendment of the Criminal Code, and the reduc- 
tion of the number of Capital Punishments. I hail 
this mitigation of the severity of the Law as an 
auspicious commencement of My reign. 

I ascend the Throne under a deep sense of the re- 
sponsibility which is imposed upon Me, but I am 

supported 





1 VictoriZ. 17° Julie. 671 


supported by the consciousness of My own right in- 
tentions, and by My dependence upon the protec- 
tion of Almighty God. It will be My care to 
strengthen our Institutions Civil and Ecclesiastical, 
by discreet improvement, wherever improvement is 
required, and to do all in My power to compose and 
allay animosity and discord. 


Acting upon these principles I shall, upon all oc- 





casions, look with confidence to the wisdom of Par- | 


liament and the affections of My people, which 
form the true support of the dignity of the Crown 
and ensure the stability of the Constitution. 


| 


Then the Lord Chancellor, by Her Majesty’s Parliament 
command, said, prorogued, 


My Lords and Gentlemen 


It is Her Majesty’s Royal wiil and pleasure, that 
this Parliament be prorogued to Thursday, the Tenth 
day of August next, to be then here holden ; and 
this Parliament is accordingly prorogued to Thurs- 
day, the Tenth day of August next. 





Vou. 92. 


INDEX. 





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